Reborn as the favorite of the cold-faced general

Jin Sibai locked himself in the bedroom with a sullen face, ignoring anyone who knocked on the door, like a little girl who has been wronged and returned to her mother's house.

Until Jiang Linxu pushed open the window and appeared outside the window sill on the day when he put on the double happiness window grilles, he suddenly said: "I should have listened to you at that time."

"Listen to me?" Jiang Linxu asked.

Jin Sibai said: "Escape from marriage."

"Huh?" Jiang Linxu was shocked, "I was just joking."

Jin Sibai said: "But I'm not joking."

Jiang Linxu finally realized something was wrong belatedly, and asked him: "What's the matter? Zhao Chuyang treats you badly?"

"It can't be called good or bad." Jin Sibai said ambiguously.

Before Jiang Linxu came, he had prepared a lot of words to comfort him, and was planning to use it in practice, but Jin Sibai had already closed the windows on both sides and locked the keys from the inside.In an instant, Jiang Linxu felt a bit of "heroes are useless", and ran to find Chu Tingyun and his sister-in-law sullenly.

The courtyard is deep and the clouds are thin.

The scorching sun still poured down on the ground, making it dizzy and unabated.

At this time, Ye Huaiyun was reclining on the soft couch reading a book, with the lazy Chu Tingyun on his knees, urging his inner strength to cool down.

"Squeak—" The door was pushed open a small crack, Jiang Linxu cautiously poked his head in, "May I come in?"

Chu Tingyun didn't raise his head, "...Impossible."

"Then I'll talk outside." Jiang Linxu was really sensible and didn't cross the threshold, Gu Zi said: "Sibai is in a bad mood, I'm thinking of going to the market to buy some gifts for him, brother-in-law, do you want to go together? ?”

Ye Huaiyun thought that Chu Tingyun was definitely not interested in such boring things as shopping, so he continued to read the book in his hand.But the next second, he heard the person on his knee say hello.

"What about you?" Ye Huaiyun looked at him suspiciously.

"Do you still remember Zhao Chuyang's secretive behavior?" Chu Tingyun sat up straight on his lap and said, "Jin Sibai must have something to do with him when he came back suddenly. Taking this opportunity, we can just ask about it." About Zhao Chuyang."

The sun is setting and the night is falling.

The market in Luxia City is bustling with bustle, and the street vendors are yelling one after another amidst the early lanterns, catching up with the last wave of business before the closing of today's stalls.

After the three of them finished shopping in a street, Jiang Linxu was still empty-handed, at a loss as to what to buy.

Chu Tingyun's patience was finally exhausted by him, and he took Ye Huaiyun's hand and walked forward.

"Why are you walking so fast?" Ye Huaiyun looked back, and Jiang Linxu was following them panting.

Chu Tingyun said: "I'm hungry."

Ye Huaiyun: "..." No wonder.

Since they came to Luxia City, due to the unbearable heat, they stayed indoors most of the time, and Ye Huaiyun knew that this person must have been hungry for a long time.Then he asked again, "What do you want to eat?"

Chu Tingyun thought for a while, "It's sour."

"I know this!" Jiang Linxu just caught up with them, and when he heard Chu Tingyun's answer, he said immediately: "I heard from Si Bai that there is a family in the city that makes tamarind cakes that taste amazing. It will be snatched up when it comes out.”

Ye Huaiyun noticed that Chu Tingyun's deep eyes flickered for an instant, and knew that he wanted to eat.

It really proved that the tamarind cake tasted very good. They asked a passer-by at random and enthusiastically showed them the way.

After walking through two narrow alleys and turning a corner, Ye Huaiyun could smell the sweet and sour aroma coming to his nostrils.

Pushing a small wooden cart to sell tamarind cakes is a middle-aged aunt with gray hair on the sideburns. She is so skilled at steaming cakes that she has been cooking them for many years.

But unlike what Jiang Linxu said would be robbed as soon as it came out of the oven, the steaming baskets of tamarind cakes on the stall were all filled to the brim and placed in pastry boxes, and there were no other people around to buy them.Not only was the business not considered good, it was even somewhat obviously bleak.

Seeing a few people walking towards the stall, my aunt said: "Young masters, please come back, the tamarind cake is not for sale today."

"Not for sale anymore?" Ye Huaiyun was suspicious, "Aren't there still so many?"

The aunt explained to them: "These are already ordered."

"Buying so much at once..." Jiang Linxu was dumbfounded, "Is that person a pig?"

My aunt was amused by him, but she immediately pursed her lips to cover her smile and said, "The person who ordered these tamarind cakes is a big man, you can't say that."

In Luxia City, apart from the Jin family and the Zhao family, the only ones who can be called big shots are the government, so Ye Huaiyun asked who it was.

And the answer given by his aunt did not exceed his expectations. The person who ordered these tamarind cakes was Zhao Chuyang.

Jiang Linxu frowned suddenly, and looked at the basket full of hot pastries strangely.

"Since Mr. Zhao made the reservation, then there is no conflict with us." Ye Huaiyun smiled and said, "Auntie, don't worry about selling it to us."

My aunt asked puzzledly, "Why?"

"Because we bought it for Young Master Jin, we are a family." Ye Huaiyun said and took out an ingot of silver and put it on the table.

My aunt suddenly realized, and she readily packed a few boxes of freshly baked tamarind cakes for the three of them, and collected money for them to change.

My aunt took out a handkerchief bag from her waist pocket. After opening it, there was an ingot of silver and a lot of copper plates in it. After doing some calculations, she wondered: "Do you have any broken silver, sir? This... I can't find it."

"You don't need to look for it." Chu Tingyun had already picked up a piece of tamarind cake and ate it. He thought it tasted very good. "Just send a few more boxes to the side door of Jinfu tomorrow morning."

The aunt responded with a smile and said hello again and again. Ye Huaiyun glanced out of the corner of his eye, but suddenly found something unusual.

Before his aunt put away the handkerchief, he suddenly stretched out his hand, picked up the ingot of silver, and looked it around thoughtfully.Then, he frowned and said: "This is not from the official bank account."

"What do you mean?" Chu Tingyun glanced at Yinzi lightly.

Ye Huaiyun didn't answer him right away, there was a rare seriousness between his brows.

He smiled lightly, but his eyes were cold, and he exchanged a small piece of broken gold in his purse for the silver that was not from an official bank.

Ye Huaiyun stroked the bottom of the silver with his fingers, and there was a pattern engraved there. If he was not mistaken, it should be something from the border.

Walking on the road, he clenched Bai Yin's hand more and more tightly, until Chu Tingyun stretched out his hand to wrap his hand in his palm, and Ye Huaiyun relaxed a little.

Back in the courtyard of the Jin Mansion, Chu Tingyun locked the door after sending Jiang Linxu away to deliver tamarind cakes to Jin Sibai.

"What's wrong?" Chu Tingyun asked again in the room.

"Wait a minute." Ye Huaiyun didn't want to say too much at this time, so he squatted down next to the bookcase and rummaged through it one by one.

It wasn't until Ye Huaiyun opened a book of vassal kings that Chu Tingyun immediately understood.

The feudal lords have great power, and all the affairs of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce in the fief are under the full responsibility of the vassal king, including the minting of coins by gold and silver shops.Therefore, most of the mint imprints of silver shops are somewhat similar to the ceremonial beasts of the princes and royal families.

You only need to compare the mark on the bottom of this ingot with the ritual beasts of the various vassals, and the one that is most similar... that's it.

The bottom of the silver ingot was engraved with animal face and elephant patterns, and the two of them checked each page carefully, and Ye Huaiyun's fingertips finally touched the last stroke of the animal pattern.

"It turned out to be him."

Chang Xin Wang, Ye Huaizhang, his half-brother.

"It really is him..." Ye Huaiyun murmured again.

Ye Huaiyun was only 11 years old when the elder brothers left Beijing to become a feudal clan. Looking back now, he no longer has a deep impression of those brothers who were not close to him at all.But only Ye Huaizhang looked back at Miyagi that day, and he can still clearly recall it in his mind. That kind of hatred made people panic for no reason.

In addition to paying tribute over the years, the emperor praised the most is King Changxin's ability to govern the southwestern border. Now that I think about it, if I didn't think about it... Ye Huaiyun snorted coldly, I'm afraid even ghosts wouldn't believe it .

In the cool night, Chu Tingyun shook off his outer robe and draped it over his shoulders.

Ye Huaiyun rolled up his clothes, "Most likely Zhao Chuyang is Wang Changxin's informant in Luxia City, and he knows the secret of the Jin family's Shuiyinyu...so everything the Jin family does is very likely to be related to Wang Changxin. related."

Chu Tingyun leaned against the carved window, raised his hand and hooked a strand of black hair scattered on his shoulders, wrapped it around his fingertips, and listened to him leisurely.

"If our guess is correct, the only thing left for the government to get is the evidence." Ye Huaiyun continued: "We might as well start with Zhao Chuyang and lead..."

Before he finished speaking, Ye Huaiyun felt that Chu Tingyun's hand on her shoulder tightened suddenly, and she immediately comprehended to keep silent.

"Who's outside?" Chu Tingyun's voice was sharp.

There was a rustling sound in the pitch black night, and a figure walked slowly from the side of the house to the window, "Brother Yi, it's me."

"Lin Xu?" Ye Huaiyun asked after seeing the person coming, "Why have you lingered outside the house for so long?"

"I was thinking about a very strange thing, and when I was thinking about it, I accidentally went astray." Jiang Linxu went around to the side of the door, pushed the door and entered the room and said, "It's about Zhao Chuyang."

"Listen, what's so strange?" Ye Huaiyun's eyes lit up when he heard the words, poured a cup of tea and pushed it to his hand, motioning Jiang Linxu to continue talking.

Jiang Linxu said: "Everywhere is strange."

Chu Tingyun knocked on the table and said, "Say the key point."

"How should I put it, it's just..." Jiang Linxu organized his words, trying to explain as clearly as possible what he had suspected these days.

"At the Treasure Appreciation Conference last year, Zhao Chuyang also went. At that time we lived in the same courtyard and ate together at the same table. I clearly remember that he didn't eat sour taste at all, but today... he actually bought so many tamarinds. cake."

"And..." Jiang Linxu said again: "I met by chance in the mansion a few days ago, and he didn't know me at all."

Ye Huaiyun and Chu Tingyun lowered their eyebrows and thought about it. After a long while, Ye Huaiyun raised his eyes, and the candlelight brushed against the end of Chu Tingyun's eyes, and a little vermilion was reflected, which was very eye-catching. Something flashed in his mind, "Shouldn't it be?" meeting……"

Before he could express his doubts, the door of the room suddenly opened wide.

"He's not Zhao Chuyang!"

Jin Sibai appeared outside the door with a blushing face, and shouted loudly, "He's not Zhao Chuyang!"

[The author has something to say: These two chapters are a bit hard-core (or boring). The next chapter will be sweet~]