Seeing that there was no one around Hua Jin and Hua Rong, the new bandits all rushed towards the two.

Just when Hua Jin closed his eyes and waited for death, Hua Rong screamed in fear.

Xie Xun seemed to fall from the sky and slaughtered all the bandits who rushed over.

"Third cousin!" Hua Jin and Hua Rong seemed to see the life-saving straw, and they both rushed towards him. Hua Jin was about to throw himself into his arms regardless of the ground.

Xie Xun took two steps back, avoided her, looked at Chen Anning, who had also killed a nest of bandits, took a few steps over with an unkind face, looked her up and down a few times, and said coldly: "You don't want to die!" The injuries last time haven't healed yet, and I ran over to do it again, thinking that my life is long! ”

Hua Rong, who was originally looking at Xie Xun angry and waiting to see the joke, heard his words and immediately dissatisfied: "She left me and my eldest sister alone, what injuries can she suffer!" ”

"Shut up!" Xie Xun snorted, and the murderous intent in his eyes burst out, "If you want to die, find a place where no one is to die!" Don't even bother people, and spray feces here! If I hadn't known that she would come to save you, I don't care if you live or die! Two idiots who don't have brains! Roll, how far is it to Lao Tzu, how far is it, Lao Tzu never wants to see you again! ”

"Third cousin!"

Xie Xun said coldly: "Someone! Send these two fools back to Jincheng County! In the future, without my orders, they are not allowed to set foot in the capital again! By the way, tell Mrs. Hua and Mrs. Hua that if they still want to take care of Washington, they will take care of them! Otherwise, I don't mind letting Washington fall back as it made its fortune! ”

"Third cousin ......"

"If you call the third cousin again, I'll kill you now!" After Xie Xun pulled a sword flower, the tip of the sword pointed directly at Hua Rong's front door.

Hua Rong was so frightened that she sat on the ground, looking at him with fear in her eyes.

"I'm stunned what to do, why don't you let them disappear in front of my eyes quickly!" Xie Xun shouted angrily.

The secret guard who followed immediately stepped forward, and dragged them away, regardless of whether they were young ladies or not.

When they were far away, Xie Xun looked at Chen Anning coldly.

Chen Anning put away his long sword and said disappreciably: "Put away your eyes, why did I bring injuries to save them, you know better than anyone else!" ”

"Yes!" Xie Xun stopped in front of her, "I am afraid of my mother, and I am also afraid that they are my uncle's children, but ......"

"Isn't that all there is to it?" Chen Anning interrupted him.

"You are really ......" Xie Xun realized that he couldn't say anything about her, and after pulling her to fly on the horse, he quickly returned to Wuxing County.

Princess Guangling saw the two people who came back, and after secretly breathing a sigh of relief, she immediately looked at Chen Anning to make sure that she was not injured, and then returned the heart she was carrying.

"I've asked the Dark Guard to send them back." Xie Xun pressed Chen Anning into a chair and poured her a glass of water before saying, "Let the secret guards tell their grandmother and aunt that they will not be allowed to step into the capital again without my permission in the future." If they dare to disobey my orders, I don't care about my mother, I have to ask the emperor to withdraw their right to guard Jincheng Pass!" ”

Princess Guangling sat down beside Chen Anning and answered softly.

Xie Xun snorted softly, snatched the teacup from Chen Anning's hand, and forcibly pulled her back to rest.

Wen Huan watched the two walk away, and quietly withdrew his gaze to look at Princess Guangling.

Princess Guangling sighed lightly: "It should have been like this a long time ago, it was I who was lucky to make this mess." Luckily nothing happened to Anning, otherwise ......"

"She's so powerful, she's definitely not going to have an accident." Wen Huan was cautiously relieved, "Moreover, she has already returned." ”

After Princess Guangling smiled lightly, she signaled that she would be busy if she had something to do, and there was no need to accompany her.

Wen Huan knew that she wanted to be alone, so she left with interest.

As soon as I went out, I met Xie Xun.

Wen Huan wanted to bypass him, but was stopped by Xie Xun, "After I left, they found trouble with An Ning again." ”

Wen Huan shook her head, indicating that she didn't know anything.

Xie Xun looked at her steadily.

Wen Huan avoided his gaze and turned his head away.

Xie Xun smiled, "You don't want to spend time here with me all the time, do you?" ”

She just didn't want to.

Looking at the children who came and went, Wen Huan vaguely said that Chen Anning had sold him after he repeatedly promised that he would not tell Chen Anning that she had revealed it.

After Xie Xun heard this, he chuckled sadly twice and got out of the way.

Wen Huan cautiously turned sideways and ran away from him quickly.

Scold.

Million.

Concubine room.

Very good.

Xie Xun sneered and glanced at the children who were curious to inquire about him, and after the children were scared away, he couldn't help but sneer twice, and then turned around and returned to the courtyard where Chen Anning lived.

"Who has offended you again?" Chen Anning, who had just changed the medicine for the wound, looked at his stinky face and asked teasingly.

Xie Xun didn't speak, just sat in the chair and looked at her quietly.

Chen Anning raised his eyebrows, "Can you listen to my quibbles?" ”

Xie Xun snorted coldly: "You say." ”

Chen Anning said: "Lack of money. ”

Xie Xun sneered twice.

Chen Anning: "Originally, I was going to ask your mother to borrow it, but they came to the door first." Someone sends money, don't don't do it in vain, so ......"

Xie Xun, hehe.

Chen Anning: "You have to believe me. If I want to sell you, I must first release the news, and then organize a bid, and the highest price will win. No matter what, you are also the third son of the Guangling Palace, how can you be worth a million taels? ”

Xie Xun smiled angrily, "So, I have to thank you?" ”

"Not really." Chen Anning sat down beside him.

Xie Xun said: "My mood of wanting to strangle you at this moment has reached its peak. ”

Chen Anning: "What stopped you from doing it?" ”

Xie Xun: "Are you provoking me?" ”

Chen Anning: "No. Just wanted to say...... Can you trouble Lord Xie to hurry up and finish the matter here, and then marry me? ”

"You're damned!" Xie Xun hooked her neck, kissed her the mouth, and then got up and said, "I'm leaving!" ”

Chen Anning licked the corners of his mouth, "It's good to go." ”

Xie Xun snorted lightly, waved his hand at her without looking back, and simply left.

didn't want any more accidents, after Xie Xun arrived in Guangling County, he immediately interrogated the subordinates in Fan Wanyuan's mansion.

Soon, the housekeeper of the account office couldn't stand the punishment and confessed that he was the person of the king of Anbei, and the informant specially arranged by the king of Anbei to be by Fan Wanyuan's side to convey the news to them.

Since then, the method of contacting the king of Anbei with the same party has finally surfaced.

There are three main channels for Anbei Wang to communicate with the same party:

1. Bandits who can pretend to be beggars. These bandits, disguised as beggars, have fixed places to beg, and the Anbei Royal Mansion regularly arranges people to go to various places to rescue beggars. In the name of giving food to these beggars, the message was delivered openly. Of course, this method is mainly aimed at the same party in the capital;

Second, through the Chimelong Commercial Bank's shop in the capital. The Chimelong Commercial Guild will arrange people to send rice and grain to the Anbei Royal Mansion on a regular basis, and through this method, they can also safely convey each other's news. And this method is mainly aimed at the same party outside the capital;

3. Exchange messages through inferior people who come to collect manure or deliver food. This method has nothing to do with distance or proximity, and is mainly used when there is an accident or when the situation is more urgent, such as Xie Xun and Chen Anning's actions in Jincheng County.

After examining this important clue, Xie Xun immediately ordered the people to be secretly escorted back to the capital, and ordered all counties to collectively escort the arrested subordinates of Chimelong Commercial Bank to the capital for unified examination.

While he was busy with these, Chen Anning also quickly reviewed the information of the rescued children.

After half a month of hard work, when the accumulated information was almost reviewed, Chen Anning suddenly found that after the information provided by these rescued children was combined, there were still some children missing!

There are some children who are extremely good-looking!

Chen Anning quickly finished reviewing the last small stack of information, then took the data statistics book, and after checking to make sure that her findings were not wrong, she immediately got up and found Wen Huan. The child who provided clues with excellent looks was found, and after questioning again and confirming that the clues were reliable, the two immediately went to the Taishou Mansion in Wuxing County.

When Xu Zan rescued the children, he also escorted the managers of the Hualou who took in the children back and locked them in the prison of Taishou Mansion in Wuxing County.

The prison in Wuxing County's Taishou Mansion is not large, and it is quite overwhelming.

Time was pressing, Chen Anning and Wen Huan decided to interrogate separately.

The interrogation had only recently begun.

was interrupted by the grandmother beside Princess Guangling.

Two women from Yiyang County came to report the case.

"You go, I'll continue the interrogation." Wen Huan said.

Chen Anning nodded, and as soon as Mama returned to her residence, the two women in simple clothes who had been waiting for a long time knelt down in front of her.

The two women wanted to tell Yiyang County to keep Meng Shikai.

Two years earlier and a year earlier, Meng Shikai had forcibly taken the daughters of older women as concubines, and had taken younger women and children as retinues.

As the daughter of the concubine for less than half a year, the person was gone.

The child who was an entourage was only three months old and then disappeared.

When the concubine's daughter died, not to mention the yellow muscles and thin muscles, the whole body was ulcerated.

The child who was an entourage was like a skinny person, and he couldn't tell that he was only fifteen years old.

The people do not fight with the officials.

Even if the two women knew that their children were dead and there were other reasons, they could only endure until they heard about their rescue of the children in Hualou, so they made an appointment to come to report the case.

Chen Anning was keenly aware that the deaths of these two boys and girls were very likely to be related to the deaths of those boys and girls with outstanding looks but their whereabouts were unknown.

After a short discussion, Wen Huan continued to stay in Wuxing County to preside over the work, while Chen Anning followed Princess Guangling, who was not worried about her, to Yiyang County with the two women.

Meng Kaishi didn't know that the two women went to Wuxing County to report the case, so he deliberately waited outside the city more than an hour in advance to prepare to greet Princess Guangling and Chen Anning, intending to be obedient and curry, but when he saw the two women who followed Princess Guangling and Chen Anning, they were blinded and afraid.

As soon as Chen Anning opened his mouth, he didn't even ask about the two boys and girls, and Meng Kaishi confessed.

According to Meng Kaishi's statement, when he went to Beijing three years ago to do business, he was taken by Ruan Qingbiao, a member of the Ministry of Rites, to taste a holy relic that absorbs yin and aphrodisiac, that is, yin dates. I also drank the essence blood of a teenager who had not leaked Yuanyang, saying that it could strengthen the body. After being taken to eat and drink a few times, he did feel a lot stronger, and after returning to Yiyang County, he wanted to do the same.

"I didn't know the right way to do it at first, but I did kill a few people." Meng Kaishi defended, "But after slowly figuring out a way, I didn't kill anyone again." ”

In order to prove that what he said was true, Meng Kaishi immediately called out several young boys and girls raised in the house.

Seeing Chen Anning angry, he immediately complained bitterly: "Xiaguan also knows that this is against the way of heaven, but Xiaguan is over fifty years old, and his physical strength is not as good as day by day, and he is already strong enough to deal with official affairs every day, not to mention that Xiaguan also has a group of young and beautiful wives and concubines......"

Hearing such bastard words, Princess Guangling was so angry that she broke two cups and scolded him for being shameless. Chen Anning also felt disgusted, but seeing that Princess Guangling was angry, she didn't have another attack. After whispering to appease her, he arranged for someone to send letters to Xie Xun and Wen Huan about the situation here, and then set off with her to the capital.

On the road.

Ambush round after round.

Chen Anning no longer had scruples, his long sword was like death, harvesting the lives of batches of dead soldiers.

The day before arriving in the capital.

Facing the overwhelming number of dead soldiers, Chen Anning stayed in front of Princess Guangling's carriage.

Her long hair fluttered, her dress was dyed red with blood, and her long sword was like a flash, mercilessly slaying the dead who kept coming.

After continuous training, Princess Guangling, who was already numb to the robbery, began to jump in horror again when she looked at her bloody hair.

As if sensing her uneasiness, Chen Anning said calmly: "Don't be afraid, knowing that we are going back to Beijing, Xie Xun will definitely not be at ease, maybe he will ...... immediately."

Immediately, before the words came out, Xie Xun appeared.

Looking at the pool of blood gathering at her feet, he stood quietly beside her, "It's late, you go and rest, and I'll solve it later." ”

Chen Anning curled up his numb fingers, and after softly answering the hello, he turned around and got into the carriage in the greeting of Princess Guangling.

"Where's the injury?" Princess Guangling held back her tears and looked her up and down.

After Chen Anning stood beside him, he took the handkerchief handed by his grandmother, and said gently: "It's just some skin trauma, it's not in the way." ”

"And said it wouldn't get in the way!" Blood was dripping like water, revealing large and small wounds on her arms. Princess Guangling quickly pulled out the handkerchief in her sleeve and shed tears while cleaning her wounds.

Chen Anning said: "It's really fine, if you apply medicine for a while, it will heal in two or three days at most." ”

Princess Guangling didn't speak, carefully cleaned her wounds, and carefully dressed her medicine, then glanced at the battlefield outside with the soldiers brought by Xie Xun joining, and gradually occupied the initiative, and said softly: "If you are wronged, you will rest in bloody clothes for a while, and when it is over, I will arrange for them to wait for you to change your clothes." ”

"Good boy, sleep, sleep for a while, there is Xun'er watching outside."

Chen Anning should be fine.

On the way back, because she always had to remember her safety, she didn't rest much. Now that he closed his eyes, when he woke up again, the carriage had already entered the capital.

Looking down at the clean clothes on his body, Chen Anning didn't ask much, took the warm tea handed by Princess Guangling, and after a few sips, he looked at Xie Xun inquiringly.

Xie Xun rode a horse to the side of the carriage, "Send my mother back first." ”

Chen Anning should be fine.

After sending Princess Guangling back to the Guangling Palace, Chen Anning followed Xie Xun and went straight to Dali Temple.

In the investigation, the people found out by the central government and various ministries and governments with flame totems on their left arms were all locked up in Dali Temple.

Ruan Qingbiao also has a flame totem on his left arm, so he is also locked up in Dali Temple.

Chen Anning originally thought that it would take a lot of effort to interrogate Ruan Qingbiao, but he turned out to be even more unbearable than Meng Kaishi. Almost the moment he saw Xie Xun, he explained everything.

Through his confession, Chen Anning was keenly aware that the group of boys and girls he was referring to were the children whose whereabouts were unknown. Unfortunately, he didn't know where the children were being held.

"How do you usually get in touch with King Anbei?" Thinking of Fan Wanyuan's words in the account housekeeper, Xie Xun asked coldly.

The recent turmoil in the imperial court has already broken through Ruan Qingbiao's defenses, and when he heard Xie Xun's words, he didn't dare to hide anything, and honestly confessed that he had not been in contact with the king of Anbei, and it was all the king of Anbei who instructed him to do things through Liu Cong, the steward of the capital branch of the Chimelong Commercial Bank.

Liu Cong was imprisoned in Dali Temple.

Xie Xun immediately asked people to bring him out.

After Liu Cong was escorted over, when he saw Ruan Qingbiao, he immediately knew that the general trend had gone, and without hesitation, he confessed the hiding place of the private messages and secret letters that King Anbei had passed to him through various methods.

Afraid that Xie Xun would not believe the authenticity of those private letters and secret letters, he also deliberately said: "Although King Anbei is ambitious, he is extremely cautious. On the one hand, he was afraid that his subordinates would betray him, and on the other hand, he was worried that without a special mark, his subordinates would forge documents and convey false orders. Therefore, as long as it is a private letter and a secret letter handed out by him, not only does it have a flame totem, but also his royal seal. Although he had confessed that he would burn the private messages and secret letters immediately after reading them, the steward before the villain was dragged out and commed for the crime because he was doing things step by step. The villain knew that he couldn't escape this fate, so he kept hiding those letters. ”

Coming out of Dali Temple.

Chen Anning and Xie Xunbing were divided into two ways.

Chen Anning went to find those private messages and secret letters.

Xie Xun went to rescue the children according to the address confessed by Liu Xiang.

After getting the private message and secret letter, and confirming that Liu Cong confessed, Chen Anning immediately found Xie Xun.

Xie Xun has already rescued the children.

Half of these children were used to raise yin jujubes and make blood bags, and half were used by King Anbei to maintain the same party.

"I've already let my mother know." Xie Xun said, "When Mother comes, we will enter the palace immediately to face the saint." ”

Chen Anning should be fine.

Princess Guangling came, bringing the eldest princess and the county lord of Tongchang with her.

The matter was urgent, and after Xie Xun gave a few words of general explanation, he took Chen Anning into the palace.

Seeing the evidence brought by the two, Emperor Yuan did not hesitate, and immediately wrote down the holy decree of arrest and allocated 500 Yulin troops to them.

The two of them, with the Holy Decree and the Yulin Army, quickly surrounded the Anbei Palace.

King Anbei naturally didn't admit it, "I don't know what Lord Xie and Miss Chen Er mean!" ”

Xie Xun showed his holy decree.

Chen Anning threw the stack of private letters, secret letters, and confessions of each person in front of him.

King Tie of Anbei blushed, and after his eyes swept over their faces gloomily, he said coldly: "This king is a prince anyway, so please ask the two kings to change their clothes, and then go to the Jinluan Palace with the two of them to confess!" ”

Chen Anning didn't bother to talk nonsense with him, threw the drug over, and directly stunned him and a few followers, "Take it away!" ”

King Anbei was arrested.

The power that the Anbei royal palace had developed over the years also collapsed.

Emperor Qianyuan looked at the two of them and said happily: "Say, what reward do you want?" ”

"The minister doesn't want it," Xie Xun said lazily, "If the emperor wants to reward her, reward her." ”

Before Emperor Qianyuan spoke, Xie Xun specially reminded, "She has no other hobbies, she likes money." ”

Emperor Qianyuan laughed, and immediately drafted a decree, canonized Chen Anning as the lord of Wangyang, and gave him a mansion, 20 shops, 1,000 acres of fertile land, and countless gold, silver, and brocade silks.

Chen Anning accepted it calmly.

Although the case is closed, the rescued children in Wuxing County have not yet been resettled.

After Chen Anning and Xie Xun discussed it, they decided to settle the group of children first and then come back to settle down.

Half a year later.

The bandits have been cleared.

Fan Dahai and Fan Wanyuan were also arrested one after another.

Most of the children have also been adopted by their parents and relatives.

The children who were not adopted, under the arrangement of Chen Anning and Xie Xun, distributed the fertile land reclaimed by the bandits to them, and arranged for someone to guide and take care of them. At the same time, after seeking the consent of Emperor Qianyuan, he also arranged for Confucian scholars from his county to come and teach them to read and learn characters.

Everything is on track.

Chen Anning and Xie Xun returned to the capital and began to deal with the prisoners held in Dali Temple.

Under the slogan of 'leniency in confession and strictness in resistance', the comrades of King Anbei, who had been silent earlier, also opened their mouths one after another. According to their confessions and the investigation of the Anbei Palace, the evidence that the King of Anbei colluded with the generals of the Jin State to massacre the Yaowang Valley has also been exposed.

Five years later.

With the assistance of Xie Qian and Wen Qinsang, the crown prince formed an alliance with the Qi State, joined forces to destroy the Jin State, and after dividing up the territory of the Jin State, they reached a friendship treaty without war for a hundred years.

"It's finally over."

Guangling Palace.

King Guangling, Princess Guangling, Xie Chen, Xie Xun and Chen Anning looked at Xie Qian, who had just returned from unloading his armor, and said almost in unison.

Although it has been eight years of baptism of war, Xie Qian, who is still gentle and elegant, looked at Xie Xun and said, "According to the original plan, it should be two to three years away. It was because I heard that my younger siblings would wait for the war to end before they were willing to marry someone, and they didn't want someone to run to the border to urge them, so they had to speed up the process. ”

Xie Xun was not ashamed to give his hand and thanked: "If there is anything in the future, just give orders!" ”

Xie Chen snorted sourly.

Xie Qian smiled: "When do you plan to get married?" ”

Xie Xun looked at Chen Anning.

King Guangling and Princess Guangling also looked at Chen Anning.

Seeing this, Xie Qian and Xie Chen also looked at her.

Chen Anning glanced at everyone and asked Princess Guangling with a smile, "Are the invitations ready?" ”

Princess Guangling nodded, "It's already ready, just fill in a day, and you can send it out." ”

"It's still early until dark, then ......" Chen Anning looked at Xie Xun, "Distribute it today, and get married tomorrow!" ”

Princess Guangling has been looking forward to their marriage for a long time, and when she saw that the date was set, she didn't care if it was too late, so she immediately arranged: "Hurry up and arrange someone to fill in the day, and then arrange someone to distribute it!" ”

"Also, hurry up and set it up!"

Because the excitement of the triumphant return of the army was about to cool down, the movement of the Guangling Palace immediately caused everyone to boil.

Ten miles of red makeup.

Gongs and drums are noisy.

Firecrackers are deafening.

Fireworks obscured the sky.

The Eldest Princess's Mansion.

Mama Li happily lifted the bead curtain and entered the house, and said to the eldest princess and the county lord of Tongchang who accompanied Chen Anning: "The sedan chair is here!" ”

The big red hijab obscured the view, and the ayara fan clenched it in her hand.

Chen Anning held the hand of the county lord of Tongchang, and walked out of the gate step by step in the singing and drinking of Xi Po.

The sun is shining.

Cloudless.

Xie Xun, who was waiting outside the door, looked at Chen Anning who came out, stepped forward with burning eyes, and in the surprised gaze of Xi Po, he picked her up and walked step by step to the sedan chair leading to happiness.

(End of book)