She went back to the house when the lights of ten thousand homes were lit, and as soon as Fang entered the door, she was invited to the main hall by the little girl in a hurry, Xie Daoyong and Xie Huaichang were there, and they both had the same strict expression.

Wanlan's eyelids jumped, and an ominous premonition hit her heart in an instant.

Xie Daoyong didn't give her a chance to think nonsense, and when he saw her enter the door, he picked up a page from the table: "Chen Ji's father died." ”

Wanlan's heart was shocked, and she didn't have time to say goodbye, so she took a few steps over and took the page, and browsed it at a glance: "Who is Zailuan?"

"It's Luan Beizi from King Qing's family," Xie Daoyong said in a deep tone: "Huai'an has already set off for Hunan to help Mrs. Chen and the second son take care of the funeral." This telegram was on the official line of the Yamen, and Chen Jimo had not yet received the news. ”

Wanlan read the telegram again: "Why can Chunbeizi kill the imperial court officials without asking for an order?"

"He found a good reason," Xie Huaichang said: "The imperial court officials are implicated in the revolutionary party, and it is still light to be killed on the spot, if the queen mother believes this reason, I am afraid that the family will be implicated." ”

"The reason...... will inevitably talk about the Queen Mother. Wanlan took a step back, it seemed to be a little shaky, after Chen Ji returned to China, Mrs. Chen had already made a big decision with the Xie family, she would already be a member of the Chen family! If Chen Ji was implicated because of this, she Xie Wanlan would naturally not have a good result.

Xie Daoyong ordered the maidservant to serve tea to Wanlan, and comforted her: "The queen mother is not so easy to fool, besides, Chen Ji's father has been an official for many years and has a good reputation. ”

Wanlan Liushen took a deep breath and held his mind in front of him: "What should I do now?

Xie Huaichang looked at her with some apprehension, and said to Xie Daoyong: "Why don't you ...... I'd better go by myself, I'm worried that Sister Ah won't be able to hold on. ”

"I'll go with you," Wanlan continued, "I'm just a little surprised, it's nothing, besides, his father died, and I still have to wear filial piety with him." ”

As she spoke, she stood up, put the telegram on the desk beside her, beckoned a girl to support her, and said to Xie Huaichang: "Go and call Uncle Pan, I'll change my clothes and come." ”

Xie Huaichang stood up to see her off, took her by the arm and sent her to the door, and said in a worried tone: "You didn't look right when you entered the door just now, did something happen outside?"

Wanlan didn't answer, but said in a low voice: "It's ridiculous, the country is in danger, and the prince of the royal family even used such an excuse to frame and murder the court officials," she snorted heavily in a loud voice, extremely sarcastic: "Unheard of, out of the Great Qing Dynasty." I love Daqing, but Daqing doesn't love me. ”

She had never spoken in such a tone, so Xie Huaichang became more and more sure that she must have encountered something outside, and helped her out of the threshold: "Sister, if you feel uncomfortable, just rest in the house." ”

"Yuji learned the news, I'm afraid it will be even more uncomfortable," Wanlan pushed him away and said, "I'll come here, you go and prepare the car first." ”

There were no filial piety clothes in the house, so she changed into a white dress with plain patterns, took off all the hairpin rings on her bun, and washed off her makeup. Xie Huaichang was waiting for her in front of the gate, and when she passed by, Xie Daoyong handed her a letter and a bag of broken silver, so that he could send off the soldiers who were enforcing the curfew, and admonished: "Persuade Yuji." ”

He was afraid that Chen Ji would learn that his father was dead and that he would be infected with this stigma, and he would do something irrational when he was excited, which was exactly what Wanlan was worried about. Xie Daoyong prepared twenty taels of silver for them to pass the curfew, but along the way, they didn't meet a single soldier who enforced the curfew, and some were just drunken soldiers and wealthy children who were looking for fun.

Wanlan sighed heavily in the carriage, and remembered the old pot of soup outside Dongzhi Gate, the soup had indeed not changed, but the pot containing the soup was about to break.

Lao Pan drove the carriage to Kangli Foreign Bank, but the foreign company had already closed the door, went up to knock on the door, and only one old man responded, saying that Manager Chen did not live in the foreign bank, Wanlan was anxious, and then remembered that she never knew Chen Ji's residence in Beijing.

"Go to the Japanese Embassy," she said as she struggled to squeeze her reason out of her anxious feelings, "Miko Shoda has a close relationship with the wife of the Japanese ambassador, go there and call her." ”

So Lao Pan drove the car to the embassy area again, and what was surprising was that they were strictly interrogated in the embassy area, and Wanlan and Xie Huaichang smiled bitterly at each other - this country, I'm afraid it's really ...... The gas is exhausted.

In the Japanese embassy, however, the wife of the ambassador, who had arrived in a hurry, looked at them apologetically, saying that Miko Shoda had already left for Tokyo a week earlier.

"But I can help you call her apartment," the ambassador's wife whispered, "she left an official in the apartment, and perhaps that official gentleman can know where Manager Chen lives." ”

Wanlan wasted a lot of effort to understand what she meant, and hurriedly expressed her gratitude, and the ambassador's wife personally dialed the phone, hung up after exchanging a few words, wrote an address to them in Japanese, and gestured: "The secretary is downstairs, if you can't understand it, you can go and ask him to translate." ”

Wanlan and Xie Huaichang, who had been tossing for half a night, finally knocked on Chen Ji's door with the news that Chen Zhichang, the prefect of Yueyang, had been killed, and Chen Ji, who was arguing, gave them a coat to open the door, and when they saw Wanlan, they subconsciously smiled: "Why are you here at this time?"

Wanlan smiled back and said in a calm tone: "Yuji, I want to tell you something, I just got the news." ”

"Your father, Lord Chen Zhichang Chen, offended Zailuan, the youngest son of King Qing, who went to supervise the rebellion, when he was assisting in the suppression of bandits in Hunan, and was framed for secretly communicating with the revolutionary party and was killed on the spot. ”

Chen Ji's smile froze on his face, he looked at Wanlan fixedly for a while, and then turned sideways to the side: "You guys come in first." ”

Wanlan and Xie Huaichang followed him into the door, sat down in the living room, there was a small wine cabinet on the left, displaying all kinds of foreign wine, Chen Ji poured himself a glass, raised his head and drank it all, and turned around after a minute: "Where is my mother?"

Wanlan replied, "Aunt Chen sent a servant to Zhenjiang to ask my father for help, and Huai'an has already rushed to Yueyang. She paused for a moment and said in a low voice: "The successor governor of Huguang does not dare to oppose Zailuan. ”

Chen Ji nodded, put the cup on the cabinet, turned around and walked to the inner room: "Thank you, I have to pack my luggage now and take the train to Yueyang tomorrow." ”

Wanlan said "um" and said, "I'll go with you." ”

Chen Ji and Xie Huaichang were taken aback together: "You?"

Wanlan nodded: "I'll go back to Zhenjiang." ”

Chen Ji said: "It's better not to, I don't have time to send you home." ”

Wanlan said, "I don't want you to send it." ”

Xie Huaichang looked at her with some concern, and at this time he also echoed: "Sister, if you want to go home, I can send you back, there is an emergency here in Yuji, so don't make trouble for him." ”

Wanlan relieved her mouth and said to Chen Ji: "You go and pack your luggage first." ”

Chen Ji said: "I'm sorry, I can't entertain you well when something like this happens." ”

Such a disguised eviction order made Wanlan obviously stunned for a moment, she pursed her lips, and it took dozens of seconds to react to this sentence, and nodded obediently to Chen Ji: "Then we will leave." ”

Chen Ji walked over and made a gesture of sending off guests: "I will definitely set up a banquet to make amends for my sins in the coming day." ”

Wanlan and Xie Huaichang went out together and said goodbye to Chen Ji at the door, polite and polite, cold and detached.

Just two hours ago, Chen Ji had just made an intimate move to her, and in the heart of a young lady who had grown up with the gate of a deep house, that action was as strict as rolling the hibiscus tent and losing her innocence. However, in the face of Chen Ji, who was now cold-eyed, she didn't say anything, and after saying goodbye, she left with Xie Huaichang without looking back.

"Sister ......"

"Go home and pack your bags, and I'll go with him. Wanlan was helped into the car by Xie Huaichang and said, "I'm worried that something will happen to him on the road, if he dies, I still have to watch the widow." ”

Xie Huaichang said worriedly: "What's wrong with you?"

Wanlan didn't reply, only turned her head over, lifted the curtain and looked at the deep night outside the car for a while, and when she was about to arrive at the door of Xie's mansion, Xie Huaichang heard her deep sigh, as if muttering to herself: "I don't know why, he is like this, but I am more relieved." ”

Xie Huaichang asked suspiciously, "What?"

"It's nothing," Wanlan turned her head and smiled at him: "You don't have to go back with me, after I leave, you still have to focus on schoolwork, listen to your uncle more about studying abroad, I hope you can study military or law, you don't have to prepare anything to step on two boats, Huaichang, go and know the talented people in the south." ”

Xie Huaichang said: "You are alone, I don't worry. ”

"With such a big person, can you still get lost?" Wanlan's expression between her eyebrows and eyes was heavy, and there was suddenly an undoubted majesty: "Don't worry about these little things, besides, I also brought a maidservant." ”

"Yuji won't be relieved," Xie Huaichang said, "He will definitely send you back to Zhenjiang before you can go to Yueyang with confidence." ”

"Then let him send it," Wanlan said: "Huai'an has rushed to Yueyang to assist Mrs. Chen, there is such a thing in Hunan, it is impossible for Lord Zhang Zhidong not to ask, besides, Chen Shibo is his old subordinate, this is another incident caused by King Qing's young son." ”

Xie Huaichang still didn't give up: "Then uncle, how can you convince him?"

Wanlan said, "It's not something you should worry about. ”

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Hunan Bandits: The anti-Qing armed uprisings launched by the Hui Party and miners in Pingxiang, Jiangxi, Liuyang, and Liling in Hunan, mentioned above, are the Pingliuli Uprising.

Zailuan is a fictional character, and there is no such person in history.

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