Kyoto Yamen.
Xu Yan and Jiang Quzheng muttered something solemnly, and when they looked up and saw someone coming in, they finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"My lord."
Jiang Xuanjin nodded, her eyes fell on the kneeling person in front of the hall, and she frowned slightly.
"What's going on here?"
When she was tied up and sent away just now, she was fine, but looking at it now, her face is covered with blood.
Xu Yan said helplessly: "He hit it by himself, if Mr. Jiang hadn't pulled it fast, I'm afraid he would have hit him head-on to death."
"He has a strong temper." Looking for a chair next to him and sitting down, Jiang Xuanjin brushed his robe and asked, "Can I ask you about the origin?"
"From the moment he entered the Yamen, this man refused to say a word."
With his eyes sinking slightly, Jiang Xuanjin glanced at Chengxu next to him, who understood and went forward to search him.
The person who was motionless before was suddenly struggling when he was touched by Chengxu. However, the rope bound his hands and feet firmly, no matter how much he struggled, the sleeve pockets and the contents of his arms were still cleaned out.
A pile of odds and ends, took a glance at it, only picked out Mingpei, and handed it to his master.
"Sun Qing?" Jiang Xuanjin was a little puzzled while pinching Ming Pei and looking at the words on it. Just as he wanted Xu Yan to check it out, Jiang Yan came over.
"Uncle!" shouted anxiously and ran in, seeing that there were still outsiders, Jiang Yan stopped his pace and changed his words abruptly, "Your Majesty!"
Jiang Xuanjin looked at him: "What are you doing here at this hour?"
Jiang Yan cupped his hands and said: "Under the order of Lord Tingwei, I am here to bring the assassin who assassinated the emperor to Tingwei's office for review."
Xu Yan next to him was very puzzled: "I haven't submitted the case yet. Why did the Tingwei Mansion come to pick someone up?"
"It's hard for Ting Wei Mansion not to know about such a big movement." Looking at his uncle, Jiang Yan was relieved to see that he was in good health, and then said, "Master Liu is very worried about your safety. Why don't you go with the lower officials?"
"No hurry." After thinking for a while, Jiang Xuanjin asked him first, "Do you know this person in front of the hall?"
Following his gaze, Jiang Yan frowned: "This face is covered with blood. Who can see what it looks like?"
"What about this?" He handed Ming Pei over.
Jiang Yan looked at it and said, "I seem to have heard this name somewhere."
The people on the ground froze when they heard the words, and tried hard to bury their faces. However, Chengxu next to him grabbed him by the chin, pulled off the veil, and wiped away the messy blood on his face two or three times.
"Ah, I remember now." Seeing his appearance, Jiang Yan said in shock, "Isn't this the Taishang Weisun who guards the racecourse?"
Tai stable lieutenant? Xu Yan frowned and stepped forward: "Master Zuojian, are you sure?"
"Sure!" Jiang Yan nodded, "A few days ago, Tingwei's mansion brought in five good horses, Mr. Sun sent them personally, and met me face to face."
Sun Qing's face was ugly, and he stared at Jiang Yan with resentment in his eyes.
"No wonder it looks familiar." Jiang Xuanjin's face darkened, "It's really a member of the court."
It would be nothing more than an ordinary gangster doing such things as lifting the coffin and assassinating the emperor, but he is still a Taishangwei and a subordinate official of the Taipuzuo with an annual salary of 600 shi!
"Send it to Tingwei Mansion." Xu Yan shook his head, "This matter is no longer within the jurisdiction of the Kyoto Yamen."
Jiang Yan waved his hand and let the Yamen behind him come to detain him. Jiang Xuanjin watched Sun Qing being taken out, and got up after him, saying goodbye to Xu Yan and others.
"Uncle, have you offended this person?" Jiang Yan couldn't help asking after getting into the carriage.
Jiang Xuanjin nodded: "It's a holiday."
Sun Qing said it in the woods. Because he wants to protect "that beast", let him die together.
It is no longer necessary to ask who that bastard is. The person Sun Qing hates the most is Dan Yang, otherwise he would not have risked his beheading to stop Princess Chang's spirit guard in the street.
But how did this person know that he was going to Bailong Temple today? Just a mere captain, where did he get the ability to gather so many people who are skilled in martial arts
Confused, Jiang Xuanjin followed Jiang Yan into the Taiwei's Mansion.
After going back to the court last time, when Liu Yunlie met him again, his expression was a little strange. Today is no exception, since he entered the door, Liu Yunlie's brows have not been loosened.
"Your Majesty has always been cautious when traveling, but today he was ambushed?"
Jiang Xuanjin glanced at him: "Sir, shouldn't the people under the court be interrogated first?"
Liu Yunlie lowered his eyes, cast his eyes on the person kneeling down, and said in a very unfriendly tone: "Who is kneeling? What is the crime?"
Just now he was still struggling a lot, but now he is honest, Sun Qing lowered his head, and replied in a straightforward manner: "The next official, Sun Qing, was detained here because he failed to assassinate Lord Ziyang."
This tone is still confident, and it seems that he doesn't feel that he is wrong at all.
Liu Yunlie took the case and reprimanded him: "It's simply audacious and lawless! Why don't you tell the whole story in detail?"
Reluctantly looking at Jiang Xuanjin next to him, Sun Qing said: "Mr. Ziyang is partial to protecting Princess Danyang. I can't see it and intend to kill her. I thought it was safe, but who knows that I fell into the trick of the king."
Jiang Xuanjin raised his eyes: "My plan?"
"Your superior means, lower officials admire." Sun Qing sneered, "First, people released the news that they were going to Bailong Temple to lure us into the bait, and then they did not hesitate to risk their own lives to lure us into the urn. After the sparrows, they immediately killed me and others."
"The only thing I regret now is why I didn't take advantage of the chaos and kill you!"
"Presumptuous!" Liu Yunlie yelled angrily, "Should you utter such arrogant words in front of me?"
Sun Qing sat down on his knees, with a fearless look on his face: "Anyway, if you get caught, you'll be dead. What else can I dare not say?"
Jiang Xuanjin listened calmly, without even the slightest bit of anger, and only asked: "Where did you hear the news that I am going to Bailong Temple?"
Looking at him strangely, Sun Qing said: "You know in your heart, what are you asking me for?"
"Your Majesty asks, and you answer!" Liu Yunlie shouted.
Sun Qing snorted coldly: "I heard it casually on the street."
This kind of gesture shows that he is unwilling to tell the truth and prevaricates at will. Jiang Xuanjin turned her head, looked at Liu Yunlie and asked, "Is the board in the hands of the yamen of your government planning to hide it as a family heirloom?"
Liu Yunlie frowned: "Is this the fight?"
"You dare to talk nonsense in the courtroom, shouldn't you fight?" Jiang Xuanjin shook his head, "You don't have to be too hard, just clear your throat with twenty boards."
Sun Qing stiffened his neck, with an expression of preferring death to submission.
However. The boards fell hard one by one, much more painful than he imagined. By the time of the tenth one, his skin was already bruised, Sun Qing wailed again and again, and hurriedly shouted: "I'll do it, I'll do it!"
The board stopped, he took a breath, and said with cold sweat on his face: "I have many brothers who are all over the capital on weekdays, and the news that your lord is going to Bailong Temple today was heard in a teahouse near Jiangfu. "
Jiang Xuanjin frowned: "What the people in the teahouse said. You actually believed it?"
Sun Qing gritted his teeth: "I didn't believe it at first, so I just let people guard at the gate of Jiangfu. I didn't expect you to come out and really go to the north of the city. Can this be fake?"
"Did you see the appearance of the person who spoke?"
"Who's going to take care of that?" Sun Qing answered casually. After thinking about it for a while, he felt that something was wrong. "Didn't you post the news? Why do you still ask?"
Jiang Xuanjin lowered her eyebrows and remained silent.
Liu Yunlie heard the key point, looked at him in a little surprise and said, "Could it be that someone leaked the news on purpose?"
The person next to him didn't deny it, his black pupils were cold and cold.
His expression became serious. Liu Yunlie said: "Your Majesty, even if you and I have different ways and are not conspiring with each other, I still have to remind you that the people around you should guard against them."
"Your Excellency, be careful." Jiang Xuanjin was displeased, "A gentleman should avoid divisive words."
"Is this a divorce?" Liu Yunlie sneered, "This is the truth."
Sun Qing couldn't find anything useful to ask, and the person above was really annoying when he spoke, Jiang Xuanjin turned his head with a sullen face, and said to Jiang Yan beside him, "You should keep an eye on it."
finished. Get up and go outside.
"Ziyang Jun!" Liu Yunlie couldn't help calling him, "Leave without listening to the interrogation?"
"Tired."
With a wave of his sleeves, he walked away without turning his head. Jiang Yan watched, cupped his hands and said to Liu Yunlie: "Your Majesty, I will listen to you. I will report to him when I go back later."
The young master of the Jiang family was much more convincing than Mr. Ziyang, Liu Yunlie thought for a while, and ignored the person who had gone away, and devoted himself to analyzing the case for the young master.
And intentionally or unintentionally. He told Jiang Yan all his suspicions about Miss Bai Si.
Jiang Yan was already worried, and when Liu Yunlie made alarmist remarks, when he returned at night, he rushed to Moju with an anxious expression on his face.
"Uncle!"
Chengxu wanted to stop him, but he pushed it away with a wave of his hand, broke into the main room and raised his eyes anxiously: "I heard Master Liu said..."
Halfway through speaking, he was choked in his throat by the scene in front of him.
Jiang Xuanjin half leaned on the bed with a lazy expression and messy clothes. Bai Zhuji snuggled up beside him, holding his arm with both hands. Her hair was disheveled and she had a charming posture. When he called her, she looked over in astonishment, her almond eyes were full of puzzlement.
With a flush on his face, Jiang Yan turned around on the spot, and covered his eyes with his hands.
"It's becoming more and more irregular." Jiang Xuanjin said coldly.
With his whole body tensed, Jiang Yan said in a trembling voice, "It's because of the urgency that my nephew will be so aggressive."
"The sky is falling or the earth is falling?" Jiang Xuanjin brushed his clothes and got up, leading him outside. "If you have something to say in another place, don't disturb your little aunt's rest."
Jiang Yan complied, followed his steps, and couldn't help but look back before leaving the house.
Bai Zhuji obediently sat on the bed with her pillow in her arms, her face full of confusion. The look is innocent, but this appearance really looks like a seductive vixen.
Meeting the gaze of Young Master Jiang, Li Huaiyu was very puzzled.
She didn't bother with Jiang Yan about the previous things, which is considered magnanimous, so let him not be grateful, why is he still looking at her like this
Seeing them heading towards the side hall, Li Huaiyu thought for a while, then quietly climbed out from the window next to him, and went around the wall of the side hall with his waist down and his head bowed.
"Finish." Sitting down on the chair, Jiang Xuanjin spoke.
Jiang Yan looked around and saw that Chengxu and Yufeng had both retreated, so he said in relief: "Uncle, have you ever doubted Auntie about the assassination?"
Li Huaiyu was startled when he heard this, and his heart sank.
Jiang Xuanjin asked: "Why do you doubt her?"
"Why did you go to Bailong Temple for no reason? I heard from the porter that my aunt went first today, and you followed. Your past whereabouts have never been revealed, so why did you go to the same place with her before being known?" gone?"
"It's just a coincidence."
"This is too coincidental!" Jiang Yan frowned, "Don't be too partial to my aunt."
"She has no reason to harm me." Jiang Xuanjin said lightly, "I trust her."
With a calm and gentle tone, the words spoken are loud and powerful.
Huaiyu raised her eyebrows, slowly sat down against the wall behind her, and looked up at the sunset in the sky.
Do you believe her? This person is really... I don't know where the self-confidence comes from, and he is not afraid that if this somersault falls on her, he will be too painful to get up.
Jiang Yan was annoyed: "Nephew doesn't mean that my aunt is going to harm you, but you should treat things fairly. If she is suspected, she is suspected. She just protects her blindly. What if she protects the wrong one?"
wrong? Jiang Xuanjin chuckled: "Then I will admit my mistake."
Jiang Yan was stunned, anxious and angry: "What mistake do you admit? If you are really wrong, she should admit it! Uncle, you have taught your nephew before that you should first discuss the reason and then discuss the relationship, but now you are not Can't do it?"
Holding his eyebrows in thought for a moment, Jiang Xuanjin said: "People's state of mind will inevitably change due to different situations."
In the past, he was pure-hearted and ascetic, there was only right and wrong in the world, there was no need to distinguish between relatives and estrangements, and he once despised the people in the world, thinking that they were too easy to compromise, and his mind was not strong.
But now, he feels that there are only right and wrong things in the world. Another one is about Bai Zhuji.
This person has no rules, it is really difficult to judge her by right or wrong. For example, with the Bailong Temple incident this time, do you want to doubt her? She told him honestly that she had leaked the news, and she didn't have any malicious intentions, so why suspect her
Jiang Xuanjin shook his head, pursed his lips and wanted to laugh, and noticed his nephew's astonished eyes, he pursed his lips and drooped his eyes: "When you grow up, maybe you can understand a thing or two."
"Nephew would rather never understand!" Jiang Yan said with some anger, "Nephew only knows that you seem to be fascinated by a goblin now!"
Listening calmly, Jiang Xuanjin raised his eyes to look at him, and asked kindly: "Is it time to renegotiate your marriage with Miss Bai's family?"
His face froze, and the corners of Jiang Yan's mouth twitched.
Didn't you agree to find a way to push back the marriage for him? Now that Fourth Miss Bai has entered Moju, why does he still want to marry Second Miss Bai
"No one has mentioned it right now, and my father hasn't remembered it yet." Jiang Xuanjin mused, "Why don't uncle bring it up for you tomorrow?"
"...No need." Taking a deep breath, Jiang Yan swallowed all the hostility just now, and said with a choked throat, "My nephew is still young."
"You are young, Second Miss Bai is not young." Jiang Xuanjin shook her head and said, "I can't make people wait too long."
Jiang Yan gritted his teeth in anger, this is a threat! It was clear that he was threatening him! But he survived this threat.
Choose between tolerating the little aunt who is suspected but not convicted, or marrying Miss Bai Er? Then he must still choose the former!
Suppressing his anger, Jiang Yan lowered his head: "Nephew knows his mistake... Nephew is just worried about uncle. If uncle is not happy, then nephew will not say anything."
Jiang Xuanjin nodded in satisfaction, got up and "sent" him out the door.
The young master was full of worry and unwillingness, and before leaving the house, he couldn't help pulling the door string and saying: "The authorities are obsessed, but the bystanders are clear. Think twice, uncle!"
"I know my own affairs," Jiang Xuanjin said.
Jiang Yan watched the Moju gate close in front of him with complicated eyes, and stood there trembling for a while.
Master Liu still expects him to wake up my uncle? Looking at my uncle's current appearance, I'm afraid it's useless to the old man! How did a person who was originally so wise and keen become like this
No, he has to find someone to help, if Master Liu is telling the truth, then he should really be on guard against this little aunt.
Turning his head around, Jiang Yan ran towards Jiang Chong's yard.
The bottom of the wall made people feel very complicated. Li Huaiyu shrank to the bed in the main room before Jiang Xuanjin came back, staring at the patterns on the quilt in a daze.
Jiang Yan felt something was wrong, and he was as wary as Jiang Xuanjin, but he didn't even want to doubt her
In fact, you can doubt her, and it's okay to question her. She has prepared a series of lies and intends to use them to win his trust.
But no need, she doesn't need to do anything, Jiang Xuanjin stood in front of her very firmly, and blocked other people's doubts for her.
Covering his eyes with his hand, Huaiyu laughed softly.
In the past, Mr. Ziyang had always stood opposite her, and he would refute whatever she said. The sword is on the verge of breaking out, and I wish she could go to hell sooner, so that the government and the public can be upright and fair.
But now...
The door was pushed open, Jiang Xuanjin stepped in and returned to her side.
Huaiyu tilted her head to look at him, stretched out her arms and hugged him fully.
Now, this person is protecting her with all his heart.
"Why have you been here for so long?" She smiled, "What happened?"
Jiang Xuanjin raised her hand to support her hanging body very naturally, and said calmly: "No, Yan'er has just been appointed as Tingwei Zuojian, and there are too many trivial matters, come to ask my opinion."
Such aggressive accusations became trivial matters in his mouth.
She couldn't help but close her fingers slightly, and she buried her head in his arms, rubbing against him lightly.
"What?" Sensing that something was wrong with her, Jiang Xuanjin lowered her eyes and looked down, "I was fine just now, but suddenly I'm unhappy?"
"Why am I unhappy?" She said stiffly.
Jiang Xuanjin stretched out his hand, pinched her chin and looked directly into her eyes: "Tell the truth."
The tip of his heart trembled, and Li Huaiyu gathered himself together. Grinning, he pinched his chin with his backhand, and said angrily, "How can a girl's thoughts be so easy to say? It's too complicated! Instead of asking me why I'm unhappy, you might as well find a way to make me happy."
"How can you be happy?" He frowned.
"It's simple, I'm happy when I'm with you." Huaiyu blinked, "Of course, if you take a bath with me later, I'll be even happier."
With a cough, Jiang Xuanjin thought he heard it wrong: "What?"
"Take a bath!" Li Huaiyu said calmly, "The water in the bathroom is ready, and the bathtub is so big. You and I can fit together."
With reddened ears, Jiang Xuanjin lifted the quilt on the bed and covered her head with a slightly angry tone: "How decent!"
Innocently taking off the quilt, Huaiyu blinked: "No one saw it anyway, so what's the point?"
"No." He refused without thinking.
How could a child of the Jiang family do such a lewd thing? Hugging her every day is already breaking his rules, and want to take a bath together
Seeing his angry and shy look, Li Huaiyu licked his lips, leaned forward and kissed him, tossing and turning. Interlocking fingers.
Jiang Xuanjin stiffened and frowned, trying to push her away, but the man snorted softly, like a little milk cat, entangled her again reluctantly.
"Don't do this." During the entanglement, he gritted his teeth and said, "I won't agree to anything!"
Kissing his ear, Huaiyu smiled lowly, her tone was like a goblin seducing a scholar: "Try it~"
"don't want."
"What do you want~"
"Be serious!"
They're both husband and wife, so what's the matter? Huaiyu got out of bed. He grabbed his hand and walked to the window.
"What are you doing?" Jiang Xuanjin was puzzled.
Pushing open the window to look, she pulled him: "Get out quickly."
Turn over the window? Jiang Xuanjin frowned: "If you don't leave, why are you crazy?"
"Aren't you tired of walking through the front door every day?"
"You live every day, don't you feel tired?" Jiang Xuanjin said angrily, "Don't mess around!"
Huaiyu pursed her lips, seeing that he would rather die than obey, she rolled her eyes, lifted her skirt and climbed up the window sill by herself.
"Hey!" Jiang Xuanjin stretched out his hand to pull her back, but the man moved very fast. He jumped out and landed firmly on the path outside.
Jiang Xuanjin's face darkened, and she looked at her with disgust.
"You want to say that I have no dignity or manners?" Huaiyu muttered, turning around, "You really..."
Before she finished speaking, she squatted down with an "ow" and clutched her ankle in pain.
Jiang Xuanjin was preparing to teach her a lesson, but when she saw her action, her eyes tightened, and without thinking, she jumped out with one hand on the window sill. Half-kneeling in front of her, he asked, "Are you sprained again?"
Grinning and raising her head, Huaiyu saw him, couldn't help but burst out laughing triumphantly.
be cheated.
Reaching out and pinching her perfectly fine ankle, Jiang Xuanjin gritted his teeth: "Lying?"
"No, I just felt a little pain, but when you came out, it didn't hurt anymore!"
Nonsense! Jiang Xuanjin got up and wanted to leave.
"Hey!" Huaiyu quickly grabbed him and dragged him in another direction, "It's all out, don't lose your temper, come with me!"
"..."
The bathroom was filled with mist, brocade clothes were hung on the screen, and the bright red peonies pressed the emerald cloud embroidery.
Jiang Xuanjin sat in the bath with a livid face, watching the man swimming towards him in the distance.
"Stop." He said in a low voice, "You agreed to stay three feet away from me."
Li Huaiyu laughed, wiped his face and said, "I'm not ashamed, why are you ashamed?"
Jiang Xuanjin gritted his teeth: "When you have time, copy the Jiang family's rules."
"What are you copying that kind of thing for? It's not practical at all." Huaiyu curled his lips, "What's the 'don't lie or be lewd'
"How can you suffer from doing the right thing... What are you doing?"
Swimming to his side in a blink of an eye, Huaiyu stretched out her hand and patted his shoulder angrily.
Jiang Xuanjin was shocked: "Didn't you say it's not close?"
Wrapped around him, Huaiyu hooked his neck meaningfully with a smile, blocked him in a corner of the bath, and said in a low voice, "I just said you will suffer."