After a while, Xiao Song and Sun Jin came back, holding the curtains and tent ropes.
Everyone hung up the tent ropes and curtains.
The edge of the curtain is still one and a half feet away from Duobao Pavilion.
Duobao Pavilion is the partition that separates the first room from the second room.
The nanny who was on duty at night slept in the second room.
In this second room, there was only the south Kang near the window, but not the north Kang.
Xiao Chun opened the sewing box and found a pair of silk threads inside.
Use silk thread to connect the ends of the tent ropes, and place the thread ends along the Duobao Pavilion in the second room, which is very inconspicuous.
Xiao Song went outside and pulled the thread. The curtain was pulled by the tent rope, and the curtain began to shake.
Brother Ten frowned and said, "What about the cold wind?"
Back to the issue of wind.
Shu Shu glanced at Brother Jiu's chest and said, "No need for wind, maybe ice..."
Brother Jiu lowered his head and touched his chest, feeling a little stunned.
Shu Shu then signaled Xiaosong and Sun Jin to go to the second dining room to get ice.
The curtain was lowered and ice cubes were placed in the four corners of the room.
Shu Shu retreated to the second room, and the tenth elder brother and the ninth elder brother took off their clothes and entered the curtain.
The earth dragon was burning, and the room was warm. After a while, the ice turned into water and seeped into the Kang felt.
The temperature in the tent dropped quickly.
Brother Jiu said: "Turn off the lights and shake the rope!"
He Yuzhu and others followed the instructions and extinguished all the lights inside and outside.
Xiaosong pulled the rope in front of Baibao.
The room was dark, but everyone could still see the curtains shaking with their eyes wide open.
"okay!"
Brother Jiu touched the goose bumps on his body and opened the curtain.
The few people following the kang felt the cold air coming from the tent.
The lights were lit again in the house, and the ninth and tenth brothers put on their clothes.
All conspiracies are like this. When they can't be found out, they seem mysterious. When they are found out, they seem like child's play.
"Just crying!"
Brother Ten asked: "Is it the meowing of a wild cat?"
Every spring, the wild cat calls for spring and never stops.
The voice was so frightening that it sounded a bit like a child crying.
Brother Jiu shook his head and said: "In that case, there won't be one or two people who heard it... someone should be able to recognize it..."
After a while, the second watch drum beat sounded outside.
There was no cry.
As expected.
Since it was man-made, that cry should have been specially prepared.
I tried it once before, and I scared Brother Fourteen once yesterday.
There are so many people here today, how dare the perpetrators bump into them?
That's how this sound was transmitted to the room when there were no holes in the wall.
The ninth elder brother and the tenth elder brother lowered their heads and began to examine the floor tiles.
Shu Shu touched the kang mat, which was made of thick wool felt.
Just next to the head of the kang, the wool felt seems to be different and has creases.
Shu Shu opened it directly, and the fire bed underneath looked ordinary. There were a few gaps at the right angles between the fire bed and the wall.
It seems to be formed naturally and is nothing unusual.
Shu Shu put her fingers on it and could still feel the smoke of fireworks.
She put down the kang mat and covered it so tightly that she couldn't notice anything.
The ninth elder brother and the tenth elder brother looked around on the ground and found nothing.
Seeing that Shu Shu seemed to be aware of something, he came over.
When Shu Shu opened the Kang blanket again, revealing the gaps visible to the naked eye, both of them were stunned.
They imagined that the sound would come from the walls or underground, but never thought about the kang.
This location is right next to the curtain.
According to the bedding arrangement, there is only a little more than a foot away from the pillow.
There is a sound coming from this location...
How scared would the person who was awakened be?
Brother Jiu was stiff.
Shu Shu saw him and knew that he was thinking of Brother Eleven again, so he whispered to Sun Jin: "Go and get the shovel and hammer!"
After speculating for several months, it’s time to determine the answer.
Sun Jin responded and went back to the second house with Li Yin to get shovels, hammers and so on.
As a result, he was stopped at the gate of the fourth house.
The Holy Spirit has arrived.
He was followed by a circle of eunuchs and guards.
Kangxi glanced at the shovel in his hand and said, "What are you doing with these?"
Sun Jin lowered his head and said: "Our master and Master Shi discovered that there was something wrong with the kang head, so they sent their servants to get this."
Kangxi did not ask any more questions, nodded to the guards, and let go of Sun Jin and Li Yin.
The tenth elder brother and the ninth elder brother were kneeling on the kang, with their palms stretched out, feeling the heat rising from under the gap.
This is indeed not a crack on the surface, but goes straight to the bottom.
Kangxi came in, followed by Zhao Chang and Liang Jiugong.
It turns out that Zhao Chang had already brought people to four places this afternoon, but he didn't find any clues, so he planned to come back in the evening.
Unexpectedly, he brought someone over after the second update and found that the ninth and tenth elder brothers had already come in.
Zhao Chang did not dare to delay and reported to the emperor.
Kangxi came over in person.
Brother Jiu was already in panic. When he saw Kangxi, he felt like he was seeing a savior. He pointed at the gap and said: "Khan Ama, this is here! The sound should be coming from here!"
Kangxi didn't say anything. He glanced at the seam of the kang for a few times and nodded to the guards around him.
Two tall and strong guards took the things in the hands of Sun Jin and Li Yin and came forward. One took a hammer and the other a shovel. They loosened the Kang bricks and pried them apart one by one.
The centipede path underneath was revealed.
The so-called centipede path is a place where hot air travels. Like a centipede, there is one main path, and the rest are thin paths like centipede legs.
The hot air will spread evenly throughout the kang.
When he saw clearly what was in the centipede's path, Brother Jiu's body suddenly softened.
It's a pile of owl carcasses.
There are two lifelike ones, they should be the two from the day before yesterday and the day before yesterday.
There were only about ten birds left, all of which were dried bird carcasses.
Because they have all the feathers, they can still be identified clearly.
The strange thing is that the bird corpses are only concentrated on this side of the centipede path, right at the head of the kang, one next to another.
There were no dead birds on the other centipede paths.
Kangxi's face darkened and he came closer to check.
It turns out that in other centipede paths, half of them are blocked, and the remaining half does not delay the heat and smoke, but the birds cannot get through.
Brother Jiu's tears fell slowly.
Shu Shu held his hand and noticed his trembling.
There were so many bird carcasses before, and it didn’t take much to figure out who they were for.
Kangxi's face was so dark that he was frightening. He looked around the crowd and said, "Everything I saw and heard today should be kept in my stomach. If my mouth says it, don't take my head!"
The eunuchs and guards all knelt down to accept the promise.
Brother Jiu was shocked and looked over: "Khan Ama?"
Kangxi stared at him and said, "Yinzhen, think about your mother-in-law!"
Brother Ninth was speechless.
Kangxi said to Shu Shu and the tenth prince: "You go back first..."
Shu Shu and the tenth elder brother did not dare to delay, so they responded and pulled the ninth elder brother down.
When they arrived at the second institute, Brother Jiu raised his head and was a little confused: "Ama Khan, is he threatening me? Is he threatening me with Eniang?"
Shu Shu couldn't help but frown, wondering where this was going.
The tenth elder brother said: "Ninth brother, you have forgotten that Concubine Yi is pregnant. Where did you hear such news?"
Brother Jiu looked better now and shed more tears.
The tenth brother's eye circles were also red.
Shu Shu has never met Brother Eleven.
She is more worried now.
Because of this, Brother Ninth had long suspected Soetu and the Hesheli family where he lived.
Now that I have received the proof, I am afraid that the resentment in my heart cannot be concealed.
But as long as the prince is still here, the Hesheli family will not fall.
Then next, will Brother Jiu find a way to bring the prince down?
However, the current Ninth Prince is immature and does not have enough weight to meet the prince.
She glanced at Brother Ten, and her uncle and sister-in-law's eyes met, and both could see the other's worry.
As expected, the ninth elder brother became resentful after feeling guilty. He looked in the direction of Yuqing Palace and gritted his teeth and said: "Tomorrow, I will go to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to work hard and catch the Hesheli family's spies and minions in the palace one by one! I
But we want to see how Khan Amma can protect them when the evidence comes out that they murdered the prince!"
The tenth brother hurriedly said: "Ninth brother, you are too arbitrary!"
The ninth elder brother looked at the tenth elder brother and said unhappily: "What do you mean, old ten? You are afraid of Yuqing Palace, right? Don't worry, you can go to the clan mansion and be your errand, and I won't hurt you!"
Brother Ten frowned and said, "Brother Ninth, why are you so sure that it was their family that did it?"
Brother Ninth's face was dark: "If it's not their family, who else is there? The prince is so clean that he doesn't pay attention to us little brothers. There is also the evil dog Suo'etu who is showing his teeth and claws outside, loyally protecting the master!"
The tenth elder brother neither nodded nor shook his head and said: "It is not just their family that is suspected, but besides Concubine Yi, the other three concubines are also possible!"
Brother Jiu looked surprised: "How could it be possible? Impossible?!"
Brother Ten looked calm and said: "Why is it impossible?"
"But... Concubine Hui's mother has always been fair and kind. Apart from being stingy with money, Concubine Rong's mother has no other shortcomings to show off... Concubine De's mother is also famous for being a kind person. She is very good at protecting the calves of the old fourteenth...
"
Brother Jiu enumerated them one by one, feeling that this statement was too weird.
Brother Ten said seriously: "Concubine Yi is favored by her mother and has many sons. Even the Hesheli family is afraid of her. Isn't it normal for Concubine Hui's mother to be jealous? Brother Ninth, think about it. Among the disciples of Taizu, there are three brothers in the lineage of the eldest concubine.
, holding two yellow flags at that time, I almost won the big position..."
Brother Jiu understood the other meaning of Lao Shi.
In the final analysis, the dispute between the eldest son and the crown prince over the years is still about that chair.
If that's the case, it seems possible that Concubine Hui planned for her son in advance to weaken her opponent.
"What about Concubine Rong? Does she have the brains and the hands?"
Brother Ninth said.
Concubine Hui is the first of the four concubines. In name, the four concubines are in charge of palace affairs. In fact, the main palace power is in the hands of her and Concubine Yi.
Concubine Rong is far behind.
The tenth elder brother said nonsensically: "Who knows! Maybe he is fishing in troubled waters and adding fuel to the fire? She has lost so many elder brothers. How can she not feel resentful when she sees that Concubine Yi has three sons and her status is still sealed on her? I think?
If you think about the third child, it is not magnanimous. From son to mother..."
Brother Jiu listened and nodded: "It is indeed possible, that's why Concubine De's mother lost twelve squares..."
Brother Ten continued to talk nonsense: "There is also the suspicion of Concubine De's mother. She loves Shi Shi so much, and there is an old custom in Manchuria of young sons guarding the stove. It is impossible to say that we people are a thorn in her side and a thorn in her flesh..."
Shu Shu had already seen that the tenth elder brother was not suspicious of someone else, but wanted to appease the ninth elder brother.
Her heart skipped a beat, and worry appeared on her face: "Really speaking, the construction department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was responsible for the repairs carried out by my brother... The construction department was under the name of the empress in the early years, and many of them were members of the Guo Luoluo family.
…”
The tenth elder brother and the ninth elder brother both looked at Shu Shu with a look of disbelief on their faces.
Obviously, the two of them had never thought about it in this direction.
Shu Shu looked at Brother Ninth and sighed: "Sir, think about Guo Guiren. She is the sister-in-law, and she is also very noble at home. She entered the palace at the same time as the empress, but she only gave birth to a princess and raised her by her side.
Brother, if you don't stand still, I'm afraid the resentment will be deep..."
There is no such thing as chastity among the Manchus.
The concubine Chen of the Taizong Dynasty, even though she was remarried, still had the title of Dafu Jin in the East Palace, and came from behind to become the second person in the harem.
Guo Gui is a noble person, not because he is remarried, but because Concubine Yi is more favored and there are not two high-ranking people in the family.
After being suppressed like this for half his life, it was normal for Guo Guiren to feel unhappy.
Brother Jiu's face was full of surprise and uncertainty.
Previously, he had placed all his suspicions on the Soetu and Hesheli families.
The cause and effect before and after also feels right.
Never thought of another possibility.
Compared with Lao Shi's guess, it seems that what Shu Shu said is more likely...