Jiangshan is hired [rebirth]

Chapter 22

After nearly a month of failure, Huo Lan felt that this was not enough. Bailu Mountain was so big, if Wen Taicang wanted to hide somewhere, even if she set out at midnight, it would be difficult for her to find someone within two or three hours.

If Wen Taicang didn't want to teach her from the beginning to the end, there is no need to spend so long with her, this is a test, there must be some way...

On this day, she failed to find Wen Taicang again, so she sat and rested under the shade of a big tree.It was too hot during this period, and it was okay when it was not dark. After the sun came out, I ran around looking for people on various hills, and I could almost faint from the heat.

There is still wind at night, it will be close to noon and even the wind will disappear. While thinking about how to deal with the problem Wen Taicang posed for her, Huo Lan fanned himself with his hands to cool off. The coolness was not as good as the heat generated by her fanning her palms. Huo Lan stopped her movements depressedly, and suddenly heard rustling sounds coming from her side.

You won't meet wild boar again, will you?Huo Lan secretly groaned, and turned around to see a deer.

The deer looked like it was only a few months old, and probably had never seen anyone before. It opened its dark eyes and looked curiously at the strange guy in front of it.Huo Lan looked at its cuteness and wanted to touch it, but as soon as it moved, the deer turned around and "swish" twice and disappeared.

Tsk, I've never seen anyone so alert.Huo Lan felt a little regretful that he didn't touch the deer. He looked away and wanted to continue thinking about the problem just now, but suddenly he turned his head and looked in the direction where the deer disappeared. In a flash of inspiration, he thought of a way.

For five consecutive days, she didn't bother Wen Taicang again, even if she ran into Wen Taicang in the house, she never mentioned martial arts again.Wen Taicang raised his eyebrows at first, as if he was a little surprised, but then there was no response.

Aunt Ginkgo Han and the others only thought that Huo Lan had given up, but of course Huo Lan would not give up, she was waiting for an opportunity.In this season, there is a lot of rain in this area, especially at night, there are often thunderstorms, which are heavy but not long, and usually end within an hour.

In the evening, the rainstorm came as expected, Huo Lan finished his calligraphy practice all afternoon and went back to his room to catch up on sleep.The rain hasn't stopped yet, she has to hurry up and recharge her energy, whether she can complete Wen Taicang's test depends on this night!

The water in the clepsydra pointed at three o'clock, and Huo Lan woke up on time, put on dark clothes and sneaked out the front door - she couldn't go out from the backyard, because Wen Taicang would hear her.

After observing some time ago, she roughly figured out Wen Taicang's living habits.Wen Taicang used to get up at Yinshi before, but since he found out that she was always guarding outside the door, he would usually get up at three o'clock in Choushi and go out at four o'clock.

I don't know what time Wen Taicang will leave today, Huo Lan chose an earlier time just to be on the safe side.

She didn't take the road behind Yunzhai, but deliberately chose another road, and after a long detour, she came to the side of Wen Taicang's only way to go up the mountain every day.

In order to be safe, she was not too close to the road, so she found a slightly higher hillside and hid behind the bushes on the slope.From her, you can clearly see the road below. With such a long distance, it's dark and windy, as long as she doesn't move, Wen Taicang has absolutely no chance of finding her.

In the summer night, the mountain forest is not quiet. For a while, all kinds of insects are screaming in full swing, and for a while, there are birds fluttering back and forth, and there are some unidentifiable sounds. They are animals that travel at night. There are also poisonous snakes, which make people get goosebumps.

If she changed to a less courageous person, she might not be able to stay, but Huo Lan is not afraid. She lived on the mountain for a month before, and she is somewhat used to it. Besides, she is determined to win today, and nothing can stop her.

The rainwater on the leaves and grass hadn't dried yet, Huo Lan was lying in it, her clothes were almost soaked through, it was very uncomfortable to wrap her body coldly, but it also kept her from getting sleepy, it was just very boring, time seemed to be stretched infinitely Long, holding a posture for a long time, my hands and feet are so stiff that I feel uncomfortable all over.

Even so, she tried her best to keep still, she had lost the accurate judgment of time now, and she couldn't tell when Wen Taicang would appear.

Finally, a tall and strong figure appeared in her vision.Huo Lan held his breath, followed the person with his eyes as he gradually approached, and then gradually moved away, until he could no longer see her before coming out of his hiding place.

The little deer that disappeared that day reminded her of a conversation she had with Wu Shan. At that time, Wu Shan and his father came back from hunting a lot of things on the mountain. Huo Lan was surprised. One category she only knew existed, but had never seen it before.

"These guys are cunning and cautious, and they've been hiding for a long time when you notice the movement. Except for a very few lucky occasions, if you want to catch them, you usually have to carefully observe the surroundings. From the footprints, feces, and hairs on the ground, you can speculate that they may be in the forest. Move around in this area, and then squat in advance, or simply track down their old nest, and they will be wiped out."

Cunning and cautious, isn't it just like Wen Taicang?Huo Lan asked himself that he had no ability to follow Wen Taicang without being noticed by him, so he could only use this method of hunting hunters to find people.

She walked lightly to the place where she saw Wen Taicang for the last time, and knelt down to check the footprints nearby.The rain in the evening softened the soil, making all the subsequent traces very clear, and it didn't take long for Huo Lan to find a string of footprints.

People in Songzhuang will not go up the mountain after dark, and this footprint can only be Wen Taicang's.Huo Lan was shocked, and then realized that the direction of the footprints was not to the place where Wen Taicang used to practice martial arts, that is to say, Wen Taicang was still wary of her.

I thought that if she let go these days, Wen Taicang could also treat her as giving up... Huo Lan felt a little pity, and she had to be more careful next time.

She doesn't dare to walk too fast, and often has to hide in a hidden place to make sure that there is no one in front of her to come out and continue to follow her footprints. In case Wen Taicang notices in advance and shakes off her mind, she will not be able to catch up with them .

Fortunately, the hard work paid off, and after a while, Huo Lan finally caught up.The figure in front of him stopped and sat on a rock, apparently not planning to leave.

After a moment of excitement, Huo Lan quickly calmed down.

It's not yet the time to say victory, she doesn't know the exact time now, if Wen Taicang tells her that it's not Yin time after she goes out, then all the hard work that night will be in vain!

Wait a little longer... Huo Lan hid himself in a hidden place and waited quietly.Wen Taicang's request for her was during Yinshi, not specific to a certain moment, but in this season, it will be dawn before Maoshi, and the moment of dawn must be within Yinshi!

The chirping of insects around did not know when it stopped, and the sky slowly lifted its last layer of veil, revealing a little color of day.The morning light dispelled the hazy night, and Wen Taicang's figure gradually became clear on the increasingly bright cliff.

"Come out." A husky male voice broke the silence.Huo Lan was taken aback, was she discovered?

She was worried that Wen Taicang was cheating, so she continued to stay where she was.Wen Taicang casually left a small branch on the short tree beside him, and threw it towards Huo Lan's hiding place, but Huo Lan didn't dare to move, and the branch just landed on her head.

"Okay, if you don't come out again, I'm leaving."

Hearing what Tai Cang said, Huo Lan had no choice but to go out from his hiding place.

"When did you find out?"

"Not long after I went up the mountain, I noticed that there was an extra tail behind."

Huo Lan was a little depressed after hearing this, she thought she was far enough away, could she not escape Wen Taicang's eyes even if she was so careful?

Probably because Huo Lan's loss was too obvious, Wen Taicang waved his hand, and rarely showed a little smile on his serious face: "Don't worry, if you can't notice this, it means that you don't need my teaching anymore. You do it this time. You did well, you have patience and perseverance, you can hold your breath, and you pass the test."

"So you are willing to teach me?!" Huo Lan said pleasantly. When Wen Taicang called her out, she thought she had failed again.

Wen Taicang didn't answer her question right away, but asked her instead: "Have you felt tired this month? Get up so early every day, and finally return without success."

"Fortunately..." Huo Lan didn't understand why Wen Taicang cared about this, and said honestly: "Of course I'm tired, but that's what it should be, isn't it? If you want to get something, you have to pay a price. Besides, this is just the beginning. If you can't hold on to this, how can you have the face to say that you want to become stronger?"

"You guys..." Wen Taicang sighed, shook his head, there was an unconcealable sadness in his eyes, and there was some other emotion in it, it seemed to be hatred, and it was more than just hatred, Huo Lan couldn't tell.

Huo Lan noticed that he said "you" instead of "you". Has anyone said similar words to him before?If there was still "hate" in it, then this person probably wouldn't be Yun Miaoqing.

Before she could ask her a question, Wen Taicang, who has never liked to talk, took the initiative to chat with her this time: "I once had a subordinate who was in a similar situation to yours. She was also a girl who disguised herself as a man to hide from the conscription officer." Officer, doing well in the local barracks, sent to the Northern Garrison..."

Not long after the girl came to Wen Taicang's hands, Wen Taicang discovered her secret. At that time, he wanted to send the girl back, but the girl begged him to say that she could not go back, saying that she ran away from a bully's house , the bully took her body by force, killed her parents, and locked her in the woodshed.She managed to escape, afraid of being caught by the man, so she came up with the idea of ​​pretending to be a man and entering the barracks.

"...I told her that the military camp is not a place for children's play. She doesn't have to go back to her place of origin, but she has to leave as soon as possible. She refused to leave, saying that she had learned a lot of skills during the time in the military camp, and found that she could have another In the way of life, she wants to become stronger and gain military merits, so that one day she can return to her hometown and catch the bully to avenge her and her parents.

She said that she knows that as a woman, she is inherently weaker than men in terms of force, but she is not afraid of difficulties. Will practice to the same level as others or even surpass the level of others. "

"She said so, and she did so. Among the batch of recruits, she was indeed the best one. She was quickly promoted, and she brought twenty or thirty soldiers under her command."

Wen Taicang stopped suddenly when he said this, as if thinking of something bad, his face became much gloomy.

Huo Lan couldn't help asking: "Then what happened after that?"

"Later, in a battle with the enemy, because of a misjudgment by the commander, she, her team and several other teams pursued the remnant army in depth, and were ambushed by the enemy. All her men were killed, and we After digging through the piles of corpses all over the mountains and plains for a long time, I couldn't find her, she was taken away by the enemy, and three days later, the corpse was put on a wooden pole by the enemy and stood high on the hill opposite the North Army camp."

"Ah..." Huo Lan covered his mouth and whispered.

Wen Taicang didn't say it clearly, but the girl was taken away by the enemy, and her daughter's body can't be hidden. I can't imagine what pain she suffered before she died, and after she died, her body would be used by the enemy as a humiliation The tool of her comrades, even if Huo Lan has seen all kinds of atrocities in troubled times in his previous life, such tragedies are not common.

Obviously that girl has worked so hard...

Wen Taicang's tone was light, but the hatred that seemed to be in the eyes before could not be concealed now.Huo Lan intuitively felt that Wen Taicang's current situation should be related to this incident. She didn't know what Wen Taicang did afterwards. Wen Taicang skipped all the details of this incident, such as who the conductor was. , why there was such a mistake, did anyone raise any objections at the time, and did they try to rescue or fight back after the accident?

Wen Taicang didn't mention these things, and obviously didn't want to talk about them in detail, so Huo Lan couldn't ask further questions.

Both of them fell silent for a while, the white clouds in the distant sky were dyed with a layer of gold, and the morning sun was slowly rising from the sea of ​​clouds, casting warm yellow light on the earth.

Huo Lan was bathed in the sun but didn't feel warm at all. Wen Taicang's words reminded her of that cold snowy night. The days she lived in Yunzhai were so comfortable that she almost forgot that the god of death was always hovering around Her side never left.

"I've been hesitating these days. In fact, I haven't decided whether to teach you or not." Wen Taicang stared at the sky for a while and said again.

"I heard Miao Qing say that you want to learn martial arts not only to fight a few thieves, but also to lead troops to fight in the future, but have you ever thought that the battlefield may not be suitable for women? Compared with many men, you are born Not as strong and powerful as they are, even if you put in several times more effort than them, the enemy will not treat you preferentially because of your efforts, on the contrary, once they find out that you are a woman, they will take advantage of your disadvantages even more crazily Weakness not only defeats your heart, but also destroys your spirit.

Once you fall into the enemy's hands, you will face far more torture and humiliation than ordinary prisoners, and your comrades may never understand you. inevitable price. "

In the end, Wen Taicang finally couldn't maintain the calmness before, and there was a hint of madness in his words. Now Huo Lan can be sure that Wen Taicang must have done some appalling things later to take revenge for that girl Going back, maybe not only the enemy, but also the people of our own side, that's why we ended up like this...

Even if he takes revenge, Wen Taicang's resentment will not subside, after all, everyone is dead, no matter how much he has done for that girl, that girl will not come back to life.

but--

"I don't know if the girl you mentioned regretted it at the last moment of her life, but I think that even if she could do it all over again, she would definitely make the same choice..." Huo Lan said seriously.

"There is no way around this. Many times the situation is out of control. How can it be appropriate or inappropriate? That girl insisted on refusing to leave the barracks after being persuaded by you. She must know that even if she does not return to her hometown, the local bully will still be there. There are other bullies. She was bullied before, and she found the hope of not being bullied by others on her own. Let her give up this hope and go back and leave her destiny to God. I pray to God every day not to let her Meeting villains is more difficult for her to accept than death."

Wen Taicang was startled.

Huo Lan continued: "Perhaps now in your opinion, I want to learn martial arts because I am just looking for trouble, but I hope that if one day danger comes, at least I will be able to protect myself and the people I want to protect, instead of handing over my fate to others." In the hands of others, I hope God has mercy."

She has done enough to pray for this in her previous life. If it was useful, how could Yun Miaoqing have contracted the disease, and how could she have traveled so many places and still could not find the medicinal materials she needed. Can only wait to die in Maoxi Village?

Maybe God did pity her, at least let her have this chance to come again, but such a chance can't be expected every time, no matter what, she will try her best to hold her and Yun Miaoqing's fate in her hands.

After hearing Huo Lan's words, Wen Taicang was silent again.After a long time, he raised his head and looked straight at Huo Lan, returning to his previous calm appearance again.

"Since you have made up your mind, Yinshi will come here to find me tomorrow. I will not treat you as a woman during training. I hope you are ready."

He seems to have become the same as before, but upon closer inspection, there are still some changes.When going down the mountain, Huo Lan followed Wen Taicang, and felt that the gloom that always surrounded Wen Taicang and made people dare not approach seemed to fade a bit.

That night, in order to celebrate Huo Lan's successful apprenticeship, Yun Miaoqing specially ordered the kitchen to cook a very sumptuous dinner for Huo Lan alone. She did not join Xiao He and the others, but asked Ginkgo to bring it to her room, and let Huo Lan Dine with her.

"Treasure this meal." Yun Miaoqing picked up the vegetarian dish in front of her, ate two chopsticks and put it down, her eyes were smiling, and she seemed to have a pair of fox ears on her head, "I heard that when Brother Wen was training the Northern Army That is notoriously unreasonable, if you eat more, you may not be able to eat any more after tomorrow."

Huo Lan didn't care about it.How can it be!If you don't make sense, isn't it just a lot of training? Shouldn't you be hungry quickly if you have a lot of training? Shouldn't you eat more when you're hungry?

The next day, Huo Lan knew what it meant to be "notoriously unreasonable".

"Did you see this pheasant? I'll release it later, you go and catch it." The pheasant in Wen Taicang's hand was caught in the morning.The pheasant was terribly frightened, as soon as Wen Taicang let go, he immediately ran and flew away with a high-pitched voice, and rushed out to a long distance in twos and threes.

Huo Lan was completely dumbfounded. He never thought that his first day of training would start with catching pheasants, or catching pheasants with bare hands.

"What are you doing in a daze, I'll run away for a while, go!" Wen Taicang poked Huo Lan's back with a wooden stick picked up by the roadside, Huo Lan let out an "ow" and ran away after the pheasant Direction, officially opened her long road to training.

All morning, Huo Lan didn't do anything, just chased that pheasant.The mountain road is rugged, and it is much more tiring to run than the flat road. Huo Lan thought that he had good physical strength among his peers in the village. After running for more than an hour, he was so tired that he could hardly breathe.

She wondered if Wen Taicang had fed the pheasant some medicine while she was not paying attention, otherwise how could it run so fast!The point is that the pheasant flew out for a long distance at once, and then he could take a breath, and she really ran all morning.

Wen Taicang had good eyes. Whenever she was about to chase after him, Wen Taicang pointed out to her where the pheasant had gone, and then poked her with the small wooden stick to urge her to keep running.

"If you are willing to catch this pheasant, next time I will find you a wild boar to chase you." Wen Taicang said.

Huo Lan was chased by a wild boar once, and she didn't want to be chased a second time. Compared to the wild boar, she still chose to catch the pheasant.But the pheasant obviously wants to have its own choice, and also wants to control its own destiny. It runs all the way for its own life and refuses to be caught by her.

In the end, the pheasant won.

Huo Lan lost the first battle, paralyzed on the ground unable to speak a word.

"Get up, the chickens are gone!" Wen Taicang kicked Huo Lan's calf with his toe.

"I'm really, really, I can't run anymore..." Huo Lan couldn't say a word for a long time.

"Where is this?" Wen Taicang squatted down, "Look at you, you eat more than chickens, and you can't run as fast as chickens, is it plausible?"

Huo Lan: "..." Are people who don't like to talk usually so annoying when they talk?

She really wanted to correct Wen Taicang, telling him that the inner causality of this sentence is not correct - if the chicken eats too much, it will not be able to run so fast, look at the chickens that Aunt Han feeds, one and two grow fleshy Whoa, which one can run like this?

She thought about it, but still held back her words.Given that Wen Taicang's words were astonishing, there might be something more irritating to say behind them. Talking is not her forte, and Yun Miaoqing has to leave it to her.

Huo Lan shut up and rested, Wen Taicang kicked her lightly again: "If you can't catch it, you can jump a hundred times like a frog. After you rest, get up and jump, and we'll go back after jumping."

It was almost noon now, and Huo Lan was thinking about the class she had agreed with Yun Miaoqing in the afternoon. In order not to be late, she didn't rest for too long, and as soon as she was breathing well, she got up and danced according to Wen Taicang's request.

The midsummer sun is very hot. Although Huo Lan didn't stand under the sun, he was so hot that he couldn't breathe well after dancing for a while. After that, he was a little delirious. However, she found that Wen Taicang was still old while she was in a trance. Sometimes I deliberately counted wrongly, obviously I counted to 55, and the next moment it became 43, and then it became 24 inadvertently.

For this reason, Huo Lan had to forcibly gather his energy to stay awake on the verge of dizziness, otherwise Wen Taicang might not be able to count to one hundred today.

During lunch, Huo Lan finally realized the feeling of being unable to eat what Yun Miaoqing said.Aunt Han probably thought she must be tired all morning, so she specially cooked a bowl of meat for her. As a result, Huo Lan consumed too much, and his internal organs were filled with nausea. Not to mention eating meat, he almost vomited from the smell of oil and meat.

Xiaohe, Azhu, and Aliang shared the bowl of meat happily, but Huo Lan didn't eat a single bite.

That's right, apart from Yun Miaoqing talking nonsense when teasing her, Huo Lan clutched her weak heart and thought feebly that Yun Miaoqing would make fun of her when she went to see Yun Miaoqing later. .

Compared to the "inhuman" Wen Taicang, Yun Miaoqing was much more kind. Although she laughed at her, she asked someone to bring the mung bean soup that was put in the ice cellar before the meal.

There wasn't much sugar in this mung bean soup, and it was only chilled in the ice cellar for a while. It wasn't particularly cold, but it tasted refreshing and delicious. Huo Lan drank it all afternoon, and at dinner he felt that his life was finally renewed.

After more than two months of tossing like this, just when Huo Lan felt that she was almost used to this training intensity and her appetite would no longer be affected, Wen Taicang gave her another task of swinging a shovel five hundred times a day.

Looking at the delicious dishes on the table, Huo Lan was very hungry, very hungry. He wanted to eat but his hands were shaking, and he could not hold the chopsticks firmly. spill out.

There is no dignity at all!

"If you beg me, I don't mind feeding you once in a while." Yun Miaoqing's fox ears moved again.

Yun Miaoqing may not mind, but Huo Lan does.She swore to protect Yun Miaoqing and take care of Yun Miaoqing, how could she let Yun Miaoqing feed her?

She had to feed Yun Miaoqing if she wanted to feed it!

Eating is not the most uncomfortable thing, the big deal is to eat slowly.What made Huo Lan even more tormented was that she was so tired in the morning that she sat in Yun Miaoqing's room in the afternoon, and when she relaxed for a while, she was so sleepy that she couldn't hear clearly. , no matter how interesting the story is, it can't stop her increasingly heavy eyelids.

She wants to sleep but can't sleep, she asks to learn so much at the same time, a real warrior will do what she says!

It's just that she struggled to listen to the class, let alone write. Her whole arm was so weak that she couldn't recognize the words she wrote the first day. In Ginkgo's words, she just threw the paper into the fish pond outside. Tadpoles crawl better than this.

Even though Wen Taicang and Ginkgo took turns to laugh at him, Huo Lan persisted day after day without a day off.She doesn't know who her opponents will be in the future. After all, there will be no one who starts later than her. She can't wait to break one day into two to make up for the time of mediocrity in the past.

Once the days get busy, the days go by very fast. Huo Lan has long gone without knowing it, and autumn seems to be only a moment. When the first snow falls this year, Huo Lan is surprised that winter has entered.

"I received a letter from my elder brother this morning, and Du Wenyao's body was found."

The fire in Yun Miaoqing's room was burning, Wen Taicang and Huo Lan were sitting by the fire, Yun Miaoqing brought the letter from Yun Shujian to Wen Taicang to read.

Now the two of them are no longer avoiding Huo Lan when discussing the court situation, after Wen Taicang read it, he gave the letter to the people around him.

"A high-ranking third-rank official disappeared, and it took five months to find the body. I'm afraid the black gauze hat on the head of Yin Qingjing will not be able to keep it."

Huo Lan took the letter, unfolded it and read it quickly. After six months of studying without sleeping and eating, literacy is no longer a problem for her.

Yun Shujian's letter stated that the body was finally found in a dry well in the suburbs of Beijing. When it was found, the body was so decomposed that it was completely unrecognizable. People think of the case that caused a sensation in the capital a few months ago.

The capital is so big, and there are so many dignitaries, and the government can ignore things like throwing a dog or a cat from ordinary people when they are busy, but if these people come to report to the government, they dare not send someone to go there.Yin Qingjing was so busy every day that he didn't even bother to investigate the suicide or accidental fall of such unclaimed corpses, so he just threw them in Yizhuang, and waited until some family member recognized the corpse and reported the case.

This stop lasted for less than half a month, and everyone in the government office planned to treat the case as an accident and deal with it casually. No one expected that Du Wenyao's father, the former Shang Shuling Du Shouming, would be waiting for him at this time.

Du Shouming was very sure that the corpse he found from the dry well belonged to his son, saying that his son broke the little toe of his left foot when he was riding a horse when he was young. In addition, the author confirmed that the owner of this skeleton has been dead for about half a year, and Du Wenyao has been missing for five months, so it should be unmistakable.

The strange thing about this matter is that when Du Wenyao disappeared, the emperor was furious, and ordered Yin of Qingjing Prefecture, together with the Ministry of Criminal Affairs and Dali Temple, to mobilize everyone to find him.In those few days, the inside and outside of the capital was searched almost all over the place, but there was no place where there was any suspicion. Some government officials clearly remembered the dry well where the bones were found. They went down and searched carefully. There was absolutely no Dushang book half shadow.

"No one was found at the time, but the skeleton was found after such a long time. It's so strange." Yun Miaoqing sat down beside Huo Lan, and stretched her hands towards the stove.The temperature has dropped drastically recently, and she is particularly afraid of the cold. Wrapped in a fox-fur cloak and holding a hand stove in her arms, she can't keep warm, and the fire in the room is almost always on.

Such a high official, he certainly wouldn't have been hiding there for so long, suicide is impossible, since the well has been searched, it is unlikely that he accidentally slipped into the well, besides, he was deliberately replaced. Without clothes, it can only be a corpse that was killed by someone and then thrown away.

Huo Lan thought of this and put forward his own guess: "Could it be that the murderer thought that after so long, everyone was reduced to skeletons, and no one would recognize him, so he left him there?"

Yun Miaoqing shook her head: "It shouldn't be. No one was found in such a large-scale search of the whole city before, which shows that the murderer is fully capable of hiding him from being known, so why take the risk of being discovered Throw him out of his hiding place?"

"Do you think there is another purpose for throwing the corpse this time?" Wen Taicang understood the meaning of Yun Miaoqing's words.

Yun Miaoqing said slowly: "No matter what the murderer's purpose is to get rid of Du Wenyao, it's not a good way to get rid of him. If something like this happens at the emperor's feet, he will definitely search it strictly, even if the murderer is sure that he won't be found out. There is no need to do this, so I am more inclined that it was an accident, caused by some personal reasons, and it was too urgent to plan.

If Du Wenyao's death was an accident, then the throwing of the body this time was premeditated.You also said that Yin of the Qingjing Prefecture is likely to have a black hat this time, and I'm afraid this matter is aimed at him. "

When Du Wenyao had an accident last time, apart from Qingjing Mansion, the Ministry of Criminal Justice and Dali Temple were responsible for the search. The so-called law does not blame the public, and the person was not found. , but no one was dismissed at any rate.

But this time was different. Someone reported the discovery of the skeleton, but the Qingjing government didn't take it seriously. If Du Shouming hadn't personally identified the corpse, the matter would have been fooled.

The Du family has been an official for several generations. Du Shouming also made great efforts for the court and the emperor. How long did he retire? The only son died in this way for no apparent reason. The murderer has not been caught yet. Bearing this blame, how can the emperor give Du Shouming an explanation?

"The Minister of the Ministry of Officials has changed, and the governor of Qingjing Prefecture will also change... I always think it's not a good omen." Yun Miaoqing withdrew her hand stretched out in front of the stove, slowly rubbing the stove in her arms.

"Your Majesty is getting old. Prince Pingzhang was abolished in the ninth year of Yuhe, and a new prince has not been installed for more than ten years. His Highness the Third Prince and the Fifth Prince had been fighting each other before we left the capital. I don't know how many disputes there have been in private this year, and I suspect that this matter has something to do with the two of them."

Her suspicions were not without foundation.The third prince, Zhong Jin, and the fifth prince, Zhong Lu, are the two sons most favored by His Majesty the current emperor since the crown prince was abolished. When they became adults, they were named county kings respectively, and they were promoted to princes a few years ago.There is no proof, and Yin of Qingjing's government dared not search the residence of these two people even if he had ten guts. If Du Wenyao's death was really related to them, it is entirely possible to hide it for so long.

It's just that in this way, this incident is not just about the assassination of courtiers, it may also involve the struggle for the throne behind it.The murderer dared to throw out Du Wenyao's bones at this time, and there will definitely be more actions in the future.

Yun Miaoqing is far away in the countryside, and many things in the capital have nothing to do with her.Moreover, since the death of her father Yun Zhimiao, although the Yun family has not been so popular, its influence is indeed much smaller than before.Yun Shujian originally worked in the Ministry of Household Affairs. Last month, he made a "careless and sloppy" mistake. Emperor Nian didn't punish him severely for his father's dedication to the country during his lifetime, so he was transferred to the Imperial Academy as an official. A idle job, the salary is still received.

In this way, the Yun family has gradually moved away from the vortex of power struggle. Even if the two princes were to fight for the throne and force the ministers to stand in line, it would not be Yun Shujian's turn for a while.

When talking about these things, Huo Lan usually doesn't get in the way, and Wen Taicang doesn't often make a sound. Basically, Yun Miaoqing is talking alone, and she can analyze things to a general idea by herself.But this time when it came to the end, Yun Miaoqing was really cold, she had no interest in continuing the conversation, and ended the topic hastily.

"It's useless for us to guess here. I'll write a letter to my elder brother later, telling him to be 'confused' for a while, and wait until the case is investigated for a while."

Yun Miaoqing is just guessing here, but Huo Lan has heard of it in his previous life, and the military chaos that spread across the country was indeed related to the struggle for the throne.Compared with her now, she was very ignorant and ignorant in her previous life. She didn't know whether Du Wenyao's murder had happened in her previous life, nor did she understand why a battle for the throne turned into such chaos in the end. Even back then, she didn't know that a former prime minister's family like the Yun family had to be so cautious in every move.

"Did I cause you trouble? I mean that you reported to the police for me before..."

After Wen Taicang left, Yun Miaoqing sat back on her soft couch, Huo Lan helped her cover the blanket, knelt down beside the soft couch and asked.

Although she still doesn't understand many things, she understands the Yun family's current policy of keeping a low profile and not attracting attention.Yun Miaoqing did more than attract attention in order to help her that time. There were tens of thousands of people in the entire Songluan County, and few of them were unaware. Wouldn't it be a great violation of the Yun family's current rules of conduct?

"It's just a village woman, it doesn't matter, even if that one knows, she'll be happy to see me focus on fighting these people all day long." Yun Miaoqing wrapped her blanket tightly, and paused when she glanced at Huo Lan.

Every time Huo Lan looks at her like this, it reminds her of her mother's puppy Songzi. When Songzi wants someone to touch it, she will put her paws on something next to the person like this, and stare at it with wet eyes. Behold.

It was too cold, Yun Miaoqing hesitated for a while, then stretched out her right hand and quickly touched Huo Lan's head, then quickly retracted.

"It's been so long, why do you still remember it. Don't worry, there's still a long time left for you before it's time for you to worry about me."

The author has something to say: Yun Miaoqing: In such a cold day, I stretched my hand out of the blanket for you, did you feel my love?

Huo Xiaolan: I only feel that you treat me like a puppy, and you are willing to pet the puppy a few more times. People are not as good as dogs series TAT