The garden next door is still lively, and the moment the group walked out of the Heavenly Master Dao, they suddenly had a feeling of sudden enlightenment.

It was early to come, there were not so many people on the street, and now it was the middle of the day, when Chang'an City began to be lively, and there was an endless stream of cars, horses and pedestrians.

Pei Qingqing looked at the sky, the dark clouds that had been dense before had dispersed, she tied the umbrella in her hand to her back, and said, "It seems that Qin Tianjian's notice can't be disbelieved, I didn't bring an umbrella if I knew it was so." ”

"I'll get an umbrella!" Qiao Ran took the umbrella, turned his head and glanced at the Heavenly Master Daozhong again, and then said, "At this hour, these two families haven't even opened their doors. ”

The two families she said were naturally Jiao and Yuan.

Zhang Xie followed her gaze and glanced there, and said, "It's been like this since I came back from Shanxi Road." ”

These two are so low-key that they are so low-key that they will be ignored.

Of course, it is impossible to really ignore it.

"There's nothing going on in the palace these days, and Your Highness has heard that it's stabilized." Zhang Xie snorted lightly and shook his head slightly, "They seem to want to recuperate." ”

"Then let's rest!" The girl retracted her gaze as she spoke, and turned back to the busy Huang Tiandao, "It's best not to have any conflicts right now." ”

Of course, she didn't believe that Jiao and Yuan would easily let go of her former chess piece, and similarly, Jiao and Yuan didn't believe that she would be obedient, but at the moment, no one wanted to take that step first to confront her head-on.

Pei Qingqing, who was jumping as she walked, made a noise with her gift box.

Zhang Jie, who was walking behind Pei Qingqing with Qiao Ran, heard this voice, so he asked Qiao Ran: "What did she bring, why did she still have this voice?" ”

Qiao Ran said, "She brought a rattle. ”

After a pause, he opened his mouth and said, "...... It's good that the mind arrives. ”

Obviously, as an adult, he can't quite understand the gift given by Pei Qingqing.

Qiao Ran smiled and said, "I brought some notebooks to relieve boredom and some ordinary gifts for visiting patients, what did you bring?" ”

Zhang explained: "Some of the medicinal materials that Chengze can use. ”

It's a gift that they love a lot more than they do.

Sure enough, you can also see from the gift that the relatives are far away! Qiao Ran sighed secretly.

Although the case has been closed, and Qiao Ran has not taken out the piece of "Ru I am here" to show off his might, I don't know if the previous order of Old Lady Xie has not been revoked, and when the group arrived at the Xie family's mansion, the steward of the Xie family directly omitted the "notification" and took them directly to Xie Chengze's courtyard.

As soon as he entered the courtyard gate, Pei Qingqing shouted.

"Xie Chengze, we're coming to see you!"

This sound successfully made a "muffled" sound in the main room in the middle, and then the door of the back room opened, Xu and Xiu walked out of the house, and when they saw the three of them, they were stunned at first, and then angrily turned to the Xie family steward on the side, and asked: "Why don't they even report when they come, but I have to wait outside to wait for a report when I come to visit my friends?" ”

The housekeeper of the Xie family glanced at Qiao Ran on the side and replied, "The old lady has ordered before, and Master Qiao doesn't need to be polite when he comes." ”

There is such treatment! Xu Hexiu was envious, paused, and began to look at the gifts carried by several people, and then asked with interest: "What gifts did you bring, I'll take a look...... Yo, Pei Qingqing, you also prepared a gift? ”

The size of the gift box is different, and the gift box in the little girl's hand looks cute and eye-catching.

"Of course, I know how to do things." Pei Qingqing's little face was serious, and she walked in behind Qiao Ran.

The screen was moved aside, Xie Chengze was wearing a robe and half leaning on the back of the bed, compared to that day's pale face, although today's situation is still not good-looking, but it is obviously much better than that day.

At Pei Qingqing's urging, they were "forced to show the gifts they had given to visitors".

Nothing strange, all expected gifts.

"It's really practical for the two of you." Xu Hexiu "commented" on the side, "One for Cheng Ze to replenish his body, and the other for him not to be bored when he is recuperating, which is much more useful than those gold and silver utensils." ”

Chengze is not short of money, and those things are just sent to decorate the house.

At this moment, Pei Qingqing couldn't wait to open her gift box, and then she was startled and asked Qiao Ran: "Miss Qiao, why is the green plum I put in yesterday missing?" ”

In the end, because of Miss Qiao's joining, she had the upper hand and successfully stuffed the bag of green plums she didn't like into a box as a gift, why did it disappear as soon as she opened it today?

"Did you take the red beans secretly?"

"I didn't take the red bean, I took it." Qiao Ran said and glanced at the tea cup in his hand, the tea in it was thick, only the bitterness of tea, and there was no other taste.

"Lord Xie doesn't like to eat this kind of astringent green plum." She said.

Qiao Ran thought about it last night, but still didn't use the bag of green plums to test Xie Chengze, one such a temptation is too inferior, if the other party is really Xie Chengze, it is inevitably a little inappropriate, and the tea cup in his hand can already prove that the person who is half leaning on the bed does not like green plum tea, and it is pointless to try again.

"Yes, Cheng Ze doesn't eat that thing." Xu Hexiu was stunned, and then said, "In the future, you don't need to buy any green plums when you come to see Chengze." ”

Pei Qingqing scratched the back of her head, and said in her heart that she was just afraid of wasting, and she couldn't send out the green plums right now, so she could only find a way to pinch her nose and eat it by herself.

After muttering a few words, the little girl took out the rattle in the box, handed it to Xie Chengze, and said with a glance: "I specially bought it for you." ”

Looking at Xie Chengze, who was suddenly stuffed with a rattle, this meeting ...... Xu Hexiu only felt that he was blind, and turned his head to ask Qiao Ran: "Master Qiao, is this what you prepared?" Chengze has not yet married my tenth sister and has no children. ”

Qiao Ran shook her head and said, "It's not me, she bought it herself." ”

Xu Hexiu twitched the corners of his mouth, his eyes fell on Xie Chengze's body, and when he saw him, he looked at the rattle in his hand, suddenly shook it, and then said to Pei Qingqing with a smile: "Thank you, I like it very much." ”

After hearing this, Pei Qingqing suddenly squeezed her eyes excitedly at Qiao Ran, and was proud.

After Xie Chengze finished speaking, he called the little guy outside and asked the little guy to take Pei Qingqing to the side room to eat snacks.

After the little girl was happily taken away by the little girl, Xu Hexiu couldn't help but shake her head: "It turned out that I came to eat snacks." After that, he turned to peek at the people in the room and said, "Chengze, when you are better, remember to go back to Dali Temple as soon as possible, Dali Temple needs you." ”

Xie Chengze nodded.

Xu Hexiu looked at Qiao Ran and Zhang Xie who were sitting on the side, and said, "Tenth sister wants to come to see you." ”

Xie Chengze nodded again and said, "Okay, I know." ”

"What do you know?" Xu Hexiu glanced at him complainingly and said, "When that person pretended to be you, it really broke my tenth sister's heart." ”

"He should be afraid that if he gets close to Ah Yuan, he will notice something strange." Xie Chengze said and suddenly raised his hand to the shelf not far away, "He Xiu, you bring that stack of letters for me." ”

"Is it you and your tenth sister?" Xu Hexiu walked over and took the letter, Xie Chengze took it, and said, "I always want to see what this person has done during my absence." ”

"That person didn't reply to Miss Xu Shi's letter, I came here before to find your whereabouts." Qiao Ran put down the teacup in his hand, his eyes fell on the stack of letters in Xu Hexiu's hand, and he paused slightly, then looked away, "I've also seen some of it, I'm in a hurry, I'll tell you first." ”

Xie Chengze didn't care: "It's okay, there's nothing you can't say to people." ”

Actually came to peek at the letter? Xu Hexiu glanced at her with complicated eyes: he, as a brother, has never read the letter from the tenth sister and the future tenth brother-in-law!

"Your bed board is still in Dali Temple." Qiao Ran paused, and then said, "That person changed your identity probably because he was afraid that he would forget or for some other reason, so he secretly carved marks on the bed board. ”

As soon as these words came out, Xu Hexiu was a little surprised.

Too many things have happened in the past two days, so that he doesn't know too much about the process of recovering Cheng Ze, but he heard that Cheng Ze was locked up in Master Xie's villa.

"Since this person has assumed the identity of Chengze, why should he do such a thing, doesn't he leave a handle?" Xu Hexiu was puzzled.

Qiao Ran thought for a moment and said, "I don't think he was prepared to kill Master Xie." ”

"Yes, he has been missing for nearly a hundred days, and if he wants to kill me, he has countless chances to do it." Xie Chengze said and closed his eyes, "But he didn't." ”

Xu He said: "Is it because I am afraid that the situation is too complicated to deal with?" ”

"Not only that, he should have wanted to release Chengze after finishing his work." Zhang Xie said suddenly, he glanced at Xie Chengze, who was looking here, and retracted his gaze, "So I haven't killed Chengze all this time." ”

Xu Hexiu fell silent, and looked at Xie Chengze again with a little more doubt in his eyes.

Of course, this doubt is not to question his identity, but to wonder that this person seems to be a little extra "benevolent" to Cheng Ze, unlike the ordinary murderer who has kidnapped people.

"I think it's weird too." Xie Chengze shook his head as he spoke, and coughed twice, "Also, for some reason, he was born so similar to me." ”

It's not the resemblance of Yi Rong, but the appearance is extremely similar, and Xie Chengze himself has no brothers and sisters.

The room was quiet for a while, and suddenly I heard the voice of the little maid from outside: "Master Qiao, the old lady is invited." ”

Old gentleman? These words made everyone in the room stunned, and even Qiao Ran herself was a little surprised, and asked Zhang Jie: "I heard it right!" ”

Zhang Xie shook his head, got up and said loudly, "Can I go with us?" ”

"The old lady only invited Master Qiao alone." This time, it was not the little guy who spoke out, but the steward who came to pass the word.

Qiao Ran didn't hesitate any longer, got up and said, "In that case, then I'll go and see the old lady!" ”

Compared with the few men who were still hesitant, the girl walked very simply, and soon followed the steward out of the courtyard.

It wasn't until the girl came out of the yard that Zhang Xie retracted his gaze and turned to Xie Chengze, Xie Chengze hesitated for a moment, and then spoke: "I can probably guess what my grandfather sent someone to invite Master Qiao for?" ”

"For what?" Xu Hexiu came back to his senses and raised his feet to close the door.

Some words are better said behind closed doors.

Xie Chengze said: "During the days when I was imprisoned, I kept thinking about why that person looked so similar to me, and then I thought of a person ......."

……

"There are many people, and there are miscellaneous things, the old man had a cousin back then, and he didn't stay in his clan after the old man took charge of the Xie family, and went to Jiangnan."

Qiao Ran looked at the old man standing in front of him with his hands in his hands, and his expression was slightly condensed.

This powerful man who is in charge of the dynasty and the century-old clan has always been known for being bold, of course, boldness is really bold, otherwise she would not have invited a small Dali Temple official to the Xie main hall, and explained the reason openly.

"My brother-in-law has weak bones, nearly forty years old to have a son, and died not long after, that child is also a sick child like my brother-in-law, when the weak crown came to the house once, it is also interesting, the eldest and the little six, the mother is not very similar, but this child looks seven or eight points similar to the little six."

The little six in Taiwei Xie's mouth should refer to Xie Chengze's father, Xie Liuye.

"After leaving Chang'an, I heard that the child died within a few years, and the wife who married was sad and sick, but March also followed, leaving only one child. I thought I was going to send someone to pick up the child, but I didn't expect the child to be abducted. Taiwei Xie sighed, "I asked people to search for the vicinity of Jiangnan for several years, but it was still in vain, so I didn't continue to investigate." ”

Qiao Ran's eyebrows jumped: "What does Taiwei Xie mean that the person who gave birth to someone who is extremely similar to Xie Chengze is most likely that the child?" ”

Taiwei Xie nodded and said, "Cheng Ze looks like he followed his father, I heard that the deceased old servant mentioned that although the child is young, he seems to look like his father." ”

Qiao Ran didn't expect that Mrs. Xie would directly inform her of the answer to this mystery, and after thanking Mrs. Xie, Qiao Ran said, "Mrs. Xie told me frankly, is there anything you want me to do?" ”

A hint of appreciation flashed in the old man's eyes, and he said, "My request is very simple, I don't want you to continue to investigate." My Xie family has been in the dynasty for many years, and there are countless political enemies, so I don't want anyone to make a big fuss about this matter, involving my Xie family. ”

Taiwei Xie said and sighed: "The old man can take the head of Xiang Shangshang and guarantee to you that my brother's family has broken up early, even if the child is abducted and done something wrong, the person will die, even if you want to investigate, you can't find anything from the Xie family." ”

……

"Taiwei Xie actually has a brother-in-law!" Xu Hexiu was surprised when he heard Xie Chengze mention the Xie disciple who might have been similar to him.

"The old lady probably didn't want to make a big deal about it, so I asked Master Qiao to go over and talk about it." Xie Chengze said, "The Xie family is stared at by many people, and the clan is not bad, but it is also a piece of fat in the eyes of others, once it is involved in rebellion, ...... it."

Zhang Xie looked solemn: "The Xie family is different from the Zhang family. ”

The Xie family is powerful, once it is involved in a rebellion, it will definitely not sit still, and the consequences of the collision between the operation and the imperial power that have not failed for many years are immeasurable.

"Your Majesty is also different from the first emperor." After a pause, Zhang Xie continued, "But if this matter is known to some people, it is difficult to guarantee that His Majesty will not be forced to make a statement." ”

For example, the court party that wants to take advantage of this incident to turn itself over must be a great achievement.

Once the balance of power of the various parties in Great Chu is broken, it will be the best time for Shi Li like the Xiongnu to invade the mountains and rivers.