you got on my tail

In the early morning three days later, the sun shone brightly.

Bai Xuehe stood in the mansion, taking out the scrolls in the study to dry, and the old books exuded a leisurely fragrance of old paper.

Heidan followed behind Bai Fu holding a book, because of the hot weather, he only wore a pair of shorts, even his feet were bare.

Bai Xuehe turned back with squinted eyes, frowned and said: "Oh, I don't wear shoes, my feet are dirty."

It was rare for Bai Fu to see his master speak in such a tone, and he felt extremely happy in his heart. He smiled and took out a handkerchief and handed it to Heitan, "Go and wipe your feet, and put on your shoes."

"What's the matter?" Heidan pouted, but obediently took the handkerchief and sat on the bookshelf beside him. The bookshelf shook but did not fall down. Bai Xuehe hurried forward to support him, and Heidan smiled. Rubbing into his arms, she whispered, "I don't want to wear shoes..."

Bai Xuehe pinched his face, looked at those two fat feet covered with mud, and found that Heidan still had a cute young face, as if the sudden growth that day was just his illusion.

"If you don't wear shoes, your feet will be scratched." Bai Xuehe pointed to the stones on the ground and explained patiently: "Look, there are stone heads on the ground."

Hearing Bai Xuehe's nasty words again, Bai Fu couldn't help but smile.

"Okay, okay." Heidan nodded reluctantly. Bai Xuehe scooped up a scoop of water from the water tank and poured it on Heidan's feet. Shaking, so he stretched out his arms and wrapped them tightly around Bai Xuehe's neck.

Heidan really likes to run around, and doesn't like to dress properly, but there are no obvious scars on his body. Mosquitoes are rampant in summer, and there doesn't seem to be any swelling on his body.

Fu Jiying stood silently outside the door, stopping Wei Lan who was about to report. He was dressed in casual clothes, with long hair tied high, and was holding a package in his hand.

Seeing the two people laughing at the door for a while, he stretched out a hand as white as jade and knocked lightly on the door frame.

Bai Xuehe turned his head, a layer of cold sweat covered his forehead, lifted the hem of his clothes and was about to kneel down, Fu Jiying raised his hand to signal him not to salute, then put the package on the ground, and smiled at Heidan: "Young master, what's your name?"

Bai Xuehe gasped, not knowing what Fu Jiying was going to do, let alone what Xiao Hei, who usually talked about "bad guys", would say, but Heidan jumped off the bookshelf in a hurry, and stood obediently in front of Bai Xuehe , whispered: "My name is Xiao Hei."

Xiao Hei became dumbfounded at this moment, Bai Xuehe knew that the child was very scared, although he thought it was funny in his heart, he felt relieved, he took Xiao Hei's hand and walked a few steps, and said softly: "You come first Go inside, it's not convenient for me now."

"Okay... okay." Heitan nodded obediently, with a little nervousness in his voice.

As he spoke, he took a few steps back with his shoes on, and Bai Fu followed him in. Seeing Hei Dan sitting on the bed and not talking, Bai Fu asked, "Xiao Hei, do you want some lychees? I'll go to the kitchen and get them for you."

"No, I want to sleep." Heidan pushed Bai Fu, "You go out first."

Bai Fu looked back anxiously, and was immediately pushed out by Heidan, and then locked the door with a "click", Heidan skillfully stripped off his shorts and turned into a snake, and carefully crawled out along the window sill.

Fat Snake happily walked towards the direction just now: If you don’t let me listen, can’t I hear it?The villains are so naive.

Next to the bookshelf in the backyard.

"You have a lot of books. For so many years, you don't know how to throw away the ones you don't need. Those ministers talk about you every day, but none of them read as many books as Aiqing." Fu Jiying moved the books away and put the package just now Put it on, "I brought some special products from Nanjing, you open it and have a look."

Bai Xuehe lowered his eyebrows, and slowly opened the package. There was only a wooden box in the package. Bai Xuehe opened the wooden box. Inside was still the familiar Xitong ointment wrapped in yellow satin, and two porcelain white puppet.

Bai Xuehe didn't understand what he meant, and said politely: "The emperor is back, why not..."

"I deliberately withheld the news." Fu Jiying interrupted him, "I came to see you in advance."

Bai Xuehe looked at Xitong Ointment, not knowing what to say for a long time.

"I remember that you liked these gadgets in the past, and you still kept a pair at that time. It seems that they were given by King Yan on your birthday." Fu Jiying took out the two dolls, and brushed the dolls with their hands, which were not very delicate. Eyebrows, "King Yan's things are all stolen goods, so I destroyed them. I searched for the craftsman who made these two dolls for a long time, only to find out that they are exactly the same."

Bai Xuehe froze on the spot with a blank expression, and if he said something heartless, he didn't remember these things either.

"Whatever he gives you, I will make up for it." Fu Jiying smiled with squinted eyes, with a rather smug expression, and when Bai Xuehe came back to thank him, he said: "Ai Qing has been hesitant to speak, do you want to ask Ruan?" About Jianghe, why did I fall into your trick?"

Bai Xuehe lowered his eyebrows and said softly: "Wei Lan is going to investigate this case. There are indeed too many doubts about Xu Lingxiao. If it is forced on Ruan Jianghe, I am afraid that I will not be able to convince the public."

"I know Ruan Jianghe is kind to you, and I shouldn't leave this matter to you." Fu Jiying smiled calmly, "It's just that I heard that Ruan Jianghe suffered serious injuries after he was released from prison. Seriously injured, but I would rather walk than sit in your sedan chair."

"Yes." Bai Xuehe nodded.

Fu Jiying was right, Ruan Jianghe would not be grateful to him.

But regardless of whether it's because it's not easy to pursue, according to Fu Jiying's usual behavior, since he is willing to let Ruan Jianghe go, there is absolutely no reason to arrest him again, Bai Xuehe said in a low voice: "But I don't want him to thank you, it's just that The matter has something to do with the Xu family, and it is not easy for me to make a move, so I acted as a favor without authorization, thank you, the emperor, for your compassion."

"I sympathize with you, and you should also sympathize with me." Fu Jiying smiled and said, "If you solve the case so slowly in the future, I will definitely beat you."

Fu Jiying's tone was light, like a joke between the monarch and his ministers. Wei Lan, who was guarding outside the door, also breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, Heidan had just swam over from the corner of the wall, hiding on a rock in the garden and watching, watery. His eyes rolled around.

"By the way, that child is very cute." Fu Jiying said with a smile: "You don't have a wife, and there are few people serving you. Why don't you hand him over to me, and I will find someone to adopt for him, so you can relax."

Bai Xuehe was stunned for a moment, Wei Lan knew that this was just Fu Jiying's temptation, so she played tricks on Bai Xuehe and signaled him to agree quickly.

Bai Xuehe nodded and said with a smile: "Then the emperor will be troubled."

Fu Jiying smiled, waved his hands and got up, Bai Xuehe hurriedly followed and sent Fu Jiying all the way to the door.

Standing in front of the gate of the White Mansion, Fu Jiying took out a volume of imperial decree from his sleeve, and said in a low voice: "I have an imperial decree here, let Wei Lan accompany you to meet Ruan Jianghe, even if he doesn't want to, he has to see you."

Bai Xuehe was speechless in astonishment, Fu Jiying just smiled, and then got into the small sedan chair parked in front of the door, Bai Xuehe knelt down to see him off, Fu Jiying still told him not to salute, his face was still smiling, but there was a gleam between his eyebrows. A faint chill.

After Fu Jiying left, Wei Lan got up quickly, wiped the sweat from her head and said, "I was scared to death just now."

"I'm not afraid, what are you afraid of?" Bai Xuehe sneered, Wei Lan saw that he didn't care, and immediately said: "Hey, it's a good thing you promised in time, you suddenly adopted a child to play with, we can't run away!"

Bai Xuehe suddenly asked: "What does this mean?"

"Ah bah! That's all." Wei Lan knew that she had slipped her tongue, and simply said: "The emperor suspected that the child was related to the deposed prince, so we asked us to check everything. Although we didn't find anything, we were indeed testing you just now. , but if you agree, that’s all, I guess the emperor won’t take care of it anymore.”

"How many years has passed since the deposed prince died, how can I have the ability to keep his child out of thin air." Bai Xuehe said lightly: "That's all."

"That's right, after this pass, the emperor won't mention it again." Wei Lan wiped the sweat from his forehead, "I finally got the imperial decree, let's go to Ruan Jianghe's house, no matter what number one scholar he is, take yours En Hui, there is absolutely no reason to pretend to be noble!"

Wei Lan was about to scold a few words, but saw that Bai Xuehe was still calm, so he didn't mention it. The two walked to the door of Ruan Jianghe's house silently. He is still not there, Ruan's wife is very polite, she lowered her eyebrows and said: "My husband is not at home."

"He's not here? Well, we'll wait here. We have brought the imperial decree..." Wei Lan said in an official tone, but Bai Xuehe held the imperial decree in his sleeve, and didn't intend to take it out at all. Wei Lan was a little embarrassed Hurry up and push Bai Xuehe.

I saw Bai Xuehe looked at Ruan's wife and said: "Madam Ruan, since Mr. Ruan doesn't want to see each other, I won't come here either. Madam please thank Mr. Ruan for me."

"Lord Bai, you don't have to thank me." Ruan's wife showed a weary smile, and put a pot of orchids in Bai Xuehe's hands, "Master Bai said, it's for your sake that I don't see Lord Bai. When you see this flower, you will know what he means." .”

Bai Xuehe had no choice but to nod, glanced at the blooming orchid from the corner of his eye, and recognized it as a pot of Su Xinlan.

"Since the matter is settled, let's go have a drink." Wei Lan pulled Bai Xuehe towards Yangchunfang, but Bai Xuehe couldn't resist him, so he had to go with him.

The lights in Yangchun Fang remained the same, Wei Lan hugged the girl familiarly, and cursed through the wine, "Ruan Jianghe is so annoying, and even sent a pot of orchids, bullying us for being uneducated!"

Bai Xuehe doesn't like to drink alcohol, so he just took a sip of tea and didn't answer the conversation.

"Can't he see it when I'm an old man?" Wei Lan patted Bai Xuehe's shoulder with drunken eyes, "And put such a black soil, what does it mean, the mother is out of the mud and not stained? Don't worry about it, Mr. Bai, he is just rubbish something..."

Not far away, Xu Lingxiao took the Queen Mother's money and spent a lot of money in another brothel. He was still bold and generous, as if Su Yan's death had nothing to do with him.

When Bai Xuehe was drinking, Heidan was secretly sulking. When he sneaked into the garden before, he happened to hear that the bad guys were going to take him away, but Bai Xuehe didn't just say "This is my snake", instead he didn't He hesitated and agreed.

Although their bureaucratic idiots can't understand, they can always understand when they nod their heads, no wonder they want to send him away, no wonder they treat him so well these days, no adults should take care of Xiao Snake, it turns out they want to hand him over to the bad guys!

What's the use of the bad guys catching him?Heidan closed his eyes, his mind was full of snake meat soup, so he quickly packed up a small package, took advantage of Bai Fu's absence, climbed out of the courtyard wall, and sneaked out of Yishanfang.

When Heidan turned around and touched the edge of the city, it was almost completely dark, and the vegetable market and people's homes gradually became quiet. Heidan lowered his head, and heard the sound of "buzzing" from his stomach.

Heidan thought, to be a snake with backbone, even if you are hungry, you can't go back.

But within half a stick of incense time, Heidan thought aggrievedly again, maybe Bai Xuehe found himself running out, realized that he was a good snake that couldn't leave, and would chase him out.

At this moment, a figure dressed in commoner loomed in the moonlight, holding a jug of wine in his hand, with delicate and frail features, it was Ruan Jianghe who had just left the imperial prison.

His complexion is jade white, and there are some terrible scars on his neck and wrists that are faintly exposed.

A Li.

Heidan stood up abruptly.

A fox can change its appearance, but its aura cannot be changed. Heidan is very familiar with this aura. This is A Li, and there is no mistake.