The silence in the hall was broken, and everyone's eyes immediately focused on the boy who came up to report.

The boy faced the different expressions of everyone, with a slight sweat on his forehead, but he still finished the sentence calmly.

"Now that everything has been sorted out, does the princess want to go over now?"

Yan Qin asked Yan Ling'er for her opinion.

Yan Ling'er glanced at Nanny Xu, and when she was about to speak, another person came into the hall, the old housekeeper of the Yan family.

The housekeeper of the Yan family saw the ceremony with everyone and turned to Yan Qing: "Miss, the Lord from the Ministry of Household Affairs has sent a letter, saying that you need to handle the household registration of the Marquis, the Crown Prince, and the uncle."

Yan Qing frowned: "Now?"

"The adults from the Ministry of Household Affairs are waiting at the door. They say that the Ministry of Household Affairs is currently cleaning up the household registration. They are urging me urgently."

The butler answered truthfully.

Yan Qing was puzzled: "If the Ministry of Revenue does not know the situation and cannot determine whether the household registration should be eliminated, and needs to check with me to verify the situation, I can understand it. Now that it is obvious, do you still need me to go through a process?"

"According to the Lord of the Household Department, it is because the remains of the Marquis and the Crown Prince have not been transported back to Beijing, so the Household Department does not dare to make a conclusion easily. I need to know the detailed situation from you, Miss."

Yan Qing frowned, looked at Yan Qin, and was about to speak, but heard Yan Ling'er say: "Since the Ministry of Husbandry asked you to explain the situation, just go ahead. There is so much nonsense, do you think the adults in the Ministry of Husbandry are the same as you?

Are you very free?"

Yan Qing glanced at her, his eyes dark.

On the other hand, Mrs. Yan Qin patted Yan Qing's hand and said, "Since the Ministry of Household Affairs has sent someone to call, you can just go there. It's nothing important."

Now that Yan Qin said so, Yan Qing hesitated for a moment and finally nodded: "Okay, then let Qing Yi follow you."

But Yan Qin shook his head: "What can happen to me in the city? This girl in Qingyi is used to being by your side. If you are not around, I'm afraid that this girl won't even dare to eat."

"I won't!"

Qing Yi, who had been shrinking next to Yan Qing, heard Yan Qin's words and immediately retorted with a bared teeth. But her hands were tightly holding Yan Qing's clothes, her eyes kept rolling in her sockets, and she nervously looked at the people in the room.

, especially Yan Linger, Nanny Xu and others.

Mrs. Yan Qin smiled at her rudely: "How come you don't know how? Qing'er went to the military camp before without you, but you were so anxious that you were spinning around in the room and almost scratched the wall."

Listening to Mrs. Yan Qin talking about the Autumn Banquet, Qing Yi bared her teeth and raised her nose. She opened her mouth and was interrupted by Yan Qing: "Why haven't I heard about this?"

"How dare she tell you?"

Yan Qin smiled and said, "It is only when you are in the house that she feels at ease and feels at ease wherever she is."

Yan Qing raised his eyes and saw Qing Yi looking at him eagerly. In the end, he had no choice but to give Yan Qin a complicated glance and sighed: "Then be careful on the road."

"If you are protected by the soldiers of the Marquis Mansion and don't leave the city, what can happen?"

Seeing the two of them chattering here, Yan Ling'er urged them impatiently.

Yan Qing glanced at her, the warning in his eyes was self-evident.

Yan Ling'er's face sank and she sneered: "What? In this house, on the road, and in the village, we are all your people. I don't doubt what you will do to me. That's fine. But you doubted me first? I am

If I have that intention, do I have the ability?"

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw Yan Qing staring at her without saying anything. The calm light in his eyes made her feel guilty that she had been seen through.

Yan Ling'er was a little panicked. She took a quick look, covered her eyes with a handkerchief, and sobbed twice: "Now that my parents are gone, you are my only relatives. If I harm you, what can I do?"

Staring at Yan Ling'er wiping away the non-existent tears, Yan Qing said meaningfully: "You'd better really know."

Yan Ling'er's heart skipped a beat and she peeked at Yan Qing, but Yan Qing had already turned around and told the housekeeper to prepare the carriage and horses.

In front of the gate of Zhenxi Hou Mansion, Yan Qing watched Yan Qin get into the carriage, his brows never raised.

Qing Yi pulled Yan Qing's sleeves, looked at Yan Qing's frown, her little eyebrows also wrinkled, pursed her lips, and said hesitantly: "How about I... follow Madam?"

Yan Qing looked down at the thin Qing Yi and raised his hand to touch her head.

This little girl was picked up from the woods when she was sieging a bandit camp when she was ten years old.

At that time, she was hanging out with the wolves, and she thought she was trapped by the wolves like herself and others.

But she didn't expect that after she shot several wolves with arrows, the little girl touched her behind. She didn't pay attention at first, but in the end, the little girl caught her unawares and hit her from behind.

At that time, she discovered that this child was the wolf boy that Lao Mo had mentioned.

Although this year may seem peaceful, the darkness hidden underneath is often unimaginable.

Famines and taxes often make a family overwhelmed.

Under the influence of the previous dynasty's concept of raising children to provide for old age, although the current precedent has been set for women to serve as officials, under the influence of the old concept, people's views on women have not changed.

This is even more obvious in the lower-class villages.

A poor family cannot afford to raise multiple children, so those with the means often choose to give away their girls, or sell them to wealthy families as maids, or something else; those without the means, either drown their children after birth, or

It was abandoned directly.

Compared with those children who were drowned at birth, those who were abandoned still had a chance to survive.

As a mountain person who has lived in the mountains all his life, the best place for these unwanted children is the old forests where wild beasts are rampant.

Those who are unlucky die and become food for wild animals.

If you are lucky, you may be picked up by a beast and treated as your own child, becoming a beast boy.

Lao Mo said that this was a very common thing in his hometown.

Their place is backward and there are not many wealthy families. Those couples who cannot afford to raise their children and are unwilling to be cruel will choose to throw their children into the mountains and let God decide their life or death.

She remembers saying at the time: "If that's the case, why didn't you choose not to have children from the beginning? If you give birth but don't take responsibility, is this still a human being?"

Lao Mo just laughed and shook his head: "Who knows? Why do wild animals know how to protect their cubs, but humans don't?"

Later, she asked her father about this question, and his father said: "Because they have been betting their whole lives that the next one will be a boy."

She didn't understand, but her father didn't tell her why. He just let her see and think for herself.

Qing Yi was the first beast boy she saw.

That bandit suppression was also thanks to Qing Yi, who led them to find a secret passage into the bandit's stronghold, and with the cover of the wolves, they successfully captured the stronghold.

Later, she often visited Qing Yi, and the two of them became familiar with each other from time to time.
Chapter completed!