When Brother Lian woke up, there was no light in the sky.

I had insomnia last night, and I finally fell asleep, but I dreamed that before the wedding, the dress was gone, and the whole family was anxious to find it, but she was relieved.

There was an extra groom in last night's dream, a man in a red robe hidden in the thick fog, riding a tall horse, and the shadow looked like Ye Lingshan but it was not all.

She took a few steps closer to him, and he took a few steps back, and she was so angry that he stopped, and he stopped, just hiding in the fog, keeping his distance from her.

She scolded secretly in her heart: If you retreat, be careful of Lao Tzu...... Mother...... Forget it, you love to retreat!

When I woke up, I was depressed, got up, poured a glass of water, drank it, and walked to the courtyard. It was the night before dawn, the darkest time of the day. She tried to sniff her nose, and the cold was much better, only her throat was still a little sore, and she might cough for the next two days.

Walking to a big stone next to the rockery in the courtyard, she lay on her back, the stone platform is wide enough, and when people can't sleep in the dead of night, they often come to lie down and watch the stars. She silently looked at the sky, and at 4 a.m., she could wait to see the sunrise.

There was silence all around, and there were a few cricket chirps, and she suddenly had a strange feeling that someone was watching her. She closed her eyes and entered a state of concentration, and her whole body became extremely sensitive, and sure enough, she heard a slight long breath, the voyeur was a master, but she didn't feel murderous.

Who is it? Who's going to be peeping here?

Jiang Zhi was killed, indicating that the matter is far from over, and the already calm murder of Zhang Mao has once again attracted attention. Do you still want to send a murderer? Tomorrow, Guo Er has to be released first, which can be regarded as making a stand. Now that a new deceased has appeared, and since the ridiculously handsome little emperor is a black-bellied guy who is deeply hidden, of course she will be in the same camp as Guan Shudu, Ye Yanshan, and choose the same team.

The pattern of the court is obviously not what she imagined, she thought that King Xian was a one-sided advantage, but now it seems that the little emperor also has the strength to compete. But where is his strength? The large polo field in the backyard of the temple seemed to give her the answer, and the marks on the ground were more like a training ground for practicing soldiers.

Since you can't stay out of the matter, you have no hesitation and bet on the little emperor to win!

She secretly reached out and grabbed a pebble in her hand, pinned the way, and shot at a tree, as her body bounced up and rushed forward. The stone shot into the treetops, silently, and when Lian Di rushed over, the stone flew back towards her head-on, she couldn't avoid it, slightly sideways, the stone hit her right shoulder, the force only bounced off the dust, and then a black back flashed by, disappearing.

Brother Lian looked at the disappearing back, not tall, thin, and looked a little familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it.

In the past few days, there has been a shadow of surveillance hanging around, thinking that it was to monitor the progress of Guan Tongsheng's case, she never took it to heart, but she didn't expect that now even she was being peeped at.

She went back to the stone and lay down, and began to think about her next move. The imperial court is a river and lake, and there are many hidden masters, and if you don't show some strength, you will really be bullied casually. The case was handled well, she left, and her father could get some light when Lian Jun came back.

The first light finally lit up in the sky, and slowly, the morning glow soon reflected half of the sky, she stood up, stretched her shoulders to the sun, and silently prayed in her heart: end the case, get married quickly, and stay away from the court.

Brother Lian cleaned up and washed up, went to the courtyard of Ye Chengshan, and saw that he had slept soundly all night, and the whole person looked refreshed, Brother Lian called him to go to Lian Li's courtyard for breakfast, "My mother boiled medicine for me, and we went to drink it together." ”

Ye Yanshan was still wearing a fast trapping suit, nodded and went to Lian Li's courtyard with Brother Lian. Seeing Brother Lian rubbing his right shoulder while walking, he reached out to help her knead it, "Did it hurt you yesterday?"

"Hmm. Brother Lian nodded unceremoniously, he was willing to take the initiative to show goodwill.

"I've been tired these days, and I've had a cold for no reason, thank you so much yesterday. ”

"Well, you have to remember that you will repay it later. ”

"Good. Ye Yanshan said good-naturedly.

Brother Lian glanced at him, "Do you know how to repay?" ”

Ye Yanshan smiled: "How do you want me to repay?"

Brother Lian bit his lip and said, "I promise to be a fellow sister, the fifth lady of the Lian family, marry you, how about you being my brother-in-law?"

Ye Yanshan didn't expect that Brother Lian would mention family affairs, and said with a smile: "I have already fallen into the middle of the family, and I have repeatedly failed to test my fame, so I hollowed out my family funds and donated a Bapin County Cheng, wouldn't marrying me wronged Miss Five." ”

Brother Lian remembered the groom who retreated in her dream, and suddenly began to be irritable, this excuse for shirking was a little weaker, and she said angrily: "What if she wants to marry you?"

Ye Yanshan was a little at a loss for Brother Lian's sudden blunt tone, "Is Fifth Miss similar to you?"

Brother Lian turned his head and turned his face towards him, "Dragon and phoenix twins, exactly the same!"

Ye Yanshan smiled and said, "Guan Langzhong already has a soft spot for Miss Five, if I marry Miss Five, wouldn't I have an enmity with him." ”

"It's up to Miss Fifth to decide who she wants to marry, but it's not something she can marry if she wants to. ”

"Then it's better to find a day for Miss Five to meet with us, so that we can explore each other's hearts. ”

Brother Lian is angry and clean, his attitude is kind, reasonable, and he is really annoying to be in a hurry to marry here. Shouldn't feelings be a matter of course? What are you doing?

After she figured it out, she smiled at him, "There is a chance for you to meet again, now is not the right time." ”

Ye Yanshan still smiled and nodded, "Okay." ”

The two of them went to Lian Li's courtyard, Lian Li gave each of them a bowl of medicine, and looked at Ye Yanshan's eyes with kindness, the more he looked at it, the more he loved, and when he saw him finish drinking a bowl of medicine, he couldn't wait to add another bowl to him.

Brother Lian hurriedly stopped his mother and asked her to go to the kitchen to make some more vegetarian stuffed buns, when the mother couldn't hear the child say what she wanted to eat, Lian Li left, Brother Lian breathed a sigh of relief, and beckoned Ye Yanshan to eat early in a hurry and go out.

*

A bunch of Jiang Zhi's family members were crowded in Jingzhao Mansion, crying and choking, shouting grievances.

Jiang Zhi's son even lay on Lord Liang's lap and cried so much that he almost fainted, "The adult must catch the murderer and avenge the villain's father, killing people is not enough, how can you torture people like this......"

In the room next to the morgue, even the four brothers were silent when they listened to the noise outside, and Man San watched the crying of everyone from the window for a while, turned around and said: "If you let people know about the good things Jiang Zhi has done, I don't know if these people still have the face to cry here." ”

The four of them waited for a while, and Lord Liang finally sent the group of people away, and it was quiet outside the window.

Brother Lian asked Man San: "Retired veteran, what news did you ask?"

Man San said with a disdainful face: "The quality of the military uniforms made by the government-run workshop in the past two years is so poor that they will not be broken after washing for two years before, but now they are washed in half a year." The quilts issued by the recruits from the winter before last were obviously not heavy enough, so the two of them were so cold that they slept together and covered two quilts to get out of the winter. ”

Guan Tong was so angry that he slammed his fist on the table, "Soldiers, the barrier of the country is also." These people have to dig the barrier of the country, they are digging their own graves. ”

"And the quality of the military boots is also not as good as year after year, and the thickness of the sole and upper of the boot is not enough. ”

Guan Tongsheng said: "Lei Guogong is in charge of both the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of War, so how can he allow the Ministry of Industry to produce defective products to harm the soldiers?"

"The soldier said that it was a matter of two or three years for a large number of defective products to appear, and now the border is under the defense of the thunder, and it has been safe and sound. In the past, Yi Shangguo had nothing to do at the border to kill people and grab things, but since he went to a new Liu Junshi four years ago, he persuaded Lei Ting to change his strategy, change his passive to active, and in turn sent people to Yi Shang to wreak havoc, making the border of Yi Shangguo miserable, and he couldn't fight it, so he had to hide. There was no war on the border, and the crime of being a soldier could not attract the attention of the court adults. ”

Brother Lian said: "What kind of person is Lei Guogong, you should have heard of it, right?"

Guan Tongsheng nodded and said: "Love money like life, find him to do things, as long as you give money." ”

"That's right, Jiang Yixin was appointed as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry four years ago, if he colluded with Quan to manipulate the production of military uniforms and soldiers, and at the same time gave Lei Guogong a share, you say, Lei Guogong will still strictly control Jiang Xinyi when he sees the silver? It just so happens that the border pass is peaceful, and the daily life of the soldiers is only training, and not their lives, and of course the demands of some recruits cannot be conveyed to the heavens. ”

Ye Yanshan said meaningfully: "Behind this matter, is it just the Minister of Power and Lei Guogong who are greedy for money?"

Brother Lian asked him, "What else did you ask from Li Twelve?"

Ye Yanshan said: "Li Twelve said that once when he eavesdropped on the conversation between the two, a third person came, and Jiang Zhi asked Zhang Mao to take some money to that person, saying that there was something wrong with him and he needed to make up some silver. ”

"Who's that man?"

Li Twelve didn't know, he heard the man complain, saying that the batch of goods from the second child was not hard enough, and they needed to be recast. ”

"Hardness?recast?" The three of them gasped, this time it was not an iron pot and shovel used for stir-frying.

Brother Lian asked Ye Yanshan: "What do you think?"

Ye Yanshan said: "In addition to military uniforms and quilts, they are also casting weapons. If they are just greedy for money, the silver in military uniforms and quilts is enough for them to make a fortune, but if they are forging weapons, it is not as simple as just wanting silver. ”

"What does the third person look like, can Li Twelve say?"

"About fifty, not tall, very strong, he saw that when the man was at the door of the red apricot building to give the little guy a reward, a yellow maple leaf was embroidered on the black satin purse. ”

"Yellow maple leaves?" Manzo jumped up and said, "I know who is using this purse." ”

"Who's using it?"

Mansan pulled out a dagger from his boots, pointed at the knife and said, "Look here. The three of them looked at it, and a small maple leaf was carved on it.

"The maple leaf is the family emblem of Fan's cast iron, and it is marked everywhere in his house, on the iron tools he sells, on the clothes of the workers, and on the purses. The color of the maple leaf varies according to the different levels of people in the family. Fan Zhijin is the third young master of the Fan family, the maple leaves on his purse are dark red, and his father's purse of black silk brocade is a burnt yellow maple leaf on it. ”

Guan Tongsheng said: "You said this, I remembered, I have seen Fan Zhijin's maple leaf purse once." He has a lot of purses, sixteen of all kinds, and the maple leaf purse is one of them. ”

Lian Di said: "Fan's cast iron is a cast iron family, more than fifty percent of the iron in the capital comes from his family's shop, where is his family's workshop?"

Guan Tongsheng shook his head and said, "This, I don't know." After speaking, he turned his head to look at Man San with Brother Lian, and Man San said consciously: "I'm asking about it, I'll ask." ”

Brother Lian nodded and said: "It must be fast, now that time is pressing, judging from the clues that have been revealed now, they must have an army, and there is not much time left for the emperor, and the emperor doesn't know how to prepare?"

Man San smiled and said, "How do you think the emperor has the ability to deal with it? ”

Brother Lian glanced at him, "Why doesn't he have four or six again?"

Man San's face was excited, "I heard that the emperor has had a cold in the past two days......"

Brother Lian interrupted him with a snort, "My cold was infected by him, and I infected Brother Ye again, you two be careful, this is a virus from the emperor, it is very fierce!"

Man San said: "Yes, you two went to see the emperor, you have always liked to judge people's appearances, and you have always been curious about what the emperor looks like, now that you have seen it, how about it?"

Brother Lian smacked his lips, "Don't talk about appearance, he is so handsome, I have never seen a better looking man than him." ”

Man San cut out, "How can it not be good-looking? The emperor's mother concubine was given a title by the emperor, do you know what it is called?"

"Beauty?"

"Phew, how could the emperor be as cheesy as you. The emperor's mother concubine is called Allure, a smile is alluring, and then a smile is a country's Allure! That is the number one peerless beauty, everyone who has seen her is fascinated by her appearance, but unfortunately when the emperor died, she followed the emperor. ”

"How?"

"It's a royal secret, I haven't heard about it yet. However, I heard that the emperor looks very similar to her mother. ”

Brother Lian said sourly: "Why is a man so good-looking? There is so much ambergris on his body, he almost choked me to death." ”

Guan Tongsheng taunted her: "You are embarrassed to say that you were stupid on the spot when you saw the emperor's beautiful face, I see that your saliva almost flowed out." ”

A light laugh escaped from Ye Yanshan's throat, and even his brother became angry and yelled at him: "Don't laugh!"

Turning around, he slammed his fist at Guan Tongsheng a few times, "You talk nonsense again! I won't solve the case." "Dead nerd, how can Xiao Ye know about such a shameful thing!

She turned her head to Ye Yanshan and said, "Don't listen to him, the emperor is the Son of Heaven, and his majesty is self-contained, I haven't seen the world, and I'm scared." ”

Ye Yanshan smiled bitterly, nodded and said, "Oh." Obviously, if you don't believe her words, she will be afraid, so it's strange! When did she look at the emperor in her eyes?

Brother Lian pouted boredly, and said to Mansan: "You just said that the emperor didn't have four or six?"

Man San became excited: "Isn't the emperor cold? I have to ask the imperial doctor to make him medicine that is not bitter to eat, do you say that the medicine can be non-bitter? He said that the medicine is made into pills, wrapped in powdered sugar on the outside, and swallowed with water when eating, just like a layer of capsules wrapped on the outside, so that it will not be bitter." ”

"What did you say?" Brother Lian grabbed Man San, his eyes flashed with horror: "It's like something wrapped on the outside?"

"Glue, capsules. ”