Episode 11: Who is behind the scenes?

At dawn, the fog enveloped all the villages in the mountains. A few dog barks in the distance pierced the sky, until the sound was heard all over the mountains. The branches of the tree were swaying in the wind, and a few leaves fell, and Chen Mu held his hands to catch it.

When the Yu family's carriage first arrived outside Bianjing City, several small servants changed their outfits and dressed up as passing merchants. They first found a restaurant to live in, and then wanted to go around the ruins of the Chen Mansion to find the sound and shadow of Chen Xin and Chen Mu. Across the street, you can see the miserable appearance of Chen's mansion burned into charcoal by the fire. Since this happened, there have been far fewer passers-by walking here than before. Although the wreckage of the Chen Mansion has been taken care of, when you get closer, you always feel that the air will be burned at any time.

Song Qi stopped and turned back to the people behind him and said, "Do you think those two daughters of the Chen family are really alive?"

A few of the little guys were silent. They just wanted to find the two daughters of the Chen family as soon as possible and bring them back to Quanzhou safely, and they didn't want to think about the rest.

"If they were still alive, they might be hiding somewhere." Little guy A said to Song Qi.

"Hidden? You mean there are other people looking for them too"? Song Qi asked rhetorically, and then stood on the side of the street and thought for a long time before continuing to speak: "Then let's take the Chen Mansion as the center and slowly inquire around, if we find that there are suspicious people looking for the whereabouts of the two daughters of the Chen family and discussing them in the restaurant, what do you think?"

"Just listen to Song Qi, let's look around separately." Guy A responded, and the other guys also agreed.

After inquiring about it in Bianjing City for four or five days, there is still no news of Chen Xin and Chen Mu's whereabouts. However, I heard many interesting things, such as the minister Cheng Lin presented the Empress Dowager Liu to the court, and the Empress Dowager Liu threw it on the ground and said: "I will never do this kind of thing." And Lord Ding, who leaned towards the government and the opposition, was also deposed from Beijing, and Lei Dujian was directly executed, and many ministers were implicated, who were either traitors or upright. Empress Dowager Liu, who took over the power of the imperial court, set off a storm in the court.

"Have you ever heard of where Chen Anqing's hometown is"? Song Qi suddenly asked.

"I heard the old man say it before, it seems to be a Xuchang clan." Guy A replied.

"Then we are looking for two days, if we still don't find it, we will go straight to Xuchang, and reply to the lord in time, so that the lord can rest assured." Song Qi shook his head helplessly.

Just as the group was about to leave, a middle-aged man with a face full of vicissitudes found them. He wore a long coat, which looked like he was deliberately dressed modestly, and his loose hair could be vaguely recognized as a perennial tight bundle.

A thick voice greeted him, and the man said, "As soon as you enter Bianjing, my master will know." I wanted to see if you could find those two girls, but I didn't expect to waste my time, come on, arrest them all." As soon as the words fell, a group of soldiers with swords rushed in, and the scene was chaotic for a while, and Song Qi and his party were arrested, and the soldiers took out black cloth and covered their heads.

After the constant jolting, the black cloth was torn off, and Song Qi and his party were thrown into a dimly lit house, where the thatch on the ground was scattered haphazardly, and rats creaked through it from time to time.

"Who are you? Who sent you to find those two girls? It's better to answer honestly, otherwise our torture equipment here is no worse than the government's." The middle-aged man asked.

Song Qi was silent, and the few little guys didn't pay attention to him. "Okay, it seems that you are all hard bones, then I will make you comfortable and comfortable, give you loose bones, and try the style of the guys in our house." Angry, he asked a few janitors to escort Song Qi out, and after some tossing, the middle-aged man didn't get the answer he wanted, so he shook his hand and left.

"Master, those guys haven't recruited the bottom line, and there is no news from the ones we sent out to inquire." The middle-aged man said to a figure behind the screen.

"Then kill them all, if someone wants to oppose me, I want to see who it is, keep one of them back, and then send someone to follow." A delicate voice came from behind, and at first glance it sounded like a yellow bird coming out of the valley, like an orchid in the hollow valley.

"The villain will do it". The middle-aged man said to her.

It stands to reason that Song Qi was let go by them, and the group still put a black cloth on his head and threw him on the street. He hurriedly ran out of Bianjing City, not wanting to stay longer for a moment. After leaving Bianjing City, he planned to go to Xuchang alone, and the things that the master explained must be completed, but he still wrote a letter first to tell Yu Jian about the situation here.

So the question is, where are Chen Xin and Chen Mu? In fact, they are already in Fujian at this moment. More than two months ago, after Chen Xin and Chen Mu witnessed their parents being burned to death by fire, they were taken by Xu Li and Xu Mu all the way to the south, in order not to attract the attention of others, Xu Li took Chen Mu, Xu Mu and Chen Xin walked separately one after the other, and they picked remote paths to walk, because Xu Li and Xu Mu knew that someone was looking for them.

"Let's go, the front is Yu Mansion." Xu Li said to them.

Pushing open the gate of the Yu Mansion, everyone followed the little maid into the mansion, Wang and Yu Zhaoling were resting in the courtyard, they hadn't been so leisurely for a long time. Wang saw from a distance that several people were about to come over, and she didn't react for a while, whose daughter came to Yu Mansion to do something.

"Auntie". Chen Xin and Chen Mu shouted at Wang.

At this time, the Wang family reacted, and it turned out to be the two girls from the Chen family.

"How did you come to Quanzhou? Didn't you meet the people sent to Bianjing by the master? Come on, come on, show me, I've lost a lot of weight along the way, quick, Xinghua go and tell the kitchen to cook more tonight." Wang put her hands on both sides of Chen Xin's arms, she looked at the girl in front of her seriously, she was born a good student Peugeot, she didn't have the opportunity to take a closer look before, but today she looked at it carefully, it really made her eyes shine.

"The wilderness path we walked didn't meet." Chen Xin replied.

"Why don't you leave the road open"? Wang asked stupidly.

"Bad people are looking for us". Chen Mu muttered softly behind his back. Seeing that Chen Mu's tears were about to fall, Wang hugged her into his arms. "Don't be afraid, aunt is here, don't be afraid."

Soon, Yu Jian returned home. I was really surprised to see these two girls. "How did you get here? Have you ever met someone I sent out? Yu Jian asked one after another.

"Don't ask, let her sisters eat first, they haven't eaten a decent meal for so many days." Wang said on the side.

Yu Jian nodded again and again: "Mmmm, eat first, eat first."

Yu lit the oil lamp in the house, and the night came quietly. Yu Rui and Yu Cheng were tired in Huaininghou's mansion today, Huaininghou invited a horseback riding gentleman to teach them to ride a horse, facing the tall horse Yu Cheng's heart was full of fear, he was afraid that he would fall off the horse, but he was not afraid of pain, but it was really embarrassing in front of everyone. Yu Rui was very bold, went up directly from the left side of the horse, held the reins with his left hand, kicked the stirrup with his left foot, and went up as soon as he jumped. After a few tosses, the horse was finally tamed. Peng Yin watched Yu Rui riding on horseback in a dashing manner, and suddenly her good impression of him rose a few points. Xiao Lei saw that the Yongyi Marquis's family was also preparing to get on the horse, so she smiled and said to Cheng; "You go up quickly, don't let people laugh at you for being cowardly." Yu Cheng looked at Xiao Lei with an innocent smile on his face, and was fascinated by her unconsciously~~~

Ahem, Yu Jian coughed lightly. "Yu Cheng, what are you doing in a daze?"

"Daddy, no, Cheng'er didn't think about anything." Yu Cheng explained in a panic.

"Uh-huh, let's go and rest early if there's nothing to do." Yu Jian said to Rui and Yu Cheng.

The two guys were lying on the bed tossing and turning and couldn't sleep, they were thinking about the two girls who came to the house today. Is it just out of sympathy? Perhaps, because now they can't imagine what kind of entanglement they will have with them in the future.

At the same time, in He's house, Yu Jian was sitting next to Mrs. Yu, and they were asking Xu Li and Xu Mu about the detailed process of the fire in Chen Anqing's house. Old Lady Yu looked at these two poor girls and couldn't help but feel pity.

"Girl, come and sit next to Grandmother." Old lady Yu said to them.

Old Lady Yu's wrinkled palm gently stroked Chen Xin and Chen Mu's cheeks. "Good boy, you have suffered, and when you come to your grandmother in the future, your grandmother will love you."

Yu Jian and Wang were shocked when they heard this, what is the situation?

Mrs. Yu said to Xu Li and Xu Mu: "Come on, you two tell me what you know."

Xu Li and Xu Mu looked at each other, and then Xu Li said: "Mrs. Qiyu, my lord drank and drank unconscious that day, and then it happened that somehow the people in the house went to the front yard, and when he walked out of the water, Mrs. and Xiaocui helped the master to go to the wing room."

"Mother, it seems that this fire is not simple." Yu Jian said to the old lady.

The old lady blurted out in a moment: "I am afraid that someone in the court who can have such a ability is ~~~ who dares to do it in the Imperial History Mansion, but he can guess one or two."

"What does Mother mean? Is it the Queen Mother's side"? Yu Jian said cautiously.

"I'm not completely sure, doesn't it mean that there are still people chasing these two girls? There will be letters from those whom you have sent out." Mrs. Yu asked.

Yu Cheng seemed to feel guilty in his heart: "The letter I sent back a few days ago said that they were not far from Bianjing, and there was no letter recently."

"Have you ever seen these two girls in the people chasing you"? Old Lady Yu asked Xu Li and Xu Mu anxiously.

Xu Li paused for a while and said, "No, no, it was our brothers who found that someone was following us when they went out to buy goods, and no one has ever seen the two girls."

Mrs. Yu took a deep breath and exhaled it slowly, the old lady's asthma made her not too emotional: "That's good, that's good." Chen Xin and Chen Mu gently stroked the old lady's back with their hands, and when she breathed a sigh of relief, Chen Xin knelt on the ground. "The Chen family suffered this great disaster, thanks to the kindness of the uncle and aunt and grandmother, but the revenge of the parents cannot be avenged, the little daughter pleads with the grandmother here, and the uncle and aunt track down the murderer for the little girl, and the little daughter is grateful here." Seeing this, Chen Mu also knelt on the ground.

Old Lady Yu hurriedly stood up and helped them up: "Silly boy, this is all your Uncle Yu's business, you don't have to worry." Although our Yu family is not a famous family, there is still justice. After all, this matter is a major event, and you and I still don't know how many people are involved, and how powerful the people involved are, so we can only think about it in the long run, and wait for a few years to calm down, and it is not too late to return to Beijing."

"Thank you grandmother, thank you grandmother". The two girls knelt on the ground again and kowtowed.

"Alas, what two poor children". Old lady Yu looked at Yu Jian and said to him: "You have Yu Rui and Yu Cheng in front of you, and you have to take care of Yu Ling'er in the Wang family, my old woman's house is very deserted, let these two girls move over and live with me in the future."

Yu Cheng stood up from the stool and chair, bent down and said to the old lady: "Mother really understands the righteousness, and being a son is really sorry for his mother, and I don't know how to report my mother's great kindness."

"You are filial piety to be an official above the court, okay, I'm tired, you go down first, pack up the luggage of the core girl and Mu girl, and move over." Old lady Yu said to everyone.

"Okay, the mother's son retired first."

"The daughter-in-law also left first". Wang said weakly in the back.

Walking out of the door, the Wang family began to complain: "Hmph, my mother brought those two girls to raise them, what kind of rules is this."

Yu Jian looked at Wang's big resentment, she had always been gentle and considerate, and she actually started a temper today, Yu Jian didn't react for a while: "Mother is also afraid that you will be tired, besides, Xin'er and Mu'er live in the house, we just take care of Chen Anqing, okay, don't be angry, if you are angry, you will be disturbed if you are angry."

"You hate". Wang's angry smile hung on his face.

The tranquility of the night makes people forget their troubles, and those who fall asleep feel that the world becomes lovelyโ€”โ€”โ€” end of this chapter