The man was ......

Lin Ruyu stopped after walking to the rockery, and her brows slowly furrowed. Before she could figure it out, Lin Feng ran over quickly and told Lin Ruyu who the officials from the yamen were, which grange stewards came, and what she had to pay attention to later.

Lin Ruyu listened carefully, returned to the front hall with Lin Feng, and saw that in addition to the chief housekeeper Lin Xiang, there were several stewards of the Lin family grange and two officials in charge of agricultural affairs in official uniforms.

Regarding the matter of rice planting and seedling raising, the Lin family has sent people to discuss it with the yamen twice. Today, Lin Ruyu, who is the head of the Lin family, needs to set the number of acres of grange and field for raising seedlings.

It took more than half an hour to finish the matter, and Lin Ruyu suddenly stopped on her way to visit her mother in the backyard and ordered, "Go and see if the second uncle and Zheng Gongzi are still in the garden."

The little maid came back soon, "Back girl, Zheng Gongzi has already left, and the second master has also gone out."

Lin Ruyu frowned, entered the garden, and stood on the steps of the small pavilion next to the rockery without moving.

What is the girl looking at here? The rain warbler followed the girl's gaze and looked at the rockery by the pond.

This rockery is very famous in Xuanzhou, and many people come here. But the girl has seen the big since she was a child, how can she still be stunned?

Just as the rain warbler wanted to speak, the girl suddenly turned to her. After following the girl for so many years, Yuying was frightened by the girl for the first time, and her legs were weak and she almost fell.

Lin Ruyu stared at the red lacquer pavilion pillar on the right side of the steps, this is it!

"Rainwarblers, clouds, stand down."

"Yes."

The girl's face was cold, Yunjuan didn't dare to talk more, and helped the rainwarbler to retreat.

Lin Ruyu asked Xianyin, "When we came to the pavilion, the entourage of Zheng Changming's son standing here, can my sister see it clearly?"

Xianyin replied, "The man has his head down, there is no murderous aura on his body, what does the girl think is wrong with him?"

Judging whether the person who appeared next to him had murderous and abnormal behavior was the guard's first reaction. If there is no murderous aura and no abnormality, this person will not be noticed by the guards.

What's wrong? Lin Ruyu lowered her eyes, "He is just pretending to be far away."

What?!

Xianyin immediately said, "The girl has recognized it?"

"It had to be him." Although she didn't see his face, Lin Ruyu felt a familiar aura when she walked past him. It's not that the clothes on his body have been smoked with any scent of incense, or what smell of fat powder has been smeared, but it is an indescribable sense of familiarity, which makes Lin Ruyu feel a palpitation when he walks by him.

"Send a clever and cautious person to follow Zheng Changming secretly, don't get too close, so as not to startle the snake." Lin Ruyu walked down the steps and walked towards her mother's yard, her little face tense.

He came to his house in a grand manner, stood under his nose, and let him go! The more Lin Ruyu thought about it, the more angry she became, and she couldn't wait to slap herself a few times.

But today is not all for nothing, at least I found out where he is hiding.

Is Zheng Changming the second An Ziyuan, or is it a fake An Ziyuan's accomplice?

Lin Ruyu stopped in front of her mother's courtyard and raised her eyes to look at the crape myrtle flowers that had been washed clean by the rain.

Although he only saw him once, Lin Ruyu felt that Zheng Changming was not like a bad person. Shen Ge, who had more contact with Zheng Changming, didn't seem to notice the abnormality of the people around Zheng Changming.

But knowing the face but not the heart, the bad guy will not engrave the bad words on his face.

If An Ziyuan must know that Shen Ge asked Zheng Changming to paint the portrait of Mr. Dongzhu and An Linchun, would An Ziyuan have already transferred Mr. Dongzhu from Hezhou?

Or...... Killed?

Lin Ruyu took a deep breath of the cool and moist air, but she still couldn't suppress the panic in her heart.

Shen Ge is not here, she has to do something, she must not let Mr. Dongzhu have an accident!

***

In the backyard wing of Hongchang Inn, An Fengchun felt that the prince looked too highly of Lin Ruyu.

"Miss Lin has only seen An Ziyuan a few times, your face and body shape are very different from those then, and it is impossible for her to recognize you."

When pretending to be An Ziyuan, He Jiongming not only wore a mask, but his shoes were also specially made, and the soles were increased by an inch. And

Xia Cai's porcelain merchant Zi'an Ziyuan has nothing to do with Zheng Changming, the son of Cheng of Hezhou County, and it stands to reason that he will not show his stuffing. new

But He Jiongming trusted his instincts very much, and when Lin Ruyu stopped beside him, he obviously found something, "Although she may not necessarily recognize me as An Ziyuan, she must have noticed something."

Lin Ruyu paused on the steps for a few breaths, and An Fengchun naturally noticed it. Now that the big thing has not been accomplished, Lin Ruyu can't be allowed to find out their relationship with An Ziyuan.

If you don't do it, you don't do it!

"Shizi, my subordinates will go to Lin's house tonight and arrest Miss Lin, and the others ......."

He Jiongming smiled confidently, "It's just a little clever girl, and it has nothing to do with the overall situation. But just in case, you and Lin Chun don't show up again."

An Fengchun responded, "That son of the world?"

"Contact Xu Luyuan."

"Yes."

Hearing He Jiongming say that he was going back to restore his life, Zheng Changming, who was painting beauties in the room, raised his head, "Your errand is done?"

"That's it." He Jiongming advised, "The subordinates are here to receive a secret order, and I also ask Zheng Gongzi not to inform others about this."

As an official son, although Zheng Changming is uninhibited, he also understands the key points, and said with a smile, "Don't worry, this matter will never reach the ears of the second person from here."

He Jiongming bowed and left the main room with his fists, and left the Hongchang Inn with An Linchun.

Lin Ruyu stood up, her brows furrowed, "I went to the back alley of the official office in Beicheng and didn't come out?"

"Yes."

The back alley of the official office is close to the Xuanzhou official office, and most of the small courtyards in it are one or two entrances, which are owned by the Xuanzhou official office. Those small courtyards were assigned to Xuanzhou officials as permanent residence or resting places, and the yamen also sent officials to guard them, so it was impossible for fresh faces to go into the alleys to keep an eye on them.

Fake An Ziyuan must have found that he recognized him, so he entered the alley. Lin Ruyu instructed, "Sister Xianyin sent someone to find her son and tell him about it, so that he could send someone to keep an eye on the exit of the back alley of the official office and exchange news with you in time."

Shen Ge opened the Wanxiang Teahouse to collect news, and in such an important place as the back alley of the official office, he must have arranged for someone to keep an eye on it.

After Xianyin left, Lin Ruyu wrote a letter to Qiao Yuqing, the eldest cousin of the second aunt's family, and then asked Yunjuan to call Luo Fifteen and told them to take the letter to Qiao's house to find my eldest cousin, "The person we want to follow lives in the back alley of the official office, and my second uncle is also working in the yamen. You give the letter to my eldest cousin, and he will find a way to arrange for the seventeenth brother to enter the back alley of the official office and monitor the nearest one."

Qiao Yuqing is four years older than Lin Ruyu, and because he is the eldest son of the family's key cultivation, he rarely has time to play with Lin Ruyu and them on weekdays. Unlike the cousins of the eldest aunt who either eat or take every time they come, Qiao Yuqing will bring delicious and fun gifts to his cousins every time he comes to the Lin family. Yes, although Lin Ruyu didn't see this cousin much, she had a very good impression of him.

Yunjuan went to deliver letters and send people, but he didn't want people to send them out, and he brought his eldest cousin back.