After the New Year, the edict was issued as scheduled, and the three provinces in the south of the Yangtze River suddenly became a pot of porridge. Merchants charged sky-high prices based on their inventory. Bandits on the canal robbed salt-and-iron ships, and habitual thieves committed crimes all over the city. Markets and city defenses were in chaos. Frequent occurrences, the poor people at the bottom can only live their lives tightly behind closed doors, secretly complaining.
But it was to be expected.
The court discussions these past few days have also been uneasy. As soon as the twilight arrives, the war of words begins. The poor family is fighting against the noble family, the royalist party and the Reform Party are fighting, and the subordinate families of the Wang Xie family are fighting. The quarrel is so hot. Chu Jinglan didn't participate much in this matter. Occasionally, a few words with the finishing touch caused a bigger storm, which made Chu Sanghuai furious. He dismissed several officials who agreed with him in court. pressed down.
As a result, although there is less clear flow in the DPRK, the tug-of-war between the parties has become more and more obvious. The contradictions and conflicts between them are enough for Chu Jinglan to take advantage of, and then completely overturn the game of chess.
Having said that, compared with the turbulent court, the Prince Lan's mansion was considered peaceful without the slightest turbulence. Meng Xuan returned to the north not long after Chu Jinglan refused the marriage, and although Meng Chen did not follow him, he did not. What's wrong, Ye Huaiyang is busy with the gold mine all day long, and has no chance to meet her, so there is no movement.
The only one who was not obedient was Lu Heng.
"She came to see you? When did it happen?"
Lu Heng stared at the jade pendant on the table, his eyes were full of precautions, and there was a trace of anger that was not easily detected, as if it was a key to open the memory of the past, which made him see his father who vomited blood and died in front of Xie Jiatang. As well as the elder brother who came to report the news and was pierced by an arrow in his chest, and the self who was exhausted on the horse, in the end, scarlet oozes out of the gleaming green texture, as if it was made of flesh and blood.
He abruptly looked away, unable to stay for a second.
"She's not looking for me, it's Yang'er." Chu Jinglan's voice sounded faintly.
"This makes sense." Lu Heng smiled coldly, and his expression became more severe, "When you returned to Beijing, you and I had a consensus that the four great families were all enemies, but what about now? You married Ye Huaiyang. Said, condoning her to communicate with Xie Yun, do you think that she didn't die fast enough?"
Chu Jinglan seemed to have gotten used to the fact that when he mentioned the Xie family, he was pricking people everywhere like a hedgehog. His expression did not change, but he just stated indifferently: "Yang'er didn't reveal anything to her, just wanted to find out if she had any. Credibility, and if the mystery in the middle is solved, it may be a big help."
"What mystery?"
"Yang'er secretly investigated the events of the past, and said that when the grandfather died, he said something very strange, to let Xie Yuan let Xie Yun go, do you have any impression of this matter?"
Lu Heng said coldly: "No, my father is a kind person and has always treated her very well. I am afraid that Xie Yuan will embarrass her because of her relationship with the Lu family. It is normal to say such things."
"I thought so too at first, but I always felt something was wrong." Chu Jinglan tapped the table with his long knuckles, making a rhythmic crisp sound. After a while, he suddenly stopped, and then he raised his head and looked at Lu Lu solemnly. Heng, "A-Heng, you are familiar with the Xie family. Let's put your emotions aside and think carefully. Have you seen anything unusual?"
Lu Heng said bitterly: "All I can think of is that she personally brewed a cup of poisonous tea for my father and killed him on the spot. What else can someone say about such a snake and scorpion? I remember when she lost her father, I never left. to accompany her, but she…”
The words were suddenly interrupted, and a trace of reason emerged, forcibly pulling his thoughts to another place.
Chu Jinglan was in sympathy with him, and was very familiar with any of his expressions. Seeing this situation, he asked in a condensed voice, "A-Heng, do you remember something?"
After a long silence, Lu Heng finally said, "Does Xie Qian's sudden death count?"
Chu Jinglan stroked his chin and pondered for a while, and said: "Xie Qiansu has a heart attack, I remember that day he and Xie Yuan entered the palace by edict, and the emperor discussed political affairs with them for a while before letting them go back, but he was halfway through. When the imperial doctor arrived, it was already dead. At that time, many people in the palace saw it, and there was nothing strange about it."
"But something went wrong after that." Lu Heng lowered his head and recalled, the thin shadows cast by the panes staggered on his face, and there were some green shadows outside, which looked inexplicably heavy, "At that time, Xie Miao was outside the house. Pai, who is not in the capital, Xie Yun, as Xie Qian's only daughter by her side, didn't even get a funeral. It was said to be the rule of the big family. I was just angry and wanted to go to Xie Yuan's theory, but I was stopped by my father. , The strange thing is that he didn't say anything else, he just told me to quickly prepare for the marriage, and marry Xie Yun after the filial piety period is over."
Chu Jinglan listened to it perfectly and didn't speak for a long time.
Based on what he knew about Mrs. Lu, if the daughter-in-law who had never been through the door encountered such an injustice, even if the other party was a powerful and powerful family, he would stand up and speak for it. He stopped, there must be something wrong with it.
Lu Heng also thought of something with him. The two looked at each other and saw deep doubts in each other's eyes, but soon Lu Heng regained his indifferent expression, as if this matter had nothing to do with him.
"Check it out if you want. Anyway, my opinion is that you can't trust Xie Yun, and you have to make all preparations to deal with the Xie family."
After he finished speaking, he was about to leave, but was stopped by Chu Jinglan. Looking back, he motioned to him the jade pendant lying on the corner of the table. Lu Heng's eyes tightened, and he turned around and grabbed the jade pendant and threw it out. Outside the window, there was only a thud, and the blue color splashed with tiny splashes of water, and then swayed and sank into the bottom of the clear pool, only the remaining waves were light waves, and the broken light floated up and down.
Things are right and wrong, how can a broken love be restored by an old thing? Throw it away to save everyone worrying about it.
Thinking like this, Lu Heng resolutely left the study room. Chang Jin swept past the silk-carved railings and swayed into the distance without reluctance, but the figure wrapped in it looked very desolate, even this Man Tingchun. Can't hide the color.
After that, Chu Jinglan returned to the room.
It was very late when I came back today, and I talked with Lu Heng for a long time. Now it's almost evening before I have time to see what Ye Huaiyang is doing.
It was said that the two of them hadn't eaten together for several days. There were already a lot of things in the clan. In addition, the gold mine was indistinguishable. Ye Huaiyang was also very busy for a while. Every day, the two of them only went back to bed when they went to bed. I can only be gentle for a while. I finally got some free time today. Seeing that Chu Jinglan was busy, I went to find Lanlan alone, feeding and taking a bath, and tossed it all afternoon.
When Chu Jinglan entered the door, she was sleeping soundly on the rocking chair.
It was cold in the spring, so I should have covered it more tightly, but the moon-white quilt was hanging wrinkled on the armrest. The important thing is that something huge, black and white, is still arching around her, making green laughter from time to time.
Why did Lan Lan come into the room!
Chu Jinglan's face darkened, he stepped forward, lifted it out, and threw it aside.
"Woooo!"
It screamed and seemed to be very dissatisfied with Chu Jinglan's behavior. It turned over its round body and started to crawl towards this side again. It was very agile. However, before it got close to Ye Huaiyang, it was swept away by Chu Jinglan. He also glanced at it coldly, it didn't dare to move, it sat down on the ground and looked at them aggrieved.
Chu Jinglan turned around and pulled the quilt up to cover Ye Huaiyang's body, then put it on and kissed her neck and chest lightly. She had already woken up a little because of Lanlan's cry, but now she was caught by Chu Jinglan. It was so itchy that he pushed him out in a daze.
"Lan Lan, don't do it..."
Chu Jinglan raised his eyebrows sharply, propped himself up and stared at her for a moment, then he tore off the two bamboo-leaf patterned fronts, biting them through the robes, and he found it very accurately, only to see that the delicate body was as fierce as an electric shock. With a flick of the ground, he released his mouth with satisfaction, looked up, Ye Huaiyang's eyes were wide open, and he had already woken up from his dream.
"... Shocked?"
"Why, do you still think it's that beast?"
His body was pressed down heavily, with deep dissatisfaction, Ye Huaiyang heard Xiange and knew Yayi, wrapped his arm in a coquettish way, and said coquettishly, "I'm not sleepy, and I didn't notice it crawling up, don't be annoyed... "
She just woke up, and the sound was soft and soft. Chu Jinglan's heart twitched when she heard it, and she almost kissed it again. Who knew that Lan Lan suddenly snorted, as if she looked down on Ye Huaiyang's low-pitched attitude. Small, Ye Huaiyang tilted his head to see its expression, and suddenly burst into laughter.
"You two have tempers... they're really a bit similar..."
Chu Jinglan's face became even darker, and when he got up, he was about to throw Lanlan out. Ye Huaiyang was afraid that his hand might not hurt Lanlan, so he hurriedly hugged his waist and said, "I'm here, I'm here. let it out."
After finishing speaking, before Chu Jinglan could make a move, she ran to Lanlan's side with her slippers on, knelt on the ground while stroking its head and coaxed softly, "My dear, go back to the nest and play first, okay? I'll come back to accompany you when Daddy is gone."
Daddy!
When Chu Jinglan heard these two words, she instantly exploded, walked over without saying a word, and slipped Lanlan out of the window, then pressed Ye Huaiyang against the wall, and said maliciously, "Is it exciting?"
Ye Huaiyang kept giggling and didn't answer, obviously on purpose.
Chu Jinglan narrowed her black eyes, released her hands that restrained her, and stepped back two steps: "It seems that you don't want to know what Lu Heng told me today."
After all, he made a gesture to go out, but Ye Huaiyang reacted very quickly, grabbed his neck and threw himself at him, and by the way, wrapped his feet around his waist, his attitude changed 180 degrees in an instant.
"Uncle Wang, I was wrong..."
Chu Jinglan raised his eyes and said, "What's wrong?"
"Everything's wrong..." Ye Huaiyang lowered his eyes and buried it in his shoulders, looking like a good boy who knew his mistakes and made corrections, "Uncle Wang has a lot of them, spare me this time..."
Chu Jinglan stretched out his arms to support her, and realized that she was cold all over, he raised his chin toward the inner room, and said, "Go take a shower first, and come back and talk to you."
Ye Huaiyang slid down like a stream of kindness, untied the soft ribbon around his waist as he walked towards the clean pond, suddenly stopped, turned around and threw his sleeves, as if a pink mist swayed in front of him, twirling at the end, It finally fell on Chu Jinglan's shoulder. Chu Jinglan turned her head to look over, her waist was slightly crossed, her eyes were as silk as silk, and the palm of her hand was gently tugged, as if she wanted to hook him with his soul and soul.
"Won't Uncle Wang come with the concubine?"
Chu Jinglan pulled her back and pulled her back into his arms with the power of the ribbon, then hugged her horizontally, and walked towards the Jingchi with a faint smile.
The author has something to say: Thank you bb for throwing a mine Throwing time: 2016-11-04 07:48:47
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