In the courtyard of the Wangjia Inn in the north of Meixian County, Lan Yi picked up what she could say and told Wang Chengde and the three of them in detail about her experience in Beigou Village for more than a year. Because she knew that Chun Tao's family must be very concerned about how Chun Tao was spending her days, and now in their eyes, she is Chun Tao.

After Lan Yi finished speaking, Wang Chengde and the three of them were silent for a long time.

Zheng Shi took Lan Yi's hand, sad and relieved. Although Chun Tao is a maid, she has never suffered since she was a child, and her life is no worse than that of a young lady from a small family, which also makes Chun Tao pampered since she was a child, which makes her worried. This incident wiped out her daughter's childishness and made her grow up in an instant.

Wang Chengde is also similar to his wife, and the changes in his daughter over the past year or so have really impressed him.

Wang Chunrong grabbed his hair and looked at his sister admiringly: "Sister, you are doing better than the eldest brother, if the eldest brother took the young master back then, he would definitely not have the younger sister." ”

Wang Chengde nodded, it was true: "Although you are two years older than your sister, you are far worse than Tao'er in terms of calmness." ”

Wang Chunrong smiled: "Dad, my sister has inherited your heart's eyes, and my son has only inherited your appearance, although I have been learning with you every day in prison for more than a year, but it is still far behind." ”

Lan Yi had a lot of questions to ask in her heart, and she followed Wang Chunrong's words and asked, "Dad, big brother, I heard Gao Zhutou say that you have been locked up in prison for more than a year, what's the matter?" ”

Wang Chengde was afraid that his daughter would be worried, so he only said briefly: "The uncle was killed by someone and fell into the water and died, and Mrs. Tai also followed under grief, and the old lady was more and more mentally depressed by this blow and could not be controlled." At that time, the old lady still believed that Wang Mingli was a smooth and kind-hearted person, so she handed over the affairs of the family to him, Young Master Wenxuan was in danger several times, Wang Tiangui wanted to take the opportunity to please you, but my father couldn't at that time, so I had to ask the old lady to get rid of your slave status, and arrange for you and Mrs. to take Young Master Wenxuan to avoid it temporarily. After you left, Wang Tiangui went to the yamen to accuse me and your brother of abducting the young master and embezzling the property of the master's family, and the yamen sent someone to arrest us and put us in prison. Because they had no evidence, and the old lady went up and down, although we couldn't be released, and we didn't go to the court to ask about the case, we didn't suffer much. After being released in May this year, the people of the Wang family are always watching, and my father has never dared to go out to look for you. ”

Zheng listened to her husband's understatement, remembered the scarred and weak appearance of her husband and son when she first went to the prison, and wept again.

Lan Yi listened to Zheng's low sobs, and saw the pale faces of Wang Chengde's father and son, and knew that the disaster of more than a year in prison was not as easy as they said.

However, this is not the time to ask more, she then asked: "Dad, you and your eldest brother have been locked up for more than a year and no one has been promoted to ask about the case, and no one cares?" ”

Wang Chunrong gritted his teeth and clenched his fists, and scolded angrily: "Hmph, how can anyone care!" Tian Zhixian looked at the face of the people, but secretly only recognized the silver, Wang Tiangui was instructed by Wang Mingli to go to the yamen to complain and arrest us, cut off the arm of the big house, so that they could take over the business of the Wang family. Besides, even if they don't have the credentials, they can still get a sum of money from the old lady if they put us in prison, how can they be willing to go to the court and let us out! ”

Lan Yi nodded, and then asked, "Then why did they let Dad and Big Brother out again in May?" ”

Wang Chengde replied: "For more than a year, they have already held the Wang family's trading shop in their hands, and the old lady's money is almost lost. Another point is that Wang Mingli found that the uncle opened a few shops before his death, these shops have a very good business and are the uncle's private property, and the shopkeeper only recognizes the uncle's token, so Wang Mingli wants to start from his father, find the token, and take over the shop. ”

When it came to the token, Lan Yi was right. "Is that the jade pendant that the two thieves said?"

Wang Chengde nodded: "The shopkeeper of the two thieves is named Wang Er, and he is Wang Mingli's person. The short man was called Wang Chunfa, who was originally the uncle's little servant, and after the uncle's death, he followed Wang Mingli, and was soon promoted to be in charge. Peach, the jade pendant that Madame took with her when she left, but here are you? ”

Lan Yi nodded: "My daughter is afraid that it will not be safe, so when she came out, she handed over the jade pendant, letters and other tokens to Brother Zhou, and he took it safer." ”

Wang Chengde nodded: "During these days, Wang Mingli found several groups of people to come to try to ask about the whereabouts of Yu Pei and the young master, and Wang Chengtu also said that he did not find you in Huang County." So in July, Gao Zhutou climbed over the wall to the house in the middle of the night, took his wife's ring and your bracelet and said that when you and the young master were in Huang County, my father only thought that he was also Wang Mingli's person, and he didn't dare to believe him. ”

Wang Chengtu was one of the two merchants who went to Wang's second uncle's house to look for Wang Lin when Lan Yi didn't go to Beigou Village last year, but at that time they claimed to be called Zhao Chengtu and Zhao Chengqing. These two people are also Wang Mingzhe's old subordinates, and they are very heartfelt to him, so Wang Chengde urgently entrusted them to Huang County to find out whether his wife had brought the child to Mei County. Later, Wang Chengde and his son were cut off from contact with the outside world after being imprisoned, and they have never been heard.

Wang Chengde remembered that Gao Feng jumped into the house in the middle of the night, with a big beard and a fierce body, like a robber who robbed him......

Wang Chunrong also echoed: "Yes, Gao Zhutou doesn't look like a Yamen head catcher, he is very similar to a prisoner brother we are holding in prison." ”

Zheng took out the bracelet from his arms and put it on Lan Yi: "This is my mother's dowry back then, and I always carried it with Tao'er if I liked it." When the mother saw the bracelet, she knew that her mother's good daughter must be safe. ”

Lan Yi nodded, and asked again: "Dad, it's not too early, Brother Tuesday has to take me and the baby to the yamen, what else do you have to explain?" ”

Wang Chengde thought for a while and said: "No matter who you are, when you ask about jade pendants and other things, they only say that they don't know. The rest is as it should be, let's talk about it in detail. ”

Lan Yi nodded and made a note, she went outside the door to invite Zhou Weiji in, and took out the letter and jade pendant from him for Wang Chengde to inspect.

Wang Chengde took it with both hands and looked at it carefully, "It is this jade pendant, which is the token of the three stores under the uncle's name." When my uncle sent me back to Meixian before the accident, I handed it to my wife along with the letter. After speaking, he handed the jade pendant to Zhou Weiji again, "Zhou Bantou, please take it, it's not safe to put it here with me." ”

Zhou Weiji took it and said to Wang Chengde and the others: "It's not too early, the little nephew has to take their mother and son to the county government to make an errand, Uncle Wang, Aunt Wang, Brother Chunrong, you will find a chance to go back later, there is Gao Feng to protect you secretly." ”

Wang Chunrong said: "Brother Tuesday, Wenxuan and my sister will be handed over to you, and I will ask Brother Tuesday to take care of me in the yamen." ”

Lan Yi had already said just now that she was familiar with Mi Xiancheng's wife, and this time she had entrusted Mi Xiancheng to take care of it, and Lan Yi's mother and son would not suffer.

Zhou Weiji nodded in response.

Zheng looked at the two sleeping children and asked, "Tao'er, this matter has nothing to do with Yu'er, my mother will take him home first, and you won't have to be distracted to take care of it." ”

Lan Yi shook her head, bent down and touched the two sons who were snuggling up to each other, "Mother, it's okay." Yu'er, this child is well-behaved, let's take it with my daughter, and besides, I will be scared if he wakes up and sees me. ”

Lan Yi bent down to pick up the baby, Zhou Weiji also stepped forward to hold Yu'er in his arms, and after several people separated, Zhou Weiji took Lan Yi's mother and son into Meixian County in a carriage.

Dongpingmei County is close to the capital, and it is a water port wharf, the economy is very developed, there are many shops on the street, and the people who come and go are much more delicate than those in Huang County, Lan Yi quietly opened the curtain and looked out, always feeling that someone was staring at her, which made her very uneasy.

The carriage followed the pedestrians slowly and arrived at the entrance of the county office. Zhou Weiji greeted the official at the door, and after a while, the white-faced Wang Zhu came out.

"Zhou Bantou, hard work all the way."

Zhou Weiji nodded, "Wang Yu is coming back soon?" Their mother and son are in the car, but do you want to inspect them? ”

Wang Zhu nodded quickly and let Lan Yi's mother and son get out of the carriage. At this time, the two children had already woken up, and Lan Yi held the baby and pulled Yu'er to follow Zhou Weiji into the yamen to log in to his identity.

Afterwards, Zhou Weiji took down the big bags and small bags from the carriage and saluted, there were mostly two children's things here, and Lan Yi couldn't help but take them with him.

Wang Zhu saw Zhou Weiji's appearance quickly, and saw Lan Yi's calm face, the two children looked around excitedly, twitched the corners of their mouths and did not speak, and said in their hearts that it looked like they were waiting to ask about the case, but it seemed that they were here to look for relatives and play.

Thinking of the magistrate's instructions and Wang Mingli's arrangement, Wang Zhuhai quickly said: "Zhou Bantou, just leave these three to me." You have also worked hard along the way, as the brothers go down to rest, we will put wine in Fengxian Tower in the evening to catch you and Brother Gao. ”

Zhou Weiji shook his head with a smile: "Wang Zhu, since Zhou brought them over, he has to wait for the case to be clear, otherwise it will be difficult to explain to the magistrate when he goes back." I bother you to arrange two side rooms, and Zhou can live next to them and take care of them. ”

According to the law of the Great Zhou, before the identity of Lan Yi's mother and son was confirmed, they were considered good citizens of Huang County, and they could only be guarded and not taken into the cell, let alone tortured.

"That's fine. After the copywriting, I will pick up the wind for the weekly team, please come with me. ”

After entering the county office, Lan Yi did not feel any coldness, but felt that it was not much different from the ancient mansion in the TV series, that is, there were many houses in the courtyard, and the rooms were just taller blue brick houses, and there were a few more officials in uniform clothes to guard them.

After Wang Yu left quickly, Zhou Weiji put down his luggage, closed the door of the wing, and looked around. This room is spacious and clean, and there is nothing suspicious about it.

"Girl, don't go out of the house with your two children, don't go with him when anyone comes. I'm in the next room, knock on the wall and tell me something, and you can go back to Wang's house tomorrow after going to the court to ask about the case. ”

Lan Yi nodded, and after Zhou Weiji left, she took out the quilt and spread it, and pulled the two children to sit at the table to rest.

Lan Yi heard someone knocking on the door: "It's time to eat." ”

She didn't move, Zhou Weiji opened the door to take the meal, brought it into Lan Yi's room and put it on the table.

He sniffed it, took out the silver needle and tried it, and nodded: "Let's eat and sleep early." ”

"Didn't Brother Tuesday eat it?" Lan Yi couldn't help but ask when she saw that he was about to turn around and go out. In this unfamiliar environment, Lan Yi always felt flustered, if he was still safer by his side.

Zhou Weiji saw a trace of anticipation flashing in Lan Yi's eyes, and still said ruthlessly: "Girl, my food was also delivered." I'm right next door, don't be afraid. ”

The three of them had a simple dinner, and Lan Yi scrubbed the children with hot water and then took them to sleep with a story.

The baby was young and fell asleep quickly, and Yu'er held on to sleepiness and asked, "Mother, didn't you give birth to your brother?" ”

Seeing Wang Chengde and others in the inn, Lan Yi once talked about the death of his brother's biological mother, and Yu'er heard it.

Lan Yi nodded: "Yes." Yu'er, my mother has been hiding from you for the past two years, because there are bad people who want to arrest us, and I am afraid that you will worry about you, although you and your brother are not born to your mother, but your mother has always treated you as her own son. ”

Yu'er nodded happily: "Yu'er knows that Yu'er, like her younger brother, is a good son of her mother." ”

Yu'er's little bit of caution Lan Yi naturally understood, she smiled and touched her head and said: "Sleep, when the hall is ascended tomorrow, Yu'er and Uncle Gao will stay together, waiting for her mother and brother to go to the court to explain the bad things done by those two bad people, let's go back to grandma's house, okay?" ”

After the two children fell asleep, Lan Yi extinguished the oil lamp, sat on the edge of the bed and thought about today's events, and went through all the details in her heart.

Wang Mingli took advantage of the old lady's trust to kill Wang Mingzhe and seize the family property. The old lady of the Wang family also made many dots after Wang Chengde's father and son were imprisoned, indicating that she was also kind to Wang Chengde and his family. The old lady of the Wang family is also untrustworthy?

After asking about the case tomorrow, she should also visit Xia Wan. Xia Wan didn't blame Lan Yi for concealing it, and kept praising her for being single-minded, but just to avoid suspicion before asking the case.

After beating the drum three times, Lan Yi yawned and closed her clothes and lay down. At that moment, she suddenly saw a clear figure reflected in the window.

The figure quietly approached the window without a sound, if it weren't for the full moon and the translucent light, Lan Yi would definitely not be able to spot this person. Her nervousness rose sharply, it wasn't Zhou Weiji outside the window, who was this?

After entering Meixian County today, Lan Yi has been feeling uneasy and feeling that she is being watched by someone. This feeling is very similar to the last time she and the baby were caught by Wang Erjia and Wang Chunfa in the past few days, presumably the person outside the window is the one who has been secretly following them, this person has bad intentions.

The man outside the window looked around, took out his dagger and was about to pry open the window and enter, when he heard a soft knock on the wall from inside the house, and knew that something was wrong, and he was discovered by the people in the house. R1152