"Yes, I thought that the second child was gone, and it would only increase the sadness to keep that place, so I ordered someone to clean it up. ”

Chen Baoding frowned: "Where did you let the second child take the things he left?"

Mrs. Chen didn't know what to do, but saw that Chen Baoding asked seriously, only that he was still sad about the death of his second son, sighed, and said: "It's not good to keep that house, so I sent all the people in the house away; The second child spent too much money and didn't leave anything valuable, even some of the furnishings in his room were also divided into courtyards in previous years. Only a few bits and pieces were not easy to dispose of, and they were temporarily stored in the ear room in the front yard. ”

"What's left?" Chen Baoding asked.

Mrs. Chen shook her head: "What can there be, it's all some correspondence between their brothers, and the second child didn't marry a daughter-in-law, just two girls who had sex with each other, and they didn't confiscate anything, and I sent them away, and it was impossible to keep their things." Don't worry, the things left by the second child are not the same as the girl's things. ”

When he was worried that the second child would leave something unclean?

Chen Baoding didn't explain, only nodded slightly, and continued without emotion: "Take all the rest of the second child's things, I want to see it for myself." ”

Mrs. Chen was a little surprised, thinking that when she married the Chen family, the two children left by the master's ex-wife were already old, and she had no intention or power to take care of it, so she let it go. Looking at it coldly, the old man devoted himself to court affairs every day, and never disciplined these two sons. Therefore, whether the two eldest sons of the Chen family succeed or fail depends on their own quality, and the master does not pay attention to it.

I don't want to be gone at this time, but he shows that he cares so much.

Is it because of excessive sadness that you have woken up?

Mrs. Chen was unable to think about it, nodded in agreement, and then turned to order her subordinates.

Two quarters of an hour later, the only thing that Second Young Master Chen still had left at home was sent to Chen Baoding's study.

After brushing it carefully and inspecting it slowly, it was not until Mrs. Chen came to order dinner twice in a row that Chen Baoding put down the few leftovers and locked them in the cabinet in the study himself.

There was nothing else to say that day, but the next morning it began to rain.

The summer rain came and went quickly, and as soon as the rain curtain passed, the clouds had just dispersed, and the sun had just poked its head out from behind the clouds, a big girl rushed in.

"Master, madam, quick, quick—Long Xingwei, they're coming......"

Chen Baoding's heart tightened, and he strode forward and asked urgently, "What's the matter?"

This big maid was served by Mrs. Chen, and she was also calm and calm, but this time she seemed to be out of order, panting, holding the door frame with one hand, and replied for a long time: "Manager Li took someone out to procure early in the morning, but just now he sent someone to deliver a letter from the back door, saying that he saw that Long Xingwei had arrived on the front street, and he was coming to our house." ”

"It's not just our house on this street, why must it be us?"

Mrs. Chen also stepped out of the outhouse, looked at the maid and asked angrily.

"Yes, the person sent by Chief Manager Li said that he heard the leader of Long Xingwei laughing and said that he was going to be a guest at our house. Mr. Li was afraid that something would happen, so he asked people to take a shortcut and go back and forth to the lord and wife first. ”

Be a guest?

What are these words?

Mrs. Chen's face changed drastically, and she turned her eyes to look at her master.

Chen Baoding had just been released from the palace early the next morning, Long Xingwei came to the door as a guest, this news is too well-informed, and people are too fast.

Since Emperor Taizong set up Long Xingwei, whenever Long Xingwei goes to whichever door, which one will be confiscated, no matter how real power there is, there is no exception to the previous glory. Therefore, everyone heard that Long Xingwei changed color.

Today, Long Xingwei went to Chen's house, could it be that he committed something?

But he had just gotten good words from the Holy One before, and I didn't see any intention to investigate and take him down. If you really want to take him down, what are you going to do when you let him go home?

Thinking about it again, today's Long Xingwei is different from the past, this is a force that even the Queen Mother can't control.

And now Long Xingwei is the real discursor......

"Who is the leader of Long Xingwei?" asked Chen Baoding in a deep voice.

Manager Li didn't recognize it, but said that the leader was dressed in red, and the rest were dressed in blue and some in green. ”

"Red clothes?"

The maid shook her head: "Back to the master, it's a regular service." ”

Hearing this, Chen Baoding's heart settled a little.

Those who can wear red-clothed official uniforms among the dragon guards must be officials above the command level. And because of the nobility in red, the regular clothes are also unusual, and now, there is no one else in Long Xingwei except for the real speaker Yin Xuezheng.

This means that Long Xingwei, who came to his Chen Mansion as a guest today, is the leader of Yin Xuezheng.

Yin Xuezheng is an alternative in the official circle of the capital. He has always acted in a disorderly manner, but he has his own set of rules, which others can't see, and most of the things he says are that this person is uncertain, which makes people feel cold.

Until now, no one in the capital can really see through him.

And Yin Xue is an arrogant person, which is manifested in one point, every time he wants to come to the door to get someone in person, he never shows up first, but asks his henchmen, Qianhu Xu Xing, to take people to raid the house and get people first, and then wait until the last moment, when everything is almost done, he came slowly, and appeared in front of people in his big red flying fish official uniform.

No one has ever seen him shoot directly, because everyone who has seen it has died at his hands.

Therefore, few people in Beijing are aware of his grotesque work habits.

But he Chen Baoding is different, he is a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, the real speaker of the Ministry of Rites, most of the regulations in the palace are from his hands, he has long been accustomed to preparing the order of travel before acting, and this is especially true for looking at problems. He didn't enter the cabinet and couldn't see the cabinet list, but many details of Yin Xuezheng's work could still enter the eyes of him, the head of the Ministry of Rites.

And Yin Xuezheng's other habit is that if he shows up for the first time with people in his regular clothes, then it is generally not a big deal, and such a high-profile appearance is mostly just his personal little hobby.

It's just that I love nothing to scare people and play around.

Chen Baoding thought of this, settled down, coughed lightly, turned to his wife Zhengse and said: "Madame, I have been in the court for many years, not to mention how much I have made achievements, but I think that I have always been honest and honest as an official. ”

That being said, he instinctively thought of the death of his second son, and the pamphlet he left before he died.

All of a sudden, my heart was uncertain again.

Mrs. Chen is different from him, what she thinks has nothing to do with his honesty and official position, which is equivalent to empty talk, what she thinks is that Long Xingwei really wants to investigate and deal with the official officials in the court, even if he is unscrupulous, for the sake of his own dignity, he must first have the imperial decree from above in the official face. Besides, her lord has just been put back to the house by the saint, if the saint really wants to take people, how can he let people back in a troubled way? What's more, the current saint is still a lord with no real power, and the queen mother, who holds the real power in the court, should not have anything to do with their current relationship with the queen mother.

Thinking of this, Mrs. Chen also came back to her senses, and secretly laughed at herself for being so careless, and a little thing messed up. She also thought of her stepson who had just died, but unlike her master, she just thought about it as people in the market discussed, thinking that her stepson died strangely, and Long Xingwei came to the door, just to routinely investigate the case.

Thinking of this, Mrs. Chen let out a long breath, straightened her clothes, and returned to her usual calm and gentleness on her face in an instant.

Chen Baoding also straightened his robe, brushed his long sleeves, said goodbye to his wife, and walked out of the courtyard.

Pacing slowly to the front yard, as soon as he got out of the second gate, he saw that the steward of the front yard was in a hurry to report, and Long Xingwei commanded the envoy to bring all the guards to pay respects.

As he spoke, he also presented the greeting sticker, and the scene was very polite and formal.

Chen Baoding took the sticker and looked at it, and saw that what was written on it was all the words on the official's face, nothing special, nodded and accepted the sticker, and ordered to lead the person to the main hall of the front yard. I adjusted my mentality again, straightened my clothes, and moved forward unhurriedly according to the original pace.

Walking into the main hall, I saw Yin Xuezheng standing in the middle of the hall with his hands in his hands, wearing a big red silk pinched gold thread python robe, with a purple gold jade belt on it, with a long body and jade standing, extremely handsome. A big man dressed in red, not only does not look tacky and weird, but has a different temperament from ordinary people, and only this Yin Commander of Long Xingwei can do it in this world.

"Commander Yin came to the door, the old man was disrespectful, rude!"

Yin Xuezheng waved his hand, not polite, and said a few opening words in a routine formula, and without waiting for Chen Baoding to sit down, he ordered someone to present a box.

This is a pinched gold wire carved Nanmu box, good craftsmanship, at a glance you know that it is extraordinary.

Chen Baoding looked at the box, his face thoughtful: "The commander is this?"

Yin Xuezheng's expression remained unchanged, and he pointed to the box: "The meeting gift for Lord Chen, don't you want to take a look?"

Chen Baoding felt even more weird: "What does the commander mean, there is ...... in this box"

Yin Xuezheng laughed, and sat down on the chair next to him uninvited: "What is it, don't you know when you open it." ”

Chen Baoding sighed in his heart, only felt that the things in the box would not be simple, and saw that Yin Xue, who was sitting on the side, just took the tea presented by his subordinates in a good time, and slowly tasted it, with a comfortable face.

He sank his face, and instead of taking the box, he turned to the other side, held his sleeve, and sat down with a calm expression on his face.

"Your Excellency. ”

The one who spoke was the dragon walker who followed closely and presented a golden silk box.

Chen Baoding raised his eyes and saw that he was about sixteen or seventeen years old, with a pink-faced complexion, quite wealthy, and a faint yin qi.

Chen Baoding frowned, thinking that Yin Xuezheng himself was just yin and evil, and the people around him also had such a yin qi, it was really not a family that did not enter the door. Looking left and right, the entourage that Yin Xuezheng brought into the main hall was no one except for this pink young man, and even his cronies who had always been close to him, Qianhu Xu Xing, were nowhere to be seen.

It's weird!

Looking closely at the young man with the box in front of him, I saw that he was smiling, his eyes were clear, although he was wearing a crow-blue robe, he also had such a yin energy, but it inexplicably gave people a light and translucent feeling, unlike other dragon guards, there was always an indescribable eerie and terrifying, which made people feel cold.

This young man gives people warmth, is relaxed, such a difference, it should be that he has just joined Long Xingwei, and has not been impregnated by the weak cold air.

Chen Baoding sighed lightly in his heart, seeing that the young man had already held the box in front of his eyes, he had no choice but to take it.

Gently open the box, and there is nothing else in the large space inside, only a small booklet lying quietly.

Déjà vu booklet.

This is......

Chen Baoding instantly felt that his whole heart fell from the top of the clouds to the abyss, and the boundless darkness instantly surrounded him, but his hands and feet were powerless, so he could only wait quietly, waiting for the judgment of death on him.