Man Tang Huacai

Chapter 49
"Yang Zhongcheng, we meet again."

After leaving the gate of the ceremony, Xue Bai made a cross-hand salute, which seemed a bit coincidental.

After escaping from the crisis twice in a row, he saw Yang Shenjin, as if he had to collect some prizes from Yang Shenjin.

"Xue Bai, you are very good." Yang Shenjin stroked his beard and smiled, praised Xue Bai a few words, and finally said: "It's a pity you didn't meet the right minister sooner, stop Ji Wen."

"Yes, I deeply regret what happened to Yang Zhongcheng."

Xue Bai agreed, but with a little distance in his politeness.

He doesn't want to get too close to Yang Shenjin, the reason is very simple, this person has no winks, and Li Linfu doesn't like him, if he gets closer, it will definitely affect his progress.

Yang Shenjin didn't feel the alienation from the Du sisters and Xue Bai, but just regarded them as restrained and continued to exchange pleasantries.

He came from a prominent family, had extraordinary knowledge, and was rich in talent and learning. He said many elegant things, and he was also very proficient in practical affairs. He could guess how much the hairpin on Du Yu's head was worth. A few interesting incidents when he was in charge of the national balance of payments in the past.

Xue Bai could tell that this person was indeed quite capable, and his character was not bad, but he was too short-sighted.If it is not difficult to be a capable minister when the political situation is clear, then I don't know how it will be in the dynasty.

So Xue Bai yawned big.

"Sorry, sorry, I didn't sleep all night last night, I was really tired."

Yang Shenjin brought the topic to Daoism, hoping to open up Du Yi's chatterbox, but was interrupted by this yawn, so he could only say: "It's okay, you worked hard for the right minister."

"Goodbye." Du Jin was already impatient, so she took her arm and left.

Xue Bai went to chat with the concierge for a while before leaving the right minister's mansion.

The Tian brothers were squatting on the opposite side of the street, and rushed over as soon as they saw him coming out.

"Why don't you wait in the front yard?"

Tian Shengong smiled and kicked his brother lightly, and said, "Isn't this a coward? I dare not stay in the Prime Minister's residence."

"I'm not afraid, but I'm afraid that I won't be able to hide my face, and people will see it as a drag..."

"Shut up." Tian Shengong scolded hastily.

Xue Bai couldn't help smiling, and said, "Let's go."

He vaguely felt that something was missing around him.

So he reviewed the case again, thinking about what would happen to Ji Wen's confession, and what would happen to Mr. Pei.

What's missing?

"Lang Jun." Tian Shengong asked, "Has Jiao Nu not following you?"

Suddenly, Xue Bai relaxed a little.

"It can be seen that the Prime Minister has trusted me."

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"You haven't slept all night, don't ride a horse, get in the carriage."

"Not sleepy."

Xue Bai raised his hand and waved it, feeling that it is great to be young.

Although she is a bit more delicate now, her energy is good.In the previous life, after staying up all night, I would definitely feel dirty and weak at this time.

He was still pushed into the carriage by Du Jin.

The door of the carriage was opened at the back, the carriage was not big, so he just sat down, lifted the curtain and took a look forward, and saw Quan Rui was driving the carriage.

The Tian family brothers followed behind on horseback, and no outsiders could overhear.

I can finally speak with confidence.

Xue Bai said: "Last night, I asked the Jinwu Guard to find Quanfu in Dongshi, saying that he was severely beaten. Fortunately, there were no fatal injuries. He was in Wuhoupu, Dongshi."

This is what he asked Guo Qianli for help. To Guo Qianli, it was just a trivial matter, but to Quan Fu, it was a matter of life and death.

"The Jinwu Guards had already sent people back when we went out." Du Yu replied, "Thank you very much."

"And Goro, I let him hide until the curfew ends and return home."

"Did you see Goro? He's also home, with a bruised nose and a swollen face."

"Auspicious." Xue Bai said, "By the way, I have to go to Yang Zhao's house to find him."

He had just asked the concierge, but Yang Zhao had already gone home.

The sisters of the Du family all wanted to know what happened last night, seeing that Xue Bai first opened his mouth to care about others, they only felt that they were so kind.

They didn't know that 38 people died in Chang'an City last night.

"What's the matter?"

"There is a servant in Ji Wen's other house, and I promised to help her get out of the humble family."

"Guan Shi, go to Xuanyi Square..."

"No, I'll send you back first, I'll go alone." Xue Bai said, "That man..."

He didn't know how to describe Yang Zhao.

Knowing his good intentions, the sisters of the Du family listened to his arrangement.

Afterwards, the three of them talked about what happened last night, and Xue Bai explained it carefully, which made them tremble with fear.

After hearing Ji Wen's guess that everything was done by Xue Bai, Du Yan even exclaimed, and quickly covered his face with his sleeve.

Du Jin frowned.

"In this way, there are still many insiders, Ji Wen, Wu Kangcheng, and Mr. Pei, are there any hidden dangers in this matter?"

"Don't worry." Xue Bai said: "We must not be able to cover up the truth. There will always be news leaks. But there will always be more wrong news coming out at the same time. Li Linfu can't find me so quickly."

He has experience, so he knows that it is very difficult to find out the truth of a matter.

There must be clues, but the clues are often not a long line, but broken into individual thread ends, some are long, and some are only short when pulled up with effort.

The difficulty in investigating a case is to find the few clues and piece them together from the countless wrong threads.

Finding a needle in a haystack takes time.What's more, Li Linfu did not intervene in person, but handed over the matter to a group of cruel officials who were good at weaving charges.

And wait.

Wait until he accumulates the strength to protect himself first.

"What shall we do next?"

"You don't need to spend your mind on covering up the truth anymore, that's digging and filling the hole, it can't be filled." Xue Bai said: "Strength, we have to gain strength as soon as possible."

Du Ti asked, "How about leaving Chang'an?"

"In the world of power, where is there no conflict?"

In the thinking of people like Xue Bai, if he stays in Chang'an, at least the senior officials can decide his fate.If he fled to another place, a county magistrate who broke the family or a government official who killed the family could kill him.

Retreat or advance, he has always only advanced.

"I know, you have to make progress." Du Jin said, "We have to let the East Palace fulfill the promise to you as an official."

"Yes, but we can't just pin our hopes on them. Goro and I have to pay a visit to Mrs. Guo Guo in these two days."

Xue Bai's relationship with Li Linfu was because of helplessness, and Yang Yuyao's relationship must be more worthwhile, so he took it for granted.

"Ah."

The topic stopped.

Xue Bai asked, "Can Uncle Du go?"

Du Youlin asked him to call this "uncle", so that he could scold him as a lifesaver in an elder style.

At this time, with such a question, the matter of paying a visit to Mrs. Guo's house immediately became serious.

Du Yi glanced at Xue Bai, thinking that he had just misunderstood that he was going to face him, and felt ashamed.

Du Jin shook her head and said, "Grandfather probably doesn't want to go, I'll persuade him."

Having said that, the carriage slowly stopped at the side door of Du Mansion.

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In the front yard of Du's residence, Du Wulang, who has a blue nose and swollen eyes, is visiting Quanfu.

Several family servants hurriedly removed the stinky clothes, moved the stool for Du Wulang to sit down, and found a handful of pine nuts for Du Wulang to eat from nowhere.

"Goro is really...he came to see Ah Fu even when he was injured. It is really a blessing in his previous life to meet such a master."

"Speak softly, don't wake him up. I'm just a skin trauma, it doesn't matter, it's left from fighting with people."

Du Wulang beckoned, and ordered in a low voice, "Go buy some incense sticks, and put incense sticks on Duanyan inkstone when you're free?"

"Where the master's house goes to offer incense, it's fine for the villain to go."

"I have something to say to him."

"Goro, the villain can tell him."

"You can't tell." Du Wulang was quite mysterious, and moved a little bit uneasy, "I can't tell you."

Several servants couldn't help scratching their heads.

"Goro, what Duanyan can listen to, but we can't? We are also very loyal."

"Can you be the same as Duanyan? Aren't you...can you tell me?"

At this time, Quan Fu woke up again, opened his eyes and murmured: "How can the villain let Wu Lang come over in person?"

"Hey. You all go out, I'll talk to Quanfu. Close the door."

Quan Fu lay there unable to move, watching the door close, couldn't help crying.

"Wu Lang, the villain really thought he was dead, and really didn't want to die. They said that Mr. Xue Lang asked them to save the villain... Mr. Xue Lang was sent by the gods to Du's house, right?"

"Ah, when you put it that way..."

Du Wulang was stunned for a while.

"I wanted to say that he is really capable, but he is really capable. Hey, don't cry, why are you crying?"

The master and the servant had a conversation, but they couldn't say anything, except that each of them expressed emotion from time to time.

"He's really capable."

……

"Come, come! Come back!"

Hearing this cry at last, Quan Fu suddenly wanted to stand up, Du Wulang hurriedly let him lie down, and ran to the yard in a hurry.

But when he rushed to the front yard, he saw only two older sisters entering the yard, but Xue Bai was not there.

Hearing a horse neighing outside the courtyard again, Du Wulang's expression changed.

"Xue Bai, he didn't mean he went back to Xue's house?!"

Qing Lan ran out just in time to hear this sentence, and was almost provoked to cry again.

Du Jin pursed her lips into a smile, and was about to laugh at this silly brother, when another "Woo" sounded outside the courtyard.

Everyone turned their heads to look, only to see Xue Bai hurried up again.

"Why are you back?"

"something."

Xue Bai glanced at Du Yan, then walked to the second courtyard.

Du Yan understood, and quickly followed with her skirt in hand.

The two hurriedly entered a guest room in the East Wing that had not been inhabited for a long time.

"Close the door."

Du Ti followed him in, quickly closed the door, and bolted it.Turning around, I saw Xue Bai undressing.

She couldn't help being startled, her face felt hot, and she didn't know what to do for a while.

Then, Xue Bai took out a series of objects from his clothes.

He hid it so deeply that it was difficult to dig out.

First, two and a half jade pendants were taken out.

"This is Jingzhao Du's letter, return it to him."

Duo accepted it.

After that is a piece of paper.

The strange thing is that the left side of the paper has been torn away, and the words after the last column of "important affairs" are no longer visible, and half of the seal is gone.

"what is this?"

"Mr. Pei gave me a letter to connect with Wu Kangcheng."

Du Yu couldn't help being puzzled, and asked, "You borrowed someone from him later, but he didn't ask you to go back?"

"I bought the same paper before I went to Jingzhao Mansion. I prepared it to cheat Jiwen." Xue Bai simply untied his belt and took out the remaining things, "When Mr. Pei was searched by the Jinwu Guards, I Destroyed."

Du Yu nodded and said in a low voice, "Then we will keep this."

"There is also this one, which is the deed of deed that was seized from Xin Twelve. We need to find out who he forged it from."

"it is good."

……

Finally, Du Yan picked up a post and asked, "What is this?"

"I picked it up from Jixiang."

"A greeting post?"

"Well, these are all things that can kill us. Yang Zhao knows that I am weak at drinking, and I am afraid that he will get me drunk on purpose. You must keep it safe."

Holding these objects, Du Yan felt the warmth above them and also felt his trust, so she nodded vigorously, resolute.

"do not worry."

"gone."

Xue Bai didn't give any more instructions, went out and walked outside.

Du Ti's eyes followed him, only to feel that his back was very elegant.

"Hey, hurry up and tidy up your clothes."

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After re-bolting the door, Du Yan looked around, not knowing where to hide the things Xue Bai gave him, so he put them close to his body.

She thought to herself that no matter where he hid, he might be found by someone, but she would definitely be able to collect it.

The only thing is...it feels a little weird.

When she picked up the cheap deed, she glanced at it, and suddenly froze for a moment, only to feel that the buyer's name looked familiar.

"Is it... Princess Xianyi?"

Du Tie was taken aback, and picked up the greeting card to read again, his face immediately became tense.

She quickly put away her things and did not tell Du Jin, she only said that she was tired and went back to the room alone, sat on the couch with her arms around her.

"I can't figure it out."

Why did Xin Twelve forge the cheap document and write the buyer as Princess Xianyi?

Why did Jixiang pay a visit to Princess Xianyi again?

(End of this chapter)