It's late autumn again,

Qiu Yiran, dressed in a black brocade robe, stood under a big plane tree in the middle of the garden, and when a gust of wind passed, the withered yellow leaves left the branches, then swirled, drifted away, and fell on his shoulders and feet, giving people a bleak and desolate feeling.

He has been in the capital for five days.

On the first day, I learned from Xu Yuanniang that my sister Qiu Yanran would enter the Fifth Prince's Mansion as a concubine instead of a side concubine.

On the second day, when he went to report to the household department, there was no envy, flattery, and wooing as he expected, but some were disdainful, sympathetic, and gloating. He still didn't understand, didn't he say that the prince's calculation of Yin Zhiruo did not succeed? What he had been worried about did not happen.

On the third day, he learned through his own channels that the prince's trip to the northwest this time was not to gilt and collect merit as he thought before, but to punish the emperor, and everyone was secretly rumored that the prince was probably disgusted by the emperor. Now that the Qingyuan Marquis Mansion has completely boarded the prince's ship, if the prince is deposed, where will they go?

On the fourth day, Lu asked a little beggar to stop him on his way home, and the note handed to him by the little beggar read: "If you want to know the secret of your background, please come to ......." His first reaction was to scoff, but the ghost sent him to the designated place to see the Lu family. Lu Shi repeated the words of her mother and Yan'er that she heard with her own ears: "If you want me to say, the girl must be strange, when she found me, she should have thought that I saved the eldest girl of the Ling family and her younger brother, but she didn't make it clear at that time, how do I know if the sister and brother I saved are the two sisters and brothers she thought, how can I blame me for lying to her now that I have lost my plan?"

Lu's request was that Qiu Yiran want to return her deed to her, and give her another 500 taels of silver to let her go. If she tried to kill someone, as soon as she died, the letter she put elsewhere to expose the secrets of the Qiu family would be taken out and made public, and everyone in the capital would know that his background was different, and they knew that their Qingyuan Marquis Mansion had a chaotic bloodline and deceived the court in order to inherit the title.

Qiu Yiran really wanted to take the Lu family back to confront his mother and sister, and even sent him to the government. However, he couldn't help but think of his grandmother's love for him and his cousin Ke Qiaoqiao, as well as her indifference to other people, including his father and Xiran, his grandmother's reaction when he was caught in the same bed with Ke Qiaoqiao before his grandmother's suicide, his father's and mother's preparedness and the same abnormal behavior that day, and the change in Qiu Yanran's attitude towards him before and after the incident......

Although he felt incredible, Qiu Yiran's firm belief at the beginning finally began to waver, and he quietly arranged for someone to start a secret investigation.

Of course, he will not let go of the Lu family, whether it is true or not, those words cannot be spread.

Qiu Yiran hooked the corners of his lips, and hooked up a cruel and cold smile, just because of the stupid slave of the Lu family, he also wanted to threaten and blackmail him?

Today is the fifth day of Qiu Yiran's return to Beijing, and when he arrived at the household department early in the morning, he heard the news that Yin Mingze had won the Wenju Xie Yuan. This autumn test ended perfectly, and the two Yin Mingze brothers, who had just returned to the capital, became the biggest winners, continuing the scenery of the Mid-Autumn Festival Palace Banquet. And as long as their sisters and brothers continue to be beautiful, the criticism and ridicule of the Qingyuan Marquis Mansion will naturally remain high.

Is the Yin family really going to rise up again? After tossing around, what did they get by losing both their wealth and money? The reputation of being unkind? The joke of throwing watermelons and picking up sesame seeds? The farce of making a case of poisoning incense and almost losing the title?

During this period of time, he sometimes wondered, was it really wrong to decisively give up the Yin family and protect his life in the first place? Is it wrong to want to have both wealth and wealth, and then marry another wife who will help him in his career, and get the best of both worlds? No, what is wrong is that he underestimated Yin Zhiruo, if he knew that Yin Zhiruo was so tenacious and capable, if he knew that Yin Zhao's crime could not be convicted, he would definitely be a person who values love and righteousness and shares weal and woe with Yin Zhiruo. In that case, is his current situation completely different, with wealth, color, help, and a good reputation and the favor of the emperor?

Thinking of this, he blamed his mother Ji a little, if it weren't for his mother's instigation, he didn't really want to demote Yin Zhiruo to a concubine back then, at that time he really liked Yin Zhiruo, and he also knew that according to the laws of the Daying Dynasty, his mother's family was guilty, and his sin was not as good as that of marrying a daughter. 's mother colluded with the Ye family, and then kept saying that she had planned for him, and swore that Yin Zhiruo was naïve and cowardly, which caused the embarrassment of the Qingyuan Marquis Mansion and the current predicament.

Qiu Yiran closed his eyes and sighed, could it be that he was really not born to his mother, so his mother only wanted Yin Zhiruo's huge dowry, without thinking about his reputation, and in the future, he just found an excuse to deprive him of his status as a prince and let Qiu Xiran inherit the title, but she didn't calculate that she had to let him attack the knighthood in advance because she colluded with the mountain bandits?

It has to be said that once the seeds of doubt are planted, they will take root and sprout, and people's brain replenishment ability can always expand infinitely, and it becomes a dangerous experience if you are not careful.

Qiu Yiran felt that his life had never been so gloomy, and he had obviously gained the trust of the prince according to his plan, was promoted, and entered Beijing, but in just a few days, he was hit like never before, and he had doubts about his ability, choice, fate, and even his life experience......

Suddenly, feeling a sinking of his shoulders, Qiu Yiran suddenly looked back, and it turned out that his wife Xu Yuanniang took a silver-gray cloak to put on him. Xu Yuanniang's voice was gentle and warm: "Just entered Beijing, isn't it very hard? Take your time, you have done a good job." "Except for a knighthood, the Qingyuan Houfu that Qiu Yiran took over is actually a mess.

Qiu Yiran held his wife's hand: "It's hard, but I can do it, I will let you have the same dignity as other Mrs. Hou in Beijing." Although Xu Yuanniang's appearance, family background, and ability cannot be compared with Yin Zhiruo, there is no doubt that at this moment when he feels extremely vulnerable, Xu Yuanniang, who has always supported the Qingyuan Marquis Mansion with him and gave birth to a son-in-law, has become the person he can trust and rely on the most. He is no longer sure who his parents and younger siblings are biological and who are not, and the only thing he can determine is his wife and son.

Xu Yuanniang was about to say something, but Dacheng hurriedly approached: "Master, madam." ”

Seeing Dacheng's appearance that he had something to report, Xu Yuanniang left with a very eye-catching look: "You talk, Master Hou, you remember to come back and drink Chuanbei Sydney pear soup in a while, you have a little cough these days." ”

Qiu Yiran nodded "good", and her depressed heart finally felt a hint of warmth.

When Xu Yuanniang walked out of the twenty zhang away, Dacheng lowered his voice and said, "It's done." ”