Since you like it, you can buy more in the future, anyway, the Xiao Wangfu family has a big business.
Ji Yanran asked again: "How about Baihe's matter?"
"Master Yunmen told you, right?" Mentioning this, Jiang Lingfei put away his teasing, and poured him a cup of hot tea, "To be honest, I originally wanted to hide it from you. It's been so many years, whether it's It wasn't the emperor and the first emperor, you can't do anything, so why worry in vain."
"At least we have to find out the truth." Ji Yanran said, "It's obvious that someone is playing tricks this time, and I have already jumped off. I'm afraid that Brother Huang has already got the news. If I pretend to be stupid at this time, I will try to cover it up."
Jiang Lingfei guessed: "You mean, someone inside and outside the palace colluded and wanted to muddy the water together?"
Ji Yanran nodded: "Take this opportunity to see who will be the first to be impatient. Tell me to go back to the royal city the day after tomorrow."
…
There was a lot of noise outside the house, Yun Yifeng turned over, opened his eyes and saw that the room was already dark, thinking that he just slept until tomorrow morning, and was too lazy to get up again.
It's just that he wanted to sleep, but some people refused. His cheeks were itchy, as if a bug was crawling, and it was a rather annoying bug.
Ji Yanran pinched a strand of his hair, and stroked his neck again: "It's getting dark, get up and eat something."
Yun Yifeng patted it with a palm: "Not hungry."
Ji Yanran grabbed his wrist and pulled him out of the bed: "Braised shrimp, fried silver shreds, braised elbow, assorted pot, steamed pork ribs with black bean sauce and plum vegetables, stewed crab powder and lion's head." The old monk chanted a mantra, which rhymed.
Yun Yifeng's sleepy eyes were hazy: "Just give me a bowl of porridge, my lord and Brother Jiang will go eat lion's head with crab noodles."
The fatigue from driving for several days has not yet recovered. He is sleeping warm and comfortable, his underwear is soft and sticks to his body, his black hair is loose, the corners of his eyes are red, and his voice is also hoarse. Lying down and drinking porridge is fine.
Lao Zhang was attentive and enthusiastic, and soon brought a large bowl of egg porridge, which tasted very good.
"I heard from Ling Fei, you've been poisoned again this time?" Ji Yanran watched him eat.
"Yeah." Yun Yifeng grimaced, "Your horse runs too fast, it goes crazy when you go out, and you don't listen to me." Running wildly all the way like thunder and lightning, if you are not sick, you will get sick.
Ji Yanran cleared her throat, and asked again "casually", "Then you want to go back to the royal city with me?"
Yun Yifeng looked up at him.
"About the diversion between Shiba Villa and Baihe, I need to report to Brother Huang as soon as possible." Ji Yanran said, "Old Wu is already preparing the carriages and horses, and he will leave the day after tomorrow."
Yun Yifeng nodded: "Then, the prince, take care all the way."
Ji Yanran put the bowl away from him: "You really don't want to go?"
Yun Yifeng said: "Give me back the food first."
"If there is nothing important about Fengyumen recently, then the owner of the door will take another business from Prince Xiao's Mansion, and go to Wangcheng to help me find out who is the inner ghost in the court." Ji Yanran coaxed him, "The price is negotiable."
Sounds like a good deal.
Yun Yifeng said: "I'll think about it."
Qingyue is still in Wangcheng, so Xing'er can reunite with her sweetheart as soon as possible.
After all, Feng Yumen has not held a wedding for some days.
"Then it's settled?" Ji Yanran looked at him with a smile, "I'll ask Lao Wu to prepare a big carriage, this time you don't have to ride a horse anymore, so you don't get too tired."
Yun Yifeng sat cross-legged on the bed: "My lord even gave me the concubine and old Wu. There is only one empty house left in Prince Xiao's mansion. What do you want to pay for it?"
Ji Yanran raised her hand and promised: "After returning to the palace, I will accompany you to the state treasury, or the private treasury of the emperor's brother. He has collected many famous calligraphy and paintings, as well as a high-quality guqin."
A fine guqin.
Yun Yifeng asked: "Can I take it away?"
Ji Yanran replied, definitely!
So the disciples of the Fengyumen who were packing their bags and preparing to return to Chunlin City were once again at a loss, and were coaxed by His Royal Highness King Xiao to divert to the north with an empty promise. They can only guess in their hearts that maybe the prince really promised something great to the sect master, which made him so willing to follow him all the way.
Lin Ying led a small group of people and went back to Mobei day and night. The Geteng tribe suddenly retreated. So far, they haven't been able to find out the reason. They always feel that there is a big conspiracy behind it, and it has finally stopped in the past few years. Don't make trouble again.
…
When everyone arrived at Wangcheng, it was the deepest spring in March.
The city is full of peonies, roses and hibiscus, the main street is full of cars and horses, and the small alleys are crowded with people. The literati want to go out of the city for an outing, and the merchants from other places want to enter the city to sell goods. Looking at this beautiful spring, I changed into a light yellow and tender red skirt, and secretly opened the corner of the curtain while sitting in the sedan chair, wanting to see if there is a handsome young man outside, with a sour and sweet heart, like a peach hanging on a branch, green There is a touch of red in the astringency, just waiting for the summer to ripen.
Ji Yanran said: "Come out, I'll take you on a horse ride."
Yun Yifeng was lying on the bed, holding a book in his hand, yawning with a bit of spring sleepiness.
Ji Yanran was amused by him, grabbed that snow-white wrist and pulled him out of the carriage with ease. The people outside haven't realized what's going on, they just feel a white streak flashing in front of them, and when they look closely, there is already a young man on the back of the silver-white horse - he looks really handsome and romantic, with black hair Silver crown, with a long sword on his waist, bathed in the sunshine and breeze of the royal city, his heroic posture is tall and straight, and he looks like a fairy.
In less than half an hour, all the matchmakers in Manwang City heard the news.
Hot item, hurry up!
In Prince Xiao's mansion, the old concubine cheerfully held the hands of the two of them, looking left and right, she didn't think it was enough: "It's great, we came back together, but I have to stay at home for a few more days, and let Ling Fei take you to spend a good time in the royal city." Go shopping."
Ji Yanran coughed twice at the door, your son is here!
"Before you entered the city, Eunuch Desheng has already come home to urge you twice." The old concubine looked at him, "Have you thought about what to say?"
"Tell the truth." Ji Yanran said, "I'm going to change clothes and enter the palace right now. It just happened that the relic was stolen last time, and I haven't had time to report it to the emperor face to face. I'm afraid I won't be back until tomorrow morning."
The old concubine nodded: "Go ahead, clarify the matter earlier, and you can feel at ease earlier."
"Then I'll go first." Ji Yanran glanced at Yun Yifeng again, and said softly, "I'm tired all the way, take a rest earlier."
Jiang Lingfei was dissatisfied: "Why don't you see that you care about me?"
"You have returned to your own home, why do you need to worry about it?" The old concubine complained with a smile, "Okay, forget about Yan Ran, let's go back to our residences and have a rest."
"Godmother, don't you really ask more questions?" Seeing that Ji Yanran had gone far away, Jiang Lingfei squatted down and pinched her legs, "This time is no small matter."
"I've already read the letter from Old Wu." The old concubine patted his hand, "Over the years, you have had quite a fight to find out about Liao Han. Because, then he should know in his heart that with Yan Ran's ability, he will find the truth sooner or later, maybe this is the day he is waiting for, and no one can stop him."
If you can't stop it, why stop it
After all, paper cannot contain fire.
…
When Ji Yanran entered the palace, all the main halls were already lit. Eunuch De Sheng was guarding the door of the imperial study, and when he saw him, he smiled and said: "It's getting dark, the prince is here."
"I was delayed on the road for a while." Ji Yanran said, "There are quite a lot of people on the mountain outside the city, a group of sour scholars, crooked poems are flowing all over the river."
Someone behind him laughed loudly and said, "The river is full of water, why didn't you catch two of them?"
Ji Yanran saluted: "Brother Huang."
"Forget it." Li Jing held his arm, "Come in, let me tell you about the Buddhist bead relic and Shiba Villa first."
Eunuch De Sheng quickly brought snacks and tea, as well as a few plates of roast duck spring rolls, saying that the emperor was worried about the prince's lack of food, so he padded his stomach first.
Prior to this, Ji Yanran sent a secret report to the palace, but he didn't mention Baihe's diversion. He only said that the Xu family and his son had nothing to do with the cult, and that the Red Crow Cult's reappearance was purely fabricated.
Li Jing asked: "Then why did the other party keep you in Wangxing City?"
"The purpose is the same as Zhou Ming's. I suspect that they are the same group." Ji Yanran said, "To stir up conflict between me and the emperor."
Li Jing paused after hearing the words: "What do you mean?"
"In order to investigate the matter of the Red Crow Sect, I turned the Xu family upside down, and finally found out that their surname is not Xu, but Qiu."
"What about your real identity?"
"I worked for the imperial court seventeen years ago. When the Baihe River was diverted, I was in charge of opening the sluices around Lintong Pass."
The lights in the room dimmed suddenly, as if a wind had slipped in.
Eunuch De Sheng hurriedly closed the door tightly, and continued to wait outside, but he felt a little uneasy in his heart. When he leaned over to pull the door, he saw the emperor's face...it seemed not very good, but it was not like before when the prince entered the palace. Talking and laughing, very happy.
After a long silence, Li Jing put down the teacup: "What do you want to ask?"
"Who gave the order to open the gates in advance?" Ji Yanran looked at him, "Also, does the emperor know about this?"
Li Jing sighed: "I know."
Baihe released the gates ahead of time, causing the entire downstream village to be washed away, including Liao Han and all his men. This kind of shocking mistake was enough to remove the black yarn and heads of dozens of people! As the leader of the entire diversion project, it is naturally impossible for him not to know about it—in fact, when the water flow just broke through the wooden fence, someone panicked and sent the news.
The answer was expected, Ji Yanran didn't speak, but closed her eyes slightly, as if to calm down her inner emotions.
"In these years, you have been running around for the Liao family. I know I shouldn't hide it from you." Li Jing stepped off the dragon chair and patted him on the shoulder with one hand, "But Father is worried that you will be angry if you know the truth. Kill the second child."
Ji Yanran frowned: "Him?"
The second prince back then, now Pingle King Li Jun. His biological mother was from the famous Yang family in Jin. The family was huge, and several uncles were even more domineering, which disturbed the peace of the previous dynasty. The late emperor fought openly and secretly with this group of people for dozens of years. It was not until two years before his death that he finally found out. Timing, uprooting it, cleared the last obstacle for Li Jing.
"Back when I supervised the diversion of the Baihe River, I had to face endless trivial matters every day, but I still didn't dare to slack off in the slightest, for fear that I would fail my father and the people." Li Jing said, "Seeing that the project is about to be completed smoothly, some people can't sit still , the second son sent people around, pretending to be an official to beat the people today, and the next day to rob the women of the people. Although flies and bugs are annoying, they didn't make a big mess. I thought he would just stop there, but I didn't expect it to happen In the last few days, I have turned my mind to the Baihe sluice again."
After the incident happened, the first emperor quickly found out the truth, but he was afraid of the power of the Yang family in Jin, so he did not disclose the truth.
Ji Yanran asked: "Father ordered everything to be suppressed?"
"Yes." Li Jing sat opposite him, "No one knows the truth, even the closest veterans think that the father is hiding it for me. The second child must have been anxious for a while, as for Yang There were a few old and cunning people in the group of people in the family, and they asked around a few times later, but they didn't find anything, and later, the Yang family couldn't take care of themselves, so they couldn't manage the palace anymore."
"What about Lord Xing?" Ji Yanran asked again, "It seems that he also went to Yang's mansion for a drink back then."
"That was ordered secretly by the father, ordering him to collect the Yang family's criminal evidence." Li Jing hesitated a little, "Why did you suddenly think of this? What did you find?"