In the evening, Yan Mingde ordered Meng Liang to ask Yan Zhong to go to the study to pick up the letter. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

As a steward, Yan Zhong has a separate courtyard where the servants of the Yan Mansion live, Yan Zhong's daughter has been married, and now in this courtyard, there are Yan Zhong and his wife and their son and his wife.

Yan Zhong's daughter-in-law's surname is Li, and everyone calls her sister-in-law Li, who is a simple woman. She was originally a descendant of the Yan family, her father died on the battlefield, she was young and helpless, she stayed in the Yan Mansion, and later married Yan Zhong.

Originally, his father wanted to dismantle their husbands and wives from slavery and let them live outside, but at that time, after Yan Zhong and his daughter-in-law combined, they only wanted to stay.

Hearing the master's call, she asked strangely: "Bolt father, is the master still looking for you so late?" ”

"The master asked me to go to the border early tomorrow morning to deliver a letter from home, maybe I will send the letter to me first." Yan Zhong responded.

"Oh, then you can hurry up. I'll help you pack up your luggage for tomorrow. ”

Yan Zhong followed Meng Liang to the room on the right side of the main study, but he didn't expect Yan Lie and Yan Ning to be there.

The main room of the study is a slip of five rooms, and the middle three rooms are opened up to make a study and a book stack. The room on the left is used by Yan Mingde to meet with the staff, and the one on the right is a small study, where Yan Mingde sometimes takes official documents back to his house.

Meng Liang saw him enter the house and retreated and took the door with him.

Yan Ning saw him come in and said with a smile: "Uncle Zhong, last time you said you wanted to see me draw, I have drawn a few now, you can take a look." ”

These words were originally nothing, but now that Yan Zhong listened to them, he felt a chill in his back.

"Thank you, girl, for admiring your face and giving the slave a long insight." He smiled and stepped forward to look.

In this small study, Yan Mingde sat in the right seat, and Yan Lie stood beside him. There was a desk by the window on the left, and Yan Ning was sitting at the desk, with four or five pieces of paper spread out on the table.

Yan Zhong glanced at it, the smile on his face slowly solidified, and his face gradually turned pale.

"Uncle Zhong, do you think I painted a portrait? Look at this one, I think this one is the best. Yan Ning smiled and pointed to the second one, "Look at this person, isn't it very similar?" If you compare the portraits, you can find them out at a glance, right? ”

"Auntie...... Girl! Master! Yan Zhong turned sharply in the direction of Yan Mingde and knelt down.

Yan Mingde stood up, walked behind Yan Ning, and looked at the four paintings on the desk.

The first picture is at the door of a house, a woman covered in pearls, standing in front of the door with a smile on her face, and the back of a man is drawn in front of the woman.

The second painting is the best one that Yan Ning said he painted, the painting should be a courtyard, there are two smiling people sitting at a stone table, one of them is Yan Zhong, Yan Zhong is standing next to the beautiful woman just now, and even the cinnabar mole on the corner of the woman's mouth is very clear.

In the third painting, another man took a few silver tickets and handed them to Yan Zhong, who took them with both hands.

In the fourth picture, there is only the back of the man, and I saw the man standing at the gate of the palace, and the two royal guards at the palace gate stood in front of the man, with a smile on their faces, obviously they knew each other.

These four paintings are really ordinary, except that the people are very similar, there are no embellishments, no scenery, and even the stone table in the courtyard is very rough, but before calling Yan Zhong to come, Yan Mingde stared at this painting by himself and looked at it for at least half an hour.

"Yan Zhong, you and I grew up together, and I don't treat you well, you ...... Why are you ......? Yan Mingde was so sad that he couldn't continue to say it here.

Yan Zhong's face turned pale and lowered his head, but he didn't say a word.

"We have been in love for twenty or thirty years, you were an orphan back then, and after being sold into the Yan Mansion, you became my little servant, and then followed me to the border, to this day, I just want to ask you a clear word: Can I Yan Mingde treat you badly?"

"The master treats me very well, but the slave didn't do his duty as a slave." Yan Zhong kowtowed heavily and didn't speak again.

"You...... What benefits did the second prince give you? Do you want to turn your back on the Lord for glory? Yan Lie asked angrily.

Yan Zhong looked up in surprise when he heard the words "Second Prince", they knew who they were doing things for so quickly? "When did the master let people stalk the minions?"

Yan Zhong asked himself to be cautious and cautious, and it was impossible to show any flaws.

"Ning'er found it." Yan Mingde said, "I never doubted you. ”

"More than ten days ago, I went to my father's study to look for books. My father was not in the house that day, and there was no one in this small study, so I saw Uncle Zhong coming out of the small study, and looked around with a worried look before leaving in a hurry. I think it's strange, Uncle Zhong is the steward of the outer courtyard, but he never cares about the small study, what are you doing here? Later, I asked the people who were supposed to stay in the study that day to guard the door, and they all said that they had been called away. ”

Yan Ning paused for a moment, and then continued: "This matter is too strange, so I borrowed a few people from my father and asked them to follow Uncle Zhong." As a result, they found that Uncle Zhong actually had a mansion in Pipa Lane, and there lived a beautiful woman and two servants in that mansion. By the way, the neighbors said that the woman's husband was a merchant and that he often returned uncertainly. In that courtyard, there was often a man who entered the door, and that man was said to be the woman's maiden brother. If people don't know, unless they do it themselves, I will inquire and I will know it all. ”

"What the girl said to the green clothes today was deliberately said to the minions?" Yan Zhong was not stupid, and immediately thought of what Yan Ning and Lu Yi said outside the Hanging Flower Gate in the afternoon.

"I decided at that time, if Uncle Zhong listened to those words, but didn't tell your secret master, he would let you stay in Yuyang Pass with his wife and children, but Uncle Zhong still went to tell him, and he went very quickly." Yan Ning said regretfully.

Yan Zhong also watched their three siblings grow up since childhood, and when she was a child in Yuyang Pass, she also rode on Uncle Zhong's neck and watched lanterns in Yuyang City.

In her impression, Uncle Zhong is a very amiable person.

In his previous life, Yan Zhong betrayed the lord and helped the second prince pass the news that after he married Chu Zhaoye as the crown princess, he didn't want the meat in Yanfu's mouth to be bitten by the second prince Chu Zhaohui and catch the thief in Yanfu.

"How much did the second prince give you? So that you don't even have a conscience? Yan Lie walked up to Yan Zhong, grabbed him by the collar and asked.

"Second brother, money can't move people's hearts, but beauties are kind. A beauty who does not seek fame and follows from Yuyang Pass to the capital. Yan Ning finished slowly.

Yan Zhong's face was already as dead as ashes, but he didn't expect that he knew all this, why did he make a useless confession.

The door of the small study was pushed open with a "snap", and Sister-in-law Li rushed in, pounced on Yan Zhong, and hit her head and face: "You kill a thousand knives, why do you want to do such a thing?" How can you be worthy of the old lady? How do you let the bolt and the girl behave? ”

Yan Zhong was beaten by Sister-in-law Li and squatted on the ground, and looked up to see Meng Liang standing outside the door, and his son Yan Xuan and daughter-in-law were also standing next to him.

The son looked incredulous, and the daughter-in-law was shocked and disdainful.