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Seeing that Su Liheng and Su Wan'er were both fine, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Then he looked at Su Xiaoyi and said, "Go and help the young lady apply the medicine."
Su Xiaoyi was stunned, but nodded and walked to Su Liheng and Su Wan'er.
Su Zifeng looked at Fang Wenhe and bowed: "Brother Fang, can you give me an explanation?"
Chapter 139 The Queen's Coincidence
Two months ago, Su Zifeng began investigating Fang Wenhe.
And on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival before, he also met Fang Wenhe.
Therefore, although Su Zifeng checked Fang Wenhe's identity, he didn't find out much. When he saw Fang Wenhe appear here, he was a little surprised, but he remained calm.
Because when Su Zifeng came, he confirmed that the person on the bed was 100% one of the two people who assassinated the Eighth Prince.
And Fang Wenhe is here.
Does that mean that this man has really broken away from the Eighth Prince, just as he said when they first met?
But Su Zifeng was not sure.
Because of the uncertainty, there was undisguised vigilance in his eyes.
Fang Wenhe glanced at Su Liheng, Su Wan'er and others, and then looked at Su Zifeng.
Su Zifeng turned sideways and made a gesture of invitation.
Fang Wenhe smiled and walked out of the room.
When Fang Wenhe and Su Zifeng came to another room, he saw some rouge in the room. He smiled and said, "The rouge business is very profitable, but I'm afraid only you can make such a big business in just over a month."
Su Zifeng waved his hand and said, "Brother Fang knows who is doing this business, so please don't make such jokes. My child is just a person who follows the plan."
Fang Wenhe smiled, put the rouge in his hand back to its original place, then looked at Su Zifeng and said, "Whether it's the people from the Queen Mother's side or the people from the Eighth Prince's side last night, they were all persuaded by me."
There was a hint of surprise in Su Zifeng's eyes, but when he thought of the rumored reputation of this man in the martial arts world, he didn't find it strange. He just looked at Fang Wenhe without saying anything.
Fang Wenhe looked at Su Zifeng: "Can I tell you a story? It's not long, but it's a bit cheesy."
As he said this, he sat on the stool.
Su Zifeng still didn't say anything, just looked at Fang Wenhe.
Fang Wenhe smiled and said, "There was a swordsman who originally lived in seclusion in the mountains with his wife and children. By chance, his wife and her child entered the city, but they were unexpectedly seen by the son of the prefect in the city. The lecher coveted her beauty, found someone to rob the woman and took her back to do dirty things to her, and then threw the woman out of the city. When the child found his father and came to look for his mother, the woman had already jumped into the river."
"The swordsman killed the prefect's son in a rage, and wandered around the world with the child. However, he didn't expect that the prefect was well-connected and was the queen mother's man. He used most of his life's wealth to hunt down the swordsman. The swordsman's martial arts were of the eighth rank, but his child was of the second rank. Unfortunately, the child died during a hunt. The swordsman killed everyone in a rage, including the prefect, and leapt into the ninth rank. However, the swordsman, who lost his family, abandoned his sword and left, and has been decadent ever since."
"The swordsman's name is Xu Ziqing. Brother Su has many people in the martial arts world under his command, so they should know this person. A year ago, I heard about Xu Ziqing's story and found him. When I found him, he was like a walking corpse. After getting to know him, I told him why the prefect was so arrogant and domineering, and why his son raped and plundered countless people but no one dared to stop him. It was because he was backed by the queen mother. It was the queen mother who killed his family. Xu Ziqing hated evil and hated evil. I had been quietly revealing the queen mother's story for a year, which was enough for him to bury it deep in his heart."
"It's easy for a ninth-rank swordsman to kill someone, but that person happened to be the queen mother, which made it a little difficult. So I needed to make arrangements. So I promised him that I would give him a chance, but he had to wait. So he kept waiting."
"It just so happens that this ninth-rank swordsman has a friend who hates evil even more and has long hated corrupt officials. His name is Dou Cheng, a true ninth-rank martial artist who had the potential to make a breakthrough, but he missed the mark by a single step. Not only did he fail, but he also injured his bones and has less than two years to live. I sent someone to tell him the location of his friend Xu Ziqing and what he had to do, and Dou Cheng immediately went to find Xu Ziqing."
Su Zifeng looked at Fang Wenhe and frowned, but was about to speak.
Fang Wenhe shook his head: "I didn't ask them to die. When they entered the capital a few days ago, I told them that His Majesty was going to take action against the Queen Mother, and that they didn't need to do anything because the Queen Mother was walking towards her own death step by step. But the two of them still wanted to take action, so I helped them."
Su Zifeng frowned: "Did you arrange for me to enter the palace? It must have something to do with those Xingqing Palace maids you contacted overtly or covertly after you arrived in the capital."
Fang Wenhe smiled and said, "Brother Su, you think highly of me. There is Commander Yan in the Imperial City. I tried for a long time but couldn't get in. As for those Xingqing Palace maids, although I contacted them, they were all afraid of the Queen Mother and didn't dare to say anything to me, let alone do anything for me. The reason why the two of them were able to get in was because I introduced them to the Eighth Prince. The Eighth Prince knew that the two of them wanted to kill the Queen Mother, so he was naturally willing to help. After all, the Queen Mother had been using the Eighth Prince as a knife, and the Eighth Prince had long been disgusted with her, so he mobilized his own people in the palace."
At this point, Fang Wenhe took out a piece of paper from his arms and said with a smile: "This is the list."
After Su Zifeng glanced at the paper, he looked at Fang Wenhe again: "Where is the person who assassinated the prince?"
Fang Wenhe smiled and said, "The seriously injured man in the room is called Shao Hongzi. His story is not as tacky as Xu Ziqing's, but it is a real story that happens all over the world. He wanted to kill the Eighth Prince simply because his family was in Yandi. The Eighth Prince let the Northern Barbarians in because of his greed. More than 20 people in his Taoist temple died at the hands of the barbarians. The eighth-rank warrior was named Wu Zhaodi, a female swordsman. Her family was also in Yandi. Her husband and children died at the hands of the barbarians."
"After I rescued them, I let them live in Chang'an County and promised them that I would give them a chance to kill the Eighth Prince, but I still failed. The main reason was that I didn't expect that there were two ninth-rank masters in the Eighth Prince's mansion. They should be used to guard against the late emperor. After all, the prince obviously had hundreds of thousands of soldiers. Now that I see the queen is becoming more and more powerful, I feel more and more that she is a means left by the late emperor."
Su Zifeng narrowed his eyes and looked at Fang Wenhe, with a more vigilant look in his eyes.
Fang Wenhe looked at Su Zifeng and smiled. "On the Mid-Autumn Festival, when I met Brother Su, I said that I would not do anything that would harm the world, and Brother Su has checked me before, so he should know that I am just an abandoned disciple of Yi Zixuan. I have done everything just to have a clear conscience, so Brother Su does not need to doubt me."
"But I haven't finished talking about what happened just now. It's true that the Eighth Prince was slightly injured, but the rumor that the Crown Prince was seriously injured in order to rescue the Eighth Prince was actually a deliberate act by the Crown Prince for his own reputation. He didn't have any injuries on his body. When the people from the Dali Temple went to investigate, they pretended to be injured and smeared chicken blood on their bodies."
"Besides that, the maids on the Queen Mother's side didn't dare to help me do anything, but that was because there was no profit. However, I have sent a message to them, asking them to tell the Queen Mother that a certain eunuch had contact with the Eighth Prince's people. So the Queen Mother should have learned from that eunuch who brought Xu Ziqing and the others into the palace, and the Eighth Prince would naturally be revealed. But this definitely happened last night."
"As for the Eighth Prince, because he learned last night that his pawns had been found, and then they were assassinated, the Eighth Prince naturally confirmed that it was the Queen Mother who sent someone to kill him."
"I know who the Queen Mother is. She is just a woman who turned hatred from love and went crazy because of abandonment. She got the position of Queen Mother because of pity and luck. It was only because the late emperor didn't kill her because of the late queen. But it doesn't matter now. Recently, Your Majesty has been pressing the Queen Mother step by step, and she has been very angry for a long time. Now someone wants to kill her like this, it is absolutely impossible for her to just let it go."
"The Eighth Prince is a vindictive person. Let me put it this way. If he hadn't suspected that the Empress was a trick left by the late emperor, and if he hadn't been extremely afraid of the late emperor, he would have been crazy enough to offend the Empress. After all, the Empress's return to the Su Mansion that day made him lose face, right? Moreover, the Empress's reputation is becoming more and more popular, especially last night when His Majesty publicly announced that the wedding date has been set. So, when the Queen Mother wanted to kill him, he was already furious and could easily get angry."
"Now, even if there are people around them who will dissuade them, these two people who are so angry will definitely fight each other. As for how serious it will be, it depends on how angry they are."
Su Zifeng looked at Fang Wenhe and took a deep breath. This plan sounded very thorough, but in fact it was full of loopholes and could be discovered as a plot at any time.
But every step was going just as Fang Wenhe said.
This morning, after his father Su Wenqing came back from court, he wondered why the Queen Mother's people suddenly wanted to impeach those who had defected to the Eighth Prince. In addition, several people successively impeached several officials under the Eighth Prince in Yan for corruption and bribery, and even produced evidence.
But then Su Zifeng looked at Fang Wenhe and said, "It's still the same question I asked when we met during the Mid-Autumn Festival. What is Brother Fang's purpose?"
Fang Wenhe heard this and smiled, "I have no intention of becoming an official. Even if I wanted to, I couldn't. What I am planning is just as I said just now, I have a clear conscience. But if you insist on asking me a reason, is too free? Anyway, I have a lot of free time, so I want to go around and enjoy life?"
At the end, Fang Wen and himself both laughed.
Su Zifeng frowned.
Fang Wenhe, an abandoned disciple of the Jianghu sect Yi Zixuan, caused discord between the Yongjiang Gang and the Qingcheng Mountain sects 21 years ago, resulting in countless casualties in the two gangs. His sect has even been destroyed now.
Even though there is a sect called Qingcheng Sect on Qingcheng Mountain today, it is not the Qingcheng Mountain of the past.
No one knows whether it was Fang Wenhe who did this, or he finally came forward and said that he did it.
Yi Zixuan never interferes in the grudges in the martial arts world, so Fang Wenhe was expelled by Yi Zixuan.
About the news about Fang Wenhe.
This is all Su Zifeng found out.
However, there is also a piece of news without evidence. Seventeen years ago, eleven villages in Raojiang united and planned to establish their own country. They killed many Han people and even put poisonous insects on the Han people, making them serve as soldiers.
But Su Zifeng has news that Fang Wen and someone went to Raojiang, and then.
All the people from the other thirty-six villages in Raojiang, and even the twelve caves, were mobilized. Not a single soldier from Daxia was destroyed, and all the people from those eleven villages were killed, and the matter ended in nothing.
Su Zifeng also asked Su Wenqing about this matter, but Su Wenqing shook his head and said that this matter had not been reported to the court at that time.
Maybe the late emperor knew, but he never told anyone.
Looking at Fang Wenhe.
Su Zifeng could feel that the gap between him and this person was not ordinary, but after thinking hard for a while, he asked again: "Brother Fang helped my Wan'er today, it should not be just to save Shao Hongzi."
Fang Wenhe immediately said aggrievedly: "Brother Su, you really wronged me. I didn't plot against anyone in the Su family. Instead, Miss Wan'er helped me this time. I hid Shao Hongzi there because I thought the most dangerous place would be the safest. I wanted to take him away without anyone noticing, but I didn't expect Miss Wan'er to find Boss Su to help me solve this matter. I followed behind and cleaned up their tracks, and followed them all the way here."
After Fang Wenhe finished speaking, he glanced at the foot sticking out of the door, smiled and said, "In fact, I didn't expect this to happen, because according to my original plan, I still had to arrange these things, at least until I had planned other things. After all, I just planted the chess pieces like Xu Ziqing, and as for how to make them move, when to make them move, and how to make them move, I always have to find opportunities."
"But after the Queen appeared, the matter became as if it was helped by God. Step by step, it was as if everything was specially arranged for me, especially the Queen made friends with Li Xingyue at the early winter poetry meeting, and then rescued Li Xingyue. I originally wanted Li Jiulang to find out by herself, but I didn't expect the Queen to save her."
"Also, the Queen's reputation is growing, which has ruined many people's good plans. As a result, the Eighth Prince firmly believes that the Queen is the late emperor's backer. Sometimes when I think about it in my mind, it all seems like a coincidence, but it's as if the Queen saw through me and deliberately made me do what I have done now."
"So, up to this point, the Queen has made the greatest contribution. But at the same time, what Your Majesty has done is also amazing to me. She is truly worthy of being the daughter of the late emperor. She is much better than her two brothers."
Su Zifeng stretched out his hand and rubbed his brows, because hearing this reminded him of the sources of many previous news. Those news came easily, and it can even be said that they were delivered to his doorstep, especially the news about the Eighth Prince and the Queen Mother hooking up. "It was Brother Fang who gave me the news about the man who was planted in the Eighth Prince's mansion."
Fang Wenhe smiled. No need to answer, everything was said without words.
But Fang Wenhe continued, "Miss Wan'er hiding at the door is not what a scholar should do."
Su Wan'er heard that she was discovered and came out.
Su Zifeng turned around and saw Su Liheng and the others were all there. He frowned immediately, but after thinking about it, he shook his head and said nothing more.
Su Wan'er, on the other hand, looked at Su Zifeng, then at Fang Wenhe, bowed and asked, "Does my elder sister know about these things? Because that person has Sister Mao Mao's medicine bag in his hand."
Fang Wenhe saw the ink in Su Wan'er's hand and said with a smile: "This is what I just said. These things obviously have nothing to do with the Queen, but by chance, the Queen always makes the key move."
"In addition to Shao Hongzi, the person who assassinated the Eighth Prince was also Wu Zhaodi. Wu Zhaodi was born in Raojiang and was acquainted with her husband. However, there is a rule in Wu Zhaodi's village that after a person dies, no matter where they are, their bodies cannot be returned, but a bone of their little finger must be sent back."
"So Wu Zhaodi wrote a letter to her brother, asking them to come and collect her body, or at least take a small piece of bone home. But she didn't expect that group of people would happen to meet you, Miss Yu Wan'er, at the same restaurant where you were having dinner that day, and Miss Maomao was one of the girls in the group who exchanged the herbs for the package of herbs in your hand."
"After Wu Zhaodi met with them, the girl gave the herbs to Wu Zhaodi, who then passed them on to Shao Hongzi. So Miss Wan'er saw the paper containing the medicine and thought that Shao Hongzi had a relationship with the Empress, so she saved him."
"And not only that, on the day when the Empress returned to the palace, it was rumored that she was weak and had returned to the palace to recuperate. Old Master Yao, who valued her talent and admired the Empress' virtue, wrote a letter to his old friend, Mr. Zhang Wenjing, the former genius doctor in Beijing. Brother Wu Zhaodi had been looking for Zhang Wenjing, and when he heard that he was going back to the capital, he came to the capital. Otherwise, it would take more than a month to get from Raojiang to the capital."
"Although this was a bit of a hassle and took quite some time, but just as Fang said, it seems like everything was arranged by the Queen. It's too much of a coincidence."
Su Wan'er blinked and recalled the day when she ate the duck in soy sauce. However, she did not expect that the people at the next table had such an intention.
Su Zifeng also remembered that during the two days when the eldest girl returned to the palace, Xun Kuang told him that Master Yao had written a letter to his old friend Zhang Wenjing to come back and help treat the eldest girl's illness.
But
This is really just like what Fang Wenhe said, everything is just a coincidence.
Everything can be connected!
But on second thought, if it weren't for the person in front of me stirring up trouble and making such a careful plan, there wouldn't be all these coincidences.
Fang Wenhe stood up and bowed to Su Zifeng: "Wu Zhaodi was seriously injured. I have arranged for his brother and the other disciples of Raojiang to stay in Linyangfang, where the Western Regions religious groups gather. That place is very safe, but Brother Su needs to make some arrangements. After all, they are the ones who killed the Eighth Prince, so they are not your Majesty's enemies. Moreover, Wu Zhaodi and Shao Hongzi can both join the army and go to the border. Their hatred for the barbarians has not diminished at all. If your Majesty wants to keep them by your side, that's fine."
Su Zifeng felt helpless as Fang Wenhe said what he wanted to say and ask. However, he felt inexplicably respectful towards Fang Wenhe. After thinking for a while, he asked, "I have written down everything Brother Fang said just now. I will tell Your Majesty everything. However, from the few words Brother Fang said just now, does it seem that he knew the late emperor?"
Chapter 140 The Queen is troubled by the marriage
Fang Wenhe was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "I've met him twice."
Met twice.
After hearing the four words "light and fluttering", Su Zifeng began to understand why Fang Wenhe did these things. He also understood why His Majesty did not allow him to continue investigating Fang Wenhe.
The backup plan left by the late emperor?