Cheng Yuan came back to Nanwa Village for the first time, and Xie Lang introduced the origin and size of Zhuangzi to him while walking into the courtyard.

Yang Wu's family lives next door, and this courtyard is only used to entertain the master. Usually Xie Wan lives in the backyard when he comes, and Xie Lang's gang all lives in the front yard.

The small farmhouse courtyard yard, the sound of dogs playing outside the courtyard wall came clearly, the smell of dry grass everywhere, the doors and windows in the courtyard were clean and new, the lanterns with simple styles were hung under the corridor, thick moss grew under the stone steps, and there was even a large crape myrtle flower planted in the corner of the wall.

Xie Lang and Cheng Yuan live in three rooms in front of the front yard, two are bedrooms and one is a banquet room. Huo Jue and the three of them lived in the west, and Wu Xingyinzuo lived in the east.

Before lunch, Yang Wu brought two old men who had been planting in Zhuangzi for most of their lives to the yard, and Xie Lang began to ask them about farming and water conservancy. One of the two compartments was curious, and the other said that he was good at what he was good at, so he couldn't hold back, and Xie Lang talked about it, so he left them to have a meal, and after the meal, he invited them to be the guides of the next few days to investigate the field of the grange.

Within a few days, Old Man Ning personally brought two live deer to Xie's house, and it turned out that his boat of tea had successfully arrived in Jingshi.

Xie Wanyuan refused to accept it, the old man stared at him with a shy stomach, and said: "If you don't accept it, you will look down on the old man and me!" ”

In this case, Xie Wan had no choice but to accept it.

This creature is native to the three eastern provinces, and several wealthy families in Qinghe often eat venison. It's just very rare to live. Seeing that Old Man Ning had given such a rare thing as a reward, the people in the house praised the deer while surrounding them, and on the other hand, they also discussed the changes in the Ning family in recent years.

Xie Wan let them roam freely in the back garden. For them, she asked the gardeners to dig up a peony and plant a small half-acre of woods so that they could live more happily.

Gu Xing came back before Qian Zhuang.

When he got home, Xie Wan was digging a pit and planting trees with the gardeners with a small hoe. Seeing the two guys jumping around in the garden, Gu Xing crushed the broad beans in his mouth with a bang. Xing Zhu pinched her ear beads: "This is not for eating, don't use your brain." ”

Gu Xing grinned and jumped out of the park with Xie Wan.

Xie Wan washed his hands and came out, sat in the study and asked Gu Xing, "What's the result?" ”

Gu Xing said: "I followed those men in black for half a month. They were found to have been following a man in a hat to the south. They basically don't show up in front of people. I don't talk much, and I don't live in the inn. Bring your own food and sleep in the woodland or the grave where no one goes, and other than that. Nothing else can be seen. ”

Xie Wan thought for a moment. "The man in the hat. Are you wearing a moon-white dress and black boots? The hat is also black? ”

Gu Xing's eyes widened: "The girl knows? ”

Xie Wan nodded, but did not answer.

It seems that Huo Yao's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain has succeeded. The man in black was obviously Xu Xuan'er. Huo Jue originally explained that he had been walking to a crowded place, thinking that he had learned about the weakness of the man in black who was isolated and afraid of being discovered, so he put a long line and led the group of fish to the south.

With their skills, of course, they will find out that something is wrong one day in the future, but after they find out that the tracking target is fake, when they turn back, they can't find any clues about Huo Yao.

Xie Wan peeked through this layer, and couldn't help but admire Huo Jue a little, it seems that he doesn't have a good face in vain.

However, judging from the results of Gu Xing's tracking, it is impossible to find out the opponent behind Huo Yao from the man in black.

Now it just depends on how Qian Zhuang is doing.

Qian Zhuang returned home in the middle of the night three days later.

Xie Wan slid up from the bed.

Qian Zhuang said: "There is good news and bad news. The good news is that there is a Wangjia village in the suburbs of Beijing twenty miles to the south, where there is a family surnamed Huo, the son is called Huo Yao, who left home seven years ago, and it is said that his appearance is also very thoughtful when he was young, which is very consistent with the situation of Huo Yao rescued by the girl. ”

Xie Wan's heart skipped a beat, but in an instant, he gradually put it back in his stomach.

In this way, the possibility that Huo Yao is a person from the Protector's Mansion can almost be ruled out.

She said, "But is there anything else that can prove that he has nothing to do with the Protector Mansion?" ”

"In fact, the Huo family in Wangjia Village is not unrelated to the Protector Mansion." Qian Zhuang said, "The ancestor of the Huo family in Wangjia Village is said to have been a domestic slave under the first generation of the Protector, and later with the Protector of the Country, he gave him his family name, and then released his slave status. Since then, the Huo family has settled in Wangjia Village on the outskirts of Beijing.

"Three generations ago, the Huo family still had occasional contacts with the Protector Mansion, and after a long time, the Protector Mansion changed dynasties several times, and gradually broke off contact. By these two generations, it is almost impossible to figure out the origin of the ancestors.

"This Huo Yao's mother died in childbirth when she gave birth to him, and later his father married the house, and after the house gave birth, he was very unpleasant to Huo Yao, and often beat and scolded. So he ran away from home when he was seven years old, and he has not been back. ”

It's also filling the house, and it's also abuse?

Xie Wan remembered that Huo Yao's face was very calm when he said that he had no family, but now that he thinks about it, is it because the trauma he suffered in his childhood is too heavy and it is unbearable to look back? I left home at the age of seven, and I don't know how I survived after so many years. When I think of the carriage in the woods when it was out of control, his sentence "life and death depend on life and wealth in the sky" is because he has faced too many thrills like this for many years, right?

It's no wonder that he looks calm and calm whenever and wherever he is.

But thinking of the rare fragrance on his body, as well as his well-maintained hair-if a person wanders outside for a long time, he will not have quite good qi and blood to raise such a hair, right?

Xie Wan felt that he was a little too serious. After all, the news that Qian Zhuang inquired about matched him quite well, didn't it? He didn't have to wait until now if he wanted to harm her.

"Forget it," he waved his hand, "he doesn't have to be held accountable." What's the other bad news? ”

After Qian Zhuang investigated to this point, he didn't rest assured about Huo Yao's matter, he pondered for a while, and said: "Little one is going to Jingshi, by the way, I heard one thing, the third master has been recommended by Ji Zhenyuan and Ji Ge to be the Zuo Zhongyun of Zhan Shifu, and the edict was issued yesterday. ”

Xie Wan was speechless.

Zhan Shifu is the prince's auxiliary minister's yamen, and Zhongyun's position is equivalent to the court's subordinate servant, if the subordinate servant is a close minister of the Son of Heaven, then there is no doubt that Zhongyun of Zhan Shifu is a close minister of the prince. In this way, Xie Rong has now jumped to the side of the prince through Yin Yao and has become a real auxiliary minister!

Ji Zhenyuan promoted him like this, undoubtedly because he took a fancy to his potential and wanted to train him to be his successor, but what did Xie Rong want to do?

Obviously, the prince's power is not stable now, and he already has a large number of backbone henchmen around him, Xie Rong squeezed in halfway like this, what status can he get? What is he plotting?

Whatever the scheme, it was a threat to her.

Of course, Xie Wan would not think that his every political step was directed at her, in fact, he was Xie Wan's biggest enemy, and she was just one of his many opponents, and even for him, she was not his opponent in the strict sense, but just a small stumbling block that had blocked his heart twice.

Her goal is to completely defeat him, so that the heir of Xie Fu's original wife can achieve a real sense of raising eyebrows, and his goal is to be a powerful minister who covers the sky with one hand, so when she is desperately chasing him, he is actually moving forward at an astonishing speed.

Xie Langzhong's matter can't be hidden from Xie Rong, as long as he has the heart, Xie Lang's recent inspection of agricultural and mulberry water conservancy can't be hidden from him.

Every step that the second room has to take in the future should not be able to hide from him.

In this case, since he has gone so smoothly, shouldn't she also do something to slow down the speed of his promotion?

She suddenly remembered Qian Zhuang's purpose for going to Jingshi, and asked, "How did you know this news?" ”

Qian Zhuang said: "The little one went to the rice shop before he came back this morning, and it was Luo Ju who asked me to give a message to the girl." Originally, he planned to write a letter, but the letter was written and ready to be sent to the Ning family's caravan, but when he saw the small one, he simply asked the small one to bring it back directly. ”

He took out the letter from his bosom and gave it to Xie Wan.

Xie Wan unfolded it and looked at it, and sure enough, it was also written about this matter, so he said: "You go and rest first, I have something to explain to you in two days." ”

Xie Lang has been in Nanwazhuang these days, going out every day, and he can't walk no less than twenty-three miles every day, Huo Luo and they are down, Xie Lang Cheng Yuan is weak, and he is a little unbearable when it comes to dinner, but the two of them are very energetic, often a bowl of tea after dinner, and they talk about what they have seen and heard during the day and talk about it until midnight.

Xie Lang is supported by enthusiasm, his dream since he was a child is to become an official, and now Dabi High School has given him a lot of encouragement, so that he is even more determined to make some achievements.

And Cheng Yuan's excitement lies in the fact that he saw his young self in Xie Lang's body, he had participated in the examination three times after the middle lift, all of which ended in failure, at that time he only knew how to read dead books, read dead books, and did not know how to analyze the government and politics, how to learn to find his own position, and now looking at Xie Lang's open platform, it is not as rigid as it seems from the outside, and he is happy in his heart.

If Xie Lang can really earn a place in the court in the future, then his efforts on him will not be in vain, and his perception of the warmth and coldness of the world in the past few decades, his insight into the treacherous court, and his grasp of the world's affairs and human feelings have also had a carrier that can be inherited.

Therefore, the relationship in the past ten days seems to be more sincere and warm than the relationship in the past two years, and the current friendship between the two is also very appropriate. (To be continued.) )