Self-cultivation of a geisha

These days, Rong Su was so busy that he returned home very late, but he did not forget to ask his bodyguard Zhao You to follow Xu Yan, for fear that there would be no one around him to take care of him.

Xu Yan vaguely heard that a lot of the allocated disaster money had been swallowed up by the prefectures and counties, and very little was actually spent on the common people. When Rong Su learned of this, he was furious, and summoned the Minister of the Ministry of Officials in the middle of the night to give him a scolding , Said that he was not good at employing people, and the next day he went to Dali Temple with the Minister of the Ministry of Justice and ordered them to investigate the matter thoroughly.

Xu Yan knew that Rong Su started to act.There are some things that Rong Su can't do on the surface, so he quietly takes care of the aftermath for him.

Regarding embezzlement of disaster money, some officials who were investigated jointly wrote a handwritten letter, which listed the list of people who embezzled disaster money. However, the handwritten letter was not sent to Dali Temple, but was sent directly to Mr. Zhang, Minister of the Ministry of Officials. In his hand, Rong Su was furious when he heard about this matter, Xu Yan poured him a cup of tea, frowned and said: "Your Highness, the way the Minister of the Ministry of Officials acts like this may have something to do with this matter."

"How could this king not have imagined that in the imperial court, I have been fighting openly and secretly with the emperor for so many years. The officials seem to be neutral for fear of being harmed, but in fact they may have been used by the emperor." Rong Su squeezed Between the eyebrows, the voice is low and hoarse, probably a little tired.

Xu Yan was speechless for a while, but saw Rong Su waving at him for a while, so he stepped up and sat beside him.

Rong Su turned sideways and hugged him tightly, resting his head on his shoulder, and said in a muffled voice, "Let me hug him for a while."

For a moment, Xu Yan felt a heavy weight on his shoulders. He turned his head to look at the man, and saw that Rong Su had closed his eyes and fell into a deep sleep. A light blue shadow was cast under his eyelids. Caressing the man's face, he said inaudibly, "Thank you."

Xu Yan knew that the emperor was staring at Rong Su and Rong Xi. If Rong Su did anything wrong, he might lose his heart. If Rong Su really found out that the Fourth Prince was involved in the corruption case, His Majesty would definitely deal with Rong Xi, but It may not be severely punished, but Rong Su will be caught in a dilemma because of this, and he will be accused of being ungrateful and ungrateful. If this matter is not handled according to the king's will, more and more people and things will be involved in the future, and the pressure he will suffer will also increase. The older he is, the more Rong Su must understand this truth. Due to the current situation in the court, he can only be cautious everywhere.If Rong Su wanted to get out of the way in the future, he could only push the flames and get Dali Temple to come forward.

He was afraid of waking the man up, so he kept the same position for a long time. The man woke up after sleeping for a while, without saying a word, rubbed his shoulders for him, yawned again, and simply hugged him to bed to rest.

It was still daytime, Xu Yan couldn't fall asleep at all, seeing that Rong Su was sleeping peacefully, he got out of bed and left the house quietly.

He recalled Xu You, who was out to inquire about the news, and asked him to quickly go to Mr. Zhang's mansion to get the things that should not be there. On the second day, he personally went to Dali Temple hand in hand.

"I don't know why Sir Si Zheng came here?"

Xu Yan saluted slightly, and smiled lightly: "I have something interesting in my hand, I wonder if my lord is interested?"

"Oh?" Dali Siqing squinted at him.

Xu Yan presented the book in his hand, and seeing his face became more solemn, he slowly opened his mouth: "Master He has always been impartial and impartial in law enforcement, but not everyone in Dali Temple is like this."

Dali Siqing's face was stern: "Thank you, Sir Si Zheng, for reminding me."

Xu Yan thought, a handwritten letter, with solid evidence, even if the Minister of the Ministry of Officials guessed that it was the sixth prince, it would not help the matter, and he did not know how loyal this Lord Zhang was to the fourth prince.

"There is one more thing I want to ask Mr. He."

"Sir, please speak."

"Did you hear about the murder of Taifu Han back then?" Xu Yan looked at him without blinking, his eyes were dark.

Dali Siqing frowned and asked: "Are you interested in this matter?"

"Your Excellency, do you know that not long after I entered the palace, people always said that I looked like Taifu Han back then. Taifu Han was knowledgeable and upright, and I admired him very much. I had met him a few times before, but I heard that he died unexpectedly later. I couldn't help but feel sad, I wonder if my lord can tell me a thing or two?"

The Minister of Dali Temple sighed, and said: "Oh, Brother Han used to assist the Holy One to ascend to the throne of God, and often accompanied the Holy One to help him solve his worries. I don't know what kind of trouble such a gentle and humble person got into and was slaughtered. Manmen, after His Majesty knew about it, he was very sad, he abolished the position of Taifu, but he didn't order me to wait for a detailed investigation, the case of Taifu's murder was left alone."

Xu Yan's knuckles turned white, and he gave a bleak smile: "It's over? Heh..."

Dali Temple Minister saw that his face was not right, and comforted him: "It's an old thing, you don't need to be so sad."

"Yeah, it's been a long time..." Xu Yan murmured, and then he calmed down and said, "What's the matter with handwriting, my lord."

"Thank you, Sir Si Zheng, for reminding me."

Seeing that he came out out of his mind, Zhao You was a little worried, asked a few questions, but didn't get an answer and didn't bother to make fun of himself.

When Xu Yan returned to the mansion, Rong Su had already woken up.

"Where did you go? It's been so long since you came back?"

"I went out to do some errands." Xu Yan forced a smile.

"Come and eat quickly. I'll leave it to Zhao You to handle anything in the future. The weather is not very good these two days, and you are weak. Don't always run out."

Xu Yan listened to his half-rebuked and half-coaxed words, her heart softened, she relaxed her tense body, let out a breath, and sat down: "Some things can only be done by myself."

Rong Su didn't go into the details, and told him a few more words.

Xu Yan felt that he was more concerned about him recently, and he talked more. He must have said something to him that day, so he simply asked, "Your Highness, what did senior brother say to you that day?"

Rong Su's hand that picked up the vegetables stopped, his facial expression was slightly distorted, and there seemed to be a hint of jealousy in his eyes: "No."

Xu Yan was silent, more and more sure of what the senior brother said to him, just don't say something that shouldn't be said.

After dinner, Rong Su and Zhao You went to the study and let Xu Yan go to bed first.

Xu Yan had something on his mind, how could he fall asleep, so he went to another courtyard alone.

He doesn't live there now, but someone still comes to clean it every day, and a separate musical instrument room has been set aside for him, but he hasn't been there much.

Xu Yan pushed open the door and felt startled. The furnishings in the room were all the same as the Yanfang Pavilion where he lived in the Yayun Pavilion, even the pen and ink he used for writing and the cinnabar for painting were the same.

Rong Su put so much effort into this, it really shocked him, but at the same time, bursts of sadness welled up, the feelings hidden in his heart seemed to break through the shackles and break out, he clenched his fingers tightly, expressing this feeling that was nothing to Rong Su. Suppressing the useless feelings, he couldn't help but smile wryly from the corner of his mouth, and let out a low sigh.

Touching the strings with his fingers, the sound of the strings came out, but it was a pity that Xu Yan was so impetuous at the moment, he broke the strings in a moment, and the pulp of his fingers was scratched slightly, he wanted to find someone to take it When the strings were connected, I didn't know what to think of, and I unloaded the whole strings and put them in the sleeves.

Xu Yan stood up and hugged Qin and just left the room when he saw a man kneeling in front of him with his fists folded. He was dressed in black and had black hair, respectfully.

Xu Yan narrowed his eyes slightly, shot out a cold light, and asked unhurriedly, "How's the investigation going?"

"Master Han's unjust death was done by Jianghu killers. I just heard that on the day he was killed, two waves of killers went to him. The two waves of killers were not from the same organization. When the second wave of killers arrived..." The man looked up. With a gloomy but mixed face, he said in a low voice, "The Han family is gone... Qu Bin was indeed involved, and she sent the second wave of killers..." The more the man spoke, the lower his voice seemed to be. Can't bear to expose this fact.

It was exactly what he thought!At the beginning, he entered the palace just to test it out. It wasn't until Qu Pin's hysteria that day that he was sure that his cousin and aunt were really cruel!

Xu Yan's eyes were gloomy, but his face was smiling: "Send someone to the palace to watch over my cousin and take good care of me."

The man answered loudly: "Yes." There was a hint of joy in his voice.

"Where is Xu You?"

"Xu You is still investigating who appointed the first wave of killers, let me come back and return to my husband first."

"Let Xu You continue to investigate, it's not good for you to stay in the dark for a long time, just follow me for now..."

The man raised his head, his eyes sparkled, and before he finished speaking, he interrupted and said, "Well, His Highness's people are still His Highness's people after all, so it's not as easy to use as my own family."

Xu Yan saw that Xu Zuo had returned to the essence of talking, so he stopped talking, and tapped on the body of the piano with his fingers, "Go and help me repair this piano."

Xu Zuo took it and asked in confusion, "Sir, why is the string broken..."

"The string is stained with blood, go and replace it with an identical one."

"Oh……"