Yan Shi became suspicious of Jia Kaiming, and after taking a nap with Hua Ling, he went to Yan Jiahe again: "Brother Yan, I don't know if Jia Jieyuan and his brother are twins?"
Yan Jiahe frowned: "Exactly, although I have never met Mr. Yan, I heard people say that the two brothers look exactly alike."
Yan Yi rubbed his chin: "That's right."
Hua Ling was confused: "Brother, what's wrong?"
Yan Shi said, "Brother Yan, please stretch out your hand with the palm facing up."
Although Yan Jiahe didn't understand Yan Shi's intention of doing this, he still did as he said, and stretched out his hands palms up in front of everyone.
Both Hua Ling and Fang Xi stretched their necks to look, but they didn't see anything.
Yan Shi said: "Ming Ting carefully looked at the subtle differences between these two hands?"
Hua Ling looked carefully, and suddenly found something, and shouted happily: "Brother, I know, Yan Juren has calluses on the fingers of his right hand, but not on his left hand."
Fang Xi didn't recognize the cocoon very much, and after looking at it for a long time, she didn't see anything, and a thin layer of sweat formed on her forehead in anxiety. Yan Jiahe took his hand amusedly, and put it on his calloused finger: "Here it is."
Yan Shi praised the little princess's hair: "That's right, as a scholar, if you hold a pen all day long, calluses will form on your fingers no matter how light or heavy it is."
As Yan Shi said, he also showed his palm for everyone to see, his finger also had a thin layer of calluses. In addition, there is also a layer of calluses on the palm of his hand, which was ground out during sword practice.
"I went to Jia's mansion with Ming Ting that day, and I saw Jia Jieyuan's hands, and there were no calluses on his hands." Yan Shi continued, "Besides, I wanted to talk about poetry with him, but he was rejected by him in various ways. The reason is to refuse. Jia Jieyuan came to the mansion today, and his behavior is slightly different from the previous one, besides, he took the initiative to discuss poetry with him."
Yan Jiahe is a smart person, and Yan Shi understood when he said this: "Brother Yan, you mean that the person who came today is not Jia Jieyuan at all, but his elder brother, Mr. Jia?"
Yan Yi nodded: "Exactly."
"I heard that Mr. Jia has been away as an official for more than ten years and has not returned." Yan Jiahe still couldn't believe it.
"Is it because you didn't know he came back, or did he not come back at all?" Yan Shi asked rhetorically.
"This..." Yan Jiahe was speechless. It was true. He also heard that Mr. Jia had gone out to serve as an official for more than ten years and had not returned, but who knew the specific situation
Yan Shi continued: "I suspect that Jia Kaiming is an idiot at all. I am afraid that his elder brother helped him get the position of Xie Yuan."
The two brothers looked exactly alike, and if they wanted to replace each other in doing something, it would be a breeze.
"Brother, do you need to check it?" Hua Ling asked, "Let Zhao Chunhai call out his Qiu Wei's answer sheet, and compare the handwriting, can we know who was referring to Qiu Wei at that time?" Personal handwriting is different, and it is not so easy to imitate other people's handwriting.
Yan Shi waved his hand: "Let's not use this for now, it will take Zhao Chunhai a lot of time to go back and forth to the state capital. Tomorrow I will go into Jia's mansion again to check the reality."
Jia Mansion at the same time.
A sound of broken porcelain came from a hidden room.
"You idiot! I tell you to be calm! Don't be impatient! Why don't you listen! I told you not to have any contact with that surname Yan, you've heard it behind your head!" Mrs. Jia was sitting in front of him. In the seat, his beard trembled with anger, and his chest heaved violently.
Jia Kaiming looked at the broken bowl at his feet and argued in a low voice: "Yanyan likes Yan Jiahe, and asked me to propose marriage to her. Big brother also knows that I am just such a daughter, and I wish I could give her all the good things. I think He didn't want to be reconciled to the matter of the banquet master, so he asked Zhang Matchmaker to go." Jia Kaiming is a bit of a fool, but he loves children, and told Jia Yan that he would give her whatever she wanted.
"You still say!" Mrs. Jia was so angry that he threw another teacup at Jia Kaiming, which happened to hit Jia Kaiming well.
It landed on Jia Kaiming's body, causing him to jump back in fright, "Didn't you read all the letters I sent back urgently from eight hundred miles away? I told you to hold back for now, and we'll talk about everything when I come back. Why are you so stupid! "
"Brother, what should we do now?" Jia Kaiming carefully looked at the man who looked exactly like himself, "Is that Mr. Yan really from the palace?"
"Nine times out of ten it is." Master Jia rubbed the space between his brows, "Now I can only hope that he has not seen the flaw."
"Brother, can't we take refuge in him?" Jia Kaiming said, "Didn't you want to take refuge in a prince a long time ago? Now that one has come, let's take refuge in him."
"You are really stupid to say you are stupid!" Mrs. Jia was about to die of anger at this younger brother, "What do you want me to say now? I hurried to tell him that I helped him take the exam for my younger brother? Afraid of being punished, I came to seek refuge with you? Even if we seek refuge with the prince, we still have bargaining chips in our hands. Now that we have nothing, what do we use to seek refuge?"
Jia Kaiming was silenced by his elder brother's words, and after a while he said: "Then elder brother, think of a way."
Master Jia glared at him and said, "I don't want to think about it."
"I don't want to die, brother." Jia Kaiming suddenly grabbed Mr. Jia's hand, "Cheating in scientific examinations is a serious crime of beheading. If we are found out, none of us can escape the responsibility."
"Of course I know." Jia Kaiming waved his hand like a fly, "It's hard for me to be an official in today's position, and I can be promoted to be an official in the imperial city. At this juncture, I don't want anything to happen."
Hearing what he said, Jia Kaiming was a little relieved. Only Master Jia muttered in a low voice: "If I didn't listen to your words and take the scientific research for you back then, this would not be the case now."
These words made Jia Kaiming's mood that had just eased up again: "Brother, you can't say that! What happened back then was that you were sorry for me. If it weren't for you, Huilan and I would have been married long ago. How could she have disappeared until now? None?"
Mrs. Jia blushed when he said this: "If you didn't show her my poem as yours first, how could she like you?"
The two brothers were originally twins, but their temperaments and temperaments were very different. Mr. Jia could read well since he was a child, but Jia Kaiming was an idiot who could only read a few words.
When the eldest brother said this, Jia Kaiming replied: "I just stole your poems, unlike you, who even stole my sister-in-law!"
The story back then is very simple to say, Jia Kaiming met Hui Lan when he was visiting the county, and fell in love with her at first sight. Huilan likes poetry, and also loves to write poems. Jia Kaiming stole Master Jia's poems and told Huilan that he wrote them himself. Hui Lan believed it and agreed to be with him.
The two were really tender and affectionate for a while, and later, Mrs. Jia found out that Jia Kaiming had taken her poem, so she followed him secretly to see what he wanted to do, and fell in love with Hui Lan at first sight. Mrs. Jia took advantage of Jia Kaiming's absence to pretend to be him. At first Hui Lan didn't know about it, but later she gradually realized that something was wrong.
Hui Lan felt that she had been deceived, and after a big fight with Jia Kaiming, she disappeared.
Mr. Jia also felt sorry for his younger brother. In order to obtain Jia Kaiming's forgiveness, Mr. Jia agreed to pretend to be him to participate in the scientific examination.
The two brothers have made a plan. Master Jia will also participate in Chunwei next year. After he is in high school, he will let Jia Kaiming become an official.
The Jia brothers quarreled for a long time that night before they fell asleep, and early the next morning, they heard a report from someone—Yan Shi had come.
Master Jia hurriedly asked Jia Kaiming to hide, and he pretended to be Jia Kaiming to greet him.
Yan Shi and Hua Ling left after a short stay. After the two left, Master Jia looked very ugly, and hurriedly went to Jia Kaiming: "He seems to know!"
"Know what?" Jia Kaiming asked back.
"Idiot! Of course you know that I will take the exam for you."
Jia Kaiming was so frightened that he trembled all over: "Then... what should we do then?"
"I didn't expect him to find out so quickly. It seems that I really underestimated this Mr. Yan." A trace of viciousness flashed in Mrs. Jia's eyes, "Since I can't hide
But, let's act first. "
"What do you mean?" Jia Kaiming suddenly felt that his brother's appearance was a bit scary.
Jia Kaiming took out a small white porcelain vase from his sleeve: "Since he wants our lives, we might as well take his lives first. He lives in the Yan Mansion now, even if he dies, it is the Yan Mansion's business. We couldn't find any of us. If I'm not wrong, this prince should be the eldest prince Yan Shi. Among the current princes, His Royal Highness King Zhao is the most likely to take the throne, and King Zhao has a grudge against the eldest prince. After we poisoned him, we went to King Zhao, so that we have made a great contribution in front of King Zhao, and when King Zhao becomes emperor in the future, then we two brothers will enjoy endless glory and wealth."
Jia Kaiming is usually a bit messy and domineering, but he doesn't dare to kill people, especially the prince. He looked at the bottle of poison in Jia Kaiming's hand and stuttered: "Brother...Brother...then...then we want...how to give it to me?" He poisoned?"
"Tonight, I will ask Wang Hu to poison." Wang Hu is the guard who secretly protects Mr. Jia.
Jia Kaiming swallowed nervously: "Big... big brother, can you give me some poison/medicine?"
Master Jia poured out some of it and gave it to him: "I have spent a lot of money to obtain this medicine. It is colorless and tasteless. You can use it sparingly."
Jia Kaiming's hand holding the medicine trembled a little, although he was used to it, but at this moment he was unusually sober. He didn't know if his brother's attempt to poison the prince would succeed, even if he succeeded, before that, he would have to kill one person—Fang Xi.
As long as Fang Xi is gone, his daughter Jia Yan can marry Yan Jiahe. The more Jia Kaiming thought about it, the happier he became, and a ferocious smile gradually appeared on his face.
Jia Kaiming ordered the kitchen to make a plate of snacks, and then whispered a few words to his confidant servant, and the servant took the snack away. Coincidentally, the boy was thinking about how to let Fang Xi eat the snack alone, but Fang Xi left the Yan Mansion by himself.
Although Fang Xi is a bit stupid, she still understands some things. He felt that he was going to marry Yan Jiahe soon, so he should buy something for him. So, he quietly left Yan's mansion by himself and came to the market.
The boy looked at it for a long time, and found that he was really the only one, so he felt relieved, stood in a corner and waved at Fang Xi:
"Fang Xi, come here! Come here!"
Fang Xi recognized him as Jia Kaiming's servant, pretended not to see him, and ignored him. The boy rolled his eyes and said, "I have something to do with you, it's about Yan Juren."
When Fang Xi heard that it was about Yan Jiahe, she immediately put down the things in her hands and walked towards him: "What's the matter?"
The servant took him to a remote corner, there was no one around, and then said: "My master said that our young lady is not lucky enough to marry Yan Juren, and he didn't force it. He made a mistake in proposing marriage yesterday. , so I was specially sent here to make an apology to you."
Fang Xi bit her lip: "But I don't want to forgive him."
The little servant smiled dryly and said: "Look, we all live in the same town, and we can't see each other without looking up. Besides, Yan Juren will be an official in the future, and my master will also be an official. Yes, I heard that two people who have enemies cannot be an official together, one of them must fail to be an official, do you want Yan Juren to fail to be an official?"
After all, Fang Xi's head was not working well, so he was fooled by the boy, and his face turned pale, and he said very anxiously: "This can't be done, this can't be done, my brother Yan is going to be an official. Then, then I forgive Jia Jieyuan."
Seeing that Fang Xi really believed it, the boy took out the plate of pastries and coaxed him, "My master said, if you really forgive him, then eat this pastry."
Fang Xi was a little embarrassed, and Yan Jiahe told him not to eat what others gave him. However, if he didn't eat it, it meant he didn't forgive Jia Jieyuan. What if Brother Yan couldn't be an official
Fang Xisi thought about it, and finally said: "Then, then I will only take one bite."
Saying that, he picked up a piece of snack and took a bite in his mouth. Seeing him eating, the boy's heart finally fell to the ground.
Before coming, Jia Kaiming
He deliberately told the boy that he had to act as if Fang Xi was killed by poison because he was motivated by money. Seeing that Fang Xi vomited a mouthful of blood and fell in front of him, the servant took all his belongings and walked away.
It's also because of Fang Xi's life that he shouldn't die. As soon as the servant left, Qu Liushang sauntered past. He was bored in Yan's mansion, so he wandered around outside. Turning around, he happened to see Fang Xi who was lying on the ground.
He walked up to Fang Xi in a few steps, and put his finger on his neck, still breathing. Qu Liushang hurriedly picked him up, and hurriedly walked towards Yan's mansion.
When he first entered Yan's mansion, he happened to see Yan Jiahe. Yan Jiahe saw that Fang Xi was being carried in, and had a bad feeling in his heart: "Xiao Xi, what's wrong?"
Qu Liushang walked and said: "It's nothing, just got poisoned."
"Poisoned?" Yan Jiahe was so frightened that his legs went limp when he heard these two words, but luckily Yan Shi helped him up.
Yan Shi comforted him and said, "Young Master Qu is a very powerful doctor, with him around, it's a pity that the young master will be fine."
How could Yan Jiahe feel at ease, and hurriedly followed behind Qu Liushang. Qu Liuzhang put Fang Xi on the bed, found a small black bottle from his medicine box, he opened the bottle, and within a short while, a huge, greasy white worm crawled out of it.
Hua Ling shrank back a bit, her voice trembling as she pulled Yan Shi's arm: "Brother, there is a big bug."
Qu Liushang put the white Gu worm in his hand, held a dagger and roasted it on the fire, and cut Fang Xi's wrist, immediately black blood flowed out from it.
Yan Jiahe frowned and wanted to go forward, but Yan Shi quickly stopped him: "Don't worry, Mr. Qu is saving the young master."
Then, Qu Liushang put the Gu worm in Fang Xi's wrist, and the Gu worm crawled over bit by bit seeing the blood, and finally slipped into Fang Xi's wound.
Yan Jiahe was shocked, but seeing Qu Liushang's calm expression, he was slightly relieved.
Hua Ling was so scared that she went straight into Yan Shi's arms, and Yan Shi stroked his hair to comfort him.
After about a quarter of an hour, Qu Liushang put the mouth of the bottle just now on the wound on the wrist, and within a moment, the Gu worm came out, but it turned black all over.
Qu Liushang poured a few more detoxification pills for Fang Xi to take: "Okay, I'll prescribe another prescription later, let the servants boil it, wait for him to wake up and feed him."
Just as Qu Liushang finished speaking, Fang Xi slowly opened his eyes. He didn't understand why he was still on the street just now and why he suddenly returned to Yan's mansion, but he was very happy to see Yan Jiahe: "Brother Yan."
Hearing his shout, Yan Jiahe couldn't help crying, and held his hand tightly: "Where do you feel unwell?"
"Everything is good." Fang Xi replied.
Yan Jiahe finally felt relieved. At this moment, his fear was covered by anger: "What happened just now?"
As soon as the words fell, there was a commotion outside, and Jia Kaiming's voice reached his ears: "Fang Xi, Xiao Xi..."
Yan Jiahe had a vague premonition just now that Jia Kaiming did this, and now he came here. Yan Jiahe asked Hua Ling to take care of Fang Xi first, while he went out to meet Jia Kaiming.
Jia Kaiming is no longer as defiant and domineering as before. I saw that his face was full of anxiety, and there were faint traces of tears on his face, as if he had cried. Yan Jiahe saw the jade pendant in his hand at a glance, and his heart skipped a beat.
"Master Jia, what are you doing here?" Yan Jiahe asked.
After the servant poisoned Fang Xi, he presented Jia Kaiming the property he had found from him. Jia Kaiming saw the jade pendant at a glance, and suddenly felt dizzy.
That jade pendant was the token of love between him and Hui Lan, how could it be on Fang Xi's body? He closed his eyes and suddenly remembered that one morning twenty years ago, a servant reported that there was an abandoned baby at the door. Jia Kaiming was not a good person at all, he just felt unlucky when he heard the words, so he waved his hand and asked his servants to throw the abandoned baby elsewhere.
If, if he saw
One look at that abandoned baby...
"Fang Xi, is Fang Xi alright?" Jia Kaiming's voice trembled slightly.
"Is there anything wrong with Xiao Xi, you must know best." Yan Jiahe replied coldly.
Jia Kaiming staggered a few steps back and almost fell to the ground. After a few breaths, his eyes suddenly became fierce: "It's all my elder brother's fault! It's all his fault. More than 20 years ago, he robbed Cymbidium from me. Now he's here to harm my son again. If he didn't give me the poison, How can something happen to Xiaoxi!"
At this moment, his hatred for Mr. Jia reached its peak. His eyes suddenly caught sight of Yan Shi standing at the bottom of the corridor, and he didn't care about anything: "Young Master Yan, my elder brother already knows that you are the prince. He was afraid that you would find out that he took the exam for me, so he wanted to poison you He wants to poison you and go to seek refuge with King Zhao, you send someone to arrest him, he is at my house!"
"Zhao Chunhai, Cao Dejin!" Yan Shi ordered, "Go to Jia's mansion and arrest them!"
By the way, Jia Kaiming, who was making a fuss in the Yan Mansion, was also taken away. Jia Kaiming has been in prison and never saw Fang Xi again.
As Yan Jiahe said: "Xiaoxi never had biological parents before, and never will in the future."
By the time they left the town, Fang Xi was almost healed, standing in front of Yan's mansion and waving her hands reluctantly.
The carriage drove a long way, and Hua Ling didn't put down the curtain until he could see nothing.
Yan Shi put his hand in his palm and covered it: "Don't be sad, I will always be by your side."
Hua Ling moved into Yan Shi's arms, put his hands around his waist, and put his chin on his shoulder: "Brother, I will always be by your side."
Qu Liushang slowly raised the medical book in his hand to cover his face, he couldn't see it.
Yan Shi went to a few more places, and seeing that it was the day when he had to return to the imperial city, he turned his carriage and returned to the imperial city.
The day I returned to the imperial city was the 20th day of the twelfth lunar month, and the entire imperial city already had a little taste of the new year.
The carriage that had been traveling for several months finally stopped in front of Prince Ruiying's mansion. Yan Shi was the first to get off the carriage, stretched out his hand, and helped Hua Ling get off.
"Brother, we're finally home! We're finally home!" Hua Ling was very happy, and ran towards the palace chattering.
Yan Shi looked at the plaque in front of the mansion and chuckled. He had lived in this mansion for a long time, and only after Hua Ling got married did he truly regard this place as his home.
"Ming Ting, run slowly." Yan Shi hurriedly followed Hua Ling in case he fell.
The people in the palace knew that they would be back in the next few days, and they were waiting and looking forward to it every day. As soon as Yan Shi entered the palace, he saw Jiang Qingyue, Qingji, the dumb mother and Xiang Ying all standing at the gate of the palace.
Hua Ling stood in front of the dumb mother and chattered, and the dumb mother listened to him with a smile on her face.
Qing Ji and Xiang Ying saluted him: "My lord."
Jiang Qingyue said: "Your Highness, you are back."
Qu Liushang came up from behind in a few steps: "Young Master Qingyue, I'm back! I brought you a lot of presents, I'll go back to the medicine house first, and then I'll look for you."
Yan Shi took Hua Ling back to Nuanyang Pavilion, and they walked southward after leaving the mansion, and the weather was getting warmer and warmer. The imperial city doesn't need to go to the south, it's the cold season now, Yan Shi couldn't bear to let the little princess freeze outside.
Back at Nuanyang Pavilion, Hua Ling looked carefully at every place: "Brother, it's better to stay at home."
Yan Shi smiled and said, "I'm afraid you will get bored after staying in the palace for a while."
Hua Ling hugged his waist with both hands: "As long as there is brother, even a cage is a paradise for me."
Later, when Hua Ling and the dumb mother talked about what they saw and heard on the road, Yan Shi went to find Jiang Qingyue.
"Has something happened in the imperial city in the past few months?" Yan Shi asked Jiang Qingyue.
Jiang Qingyue replied: "No major incident happened, but King Zhao seems to be investigating the Evernight Hall as well."
Yan Yi rubbed his chin: "It's okay, let him investigate and influence us."
purpose has been achieved. Qingyue, you have worked hard these past few months. "
Jiang Qingyue said: "Your Highness, there is no need to say thanks between you and me."
Yan Shi smiled, and after chatting casually with him, he suddenly said: "Qingyue, I have discovered something along the way."
"Oh?" Jiang Qingyue said, "Please tell me, Your Highness."
Yan Shi narrowed his eyes slightly: "Qu Liushang is from the Shifang Sect."
Jiang Qingyue was slightly surprised: "Is he from Shifangmen?"
Yan Shi nodded solemnly, and Jiang Qingyue's face also became serious: "Then what does Your Highness plan to do?"
Yan Shi called a servant in: "Go to the medicine house and invite Mr. Qu."