After Yan Shi'an was dragged away, Yan Zheng went straight into the study, the door was closed, and the atmosphere was extremely low, but he had to knock on the door hard, "Master, the Lin guards beside His Royal Highness the Crown Prince have sent a secret letter." ”

"Bring it in!"

The people in the house were silent for a long time, and then they spoke, their tone was flat, and the wind eased slightly, and they pushed the door in, and the things in the house were picked up, Yan Zheng was checking the topographic map of Ningzhou in the layout map, and he took a few steps forward to hand the superstitious letter to Yan Zheng.

The letter was written by the prince himself, which probably meant that there was something strange about the exiles in Jinzhou, and His Majesty ordered him to suppress the bandits and go south and act in secret.

Yan Zheng narrowed his eyes, and was about to turn around after reading the letter, but Congfeng on the side was still standing, his face was embarrassed, he felt that something was wrong, and asked, "Is there anything else?" ”

Congfeng was thinking about how to speak, and was so frightened by his words that he couldn't help but shudder, raised his eyes and shook his head, and then reacted and nodded.

"If you have something, say it!" Yan Zheng walked to the desk and was about to polish the ink, but there was an extra dagger on the side of the table, which he gave to Ruan Mingjiao.

His eyes flashed, his hand holding the pen squatted in the air, and he frowned from the wind and said: "The county lord asked people to send it, saying yes, saying that it is not good for her to keep your things, and I hope you will send her things back!" ”

Her thing, the jade pendant? Yan Zheng lowered his eyelashes, his emotions were not obvious, and he only said lightly: "Go and reply, this king doesn't keep those vulgar things, and they are lost." ”

Congfeng glanced at the jade pendant next to the table, and couldn't help sighing in his heart, what was lost was clearly regarded as a treasure when he got it, and he was afraid that people would see it and wear it on his wrist after a few circles, so he didn't say anything, and his chin retreated.

Xu was because the prince blocked the news, and the conflict between Yan Zheng and Ruan Mingjiao did not spread widely, but the assassin was spread, and the emperor summoned the Criminal Department and Dali Temple overnight to examine the prisoner, but the prisoner only spoke once in front of the prince Xiao Yi, and when he saw the others, his eyes were closed, and he no longer spoke.

The Criminal Department and Dali Temple wanted to use torture, but he was already at the end of the crossbow, and he couldn't bear the punishment at all, so he simply asked for a will to be beheaded, but those letters became the only evidence, so he had to continue to check.

Xiao Yuran knelt down in front of the desk, the tea stove on the side was bubbling with the sound of water, and Yan Zheng poured him a cup of tea without raising his eyelids.

"Tell me the truth, is that assassin a scapegoat, and that letter we got is also a fake!" Xiao Yuran reached out and grabbed Yan Zheng's sleeve, raising her eyebrows with an inquiring look.

Yan Zheng glanced at him, brushed his dirty hands with great disgust, shook the dirty things that didn't exist, looked at the courtyard quite clearly, and said lightly: "The assassin was caught by the prince, you don't believe the prince like this, or do you think that the prince is harboring the assassin." ”

Xiao Yuran: ......

Xiao Yuran blinked his eyes, was stunned for a moment, and covered his mouth with his hand with a frightened look.

"However, a few letters that are not even signed, it is difficult to find out who is behind them, so sad!" Xiao Yuran blew away the floating tea leaves in the tea cup, and only after drinking it all in one gulp did he feel relieved.

Seeing him like this, Yan Zheng had a rare weakness of heart, so he simply moved his own wine from the wind, and waved his hand very generously: "Feel free to drink, please ask Shaoqing to drink enough today!" ”

Of course, Yan Zheng is rare and generous, and Xiao Yuran will not let him go and slaughter him severely, but at this time, Xiao Yuran was shocked and afraid when he thought about it, Yan Zheng was obviously ashamed.

Since she went to Yan's house, Ruan Mingjiao closed her door to thank guests, encircled herself and didn't see anyone, only drank a little soup every day, and the people she saw were all emaciated, and her complexion was not as rosy as before.

Ruan's father saw it in his eyes, and he was a little anxious in his heart, and under the pressure, Song Bao just said that he had come out of the door, and he had encountered something bad to perfunctory him.

Ruan's father had no choice but to ask Lang Zhong to come to Ruan Mingjiao for diagnosis and treatment, and after going in and out, Lang Zhong only said that he was depressed in his heart, and it was no big deal, he just needed to recuperate.

After seeing Lang Zhong, Ruan Mingjiao could barely be angry, but it would not take two days to recover the reason, and when asked how she was, she just said that it was okay.

Ruan's father was helpless. On this day, a person came to the house, and Pei Jing, the Marquis of Wudu, came to the door with Lang Zhong in the house.

"Master Hou, you're here." Ruan Qingshan greeted him and bowed.

Pei Jing stretched out his hand to stop: "Uncle, don't be polite!" He said, his face stained with a layer of sadness, "I heard that Gillian is sick, so I brought the doctor in the house to treat Gillian." ”

As he spoke, the doctor with the box behind him stepped forward and saluted Ruan Qingshan: "I've seen Shoufu." ”

Ruan Qingshan's eyes lit up, and there was a hint of hope in his cloudy eyes, "Quick, thank you Master Hou, please invite Doctor Li into the house, go to the county lord to report, and say that Doctor Li of Master Hou's family has come to treat her." ”

He ordered to play, smiled unabated, and walked towards the backyard with Pei Jing.

Hearing that it was the doctor in Pei Jing's house, Ruan Mingjiao's eyes flashed, and she threw away the notebook in her hand, she lost a lot of weight in a few days, and her little face, which was originally slightly baby fat, was cute and childish, but a little more clean and charming, she only combed her bun, did not apply powder, and showed her weakness in plain clothes.

"Invite him in."

Songbao said yes and turned to leave. After a while, he turned back, and there was a middle-aged man behind him, with his back on his back, and his dark blue cloth clothes were slightly reduced.

Li Zhong put down the medicine box and bowed to Ruan Mingjiao: "I've seen the county lord." ”

Ruan Mingjiao bowed, Song Bao brought a silk scarf to cover her Haowan, Li Zhong took out a wrist pillow cushion, and reached out to put Ruan Mingjiao's wrist to check the pulse.

Under the octagonal pavilion outside the courtyard, Shoufu's maid almost put it down in front of the stone table, Pei Jing got up and poured tea for Ruan's father and himself, and then said quite evilly: "Gillian was fine before, why didn't she see her for a few days, she was depressed, and my uncle knew what happened." ”

"Alas!" When Ruan's father heard this, the tea put down the tea cup again, "I don't know, the cabinet is busy, only since the eleventh day back, Gillian just didn't think about tea and dinner, and she couldn't be interested in anything, I asked the maids around her and said that they hit something unclean." ”

As he spoke, his eyebrows and eyes became more sorrowful, but a trace of shrewdness and calculation flashed under Pei Jing's narrow phoenix eyes, "On the day of eleven? ”

He pretended to recall, "It won't be ...... on the eleventh day" He paused, glanced at Ruan's father's expression, and seemed to react.

Father Ruan had already caught the information in his words, and raised his eyes to look at him, "Master Hou seems to know something?" ”

"This ......" he was embarrassed, and he seemed to have made up his mind for a while, and said: "I also heard rumors about this matter, on the eleventh day Jingzhao Mansion Yin took people to Yanfu, saying that he was ordered by the county lord of Pingyang to arrest the assassin, Gillian also went to the mansion, I don't know what happened, and then the prince also went to the Yan Mansion and said that he had caught the real assassin, and after a while, Jingzhao's officials hurriedly retreated, and Gillian didn't say anything and went back to the mansion, I thought you knew about it." ”

Father Ruan shook his head, "I haven't heard of it, I only know that I caught an assassin who took money to do things, and there was such a thing." ”

"You say, could it be that Yan Mansion was frightened to let Gillian be like this."

As soon as Pei Jing's words fell, Ruan's father lowered his eyes and was thinking, but Ruan Mingjiao's door came out alone, and Li Zhong came out with a medicine box.

Walked down the stairs and went straight to the pavilion: "Shoufu, Hou Ye." ”

"How's Gillian?" Pei Jing's tone was eager.

"The county lord is indeed depressed, maybe because he was frightened, and he also had to be treated for heart disease, if he had time to let the county lord go out more, maybe it would get better."

"I see, then thank you Dr. Li, Steward Wang." Ruan's father breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and signaled to the steward on the side, and the steward Wang stepped forward and stuffed the silver money to Li Chong, who took it and left with the steward.

Pei Jing seemed to think about it carefully, "Uncle, Gillian can't be trapped in the house because of this illness, she has to go out and walk around, and the little nephew will rest tomorrow and ask others to go to the Underworld Mountain to hunt." If not, let Gillian go with us, just as a distraction. ”

Ruan's father was stunned and slightly embarrassed.

"Uncle, don't worry, you must come back as soon as possible, the county lord of Jianan also said that he was going to go before, and he also found someone to talk to Gillian to relieve his boredom."

Pei Jing did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, and Ruan's father groaned slightly, "After I asked Gillian what she meant, I will go back to Master Hou." ”

"It's fine." Pei Jing's eyelashes flashed slightly, and he was inevitably a little dissatisfied in his heart, but the smile on his face remained unchanged.

Ruan Mingjiao also knew that she was hypocritical, Ruan's father had said it, but she couldn't stand Song Xing's soft grinding and hard bubbles, Ruan Mingjiao finally nodded and agreed.

In the night, Yan Zheng was stunned, staring sideways at the wind, these days he heard about Ruan Mingjiao locking himself in the house, and he was afraid that something would happen, so he sent someone to guard near the Shoufu Mansion and inquire about the news at any time. But it didn't seem like letting Pei Jing take the lead.

"Hunting? Who's going to go? He sneered, can Pei Jing's kind of waste that can't be lifted in his hands and shoulders really be able to resist a bow and arrow?

"Liu Qingfeng, the county lord of Jianan and the servant of the Criminal Department, Xiao Yuran, the prince of the world, Xiao Feifei, the sixth princess, and a few young ladies of the family who are close to the Marquis of Wudu, there are quite a lot of people."

Yan Zheng's eyes were like torches, and he didn't say anything for a long time, as if he was thinking, "The more people there are, the more strange things will be, look for Xiao Yuran and Bai Ran!" ”

After he finished speaking, he climbed the stairs, leaving only a wanton back.

Xiao Yuran was knocked on the door in the middle of the night, and was picked up before he could see the person who came to open the door, and when he saw the situation in front of him, he had already arrived at Yan Zheng's study, he was completely sleepy, and his cold eyes were dyed with a layer of stunned.

"Lord Yan, you asked your subordinates to bring me here in the middle of the night just to ask about tomorrow's hunting? You, it's okay! ”

"Less nonsense, Pei Jing invited you?" Yan Zheng ignored his accusations and asked.

"Ang, Pei Jing has always liked to mess with me the most when he goes out, aren't you the most disgusted with him? Why, you want to go too? Xiao Yuran's accusation was ignored, but he finally felt that something was wrong, and his eyes were slightly wrinkled and Yan Zheng was raised.

"Naturally, I disdain those pastimes of the children of your family, but I have something to leave to you......" Yan Zheng ignored his gossip eyes, groaned slightly, and said, "Tomorrow I will watch some Pei Jing, as well as Ruan Mingjiao." ”