Chapter 18

The important evidence was just gone, and it was difficult for everyone to digest for a while, and the scene was silent and awkward.

"It's all my fault!" Mingshu blamed herself.

Gao Rui frowned, and looked at Du He angrily, "It's none of Madam's business!"

"Yes, yes, it's all my fault!" Du He nodded dejectedly.

Yan Ziqin said helplessly: "Stop making trouble." He gestured in the palm of his hand as he spoke, "I probably memorized how those two words were written."

Gao Rui paused and said with a smile: "That's great, I'm familiar with all the mansions in the city, and I'll lead the way."

Hurry up and arrive at Mr. Xue's mansion in a blink of an eye. The courtyard is not spacious, even a bit desolate. There are few servants and they are all old. It can be seen that Mr. Xue is also a poor and honest official for a lifetime. He lived an ordinary life after returning to his hometown. .

Hearing that Yan Tongpan came to ask him about Khitan characters, Mr. Xue was very happy, he is always forgetful, only the foreign characters that he has studied all his life have not forgotten.

"Finally someone still remembers me as an old man." Mr. Xue raised his eyebrows and looked at the two words Yan Ziqin had just written while putting on the crystal glasses imported from the West.

Yan Ziqin respected his senior the most, and said respectfully: "Please tell me, old man, what is the meaning of these two words in the Khitan language?"

Mr. Xue said: "Your writing is a bit out of shape. Here it should be an upward hook, not a horizontal line. Here it should be a fold, not a dot. Although the writing is not very good, you can still recognize it."

"What the hell does that mean!" Du He, who was eager to make up for his mistakes, couldn't bear to listen to his long-winded words.

Mr. Xue gave Du He a disapproving look, "It's nothing interesting, it's just a surname—the compound surname is 'Yelu'."

"Yelv? Isn't that the surname of the Liao Kingdom?" Ming Shu said.

Mr. Xue twisted his beard and said: "Yes, but not all the 'Yelv' are from the royal family, just like there are so many Zhao families in the world, but only one is from the royal family of our Song Dynasty. Although the Yelu family is a Khitan, it originated from In the Yuwen Department of Xianbei, at the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Yelu family of the Diela tribe of Khitan rose up with military exploits. Since then, the Yelu family has been enjoying the prosperity of the country. Some scattered among the people, or moved to the Central Plains, have nothing to do with the royal family. "

Mingshu nodded and said, "I never thought that the Yelu clan would be established earlier than my Song dynasty, but Yu..." She almost told Yu Qing, but when she saw Yan Ziqin's eyes, she suddenly shut up, "Why is the word Yelu written on the paper? "

Yan Ziqin said: "This is our business, don't bother Mr. Xue, the younger generation will leave, and thank you when you come to the door tomorrow."

Mr. Xue really liked this young man, and said with a pleasant smile: "It's easy to say, it's my old bone that Mr. Yan can think of the old man in the spare time of a few cases."

He suddenly turned from joy to sorrow, and sighed: "If my useless student was still around, I wouldn't be so lonely."

Yan Ziqin said: "Dare to ask the old gentleman?"

Mr. Xue said: "It's Wang Er who passed away a few days ago. Forget it, let's not talk about this unworthy guy. I taught him Khitan and Xixia for three years, but he didn't come to me to say goodbye when he went to Beijing to catch the exam. It seems I have long forgotten about this master."

Yan Ziqin seemed to have thought of something, and bid farewell to Mr. Xue. He had to go back to the Yamen to deal with some daily affairs entrusted to him by Sun Zhizhou. Gao Rui went to the north of the city to help repair the city wall, and Ming Shu naturally returned home.

After bidding farewell to Mr. Xue, Yan Ziqin had to go back to the Yamen to handle some daily affairs entrusted to him by Sun Zhizhou, Gao Rui went to the north of the city to help repair the city wall, and Mingshu naturally returned home.

In order to escape his elder brother's control, Du He has been with Yan Ziqin for a month or so, and they didn't drive him away, but instead entertained him with good food and drink. Although he was fooling around all day, he was not stupid. But today there was such a big commotion, even if Yan Ziqin got someone to decipher the meaning of the two Khitan characters, when it came time to present evidence, no matter how reasonable it was, it would be impossible to argue.

"Why did I slip and fall?" He couldn't figure it out, blamed himself and was upset, picked a big tree with no one around, climbed up it three times, and lay down on the thick branch in a daze.It was dusk in the blink of an eye, and Du He was still lying on the tree. It was late autumn. He saw Yan Ziqin coming back from among the sparse yellow leaves. A messenger carrying a bamboo box came in, as if to deliver letters.

The tired bird returned to the forest, and Du He was also bored. When he turned down the tree, he met Chunxiu, who was splashed with makeup, and said, "Has your wife read the letter?"

Chunxiu was puzzled, "What letter?"

Du He said: "Just now I saw a messenger come in and sent a few letters, maybe they were handed over to your officials."

Chunxiu thought that when he first arrived in Shuzhou, he wrote a family letter to the master and wife of Bianliang, but because the waterway in the north was not smooth, there was no reply for a long time. It has passed a month, and there should be a reply today.

Ming Shu was overjoyed when she heard the news from her parents, so she got up and went to Yan Ziqin's room.Just because she said in Yingtian Mansion, "You shouldn't be tired of being together all day, others will laugh at you", Yan Ziqin ordered someone to clean up another room, and he didn't often sleep with Mingshu, and his daily life was very complicated. I spend seven days in my room.

When they arrived at the door of Yan Ziqin's room, Xu Anshou stood in front of the door lighting a wormwood incense and playing cattail fan. Seeing his wife coming, he got up and said, "Why are you here today, my lady?"

Mingshu straightened her description, coughed twice and said, "Is your husband here?"

Xu An thought for a moment, then smiled and said: "The official is here, Madam, if you want to go in, go in."

However, after Yan Ziqin came back from the yamen, he still had the murder case in mind. He has a problem, he craves sweets when he is in a bad mood. It was time to take a bath, so I went back to the room first, asked the boy to prepare the tub and hot water, and the bottle of rose water that Mingshu had given him when he was joking, and poured two drops into the steaming hot water with a straight face. Dip, I'm going to see my wife in a while, so I always feel that I should prepare well.

He took off his clothes, raised his legs and immersed himself in the water. The warm water vapor was very comfortable. He closed his eyes and thought about what he had just found out.It has long been heard that Yu Qing's ancestors were generals at the end of the Tang Dynasty. After searching through historical materials, only one person met the requirements, but he was a Khitan who surrendered to the Tang Dynasty. His original surname was Yelu. But just based on this point, it cannot be concluded that Yu Qing has a different heart. From ancient times to the present, there have been many people from other races who belonged to the Han Dynasty. It is said that General Huyanzan, the famous general who swept the world for the Song Dynasty, was the ancestor of the Huns.

After thinking about it, he was actually a little sleepy, soaked in the water and began to doze off, listening to someone talking outside the door in a trance, thinking that Xu An was teaching his servants, but the door suddenly opened, and Mingshu's shadow was faintly visible through the plain screen Through the ground, the butterfly love flower hairpin on his head trembled with his steps, pressing down on the rhythm of his heartbeat.

Ming Shu didn't know what was going on in the room, so she stepped past the screen and saw Yan Ziqin's shocked face, and soon her face became equally shocked.

I saw Yan Ziqin soaking in the wooden barrel, the steam was half hidden and half transparent like a white gauze, revealing his fair and elegant face, smooth shoulders and neck, and a small piece of chest covered with water droplets, the situation below...needless to say Well, who takes a shower with their clothes on?

She quickly covered her mouth that was about to scream, Xu An was still guarding the door, what would it look like if he heard it?
Yan Ziqin was also extremely flustered, and grabbed the wooden ladle for scooping water to cover his chest, but the wooden ladle was so small that it could only block the middle.

Mingshu gritted her teeth and thought, a man's chest is not the point, you blocked it wrong!Winking and whispering to him: "You put it on first!"

Yan Ziqin blushed and said "Oh", and stood up to get the clothes on the shelf. Seeing that he was about to get up, and the water level had receded to the waist and abdomen, Ming Shu waved his hands and shouted: "Sit down! Sit down! "

Yan Ziqin was really obedient, he plopped back into the bathtub, the water splashed all over the floor, Xu An outside the door heard the sound, looked at his nose, his nose and his heart, and slipped away quietly, thinking in his heart that he finally I have lived up to my master Xu Hang's instructions. Recently, the officials don't see their wives all the time, so I need him, a "caring and loyal servant", to create opportunities right here and there!

Mingshu and Yan Ziqin just looked at each other silently, Mingshu's face became colder and colder, and asked: "You asked Chunxiu to pass the message to me?"

definitely is!It must be that Baozi has been with Du He for a long time, and if he doesn't learn well, Chunxiu used some "family letter" as an excuse to trick him here, intending to do something wrong!

"What message?" Yan Ziqin was in a daze, it really wasn't his business!

Seeing Mingshu's expression of hesitation, he wanted to change into his clothes and ask why, but for some reason, his head felt dizzy, as if blood was running down his head, and he felt empty and uncomfortable underneath. His hands were full, and his chest was more plump than a few months ago. Suddenly, his breathing became tight again, his head swelled up, and he almost couldn't stand up.

"My lady, come... come and help me." His eyes began to spin, and a burst of unknown fire stirred up his heart.

Mingshu raised her eyebrows, and scolded him in her heart for being lecherous, did she really think she was an ignorant girl who was slaughtered by others?He rolled up his clothes hanging on the rack and threw them into the bathtub, and said in a choked voice, "Dream!"

It's all because she asked Yan Ziqin to sit down just now, and the water splashed all over the floor. Now she was so angry that she didn't care about her feet. The soft soles of her embroidered shoes were slippery. There was a scream of "ah", and her clothes spilled all over the sky. The person had already fallen into the bucket headlong, choked on two sips of water, and was still trembling and out of breath when Yan Ziqin "pulled~out~".

"What should I do?" Yan Ziqin panicked and didn't have time to care whether the blood was flowing up or down. When he thought of someone falling into the water when he was young, he had to press the person's chest a few times first, and if it still didn't work, he had to "blow air" into his mouth. , if not rescued in time, a little water can drown people.He hurriedly embraced Mingshu, pressed her chest hard a few times, but there was no response, and he wanted to "breathe" to save her in cold sweat, thinking that my wife must not die in front of my eyes!

In fact, Mingshu's breath was not smooth for a while, and after a lot of tossing, she was fine. When she opened her eyes, she saw the naked Yan Ziqin hugging herself, and the indescribable parts were looming under the clear water, and the sweet fragrance of rose water was refreshing, making her Trance for a moment.Yan Ziqin didn't know why yet, but was still preparing to "save someone", he pouted and moved his lips close to hers, the two of them were already very close, she could clearly see the thick eyebrows on his tightly closed eyes, and the bridge of his nose twitched slightly , seems to be nervous about something.

Ming Shu woke up immediately, her scalp exploded, Lu Jian Bu Ping let out a roar, and hit Yan Ziqin's chin from bottom to top with a move of "Lushan Rising Dragon Ba".

"satyr!"

Yan Ziqin was overturned in the tub, unable to bend his neck back, and screamed, "Chun...Chunxiu, come quickly, your wife...I..."

Your wife is going to beat me to death!

In Mingshu's room, Chunxiu complained while helping her wipe her wet hair, "What kind of acting are you doing, murdering your husband? Fortunately, you just shook your teeth. If you bit your tongue, what will you do, madam?"

Ming Shu was speechless, she couldn't say that Yan Ziqin wanted to moles her, so she sighed and said, "So, Du He told you about the family letter, and it has nothing to do with him?"

Chunxiu said, "If Officer Yan said it, why don't you just hand over the letter to me?"

Mingshu lowered her head and thought, this time he was really wronged, how can I make up for it with an apology?
(End of this chapter)

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