Chapter 43: Secret Talks

"I recall now that the person's body shape is not the same as Ming Ge'er, he is half a head shorter than Ming Chen, and the person is thinner, not like a burly man, but like a ...... It's like ......"

"It's Miss. Looking at the county king's reaction today, most of the Bao'er girls also knew about it, so they used this to blackmail the county king, and the county king loved his daughter, so he had to change his words. Xie Hanci didn't want to go around the bend with her anymore, so he told his speculation.

The princess's hand holding the candlestick stiffened, and the wax oil dripped down and almost burned the back of her hand. She vaguely guessed it, but she didn't expect Xie Hanci to be so straightforward.

"Miss Xie, if I tell Mingchen about this, he will definitely act impartially and will not bend the law for personal gain because Yirong is his sister, but I really can't bear to see them kill each other." The princess sighed as she spoke, and the dim light of the candlestick was blown away, shining on the flowers at the end of her eyes, like two tears of blood.

"If you have any concerns, I haven't said it, and you haven't heard it." The princess of the county looked at Xie Hanci worriedly, and added, which can be regarded as giving each other a step.

If she came out like this, she really found evidence to send Li Yirong to the official, not only offended the king of Anchang County, but also offended the Xiao family, Xie Yuan first arrived in Beijing, and made enemies with the Xiao family at this time, which is tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg.

Xie Hanci was silent, she remembered the four big words "beheading and draining blood" posted on the door of her father's home.

It was written a month after Xie Yuan took office, reminding himself from time to time that he could not care about life and death in order to uphold justice. If he was here today, I was afraid that he would have personally arrested Li Yirong for interrogation.

"Since I'm here, I have no intention of staying out of it. Now is not the time to worry about this, but to find out what happened that night. Xie Hanci raised her eyes to look at the princess of the county, she just wanted to find out the truth now.

"Why did the eldest lady change into his brother's clothes? How did Bao'er know that this matter was related to the eldest lady? “

"Every time Mingchen goes home, his subordinates will prepare a change of clothes in his room in advance. The Qinhu house where he lives is next to the lake, and he is not there on weekdays, leaving only two old mothers there to watch the house. It would not be difficult for the eldest lady to sneak in at night and change into his clothes. ”

The princess walked to the Zen heart Arhat couch and sat down, "I just don't understand, she has always loved her brother, and there is no reason to deliberately wear his clothes to harm others." Is she angry with me? By the way, she hated her brother? But it doesn't make sense, wouldn't it be better for her to blame me directly? ”

"Perhaps, changing into Master Li's clothes was also her helpless move, and she didn't want to be seen by anyone." Xie Hanci also sat down next to the princess of the county, and the two were separated by a small kang table, which was engraved with the pattern of the eight immortals crossing the sea.

The princess took a golden silk soft pillow and let her cushion it behind her, and Xie Hanci leaned on the soft and fluffy waist pillow, feeling a little sleepy.

I didn't sleep all night last night, and before dawn, I conducted an autopsy with Chen Nian, went to Qiyun Pavilion and walked for a while, and at noon I smeared Xingzi with a bowl of bamboo shoots and noodles, and made a fuss about Li Nianyou's poisoning and bleeding.

The day was not over yet, but she had a feeling of being in a different world, and she didn't know what was going on with her father, whether King Ning was okay or not, as if it had been a long time ago when she drank with him on the roof and listened to him tell her name.

"Miss Xie?" The princess of the county called her, and when she saw her lazy expression, she said a little embarrassedly: "It's me who is not good, you have been tossing for a day, and we have slept for a few hours." Or we'll talk about it tomorrow? You go back and rest first. ”

"I just remembered that I met Brother You in Qiyun Pavilion today, and Brother You was not the only one in Qiyun Pavilion at that time, and now I think that it may be because Brother You inadvertently saw something that shouldn't be seen, so there was this catastrophe."

"Is there such a thing?"

The princess of the county asked, while making a cup of thick Longjing and handed it over, Xie Hanci nodded and thanked him, picked up the teacup, the fragrance of tea was permeated at the tip of his nose, and he took a sip and went straight to his brain, and suddenly sobered up a lot.

"It's really good tea." Xie Han changed his words and asked, "Has the princess of the county ever been to Qiyun Pavilion?" There is a statue of the fox lady there, which seems to have been enshrined by the eldest lady before she got married, and is still in the cabinet in the back room. ”

"I'm not afraid of your jokes, I still have some taboos in my heart about the place in Qiyun Pavilion, and I've only been there twice in the three years since I got married." The princess wiped the water stains on the other bachelor's cup with a handkerchief, she was pregnant and not suitable for drinking strong tea. "In the past few years, no one has lived there, only the sprinkler goes once or twice a month, and it will not be deserted."

Xie Hanci was silent, the Qiyun Pavilion she saw today was so barren that it couldn't be more barren, and she couldn't tell that there was once a princess of the county and the eldest lady in the palace of the county king.

Seeing that Xie Hanci didn't answer, she added embarrassedly: "With such a big house, it's not easy to run a family, so I didn't have so many people in nobody's place, and now I think about it, I was negligent." In a moment, I'll arrange for someone who can do it there to watch some. ”

Xie Hanci nodded, and drank the remaining half of the hot tea.

The woman in front of her was born in the Qinghe Shen family, and she has been noble for generations, so she will naturally not let the children of the princess of Xianjun lack food and clothing, and the place where she lives is also luxurious and comfortable for outsiders. But if you dig deeper into how much she cares about Brother You in her heart, I'm afraid it's really not a little, Li Nianyou is not her biological child after all.

Otherwise, why is Brother You so old that he can't even say a word. Yi Huan is the same, her personality is innocent and lively, but she is not the type of daughter-in-law preferred by the family.

There was a commotion outside, and the maids and women gathered around an old mother into the main house, and the old mother opened the curtain and knocked on the door twice, her voice was hearty and capable.

"Princess Jun, I came back with Brother Rui, today the master praised Brother Rui, saying that he is a little child, and he can't stand steadily, but listening to him read articles, he doesn't cry or make trouble, he is very quiet, and he must be a very learned little boy when he grows up."

The princess glanced at Xie Hanci with a smile, her smile was full of pride, and she rushed outside and said, "Mother Zhang, come in." I drank tea with Miss Xie in the inner room. ”

"Huh!" Zhang's mother agreed, walked in with the child in her arms, she first handed over Brother Rui in her arms to the princess of the county, and then turned to Xie Han and bowed, "The old slave has seen Miss Xie's family." ”

"Mother Zhang is very polite, I'm just a little girl, it's really tormenting me, please get up." Xie Hanci hurriedly got up to help.

She is just the daughter of a prefect, this identity is naturally not enough to see in this big county prince's mansion, and she is friendly with Yihuan, and the subordinates will not be slack, but they are also indifferent to her, and they didn't think that the mother around the princess of the county is so thoughtful.

"Mother Zhang was brought over by me from the Shen family, and she is the most courteous." The princess said, teasing the child in her arms, reaching out to pick up his tiger cat, and said: "Mom, it's also hot this day, why don't you still wear a hat for him, and I'm not afraid of covering the prickly heat." “

"The princess of the county is still young, this child can be hot and not cold, there is wind at night, you need to cover his forehead, you can't catch a cold, otherwise it will be easy to see the wind and have a headache when you grow up."

Zhang's mother picked up the bachelor's cup, took out a porcelain bottle from the box, poured a little yellow powder into it, and mixed it with hot water and served it to the princess of the county.

The princess frowned and drank it all in one gulp, resting the cup on the table.

"What is this that the princess of the county drinks? But are you feeling unwell? Xie Hanci looked at the remaining yellow residue at the bottom of the cup, smelled a smell of whitewashed paint, and asked curiously.

"This is the pollen of the lacquer tree, which has the effect of purifying the mind and clarifying the purpose. Brother Rui has to listen to the father and son read articles every day, and at night I have to learn to recognize a few big characters under the lamp, I am afraid that he will hurt his eyes at a young age, so I take it myself, Brother Rui drinks my milk is also quite a medicine, and the medicine is reduced by half. ”

"The princess of the county now has a body, is it still convenient to take this medicine?" Xie Hanci looked at the medicine powder and asked.

"It doesn't matter, the pollen of this sumac tree is already very mild, it is edible for the mother, and eating it is also good for the one in the stomach." Mother Zhang saw that the princess poured another glass of water to clear the residue in her mouth, and it was difficult to speak, so she hurriedly replied.

"So that's the case, it's really strange, I've never heard of this thing in Shuzhou City, or Zhang's mother is erudite, I was taught today." Xie Hanci complimented.

"Harm, my old woman also listened to the doctor, where do I know so much." Mother Zhang waved her hand and excused herself, and when she saw that Xie Hanci was interested, she came over and said.

"My old woman has a lot of words, the sap of this lacquered wood is untouchable, poisonous. If it is mixed with scorpion grass and the like, it will make it difficult to stop the bleeding from the wound. I've heard that there are a lot of these trees in the north, and people over there still use this as paint, but I don't know if it's true or not. ”

Xie Hanci's body stiffened, and he suddenly remembered that he had died by the lake before, and his forehead was red.

The villain in the princess's arms yawned repeatedly, and Mother Zhang stepped forward when she saw this: "Princess of the county, Brother Rui is sleepy, the old slave will take him to rest." ”

Xie Hanci saw that Zhang's mother carried him into the warm pavilion, and it was not good to stay here, anyway, the matter was also roughly touched in two times, so he was ready to leave.

"Miss Xie, you wait."

The princess of the county stood up suddenly, Xie Hanci thought that she was going to get up to see her off, but she didn't expect her to raise her hands in front of her forehead, fold her hands, and bow down to make a formal salute to herself.

"Princess Jun, what are you doing here?" Xie Hanci hurriedly went to help.

"You deserve this gift, I pulled you into this troubled water." The princess dodged Xie Hanci's hand, got up and raised her hand to her eyebrows again, and the complete salute was completed.

"In this matter, Yu Gong is for the poor vain death Le Ji Zhaoxue. Privately, I don't want one day the East Window incident to implicate the entire county palace because of one person. That day, she Li Yirong poured beans and involved me and Mingchen's old affairs, and after this trouble, I understood that there is no eternal secret in this world, and paper can't contain fire after all. ”