Feng Xiren asked Jiang Nei about the situation again. Wei Linyan said that Jiang Nei left the palace and returned to his hometown due to illness in the year of the accident in Yuanxiang Palace. Feng Xiren checked the slave register in the palace again, found the situation of Jiang Nei's servant, found that this was indeed the case, and found his place of origin.

Shi Shu was ordered to immediately go and bring it back to Jiangnei to serve Jiang Xuan. When Si Boyan heard this, he sent Yi Hesheng to ensure that the Jiangnei attendants could arrive safely.

……

In the eldest princess's mansion, Wei Lin came with the requiem incense given by Si Boyan.

"Your Majesty asked the slave maid to ask the eldest princess, are you still having nightmares these two days?" Wei Lin asked with a smile.

The eldest princess took a sip of tea and calmed down, and said, "It's still a dream to wake up." ”

Wei Lin groaned worriedly.

"This requiem incense is a tribute from the Miao Kingdom, the eldest princess can try it. Your Majesty said, if the eldest princess still can't sleep, see if you want to pass Concubine Qi over? ”

"What is she going to do?" The eldest princess raised her eyes unhappily, "The palace has been entangled by Concubine Yuan, but I don't want Concubine Qi to send another ghost." ”

"Concubine Qi used ghost magic before to make His Majesty have a dragon son, since she knows some ghost arts, even if she can't help the eldest princess cut off her roots, she can make the eldest princess cleaner."

The eldest princess waved her hand and rejected his offer.

"Excuse me, this palace doesn't believe in these sideways techniques after all, and it is true that the matter of Yuanxiang Palace has been solved. I heard that they went to Jiang Xuan? ”

Wei Lin glanced left and right, only Mama Xu and Mama Qin, and nodded.

"Jiang Xuan left the palace due to illness back then, eleven years have passed, who knows if he is still alive? After all, his illness was a little incurable. ”

The eldest princess frowned, and faintly felt that something was wrong in her heart, so she asked again.

"This palace asked you to send him back, but you didn't?"

Wei Lin smiled: "I sent it, I sent it back to my hometown directly." lest he get lost on the way, and then he will have to blame him more. ”

"You ......"

The eldest princess's hand holding the teacup trembled, and Mama Qin on the side hurriedly took the teacup from her hand, so as not to break it and hurt anyone. The eldest princess took two deep breaths, and then saw that Wei Lin had already recognized it, and waved her hand.

"That's it, it's his life. You should go back sooner, and share your Majesty's worries more. Thank you for your majesty for this palace. ”

"Yes." Wei Lin bowed slowly and said respectfully, "The eldest princess pay attention to her body, don't worry too much, the slave and maid will retire." ”

The eldest princess watched Wei Lin go out, and after a long time, she said, "It's really self-made!" ”

Mama Xu stepped forward with a smile, pressed her shoulder, and said, "Thanks to Manager Wei's self-initiative, the eldest princess is also one less nightmare." ”

……

Hutou Bridge, Ning County, Xian County, the local Li Zheng was sent by the county order to take four big people from the capital to the Jiang family on the mountain.

These four are none other than Shi Shu, Yi Hesheng, Liu Chengyan and Chang Le, who came after a ten-day journey.

When Mama Hazel heard that they were going to find Euchi, she was not at ease with them, afraid that they would kill Euchi if they found them. In any case, he had to come with him, for the safety of Chang Le's life, Liu Chengyan, who had not yet healed his internal injuries, could only follow him to Xianjun.

Fortunately, Liu Chengyan and Mama Hazel reached a consensus, Chang Le's body, Mama Hazel and Chang Le lived a day alone, and the body was rejuvenated when the body rested at night. In this way, it can also ensure that this body does not have major problems due to the souls of the two of them, and it can also make Chang Le's soul activities less tormented.

Chang Le was very unhappy when he learned about this, and he was so angry that he wanted to hit the wall, but he could only say that even if he did, he had to accept his fate.

Today, it's the turn of Chang Le.

Chang Le checked the register in the county government and found that Jiang Xuan had never come back at all, and there was a discrepancy with the book recorded in the palace. This is obviously problematic, and what makes them even more suspicious is whether Jiang Xuan is still alive.

Just in case, let's let Li Zheng take them to Jiang Xuan's house first.

Li Zhengyan said that Jiang Xuan's family only had a 60-year-old mother, who lived in a cave in the middle of the mountain, and was half deaf and half blind with inconvenient legs and feet, and had no distant relatives. Over the years, the old man has relied on the alms of the villagers.

"When I arrived, this is Jiang Xuan's home."

The thirty-something-year-old wiped the sweat from his face and pointed to a cave.

Outside the cave is a flat scene, one is a vegetable field, and the other has two or three chickens, which also seems to be self-sufficient. There is a fence around the perimeter of the yard, and there is a wooden door that cannot be closed and bolted.

Li Zheng knocked on the chai door and shouted: "Aunt Jiang, Aunt Jiang, an official is here, you open the door!" ”

There was no movement inside for a long time, Li Zheng smiled at Changle and them, comforted them to wait patiently, and then knocked on the firewood door again, amplifying the sound.

After going back and forth like this more than a dozen times, Yi Hesheng was about to break in directly, and the door of the cave was finally opened. An old man with white hair came out hunched over with a wooden stick, scolding indistinctly.

"Knock knock, knock what? The doors are all broken! If it's broken, who's going to fix it?! ”

Chang Le easily understands her dialect, with two big heads.

Mother Jiang walked to the chaimen, stretched her neck to look out, squinted her eyes and looked around carefully, before she said, "Why are there so many people today?" Coming to see off the old woman? ”

"Aunt Jiang, what did you say was unlucky?" Li Zheng snorted busily, and also stretched his neck and whispered in her ear, "These are all big officials from the capital, ask you something, you open the door." ”

"Oh! Heard it! The old woman is not deaf, so there is no need to say so loudly. Jiang Mu said, slowly opened the firewood door, "Come in." ”

Yi Hesheng was really anxious to see it, and he wanted to go directly over the broken fence several times to enter.

The door opened, and Mother Jiang led them into the house. Chang Le was really frightened when he saw her walk step by step and shake three times, so he stepped forward a few steps to help Jiang Mu. Jiang Mu turned her head and looked at Chang Le's face, and Chang Le was in a cold sweat when she was watched.

"It turned out to be a girl." Mother Jiang grinned, revealing a few black teeth, and said loudly against Chang Le's ear, "Thank you, girl!" ”

Chang Le took a deep breath, showed an embarrassed but polite smile, and carefully helped Jiang Mu into the cave.

The cave was very dim, and there were no extra stools. There was only a broken bed, a lame table, a small bench, and an earthen stove, which made people feel sour when they looked at it. However, judging from the few animal skins hanging in her house and the bacon hanging in her house, she was at least well fed and clothed.

They stood directly in the doorway, and did not try to squeeze in. The only bench for Jiang Mu to sit on.

"Anyway, what are you here for?" Jiang Mu squinted her eyes and asked loudly.

Li Zheng was very consciously the messenger, and said: "They are here to find your son, I want to ask you, has Jiang Xuan come back!" ”

Jiang Mu kept her ears sideways, and after listening, she frowned in confusion: "What? ”

"Is your son back?!"

"Oh." Mother Jiang weakened and said, "He went to the palace and didn't come back!" ”

"But the people in the palace said that your son was released eleven years ago!"

"What?" Jiang Mu sat up in surprise, and without waiting for Li Zheng to repeat, she asked herself, "Eleven years ago?!" Why didn't he come back to find me when he left the palace? ”

Chang Le and the four of them looked at each other, and Shi Shu took half a step forward and asked tentatively.

"Mother Jiang, are you sure Jiang Xuan never came back? We are from the palace, and we want to reward him! If he wasn't there, he wouldn't be able to stand the reward! ”

Mother Jiang waved her hand and squinted at the stone tree.

"He entered the palace at the age of ten and never came back, and the old woman will not lie to the official. But my son, who has been out of the palace for eleven years, why didn't he come back to see his mother? Could it be that she is still blaming the mother? My mother was also forced to do so at the beginning! If it can get by, who will send the baby to the palace? ”

Seeing this, Shi Shu asked again: "Who got the animal skin bacon on the wall?" ”

Jiang Mu turned her head to take a look, and she didn't know if she had seen what Shi Shu said, so she turned her head and was surprised.

"It's all don't want to be there, throw it at the door, and the old woman will pick it up. Thanks to that kind man, otherwise, the old woman would have starved to death! ”

"Who's that good Samaritan?"

Jiang's mother had long been in the pain of losing her son, and she had no intention of paying attention to them, so she just shook her head and muttered, "I don't know, I don't know......"

"It seems that this Jiang Xuan has already died of illness on the way, and he hasn't even arrived home."

Yi Hesheng issued a summary of dissatisfaction. Thousands of miles to come over, this is actually the result.

Who knows, this Jiang Mu's ears are good at this time, and she straightens her hands and grabs Li Zheng, shaking Li Zheng miserably.

"My son, is he really dead? He won't be back? I still thought that he would come back one day, and I just stayed up every year. If he dies, how alive will I be! ”

"Aunt Jiang, don't get excited." Li Zheng hurriedly comforted Jiang's mother.

Chang Le glanced at Yi Hesheng and scolded in a low voice: "Look at you, you talkative, say this in front of the old man!" ”

Yi Hesheng wanted to refute, but he could only endure it.

After Jiang Mu was appeased, they left the cave, and they were all in a gloomy mood. This Jiang Nei waiter is the only clue, and now it is broken. Then this case, unless the murderer jumps out himself, it is impossible to solve it.

"I wonder who is this person who is delivering things to the old man?" Liu Chengyan groaned.

Yi Hesheng frowned: "What to send, the old man didn't say it, it was thrown at her door." ”

Chang Le immediately rolled his eyes and said, "It's really stupid to say that you are stupid, you have nothing to do all day long and throw such a good animal skin and such good bacon in front of an old man's house?" ”

Yi Hesheng was said to be honest and speechless again.

"This person must be cold on the outside and hot on the inside, and he is embarrassed to be thanked by the old man, so he will do it this way." Chang Le guessed firmly.

Liu Chengyan said: "Perhaps, there is something involuntary that can't talk to the old man face-to-face." ”

After thinking about this carefully, everyone instantly understood.

Shi Shu and Chang Le were a little excited: "You mean ......?"

Yi Hesheng was still not in a state, and said with a frown: "What are you talking about?" ”

The three of them decisively communicated more with Yi Hesheng, lest their brains be sluggish. The stone tree urged to be outside the state as well, and in the contemplative interior.

"Do you know who this person who takes care of the elderly will be? He should be a hunter. ”