"It's my second brother."

"All down."

Li Tai looked at Yi Yu's helpless appearance, waved away several maids in the house, walked to the window, picked her up, and went back to the inner room.

Yi Yu was still immersed in the shock of discovering Lu Jun's clues, so Li Tai untied her tea-soaked skirt, placed her on the bed, covered her with a thin quilt, and poured another cup of warm tea into her hand.

After she drank tea and calmed down, Li Taicai sat on the edge of the bed and told the truth about one of the purposes of this southward trip.

"This trip was originally to follow Lu Jun's traces."

It is undoubtedly difficult to find a person who has disappeared for no reason in the vast sea of people, Li Tai's subordinates are distributed in 48 states and 161 counties across the country, although the momentum is rudimentary, but the ability should not be underestimated, especially the newspapers, up to the restaurant, down to the peddler's pawn, there are pawn shops, teahouses, and post stations, and it took two years to trace the little information left by Lu Jun when he left Beijing, and it is no longer a shadow hunt.

At the beginning of this year, a pawnshop in Yangzhou, once classic a piece of yellow Yahu jade, after verification, it is the old Huaiguo Mansion property, also called the people at that time to recall, the pawn man is indeed a young man in his early twenties, the letter was sent to Chang'an, it was already April, Li Tai ordered to find people, the affairs of Beijing were in order, and the jade was brought down to the south.

Hearing the news of Lu Jun from Li Tai's mouth, Yi Yu calmed down, "You mean, my eldest brother is in Yangzhou City now?" ”

"The person hasn't been found yet, but the pawn is a job, and he shouldn't be far away."

"How is this possible," Yi Yu's brows furrowed into a Sichuan character, "If my second brother is in Yangzhou City, hasn't he contacted my grandmother?" He knew that the Lu family had an industry in Yangzhou, even if Yangzhou City was big, it was impossible not to have any news. ”

Li Tai shook his head, "There is no movement in Yangzhou Lu Mansion. ”

"Could that be a mistake, someone else stole my grandfather's things?"

"Where did you come from?" Li Tai's words pierced her assumptions, if one thing is related to Yangzhou, it is fine, and the two are not just a coincidence.

Yi Yu was dumbfounded, her head was a little foggy, she always thought that Lu Jun was delayed because of some irresistible factors, but now it seems that there is another hidden reason in this.

"This is what I made for my second brother before parting," she lowered her head and rubbed the slightly worn pouch with the edges and corners, and her tone was complicated, "He won't give it to people easily, but this pouch is on Miss Song and them, what the hell is going on." ”

"When you come back, just ask." Li Tai's eyes gradually darkened, to tell the truth, he didn't like Yu Yu to be disturbed by others, but he understood that she took family affection too seriously, and when it came to something related to her mother and brother, she would easily blow up her hair, and if she wanted to coax her, she could only follow her hair little by little.

Yu Yu didn't notice Li Tai's abnormality, and he was immersed in thought.

Song Xinci woke up again, on the big boat that had already set off down the river, the soft cool mattress, the thin silk quilt, the elegant incense, the translucent gauze tent when she opened her eyes, and the shallow sound of rain in her ears, which almost made her think that the past catastrophe was in a dream, but the next call knocked her back to reality.

"Miss Song is awake, go and report to Mrs. Song"

Madame, mother? No, it's Mrs. Tang

A pair of sharp and mocking peach blossom eyes jumped in his mind, which made Song Xinci wake up and sit up from the bed in a panic.

"Miss, you're awake." The magpie came running in from outside, put down the basin, and hurried to the bed.

Letting the magpie pull her to wipe her tears, Song Xinci was silent for a while before saying, "Why are we back again?" ”

"The slave maid didn't know, the young lady was fainted by the female guard, and the slave took you off the boat, and before you left the dock, you were picked up and brought back."

"How long have I been unconscious." She looked at the half-hidden window, and it was so dark that it was difficult to tell the time.

"It's evening, miss, are you hungry? The slave and maid will give you something to eat. ”

In any case, you must first eat a full stomach before you have the strength to make a plan.

It was raining lightly outside the river, and Yi Yu sat on a low chair opposite Song Xinci's bed, looking at Song Xinci who was kneeling at the foot of the bed, hanging her head and letting her dispose of it.

"Madam, thank you for not remembering the villain, and I am willing to take in Xinci." Song Xinci was not as good as Yu Yu's state of mind, she couldn't help it at first, and opened her mouth to break the silence, and the people in the house were all pushed out, only one palm slapped her on the ground during the day and stood on Yu Yu's side.

"Miss Song," Yi Yu changed her words directly, and didn't call her any more miss, her tone was not as ruthless as during the day, but it was also cold and hard, "I only ask you once, you'd better answer honestly, I can ensure that you return safely, you should know that I am not a soft-hearted person, if I find out that you are a little liar, I will first throw your maid into the river to feed the fish, there are thousands of souls in this river, I must not mind having you as a companion." ”

"Don't dare, don't worry, madam." Song Xinci's body trembled lightly, and her tone was sincere, which was the second characteristic that Yi Yu found out about this young woman, who knew current affairs.

"Tell me more about your background."

"Yes," Song Xinci organized the language, trying to suppress the fear that rose in her heart when she said goodbye to the jade, "The little girl Song Qingyuan, whose name is Xinci, is sixteen this year, a person from Huainan, whose home is in Yangzhou City, and her father is a relative account in the Yue Wang's Mansion, from the Wupin Deputy Pawn Army, Song Enxiao. ”

Zhenguan ten years, Li Shimin had a great seal of the sons, the eighth prince Yue Wang Li Zhen, was given the governor of Yangzhou, the post of governor is the highest command of the local military and government, when the prince and the prince are over 16 years old to serve as an official, before the remote leader, the affairs are all in charge of the palace chief Shi, not any prince is like Li Tai so favored, over 20 years old was also allowed to stay in the capital to open the mansion, and built a literature museum, allowing him to recruit forces under the nose of the Son of Heaven.

In the March Palace, when he bowed, Yi Yu saw King Yue, a young man who had arrived in the fifteenth party, who was still living in the palace, and his mother, Concubine Yan, did not even attend the sports banquet. This Song Xinci's father is the deputy pawn of the Chengyue Wangfu in Yangzhou, and he is a local official from Wupin, and he is also a local high-ranking household, but when he is put in the capital, he is inferior to the Wensan official from Liupin.

"The person who traveled with your master and servant that day, I heard him speak Beijing dialect, but he also has a southern accent, is he really your mother's uncle's cousin in Guannei?"

Having said this, how could Song Xinci not know that Yu Yu had already exposed her lie to deceive Ping Hui, her face was slightly embarrassed, and she said in a low voice:

"It's a kind deception, and please don't sin my wife, that person is indeed my cousin, but his family is also from Huainan, not that I want to find that uncle's family."

"You two have a marriage contract?" Yi Yu asked, without any rules, as if it was all out of curiosity, Song Xinci hesitated for a moment, and replied bitterly:

"The order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker."

Yi Yu's eyes flashed slightly, and he continued, "Why did your master and servant leave their hometown? And why did he turn back? ”

An accident in the morning has made Song Xinci timid in Yuyu, facing her step by step questioning, deepening step by step, and in the end, there is no need for any tricks, Song Xinci explained it back and forth.

When Yi Yu left, she came back to her senses, pondered for a while, and then slowly remembered that Yu Yu sent someone to find her back like this, and she must have a plan, but if she came back again, she might not have the courage to blackmail and deceive Yu Yu with this.

By the window, Yi Yu sat opposite Li Tai, telling him the news he had deduced from Song Xinci:

"Huainan salt thieves are rampant, but the local area is not cured, there is a hidden situation of officials and thieves protecting each other, and a large amount of money and salt is lost every year, Song Enxiao in order to make meritorious contributions, visited privately, and finally found his top boss, the head of Hu Jitai, the current governor of the Yue Wangfu, ready to let go, but was bitten back by Hu Jitai, framed him for his position as a pawn, and hooked up thieves, and went to the capital with a book, Hu Jitai was deposed and detained, and Hu Jitai couldn't wait to lock people up."

"It's not that he doesn't want to kill people, but Song Enxiao stole a few letters from his largest salt lord gang in Huainan out of nowhere, as well as a private account book, in order to prevent future troubles, he first detained and forced him to interrogate, unexpectedly, Song Enxiao's eldest daughter escaped with those evidence, and wanted to go to Hedong to find her cousin's family for help."

Yi Yu drank some tea to moisten his throat, turned his head and glanced at the light rain outside the window, "The former governor of Jingzhou, Wu Ren, is Song Enxiao's wife Pei's cousin, Wu Ren is deceased, and now the eldest son Wu Yuanqing is in charge, he does not want to offend Hu Jitai because of a distant relative, so he drove Miss Song away, telling her that going to Beijing is also a dead end, and then Hu Jitai chased the soldiers to catch up, the master and servant were in danger one after another, and the servants were killed and wounded. ”

Wu Ren, this is an unfamiliar name, but his big name warrior Mi is like thunder in Yi Yu's ears, so close to hearing about the biological father of an empress, it is enough to make Yu Yu frightened, which reminds her of the Empress Zetian who has been deliberately ignored, and now she doesn't know that in that corner of the palace is ready to go, the Wu family.

"Why don't you ask where the bag came from?" When Li Tai heard about this kind of official and thief thing, he was really as indifferent as Yi Yu thought, he didn't even have the interest to ask one more word, thinking that Li Zhen, the king of Yue, was just a child with no teeth in the eyes of Li Tai, who had been in the officialdom for a long time, and Yu Yu was also relieved.

"This woman is cunning, I'm worried that if she can guess something, it will be unfavorable to my second brother, after all, it is certain that she has had contact with my second brother, and the relationship is not shallow," Regarding the news of Lu Jun, after thinking about it for a day, Yu Yu has calmed down a lot, "Wait until you get to Yangzhou and find someone." ”

Leaking the bottom before you can figure out the other person is an extremely stupid act most of the time.

Li Tai was still very satisfied with her calm reaction, bent his legs and stayed down, bent down and picked her up, in the surprise of Yu Yu, his thin lips were close to her ears, and the warm snort stirred her ears:

"The night rain river scenery is chic, and you can enjoy it together."

Even though Yi Yu didn't have any intention of appreciating the scenery, he was also a little interested, raised his hand around his neck, and laughed softly, "Don't let me get drenched in the rain." ”

(I have time to revise the outline today, and I will have a small change today, don't blame you).

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