Chapter 335: Return to Beijing

More than a month has passed in a blink of an eye, as early as December, the weather is getting colder day by day, and there have been a few snowfalls, people say that the snow scene in Qizhou has always been the most beautiful, but this year in Qizhou City is afraid that they have no intention of enjoying the scenery.

When Li Yan was still in Qizhou, she asked Wei Luan a few times, wanting to take her to Zhuangzi on the outskirts of the city to relax and see the snow, but she refused to go out and was too lazy to move.

In the past, she was not a lazy person, and she loved snow days the most, a white expanse, she always said, it is wonderful to wash the world cleanly.

But this year, Li Yan called her several times, and she always said the same thing, it was too cold and she didn't want to move.

In fact, Li Yan knew that she was a little tired.

It was not caused by a day or two of hard work, but after the Sun family made such a mess in Huzhou, she was physically and mentally exhausted, and she never had a good rest.

Qizhou's case seems to have been closed a long time ago, and the Wei family seems to have withdrawn early, but in fact, Wang Quan's death has not been clarified, and Huixian's disappearance has not been explained.

Only Li Yan knows best in his heart - Guo Min'an went to the palace to reply once that day, the corpse dug up in the backyard of the Wang family was not Wang Quan's at all, it was the most wonderful stealing day, the reason why he was disfigured and cut off the deceased's right arm was that he didn't want to expose the true identity of the deceased, and all this, Guo Min'an also ordered Bai An to investigate all over the world, only to know that in Niujia Village, three miles west of the city, ten days before the body of "Wang Quan" was dug up, there was a person who was about the same size as Wang's body. The man who was about the same age disappeared and disappeared, and the reason why no one reported to the official was because the man had no one in his family for a long time.

In the early years, he also worked in a large family, and then injured his right arm, and could not do the work, the big family paid him fifty taels of silver, and he relied on the fifty taels of silver to sit and eat empty, and his temper became worse and worse day by day, and the neighbors could not get along, and he could not go out to work to earn silver, so he could only rely on his daughter-in-law to do some needlework outside, or wash clothes for people to earn silver, he was suspicious, and often beat and scolded his daughter-in-law, his daughter-in-law really couldn't stand it, and took advantage of a late night, with the child to run away.

Later, he became more and more withdrawn, and he rarely talked to people, let alone go out to deal with people, and he was alone, with a mouth, and fifty taels of silver was enough for him to live for half a lifetime.

It was Bai An who brought the officials of the government to Niujia Village, and the man's neighbor found out that he hadn't seen him for half a month, so he told Bai An the reason.

And after that, Bai An spent some time to find the man's daughter-in-law back, and it was only three or five days before and after, it turned out that his daughter-in-law did not go far, for the sake of the child, he still wanted to live, and he did not look for someone outside, but after leaving, he saw that he was still not angry, and he couldn't swallow that breath, so he refused to go back, so he simply took the child by himself, and then ignored the man.

When Bai An took his daughter-in-law back to the mansion and brought it into the morgue, he carefully recognized it, and the body was indeed not Wang Quan, but the missing man in Niujia Village.

Guo Minan hesitated at first, not daring to go to the palace to tell him, for fear of making a mistake, and then in the afternoon of one day, the Liu family next door to the Wang family, the big black dog, inexplicably dug a pit in the backyard, dug a pit for a long time, and dug out a right arm, the people of the Liu family were frightened and reported to the official, Guo Minan asked Bai An to take someone to take things back to the mansion, and the corpse was a pair, which just coincided.

However, at that time, the matter fell into a stalemate again, and Guo Min'an had new doubts in his heart.

In order to steal the day, the murderer asked Wang Quan to leave Qizhou and completely disappear in front of everyone, but why did the severed right arm be buried in the Liu family next door? If it is dug up, isn't it asking for trouble for yourself?

This murderer can think about things so thoughtfully, and use such a method to send Wang Quan away, he will not be a brainless and unsuccessful, but what he did it for, Guo Minan never understood.

And at that time, Li Yan knew about it, and he was not too surprised, to put it bluntly, he knew that Guo Min'an was still suspicious of Wei Ye in his heart, otherwise he would not be in a hurry to go to the palace to tell him about it, so he didn't say anything at that time, and sent Guo Min'an away, and still set Guo Min'an's mind, telling him to just go to check on him, and no longer have to go to the palace to talk back, really wait until one day in the future, the case will be completely closed, and it will not be too late to go back and forth to him in the Qi Palace.

Since then, Guo Minan has not boarded the door of the palace.

The days passed little by little, and finally it was time for the year to close.

In the years since Li Yan left the capital to the fiefdom, every year at this time, his mood is complicated.

He wants to return to Beijing early, because the queen's birthday is on the eighteenth day of the lunar month, and the emperor's brother loves the queen for half his life, and the queen's birthday must be held every year.

And usually the queen's birthday banquet, the royal brother is a big three days in a row, the first night there is a palace banquet, singing and dancing naturally do not mention, to the second day, still set up a banquet, in the palace Yuhuatai will also invite the troupe, a two-day drama, but the first two days, the foreign ministers are not allowed to enter, at most to Jiying Hall to have a banquet, can enter the Yuhuatai to listen to the play, only the clan relatives and foreign women are left.

In this way, the lively and lively will come to the twenty-first day of the lunar month, and there will be only a few days before Chinese New Year's Eve.

When Li Yan returned to Beijing to congratulate the queen on her birthday in the first year, he wanted to return to Qizhou after the twenty-first day of the lunar month, but the queen mother did not allow it, and left him in Cining Palace and did not let him out Chinese New Year's Eve Chinese New Year's Eve of the palace.

The Manchu Dynasty Wenwu did not know, His Royal Highness King Qi returned to Beijing every year on the seventeenth day of the month, entered the palace for a banquet on the eighteenth, and waited until the twenty-second, the birthday banquet of the empress concubine completely passed, His Royal Highness the King of Qi would live in the Cining Palace, accompany the Queen Mother, and wait until the Chinese New Year's Eve palace banquet, and then let him out of the palace, and return to the royal palace where he left in the capital to observe the New Year, and early in the morning of the first day of the new year, he would also enter the palace to pay New Year's greetings, which is the rule.

At this time, the carriage of the Qi Wangfu on the official road was moving slowly, and there was still snow on both sides of the official road that had not completely melted, Li Yan gathered the blanket on his body, and Zhao Ying hurriedly played with the small stove on the carriage twice: "The master feels cold?" ”

Li Yan said no, and his eyes suddenly opened: "I just feel like I'm going back to Beijing this year...... In previous years, it was not like this, but this year I always couldn't let go, and the closer I got to the capital, the more scared I became. Zhao Falcon, it's time to enter Beijing in the second half of the day, right? ”

Zhao Ying replied yes, and covered the copper mesh cover on the small stove: "About more than an hour, it is time to enter Beijing, the slave sent someone to go first in the morning, go back to the palace to do something, and when the master goes back, he can rest first." The master is still the same as in previous years, does he want to go to the palace to greet the Queen Mother? ”

But he didn't think about it, Li Yan shook his head without thinking.

Zhao Ying was shocked: "Master? ”

"Our people, didn't talk back again, did Qin Zhao make any moves?"

Zhao Falcon's face froze: "His Royal Highness the King of Guangyang only moved back to the Jingzhong Palace half a month ago, but there is nothing wrong with it, our people have been staring at it, and they haven't talked back and forth until now." Master, are you afraid of His Royal Highness King Guangyang? ”

"I'm not afraid of Qin Zhao—"

Li Yan dragged out his last note, staring intently at the red-hot silver charcoal burning in the small stove.

Before leaving, Zhao Falcon was afraid that he would not be comfortable on the road or get cold, so he laid a lot of sable blankets in the carriage, which were all rewarded by the palace in previous years, and only when he returned to Beijing at the end of the year, he would take it out and use it, Zhao Falcon was eager to spread this carriage everywhere, just to make him feel warm and sit up more comfortably.

It is clear that it should be full of warmth, but Li Yan's heart is always like being placed in an ice cave, and it can't be warmed.

Zhao Ying looked at him with a bad face, and pursed his lips slightly: "Are you afraid that His Royal Highness the King of Guangyang will find you?" ”

But he shook his head again: "I can't say it, but it's because I can't say it that it's the most uncomfortable." Qin Zhao already knew Ah Luan's life experience, but you see, more than a month has passed, as if nothing happened, he moved back to the Jingzhong Mansion, as if Zheng Gui had never been to Qizhou, and he did not know Ah Luan's origin from Qi Niang's mouth. As I told you, Mrs. Sun may not tell Qi Niang all the inside information, or rather, even Mrs. Sun herself doesn't know that a confused affair between her and Qin Zhao back then was actually planned by Wei Ye, she may think it was an accident or misunderstanding, and naturally she will not suspect Wei Ye's head, it is about Qin Zhao, and she doesn't know this layer. But after all, he knew that Ah Luan was his flesh and blood. ”

Yes, my own flesh and blood, raised in front of others for more than ten years, are slim and slim, but then what?

If King Guangyang didn't care from the beginning, then he wouldn't have taken the risk of sending Zheng Gui to Qizhou to inquire about the second girl's life experience, but he inquired and heard the truth, but he suppressed everything and didn't mention it.

It's like ...... He's like......

Zhao Falcon's breath stagnated: "His Royal Highness the King of Guangyang seems to be waiting for you to return to Beijing?" ”

……

Li Yan was asleep, and when he woke up from his sleep in a daze, the carriage had already passed the Shun'an Gate, and he saw that it was approaching the Qi Palace.

Zhao Falcon didn't dare to sleep, he was vigilant by his side, and when he woke up, he called his master.

Li Yan knew that he usually spoke like this, and he had something to go back, so he raised his hand and rubbed the corners of his eyes: "What's wrong?" ”

"The previous master was asleep, and the slave didn't dare to call you when he saw that you were sleeping soundly. When the servants of the palace rode back and forth, they said that the Guangyang palace had sent you an invitation. ”

Qin Zhao gave him an invitation?

Li Yan's eyebrows were tightened, and the whole person was sober.

He rubbed the hand in the corner of his eye: "When?" ”

"About half an hour ago." Zhao Falcon coughed lightly and said dryly, "The servant who replied said that he entered the door with his front foot, and only then did he worry about your return to the mansion, and the servants who had stayed in the Jingzhong Mansion to serve were also busy, and the front and rear feet were just a stick of incense, and the invitation from the Guangyang Mansion arrived." ”

Qin Zhao used to rarely go to other people's homes to attend banquets, let alone take the initiative to invite someone.

Li Yan naturally knew that this invitation, nine times out of ten, it was for the Wei family's affairs and Ah Luan's affairs, but Qin Zhao was so blatant?

He just returned to Beijing...... No, no one else has returned to the capital, and he hasn't entered the palace to greet the queen mother, so Qin Zhao is in a hurry to give him an invitation and invite him to come over......

The doubts in Li Yan's eyes naturally fell into Zhao Falcon's eyes, and he rubbed his hands together: "Later, he asked the servants in the mansion, and only then did he know that after His Royal Highness the King of Guangyang returned to the palace in Beijing from the suburbs of Beijing, he has actually been moving around with the ministers of the court, and the same is true of the clan relatives and nobles, but he is not deliberately close, but he is moving more than before. No one has replied before, but the minions below haven't taken this matter too seriously......"

His voice gradually weakened because Li Yan's face had darkened.

He has always disliked the minion under him to make his own decisions, the master has clearly assigned errands, then just do what you should do, a slave family, always make decisions without permission, isn't there no one in his eyes, let alone the master?

Zhao Falcon was afraid, and the people who were sent back to stare at the Guangyang Palace, weren't they all trained by Zhao Falcon?

People say that raising soldiers for a thousand days and using soldiers for a while, but it is better to come to him.

He has raised these people for so many years, and in the end he still can't count on them, when he doesn't encounter something, he can say anything, and he is obedient, but when something happens, he really sends them out and assigns them to errands, and there are always mistakes!

Qin Zhao is so abnormal, they actually dare not reply to Qizhou, most of them are lazy, thinking that it is okay to do things, if they are lazy, no one will know, not to mention that just walking around with various mansions has no impact.

It really didn't have much impact, but Li Yanruo knew early that when he returned to Beijing today, his heart would not be unstable all the time.

Li Yan had a dark face: "You are a good slave who is training!" ”

He bit his voice, Zhao Falcon was a little panicked for a while, and wanted to kneel, but seeing that the two stone lions in front of the palace could be seen, Li Yan waved his hand: "No need to kneel, after a while I will change my clothes, and go into the palace as usual to ask the queen mother for peace, as for the Guangyang Palace, you go to see Qin Zhao in person, and tell him, I have entered the palace, and when I come out of the palace, I am afraid that I will be tired for a day, and I will not be able to go to the palace to see him today. I naturally took the time to go to Guangyang Palace, if there is nothing very important, I am afraid that I will have to wait until the New Year, so that I can have time to talk to him. ”