Chapter 17: Two Messengers
Although Lan Haoxuan didn't understand why Qi Taihe's attitude towards Lan Xin'er was completely different from yesterday's, he saw that the atmosphere was not right, and hurriedly stepped forward to play a round:
"Uncle misunderstood Xin'er, in the past few days after Junlan's death, Xin'er has been grieving excessively, and after a few days, she has lost a lot of weight, but my uncle has just arrived, I don't know. ”
Lan Xin'er stood aside, although she couldn't see the expression on her face, but the sad aura emanating from her body could be felt by anyone.
Qi Taihe glanced at Lan Xin'er lightly, and then said lightly, "Really?"
Lan Haoxuan showed a hint of a smile, and immediately thought of Qi Taihe's words just now, and immediately became serious, and said: "It's true, if my uncle doesn't believe it, you can ask the doctor in the house to ask, and he will give Xin'er ......."
Qi Taihe didn't wait for Lan Haoxuan to finish speaking, so he interrupted him: "No need, anyway, they are all people from your Lan Mansion, how do you speak, don't you want to see your Lan Haoxuan's face?" Junlan is no longer there, whether you are sad or happy, it is all your own will, and it has nothing to do with others."
The reason why I'm sitting here now is not because I want to ask you for sin, I just want to know where my sister is! Lan Haoxuan, I'll give you three days, if after three days, there is still no news of Junlan, then don't blame me Qi Taihe for tearing his face with you, then our Qi family and your Lan family will be incompatible!"
Lan Haoxuan's face was bitter, his eyes flickering.
At this moment, a small man rushed over from outside the mourning hall, ran in breathlessly, and knelt down on one knee in front of Qi Taihe.
"Master, urgent letter from Qizhou County!"
Lan Haoxuan took a step and said busily: "Since it is an urgent letter, there must be something important, so my uncle should hurry up and take a look." ”
Qi Taihe had already taken the letter from the little servant's hand, tore open the wax seal, took out the letter paper inside, and began to look at it at a glance.
"It's too much to deceive people! This damn Jiang family is simply too deceitful!"
Before Qi Taihe had finished reading the content of the letter, he was already filled with righteous indignation, and after reading the letter, he stood up even more angrily, and after pacing back and forth in the mourning hall a few times, he seemed to have made a lot of determination.
"Lan Haoxuan, count your luck, I have an urgent matter to go back to Qizhou County now, but let me tell you, you'd better get Junlan back as soon as possible, otherwise, after I finish dealing with things, I won't let you go!"
Lan Haoxuan's heart was overjoyed, but his face still looked submissive, and he promised repeatedly: "Don't worry, uncle, if you don't confess, I will get Junlan back as soon as possible." ”
Qi Taihe warned with a cold face: "It's better to be like this!"
Lan Haoxuan respectfully sent Qi Taihe out of the Lan family.
At the same time, at the gate of Kyoto, a dilapidated ox cart pulled a thin coffin, and a thin girl supported a haggard old woman to follow the ox cart, and slowly walked from the city to the city gate.
This is a very common funeral procession in the capital, although there are fewer people, but there are not no thin people. Unless it is a special circumstance, the soldiers guarding the door will generally not check it when they see such a funeral procession, because it is too unlucky.
Ox carts and funeral maidens and old women went out of the city gate unimpeded.
Mama Ming glanced back at the city gate and asked Qi Fan in a whisper, "Shall we come out now?"
Qi Huan nodded: "Let's go forward, let's wait for my uncle in the Ten Mile Pavilion." ”
After Qi Taihe came out of the Lan family, he walked a few steps and met Feng Qi dressed as a small girl.
Feng Qi looked at Qi Taihe strangely, and asked puzzledly: "Master Qi, I haven't sent you a letter yet, why did you come out by yourself?"
Qi Taihe frowned and said, "What do you mean? You mean that you are the one who sent the letter?"
Feng Qi said: "No, isn't it me, who else can handle such a difficult task?"
Qi Taihe turned to ask the little guy behind him: "He delivered the letter, so where did you come from?"
The little maid shook his body and knelt on the ground: "Master, the little one is sent by the third master to deliver a letter to you!"
Qi Taihe was stunned, it turned out to be a real messenger!
He said that when he opened the letter just now, how could the wax seal on the envelope be so realistic, it turned out to be real!
"So, what the letter says is true?" Qi Taihe asked.
The little guy shook his head: "The little one is only responsible for delivering the letter, and he doesn't know the content of the letter." ”
This is also true, the third is the patriarch of the Qi family's generation, and he has always been cautious in doing things, how could he tell a messenger about the content of the letter.
"Did anything happen at home when you came?" Qi Taihe asked again.
The little guy thought for a moment and shook his head again.
Qi Taihe didn't expect to know more information from a little guy, and the only thing he had to do now was to hurry out of the city to meet Qi Huanming's grandmother, and then rush back to Qizhou County as quickly as possible.
"Feng Gongzi, you also saw that something really happened in Qizhou County, I have to go back quickly, we will have a meeting later!"
Qi Taihe is Qi Junlan's mother's family, and he originally had to wait until Qi Junlan was buried, if he left suddenly for no reason, it would inevitably arouse Lan Haoxuan's suspicions.
Originally, Qi Huan and Qi Taihe had discussed, but on the grounds that something important had happened in Qizhou County and he needed to rush back to Qizhou County immediately, plus Qi Junlan's body had not been found, Qi Taihe's departure in this way would not arouse Lan Haoxuan's suspicions.
But now, the fake messenger has become a real messenger, something really happened to Qizhou County, and Qi Taihe must go back quickly even if there is no matter of Qi Huan and Qi Junlan now.
Feng Qi thought: I don't care if there is a meeting with you Qi Tai or not, but the poison on Cousin Feng Wu's body will have to be cleared again after a few months.
Therefore, if Qi Huan does not come to Kyoto by then, he will definitely accompany Cousin Fengwu to Qizhou County, and he will definitely meet Qi Taihe again at that time.
"There will be a period later, Master Qi, after a while, I will go to Qizhou County to play with you!"
Feng Qi said, waved his hand at Qi Taihe, and walked away on his own.
By the time Qi Tai and Kuaima came to the Ten Mile Pavilion, Qi Huan and Mama Ming were already waiting in the Ten Mile Pavilion.
"Phantom, something really happened at home, we have to hurry back. Qi Taihe jumped off his horse and said.
Qi Huan nodded: "Since that's the case, then don't delay, let's hurry immediately!"
Mama Ming looked at the coffin on the ox cart, and her face showed a trace of confusion.
In Mama Ming's heart, Qi Junlan was all she had, and seeing Qi Junlan lying in the coffin alive, her heart was stinging.
Although she knew that Qi Junlan would not feel anything whether she was lying in the coffin or in the carriage, she still didn't want Qi Junlan to lie in something as obscure as the coffin.
Mama Ming wanted Qi Taihe to change Qi Junlan's environment to a better one, but when the words came to her lips, she looked at Qi Taihe with a worried face, and she didn't know how to speak.
However, Qi Huan saw Mama Ming's thoughts, and comforted: "Mama don't worry, when we get to the place where there is a market, let's change the carriage for my mother." ”
Mama Ming smiled gratefully at Qi Huan, and her eyes were full of tears.
This is Qi Junlan's biological daughter!