Mikago

After Ye Yueshan left, Ye Zuolan seemed to have lost her soul, leaning quietly by the door for several days, neither speaking nor moving.

Because of Zhu Zhu'er's order, the rest of the Lu family didn't bother and order him, they just waited for him to recover.

Until this day, Lu Ying'er came back from the outside and brought back the news from the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice——Ye Zuolan's father and mother will leave tomorrow and be escorted to the place of exile.

Woke up early the next day, just as the street drum rang, Ye Zuolan quietly slipped out of Dayefang by himself.

He had heard Tang Ruilang mention before that his father and mother were exiled to the east of Zhaojing, so they should leave the city through the Yanxing Gate on the east.

According to the custom, before the exiles leave the capital, they will stop for a while in the banner pavilion near the city gate to let the prisoners say goodbye to their family members who came to see them off.After all, there are many mountains and rivers to go here, the danger is unknown, and it is even unknown whether it will be able to arrive safely.

When Ye Zuolan came to Qiting, there were already several crying family members standing nearby.He didn't dare to stand in a conspicuous place majestically, so he found a small alley and got in.

After another two or three quarters of an hour, only a distant commotion was heard, mixed with the sound of horseshoes and ruts.

He looked around cautiously, and saw two black-clothed guards walking one after the other.In the middle are three prisoners and a prison van.Standing on the prison cart were Ye Kaiquan and his wife.

Ye Zuolan suddenly felt his eyes darken, and his heart ached.

I saw his parents, with heavy shackles on their hands and feet, sitting numbly on the prison car.Although the clothes are fairly neat, but judging by that appearance... she is ten years older than before the accident!

How could it be, how did the people from the Ministry of Criminal Justice treat them? !

Ye Zuolan was filled with grief and indignation, but she couldn't make a sound, she could only raise her arm, and bit her sleeve fiercely together.

Sure enough, the team escorting the prisoners stopped in front of the flag pavilion.The family members of the prisoners immediately rushed forward, crying and shouting, and the scene was chaotic.

Only Ye Kaiquan and his wife sat blankly on the prison cart.No one came to see them off, not even a bowl of water and wine.

At this moment, Ye Zuolan desperately wanted to rush forward, crying loudly, and threw herself into her mother's arms.

But he still has reason, and taught him the reason of "helplessness", "entanglement" and "pain".

And just when he was helplessly entangled and suffering, suddenly, a familiar figure appeared beside the prison car.

It was a man in Tsing Yi——it was the man who rescued Tang Ruilang from the water on the day of Duanyang Festival!

At this moment, he brought two bowls of wine in front of Ye Kaiquan and his wife, and seemed to be whispering something.Although Ye Zuolan couldn't hear clearly, she could vaguely guess some clues.

Ye Zuolan's mother was the first to take the wine cup, she nodded slightly, lowered her head and took a symbolic sip.However, Ye Kaiquan didn't appreciate it. He raised his hands roughly and knocked the wine cup to the ground.

It seemed that such a development had been expected long ago, and the man in Tsing Yi was not angry.

He turned around and walked towards the escorting officer again, took out a heavy money bag and handed it to the other party, then pointed to a teahouse across the street.

Ye Zuolan immediately looked towards the teahouse, and sure enough, she saw Tang Ruilang sitting by the window alone, with a worried expression on his face.

He should have come to do pre-departure RBI.

Ye Zuolan had also heard from Lu Yinger that all prisoners who were exiled in foreign lands would be bullied by the escort officers along the way.And the only way to get rid of it is to bribe.He was still debating whether to find someone to pretend to be a distant relative of the Ye family to do some management, but it seemed that Tang Ruilang had thought of it first.

Anyway, this time, I thank you.

Ye Zuolan said silently in her heart.

When the time came, the two officials immediately drove away the family members who were seeing them off, made the prisoners line up with the prison cars, and started walking towards Yanxing Gate.

Amid the louder cries and shouts, Ye Zuolan grabbed the wall next to her with all her strength, her fingertips turned from pale to bruised.

But he didn't cry, even though his eyes were already a hideous red.

He just opened his eyes as wide as possible, trying to imprint all of this moment deeply into his mind.

The prison car drove away slowly, and the two people in the car never turned their heads back.

Ye Yueshan has gone out of the city, and her parents have also gone to the miasma.In the vast Zhaojing, only Ye Zuolan was left alone.

However, he didn't have time to worry about it alone.

On the second day after returning from Yanxingmen to Dayefang, at noon, a carriage suddenly came to the gate of Lu's house.Five or six servants from Qi's mansion carried several heavy wooden boxes to the inner courtyard.

In the end, the boxes were all piled up in Ye Yueshan's house. Ye Zuolan opened it and was stunned.

All are books.

Thick and thin, new and old, all kinds of books are neatly stacked in wooden boxes.Among them are the textbooks and handwritten scripture interpretations that he left in the Guozijian dormitory, which he had no time to take away; there are also some expensive books that he has heard of or seen in Huai market, but has no money to buy them back.

The long-lost excitement surged into her heart, and Ye Zuolan quickly picked up a copy of "Book of Shang Jun" on the surface to read it for a while.But it turned out that it was an old book, and the lintel was almost full of petty lowercase letters.If you look carefully, the handwriting is full of comments and discussions, which are as rich and profound as the explanations given by the doctor in the Liming Hall of the Taixue Hall.

Who is the original owner of this book?Ye Zuolan couldn't help becoming curious.

However, he searched back and forth, but he still couldn't find half of the name, not even half of the seal.

This is really unreasonable - ordinary folk private schools obviously wouldn't bother to teach books like "Shang Junshu".Even in the Imperial Academy, I am afraid that only the students of the Imperial Academy can dabble in it.

However, even in the Guozi Academy, all new books still need to be stamped and titled immediately, so as not to be lost or confused with others.

Could it be that people who have used this book have never mixed classes with others?

Thinking about the origin of these large boxes of books, the answer seems to be getting clearer and clearer.Ye Zuolan did not continue to think about it.

In addition to books, there are pens, ink, paper and inkstone in the box.After all the items on the carriage were moved, a servant presented the book list, and said to Ye Zuolan: "My lord said, if you still have books you want to read, just make a list."

Ye Zuolan pondered for a moment, but said to the boy: "If possible... I also want to practice martial arts for self-defense."

After acquiring these many books, Ye Zuolan's life immediately changed significantly—he still consciously helped Lu Ying'er with work during the day, but in the evening he began to read by night with the lamp on, and couldn't put down the books.

On the contrary, Zhu Zhu'er and Lu Ying'er persuaded him not to work so hard, but he said that he was dependent on others, so he had to pay something to feel at ease.

Before I knew it, more than ten days passed.

The men who had completed the cleansing a few days ago almost recovered from their injuries, and slowly began to walk around the east courtyard.So Ye Zuolan began to hear faint sighs, sobs, crazy laughter and singing in the middle of the night again.

But at this moment, he no longer felt astonished and afraid.

The Sixth Tiankuan Festival in early June is naturally an auspicious day.

On this day, the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent someone to pick up ten people including Liu Er.

The moment they left the Lu family and got into the carriage, the faces of these ten people showed apprehension and curiosity, but most of them were still ignorant of the future.

Lu Ying'er also followed the carriage to report to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where he had a special task - to report the character and performance of these ten people to the relevant eunuchs of the Ye Ting Bureau, which would play a big role in the future duties of Liu Er and others. to a rather significant impact.

After Lu Ying'er left, Zhu Zhu'er also led Wa'er out to buy vegetables.Since she avenged Uncle Zhong last time, all the vegetable vendors in Dayefang have escaped completely, and now it takes a long time to even buy a green onion.

Ye Zuolan was the only one left at home, taking advantage of the sunny weather to take a lot of winter clothes to the yard to dry.After finally hanging up everything, I took advantage of my free time to go back to the house to study.But after reading a few pages, I heard a strong wind blowing outside, making the clothes rattle.

Ye Zuolan hurried out to check.I saw the clothes fluttering in the wind like a dragon gate array, and the medicine plaque shelves stacked high could be vaguely seen on the most central open space, and there seemed to be a person sitting on the top.

Ye Zuolan suddenly became nervous, picked up a bamboo pole and slowly opened the clothes, peeking inside secretly.

It turned out to be a young girl of fifteen or sixteen years old, wearing a bright red silk shirt, as gorgeous as a ball of flames in June.

I saw her lightly sitting on the top of the bamboo frame that could not bear much weight, but the medicinal materials that were drying in the bamboo plaque were scattered all over the floor.

Ye Zuolan frowned, but heard the girl in red sneer.

"What are you hiding, I've seen you kid!