Weng and his son-in-law had a deep talk, and before they knew it, more than half an hour had passed, and during this time, Gongsun Yuanqing had already bathed and changed his clothes, packed up and was ready to see his imperial uncle again.

As soon as he walked out of the guest room, Gongsun Yuanqing saw that Fang Yi was arranging something in the courtyard, and he quickly stepped forward and asked, "Steward Fang, I don't know where the emperor's uncle is, please lead me over." ”

Steward Fang said with a smile: "Back to Gongsun Gongzi, the marshal is talking to his uncle in Baicao Garden, please wait for Gongsun Gongzi, and then go to invite the marshal here." ”

Listening to Steward Fang's words, Gongsun Yuanqing felt really uncomfortable, but he couldn't express himself, so he could only say lightly, "Since Uncle Huangfu has something, then don't bother him, I don't know if the living mouth I brought is properly placed, this person is very cunning, and Steward Fang has to be strictly guarded." ”

Fang Yi bowed down and said with a smile: "Gongsun Gongzi, please rest assured, in Xia Province, he has already sent more people to take care of it, Gongzi has been on the road for a few days, he must be tired, it is better to go back to the room to rest for a while, and then come to invite Gongzi when the dinner is ready." ”

Gongsun Yuanqing could only agree to come down and go back to the room to rest alone. It's just that he was lying on the bed but couldn't sleep, and he was churning in his heart with thoughts that he couldn't tell, which made Gongsun Yuanqing very tormented.

I don't know how long I have been suffering, Gongsun Yuanqing heard a gentle knock on the door, he jumped up and got out of bed to open the door, only to see Fang Yi outside the room and said with a smile: "Please Gongsun Gongzi please go to Yuchengxuan for a banquet." ”

Gongsun Yuanqing thanked him, and Fang Yi led the way to Yucheng Xuan, as soon as he entered Yucheng Xuan, he saw Qi Jinghuan, who was handsome and handsome, standing in the atrium, with a slight autumn breeze blowing inky green silk, and his skin was like jade and picturesque. Even if Gongsun Yuanqing was not convinced, he had to secretly praise: What a jade man!

"Brother Yuanqing, how is it doing?" When Qi Jinghuan saw Gongsun Yuanqing coming, he immediately took a few steps forward to greet him warmly. His move made Gongsun Yuanqing feel more and more depressed, and he only bowed slightly with a straight face and said in a muffled voice: "Don't dare to be called like this by the prince." ”

Qi Jinghuan was not annoyed at all, and still said with a smile in his eyes: "Brother Yuan Qing is the son and nephew of his father-in-law, and Jinghuan should be called so." Jing Huan is specially waiting for Brother Yuan Qing here, Brother Yuan Qing is invited to come in. ”

The so-called fierce fist does not hit the laughing face, Qi Jing is so gentle and amiable, Gongsun Yuanqing has to deeply suppress the unhappiness of his stomach, and said with a reluctant smile: "Thank you Lord Wang, Lord Wang, please." ”

Qi Jinghuan responded with a smile: "Brother Yuanqing doesn't have to see the outside like this, just call me Ah Huan, Ah Ren Yongning is called so." ”

Hearing the word "Yongning" coming out of Qi Jinghuan's mouth, Gongsun Yuanqing felt more and more awkward in his heart, and only said in a muffled voice: "Yuanqing doesn't dare to make a mistake." After that, he kept silent and didn't talk to Qi Jinghuan again.

Although Qi Jinghuan didn't know that Gongsun Yuanqing and Huangfu Yongning had discussed marriage, as soon as Gongsun Yuanqing saw him, his nose was not a nose and his eyes were not eyes, and his words and demeanors were awkward, so he naturally had to think about it. Qi Jinghuan's brain is extremely bright, as long as he analyzes and analyzes carefully, he can guess seven, seven, eight or eight.

With the relationship between his father-in-law and the Gongsun family, it is normal to set the relationship between his children and daughters, but when he asked for marriage that day, his father-in-law did not mention that he had a marriage contract with the Gongsun family, so he did not take away his wife. There are hundreds of women in the family, and Huangfu Yongning is so good, there should be many people who like her. He has a deeper fate with Huangfu Yongning, otherwise he would not be able to make a white-headed alliance.

Qi Jinghuan and Gongsun Yuanqing came to the hall one after the other, and Huangfu Jingde was already sitting in the first place and greeted with a smile: "Huan'er, Yuanqing come and sit down, Yuanqing has worked hard all the way, and Uncle will pick up the wind and wash the dust for you." ”

Gongsun Yuanqing hurriedly bowed down and thanked him, and sat down with Qi Jinghuan on the left and right of Huangfu Jingde. The banquet of the Dingbei Hou Mansion has always been simple and down-to-earth, there are a total of eight dishes of meat and vegetables on the round table, and there is also a large bowl of sour bamboo shoots and chicken skin soup, there is a banquet to naturally have wine, Gongsun Yuanqing smelled it without a trace, only to feel that the wine taste is extremely bland, it must not be the pear blossom white that his imperial uncle likes to drink. Gongsun Yuanqing knew that Qi Jinghuan didn't have any alcohol, so he couldn't help but feel sour again, and said secretly: Uncle Huangfu really loves Prince Le as his own child. Otherwise, I wouldn't have thought so thoroughly.

Huangfu Jingde knew that Gongsun Yuanqing was also a good spirit, so he specially raised his glass to him and explained: "Yuanqing, you are tired and resting all day long, drink some light wine, and sleep more peacefully at night, and when you have enough spirits, Uncle will invite you to drink pear blossom white." ”

Gongsun Yuanqing hurriedly said: "Yuanqing listens to the uncle's arrangement. ”

Qi Jinghuan raised his glass and said to Gongsun Yuanqing: "Brother Yuanqing, Jinghuan has no amount of alcohol at all, so he can only use tea instead of wine to toast Brother Yuanqing, and ask Brother Yuanqing to forgive me." ”

Gongsun Yuanqing could only smile and responded: "The prince is serious, please take care of yourself." After that, he raised his glass and drank the peach blossom wine that should have been sweet, but it was extremely bitter in his mouth.

After thirty years of drinking, Huangfu Jingde and Gongsun Yuanqing's faces have not changed at all, but Qi Jinghuan, who has not touched a drop of wine, is already reddened on his cheeks, just like the first bloom of peach blossoms, looking delicate and beautiful, so good-looking that people can't take their eyes off.

Seeing that his son-in-law was not drunk by the smell of wine, Huangfu Jingde could only shake his head helplessly, scooped a bowl of sour bamboo shoots and chicken skin soup and put it in front of Qi Jinghuan, and said warmly: "Huan'er, drink some soup to sober up, it's time to go back to the palace in a while." ”

Qi Jinghuan's phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, hummed obediently, and then lowered his head and drank the sour bamboo shoot chicken skin soup in small sips, and after two sips, he looked up left and right, and then lowered his head to drink, his posture was extremely elegant. A small soup can be drunk by others in two sips, but Qi Jinghuan has enough time to drink a pillar of incense. Gongsun Yuanqing suddenly felt that Qi Jinghuan's appearance was very similar to the glass-eyed big white cat raised by his grandmother with a very noble bloodline, full of nobility and obedientness, which made people have the urge to reach out and touch it and give him smooth hair.

Drinking the sour bamboo shoots and chicken skin soup of the wine, Qi Jinghuan's brain cleared up a lot, and Tian Shou, who was standing on the side, stepped forward to remind him of the time in a whisper, Qi Jinghuan stood up and said: "Father-in-law, Brother Yuanqing, it's not too early, it's time for Jinghuan to retire." ”

Huangfu Jingde nodded and said, "Okay, Tianfu and Tianshou will serve your prince to return home." Tianfu Tianshou hurriedly bowed down, Gongsun Yuanqing stood up to express his send-off, but Huangfu Jingde smiled and waved his hand: "Yuanqing sit down, Huan'er is not an outsider, he is used to it." ”

Qi Jinghuan also said: "Brother Yuanqing, please sit down and see you another day." ”

A quarter of an hour after Qi Jinghuan left, Fang Yi came in to report that his uncle had returned to the palace safely, please rest assured that Huangfu Jingde was really relaxed and concentrated on chatting with Gongsun Yuanqing.

With this experience for most of the day, Gongsun Yuanqing finally completely understood that his imperial uncle was really very satisfied with Qi Jinghuan's son-in-law, and had completely accepted him, without the slightest pretension and reluctance. He should also be completely dead, in the future, he can only guard the distinction between son and nephew, and there can be no transgression in the slightest, only in this way can he continue to be friends with Huangfu Yongning, otherwise he will really be a stranger.

At this time, even though Gongsun Yuanqing still had an inseparable mind for Huangfu Yongning in his heart, he completely decided to let go and only return to the position of a good brother, maybe he could stay together for a lifetime.

Qi Jinghuan, who returned to Prince Le's Mansion, went to Zezhiyuan to say goodbye, and Prince Le's concubine had nothing to say to this son, who had to go to Dingbei Hou's Mansion every day. Qi Jinghuan has been getting better and better day by day since he followed his father-in-law to learn the internal strength method, his confidence in speaking is better than before, his legs and feet are more energetic than before, and the amount of food has also increased a lot, so Prince Le and Princess Le really have no reason to stop her son from not going to Dingbei Hou Mansion, although she is reluctant in her heart.

"Huan'er, why is it later than usual today? Ready for dinner? Prince Le asked with a slight frown.

Qi Jinghuan sat down next to his mother with a smile, and said softly: "My father-in-law left a meal today, and my son came back after eating." ”

Prince Le's concubine stretched out her finger and poked her son's head, and said angrily: "I know that I have dinner with my father-in-law, but I don't know how to come back to eat with my mother-in-law. ”

Qi Jinghuan stretched out his hand to hold his mother's arm, leaned his head on her shoulder, and said in a coquettish tone: "Mother, my son Ming'er is not going to his father-in-law's house, can he stay at home all day?" ”

"Really?" Prince and Princess Le exclaimed in surprise.

"Naturally, it's true, doesn't my mother believe in her son?" Qi Jinghuan's eyes widened, his lips pouted slightly, grabbed his mother's arm and shook it, not to mention the coquettish appearance, not to mention the elders who liked it, even if it was Prince Le, who had raised him for seventeen years, she couldn't bear her son's coquettishness**, and patted her son's face with a smile on her face and said, "Letter...... Letter...... Mother doesn't believe it, who else can you believe? You must be tired of practicing at your father-in-law's house, hurry back to wash and rest, Ming'er doesn't go to your father-in-law's house, you don't have to get up early, you get up every day for a while, it's really hard, Ming'er sleeps by nature, let's wake up more and we don't get up again. ”

In the past, Qi Jinghuan didn't have to practice, he slept until he woke up naturally every day, because of his poor sleep, he slept more steadily in the second half of the night every night, so he didn't start to get up until the end of the day every day, since he started to do five poultry plays, he never slept lazy, which made Prince Le, who had always pampered her son, really distressed.

"I know, mother, my son's body is many times better than before, you can rest assured. You also rest early. My son will come and have breakfast with you tomorrow morning. Qi Jinghuan responded with a smile and returned to Ruisong Garden.

Qi Jinghuan, who returned to Ruisong Garden, did not rest immediately, he ordered Tianshou to pass Liang Shu and Bai Cang, and briefly told Jiang Buren's assassination.

Bai Cang heard that someone had spent 50,000 taels of silver to hire a killer from Mingyue Tower to assassinate Jiang Buren, and it was the thread drawn by the colorful butterfly, and his eyebrows immediately twisted. "Lord Wang, please allow your subordinates to leave Beijing to hunt down the colorful butterflies."

Qi Jinghuan immediately responded: "Okay, Chief Bai Guard, what do you need, just tell Liang Changshi, he will provide you with what you need, be sure to do your best to arrest Hua Cai Butterfly back to Beijing to find out the truth, this king feels that the real murderer behind the assassination of Ah Ren is coming for this king." ”

Bai Cangying claimed that it was, Liang Shu frowned and thought a lot, and said in confusion: "The prince has never had a grudge against anyone, why would someone assassinate Jiang Xiaoshen?" And the prince's illness was not treated by Dr. Jiang Xiao alone, and Mr. Du, the palace has been very peaceful recently, and no one is watching in secret, which is really strange. ”

Qi Jinghuan said in a deep voice: "Maybe it's because Mr. Du has never gone out in the palace, and the other party doesn't dare to make waves in the capital, so he chose to attack Ah Ren who left the capital." And we have always said to the outside world that Ah Ren is the miracle doctor who healed the king's body, and we didn't mention Mr. Du much. Only a few close people knew that the two of them had joined forces to heal the king. ”

Liang Shu nodded and said: "There is also this possibility, Lord Wang, Bai Cang went to hunt down the colorful butterfly, and the minister started from the various money houses in the capital, 50,000 taels of silver is not a small amount, in order to facilitate the handover, they can only use silver tickets, and the minister will start from here, maybe he can make some gains." ”

"Okay, according to what you two say, Liang Changshi, you must be more careful when you act in the capital, and don't startle the snake."

"I understand." Liang Changshi calmly replied with three words, and it sounded that he was very confident in finding the main messenger behind the scenes from Qian Zhuang.

After talking to Liang Shu and Bai Cang, after the two of them retreated, Qi Jinghuan immediately went to Mr. Du's room and personally handed over the handwritten letter from his father-in-law, Huangfu Jingde, to Mr. Du. Mr. Du frowned for a long time before he relaxed, and he said in a deep voice: "Old man understands, the marshal will do it early tomorrow morning, please go back to the room to rest." ”

After Qi Jinghuan returned to the room, Mr. Du took up the pen and wrote a long letter, then rolled the letter into a thin strip and stuffed it into the copper pipe, tightened the copper cap and sealed it with fire paint, and then pushed open the window, took out a finger-thick eagle whistle from his arms and blew it hard, the sound of the eagle whistle was extremely sharp, and ordinary people could hardly hear it.

At about a cup of tea, a black and shiny eagle with golden eyes and claws landed lightly in front of Mr. Du's window, Mr. Du touched the head of the falcon, fed it a lingzhi grass that had been prepared for it to eat, and then tied the small copper pipe to the eagle's feet, stretched out his finger and pointed to the northwest, and the golden-eyed ink eagle immediately flew up in the air and disappeared into the night in an instant.

This Jin Qing ink eagle was specially domesticated by Mr. Du's master, that is, the ghost doctor Hua Buzhi in order to pass on the news, a total of four were domesticated at that time, Hua Buzhi and Mr. Du Lao Brother each had one, and the other two were given to Hua Buzhi's eldest apprentice Sun Buyi and the closed disciple Jiang Buren. Trained eagles do not need to be bothered by their owners on weekdays, they can forage for food and perch on their own, and if the owner needs to deliver news, they only need to blow a special eagle whistle. This golden-eyed ink eagle flies extremely fast, and it only takes two days to fly for half a month's journey. When Mr. Du's golden-eyed ink eagle flew back to the Ghost Doctor Valley, he was afraid that the Huangfu brothers and sisters had not yet arrived.