kvmb Chapter 712 Still need to act
Chapter 712 Still need to act
Late at night, Prince Qin's Mansion.
Li Cunxi sat behind the desk, holding a copy of "The Analects of Confucius" in his hand, but he had no intention of reading it carefully.
If you observe carefully, you will find that he will occasionally sneak a peek at Xiaomei who is sitting on a lounge chair on the side.
All the food sent from the kitchen was stopped by Qiao Tai at the door. After confirming that there was no poison in the food, it was sent to the study and finally fell into Kui Wenzhong's mouth.
After a full half hour, Hu Jinghui, wearing Viper clothes, appeared outside the study window. He stretched out his hand to prop up the window and turned over to enter the study.
"Finally here, Jinghui."
Kui Wenzhong's mouth was full of oil, but he still stretched out his hand to greet Hu Jinghui.
Hu Jinghui nodded and took off the ox horn mask.
"You must have waited for a long time. I see you are eating very well."
"It's okay. The chef in Cunxi Mansion cooks pretty well. It just suits my taste."
The two chatted for a while, and Hu Jinghui turned to Li Cunxi and said:
"Cunxi, you asked me to come over so late at night. It seems that you want to give me a specific task."
"Tell me, what kind of role do you want me to play in the upcoming Snake Spirit Case that is destined to be famous in Luozhou?"
Li Cunxi didn't say anything, but took out a letter from a drawer beside him and handed it to Hu Jinghui.
"Brother Jinghui, take a look at this. This contains everything you need to do."
"Now that Brother Yuan Fang is one of us, he can probably ensure that this matter proceeds completely according to our arrangements."
Hu Jinghui took the letter, lowered his head, opened it, read it carefully, and memorized the contents.
He had to admit that in the plan arranged by Li Cunxi and Li Qingxia, they all needed to play the role of qualified actors.
If the two's arrangements go smoothly, it won't take more than a few days after the pilgrimage for Kui Wenzhong to clear his name and act as the seventh brother of the King of Qin.
Then, he used Kui Wenzhong's identity as a breakthrough point to gradually clear Xiaohui, Xiaomei, Xiaofeng and others.
In the end, the old master Yuan Tiangang was naturally brought out, and all the Snake Spirit members who were loyal to Xiao Qingfang and Yuan Tiangang were caught in one fell swoop, and sent to hell on the pretext of eliminating the rebels.
Then the snake spirit case ended and the mysterious Luo River was solved.
"That's great! That's settled then. I'm going back now. You can burn this thing now."
"Three days later, I'll go to Hanguang Temple to pay my respects. You can just watch me perform."
After saying this, Hu Jinghui was about to go home and have a good sleep.
Li Cunxi stopped him, saying, "Since we're here, why don't we have something to eat before we go? You and my brother finally got together, shouldn't we catch up on the past?"
Hu Jinghui smiled helplessly, "Reminiscing about the past? I would like to. Unfortunately, my General Chen Shi has asked me to take his place for a day, as I have to go to court tomorrow to protect His Majesty."
"How can you still work for others here? That's really strange."
It was the first time that Li Cunxi heard of a shift change within the Qianniu Guards.
The last time this was done was during the Youzhou case, when the emperor personally ordered Hu Jinghui to go north and handed over his job to someone else.
Normally, this kind of thing has never happened.
"Chen Shi has something important to do tomorrow. I heard he has to go to Hanguang Temple first to escort a monk there away."
"The other three Zhonglang Jiangs also had their own things to do, so they came to me."
Hu Jinghui had a fierce face and didn't want to take over the shift at all.
But after all, they would meet each other every day, and he didn't have to be on duty these days. Taking over for Chen Shi could also help the other party do him a favor, so he agreed.
"Forget it, I won't say any more. I have to go back. As for reminiscing about the past, we can naturally do so slowly after this world-shaking case is over."
Hu Jinghui said goodbye to the three people, climbed out of the window, and disappeared without a trace in a short while.
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Nothing happened that night. Early the next morning, Li Cunxi got out of bed and asked Di Qiaotai to bring back some cakes.
The Prince of Qin's Mansion is no longer the place where you can buy a few melons and dates as it used to be. There are now dozens of servants in the mansion, so there is no need for Qiao Tai to go out and buy things himself.
After turning a corner, Qiao Tai handed the two taels of silver that Li Cunxi handed to him to a servant and asked him to buy a bag of cakes.
The servant took the heavy silver, handed over his work to his companion, and left excitedly. As soon as he went out, he met the legal advisor Xuguzi.
Xuguzi had just returned from Suzhou. Seeing the servant hurried out, he took two steps and walked around the servant before entering the house.
Not long after, Xuguzi appeared in Li Cunxi's study and handed a letter to Li Cunxi.
"Your Highness, the Suzhou Governor, Lin Yongzhong, asked me to deliver a letter to you."
Li Cunxi reached out to take it, not knowing what to tell his future father-in-law.
In fact, he asked Xuguzi to go to Suzhou this time just for the sake of convenience.
The original intention was to let the other party go to Yangzhou.
After the Han Canal boat capsize case, most of the officials in Yangzhou were killed. Later, Zhang Jianzhi personally led a team and brought a group of officials to hand them over to Gao Fu, who later became the Sima of Yangzhou, and asked him to quickly set up a makeshift team in Yangzhou.
After that, Long Feng continued to occupy Huaiyang with his son Yuan Che, who was a member of the Iron Hand Group and supported Yuan Qi.
Xuguzi went to Yangzhou to ask Longfeng to act quickly and kill all the remnants of the Yuan family.
Just after Xuguzi left Yangzhou, Long Feng teamed up with Tao Gan to kill all the members of the Yuan family.
Thus, the Yuan family, which had existed from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the present, disappeared.
Xuguzi also followed suit and took a public-funded tour like Ma Rong. It took him more than half a month to get to Suzhou, and he finally met Lin Yongzhong. This is how Li Cunxi got the letter in his hand.
Li Cunxi quickly scanned the letter in his hand. The content was mostly about Lin Yongzhong's longing for Li Cunxi, and also mentioned that his daughter was now 14 years old.
After reading it carefully again, Li Cunxi probably understood what his future father-in-law was thinking.
"You're asking me who I'd choose as my wife."
Li Cunxi murmured to himself, rubbing his fingers on the letter.
He has been on the throne of the King of Qin for more than half a year, so the position of the Princess of Qin should have been decided early on.
But no news has been released from the Prince of Qin's Mansion so far.
Many ministers in the court wanted to get involved before, but unfortunately Di Renjie let the cat out of the bag and revealed Wang Xiao and Wu Yuanhui, causing many court officials to have thoughts that they shouldn't have.
"What are you looking at?"
A voice sounded beside Li Cunxi. Kui Wenzhong approached Li Cunxi silently. In just three or five breaths, he had roughly understood the content of the letter.
"Cunxi, your future father-in-law is urging you to choose a wife."
Kui Wenzhong immediately teased.
"How can you take a concubine when you don't have a wife?"
Li Cunxi looked up and saw Xiaomei coming in from outside. He immediately laughed dryly.
"Well, there's no rush, no rush. I want to get married until this case is completely resolved. I'm afraid your identities will make it difficult for you to walk around in public."
Xiaomei suppressed the joy in her heart, pretended nothing had happened, pulled a chair and sat down casually.
"What are you looking at?"