"Zeng Jiuyan gave it to me?"

In the courtyard of the Bai family, Bai Ling took the paper roll handed over by Bai Yi with some hesitation.

"What's in here, have you seen it?"

"Nope." Bai Yi said softly, "He only asked me to hand it over to you, but didn't say let me see it." ”

The paper roll was slightly heavy in his hand, and Bai Ling removed the string on it, and as soon as he unfolded it, one or two pieces of letter paper inside fell out. She leaned over to pick it up, and by the moonlight, the first two lines of the letter paper were printed in her eyes—

"Brother Hui Shi, don't come to harm's okay?"

Bai Ling frowned, and quickly picked up the letter. She first quickly flipped through the seven or eight sheets of paper wrapped in the paper roll—each one was a letter, and the handwriting was very neat, and the paper used was also the same page, which looked new, and it was obvious that it was a recent transcript of the letter rather than the original.

Looking at the inscriptions, the time span of these letters has been written from a gap of 32 years to three years ago.

- It's all a letter from Shin Jichuan to Hui Shi.

Bai Ling became more and more surprised, she raised her eyes to look at Bai Yi again, "Where did Zeng Jiuyan get these things?" ”

Bai Yi shook his head, "He just said that if you think these things are useless, you can burn them down, and he won't mention what he gave us today." ”

"Supposedly, these things have been burned...... Bling muttered in a low voice.

- Shen Jichuan's letter to Hui Shi, if Hui Shi was still preserved, it was probably extinguished in the fire in the West Guest House.

"I'll take a look......," she said, hurrying back into the room, reading over the flickering candlelight.

**

"Brother Hui Shi, don't come unharmed, right?

"Today, the army retreated to Ruyang Pass, and only then did they have the leisure to write letters. When the letter arrives to you, it should be autumn, and your plum wine should be brewed, but unfortunately I still can't go back to Beijing this year, so you can only drink alone.

"Some time ago, I went to Beiying, where Changsheng was stationed, and talked with him all night. He is really old, he is aging faster than me, and when we talk about the current situation in the four northern states, we sigh for a while...... It's so painful to see it look like this day after day!

"Thinking about the fact that Chang Sheng was still a teenager when he left Beijing, and now he has gray hair like me, I really want the emperor to come to see him, and also to see the suffering of the border people over the years, maybe at that time, the emperor will take the initiative to go north and wipe out the Jin people, right?"

……

**

Bai Ling looked at it with a glance and ten lines - he always felt that the general was a little too daring to say it in the letter, if the letter was robbed by others halfway before it reached Hui Shi's hands, no matter how you look at it, it would be a crime of secretly slandering the monarch's father and arguing about the society.

Reading between the lines, Shen Jichuan's trust in Hui Shi is really everywhere.

Bai Ling read three or four more letters, each of which dealt with different things, but the themes were similar to each other.

Shen Jichuan talked about his life in the north, for example, when he was patrolling in Lidong, he found that several soldiers of the Huotou battalion of the Yanzhou garrison sneaked out of the barracks at night and hunted a few wolves. He was very angry, and after disposing of the soldiers in public according to military law, he burned the wolf skins they had hunted in front of everyone. As a result, that winter, there were more than half of the incidents of leaving their posts without permission in the Yanzhou army;

Another letter said that there were spies who had been bribed by the Jin people to incite the displaced people and wanted to storm the local government. As a result, the night before his operation, Shen Jichuan ordered people to set up a large porridge shed thirty miles away from the government, so thousands of homeless people rushed to the porridge shed before dawn, and the remaining hundreds of Jin people and spies were all detained and brought to justice.

He also used envoys to instigate the Jin tribes to fight each other, and used secret codes to communicate in the army, so as to harden the military affairs of Song Bozong's henchmen...... The corners of Bai Ling's mouth went up, but he still felt that something was wrong.

These letters were broken three years ago.

Look at the old man on the page in this letter, and then think about the old man who is now huddled in the general's mansion.

Forty-two years after Jianxi, what happened?

Thinking about it, Bai Ling placed all the letters on the candle and lit them, then pinched the end of the letter paper and threw the burning fire into the copper basin in the corner outside the door.

Bai Yi looked at the flame that was gradually extinguishing, with a little pity in his eyes, "...... Is it useless? ”

Bai Ling shook her head, and flames flickered in her dark pupils.

"It's true that what is written on paper is not very useful, but what is not written down can be very important."

What didn't ...... written?

Bai Yi frowned, silently thinking about this dumb riddle-like answer.

In the night breeze, Bai Ling bothered his waist, "The next time you see Zeng Jiuyan again, help me thank him, it's really heartfelt." ”

……

The next morning, Yuan Zhen had already changed into a new robe, yawned, and sat at the big wooden table of his eunuch.

Unlike usual, he was holding a big round orange in his arms.

Tachibana yawned as well.

There are no people to fight and kill in the saint these days, so Yuan Zhen's work has eased, and he just has time to pour down the cattery over there in Tengqin Garden.

This orange cat called "Zhutou" is the closest one to him, and now that he is in the palace to suppress the cat, he simply takes it with him first.

It's just that in this way, he has to change five or six sets of clothes a day - the cat is squatting beside him, how can there be a reason not to hold it in his arms and touch it? But it is easy to stick to the hair on the clothes when he hugs him, and in order to avoid the unclean body when Emperor Jianxi is suddenly summoned, he can only change it frequently.

However, Yuan Zhen himself is happy, he doesn't need to wash the clothes anyway, just change a few more sets every day, and he doesn't feel that it is too troublesome.

Suddenly, a palace man trotted in, and when he entered the door, he accidentally tripped over the threshold, and one stumbled into the house.

Da Tang was startled and jumped away from Yuan Zhen's arms with a snort.

When the palace people looked up again, they saw Yuan Zhen's murderous face in front of them, "You are dying!" Every word seemed to pop out of his teeth.

The palace people were so frightened that the six gods had no master, and immediately kowtowed, banging their heads, "The slave has ventured!" Slave maid—"

"If you have something, just say it." Yuan Zhen rolled his eyes, turned around coldly, changed his face and clapped his hands gently, coaxing the big orange who was under the table to come out.

"There are people outside, someone asks to see Yuan Gonggong......"

"Didn't I say I wouldn't see anyone in the morning, let him come in the afternoon."

"The slaves and maids can't stop him, and Grandpa Jia said that if the slaves and maids dare to stop him again, he will, he's-"

Hearing Jia's three words, Yuan Zhen's action of teasing the cat stopped, and he turned around, "Jia Yuchun is here?" ”

"Hmm." The palace people nodded again and again.

Yuan Zhen's eyes sank slightly, and he sneered, "If you stop him again, what will happen to him?" ”

The palace man twisted for a while, and finally said aggrievedly, "Father-in-law Jia said that if the slaves and maids dare to stop him again, he will let the slaves and maids go to work in the Huanyi Division tomorrow......"

Yuan Zhen snorted, "I don't have long eyes when I rush into the door, and it's light to go to the Huanyi Division." ”

The palace man's body shook suddenly, and he kowtowed again.

"Stop!" Yuan Zhen was a little annoyed, "Don't hit the ground here, scare anyone!" Go and get the board yourself, and we won't pursue today's matter. ”

"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" The palace man bowed again and again, "...... So, what about Grandpa Jia? ”

"Let him wait for me outside." Yuan Zhen dusted off the hair on his body, "Let's change our clothes and come." ”

As soon as the palace people left, Yuan Zhen bent down again and tried to hug the cat, but the big orange lay under the table and turned over with his belly facing up, which was not Yuan Zhen's outstretched hand.

"Hey." Yuan Zhen grinned, "I don't think you should be called a thief, you have to be called a coward." ”