"Chi Changting is dead—"

Li Yan closed his eyes hard.

"Jiangnan should not stay for a long time, Your Highness should return to Beijing as soon as possible!" Lu Zijin suggested.

Li Yan opened his eyes and said lightly: "How is Chi Changting's family?" ”

Wen Li replied: "Chi Changting only has one daughter, and he fainted after hearing the bad news, and the minister has ordered someone to hire a doctor. ”

Li Yan was silent for a moment and called, "Mr. Lu—"

Lu Zijin responded.

He hesitated for a moment and said, "Please ask Mr. to visit the pool girl on behalf of Gu." ”

Lu Zijin glanced at him and said, "The minister and the Chi girl are not related, and the rash visit is just to remind her of the pain of losing her father." ”

Li Yan was silent for a long time, and said, "I remember that the seven daughters of the Lu family are friends with the Chi girl. ”

Lu Zijin bowed and said: "The ministers will let people spread the word, so that Lu Qi can come to the door to be relieved." ”

Li Yan nodded and waved his hand to signal the two to retreat.

Lu Zijin didn't leave immediately, but gave another salute and asked, "When is Your Highness going to leave?" ”

Li Yan did not answer.

Lu Zijin didn't ask any more questions, and retreated with Wen Li.

Li Yan stood quietly in front of the window and was silent for a long time.

In the middle of winter, the night always comes sooner than expected.

In the twilight, the lights were lit sporadically, intermittently, and then blurred by the evening mist.

His heart was also covered with a layer of fog, and he couldn't figure out the lights and roads ahead.

Chi Changting died.

The whereabouts of key witnesses are unknown.

The trip to Jiangnan was a complete failure.

If it weren't for Lu Zijin and Xiao Zhuo leading the Jin Ling army to arrive in time, I'm afraid even he would ......

He knew that he should calm down now so that he could plan his next step, but his heart was still filled with a sense of powerless grief and anxiety.

No one expected that the strong martial arts Chi Changting would die, because no one expected that the other party would gather the fire of the Chi Changting in the first place.

Shang's Ruyi ring quenched the secret poison of the Tang Sect.

If Shang Lu is still alive, maybe Chi Changting still has a chance of life.

But Shang Lu also died.

He remembered that before this trip, Chi Changting also complained, saying that the arrangement was not at the right time, and he might miss his daughter's birthday-

The girl's birthday seems to be ...... Yesterday?

Li Yan was suddenly stabbed in the heart.

lost her father on her birthday, how can she teach that girl to be embarrassed from now on?

Li Yan tried hard to recall the girl's appearance, but in her memory, she was still the delicate appearance when she was three or four years old.

He remembered that the girl looked a little like her parents, but not exactly like them, with almond eyes, watery eyes, and two dimples when she laughed.

Chi Changting loves his daughter like his life, and he has been in Jiangnan for six years, and every time he writes back to Kyoto, he can mention his daughter from time to time, so he always remembers this girl, and what little girl likes to get by chance, and always rewards the past? For this reason, Xue Twelve complained a lot.

This year, when Chi Changting asked him to ask for Wen Yu as a birthday gift for his daughter? He happened to get a batch of fire fox skins, and simply rewarded Chi Changting with his daughter's winter clothes.

I wonder if she received it?

That fox fur is as red as fire? She can't wear it now......

Inside the hotel? The lights went on all night.

And half an hour, the door opens? Li Yan came out in plain clothes, and said with a faint expression: "Go to the Taishou Mansion." ”

……

Does he feel reasonable? They should all visit the poor little girl.

I just didn't expect to be stopped.

"Miss Chi was shocked to hear bad news? is already sick, presumably His Highness will not force her, an orphan girl who has just lost her father, to force her sick body to come out to worship, right? ”

Li Yan stood in the courtyard of the Taishou Mansion with his hands in his hands, looking down at Yan Songyun who was kneeling respectfully, and didn't know how to speak for a while.

Kneeling is a great gift.

Although he is a prince? But there is no need for this kind of gift in such a private setting.

This is a grudge against him......

Did that girl also have a grudge against him? So don't want to see him?

At this time, Yan Songyun glanced up at him, and his tone was as cold as his gaze: "There is a difference between men and women, His Royal Highness probably won't want to visit Miss Chi in person, right?" ”

Wen Li Fang was already frowning and displeased, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but shout: "Yan Wei? You-"

Li Yan raised his hand to stop his words, and nodded at Yan Songyun? He said in a low voice: "Yan Lang has bothered a lot. With that, he turned and left.

No one in Jiangnan knows Yan Songyun? But he knows a lot.

Yan Songyun, Mingwei? The youngest son of the founding prime minister? Giving up his career because of family secrets? Self-exiled to Jiangnan for six years, hidden in the Taishou Mansion as a staff member with no rank.

Chi Changting is kind to him, and I believe that he is also a person who knows how to repay his kindness, otherwise he would not be angry because of Chi Changting's death.

In this way, it should take care of Chi Changting's orphans, right?

"Your Highness," Wen Li followed a few steps and whispered, "Chi Nu fell ill with grief, and now the Chi family is all in charge of Yan Wei and his adopted daughter, although Chi Taishou trusted Yan Wei when he was alive, but Chi Taishou is not there after all, there is only one orphan girl in the family, in case something is wrong-"

Li Yan stopped abruptly and looked back at him.

Wenli's eyebrows were furrowed, as if he was extremely worried.

"What do you think?" Li Yan asked slowly.

"If His Highness sends a few officials to help the Chi family at the funeral, to show His Highness's kindness, he can also protect the Chi girl a little." Wen Li said.

His eyes are sincere, his expression is sincere, he is loyal and kind, and he is thoughtful, and he is indeed a good courtier of the East Palace.

Li Yan glanced at him, then withdrew his gaze, and continued to walk out while raising his feet, while saying lightly: "No need, the manpower is limited, you still have more important things to do-" The footsteps were sluggish, "Send a message to the capital, let the Chi family come!" ”

No matter how unreliable Yan Songyun is, he is more reliable than Wenli.

Even more reliable than him.

For a little girl who has just lost her father, there should be more familiar and close people around her.

He shouldn't get too close to her......

……

Li Yan did not take Lu Zijin's suggestion and immediately return to Beijing, but stayed in Wu County temporarily.

Now that his identity has been revealed, it is not so dangerous.

He can't get away with nothing—

"These are the people who left Wu County to go south this month," Wen Li submitted the list, "There are nineteen people who have had contact with the Lu family and the Chi family, and they are all in the forefront. ”

Li Yan glanced at it, his eyes were slightly condensed, and he said, "Yao Shiyi is a woman." ”

In addition to the group of Jianghu people from the Tang Sect who sniped him that day, the rest were more professional dead soldiers led by a masked woman.

Yao Wuji's number one killer was a young woman.

But there were no women among the nineteen people on the list that Wen Li handed over who had dealings with Lu and Chi.

"Maybe it's a woman dressed as a man." Lu Zijin said.

Li Yan thoughtfully swept through the nineteen people, most of whom he knew their names but did not know them.

It's just that now, the spies hidden in Wu County are no longer so important.

Li Yan put down the list: "Is there any news for the witness?" ”

He stayed, with the aim of being that key witness.

Yao Wuji's rebellion was reported by Wenli's uncle, and then the imperial court sent Cheng Mu Hong south to investigate.

Mu Hong died in Jiangnan, and the key witnesses he found were missing.

That person has ironclad evidence of Yao Wuji's rebellion, as well as a list of officials who colluded with Yao Wuji, as well as the truth about Mu Hong's death.

Chi Chang served as Jiangnan outside the court for six years, and he never gave up looking for this witness.

But this person was extremely cautious, and he didn't show his head until last year.

Wen Li became more and more ashamed, and hung his head and replied no.

This time the defeat and the witness lost the news again.

After discussing for a while, Li Yan asked Wen Li to retreat first, leaving Lu Zijin and asking, "How is Miss Chi's illness now?" ”