Clear and Muddy Loss of Love

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Nangong Jingnv turned around, embraced Qi Yan face to face, raised her hand to support Qi Yan's face, and gently wiped away the tears hanging on Qi Yan's face, while her own tears kept flowing silently with.

In the past three years, there has been too much backlog between them. This belated apology and hug is certainly a vent, but there are some things that cannot be easily taken away with a single sentence. Both of them understand this truth in their hearts.

Nangong Jingnv held Qi Yan's face, and said softly: "Look at you, you are 24 years old and still crying like a child."

Qi Yan bit her lip and replied in a muffled voice: "I feel uncomfortable in my heart."

Nangong Jingnv couldn't help laughing out loud, followed by a burst of sadness: Maybe this person hasn't had a good life in the past three years?

Nangong Jingnu: "Qi Yan..."

Qi Yan: "The minister is here."

Nangong Jingnu: "Give me some more time."

Qi Yan: "Yes."

Nangong Jingnu: "It's getting late, go to sleep."

Qi Yan tightened the broken arm on Nangong Jingnu's waist: "I... want to sleep like this."

Nangong Jingnu: "Okay."

The violent wind and rain continued outside the window, and the two people in the room embraced each other and fell asleep.

A night without dreams, Nangong Jingnv opened her eyes before the sky outside, three years of morning life made her no longer have the habit of sleeping in, she felt the arms around her waist and the sound of breathing coming from her ears, Nangong Jing The woman was in a daze for a while.

She turned her head and saw Qi Yan who was sleeping soundly, thinking of what happened last night, she smiled silently.

Qi Yan has already submitted the paperwork for leave, which was approved by himself, so Qi Yan does not need to go to court from now until the end of the exam, but he is different.

Nangong Jingnv stared at Qi Yan for a moment, gently pinched Qi Yan's wrist on her lower abdomen to move the other's arm away, slowly got up and got off the bed from under Qi Yan's feet, and took the cup hanging on the screen. After putting on the clothes by himself, he looked back at Qi Yan who was still sleeping soundly, feeling a sense of reluctance in his heart.

So she gently sat on the side of the bed and pulled the quilt for Qi Yan, raised her hand to touch the other's forehead, tested the temperature before getting up and leaving.

In Nangong Jingnv's heart, Qi Yan's health has always been poor, she was afraid that Qi Yan would get sick in the rain, but luckily her temperature was normal.

Nangong Jingnv didn't call anyone to serve her, she simply washed up and opened the door and went out.

The sound of closing the door came, and Qi Yan who was in a "deep sleep" opened his eyes, his eyes were clear, and he didn't seem to be waking up.

……

The rain is still falling, but the sky is still gray when the rain has eased a little. It seems that it will not clear up until all the rainwater accumulated in the dark clouds is poured out. There is a lot of water in the yard, and several teams of palace people have already started to clean it. There are emerald green leaves floating on the water surface, and many plants were forcibly knocked off by the heavy rain. It is obviously midsummer, but they show a bit of depression.

Qiu Ju put the cloak on Nangong Jingnu's body: "It suddenly became cold overnight, I will go back to the main hall to find some autumn palace clothes and prepare them."

Nangong Jingnv frowned slightly, and looked up at the gray sky again, feeling a bad premonition in her heart.

This rain is so abnormal, the rainy season in Kyoto should be a month away, and it is almost the season of grain harvest, so don't let anything happen again.

Nangong Jingnu: "Tell the palace people not to disturb the son-in-law's rest, and send someone to the imperial hospital to restore the son-in-law's routine peace pulse."

Qiu Ju: "Yes."

Nangong Jingnu: "Let's go."

……

In the hall, Qi Yan was sitting on the Babu bed with the brocade quilt covering his knees, listening to the pattering rain.

The remaining warmth at the side was dissipating, Qi Yan turned his head and took a look, there were a few long black hairs left on the vermilion silk on the jade pillow.

Qi Yan stretched out her hand to pick up the strands of hair on her fingertips, carefully coiled them together in one place, got up and took the double fish bag that was usually hung on her waist, and put the coiled hair into it.

"Duk Tuk Tuk" knocked on the door, Qi Yan clutched the double fish bag in his hands, a trace of alertness flashed in his eyes: "Who?"

Qian Tong: "Master, can you get up? The villain Qian Tong, help the master change his clothes."

Qi Yan doesn't need someone to serve her in her daily life, Qian Tong knows this, and the other party must have come to him for something urgent when he said that.

Qi Yan: "Come in."

Qian Tong came in front of Qi Yan, knelt down on one knee and took out a wax-sealed envelope from his arms: "Master, a letter has arrived."

Qi Yan took the envelope, there was no words on the cover, took out the letter and shook it open, it was written by Qian Yuan.

The letter said: Thanks to Gu Feng's assistance, Qi Yan's secret operation of Sifang Bank has successfully settled in the capital, but Qian Yuan is worried that Sifang Bank has touched the interests of the old Beijing bank: Tongyuan Bank, and worried that its owner, Xie An, will not let it go.

Although Xie An is not a concern, Xie An is relying on the third prince Nan Gongwang, so please ask Qi Yan to say hello to the capital officials.

Qi Yan turned over this page, and there was a letter on the back, which was still written by Qian Yuan, but compared to the previous one, the handwriting was obviously a bit scribbled.

Qi Yan frowned, and read the above two lines over and over again: The villain Qian Yuanwan died.A few days ago, the villain went to visit the young master as usual, and found that the family had moved a month ago and was missing.

The villain asked an artist to draw hundreds of portraits, and handed them over to his capable confidants to investigate secretly.

Qi Yan clenched the letter paper into a ball in his palm, his chest heaved.

Three years ago, Xiaodie gave birth to dragon and phoenix twins. Qi Yan was worried that the Inner Court would adopt the ancient system of keeping the son and leaving the mother, falsely claiming that the boy died, and secretly sent the boy out of the capital with money to be adopted by farmers.

Only Qian Yuan knew the child's address. In the past three years, Qian Yuan would visit the child four times a year and regularly send some oil, rice and silver taels to ensure that the child can grow up safely...

With such favorable conditions, the family definitely has no reason to move... The letter said that they moved a month ago, so counting the time... Isn't it right after I left for Beijing?

Qi Yan spread out her palms, with a double fish bag in her left hand and a ball of letter paper in her right hand.

Who abducted the child?

Could it be Nangong Jingnv?Now that she has the support of Nangong Rang, she does have enough strength to do this... But from the performance and words of the other party, it doesn't seem to be the same.

Could it be that Qian Yuan "guarded against himself"?Secretly transferring children as a bargaining chip for another day?

Qi Yan looked at Qian Tong who was still kneeling in front of her, and dismissed this idea.

Not to mention that I have already paid Qian Yuan free, and let him take care of all his assets, even if Qian Tong and Qian Bao, both of Qian Yuan's sons and daughters, are in his own hands, why should he do such a thing that hurts both sides? Woolen cloth?

Is it...

Seeing that Qi Yan was silent, Qian Tong asked, "Does the master have a message to bring?"

Qi Yan took a deep breath, the amber eyes returned to silence, and said softly: "Tell Qian Yuan to investigate to the end, if he wants to see people die or see corpses. And... let him return the funds in the near future, and send money back later. People went to the private house to pick up some things, and took all of them to Xie An to exchange for cash, and now all the non-essential land deeds in their hands can be sold and exchanged for silver."

Qian Tong: "Yes."

After thinking about it, Qi Yan continued: "Send people to transport the money to pawn shops in various places, and any farmers who come to borrow money for turnover, no matter how much they borrow, they will lend them to him, but let him use the land deed as collateral. Appropriately relax but the interest rate should be raised a little bit, and then maintain a normal state and wait for my next order."

Qian Tong: "Yes."

Qian Tong left, and Qi Yan left the dormitory after washing up, the rain outside was still continuing, although it was not as violent as yesterday, it did not seem to clear up at all.

Qi Yan raised her head to look at the black cloud pressing above her head, and murmured: "God is beautiful, it really is heaven..."

After a night of tenderness since then, Nangong Jingnv became busy again, and Qi Yuxiao followed the second aunt's order to pester Qi Yan every day.

But Qi Yan doesn't plan to go back to her private house to visit Xiaodie. She certainly misses her sister, but the plan she's been laying out for three years is about to end. When I avenge my revenge, I still have decades of time to be with my sister, and if I don't visit her, I am protecting her. Nangong let the wind and candle die, what kind of things will Baoqi do for Nangong Jingnv.

Thanks to Qi Yuxiao, Qi Yan had a good excuse to reject a large number of visitors, including Gong Yanghuai, Minister of Rites.

At this juncture, it is not suitable for her to meet anyone, perhaps Nangong Jingnv's eyes are placed by her side to watch, and everything has to wait until the imperial examinations are opened.

On the other side, Nangong Jingnv was very busy, and several major events had happened in the court recently, but Nangong Jingnv could only stay behind the scenes, and her inability to issue orders at the court became her biggest constraint.

Sinong reported: There are floods everywhere, please arrange for the court as soon as possible, so as not to affect the autumn harvest and tax revenue.

The rainy season in Wei State has been moved forward by a full month. At this time, it is the season when the grain is about to mature. Da Si Nong has traveled around and found that many crops that are about to be harvested are moldy due to humidity. Many farmers are faced with two choices. One is : The crops were harvested ahead of schedule at the risk of a reduction in harvest, but after a year of hard work, it seemed that they were about to grow well. Who would be willing to let the good food go to waste like this?

The second is: take a gamble with God, and pray that the rain will clear up soon. In this season, the sun will evaporate the excess water after a few days of poisonous exposure, and still have a good harvest.

At the beginning of the founding of the Wei Kingdom, Nangong Rang implemented the national policy of cutting leeks - exchanging banknotes for salt for ten years. Under the temptation of huge profits and the government, farmers all over the country more or less held a few warehouse banknotes waiting to be exchanged. , Some families even sold part of their own land to buy it at a high price, and the Wei State implemented a "head tax", which did not depend on the number of acres of each family's land, but taxed according to the number of people.

On the one hand, the land property has shrunk, and on the other hand, the number of people in the family has gradually increased over the past ten years, so the tax paid to each household has become heavier and heavier.Qi Yan spent three years visiting various places to listen to public opinions, and calculated that the vast number of farmers in Wei State had been pushed to a critical point, so she issued this order to Qian Yuan, preparing to press the last straw on Wei State on the court.

But not now, at least until the students of this year have gained a firm foothold in the court and Qi Yan has accumulated enough voice.

Perhaps the old Nangong has made himself forget the national policy of "exchanging banknotes for salt and silver". It is like a sore on the flesh and bones of the Wei court, and now the sore has festered. Nangong Jingnv and a female stream will have to rely more on themselves in the future, and only when they are "in danger" can they get "heavy power". At that time... it will be the time when Qi Yan will start bloodbathing the court.

Qi Yan: Taiwei's Mansion, Zhongshu Ling, Dianqian General's family...you will all live until then.