Chapter 233: A Place to Settle Down (Three Watches)
"How did you recognize me?" Li Yuntian saw the long-haired girl flickering with a pair of big watery eyes looking at him suspiciously, and suddenly came back to his senses from shock, since his old background had been exposed by the long-haired girl, he no longer hid it, and stared at the long-haired girl in surprise.
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"Even though you've got a fake beard, your eyes and voice won't change." The long-haired girl smiled, put her hands behind her back, and replied proudly.
"Have you seen me?" The look on Li Yuntian's face was even more surprised, he had never been to Dexian before, and he had never seen a long-haired girl in his impression.
"Two and a half years ago, when you got married, my grandfather took me to Lijiazhuang." The long-haired girl nodded with a smile and explained to Li Yuntian.
"I see." Li Yuntian nodded thoughtfully when he heard this, no wonder he had no impression of the long-haired girl, two and a half years ago, the long-haired girl was still a yellow-haired little girl, how could it attract his attention?
Since the Zhao family is a famous family in Jining Mansion, and Dexian County is adjacent to Shimen County, it is logical for Zhao Zeen to go to Li Yuntian's wedding, but there were too many guests at that time, and Li Yuntian drank a lot of wine, even if he saw Zhao Zeen, he had no impression.
Li Manshan on the side also reacted at this time, and looked at the long-haired girl with curiosity, but he didn't expect that the long-haired girl could remember Li Yuntian's voice and appearance characteristics only after seeing Li Yuntian once.
"How do you know that I am fasting and praying for blessings with the emperor in the capital?" Then, Li Yuntian remembered another thing, looked at the long-haired girl and asked in a deep voice.
The capital is nearly a thousand miles away from Dexian County, not to mention the long-haired girl in the deep boudoir, even Zhao Zeen, the head of the Zhao family, may not know about it.
The long-haired girl smiled slyly when she heard this, got up and walked to the dresser on the side, opened the drawer and took out a stack of "Ming Xin Pao" from it and handed it to Li Yuntian.
"Have you read all these newspapers?" By the moonlight outside the window, Li Yuntian looked through the newspapers quite unexpectedly, and found that the number of issues published in the capital since the end of May was all there, and he asked the long-haired girl in surprise and some surprise.
There is no "Mingxin Daily" on the territory of Shandong, and it is obvious that these newspapers were brought from the capital by a long-haired girl, but I did not expect that there is a loyal reader of "Mingxin Daily" thousands of miles away.
"Hmm." The long-haired girl nodded when she heard this, and then said with some regret, "It's a pity that the capital is far away from Dexian, and the news in the newspaper is a few days later than the capital." ”
"Girl, this official has no choice but to break into the girl's boudoir, and I hope that the girl Haihan." Li Yuntian felt that tonight's events could be described as a turning point, who would have thought that the little girl in front of him would be able to recognize her, so he groaned for a while, put the newspaper on the table next to him, and solemnly arched his hand at the long-haired girl.
"Lord Li must be shouldering the emperor's order when he appears here, I wonder if the little woman can help?" Seeing this, the long-haired girl hurriedly blessed Li Yuntian and said in a coquettish voice.
"This ......" Li Yuntian couldn't help but fall into a dilemma when he heard this, if the Zhao family had never known him, he could still blackmail Zhao Zeen to help him, but now it seems that the relationship between the two families is good, how can he drag the Zhao family into this muddy water, if something goes wrong, the Zhao family will be in a big disaster, and the King of Han will definitely not let go of the Zhao family.
This also complains that Li Yuntian doesn't know that the Zhao family and the Li family have an old relationship, he is a nerd before the title of the gold list, he doesn't listen to things outside the window, and only reads sage books, and even those close relatives of Li Jiazhuang don't recognize all of them, let alone those big families who are good friends with the Li family in other places.
As for the Jinshi examination, Li Yuntian only went back to Lijiazhuang once, busy with his marriage with Zhou Yuting, and it was too late to leave the Li family and the relatives of the Zhou family, where would he have time to deal with outsiders.
"Lord Li, but it doesn't hurt to say it, although the little woman is a woman, she also knows that she is loyal to the country." The long-haired girl saw Li Yuntian looking in a dilemma, and said with a smile.
Li Yuntian, as a close minister by Emperor Hong Xi's side, would definitely not appear here for no reason, something big must happen.
"Girl, if the official wants to stay here for a few days, is it convenient to be noncommittal?" Li Yuntian looked at the long-haired girl with some surprise, he didn't expect her to have such a mind at a young age, and said after a deep groan.
"This official wants to remind you that the reason why the government is searching for bandits with such fanfare is actually to find us, and once the news that we are hiding here leaks out, I am afraid it will bring a catastrophe to the Zhao family." Without waiting for the long-haired girl to speak, Li Yuntian reminded him with a stern expression.
"You're the imperial historian, why are you afraid of the people in the government?" The long-haired girl was slightly stunned when she heard this, and looked at Li Yuntian puzzled.
Yesterday, the people of Jining Mansion and Jining Wei have been stationed in Zhaojiaji, and Zhu Zhantan wants to cast a big net in Dexian County to search for Li Yuntian and his party, so the people in the whole town know that the government is arresting the bandits who created more than a dozen murder cases, but what does this have to do with Li Yuntian?
"It's not monolithic in the government." As the saying goes, the ugliness of the family should not be publicized, how could Li Yuntian leak the matter of King Han, after thinking about it, he explained to the long-haired girl euphemistically.
"You are not afraid of being an imperial historian, and there is nothing to be afraid of a little girl." The long-haired girl's eyes flashed with a thoughtful look, Liu Mei frowned slightly at first, and then smiled at Li Yuntian, Li Yuntian stood behind the big tomorrow, she believed that it must be Li Yuntian who had the last laugh.
"Thank you, girl." Li Yuntian saw that the long-haired girl agreed, so he bowed his hand to her and thanked her solemnly, to be honest, the Zhao family is the best hiding place, as long as Zhu Zhanji has passed this time, he will send someone to save them.
"That's what a little girl should do." The long-haired girl smiled and saluted Li Yuntianfu, her eyes flashing with a look of excitement.
The long-haired girl is Zhao Yongji's sister Zhao Xinyue, who is thirteen years old this year and is in the prime of her cardamom years.
Afterwards, Zhao Xinyue put on her coat and led Li Yuntian and Li Manshan to the attic on the top of the building, where some sundries were piled up, neatly placed and clean.
Although the conditions are a little worse, in Li Yuntian's opinion, this is a good place to stay, who would have thought that they would hide in the boudoir of the Zhao family?
So, Li Manshan called Song Dashan and Wang Zhen who were hiding behind the big tree outside the courtyard, and Zhao Xinyue knew that there were four of them.
She originally wanted to bring some bedding to Li Yuntian and the others, but Li Yuntian politely refused, after all, they were here to take refuge, and they could sleep on the ground, and try to avoid keeping things around Zhao Xinyue as they were, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble.
Li Yuntian felt that his luck was actually not bad, he met Zhao Xinyue by accident, and he did him a big favor, so that he didn't have to alarm Zhao Zeen, obviously the fewer people who knew about this matter, the better.
"My lord, could Miss Zhao be a plan to get away with it?" After Zhao Xinyue left, Wang Zhen couldn't help but come to Li Yuntian and asked in a low voice, looking a little worried, in his opinion, how could a little girl help them so diligently.
"I don't think so, Miss Zhao's eyes are clear, and she shouldn't have any ill intentions towards us." Song Dashan groaned for a moment when he heard this, and then spoke.
Li Yuntian glanced at Song Dashan approvingly, he didn't expect Song Dashan's ability to observe words and expressions to have this kind of fire, and he looked even stronger than Wang Zhen, he thought that Zhao Xinyue had no ill will towards them, so he stayed.
"I have an old relationship with her, and she shouldn't betray us." Li Yuntian groaned for a moment and comforted Wang Zhen with a smile.
Wang Zhen's eyes flashed with a look of surprise, and he bowed to Li Yuntian and stepped back, he still didn't know Li Yuntian's identity, let alone Zhao Xinyue's affairs.
For Song Dacheng and Wang Zhen, Li Yuntian's identity is a secret, otherwise the two would not have called him "adult" all the time, and there is not even a surname in front of him, no one would have thought that Li Yuntian and Song Dashan had known each other for a long time.
The next morning, Zhao Xinyue's personal maid Xiaoling, the woman who slept in the outer room of the bedroom, brought Li Yuntian and others a few plates of snacks for breakfast with a suspicious face.
Originally, Zhao Xinyue wanted to treat Li Yuntian well, but in order to avoid the sudden increase in diet from arousing the unwarranted suspicion of people in the kitchen, she had to give up this idea and let Xiaoling go out every day to buy pastries and cooked food, so that no one would suspect that there were people hiding in her boudoir.
Although Xiao Ling didn't know the identities of Li Yuntian and the others, since Zhao Xinyue wanted to hide these four big men, she had to help conceal them under Zhao Xinyue's repeated requests, and she was very puzzled about this, and she didn't know what yankuai medicine Zhao Xinyue was given by them.
In this way, Li Yuntian and the four of them lived in the attic of Zhao Xinyue's boudoir, had a place to live, and secretly waited for Zhu Zhanji to send someone to rescue them after he arrived in Beijing.
At the same time, Zhu Zhantan intensified the search of Dexian County and the surrounding areas, sent people to use the dragnet search method to conduct an inventory, and offered a reward of 1,000 taels of silver to those who provided valid information, which caused a huge sensation in the local area.
In order to get the reward of 1,000 taels, the young people of all the villages and towns in Dexian County carried sticks and walked around the road in groups, as long as they met strangers passing by, they would come forward to interrogate them, and many innocent passers-by were caught by those young people and sent to the people of the government because they were suspected of being bandits wanted by the government.
After Li Yuntian learned the news, he secretly said that it was very dangerous, if he hadn't hid in Zhao Xinyue one step in advance, he would probably have been chased around by those young people outside who were blushing with a thousand taels of rewards, and the wolf was unbearable.
At this moment, Li Yuntian did not know that after several days of brewing and fermentation, under the secret promotion of Zhu Zhanyu and others, the suicide of Zhang Wang, the steward of the imperial dining room, had already caused a stir in the capital, and the streets and alleys were full of remarks that Emperor Hong Xi was murdered by the Venerable Master Yuanxia, and rumors were flying all over the sky.
Empress Zhang was furious at this, and ordered the Shuntian Mansion to strictly investigate the rumors of the promenades, and in just two days, hundreds of people were arrested and imprisoned by the officials of the Shuntian Mansion for talking about Emperor Hongxi and the Venerable Master Yuanxia, which did not end the rumors, but made the shape of the capital more tense and complicated.
Wu Shaoqing, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, was a jinshi of the Hongwu Dynasty, and entered the Hanlin Academy after being admitted to the Shujishi, who was noble and arrogant, and was a famous Qingliu in the court, and often attacked those powerful people in the capital who bullied people, so he was disgusted by many magnates in the capital.
In the ninth year of Yongle, Wu Shaoqing was still the attendant of the six products of the Hanlin Academy, and someone had secretly accused him of corruption to Emperor Yongle, so Emperor Yongle sent people to search Wu Shaoqing's house, and it was found that the Wu family was surrounded by walls, and his wife and children were wearing clothes with patches, and their lives were hard.
After hearing the news, Emperor Yongle knew that Wu Shaoqing was a Qing official, so he severely punished the false accuser, and promoted Wu Shaoqing's official position by one level, becoming a bachelor from the fifth grade.
A high-minded and arrogant Qingliu like Wu Shaoqing, who can even be said to be pedantic, is an excellent object for Zhu Zhanyu to use, so a storm that shook the officialdom in the capital revolved around Wu Shaoqing. One