Xue Nuo personally sent Zhan Changdong to the carriage, and the two were close when he left, and Xue Nuo and his clothes were close for a moment when he said goodbye, and then quickly separated.

After Zhan Changdong got into the carriage, he suddenly stopped the beautiful young man who was walking back.

"What's your name?"

"Xerno." She turned around and smiled, "Teng Xue is the eldest Xue." ”

"It's rainy in the south of the Yangtze River, and the road is slippery, so be careful when Lord Zhan goes back."

The gate of Liuyuan was closed again, and the people who followed Zhan Changdong couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "This child is too good-looking, looking at his age, and his eyebrows and eyes have not yet grown, if this is completely opened in a few years, it really deserves a curse." ”

"But Teng Xue is long...... It's the first time I've heard someone introduce their last name like that. ”

This word is too sharp, faintly with contest and-for-tat, and it also seems too sharp, completely different from the humble and polite appearance of the young man just now.

Zhan Changdong ignored the words of the person beside him, and just looked at Liu Yuan quietly for a while, and then withdrew his gaze.

He rolled up his slightly wide sleeves and said to the man, "Go back first." ”

"Don't wait for Shen to wait?"

"Can't wait."

"Huh?"

"You haven't seen it yet, but Shen doesn't plan to see us."

Zhan Changdong's expression was calm: "Xue Nuo's words just now are very clear, but Shen has already handed over the account books to us, and the matter of private salt has nothing to do with him, no matter whether the adult wants to protect his subordinates, or to review the case impartially, he will not interfere again." ”

"But Xu Lizhen beat him......"

"So what?"

Zhan Changdong's expression was faint, "He handed over the account book to the people on Caoyun, and Xu Lizhen just did things according to the rules, and there was nothing wrong with it." ”

"Xu Lizhen has never left a handle on his actions, he grabbed Shen Qi's staff and blamed him mostly to get angry, and he wouldn't really beat people too hard, but Shen Qi's side has been unconscious, and it is clear that he doesn't want to see us."

The person who came with Zhan Changdong was Zhu Ying's right and left hand, this time not only to protect Zhan Changdong, but also to persuade Shen to come forward to trouble Xu Lizhen.

Seeing that Shen actually avoided it, he couldn't help but say: "This person from the Shen family is too temperamental, Xu Lizhen beat him half to death, and threw people into the prison and suffered so many crimes, he actually planned to admit it without saying a word?" ”

"Isn't he the prince's companion, and he is not angry at all when he loses such a big face?"

Zhan Changdong said: "It is precisely because he is the prince's companion that he can't easily get involved in the matter of private salt." ”

"This matter has now involved the third prince and the fourth prince, and there is also a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, there are so many people on Caoyun, if the prince is also involved, the slightest threat of a mistake is the position of the East Palace, and it is the best choice for him to avoid suspicion now."

"As for the personal grudge with Xu Lizhen, it will be a long time to come, and I won't see you when I look up and look down in Beijing, and there will be more time to get it back in the future."

Wu Zhuo's face was not very good when he heard this: "Then forget it?" Didn't we run for nothing! ”

Zhan Changdong shook his head: "How can it be for nothing, he sent the account book, let's save people, besides, didn't he also tell us what to do next?" ”

Wu Zhuo was stunned.

"Okay, don't complain, I'll explain it to the adults when I go back, let's go back to see Xu Lizhen first, and tell him that we will return to Chengzhou tomorrow with Na Huyan and Tao Ji, if he doesn't go the same way, we'll go first."

Because Tao Ji has such a big thing in the jurisdiction, and there is a suspicion that the Hu family private mine is overlooked, this time he will also be taken to Chengzhou and handed over to the state capital for accountability, and the Hu family's affairs are in Qi Town, if Tao Ji doesn't know at all, no one will believe it.

Wu Zhuo listened to what Zhan Changdong said so surely, and remembered that although the adults said before that he should pay more attention to Zhan Changdong, he could listen to him more in the matter of private salt, and Zhan Changdong was a good person, so he could only nod and agree.

Zhan Changdong fooled Wu Zhuo, and saw him muttering about Shen but being timid, so he rubbed the extra paper ball in his palm.

……

During the third watch at night, the entire Qi town was extremely quiet.

Zhan Changdong was suspicious of Xu Lizhen under the pretext of the destruction of the Hu family, and felt that the county government was not safe, so he led Wu Zhuo and Cao Yunsi to live in a restaurant near the lake in the east of the town.

When the sound of knocking sounded outside, Zhan Changdong got up and walked outside, and as soon as he opened the door, he saw the person guarding the door.

"Your Excellency?"

"I'm a little hungry, go see if there's anything to eat in the kitchen and get me some."

The person standing in front of the door didn't think much about it, nodded and went downstairs directly to the back kitchen, but Zhan Changdong didn't stay in the house, and after the people had already left for a while, he pulled off his cloak and tied it and walked outside.

This restaurant is located on the edge of the largest lake in Qi Town, and a piece extends in the direction of the lake as a viewing platform, and the pavilion by the lake is directly below.

Because the observation deck is on the lake, some people like to go there to cool down in the cool summer, but now the weather is soaking in the lake breeze, and even during the day, there are no people at all.

When Zhan Changdong walked over with his cloak, he vaguely saw that there were already people waiting there, and when he heard the footsteps behind him, he turned around, and it was Xue Nuo who he had seen in front of the Liuyuan Gate during the day.

Xue Nuo leaned on the railing and smiled at him, "Lord Zhan is here." ”

"Who are you, Xue Chen?"

Zhan Changdong went straight to the point without the slightest greeting.

Xue Nuo smiled: "Fourth Uncle Zhan, Daddy Xue took me to see you." ”

Zhan Changdong couldn't help but be surprised when he heard this title, although he was in the fourth line of the mansion, there were very few people who called him that.

He looked at Xue Nuo's eyebrows for a moment, and then vaguely found some shadows in his mind, when Xue Chen came to see him four years ago, there seemed to be a very good-looking child by his side, calling Xue Chen's father sickly.

"You were the kid back then?" Zhan Changdong was surprised.

Xue Chen was a prisoner of the imperial court.

After Princess Yongzhao was killed for rebellion, Xue Chen, as the "head" of the princess's mansion, should have been executed together, but later he escaped with his brother's daughter.

Zhan Changdong always thought he was dead, until Xue Chen suddenly came over with a sick child four years ago.

He said that the child was the blood and bones left behind by his brother, and that he was suffering from a strange illness, and that they were being chased all the way to find him.

Zhan Changdong erased the traces for Xue Chen, and helped them arrange their identities, and later wanted to send people to the Zhan family's old house, but who knew that Xue Chen ran away with the child halfway, leaving only a note, taking away the silver and road guide he prepared, and disappeared without a trace.

He didn't expect to see the original child again four years later, let alone that she would disguise herself as a man and follow the Shen family's sister-in-law.

"What about Xue Chen, where is he? How could you be with the people of the Shen family? Zhan Changdong asked urgently.

Xue Nuo lowered his eyes: "Daddy Xue is gone." ”

Zhan Changdong was stunned: "How could it be ......?"

Seeing that Xue Nuo didn't speak, his face turned pale a little, and his palms trembled as his fingertips curled, "Why, he is not yet forty, how can he die?" ”

"When Daddy Xue fled from Beijing, he was seriously injured, and then fled all the way and was not at peace, he has been lying on the hospital bed most of the time in the past two years, if he didn't have a concern, he would have been unable to bear it."

Zhan Changdong's face became more and more pale: "Where is he buried?" ”

"Yanling."

His hands trembled more and more, and suddenly burst out: "Yanling, he is in Yanling, why don't you come to me, I am obviously sick and dying, and I still hold on to my face and refuse to let go?" ”

"When I asked him to stay at the Zhan family's old house, he was about to run away halfway, but now he is sick and dead outside, he ...... Bastard ......"

Xue Nuo listened to Zhan Changdong scolding in a low voice, gritting his teeth, as if he hated it very much.

But his voice trembled violently, and his eyes were red.

Xue Nuo's throat was also a little hoarse: "Daddy Xue said that he is a prisoner of the imperial court, and if he takes me to the Zhan family's old house, it will affect the old and young people of Fourth Uncle Zhan's family." ”

"He said that you have been arguing for half your life, and if you hadn't been caught in a desperate situation four years ago, he wouldn't have gone to see you and cause you trouble, and it still hurt you."