When I woke up again, I was already in the carriage.

Willow Bud stood up from the thick, soft fox fur pad.

Yuwen Qiuye, who was sitting next to the wall of the car, opened his eyes, took out a letter from his sleeve and handed it to her, "Your brother gave it to you." Then he poured a warm cup of tea and placed it on the low table between the two.

The fresh fragrance of camellia flowers as fresh as morning dew emanated from the cup, Liu Ya only passed indifferently and continued to open the letter, Liu Gui's strong handwriting came into view, followed by a list of addresses was a caring advice, she put away the letter and looked at him, "What do you mean by this?" As she spoke, she pulled the bandaged wound on her chin and couldn't help frowning.

"Why does Ya'er always guess me with the greatest malice?" he was helpless and aggrieved.

Liu Ya hooked her lips sarcastically, "Don't you know the answer!" The smell of blood shed by him again and again is still fresh in my memory.

"Du Xingyuan's suppression of bandits has nothing to do with me. Yuwen Qiuye sincerely met her trembling and cold eyes, and said slowly: "Hui Guogong personally recommended him to go to Chang'an City with the Yuan King to suppress the bandits, and now the Yuan King has also died of poisoned arrows, and all the spearheads are directed at King Jie, who has just returned from Yecheng disaster relief, with your cleverness, you will not think of the stakes involved, whose handwriting it is." ”

Liu Ya felt a touch of coolness that was pressed down by himself and deliberately ignored, and rushed to his heart from the soles of his feet, Hui Guogong sacrificed a 'son', killing two birds with one stone, King Yuan and King Jie, not only avenged King Qing, but also pulled the strong opponent off the horse, and also used the convenience of searching the bandits, coercing and luring the enemy's minions into their own, or directly eradicating them, and stabilizing their position.

After half a ring, her choked voice overflowed hoarsely, "Second brother, is he really, dead?"

Yuwen Qiuye said softly, "The corpses of him and King Yuan were placed in the court hall and personally examined by Liang Shilang, and there is nothing suspicious. ”

"Then why did you go to great lengths to take me back to Beijing?" Liu Ya closed her eyes and covered up the embarrassment that she had almost leaked.

He smiled and said, "When you returned to your hometown to recuperate, you actually solved a big case, and you have to go back to Beijing immediately to receive Your Majesty's appreciation." ”

“... Liu Ya no longer had the strength to open his eyes and glared at him fiercely, silently fell back on the mat, grabbed the small blanket and covered himself with his head and pretended to be dead, but listened to him say to himself:

Before Liu Jian returned to Beijing, he found an amber bead at the bottom of the pit where Boss Zou was buried, which confirmed that Boss Zou's wife Sun was present at the time, and it was also found that she intended to seduce the sous chef Tian Xiaoxiang and use him to kill her husband and his lover Yun Niang, who had been abusing her. ”

"It turns out that Boss Zou has always been obsessed with deformed women, and he actually took advantage of Sun's mother to be paralyzed to insult her mother to death. ”

When she instigated Tian Xiaoxiang to split the body, she deliberately chopped up Yun Niang's disabled foot and threw it to feed the pigs, but unexpectedly one toe inadvertently fell into the bun stuffing to be used the next day. ”

Fortunately, the stuffing of the buns made in the store is not human flesh, the case was solved, and the people of Yangzhou have thanked Liu Jian for returning their stability, and even the prefect Guo immediately played the imperial court, praising you for your cleverness, unique vision, and outstanding talent, and the words of praise are as many as 555 words, and I believe that they will soon spread throughout Shangjing. ”

“......”

The carriage drove smoothly on the official road.

Liu Ya fell asleep at some point, and she could hear the sound of talking in a daze.

"The master of the door, I have followed the information given by General Yao to Jizhou to investigate, and preliminarily determined that the Zhang family is a human trafficker. ”

"Three generations are in the same house, and all three generations are involved in this kind of business, but all the people who are sold by them have hot marks on their shoulders. ”

But it was found out that the Zhang family and his gang were just outcasts of a certain organization, but unfortunately the clues to the search were broken again. ”

Then Yuwen Qiuye said with a slight mutter, "So, they were killed." ”

The unfamiliar voice added, "According to the current clues, it should be that the murderer behind the scenes suspects that the Zhang family has been targeted by the princess's mansion, so in order to avoid future troubles, the door is closed." ”

Liu Ya, who was already sober, understood, they were talking about the Zhang family's extermination case in Yinshao Village, it turned out that the Zhang family was so enthusiastic about the original owner that day, they wanted to abduct her, and they were thinking about it, so they listened to Yuwenqiu's page, "Ya'er woke up, get out of the car and eat something, and introduce my colleagues to you by the way." ”

I don't know how long I haven't eaten, Liu Ya, I am really hungry, and I am not hypocritical at the moment, after tidying up my clothes a little, I got out of the carriage, only to see the fire swaying gracefully with the wet night breeze after the rain, Yuwen Qiuye and a beautiful man sitting around eating roast chicken.

Immediately, the man arched his hand and said, "I finally saw the rumored Liu test, in the next Kangyayuki, the Kangzai of the song of Kangya." He smiled, like the wind at night at this moment, "In the future, please give me more advice." ”

Liu Ya raised her hand and returned the salute.

Yuwen Qiuye handed her a bowl of warm and fragrant shredded chicken porridge to sit down, "Your wound is a little deep, you can only eat this for the time being." ”

Although Liu Ya's face was full of disgust, she still took it and stirred the soft porridge in the bowl with a spoon, "Did you cook it?"

Yuwen Qiuye looked at Kang Yazhi, and Kang Yazhi hurriedly smiled again, "It's being cooked, and I hope that Heliu will test his appetite." ”

"Are you a cook before you catch it, and you cook porridge very skillfully. Liu Ya looked at him again in surprise.

"It's just that I have been in the rivers and lakes for a long time, and I don't want to be wronged by my internal organs all day long. ”

Liu Ya took a sip, and the faint salt flavor outlined the richest freshness of the rice and shredded chicken, and shone in her mouth, "It's delicious, I don't know which famous chef thought it was made." ”

Seeing that she finished a bowl of porridge with an elegant and quick demeanor, Kang Zai said, "The appetite of the Nengheliu test is too good." Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at Yuwen Qiuye next to him with a smile that seemed to be smiling but not smiling, and he immediately added, "It's not in vain that the master of the door specially summoned me to come." ”

Liu Ya turned a deaf ear to the second half of his sentence, added another bowl of porridge that was hot next to the fire, and said casually while eating, "I accidentally listened to your conversation just now, according to Kang Zhukuai's words, is the case of the Zhang family's extermination in Yinshao Village over?"

"All the clues are broken, and the ethereal evidence is not enough to support our investigation, so we have to close. "Kang Zaizhi," but Liu Jian does not need to worry about those who were abducted and trafficked by the Zhang family, the owner of the door has a safe process to send provincial officials to rescue, and will pay attention to it in the future, if there is other evidence to continue to follow, we will definitely reopen the closed case file. ”

"Or does Liu have other opinions?" Yuwen Qiuye said as he wiped his hands.

Liu Ya squinted at him and said, "If they are a huge organization, to the extent that there is no trace of the door and seal, then how can there be no news in various places, those who have been abducted and trafficked all year round, not counting orphans and homeless people called Huazi, etc., the number of family members who have reported missing must be quite a lot, don't tell me, you have never doubted it." ”

Since ancient times, collusion between officials and businessmen has not been uncommon, and there have been many cases of officials and bandits having close contacts to the point of making transactions.

After her words fell, there was a half-silence, and Yasuyuki suddenly burst into a long series of hearty laughter, "Hahahaha, it's been a long, long time since I've heard such a straightforward and long-lost statement. He said laughingly, "The willow test is worthy of the willow test." ”

“......”

Liu Ya didn't say a word, and listened to Yuwen Qiupage said indifferently, "The black-and-white argument is very good, but it is not suitable for the intertwined imperial court, it is the center point that allows tens of millions of people to run as calmly as an axle, and there is a gray area in it that focuses on the overall situation." ”

How could Liu Ya not understand these truths, but some words were never unhappy, "So why do you have to investigate the case diligently, and do your best to rectify the crooked wind that fell from the six doors in the past, and everything can pass with one eye and one eye closed, why do you work so hard?"

"The gray zone that millions of generations of courtiers have acquiesced in can be dismantled overnight, and it is very difficult to stop its filth from becoming a disaster, let alone uprooting it again and again. Yu Wenqiu said, "Those holes will eventually have to be filled by someone else, can you be sure that the seeds will never deteriorate in the process of growth?"

"In the forty-second year of Yonghe, when Emperor Fenghe first ascended the throne, he poisoned Yuankui, the official eunuch who supported him to ascend the throne but tried to control the government, and the court that had already been riddled with holes became a pot of porridge, and more than 60 courtiers refused to accuse the new emperor of cruelty and inhumanity. Liu Ya said:

Kefeng and Emperor Ke did not compromise with them, but ordered these courtiers who were blackmailing him to raid their homes and loot the money, all of which were used to appease the people who had suffered a lot due to the corruption of the imperial court, and finally won the hearts of the people and carried out the plan that had been calculated in his heart for a long time. ”

"Endure humiliation for more than 20 years, in exchange for the attempt, he spent ten days without sleep to verify, took fifteen years of continuous implementation, at the age of forty-one, a concubine and a son in his life, all the time outside of this, he was pressed on this country, without him, the Southern Han Dynasty has already changed his surname, how to get the turn of the master of the door here to look forward and backward, so he is self-contained. ”

Kang Yazhi struggled to hold back the palm that wanted to bulge vigorously, and looked at the willow bud who calmly continued to drink porridge after finishing his words, he never imagined that this rich lady who didn't seem to have ten fingers touching the spring water actually had a tiger in her heart, so she listened to the crackling sound of firewood Yuwen Qiuye chuckled:

"In the end, it's okay to take you, you can check if you want, but you can't act recklessly. Undisguised affection spilled from his lips.

**

When the carriage drove into Shangjing during a thunderstorm and stopped at the Huiguo Mansion, Liu Ya had already packed herself.

She was carefully sent under the eaves by Kang Zaizhi, who was holding an umbrella, and saw Du Xinchen coming in a hurry.

Looking at the prince of the Guogong Mansion who was so thin that he had lost his former Confucian demeanor, Liu Ya's eyes were red and couldn't help choking, "Brother Shizi." ”

Hearing this, Du Xinchen, whose thoughts had been in a state of numbness for several days, trembled, and a certain closed door was finally willing to open, and he hugged her with a slightly cool body temperature into his arms, like a voice blocked by gravel in an intermittent tone, burrowing into the noisy rain curtain, and scattered in the depressing atmosphere, "I'm sorry, Xiao Ya'er, I failed to protect your second brother, blame me-"

As if he was afraid that she would disappear out of thin air, he held her with great strength.

Liu Ya could even feel the trembling that he had been holding back after losing his loved ones, wrinkled his little face that was quickly occupied by paleness, gritted his teeth to hold back the painful cry that almost rushed out of his mouth, patted his back comfortingly, and took a deep breath to stabilize his voice before saying, "When things happen suddenly, don't blame yourself anymore." ”

Du Xinchen pressed back the emotions he had unconsciously leaked, and took Liu Ya to the Buddhist hall in the Guogong Mansion.

She looked at the rows of spirit seats, Du Xingyuan's brand-new spirit card, the tears that had been rolling in her eyes, finally collapsed, and she kept calling 'second brother' in a dumb voice, her blood surged, and the fishy sweetness gushed out of her throat strongly!

Du Xinchen looked at her in surprise in addition to spitting out bright infrared, and the blood stains were still smearing out of her shoulder, "Small-" Just as he wanted to speak, he saw Liu Ya's whole person falling forward, he hurriedly caught her, only to find that there was actually a scar on the inside of her chin that had been carefully covered by rouge, "Someone!!"

××

Exhausted physically and mentally, Liu Ya woke up with perseverance, even though she was constantly bound by nightmares and sealed at the bottom of the dark well.

After she looked at the unfamiliar decoration of the wing, she called a few times before calling the maid who was dozing in the ear room, "Brother Shizi is here?"

"The prince has just gone out, and he told the slave maid, what you need, just ask. ”

Liu Ya propped herself up and said, "I'm sorry for you to find a set of clothes for me." ”

The little maid presented the clothes that had been prepared a long time ago, and when she saw that Liu Ya was going to dress, she was busy and respectfully served.

"I still have important business to do, and it is not appropriate to stay for a long time, but I can't say goodbye without saying goodbye, and ask the little girl to take me to Grandpa Guo's goodbye. Liu Ya, who was dressed, raised a weak smile and said softly.

Obviously, the little maid who has not yet entered the WTO does not doubt him, and supports Liu Ya to the Cihui Yuan, where Huiguo Gong is located.

After a report from the gatekeeper, Liu Ya saw Hui Guogong, who was about fifty years old.

Hui Guogong stroked his long black beard, and looked at Liu Ya, who was not the first time they met, without a trace, "Without the immaturity of being young when I was a child, the old man almost didn't recognize you, and the longer you get, the more aura you get." ”

"Grandpa Guo and the kind Grandpa Guo in my memory are also a little different. ”

Hui Guogong didn't seem to expect her to be so direct, and after being stunned for a while, he squinted his bottomless eyes and smiled, "Smart people, smart people are in the wrong place, and they are easy to cause trouble." ”

"I thought I had become a scourge in the eyes of Grandpa Guo. As soon as her weak voice fell, the sharpness in Hui Guogong's eyes shot into each of her seemingly calm pores like a poisonous arrow, "Otherwise, there won't be countless killers along the way, wanting my life that is worth not knowing where it is for the time being." ”

Even though Yuwen Qiuye and Yasuyuki tried their best to protect her, they still missed their eyes because of the weather, and the killer injured her shoulder.

"Miss Liu is not misunderstood, you are the most important childhood sweetheart that Chen'er and Yuan'er think, how can the old man-"

"It's this 'important' that makes Grandpa Guo feel that I can't stay anymore. Liu Ya interrupted him indifferently, "The road of supporting King Qing to seize the throne was the road that the grandfather of the country insisted on stepping on and walked without looking back, why did he drag the elder brother and the second brother of the prince into the water, in order to achieve the goal, even at the expense of his relatives and children." ”

Liu Ya met Hui Guogong's cold gaze as a flesh and bone cutting blade without fear, and his weak tone squeezed out the words of hard Bangbang, "Grandpa Guo has asked Brother Shizi, are you willing to step on the bones of your loved ones to maintain the prosperity of this mansion?"

After speaking, she ignored the soaring murderous aura and turned to leave.

But he listened to Huiguo's justice, "If you stay in Yangzhou, I can still spare your life for the sake of Yuan'er's death, but——"

"The moment I decided to enter Beijing, I had already put my life on the line. Liu Yatou didn't reply, "If Grandpa Guo still insists on the conspiracy that shouldn't be insisted on, don't blame me for being naughty, and I have to take out the mud at the bottom of the pool where my second brother drowned little by little." ”

Liu Ya opened the closed study door, and saw Du Xinchen standing in the dim lantern light, the thin figure was lonely and sad, and before she could speak, she had already said: "I'll send you back." ”

All the way to the Liufu Courtyard prepared by Liu Gui for Liu Ya.

She was about to enter the door when Du Xinchen called, "Little Ya'er." ”

Liu Ya turned his head, his eyes as deep as the washed night sky, "Let's go, don't get involved in these battles anymore." ”

She shook her head slowly and firmly, "I can't go, just like I left and came back, I thought that as long as I didn't disrupt your rhythm and tried to break free from the whirlpool of involvement, I would not lose any important people, but in the end, the reality actually tore at my heart and laughed at me for being stupid." ”

Du Xinchen looked at her intently, trying to find out her mind that was always easy to detect, but found that the little girl who always revolved around them at any time and always needed their protection had grown up, and it was no longer so easy to know her psychological activities, so he only listened to her:

"Brother Shizi is the prince of the Huiguo Mansion, and he can't ignore the honor and disgrace of the Guogong Mansion, but I hope that the prince can think about it, is the path chosen by the prince really right, if the prince brother is unwilling to follow this road anymore, it is still too late to turn back. ”

"Xiao Ya'er, you-" Du Xinchen said hesitantly, "Are you already on King Ye's side?"

It is well known that behind Yuwen Qiu's page is the King of Jin, Liu Ya smiled palely, "I will not be an enemy of Brother Shizi." ”

Du Xinchen finally showed his first smile in recent days, raised his hand and gently brushed away the hair on her forehead that was blown by the night wind, and wanted to rush out of her mouth again with words of apology and self-blame, but in the end it turned into a gentle advice, "It's not early, go back and have a good rest, your injury is not light, don't worry too much." ”

"Hmm. ”

×××××

The Changle building of the Liufu Annex.

Liu Ya sat in the pavilion in the courtyard with white yarn and wind chimes, drinking the perfect amount of plum wine one after another.

For convenience, Fennel, who was separated from her on the road before, led a beautiful maid to come, "Miss, she is Yuzhu." ”

Yuzhu lowered his eyes and saluted, "Yuzhu has seen Miss." ”

"Get up, I don't have that much red tape here. Liu Ya crossed Erlang's leg and poured down another glass of fragrant wine, and said with a smile: "You all sit down and taste the tribute that my brother brought back from Dongchu." ”

Although Fennel has not been serving Liu Ya for a long time, she is used to listening to Liu Ya's words, so she sat down immediately, just shook her head and waved her hand, "I'm not good at wine, just eat." She picked up the pastries on the table and ate them, her round eyes radiated a shining light and said, "It's delicious!" Seeing that Yuzhu was still standing, she hurriedly patted the empty chair next to her and said, "You can come and taste it too!"

Then, Yuzhu sat down, picked up the pastry and said, "Although Dongchu's tribute is good, but Miss is seriously injured, please don't be greedy." ”

"Green plums can remove garbage from the blood, eliminate fatigue, increase vitality, protect the liver, and drink more is fine. Liu Ya was another cup of belly, and looked at Yuzhu with a smile, "You have been assigned by your brother in Beijing since you were a child, and you have been circling in the families of major nobles, so let's talk about the current situation." ”

"Among the six departments, the Criminal Department and the Ministry of Rites, everyone knows that they are King Qing's people, but in fact, the household department that supports King Jie also obeys him. Yuzhu said, "The Queen Mother's Yongguo Mansion, the Queen's Zhenguo Mansion, there are not a few noble families who are controlled by them, such as the Huiguo Mansion, but there are many who are still waiting and waiting to see if they are neutral. ”

"The Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Officials are the people of King Jin, He Guifei's ancestor of the Lu State Mansion has the blood of the rivers and lakes, and his strength cannot be ignored, not to mention that he is now temporarily guarding the border pass, and the momentum of winning the battle is just right, in the palace, even the queen needs to avoid He Guifei for three points, but unfortunately the queen mother is biased to inherit the unification, and she has never been waiting to see her, not to mention that King Ye is raised under He Guifei's knees. ”

The three concubines of the Queen Mother were killed one by one, and she had no choice but to let Emperor Jiayi, who was raised under her knees, succeed to the throne, which seems to have become her heart disease, and she has always treated all the concubines coldly, but she is very disgusted with King Ye.

Liu Ya quietly listened to Yuzhu's detailed words one by one, and the thoughts in her heart turned a thousand times until she was willing to get drunk.

The bell rang, the light yarn danced, Liu Ya was lying on the stone table with her arms on her pillow, as if she saw Du Xingyuan walking towards her in a daze, and when she blinked her eyes and wanted to confirm, he turned into Yuwen Qiu's unbeaten appearance again, her drunken surprise was replaced by Ming Huang's disgust, "It's you again!"

Yuwen Qiuye sat down by himself, poured the wine from the willow bud cup, and drank it all, "It is indeed good wine." ”

"My brother and second brother have accompanied me throughout my childhood, and the loneliness and helplessness that I insisted on when I was young and ignorant were all resolved for me. Liu Ya said softly, "Dad and brother are busy for the Liu family, traveling around the world, and working hard, but I willfully put them in danger. ”

Yuwen Qiuye put down the cup and stroked her red and hot cheeks, and heard her muttering and scolding him, "It's all you, it's all you, you big bastard, no, you have to involve me, how can I get into your eyes......"

"That's not what you said when you cried and begged me to give you those wild fruits. Yuwen Qiuwu whispered to herself, and when she wanted to pick her up, she grabbed her by the collar and pulled her in front of her, and her scorching breath intertwined wantonly.

She frowned dissatisfiedly, "What you just said, I can't hear clearly, you don't want to be loud-"

Before the words fell, the wide lips were sealed.