Chapter 214: The Prey Is Out
The two parted at the intersection, and Zhuang Siyan continued to walk towards the General's Mansion.
Ye Yuanpei seemed to know that she was coming back and was already waiting in the mansion, and when he saw someone at this time, he couldn't help but mock: "It's an hour later than my budget, it seems that no one is very relieved of you." ”
Zhuang Siyan is used to it, anyway, as soon as the two of them meet, they can't get to the point without first talking about the accumulated nonsense.
In this case, she also let go: "Isn't this good, it shows that he cares about me." ”
Ye Yuanpei Chaotian rolled his eyes: "I didn't know that you liked to be watched so much, if you say it well, it's called care, and if it's not good, it's called confinement."
Miss Zhuang Siyan Zhuang, I really want to interview you, do you still have personal freedom? ”
Miss Zhuang, who was interviewed, immediately made a look of being under the camera, gently brushed her hair with her fingers, smiled, sat up straight, and looked at the camera that existed in the void at all.
"Freedom, of course there is, but everyone's freedom is in the heart, and the freedom of the heart is the real freedom, unlike some people, who shout freedom all day long, in fact, the heart is the most real thing that is imprisoned."
Ye Yuanpei was defeated by the back of her cheek, kicked her foot on the chair she was sitting on, and shook Zhuang Siyan, who was sitting upright, twice.
She immediately turned her head and said with a serious face: "This comrade, jealousy makes people ugly, you can not be free, but you can't discriminate against those who are free in heart, okay?" ”
"." Ye Yuanpei waved his hand at him, stood up and said, "Don't pretend to be here, if you have something to say, hurry up, get out of here if it's okay." ”
Zhuang Siyan wanted to pretend again, and finally outperformed him in verbal attacks, which felt a little wonderful, but looking at Ye Yuanpei's appearance, he didn't seem to have much patience to talk nonsense with her, so he stopped talking in time.
"Say, General Ye, what did you do when you entered the palace today?"
Ye Yuanpei stopped talking nonsense and said, "Have you heard that there is an official horse farm outside the capital?" ”
Zhuang Siyan nodded, when she first knew that there was a place, she still pestered Ling Tiancheng to take her there, but that guy didn't agree.
"What's wrong with the horse farm, isn't it just a place to raise horses, I heard that it is all royal horses, every spring, if these nobles in the capital want to go out hunting, they all pick horses from there."
Ye Yuanpei nodded: "Yes, but do you know where the horse breeder inside came from?" ”
Zhuang Siyan shook his head, almost realizing that the crux of the problem had come out.
Ye Yuanpei said: "Many of the horse breeders there are dead people in the capital. ”
"Isn't it? Did Ling Xuan do this? Let the dead office raise horses, won't they raise all the horses in rebellion?
Don't kick me, I'm serious, those death row inmates must have committed a lot of things, that's why they were locked up there.
Then you say that they have the audacity to commit a great sin, don't they think of fleeing from there? ”
Ye Yuanpei took down the foot that kicked her chair, and said with a straight expression: "This is also their cleverness, death row prisoners are living a better life in that place than they are in the dungeon."
If they don't run, they are actually working as a horse breeder, waiting for old age to die on the horse farm.
But if you run away, the first will be wanted all the time, and the second, once you get it back, it will be certain death.
So they would rather live well at the horse farm. ”
In this paragraph, Zhuang Siyan didn't hear anything wrong: "This is very good, it is equivalent to letting them change their ways and embark on the right path, and they can continue to serve the people." ”
Ye Yuanpei asked: "Then have you ever thought about how this thing came about, who first thought about dealing with death row prisoners in this way, are they really honestly raising horses in it, and they will not be stolen and replaced?" ”
Zhuang Siyan turned his head to look at him, and it took a long time before asking, "You entered the palace today to talk about this?" ”
Ye Yuanpei paused for a moment before shaking his head: "No, this is the Royal Racecourse, no matter who proposed it in the first place, it must have been agreed by the emperor, so before we have no evidence, there is no point in proposing it with the emperor now." ”
"Then why are you going, I have been asking you for a long time, and you just won't tell me if you go around and around." Zhuang Siyan talked to Ye Yuanpei and had never been patient.
She thinks they are good brothers, they have something to say, and they don't need to beat around and sharpen their corners, but Ye Yuanpei likes to pretend to be deep in front of her from before to now, which makes her very uncomfortable.
Just like now, this thing collapsed on the chair, and the two long legs slid out far away, inserted outside the chair like scissors, and put his arm on the arm of the chair, and said very casually: "Go to you, what else can I do, I have no friendship with the emperor." ”
Zhuang Siyan grabbed a few nuts on the table and threw them at him: "Don't drag me here, didn't you be very good with him at the beginning, and you still helped him catch me?" ”
"This time and that time." Ye Yuanpei said.
Zhuang Siyan snorted at him coldly: "I don't think there is any difference between this and the other." ”
Ye Yuanpei lifted his body up: "At that time, you and him were mortal enemies, but at this time, you had already betrayed our covenant and were in the same league as that guy." ”
Zhuang Siyan: "......"
Do they have a covenant? Why didn't Zhuang Siyan know? She only knew that Ye Yuanpei, who had crossed over, no longer had the coldness of the past, and was a resentful uncle.
Basically, as soon as the two of them get involved in some miscellaneous things, they have to spend a lot of time fighting until one side loses the battle.
Zhuang Siyan and Ye Yuanpei kept talking until dark, accusing each other, scolding each other in the end, and then having to give in to each other in the end.
When the butler came to call for dinner, he said, "I'll go to the suburbs tomorrow to see what is going on at that horse farm." ”
"Do you suspect that Lu Xiao is inside?" Zhuang Siyan asked.
Ye Yuanpei nodded: "The capital is such a big place, we have basically searched it, and we can't find him anywhere, if he is not there, it is likely that he will die." ”
Zhuang Siyan didn't answer, she had already seen many five deaths, but Lu Xiao was different, they had a relationship and a friendship.
Ye Yuanpei asked her again, "Are you going?" ”
"I'm not going, I'm going to Wen Min, that old man is not a good thing, I have to see what he is busy with every day."
Ye Yuanpei said "um" and didn't speak again.
The next day, it was only the fourth watch, and Zhuang Siyan got up.
She rode to Wen Min's mansion and found a place to hide herself at the gate of the mansion.
When it was nearly five watches, the door of Wenfu opened, and a small sedan chair came out of it and walked in the direction of the palace.
This is going to the morning court, and there will not be a dummy sitting inside, so Zhuang Siyan quietly followed behind.
Until noon, Wen Min came out of the palace, and the sedan chair entered the door of Wenfu directly, and then never came out.
But Zhuang Siyan was bitter, it was cold and snowy, she followed Wen Min for a long time, and she was about to freeze herself to death, but most of the time she was waiting, and she didn't see what this old thing had done.
That night, she called Ah Si over, and the two squatted on a street corner outside Wenfu, staring at the door of Wenfu while chatting about the gambling house.
As Zhuang Siyan expected, the other party was fully prepared, and they didn't see the problem so easily.
"This matter is to go to the bottom, and it's normal to find nothing for a while, and then let's guard Wenfu, I'm here during the day, you come at night, and change shifts at alternate times in black and white."
Ah Si hurriedly said: "Mr. Si, I'll do it alone, you go back to rest, as soon as there is news here, I will send you a message." ”
Zhuang Siyan shook his head, didn't give him a chance to speak, turned around and went back first.
The next day, before Wen Min went to court, she came to change Ah Si.
For four days in a row, Wen Min honestly went up and down, and when he came back, he was in the house, and he didn't even go out of the door.
On the contrary, news came from other places one after another, such as the construction of Rongji's silver treasury, although Ling Tiancheng agreed, but the construction plan has not been decided.
He put forward a copy, but Ling Tiancheng denied a copy, and there is no new conclusion so far.
Ye Yuanpei went to the suburbs for a few days, and only brought back a message to Zhuang Siyan, the horse farm outside the city was really problematic, but he didn't say what the problem was, and the people didn't come back.
Wen Qing was going to send someone to assist Zhuang Siyan, but she refused.
By the afternoon of the fourth day, Wen Min, who had been nesting for a few days, finally moved.
Zhuang Siyan was dressed as an ordinary person at that time, and he was leaning against the wall on the corner of the street with his hands copied.
This position allowed her to clearly see that Wenfu was at the gate, but the people there had to turn their backs completely to see her.
Wen Min is still riding in his small sedan chair, four people, and the sedan curtain on it looks very old and quite low-key.
The sedan chair came out of the gate of the house and walked along the side street for a while, not going around the street, but walking all the way back to the street.
Zhuang Siyan followed more and more energetically from behind, and in the end, he almost flew close to the ground at a speed, and the distance between him and the sedan chair became closer and closer.
After turning two streets, the sedan chair stopped at the back of a house, and Wen Min was helped out of the sedan chair.
He also changed out of his official uniform and wore the clothes of ordinary people, which made him less involved in the court, but a little more down-to-earth.
After he got out of the sedan chair, he looked back and forth, and then walked forward.
The two servants, who had been following the sedan chair, followed him left and right, and soon went out of the back street and stopped at the door of a teahouse that entered the lively main street.
It was only a matter of seconds, and the three of them entered the teahouse.
Zhuang Siyan took off the cotton clothes he was wearing, quickly reversed it, and put it on in another color, even the hat on his head was reversed, so as not to be recognized by others.
Wen Min entered the teahouse with her front foot, and she also entered with her back heels, and then saw that Wen Min and they had turned the stairs and walked up.
Zhuang Siyan followed and was about to go up, but was stopped by the guy in the teahouse: "This guest officer, the seats upstairs are all booked, if you don't book, you can only sit downstairs first." ”
Zhuang Siyan was a little angry, but he couldn't argue with Xiao Er at this time, so he could only sit down at the table next to him.
She was anxious, anxious to know who Wen Min came here to see and what he would say.
Xiao Er asked her what kind of tea she wanted to drink a few times, Zhuang Siyan didn't hear it, her mind kept thinking about going upstairs, and at this moment, her eyes glanced out of the window, and then saw a familiar person.