Mao Xiang was dressed in a lily robe and a hat on his head, and knocked on the gate of Zhan Yuan.

The crown princess, the officials and wives above the fourth grade in the capital have to take turns to enter the palace to mourn and cry, so in the Zhan Garden of the Duke of Wei, the male owner only has the second young master Xu Zengshou who is white.

Seeing the name card from the housekeeper, Xu Zengshou knew what Mao Xiang was visiting Zhan Yuan in the heavy rain for. He crumpled the name post, opened the window and threw it out.

The housekeeper was embarrassed and said: "Second young master, this Mao Qianhu is from the Captain's Mansion, we can't afford to offend." ”

Xu Zengshou walked silently in front of the door, clenched his fists, suddenly gritted his teeth, and slammed into the hard mahogany.

With a bang, Xu Zengshou's forehead was bloody.

The housekeeper was stunned.

Xu Zengshou covered his forehead, grinned in pain, and said: "You see, Mao Xiang and I didn't agree and fought, it was he who made the first move and broke his head, ouch, it hurt me to death." ”

The second lady Xu Miaoqing rushed over when she heard the news and bandaged the wound of the second brother with her own hands, "Why are you suffering?" The time to come will always come, this time the head hit stopped the first time, will the next time it hurt itself and cut off the leg? ”

In front of his sister, Xu Zengshou was embarrassed to cry, and said with pain: "I actually showed an attitude by doing this. Miaoyi is the grandson of the Xie family, but she is also the eldest lady of our Xu family, Mao Xiang came to ask her, no matter what the reason is, if I hand her over happily, will Mao Xiang dare to put her in prison next time to torture her to extract a confession? If our Xu family can't even protect a daughter, the first hero of the founding of the country will become a joke. ”

It is all the blood of the Xu family, and it is the same qi, Xu Miaoqing also said: "This Mao Xiang doesn't come early, he doesn't come late, he has to take advantage of his father, eldest brother and sister-in-law to come to the door when they enter the palace to cry, in fact, they just want to take advantage of the void to enter, it's too despicable." ”

Xu Zengshou said: "The pro-soldier Captain's Mansion does things by no means, and it's not a secret, don't pay attention to him, you have the ability to ask for an order to arrest someone, anyway, I won't let him in." By the way, where is Miaoyi hiding? I want her to be steady, and don't fidget when she hears Mao Xiang waiting outside in the rain. It's okay, our Xu family has come over with strong winds and waves, and I haven't seen anything. ”

Xu Miaoqing said in a low voice: "I heard that I went to the Baicaotang Pharmacy of the Five Princes. ”

Xu Zengshou frowned and said: "This is not very safe, the crown princess is doing funerals, the fifth prince has been in the palace, and he has not been to the pharmacy for the past few days, so he can't protect her." ”

Xu Miaoqing said: "Maybe everyone thinks so, the pharmacy has become a safe place. ”

Xu Miaoyi actually didn't go to the Baicaotang Pharmacy, she went to Jiming Mountain Guozijian to find Wu Zhongsi Jie Yanji of "Yang Gong's Painting".

Xu Miaoyi stole the waist card of her second brother Xu Zengshou, and also wore the unique cyan shirt of Guozijian and a black scarf.

Xu Miaoyi sent a name card and asked to see Yankee, the sacrificial wine of the Guozijian. In the study, Yankee opened the name card and saw the small note inside, the beautiful temples on his chin trembled, his hands shook, and the name card and the note fell to the ground.

Yankee picked up the note, soaked it in a water bowl, and the handwriting was blurred, and then said to the scholar, "Please come in." ”

There was a burst of thunder, and the raindrops that had just been small grew larger again, and they rushed to fall and join in a line, whipping the ground like whips. The rain splashed the corners of her clothes, Xu Miaoyi was worried, and said secretly: With such a heavy rain, the funeral of the crown princess is even more difficult, the Zongren Mansion is responsible for the funeral, and the prince Zongzheng is a widower who has just lost his wife, so the funeral falls on Zongling Zhu Di, which shows how busy he is now......

Just thinking about it, the scholar came to invite, "If you want to see you, please come with me." ”

Xu Miaoyi followed the scholar to the study, and Yankee stood by the window with his hands in his hands to watch the rain.

"You have the private seal of the county lord of Yongping in your hand, where did you come from?" Yankee asked.

Is Yankee thinking of the old love of the former lord Zhang Shicheng, or has he become a subordinate of the new lord Zhu Yuanzhang? Xu Miaoyi quickly made a judgment in her heart, and said tentatively: "Is the sacrifice wine lord ashamed in his heart? Why don't you dare look back at me? ”

Yankee sneered, "Over the years, many people have come to me to inquire about the news, all of them have come with various masks, some claim to be Zhang Shicheng's old department, some claim to be the old servants of the Yongping County Lord, and some claim to be the emperor's secret agent, what is the use of looking at a face?" The private seal on the note was engraved by my own hand and given to the lord of Yongping, and it fell into your hands, I don't know where the old master is? ”

This old fox, who always speaks calmly and modestly, can't see the attitude, Xu Miaoyi said: "It's dead." ”

It was indeed dead, and as for when she died, she deliberately kept it vague.

Yankee's eyes darkened, "It's just a woman, the emperor didn't let her go after all, and he wanted to cut the grass and eradicate the roots." ”

The meaning of these words seems to be to accuse Zhu Yuanzhang of being ruthless? Yankee sympathy for the daughter of the old lord? Xu Miaoyi didn't dare to expose her position because of this, she asked rhetorically: "It seems that Lord Sacrificial Wine knows that when the city of Suzhou was broken, the county lord of Yongping had not been martyred with the horse, but was under house arrest. ”

As soon as he heard this, Yankee's eyes began to twitch in pain, and he turned his head sharply, "That's right, back then, I begged the emperor to let go of the county lord of Yongping and keep the Zhang family's bloodline, which is my condition for surrendering." And is the county lord still dead? Who did this to you? ”

"Don't make a fool of yourself." Xu Miaoyi smiled sarcastically and said, "If you really care about her life or death, why did you take the risk of assassinating the emperor and queen on the city wall?" Caused chaos all over the city and injured innocents. Do you think that after this incident, the county lord of Yongping can continue to live? ”

Yankee shook his head again and again and said, "I'm just a civil servant, and I don't know anything about the assassination. If I had known of this, I would have tried to stop it! ”

Xu Miaoyi looked at the highly respected Wuzhong Sijie in front of him, Yanji used to be Zhang Shicheng's most trusted and respected minister, but when the city of Suzhou was broken, he immediately surrendered to Zhu Yuanzhang and became an official of the Ming Dynasty.

She is suspicious by nature, and it is impossible to believe him because of a word or two about Yankee, who has a history of "betrayal". So she decided to hide the fact that the county lord of Yongping died in childbirth and gave birth to a prince to be raised in the palace, and asked other questions and clichés.

Xu Miaoyi said: "Shen Rong has been escorted back to Beijing, when his father Shen Wanshan rebuilt the island in the middle of the lake, you were ordered by Zhang Shicheng to give him an inscription, and now Shen Rong is burning the island in the middle of the lake, what is the secret on the island?" ”

Yankee looked dazed, "West Lake Island? It was just an ordinary social event back then, and I don't remember anything special. ”

Xu Miaoyi felt that something was wrong, judging from her previous experience in investigating cases, whether it was Zhao Qianhu or Zhou Kui, the other party was a person who didn't cry when he didn't see the coffin, and Yankee seemed to be too cooperative, she wanted to torture Zhao Qianhu and Zhou Kui to extract a confession like she used to interrogate, and then destroy the corpse and destroy the traces, but Yanji is the priest of the country, it is difficult for her to succeed, and she has insufficient evidence to kill innocents.

Xu Miaoyi asked: "If there is nothing on that island, then why is the Commander's Mansion digging three feet into the ruins, what are they looking for?" ”

Yankee said, "What else can I look for?" Of course, it is Zhang Shicheng's treasure, many people have come to test me over the years, thinking that I know the whereabouts of the treasure, and even my family's ancestral grave has been dug up. Who are you? Why do you have the private seal of the lord of Yongping in your hand? Where did you learn she died? Where is she buried? ”

Yankee began to ask rhetorically, and the two men didn't trust each other. Xu Miaoyi said secretly, playing Tai Chi with this kind of old fox, I'm afraid she won't have the upper hand, and she won't be able to get around, she said vigilantly: "You are already an official of the Ming Dynasty, what do you still care about the Lord of Yongping?" ”

Just as she was thinking, Yankee suddenly took the folding fan in her hand, picked up the pen and wrote a line on the plain white fan, winked at her, made a booing motion, and handed it back to her.

Xu Miaoyi glanced at it, there was an address written on the fan, and she agreed to meet here tonight. She looked at Yankee suspiciously, but Yankee nodded, but sneered in his mouth: "This son, since you don't believe me, then please go back." ”

Yankee gave an eviction order, Xu Miaoyi was no longer reluctant, she left the Guozijian with an umbrella, and at the beginning of the shower, a beggar came out of the shelter bridge and prepared to start work.

Xu Miaoyi's eyes rolled and she hooked her fingers at him, "Do you want to change into new clothes, eat and drink enough to stay at the inn for free for one night?" ”

In the Guozi Prison, the scholar and Yankee talked, but their attitude was no longer respectful, and they asked arrogantly: "That son just now is the person designated by Mao Qianhu to be tempted, are you sure there are no flaws?" Will be hooked tonight? ”

Yankee looked down at the book, and said without raising his head: "I have been the bait of your personal soldiers and the captain's mansion all these years, this kind of thing has long been done, the address and time are given, and the bait is released, as for whether you can take the bait, you can't catch it after you take the bait, that's your business, and it has nothing to do with me." ”

The scholar sighed: "Lord Sacrificial Wine is really a handsome man who knows the times, if everyone in the world is a handsome man like you, then our pro-soldier Captain's Mansion will not have so much trouble, and we will catch thieves everywhere." ”

Yanji turned a page of the book without saying anything.

In the early morning of the next day, the sky was bright, and Mao Xiang, who was waiting in the trap, never waited for Xu Miaoyi. He had mixed feelings, he didn't know whether he was relieved or disappointed, pushed the door and walked out of the inn room, there were already early guests eating breakfast in the lobby, and a guest asked for ten meat buns to take away, and when he arrived under the bridge, Xu Miaoyi was waiting here.

"How?" Xu Miaoyi asked.

The guest distributed the meat buns to a few beggars who had just woken up, that is, the beggars who were bought by Xu Miaoyi yesterday, and said, "Childe is clever, and the person you described walked out of the room this morning." ”

Sure enough, it's Mao Xiang's trap! Visited in the open, and set a trap to induce in secret! Mao Xiang is very suspicious of her!

Xu Miaoyi was in a heavy mood, fortunately she was not in a hurry, and stabilized at the critical moment, otherwise she would fall into a trap, she would not be able to argue, and even her father would not be able to shelter her. Yankee's road can't go through for the time being, because he has become Mao Xiang's eyeliner, and if he is rashly moved, it will undoubtedly set himself on fire.

This road is not working, and she needs to find another way, Xu Miaoyi recalled Xie Zaixing's file, and she was puzzled, and she had nothing to do for a while.

Bell Block!

There were bells from afar, it was the bell of Wanshou Temple for the morning class, Xu Miaoyi's eyes lit up: I can't fight Mao Xiang's eyeliner on the bright road, and I am suppressed by him everywhere. But I still have Daoyan Zen Master and Yao Jitong on the dark road, maybe I need the help of Mingjiao. 166 Reading Network