Zhaohua's love

On the second day, when Song Renzong heard that Bai Yutang had come to Beijing, he ordered Bao Zheng to take him and Zhan Zhao to the palace for an audience.Bai Yutang didn't want to go at first, but because of Bao Zheng, he had to agree.

"Bao Qing, according to what you said, the person who assassinated General Ding's family was a foreigner. Who could it be? Western Xia? Khitan? Or Liao?" Song Renzong asked.

"This... I don't dare to speak nonsense. But no matter who it is, there must be a conspiracy to assassinate the descendants of my court generals. This matter must be treated with caution. Once verified, this will not be just a simple assassination, but related to The state affairs between our dynasty and Liao, Xixia, and Khitan!" Bao Zheng replied.

"What Aiqing said is very true, then I will send Aiqing to Songjiang Mansion to investigate this matter." Song Renzong said.

"I think this matter is inappropriate." Bao Zheng said.

"Oh, what's wrong?" Song Renzong was puzzled.

"General Ding, as a general guarding the border, died of depression because of slander by villains. Although the Ding family has always been loyal to the court and promised that if the country is in trouble, it will be obligatory to go to battle, but after all, it has been said that the Ding family will never enter the court. As an official. The imperial court has to bear part of the responsibility for the death of General Ding. Moreover, the Ding family has now belonged to Jianghu, so I think it might be inappropriate for the emperor to ask the minister to investigate the case as an official ordered by the imperial court."

"Well, this is also a problem. What should Ai Qing say?" Song Renzong asked.

"I think that sending guards and righteous men to go there not only represents the imperial court and the emperor's comfort and care for the Ding family, but also reduces restraint, so the investigation will be more convenient and quick," Bao Zheng said.

"Well, that's what Qing said." Song Renzong nodded in response.Leading Zhan Zhao, Bai Yutang exited the hall.

"Guard Zhan, Yishi Bai, the emperor has entrusted this important task to you two. You must find out the truth as soon as possible, and then return to the capital to report to you."

"Yes."

In the early morning, on the official road outside the capital, two fast horses galloped past.The two riders are dressed in white and blue, respectively. The wind whizzes past from both sides, and the sleeves of their clothes are lightly fluttering, as graceful as immortals.

"Mao'er, we are going to investigate the case together again. This reminds me of the old days, the way we fight back and forth, it's really memorable." Bai Yutang waved his horsewhip with a cynical look. , said to Zhan Zhao with a sideways smile.

"Brother Bai was joking, it is Zhan's honor to walk with Brother Bai, how can he fight with Brother Bai?" Zhan Zhao pretended to be serious.

"You dead cat, if you want to say some sour words in front of my young master, I will kick you off the horse with one kick!" Sitting on the horse, his center of gravity was unstable, and he swayed twice.He quickly stabilized the saddle and pretended nothing happened.

Zhan Zhao looked at it, and finally couldn't help laughing in a low voice: "Brother Bai, please sit down, this horse runs fast, don't be a mouse!" There was also a complacent look on his face.The angry Bai Yutang wanted to jump up, but he had no choice but to comfort himself: "Master, I'm scaring you, let's see if you, a dead cat, will worry about me. Hmph!" After saying that, don't turn your head away.But I was also very happy in my heart, because when Zhan Zhao didn't come out as an official, he was him, the Nanxia who was once a young man with a youthful spirit!

On the official road, hearty laughter sounded again.

Because I rode a fast horse, I arrived in Xuzhou in just a few days.

"Cat, we've been driving for several days. Let's take a rest, what are you doing so fast!" Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao dissatisfied, showing a look of exhaustion.

Zhan Zhao ignored him, led the horse to a tea shop by the side of the road, and said to the boss: "Boss, let me have a pot of good tea." After saying that, he tied the horse, sat at the table, and tasted the tea calmly.He glanced casually at Bai Yutang, who was still looking tired, and said with a smile, "Brother Bai, don't you want to take a rest? After drinking this pot of tea, Zhan will set off."

After hearing this, Bai Yutang rushed over angrily, waited for a glance at Zhan Zhao, threw his clothes vigorously and walked beside the table, with one leg propped on the stool, he said through gritted teeth, "Zhan Zhao, you're being cruel!"

"Hey, cat, why are you in such a hurry, and the emperor didn't set a deadline, why are you in such a hurry!" Bai Yutang complained.

"Doesn't Brother Bai not want to find out the truth as soon as possible so that he can give an explanation to the Ding brothers?" Zhan Zhao asked rhetorically.

"Of course I want to, but is it useful for you to hurry? If those people are really northern Yi people, are they still staying in Songjiang Mansion waiting for you to catch them? You have never stopped all the way. If they go north and return, Didn't you miss it!" Bai Yutang said. "Besides, you think the two of the Ding family are vegetarians? Although Boss Ding is still in a coma, Ding Er is still awake. Let's investigate, won't they investigate? We will meet at that time and let each other know. That's enough, I really don't know why you are in a hurry, you are in a hurry to marry a wife!"

Bai Yutang's remark was unintentional, but Zhan Zhao heard it had a different meaning.He didn't know why, but when he heard that he could go to Songjiang Mansion, he was really happy.Even knowing that going there might still be dangerous, I was still a little excited.His first reaction was to see the little girl Ding Yuehua whom he had met by chance but whom he had introduced as his bosom friend.Thinking of this, a suspicious blush appeared on his face.

How clever Bai Yutang is, he must have hit Zhan Zhao's mind, and was about to tease him about which girl he was, when he suddenly remembered what Ding Yuehua had said about their acquaintance, and seemed to guess something in his heart.

"Oh!" Bai Yutang elongated his tone, and looked at Zhan Zhao meaningfully, which made Zhan Zhao feel a little nervous. "Hehe, it turns out that the stinky cat also knows that spring is coming!" A clear expression appeared on his face.Zhan Zhao's heart trembled, he coughed lightly, and looked forward unnaturally.

"Ah! Hurry up, woo... Hurry... Hurry up. Ah! Help!" In Zhan Zhao's sight, a frightened horse galloped past in front of him, and the woman on the horse pulled the rein in horror, but He couldn't hold back the horse's galloping momentum at all, and was about to fall off the horse.The horse galloped towards the tea shop.

Zhan Zhao hurriedly flew forward, grabbed the woman's arm and pulled her away from the startled horse, and Bai Yutang who was beside him also immediately jumped on the horse, and yanked the rein, doing this several times before the startled horse stopped crashing into the tea shop.

"Miss, are you okay, are you hurt?" Zhan Zhao asked with concern.

"It's okay." The woman lowered her head, her forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat, and she was still in shock.

"Girl, please sit down and have a rest." Zhan Zhao led the girl to the table where he was sitting just now, and poured her a cup of tea.

"Thank you, my lord." The woman still bowed her head, taking it with a shy expression on her face.

Bai Yutang at the side led the horse over, saw Zhan Zhao's movements, snorted coldly, and sat opposite the girl.When Zhan Zhao heard Bai Yutang's voice, he was puzzled, but since there were outsiders around, it was difficult to ask, so he could only look at Bai Yutang with doubts in his eyes.Bai Yutang glared at him as if he had some deep hatred for him, and then didn't look at him again.Zhan Zhao was even more puzzled.

"Thank you benefactor for saving me. If it wasn't for benefactor, I'm afraid it would be a disaster." After saying that, the girl's eyes turned red.

Bai Yutang saw that the woman never looked at him from beginning to end, and didn't even say thank you. When had he been ignored like this, he felt even more angry, and let out another cold snort.

The girl looked at Bai Yutang innocently with a pair of watery eyes as if she had just woken up from a dream, and said, "Master, I, I was afraid just now, so I didn't recover, and I didn't thank you, please. Forgive me, my lord." The voice was soft and thin, and the person who heard it seemed to have fallen into a pile of cotton.

Both Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang shuddered in unison.

"En." Bai Yutang replied in a pretended deep voice.The girl looked even more pitiful, sobbing and said to Zhan Zhao: "Grandfather, what did I say wrong? What's wrong with that young master..." As she spoke, she seemed about to shed tears again.

Zhan Zhao knew that Bai Yutang's personality was a bit perverted, he knew that he was nervous for no reason, so he could only say: "Miss, you are worrying too much. My friend is like this. He doesn't like to talk, so you don't have to worry about it. I just don't know why the girl's horse is so frightened? "

"To tell you the truth, I, I don't know how to ride a horse at all. I hired a carriage, but the driver was greedy for my money. He dragged me to the official road and left me to run away. I used the only money I had on my body. I bought a horse at the post station in front of me, but I couldn’t ride it at all. I finally sat on it, but he didn’t go at all. I followed others to pull the rein, but he ran like crazy. I went south, and the horse brought me back."

"Is there such a thing? But my friend and I have walked all the way, and we haven't seen a carriage? When did the girl talk about it? Maybe I can get back the money for the girl." Zhan Zhao asked.

"The coachman took me around the corner, and entered the official road from the small road in front, so my benefactor would not see me. I was delayed in the post station for a long time, and the coachman may have gone away long ago." The girl replied. road.

Zhan Zhao understood.He said: "The situation is urgent, and I forgot to ask the girl's name."

Bai Yutang's eyes were about to pop out, how could Zhan Zhao talk to a woman for so long.

The woman smiled softly and said, "Qiao Yuli. Your benefactor can call me Xiaoli. Don't know your benefactor's name?"

Bai Yutang has been treated as a transparent person by the two for a long time, and the doubts in his heart are getting deeper and deeper. Is this Zhan Zhao bewitched?

"Xiaoli?" Zhan Zhao felt that the name was very familiar, but suddenly couldn't remember where he heard it.

"Oh, Miss Xiaoli, I'm Zhan Zhao." Zhan Zhao calmed down and replied.

"Zhan Zhao? Are you Nan Xia Zhan Zhao?" Qiao Yuli stood up from the stool in astonishment, surprise and disbelief written on her face.

"This is all absurd praise from friends in the world, Zhan is ashamed to take it." Zhan Zhao said modestly.

"It's too modest to be a hero. To show off your skills as a hero, it's worthy of the name to be called a hero." Qiao Yuli said.

"Miss Xie. It's just that Zhan looked at the girl's clothes and heard the girl's conversation. She should be from a rich family. Why do you go out alone?"

Hearing Zhan Zhao's words, Qiao Yuli's face showed sadness.She whispered: "Yuli is returning home to offer sacrifices to her husband. Yuli was originally from Jinzhou, and was sent to her uncle's house in Xuzhou by her parents half a year ago to be married. Her husband is from Kaifeng, and his name is Zhuang Yufeng. I heard that her husband died in this place a few days ago. Qizhou, my father has found the body and wants me to go home immediately for the funeral. Unexpectedly, my uncle heard that my ex-husband died and insisted that I was ordered by Kefu, so he refused to send someone to see me off. So..."

"I see. It was Zhan who made the girl think of something sad... Zhuang Yufeng?! You said your husband is Zhuang Yufeng!" Zhan Zhao suddenly turned pale with shock when he heard this familiar name.

"Exactly, what's the matter? Zhan Daxia." Qiao Yuli asked puzzled.

"Zhuang Yufeng was the fugitive he was chasing a few days ago. When he chased him to Qizhou, he was killed!" Bai Yutang, who had been left aside for a long time, said unhappily, as if he was about to go crazy.

"Ah? A fugitive? Brother Feng, why is he a fugitive?" Qiao Yuli also asked in shock.

"He committed the crime of embezzling military pay, and fled fearing the crime." Zhan Zhao said with some sadness in his heart.

"How could it be? How could it be, Brother Feng..." Upon hearing this, Qiao Yuli burst into tears, covering her pretty face.

"I'm still wondering why he fled all the way south. It turned out that it was because of the girl." Zhan Zhao saw Qiao Yuli sad, and thought that Zhuang Yufeng, a good man, was killed by villains, and he couldn't absolve himself of the blame, so he felt very sad.

"Since the girl is going back to Jinzhou, we happen to be going the same way, let's go together." Bai Yutang said suddenly.

Zhan Zhao was stunned for a moment, thinking that she was also the wife of an old man, so he stopped talking.

"This..." Qiao Yuli pondered for a moment, then nodded in response.

The three of them paid for the tea and left with their horses.

Because Qiao Yuli doesn't know how to ride a horse, she had to ride with Zhan Zhao or Bai Yutang. At first, Zhan Zhao thought that the two of them were not familiar with each other, so he agreed, but Bai Yutang wanted to take Qiao Yuli to ride a horse. Zhan Zhao thought he was a After falling in love with her girl, he gave a warning and said no more.

Bai Yutang and Qiao Yuli rode behind.Bai Yutang looked at Zhan Zhao's back, and cursed secretly in his heart: I guess Miss Yuehua has feelings for you, so I can't guard you for her!I didn't expect that you would be so flirtatious even if you were a piece of wood.She even thought I liked her!snort!

After traveling with Qiao Yuli for more than ten days, they finally arrived in Jinzhou, and Qiao Yuli returned home.After Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang went to Zhuang Yufeng's mourning hall to pay homage, they set off today.

Two days later, Zhan Zhao and Bai Yutang finally entered Songjiang Mansion.

"En! It feels so good to be home, the air is full of familiar smells!" Bai Yutang sat on the horse leisurely, swaying his body like a swinger.Zhan Zhao helplessly ignores Bai Yutang who is still lyrical, and thinks of Ding Yuehua again.

What's wrong with me.Zhan Zhao said in his heart.

Bai Yutang glanced at Zhan Zhao, and noticed that his expression was a bit solemn.Then he said sourly: "It's only been two days since we parted, and you miss her so much? Otherwise, you go back to find her. Grandpa Bai doesn't need you, a dead cat, to investigate the case."

Zhan Zhao didn't understand why his words were thorny, but he still said slightly angrily, "Brother Bai said that, Zhan never had any thoughts."

Bai Yutang gave him a cold look, and said in his heart: Hmph, explaining is just covering up.When I see Sister Yuehua, I want you to go around without eating!