Qingzhou trip

Xie Penglai rode the "Five Dou" to Yanzhou, and asked Fan Xingyong of Yanzhou to find out whether the rumored new three-state pacifier had taken office by reporting the last time he dealt with the corpse of a Beixia businessman.

The residence newspaper has been read three or five times, and Xie Penglai only saw that "Jin Wang Zhao Yifang was transferred to the three prefectures to appease the envoys, govern Yan, Wei, and Qin prefectures, and also lead the Northwest Discussion Bureau." The news has been received for more than a month, why now? Didn't hear anything?Is it possible to send a letter to Beijing?

Fan Xingyong did hear something. He has been an official for [-] years and is about to be transferred from Yanzhou to the south to take up his post.But he is unwilling to say a word to others at a critical moment, "When to take office, the two governments have their own decisions."

Xie Penglai has been immersed in the officialdom for these years, and he also knows that these immediate superiors don't like troublesome things before they leave office and get promoted.After leaving Lord Fan's official residence, she led the horse to the tea shop at the street corner to rest, and slowly drank a bowl of Erchen tea with a piece of steamed cake.

After sitting until it was getting dark, she threw away half a tael of silver and got on her horse and left the city.Before entering the sand sea in the early morning of the third day, Zhao Yifang heard all her movements.

"Just asked Fan Xingyong to inquire? You came back without doing anything?" Zhao Yifang just woke up in the morning, but her eyes were darkened. She didn't fall asleep until she got through the ugly last night, and the newspapers and letters she had read were piled up higher than the candlesticks.

"I didn't tell Fan Xingyong about Yun Bailu being detained by Beixia, but I just mentioned the unclear corpse of Beixia a few days ago." Li Mei combed Zhao Yifang's hair, and fixed it firmly for her Silver hairpin, "Also, after leaving Zhizhou's mansion, I ate a piece of cake and drank a bowl of tea in a tea shop."

Zhao Yifang raised her eyebrows, "That's all?"

"Paid half taels of silver." Li Mei recalled that the person following Xie Penglai said this.

"That's right." Zhao Yifang smiled, "Master Xie is the new county magistrate, and he can't even bear to change into a new robe. Usually, if you spend money to buy a bowl of twenty-cent tea, you can pick out five-cent powder. You will pay half of it so generously." Give me two silver coins?" She cupped her temples with her fingers and looked in the mirror, "Master Xie may have found someone to meet."

From sitting in front of the mirror to the desk, Zhao Yifang spread out a map of Sanzhou, pointed to Manguan Road, which is only a hundred miles away from the sand sea, "Don't you think it's strange? Yunbailu was detained by the Beixia people, according to the habits of the Beixia people It’s time to ask us what we want? After all, the dead are only the servants of their uncle.” The news can arrive within a day at most, half a day at the fastest.But it took until the fourth day, and Manguan was still quiet.

"It's the Beixia people who didn't understand, and they want to send people to their capital for a decision?" Li Meiye did receive news from the eyeliner, and learned that Yun Bailu had not been sent out of Manguan.

"The county magistrate of Qipin can judge Yun Fangjiang's daughter?" Zhao Yifang turned her head and looked at Li Mei with a smile, "The county magistrates on both sides are all sneaky. These days in Shahai, this is the second most interesting thing."

"What about number one?" Li Mei guessed that it was the female blacksmith who usually forged iron and went out of the city to rob and kill people in her free time.

Zhao Yifang looked at the two handwritten books under the paperweight, with a smile on her lips, "It should come, it will come sooner or later."

Xie Penglai was eating gnocchi in the kitchen of Li Suyue's house. Li Suyue saw that she seemed to be very hungry, so she gave her another spoonful, "That Miss Fang said she was in charge of Sanzhou and threatened me with a sword."

Xie Penglai was choked suddenly, and after frowning and trying to swallow the lump, she breathed a sigh of relief, "What?"

Li Suyue told everything about Zhao Yifang scaring her, "If I miss a single word, she...will die." Li Suyue patted the ashes on her clothes, "I still didn't say anything. I don't believe her, I just Remember what you said, just mention that I am a messenger."

The doubts in his heart were getting bigger and bigger, Xie Penglai quickly thought about the right people in Beijing, and was choked by the second mouthful of gnocchi.The chopsticks in her hand fell, she stared, and suddenly stood up.

"Oh, she also reported to me how many people died in Beixia outside Shahai City in the past few years." Li Suyue still remembered the girl's tone, "It's almost all right."

After the words fell, Xie Penglai had already rushed to the door. After thinking of something, she turned around, "Did you recognize it?"

Li Suyue smiled with white teeth, "What do you recognize?"

Only then did Magistrate Xie nod his head, and ran out the door while patting the dust off his clothes.Li Suyue asked from behind, "Don't you eat?"

"Keep it for me." Xie Penglai's heart was beating like a drum at the moment - Nian Fang was 22, who else could appease the three states, besides Jin Wang Zhao Yifang?

Fang Zhaoyi is Zhao Yifang.Her grandmother's fief of King Shang is in Jibei County, and her brother Zhao Yixiang is almost a sure-fire prince.The Lord has already lived in Shahai City, and she even went to Yanzhou to cover her ears and steal the bell in a smart way.Presumably, it was because of receiving his petition letter that the girl from Fang went straight to Yueniang.

But how could she have imagined that the one who went to the flower alley to drink and touched her face, the one who held her own 25 sticks, and the one who pulled her sleeves in the night market and pointed at the ring cakes and asked her to copy two books The person in question is King Jin?

Which prince of this dynasty is such a childish thing?

After slapping his forehead three times, Xie Penglai ran to Shahai Guest House.

That's right, more than ten years ago, apart from King Shang's face, who else could gather all the talented women from Jibei County together?Apart from King Shang's artifice, who else could make his father lose his job in the Yamen overnight, so that he could not find a job in any school in Jibei?He also got himself into trouble with officials who couldn't be cleared up and was sent to Shahai.

All her plausible past finally had a clear explanation: Shang Wang didn't like her, fearing that she would seduce his young granddaughter.

Xie Penglai smiled wryly inwardly, because the king of Shang was worried that her reputation of more than ten years disappeared overnight, and she was even separated from her parents and could not return home.She had naively believed that pen and ink articles and ambitions would not bury herself, but King Shang moved a finger and broke her Qingyun Road.

Two lines of tears suddenly rolled down his face, Xie Penglai wiped them off casually, trying to clear his mind.The most important thing is the present moment, what Bai Zhi taught him is that knowing the current affairs is not to flatter the left and right, nor is it to flatter the dignity, but to think clearly about where you are and where you want to go.Don't pile up past debts on your present road.

She couldn't count the old account.That is the family of King Shang, the direct line of Emperor Taizong.But there was also a huge debt she owed: those 25 sticks.

Xie Penglai couldn't care less about crying anymore, she ran outside the guest house, gasping for breath while thinking about how to formally meet King Jin.Remembering that he hadn't changed into his official uniform yet, Xie Penglai felt that it was inappropriate to meet King Jin rashly.

When I was about to leave, Li Mo had already arrived, "Thank you, sir, please."

At this time, Xie Penglai could not cry at all, a drop of cold sweat was condensed on the beauty's tip, and after walking two steps, the drop of sweat slipped into the center of his brow.

When she walked to the door, Xie Penglai raised her sleeves to wipe her cheeks and temples, her back and head were soaked in cold sweat.Is it to apologize first, or to congratulate Ren?When Xie Penglai hesitated for a moment, the door was suddenly opened and she was led in.

Jin Wang Zhao Yifang, who was waiting in the room, changed into a purple collared robe, and her hair was tied up with a hairpin like a man's.Seeing Xie Penglai's appearance, she couldn't help stretching her eyebrows, then her eyes narrowed, and she bent down to salute Xie Penglai seriously, "Thank you, please accept Yifang's worship."

Xie Penglai's waist immediately bent even lower, "Don't dare, dare not."

"Master Xie please get up." Zhao Yifang supported her, "I have to salute Master Xie again. It was my slip of the tongue when I was young, which caused great trouble to Master Xie." Zhao Yifang saluted again, "I will give you the 25 sticks willingly."

King Jin's hand slid from Xie Penglai's wrist to the palm of his hand, pinching the hand that had become rough from holding the pen for many years, and the seriousness in her eyes was replaced by resentment, "I didn't know you were sent to Shahai. I've been looking for it for a long time, but your family has also disappeared." Zhao Yifang's eyes were still full of aura like that of a ten-year-old girl, and she pulled Xie Penglai closer, "That's it, we really met."

Just when Jin Wang was pulling Xie Penglai to talk about the past and present, Ren Liu knocked on the door and said something to Li Mei.Li Mo's eyebrows twitched, and surprise appeared in his calm eyes.

She looked back at King Jin, then at Xie Penglai.

Zhao Yifang didn't hesitate, "Speak."

"Manguan was breached by a group of horse thieves last night...the county magistrate was killed, his head was cut off and hung on the wall. Yun Bailu's whereabouts are unknown." After Li Mei finished speaking, Zhao Yifang also fell into silence, and she looked at it inquiringly. Seeing Penglai, the cold sweat on the Qipin County Magistrate's head appeared again.

"Horse...horse thief?" Xie Penglai wiped his sweat with his sleeves, "Break...break the Barbarian Pass?" She forced a smile, "It's so courageous."