Chapter 3 Chapter 3 Flaws
After Chang Gong left Zhaoyang Hall, he was blown by the cold wind in the courtyard, and became more sober than before.Once a person calms down, he will analyze things rationally and discover the truth.She simply sat down by a tree in a corner of the palace, closed her eyes and filtered all the so-called evidence in her mind, and suddenly felt a thrill in her heart, feeling that there was something particularly wrong.Didn't she also know about the third brother going to the south?correct!That third brother obviously went to buy a different species of maple in the south!Why did it turn into buying weapons in a blink of an eye?There must be something wrong with this!
She was about to stand up and go to Gao Zhan's theory again, when suddenly she saw a familiar figure flicker, and sat down beside her in a calm manner.
"Heng Jia..." Chang Gong was a little surprised, but she was not in the mood to talk to him at this moment, she just turned her head to stand up, and was dragged back to the original place by him.
"Why didn't you come to me?" Although he had a gentle expression on his face, there was a hint of annoyance in his black eyes.
Chang Gong opened his hand with a snap, and his tone was a bit bitter. "Is it useful to find you? This is our Gao family's business. I don't want to involve you. You are a smart person who is wise and safe."
He smiled softly, "I heard about that contract for purchasing weapons."
Chang Gong was taken aback, "How do you know?"
"Don't worry about how I know, I think the emperor must have shown you the contract, first tell me the date on the contract and the name of the weapon shop." His tone seemed to want to confirm something.
Chang Gong hesitated for a moment, but still told what he saw.
"It turned out that the day to buy weapons was at the beginning of spring last year." There was a clear smile on his lips.
"My third brother was buying maple trees in the south at that time, and he didn't buy any weapons at all!" Chang Gong turned his head sideways, "Hulul Hengga, if you just want to know these boring things, please go back."
"Boring?" Heng Jia was not annoyed, but still smiled, "But do you know that the owner of this armory shop had a serious illness before it opened last spring, and didn't start working again until summer."
Chang Gong's heart beat violently due to the sudden excitement, and he stammered, "Then, wouldn't it be impossible for them to sell the weapons to the third brother at the beginning of spring? That is to say, that contract is fake at all! But, that seal is obviously third brother's..."
"I'm afraid that contract was originally—the contract for your third brother to buy maple trees, so the seal is real, but the content of the contract has been changed."
"It turns out to be like this! It seems that someone has already planned everything carefully, just to put my third brother to death!" The murderous intent suddenly appeared in her eyes, "It must be He Shikai, I must kill him with my own hands!"
"Not now," Heng Jia glanced at her, "If you kill him now, wouldn't it be even more difficult to explain?"
She was silent for a moment, "Then I'm going to tell the emperor about this right away!"
"Wait a minute." Heng Jia stopped her, "Don't you know the saying that there is no proof? The emperor may not believe it just because you say it, but if you can find Zhu Gang, the owner of the armory shop, then you will have another chance." Forget it."
"That's right..." Her eyes lit up, but quickly dimmed, "But, since someone bribed him, he may not be still in the south now. There are so many people, where can we find this person? "
"Humans have weaknesses, as long as he is still alive, there must be clues," Heng Jia bent his lips, "Zhu Gang's weakness is lust, he has a friend in Liuhuayuan, or we can find some clues from there .”
"Why?" She suddenly looked up at him, as if to look into his heart, "Haven't you already cut ties with us? Didn't you also avoid us like the plague? Aren't you going to fight with those people……"
"Chang Gong, if I don't do that, how can I get out of the contract, if I don't do that, how can I find out about Zhu Gang, if I don't do that, how can I— —Help you?" Heng Jia sighed softly, and looked at her steadily like that, as if there was something flowing in her eyes, unceasingly, wrapping her heart round and round like spring silk.
"Chang Gong, you are such an idiot."
Hearing this sentence of deja vu, she stared blankly at those eyes as deep as a lake, her heart seemed to be filled with clouds, light and floating, like walking on clouds, unable to distinguish between the sky and the earth.For a moment, endless sourness and emotion poured into the bottom of her heart, rising slowly, as if it was about to come out from the bottom of her eyes, it turned out that Heng Jia... was always by her side.
"I'm sorry... Heng Jia, I, I misunderstood you." She bowed her head embarrassedly.
"Okay, it's getting late, I'll go to Liuhuayuan when I arrive, and getting words out of women's mouths is a hundred times more difficult than getting words out of those officials' mouths, and it won't take more time .” Hanga stood up and walked forward.
"Me, I'll go too." Chang Gong also followed.
He stopped suddenly, turned around and smiled meaningfully at her, "It's better to leave this kind of thing to a real man." There was a warm smile on the corner of his mouth, as if a A reassuring force made her originally turbulent mood suddenly calm down.
At this time, the Gao Mansion was still shrouded in a sad atmosphere. Chang Gong saw the aunt's haggard face, and wanted to tell the aunt about the flaw Heng Jia discovered, so that the aunt could feel a little relieved, but after thinking about it, It would be more appropriate to simply wait until the solution is resolved before giving the aunt a surprise.The aunt didn't say a word that was abnormal today, she just looked at her with a complicated expression, and then let her retreat. Chang Gong only said that she was too sad, so he didn't care too much.When going back through the garden, Chang Gong saw Cui Lan sitting in the pavilion crying silently, so he stepped forward to comfort her with concern. "Third sister-in-law, it's windy outside, you'd better go back to the house. Third brother will be fine." Cui Lan stared fixedly at the moon in the sky, and asked in a low voice, "Chang Gong, if your third brother is convicted, Zhengli must not escape this disaster, right?" Chang Gong's heart sank, and he quickly said, "No, third sister-in-law, stop thinking about it, my third brother will definitely not be convicted." "Won't you be convicted?" Cui Lan withdrew his gaze and glanced at her coldly, "Chang Gong, do you still remember what happened to Gao Guiyan's family? It is impossible for the emperor to lightly forgive those who plot treason." "My third brother has no intention of treason at all!" "But the relics and weapons..." A strange look flashed across Cui Lan's eyes, "Chang Gong, I'm not afraid of death. But, I must protect my children. I will never let them suffer any harm, even if Pay any price." "Sister-in-law three..." Chang Gong wanted to say a few more words to reassure her, but because he looked up and saw the determination in her eyes, he couldn't speak for a while. midnight. Chang Gong woke up again from the nightmare. She wiped the cold sweat from her forehead, looked out of the window, and saw the moonlight at night was like water, faintly rippling and floating, and the outlines of the nearby trees were extremely clear , as if drawn with a bamboo pen.These days, her sleep has become extremely poor, and a little sound can wake her up.She wanted to turn over and continue to sleep, but inadvertently heard a slight sound from outside the door. Outside the door—someone?Who is it?thief?In order to see what the other party did, she simply continued to pretend to be asleep. In a vague way, she felt that someone came in lightly, and sat down carefully beside her couch. Based on the sound of the person's footsteps and the scent on her body, Chang Gong was surprised to distinguish that this person was actually --aunt! The aunt sat beside her silently for a long, long time, as if she wanted to say something, all her thoughts were churning to find an outlet, but no matter how many words she had in her heart, they seemed unable to utter them on her lips, in front of her.Just like the night covering the earth, it is deeply hidden in the darkness, and there is nowhere to find it.In the end, it just turned into a vague murmur... "I'm sorry, Chang Gong." Hearing the aunt's footsteps going away, Chang Gong opened his eyes in confusion, why did the aunt say such strange words?Sorry?Why did the aunt say sorry to her? In the early morning of the next day, the sky was not yet fully lit, but there were still a few stars hanging in the sky, shining faintly.The maids in the Zhaoyang Palace were already busy, washing and changing the emperor's clothes swiftly, preparing to go up to the court. "Your Majesty, breakfast is ready." Wang Ge walked into the room as usual and said respectfully. Gao Zhan nodded indifferently, and when his eyes passed by him inadvertently, he seemed to hesitate to speak. "Wang Ge, is there anything else?" The servant of the king hesitated for a moment, "Your Majesty, the mother of King Hejian begged to see you outside the palace early in the morning, saying that she had something important to tell." Gao Zhan didn't even raise his eyelids, "It must be for King Hejian to intercede, I don't want to see her." "But she said..." Wang Ge paused and lowered his voice, "She said she was willing to trade a secret for King Hejian's safety." "Oh?" Gao Zhan pursed his thin lips slightly, his eyes sneered, "I don't know what is the secret that has such a big effect?" Wang Ge came over and said in a softer voice, "Your Majesty, she said it was about the secret of King Lanling..." Before he could finish speaking, he saw the color of the Emperor's face change instantly. "Let her in immediately." Since Huluhenga opened his eyes this morning, his right eyelid has been twitching non-stop.His eyelids are still twitching up to now.He rubbed his eyelids helplessly, glanced at Chang Gong from the corner of his eye, and found that she was also gently rubbing his right eyelid, and couldn't help but feel a little strange.As the saying goes, the left eye jumps auspiciously, and the right eye jumps badly.This is not a bad omen, is it? The ministers beside him were chattering nonsense again, but the emperor sat quietly on the throne without saying a word.Heng Jia has long discovered that the emperor seems to be a little out of his mind today, his mind is too empty, and his mind is not in the court at all.He raised his head and looked at the emperor with some doubts. The white jade bead curtain just moved. In an instant, he saw the emperor was staring at a person closely. Those tea eyes were very deep, like infinitely silent. In the depths of the deep sea, everything is flowing at an extremely slow speed, but at the same time, it seems that poisonous vines are spreading in those tea eyes.He has never seen such complex and changeable eyes in an instant, including shock, anger, joy, disbelief, doubt... More and more emotions are intertwined, almost suffocating... His heart trembled, and he quickly looked at the unaware party—Gao Changgong, and suddenly felt a feeling of uneasiness and fear tightly strangling his heart.Your Majesty—why look at Chang Gong with such eyes? When he was in court, Heng Jia was summoned by the emperor to Zhaoyang Palace for the first time. The breeze brings coolness, the water in the garden is constantly gurgling, and the calamus by the pool is thick, contrasting with the white chrysanthemums.When Gao Zhan saw him coming, he made people put on the chessboard, which made Heng Jia feel more and more uneasy.The emperor specially summoned him, and it was impossible for him to simply play chess with him. "I don't know why the emperor summoned his ministers for something important?" He smiled slightly. "You can see it too. I just want to play chess with you, and I'm also doing homework by the way." Gao Zhan reached out and picked up a sunspot. The pitch-black color set off his slender fingers like a stone in the ice and snow. Jade, flawless. "The emperor has such an elegant mood, and I should accompany him." Heng Jia picked up a white ball in his hand. Gao Zhan chatted with him about marching and fighting, and praised the achievements of the Hulu family, but suddenly changed the subject, "Shang Shuling and Chang Gong also went to war together several times, right?" Heng Jia's nerves tensed immediately, but the elegant smile was still on his lips, "Go back to the emperor, that's right." "You guys cooperated tacitly on the battlefield." Gao Zhan put down a sunspot and said casually, "By the way, you and Chang Gong usually live together. This kid likes to sleep on the quilt since he was a child. I don’t know if it’s changed when I get older?” Heng Jia didn't answer right away, but just thought that Chang Gong never stepped on the quilt when he slept in the same tent... Then the emperor added, "Could it be that Chang Gong has one person in one tent?" "Back to the emperor, I slept with Chang Gong in the same tent, but I never found that she had a bad habit of kicking the quilt, and she did grind her teeth occasionally." He was keenly aware that the emperor seemed to want to get something out of his mouth. "Teeth grinding? If you don't tell me, I forgot. This child did have this problem when he was a child. I didn't expect that he didn't change it when he grew up." Gao Zhan stared at the chessboard with a complicated expression, and asked, "Then usually in the military camp, the long-term Does Gong often hang out with the soldiers, or do you spend more time alone?" "Of course I spend more time with the soldiers." "By the way, when Chang Gong was injured in Yizhou last time, who gave her the medicine?" Gao Zhan suddenly asked again. Wherever Heng Jia looked, he could see faint blue veins protruding from the back of the emperor's white almost transparent hand, it can be seen that the emperor was pinching the chess piece with all his strength, as if trying to hold back something.He was startled, could it be that the emperor is suspecting...impossible?How could the emperor suddenly suspect this matter... "Going back to the emperor, I personally gave her the medicine." Heng Jia raised his eyes and looked at Gao Zhan calmly.Gao Zhan half-closed his eyes, the cold eyes were like a sharp knife, directly inserted into his body, as if he was looking at something, and he seemed to be guessing the truth of what he said. Just staring at each other silently for a while, Heng Jia laughed calmly again, "However, Chang Gong can bear the pain very much, every time he takes the medicine, even though the pain goes to the marrow, he doesn't make a sound, as expected of my uncle. Qi's good man." When he said these words, he clearly saw the emperor's eyes soften, and a deep heartache was fleeting. Soon, the emperor hastily ended the game of chess and let him retreat. When leaving, Heng Jia looked back at the emperor, and saw that his whole body seemed to be shrouded in darkness, and a very light sigh came from the wind, which seemed to make the listener tremble in the deepest part of his heart . When I looked up, I accidentally saw a light and delicate leaf falling quietly in the dust, and a breeze passed by in a hurry. The exquisite leaf used its last strength to hold on to the wind's wings...but it still flipped a few times in the end , fell into a cloud of dust.
At this time, the Gao Mansion was still shrouded in a sad atmosphere. Chang Gong saw the aunt's haggard face, and wanted to tell the aunt about the flaw Heng Jia discovered, so that the aunt could feel a little relieved, but after thinking about it, It would be more appropriate to simply wait until the solution is resolved before giving the aunt a surprise.The aunt didn't say a word that was abnormal today, she just looked at her with a complicated expression, and then let her retreat. Chang Gong only said that she was too sad, so he didn't care too much.When going back through the garden, Chang Gong saw Cui Lan sitting in the pavilion crying silently, so he stepped forward to comfort her with concern. "Third sister-in-law, it's windy outside, you'd better go back to the house. Third brother will be fine." Cui Lan stared fixedly at the moon in the sky, and asked in a low voice, "Chang Gong, if your third brother is convicted, Zhengli must not escape this disaster, right?" Chang Gong's heart sank, and he quickly said, "No, third sister-in-law, stop thinking about it, my third brother will definitely not be convicted." "Won't you be convicted?" Cui Lan withdrew his gaze and glanced at her coldly, "Chang Gong, do you still remember what happened to Gao Guiyan's family? It is impossible for the emperor to lightly forgive those who plot treason." "My third brother has no intention of treason at all!" "But the relics and weapons..." A strange look flashed across Cui Lan's eyes, "Chang Gong, I'm not afraid of death. But, I must protect my children. I will never let them suffer any harm, even if Pay any price." "Sister-in-law three..." Chang Gong wanted to say a few more words to reassure her, but because he looked up and saw the determination in her eyes, he couldn't speak for a while. midnight. Chang Gong woke up again from the nightmare. She wiped the cold sweat from her forehead, looked out of the window, and saw the moonlight at night was like water, faintly rippling and floating, and the outlines of the nearby trees were extremely clear , as if drawn with a bamboo pen.These days, her sleep has become extremely poor, and a little sound can wake her up.She wanted to turn over and continue to sleep, but inadvertently heard a slight sound from outside the door. Outside the door—someone?Who is it?thief?In order to see what the other party did, she simply continued to pretend to be asleep. In a vague way, she felt that someone came in lightly, and sat down carefully beside her couch. Based on the sound of the person's footsteps and the scent on her body, Chang Gong was surprised to distinguish that this person was actually --aunt! The aunt sat beside her silently for a long, long time, as if she wanted to say something, all her thoughts were churning to find an outlet, but no matter how many words she had in her heart, they seemed unable to utter them on her lips, in front of her.Just like the night covering the earth, it is deeply hidden in the darkness, and there is nowhere to find it.In the end, it just turned into a vague murmur... "I'm sorry, Chang Gong." Hearing the aunt's footsteps going away, Chang Gong opened his eyes in confusion, why did the aunt say such strange words?Sorry?Why did the aunt say sorry to her? In the early morning of the next day, the sky was not yet fully lit, but there were still a few stars hanging in the sky, shining faintly.The maids in the Zhaoyang Palace were already busy, washing and changing the emperor's clothes swiftly, preparing to go up to the court. "Your Majesty, breakfast is ready." Wang Ge walked into the room as usual and said respectfully. Gao Zhan nodded indifferently, and when his eyes passed by him inadvertently, he seemed to hesitate to speak. "Wang Ge, is there anything else?" The servant of the king hesitated for a moment, "Your Majesty, the mother of King Hejian begged to see you outside the palace early in the morning, saying that she had something important to tell." Gao Zhan didn't even raise his eyelids, "It must be for King Hejian to intercede, I don't want to see her." "But she said..." Wang Ge paused and lowered his voice, "She said she was willing to trade a secret for King Hejian's safety." "Oh?" Gao Zhan pursed his thin lips slightly, his eyes sneered, "I don't know what is the secret that has such a big effect?" Wang Ge came over and said in a softer voice, "Your Majesty, she said it was about the secret of King Lanling..." Before he could finish speaking, he saw the color of the Emperor's face change instantly. "Let her in immediately." Since Huluhenga opened his eyes this morning, his right eyelid has been twitching non-stop.His eyelids are still twitching up to now.He rubbed his eyelids helplessly, glanced at Chang Gong from the corner of his eye, and found that she was also gently rubbing his right eyelid, and couldn't help but feel a little strange.As the saying goes, the left eye jumps auspiciously, and the right eye jumps badly.This is not a bad omen, is it? The ministers beside him were chattering nonsense again, but the emperor sat quietly on the throne without saying a word.Heng Jia has long discovered that the emperor seems to be a little out of his mind today, his mind is too empty, and his mind is not in the court at all.He raised his head and looked at the emperor with some doubts. The white jade bead curtain just moved. In an instant, he saw the emperor was staring at a person closely. Those tea eyes were very deep, like infinitely silent. In the depths of the deep sea, everything is flowing at an extremely slow speed, but at the same time, it seems that poisonous vines are spreading in those tea eyes.He has never seen such complex and changeable eyes in an instant, including shock, anger, joy, disbelief, doubt... More and more emotions are intertwined, almost suffocating... His heart trembled, and he quickly looked at the unaware party—Gao Changgong, and suddenly felt a feeling of uneasiness and fear tightly strangling his heart.Your Majesty—why look at Chang Gong with such eyes? When he was in court, Heng Jia was summoned by the emperor to Zhaoyang Palace for the first time. The breeze brings coolness, the water in the garden is constantly gurgling, and the calamus by the pool is thick, contrasting with the white chrysanthemums.When Gao Zhan saw him coming, he made people put on the chessboard, which made Heng Jia feel more and more uneasy.The emperor specially summoned him, and it was impossible for him to simply play chess with him. "I don't know why the emperor summoned his ministers for something important?" He smiled slightly. "You can see it too. I just want to play chess with you, and I'm also doing homework by the way." Gao Zhan reached out and picked up a sunspot. The pitch-black color set off his slender fingers like a stone in the ice and snow. Jade, flawless. "The emperor has such an elegant mood, and I should accompany him." Heng Jia picked up a white ball in his hand. Gao Zhan chatted with him about marching and fighting, and praised the achievements of the Hulu family, but suddenly changed the subject, "Shang Shuling and Chang Gong also went to war together several times, right?" Heng Jia's nerves tensed immediately, but the elegant smile was still on his lips, "Go back to the emperor, that's right." "You guys cooperated tacitly on the battlefield." Gao Zhan put down a sunspot and said casually, "By the way, you and Chang Gong usually live together. This kid likes to sleep on the quilt since he was a child. I don’t know if it’s changed when I get older?” Heng Jia didn't answer right away, but just thought that Chang Gong never stepped on the quilt when he slept in the same tent... Then the emperor added, "Could it be that Chang Gong has one person in one tent?" "Back to the emperor, I slept with Chang Gong in the same tent, but I never found that she had a bad habit of kicking the quilt, and she did grind her teeth occasionally." He was keenly aware that the emperor seemed to want to get something out of his mouth. "Teeth grinding? If you don't tell me, I forgot. This child did have this problem when he was a child. I didn't expect that he didn't change it when he grew up." Gao Zhan stared at the chessboard with a complicated expression, and asked, "Then usually in the military camp, the long-term Does Gong often hang out with the soldiers, or do you spend more time alone?" "Of course I spend more time with the soldiers." "By the way, when Chang Gong was injured in Yizhou last time, who gave her the medicine?" Gao Zhan suddenly asked again. Wherever Heng Jia looked, he could see faint blue veins protruding from the back of the emperor's white almost transparent hand, it can be seen that the emperor was pinching the chess piece with all his strength, as if trying to hold back something.He was startled, could it be that the emperor is suspecting...impossible?How could the emperor suddenly suspect this matter... "Going back to the emperor, I personally gave her the medicine." Heng Jia raised his eyes and looked at Gao Zhan calmly.Gao Zhan half-closed his eyes, the cold eyes were like a sharp knife, directly inserted into his body, as if he was looking at something, and he seemed to be guessing the truth of what he said. Just staring at each other silently for a while, Heng Jia laughed calmly again, "However, Chang Gong can bear the pain very much, every time he takes the medicine, even though the pain goes to the marrow, he doesn't make a sound, as expected of my uncle. Qi's good man." When he said these words, he clearly saw the emperor's eyes soften, and a deep heartache was fleeting. Soon, the emperor hastily ended the game of chess and let him retreat. When leaving, Heng Jia looked back at the emperor, and saw that his whole body seemed to be shrouded in darkness, and a very light sigh came from the wind, which seemed to make the listener tremble in the deepest part of his heart . When I looked up, I accidentally saw a light and delicate leaf falling quietly in the dust, and a breeze passed by in a hurry. The exquisite leaf used its last strength to hold on to the wind's wings...but it still flipped a few times in the end , fell into a cloud of dust.