"Then you don't have to invite me to dinner." Shen Tong smiled with crooked eyebrows.

Xiao Ren frowned, is it funny?

Forget it, she looks better when she laughs than when she holds a knife, so laugh.

"Then you say, how can I thank you?" Xiao Ren said coldly with a straight face.

How can anyone thank someone with an ice cube face? Shen Tong thought of Xiao Ren in his previous life, Xiao Ren should have been twenty-two years old at that time, calm and wise, and strategic......

"Why don't you speak, what do you think?" Xiao Ren asked.

"Ah...... I'm thinking about what you'll be like when you grow up. Shen Tong said with a smile.

Xiao Ren was stunned, and his face, which was still cold as frost just now, turned red to the root of his ears.

“...... If you don't say anything, I'll leave. He said this, but his feet seemed to be nailed to the ground, and he did not move.

Shen Tong was a little strange, she didn't say anything, why did Xiao Ren blush?

"You can help me find out." Shen Tong said.

"What's the matter?" Xiao Ren asked.

"About ten years ago, there was a family surnamed Lan in Yulin, who moved from the capital and was good at making rouge gouache", Shen Tong paused when he said this, and said, "That year, there was a Tartar near Yulin and killed many people, and the family surnamed Lan was also among them." ”

Yulin is an important border town, in the northwest with Xi'an, and Yulin is known as the "small capital", and the degree of prosperity is no less than that of Xi'an.

Unlike the kings of Yu and Gui, the fiefdoms of the kings of Yan and Qin were far more than the cities they saw on the surface. When Emperor Taizu was in power, he awarded two tiger talismans to King Yan and King Qin.

They have the duty to guard the border and defend against foreign enemies.

Although the king of Qin was in Xi'an, Yulin, Zhangye and other places had his soldiers and horses.

Shen Tong asked Xiao Ren to investigate what happened in Yulin ten years ago, and he found the right person.

"This surname Lan is a relative of your Shen family?" Xiao Ren asked, but after thinking about it, he vetoed it again, "No, then who is he?" ”

The Shen family was wiped out by the Nine Clans, where are there any relatives, even if there are some in-laws who are not within the Nine Clans, I am afraid that they have already drawn a clear line with the Shen family, and Shen Tong will never inquire about them.

Shen Tong smiled: "It's inconvenient to say." ”

Well, four words sent him away.

The corners of Xiao Ren's mouth moved, and he finally swallowed back what he wanted to say.

It was he who said that he wanted to thank people, and now that they asked him to help, he asked again and again, and it didn't seem to be very good.

"Well, I'll let you know when there's news." After speaking, Xiao Ren's body moved, but his feet still didn't move.

"Are you okay?" Shen Tong asked him curiously.

"You found your mother?" Although Xiao Ren had already guessed it, he still wanted to ask.

"Well, I found it." Shen Tong said.

"Congratulations." Indeed, it is worth congratulating that not everyone in this world can be reunited with their loved ones.

"Thank you", Shen Tong remembered the box of osmanthus snacks when she came out of the capital, and she asked, "Is the sugar osmanthus delicious?" ”

"Hmm."

......

At this moment, a cat meow was suddenly heard.

"Meow ......"

Shen Tong didn't move, Fang Fei screamed, and Xiao Ren subconsciously looked for the voice.

I saw a touch of gold and disappeared.

"You have cats here, huh?" Xiao Ren asked.

Without waiting for Shen Tong to speak, Fang Fei immediately rushed to say, "Wild cat, it's a wild cat!" ”

Xiao Ren ignored her, looked at Shen Tong and said, "My cat is lost, if you want to raise it, I'll go and ask you for another one." ”

"Again? Didn't you pick up that cat? Shen Tong regretted it after speaking, how good it was to lift this topic.

"I lost my ...... anyway"

Xiao Ren stopped talking, and Shen Tong went to look at him and found that his face seemed to be even redder.

......

That day, Xiao Ren came back from Academy Street and took out the jar of sugar osmanthus from under the Luohan bed.

He hasn't opened it yet.

Now that there are no cats in the house, let's put them on the Treasure Pavilion.

Xiao Ren put the blue and white jar with sugar osmanthus on the table, and remembered one more thing.

Zhongling County Lord......

He returned to the palace overnight and found Zhou Zheng.

Zhou Zheng listened to his speculation and was silent.

After a long time, Zhou Zheng said: "The county lord of Zhongling brought six people from the capital, including two grandmothers and four maids. Although the house also arranged suitable people, they could not get close to ...... If she is really the queen mother's princess of Qin, it's easy to say, I'm afraid she's not! ”

Xiao Ren understood what Zhou Zheng meant, and he said, "The top priority is to see if she really has martial arts. ”

If the county lord of Zhongling is armed with martial arts, then this matter is even more complicated.

Zhou Zheng said: "My father once said that although Su Juma once served in the army, he was not a military general who led the troops to fight, he was a civilian official. ”

There are very few civil official families who train their daughters to practice martial arts.

Zhou Zheng thought for a while and said, "I'll let the capital inquire about the details of this Zhongling County Lord." ”

Five days later, news came from the capital, several sons of the Su family have no martial arts, the empress dowager liked to play polo when she was young, and now she is old, she can't play anymore, but she still likes to watch polo, and every spring she will watch polo in the palace, in addition to the eunuchs and palace maids in the palace, there are also nobles in the capital. But among these noble girls, there are the Yang family, but there is no Su family.

As for the lord of Zhongling County, it is said that she was sick when she was young, and a high monk told her fortune, saying that she had to stay in the nunnery for nine years before she could take her home, otherwise her life would not be long.

The county lord of Zhongling returned to Beijing in the autumn, but she grew up in the nunnery since she was a child, developed a cold temperament, she likes to be quiet, does not like to be lively, rarely goes out after returning to Beijing, and occasionally goes out to the temple to incense, therefore, the aristocratic circle in the capital only knows that there is such a county lord, but there are very few people who have seen her.

Zhou Zheng sneered: "She usually doesn't go out of the door, but she came to Xi'an for a painting?" ”

Xiao Ren said: "What do the people around her say? ”

The so-called people around her refer to the people who were placed next to the county lord of Zhongling.

It's a pity that none of these people can get close to the county lord of Zhongling, either doing rough work in the courtyard, or they can only pass on the word and food.

Zhou Zheng shook his head: "Mrs. Ding and Yining have been to see her a few times, just like when they first came, they are polite and detached, and they can't see anything. She has been in Xi'an for a few days, and she has never gone out, Mrs. Ding is organizing a banquet for her, and will invite the officials and relatives of Xi'an City to come over, she declined at first, and then agreed. By the way, Yining said that she has always worn a skirt and a waist. ”

The performance of the county lord of Zhongling is completely the attitude that a noble girl should have, if it weren't for Yining noticing her dress, I'm afraid no one would think much about it.

King Qin saw the county lord of Zhongling once, that was the day after the county lord of Zhongling arrived in Xi'an, imitating the family banquet of the ancient rites, sitting on the ground, each person has a small few, Zhongling County officiating a complete number of ceremonies, generous and decent, and the subtleties are even more elegant than Yining.