The next day, in Xinghan Pavilion, Zuo Qing watched with a gentle face as Yansheng made tea, peeled orange peels, and put them on a plate. He didn't say a word during the whole process, until there was a slight sound of footsteps outside the door.
"Now that you're here, eat the fruit." He stared at the flickering light and shadow at the door and said softly, "Yansheng knew you were coming, so he peeled it specially."
"Sir," Xu Ziya's voice sounded. He opened the door and walked in, saluting him: "I have already restrained my breath, but I didn't expect you to still hear it. Your ears are getting better and better!"
Zuo Qing couldn't help but smile: "I thought you wouldn't make any progress, but I didn't expect you are so good at talking."
"That's because of Mr. Su's influence. Mr. Su is humorous and can boost the atmosphere of the school."
Zuo Qing's smile deepened: "Ayan is indeed very good, she..." But he swallowed the words after that.
After all, Su Yan's destination is not him, he is filled with hatred, and she is innocent and not a fellow traveler.
In a daze, Xu Ziya presented an object, "Mr. Su followed Ji Yu all the way and found a sweat towel and sachet from him, saying that they were evidence that he was the murderer!"
Zuo Qing was awakened by the words, took the evidence, and examined it carefully against the candlelight. The candlelight was weak, but it made the smile on the corner of his mouth extremely dazzling. He told Xu Ziya: "I'll go to Yunlai Pavilion. You
Go back and have a good rest." Before he finished speaking, Xu Ziya stepped forward and blocked his way, his eyes full of expectation.
"I am coming too!"
Zuo Qing was stunned for a moment, then nodded.
Yunlai Pavilion.
Xu Ziya and Zuo Qing walked among the male guests. Both of them wore special masks made by Xilou, and no one recognized them.
Go up to the second floor, let the waiter lead you, and walk straight into an ordinary room in the corner. As soon as you enter the door, Madam Xu's loud voice comes over: "Come here and have a drink with me!"
Zuo Qing and Xu Ziya looked at each other and walked in. Behind the large screen was indeed a table of good wine and delicious food. Madam Xu was already half drunk, and she was leaning on the small square table with her green embroidered skirt spread on the soft floor.
He collapsed. When he turned to look at them, his steps started to sway, which made his beautiful face extremely stunning. Zuo Qing couldn't help but praise: "If Xishi hadn't died back then, I would have sighed deeply when I saw Lady Xu."
"Hey, this little mouth is getting sweeter and sweeter." Xu Niang said with a smile.
"Mrs. Xu, you don't look like you are in late spring. You look so good, you are almost like a student in the academy!" Xu Ziya's face was filled with a smile, and he could not hide his excitement.
"Ah, this one's mouth is even sweeter! I mean, you two grown men, stay up in the middle of the night, and come here just to praise me to death? I can't bear this, I don't even dare to sleep now!"
Zuo Qing suppressed a smile and took out the sweat towel: "You can take a look."
Xu Niang went over to smell it, pinched her nose in a hurry and said, "If you want me to wake up, just bring me a jar of wine. Why bother to cut off your smelly sweat towel!"
"This is what Su Yan got after following the man last night. There is also a sachet. I won't give you the sachet. The sweat towel can prove it."
Xu Niang suddenly realized that she had not sobered up after drinking. "It turns out that Su Yan made such a fuss yesterday because he was trying to catch the murderer. I was so scared that I thought there was really a fire!" Then she thought about how she had suffered a loss and said angrily, "
She has caused me heavy losses, but don’t come back until I break her legs, and stay and pay me back!”
Zuo Qing said with a smile: "It's just a few coins, why bother arguing with a girl? I will offer you a hundred gold as an apology someday."
"One hundred gold?" After being shocked, she suddenly realized something was wrong and asked him: "How did you get so much gold? Is it because of salary increase or corruption?"
Zuo Qing took a piece of tofu to eat, poured another glass of wine, and then said with satisfaction: "My salary has not increased, I just need to save some food. Please go to the Ministry of Justice, Madam Xu."
Xu Niang was very confused, but she immediately understood, "Yes, this case is very likely to be related to the eldest son's family, so you can't contact him directly. Come on, I'll find a stranger, so you can rest assured. I am the murderer."
I’m done eating.”
Zuo Qing saw that Xu Ziya had been looking at them stupidly, so he took the wine glass and handed it to Xu Ziya: "You have always wanted to come to drink flower wine, why are you so stunned?"
Only then did Xu Niang pay attention to the young man next to Zuo Qing, and asked him with a smile: "Do you still remember me?"
Xu Ziya nodded like a fool: "Of course I remember that you personally taught me how to read!"
"It's been so many years!" Xu Niang sighed, "I remember you were only six years old when I adopted you, and you were already fifteen when you left. It's so fast, I'm already old." She said with sadness,
She poured some wine on the table and pushed away the water stains with her palms. She stared sadly at herself in the water mirror and couldn't help but shed tears.
What is supposed to be an elegant and pure face here, when did you start using heavy makeup to cover up the essence, and when did you start to learn to hide the bitterness and bitterness behind the mask, so that what you show to others is always a beautiful face.
The skin is stunningly beautiful and flawless. But beneath the skin, the soul has long been rotten and smells bad.
Xu Ziya saw her getting more and more sad and panicked. Zuo Qing also noticed that she was sad because of drinking, so he quickly called the girl in the pavilion, helped her back to rest, and repeatedly told her to take good care of her, don't catch cold at night, and be ready when she wakes up in the morning.
What a light vegetable porridge, don’t touch wine or meat all day long. Several of the girls in the pavilion all know Zuo Qing, but they don’t know the true identities of him and Xu Niang. They only know that this young man is very close to her boss.
, his words are the boss’s words.
Xu Ziya suddenly felt sad: "I wonder how many chances I will have to see Mrs. Xu in the future."
"It's not how many opportunities, it's when."
Xu Ziya looked at him half-understanding, Zuo Qing shook her head helplessly and said: "When everything is settled, I will take you away from Ruoshui. By then, won't you and Xu Niang see each other every day?"
Xu Ziya suddenly became enlightened and grinned happily.
Another day later, the matter of Ran Ying's arrest has been fermented, and the limelight has overshadowed the Duanyunxuan corpse hiding case. After all, the former was involved in national affairs, and the people were more concerned about this. Nowadays, there are a lot of discussions on the street, speculating about Zhao Guo
Whether Xi Zuo was really sent, and how Emperor Rong would respond? You can make any guesses, and someone even held a lecture specifically for this purpose, conducting an in-depth discussion on how Xi Zuo stole state secrets.
It can be said that Ran Ying is sitting in jail, and rumors are spreading everywhere!
Regardless of this, let’s talk about Ran Ying’s aunt, the princess of the Zhao Kingdom. She was originally favored by the King of Zhao and stabilized the power of the Ran family for several years. Before the Ran Ying incident broke out, she was suddenly locked up in the cold palace and has not been seen again. Ran’s father has also been affected by this.
Because of her involvement, she lost her handsome position, Ran's mother suffered from a heart attack, and Ran Ying's brother lost his bright future because of her. He could have relied on his father, but he stagnated because of this...
Even before the case is clear, the Ran family has already suffered such grievances, which is quite depressing.
However, by the afternoon of that day, these two events took an earth-shattering turn.
The Ministry of Punishment suddenly dispatched a large number of officers and soldiers to surround Ji's residence. The people abandoned their work and ran to watch the excitement. Only then did they learn that Ji Yu, the minister of the left side of the province, was the culprit of the Yunxuan corpse case!
This caused a stir in the city and everyone knew about it.
After being interrogated overnight by the Criminal Department, Ji Yu originally refused to admit it, but when he saw Chang Sun Yue's testimony and the sweat scarf, he had to confess.
It turned out that He Shuang was accidentally discovered when he passed by Duanyunxuan. From then on, he wanted to take a look at it, but something went wrong. He Shuang was forced to follow it, again and again, she thought
Reported the matter, but this Ji Yu was so vicious that he even threatened the lives of her family members.
He Shuang was heartbroken and finally made up his mind to kill Ji Yu.
She discovered that Changsun Yue would take the shortcut outside the yard and walk back to Yewu Garden every night, so she wrote to Ji Yu to lure him over.
On the night of the incident, using the same shortcut and at the same time, Changsun Yue showed up. Heshuang deliberately exposed him to attract Changsun Yue's attention. Unfortunately, although she was curious, she did not want to cause trouble, so she left after a short stay and
I didn't see Ji Yu kill anyone, nor did I see the sweat towel being thrown into the pond. However, fortunately, Chang Sun Yue informed Su Yan of the matter, and Su Yan deduced the whereabouts of the evidence from the details.
Perhaps out of revenge or wanting to survive, he actually revealed the shocking secret of his affair with Concubine Xiao.
Corruption and bribery, killing and silence, and having an affair with a concubine, these three crimes are fatal! No matter how Ji Yu warned Changsun Wuzheng about his relationship with his favorite concubine, the Changsun did not waver at all.
After this case, if Ruo Shui was eight years old or eighty years old, the eldest grandson who was not confused about this old man would be included in the ranks of those who were in love with him.
Ji Yu's case was over, and Concubine Xiao had suffered eight bad lucks for eight lifetimes. She had always been cautious, but she only had an affair with Ji Yu Hongxing once, but she fell into this one wrong thing.
Su Yan summed it up: Every carrot is in a pit, and any carrot that tries to go into another pit will not end well!
After the case was solved, Ran Ying naturally had to be released home. Su Yan got up early in the morning to pick up Ran Ying, but met a hurried man outside the Criminal Department. He didn't look like a Rongguo person. She felt suspicious.
She followed him for a while and found that the basket on his arm had the family pattern, in the shape of a dark wave. She couldn't see the source, so she gave up. Until she saw Ran Ying's complicated face.
Only then did I realize that it was probably the servant sent by the Ran family.
My daughter was unjustly imprisoned, but the family only sent one servant, which is heartbreaking.
Su Yan asked the prison guard to unlock the door and release the man, but Ran Ying was still huddled in the corner, hugging her knees. The prison guard yelled impatiently, but she remained indifferent.
Su Yan waited for her patiently, without urging her or planning to leave. Finally, she raised her face, and her sallow appearance shocked Su Yan's heart.
Ran Ying smiled bitterly and said: "I didn't expect that the person who came to pick me up in the end was not my family or my friends, but you."
"Your family has been here, that servant..."
"He was sent by my father. He threw some supplements and left. Before leaving, he told my father what he said... My aunt died of illness and my brother was demoted. He, as a father, could not last long. He asked me to stay in Rongguo.
Find a good family and don't go back. Changsun Xi threatened his aunt, so I had to take the blame for Ji Yu, but why?" Ran Ying took a deep breath and suddenly said angrily: "Why do you want to investigate the case? You hurt me.
In the whole family, that’s my only aunt!”
Sure enough, Chang Sun Xi still couldn't escape the involvement, but unfortunately, the murderer had been caught, and no one would care about her, who was an inconspicuous person in the case.
Su Yan sighed and said to her: "I don't know the stakes behind this case. I only know that you are my student. You have been wronged and I have to save you! If you want revenge, I will wait for you."
He threw a package in and said, "It's cold outside. Put on some clothes and come back with me."
Just as she was about to leave, she heard Ran Ying cry out to her: "Sir, please help me, I want to avenge my aunt!"
"Your aunt is so kind to you? You would rather give up your life to avenge her."
"My aunt is the best person to me besides my father, and she is my closest relative!"
Su Yan felt a little disappointed. She once had an aunt, who was the person who loved her most in the world and was a close relative by blood! But she had no way to avenge her, and she didn't even know who the person who harmed her was!
Su Yan shook his head and said regretfully: "But that is Changsun Xi, and the Changsun family is behind him. How can you take revenge?"
"I'm going to report her, I have evidence," she thought for a moment, then added, "I'm the witness!"
"You?" Su Yan found it ridiculous. Father Ran had already said such unfounded words, so what capital did she have to fight against the eldest grandson's family? She couldn't help but laugh and said: "You have never heard of hitting an egg with a stone, right? The Ran family is no longer what it used to be.
, what are you going to report on?"
"I don't believe there is no justice in the world, there will always be someone who will uphold justice for me!"
When Su Yan heard the word 'justice', he felt even more amused, "If you hadn't followed the trend when you first came to the academy, you wouldn't have been manipulated by Chang Sun Xi, and you wouldn't have let the Ran family fall into this situation today. What do you want now?"
It’s fair, why did you turn your back on it in the first place?”
Hearing this, Ran Ying had a profound realization and tears instantly burst into his eyes.
"Yes, I am the murderer. I killed my aunt and my brother! Why didn't I die? Why didn't I pay for their lives!"
Su Yan's impression of Ran Ying was not good, and he was even a little disgusted. At first, he only investigated the case out of persistence in his heart. Even now, he is just pitiful. But after seeing Ran Ying doing this for his dead aunt,
Only when she was so heartbroken did she truly accept this child who had lost everything.
Su Yan gently held her in his arms, stroked her hair and said, "It's okay to admit your mistakes, but this is not entirely your fault. It's Changsun Xi and Mo Fei!"
Ran Ying, who was crying in her arms, held back his tears and asked her, "Sir, what should I do?"
"It is better to remember your enemies than not to know who your enemies are. One day, you will get what you want."
The eldest grandson's family has a great cause, and Mo Fei is backing her. She talked about revenge, but she knew in her heart that she had no chance of winning. She closed her eyes in despair and cried harder.