Yan Chunniang replied: "More than a month ago, my subordinates heard rumors in the water building that Gongzi had made a big fire and sent Qin Ye back to Huiji from Luoyang overnight. Later, his subordinates secretly went to the medical pavilion to take a look. Doctor Qin indeed... He was sent back and imprisoned in the Ice Chamber of the Medical Pavilion, where no one was allowed to visit. ”

Jiang Chengjia's eyebrows and eyes were instantly filled with unease.

Yan Chunniang continued: "The subordinate trustee inquired carefully, only to know that Dr. Qin happened to be sent back to Huiji by Gongzi a few days before Wang He surrendered. ”

"Could it be that ... The explosion in Deng Yuan's mansion is not only related to Zhou Yuanmo, but also related to Qin Ye? Jiang Chengjia muttered in a low voice.

"Zhou Yuanmo?" Yan Chunniang exclaimed, "The girl is saying... Zhou Yuanmo, the head of the Yegong Pavilion Breeze Palace? ”

Jiang Chengjia nodded and replied, "It's this person." ”

Yan Chunniang only felt unexpected and said: "Zhou Yuanmo of Yegong Pavilion has always been a righteous and free man. The appalling case of the Laba explosion in the capital caused more than 70 or 80 people to be killed and injured... This... How could it be Zhou Yuanmo's doing? ”

"I used to think so, too. It's just that Zhou Yuanmo doesn't seem to be as rumored in the rivers and lakes. He is quite scheming, and he is two-faced. Jiang Chengjia said, thinking of what Zhou Yuanmo had done to him, and the fact that he joined forces with the Fu family to participate in the secret pile transaction of Song Zong, he felt very uncomfortable in his heart.

Yan Chunniang was stunned: "How come? Zhou Yuanmo does things freely, never cares about gains and losses, and is also humorous... How could the girl make such an evaluation of him now? ”

She couldn't believe it.

Jiang Chengjia lowered his eyes silently. She can actually understand Yan Chunniang's thoughts, and before she and Zhou Yuanmo didn't negotiate too much, she really felt that he was very funny and chic in private. But since her negotiations with him became more and more ordinary in the Linhe Command Mansion, she knew that this person was extremely thoughtful, and if he wanted to decide what he had decided, he would never change, and he was more stubborn than Lu Xun, who was slow to do things and loyal and upright.

Yan Chunniang saw that she was silent, and she had some guesses in her heart.

She stopped asking. Because she knows that Jiang Chengjia will never judge a person at will, once she makes a comment, it must be in line with what this person says, and she will never distort and lie.

Because she never disdained to slander others.

It's just that Yan Chunniang met Zhou Yuanmo once before, and this person in her impression often wears a gray cotton cloth dress, always looking cynical, but she is chivalrous and righteous, and can be called a hero.

At this moment, how can she believe that Zhou Yuanmo is the kind of person Jiang Chengjia said about the city government is extremely deep, two-faced and three-faced?

Jiang Chengjia stared at his eyes, and felt more and more that the explosion in the capital city of Laba was jointly committed by Qin Ye and Zhou Yuanmo.

So he immediately wrote a letter and ordered it to be sent to the letter shop.

Before the evening sunset fell, she returned from the teahouse, and Ning Nanwei was already waiting in front of the house.

He was looking forward to Jiang Cheng's good return, and saw his own ox cart slowly driving in at the entrance of the alley, so he hurried up to meet him.

Qian Shan came to a sentence outside: "Girl, the prince has come out." ”

Jiang Chengjia was sitting on the ox cart with his eyes closed, and when he heard her say this, he opened the curtain of the car window and looked ahead, and saw Ning Nan worriedly and striding forward, so he hurriedly said, "Stop." ”

Yan Chunniang helped her out of the car.

"How did the prince come out?" Jiang Chengjia walked slowly in front of Ning Nanwei.

I saw that his face was gloomy and he said in a low voice: "In the future, you can't return so late." Look at the mountains in the distance, I can't see the color, it's such a night, I can't find you, I'm anxious. ”

He gently held her shoulders and said solemnly.

Jiang Chengjia was stunned for a moment at first, and then laughed and said, "Are you looking forward to me coming back so much? It's like a little woman who is looking forward to her husband's return! Didn't I explain it to Ye Bai Ye Zhen? I haven't seen Love for many years, so I just went to the teahouse to listen to books. Just sat a little longer. ”

Ning Nan took her into his arms, and said with some fear: "I'm just worried... Happen again to the same incident two days ago. Although Father will not do anything to you at this moment, he cannot guarantee the future. You're out there alone... I couldn't see it, so I was in a hurry. ”

Jiang Chengjia hooked his lips slightly, gently stroked his back, and comforted: "Okay, after that day, I will never be late." Let's go inside. ”

Ning Nanwu muttered in a low voice, and carefully helped her into the house.

In the following half month, the wind and waves in Linhe City were calm, far less than the turmoil in the capital Luoyang.

On the twelfth day after Mu Yun sent the message, on February 19, another news came from the capital.

It is reported that on the day when Ning Zheng returned, the news of the disappearance of Princess Scarlet Jade, who had come to make peace with the Champa Kingdom, was finally presented to Emperor Wei.

Emperor Wei ordered Dahonglu Fu Shen to immediately investigate the case. terminal

Because Fu Shen had been worried about Ning Nan's deep friendship for many years, he sent an urgent report to Linhe for 800 miles.

Only then did Ning Nan remember the incident of Princess Scarlet Jade.

For more than two months, he had been busy planning the affairs of the Northland, and he forgot to pay attention to the dynamics of Princess Scarlet Jade for a while, so he immediately invited Lu Xun to inquire about the situation.

Since Princess Scarlet Jade was robbed in the Great Wei Frontier, Ning Nan ordered Jing Inspector Wei to carefully search for her and Duan Congyu's whereabouts. When I asked Lu Xun about this, I heard him say that in the past two months, Jing Duwei has not found the slightest trace.

When he was anxious about this matter, Jiang Chengjia came to the school for some reason.

The fact that the Jing Inspector Wei had to train soldiers in equestrianism often made the school yard dusty.

Ning Nan hurriedly greeted him, pulled up his battle robe and blocked it in front of Jiang Chengjia and asked, "It's windy outside, why did you have to run to the school today?" ”

Jiang Chengjia replied: "I have an urgent message to tell Erlang, so I can't care about it." ”

He wondered, "What news?" ”

Jiang Chengjia pulled him into the tent, took out a silk book from his arms, and stuffed it into his hand.

Ning Nan took it and checked it, and before he finished reading the silk book, his face sank: "Is this serious?" ”

Jiang Chengjia nodded solemnly and said, "It's true." ”

This silk book is an urgent report sent to Linhe by the secret agents of the Champa domestic water pavilion after the investigation of the day, and the four horses were killed.

The Qianji Department and the Shangwu Xing Pavilion jointly investigated, and finally found Duan Congyu's traces in Jiuzhen City, and searched all the way through this, and found traces of Princess Scarlet Jade following Duan Congyu's side along the way.

"Regarding the disappearance of Princess Crimson, not only did Erlang privately order the Jing Inspector to investigate, but I also ordered someone to investigate. None of the agents of the Dry Water Pavilion guarding the frontier of the Great Wei Dynasty had ever discovered the whereabouts of Duan Congyu and Scarlet Jade. I guessed that after two months of hard work, these two people must have left Jingzhou, went to China and North Korea, and then left the country from China and returned to Champa in the west. That's why none of us have been able to trace them. Jiang Chengjia was helped by Ning Nan to sit down and made a conclusion on this matter.

He sat down beside her with a heavy heart, and thought for a moment with a calm face, "Someone in the capital has sent me a letter saying that His Majesty has learned of the disappearance of Princess Crimson. Personnel have been dispatched to investigate. ”

Jiang Chengjia frowned and said, "Since Scarlet Jade is now in the Cham country, it is useless for Your Majesty to send many Beiling forbidden troops to search. The king of Champa was determined to cause war. ”

Ning Nan shook his head, his eyebrows were locked at the moment, and he murmured: "The strength of the Cham country is insufficient, and it cannot compete with the Great Wei. If the king of Cham really used the disappearance of Princess Crimson as an excuse to send troops to attack Great Wei, he could only ask for his own hardships. So he must have other plans. Since Duan Congyu was able to take Princess Scarlet Jade to escape from the Great Wei Dynasty. I'm just afraid... This restless Cham king had a private discussion with the Chinese monarch. ”

"You mean... It is very likely that the Cham king borrowed troops from China and Korea, and the two countries attacked the Great Wei at the same time? Jiang Chengjia asked, but he disagreed, "A few years after the armistice between China and North Korea and the Great Wei, the first war in the western Xinjiang has greatly damaged the vitality of China and the DPRK, how can it be possible to attack the Great Wei again?" ”

"Therefore... They will take advantage of the internal and external troubles of Great Wei to send troops. Ning Nan said gloomily.

At this time, Jiang Chengjia gradually fell silent.

She knew what he meant.

The matter of Fu Bo and Ma Yue's private stationing of troops has not been resolved. The fact that the two of them suppressed the limelight at this time and did not make a statement did not mean that they would not rebel in the future. Just like recently, Qinghe and Youfufeng are restless, it is inevitable that Fu Bo and Ma Yue are planning something in private.

Jiang Chengjia had a vague premonition that the reform of the New Deal mentioned by his brother to Emperor Wei would become the source of civil strife in the Great Wei.

However, the worries of the two of them did not happen, and everything was quiet. With the arrival of spring, the cold winds of February are gradually getting warmer and less cold.

In March, the Champa Kingdom received news that Princess Scarlet Jade had disappeared in Great Wei, and also sent envoys to Great Wei to help find her. In the end, no fruit was found.

The marriage between the two countries could not continue, and the king of Cham even asked Emperor Wei to find Princess Crimson to ensure that she was safe and sound, and send her back to the Champa country, otherwise the two countries would be reconciled, and it would be counted as a stop.

Although the strength of the Cham country is not as good as that of the Great Wei, due to the smuggling of arms by Song Zong and Meng, the arms of the Cham have increased dramatically. The disappearance of the princess who came to make peace was the fault of the diplomacy of the Great Wei envoys. Even if the Cham country borrowed troops from other dynasties to attack the Great Wei Dynasty, causing wars to spread, the world was also on the side of the Cham country.

Emperor Wei ordered Fu Shen to investigate the matter, but kept it a secret.

Somehow, the news reached the Cham kingdom. Since the Cham King made such a request, Emperor Wei could only intensify his investigation, and ordered Tingwei and Xue Qing in the Imperial History of the Eastern Mansion Division to assist Da Honglu in the search, hoping to find the missing Princess Scarlet Jade.

However, a wave has not settled, and a wave has risen.

Soon, Tingwei's review of Song Zong's case reached the final stage, and when he went to court to discuss the outcome of the case with the ministers, he was refuted by Zongzheng.

One of the Nine Qings, Zongzheng Deng Fu, who was in charge of the affairs related to the royal family or relatives and nobles, questioned Ning Nanwei, who was far away in Linhe as the commander of Linhe's soldiers and horses.