Chapter 179: The House Thief

The craftsman found in a shop for the restoration of ancient books and paintings admitted that on the afternoon of Xia Shuanghan's accident, a boy dressed as a scholar came to him with a letterhead with a record of typhoid fever and a post with a slightly scribbled and messy handwriting, asking him to integrate the two things. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 Moreover, the boy promised that he would pay him an extra pena of silver if he could do it within a moment.

It's just a pity that the craftsman didn't inquire about the identity and origin of the teenager while completing the transaction, so the clue of the post can only be broken helplessly.

As for the rice grain shop in question, according to the owner, the men who came to carry the rice bags and flour bags that afternoon claimed to have been provided for him by the family that delivered the goods to him, and after carrying the rice grains, they took their leave and left.

However, after following the owner's oral instructions to trace down the upper house of the rice grain store, the result was that they had never provided the next family with the labor to carry the rice grain, so they did not have any suspicion and further questioned the men who claimed to be the porters found by the rice grain store itself.

There are no clues to these extra hands between the upper and lower families in the rice and grain trade, but no matter what, the facts have proved that on the ninth day of the second lunar month, Xia Shuanghan did not go to look for Lu Shaoyun according to his own wishes, but was forcibly taken to the post station after being knocked unconscious.

"Who knows if those people are the helpers that Lu Shaoyun has found, so as to create the illusion that there is a mastermind behind us behind us, and then take the opportunity to leave Frost Cold in the capital?" In the warm and bright post room of the station, although Su Yixing, who had read through the small paper scroll, said so, but in his heart, he didn't think that Lu Shaoyun would really do this.

Xia Shuanghan hates others to deceive her the most, whether it is a white lie or a malicious lie, she has never accepted it, and Su Yixing knows this. Moreover, the closer the relationship is to Xia Shuanghan, the more difficult it will be to get her forgiveness after she debunks the lie, and Su Yixing also knows about this.

Therefore, in Su Yixing's opinion, Lu Shaoyun really didn't need to do such a stupid thing in order to prevent Xia Shuanghan from going to Liaodong with him, which might hurt their feelings and destroy the trust between them.

"Could it be that I really misunderstood the events of that day? Shuang Han and Lu Shaoyun, did they really do nothing? Although he felt that such an idea was a little unacceptable for a while, after looking at the small paper scroll in his hand, Su Yixing no longer felt so sad and indignant, heartache and unbearable.

"Shizi, it seems that the content of this paper scroll sent by Shizi Concubine this time is quite in line with your heart!" Standing silently on the side, watching Su Yixing's frowning brows stretch a little as he read the scroll, Li Qinglan, who had roughly deduced what was written on the scroll from his regained blood color and calm countenance, was finally able to breathe a long sigh of relief and relax his heart that had been tense in the past few days.

"Eventful!" Glancing at Li Qinglan angrily, Su Yixing, who couldn't help but smile faintly at the corner of his lips, carefully and cherished a small leather bag from his arms, and then put the paper rolls he received today and those he received a few days ago.

Looking up at the smile on his master's face, and glancing at the small pocket that he had put back into his arms, even after a few days, he could still clearly remember what was written on those small scrolls.

What "even if you have anger in your heart, remember not to bring your emotions to official business, and then interfere with your insight when handling cases", what "once I can find evidence to prove the innocence of Ting Xuan and me, I will immediately prepare and go to Liaodong to meet you", and what "Even if you have not lost your temper, where will you stay after arriving in Liaodong, you should always tell me about this?" Otherwise, when I come, I don't know where to go to meet you......

"Shizi, since you have basically believed in the innocence of the princess, should you write back to her and tell her where to find you?" Thinking of the pigeon that was cooing and eating rice grains happily in his house, Li Qinglan, who really didn't want to continue to take care of the pigeon on the journey, hurriedly hit the railway while it was hot: "The carrier pigeon is resting in my house, you reply to the letter, I can ask it to help you bring the reply back in a while." ”

"No need, I don't plan to stay in Liaodong after the case is closed, so Shuanghan doesn't need to come to me."

For so many days, Su Yixing, who responded to Xia Shuanghan's flying pigeon biography for the first time, hurriedly picked up a pen and wrote on a new small paper scroll, and said: "Since it can be concluded that someone is indeed setting a trap against the three of us, it is obviously more important to go back to Beijing as soon as possible to find out this person, so let's stop the matter of leaving Liaodong in the book!" ”

"Yes, you can make up your mind." While nodding yes, Li Qinglan, who sighed in his heart, "My God, the matter is finally over, the sky is clear after the rain", but he didn't know that when he followed Su Yixing back to the capital a month later, what he would face was not clouds and rain, but another storm.

The "sizzle" sound of paper and pen rubbing gently sounded in the room, and pondered, but just like Lu Shaoyun and Xia Shuanghan, Su Yixing, who thought that he had not provoked anyone, was in another post room across the wall, and Lu Ruhui, who did not intend to listen to the conversations of others, inadvertently took the conversations between Su Yixing and Li Qinglan into his ears in this quiet night.

"It's really a blessing to have a husband who loves him so much, and he is loyal and righteous! Whether she is marrying her brother or marrying her son, her married life like this is worthy of the envy of many women. In the quiet post house room, Lu Ruhui, who heard the sound of conversation across the wall, couldn't help but think of her own twists and turns, and then fell into deep thought.

His brother Lu Shaoyun is deeply in love with Xia Shuanghan and vows not to marry her, Lu Ruhui knows. How good Su Yixing was to his concubine after marriage, Lu Ruhui had also heard about it through rumors from all sides.

So now, compared with Lu Shaoyun and Su Yixing's deep and unswerving love for Xia Shuanghan, Lu Ruhui couldn't help but have such an idea - perhaps, being divorced before the marriage date is not entirely a bad thing, after all, a man who can easily abandon his fiancΓ©e is essentially unreliable at all, I didn't marry in the past, maybe it's a blessing in disguise?

Thinking like this in her heart, and then swept away all the unhappiness and depression in recent days, Lu Ruhui didn't know that her trip to Liaodong with her aunt really became her journey of friendship, and finally caused her lifelong infatuation and waiting.

In the early morning of February 19, Xia Shuanghan, who got up early to wash and exercise in the morning, went to the main courtyard of Xiangyang Wangfu as usual, and accompanied Xie to have breakfast together. Halfway through the meal, in order to let Xia Shuanghan see Su Yixing's reply as soon as possible, he hurriedly took the carrier pigeon that had just flown in, and hurriedly stepped into the bell in the main courtyard, and quickly took off the small paper scroll on the pigeon's paw and presented it to Xia Shuanghan.

"In this way, Zhen Chen should have believed your and Lu Gongzi's explanation, and he won't be angry with you anymore, right?" At the fragrant dinner table, Xia Shuanghan, who had seen the small paper scroll, exhaled a breath of relaxation and showed a faint smile, even if he didn't ask what the contents of the paper scroll were, Xie Shi could easily deduce what kind of reply Su Yixing had made.

"Yes, he has already believed my words and will no longer misunderstand me and Lu Tingxuan." Xia Shuanghan, who looked the paper scroll up and down twice as he spoke, to make sure that he had never missed any information, raised his head and said: "Zhe Chen said that when the Liaodong case is completed, he will return to Beijing to solve this matter with us, so the matter of staying in office will be left at that, and I don't need to rush over to make peace with him." ”

"Really? That's a good thing! Hearing what Xia Shuanghan said, Xie Shi smiled for a moment: "I was originally against you going over there, but now that you don't go, this huge mansion has finally left some popularity." Otherwise, you will never go back, and in the next few years, there will only be me and the prince at the time of the New Year, which will be too bleak and tasteless. For the New Year, there are still a lot of people, and it is better to have a few children who are noisy, so that it will be interesting. ”

"Yes, that's what you said." It's just that the person who can make this huge mansion noisy can't be me. Swallowing the latter sentence with a smile on his face, he picked up the dishes and chopsticks again to focus on Xia Shuanghan for breakfast, and once again felt a faint sense of guilt towards Xie.

After breakfast, in the usual time to deal with the affairs of the house, sitting in the flower hall, listening to the Xie family's director, while "crackling" dialing the abacus of Xia Shuanghan, after the beginning of the Ding Mao year, for the first time I saw Zhou Yaoguang, who had basically been left behind by her.

"Yaoguang sees the princess and the princess." In the flower hall where the affairs have come to an end temporarily, since the incident in the study that was stabbed by Su Yixing at the end of last year, and then basically according to Xie's request, Zhou Yaoguang, who was only obediently cowered in the guest house where he and his grandmother lived, was dismissed, and Ying Ying saluted Xie and Xia Shuanghan.

"Oh, Yaoguang, you're here?"

Raising his eyes to look at Zhou Yaoguang, who was behaving in front of him, now, more than two months have passed since that incident, Xie's feelings and attitude towards Zhou Yaoguang have recovered to the level of not liking or disliking and treating it indifferently. Therefore, in the face of her request yesterday to allow her to go to the Guanyin Temple outside the city today to offer incense, Xie did not have any reason not to agree.

"I have already arranged for someone to prepare the necessary carriages and horses for you to go out of the city, you can go leisurely and frankly, and you don't have to rush back. If you want to ask for a sign, scatter your heart or something, you can come back after Shenshi, after all, only when you are in a good mood can you look good, and if you look good, it will be convenient for me to continue to plan for your marriage after the beginning of spring. ”

"Thank you, princess, Yaoguang will definitely take what you said to heart." With a grateful smile on his face, Zhou Yaoguang, who immediately saluted Xie and Xia Shuang Hanfu, quickly turned around and walked out of the flower hall and got into the carriage heading to the Yin Temple outside the city. It's just that her attitude in the flower hall is completely different from that Zhou Yaoguang will not be grateful to her because Xie is willing to continue to worry about her marriage.

"Auntie, forgive me for one more word, Miss Zhou's marriage, in my opinion, it is better not to arrange it in the capital." In the flower hall where all the people dispersed, Xia Shuanghan, who knew how ambitious Zhou Yaoguang was in his heart, reminded him out of kindness.

"Well, do you think so? Wang Ye and I, as well as Zhen Chen, we all think the same way. For the sake of the friendship between the Zhou family and our Su family over the years, we will give Yaoguang a rich dowry, and then find a petty official who is about to be sent out to Beijing and has not yet married a wife to be her husband, which can be regarded as benevolence and righteousness. I believe that Mrs. Zhou will definitely support us in doing this. ”

"That way, it couldn't be better." Nodding approvingly, Xia Shuanghan, who thought that it was indeed the best thing to do, didn't know that Zhou Yaoguang, whom they had never owed, went out to Guanyin Temple today, not to go to incense, but to meet her Tanlang, who met at the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival.

"Jinhan, are you sure that this thing is non-toxic and harmless, and after eating it, it will definitely not have any other toxic side effects except for the signs of pregnancy?"

In the Guanyin Temple, where pilgrims are endless, on the mountain behind the Lotus Mountain, which is silent and few people, with the help of the maids he brought from the south, Zhou Yaoguang, who completely got rid of the manpower arranged for her by the Xie family, finally met her Tanlang.

After a short conversation with ambiguous words and affection, Zhou Yaoguang, who was able to properly relieve the pain of lovesickness, took a small porcelain bottle containing white medicinal powder from the hand of "Tan Lang".

Subsequently, when she learned that she needed to put the medicinal powder that was dissolved in water and showed a colorless and tasteless state into Xia Shuanghan's tea or meal three to five days before Su Yixing returned home, she couldn't help but feel a little worried and timid about the consequences of doing so.

"After eating this thing, it really won't hurt people, right? If this powder is toxic side effects, once the East Window incident happens, I will probably have to pay the price of my life if I am caught! ”

"Yaoguang, don't you believe me? How could I possibly give you something problematic and put you in doubt or danger by virtue of my friendship with you? ”

The handsome young man with his eyebrows slightly together, with a look of grievance that he couldn't help revealing after being suspected by his sweetheart, clenched Zhou Yaoguang's hand as he spoke, gently held it to his chest and covered his heart, and said, "Am I so untrustworthy that I have to take out my heart to show you that you can trust me?" (To be continued.) )