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The Past Is Like Smoke (Part II)

Tang Lan had never explored Yanyan's past before she met him, in his opinion, it was a past that he had not participated in, and he had no right to ask or criticize him. But in many details, he knew that Yeon-yeon must have been through before him. Miss Yu looks high on weekdays, has rich experience in the rivers and lakes, and her feelings seem to have always been blank. He thought the same thing at the beginning of his relationship with her, until they had a skin-to-skin relationship, and from many details of life, her dreams and some of her habits, he knew that there had been another person in her life. But since Yeon-yeon didn't mention it, and they loved each other at that time, there was no need for him to always mention it in the past. Later, he even felt that Yeon-yeon could follow him regardless of her reputation, largely because she had experienced it in the past, so she had already seen through the nothingness of her reputation and didn't want to use it to shackle her own life.

In Tang Lan's eyes, Xinjie more or less inherited his mother's casualness, just like he fell in love with Wanning, no matter whether his grandmother and Tang Lan were in the capital or not, in order to keep this wife, he had to marry her, and he was unwilling to wait for the wasted time. Once he has it, he is very persistent. Although he has not been in the capital recently, he probably knows what happened to the child recently. Although the child was more or less depressed because of his mother's affairs, most of the time the child lived a positive and sunny life and was not negatively affected. I didn't become weird because of the many harsh things that Li did.

In the matter of the Li family, Tang Lan said that he felt a little guilty, but only a little. At that time, his grandmother arranged Lai's marriage, although he disliked it very much, and was forced to accept it out of filial piety. Over the years, the Li family has also been considered peaceful, bearing the name of Mrs. Tang, and has not caused him any trouble. Of course, it was also her mother's wisdom that detained her in Kansai early in the morning, and she was not resident in the capital, so she couldn't make big waves. Because he was dedicated to accompanying Yanyan back then and ignored the Li family, so the Li family later embarrassed Xinjie, Tang Lan felt more or less understandable. And his son needs to grow up, and the pressure that Li Shi gives him is also the driving force for his son's growth. It's just that fortunately, this pressure didn't make Xinjie crooked, or Yanyan's natural personality was inherited to her son.

Tang Lan stood by the lake for a while, carefully distinguishing the sound of sword qi in Xinjie's courtyard, and after they had collected their sword qi, he walked towards the courtyard where he lived with satisfaction. As soon as he walked a few steps, he saw Chen Cheng from Pingluan Pavilion hurriedly coming and saluting in front of him. After Tang Lan motioned for him to be excused: "Xinjie may not have come out so early, Chen Geling might as well go to the study with me to sit down." ”

Chen Cheng said: "The little one came to see the adult today on the order of the general. Although Tang Lan didn't know what his son's subordinates were looking for him, he still took Chen Cheng to the study.

Chen Cheng took out the file bag he carried with him: "This is a copy of the file filing of Mrs. Ling's case Pingluan Pavilion back then." There is also some evidence that the general has collected over the years. The general said that the adults probably knew more about the details than he did, and might be able to sort out some of the details for him. There is also a testimony from the former servant who was found by the general last year. ”

Tang Lan solemnly picked up the file bag, and he first took out the new testimony he had written.

For so many years, Tang Lan had never believed that he had seen a post-mortem that claimed that Yanyan had died in an accident, and that there was no struggle and no measures to save herself during the fall of the carriage, which was impossible in Yanyan's martial arts. There are many marks on the body, rope strangulation marks on the wrists, arms and legs, and the corpse clearly records that there are traces of intercourse with people shortly before the accident. This stung him deeply over the years, and of course he knew that it wasn't him. He never wanted to believe that Yeon-yeon would love someone else besides himself. Someone not only calculated her, but ruined her innocence.

Tang Lan held the testimony for a long time, and never opened it, Chen Cheng saluted at the right time: "My lord, there are still some things in Pingluan Pavilion that need to be reported to the general, and the small ones will retire." But the general said, I've been summoned by adults for the past few days, and if you need it, you can ask someone to summon the small ones. ”

Tang Lan came to her senses and nodded.

After Chen Cheng withdrew, he finally mustered up the courage to open the testimony.

Chen Cheng was very familiar with Aoki Garden, and walked all the way to Xinjie's study. As soon as he was halfway through, he saw a small leader of the wind department in Pingluan Pavilion coming towards him, and when the other party saw Chen Cheng, he immediately saluted: "Lord Pavilion Leader." ”

"Fan Zhiqiang? What are you doing here? ”

"The general and the cabinet leader instructed a few months ago that if there is any movement on the other side of Xisi Hutong, they must report to you or the general immediately." Fan Zhiqiang whispered.

"Let's wait outside the general's study, he should be coming out soon." Chen Cheng took the lead and went to Xinjie's study. When I arrived at the side hall of the study garden, I found that there were already a few people waiting here for Pingluan Pavilion to do things.

Since the return of the Zhou family, the general's time to go to Pingluan Pavilion has decreased, and most of it is handled at home. People who are close to the general in Pingluan Pavilion are more or less aware of what happened to the general's wife recently. The people in Pingluan Pavilion are all carrying their heads to do things for the royal family, maybe if they go out today, they may never be able to return home in the evening. These people understand how important and joyful it is for a family to be pregnant with their own mother. And the general's wife has always been kind to their subordinates, and many family members are often taken care of by the general's wife and Baihuatang, and they are very heartbroken about what happened to the general's wife in the past few months, so when the general's wife comes back, the general accompanies them more, not only are they not disgusted, but they feel that the general looks more down-to-earth than before. But the general did not slack off, and began to attend to his official duties in his study almost every morning at this hour.

Xinjie was busy discussing official business with his subordinates, and it was not surprising to see his father appear at the door of the study. Tang Lan's face was a little pale, but there was a cold light in his eyes. As soon as everyone looked at General Lin's appearance, they naturally knew where the murderous aura that their own Yutai General sometimes had come from.

"Now that you have this testimony, I don't believe you don't know who made the closing argument like that." Tang Lan was so excited that he didn't have time to worry about the people around him.

Xinjie is not in a hurry, the people who can come and go to Aoki Park are all his trusted cronies, and many of these things are handled by them. His father's reaction was within his expectations, if Tang Lan was not excited, he would be disappointed but...

Everyone knew that the father and son would have sensitive topics, so they all withdrew and went to the side hall outside to wait.

"Father, there's a lot going on here."

"No matter how wide it is, will I be afraid of Tang Lan? Will my Tang family be afraid? ”

"This is not only involving many forces outside, but also some people in the Tang family." Xinjie looked at his father steadily.

Tang Lan's eyes flashed slightly, he knew who his son might be talking about, he was just a little silent: "If it is verified, I will deal with it, just to save face for your brothers." ”

Xinjie nodded: "This is natural, after all, our brothers have had a good relationship in recent years, and they are not sorry for me." And I don't want Yumen to know so much at the moment, if my grandfather knows, Yumen, which has just stabilized, may have to set off a blood rain in Jiangnan and the capital. Yide is preparing to ascend the throne, and now is not the time. ”

Tang Lan nodded with satisfaction, his son has grown up, and knows to be patient for the sake of the overall situation.

"And this matter also involves the Zhou family and the Yan family. Those people not only hurt their mother, but also hurt the Zhou family and the Yan family. ”

"You're sure it's the same guys."

"It's not exactly the same gang, but some of the characters in it are common."

"Does Wanning know?"

"I haven't told her yet, because I haven't found Yan's whereabouts yet."

Tang Lan was taken aback: "What did you say?" She's alive? ”

"I don't know for sure what she's doing, but she was taken away by force."

"Impossible, when I went to pick up Wanning, although it was thrilling, if she was still alive, I would definitely find a way to take her out."

"You entered Uncle Zhou's room and confirmed that Mrs. Zhou had passed away at that time, but you confirmed that you were checking Mrs. Zhou?"

"How can you be sure she left alive?"

"I don't know for sure, but in the past few years while collecting evidence of other crimes and other things in Jiangnan, I have gotten some strange movements. And my uncle also collected some of them, and gave them to me last time. Before I encountered the evening setting, I just couldn't see through the Karakuri inside, so I just collected these scores. It wasn't until I came across Wanning, and she taught me some ancient music notation, and some shorthand notation to quickly record the music in my mind, that I understood. These symbols were invented by the ancestors of the Yan family, and are not related to any qin or musical instrument, but only so that sometimes certain melodies in the heart can be quickly recorded. Over time, this has also become a way to quickly pass on news between the children of the Yan family.

The handwriting of these scores is very similar to the notes in the Yan things collected by Wan Ning. These pieces look jumpy on the surface, and although they are composed of songs, the melodic combinations are very strange. If Gan had done it, according to her skills, it would not have been possible to make such a superficial mistake. But the music has very subtle fragments, so that people who really understand music can't really abandon it. So all I can say is that my mother-in-law is a genius. So that the music could be passed on, to the people she wanted to be able to get the message in. ”

"Who?"

"The children of the Yan family, the people who can understand what she means and can still run for the Yan family and the Zhou family, and those who are deeply familiar with music theory. For example, uncle, aunt. ”