It's been a few days since the murder.

At most, ordinary people just think that this case is terrifying, and they can't see the twists and turns inside. But for those intriguing ministers in the court, it is not the same.

It doesn't really matter who the dead are, it's just their position that matters. Their death will also provoke many subsequent interlocking reactions in the imperial court. The work of the military department to pass on the paperwork is a piece of fat meat, and everyone wants to take a bite.

Insiders look at the doorway, laymen look at the excitement, even if it is not their own business, there is still no shortage of people in the market to discuss, one to ten, ten to hundred, and finally people panic.

There are even people who put forward a few old cases from two years ago and fried them with cold rice and new ones. Among them, there is also Dong Yong's case.

The people of good deeds finally discovered that the Dong Yin clan had remarried in a low-key manner in the past, and the Lu family was shot while lying down, and in the face of all kinds of prying eyes, they all adopted an attitude of avoiding talking about it.

They had come to find the lost daughter.

Lu Jingyuan, who became famous, is now living a prosperous life in Dali Temple. Everyone has heard that he has a reputation for pity. But when he was a teenage girl prisoner, he often showed mercy, but no one knew his real reason.

The officials of the capital government have strengthened public security patrols, but they still can't cover the public mouth, and there are endless discussions for days. Some people even took advantage of the opportunity to commit crimes and disguised serial cases.

There are also some discussions of one kind or another in the boudoir, and there are all kinds of things.

The second dog was stepped on as a cushion.

On the way home, Lin Qiantan thought so.

Wang Yuanzhao looks like an informal person, but in fact, his mind has its own delicate place. Even if he wants to kill his whole family, how could he be so stupid as to deliberately leave evidence for people to discover.

However, during the government's investigation, a purse happened to be found from the scene of the crime. The purse is exquisitely made, and it is still the material that foreign officials paid tribute to Emperor Tianlong the year before last. There are not a few companies in the capital that have this material.

That night, Lin Qiantan took down a letter from the paws of the carrier pigeon docked by the window, and the letter was rolled into a small note, and when she opened it out, Lin Qiantan knew that it was Wang Yuanzhao's handwriting.

This person, how did he switch to carrier pigeons to transmit sound now?

Wang Yuanzhao said in his letter that he was going to go to the capital. It is estimated that there will be no return in a few days.

Lin Qiantan couldn't help but be a little puzzled. Although the government found a purse at the scene, it did not involve him, what did he abscond from the crime?

I didn't tell her what she was going to do.

There was a little movement outside the door.

"Master," Jin He opened the door and walked in, bringing up the blood bird's nest rewarded by the palace: "It's cooked."

As soon as the lid is opened, the fragrance overflows.

This was given by Concubine Xiao.

Lin Qiantan put down Wang Yuanzhao's letter, picked up the bowl containing bird's nest and took a sip gently, and asked about the matter that was being investigated a few days ago.

Originally, Wang Yuanzhao told her that the four princes sent people to follow her, but she didn't pay much attention to it. But later she found out that the people outside her store and the people Wang Yuanzhao found did not seem to be the same batch.

Wang Yuanzhao ordered someone to strip off the few people sent by the four princes so that only a pair of obscene pants were left and hung at the door of the four princes' mansions, causing the four princes to lose a lot of people. However, the people outside her shop did not stop from this.

She didn't have time to tell Wang Yuanzhao about this matter.

Moreover...... She also hopes that she can solve it. Wang Yuanzhao takes care of her a lot, and she doesn't want everything to be pushed to him.

Jinhe shook his head: "These people are very slippery, and when they found out that we noticed them, they haven't appeared again for many days." The people of the Four Princes are not so smart.

"Yes. Lin Qiantan ate all the blood bird's nests that were gone after a few bites, and it was really a wave of unsettled.

She stared at a stall of bird's nests.

Concubine Xiao is usually good to her, and occasionally there will be rewards or something, but like this kind of blood bird's nest given this time, even if she opens a store all over the world now, it is not easy to get it, so she gave it to her.

Jin He looked at the sticky things like blood in the porcelain cup, and couldn't help but be amazed. They have never seen the general variety of blood bird's nest, but this kind of ...... given by Concubine Xiao

"Master, where is this product? I thought that the blood bird's nest produced in Yunzhou was good enough, but I didn't expect that there would be better. ”

Lin Qiantan smiled: "The blood bird's nest produced in the north of Yongzhou is naturally not something that can be easily eaten in a place like us in the south."

Jinhe let out an "oh".

Lin Qiantan looked at her as if she didn't react, and happened to have a book about the history of the Central Plains in her hand, so she simply found a page and turned it to her, "Oh, look." ”

Jinhe leaned his head over to look at it, and saw that it was a page like a map.

Lin Qiantan found another page, turned it to her, and said to her, "Look at this again."

Jinhe leaned over and took another look.

Both are maps.

Lin Qiantan swiped her fingers on it, and explained softly in her mouth: "The first emperor established the Great Shang and the world was annexed, but there was a place that was seized by the Rong people during the war."

It is said that it is also the place where the Xiao royal family prospered.

Therefore, "Why did the concubine give us such a thing, she was telling us that she was the princess of the Xia Dynasty, and she wanted us to worship it?" ”

Lin Qiantan took the bowl to her: "Maybe it means this, and it should also mean to woo and show goodwill, but I think her main purpose is probably something that I haven't thought of at the moment."

Jinhe then put the bowl down.

Lin Qiantan was stunned for a while in front of a history book.

In the palace.

Concubine Xiao couldn't sleep a little, and was standing in front of the window pouring herself a drink.

The words that her subordinates told her were that the Jinghua dream picture she bothered to find might have something to do with Lin Qiantan.

As the surviving princess of Great Xia, Concubine Xiao naturally knew some things about the treasures of the Xia Dynasty back then. Although it is not all, it is still clear how the treasure map is roughly divided.

"The subordinates have verified that although the four families of Qi, Chu, Qin and Wei all claim to have lost the fragments, the Wei family is obviously suspicious."

"The Qi family and the Qin family have indeed lost the fragments that were divided into five at that time."

"The situation of the Chu family is unknown, but there is evidence that I am afraid that even the Chu family themselves can't figure out that they have such a thing in their hands."

She is just a worldly mediocre person, and naturally she will be interested in the secrets of huge treasures, so she has been secretly tracking down.

It's a pity that I haven't found any results. Her subordinates found out that the clues were to Lin Qiantan, but it was actually accidental.

It was not her kindness to give her the best bird's nest that she was reluctant to eat.

Instead, she hesitated to throw a strange poison into that good thing, and exchange it for the treasure she wanted with a life-saving antidote.

It's just that he thinks about Chu Ling's kindness back then, and he can't bear to start.

At the same time, Lin Qiantan finished her supper and was sitting in front of the window flipping through the medical books that had long been rotten. Treat Mei's affairs to her a lot. In her previous life, she followed Yin tenacity to learn superficial medical skills, and at most she learned to look at and hear.

She could tell the basic herb smell.

It wasn't until it was too late that Mama Zhong couldn't help but urge again and again, and Lin Qiantan stood up from the table. Mama Zhong couldn't help but be verbose: "Let my cousin know, I can't talk about you."

The Song family was originally in better health, but under the influence of the incident of treating Mei, he suffered another mental blow. Her family discussed taking her to Yunzhou, saying that it was there that she was most accustomed to.

Of course, she can't rest assured that she has brought up a child, but her body is stronger than people. Lin Qiantan simply asked her family to help manage the store industry in Yunzhou. Yunzhou is not far from Dongdu, and if she goes to Dongdu to visit her aunt in the future, she can also stop by to see the Song family.

The Song family took the waterway, which happened to pass through Qianshi Village.

*

Wang Yuanzhao said that he wanted to go out of Beijing, and he went out that night. The villagers in Qianshi Village asked someone to tell them that the old house of the Wang family was smashed by bandits......

It is the place where Wang Yuanzhao grew up, and it is also a place like home.

Lin Qiantan still knew about this from the letter sent back by the Song family afterwards.

Two days later, Xiaoyu went to Lin's house to do short-term work again, Lin Qiantan told her about this, and Xiaoyu even knew.

Xiao Yu smiled and said, "Brother Big Dog mentioned it to me."

Lin Qiantan seems to know for the first time that Xiaoyu and Wang Dagou know each other.

Lin Qiantan couldn't tell what mood she was in, Wang Yuanzhao seemed to be deliberately alienating her, first a carrier pigeon, and then someone else to tell her the news.

But since she knew that the other party was not a big deal, Lin Qiantan was relieved.

But why were the houses in Qianshi Village smashed to pieces?

Lin Qiantan and Xiaoyu chatted, saying everything, and after saying this and that, Lin Qiantan accidentally listened to a few words of Qingchuan's news.

Xiaoyu told her that the person named Qingchuan had now made a name for himself in the painting boat.

"I do business at the docks every day, how can I not know her? When she sees people all the time, she says that she has met a black-hearted master, which causes her a bad fate......"

As the "black-hearted" master in Qingchuan's mouth, when he heard this, he didn't feel angry in his heart, only laughed.

*

Wang Yuanzhao also wanted to know how his house was smashed by someone. The villagers of Qianshi are simple and simple, and they are not a place of great wealth, and there is nothing worth it in his Wang family's house.

Xia Sanniang told him about this matter, and after he knew about it, he thought that there was nothing to do in Beijing for the time being, so he went back to take a look in person. There is also an old man in the house, I don't know what happened.

Wang Yuanzhao didn't have the opportunity to see the eldest brother, who has always had a good relationship with his mother, and would have a dispute with his mother Xia Sanniang.

In the streets and alleys where pedestrians come and go, chickens and dogs smell each other, and in that house, the mother and son are talking behind closed doors to say things that people outside can't hear clearly.

Wang Dagou questioned loudly, but it was just a sentence of "Does the mother treat her younger brother as a son", accusing the mother of not fulfilling her mother's duties.

The central meaning of Xia Sanniang's words back and forth is just "those who become big things are not informal".

"If he's here, what are we going to do?" Xia Sanniang didn't want to give birth to a son and be a thief, but she really couldn't believe that she was plotting those big things, could she let him know.

Thinking of this, Xia Sanniang sneered: "You are now bigger, your wings are hard, and you have your own opinions." I want to ask you, who stopped me from telling me back then, saying, 'My brother is still young, don't let him get involved in this'? As a result, this concealment has been concealed for so long.

Xia Sanniang was right, Wang Dagou couldn't refute it.

After Xia Sanniang finished speaking, she saw that Wang Dagou looked unhappy, as if she knew that her tone was a little heavier, and she loosened her expression again, "Yin'er, you still have responsibilities on you, even if I am wrong, you should also think about your dead father!" If it weren't for the group of dog thieves surnamed Yan, why would you be in this dilapidated house now, naturally you should be glorious, rich, and inexhaustible! Now you feel sorry for your brother for doing these things, but when it is done, he will thank you. When we take it home, you can just seal him a ......"

"Mother doesn't have to say it." Wang Dagou suddenly felt very tired.

He said he wanted to be quiet.

Everything my mother did was for him and not for him. He didn't want to figure out if his mother would be so kind to him if he didn't have that blood on his body!

Xia Sanniang didn't stop him.

Not much.

Many chests were brought in one after another in the mansion, all of which were the belongings they had looted from all over the world. All of a sudden, the royal family became a place to hide stolen goods.

Wang Dagou was disappointed in his mother again.

*

Wang Dagou is older than Wang Yuanzhao, and when Wang Yuanzhao still remembers, Wang Dagou has already gone up the mountain and down the water to adapt to the life of an ordinary fisherman. However, Xia Sanniang is different.

She refuses to accept the reality, and has been looking for the whereabouts of Jinghua Mengjingtu, and always tells him what will happen when they find it.

Since the beginning of the past few years, although people are still being sent to look for it, it is obviously not as enthusiastic as before.

Instead, he started to think crookedly.

In order to revive the Shaw. Xiao Chen could do anything she didn't bother to do before. Taking people's money is also vibrant: the world is surnamed Xiao, take a little money from the slave to spend it, what's wrong.

These stolen goods, which have just been brought back, are the evidence.

In order to hide, going home to visit her mother's son every day has become an obstacle for her to hide these treasures.

The more Wang Dagou thought about it, the more he was in a bad mood, so he simply went out to drink to relieve his boredom.

*

Wang Yuanzhao hurried day and night, and finally arrived at Qianshi Village two days later.

In the middle of the night, it was pitch black in the village, and there were few candles.

He followed the familiar route back to his house, where he had lived for ten or twenty years, and the house had been smashed as if it had been reported.

The house itself was not much damaged, but the contents of the house were removed, and even a few broken beds were not spared.

At first glance, the mess does look like an ordinary robbery.

But Wang Yuanzhao squatted down with sharp eyes and picked up a piece of broken wood, and after thinking for a while, the broken wood itself was nothing, but there were sword marks on it.

It's not so much an ordinary bandit, but rather a deliberate act of being prepared. Otherwise, who remembers to neatly cut through small pieces of wood with a sword when robbing a house without an owner?

Wang Yuanzhao ordered someone to clean up the house, and he stayed in the village for another night and a day, cleaned up the house, and when it was daytime, he went to the capital.

But when he came back and forth like this, how could he delay his work, and when he returned to the capital, it had already consumed two or three days.

He first went to his mother and told him about the situation in the old house. Xia Sanniang left him for a meal, and the look on Wang Dagou's face looked better.

"All the way," Wang Yuanzhao took a round orchid celadon from the hands of his subordinates behind him: "I saw the rouge that my mother liked, so I bought it back."

Xia Sanniang was a little embarrassed and uncomfortable when she heard it.

Wang Dagou looked at it and couldn't help but show a slight sarcasm on his face, ironically his mother and himself. When he was young, he went to the village, and when he came back, he also remembered to pick a few fruits on the tree and go home to honor his mother.

It's just that Xia Sanniang doesn't appreciate it very much.

This time, for the sake of large-scale action, not only carried a few boxes, but also frequently had former generals in and out of the Wang family, Xia Sanniang was afraid that her son would break it, so she simply directed and acted by herself, tricking Wang Yuanzhao out of Beijing and running back and forth.

Yunzhou Chuling Pavilion opened many branches in Tongzhou, Wang Yuanzhao saw it, and spent hundreds of taels of silver to buy one, Xia Sanniang really liked it, so he accepted it.

Wang Dagou had the heart to compensate his younger brother, so after Wang Yuanzhao came out of his mother, he abducted his younger brother to his house to talk.

Wang Yuanzhao naturally not only brought things to his mother, but also brought local products to his eldest brother: "These things, others don't know how good they are." Wang Dagou's favorite parent, stinky dried tofu, Xia Sanniang has always disliked that it is eaten by untouchables, and does not let her eldest son touch it.

Wang Dagou smiled: "It's still my own brother who understands me!"

The brothers talked together for a while, and Wang Yuanzhao left the Wang family, and before leaving, he reminded the brother not to show his stuffing in front of his mother before the taste in his mouth dissipated.

When Wang Yuanzhao came out of the house, he glanced back, stopped talking, and left without looking back after all.

The dead girl next to Lin Qiantan is related to his blood grandfather, but this is the place where Mei died!

*

Day and night transition. Wang Yuanzhao went back to Lin's house to sleep as usual.

In the middle of the night, behind the grass pile somewhere outside the capital, there was a sound of construction. It was Ma Laoqi who was working overtime there with a group of people. In the wilderness, a group of men didn't even have to go to a thatched house, so they couldn't help it, so they had to find a random haystack to solve the problem.

Ma Laoqi was standing behind the tree for convenience, but he inadvertently saw a few obvious fires flickering in the mountains in the distance, and before he could see clearly, there was no shadow.

Ma Laoqi paid attention to this matter, and went to send a message to his boss Lin Qiantan on the second day. There are people in the mountains, and Lin Qiantan is not unusual.

What Ma Laoqi said is exactly where the White Horse Temple is located.

Lin Qiantan told him to keep staring.

I can't help but think of that cold pool.

Since there are some cats in the mountains, who are those weapons that are not badly made? And who spends the effort to "borrow" things from the imperial court arsenal little by little every year?

Ma Laoqi, who sent away the women's clothes, Lin Qiantan took the hand of Ji Yue, who happened to report back to the house, and once again looked at Ji Yue all over her body.

Ji Yue's heart is warm, follow her.

The scenery was seriously injured, and now she was taken to Zhou Yi to be raised, and Lin Qiantan hadn't taken a look at it yet. Ji Yue came back by herself.

"Is she okay now!?"

Ji Yue smiled, meaning something: "She." Okay. ”

Speaking of which, Jiyue is still a little jealous. Before the scenery was injured, she and her twin sister were as good as a person. Although he had some good feelings for Zheng Hao, it was just a good impression.

Ji Yue half-jokingly accused her sister of how she had no humanity in the opposite sex these days.

With Zheng Hao, she even eats more.

But the two of them didn't break it, Zheng Hao thought about Mei in his heart, and he had already vowed to stay for Mei for three years, and the scenery was not in a hurry, she also thought about Mei taking care of herself, and didn't mention her feelings at all. The two of them get along with each other as if they were really brothers and sisters.

Lin Qiantan couldn't help but think, if Mei knew, she might be relieved.

"What about you?" Lin Qiantan asked.

Ji Yue was slightly stunned for a moment. Naturally, there is still a little bit of someone's shadow in her heart, but it is not a shadow that is so thick that it can't be dissolved, and there seems to be a little bit of family affection between her and that person.

She then smiled: "If the master doesn't dislike it, the slave and maid will be like Jinhe, staying by the master's side all the time, and not going anywhere."

Lin Qiantan also treated her as a joke.

Ji Yue still has to go back, and when he walked to the door, he seemed to remember an incident that he accidentally discovered when he lived in the farmer's house.

"On the back mountain, there is some movement every night." She and Fengguang have both practiced martial arts since childhood, and their ears are already more sensitive than ordinary people, especially at night, the sound is even more obvious, and the two carefully identified and confirmed the direction.

Originally, she was going to say something as soon as she came, but wasn't she interrupted by the girl who came in to report the news?

Yin Wei tossed around, but the Qi family and the Chu family didn't catch any of them, but the four princes took the lead and officially mentioned it to the Lin family and asked Lin Bixiang to go.

Ji Yue left, but Lin Qiantan calmed down and turned back to think about Lin Bixiang.

No matter how the fourth prince says, he is also a prince, and he comes to the door seriously, so the Lin family has to think about it. If Yin Wei is going to buy and leave, then the action will be fast.

After all, Shen is not in good health.

Shen now seems to know that his body is getting weaker and weaker, and every day he tries to find a way to live as long as possible, so as not to delay the marriage of several granddaughters who have not yet married. A mother's heart is touching.

According to Yin Wei, she will not hesitate for long.

And Lin Shuchen ......

and failed to reach a family relationship with the Zhongyi County Palace, the Zhongyi County Palace was previously reprimanded by Emperor Tianlong, and now even if the emperor is not in the capital, he is honest like something.

Because of this, the marriage of the juniors in the house was delayed.

I heard that Lin Zirong hasn't seen his friends for a few days.

Lin Shuchen was naturally very anxious.

Lin Qiantan thought that in two days, when the moon was full in Zhennanhou's Mansion, most of the people from the Zhongyi County Mansion would go, and then she could explore the bottom of the Zhongyi County Palace.