Chapter 39: Silent Thunder (4)
Xue Peiqi was awarded the post of Dali Temple after his meritorious service in Haizhou, and has now been promoted to the Shaoqing of Dali Temple and the deputy prefect of Dali Temple. This incident made a gap in Dali Temple, which was under the overall control of King Xi, and flowed into a lot of King Xu's people, Dali Temple is no longer the world of King Xi alone, and King Xu also controls some of its affairs. Therefore, Ye Qinyu suspected that Xue Chunyue's pardon was rejected several times, and it was not unrelated to King Xu.
In fact, it is true that King Xu has already excluded Xue Chunyue from the camp and strictly guarded against him, especially now that his Xi Hexing is doing well on the outlying islands, and his wealth is powerful, and he is even more strictly guarded against him, so as not to completely fall into the camp of King Xi after his return and strengthen his power, so he has repeatedly and twice prevented Xue Chunyue from entering the pardon list drawn up by the Criminal Department.
Wei Yingshi's appearance gave Ye Qinyu a glimmer of life. With Wei Yingshi's current status, if he was willing to help her, then King Xu probably couldn't stop it.
In the spring of Meng, Wei Yingshi invited Changxing and Luo'an to a banquet in the Hubu Shangshu Mansion, and prepared to hold a small-scale housewarming banquet. King Jing was not invited, Ye Cizhun was nowhere to be seen, Ye Qinyu couldn't, so he had to come alone, and visited Wei Yingshi as the orphan of Ye Cikai, the former household servant and the assassin of Shuzhou, Guannan Province. The Guannan Province and the Household Department that Wei Yingshi was in charge of at the time all coincided with Ye Cikai's career experience, but the two had different times and may not know each other, but at least they should have heard of it.
No matter how you calculate it, Ye Cikai can be regarded as Wei Yingshi's old age.
Wei Yingshi was very surprised when he saw Ye Qinyu's visit, and he didn't want the orphan of Ye Cikai, the assassin of Shuzhou, who had several faces, to come to visit. Although Guannan Dao is far away from Changxing, he has also heard a little about the Xue family and the Ye family, and Ye Cikai has made outstanding achievements in Hubu and Shuzhou, and has won the hearts of the people, so although he has not met with Ye Qinyu, he already knows this person in his heart. This time Ye Qinyu came, and he specially took his eldest son Wei Shaoqing out to greet him.
Unexpectedly, when they met for the first time, Wei Shaoqing became a little familiar with Ye Qinyu. He also felt strange, but he was almost certain that he had not met Ye Qinyu before. may be because of this sense of familiarity for unknown reasons, Wei Shaoqing is very enthusiastic about her, and leads her all the way to the backyard, planning to introduce her to the female dependents.
Ye Qinyu was thinking about how to ask Wei Yingshi for Xue Chunyue, but he was absent-minded, and felt a little uncomfortable with Wei Shaoqing's slightly excessive enthusiasm, so he pretended to avoid it several times.
When walking through a slightly narrow gravel road, Ye Qinyu couldn't avoid it and almost hit Wei Shaoqing's arms, she was startled and leaned back. Seeing that he was about to fall, Wei Shaoqing pulled her with agility, and Ye Qinyu's left hand, which had been raised, was grabbed by him!
The little finger of his left hand was exposed in front of Wei Shaoqing without any cover......
Wei Shaoqing joined the army as a young man and had seen many scars, needless to say, he also understood what this delicate finger sleeve was covering, and suddenly he knew that he was abrupt, and he felt a little embarrassed for a while, so he had to apologize again and again.
Ye Qinyu couldn't imagine that the defect he cared about the most was exposed in front of a strange man like this, his face suddenly turned pale, and he hurriedly put his left hand up and lowered his head to move forward.
But Wei Shaoqing didn't follow, and after a while, when Ye Qinyu looked back, he saw him staying where he was, motionless.
"Wei Gongzi?"
She called softly, worried that her reaction had startled him. After all, when you first meet each other, you can't always give people the impression of rejecting people.
Wei Shaoqing walked over a little blankly, and walked up to her, his mouth opened but he didn't make a sound, and after a while, he asked blankly, "Xiaoyu...... Is that you......"
Ye Qinyu raised his head suddenly, looking at the person in front of him in disbelief!
Xiaoyu ...... This is the title that only one person in the whole world would call her that!
"Brother Wei?!"
Ye Qinyu's eyes widened and he looked at Wei Shaoqing in disbelief. At the beginning, an important purpose of begging Liu Yi to take her to Luo'an was to find Luo'an's Wei family, but there was no trace, why did he suddenly appear now, and it was Wei Shaoqing from Guannan Province......
Wei Shaoqing slowly took her left hand and clenched it slightly in grief, if he could have taken her away earlier, she would not have been hurt like this!
"Xiaoyu, you have suffered......"
"Brother Wei, Wei Shaoqing...... You...... What's going on?! ”
The little brother who rescued her from the thief cave when she was a child is really the person in front of her?!
In that dark dungeon, it was not only Ye Qinyu who was imprisoned, but also many rich children who were kidnapped by thieves, including Wei Shaoqing, who went out to play and got separated from his servants, and was taken away by thieves. Everyone was imprisoned together, Ye Qinyu was frightened and kept huddled in the corner shivering, Wei Shaoqing was a few years older than her, and when she saw that she was pitiful, she was always by her side to take care of her. The Wei family has a slight reputation in Luo'an, but Wei Shaoqing is young but very alert, and he did not tell his true identity, but just made up nonsense that he was from Shuzhou, and he was doing business with his family, but he was only temporarily living in Luo'an.
When the thief asked for ransom, he gave the thief the address of a certain firm of the Wei family, and asked him to use his personal token as a certificate to find the shopkeeper Wei to extract the ransom, so everyone thought that Wei Shaoqing was the young master of the Wei family. A few days later, the thieves received a ransom of 2,000 taels of silver, and then prepared to let him go.
But Ye Qinyu was not so lucky, the guards of Jingwangfu were not as alert as Wei Shaoqing, who was about ten years old, and naively thought that showing the identity of Jingwangfu could deter the other party, but it was unexpectedly that those who fell into the grass were not killed, and after Ye Qinyu's identity was revealed, they were regarded as a cash cow, and asked for 30,000 taels from Jingwangfu, and asked the government to pardon all their previous crimes, and prepare a boat to send them away.
At that time, it was the second year of Hongyuan, and when Emperor Hongyuan first ascended the throne, it was the time to establish his prestige. With an order, the thief cave was surrounded and impassable, and it was about to level the cottage.
Wei Shaoqing witnessed Ye Qinyu being cut off half of his little finger and fainted, and he was greatly frightened at the moment. When General Yuan attacked the mountain, the thieves were preparing to take Ye Qinyu as a hostage, in the chaos, Wei Shaoqing did not escape alone, but took advantage of the chaos to carry Ye Qinyu and fled together, and finally escaped from the cottage but found that the enemy and us were fighting, Wei Shaoqing carried the dying Ye Qinyu on his back, frightened and frightened, and could only hide in the depths of the mountains and forests.
Ye Qinyu's wound was cracked, the blood did not stop, and he had fainted to death while lying in the cave. Wei Shaoqing then plucked up the courage to go out to find someone to rescue, but it was dark and dense, and he was still a child, so he accidentally got lost, and when the Wei family's guards went up the mountain to find him the next day, he had a chance to find the cave, but Ye Qinyu was gone. He blamed himself and felt sad for a while, thinking that Ye Qinyu was taken away by the beasts in the mountains, and blamed himself for not protecting her.
Ye Qinyu was also surprised and happy to meet Wei Shaoqing again, Brother Wei, who gave her warmth and help in the thief's dungeon in her childhood, and also took him to escape, has always been the most respected benefactor in her heart. When she grew up, she finally begged Princess Jing and Liu Yi for their consent and took her back to Luo'an to find her brother of the Wei family, but there was no clue, she thought that she would never have the opportunity to thank him in person in this life, but she didn't expect that the two were destined to meet again after 16 years.
The two of them were so excited that they burst into tears, and just as they were about to elaborate, the descendants of the Wei family had already trotted all the way over to report to Wei Shaoqing, saying that Ye Cizhun of Taifu Temple had arrived, and Wei Ying asked him to take a seat, and the banquet was about to start. Ye Qinyu didn't expect that Ye Cizhun would also be here, three days ago he sent someone to report that he had not set foot in the realm of Changxing, and he didn't expect that in order to catch up with the Wei family's family banquet, he would hurry up and hurry up on the starry night, could it be that he also asked Wei Yingshi?
The banquet was about to start, Wei Shaoqing took Ye Qinyu into the lobby without saying anything, arranged for her to sit next to her, and planned to take her to meet Wei Ying after the banquet, and look back on the past in detail.
Wei Yingshi saw Wei Shaoqing take Ye Qinyu, who had just met, to sit down together, and thought that the two were destined, and they surrendered like this as soon as they met, thinking that this son should not think that the girl he met more than ten years ago refused to get married, and he was suddenly a little happy.
Ye Cizhun was also very surprised to see Ye Qinyu, thinking that he had just rushed back to Changxing, and he hadn't had time to tell her, so she shouldn't have come to find her, and saw her sitting with Wei Shaoqing, the two were very familiar, and they were even more suspicious, and they wanted to come forward to ask. At this time, Mrs. Wei suddenly walked out of the back hall slowly, greeted everyone, everyone got up to salute, he could only put Ye Qinyu down first, and let everyone get up and bow their hands.
After the ceremony was over, Ye Cizhun's heart tightened, and the Taoist who followed behind Mrs. Wei was Su Yuming!
Su Yuming plucked up his courage and looked up at Ye Cizhun's position, seeing that although he was slightly surprised, his expression quickly returned to calm, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart, nearly three years of bitter lovesickness, only in exchange for his light breeze, it turned out that he had let go of their past......
Mrs. Wei prepared a table of food for Su Yuming, but she only moved her chopsticks politely, and then got up and left the table. Wei Yingshi and his wife can also understand, after all, there is wine and meat at the banquet, and the monks are not comfortable after all, so they let Wei Shaoqing send her away.
Seeing Su Yuming Ye Qinyu was also a little surprised, but seeing that she was about to leave, he kept giving Ye Cizhun a look and asked him to leave the table to meet her, but Ye Cizhun ignored it and still drank and had fun by himself. It wasn't until the third tour of wine that the guests and hosts were enjoying themselves, and Ye Cizhun said goodbye to the follow-up juggling and entertainment on the grounds of drunkenness and discomfort, and staggered away.
Ye Qinyu is a smart person, after listening to Wei Yingshi's words with everyone at the banquet, he understood a truth, although the Wei family father and son have been stationed in Guannan for a long time, and they have just come to Changxing, but they are well aware of the dispute between King Xu and King Xi, and with his many years of experience in the political arena, he will never get involved in the court political dispute for a Xue Chunyue who has never known each other when he first arrived. If she rashly made such a request now, not only would she not get Wei Yingshi's support, but she would also make him feel disgusted, and it would be difficult for her to have room for maneuver in the future.
Therefore, after a banquet, Ye Qinyu changed his original intention, just obeyed Wei Shaoqing's arrangement, and chatted with Wei Yingshi about the fate of meeting Wei Shaoqing in Luo'an, and kept silent about Xue Chunyue.