Thousands of Mountains

The reconstruction of Yanchafang is progressing well. Yin Cen went to inspect it, and felt that Qin Nianqin's work was done without letting others worry about it. After a few times, he let him take care of it. Find a way to get both him and Luo Qingshan into the court. They are talents and have the right temper, so they absolutely must take them for themselves.

As for Qin Nianqin's wishes, Yin Cen wasn't worried at all, he couldn't say it himself, because there was still Wu Ye'er.

Ren Tonghuan was not dead for the time being, so Yin Cen transferred him to the official station and sent secret guards to guard him. Qiu Luhua didn't know that Ren Tonghuan had already confessed, and the entire western officialdom was also calm. After receiving the stolen money and receiving the reward from the emperor, everything has come to an end.

It's just that there are still doubts in Yin Cen's heart that have not been solved. Is it the final outcome when such a wide range of officials are involved?

Yin Cen was more concerned about another matter than the tea tax corruption case involving half of the officials in Daning. He called Wu Ye'er and prepared to assign him a somewhat embarrassing task. .

Yin Cen asked him, "Do you remember the Shule army tent that day?"

Wu Ye'er's expression became gloomy when she heard the word Shule, "Of course I remember."

Yin Cen looked at him and said, "I want to send you there again to find someone for me, but," Yin Cen paused, said sincerely, "If you don't want to go there again, you don't have to force it."

Wu Ye'er asked, "Who is brother looking for?"

Yin Cen asked him, "Do you still remember that when Shen Cang came to rescue us that day, he said that he searched the entire barracks but could not find my sister, Yin Cun?"

Wu Ye'er nodded, and Yin Cen said again, "Not long ago, Ye Mingzhi told me that the Great Khan of Shule Kingdom married a Han woman as his concubine, and said that this woman grew up in the military camp..."

"Is it Yin Cistan?" Wu Ye'er asked anxiously.

"I don't know." Yin Cen raised his head, his eyes were confused.

Before Yin Cen could say anything more, Wu Ye'er said, "I'll go, I'll find that concubine for you and ask who she is."

Yin Cen said, "It is said that she can't remember what happened when she was a child, and she doesn't even remember who she is."

"Then how to identify?"

Yin Cen said slowly, "At the corner of her eye, there is a small, shallow crescent-shaped birthmark, which is slightly sunken in. If you see this, it must be her."

Wu Ye'er said, "Okay, I understand."

Yin Cen looked at this little friend who escaped from the wolf's mouth with him many years ago, with mixed feelings in his heart, rubbed his head, "Be careful, just take a look, don't do anything else."

Then he added, "I will find some other reason to tell Mr. Qin, so don't tell him what you are doing, so as not to worry him."

Wu Ye'er scratched her head in embarrassment, and laughed a few times.

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As the New Year approached, the city of Zhaoyang gradually became lively.

The market that used to be once a month is now held every day, and in this Yunnan, due to the gathering of people from various ethnic groups, although the market is not as prosperous and lively as the capital, it is full of strange things, selling everything.

There are sweet cakes made by sellers all over the street, delicacies dug in the ground, fish and shrimps caught in the water, various flowers, birds and plants that cannot be named, as well as various amulets with strange characters for auspiciousness, and even street food. Barber shops, juggling, fire hoop jumping, snake dancing, climbing ladders... The servants in the official post ran to the street when they had time to spare, and said to Yin Cen, "My lord, this place is only lively for a few days a year. Go check it out and it's gone."

During the rare time when he was free, Chen Ji felt a little itchy, so he deliberately changed into the simplest regular clothes, and dragged Yin Cen into the street.

The two Han people are quite eye-catching in this city full of foreign nationalities. Chen Ji looked at Yin Cen. Except for the official robes, all his private clothes for so many years were completely black. Suddenly a plan came to mind.

Coincidentally, a group of men and horses came to the center of the street with gongs and drums, and the leader of the man beat the gong and shouted, "Today our village head is marrying his daughter, and at night we will set up a water table to entertain the villagers. Everyone, go and ask for a prize." !"

The people around gave congratulations to the man who called out, "Congratulations to Master Fengzhai, everyone must go tonight."

Chen Ji looked surprised, grabbed a flower seller's aunt and asked, "Who is this? Why do you go all over the street?"

The aunt told the two of them, "This is Feng Shanglin, the owner of the largest Huamiao tribe in the area, married his daughter. The owner of Fengzhai is a good person in the city. Usually, if there is a robber or something in Zhaoyang Mansion, the government doesn't care, it depends on Fengzhai." The lord is going to make things right, of course the whole city will be begging for a cup of this wedding wine for marrying a daughter."

Hearing such news, Chen Ji was so excited that he wanted to join in the fun with Yin Cen at night. Yin Cen was also very curious. This running water table sounds very worthy of drooling.

Seeing Yin Cen's answer, Chen Ji smiled at him maliciously, and said, "We are so dressed up, it's too eye-catching for us to sneak in and eat the flowing water banquet, brother, don't you think so?"

Yin Cen was taken aback, and looked at himself in crow black, it was indeed... not very auspicious, would he be beaten out?

In a blink of an eye, he looked at Chen Ji again, and couldn't help laughing. This kid had a smug and malicious look on his face, and his motives were too obvious.

He smiled and said, "Tell me, what do you want me to wear?"

Chen Ji didn't expect Yin Cen to be so straightforward and obedient, he couldn't believe it, "I can wear whatever I say?"

"Yeah." Yin Cen nodded with a smile again.

Chen Ji almost looked up to the sky and laughed, took Yin Cen's hand and rushed to various clothing shops.

The shop is full of extremely gorgeous national costumes, big groups of flowers and big birds, Yin Cen thinks about the full promise just now, but feels bitter and can't express it, so he rubs his forehead and smiles wryly.

Chen Ji couldn't help laughing, and tried to pick something plain and clean among the flowers. After Yin Cen changed into it, he felt that he looked no different from the aunt who sold flowers just now. She put on a short apron embroidered with rose red and mixed gold, and put a small mustard yellow waistcoat on it.

Luckily, his colleagues in court couldn't see this body, otherwise... Yin Cen would have bumped his head to death in the hall.

He looked at Chen Ji, "The two of us went to the running water table together. If I dress like this, you don't even want to hide."

Chen Ji turned his head and wanted to run out, but Yin Cen quickly grabbed it with his sharp eyes, "Come, come, wear flowers together, and enjoy the blessings together."

Yin Cen was relentless when he picked up the clothes. He forced Chen Ji to change into the clothes, and when he saw the shiny new flowers, he laughed so hard that he almost rolled on the ground.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who is as pine as jade in the capital, is full of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, blue and purple on his body at this moment.

Chen Ji regretted it a little, why is it too urgent to meet each other.

In this way, the two dressed more like the groom than the groom, and the bride followed the villagers all over the street to the Huamiao village. As dusk fell, the tables and chairs of the flowing water mat had just been set up.

The long low tables are placed one after the other like a dragon gate array, with hemp futons on the floor, and familiar people just sit next to each other on the floor. Yin Cen and Chen Ji don't know each other, so they just find an empty seat and sit there. went in.

The officiant was a priest. When the auspicious time came, he first led the village owner and the clansmen to perform sacrifices to the gods. After the end, he ordered people to distribute the sacrifices to the people present. It was auspicious to eat the sacrifices cleanly.

Then the newcomers enter the arena, first worship the matchmaker, then God, and then their parents.

All these customs are different from those of the Han people. Yin Cen and Chen Ji looked a little novel and interesting. The bride wore silver ornaments all over her head and did not wear a hipa. The silver bells rang crisply, and against the bright red wedding dress, it had a unique flavor.

Seeing the back of the bride walking into the yard, Chen Ji was inexplicably dazed, "What are you thinking?" Yin Cen asked.

"On the day I get married with brother Pingshan, I want my brother to dress ten thousand times better than this bride." Chen Ji said in Yin Cen's ear.

Yin Cen's face was as shy as a red cloud in "Teng", there are so many people, what are you talking about...

"Actually, brother looks best in a red dress." Chen Ji said again.

"How do you know? When did I wear a red dress?" Yin Cen was very surprised.

"I... saw it in my dream." Chen Ji turned to stare at Chen Ji and said in a low voice.

Ah... This boy, Yin Cen felt that there were a sea of ​​people around him, and he was about to be unable to resist.

Under the low table of the flowing water seat, the two had already intertwined their fingers. Yin Cen silently recalled the words just mentioned before, getting married, he had never thought about these things, he just felt that everything was out of reach, could it be just a red dream bubble.

It was late at night after eating the banquet, the two drank a lot of wine, and walked hand in hand on the road back to the official post. When you looked at me and you, they felt that each other was dressed so festively and absurdly, so they swayed and laughed. said.

I have been in Yunnan for more than two months, only tonight let go of my defenses, I don’t want the common people to live together, stay away from intrigue, just walk and chat with my sweetheart, it’s so good to see the moonlight tonight.

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On the eve of New Year's Eve, Wu Ye'er came back.

The traveler's servant was full of haggard looks, and it looked like he hadn't slept all night. Yin Cen hugged him distressedly. Of course, it was Mr. Qin who cared more about him, but Qin Nianqin also knew that Yin Cen sent Wu Ye'er out at this time, it must be For urgent and important matters, he urged him to report clearly to Yin Cen.

Yin Cen no longer shy away from Chen Ji and Qin Nianqin, and revealed that Wu Ye'er went to the Shule National Army tent this time to find out whether the Han concubine of the Great Khan Xinna was his missing sister Yin Cistan. .

He looked at Wu Ye'er, Wu Ye'er nodded very slightly and slowly.

Yin Cen only felt the blood rushing up all over his body, Chen Ji held his hand tightly, Yin Cen asked, "What did you see?"

Wu Ye'er said, "Since General Lin Moyan recovered Kansai this time, the Shule military camp suffered heavy losses, the military tent camp also retreated a lot, and the guards were not as strict as before. I entered the camp smoothly and saw That Han concubine."

Yin Cen couldn't wait, "What does she look like?"

Wu Ye'er thought for a while, "She wears a veil on weekdays, and only her eyes are outside, so it's hard to see what she looks like."

Yin Cen asked again, "Then how did you know?"

Wu Ye'er said, "Brother Pingshan said that she had a crescent moon birthmark in the corner of her eye, so I found an opportunity to sneak into the king's tent and hid there for a night. I didn't come to see it until the princess took off her veil and went to sleep."

Wu Ye'er pointed to the position under her left eye, right here, there was a faint crescent moon mark.

Yin Cun tried his best to breathe calmly, he was sure that Yin Cun was still alive.

He said slowly, "In the next year, we will trade tea and horses with Shule Kingdom. We will find a way to enter the military camp. I will take Yin Cistan away."

Taking Yin Cistan away means taking away Da Khan's favorite concubine, which is enough to trigger a new round of war, but at this moment, everyone in the field nodded after a moment of silence.