Chapter 110 Fan the flames

We talked secretly with Liu Xuanchu and Wang Shirong about the late night and had dinner together. When we went back to the room to rest, it was already after the third update at night. Although we were extremely tired, Fatty Lu still did not go back to the room to rest. He just asked Xiao Erlang to pull Zhu Fangdan out of the quilt and take him to speak.

"Boss, it's almost the fourth update, why haven't you been sleeping yet?" Zhu Fangdan entered the room with sleepy eyes. While yawning, he urged: "Is there anything urgent? The student is so sleepy. Please tell me if you have something to do."

"It's not a big deal, I'll just delay your rest for a while." Fatty Lu also yawned and said, "There are only two things. One is that I'll go to Kunming secretly tomorrow and leave for a few days. When I'm not in Qujing, I'll ask you for the matter in the county government."

"Oh, what do you mean to the outside world?" Zhu Fangdan yawned one after another.

"Just say I'm sick and I'm going to take a few days off. I've told Erlang that anyone will block it and don't see you." Fatty Lu shook his head again, trying to make himself more awake, and said, "There's another thing. If I remember correctly, there seems to be a tree in Yunnan called the Arrow Poison Tree. The sap is very poisonous. Master Zhu, how much do you know about this poison?"

"Arrow poisonous tree?" When talking about medical issues, Zhu Fangdan finally felt a little enlightened, but Zhu Fangdan obviously couldn't understand the nouns from Fatty Lu's mouth from later generations. He asked in confusion: "Original family, what is an arrow poisonous tree? Don't be the Western noun you saw in Western books again? Can you say it in detail? There are too many poisonous plants in Yunnan, and I can't remember it at once."

"Let me think about it." Fatty Lu recalled carefully and said with gesture: "It seems to be a very tall tree with a highly poisonous sap. Our ethnic minorities in Yunnan like to apply this poison on arrows to shoot wild animals. No matter how huge a beast is, it can only be killed if it is shot with one arrow. If it is not a few arrows, it will die."

"Take a throat when you see blood!" Zhu Fangdan blurted out: "It must be a throat when you see blood when you see blood! There are many such trees in Pu'er Mansion, and there are also other places in Yunnan, but there are a fewer numbers. I heard a doctor who came to Qujing from Pu'er to study medicine and told me that this kind of tree is indeed very poisonous. The leaves, trunks and roots are all highly poisonous. After cutting the juice from the tree body and boiling some medicinal materials, it is even more toxic. Even if a needle coated with such poison is stabbed by a person, the person will definitely die! The only antidote is called Hongbiaogang grass, but it must be detoxified immediately after being poisoned, otherwise, once the poisonous blood enters the heart, even the immortal cannot save it."

"Can a person be stabbed to death after applying a poisonous needle?" Fatty Lu's eyes lit up and he hurriedly asked, "Do you know what the symptoms of the poisoned person are?"

"I haven't seen it with my own eyes." Zhu Fangdan shook his head and said, "But I heard from the daughter of the doctor who came to me to study medicine that if this poison is pierced on my body, the wound will be a little red and swollen, and there will be symptoms like an acute heart. The heart suddenly stops beating and suffocating to death. If a doctor who does not understand this poison can easily misjudged it as a sudden death from an acute illness."

"As sure as I thought, Wu Liuyi might have died of the poisonous poisonous wood of the arrow." Fatty Lu was happy and asked in confusion: "Wait, did you hear the daughter of the Pu'er doctor? Didn't the Pu'er doctor learn medicine from you? Why did you ask his daughter for advice?"

"Boss, why do you know how to ask so well?" Zhu Fangdan blushed and said shyly: "Although that doctor's family can speak Chinese, they are not Han. The girl is very enthusiastic and generous, and she sincerely wants to learn Central Plains medical skills from me, and then... Oh, Boss, you know my temper. Anyway, that little girl threatens me. If I don't marry her as a child, she will let me taste the power of blood-sealing throat, and then I asked by the way what this blood-sealing throat is."

"Ha, no wonder Yungui has a local saying, 'If you want to learn well, you have to sleep with your master', you have made a profit." Fatty Lu laughed, "When you were young, remember to say to me, I'll do it for you."

"Let's talk about it later. At least she has to wait until her father becomes a master, otherwise she may not care. My old face has no place to put it." Zhu Fangdan was even more shy and quickly changed the subject and asked: "Boss, you suddenly called me in the middle of the night and asked what the purpose of this blood-threatening throat is?"

"This is the thing. Today I received news that Wu Liuyi, the admiral of the Nine Gate of the Capital, suddenly died of illness." Fatty Lu did not hide it from Zhu Fangdan, and directly told Wu Liuyi's murder and explained: "I have heard of the toxicity of blood-sealing throat before. After being poisoned, it seems like I'm anxious to die of anxiety. But it took too long to remember it clearly, so I'll find you to confirm it and see if Wu Liuyi may die under this poison."

"It's possible, but it's really impossible to be sure." Zhu Fangdan said in embarrassment: "It would be great if there was a corpse (ancient autopsy report). As long as the records are quite detailed, I can immediately determine whether Wu Liuyi died of blood-sealed throat poisoning."

"No need to confirm it. This is an opportunity. Even if the guess is wrong, there will be no loss." Fatty Lu said to himself, and lowered his voice and said, "Master Zhu, after I leave Qujing, you have to get me some poison and antidote that is blood-sealed, and send my cousin Qin Yong to the capital as quickly as possible and hand it over to Soetu. Also, write a letter for me to tell him the effect of this poison and antidote, and tell him by the way, that we learned about the murder of Wu Liuyi from the Pingxi Prince's Mansion, and suspected that he died of this poison and antidote, so we sent it to them to distinguish it by ourselves."

"Boss, do you want to help the court find out the truth about Wu Liuyi's murder?" Zhu Fangdan asked curiously.

"That's of course, it's time to express our loyalty to the court." Fatty Lu said with a slight smile: "These things are delivered to Soetu. Even if we guess wrongly, we will do our best. The court will still have to think of our love. If we are lucky enough to guess, we will not only make a great contribution, but also have fun to watch."

"What fun can I watch?" Zhu Fangdan asked in surprise.

"What do you think?" Fatty Lu asked with a smile: "If you are the emperor and find that your most important confidant is to be poisoned by someone, will you be furious and swear to settle the score with the murderer? If the murderer accidentally knows the news and knows that his method of committing the crime has been exposed, will he struggle to die and jump over the wall?"

"I understand. The boss wants them to fight more lively." Zhu Fangdan understood it and replied with a sarcastic smile: "Don't worry, the student will go to Xiao Qingqing tomorrow and ask her to hand over the poison and antidote."

"I remind Qin Yong to keep it confidential and not let Oboi's people discover it." Fatty Lu reminded him, and added in his heart, "There is another point, if Wu Liuyi really died of blood-threatening throat, I told Xiao Mazi that blood-threatening throat is unique to Yunnan and that Yunnan's unique poison is in the hands of Old Man Ao, what will Xiao Mazi think? Do you think that the old traitor Wu must have something to do with this case?"

The next morning, Fatty Lu, who was wearing casual clothes, only brought Liu Zhen and Liu Xu brothers, together with Liu Xuanchu and Wang Shirong, rushed to Kunming City. He changed horses and no ones. In just one and a half days, he completed more than 200 miles from Qujing to Kunming. After arriving in Kunming City, Fatty Lu and others did not enter the city, but rushed to the bottom of Wuhua Mountain and showed the sign to Wuhua Mountain. In order to facilitate their actions, Liu Xuanchu specifically told the guards of the royal palace not to report to Wu Sangui first, but only familiar with the way, led Wang Shirong and Fatty Lu to Hu Guozhu's yard to do the work of Wu Sangui's number one confidant lackey.

He rushed into Hu Guozhu's study without saying hello. Hu Guozhu, who was reviewing official documents in the study, was startled at first. He was about to open his mouth to curse but suddenly saw who the person was. Hu Guozhu couldn't help but turn anger into joy and stood up and said, "It turns out that it's Mr. Maoxia and Mr. Liangchen who are back. Yifeng, you are here too. Lao Taishan has been waiting for you for a long time. Hurry up, Lao Taishan should practice bows and arrows in the East Courtyard now. I will take you to see him now. The person coming, go and notify Mr. Yanxian (Fang Guangchen)..."

"Hu Jinwu (Hu Guozhu's official position, equivalent to the general of the royal palace), wait." Liu Xuanchu rushed to say: "Don't tell the prince that we are back for the time being, just invite Mr. Yanxian here."

"Why?" Hu Guozhu was stunned. "Since Lao Taishan sent someone to summon you back to Mount Wuhua, he was anxious every day and looked forward to your return."

"General Hu, we have probably guessed the reason why the prince urgently summoned us back." Wang Shirong said: "General, you also know the prince's temper, so before going to pay homage to the prince, we hope to unify our opinions with you so that we can avoid talking and making the prince hesitant and delaying major issues."

"You have guessed the reason?" Hu Guozhu was stunned again, then quickly woke up and said with a smile: "It was Mr. Yanxian who asked Nephew Xueshi to tell you? He is really impatient, but it's okay, since you already know, I will save you from wasting talk. You are also right. Let's agree to see Lao Taishan again, so that he will not make up his mind."

After saying that, Hu Guozhu asked the servant to prepare tea and seats quickly, and while he arranged the show, he said, "You can rest for a while, and I will send someone to invite Mr. Yanxian here."

"No need, I'm here without invitation." Before he finished speaking, another person came in outside the door. It was Fang Guangchen, the last of the four major counselors under the old traitor Wu. As soon as he entered the door, Fang Guangchen smiled and said, "The dog returned to Wuhua Mountain and immediately reported the letter to me, and I'll come over immediately."

After saying that, Fang Guangchen quickly put away his smile, changed his face to a serious face, and whispered: "General Hu, Mr. Maoxia, Liangchen Yifeng, I think we should not rush to see the prince first. We should first unify our opinions here, and then give advice to the prince. We should not be able to speak and talk to each other, which will make our prince at a loss, hesitate and make decisions, and delay major issues."

After Fang Guangchen finished speaking, Hu Guozhu, Lu Fatty, Liu Xuanchu and Wang Shirong were already peering each other. After a while, they laughed together. Fang Guangchen was confused and asked the reason. It was not until Fatty Lu explained the reason with a smile that Fang Guangchen laughed loudly and said with a wry smile: "It seems that like me, you are also scared by the prince's temper. But it is not surprising that this opportunity is so good. If the prince's temper is missed, no one can tell whether there will be such a good opportunity in the future."

After mocking each other for a while, the servant had already prepared the seats, tea, snacks and other items. Hu Guozhu first let everyone take their seats, then drove the servant away and told him to keep it secret. Then he said straight to the point: "Three gentlemen, there is a peak. Since you know everything, I will not waste my words and turns. Let me tell you the truth. Old Taishan and I have already determined that Wu Liuyi was the mastermind under Oboi. In the court, Oboi and the emperor had almost met openly. They just couldn't make any decisions. Should we intervene and make a big fuck in the middle?"

"General Hu, if we don't take such a good opportunity, aren't we too stupid?" Wang Shirong asked back: "I've let the prince miss this opportunity. Are we sorry for the prince's kindness and kindness?"

"I think so too. It would be too stupid to miss such a good opportunity." Hu Guozhu Zheng pointed his head and said with a serious expression: "But this fact is too big, so we can't think twice. Otherwise, if we stand in the right position, it would be easy to say anything. If we stand in the wrong position and stand in the opposite direction of the winning side, who will bear the consequences?"

"General Hu, if you care about everything, it is best not to do anything. Because everything has both positive and negative sides." Wang Shirong said coldly: "Even the Prince's current Prince's Mansion, it is best not to stay. Please withdraw the vassal state and dissolve it quickly - because who can take responsibility? In the future, the court will not further unload the donkey? The birds are all hidden?"

"Mr. Liangchen, please say something well. Don't like to sarcasticly at any time." Liu Xuanchu scolded Wang Shirong, then turned to Hu Guozhu and said, "Jinwu, don't mind. Liangchen has always been this habit, but I think that Liangchen's words are still reasonable. Everything has risks, but the greater the risk, the greater the benefits you get. And if we interfere in this matter, who can guarantee that we will lose?"

"Good ministers and Mr. Maoxia both said it." Fang Guangchen took the conversation and said, "It's like in the previous dynasty, if the prince hadn't tied his head to his belt and fought with the Jin army in blood, could Emperor Chongzhen of the previous dynasty be named Pingxibo? Later, if the prince hadn't brought General Hu and you and Li Chuang's thieves to fight bloody battles, the Qing court would have named Prince Pingxibo again? General Hu, you were also from the sea of ​​swords and fires, and you climbed out of the dead. Why are you successful now? High officials have to be a horse and ride, but you are becoming more and more timid and more timid?"

"That's the truth, but..." Although Liu Xuanchu, Wang Shirong and Fang Guangchen had already spoken thoroughly and harshly, Hu Guozhu, who inherited his father-in-law's indecisive personality, was still hesitant and did not dare to make up his mind casually.

This is not surprising. Since ancient times, those who have been barefoot are not afraid of wearing shoes. They only have one life to lose. They naturally dare to bet on their wealth and wealth for their wealth and wealth. Now, Wu Sangui and Hu Guozhu have already put on their shoes and are already enjoying the glory and wealth that ordinary people cannot imagine. Naturally, they dare not bet on their wealth and life to bet on more wealth and higher power and status. This is common sense and the unchanging truth.

"Yifeng, you visited the capital a year ago and had contact with the emperor and Oboi, and you are more familiar with the situation." Like his father-in-law, Hu Guozhu was hesitant and couldn't decide, and even remembered to consult Fatty Lu and asked, "Tell me, what do you think?"

Several Wu Sangui's lackeys in the study turned their eyes to Fatty Lu. Fatty Lu, who was usually very sarcastic, suddenly fell silent and said nothing, as if he hadn't heard Hu Guozhu's question. Hu Guozhu was a little surprised and asked with a smile: "Yifeng, what do I ask you for your opinion? Why don't you say? Haha, are you still remembering my grudge? Did I slap you hard when I was in Qujing City last time?"

Hu Guozhu made a little joke, and Fang Guangchen and Liu Xuanchu both smiled, but Fatty Lu not only did not laugh, but tears slowly oozed out of the corners of his eyes. The tears flowed faster and faster, and more and more. Finally, he burst into tears in front of Hu Guozhu's people. Hu Guozhu and others were all shocked and asked, "Yifeng, what's wrong with you? What's wrong with you? Why are you crying so sadly?"

"General Hu, I'm not crying for myself, I'm crying for you, and for you and the prince." Fatty Lu covered his face with a fat hand and replied with a sob.

"Cry for me? What does it mean?" Hu Guozhu's eyes were dumbfounded.

"General Hu, although you slapped me in the face, it was the one who asked you to act." Fatty Lu said sobly: "And since the prince joined the prince's disciple, the prince's mansion has treated the prince as a relative and is as close as a brother to the prince. Last time in the last time when Li Shuzu's incident, General Hu, you, General Wu, went to Shengjing Pass to welcome Prince Kang and kowtow to Prince Kang. After being angry with him, the prince has always been grateful and only regretted that he could not repay his great kindness..."

"Why are you polite? That's what I should do." Hu Guozhu didn't blush, and directly admitted the flirty favor he gave to Fatty Lu, and asked curiously: "But, why are you crying for me?"

"But now, the lower officials are not only unable to repay the general's great kindness, but also have to see it with their own eyes..." Fatty Lu cried more and more sadly. Suddenly, he said another earth-shaking words, "You must also see it with your own eyes. General, you will be beheaded by the court and the whole family will be killed. The lower officials are in pain and have to cry for the general."

"What did you say?" Hu Guozhu was furious and stood up and said angrily: "Say it again, I am about to beheaded by the court and the whole family will be killed?!"

"Yifeng, what are you talking nonsense?" Liu Xuanchu was also shocked and stood up to drink the student. Unexpectedly, Wang Shirong next to him suddenly grabbed Liu Xuanchu's sleeve, pulled it a few times, and even gave a wink. Liu Xuanchu then realized and quickly closed his mouth to stop Fatty Lu, a sly student who talked about people and talked about ghosts.

"In the 17th year of Shunzhi, the court issued an order to order the prince to dismiss the army half." Fatty Lu wiped his tears and sobbed: "At that time, Can Ming Yongli was still surviving in Myanmar. It was a critical moment when he needed to give him a fatal blow. Why did the court rush to force the prince to dismiss the army and lay off so much in one breath? It was not because the emperor in Yunnan was far away and could not control it. If the prince suddenly joined forces with Can Ming like Li Dingguo..."

"Cha Rulong's case, the prince has never seen him. As a result, he was ridden on his head by a turtle pissing. Who gave him the courage?"

"At the beginning of last year, the prince managed Yunnan, Guizhou's civil affairs power was taken away, and the military generals from the local green camp were also taken away. He also forced the prince to cut his salary. Finally, he returned to the matter of paying, and the emperor immediately sent officials to Qujing to monitor the prince. The prince was so loyal to the court, who had provoked whom? Why did the emperor and the court still treat him like this?"

"Prince Kang came to Yunnan and secretly checked the mountains and rivers of Yunnan and Guizhou. He also went deep into the Daying of Youzhen several times to review the army and record the equipment of the Pingxi Prince's Mansion. Prince Kang is a idle prince, so he is really idle."

"The last King of Jingnan Geng Zhongming was discovered by the court for taking in a slave who escaped from Boluobeile's family. In order not to affect his descendants, he hanged himself to death..."

"Beldudu, the eldest grandson of our Qing Dynasty's Taizu, made many contributions to the Qing Dynasty's Longxing? But why did his five sons be dismissed from the royal family, without covering their bodies and not covering their stomachs?"

"Regent Dorgon, how glorious was he during his lifetime? But after he died of illness, his grave was dug up and his only daughter was also treated as a thing to be rewarded. Regent, are you really wronged?"

"Han Xin, Peng Yue, Ying Bu, Xu Da, Lan Yu, the sixth Duke of the Founding Kingdom. When I think of the stories of these people, and the various actions and signs of the court over the past few years, I have to cry! I have to cry for the prince, and I have to cry for the prince's eldest son-in-law General Hu..."

Fatty Lu cried a few times and said something, Hu Guozhu's face turned ugly. In the end, Hu Guozhu simply shouted with a gray face, "Enough! I will cry again, I will chop you now!"

"General Hu, then please do it!" Fatty Lu took the initiative to stretch out his neck, stared at Hu Guozhu, and said with a sob: "General Hu, please. Or you can seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make our Pingxi Palace stronger, strong enough to protect ourselves, and strength makes no one dare to have evil intentions towards our Pingxi Palace!"

"Otherwise, please pull out the knife, and then cut off the head of the traitor, Xiaguan, and then take Xiaguan to the emperor and express your loyalty to the court. Then ask the prince to hand over the military power himself, release his armor and return to the field, beg the emperor and the court to give the prince and leave your life for General Hu!"

"Do you think I really don't dare to kill you?" Hu Guozhu roared angrily, and when he turned around and choked, he pulled out the treasure knife hanging on the wall.
Chapter completed!