A Thousand Gold Order: Inheritance

Chapter 116 Reporting to the Official (Second Update)
Qi Yuanming also just came out of the palace, he might know what happened...

But with the current relationship between the two families, he will definitely not say it.

Qi Huan was very self-aware, and he didn't go to the wall to make fun of himself. He hurriedly caught up with the last two prospective Jinshi who came out: "You two gentlemen, forgive me for being abrupt, and ask for advice."

She was dressed like this, and she appeared majestically near the palace gate, even people who didn't know her could tell at a glance that the girl's family background was either rich or noble.

Moreover, if a young and beautiful girl politely offered to strike up a conversation, it would be difficult for a man to refuse.

The two men stopped in their tracks.

But for those who are about to enter the officialdom, on such a sensitive occasion outside the palace gate, the attitude of both of them is extraordinarily rigorous and not frivolous.

The two bowed in return, and the one who looked more outgoing and talkative took over: "What's the matter, girl?"

Qi Huan pointed to the figure of Yang Qingyun and the inner officer inside the arched door: "The person inside who entered the palace with you to participate in the palace examination is my elder brother. I think he has not come out for a long time. You know what happened to him. Yet?"

They didn't know Yang Qingyun before, but they will soon be officials in the same dynasty. This trip to the palace, those with a little discernment and self-motivated will get to know each other as much as possible and get acquainted with each other as much as possible.

This person actually exchanged names with Yang Qingyun and recognized him: "Oh, that brother Yang said he lost something, and he seems to want to ask the internal officials to help him find it."

It's not that they have nothing to do with themselves and don't want to help, the main thing is that this is the palace, and everyone is new to the palace, so it's inevitable that they are cautious, and they really dare not stay longer.

"Then I see, thank you both." Qi Huan thanked.

Seeing that Yang Qingyun was still entangled with the internal official over there...

The imperial palace is the most flattering place, especially some disabled servants or old maids who have been trapped in the palace for many years, they are easy to be twisted and perverted psychologically. A newcomer like Yang Qingyun wants to trouble them to do things?
I'm afraid it will be difficult!

But Qi Huan didn't dare to make a big deal about this matter in the palace, so he rashly mixed it up.

She is in a dilemma here, Hui An has already come over: "Miss, it is already past noon today, the second son asked you, do you and Yang's Biao son go back home with him?"

When you come in the morning, you always have to show a harmonious look in front of outsiders.

Although Yang Qingyun was used to riding horses, Qi Yuanming was used to riding in carriages, so the two of them still pretended to come together.

Qi Huan turned his head and glanced at the place where the carriage was parked.

Qi Yuanming had already boarded the car, but there was no sign of him.

Qi Huan was too lazy to get to know him, so he said casually: "You guys go first, my cousin and I have other things to do in a while, so we won't go back home for now."

Hui'an made a promise, and hurried back to reply, Qi Yuanming and his party went back first, leaving Yunbei alone to guard the two horses of their master and servant.

He was sitting under a tree by the side of the road talking to people before, apparently he hadn't realized that his young master was staying in the palace, until now seeing Qi Yuanming leaving them behind, he hurriedly turned around, only then did he realize that Qi Huan had also come over.

Yang Qingyun never came out of the palace.

If something was really lost, then it was obviously something important, otherwise he would not have entangled with the palace officials over a trivial item.

Qi Huan was anxious and flustered, but from such a distance, Yang Qingyun might not have heard her rashly calling him, and it would be even worse if she was charged with making noise in front of the palace gate.

"Miss Biao..." Yunbei ran to the front, only to realize after looking left and right, the other quasi-jinshi adults have all left one after another, even on the far side of the road, the rest of the cars, horses and sedan chairs are all It's the high-ranking officials who are on errands in this palace city.

"Our young master hasn't come out yet?" Yun Bei was also anxious in an instant.

Qi Huan said: "I asked others, they said that something was lost, and I wanted to ask the inner officials of the palace to help find it. He is over there, and I can't enter this palace door casually..."

But Yun Bei rolled his eyes: "Miss Biao, please wait a moment."

Then he quickly ran under the tree beside the road, found a few people who had chatted with him just now, pointed to this side and said a few words with one of the elders, and the man followed him.

The first time Qi Huan saw that person, he felt familiar.

But the impression was not deep, and I didn't remember where I saw it for a while.

Yun Bei hurriedly said: "Miss Biao, forgot? This is Steward Li of Mrs. Su's family. Our son met in front of the Hou Mansion the day he entered Beijing."

Then he lowered his posture and said to that Li Guan: "Brother Li, I really have to cause you trouble. Our cousin is the daughter of the Hou family, we will not make trouble, just trouble You lead the way, lead her to persuade our young master to come out."

Yunbei's mind is quite bright, he also knows his son, and knows that Yang Qingyun's stay in the palace must be something urgent. If only people from the Su family are called in to call him, he may not follow him immediately. So he begged this steward Li to take Qi Huan directly.

In case there was any troublesome matter, it would be easier for her to rely on the convenience of being born in the Marquis Mansion than her own family.

Manager Na Li and his family's bearers have just eaten a lunch packed and bought in Yunnan, and the two sides walked together on the way back to Beijing for two days before, and the acquaintance is more speculative, so we are still willing to help .

The man's attitude was even very modest, and he cupped his hands with Qi Huan and said: "My master goes in and out of this palace gate every day, and the younger ones are familiar with each other anyway, Miss, come with me."

"Thank you, sir." Qi Huan quickly thanked, "I was a little anxious just now, although I saw the gentleman's face is kind, I really didn't recognize it at a glance, please forgive me."

"Where is it, Miss, you are welcome."

Li Guanshi led the way and led her towards the palace gate.

This palace gate leads to the outer palace gate of the previous dynasty. Entering a square, on both sides are firstly the yamen with centralized directors of the inspectorate, Dali Temple and six ministries, and then go inside, pass another palace gate, and enter. Places such as the palace where the emperor went to court and the imperial study where he governed daily.

Although starting from the outer palace gate, it is a place where people in the palace and important officials of the court cannot enter or leave, but the guards of this palace gate still have room for accommodation.

Li Guanshi is indeed a familiar face here. He led Qi Huan over and explained the reason to the guarding guards in a friendly manner: "It's a girl from Changning Hou Mansion. She is here to pick up the quasi-jinshi lord inside. I will take her in." Ask why, and come out soon."

Qi Huan is a little girl, and she doesn't go into the inner palace, so the guards naturally want to give the Su family this face.

Li Guanshi still did it himself, and led Qi Huan through the long and shady doorway.

Yang Qingyun was standing sideways and facing this side, and he was anxious but had to talk to the internal officer in a good temper, so he couldn't pay attention to this side in time.

When Qi Huan approached, he heard the eunuch say in a weird male duck voice, "It's been such a long way, and you still walked through the Yuxiu Garden in the previous dynasty, who knew that your pendant jade is I really left it in the palace or I didn’t take it with me at all. Do you know how many people are needed and how much time is wasted to find it for you? It’s not that our family is unreasonable, everyone in this palace has their own errands , if you delay the business in order to find this troublesome thing for you, hit the board, fine the moon and silver, who will suffer the crime?"

"Then I am so accommodating, please lead the way, and I can go back by myself?" Yang Qingyun knew that he couldn't fight with them, and his attitude was deliberately humbled a lot, and it could not be said that he was not aggrieved.

Just as the internal officer was about to refuse, he caught a glimpse of someone coming from here.

The light in the doorway was dim, and he didn't recognize Li Guanshi at first glance. Instead, he looked at Qi Huan, a girl who appeared rashly, and immediately raised his fingertips and scolded: "Bold! Where are you from, little girl? You know what this is!" place? Who let you in..."

Before the words fell, Guanshi Li's face was clearly seen, and the voice stopped abruptly.

Then, he changed his face in an instant and put on a flattering smile: "Hey, Mr. Li, the Taifu accompanied His Majesty to preside over the palace examination today. He didn't come out at this hour. He thought His Majesty left him for dinner. Why did you come here?" ?”

Mr. Li was also able to deal with him with ease, and said with a pleasant smile: "I know our master must be busy today. This girl is a junior whom our master knows. She is here to find someone. Let me show you the way."

Yang Qingyun really didn't expect that Qi Huan would find this place, and he couldn't help but gasped when he was nervous: "Cousin?"

As the chief examiner of this year, Su Qinnian's identity is very sensitive, so Guanshi Li deliberately bypassed it, only saying that he knew Qi Huan, but deliberately did not reveal that Yang Qingyun and Su Qinnian also knew each other before.

When the internal officer looked at the Yang Qingyun brothers and sisters again, his attitude improved a lot immediately, but he still didn't want to let go of his help: "Young master, it's really not that our family deliberately made things difficult, and you are not sure where this thing was lost. Our family Just an errand runner, there's nothing I can do to help."

Qi Huan gave Yang Qingyun a questioning look.

Yang Qingyun looked worried, and explained concisely: "My Peiyu, I clearly remember touching it when I came out of Wende Palace, but I touched it again when I was about to leave the palace gate... disappeared without a trace."

While speaking, he quickly spread out the clenched left fist for Qi Huan to take a look.

In the palm of his hand are some broken silk thread fragments in blue.

Qi Huan took a closer look at his waist, and saw some stains on his belt and the hem of his robe.

It is also clear in my heart——

It's not lost, or rather stolen.

It was obvious that someone cut off the tassel rope on the belt and walked away.

And Qi Huan also understood why he only said it was lost to the internal officer, but did not say it was stolen——

These people in the palace are very hypocritical, if you beg them loudly, they may be more accommodating, if you say that their people steal, you may not even have a chance to say a few more words.

Yang Qingyun is entangled with him here, probably planning for the worst...

If Yu Peiruo really can't find it, then try to let as many people as possible know about the trouble here, after all, it is his personal belongings, and if he is really involved in some trouble later, one more person here has heard about it , he will have one more chance to refute and prove himself.

Qi Huan bit his lower lip, and was considering whether to ask Li Guanshi to continue helping to end the worries about this matter, just in time for the guards at the palace gate to change their guards.

A handsome school lieutenant with a square face came swaggeringly from the direction of the guard with a group of Royal Guards.

"You are Miss Qi from Changning Hou Mansion, aren't you?" Seeing Qi Huan, his face burst into a smile, and while waving his hands to signal his subordinates to change defenses, he strode straight to Qi Huan.

Qi Huan's reaction this time was not slow...

This was the school lieutenant who sent Gu Zhan and Yang back home in the middle of the night on the ninth day of last month. Yang also gave him wine money as a thank you.

"Changning Hou's Mansion?" The internal official looked at this and that, and then realized that his face became embarrassing, "Look at this misunderstanding, since she is the daughter of the Hou's Mansion, why didn't the girl come early?" Say. Captain Wu, this...you are familiar with the girl?"

"Hey! Don't talk nonsense, she is a daughter of a boudoir, how does she know a vulgar person like me." The martial arts school captain grimaced and corrected seriously.

After wiping his face and facing Qi Huan again, he immediately smiled like a flower: "Are you here to find our eldest son? He is not usually on duty in our Imperial Forest Army, but today he is..."

He scratched his head and thought for a while, then turned to ask his subordinates: "Have you entered the palace yet?"

Qi Huan: ...

Li Guanshi was at a loss, and the internal officer heard that the whole place was in a mess...

The Marquis of Changning is really nothing special, but here comes first a confidant of Su Taifu's subordinates, then a school lieutenant serving as an servant in the palace, and now another eldest son...

Which prince is this talking about?

He wanted to ask but he didn't dare, but he didn't dare to take it lightly behind his back, and even became nervous, waiting for the captain of the martial arts school to say more.

Qi Huan didn't want to go to the gate of the palace to make any scandals, so he immediately said: "Lieutenant Wu misunderstood, I won't look for him, my cousin went to the palace today to take part in the palace examination, my mother was worried, so she asked me to pick him up."

She also deliberately misled, pretending to be very familiar with the military captain.

Captain Wu didn't care about this, he just touched his nose, and suddenly realized that he had a bad reputation for other girls with his big mouth in public, so he covered it up with a smirk.

The internal official didn't know what happened, so he didn't delay his change of attitude, so he took the initiative to say: "This young master just said that something is missing, but the imperial palace is so big along the way..."

Attitude is necessary, but this is busy——

Still won't help.

Captain Wu was very enthusiastic, and immediately said: "Did you lose something?"

Yang Qingyun was overjoyed, and was about to speak, but Qi Huan stopped him half a step forward, and said calmly: "My cousin just lost a jade pendant on the way out of the palace. Forget it, I'll buy another one later. I won't cause any trouble to the palace, after all, it's a needle in a haystack, and that thing is not easy to find."

Yang Qingyun felt anxious.

But after thinking about it again, he was calm.

This was his worst plan, just let a few more people know about it and take precautions.

Now even though Qi Huan has some friendship with this person in the palace, it's really not good for a half-baked person to casually order someone to do her personal affairs.

Debt of favor, debt of favor, once owed, it will be difficult to repay.

Captain Wu never thought of asking Qi Huan and the Marquis of Changning to owe him favors. He was aiming at Gu Zhan, but he had that intention to help, but before he could open his mouth, Qi Huan said again: "I Now that we're all here, can Captain Wu ask someone to guide me to Dali Temple? Both my second elder brother and cousin have passed the Jinshi examination, and there will definitely be a banquet at home in the near future. I'll stop by and tell third uncle, Ask him if he's free to go back."

Captain Wu is very familiar with the officials and figures in the capital: "Oh, is it Master Qi, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple? He should indeed be still in the palace at this time."

The internal official was startled again at this moment, remembering that there was still a very famous and mighty third master Qi in the Changning Marquis Mansion that had already declined.

He hurriedly expressed his favor: "Shall our family lead the way and send the young lady there?"

Qi Huan still smiled kindly: "My lord is serving His Majesty and the harem, so we don't dare to bother with trivial matters, and it is more convenient for the military school to send someone to guide me around the outer palace yamen. some."

Her attitude is so polite that no one can find fault with it, but how could a spirit who came out of the palace fail to understand the meaning of a run on her?

The internal officer couldn't get angry, looked at the group of people around her, and didn't dare to offend her rashly, and even smiled and said: "The girl is kind-hearted and considerate."

After the change of guard, the military school lieutenant cannot leave his post without authorization.

After Qi Huan thanked Guanshi Li again, he was led by one of his guards across the large square to the left.

Five of the six yamen are on the right hand side of the entrance, while the Dali Temple, the Ministry of Punishment and the Metropolitan Procuratorate are all on the left.

This is not the place where their officials usually try and resolve cases. Each authority has its own yamen in the capital. In layman's terms, the palace is an office. Only the top leaders of various departments are eligible to enter. and access.

The guard led Qi Huan and his sister to the gate of Dali Temple, where Qi Wenyan happened to come out with a dozen files.

Seeing his niece suddenly appearing in the palace, he couldn't help but frown, took two quick steps to meet her, and said displeasedly, "Why did you come here?"

After a pause, before Qi Huan could reply, he asked, "Is something wrong at home?"

He looked sideways at the guards of the Imperial Forest Army who were leading the way.

"Thank you, big brother. We remember the way back, and we will go back later on our own, so I won't waste your time." Qi Huan still thanked him politely.

The guard even said he was polite, but was so suppressed by Qi Wenyan's aura that he didn't dare to look at the Dali Temple Shaoqing, so he cupped his hands, turned and left in a hurry.

Yang Qingyun didn't know what Qi Huan was going to do, and felt embarrassed and nervous.

Qi Huan looked at Qi Wenyan seriously, and said, "Can we go in and talk?"

Qi Wenyan saw that she didn't look like she was in a hurry, so he let them into the yard with a cold face.

This courtyard is guarded by his yamen servant from Dali Temple, as well as other officials on duty from the same department.

Seeing a person who was about to face the saint go and come back, and brought in two juniors in an unruly way, everyone couldn't help but looked sideways and speculated.

Qi Wenyan was quite impatient, and asked urgently, "What's the matter?"

Qi Huan said: "Let's report the case!"

As soon as this remark came out, everyone passing by in the yard, including Qi Wenyan, was stunned, staring at her cousins ​​in unison.

Qi Wenyan's first reaction was that this girl was messing around, but after all, he was the kind of person whose psychological quality can be called a god, and he didn't show any strangeness on his face: "Tell me specifically."

Qi Huan glanced left and right, still serious: "Third uncle takes us to the hall, and ask someone to record the case by the way."

Qi Wenyan's eyebrows twitched again, and he was finally sure that this girl wasn't just messing around.

He turned around, ordered someone to vacate a side room on the right, called the yamen servant and the chief bookkeeper, and sat behind the case by himself.

Qi Huan pushed Yang Qingyun out, and explained in detail how he lost his jade pendant, the route he took to leave the palace, and everyone and things he encountered on the way.

In the end, Qi Wenyan asked someone to collect evidence on the spot, checked the scraps of silk threads left on his belt and robe, and kept them and included them in the case file.

If you want to investigate this matter, you can only go to the palace to search, and you cannot judge the case in court.

After completing all the procedures, Qi Wenyan sent the others to leave first.

He walked out from behind the case again, stood in front of Qi Huan, and said firmly, "You didn't come to look for me to find this jade pendant?"

"It doesn't matter if it's jade or not." Qi Huan has self-knowledge and has never been sloppy in front of smart people.

She said: "It's best if this jade pendant doesn't show up in the future. In case I get involved in any trouble, my cousin will have something to reason with. Besides, if this jade pendant is left in the palace, if it's just some palace official who is greedy for money, I will give it to you." It doesn't matter if we go, I'm afraid that if something else gets involved...Third Uncle Dongxi doesn't need to mobilize the crowd to help us find it, but..."

As she spoke, she bit her lip, and finally showed a somewhat unspeakable expression: "Can I ask third uncle to do something again?"

(End of this chapter)