The moment Ye Feng walked out of the gate of the Imperial Prison, he saw a thin young scribe standing next to the statue.

Ye Feng was immediately overjoyed when he saw him, and cheered: "Big brother!" and rushed up.

This young scribe is the son of Xia Yuanji, the head of the household department, the eldest of the "Four Youths in the capital", Xia Xuan.

When Xia Xuan saw Ye Feng, her face was also full of joy, and she grabbed her brother's shoulders and kept looking up and down.

Ye Feng asked with some excitement, "Why is the eldest brother here?"

Xia Xuan said: "I heard that you returned to Jingshi today, and I expected that when you came back, you would first come to visit Uncle Ye in the Imperial Prison, so I came here directly to wait for you." ”

Then he asked with concern: "I heard that you went out this time and almost lost your life, how is it, are you okay now?"

As soon as he looked up, he glanced around, and saw that only Tie Ruthless was walking with Ye Feng, and asked again, "Why are you alone?"

A series of questions made Ye Feng not know which one to answer first, so he only held his brother's hands and said, "The third brother stayed in a small town on the way to take care of a sick friend, and the second brother was not allowed to visit at will because of the edict, and he couldn't get in, so I asked him to go home first to see Uncle Xie and his aunt." ”

Xia Xuan nodded, and suddenly asked, "Since the edict is not allowed to enter and leave at will, how did you get in?"

At this time, Tie Ruthless behind Ye Feng suddenly smiled and said, "Of course it's because of me." ”

Xia Xuan let go of his righteous brother's hands, stepped forward to greet Tie ruthlessly, and said with a smile: "Presumably Dali Temple was ordered to investigate the case, and Lord Tie also transferred my fourth brother to the investigators, so that he can be sent to the edict prison for visits." ”

Tie ruthless also smiled: "People say that Xia Gongzi's intelligence is no less than that of his father, which is really worthy of his reputation. ”

The two of them exchanged pleasantries here, and Ye Feng on the side somehow felt a strangeness in his heart. Although Tie Wuru is very famous, he has been serving as the Shaoqing of Dali Temple for many years, but he has a lonely personality and does not like to socialize, so that for many years in the Beijing Division, he has lived in a simple place and has almost no friends, and even the deputy commander of the Jinyi Guard, who is known as the omniscience in the Beijing Division, does not know him.

But when he and Xia Xuan met just now, Ye Feng clearly felt that they knew each other and knew each other very well. Although there was no familiarity between their words, their eyes could not deceive people. The eyes of the two of them are clearly familiar with each other, but they seem to want to hide this, why?

Xia Xuan asked with some concern, "I don't know if there is anything to gain from visiting Lord Ye this time?"

Tie Wuru shook his head a little gloomily: "No, what he said is basically exactly the same as what is written in the case file, it seems that it is still difficult to find any breakthroughs." ”

He turned to Ye Feng and asked, "Does Ye Gongzi have anything to gain from Ling Zun's words?"

Ye Feng was stunned at the moment, thinking about the section where Xia Xuan and Tie Wuru knew each other just now, and he hadn't come back to his senses yet. Thinking about it, maybe it's because the eldest brother Xia Xuan is now working under the head of the official department, and Tie Wulu, as an official in the court, has always had all the dealings with the officials, and the familiarity between them may be due to this.

Thinking of this, he thought of the ministry, and suddenly there seemed to be a bright light flashing in Ye Feng's mind. He said to Xia Xuan with some eagerness: "I wonder if the eldest brother can do the younger brother a favor?"

Xia Xuan said: "If you can, you should do your best." ”

Ye Feng leaned into his brother's ear and whispered for a while.

Xia Xuan was obviously stunned when he heard this: "Originally, it was not difficult to check the old files of the Ministry of Officials, but what do you want to check this person for?"

Ye Feng waved his hand and said, "I can't say it clearly for a while, it's just a feeling." Anyway, you should hurry up and check on him, and let me know as soon as there is any news. ”

Xia Xuan nodded solemnly and said, "Okay, I'll go immediately." "Last night, I turned around and was leaving.

Ye Feng couldn't help but stop him and asked, "Why don't you ask where to notify me when the time comes?"

Xia Xuan stopped and glanced at him, sighed, shook his head, and walked away without saying a word.

Ye Feng was a little stunned, and he was puzzled.

At this time, Tie ruthlessly on the side chuckled: "Ye Gongzi is really asking this question, haven't you noticed that since we stepped into the capital division, there are many pairs of eyes around us secretly staring at us, our every move, where we went, and even what we ate, I am afraid that the whole capital will know in less than half an hour, why should he ask more." ”

Ye Feng was taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly turned around and looked left and right.

Tie ruthlessly sneered: "If you can see it, it won't be called secret." ”

He patted Ye Feng on the shoulder and said, "Let's go." ”

Ye Feng asked, "Where are we going?"

Tie ruthlessly replied: "Go and see someone, with his help, we will have a lot of convenience in investigating the case in the future." ”

He saw that Ye Feng was a little suspicious, and said impatiently: "Isn't it a bit rude for you to eat other people's people and live in other people's houses all the way to Beijing, and you don't visit them when you get to the ground?"

Ye Feng was stunned for a moment, and then was taken aback: "You mean, we are going to meet someone from the Ji family?"

Tie ruthlessly nodded: "Then why don't you hurry up?" After speaking, he turned around and strode forward.

Ye Feng followed behind helplessly, secretly wondering in his heart, it seemed that this mysterious Ji family was about to show up, after taking care of this way, he was already full of curiosity about this Ji family, and he was even more curious about their purpose, he wanted to know what this rich Ji family had to ask for help from.

Jiefu.

Xie Zhenliang and his second brother Xie Zhen should sit opposite each other in the hall.

The hot tea in the tea bowl in front of him wafted out a fresh tea fragrance, filling the space in the hall. When he was at home earlier, his father often asked him to accompany him to taste tea, saying that he could cultivate his self-cultivation and cultivate his mind. For more than a year since he went out, he has not had a leisurely and leisurely meditation and tea for a long time, and besides, there are no such conditions outside.

I really miss this familiar taste, I miss the familiar table and chair, the grass and the tree in this family, and the familiar second brother in front of me. But when he went home this time, he clearly felt some changes, some inexplicable strangeness.

The father did not return to the court, and the mother returned to her hometown and province, leaving only the second brother Xie Zhenying in front of her. This second brother, although there is not much difference in age from him, has grown up together since childhood, but the treatment at home is completely different from him.

My father has been relatively lenient with Xie Zhenliang since he was a child, and even a little indulgent sometimes. In addition to strictly urging him to learn the art of yin and yang arithmetic, he usually doesn't discipline him much, and he doesn't care too much about him often running out to fool around. Otherwise, he wouldn't have met Xia Xuan, Ye Feng and Zhang Fatzi, a few of them playing around in the capital during the day, causing trouble, and had a reputation as the "Four Youths in Beijing".

But for the father of the second brother in front of him is very strict, every day behind closed doors to read the four books and five classics, the subset of the scriptures, and never let him go out to play casually, once he followed himself out to play in the capital for a day, but he was almost not killed by his father, and his leading brother was not punished at all.

The second brother was always jealous of his father's arrogance in himself, in fact, he didn't know that he didn't envy his father's strictness to him. In fact, his father pinned all his hopes on his second brother, which is why he was so strict with him, and did his father really care about himself? Even if he caused a sky-high amount of trouble outside, his father was not angry, and every time he let his hope to attract his father's attention in the end, he was helplessly disappointed.

Now that both of them have grown up, especially after the year they have been out, this time they have come back, and they especially feel that there have been obvious changes in this second brother, but for a while, they can't say what the difference is.

Xie Zhenliang looked at the second brother sitting on the opposite seat, feeling a little like looking at flowers in a fog. His expression, eyes, and even his posture are so similar to his father, perhaps, the kind of temperament he exudes is even more vivid and identical to his father, so deep, so unpredictable, as if there are many things hidden, many secrets that cannot be said.

In an instant, Xie Zhenliang had a feeling in his heart, maybe the second brother is the successor that his father has been cultivating, so what is he in his father's heart? What is the purpose of his father's teaching himself yin and yang math for many years, so that he has been accompanying and helping his righteous brother Ye Feng in times of crisis?