Ruyu was in a hurry, and hurriedly said, "Young Master, someone is here!" ”

Gao Zizhan's body did not move.

Ruyu bit her red lip, her chest was suffocated, and when she saw that people were getting closer, she had no choice but to stand behind the eldest young master.

"Guard Xu, this is the courtyard on fire." Gao Zecheng saw the person standing in front of the courtyard clearly, his face was not good, and he led someone around his son's side, pointing his big finger to the place where the fire was burning.

Xu Gang hugged his fists and said: "Where the responsibility is, I implore Xiang Ye Rong to take a closer look!" ”

Gao Zecheng smiled and said: "I'm going to report to the official tomorrow, it's also a good thing for you to check!" ”

Xu Gang bowed slightly, made a gesture, and five or six men in the same costume poured out behind him. Each of these people carried a lantern in their hands, and they looked around the yard inch by inch!

"Xiangye, let's go and rest, this investigation of the fire scene, there will be no gain in a few hours, just let the next person accompany you!" Xu Gang said respectfully.

Gao Zecheng thought about it, called Gao Bo, Gao Hua and the two of them to explain a few words, and just about to leave, but saw a man hurriedly walked up to Xu Gang, and said in a low voice: "Boss, I found this!" ”

A fringed red gold earring is cold and shiny under the candle flame.

……

The night was still dark, Xia slept very lightly, and when she opened her eyes in a trance, she saw a tall figure sitting silently at the head of her bed, and her face changed in fright.

Who? ”

"Don't be afraid, it's me!" A deep male voice sounded slowly.

Xia Shi eased his face, got up hurriedly, put on his clothes, and said with a confused face: "Why is the master sitting here, what happened?" ”

Gao Zecheng sighed. took off his shoes, leaned on the head of the bed, and said in a deep voice: In the fire, I found a tassel red gold earring. ”

Xia Shi was startled, and his deep eyes were full of doubt.

"A fringed red gold earring? Master, I remember Zhengyang once told me that this maid is the same as her, without pierced ears! ”

Gao Zecheng stretched his limbs, nodded solemnly, and said, "I've asked people who are familiar with her." This girl...... There really are no ear piercings. ”

"Sir. So......" Xia muttered and didn't continue.

Gao Zecheng frowned, pulled the woman's hand and put it in his palm, and gently swayed.

"Do you know whose earrings belong to?"

"Red gold tassel earrings are not available to ordinary people. Could it be that the master of which courtyard is it? Xia's heart tightened. Dense sweat oozed from his hands.

Gao Zecheng sighed secretly: "I thought the same way. I know it's just wrong. ”

"Wrong. So whose earrings are they? ”

"These earrings were originally from the second girl, and they were awarded to the personal maid Shanxiu a year ago."

"Yamahide?" Xia's face was suspicious.

"Exactly. And this maid disappeared an hour ago! Gao Zecheng's eyes suddenly burst out with a sharp cold light.

"Sir. What the hell is going on? Xia Shi trembled and exclaimed.

Gao Zecheng tightened his hand and signaled her to feel at ease.

Xia Shi seemed to think of something, and hurriedly said: "The master just hurried to the front yard, could it be that Gao Hua is back?" ”

Gao Zecheng nodded and said, "I was about to talk to you about this." There is indeed such a family in Nalinjia Village, and there is indeed such a father and daughter. It is true that my father died of illness four years ago. However, this maid is not alone, there is also an elder brother called Lin Bei, and a sister called Lin Nan, who opened a shop in the capital. ”

"What shop?" Xia said in a panic.

Gao Zecheng sighed slightly: "I only know that people are in the capital, and I can't find out what I do to make a living." And besides us, there are people who are asking about this maid. ”

"Who?"

Gao Zecheng whispered a few times in the woman's ear.

Xia Yinrou's heart beat a few beats faster, and she was shocked and said, "Master, this maid can't really be a spy from other countries, right?" Otherwise, how could the Praetorian Guards be inquiring about her! ”

"I can't inquire, I can't hide it to death, and I don't leak any words."

Horror flashed in Xia Yinrou's eyes, and it disappeared in an instant like a meteor.

Gao Zecheng didn't notice it, yawned, patted Xia Yinrou's hand, and said tiredly: "I haven't slept for most of the night, and I've drunk some wine, this will give me a headache, let me squint for a while." I'll talk about this matter with the old lady when I wake up! ”

"Those Ahead ......"

"Don't worry, with Gao Bo with you, it's okay!" Gao Zecheng finished speaking in a low voice, tilted his head, and snoring gradually rose.

……

Xia Yinrou listened to the snoring, and her heart swelled with unease.

She slowly moved out of bed, poured a cup of warm tea, drank it all, and quietly went to the outer room.

"Zhengyang, that's the way it is, let's see if it's ......" Xia Yinrou said worriedly.

Zhengyang took the coat, put it on carefully for his wife, and said in a low voice: "Madame, don't worry, this matter should have nothing to do with us. ”

"Then why are even the people in the palace inquiring about her?" Xia Shi stroked his slightly pale face and said lightly.

"If Madame is not at ease, I will probe forward for Madame?" Zhengyang floated a ghostly smile.

"This ......"

Xia Shi pondered for a long time, grabbed Zhengyang's hand, shook his head and said, "Don't go, there are so many Praetorian Guards in front, they must all be good, in case...... I'm not at ease. ”

"If Madame won't let me go, I won't go."

Zhengyang held Xia's hand with his backhand, and thought for a while: "This maid came to the mansion four years ago, and at that time, Mrs. was still hiding from the world in that courtyard, and Madame is at ease with this alone." ”

Xia Shi felt the endless warmth in Zhengyang's hands, his heart slowly relaxed, and he nodded silently.

……

In the morning and evening, the first light slowly rises from the horizon.

On the official road twenty miles away from the capital, a four-horse carriage galloped forward, followed by dozens of horsemen. The sound of horses' hooves passed, raising clouds of dust.

The carriage will enter the city gate, and the man at the head whistles lightly, and the team of dozens of people riding is scattered like birds, scattering in all directions, and disappearing in a moment.

The only troika was left, quietly slowing down and driving into the city. After a hundred meters of the city gate, he galloped again.

……

"Queen Mother, Queen Mother!"

Chunyang whispered.

Empress Dowager Li opened her eyes blankly and said in a daze: "So early, what's the matter?" ”

"Back to the Queen Mother, the Marquis of Xiaoyao is back, and he is waiting outside!"

"It's back!"

Empress Dowager Li woke up in an instant and said busily: "Help me up and wash for me!" ”

After half a cup of tea, Empress Dowager Li sat on top with her hair untidy. Looking at the old complexion on the ground. Li Yingjie, who had a dusty face, had a slight wave in his eyes.

"Master Hou has worked hard, get up and talk back!"

"Empress Dowager Xie!"

Li Yingjie's slightly chubby body struggled to get up from the ground. After days of running, his old bones had long since fallen apart. If it weren't for holding on to it. I'm afraid I'm going to fall ill on the way.

Chunyang served tea to the two. The shrouded door exited.

"Tell me, what's going on?" Empress Dowager Li waited for no one else in the palace, and her expression was slightly anxious.

Li Yingjie took a breath and said, "The Queen Mother is a little restless. Let me take a sip of tea and catch my breath. This night went straight for hundreds of miles, and the minister's throat was so dry that it was smoking! ”

After that, he didn't wait for the Queen Mother to respond, picked up the tea and drank it, regardless of the tea in the mouth, it was so hot that his heart burned.

Empress Dowager Li sighed deeply in her eyes: "Hou Ye is not young, originally this matter should not be worked Hou Ye, but around the mourning family, except for Hou Ye, no one can be trusted." ”

Li Yingjie's face was solemn, and he said awe-inspiringly: "Why did the Queen Mother say this? The ministers can have today, all thanks to the Queen Mother. Not to mention that this matter is a matter of importance, it is an ordinary trivial matter, and the minister is also willing to serve the queen mother. ”

Empress Dowager Li frowned, and there seemed to be appreciation in her eyes.

Li Yingjie breathed a sigh of relief, put the teacup on the table, and said, "Yao Qing and his wife, the Queen Mother has seen you?" ”

"See. The world is cunning, treacherous and cunning, and wants to hide the mourning family! ”

When Empress Dowager Li thought of Yao Qing's face, she was angry: "Are you sure that Yao Qing and his wife adopted the child!" ”

"The minister is confirmed, the queen mother, please see!"

Li Yingjie took out a blackened brocade cloth from his sleeve, got up and handed it to Empress Dowager Li.

"This is what I found from the cage of the Yao family's daughter-in-law, this cloth has been used as the belly pocket of their grandson, I am afraid that they have forgotten about this matter."

When Empress Dowager Li saw it, tears burst out of the frame, and her hand was holding the words on the brocade cloth, and she choked up: "I embroidered this word myself." From the female to the Yan, I was afraid that others would know, so I embroidered the word from one and the other with the female character in the two corners of this swaddling baby. I deliberately embroidered the word "human" farther away, and it looked like two characters. “

Empress Dowager Li raised her eyes lightly with tears.

"That's right, half a point is right!"

Li Yingjie said in a deep voice: "In addition, the woman said that there is a birthmark the size of a fingernail on the child's left forearm, and there is a small flesh mole behind the right earlobe, the minister is sure that this child must be ......."

"Where is this child now, can you find it?" Empress Dowager Li suddenly became pale, and before he could finish speaking, she asked with teary eyes.

"Don't worry, the Queen Mother, listen to the ministers slowly and listen to the Queen Mother!"

Li Yingjie moved the tea by himself, put it on the table, and coughed lightly: "After the minister found Yao Qing and his wife, he checked it overnight and inquired from house to house. This Yao Qing is really a Diao people, and he has been talking about him several times, and the ministers have used some means. With the wisdom of the Queen Mother, this person must have spit out the truth! ”

Empress Dowager Li's eyes had a complicated look, and she sneered: "How can the mourning family be deceived by him!" ”

Li Yingjie's face sank: "The Queen Mother doesn't know, the couple is also hiding a big thing!" ”

"What's the matter?" Empress Dowager Li's heart jumped.

"This kid ran away from home, it's not just the reason why Yao Qing has a lustful heart."

"What else?"

"Queen Mother, you think, if the phoenix is not a sycamore, how can ordinary people let her rest for a long time?"

Li Yingjie said with pain in his eyes: "Although this child is coarse and coarse, it is difficult to hide his immortal jade posture, and he is favored by the master of a large local family and wants to be accepted as a concubine." Yao Qing and his wife were greedy for silver, and even the day had been chosen, waiting to send someone through the door. The child has just turned fourteen, and the old man is nearly fifty years old, how is it different from the fire kang? The child has a lot of heart, and when he is desperate, he runs away from home! ”

Empress Dowager Li clenched her teeth tightly, and a cold light flashed under her eyes, setting off a monstrous anger. (To be continued......)

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