Then he breathed a sigh of relief and sat back to his original position to drink tea.
Min Qiu entered the room and closed the door: "General, you guys..."
"Um?"
As if plucking up full courage, Min Qiuyu frowned and struggled for a long time before saying, "He treats you like this, do you still like him?"
"Are you eavesdropping outside?"
"... This is my wing."
"The entire Xue Mansion is mine!"
Xue Ziqin roared impatiently.
Min Qiu had long been accustomed to his attitude, so he pretended he didn't hear it, and continued: "The General made it clear that he would support the third prince before his death. Do you really want to disobey his last wish and assist the ninth prince?"
"Xue'er is also a member of the Xue family, so I don't mean to disobey him by doing this." Xue Ziqin said, his voice obviously lacking confidence.
Min Qiu continued, "But he doesn't like you."
"how do you know?"
"I heard it all, the ninth prince just wants the soldiers in the Xue family's hands!" Min Qiu said eagerly, "General, you don't know, he is using you at all."
"I know." Xue Ziqin said with his head lowered. When he said this, his emotions were a little abnormal, and his voice was very low, "You haven't liked anyone, you won't understand."
"Why don't I understand?" Jo is that this matter is now on the verge of breaking out. If Xue Ziqin really does this, it may not have a good result in the end. Min Qiu was so worried, and then his tone became anxious, and he said indifferently, "I..."
"Do you have someone you like?" Xue Ziqin squinted at him, "The barracks are full of rough men, you can't even see a girl, who are you fooling?"
"... Don't talk about me, just talk about the ninth prince." Min Qiu said with a cold face, "His ambition is obvious. With his status, he wants to become emperor unless the Xue family helps him."
"right."
"Then do you want to continue?"
"Yes." Xue Ziqin said indifferently, "Since I have agreed, I will do it, regardless of whether he uses me or not. In other words, if someone you like wants to use you to achieve your goals, you will help him?"
"I… "
"Will it be?"
"Yes." Min Qiu said with a twinkle in his eyes.
"That's it." Xue Ziqin put down the teacup, "I like him, I will give him whatever he wants."
"Then why didn't you just..." Min Qiu almost said those words, and stopped abruptly.
Everyone is a man, it's not a big problem to speak rudely, Xue Ziqin said indifferently: "A gentleman does not take advantage of others' dangers."
"General, forget it." Min Qiu glanced at Xue Ziqin's crotch, which was still bulging, "A gentleman won't talk to people hard."
"Get out of here!" Xue Ziqin scolded impatiently.
…
Upon receiving the news of Xue Changfeng's death, Wei Lin received news from Wei Yuanting, urging him to leave the palace and go to Xue Mansion with him to pay homage.
"How is it going in the palace?" Wei Yuanting walked in front of him with his hands behind his back, Wei Lin followed behind him, like a servant, when he heard Wei Yuanting ask, he tilted his head and thought, "It's alright, but the emperor is dying soon. already."
"Xue Changfeng is dead, and the strength of the Xue family is greatly reduced. His adopted son is not a general after all." Wei Yuanting said.
Wei Lin suddenly wanted to come, and now he seems to have something to do out of the palace.
He quietly raised his eyes to look at Wei Yuanting's back, and suddenly asked, "Dad, do you really want to help the second prince come to the throne?"
"Otherwise? If someone from the Xue family succeeds, the Wei family will never be spared."
"I have a countermeasure now to make the third prince lose power." Wei Lin said.
Wei Yuanting glanced back suspiciously, obviously doubting Wei Lin's ability.
Wei Lin just pretended that he didn't see it, and continued: "There is a six-fingered person who can disguise himself and is skilled in getting out. This person was once the confidant of the third prince. Previously, the third prince planned to murder the first prince, and now the handle is in my hands. , I just need to find this person... The crime of brother murder, the third prince should not be able to turn over."
Hearing Wei Lin's words, Wei Yuanting stopped. He turned around and looked at Wei Lin's expression carefully, but Wei Lin said, "Don't look at me like that, it's so uncomfortable."
"Is the first prince's murder really the work of the third prince?" Wei Yuanting asked with raised eyebrows.
"It's absolutely true." Wei Lin said without hesitation, "I've been investigating for a long time."
"Why are you investigating this?"
"At that time, a brother of mine also died in that person's hands." Wei Lin said, "You should think I'm selfish, anyway, I told you the matter, and if you don't want to help, I can't help it."
"Okay, I'll check it out." Wei Yuanting said solemnly, but a smile appeared on his face, and he started to walk again. Seeing that Wei Yuanting had agreed, Wei Lin panicked again, for fear that he would reveal himself and make him suspicious.
Wei Yuanting's ability, he knows.
Although he swore to Jiang that it was impossible for the second prince to let go of a talent like the loach, he couldn't figure out whether the loach changed his face and continued to protect himself in the palace, or was on standby outside the palace. If he is outside the palace, it is obviously inconvenient for him to be the commander of the Imperial Army, and he cannot always go out of the palace to search for traces outside.
But the loach will definitely not leave Xiangcheng, which Wei Lin can be sure of.
The reason is very simple. Judging from what the second prince has done, he is definitely a ruthless person. Looking at Loach's participation in such a big event, it is obviously a confidant. Apart from being loyal, this confidant has only one idea, and it is impossible to let him go.
So he had a whim, and he simply borrowed the power of his own father to do this.
But it is well known that Wei Yuanting supports the Queen's lineage, and it is impossible for him to help the third prince to trace the evidence of the second prince's crime. So Wei Lin played with his mind and said that all these things were done by the third prince.
He pondered carefully, occasionally raising his eyes to look at Wei Yuanting's back. Wei Yuanting seemed to have no doubts at all, so Wei Lin couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth.
After all, what he said was justified and well-founded, especially since the third prince was the chief envoy who murdered the first prince, presumably many people thought so before.
Not long after the two left, they arrived at Xue Mansion.
Wei Tianqi stood in front of the door, waiting for the two of them.
It was only when Wei Lin saw him that he remembered that it was understandable that Wei Yuanting brought his two sons to the ceremony today. But he hadn't seen Wei Tianqi for a long time. Since he beat Wei Tianqi, Wei Tianqi has been recuperating in his nursery until Wei Lin entered the palace, and the two never saw each other again.
"Father." Wei Tianqi said to Wei Yuanting, and glanced at Wei Lin unconsciously.
This glance happened to meet Wei Lin's eyes. The hatred in his eyes was undisguised, but when he remembered how ruthless Wei Lin was that day, he couldn't help but get scared, and quickly looked away and stopped looking at him.
"Well." Wei Yuanting said, "How long have you waited?"
"Not long ago, the third prince and the ninth prince came here just now, and now the original prime minister is inside." Wei Tianqi said in a proper manner.
Since Wei Lin came back, his status in the Wei family was not as good as before, and he didn't dare to be as naughty as before.
Wei Lin stepped forward with a smile and said, "Is your injury healed?"
Hearing this, Wei Tianqi immediately became angry, but he didn't dare to attack, so he had to use his nose to say "um" as an answer.
Wei Lin, one day I want you to know how good I am. He thought so in his heart, not daring to show any discomfort on his face. Now Wei Yuanting is obviously protecting Wei Lin more, it would be too unwise for him to compete with Wei Lin again.
Seeing that Wei Tianqi didn't want to be entangled, Wei Lin didn't bother to talk to him anymore, so the father and son walked into the Xue mansion.
"General Wei Yuanting sent an elegiac couplet—"
After entering the Xue Mansion, Wei Lin looked around. It stands to reason that Xue Ziqin, as his son, should kneel in front of the mourning hall, but when he looked there, he only saw a delicate beauty wiping tears. As they got closer and closer, Wei Lin also saw the beauty's appearance clearly. It seemed familiar, but he couldn't remember it for a while.
Wei Lin looked behind her again, and his mother was standing in linen.
Wei Yuanting obviously saw it too. Yuan Zhi was kneeling in front of him and offering the incense. He hurriedly whispered to Wei Lin, "I'll see your mother later, don't make a noise."
"understood."
Yuanzhi got up and saluted Wei Yuanting, who also returned the salute. Xue Changfeng just passed away, even if the two in the court are not from the same party, they will not come to deliberately disrupt the situation now. Wei Lin secretly admired Wei Yuanting's face that outsiders couldn't see the flaws, it was really amazing.
But what he didn't know was that Wei Yuanting didn't feel better in his heart.
He and Xue Changfeng had known each other for more than 20 years, and their faces were ripped apart because of Fu Yang, but it was not fake that they showed each other with sincerity when they were young. The affection of those times, not only will not pass away because of time, but they will be remembered when they are middle-aged, and they will be remembered even more.
He took the incense and put it on it, solemnly knelt down before Xue Changfeng's spiritual seat, and then got up and inserted the incense into the incense burner.
After doing all this, he turned to Cen Liyun and Fu Yang and said, "My condolences."
Fu Yang's eyes were red and slightly swollen, and at a glance, he knew that he had cried. When she heard Wei Yuanting's words, she took a deep look at him and replied, "You are also in condolences."
Wei Yuanting smiled bitterly: "Why do I feel sad."
Wei Lin and Wei Tianqi also served incense together, and stood on Fu Yang's stool with Wei Yuanting. He glanced at Fu Yang, nodded, and said hello. There are many courtiers here. If he calls Fu Yang a mother, others will inevitably talk about it.
Fu Yang had something to say to him, so he whispered a few words to Cen Liyun, then passed by Wei Lin and poked his waist lightly.
Wei Lin watched her leave, and then whispered in Wei Yuanting's ear, "My mother called me."
"Yeah." Wei Yuanting replied without looking sideways.
Wei Lin chased the direction Fu Yang had gone before.
He was led all the way to the backyard by Fu Yang and stopped. Fu Yang stood by the lake, he stepped forward and said, "Mother."
"Lin'er..." Fu Yang's face was not very good, and his eyes were even more swollen and swollen. As soon as Wei Lin shouted "mother", Fu Yang couldn't help but start to cry. She reached out and hugged Wei Lin, and Wei Lin had grown so tall before she knew it.
"Mother, my condolences." Wei Lin said softly.
"Mother may be leaving." Fu Yang raised his hand and wiped away his tears, trying his best to calm his voice.
"Let's go again, where are we going?"
"I don't know, let's take a look." She let go of her hand and tidied up the placket for Wei Lin, "Changfeng is gone, it's meaningless for me to stay in Xiangcheng, it's time to go."
"Could it be..." Wei Lin recalled that three years ago, he and Fu Yang met at Lianshuimen, and it was he who told Fu Yang that Xue Changfeng was assassinated. Could it be that Fu Yang came back specially for him
Wei Lin guessed in his heart, but Fu Yang nodded and admitted: "I came back for him."
"Mom, don't be too sad..."
"Lin'er, mother likes freedom and you." Fu Yang looked at him seriously and said, "I thought your father would take good care of you in the past, but unfortunately he is a bastard."
"Now, you have grown up, and you are on your own, so mother doesn't have to worry."
As Fu Yang was talking, Wei Lin suddenly remembered what Fu Yang had said when he was five years old when he left.
Complain? Don't complain, he's already used to it, family affection is very indifferent in his eyes, it's not as good as a brother who shares weal and woe in a tent.
"Is that... goodbye by fate?" Wei Lin said with a smile.
"It's a pity, I haven't seen Lin'er's crush seriously."
Wei Lin immediately restrained his expression and said solemnly: "If there is a fate, someone Wei will definitely bring his wife to visit Miss Fu in person."
Fu Yang was amused by his serious and nonsense appearance, which made him burst into laughter immediately.