Luo Sheng was silent. Because he objected to her approaching the Cao Gang, he obviously wouldn't help her pay attention to this.

Xie Wan looked at Shen Tian, he couldn't be still, he moved around a lot, and he should know a lot about the news.

But Shen Tian also scratched his head and scratched his ears, and he couldn't give an answer at all.

Luo Ju said: "This should be easy to inquire. I'll go out for a while, and I'll tell the girl when I come back. ”

Xie Wan sat down and drank a bowl of tea, and Luo Ju came back.

"Now the one in charge of Cao Yun is originally the protector of the country, Huoda. Originally, the officers and soldiers stationed at the dock were people from the Five Cities Terracotta Division, and after the Protector took over, because the Protector Mansion itself held the military power, they were all under the command of the Huo family, and as for not seeing it, it was because they changed into civilian clothes. ”

"Protector?"

Xie Wan couldn't help but be slightly taken aback when he heard the words "Protector of the Country".

How could she not know!

If it is the norm for the Meritorious House to decline and do nothing at the moment, then the Protector Mansion is definitely an anomaly. Now the grandfather of the fourth generation of the protector Huo Da is the founding father who accompanied the Taizu Emperor to conquer the country, and made great contributions to the establishment of the Great Yin Dynasty, it is said that Taizu rewarded a total of nine princes at that time, and several generations have passed, the remaining eight princes have gradually withered, only the Huo family of the protector is still standing in the middle of the court.

The Huo family also has unique luck.

In the past dynasties and dynasties of the heavenly family is extremely taboo courtiers to cover the master, the military generals in the power of the threat to the emperor and the precedent of using knives openly and secretly, more than 20 years ago the East China Sea coastal war broke out again, the emperor not only hand-picked Huo Da to lead a heavy army to the East China Sea to guard, but also from time to time to reward gold and silver, and the food is also designated to give priority to the household military department.

After ten years, Huoda finally defeated the Waguan and returned to the dynasty in victory. The emperor thought about it, but he really couldn't think of rewarding him again. So he turned out the exploits of the Huo family Taizu and posthumously crowned the king of Zhongshan. Then married the eldest daughter of the Huo family as the crown princess.

The longevity of the Huo family is definitely an outlier.

The government and the opposition have speculated about when the Huo family fell out of favor for decades. Including Xie Wan, as well as a few confidants and yamen around the emperor, none of them guessed accurately. The emperor's favor for the Huo family is true, even if there is a suspicion of appeasing the courtiers for the sake of the whole court at the beginning, but if a son of heaven who sits on the throne can appease a military minister with such a disturbed heart for several generations, it will not be true and it will become true.

The Huo family has such a transcendent status, and at the same time, it has been operated for several generations, and it also has an unattainable foundation in the DPRK, which is no longer something that people can guess and question. His position in the circle of merit. It is already like a god who has risen in the daytime, which makes people look up to it. And the status among the military attaches is like a generation of grandmasters, which makes people willing to worship.

As for what the civil officials think in their hearts, the well water of the civil and military factions does not interfere with the river water, and each has its own heaven and earth. Nowadays, during the Taiping period, civil officials were already valuable, and a country always had someone in charge of military power, although the Heavenly Family trusted them so much, but they had no conflict of interest with themselves. As long as they don't violate the rules, they can do it without giving them a handle, and what do they care so much?

So in private, no one gradually mentioned this topic of people who were not at the same level as ordinary people at all, in the heart of Xie Wan, who had been dealing with civil officials and giants all his life in his previous life. The existence of the Protectorate Mansion is more like a legend.

Everyone knows that the two branches of salt and Cao Yun are rich in oil and water, and now that they heard that Cao Yun also fell into Huoda's hands, Xie Wan suddenly had a feeling that the Protector Mansion had become an immortal beast.

But. No matter how majestic the Huo family is, it can't affect her life now, but she knows a little more about Caoyun. It's just good for her to operate in the future.

All she needs now is how to get her rice shop up and running.

Thinking of this, she said, "I'll rest for a while." Go down. ”

Luo Sheng and the others walked to the door, and she suddenly said, "Shentian Luo Ju, wait a minute." ”

The two walked back. She stood up and paced twice, and said, "After the beard was gone, I saw that he seemed to have gone to a small wooden building on the left side of the docks. Shen Tian, you will go and check again in the next two days, what kind of place is that small wooden building. What to do. ”

When Shen Tian left, she said to Luo Ju again: "Just now I talked about the Protector of the Kingdom, which reminded me of something. Last time, you said that the little boy of the Governor Wei Bin's family, you are now going to inquire if there is really such a qualified person. ”

She has indeed been thinking about this matter in her heart, although Luo Ju said that halfway through, she heard that Wei Bin's youngest son's family is in Hejian Mansion, and he often goes around, but he doesn't know if there is such a thing.

Both of them went out as they were told.

When the news came, it was the next morning.

Early in the morning, it was white outside the window, and when I pushed the window, the north wind blew in, and a few snowflakes flew down on my face, cold and cold.

In the air, the snowflakes are also flying in a changeable manner, and the plum trees downstairs have been fully bloomed at some point, and they are spreading a faint fragrance in the silence of a garden. Shinda walked under the tree and stomped his feet up the stairs.

Xie Wan closed the window, and Yuxue walked in with hot water: "The girl is awake?" Shen Tian is back. ”

Shen Tian went out yesterday evening, stayed at the dock for a night, and came back early.

She wiped her face, and Shen Tian had already arrived at the door.

"Back to the girl's words, I have already inquired, it turns out that the beard is the first helmsman under the Cao Gang, responsible for the five Cao boats under the Cao Gang, surnamed Luo, ranked seventh in the gang, so everyone called him Luo Qiye. The building he went to was his residence, where he spent his daily errands and rest. It's not unusual. ”

Xie Wan couldn't think of anything out of the ordinary.

So he just nodded, and let him go back to the house to rest and have breakfast.

After eating here, Xie Wan walked around the back street and came back, but he still didn't see Luo Ju.

It stands to reason that the Wei family lives in the capital, and it is several times more convenient than Jishuitan, not to mention that it can be turned around last night, and there should be news early in the morning.

She asked Yufang to ask Luo Sheng.

Yufang came back with an uncertain expression: "Shopkeeper Luo said that Luo Ju went out yesterday and has not come back now. ”

Xie Wan sat quietly with the tea bowl for a long time, and said, "Let Wu Xing go around the Wei Mansion to have a look." ”

Luo Ju acted relatively steadily, and she was safe and sound when she came to Beijing single-handedly last time, she didn't believe that there would be any big accidents. But he didn't return for a long time, and it made people's hearts feel like they were hanging in the air.

Wu Xing went out for less than a moment and came back with boiling oil under his feet.

"Girl! Something happened! Luo Ju was tied up on the street! ”

Yufang screamed in fright.

Xie Wan stood up: "How are others?" Have you ever been beaten? Who tied him up? ”

"The person is sober, I don't know if I was beaten or not, someone is guarding there, but I don't know who it is!"

"What's wrong?"

Luo Sheng also walked in when he heard the news, although he didn't appear too panicked, the worry in his eyes was still obvious.

Xie Wan took the cloak and put it on, "Go and have a look." ”

Luo Sheng stopped and said, "If you want to go, the little ones will go, and the girl will stay!" ”

Xie Wan pushed him away and had already strode out of the threshold.

The people around him have been using it for a long time, and there is no need to give orders, Yuxue automatically stayed in the house with Yufang, Wu Xing set up a car with an arrow, and after Shen Tian and Luo Sheng carried Xie Wan into the carriage, they sat at the front of the car and drove towards the street that Wu Xing pointed to!

Soon arrived at the place where Luo Ju was tied.

It is a small alley with high-rise houses on both sides, and the main street is connected at both ends. Luo Ju was tied to a big plane tree under the wall, and half of his body was covered with snowflakes, looking angry, but helpless.

Two people who looked like family members were guarding the side, looking at the clothes and accessories materials were very good, and I thought that the owner was also a person with status.

There is a small door on the right side of the big plane tree, which is half-hidden, and the winding path inside is secluded, which should be the mansion where these two family members are on duty.

Xie Wan is sure that this is Wei Bin's mansion. And this gate should be the side gate of the Wei Mansion, presumably Luo Ju was arrested when he inquired about Wei Xianam.

She got out of the carriage and walked straight to Luo Ju.

When the family saw her little girl coming over, he couldn't help frowning and said, "Go play somewhere else!" ”

When Luo Ju saw Xie Wan, he was dumbfounded: "Girl! ”

Xie Wan couldn't help but say something, and walked up to untie his rope.

The family members were stunned and hurriedly stepped forward to stop: "What are you doing here?" Carefully I'll hit you! ”

Xie Wan glared at him with a heavy face: "The family members in the governor's mansion are not to say anything about tying people up indiscriminately, and they are threatening to beat people, are you deliberately smearing your adults' faces, or are you just looking at my Da Yin Dynasty's laws just for decoration?!" Do you think that the imperial historians all eat white rice?! ”

The family members were only ordered to do things, but they didn't expect that the little girl who suddenly came opened her mouth and closed her mouth was such a big reason, and they were suddenly shocked and speechless.

"I can't see that you still have this kind of knowledge!"

As he was talking, the small side door suddenly came to cheer, and then a dark shadow flashed, and a young man in brocade clothes came out.

Xie Wan was stunned when he saw this person, this young man was only twelve or thirteen years old, but he could already see that he was tall, although his eyebrows and eyes were slightly childish, but under his smile, he had the color of a captivating city.

"You have a point," he said. But I want to ask you, is it right that you allow people to come to my house and inquire about me in a sneaky way? Although the laws of my Dayin Dynasty are strict, the imperial historians can be overstepped, but there must be evidence. If we take the lawsuit to Shuntianfu, I will also take care of it. ”

The young man talked eloquently, not urgently, not panicked, and even the sharpness between his eyebrows and eyes was a little naughty.

Luo Ju came to inquire about Wei Xian on her orders, judging from his words, then he is Wei Xian? Wei Xian, who rescued her from the pine tree, and then escorted her back to her house by shining medicine and wearing shoes?

Xie Wan, who was standing in the snow, thought of this possibility, and his heart suddenly warmed up.

Looking at him again, he in front of him was like a piece of jade, and his whole body was full of the breath of the noble son of Zhong Ding's jade food family.

The age matches and the appearance matches, although she can't remember what he looked like when he was on the mountain, but a beautiful teenager surnamed Wei, who lives in the capital, and at the same time has the opportunity to go to Hejian Mansion often, and carries a guard with him, who else in the world?

Xie Wan didn't remember the appearance of the Wei Gongzi, but now that he looked at it carefully, he felt more and more real. (To be continued.) )