“Didn’t Second Lord say that this is their doom too? Pindao is rushing to Zhou’s house for an appointment, so I’ll take my leave first.” After Zhen Shiyin said that, he waved his whisk and immediately went out freely.

Jia Lian was silent, since Zhen Shiyin only said that he recognized the voice, it can be seen that he did not meet those dudes.After leaving the back hall, seeing Taoist Zhang standing far away, he beckoned him over and asked him, “Will the Zhou family summon Taoist priests?”

Daoist Zhang said with a smile: “The Zhou family is not willing to fall behind the Wu family in building the provincial house, and they have summoned many masters who are proficient in landscape and civil engineering.”

“Then Zhen Shiyin, coming to Beijing this time is to answer the Zhou family’s appointment?” Jia Lian asked hurriedly.

Daoist Zhang knew the young master of the Zhou family, and he had seen Zhen Shiyin’s past with the Feng family one by one before, but just like when the young master of the Zhou family forced Zhen Yinglian to death, he refused to act. Qiu also refused to remind the Zhou family, but pretended to be confused and said: “The poor Taoist doesn’t know who Zhen Shiyin is. It’s just that the Taoist priest was originally invited by the Wu family. When the Zhou family heard about it, they intercepted it halfway.”

Jia Lian saw Taoist Zhang clearly and said with a smile, “Why did the late emperor call you here?”

“Illusionary Immortal.” Zhang Zhenren said.

“Why are you banned again today?”

“It’s the end of the real person.” Zhang Zhenren said again.

Jia Lian smiled softly, “The real man is worthy of the name of the end. I don’t know who Zhen Shiyin is.” After finishing speaking, he got up and went out. After leaving the mountain gate, he saw Baoyu supported by Zhao Tianliang with tears in his face, and said to him :”Let’s go back.”

“Yinglian is really… If I hadn’t forgotten for a while, Lian’s second brother would have come to save her earlier…”

“After you go back, write her an elegiac couplet to pay her respects.”

“Hey.” Baoyu agreed, was supported by Zhao Tianliang and Zhao Tiandong on the horse, and followed Jia Lian all the way back to Rongguo Mansion in a daze. Halfway saw Zhen Shiyin changed into a brand new Taoist robe, so he was about to chase after him and ask for it back for Fengshi and Yinglian Gongdao, after being drunk by Jia Lian, became more listless.

When he got to Ningrong Avenue, Baoyu felt groggy. Jia Lian saw his eyes go crazy, so Zhao Tianliang sent him back to the east garden to rest, and went to Jiamu’s Rongqing Hall by himself.

At this time, it was already dark, the Rongguo Mansion was brightly lit, and the front courtyard and backyard of the Rongqing Hall had already set up a banquet and sang operas.

Jia Lian first went to Jia Mu’s place to pour wine. Seeing that Jia Mu was very satisfied with the Chongyang banquet, he first apologized and said, “Grandson is late.”

Sitting at the top, Jia Mu was accompanied by several girls from Xiangyun, Yingchun, Tanchun, Xichun, Fu Qiufang and Zongli on both sides. There are people around.”

“Where’s Baoyu?” Mrs. Wang asked, sitting on Jia Mu’s left.

When Jia Mu heard this, she looked behind Jia Lian, but she didn’t see Baoyu coming to pour the wine, so she said, “Where did he hide that ghost?”

Jia Lian said with a smile: “He went to the Qingxu Temple for a while, and he may have bumped into something unclean. On the way back, his eyes were dazed, so I asked him to go back to the east garden to rest.”

“That’s fine,” said Jia’s mother, and said to the mandarin ducks who were waiting on the side, “You send some wine and vegetables to Baoyu yourself, and tell Baoyu that his health is important, so he doesn’t have to come here to take care of him.”

“Yes.”

Jia Lian glanced at him and saw that Tanchun was very familiar with Fu Qiufang, so he withdrew and went to the men’s table. Jia Zheng, Jia Zhu, Jia Huan, and Jia Lan were all there, but Chen Yejun didn’t come. He smiled and said, “Why doesn’t eldest brother-in-law come here?”

Jia Zheng was slapped in the face during the day and said unhappily, “He didn’t know who was bullying him, and he only said that he would not leave the backyard even if he died.”

Jia Lian said, “So, I also asked someone to bring him food and wine.” Hearing Jia Zheng’s question about Baoyu, he told the people at the table about Qingxu Guan.

When Jia Zheng heard this, he was afraid that Baoyu would be frightened stupid, and he was afraid of offending others, so he just said, “Then Liu Xianglian has a really bad temper. Even Lin Chong, the head of the 80 imperial army, has a time to endure humiliation.”

“Who says it’s not?” Fu Shi echoed.

Jia Lian smiled, and after the second watch, the crowd dispersed, and then sent Zhao Tianliang to see how Baoyu was doing. He heard that Baoyu had a fever, and wondered if Baoyu followed him out of the city. After washing his face and drinking two sips of hangover soup, he brought Quan Fu Quan Xi Lin Zhixiao to see it in person.

Seeing this, he couldn’t help being startled.

It turned out that Baoyu was so hot that his face was red and his ears were red, and his skin was scorching hot.

“My God, the whole family is counting on him, why is he so sick!” Mrs. Wang cried and wiped away her tears holding a handkerchief.

Jia Zheng frowned and sighed.

After Jia Zhu ordered Jia Lan to rest, she also shook her head and sighed endlessly, lest Baoyu would fall ill after being ill, and be as ill as he was, so that she would not be able to do important things.

“Master and wife, don’t worry, even if Brother Bao is not good, I’m still there.” Jia Huan added fuel to the side.

Mrs. Wang clutched the handkerchief tightly, determined to see that Tan Chun’s face would not be as knowledgeable as Jia Huan for the time being.

“Have you asked the imperial physician?” Jia Lian asked.

Jia Zhu hurriedly said, “Someone has been sent to invite him.” After that, he urged people to invite another imperial physician.

After half a day, Lin Zhixiao came in and said, “Second Master, Uncle, Second Master, Imperial Physician Bao, Imperial Physician Sun, all the imperial physicians from various places have been invited.”

“Then why hasn’t anyone come?” Mrs. Wang looked at Jia Lian suspiciously.

Lin Zhixiao hurriedly said: “The people we sent were one step late. It is said that famous and unknown imperial physicians everywhere were invited by Concubine Zhou’s family.”

“Why does their family need so many imperial physicians?” Jiazhunahan asked authentically.

Just as I was asking, Baoyu, who was burning in a daze on the bed, sat up suddenly and said, “the wrong has its head, and the debt has its owner! It’s not that the time has not come for repayment!” After finishing speaking, he fell back again.

Lin Zhixiao was startled, and hurriedly said: “It is said that something important happened to Concubine Zhou’s natal family. Master Zhou set up a banquet for everyone who contributed to the construction of the Provincial Family Hospital. A Taoist priest took advantage of the excitement of the banquet Taking precautions, he secretly poured medicine into the wine pot of the Zhou family. Now it is said that the uncle of the Zhou family has passed away, and the Zhou family and the Zhou family’s in-laws are left. At home.”

Jia Zheng and Mrs. Wang were taken aback.

Jia Zhu said, “Is this because you met your enemy?”

Jia Zheng asked, “Have you caught the Taoist priest?”

Lin Zhixiao said: “Where are we going to take people? The Taoist priest was very cruel. He also drank wine and died after the uncle of the Zhou family. Now the Zhou family doesn’t even know why the Taoist priest killed him next time, and they can’t wait to Destroy that Taoist priest to ashes.”

Jia Lian closed his eyes, thinking to himself that Zhen Shiyin was benevolent.

Jia Zheng said again and again: “It can be seen that those monks and Taoists whose details are unknown are absolutely not allowed to enter the house.”

“The Zhou family has some contacts with our family. Let me go and have a look. Maybe I can ask the Zhou family to assign an imperial doctor to come over.” Jia Lian said, then came out of Baoyu’s room, and when he went outside, he asked someone to bring a horse over. After getting on the horse, he went straight to Zhou’s house.

In the middle of the night, the bangs of clappers sounded, the streets were empty, and there was no one restraining the galloping horses.

So it originally took an hour to travel, but it arrived in less than half an hour.

Just as Jia Lian got off his horse, he saw King Beijing coming on horseback. He glanced at the door of Zhou’s house. Hearing the buzz of people inside, he thought that all the sons and sons loyal to the king’s mansion should come, so he got off his horse. Afterwards, he stood in front of the King of Beijing and said with a bow: “Jia Lian admitted his mistake, and please ask the Lord of Beijing to let Jia Lian go.”

Shui Rong didn’t know why and said, “What do you mean by that?”

“Why does your lord pretend to be confused? Ming people don’t speak dark words. The lord first sent a letter saying that he wanted to make one of my brothers turn against me. Today, I want Liu Xianglian to lose his wife and cut off his hair. The lord is a good plan.”

Shui Rong was stunned, and said with a sneer, “I don’t know why! Who did such a heartless thing?” After a pause, he remembered a very handsome and tall young man in the name of Liu Xianglian, and asked hesitantly: “How did he lose his heart?” wife?”

Jia Lian asked back: “I have to ask the prince what method he used. Does the prince want me to confront the prince of Zhongshun on purpose?”

“Nonsense, I just saw that Li Cheng spoke for you twice, and wanted him to have sex with you…” Shui Rong laughed back angrily. Originally, when Jia Lian was someone, he decided to have an affair with him without pain. Just kidding, who knows that Liu Xianglian lost his wife and Jia Lian blamed it on him.

Li Cheng?Jia Lian suddenly remembered that after Li Jijiu passed away, he hadn’t seen Brother Li Cheng for a few days.

“This matter has nothing to do with me.” Shui Rong said again.

“How many of them are willing to speak up if you ask them face to face? I just ask the prince to hold his hand high, and just open your mouth for whatever you want Jia Lian, and don’t use those methods to deal with Jia Lian again.” Jia Lian bowed again and again.

Shui Rong only said that Jia Lian was confused by Liu Xianglian’s incident, and secretly thought that after he went back, someone would ask Liu Xianglian’s wife carefully what happened.So he ignored Jia Lian and went to Zhou’s house.

After Jia Lian had finished the play, he followed him in. Just after he crossed the high threshold of Zhou’s house, he heard someone calling him, but it turned out that it was Qiguan.

“Second Master, our prince heard what you said to Prince Beijing just now. Now the prince is calling you.”

Jia Lian saw that the paint on Qi’s official face hadn’t been removed, so he handed him a handkerchief to wipe off, “Why is the prince here?”

Qiguan said: “The Zhou family came to invite, and the prince rewarded the Zhou family with a thin noodle.”

Jia Lian nodded, and followed Qiguan to find Prince Zhongshun.

I saw that there was a hundred steps away from the courtyard where the Zhou family held a banquet, and there was the sound of mourning. When I got closer, I saw carefully cooked delicacies from mountains and seas sprinkled all over the courtyard, and countless original screens fell to the ground. Fresh peony flowers that are hard to buy are trampled on the ground and their branches and leaves wither.After all the chaos, there was a figure hanging on a locust tree symbolizing the character “Lu” in the courtyard.

“That’s…” Jia Lian pointed to the figure, distinguishing Zhen Shiyin’s figure from the shadow of the locust tree.

“It’s the Taoist priest who poisoned. The Zhou family has already sent someone to ask Taoist priest Zhang from Qingxu Temple to ask questions. Taoist priest Zhang only said that the Taoist priest is using Zhou’s post to place an order at Qingxu Temple. He doesn’t know anything else.” Qiguan said sadly.

Jia Lian thought that it would be good if Zhen Shiyin went to the illusory realm to reunite with Zhen Yinglian’s father and daughter, and then followed Qi Guan to the Zhou family’s room, and saw that there was a turmoil everywhere in the upper room, and some relatives and family members who came to hear the news were crying loudly, and some Blame the Zhou family for causing trouble, and even a group of servants who didn’t know whether they should go to the courtyard to take back the dishes, tables, chairs and screens murmured idly.

“This way please.” Qiguan said again.

Jia Lian followed Qi Guan into the ear room on the west side of Zhou’s upper house, and saw an imperial physician taking the pulse of Prince Zhongshun, so he stepped forward and asked, “Your prince also drank poisonous wine?”

Prince Zhongshun shook his head with a wooden face, “That Taoist priest is not worthy of serving in front of this king.”

Sure enough, after the imperial doctor took the pulse, he also said: “My lord’s pulse is not abnormal, wait for the next official to go out and see how the other men are doing.”

Jia Lian hurriedly said, “Please take the time for the imperial physician to visit my house. Baoyu, the second master of my family, is ill.”

“This…” The imperial physician looked at Prince Zhongshun in embarrassment.

“Go.” Prince Zhongshun waved his hand, and after the imperial physician had left, he asked Jia Lian, “Did the King of Beijing threaten to make your brother turn against you?”

“Exactly, I thought it was to drive apart my sworn brothers.” Jia Lian said, and handed the flower lotus sent by King Beijing to Prince Zhongshun to see.

Prince Zhongshun looked at it, saw that it was King Beijing’s handwriting, and looked at Jia Lian’s resentful expression, and said, “Don’t be too afraid of him, he doesn’t dare to do anything.” As soon as his eyes moved, he thought that he would embarrass Uncle Zhou and others Liu Xianglian tested Jia Lian, but Jia Lian blamed the matter on the head of the King of Beijing. It can be seen that Jia Lian and the King of Beijing have deep grievances, so it makes sense to treat him as a confidant.

Suddenly, another howl was heard, and then a Zhongshun prince Shi said outside the door: “My lord, the in-laws of the Zhou family are gone. It has been found out that the poison used by the Taoist was stolen from the alchemy room of Qingxu Temple , Daoist Zhang said that there is no cure for that medicine.”

After finishing speaking, another person came to report the funeral and said, “Your Highness’ adopted son, the Third Lord of the Zhu family, is gone.”

One after another, another five or six noble sons and masters lost their lives.

Most of these young masters have bullied Zhen Yinglian during the day.

Prince Zhongshun’s face became more and more ugly, he tightly clenched his finger-wrench hands, and said with a sneer, “Someone dares to poison me in front of me.”

“I heard that the Taoist priest is a wandering Taoist priest? I don’t know how the Zhou family knew about the Taoist priest. My second master also said that a Taoist priest who doesn’t know the details should not be invited in.” Jia Lian said.

After hearing this, Prince Zhongshun went to see Qiguan.

Qiguan hurriedly said, “I’ll invite Master Zhou to talk right away.” Then, he pulled out his legs and went out. After a cup of tea, he invited Master Zhou, who was happy first and then sad.

“I also ask the prince to make the decision for the next official!” Master Zhou came in, staggering and knelt at the feet of Prince Zhongshun.

“Let me ask you, how did you invite that Taoist priest into the mansion?” Prince Zhongshun asked.

Master Zhou hurriedly said: “The two families of Zhou and Wu are building a yard together, and there will inevitably be some conflicts in vegetation, bricks, tiles, and even people. Therefore…so I heard that the Wu family wants to invite a real person who is good at gardens in the south of the Yangtze River, and I will be an official… …” Since he was robbing someone from the Wu family, he couldn’t help but be a bit unreasonable.

Prince Zhongshun understood it, and frowned, “How did the Wu family know?”

“Could it be that besides this Taoist priest, Master Zhou has also robbed the Wu family of other things?” Jia Lian asked, thinking that he had provoked Zhou and Wu for Fang Wenhui. If she was smart, she would seize this opportunity.

Master Zhou blushed, and then whimpered, “If I knew that Taoist priest was harboring evil intentions, why would I dare invite him here?”

“It should not be the Wu family who instructed the Taoist priest.” Prince Zhongshun murmured.

“That’s not necessarily the case.” Jia Lian stepped forward and said in Lord Zhongshun’s ear, “This Taoist priest did this for no reason, and there must be someone behind him. That person did this, either to bring bad luck to the Zhou family and call the palace Concubine Wu Gui is riding on the head of Concubine Zhou, or she is aiming at the prince.”

Prince Zhongshun thought of the poisoned person’s face as black as the bottom of a pot, and couldn’t help feeling scared.

After hearing Jia Lian’s words, Master Zhou decided that it was the Wu family’s fault, and hurriedly said to Lord Zhongshun, “Your Majesty, you don’t need to cover up the Wu family, it must be their family who did it. His family will definitely not want my family to pick up my mother-in-law together with his family. , so I deliberately played tricks… If my relative son Lang dies today, my mother and mother are not allowed to visit his relatives, and his family can monopolize the scenery!”

Prince Zhongshun was silent, it was inevitable that Zhou and Wu would have disagreements, but what did Jia Lian mean by saying that he was directed at him?After thinking about it, he asked Jia Lian.

Jia Lian said: “No one dares to be violent in front of the palace. Now that the prince comes here for a banquet, some people dare to poison. The officials dared to guess, could it be that what the prince did recently and who offended someone, so someone Want to take advantage of the Zhou family’s affairs to beat the prince?”

When Prince Zhongshun heard this, his back was covered with cold sweat, his eyes were slightly closed, wondering if it was the Supreme Emperor or the Emperor who beat him?Besides these two, who else could beat him?

“A wandering Taoist priest has no family, no job, no children, no money, no profit, and even life. Who can manipulate him?” Jia Lian put his hands behind his back, and glanced at the still kneeling Master Zhou looked at Qi Guan again, and pointed his finger to the front of his clothes.

Qiguan met his eyes and suddenly let out a cry.

Prince Zhongshun was terrified, and shouted: “You bastard, what are you calling?”

Qiguan timidly bowed his head and refused to speak.

“Say it.”

Ever since Guan Kou fled privately, Lord Zhongshun has been very strict with the actors and actresses in the mansion.Qi Guan was afraid of Prince Zhongshun, and wanted to escape from Prince Zhongshun on purpose, and felt that if he wanted to escape from the palace, he would need someone to help him, so just now when Jia Lian took a look at him, he knew that he should make up some nonsense to agree with Prince Zhongshun. Put it on the skirt, and what you want to say should be “today”.

“You bastard, why don’t you hurry up?” Prince Zhongshun urged again.

Qi Guan tugged at his sleeves, looked forward and backward and said: “On August [-]th, I ate the moon cakes rewarded by the prince and my stomach was full for a few days. I thought the moon cakes were broken. Later, I heard that the moon cakes came from that place, so I felt that the moon cakes There is absolutely no mistake, so I mistakenly thought that I ate too much melon and fruit.” After speaking, his eyes flickered and he did not dare to look up at Prince Zhongshun.

“I don’t need to say anything like that in the future.” Prince Zhongshun clenched his fists, remembering that the mooncakes rewarded to Qiguan came from the palace, but he didn’t know whether it was a gift from the Supreme Emperor, the Empress Dowager or the Emperor and Empress.Let go of your hand, and saw that the handwriting on the flower stick was blurred by the sweat in your palm, so you hammered heavily on your leg, suspecting that it was Hong Helong and Jia Yucun who secretly sold firearms. He wanted to rebel, so he hit him hard next time.

“Go home.” Prince Zhongshun suddenly stood up.

“Respectfully send off the prince.” Master Zhou and Jia Lian hurriedly followed.

Prince Zhongshun came out of the ear room, the cold sweat on his body was blown by the wind, he couldn’t help shivering, and then he led Qi Guan and the palace chief Shi in a little haste.

Master Zhou still wiped his tears, sighed and cursed.

Jia Lian comforted him and said: “Death cannot be brought back to life. For the present plan, it depends on whether the superior only asks Wu Guifei to visit his relatives, or whether the two noble concubines do not visit their relatives.”

“After throwing so much money in, how can the empress not come back to visit my relatives?” Master Zhou said with his eyes wide open.

Jia Lian nodded in approval and said, “Master Zhou is right.” After that, he was about to leave.

Master Zhou hurriedly said: “Wait a minute, are there any idle children in your family? The Taoist poisoned five or six of my family’s servants with a dose of medicine. The matter of visiting relatives and other homes cannot be delayed. If there are any idle children in your family , and call them to help.”

Jia Lian said: “All those who can stand on their own are sent out, and the rest are those who are devoted to studying. They should have refused to let the children who are studying come out. But how can I ignore such a thing when the Zhou family encounters it? Wait until I get home. Pick a few children here, maybe seeing that the Zhou family is already doing a lot of construction work, they will let Concubine Zhou visit her relatives.” So he walked out again, and then entered the courtyard where the banquet was held, and saw that the mess in the courtyard had been cleaned up. Only a figure still hangs on the tall locust tree.

Zhen Shiyin hides the truth.

Zhen Shiyin has truly concealed all the real things in his life.