Taming the villain little fox (wearing a book)

Early the next morning, Wei Yan and Wei Ge went to the provincial capital together again.

After arriving at Admiral's College, Wei Yan took Qin Zai's whip and drove to Xie's mansion to give the boxing gift.

The front of Xie Mansion can be said to be full of traffic, people coming and going, like a busy city.

Wei Yan originally thought that in her capacity, it would be considered good to be received by the housekeeper, but unexpectedly, she was invited to the inner courtyard by a woman in charge, saying that the imperial concubine wanted to see her.

Shizi Concubine, Duanmu Chang'an's official wife, is actually in the provincial capital at this moment. According to the time calculation, isn't she pregnant?

Ok……

She remembered that this one seemed to be Mrs. Xie's grandniece. Liaoxi Mansion was too cold in winter, so it was reasonable for the old lady to call her to the provincial capital for the winter.

Wei Yan thought all the way, and soon came to a courtyard with two entrances. On the imperial concubine's couch in the living room, she met the legendary concubine.

"I'm sorry, I'm too heavy, so I didn't go far to greet you, so please don't blame Miss Wei." The crown princess Song said apologetically.

She is about fourteen or fifteen years old. Although she is fat, she is still extremely beautiful, not worse than Wei Lan. She is graceful and majestic. It looks like she was raised by a big family.

Wei Yan was wearing men's clothes, bowed her head, and said, "Your concubine, you are welcome. The daughter of the people, Wei Yan, has met her concubine."

"Miss Wei, don't be too polite, please sit down quickly." Mrs. Song didn't take it too seriously, and hurriedly bowed her body.

A maid had already moved the chair to the imperial concubine's bed, Wei Yan thanked her and sat down.

Mrs. Song knew that everyone around Wei Yan had participated in this year's college entrance examination, so the core of the topic was this. Hearing that all three of Wei Ge had made it to the list, Mrs. Song was also very happy and congratulated them.

Wei Yan said a few words modestly, and then asked about Song's physical condition.

The two were not familiar with each other, so the topic should have ended here, and Wei Yan took the initiative to say goodbye.

But Wei Yan thought to himself, since it is fate to meet him, he shouldn't say nothing, Song's age is still young, and he is still at the age of a flower bone.

She glanced at Mrs. Song's already protruding belly, and said: "Concubine Shizi, I heard that the fetus is too big, which is not conducive to childbirth. You need to move more."

Song looked at Wei Yan in surprise. Until just now, she felt that Wei Yan was a well-measured girl, with something to say, courage and insight, not like a country girl at all, why has she become reckless now? ?

Her fetal appearance was not good, so she took several medicines to save it.In this severe winter, it's freezing everywhere, the only way is to be more cautious, how can it be possible to move too much.

She was dissatisfied in her heart, but she didn't show it on her face, and said with a smile: "Thank you Miss Wei."

Seeing that she didn't care, Wei Yan felt helpless, but she couldn't do anything about it. As an outsider, she could only say this once, and if she said too much, it would become a curse for the other party's dystocia.

Whatever it is, just be honest with yourself.

She looked at the woman next to Mrs. Song, whose white eyes were about to squeeze out of her eye sockets, stood up with a smile, and cupped her hands and said, "Your concubine, you are welcome. The family still lacks some new year's goods, and the daughter of the people has to say goodbye. The new year is coming. Finally, the daughter of the people wishes the son and the concubine an early year, and wish you all wishes come true and everything goes well."

After leaving Xie's house, Wei Yan went straight to Xiangmanyuan. Besides giving the gift, she still had an important task to complete.

……

Wei Xuezheng is well educated. In previous years, when he summoned scholars and scholars, he would talk with them, but today is an exception.

From the moment these people came in, he began to miss those banknotes that were returned, 10,000+ taels, and his heart was broken. How could he have any thoughts?

He sat on the head with a dark face, while listening to the other officials of the Admiralty College chatting with the students, while calmly speculating on everyone, looking for suspicious persons.

Dozens of people sat in a dark room, looking like everyone, but couldn't tell who it was.

Just when the dark fire in his heart was burning more and more, a teacher walked in and whispered in his ear: "My lord, the student has reached a conclusion. The biggest winner of this court exam is the case leader, and his future father-in-law is the first one." Ten, a cousin brother-in-law No.18."

"Oh?"

Wei Xuezheng was a little surprised. He looked at Qin Zai, recalled the perfect article, and subconsciously shook his head, but then asked, "What are the backgrounds of the three of them?"

The master organized the language, picked up the important ones first and said, "I heard that Weige's daughter is very close to the son of the Marquis of Zhenbei, and someone saw Qin Zai at the Xie family's birthday banquet."

"What?" Wei Xuezheng almost jumped up in shock.

The master nodded, "That's true, and the owner of Xiangmanyuan is also named Wei. I heard that there is a third master Yan and the eldest son who are the big owners behind it."

Third Master Yan?

Others didn't know it, but he knew it clearly. Third Master Yan was the eldest son of the abolished Prince Yi Wang, and this person's best friend was Duanmu Chang'an.

Wei Xuezheng's heart immediately fell into the ice hole.

It's the thorn in the flesh of the Zhenbei Hou Mansion, which cannot be removed!

Seeing the fierce look in his eyes, the master hurriedly persuaded him: "Your Excellency, calm down, now is not the time."

Although the Wei family has the title of Marquis, and the old Marquis is an official in the Ministry of War, and he is related to Prince Rui by marriage, and he is a first-class noble in the Dashun Dynasty, but no matter how valuable it is, it is not as valuable as the Marquis of Zhenbei who gave birth to two empresses government.

What's more, Zhenbeihou still holds his hand.

If they are angered because of the three scholars, it will be very detrimental to Prince Rui, let alone his official position, even his concubine and sister will also suffer.

Wei Xuezheng is just greedy for food and drink, greedy for money, not an idiot.

He quickly understood that even if he had the real evidence of the Zhenbei Hou Mansion's assassination in his hands, he would not dare to take Qin Zai and the three of them for granted. After all, Fu Daru had really read those test papers, and the three of them deserved their names. .

"Then what is the family background of the three of them?"

The master said: "Weiger and Xu Fei are ordinary farm children. Qin Zai's father is a hunter, and he is a neighbor of Weige's family. His father passed away unexpectedly in early October this year. The cause of death is strange..."

Although Qin Zai had been listening to a certain official, his attention was always on Wei Xuezheng. Seeing that the fierce light in his eyes had dissipated and he let out a long sigh, he guessed that the matter had passed safely.

Last night, he talked with Wei Ge about this matter, and after learning that the Wei family had an old grudge with the Zhenbei Hou Mansion, he had already predicted this ending.

That girl is quite good at playing tricks on people's hearts!

Qin laughed.

Wei Xuezheng managed to suppress his anger, and when he turned around, he saw Qin Zai smiling brightly, almost spurting out a mouthful of old blood.

"Hmm!" He interrupted the master by clearing his throat, and said, "I heard that the father of our chief case has just died, and the whereabouts of our mother and younger brother are unknown. It can be said that our fate is rough, and our life experience is pitiful."

Speaking of this, he tried to show a little concern, "How, have you found their whereabouts?"

This has to be heard in reverse.

He was not saying that Qin Zai was pitiful, but he was accusing Qin Zai of being unfilial. few.

Therefore, as soon as he said this, there was a buzz in the lobby.

"New mourning? Do those who are still in the filial piety dare to take the exam?"

"It's not a new funeral, it seems to have been dead for a while."

"Oh? You really do this, aren't you afraid of being sprayed to death by the censor after becoming an official?"

……

The master was sweating all of a sudden, he hadn't finished speaking yet, the adults were also a little anxious.

He hurriedly stood up and explained: "My lord, the matter is like this, Chief Qin has already..."

Qin Zai stood up, cupped his hands, and replied respectfully: "Thank you for your mercy, but there is something else in this matter, please take this opportunity to clarify."

"Clarification, what is there to clarify?"

"Indeed, it's outrageous."

"No matter how good a person's writing is, I won't admire it."

Xu Fei couldn't help but said, "What do you know, Qin Zai..."

Qin Zai interrupted him and said: "Lord Wei, my lords, when Qin Ying died, he had admitted that the student was not his own son, and he passed away. The details are long, so I won't explain them in detail. Moreover, the student Before signing up for this college examination, he had already separated from his adoptive parents, this was personally judged by the magistrate of Fengtian County, and the teachers and students of Duanshan Academy also knew about this." He did this by the way when collecting Qin Ying's body. If they have household registrations to testify, if they are interested, they can go to Fengtian County to find out.

If not, the chief of the case might have been withdrawn long ago and accepted the punishment of the criminal law before today.

At this time, Wei Ge also stood up, "Master Wei, Qin Zai didn't want to say it because his adoptive father raised him after all, but the student is the same age as Qin Ying, and they are neighbors, so he can talk about it... Qin Zai For some reason, his adoptive father tried to kill Qin Zai several times, but failed. Three months ago, he..."

He worked as a private school teacher for a few months, and his eloquence was trained to be very clever, and he told the ups and downs of the accident that happened on the West Mountain.

Seeing that his name had been called out, Xue Baowen couldn't pretend to be dead anymore, and when Weige finished speaking, he got up and explained.

Wei Xuezheng wanted to use this to win back the city, but unexpectedly lost his face, so he had to swallow his breath and said: "The poison of a tiger does not eat its offspring. The life experience of the head of the Qin case is indeed pitiful. Human beings must first suffer their minds and wills, exhaust their muscles and bones, starve their bodies and skins, empty their bodies, and disturb their actions, so they are tempted to endure and benefit what they can't. .”

After speaking, he picked up the teacup, but didn't drink for a long time, rubbing the lid of the cup back and forth.

That's about it for now.

Several officials immediately got up to see off the guests.

Coming out of the Admiral's College, Xue Baowen found Qin Zai and the other three, and said with a smile, "You guys are fine, the case is finally in your hands."

"It's just luck." Qin Zai smiled lightly.

"Too modest is pride." Xue Baowen retorted helplessly. After his grandmother heard that Qin Zai was the chief case, she scolded her all night.

He also didn't understand why Wei Xuezheng was so mad that he returned all the bribes, which made him not even enter the top ten.

Qin Zai didn't want to talk about Xiao Sanyuan any more, so he cupped his hands and said, "Thank you brother Xue for coming forward."

Xue Baowen waved his hand and said, "I'm just telling the truth, it's not worth mentioning. Hey, I didn't see your car. Where's Wei Yan?"

"She went to Xie's house to give a New Year's gift." Weige said.

"Oh..." Xue Baowen thought to himself, and it was indeed good luck. Within a year, the poor boy not only won the small three yuan, but also won the favor of the Zhenbei Hou Mansion, and even the Xie family began to come and go.

"Let's go then, take my carriage." He invited.

……

The business of Xiangmanyuan has been booming since its opening.

Even more so today.

The carriages at the entrance of the restaurant were lined up and parked far away.

The students got off the carriage and had to walk more than twenty feet. The streets were full of scholars in Confucian shirts, which attracted the attention of many passers-by.

A woman was sitting in an unremarkable carriage across the street. She opened the window halfway, and her beautiful peach eyes were always watching the entrance of Xiangmanyuan.

"Madam, since someone has reserved the venue, let's go back first, and come back later when we have a chance." A middle-aged man said.

"Okay." A soft voice said.

As soon as the middle-aged man waved his hand, the coachman gave a "drive", and the car rattled forward.

"Wait!" The woman inside suddenly said again.

"Yes, please tell my wife."

"Go and check, who are the four people walking in front of you, and what background they are, you must thoroughly investigate."

The author has something to say: I'm late, sorry sorry.