My heart sank.

There are a lot of people who know me in Yangzhou Mansion, even in this prison, when I was locked up for so long, there were many jailers who saw me, but once the son of heaven and a courtier, the history of Yangzhou assassins has changed, and naturally the people below will also follow, and this time I am looking for a new person.

Unexpectedly, he was bumped into by someone.

However, I am not alarmed, after all, at that time I was very haggard, unkempt every day, and now I am pregnant, although poor, but I am neatly dressed, and people are very different from the past.

So I raised my head and said with a smile: "Big brother said that it was funny, this is the first time that the folk woman has entered the city." ”

"Oh?"

The man looked at me suspiciously, and I said, "I'm afraid that Big Brother Cha has recognized the wrong person." However, the husband of the migrant woman is an honest man who has never done anything bad in his life, and this time he was implicated and imprisoned, and he hopes that the eldest brother will take care of him more. ”

After speaking, I took out a piece of silver and sent it over, and the man's eyes immediately showed a greedy look, and he took it into his arms and said, "Okay, okay, I'll take care of it, you can go." ”

"Thank you."

I greeted them, and the men ignored me, turned and walked away, and I slowly looked up, and then I breathed a sigh of relief.

Glancing up at the familiar iron gate of the Yangzhou prison, I turned around and prepared to leave.

As soon as I turned around, a very soft voice came from behind me, with a hint of uncertainty and said, "Yue...... ...... young baby? ”

Yue Qingying!

These three words were like a thunderbolt from the sky, and they suddenly exploded in my ears, and I was stunned all of a sudden.

I didn't expect someone to call out this name, and I had deliberately avoided people in the state capital, but now, someone recognized me?

Can't go back!

I subconsciously told myself this, pretending not to hear anything and wanted to move on, but I heard the voice behind me and said, "Yue...... Girl, it's me. ”

The voice is-

A somewhat vague figure appeared in my mind, and when I turned around slowly, I saw a young man in green clothes standing behind me, with a little puzzled look on his face, and when I turned around, a little smile appeared on his face: "It's really you, Miss Yue!" ”

"Ningyuan Gongzi ......"

Maybe it's because it's been too long, it's been too long since I've met people from the past, especially Yangzhou Mansion, leading those people whose artistic conception is buried deep in the depths of memory, until I sit in the Accord of the restaurant, I'm still in a trance.

It was Wei Ningyuan, who said with a little joy: "You are still alive!" ”

I smiled and nodded.

"At that time, the emperor's dragon boat returned to Yangzhou, and we learned that he had other arrangements, but among the people who came back, they never saw you, and then Zhaoyi told me, you-"

Speaking of this, he also seemed to realize something, and did not say any more.

I gripped the teacup in front of me with both hands and smiled.

There was a little bitterness in the smile.

When people are happy and happy, they always have more tolerance for the past and those injuries they have suffered, so these days I have almost forgotten what kind of purgatory I have gone through, and how I am so sad that I thought I could end a qiē with death, but I didn't expect a lucky rebirth, almost all of them have been forgotten, but a person, a word, let me remember all of them.

Looking at my appearance, Wei Ningyuan is a person who understands, and he seems to understand something, so he didn't say anything more, just when the shopkeeper came in to deliver refreshments, the two of them fell silent, until the junior walked out, and the atmosphere was still a little quiet.

He seemed to be thinking about how to speak, and I looked at him and smiled, "Now, I'm married." ”

Wei Ningyuan's face changed a few times.

He is Liu Yi's person, and he can talk to Liu Li, plus he didn't hide many people from the state capital at the beginning, and he also knows my relationship with the emperor very well, and now he looks at me with a big belly, and he says such a sentence again, and he understands, and after a deep groan, he hesitated and said: "That-the emperor-"

"He is the emperor."

"......" Wei Ningyuan looked at my calm face, and also understood, and nodded.

This time, I opened my mouth again and asked, "By the way, I don't know if Prince Ning Yuan is in the state capital now-"

He smiled bitterly and said, "You have also seen that it is just a small document in the state capital prison. ”

I frowned suddenly.

He is Liu Yi's protégé, when Liu Yi went south to serve as the assassin, he implemented many policies that were beneficial to the south, including many of his efforts, and even Pei Yuanhao's actions in the south later, also had his share of credit, why did he not rise but surrender now, and it became a prison document?

I hurriedly asked, "What's going on?" ”

He smiled bitterly and said, "Do you know who is the assassin in Yangzhou now." ”

"Who is it?"

"Yang Ji."

A pimple wrung into my brow at once.

Yang Ji - Shen Gongyi's nephew. This person used to be a waiter in the household department for two years, and later because he was involved in some corruption cases, he was dismissed by the emperor, and I just listened to some concubines gossip about Shen Rou in the harem, and I used this incident as a joke, but I thought that this person is now reinstated, and he actually made the history of Yangzhou assassination? !

But if you think about it, you understand.

When Pei Yuanhao ascended the throne, Shen Gong made great efforts, and with the noble concubine Shen Rou, it was not difficult to reactivate the people of his own family. In this way, there are traces of fraud in Yangzhou's imperial examinations; In addition, Shen Gongyi, a group of old ministers, did not want the imperial court to turn against Shengjing, nor did they want to abolish the untouchability system in the three provinces south of the Yangtze River, because this would slowly affect their interests, so of course they would not be soft on the exploitation of Yangzhou people.

It's just that Pei Yuanhao is so difficult to make a little difference in Yangzhou, how could he easily hand over such an important official position to such a person?

I was still puzzled in my heart, Wei Ningyuan had already smiled bitterly: "Yang Ji, this person, I guess you have also heard of it, in the next year, you just don't want to go along with him, so you will be excluded here." ”

"Damn!"

Maybe others don't understand, but over the years, along the way, I can see clearly, how much effort and sacrifice the imperial court has spent and sacrificed for Yangzhou and the people here, but I didn't expect to be so misbehaved by that corrupt official!

Wei Ningyuan continued: "This time, he was obviously arresting the anti-party and quelling the people's grievances, but in fact, he deliberately arrested these students in Yangzhou who were dissatisfied with Enke's fraud and punished them in the name of going against the party, so that no one dared to speak anymore, and that matter was naturally suppressed by him." ”

I said angrily: "Isn't he afraid of stirring up public resentment by doing this?" ”

Wei Ningyuan smiled bitterly: "Miss Yue, this is the real south, the confrontation between officials and the people has been since many years ago. The darkness in Yangzhou Mansion is not something you can think about, or even something that the emperor who came to the south can think, because what the emperor can hear is what the official asks him to hear, and what the emperor can see is also made by the official. As long as they deal with it for a while, when the emperor returns to Beijing, their methods will be more ruthless, and the people in Yangzhou will dare not speak, and the situation will be even more chaotic. ”

I said angrily: "Don't they know that the mouth of the people is more important than the defense of Sichuan!" ”

"This Sichuan is not his family."

At this sentence, I was dumbfounded.

Yes, this world is not from these officials, or even from the courtiers who eat the king's worries and bear the king's worries, but the Pei family.

He would treat the people of the South as his people, but these people would not.

I asked, "Prince Ning Yuan, the emperor has a different view of Lord Liu and knows something about you, why don't you report the situation here to the imperial court?" ”

Wei Ningyuan smiled bitterly and said, "When Yang Jigang went down to Yangzhou, he was still a scribe, but now he can only go to prison, do you know why?" ”

"Why?"

"It's because I asked someone to send a letter to the capital several times, but they stopped me halfway, stopped once, and fell one level, and to this day, there is no way to descend in Xia, and only this life is left."

“……”

I gritted my teeth.

This kind of national moth is so arrogant and domineering, and the hard work of poor Liu Yi and his son in Yangzhou has been exhausted in vain.

Ning Yuan took a sip of tea and sighed: "In the next place, I only hope that when the emperor goes south, he will still have the opportunity to face the saint, and this is the only use for keeping this remnant life." I can't watch Lord Liu's hard work-"

When I heard this, I was shocked: "What did you say?" The Emperor - Still going south?! ”

He nodded: "There is this news coming down, otherwise, Yang Ji would not have done such a thing." It's just that the emperor's itinerary is still uncertain, so I don't know when he will come back. ”

It was like a thunderbolt flashing in my head, buzzing, and I couldn't hear what he said anymore.

Pei Yuanhao has to go south......

He's going south!

If he goes south, he will definitely go to Yangzhou Mansion, if at that time-

I shuddered.

At this time, Wei Ningyuan suddenly said: "By the way, I haven't asked you why you went to the prison?" Is there something going on? ”

"Hmm."

"What's the matter?"

I didn't answer him immediately, but clenched my fists, and finally felt a little strength in my body, and I made up my mind, and raised my head and said: "Master Ning Yuan, you may have followed Lord Liu for many years, you know that Lord Liu once had a third brother, because his family was poor at the beginning, he was given to someone else." ”

Ning Yuan nodded: "I know this, Lord Liu often mentions it in front of his later life." I heard that the child still has half a silk handkerchief on his body, which was embroidered by Zhaoyi when he was a child, and it is counted as a certificate. It's just that there is a vast sea of people, and now I want to find that child again, I'm afraid it's difficult. ”

As he spoke, he looked at me and said, "Why did you suddenly talk about this?" ”

I lowered my head, took out a bag of muslin from my arms, slowly opened it, took out the slightly yellowed silk handkerchief inside, and carefully spread it on the table.

Ning Yuan looked at my movements, puzzled, at this time, when he saw the silk handkerchief, and the three points of water on it, his eyes widened suddenly, and he looked at me in astonishment: "This-this-"

I said, "I've found Lord Liu's third brother. ”

"What, you found it?!" Ning Yuan was taken aback, and immediately showed a smile of forgetfulness on his face, and said, "Great, what about others?" Where are the people?! ”

I said, "He is now in the prison of Yangzhou Mansion, with those students. ”

Ning Yuan froze suddenly.

I continued: "He is my husband, his name is Liu San'er. ”

"What?!"

Ning Yuan looked at me with a look of disbelief, and I said to him: "Young Master Ning Yuan, can you help me arrange for me, let me and Yang Ji meet, don't let anyone else disturb, just me and him." ”

He looked at me with a hint of shock in his eyes: "What are you going to do?" ”