In the evening of the next day, Xie Zheng sat in the pavilion, leaning on his side, holding a book in his hand, but he only glanced at it twice and closed the book again. ”

Xie Zheng sighed lightly, but said in a very low voice as if talking to himself: "It's been two days, and there is no news at all." ”

Yuzhi looked at her, as if she had something to say, but she wanted to say and stopped, Xie Zheng didn't notice it, and then asked her: "You say, what is it that the county marquis is so urgent that he has to set off overnight?" ”

"Lady, there is one thing about the slave, I don't know whether to say it or not."

Xie Zheng glanced at her, "Since you have spoken, what else should you say?" ”

Yuzhi said: "The slaves just heard from the people in the front yard that when they cleaned up the county marquis's house in the morning, they saw a letter under the bed, which was a letter written by the master's mother to the county marquis, which stated that the county marquis wanted to go back to the county and meet with the lady of the Xue family in Hedong...... The slave guessed that the county marquis went out this time, presumably in response to the master's mother's wishes, and went to the door. ”

After hearing this, Xie Zheng frowned and said, "I see that he is not impatient or impatient on weekdays, but now he is so anxious when he says that he wants to meet." ”

Yuzhi hurriedly said: "This is just slave speculation, but it may not be true." ”

Suddenly, I heard a servant shouting not far away: "The county marquis is back!" The county marquis is back! ”

Xie Zheng was surprised, Jiankang is more than 400 miles away from Qian County, even if it is just a trip, only two days is definitely not enough, not to mention that it is a trip, but how can Huan Ling ......

Yuzhi said happily: "Lady, I heard that the county marquis is back, don't you go and take a look?" ”

Before the words fell, Huan Ling himself found it, Zeng Qionglin followed behind him, both of them were dusty, it seemed that they were tired of traveling for the past two days, and they must have been tired.

Xie Zheng stood up and looked at Huan Ling approaching, she smiled and quipped: "The county marquis is back, how is the lady of the Xue family in Hedong?" Can the county marquis still be eye-catching? ”

Huan Ling was stunned for a moment, and seemed a little confused, Xie Zheng continued to laugh: "In this way, this lady of the Xue family in Hedong has not entered the eyes of the county marquis, I have heard that the ladies of the Xue family in Hedong are all like immortals, and the county marquis's vision is quite high." ”

"What? What is the lady of the Xue family in Hedong? Huan Ling was confused by her, he couldn't remember it at all, he looked at Yuzhi, and Yuzhi explained: "Didn't the county marquis go to the Xiangmen?" ”

Huan Ling was surprised, "How do you know?" ”

Xie Zheng asked: "Could it be that this matter is true?" ”

Huan Ling laughed out loud and teased: "What are you asking for?" ”

Xie Zheng glanced at him and said, "The matchmaker has come to the door to say that he has kissed several times, but he has been rejected by you every time, and now you will go to the door, I am just curious." ”

"It's only been two days since I've been out this time, do you think I'll be in time to get there?" Huan Ling guessed that she had seen the letter he had lost earlier, or she had heard the rumors of the broken mouths in the front yard. Xie Zheng didn't say anything more when she heard this, and what Huan Ling said was exactly what she had doubts in her heart.

Huan Ling was still full of spring breeze, and he no longer played dumb with Xie Zheng, and explained: "My mother once wrote to urge me to go back to Qian County to meet Xue Niangzi, but that was two months ago, besides, I didn't pay attention to this matter, I haven't even seen the face of Xue Niangzi, who knows if she can get into my eyes." ”

Xie Zheng seemed to be a little gloating, and said with a smile: "That's a pity, if the county marquis really went back to meet her, he must have married her by now." ”

Huan Ling looked at her, seeing that she was sometimes happy about his meeting, and sometimes regretted it, seeing that she wanted him to go to the door like this, guessing that she didn't care about him at all, she was deeply unhappy in her heart, Yuzhi noticed it, and was busy playing a round: "The county marquis doesn't know, in the past two days that you have been away, the lady has been thinking about when you will come back." ”

Xie Zheng was afraid that Huan Ling would think too much, so he immediately defended with Yuzhi: "You and I live in the Hou Mansion, so naturally we have to care about the safety of the county Hou. ”

Huan Ling's face sank immediately after hearing this, he took out a sachet the size of a money bag from his sleeve pocket, handed it to Xie Zheng, and said: "I am going to Hexian to pick incense for you, a few days ago Yuzhi told me that the dipterocarp in your house is about to run out, I asked someone to inquire around, and learned that there were merchants from Ningzhou in Hexian County, so I hurriedly took people to go, and I didn't have time to inform you when I left." ”

Xie Zheng was a little stunned, hesitantly took the sachet, smiled with Huan Ling, and only said: "There is a Marquis of Lao County, thank you." ”

"No need to say thank you," Huan Ling and Xie Zheng were inexplicably unfamiliar, and he turned around and left after speaking.

Yuzhi and Xie Zheng looked at him and took Zeng Qionglin away, and some of them said: "Lady, my county marquis treats you better than himself." ”

"Don't talk nonsense! I am friends with the county marquis, I have never crossed the line, and I will never cross it! Xie Zheng clenched the sachet in his hand and turned back to the house.

On this side, Huan Ling and Zeng Qionglin had already walked to the front yard, their faces were still cold, Zeng Qionglin followed behind him, and couldn't help complaining: "I really don't know why the county marquis treats her so hard, let's go back and forth to Hexian all the way, just in exchange for her 'thank you'?" ”

"A 'thank you' is enough," Huan Ling smiled inexplicably.

Zeng Qionglin asked in surprise: "Should the county marquis admire her?" ”

"So what?" Huan Ling said easily, but Zeng Qionglin was uneasy, "Could it be that the county marquis still wants to marry her?" ”

Huan Ling smiled and said nothing, but the pace was a little faster, Zeng Qionglin quickly followed, and said: "The master mother only has the Xue family's lady in her heart......

Before Zeng Qionglin finished speaking, Huan Ling interrupted, he only said: "I won't marry Xue Guanzhi!" ”

Zeng Qionglin was stunned, and asked again: "How does the county marquis plan to explain the master's mother?" ”

"Don't confess!" Huan Ling put down these words, then entered the house by himself, and closed the door smoothly, leaving Zeng Qionglin out of the door, Zeng Qionglin seemed to have eaten a closed door, standing at the door and hovering, muttering to himself: "I'm afraid that the master's mother will be impulsive one day and take the Xue family's lady to find Jiankang, it will not be good." ”

When night fell, Xiao Zhen sat in the study and ate alone, Yin Luo hurriedly found a bag with him, and said: "Your Highness, the horseman found a bag under the saddle of the barehoof horse, and it was suspected to be an important thing, so he sent it to the lowly office." ”

"Tips?" Xiao Zhen was full of confusion, Yin Luo handed over the bag, he took it and looked at it, only to see that the bag was embroidered with a hibiscus pattern, and there was a ripple in his heart, and then, he poured out a letter from the bag, he opened it and looked at it, and was stunned, the letter wrote: Jiankang is in crisis, the birthday banquet hides a killing machine, and the soldiers are already in the neck, please Your Highness immediately pass the book to Yuzhou Thorn Shi Liu Shilong, and order him to lead the troops into Beijing to protect His Royal Highness.

Xiao Zhen looked at the handwriting on the letter, which was exactly the same as Xie Yu's handwriting, and he looked at the hibiscus flowers embroidered on the brocade bag, and for a moment, he thought it was Xie Yu who came to write, but Xie Yu had died, how could it be her!

Suddenly, a very faint fragrance came to the nose, quite familiar, it seemed to be the dipterocarp that I had smelled in Huanling Mansion today, Xiao Zhen carefully sniffed the bag in his hand, and sure enough!

Now he understood! He was so angry that he immediately rushed out of the door with a bag, Yin Luo hurriedly followed out, and shouted: "Your Highness! ”

Xiao Xun only said: "No need to follow!" ”

After saying that, he disappeared.