"Please don't say that." Qin Yining hurriedly reached out to support her, "We're all family, I know you're in a difficult position. Besides, I'm fine now."
Mu Jinghu was originally invited by Pang Xiao to help, he did not owe her anything. Besides, he had his reasons, how could she blame him?
"Alright, alright, if you continue to be so polite, the tea will get cold." Pang Xiao smiled, personally pouring a cup of tea for Mu Jinghu.
Qin Yining also passed the honey water to Qiu Feishan.
After the two of them sat down, Qiu Feishan looked around and asked with a smile, "Martial Uncle didn't come back with you?"
Tian Jizi was Mu Jinghu's elder, even if Qiu Feishan had a knot in her heart about Tian Jizi's previous threats and schemes, she still had to ask out of politeness.
Qin Yining did not know how to answer for a moment. He had just resolved the awkwardness with Mu Jinghu, and in the blink of an eye, he was told that Tian Jizi was locked up. No matter what the reason was, it would not be easy for him to accept it, right?
However, Pang Xiao was very calm, and directly said to Mu Jinghu, "Your Martial Uncle misled the people in the army, and disturbed the morale of the army, so I locked her up."
Mu Jinghu was stunned, and scratched the back of his head. After a while, he said, "That's something she would do. You locked her up in the dungeon? "
"I wouldn't do that for your sake, I only locked her up in a room, and did not allow her to walk around freely and speak carelessly."
"Oh, then it's fine, if she's locked up, then so be it, as long as she has food and shelter."
Qin Yining was speechless for a moment, and took a big gulp of honey water from the teacup.
It seemed that Tian Jizi was not very popular.
Mu Jinghu looked around, and after confirming that there were no outsiders, he coughed awkwardly, and said, "Little Fox, actually I have something to tell you.
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Pang Xiao understood Mu Jinghu too well. If it wasn't something major, he wouldn't have revealed such an awkward expression. He knew that there must be something important that he had to hide from him the whole way back.
"What is it?" Pang Xiao asked calmly.
Mu Jinghu sighed. "Actually, it's like this. Back in Bo 'an Town, the matter of the Qiu Family's courtyard was not as simple as I made it out to be. At that time, it wasn't me who quietly sneaked out to light the fire. It was me and Martial Uncle who sneaked out and drugged the master of the house. "
Pang Xiao raised her eyebrows. "Actually, I guessed it."
Mu Jinghu said in surprise, "How did you …"
"If they were really burned to death, the people in that house couldn't have died so quietly, nor could they have died so cleanly. None of these people survived. They must have lost their ability to move before they were burned. Either they were poisoned, or they were killed and burned. "
Mu Jinghu nodded awkwardly.
To be able to guess this, Pang Xiao didn't ask him, it was entirely out of trust and respect for his friend. On second thought, Pang Xiao's intelligence was not something that could be casually deceived by anyone.
Pang Xiao said, "I don't have any other meaning. Everyone has the right to maintain privacy."
"I know what kind of person you are," Mu Jinghu nodded and continued. "I didn't deliberately hide this matter from you. It's because I found something strange in the Qiu Family's courtyard. I wasn't sure myself, so I didn't say anything. That day, my Martial Uncle asked me to drug the masters. These people confessed a lot of things. One of them was called Qiu Feijing, who claimed to be the son of Qiu Yuanqing. "
"Oh? Qiu Yuanqing's son was born in Sword Creek City, why did he go to Bo 'an Town? "
"I'm not sure about this, but he claimed to be the son of Qiu Yuanqing at first, and threatened us. Later, when he failed, my Martial Uncle gave him a very torturous drug. He couldn't stand it, and before he died, he gave us a letter."
Mu Jinghu looked at Qiu Feishan.
Qiu Feishan took out an envelope from her sleeve.
Pang Xiao took the envelope and opened it, but found that the letter was just an ordinary greeting, there was no clue.
Qiu Feishan smiled and said: "This letter doesn't seem strange on the surface. Only the important people of the Qiu Family know that this letter contains a secret message."
"A secret message?"
"Yes. The Qiu Family has been passed down for more than a hundred years, and naturally has its own set of methods. This secret message is not difficult, it corresponds to a book. I won't go into the details of the method. I will only tell you the contents of the letter. "
Qiu Feishan smiled, then looked at Qin Yining, "This can be considered as me making up for my mistakes."
Mu Jinghu patted Qiu Feishan's shoulder.
Pang Xiao and Qin Yining both smiled, "In any case, I have to thank you."
"No need to thank me. The general meaning of this letter is to instruct Qiu Feijing to go to Danzhou Prefecture's Dingsheng Restaurant to meet with the Lu Family on the 10th of October in the name of the young master of Guangtong Agency. The Qiu Family intends to buy an imperial envoy from the Lu Family. "
"What?"
Qin Yining was shocked. Qiu Feishan's words contained too much information. Especially the last sentence.
"The Lu Family can buy and sell officials?"
"Since the Qiu Family can find the Lu Family, it means that the Lu Family is indeed in this business."
Qin Yining asked: "If they want to buy an imperial envoy, then the imperial envoy is … is it the current generation's imperial envoy in the old capital?"
Qiu Feishan nodded and said: "The letter does mean that. You may not know, but my Guangtong Agency was originally the Qiu Family's business on the surface. All of the Qiu Family's statements were done by Guangtong Agency. The Qiu Family naturally hid behind and refused to reveal their identity.
"Now that Guangtong Agency has become independent, Qiu Yuanqing set up another Guangtong Agency and let Qiu Feijing be the head manager. This time, if the Lu Family asks about the imperial envoy, I plan to say that Guangtong Agency wants to develop in the old capital of Dayan. It's unfortunate that there's no one in the court. If the imperial envoy is one of our own, then things will be much smoother. "
Pang Xiao was surprised: "But I didn't hear that the court is going to send an imperial envoy to the old capital."
Qiu Feishan smiled and took a sip of the honey water.
Qin Yining was shocked: "Could it be that the Lu Family has the ability to control Your Majesty's personnel? Not only the appointment of officials in the court, but also the dispatch of imperial envoys? "
"That's why I said that since Qiu Yuanqing found a way to buy an imperial envoy, then the Lu Family must have the ability to do so. And it's definitely not the first time they've done this. Qiu Yuanqing is quite cautious. If there weren't many successful examples, he would never think of borrowing the Lu Family's ability. "
Qin Yining looked down, his slender fingers turned the cup of honey water. His mind was spinning, and finally he asked: "Could it be that the prominent families and the hidden families are planning to cooperate in this generation?"
Qiu Feishan suddenly looked at Qin Yining, her eyes full of complex feelings.
"I'm not sure about this matter." Qiu Feishan said bitterly: "The Prominent Clans and the Hidden Clans have not changed for a long time. We are the Hidden Clans, so we have a deep impression of this matter and are very cautious about passing it down. However, the Prominent Clans might have already treated this matter as a legend."
"In other words.
The Lu Family is not sure whether there is a hidden family or not. Or, the Lu Family doesn't know that there is a hidden family, but the Qiu Family knows that the Lu Family is a prominent family? "Pang Xiao said.
Qiu Feishan nodded and said heavily: "Qiu Yuanqing is a person who can do anything for what he wants, he can even kill his own father …"
At this point, Qiu Feishan suddenly choked up.
That day, she was reprimanded by her grandfather, and her grandfather wanted to take her away to get married. She also resented her grandfather because he disliked her because she was a woman and refused to put her in an important position.
But she didn't expect that day to be the last time she saw him in this life. Her fate also took a turn on that day. She was forced to get married, and her grandfather died in the hands of his son …
Qiu Feishan closed her eyes, and tears almost flowed down.
Mu Jinghu quickly hugged Qiu Feishan's shoulder and coaxed her: "Shanshan, don't cry, don't be sad. Grandfather definitely doesn't want to see you so sad. You're fine.
Grandfather can only be at ease. "
Qiu Feishan sniffed and said sadly: "I know, I just … I didn't expect that I would never have the chance to see him again."
Taking a deep breath, Qiu Feishan forced herself to calm down.
Pang Xiao and Qin Yining were also a little emotional, and for a moment, the house became extremely quiet.
After a long time, Qiu Feishan continued: "What I mean is, Qiu Yuanqing is very ambitious, and he might have even greater ambitions. If he really has such thoughts, it would break the rules of the ancestors.
He might really work with the Lu family. "
Pang Xiao said: "That's indeed a possibility. But there's also a possibility that Qiu Yuanqing just wants to use the Lu family. After all, the Qiu family knows the Lu family very well, but the Lu family knows nothing about the Qiu family. It's a good choice to use this resource. "
"That's right." Qin Yining added: "The Qiu family must have bought an imperial envoy and placed it near the old capital to deal with Wang Ye."
Qiu Feishan said: "You should have guessed that Magistrate Qi in the old capital was bribed by Qiu Yuanqing. But this person is very shrewd, and after learning from the experience of Magistrate Yang, he hasn't done much. So maybe Qiu Yuanqing thought that one magistrate was not enough, so he added an imperial envoy, and maybe it would be easier to do things. "
As for what to do? Of course, it was to deal with Pang Xiao and Qiu Feishan.
In Qiu Yuanqing's eyes, Pang Xiao was the person chosen by Qiu Feishan, so he was naturally an enemy.
"This is understandable, but I didn't expect that the reclusive family would also use the prominent family." Qin Yining shook his head and didn't continue this topic. Instead, he said: "I guess Your Majesty's thoughts on Wang Ye may have been confirmed by the Lu family, and Your Majesty may have long wanted to arrange an imperial envoy to the old capital. If the Lu family really wants to sell officials, they should do it from the left and right sides."
"That must be the case." Pang Xiao nodded.
Listening to Qiu Feishan, Pang Xiao, and Qin Yining discussing such a complicated matter, Mu Jinghu had been in a daze and couldn't get a word in. Seeing that their topic had come to an end, he said: "You can see so much content from an ordinary greeting letter, it's no wonder that I couldn't understand it at that time."
Pang Xiao couldn't help but chuckle when he heard that. He nodded and said: "Indeed, if Boss Qiu didn't understand the secret code, it would be impossible for outsiders to understand the important news in it."
Qin Yining also smiled and said: "Yes, thanks to you."
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