When Wen Ling walked away, Ling Yuanchen came out of the bushes, also holding a paper candle in his hand. "Mrs. Wen, Master Wen, and Ling'er's eldest brother and sister-in-law, we should have been a family a year ago, but unfortunately because of some accidents, let us meet in this way, Ling'er will have me in the future, you have a spirit in the sky, please rest in peace, even if she goes to Beiyuan with me, I will bring her back to see you every year."

Wen Ling had just returned home, and was sitting at the table drinking tea, when a cat meow suddenly came from the quiet courtyard, "Xiaolian, you go to the kitchen and get me something to eat, I'm a little hungry now" Waiting for Xiaolian to retreat, Wen Ling walked behind the screen. Behind the screen was a man standing: "What have they been doing lately?" ”

Seeing Wen Ling's eyes red and swollen, he said, "Ling'er, you..." ”

Qin Shu also helplessly spread his hands, "I found a big secret, I don't know if Miss Wen wants to hear it"

Wen Ling was a little annoyed, "Qin Shuyi, don't talk nonsense, if you have something, hurry up." ”

Qin Shu also replied: "Didn't you let me stare at the surname Qin two days ago? Just yesterday, I watched him sneak out the back door alone, and he didn't take anyone with him. So I followed, and guess what I saw? ”

Wen Ling glanced at Qin Shuyi, and Qin Shuyi immediately surrendered, "Okay, okay, I said, don't stare at me." I found out that he went to a teahouse, and went upstairs as if he had an appointment, and he looked outside the door for a long time before entering, so I secretly listened to them on the roof. I noticed that the other person was speaking very stiffly. I lifted the rubble and took a look, only to find that the person surnamed Qin was talking to the Tibetan envoys, and he was saying something to sow discord. ”

Wen Ling asked, "You mean he colluded with Tibet? In this case, whether it is true or not, whether it is true or not, you have to give me the truth. ”

Duo Min asked Wen Ling to accompany her out every day, but she used to go to places where she listened to music and had fun, but recently it was changed to major medical halls, Xiaolian thought that Duo Min was sick, so she told him that her own young lady in the whole capital had the best medical skills, and she could be found for any illness. Duo Min ignored Xiaolian and continued to take Wen Ling's family to ask questions one after another.

The answers they got were that Wen Ling was weak, and it would be good to make up for it more, and the angry Duomin scolded them for being quacks.

Wen Ling said: "County Lord, no need, I have adjusted my pulse by myself, it is normal for anyone to come and see it, otherwise how could I hide it for more than a year!" ”

Duo Min left angrily, leaving Wen Ling and Xiaolian on the street, Xiaolian shook her head, "Miss, this county lord has a bad temper, right?"

Wen Ling said: "Xiaolian, you can't look at people on the surface, you should look at it more carefully." Xiaolian didn't care, Wen Ling didn't explain, and the two went back to the Guogong Mansion together.

As soon as he arrived at Wen Ling's courtyard, Wen Ling noticed that something was wrong. She clearly sensed that outsiders were intruding into the yard.

Wen Ling said: "Xiaolian, you go back to the room first, I'm tired today and want to rest." Waiting for Xiaolian to walk away, Wen Ling spoke, "Since you are here, don't hide." ”

I saw a person walk out of the shadows, after more than a year, Wen Ling can still recognize this person, she has seen him in Wen Mansion several times after returning to Beijing, and each time he is chatting with his father about something.

Although Wen Ling is not familiar with him, he can meet the people his father knows, and his heart is also a little kind.

"I wonder why this gentleman came to my government?"

The person said, "Miss Wen, I have something I want to tell you about the Holy Lord today. ”

Wen Ling was puzzled: "Today's saint? The visitor nodded.

"Sir, if you have anything to say, please come into the house and say."

The two of them sat down, and only then did they speak, "This matter has been hidden from me for more than twenty years, and I shouldn't have told you, but your father wanted to kill me after knowing the news, so I can only choose to tell you after hiding for a year." ”

Wen Ling smiled, "My father wants to kill him? Then you dare to appear in front of me. ”

The person who came said solemnly: "I must tell you about this, otherwise I am afraid that you will regret it in the future if you marry the enemy of the sect." ”

Wen Ling was horrified: "What is the enemy who destroys the door?" ”

The person came and said, "Do you know that the current saint is the prince of the previous dynasty? ”

Wen Ling said: "Don't try to lie to me, didn't all the people in the royal family of the previous dynasty die in the fire?" ”

The person who came snorted coldly, "Hmph, that's the emperor of the previous dynasty fooling the world, his real purpose..." Suddenly, an arrow shot from outside the door, and the arrow was coated with poison, and the man immediately fell to Wen Ling's lifelessness.

Wen Ling was stunned by this series of things, the first was because of the secret that this man said, and the second was that she was actually targeted, and this person was likely to be related to Qi Hongxin, otherwise he would not have interrupted him at this juncture.

Wen Ling calmed down and walked out of the secret room, and after walking for a while, she appeared at the inn she often went to. Wen Ling knocked three times in the room, and after waiting for a while, an old man appeared in front of her.

"There is a change in plans, you go and let our people check the affairs of the previous dynasty." The people who came were very surprised that Wen Ling suddenly wanted to investigate the affairs of the previous dynasty, but he didn't say anything, and called Xiao Er to order him to go down.

"Old Qian, can you tell me something about the previous dynasty?"

Qian Lao said: "The county lord wants to know, and the old man must know everything and say everything." ”

Wen Ling nodded and said, "Trouble Elder Qian to tell me about the destruction of the city in the previous dynasty, I want to know what happened at that time, so that the emperor of the previous dynasty actually killed the people in the palace and set fire to the entire palace." What happened before that? ”

Qian Lao was an old man Wen Ling saw in the dining hall, and he felt that this person was very popular, so he asked him to be a shopkeeper, and it took a long time for him to know the existence of Wan Qilou.

No one would have thought that behind the largest intelligence organization on the rivers and lakes was the county lord of a dynasty, and even Wen Ling himself did not expect that he originally just wanted to teach that group of people some survival skills, but after a few years of development, it turned out to be an intelligence organization.

After all, there is no place where there is no need for a doctor, and over time, whether it is someone who wants to learn medicine or someone who wants to repay his kindness, even Wen Ling doesn't know how big Wanqilou is now.

Qian Lao recounted: "The old slave was working in the palace at that time, and he was a big eunuch next to the queen mother of the previous dynasty. I thought that the days passed peacefully.

Who knew that one day, the emperor suddenly brought back a woman, and from then on, the emperor stayed in the woman's palace night and night, and it didn't take long for the woman to find out that she was pregnant.

With the emperor's favor for her, it is very likely to give her the title of queen, which made the queen mother feel the crisis at that time, so she tried to find someone to help find a Gu worm on the rivers and lakes, put the Gu worm into the pastry, and then personally brought it to the woman, who had to eat it under the pressure of the queen's mother. ”

Soon after, the Qi family army hit the capital, all the way north like a bamboo, the emperor of the previous dynasty had no room to fight back, in order to let the princes and princesses not be humiliated, so they swung their knives and killed the people in the entire palace, and the slaves were of course frightened.

I hid from the side and watched, but it was strange that I didn't see a strange woman inside, because the emperor's new favorite concubine rarely went out of the palace, so very few people knew her.

But the old slave has been in the palace for many years, so there is no palace concubine is the old slave does not know, the old slave did not pay attention to these at first, but when the emperor killed the palace concubine, the prince and the grandson, and ordered to kill all the palace people, I understood, it turned out that he wanted to kill everyone to protect the woman, and then I ran out of the chaos, and I have been living a life of eating and sleeping in the open until I met you, the county lord..."

Wen Ling asked, "Do you mean that on the day the city was broken, there was no woman among the palace people killed, and that woman was still pregnant?"

Qian Lao said: "Yes, why did the county lord ask about this matter today?" ”

Wen Ling now has some certainty about something, and he didn't know what to say for a while, "It's okay, no one needs to check this matter, you let people check the palace master of the underground palace as soon as possible." ”

Wen Ling didn't know how to get back to the Guogong Mansion from the secret room, she vaguely understood something, but she was too shocked to believe it for a while. At this time, someone hurriedly came, "County Lord, the King of Beiyuan sent someone to let you go to the teahouse to drink tea." ”

Wen Ling said: "Let's go back, just say that I am very busy, and they don't need to report me when they come back in the future, just send them away." ”

The subordinate hesitated for a moment and then spoke, "County Lord, the people over there said that they picked up something in the place where the old lady had an accident, and it may be of some help to this matter." Wen Ling immediately changed her words, "I replied to them, saying that I would freshen up and go out." ”

When Wen Ling and Xiaolian stepped into the teahouse, they saw Ling Lingchen and Long Qing already sitting there. Seeing Wen Ling and Xiaolian, Long Qing smiled and said, "Miss Wen hasn't seen her for a long time, she is getting more and more beautiful."

Wen Ling just nodded lightly, Xiao Lianli ignored him, Long Qing had no choice but to smile awkwardly, "Then sit down and have a cup of tea!" ”

Wen Ling said: "No need, if the two of you want to give me something, then take it out, if it's just a small talk, I won't accompany you." ”

Ling Yunchen took out a piece of jade pendant from his arms and put it on the table, when Wen Ling saw the piece of jade pendant, the whole person was already stunned, she couldn't be more familiar with that piece of jade pendant, that piece of jade pendant was the piece she gave to Qi Hongxin since she was a child, and the jade flute on her body was given to her by Qi Hongxin.

I heard Ling Yuanchen say, "Recently, our people found the couple who found the corpse at that time, they said that when they saw this piece of jade pendant of high quality, they were greedy and took it away, and now more than a year has passed, I want to take it out for money, I wonder if it is something left by your parents, so I want to return her to its original owner." ”

Wen Ling was shocked: "They said that this is a jade pendant found at the scene of the crime?" ”

Ling Lingchen replied affirmatively, "They don't dare to lie" Wen Ling's figure staggered, and Xiaolian helped Wen Ling from behind.

Ling Yuanchen asked, "Ling'er, are you okay?" Wen Lingmu shook his head, as if he had lost all his strength in an instant.

Wen Ling said weakly: "Thank you for the kindness of the King of Beiyuan today, Wen Ling will be grateful for another day, I am a little tired today, so I will leave first." ”

Wen Ling got into the carriage all the way, and when he arrived at the gate of the Guogong Mansion, he said to Xiaolian, "Xiaolian, you go to the palace to invite the emperor to come up, and say that I will wait for him in the old place, and then you go to Yipinju to buy me a few red date cakes and come back, I have missed this taste very much recently." ”

"Yes, Miss!"

When the coachman took Xiaolian away, Wen Ling walked to Wen Jinyan's study alone, she had never understood before.

Why did Wen Jinyan tell her to take good care of herself in the future before leaving Beijing, he had long expected that they would not let him go, Wen Ling walked straight to the bookshelf, moved the position of the vase, and with a 'click', a compartment made of a small mechanism leaked out.

Wen Ling looked at the brocade silk inside, Wen Ling took out the brocade silk with trembling hands, opened it, there were only two sentences in it, looked at the familiar handwriting, looked at the two sentences written on it, Wen Ling knelt on the ground weakly, and the brocade silk also fell off the palm of his hand weakly.

She felt that the events of the past two days had happened too unexpectedly, turning her life upside down for more than ten years. Wen Ling felt that this study was too empty, which suddenly made her afraid, Wen Ling ran out of the room and went to the former Wenwang Mansion.

Winter is coming, the fallen leaves have withered, there is no fragrance of peach blossoms, Wen Ling waved away, sat under the peach blossom tree alone, found a position, Wen Ling used the jade flute to keep digging, suddenly there were a few pots of wine, Wen Ling took out the wine.

The wind was very cold in winter, but Wen Ling didn't care, cup after cup, and drank most of the jugs of wine dug out in a short time.

When Ling Yuanchen arrived with Wu Cheng and Qingping, he saw Wen Ling drinking wine cup after cup, tears running down his cheeks and falling into his neck. Ling Yuanchen asked his subordinates to wait outside the door, and walked over alone.

Qi Hongxin asked, "Ling'er, what's wrong with you?" Is there someone bullying you, you drink less. ”

said that he was going to grab Wen Ling's wine glass, but Wen Ling avoided him, Wen Ling drank another glass before looking at Qi Hongxin, Qi Hongxin looked at Wen Ling as if he was drunk, and wanted to carry her back to the room, but was stopped by Wen Ling.

Wen Ling's drunken voice sounded, "Brother Xin, how long have we not been alone?" ”

Qi Hongxin sighed helplessly, "Silly girl, you are drunk, I will help you go back to your room to rest." ”

Wen Ling shook off Qi Hongxin's hand holding her, and stumbled and said, "No, I didn't, I wasn't drunk, Brother Xin, we've known each other for more than ten years, right?" Will you lie to me? ”

Qi Hongxin affirmed: "Of course not, Brother Xin will never lie to the spirit girl, I swear that it is good." ”

Wen Ling nodded: "So is it true that you will answer truthfully whatever I ask you?" ”

"Yes," Qi Hongxin replied resolutely.

Wen Ling took out the jade pendant from his arms, "Brother Xin, do you remember this jade pendant?" This is when I was three years old and I exchanged the jade flute with you, and you told me some time ago that it was gone, do you know where this piece of jade pendant was picked up? ”