The Young Master Is Fierce Chapter 187: Antecedents
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The last time they came to Jinling, Fu Xiaoguan and Dong Shulan went to Confucius Temple on a rainy night, picked a bag of dates, and then followed the trail up. They were stopped before they reached the top of the mountain.
He had wanted to take Su Mo to find out what was going on one day, but he was so busy with everything that he forgot about it. But when Lin Hong was interrogating Lin Hong, Lin Hong mentioned Confucius Temple. .
As a holy place in the previous dynasty, Confucius Temple was extremely prosperous before. The scenery on the mountain is beautiful, overlooking Qinhuai and most of Jinling City. Moreover, the Confucius Temple was also the location of the Ancestral Temple of the previous dynasty, so it became a place where literati gathered.
Precisely because this was the Ancestral Temple of the previous dynasty, after the establishment of the Yu Dynasty, the existence of the Confucius Temple was gradually downplayed, so the cultural holy site of the Yu Dynasty was completely changed to Lantingji, and the Confucius Temple gradually withered away. Few people go up there. Today, even the temple gate is in dilapidated condition, and it has just faded out of everyone's sight.
Lin Hong said that five days before Fu Xiaoguan was kidnapped, Ji Linchun, the proprietress of Rouge House, went to Confucius Temple.
Since the Confucius Temple is in ruins and there is neither God nor Buddha on it, why did Ji Linchun go to the Confucius Temple?
Is there any secret hidden in that place?
Fu Xiaoguan cannot escape. If Su Jue can investigate in secret, this is naturally the best way.
Su Jue nodded in response, took off his hat, took out the crow from the hat, wrote a small note, stuffed it into a bamboo tube and tied it to the crow's leg, then touched the crow's head. I saw the crow fly out and disappear into the dark snowy night.
This matter has always been on Fu Xiaoguan's mind, but he did not use the power of Xiaoyu Tower to investigate because the real owner of Xiaoyu Tower is still Concubine Shang.
It wasn't that Fu Xiaoguan doubted Concubine Shang, but that he couldn't trust Xiaoyulou. This matter involved the mastermind behind his assassination. He didn't want to alarm anyone until he found out.
Of course, except for those sitting here at the moment, these people are the most trustworthy people in the world.
"Are you really going to risk yourself?" Su Jue asked.
"It's not considered to be putting one's life in danger. After all, this is at the foot of the emperor, and they don't dare to assassinate in a big way. Besides, now that I know this, I will naturally be more cautious when traveling. As long as you can stay within fifty breaths I am confident that I can still protect myself. After all, I have also practiced the Nine Yang Heart Sutra, right?"
Su Su chuckled, thinking that with your Nine Yang Heart Sutra, even a third-rate master would not survive for fifty breaths.
On the other hand, Su Rou looked at the nervous Dong Shulan and Yu Wenyun, and said, "You two don't have to worry, as long as I'm here, nothing will happen to him."
"What guarantee do you have?" Yu Wenyun asked unhappily. There is only one life. If something happens and someone is missing... this is not a matter of a word.
Su Rou looked at the flying snowflakes under the red lantern outside Qingxin Pavilion. She smiled faintly. An embroidery needle flew out and flew back in an instant. She held the embroidery needle and handed it to Yu Wenyun. The tip of the needle was A snowflake hung on it, hexagonal, clearly visible, and then melted.
"Just the flowers I have been embroidering for nearly twenty years."
Yu Wenyun looked at Su Rou in astonishment, and Su Rou lowered her head and began to embroider the mandarin ducks.
She didn't even see the needle fly out, let alone stab a snowflake and fly back. Is this the martial arts that her brother mentioned? My brother used a sword, but this girl Su Rou actually used a needle!
Dong Shulan and Fu Xiaoguan were also very surprised. They had never seen Su Rou take action before, and they did not expect that she was so powerful. If she killed someone, she would be killing someone invisible.
It’s scary to think about it. This thin needle flew far away to take a person’s life and then flew back. It’s probably impossible to detect the cause of death. It’s really a magical skill in traveling around the world!
So Senior Brother Su Jue...could it be that he was using the wooden sword he was carrying?
Where is Susu? It's impossible to use that huge piano.
……
On the third day of the first lunar month, it still snowed heavily.
After Fu Xiaoguan did some morning exercises and took a bath, he couldn't help but feel poetic when he saw the world:
Heaven and earth are one and the same
The black hole in Inoue
White on black dog
The white dog has swelling on his body!
Dong Shulan covered her little mouth and laughed. Su Su sat on the rockery and swayed her little feet and thought the poem was very good.
The words are concise and concise, and you can understand it as soon as you hear it, except that there are two black and white dogs here - if it weren't for the second senior brother, there used to be such a pair of dogs in the temple.
The poor dog was stewed in tears by myself, the second senior brother, and the master just last winter.
Starting from the third day of the Lunar New Year, merchants will start operating normally.
Dong Shulan originally wanted to talk to Fu Xiaoguan about last year's income and expenditure, but Fu Xiaoguan was not interested in it, and she was too lazy to talk about it. Anyway, all the money earned was in her account.
"You have to rush the goods in Xishan, especially the wine. I asked my second brother to talk about new shops. I have to buy a few more places. Xiangquan and Tianchun have long been famous in Shangjing, but not in Shangjing. We have to have our own store to sell these two kinds of wine, and the name of the store will still be Yu Fu Ji."
"The other thing is that Tingmei must at least complete its layout in Shangjing this year. The four major urban areas are a must. It must be completed within these two months, and then we will see how it expands to the surrounding areas."
"Although I saw the power of Sister Su Rou last night, you still have to be careful. After all, swords have no eyes, and your bones are not as strong as that sword - otherwise, you carry an iron pot on your back? ”
Fu Xiaoguan is happy, do I have to build a pan?
"Don't worry, I exercise every day. On the other hand, you and Wenyun have probably forgotten about this morning run."
Dong Shulan rolled his eyes at him and went for a morning run... He slept so well in the morning, so why did he run?
After breakfast, Dong Shulan went to Tingmei Shop in Qingluan Lane. Fu Xiaoguan thought about it and asked his family to arrange three carriages to go to Shi's house.
He was sitting in one of the carriages. His visit to the Shi family was not a temporary decision, but something he had told Shi Yiming yesterday.
One of the reasons he wanted to go was for the two open spaces at both ends of Qingluan Lane.
The two vacant lots are very large and the location is perfect. If two comprehensive shopping malls are built, they will become the landmarks of Jinling City. It is inevitable that they will make a lot of money every day in the future.
Of course, Shi Chaoyuan still doesn't want to see him, but if Shi Yiming brings his words, Shi Chaoyuan will definitely meet him.
As long as Shi Chaoyuan could see him, he would be 50% sure to hold the two pieces of land in his hands.
As for the second purpose of visiting the Shi family, it is to show it to His Majesty!
Don’t you want me to be a lonely minister? I'll show it to you.
As for the third purpose... Of course he wanted to lure out the assassin, but after thinking about it, the assassin might not be that stupid, so this purpose is probably impossible to achieve.
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On the same morning of the third day of junior high school, Shi Chaoyuan went to the study room in the back garden and met his father, Mr. Shi.
"I wonder if my father has made a decision about what happened yesterday?"
Old Mrs. Shi walked a few steps in the study with a white crane crutch. He was in good spirits. He was nearly seventy years old, his waist was not rickety, and his eyes were not dim. But his hair and beard are all white, and the ravines on his face are quite deep.
"My Shi family started with rouge and gouache, and it has been passed down for five generations. It was not until the third generation that someone entered the court and became an official. After so many years... our Shi family's influence in the officialdom is still the weakest. After going to Beijing, People think that this second family in Shangjing is for my Shi family, but only you and I know that our Shi family is actually not even comparable to the Xue family, and can at most beat the Qin family. This is because the Qin Bingzhong brothers are against each other. "
Old Master Shi sat down at the tea table, still holding the cane with both hands, and said: "Last year, when Fu Xiaoguan was assassinated, the fifth prince sent Qingfeng Xiaoyu Tower to clean up Rouge Tower and Yongle Square. Are you responsible for this matter? You have to take the main responsibility!”
"Father..."
Mr. Shi raised his hand and interrupted Shi Chaoyuan's words.
"You have always thought carefully, why did you show up in the Golden Palace that day? Don't answer, let me guess."
Cold sweat suddenly broke out on Shi Chaoyuan's forehead. He lowered his head and listened politely.
"The eldest prince lost his mother when he was young, but you have to know that the Xue family is the uncle of the eldest prince. The Xue family is extremely low-key in Shangjing, but since they have the ability to send Xue Binglan to the throne of the queen, we can judge their strength It’s not that simple. So how can the eldest prince be simple?”
"Other people think that the eldest prince is just a martial artist. Could it be that you are also blind?"
Shi Chaoyuan knelt down with a pop, "Father... I, my son, had no choice! At that time, the eldest prince came to me and said that he didn't like the little official Fu and asked me to humiliate him in the golden palace."
Mr. Shi's crutch hit the ground with a "bang!" Shi Chaoyuan's heart was shocked. Mr. Shi took a deep breath and said, "You... don't think that I don't know what you did. I I am old, but I am not blind yet. I will fall into the river if I step on two boats. Why don't you learn from Master Yan?"
Old Master Shi looked like he hated iron and shook his head, "Everyone in the capital said that the Yan clan and I, the Shi family, support the eldest prince, but in fact? Is it possible that you believe it too? The Yan clan will always support you. They are all emperors sitting on the dragon throne! And I, the Shi family, must be like the Yan clan! You just want to stand on both sides, how can there be such a good thing in the world?"
"So I went to see Concubine Shang and asked her to ask the fifth prince to send Qingfeng Xiaoyulou to level the two properties."
Shi Chaoyuan raised his head in astonishment, looked at his father in confusion, and then lowered his head again.
On the surface, his father's move was to give Fu Xiaoguan an explanation, but in fact it was to show it to Concubine Shang Guifei, to prove that the assassination of Fu Xiaoguan had nothing to do with the Shi family.
"Do you think this price is too high? Do you still think Fu Xiaoguan is insignificant?"
Shi Chaoyuan didn't answer, because that's exactly what he thought.
"You haven't seen this game clearly at all! You don't even know who set up this game within the game!"
"Do you really and naively think that His Majesty's thorough investigation of corruption is an accident? Do you really think that Fu Xiaoguan was assassinated simply because his strategy offended people?"
"Childish!"