Tang Lan waved his hand: "Don't bother, you're so busy now, where can you take care of those." At this time, Xiao Jiu should come over to help you take care of it. You should also be careful yourself, and don't take risks if you are not sure. Xiao Jiu, you have been helping your brother take care of Wanning more recently. She is the only descendant of the Zhou family and the Yan family, and she must not be allowed to have another accident, or I will go down to see Yanyan without saying a word in the future. But maybe she's really the daughter-in-law your mother picked for you, hahaha, that child should fit her spleen and stomach very well. ”

Although Xiao Jiu has heard a lot of legends about his second mother, he doesn't know the details, and he is confused, and he doesn't know how this legendary second mother chose this daughter-in-law for the third brother. When he was born, this second mother had passed away for many years. And his parents have been in a cold state that is not embarrassed or embarrassed. This is also the reason why he has not been positive about marriage for so many years. Looking at his parents, he didn't think that marriage could really bring happiness. Even if Sister Lian married the third brother she liked, it was also a twist and turn, although the two had been reconciled, he could feel that some of the scars in her heart had not been erased. She originally treated each other with a sincere heart, but she was repeatedly frustrated, and these scars built a high wall in her heart, and he didn't think that the third brother was really so easy to overcome. These are some high walls of self-preservation, the cold life in the palace in the past, made her heart depressed, although she used to open for her lover when she was in Xianyang, but after repeated injuries, she would rather not open it anymore, than get hurt again.

She used to be strict with the third brother single-mindedly, which was her own unreserved and honest face, but now from her words to the woman next to the third brother, he has felt that the wall is strong, it is not easy to be broken again, she no longer seems to care whether she is the only woman around him, her expectations for her husband are not as good as before, this is not that she is no longer in love with him, but since she does not expect too much in return, she unconsciously lowers the care of her emotions. Brother Nino didn't realize that he couldn't be distracted by his busy day, but the gradual indifference of the evening made Shinno have to worry about her future. She's too sensitive, too easily hurt and shrinks her antennae. Xinye has always felt that the three from the four virtues are contradictory. If a woman is virtuous, she has to endure her husband's three wives and four concubines, and spend all day drinking. He believed that people have feelings and jealousy, and even children as young as two or three years old have strong jealousy, and human nature is also there. If a woman doesn't care about her husband's three wives and four concubines, or if she's too cowardly and used to being manipulated, or if she doesn't care about men anymore, she's just meditating on her cultivation. And Sister Lian is obviously the latter, just like she wanted to leave with her child in the first place. He didn't know what he should do to help his brother change Sister Lian's mood.

When he returned to the house in the evening, he found his wife looking at the sample of the jade fish that Ah Yilan and Erda had sent.

"What made you turn this out?"

"Today, when Jade Ling healed Red Sleeves, she unbuttoned her shirt, and a piece of jade hanging from her neck was exposed, like a kind of water pattern or wave. Do you remember seeing her wearing it all these years? ”

"It seems that there has always been such a piece of jade, which is a wave."

"Don't you think the shape of that wave goes well with this fish? The red sleeve seems to be the bottom half of this, and the fish are playing in the water, jumping out of the water. ”

"It's very similar."

"You said that Redsleeves had another man before you, and it was only because you resembled him that she came to you in the first place. But I don't think this person is Ding Dayong. Although I am familiar with this jade fish alone, I don't remember where I have seen it, and if the two are combined, I have seen a pair when I was very young. Recalling the past, she became heavy: "It was my little aunt Yan Yuzhu, and it was a dowry from her fiancé to the Yan family." After the dowry, her fiancé went to Beijing to take the exam, vowing to come back to complete the marriage with a meritorious background. This thing has been wearing on my little aunt, and I think it must have been taken away by the murderer when she was killed with the Yan family. In other words, Red Sleeves' original lover is likely to be the person who participated in the bloodbath of the Zhou family and the Yan family, and is also the real murderer who killed Ah Yilan's stepmother and sister. For all these years, I only knew how it happened, but I never knew who did it last. When I asked the Queen Mother, my grandmother, and your father, I only knew that it was someone from the Yamen faction of the Hangzhou Admiral, but there was no specific name or surname, and the Queen Mother did not allow me to look it up, saying that they were just carrying out orders, not the real murderer. That's all I can do is accept it. But now that so much has happened, it's clear that they're no longer simply carrying out the will of the higher-ups, but deliberately murdering. Can you help me find out who they are? If they really carry out the orders of the superiors, I will never pursue them, but if they are the real culprits of these subsequent bloody cases,... ..."

"Lian'er, you don't have to explain, I know you won't let me use my official position to find the real murderer for you to avenge my personal revenge. So I can tell you who they are now, and the one who led the troops over at that time was the current governor of Yangzhou, Yuan Shida. I checked it a long time ago, and when we returned to Beijing, I had already checked it before we got married, and at that time I just thought that the Zhou family's bloody case might be involved in other fraud cases in Jiangnan. Now that I've brought you into my life, I need to find a way to protect you, and I have to figure out why these people used such bloody methods against the Zhou family back then. ”

"So you already knew that before I went to see Qi Xian, you knew that my father might have been charged with being caught for touching their interests? Why didn't you tell me earlier? ”

"There is no such thing written in the archives, and it is impossible to write so, all I see is the letter of the magistrate at that time and the subsequent execution record, but I don't know the truth. I don't tell you because I'm afraid of touching your sadness, I just hope that your days by my side can be as happy and carefree as possible, although I know I can't do it, but try to make you less troubled, I..."

"Applejack, I know, it's just that you know these are important to me... Okay, then again, do you think this person is Yuan Shida? ”

"It's just a possibility, but I don't think it's like it, because he was the head of a small government in Hangzhou back then, and he has served in the government for a long time, how can he have time to go back and forth between Jiangnan, Nanxiang and Miaojiang and the capital?"

Within the high walls

Within the high walls, Yihe no longer had the original pro-soldier guards, only the people who came to monitor their internal affairs office, and he no longer had the authority to instruct them to do anything. Every day, he flipped through some books given to him by the Empress Dowager and the current emperor, and lived a numb life on the surface.

Since being confined here, Yihe has become extremely calm, and his eyes have become extremely cold. He didn't have any accusations or insults like that night. He became as if he had no interest in all the women here. One day she heard two other women in Yihe discussing, saying that he had never touched anyone, I don't know if it was because he was injured by the ninth young master of the Tang family last time and couldn't be a man anymore, or because he had a head with that woman that time, and he looked at any woman who had no appetite. Ah Yilan felt very curious, if it was the former, she thought that she was going to spend her life with this waste man in this high wall, she felt terrifying, if it was the latter, she wanted to use her body to find some fun. The mothers of the Pubang tribe not only taught their daughters to raise Gu, but also taught them how to trap men with their bodies. She's looking for the right opportunity.

With Yihe imprisoned in this high wall for more than half a year, Ah Yilan didn't know what the outside world was like, she passed the news to her brothers through the unique way of the Pubang people, and the brothers also sent messages to her saying that they would think of rescuing her, but there has been no substantial movement. She thought that her brothers were just perfunctory to her, and that her own people had long forgotten to abandon her. Thinking about it, with the cautious character of the two brothers, and always concerned about the survival and safety of the entire Pubang Village, they dare not go against the court to save themselves.

Ah Yilan, like Yihe's other concubines, spends her days here like a year, killing time. She had hoped that maybe Xinjie would miss her old love, let her stay here for a while, and get her out, at least her two brothers should go and beg him to save her. But there has been no movement. After being confined here, she only saw him three times, and each time he came to Yihe for questioning. The first time she saw him, she even had the illusion that he was here to save her, but he didn't walk up to her, he just nodded when he saw her, and didn't even say anything to her. She was very disappointed. Although her eyes are still kind, they have long since lost the joy and kindness they had when they saw her. When Xinjie left, Yihe showed his first excitement and anger in months. Although he didn't make a sound, all his expressions were clearly seen by Ah Yilan.

Ah Yilan was very curious: "It seems that you are very angry?" What did he come to tell you? ”