Poor Lady Chapter 43: Do the opposite

Since attending Miss Sima Luo's banquet a few days ago, Luo Yanyi has no energy to plot against Qi Surong because of the sudden red beans growing on her face. There is also good news from Gu Jinyun. Qu Niang has agreed to join the Gu family's textile workshop. The use and operation of the new type of textile machine will start soon, and I believe that initial results will be seen in the second half of the year.

Qi Surong was happy to be at leisure. While at home, she devoted herself to embroidering and playing the piano, while quietly waiting for the arrival of Tong Shengjian.

Tiansheng Examination lasts for two days. It mainly focuses on the basic knowledge of students. As long as you are familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics, and have some knowledge of poetry and parallel sentences, it should not be difficult to obtain the qualification of Tongsheng.

On the day of the child's birth test, Qi Surong personally sent Subao to Youxianyuan.

In the capital city, the Tongsheng examination site is located in Youxianyuan, while the general examination is held in Gongyuan. The test will be half a month later than the Tongsheng test. Xu Chen's students (except Qi Surong) will all participate, and there will be a gathering of talented scholars from all over the world, which will inevitably be a lively scene. Relatively speaking, the Tongsheng Examination is much more low-key. After all, it is only the lowest threshold for all students to enter the official career. Most of the participants are teenagers between the ages of seven and fifteen.

Outside Youxian Courtyard, carriages flowed like a stream. Qi Surong parked the carriage next to an inn, and said to Su Bao: "Is everything ready? Check again."

Su Bao opened his own box and counted the items inside one by one, including pens, inks, papers and inkstones, pastries, tea, pills and so on. The children's examination lasted for two days, and they were not allowed to be discharged from the hospital until Sishi the next day.

"I'll let Xiaoion watch outside, and I'll pick you up tomorrow." Qi Surong organized Subao's things.

"Well, sister, don't worry, Su Bao will be fine." Su Bao encouraged herself and said with a smile.

"Well, my sister will wait for your good news."

Su Bao took Xiao Ion out of the carriage, and Qi Surong watched them walk towards the Youxian Academy through the window.

Walking to the door, Su Bao took out his nameplate and Xu Chen's recommendation letter, the gatekeeper looked at it, and let him in with a cold expression.

Qi Surong finally breathed a sigh of relief seeing Subao enter the arena from a distance.

The carriage was driving slowly on the street, when it passed a secluded fork, the carriage stopped suddenly, shaking Qi Surong dizzily.

"What's wrong?" Ping'er asked nervously.

With the experience last time, she was really afraid that something unexpected would happen again this time.

"Sorry, miss, a beggar rushed into the road just now and was almost hit by a carriage." The coachman's voice came from outside the carriage.

Qi Surong opened the curtain of the car, and sure enough, she saw a beggar fell to the ground not far away, with a somewhat familiar figure, her heart moved, and she said: "Lu Xian, call him over, I want to ask if he is injured? "

"Isn't that good?" Lu Xian hesitated.

"Nothing, just call him over."

Lu Xian took the order now, and stared at the beggar vigilantly, for fear that he would suddenly get violent.

When he approached, Qi Surong confirmed through the gap in the car curtain that the beggar in front of him was indeed the leader of the number group - Duya. Qi Surong was not surprised that Du Ya knew that Zhuo Fan was Miss Qi's family. When she hired those beggars to work, he probably checked his identity.

She asked: "Is there any injury?"

Duya covered his shoulder, and said in pain, "The collarbone seems to be broken."

"Then I'll take you to the doctor."

"Don't bother Miss, just give me some money, and I can go and see it myself."

"Very well, Ping'er, give him five taels of silver."

"Miss, this beggar is obviously a liar!" Ping'er whispered.

"It's nothing, left and right are just a matter of five or two." Qi Surong smiled indifferently.

Ping'er pouted, lifted the car curtain, and handed him five taels of silver.

Du Ya took the money, showed a mouthful of white teeth, bowed and said: "Thank you miss, miss is so merciful."

"Okay, let's go!" Lu Xian shouted coldly.

"Yes, the villain will leave immediately." Du Ya bowed and backed away, then turned around and ran away without a trace.

"Miss, look, he really is lying." Ping'er said indignantly.

Qi Surong didn't speak, and looked straight at Ping'er's sleeve, where a flat cloth bag appeared at some point.

Returning to Qi's house, Qi Surong immediately opened the cloth bag, which contained a sealed letter and a note on the letter, which read: Lu Pei returned home with his family yesterday, met gangsters on his way, and died before his death. Throw the package off the cliff, this letter is obtained from the package, it has not been seized, or it may be useful to you.

Lupe was killed? Qi Surong felt her heart tighten.

The number group has been secretly monitoring the people on Qi Surong's list, that is, those who have been condemned and demoted by the emperor and may have secret letters, so Duya was able to **** the package when Lu Pei was killed. strangeness.

So, is this letter the secret letter she has been looking for?

Qi Surong's pupils constricted, and his breathing became a little rough. She picked up the envelope and looked carefully at the seal. After a while, she took out a hairpin and carefully scratched off the sealing mud on the seal.

The envelope contained a piece of neatly folded yellow silk. Yellow is the special color of the royal family, and ordinary people would never dare to use it. Unfolding the yellow silk, the content on it made Qi Surong's fingers tremble.

This is not a secret letter, but a secret decree from the former emperor! The two seals at the end (one is the imperial seal and the other is the emperor's seal) are impressively visible.

It turned out that the first emperor intended to pass on the position of the Ninth Prince, but the Ninth Prince was still young at that time and his status was unstable. On the contrary, the Third Prince is now the Holy One, who is powerful, colludes with his relatives, and is aggressive. The first emperor was worried that if it was passed on to the Ninth Prince, he might be persecuted by the Third Prince, so he passed down a secret decree, hid it among the treasures, and rewarded several close officials respectively, asking them to secretly assist and protect the Ninth Prince until they grow up When he becomes an adult, he will publish the secret decree and help him ascend to the throne.

The former emperor's move was quite secretive, but no one knew who leaked it. The current emperor knows the existence of the secret decree, but he does not know who the emperor's preferred successor is, so he would rather kill by mistake than let it go. Clean up the portal. More than a dozen princes were killed and expelled one by one, and none of the suspected ministers escaped the fate of being relegated.

His heart is not cruel. Currently, only the fourth prince, seventh prince, eighth prince and ninth prince are left alive. Among the four princes, only the eighth prince remained in the capital because he and the emperor were born of the same mother, while the other three princes were sent to the wilderness.

However, Qi Surong guessed that the emperor will call them back soon, and look for opportunities to kill the grass and roots. He might have dealt with them before, but in the wilderness, where the sky was high and the emperor was far away, his actions probably failed.

Qi Surong stared at the secret letter for a while, thinking about how to deal with this letter. When she learned that the Qi family might also have a secret decree, she was not in a hurry to get it, because getting the secret decree would only bring danger to the Qi family. At least before the Ninth Prince returns to the capital, this secret decree will do a lot of harm but no benefit.

What a hot potato! Although she solved many doubts, it also brought her many troubles. It is impossible to destroy it, and it is improper to hide it.

Now that the holder of this secret decree is dead, it would be great if it could be entrusted to another person. There is no owner of the secret decree, whoever holds it can become the helper of the Ninth Prince, and everyone on her list can be considered.

Wait, why did she have to hand over the secret decree to the person who assisted the Ninth Prince?

"Maybe I can..." A bold plan suddenly took shape in Qi Surong's mind, "Do the opposite!"

Qi Surong touched the piece of thick yellow, and his finger ran across the handwriting, and finally landed on the "nine" character.

If the word "nine" is changed to "eight"...

In the previous life, half of the disasters of the Gu family were thanks to the Eighth Prince. He is the minion of today's holy majesty, acting as a minion for the tiger, arrogant and domineering. Relying on sacred favor, he ran amok, and his methods were vicious, leaving no room for it.

The emperor trusts him very much, but if he learns that the former emperor intends to pass on to him, how long can this trust last? Everything the Eighth Prince did for him will become suspicious, and the appearance of being loyal to him will become an illusion to hide himself.

Qi Surong's eyes lit up, and she made up her mind.

However, it is not easy to confuse the real with the fake. First of all, the thick yellow used in this seal cannot be changed, and the seal on it is even more important.

The only thing she can exchange is words. Just changing a single "Nine" character, it is easy to see the flaws. If she wants to change it, she has to change all the writing on it.

Imitating the first emperor's handwriting is not difficult for Qi Surong, but the real difficulty is how to completely clean up the original handwriting.

Qi Surong picked up a pen and copied the words on the secret decree stroke by stroke. He copied over a hundred sheets in total, comparing them word by word, and stopped copying only after confirming that there was no difference between each stroke.

Before she knew it, it was getting late, and Ping'er's voice came from outside the door calling her for dinner.

Qi Surong packed up the copied papers and secret letters and hid them in a secret place.

After dinner, Qi Surong ordered: "Ping'er, ask someone to buy me some milk tomorrow."

"Milk?" Ping'er teased, "Miss, are you hungry?"

"Yes, miss, I'm hungry." Qi Surong nodded her forehead, "Remember, make an appointment as soon as possible, I will remember to use it."

"Yes, I will definitely help the young lady to complete it." Ping'er replied very forcefully.

In the previous life, when Qi Surong was with the master, he took care of the laundry and cooking. Even though her fingers were not flexible, the master did not let her do less work. Cooking is not a serious problem, but when washing, because of weak fingers, the clothes are always not clean, so the master taught her several soaking methods, using some common materials to soak the clothes, and the stains can be quickly faded away. Just rub gently to clean clothes.

The master said: "Things are dead, but people are alive. When manpower is not available, external objects can be used to supplement it."

Qi Surong has no choice but to thank her master again, the old man. What he once taught has now become an important basis for her to settle down and reverse the current situation.