A Thousand Gold Order: Inheritance

Chapter 246 An Interesting Discovery!

Qin Song has a long history of dislike and wariness towards Ye Xunyi.

When Qi Huan mentioned that Ye Xunyi might have something to do with the recent changes in the southern border, he quickly calmed down after being surprised, followed by Mao Sai's sudden enlightenment.

Listening to Qi Huan asking him something.

He immediately regained his composure: "There was no war, it was the people around him who had problems."

Qi Huan looked at him solemnly.

He continued: "At present, I only know a general idea, because the terrain of Yanling Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack. After my army retreated to the pass, Dacheng's side was very active in launching wars in the first few years. After several years of no results, it has been quiet in recent years, and there has been no large-scale war for a long time. This time, it seems that there is something wrong with the rear escorting the food and grass team. It has been delayed for two days after the expected time. Gao The general sent one of his confidant generals to meet him, and suddenly a general who had followed him for many years suddenly rebelled."

Qi Huan was shocked: "So, he was assassinated by his own people?"

"That's right." Qin Song's mood was also very low.

Although he has never been on the battlefield, his father was a military commander, and he can be regarded as a family background.

For a general in a bloody battle, death in battle is not terrible, it can even be called glory, but being assassinated——

It's just too humiliating and useless.

Qin Song was still worried about his father's death, so when he received the news of Gao Changjie's death...

He was really a little stimulated.

He said: "At the same time that person led people to assassinate General Gao in the middle of the night, Dacheng's army outside Yanling Pass also took the opportunity to launch a round of strong attacks. The two incidents collided... Even if the imperial court has not sent an imperial envoy to investigate thoroughly, there is something here. It's also obviously strange. But fortunately, the fortifications of Yanling Pass have been done very well in recent years, and another deputy general in the guarding army also responded properly. The one who was transferred from the mountain also noticed the abnormal situation halfway, returned in time, and cleaned up Once the rebels are defeated, the checkpoint is temporarily held."

He tried his best not to talk too profoundly about the affairs in the military, and only asked Qi Huan to understand the general outline, in order to persuade her not to get involved with the Gao family's affairs.

Qi Huan quickly digested the news.

But in these matters, she really can neither intervene nor help.

In the end, she just calmed down, and met Qin Song's eyes seriously again: "So, you went to stop me outside the palace gate today just to tell me about this?"

Qin Song smiled wryly at himself and didn't say anything, which was his tacit consent.

Anyway, Qi Huan clearly rejected his overtures, but in fact, he could just stand by and ignore her.

At this time, it happened that Gu Zhan was not in the capital...

If this girl is a little more cautious, she may even suspect that he has ulterior motives and wants to sneak in.

Qi Huan also knew that he had no obligation to report to her, so she naturally had to appreciate it, so she nodded and said, "I see, thank you."

"En." Qin Song responded lightly.

Then, there was nothing to say.

Qi Huan waited for a while.

The two of them were alone, and the atmosphere was always inexplicably awkward.

After making sure he had nothing else to say, she turned around and came out.

Qin Song didn't stop her.

Qi Huan brought Wei Feng and the two down from upstairs, walked to the lobby downstairs, couldn't help but stop and look back upstairs...

The door was open, but Qin Song still didn't come out.

There are not a few steps left from the Hou Mansion.

When Qi Huan came out from the teahouse, it was already half dark, and many shops started to light up the lights at the door.

She didn't look back, and went straight into the alley in front of her to go home.

In front of the half-open window on the second floor, Qin Song has been standing with his hands behind his back, watching her back gradually hide in the blurred place of light and shadow.

The sky was gloomy, and he wanted to look at her as much as possible.

It's been a long time since I saw her, and it's rare to have such a justifiable reason to come to her once...

He felt that his current state of mind, which was obviously humble but unwilling, was like a self-abuse lunatic.

Laughing self-deprecatingly, he turned his eyes away from the street corner where the beauty had long been lost, and a vigilant instinct suddenly arose in his heart.

He turned his head suddenly and looked towards the other end of the street.

At this time, the night market has not yet opened, and there are not many people on the street, only a few here and there.

really--

In that direction, he saw an unexpected person.

Qi Wenyan!
He was wearing a blue-gray elegant robe, which almost blended with the sky at this hour.

It is obviously a very low-key outfit, which cannot be ignored so that people can notice him at a glance.

He stood there for an unknown how long, his eyes fixed on the window where Qin Song was.

Qin Song and the young minister of Dali Temple have never met in private, let alone in business. The only time they met was when they jointly exposed Ye Xunyi's evil deeds at the birthday banquet in Prince Rui's Mansion in the first two months. .

Qin Song still has some fear and guard against this person.

He is hesitating to leave...

But Qi Wenyan, who had been standing silently at the end of the street, actually took a step ahead of him and started to move forward.

Although he was just walking on the street normally, and his eyes were also moved away from the window here, but Qin Song just had an intuition——

The other party was coming for him.

So, he held his temper and did not move.

Sure enough, when Qi Wenyan walked to the door of the teahouse, he turned around and walked in.

After a while, the sound of footsteps came from the wooden stairs and corridors outside the room.

Qin Song closed the window and turned around.

Qi Wenyan walked in from outside the room.

"Master Qi came to see the Marquis?" Qin Song didn't need to be ambivalent about him, so he cut straight to the point, "How do you know I'm here? You can't just follow me from outside the palace gate, right?"

Qi Wenyan had a calm expression on his face.

He didn't take a seat either, and was obviously planning to leave after speaking.

He didn't deny Qin Song's words, and said bluntly: "I was looking for that girl, but it turned out that you took the first step. Now Wu Chenghou, who should have known to her, must have informed her on her behalf?"

Qin Song suddenly became vigilant when he heard the words.

He frowned slightly, playing hard to get: "That depends on what Master Qi is referring to?"

The corners of Qi Wenyan's lips twitched, revealing a not so bright smile.

He looked at Qin Song in front of him, with a playful and playful expression, and his tone was still calm and calm: "Besides the sudden change in the southern border, does Wu Chenghou and my niece have other important matters that need to be arranged privately in such a hurry?" talking about?"

Qin Song gasped slightly, his brows furrowed even tighter.

He looked Qi Wenyan up and down calmly, and finally——

It was a little unbelievable chuckle.

"Your Majesty Qi has great supernatural powers?" He said, "It turns out that you are not only proficient in criminal law matters, but also interested in the military's movements. Forgive me, may I ask, where did you get this news from?" Get along?"

The incident happened not long ago, and the news from the official channel has not yet come up. The emperor and empress in the palace may have heard of it——

But for the time being, it is absolutely impossible for the news to leak out!
Qi Wenyan, a civil servant who lives comfortably in the officialdom of the capital, how did he get the accurate news from the southern border army in the first place?

This Master Qi, everyone thinks that he is not the same, but just because of this "not the same", Qin Song is more and more aware at this time...

This person is far more hidden than anyone can see.

Naturally, Qi Wenyan would not tell him the source of the news, but just asked back and forth: "Only old Wu Chenghou's old troops are in the southern border army to give you a tip-off, so why would it be strange for me to have a friend who got into the army?" ?”

These words are obviously used to perfunctory people.

But as far as he said, he was unwilling to reveal his details.

Everyone is smart to each other, and Qin Song can stop in moderation.

The creases between his brows unfolded, he took a deep breath to calm down and said: "I saw Miss Qi just now, and what I was talking about was indeed this matter, and I have already warned you if you are not at ease, Master Qi. Talk to her."

After saying that, he nodded politely at Qi Wenyan, and then he was about to bypass him and leave.

Qi Wenyan stood still and didn't seem to intend to get too entangled with him.

But when the two passed shoulder to shoulder...

He suddenly opened his mouth and asked in a nonchalant manner: "The border defense in the southern border was almost breached. May I ask... How did you feel when you, Marquis Wu Cheng, heard the news?"

Qin Song's footsteps paused, and a layer of coldness appeared in his eyes.

He looked sideways at Qi Wenyan, and asked in a bad tone: "What do you mean?"

Qi Wenyan's fingers casually tapped on the decorated porcelain placed on the shelf behind the door.

The porcelain was fired extremely thinly.

He tapped his fingers on it, and there was a clang, the voice was clear and ethereal, bringing up an empty echo that seemed to pass through ancient times.

Qin Song's heartstrings were inexplicably twitched.

He subconsciously clenched his fingers under his sleeves, and his expression became cold.

Qi Wenyan's gaze didn't fall on his face, as if he didn't notice that his mood had become dangerous, and continued to sigh with emotion: "The last time the southern border defense was breached was fifteen years ago, your father, together with At that time, all the soldiers guarding the city were killed. Fifteen years have now passed, and this time it was a close battle. If not for the dangerous terrain of Yanling Pass and the luck of the guards this time, Today's Yanling Pass is the Jianyang City fifteen years ago. I just think...that something like this happened, Wu Chenghou must have been touched differently from us ordinary people, right?"

With that said, he finally turned his head and faced Qin Song head-on.

Qin Song clenched his fists tightly, because of anger, there were already blue veins on his forehead.

He didn't think that Qi Wenyan would come to the door specially to expose his old scars and ridicule him because he was full of food.

But the attitude of the other party——

It was indeed a blasphemy against his father and the tragic past, which easily aroused his anger.

He glared at Qi Wenyan, endured and endured, just now he didn't punch him directly, but squeezed out a few words from between his teeth: "What exactly do you want to say?"

Qi Wenyan's lips curled up, but he didn't smile either.

He just continued to speak in a business-like tone: "This time Dacheng's army will not succeed in attacking Yanling Pass, and they will probably not let it go. They have been dormant for many years, after all, they are determined to be evil. Today, the official won the southern border." After the secret letter, on a whim, I searched for some battle reports from earlier years, and found a very interesting thing..."

It has to be said that he is very good at whetting people's appetites.

Qin Songming knew that he was playing hard to get, but he was still willing to be led by his thoughts.

He asked, "What's the matter?"

Qi Wenyan looked at him, but didn't answer and asked instead: "During these years, have you never doubted the reason why your father and the others were defeated?"

Qin Song's pupils suddenly shrank.

This matter was a knot in his heart that he couldn't tell. The next moment, he dodged and looked away, but silently clenched his fists tighter under his sleeves.

Qi Wenyan didn't seem to realize that he was on the verge of eruption, but he didn't continue to talk to Qin Song, but took out a small scroll that was rolled up randomly from his sleeve and stuffed it to him: "These are from the southern border over the years. The casualty data transcribed in the battle report is very meaningful when checked carefully, so you might as well ponder over it carefully when you have free time."

He didn't give Qin Song a chance to refuse, he pushed the door and walked out while speaking, and left without looking back.

Qin Song was holding the fluffy little scroll in his hand.

Twilight fell.

The lights in the lobby downstairs were reflected, and it seemed that there were two completely different worlds separated from the darkness in the room behind him.

Subconsciously, he felt that there must be some earth-shattering news recorded on this scroll, and he had a faint urge to open it up and take a closer look, but at the same time, he felt a kind of shyness that seemed to be close to home. Hidden worries also made him dare not face up to the above content rashly.

He stood there for a long time, so long that the shopkeeper and the staff downstairs frequently looked up...

In the end, he stuffed the scroll into his sleeve pocket, turned around with a cold face and left first.

In the palace, Yun Cheng was a little emotional, so he didn't stay in the palace for too long, and after leaving the imperial study, he didn't return to Fengming Palace, but went out of the palace directly.

The emperor obviously lost his mood and continued to deal with government affairs, and then drove back to the harem.

only--

He also didn't go to Fengming Palace, but went back to his bedroom.

Empress Gu didn't take it seriously when she heard the news, she just handed over the secret letter sent by the crown prince to Mother Jiao to send to the emperor.

Mother Jiao knew that the matter was of great importance, so she did it herself and handed the letter to the emperor before returning it.

The border coach was assassinated and killed in a mutiny, and the border defense line was almost breached. This kind of news really caught the emperor by surprise, and at the same time regretting the loss of the defender——

It is even more afraid of the crisis when the border is almost broken.

He sat alone in the warm pavilion of the bedroom for a long time, until late at night, Eunuch Li came to urge him to go to bed, and tentatively asked him: "Your Majesty, that Dacheng has always been a disaster, does your empress mean..."

The emperor glanced at him, but he didn't answer his words, and only issued a verbal order: "If it is true what the prince said, it is the Ning Prince's mansion who colluded with adults to overthrow my Dajinheshan...the queen does not need to restrict what she wants to do." She, but in the current situation, I should seal Prince Ning's mansion first, at least in a short period of time so that they can't make any trouble again, at least give the queen time to make plans."

No matter who, once he bears the crime of treason, he will be punished for his crime.

Empress Gu deliberately kept Ye Xunyi, obviously wanting to use her for something.

Maybe other people can't understand, and they will question the emperor, because he is too conniving to Empress Gu's meddling in government affairs and even the military and insisting on going her own way!
However, Eunuch Li seemed to be used to it, not only did he not question it, he didn't even show a surprised expression, he just took orders and made arrangements.

Just taking advantage of the emperor's grounds for restraining Yun Zheng and Ye Xunyi, he thought he was angry, and sent additional people to seal off the entire perimeter of Prince Ning's Mansion.

When Yun Zheng heard the news, he felt panicked for less than an hour. He asked the staff in the mansion to come over and ponder over it carefully, and then he was relieved——

The emperor was afraid that he would not give up and wanted to publicize Gao Yunmiao's reputation to the outside world, so he simply cut his salary from the bottom of the pot and completely blocked the external news channels of his mansion for a period of time, waiting for the news to pass.

Anyway, as long as the emperor didn't issue an order to deal with him directly, it meant that the old man still cared about the relationship between father and son, and keeping him under house arrest to keep him out of the turmoil was considered protecting him in disguise.

When time passes and the situation changes, this matter may just pass away vaguely.

And now the most urgent thing is to--

It was Ye Xunyi's belly!
He bluffed in front of the emperor, saying that Ye Xunyi was two months pregnant, and she should be pregnant in two or three months...

The emperor will not wait until eight months later to inspect and accept the heir, so the most urgent task now is to really fill Ye Xunyi's belly.

Of course—

Qi Huan's fire burned Yun Zheng's body.

Although the medical officer of the Wangfu diagnosed that it was only a slight skin trauma and did not hurt the root, but that part is precious, and he must recuperate honestly at the moment, which is useless...

(End of this chapter)