正文 109第一百九章 再见萧氏
两年前,萧氏收到派出的杀手回报,苏辛已被除掉,当时有她一截衣袖为证。萧氏亲自验过,纹样手工确是出自恒王府中。这一节,乃是石楚所为。苏辛初初登任明光宫左使,各样任务危险繁重,若再分心逃避暗杀,只怕不堪其负。那起杀手倒也来头不小,本是决计不肯欺蒙雇主的,不知石楚走了什么门路,竟让那门主亲自下令放过苏辛,蒙骗萧氏。石楚到现<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">也仍记得当时苏辛的表情,默默无声,脸色蜡白,双眼垂低,被额发挡住,不知<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">想什么。
苏辛问萧氏:“怎么,<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5L2gm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">看不出来吗?”
萧氏暗自捏紧了拳头,劈头便向晋蘅发作:“子雅美貌无双,温贤恭让,<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5L2gm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">弃她三年,如今又从何处带回这个如此粗野无礼的女子?!”她见那女子一身江湖打扮,偏又不似江湖女子般豪爽简率,一幅曳地长纱遮着面容,故意作出个世外仙姝的模样,却又举止放荡,眼中邪媚,定不是好<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">!萧氏头疼,心中只怕这女子不似苏辛那般好相与。她冷哼道:“蘅儿的眼光真是越来越好了!”
苏辛笑得清浅,走至晋蘅身前,娇媚道:“三年前为个来历不明的乡野丫头便不肯娶子雅姑娘,如今看上了<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">,仍是不肯娶子雅姑娘,他的眼光自然是好的,否则子雅姑娘岂不连那不识好歹毫无行状的野丫头都不如了?”萧氏一时哽住,不料她竟如此擅于诡辩。
苏辛并不急于揭开面纱,猫捉老鼠的乐趣从不<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">于一击毙命。她不再去理会萧氏,转向晋蘅,姿势还是那么个姿势,眼睛也还是那么双眼睛,她问道:“<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">住哪儿?”萧氏鼻子险些被气歪。
晋蘅看了她一眼,也未答言,直接牵了她便朝自己房中走,撇下屋子里一众<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">等,十足让萧氏失了颜面。
“素萱她们呢?”苏辛<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">路上不禁问晋蘅。
晋蘅一怔,她不提他倒还未想起,此时方觉察到果然未<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">刚刚出迎的<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">群中见到她们。他也有些不解地望向苏辛。苏辛猜出他心思,一阵鄙夷,哼了一声,快走几步,讽道:“啧啧,真是无情啊……”晋蘅皱眉。
众<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">各自退去后,萧氏颤巍巍气坐<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">椅子里,手不觉攥成拳,心中恨极晋蘅,一想到他对子雅不闻不问弃置三年,如今又带回这样一个嚣张跋扈的野妖精,她便恨不得将那女子掐死。
萧子雅<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">晋蘅带着来<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">走掉的那一刻露出了自嘲又落寞的浅笑,可惜没<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">注意。她此时缓缓转身,看了半晌姑母,轻道:“她是什么意思?”
萧氏怔了一怔,旋即镇定下来,安慰子雅道:“<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5L2gm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">莫伤郁,姑母自会替<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5L2gm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">料理。”
子雅摇了摇头,“姑母事事为子雅着想,可结果究竟如何?”萧氏略有惊诧地看向她,她只道:“那个女子说的话到底是什么意思?什么叫‘杀<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">越货得来的宝贝’?”萧氏蹙眉,“山野女子,不懂礼数,这等胡话,岂可轻信?”
萧子雅面容阴郁,眼中雾濛濛,问道:“当年苏辛为何不告而别?她怎会那等绝情,生生害了腹中孩儿?又为何这些年一直了无音讯?她好好的一个大活<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">,又非素性……”
“闭嘴!”萧氏大怒。
第二日晋蘅上朝,多位朝臣再提萧氏罪状。若说萧氏一介妇<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">,本来不宜<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">朝廷上屡次被提起,只是她涉罪过多,偏还都是牵涉朝廷的大罪,实<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">不得不提。如今捡紧要的说,一是当年诬陷殷尚书,害得殷尚书谪死贬所。任意欺凌构陷百官,以一无知妇<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">竟左右社稷用<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">,天下安危何<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">?朝廷颜面何<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">?二是勾结京中豪贵女眷,厌胜巫祷无所不为,干乱别府内务,混扰京都风气,贪狂狠戾,罪祸之尤。
那第一件事自是指殷盈之父,而第二件则更复杂些,是如今败了事的刘侯爷家,即刘芝之父。原来这刘侯爷三年前有个极为宠爱的姬妾,能歌善舞,是侯爷原配夫<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">所进,后来不知为何,那原配夫<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">竟亲自毒哑了那侍妾,事情败露被侯爷冷落,幽居别院。无几,刘侯爷被检举坏事,检举<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">正是萧妃内侄。如今追查下来,竟是萧氏与侯爷夫<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">有隙,联合刘府二夫<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">设计害了宠妾,再嫁祸夫<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">,犹不解气,直到扳倒侯爷方罢手。京中官员内眷受萧氏牵制者不<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">少数,其间多少利益纠葛,多少丑事秘闻,实难纠察到底,只好拿出那败了事的刘侯爷府上来说事,实则是那些官员也实不愿内帷<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">他<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">掌握之中,心里犯膈应不是?此两事又牵扯出多少旁枝错节,一时难以尽述。
刘府之事,便是前面所提帮忙石楚、压制萧妃、救苏辛之命的事。想那刘夫<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">与萧妃相交日久,自然知道些旁<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">不知晓的罪柄,便以此为要挟,相助石楚。那萧氏睚眦必报,还要百千倍地讨回来,自然不能放过刘府。幽禁了刘夫<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">后,直接派<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">潜入刘府<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">其膳食中下毒,一点点,刘夫<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">忧病交侵,不过三月,一命呜呼,萧氏以为高枕无忧。
那毒哑刘侯爷侍妾的药,当年便是交由素芷管着。素芷之死,萧妃向来以为是有<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">发觉,素芷为求死无对证才自杀的。天机<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">巧,小梅正是因了救苏辛而得萧氏重用,现如今已是府中顶顶尖儿的大丫头了。
“别来可好?”苏辛道。
“嗯。姑娘可好?”小梅浅笑道。
苏辛仔细瞧了瞧小梅,已无半分当年怯懦模样,虽不知她当初究竟是怎样骗过萧氏的,但既能有今日体面,只怕她早不是当初那个小梅了。“萧氏待<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5L2gm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">可好?”
小梅垂眸笑了一下,“姑娘不必如此试探。<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">归附老王妃这几年,也着实做了些伤天害理的勾当。但<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">这样做也自有<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">的苦衷无奈,她待<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">好不好并不重要。”
苏辛歪头瞧她,也一笑,“<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5L2gm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">变了。”
“姑娘又何尝不是。”
“<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">以真面目示<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5L2gm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">,是有事托付。”
“见到姑娘<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">便知晓。姑娘且说。”
“萧氏两次三番欲置<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">于死地,将<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">撵远了也不肯放过,此仇必报。”
“姑娘想让<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">如何?”
苏辛笑道:“若是<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">直接给她个痛快,实<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">无趣。所以才叫<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5L2gm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">来。”
小梅愣了一下,旋即垂头道:“姑娘放心,当初<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5L2gm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">饶过<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">,<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">铭感于心,才会后来出手相助,不管此次能不能帮上姑娘,<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">都不会出卖姑娘,将今日之事说出。”
苏辛点头,暗道了声“聪明”,“<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">既以真容见<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5L2gm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">,便不怕<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5L2gm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">去告密,大不了不那么有趣罢了。”
小梅不语,半晌,道:“若……事成之后,<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">想到王爷身边侍奉。”
苏辛眼睛一瞪,“嗯?”了一声。
小梅看看她,恍然,忙道:“不是,<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">,只是想<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">王爷身边当差,跑跑腿,传传消息。”
苏辛皱眉,暗忖这丫头想干什么。而小梅则又垂了头,等着苏辛吩咐。苏辛交给她一包药、一块香,叮嘱了剂量,末了笑得舒心。
晋蘅并不知道萧氏曾暗中买凶追杀苏辛的事,苏辛也不想直接告诉他。她忽地想到了一念斋,问小梅道:“一念斋如何了?”
“自姑娘走后,便荒弃了,如今连个打扫的<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">都没有。”
苏辛想到了西池塘,那里萧氏还有心遮掩,打理得井井有条,如今对这一念斋竟连掩饰一下的心都没了。“无<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">吗?那应是荒败了吧,甚好……”
萧氏不是最怕鬼神吗?她素来深笃。
晋蘅为有功之臣,目前金素虽面上臣服,但对于大晋提出的交出春寒的条件却尚未答允,局势不曾大定,他便还有大用。是以朝廷上下虽对萧氏忍无可忍,但却一致将晋蘅摆脱了干系。但世上偏有没事找事之<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">,晋蘅,便是一个。他披发毁服,跪于金殿,偏生要替萧氏抵罪。
萧氏怒气渐平,好歹晋蘅还算个好儿子,也还能借上些力。一时,朝议未定,萧氏暂且被勒令禁足家中。
苏辛路上劳顿,休息了三五日,将养过来。青竹园风清爽<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">,确是个练武的好地方。她对晋蘅每日凝重的表情嗤之以鼻,倒也没去劝阻他抵罪之事。她早便看清了他,既是扳不过来,只好随他。他做他的,她办她的,两不干涉。
这日晚间,晋蘅尚未回府,说是去商讨金素异动。苏辛<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">桌上留了个短笺,趁黑出了门。她努力回忆着扮上三年前的模样,悄悄潜入一念斋。
那边厢,夜深<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">静,只有巡逻的侍卫来往逡巡。<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">侍卫队缓缓地走过之后,萧氏如一游魂般顺着青石路如醉如痴地飘荡到一念斋门外。府中的下<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">已皆被小梅安置好,是以竟无<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">见到这一幕可怖景象。
萧氏面前那陈旧的破门忽地“吱呀呀——”打开,她神智清明了一瞬,忽地一声铃响,又复昏蒙,只听里面传来一个渺远宁静的声音:“进来——”
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苏辛问萧氏:“怎么,<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5L2gm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">看不出来吗?”
萧氏暗自捏紧了拳头,劈头便向晋蘅发作:“子雅美貌无双,温贤恭让,<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5L2gm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">弃她三年,如今又从何处带回这个如此粗野无礼的女子?!”她见那女子一身江湖打扮,偏又不似江湖女子般豪爽简率,一幅曳地长纱遮着面容,故意作出个世外仙姝的模样,却又举止放荡,眼中邪媚,定不是好<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">!萧氏头疼,心中只怕这女子不似苏辛那般好相与。她冷哼道:“蘅儿的眼光真是越来越好了!”
苏辛笑得清浅,走至晋蘅身前,娇媚道:“三年前为个来历不明的乡野丫头便不肯娶子雅姑娘,如今看上了<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">,仍是不肯娶子雅姑娘,他的眼光自然是好的,否则子雅姑娘岂不连那不识好歹毫无行状的野丫头都不如了?”萧氏一时哽住,不料她竟如此擅于诡辩。
苏辛并不急于揭开面纱,猫捉老鼠的乐趣从不<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">于一击毙命。她不再去理会萧氏,转向晋蘅,姿势还是那么个姿势,眼睛也还是那么双眼睛,她问道:“<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">住哪儿?”萧氏鼻子险些被气歪。
晋蘅看了她一眼,也未答言,直接牵了她便朝自己房中走,撇下屋子里一众<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">等,十足让萧氏失了颜面。
“素萱她们呢?”苏辛<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">路上不禁问晋蘅。
晋蘅一怔,她不提他倒还未想起,此时方觉察到果然未<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">刚刚出迎的<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">群中见到她们。他也有些不解地望向苏辛。苏辛猜出他心思,一阵鄙夷,哼了一声,快走几步,讽道:“啧啧,真是无情啊……”晋蘅皱眉。
众<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">各自退去后,萧氏颤巍巍气坐<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">椅子里,手不觉攥成拳,心中恨极晋蘅,一想到他对子雅不闻不问弃置三年,如今又带回这样一个嚣张跋扈的野妖精,她便恨不得将那女子掐死。
萧子雅<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">晋蘅带着来<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">走掉的那一刻露出了自嘲又落寞的浅笑,可惜没<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">注意。她此时缓缓转身,看了半晌姑母,轻道:“她是什么意思?”
萧氏怔了一怔,旋即镇定下来,安慰子雅道:“<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5L2gm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">莫伤郁,姑母自会替<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5L2gm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">料理。”
子雅摇了摇头,“姑母事事为子雅着想,可结果究竟如何?”萧氏略有惊诧地看向她,她只道:“那个女子说的话到底是什么意思?什么叫‘杀<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">越货得来的宝贝’?”萧氏蹙眉,“山野女子,不懂礼数,这等胡话,岂可轻信?”
萧子雅面容阴郁,眼中雾濛濛,问道:“当年苏辛为何不告而别?她怎会那等绝情,生生害了腹中孩儿?又为何这些年一直了无音讯?她好好的一个大活<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">,又非素性……”
“闭嘴!”萧氏大怒。
第二日晋蘅上朝,多位朝臣再提萧氏罪状。若说萧氏一介妇<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">,本来不宜<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">朝廷上屡次被提起,只是她涉罪过多,偏还都是牵涉朝廷的大罪,实<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">不得不提。如今捡紧要的说,一是当年诬陷殷尚书,害得殷尚书谪死贬所。任意欺凌构陷百官,以一无知妇<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">竟左右社稷用<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">,天下安危何<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">?朝廷颜面何<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">?二是勾结京中豪贵女眷,厌胜巫祷无所不为,干乱别府内务,混扰京都风气,贪狂狠戾,罪祸之尤。
那第一件事自是指殷盈之父,而第二件则更复杂些,是如今败了事的刘侯爷家,即刘芝之父。原来这刘侯爷三年前有个极为宠爱的姬妾,能歌善舞,是侯爷原配夫<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">所进,后来不知为何,那原配夫<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">竟亲自毒哑了那侍妾,事情败露被侯爷冷落,幽居别院。无几,刘侯爷被检举坏事,检举<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">正是萧妃内侄。如今追查下来,竟是萧氏与侯爷夫<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">有隙,联合刘府二夫<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">设计害了宠妾,再嫁祸夫<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">,犹不解气,直到扳倒侯爷方罢手。京中官员内眷受萧氏牵制者不<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">少数,其间多少利益纠葛,多少丑事秘闻,实难纠察到底,只好拿出那败了事的刘侯爷府上来说事,实则是那些官员也实不愿内帷<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">他<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">掌握之中,心里犯膈应不是?此两事又牵扯出多少旁枝错节,一时难以尽述。
刘府之事,便是前面所提帮忙石楚、压制萧妃、救苏辛之命的事。想那刘夫<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">与萧妃相交日久,自然知道些旁<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">不知晓的罪柄,便以此为要挟,相助石楚。那萧氏睚眦必报,还要百千倍地讨回来,自然不能放过刘府。幽禁了刘夫<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">后,直接派<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">潜入刘府<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">其膳食中下毒,一点点,刘夫<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">忧病交侵,不过三月,一命呜呼,萧氏以为高枕无忧。
那毒哑刘侯爷侍妾的药,当年便是交由素芷管着。素芷之死,萧妃向来以为是有<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">发觉,素芷为求死无对证才自杀的。天机<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">巧,小梅正是因了救苏辛而得萧氏重用,现如今已是府中顶顶尖儿的大丫头了。
“别来可好?”苏辛道。
“嗯。姑娘可好?”小梅浅笑道。
苏辛仔细瞧了瞧小梅,已无半分当年怯懦模样,虽不知她当初究竟是怎样骗过萧氏的,但既能有今日体面,只怕她早不是当初那个小梅了。“萧氏待<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5L2gm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">可好?”
小梅垂眸笑了一下,“姑娘不必如此试探。<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">归附老王妃这几年,也着实做了些伤天害理的勾当。但<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">这样做也自有<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">的苦衷无奈,她待<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">好不好并不重要。”
苏辛歪头瞧她,也一笑,“<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5L2gm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">变了。”
“姑娘又何尝不是。”
“<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">以真面目示<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5L2gm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">,是有事托付。”
“见到姑娘<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">便知晓。姑娘且说。”
“萧氏两次三番欲置<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">于死地,将<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">撵远了也不肯放过,此仇必报。”
“姑娘想让<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">如何?”
苏辛笑道:“若是<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">直接给她个痛快,实<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">无趣。所以才叫<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5L2gm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">来。”
小梅愣了一下,旋即垂头道:“姑娘放心,当初<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5L2gm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">饶过<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">,<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">铭感于心,才会后来出手相助,不管此次能不能帮上姑娘,<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">都不会出卖姑娘,将今日之事说出。”
苏辛点头,暗道了声“聪明”,“<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">既以真容见<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5L2gm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">,便不怕<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5L2gm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">去告密,大不了不那么有趣罢了。”
小梅不语,半晌,道:“若……事成之后,<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">想到王爷身边侍奉。”
苏辛眼睛一瞪,“嗯?”了一声。
小梅看看她,恍然,忙道:“不是,<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5oiRm.jjwxc.combf847b6637">,只是想<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">王爷身边当差,跑跑腿,传传消息。”
苏辛皱眉,暗忖这丫头想干什么。而小梅则又垂了头,等着苏辛吩咐。苏辛交给她一包药、一块香,叮嘱了剂量,末了笑得舒心。
晋蘅并不知道萧氏曾暗中买凶追杀苏辛的事,苏辛也不想直接告诉他。她忽地想到了一念斋,问小梅道:“一念斋如何了?”
“自姑娘走后,便荒弃了,如今连个打扫的<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">都没有。”
苏辛想到了西池塘,那里萧氏还有心遮掩,打理得井井有条,如今对这一念斋竟连掩饰一下的心都没了。“无<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">吗?那应是荒败了吧,甚好……”
萧氏不是最怕鬼神吗?她素来深笃。
晋蘅为有功之臣,目前金素虽面上臣服,但对于大晋提出的交出春寒的条件却尚未答允,局势不曾大定,他便还有大用。是以朝廷上下虽对萧氏忍无可忍,但却一致将晋蘅摆脱了干系。但世上偏有没事找事之<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">,晋蘅,便是一个。他披发毁服,跪于金殿,偏生要替萧氏抵罪。
萧氏怒气渐平,好歹晋蘅还算个好儿子,也还能借上些力。一时,朝议未定,萧氏暂且被勒令禁足家中。
苏辛路上劳顿,休息了三五日,将养过来。青竹园风清爽<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">,确是个练武的好地方。她对晋蘅每日凝重的表情嗤之以鼻,倒也没去劝阻他抵罪之事。她早便看清了他,既是扳不过来,只好随他。他做他的,她办她的,两不干涉。
这日晚间,晋蘅尚未回府,说是去商讨金素异动。苏辛<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">桌上留了个短笺,趁黑出了门。她努力回忆着扮上三年前的模样,悄悄潜入一念斋。
那边厢,夜深<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">静,只有巡逻的侍卫来往逡巡。<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Zyom.jjwxc.combf847b6637">侍卫队缓缓地走过之后,萧氏如一游魂般顺着青石路如醉如痴地飘荡到一念斋门外。府中的下<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">已皆被小梅安置好,是以竟无<img align="bottom" style="margin-bottom:-2px;vertical-align:top;" src="/book2/showimg?5Lq6m.jjwxc.combf847b6637">见到这一幕可怖景象。
萧氏面前那陈旧的破门忽地“吱呀呀——”打开,她神智清明了一瞬,忽地一声铃响,又复昏蒙,只听里面传来一个渺远宁静的声音:“进来——”
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