"Come in." He said.

"Commander, early. Brigade Commander Xiao and Staff Officer Cen came. Li Dalong pushed open the door and asked Dunhuang and Cen Gaoying to be advanced.

Tao Xiang saw the three of them line up and salute, nodded, and said, "Wait a minute." ”

He hugged Nan Nan and walked to the door of the study and handed her to Zhang's mother.

"Uncle Guang, I will send someone to Shichuan to pick up the old lady back. The guards in the house have also strengthened their vigilance in the past few days. Things may not pass so quickly. He confessed to Da.

"Understood, Seventh Young Master. This matter has not yet been reported to his wife and the eldest young master, is it ......" Ha Deguang looked at Tao Xiang.

Tao Xiang pondered for a moment and said, "Speak to them gently." He"

"Yes. I'll go. After speaking, Hadeguang bowed and hurried away.

Zhang's mother originally wanted to remind Tao Xiang again, but seeing that he had something important to deal with, she had to take Nan Nan away first.

Tao Xiang went back to the study, looked at Dunhuang and the others, and said, "Say it." ”

Li Dalong went out and stood guard outside the door of the study, Cen Gaoying took out his wallet, reported the records on it to Tao Xiang one by one, and handed him the relevant telegrams as he spoke. Dunhuang didn't stand there and listen in a regular way. He lit a cigarette, paced to the window, and listened to Cen Gaoying say, "...... The news came from Shanghai last night, and it is not different from what we knew before. In addition to the accusations of persecution and secret executions of the 61 main figures and student leaders, it is the Northwest Army that has been running out of local tax revenues in recent years, causing local governments to be unable to make ends meet. The list of the 61 leaders and student leaders who were killed is very clear, and they are all here...... There are also specific figures on tax misappropriation and shortfall of fiscal revenue. In addition, they accuse you of being too close to foreign envoys, signing secret agreements with them for the benefit of one family and buying arms on a large scale......"

Cen Gaoying said this, paused, and looked at Tao Xiao who was sitting behind the desk with his arms crossed.

Tao Xiang closed his eyes slightly and said, "Go on." ”

"Since the early hours of the morning, some of the students who got the news have been preparing. Hundreds of people gathered this morning to distribute leaflets around the city. The people of the city were called upon to take to the streets to demonstrate and petition the provincial chairman. Here's the flyer...... They demanded that Chairman Pu check the tax and stop the persecution of 61 people and student leaders. It is impossible to judge the scale of the march at this time. What is certain, however, is that armed men will be involved. I'm afraid that when the time comes, they will take the opportunity to cause chaos. Cen Gaoying said.

Tao Xiang nodded and asked, "Provincial, what do you think?" ”

"What do you mean by Chairman Pu?" Xiao Dunhuang leaned against the window and asked.

"Get the situation under control as soon as possible." Tao Xiang said.

Xiao Dunhuang said: "It is expected. Commander Tao, what about you? ”

"It's easy to just control the situation. All deployments are complete, just a command is all it takes. But I think some people want to see a mess here. After Tao Xiang finished speaking, he instructed Cen Gaoying to issue a notice, and after half an hour, an emergency meeting was held at the headquarters. Cen Gaoying was ordered to leave, and he said: "The mouth of the people is more important than the defense of Sichuan." Why not? The debts owed by the Northwest Army have long been paid off. I'm worried that people don't know. ”

Xiao Dunhuang was stunned for a moment, and only after a while did he say, "I have a question, Muzhi." ”

Tao Xiang nodded.

"Is this incident related to Jingyi?" Xiao Dunhuang asked.

"Why do you ask?" Tao Xiang asked rhetorically.

"That list, if I'm not mistaken, should have been provided by Dai Mengyuan. Only a few people have access to this list. It's not surprising that Jingyi has one in her hand. But this leak actually appeared in this list, I can only make this guess. Xiao Dunhuang looked at Tao Xiang. He had mixed feelings, hoping that Tao Xiang would answer, but also worried that Tao Xiang's answer would confirm his speculation.

Tao Xiang did not answer his question, but said: "It is easy to make this accusation untenable." ”

"Just prove that the people on the list are alive. For example, Dai Mengyuan. Xiao Dunhuang said, "But if this is the case, even if you quell this incident, you will also hand Nanjing a handle - this is clearly the yang and the yin, how to say the past?" You're a soldier, that's a bandit - this hand is really ruthless. No matter what you do, you can't escape. But I don't understand, Jingyi, why? ”

Xiao Dunhuang said that he didn't understand, and his face became ugly.

Tao Xiang got up and said, "Let's go, let's have a meeting right away." ”

Seeing that Tao Xiang didn't answer him, he was a little impatient, walked over, extinguished his cigarette, and said, "I don't believe that Jingyi would do such a ruthless and unrighteous thing. Even if there is something, it must be a misunderstanding......"

Gao Ying will star. The information will be compiled in a timely manner. You don't have to worry. Tao Xiang looked in the mirror and sorted out his military appearance. His tone was flat and calm, as if unaffected by the incident at all.

The car full of words that Deng Dunhuang was about to say, when he saw Tao Xiang like this, he swallowed them all back.

He thought for a while and said, "It's time to move Meng Dong'er, right?" Keeping her mine, of course, is to dig it out at the most opportune time. ”

Tao Xiang turned around, "Save yourself, I'm going to trouble you with one thing." ”

"What's the matter?" Xiao Dunhuang asked.

"Send Jingyi out of Lanzhou safely." Tao Xiang said.

Dunhuang's eyes widened.

After watching Tao Xiang finish speaking, he calmly walked to the door of the study, and then shouted: "What did you say?" ”

……

Jingyi came up to pick her up the sedan chair when she got out of Langyuan, and Liu put the sedan curtain on her, and told the sedan chair man to get up the sedan chair.

After a while, Jingyi realized that the direction in which the sedan chair was going was not Yanxi Hall. The wind blew the curtains, and she looked through the cracks at the monotonous patterns on the gray brick walls outside. This road was not unfamiliar to Jingyi, and the more she walked, her somewhat apprehensive heart calmed down...... When the sedan chair stopped, you didn't have to look closely, you already knew that the place where the green was in the gloomy eyes was the Shadow Bamboo Garden.

"Seventh young grandmother, please wait." Liu went ahead and knocked on the bamboo door.

Moments later, the courtyard door opened.

Jingyi saw the white woman who came to open the door. I haven't seen her for more than a year, and the white woman seems to be getting older again. Mrs. Bai opened the door and called Grandma Qi, and when Jingyi entered the door, she stopped Liu outside. Jingyi walked along the path into the bamboo forest, and when she turned back, she was gone. The bamboo forest is deep and dense, although it is daytime, the dense bamboo leaves cover the sky and the sun, and the breeze through the bamboo forest carries gusts of cold. Jing Yi felt creepy at this point. She quickened her pace, and before she could get out of the bamboo forest, she saw Madame Tao sitting at the stone table, waiting for her.

Jing Yi forced herself to calm down and walked in front of Mrs. Tao.

"Mother." She shouted.

Mrs. Tao, dressed in black, looked even more stern than usual.

She asked, "What is this place, you should know?" ”

Jingyi nodded silently.

Mrs. Tao looked at Jingyi intently and said, "Since I know, I don't need to talk to you too much. Jingyi, you are so bold. Dare to get rid of the Tao family's bloodline privately, how ruthless you must be! ”

Jing Yi's face turned pale.

She didn't say a word, and Mrs. Tao was even more annoyed.

"That's also the child of Lao Qi, you can bear it! And keep me in the dark, don't I know what kind of character he has, and what kind of character you have? ”

Mrs. Tao paused. She is also trying her best to calm down and not lose her temper in front of Jingyi.

But by this time she was furious.

"From the moment you entered, I had high hopes for you. You've done the same thing, and I'm really disappointed. I hope you can watch the old lady and the old man value you, and the seventh will treat you like that, and one day you will be able to understand and teach your husband and children with peace of mind. That only you have intensified, and the things you did in the past have hurt the bloodline of the Tao family...... How can you be worthy of an old lady? How can you be worthy of your aunt and grandmother? Which of them doesn't treat you like an eye ache? You are so ruthless, just to divorce the seventh child? Mrs. Tao said coldly and asked one sentence at a time.

"Mother......" Jing Yi said in a slumber voice.

"Don't call me mother. You don't have that qualification. Mrs. Tao immediately interrupted her.

Jing Yi stopped.

"What will happen next, you don't care, you have to listen to the seventh. But if the old seven places are not appropriate, I can't approve of it. Even if the old lady knows, she can't tolerate your presumptuousness! Your departure from the seventh is not a bad thing for the seventh. But if you do such a cruel thing, you have to try the Tao family's family law first. Mrs. Tao took two steps forward and looked at the fine house outside the bamboo forest, "It's clean here, you should think about what you're doing...... As for Nannan, if you want to see her again, you have to ask yourself if you are qualified to be her mother! ”

"Mother!" Jing Yi's face changed.

Mrs. Tao turned to stare at her and said, "I have seen that you are by no means a good match for Lao Qi, I only regret that I couldn't stop this marriage that day, but it was because of Lao Qi's temperament." If I repeat the same mistakes today, who am I worth? If there is anything wrong with him, I am sorry for his mother's deathbed, and I am sorry for my decades of hard work...... You are neither a good wife, nor a good mother, and keeping you in the Tao family and by Lao Qi's side is a disaster after all. Thinking that you are the biological mother of Nannan, I don't want to embarrass you. Away from here, the sea and the sky are wide outside. With your heart and wisdom, you will surely achieve infinite things in the future. In time, you will get what you want. Then you don't have to worry about staying in the Tao family. I am her grandmother, and I will not treat her badly. Lao Qi will not treat his own flesh and blood badly. ”

"Are you going to tell me in the future, I'm ...... Her mom is dead? Jingyi asked.

Mrs. Tao looked at Jingyi for a while, but did not answer her.

"Madam, Miss Ke has an urgent matter to see Mrs. The white woman appeared quietly, followed by Ke'er.

Ke'er came over and whispered in Mrs. Tao's ear, "Madame, go back quickly." ”

Mrs. Tao was obviously surprised by what Ke'er had reported.

Jing Yi vaguely heard the words "old lady" and "seventh young master", Ke'er's face was anxious, she intuitively felt that something was wrong, and she stayed there unconsciously. It was also unusual to think that Ha Deguang was waiting to see Tao Xiang early in the morning...... She was in a hurry, and her heart was pounding fast.

Mrs. Tao looked at Jingyi, said to Mrs. Bai, "Take good care of the seventh young grandmother", and walked away.

Jingyi watched Mrs. Tao's figure pass through the bamboo forest, gradually drifting away, and woke up suddenly, and when she was about to catch up, the courtyard gate was already tightly locked.

She stood in the bamboo forest as if she was stunned, not worried about her own situation, but about the cold eyes of Mrs. Tao when she left, as if she was a heinous person......

"Seventh young grandmother, rest in the house." Bai Pozi followed behind Jingyi like a shadow, and only then did she speak.

She looked at the white woman and nodded.

The white woman led her inside. It seems that she has been prepared for a long time, and in the room that the white woman opened for her, a brazier was placed. Jing Yi entered, still looking at the humble room, and the door closed behind her.

Jing Yi felt weak and his chest was stuffy, so he had to sit on the cold bench.

She seemed to hear people crying, and she could also speak, low, and when she wanted to listen, she was gone.

She couldn't help but feel even colder. At this time, she was also a little confused, and she didn't know how to be afraid, and she couldn't imagine that anyone else could come to rescue her from here at this time...... She didn't know how long she had been sitting here, but she knew that the white lady had come in to deliver food. She didn't eat. When it was dark, the white woman came in again and lit a candle for her. The white woman didn't talk to her, but only put the food she brought in front of her. Jingyi looked at the food and had no appetite. She sat silently...... The brazier in the house was burning, and the charcoal was red and vigorous, but it couldn't warm the body. She got up and walked out of the room and walked to the door of the room. There was no one around, and she looked in through the window. The curtains were hidden so that you couldn't see inside. She was about to leave, when suddenly the curtain was half lifted, and a face appeared behind the window. Jingyi took a step back in fright, and as soon as she turned around to leave, she saw Bai Pozi standing behind her, her heart was beating and she couldn't move for a while.

The white lady said: "Seventh young grandmother, let's go back to her room." ”

Jingyi wanted to see the faces in the window again, but her legs and feet were trembling. She finally turned her head and saw that the curtains had been closed. She couldn't move when she stood still, and when she heard the sound again, her whole body trembled, and she almost screamed, and she turned around to run, but was stopped.

She saw the shiny badge on the visitor's chest, and screamed and was forced back.