Pei Yueliu's address is not easy to find, and the two-entry courtyard is hidden in a residential area near the Qingzhou Mansion.

Zhao Wanning was coming to Qingzhou for the first time, and she was not familiar with Qingzhou City, so she walked around the small alley with a silver candle, and asked several passers-by before she found the small courtyard.

From the outside, the courtyard looks no different from the surrounding houses, with a simple low gate and grass growing on the eaves, which is still withered and yellow in this season, and hangs its head down.

Silver Candle found it hard to believe that a person with such a beautiful scenery as Master Pei would actually live in such a house.

Zhao Wanning can understand that Pei Yue was like this in the previous life, in order to investigate the case, he often went out, not to mention this kind of dwelling, even the dilapidated temple he could live in.

Silver Candle knocked on the door.

Tuk tuk.

There seemed to be a male voice in the room.

Zhao Wanning, who was waiting outside the door, checked her clothes and jewelry again, and then felt that her appearance was too strange, as if she cared about her appearance, especially in Pei Yue's eyes.

Zhao Wanning drooped her head a little self-abandoned, she faintly felt that something was wrong, but she didn't know what was wrong.

With a creak, the door opened.

Zhao Wanning looked over expectantly, but only saw Pei Zhen.

She was a little disappointed and said, "How are you?" What about Pei Yue? ”

Pei Zhen had seen Zhao Wanning and knew her identity, and through what happened on the day they rescued the abducted child and handed it over to Zhao Wanning last time, coupled with Pei Yi's more or less ridicule, he also guessed that his own adults were unusual to this Qinghe County Lord.

Although Pei Zhen didn't know why the county lord of Qinghe found here, as soon as he saw Zhao Wanning, he quickly opened the door and welcomed Zhao Wanning and Yin Zhu in.

Zhao Wanning raised his leg and walked in, and made another note to Pei Yue in his heart.

This house is really a little small, there is a tree planted in the small yard, I don't know what kind of tree it is, the leaves have all fallen off, only the bare branches are left swaying in the cold wind.

And then there was a row of houses, about three rooms.

Pei Zhen took Zhao Wanning into the middle room, which turned out to be a main room.

It is said to be the main room, but in fact, there is a table and four chairs in it, and there is no position in it, directly around the table.

Pei Zhen pulled out a chair, carefully wiped the chair with his sleeve, and said with some embarrassment: "County Lord, please take a seat." ”

Zhao Wanning looked around, and then sat down. As soon as he sat down, the chair let out several strange screams.

Zhao Wanning looked up at Pei Zhen, her face full of doubts.

Pei Zhen scratched his head embarrassedly and said, "Don't blame the county lord, this chair is indeed a little loose after being used for a long time." ”

Zhao Wanning shrugged his shoulders clearly, it seems that Pei Yue's secret investigation is really difficult.

"What about Pei Yue?" Zhao Wanning asked again.

Pei Zhen hurriedly said: "Son, he went out early this morning, saying that he suddenly found a clue. ”

"Oh." I wasn't there. Zhao Wanning looked a little lonely.

She went out today to find Pei Yue, but Pei Yue was not there, and when she went out to investigate the case, she couldn't say anything, so she asked casually: "What about Master Li and Lu Chunnian?" ”

"Back to the county lord, Lord Li went to Cheng County, and Lord Lu went out to find Lord Xiao Lu." Pei Zhen knew that they were acting in secret on this trip, and it was not easy to tell Zhao Wanning too clearly.

"Oh." Zhao Wanning just said it casually, and she didn't really want to know, she just listened to Pei Xin's answer and lost her mind.

Pei Zhen saw that Zhao Wanning stopped talking, so he hurriedly went to boil hot water to make tea for Zhao Wanning.

There was no earth dragon built in this house, and it was cold inside, so you had to rely on a charcoal fire in a brazier to keep warm.

As soon as Zhao Wanning entered the door, Pei Zhen prepared a brazier and put it in front of her, for fear that the sweetheart of the county lord and son would be frozen.

Zhao Wanning supported himself with his hands, looking at the flames jumping in the brazier boredly, not knowing what he was thinking.

After a long time, Zhao Wanning was tired of sitting down, so he was ready to get up and leave.

Pei sincerely wanted to help Pei Yue stay with Zhao Wanning, but he really couldn't find any reason, and he didn't know when Pei Yue would come back.

Seeing Zhao Wanning get up, he had no choice but to follow behind, secretly praying that Pei Yue would come back quickly.

When Zhao Wanning walked into the courtyard, he suddenly heard a slight cat meow. The voice was very delicate and subtle, if it weren't for Zhao Wanning's extremely slow walking, I am afraid that he would not have heard it.

"I think I hear a kitten barking." Zhao Wanning asked. "Did you hear that?"

Pei Zhen remembered the two kittens that his son-in-law rescued from the arms of the Buddha statue in the broken temple, and immediately thought about it, he nodded and said: "When my son-in-law came to Qingzhou, he rescued two kittens in a broken temple, and because he was worried that the wind and cold would be heavy, the kittens would not survive, so he took them all the way to Qingzhou City. ”

"County Lord, do you want to take a look?" Pei Zhen asked cautiously.

Zhao Wanning felt very lonely since the eldest princess and the Hou He of Zhenbei left, and accidentally picked up a little white cat, and liked it very much. But later it was discovered by the eldest princess, and the eldest princess sent someone to throw away the cat.

This incident has always been a regret in Zhao Wanning's heart.

It was also a winter day when I lost the cat, and I don't know if the poor little guy can survive this long winter.

Zhao Wanning also fought and fought with the eldest princess, she wanted to go on a hunger strike, and wanted to force the eldest princess to commit it, but the eldest princess didn't care about anything, and went directly to the hot spring villa in the suburbs of Beijing, leaving her a little girl less than eight years old in the house.

Later, the nurse couldn't stand it anymore, so she secretly took the maids of Yueyuan to find the white cat. The white cat had been wandering for a few days, and its hair had become dirty, smelling foul, and there were signs of injury on its hind legs.

The nurse bathed the white cat, drugged it, and then sent it back to her home to raise.

After the cat recovered a little, he took Zhao Wanning, who had recovered his diet, to take a look.

Zhao Wanning looked at the little white cat that had become no longer lively and active, and finally gave up the idea of continuing to raise cats. She was too young to even protect herself, so how could she be responsible for another little life?

Zhao Wanning shook his head and withdrew himself from his memories.

"Check it out." Zhao Wanning said.

Pei Yue answered, and took Zhao Wanning to Pei Yue's house.

The room was small and very simplely furnished, and you could see the innermost shelf bed when you stood at the door.

As soon as Zhao Wanning entered the door, he saw a yellow kitten coming out of the quilt on the bed, the cat looked very close, with big round eyes, looking at Zhao Wanning with a good mistake, and did not dodge when he saw someone coming.

Before Zhao Wanning walked to the bed, another little white cat poked its head out of the quilt, and Zhao Wanning suddenly thought of the little white cat when she was young.

After its entire body was completely drilled out, Zhao Wanning found that the cat was not a white cat, most of its small body was white fur, but it was unevenly distributed with deep and light yellow.

Pei Zhen on the side saw Zhao Wanning's face happy, so he said: "The slightly larger kitten with only its head exposed is called Jinyin, and the son said that its whole body is covered with yellow fur, and only the belly is white, which looks like a gold quilt and silver bed." ”

"The smaller one looks like an embroidered tiger, so it's called Ah Hu."

Zhao Wanning bowed slightly, she squatted down in front of the bed, the two kittens seemed to know that she would not hurt herself, and they were not afraid when they saw her approaching, and they still stood there obediently.

Pei Zhen was dumbfounded.

You must know that on weekdays, Pei Yue went out for a long time, and he fed the cats, but once he wanted to get closer, the two kittens would quickly flee and hide. When he was gone and closed the door, the two kittens would peek out to eat.

But today, these two kittens didn't hide when they saw Zhao Wanning.

What Pei Zhen didn't know was that Pei Yue had a handkerchief under his pillow, and the two kittens and Pei Yue both fell asleep smelling the handkerchief.

Zhao Wanning tentatively stretched out her hand, wanting to touch Ah Hu. Before her palm touched Ah Hu, Ah Hu directly twisted her body to approach Zhao Wanning, took the initiative to put her fluffy little head into her palm, and rubbed it.

Seeing this, the kitten named Jinyin was not to be outdone, it got out of the quilt, walked to Zhao Wanning's side, and with its physical advantage, directly rubbed Zhao Wanning's cheek with its plush head.

Zhao Wanning watched the hearts of the two kittens who took the initiative to rub her heart melt, and happily interacted with the two kittens.

"Ahh

Silver Candle stepped forward nervously and said carefully: "County Lord, there is no earth dragon here, it's too cold, don't get sick." ”

Zhao Wanning shook her head indifferently and said, "It's out of the way—Ah Hao—"

Another sneeze.

Silver Candle was not calm now, she said seriously: "County Lord, you have been out for a long time today, and this Master Pei doesn't know when he will come back." Why don't we go back to the government first? Let him go to the government office after Master Pei comes back? ”

Seeing this, Pei Zhen also hurriedly stepped forward and persuaded: "County Lord, the silver candle girl is right. Don't worry, when the son returns, I will tell him that you have been here, and ask him to go to the government to see you immediately. ”

Both of them said so, and Zhao Wanning couldn't insist anymore.

She bowed her head and kissed the gold and silver and Ah Hu nested in her arms, and then covered them with a quilt, and then reluctantly left.

Pei Zhen kept sending Zhao Wanning out of the door, he kept Pei Yue's advice in mind, and said, "County Lord, I'll send you back to the mansion." ”

Zhao Wanning refused: "You better stay here." You often follow Pei Yue in the capital, and the government officials have many eyes, if you are seen, I am afraid that Pei Yue's whereabouts will be exposed. ”

"But—"

"I'm going out with a secret guard." Zhao Wanning said.

Pei Zhen was relieved, he stood at the door, and watched Zhao Wanning disappear into the corner before turning around and entering the door.

Yang Zixian was in a hurry to return home on the street that day, so he didn't have the heart to chase Zhao Wanning, but he had always been thinking about this beautiful woman in his heart, and he thought in his heart that when this time was over, he would go to find the woman.

Looking at the woman's dress, she is also a young lady from a rich family. If she is interesting, she will marry her home and be an aunt's wife, if she is not interesting, then she will go home directly to the golden house to hide Jiao.

Anyway, in this Qingzhou Mansion, his Yang family is the only one.

Today, Yang Zixian took a carriage to the government to find the minister.

His father told him to keep a low profile, so he deliberately changed into a simple carriage, even his clothes were changed to ordinary brocade, and the gold-inlaid jade crown on his head was also removed, and only a hosta was inserted.

It's a pity that it didn't come by chance, and Lord Wu went out, saying that he was going to repair houses for the people.

Yang Zixian originally planned to go to the government office to wait for Lord Wu to come back, but he was driven out by the government servant, saying that it was inconvenient.

Where did Yang Zixian suffer such grievances, so he went home directly with a box of gold.

A cold wind blew through the car curtain, and Yang Zixian went to close the car door irritably, but caught a glimpse of the goose yellow in the snow.