Just when Yun Wu was still thinking, Cui Zhiyun had already knocked on the door of Zheng Zhai.

At this time, Zheng Wan in the door was also very puzzled, who would knock on the door of his house at this point in time, glanced at Zhao Qingmiao, put down the dough in his hand, simply cleaned one or two, and came to the door together.

As soon as I opened the door, I saw a slender figure outside, and the moonlight sprinkled overhead, setting off even more cold.

"Cui Jiancheng?"

"I came down to inform the girl of something important."

"But there's news from my aunt?"

Speaking of this, Zheng Wan looked longing.

Cui Zhiyun broke Zheng Wan's speculation with guilt and explained:

"There are other things, I wonder if the lady can know about the destruction of the Zhang family of the mutton cake stall not far from the back door of the Dushui Prison?"

Zheng Wan nodded suspiciously.

"Now we suspect that the thieves found out that the Zhang family saw a sack that had been fished out of the river. This thing was involved in the recent case of illegal salt, and it was extinguished. ”

Zheng Wan's eyes widened in shock, if she remembered correctly, the burlap bag was the one she fished out of the river, and when she ate mutton cakes, she placed it next to the chair at random, and was unintentionally seen by the boss, and then handed it to Cui Zhiyun.

Cui Zhiyun also knew that it was difficult for ordinary people to accept this fact, so he resisted the urge to comfort Zheng Wan and continued to add:

"We suspect that the thieves will not stop here, and the lady must pay attention to safety when traveling in the near future, even if she is at home, it is best not to live alone. But these are just speculations, the truth has not yet been investigated, and people will be sent to temporarily protect the safety of the lady. ”

Thinking of killing so many people, Zheng Wan's face was bloodless, and his body was almost unable to support himself.

Cui Zhiyun, who was on the other side, almost couldn't control his hand, so he had to clench his cuffs, his nails pinching his fingertips, and suppressing his inner impulse with pain.

Zhao Qingmiao, who was still on the side, noticed that something was wrong and hurriedly hugged the person in his arms.

Cui Zhiyun also knew that the current situation needed Zheng Wan to digest by himself, so he bowed wordlessly and left slowly.

Zhao Qingmiao didn't know the connection between the Zhang family and Zheng Wan, he only knew that Zheng Wan was in danger now, and Zheng Wan's current state was not good.

After watching Cui Zhiyun and the two disappear, he held Zheng Wan in his arms with one hand and slowly closed the door of his house with the other, preparing to let Zheng Wan have a good rest.

But just as she was about to close the last door of her house, a white hand suddenly stretched out from the crack in the door, almost startling her.

She hurriedly opened the door, revealing the figure outside the door, which was actually Qu Rou, who had just come to buy cheese buns a few days ago.

Qu Rou looked at Zhao Qingmiao, who was puzzled, and Zheng Wan, who was pale, and said with a firm look in her eyes:

"I'm going to tell you a secret, a secret under the white jade peony tree in your backyard."

Chapter 86: Corruption

Zheng Wan's eyebrows were furrowed, and he didn't understand why the other party said such a thing.

Zhao Qingmiao suddenly realized that Qu Rou didn't let her touch the peony that day, not because she was worried that the peony would be damaged because of the wrong planting, but because there was something underneath, and she was afraid that she would dig it out.

No wonder Qu Rou looked so strange that day, completely losing her previous gentleness.

Originally, she thought that the other party was really a person who cherished flowers, but now it seems that in the soil of the white jade peony, there is a secret of Qu Rou.

She glanced at Zheng Wan and was silent, in her opinion, this matter could not be decided by herself.

Zheng Wan thought for a while, straightened up, and a pair of eyes were like sharp swords, looking Qu Rou in front of him up and down.

The Qu Rou in front of her was not as gentle and supple as before, with some embarrassment coming in a hurry, and the pleading that lingered all over her body, as if a survivor was grasping at his last straw.

This desire to survive was shocking and made her trance, and the scenes of two different eras were intertwined.

She had gotten it before, and now she was willing to give Qu Rou on the other side a chance.

"Reason to help you?"

"The case of illicit salt."

Qu Rou let out a long breath, and finally said this secret that had been suppressed in her heart for nearly ten years.

The shackles that imprisoned her seemed to be shattered at this moment, and the whole person exuded a kind of relaxation from the inside out, and the temperament that came with her body also changed from the previous gentleness to brightness.

Before coming, Qu Rou had hesitated, and even thought of using her secret to threaten Zheng Wan to leave this matter alone, as long as she dug out the secret buried under the white jade peony.

This is her only chance, taking advantage of the current Luoyang Strict Investigation of the Illicit Salt Case, and the officials in charge of this matter are the iron-faced and selfless Dali Siqing - Su Xingzhang, and Cui Zhiyun, who was born in the Boling Cui clan.

As long as she can find evidence and present it to the two of them, she can clear her family's grievances and prove her innocence.

But all this changed immediately when she saw Cui Zhiyun looking at Zheng Wan with affectionate eyes, and she had a better attention in her heart.

On that day, Cui Zhiyun was admitted to explore flowers and rode a horse to the grand scene on the street, she had seen it with her own eyes.

At that time, Cui Zhiyun avoided the flowers and sachets thrown from the tall buildings on both sides one by one, with a smile on his face, but his eyes were dull.

But just now she was hiding in the distance, and it was obvious that Cui Zhiyun was worried about a person, worried about the person he was talking to, Zheng Wan.

Before this, she never thought that she could see the forbearance in Cui Zhiyun, a proud son of the sky who was full of reputation in Luoyang.

Therefore, she directly changed her decision in her heart and chose to let Zheng Wan know about this matter, and also let Cui Zhiyun know about it earlier.

When Zheng Wan heard about the private salt case, something seemed to explode in his head, and there was a dazzling light in front of him, and he couldn't see anything clearly.

When she recovered, she realized that there was no way she could refuse such an offer.

If she can assist Cui Zhiyun in finding out the case of illegal salt as soon as possible, she will be able to avenge the Zhang family's family and weaken the guilt in her heart, which is enough.

Even if such a decision will plunge her into the abyss of no return, she will not hesitate to do so.

Therefore, she slowed her breathing, looked at Qu Rou in front of her with serious eyes, and shouted:

"Qu Niangzi, please come in!"

With that, he stepped back, leaving Qu Rou with a place to enter the door.

Zhao Qingmiao also gave up other vacant seats, looking at the two of them with a curious expression, always feeling that the words of the two were very simple, but she just couldn't connect them.

Qu Rou made a big salute directly to Zheng Wan, and then walked into the door briskly, turned around and closed the door, and put on the latch.

Then he looked at the two of them and proposed:

"When Zheng Niangzi sees something under the tree, she will understand the truth and falsehood of what she said. So, it's better to take out the things under the tree first, and then talk about the rest. ”

"Okay."

Zheng Wan and the two followed Qu Rou's steps and walked towards the backyard step by step, just looking at this action, Zheng Wan had already believed eight points.

Qu Rou walked like such a regular visitor, and it was obvious that she was very clear about the layout of the yard, and she was afraid that she had already made a decision.

As soon as he arrived in the backyard, Zhao Qingmiao also quickened his pace and took out the farm tools he had stacked next to the vegetable patch.

Zheng Wan and Qu Rou were given a shovel each, and she herself took a hoe, aimed at the position under the white jade peony tree, and began to attack violently.

Suddenly, the dirt splattered, but the three of them were not in the mood to pay attention to the matter, but worked harder to dig up the dirt.

After a while, the pure white flowers that were originally in full bloom fell one after another with the movements of the three of them, falling on the surface of the excavated soil, and were quickly covered by the soil.

When the three of them dug up all the white jade peonies, they all sighed and put them aside at will.

Zhao Qingmiao looked at the muddy ground that was still dark under the moonlight, and wondered: Is there really something down here? It can't be that Qu Niangzi deceived them, right?

When she was suspicious, Qu Rou herself began to be a little suspicious, but when she recalled Aya's words in prison, she couldn't help but strengthen her inner thoughts again.

Holding the shovel with both hands is stronger, and even the blisters on both hands can't stop her movements.

Seeing such a big movement, Zheng Wan and Zhao Qingmiao glanced at each other, and couldn't help but speed up their hands.

"Click!"

Just as Zhao Qingmiao slammed towards the center, a different sound suddenly came from the soil, sounding as if he had broken some wooden box.

The three of them instantly stopped what they were doing and used the moonlight to observe what was under the hoe.

Qu Rou knelt directly on the ground, pushed away the hoe on it, and used her hands to remove the soil above the wooden box.

Soon, a black lacquered wooden box appeared in front of the three of them, and the black lacquer glowed with a different brilliance in the moonlight.

"Just... That's it. ”

Qu Rou spoke incoherently, her hands holding the wooden box trembled slightly, and her eyes shone brightly.

Zheng Wan looked at her as if she had fallen into a nightmare, and immediately got up and pulled the person up together with Zhao Qingmiao.

Brought to the main hall of their courtyard and lit candles, the two of them also saw the wooden box in Qu Rou's hand and the mottled tears on her face more clearly.

The jumping firelight danced back and forth on the three of them, and Qu Rou still did not recover from her dream at this time.

In her mind, she uncontrollably recalled that when she was young, before leaving the Yang Mansion, Aya had agreed with her that when she returned to Luoyang at the end of her foreign duties, she would definitely compete with the white jade peony she had planted during her trip.

At that time, she was innocent and said with a smile: "Aya! Sanniang will definitely be taller than flowers! After all, Sanniang ate a big bowl of rice at one time yesterday, and if she eats a lot, she will definitely grow taller than the peony. ”

In the next second, the scene transitioned to the scene where she and Aya learn to ride a horse.

On the green grass, the young girl was guarded by her father by the reins of the pony, but the girl was not happy, and pouted on the horse's back, and shouted:

"Ayya! Sanniang also wants to ride a big horse with her eldest brother and run freely on the grassland. ”

As she spoke, she shook her two short legs that couldn't reach the stirrups.

At that time, her father replied to her like that, "Hahahaha! When you grow taller than the white jade peony at home, Aya will let you ride a horse alone. ”

Immediately followed by a chaotic sound, the house was rummaged through by the forbidden army who suddenly broke in, and the exclamation of A-Niang and the noise of the servants were heard in the ears.

The inner eunuch, who had come to announce the will, looked at herself on her knees with pride and announced:

"At the behest of the sage, Yang Huaiyuan, the assassin of Shanzhou in Longyou Province, embezzled more than 3 million yuan from the salt pond during his five years in office...... The men over the age of thirteen in the Yang Mansion were given death, and the rest were exiled to Yili, and they were not allowed to return without a purpose, and all the female dependents were put into the ...... of the sect."

It was this will that shattered her Yang family, and she also changed from Yang Muqing to Qu Rou, a musician in the current workshop.

During the centralized detention, she saw her father, but his father did not say anything to remedy his grievances, but kept saying:

"I'm afraid that in this life, I will never have the opportunity to see Sanniang and the white jade peony, and the urn daughter red ......"

The moment she saw the renovated Yang Mansion, she had a flash of inspiration, and suddenly realized that her father's reminder to her before he died at that time - the white jade peony and the daughter red buried under the tree.

Only then did she see the black lacquered wooden box she saw now, thinking of this, Qu Rou wrapped the wooden box tighter.

Just when Zheng Wan and Zhao Qingmiao were already immersed in their own world, she suddenly spoke.

"I don't know what exactly is in here, so I asked Mrs. Zheng to help open it."