Ancient Imperial Examination Daily

Chapter 775 Let's talk
"Okay." Du Jinning actually couldn't understand this kind of celebrity who was full and had nothing to do, wandering around all day.

The three of Lu Jiuyuan were naturally very happy to see Qi Muyuan.Qi Muyuan and the others are also their students. Although they are not as popular as Du Jinning, they still like them very much. There is no teacher who doesn't like students who know a little bit and work hard.

Su Heng and the others also got to know Du Jinning during this period of time, and knew that she had a close relationship with the current powerful minister, the young master of the Qi family. When they met Qi Muyuan at this time, their attitude was very warm.

Qi Muyuan chatted with everyone for a while, watched two more tea ceremony performances, found an excuse, and came out of the garden with Du Jinning.

"Why don't you live in the garden?" Qi Muyuan asked, "Build such a nice garden for others to live in, but you stay in such a simple small yard."

"There are people coming and going here, the colors of silk and bamboo are endless, it's bustling and noisy, I don't like it, and I can't bear to be disturbed by people." Du Jinning said.

Qi Muyuan frowned and looked at Du Jinning.

Once you hear this, it is not true.

The garden is so big, and all the buildings inside were designed by Du Jinning. If she doesn't want to be disturbed by others, she just needs to hide the path leading to her small courtyard with plants.Or just use a wall to separate it from the garden and open another door.Anyway, the hundreds of acres of land around here belong to her, and she is a magistrate, as long as she doesn't want to, as long as she shows displeasure, no one will run to disturb her so ignorantly.

It's okay to use what you said just now to perfunctory others, but for Qi Muyuan who knows Ben Jinning very well, he doesn't believe it.

She doesn't live here, there must be another reason.

Du Jinning caught a glimpse of his expression from the corner of his eye, and knew that he didn't believe what he said.

But she pretended not to see it, and asked self-consciously, "I saw An Shi just now, what do you think?"

Qi Muyuan was very helpless about her shameless behavior, so he had no choice but to follow her words: "What can you think? When we first met, it was awkward to think about what happened that night, but I soon felt relieved. Without him, you Maybe he is still hiding it from me. Speaking of which, I would like to thank him."

As he spoke, he asked again: "Who is he? How could he be hired by his aunt to do such a thing?"

If An Shi was really a luthier, no matter how much money Mr. Chen gave him, he wouldn't be able to do that kind of thing.Compared with money, the ancients valued reputation more. Some people would rather starve to death than do things that would damage their reputation.Not to mention that with An Shi's piano skills, she will never be reduced to the point where she has no money to eat.

Du Jinning then told about An Shi's experience.

Qi Muyuan nodded, noncommittal.

Du Jinning caught a glimpse of him like this from the corner of his eye, and raised his eyebrows.

She specifically asked An Shi to go with them, and she specifically mentioned An Shi just now, just to know if Qi Muyuan had any thoughts about her dating these men, and whether she cared very much.

Because An Shi was different from Lu Jiuyuan and the others.

The three of Lu Jiuyuan are all in their 50s and [-]s, and they are all grandfathers. Du Jinning and them are in a teacher-student relationship, so Qi Muyuan may have no idea about it.

But An Shi is good-looking and has superb piano skills. He used to work in that kind of profession. He was hired by Du Jinning and lived in the garden.

But when the two met, Qi Muyuan didn't seem to care about An Shi.He is not in any mood when mentioning him now.This made Du Jinning wonder if he really didn't care, or pretended not to care.

"You go back and do your work first, I have to order my men to go back to the city and investigate the affairs of Dong's family." After leaving the garden, Qi Mu said far away.

"Okay." Du Jinning was not that kind of sticky person, so he answered very simply.

Seeing Qi Muyuan turn and leave, she said to his back again: "I will go back to the city when I go down to the Yamen. If you haven't finished your work by then, don't go back to Zhuangzi, go directly to the city. Li is waiting for me at home."

Qi Muyuan turned his head and smiled at her, waved his hands, got on his horse and left.

After this trip, Du Jinning didn't come back until it was almost dark when Du Jinning returned to the city.

Du Jinning asked him if he had eaten, and when he got an affirmative answer, he asked, "How is it? Did you find out?"

Qi Muyuan nodded, sat down and took the tea that Du Jinning handed him, sighed softly, and said: "When the house was raided, Mrs. Dong packed up the most valuable things in the house and let his eight-year-old grandson and his nanny He ran away from the secret passage and wanted to leave a root for the Dong family, but he didn't want the nanny's husband to be so blind to money that he couldn't coax the eight-year-old child to give him the jewelry, and he was worried that he would be found out and hurt his family, so he simply killed the child , and took that batch of jewelry as his own. The nanny fought him desperately for this, and he accidentally beat her to death."

Du Jinning frowned, and asked, "Isn't this Deqinglou a time-honored bank? Why are they willing to help him sell the stolen goods? Are they not afraid of being implicated by this?"

"The nanny's husband did it very cleverly. He just asked the ignorant children on the street to send the things over and asked them to sell them. He said that after the sale, he asked Deqinglou to leave a message at Datong Bank. He would go there by message. Withdrawing money. The owner of Deqinglou had been favored by the Dong family, and guessed that someone from the Dong family should have escaped and lived on these jewelry. They wanted to repay their favor, so they wanted to sell it in a hurry so that the money could be sent to the descendants of the Dong family. .But I don’t want it to just fall into my hands.”

Du Jinning nodded.

She didn't ask what would happen to the nanny's husband and the owner of Deqinglou. Qi Muyuan and the others had their own way of investigating the case, which was beyond her control.

What she was thinking about was ransacking the house.She was extremely uncomfortable with this ancient bloody method where one person committed a crime and the whole family would not let it go.

Because of this, she wanted to talk to Qi Muyuan about her crime of deceiving the emperor.After all, this is also a major crime of copying and beheading. It is different from the Dong family and has the same ending.

At this time, they were in the small courtyard surrounded by ponds and rice fields in Du Jinning City. Guanqi, Aoki, and the nursing courtyard were all far away, and they were not afraid of being overheard when they spoke.

She then asked Qi Muyuan, "Seeing the tragedy of the Dong family, have you ever thought about our future? If I find out that I'm deceiving the emperor, Zhao He may forgive me, but those aristocratic families will definitely hold on to this matter." Yes, Zhao Yu must be forced to behead me, and then confiscate the Du family's house. If you have something to do with me, you and your grandfather will be implicated. So I hope you will think carefully about our matter."

After a pause, she said again: "Besides, since I have to go out to do things, it is inevitable to deal with men. If you care about these, please re-examine our relationship."

Qi Muyuan stopped drinking tea, put down the cup, and looked at her.

Seeing that he opened his mouth to speak, Du Jinning said: "Don't rush to give me an answer, I hope you will think carefully before answering this question."

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