The scorching sun illuminated the sky as white as a large plate of burnt iron. The twigs of the weeping willow remained motionless, as if asleep, and the leaves covered with a layer of dust were wilting and curling. From a distance, on the huge Yan family's mansion, there seemed to be a vapor mixed with smoke and dust rising.

As soon as the forbidden woman stepped out of the lower room where Xiangzhen was imprisoned, she hurriedly took off the colorful robe on her body, took a large pu fan handed over by the apprentice, and fanned vigorously under the squeaky nest in her neck, snorted coldly in her nose, and muttered in her mouth, "The little lady is so calm, you tied her so tightly, and used the talisman to stick her tightly, she didn't say a word, didn't ask anything, just looked at the ground with those two eyeballs." ”

Her tone was a little angry, and her eyes were slanted, which made her long and pale face even uglier.

"Master, could it be that you are making the wrong person?" One of the disciples asked tentatively.

The forbidden woman then slapped the fan on his head, "Wrong? How could it be wrong? Didn't you ask the descendants who escaped from the Yan family before you came, what did they say? The dead maid was pregnant with the eldest young master's seed, and the young lady and the eldest young master got into trouble. You say, besides her, who else hates the dead mother, it can't be her sick child, right? ”

The little apprentice touched his head and smirked, "The master is right, he is confused as an apprentice, so it seems that the silver of our words is not in vain," he said and stretched out two fingers, and said proudly, "Two taels of silver, in exchange for a large plate, this Yan family's eldest young master is really generous." ”

The forbidden woman snorted, "He just lost the woman he loves the most, and he is holding back his anger in his heart, and there is nowhere to vent." We helped him find the murderer, how could he not be grateful to Dade? Therefore, the ability to do our business is one thing, and the more important thing is here. She nodded her brain, "There is a need for inspiration here, do you know?" ”

The two apprentices hurriedly agreed, scrambling to go up to help her rub her shoulders and beat her back, and several people laughed, not noticing the thin figure standing in front of the courtyard gate. It wasn't until he got closer that they stopped abruptly and swallowed the laughter back into their stomachs.

"What's so funny? Is it okay to listen to me? Underneath the two pale gray eyebrows are smiling bent eyes, clear and clear, without a trace of impurities. Jia Yan looked at the three people in front of him, as if amused by their expressions that suddenly stiffened, he chuckled, "Tell me about it, what kind of fun thing is it, I also want to know." ”

The forbidden woman's eyes rolled, and she leaned down to look at him, "Little master, you really didn't hear anything just now?" ”

"I didn't hear it clearly, can you say it again?" Jia Yan looked at her sincerely and begged.

The forbidden woman put her mind at ease, glanced at the two apprentices, and pulled up Jiayan's sleeve, "Little master, it's inconvenient here, let's go somewhere else and talk slowly." ”

"Our family is huge, where do you want to go?" Jia Yan suddenly put away his smile, his face smiled vividly, but it looked very cold when he had no expression, especially the two very light-colored eyes, like two ice cubes, which were so cold that they were piercing.

The forbidden woman looked at his eyes without heat, and was coldly frightened, and a trace of indescribable feeling suddenly floated through her heart. But before she could figure it out, Jia Yan laughed again, "It's better to go to the Lotus Garden, there are few people there, and no one can hear us." ”

***

The jade plate was held in Yan Qingcheng's hand, and it was wet and slippery with sweat, and he almost fell to the ground several times. Fortunately, Yan Qingcheng held it tightly, so he didn't lose it.

He didn't understand, how could such an ordinary jade plaque become evidence of Xiangzhen's murder? However, he knew in his heart that Zimai would never lie to himself, especially on such a major matter related to the survival of the Yan family.

Zimai dreamed of this jade plaque, and this jade plaque was precisely the ancestral heirloom of the Xiangzhen family, and she had always carried it, and she only gave it to Jiayan not long ago.

Is Xiangzhen a descendant of the Tao family? At least he never heard her mention it. He only knew that Xiangzhen's ancestor was an official in the Hanlin Academy, and the official position of Wupin was neither big nor small. Later, he returned to his hometown, and although no one among the descendants ate the court's money, he also opened a academy, prepared to build a school, and bought a school field to collect rent, which was a serious scholarly family.

Moreover, her family has known her family since her grandfather's generation, and the relationship between the two families has always been very good, if her father does not know the situation of the Xiangzhen family, how can he agree to her marrying her eldest brother as his wife?

However, it is not entirely impossible......

Tao Huan's incident happened earlier, almost more than a hundred years ago, at that time, not to mention his grandfather, even his grandfather's father was not yet born, how could he know everything about the Tao family's later situation. And the Tao family has no male in the lineage, so even if Tao Huan's descendants have a blood connection with him, they are not surnamed Tao, so his father may ignore Xiangzhen's life experience.

But even if Xiangzhen is the most suspicious, must she be the host of the evil?

Yan Qingcheng still didn't believe it, he knew that from an objective standpoint, he should have the same idea as Zhao Zimai. However, he can never be objective and rational about her......

"After a while, the people from the government will come, so you can tell the truth and don't be emotional. If it weren't for her, with me, I wouldn't have let the people in the government wronged her, so you can rest assured. ”

Zhao Zimai's words passed lightly into Yan Qingcheng's ears, and he didn't know if he understood it, so he only nodded in a trance. The summer wind blew the smell of lotus flowers, Yan Qingcheng looked at the pink lotus flowers in the courtyard, and felt as if he was in a strange dream, and he had not yet woken up.

Obviously, a few days ago, he was still enjoying the lotus with her by the lotus pond and discussing his father's 60th birthday banquet. But now, one of them has gone, and the other is being held in the lower room, ready to be interrogated by the government.

Leave him here alone, bearing all the loneliness in the world alone.

"Poof...... Puff ......"

There seemed to be something floating up and down in the lotus pond, and the sound was a little loud, knocking the lotus leaves stacked in the pond up and down.

Zhao Zimai stopped, looked sideways at the lotus pond, and frowned between his eyebrows, "Qingcheng, do you have fish here?" ”

"Even if there were, it wasn't that big, like half a piece of wood."

Yan Qingcheng said that he had walked towards the lotus pond, leaned over and lifted the lotus leaf closest to him: a face appeared in front of his eyes, although the oil paint on it was half blistered, but the red at the corner of his mouth was still there, blurring along his cheeks upwards, as if he had split the slender face in half.