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Chapter 13 Preparing to Leave Beijing
No eye!Lin Yan sighed, thinking, there is nothing to do.

Eyes are something that cannot be forced.

"Women who can really harm the country are not only beautiful, but knowledge, experience, and bearing are all indispensable." Ji Chongyan waved the glass wine cup in his hand and said lightly, "I am not born ugly, but I want to learn from others. I have been learning for a long time. If you lose yourself, how is this any different from a marionette?"

Lin Yan was silent for a moment, feeling that there was some truth in it, so he didn't mention the matter of the Yang family, and said instead: "However, your cousin's trouble caused you to miss out on the Spring Hunting and miss out on a good show. .”

The incident in Tongqinglou happened the day before the spring hunt, and his friend Ji Chongyan did not participate in the spring hunt because he was madly in love with horses and was injured.Naturally, a civil servant like him in Dali Temple would not participate in any spring hunting, but I heard that there were young women and girls disguised as men in the spring hunting and sneaking into the hunting grounds, and then were taken back by His Majesty.

His Majesty, who has never valued beauty, would actually bring a young lady back to the palace, which caused many courtiers present to speculate.

Ji Chongyan sneered: "It was the eldest prince who shot a sheep with an arrow and hit a little lady. Who doesn't know what kind of temperament our great highness is? That little lady had a good birth. I was so moved, I wanted to take it back, and I made this love affair. The little lady who was hit by an arrow and was seriously injured and bleeding saw that her uncle was alarmed, so she sat up and took out two fans for carrying poems before she fainted. Passed over. Uncle was shocked when he saw the fan, and then brought the little lady back to the palace."

Lin Yan was dumbfounded when he heard this: If he didn't know that the Spring Hunting person in front of him was staying with him that day, he would have wondered if this person had sneaked into the Spring Hunting scene.It's so detailed, even the details are clear.

"Don't guess like those outsiders." Ji Chongyan put down the glass wine cup in his hand, and said calmly, "Uncle has not changed his temper. The reason why he saved the little lady is because of those two fans."

Lin Yan, who was born as a young minister in Dali Temple, has always had an astonishing imagination. Hearing what Ji Chongyan said, he immediately said, "Could it be a love debt left by His Majesty before he ascended the throne? Judging from the young lady's age, it is estimated that it is His Majesty's flesh and blood."

This guess is not absurd, on the contrary, it is very reasonable.

In the last years of the previous dynasty, there was turmoil, the emperor had no way, and uprisings broke out everywhere.Your Majesty was originally a courtier of the former court. He couldn't understand the lack of righteousness of the emperor, so he also followed the uprising, and then he was able to ascend the throne of God.Back then when His Majesty was not enthroned, he was a military commander, and he was away all the year round, staying in other people's homes, and so on. It is hard to guarantee that there will be no love debts.

"Uncle was missing for a month and a half when he led the team through Beishan. At that time, he was seriously injured and lost his memory." Ji Chongyan picked up a folding fan on the table and shook it slowly in his hand. After leaving him, the two got on good terms. One and a half months later, my uncle recovered his memory. It was the critical autumn of the war, so it was impossible for my uncle to stay at the farm, and it was inconvenient for him to take her north, so he had to make an agreement to wait until he returned The family came to pick her up. But later Beishan was captured by the rebel army, and when the people sent by my uncle found the farmhouse that took my uncle back then, the farmhouse had already been burned by the rebel army, and the love debt was broken."

When Lin Yan heard this, he suddenly realized: "Then it seems that the peasant girl is not dead, not only she is not dead, but she has left her flesh and blood. Now let her own flesh and blood bring His Majesty's fan to look for His Majesty?"

"It's pretty much the same, but you said something wrong." Ji Chongyan stared at the folding fan in his hand, and said, "The peasant girl is dead now, and the little lady is not His Majesty's flesh and blood, but His Majesty's flesh and blood stepsister. "

Lin Yan was startled when he heard that: "The peasant girl remarried?"

"It was a war at that time, and I don't know what tomorrow will be. The peasant girl didn't marry her uncle. It's not surprising that she married someone else later. That little lady is the daughter of her husband who married later." Ji Chongyan said, "Uncle never concealed her identity. It's just that the identity of the emperor makes the peasant girl who has remarried panic, so she dare not recognize each other. This time, it is also because the peasant girl and her husband died of illness, leaving behind two and a half children. Go to Beijing to find a relative."

"So that's how it is." Lin Yan understood, but soon he realized something was wrong, "Why is it that little lady who went to the spring hunt instead of His Majesty's flesh and blood?"

"Because His Majesty is a man." Ji Chongyan said lightly, "The little lady dare not take risks."

As soon as this sentence came out, even Lin Yan was shocked: If it is a man, then there will be chaos in the court.

His majesty has only a few heirs, until now there is only one prince and two princesses under his knees. Now his majesty is not young, and there have been no concubines in the harem for five years. The throne of the crown prince is becoming more and more stable. His Majesty's flesh and blood, and a man...

Lin Yan was silent for a long time, and murmured: "Perhaps it is also a good thing for Da Zhou."

Now that His Majesty is mediocre and greedy for beauty, none of the pretty maids in the palace can escape from his grasp, which also caused quite a headache for many courtiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty.Now that there is one more prince coming out, it would be a happy event if the prince’s ability is superior to the courtiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty; if the prince who grew up among the people is not outstanding, and the royal family is different from ordinary people’s families, it would be good to have one more prince It made His Highness feel a sense of crisis, so he restrained himself a little.

However... Lin Yan's instinct to investigate and settle cases for a long time soon made Lin Yan discover something wrong again: "A good thing is indeed a good thing, but that prince living among the people has a heart for his step-sister, how could it be possible with just the two of them?" Entered the Spring Hunting Ground?"

Ji Chongyan closed the folding fan in his hand, threw the folding fan back on the table, and then said: "Old Fox Yang did it, and he did everything cleanly, so that the people of the eldest prince's line couldn't find anything, so they turned their heads and went I confessed my actions in front of my uncle. Although my uncle is happy to have a son, he still has doubts about how this step-sister entered the spring hunting grounds. Now Old Fox Yang took the initiative to admit his mistakes in front of his uncle, which made his uncle think highly of him."

"What an old fox!" Lin Yan couldn't help but let out a sigh of emotion after hearing this, "So, he seems to want to support this prince?"

"Uncle was very dissatisfied with my eldest cousin. Now that he has a son, he is naturally happy. What's more, I heard that old fox Yang said that my folk cousin is very smart," Ji Chongyan said, and glanced at him, casually Said, "Old fox Yang wouldn't say such things for no reason, I guess my folk cousin does have some skills. If so, this capital... I'm afraid it's going to be lively!"

Lin Yan took a breath when he heard it, and then spread his hands: "But this matter has nothing to do with me. The robbery case in Dali Temple fell into my hands. I want to leave Beijing to investigate, but Chongyan, I'm afraid you won't be able to hide... ..."

"Who says I can't hide?" Ji Chongyan picked up the glass cup on the table again and drank it down, "The thief stole twelve priceless night pearls from my uncle's warehouse. Let's leave Beijing together to track down Ye Mingzhu's whereabouts. By the way, you are the one responsible for the robbery case in Dali Temple, what a coincidence, good to meet you!"

Lin Yan raised his eyebrows and cursed: It would be no wonder if this was really a coincidence.Also, this "nice meeting" was really too perfunctory.

But even though he thought so, Lin Yan still held up the glazed cup on the table and clinked glasses with him: "So you and I will go together!"

(End of this chapter)