Dingjiangshan

Jiang Xuan's mother's house is not easy to find.

Xie Jue's personal guards made two big circles in Liangzhou, and even sent people from the Northwest United Defense Office to help them turn the entire Liangzhou and the nearby small towns upside down, but they almost failed to find anyone.

The two personal guards of Xie's family struggled to find them, and finally, it was the master of the Northwest Mansion, Shi Ma, who acted as a live horse doctor, gave them a nod, and finally they found the whole family under their noses.

Holding the household registration and matching the two, I finally found Jiang Xuan's origin.

There is no other reason—this Jiang Xuan and Jiang Zhaoyi are actually named after her mother.

Jiang Xuan's biological father's surname is Du, and his family lives in Liangzhou Prefecture, right under the nose of the Northwest Defense.While the two personal guards of the Xie family were running around looking for someone under the scorching sun, this old man Du was comfortably watching the shop in the city.

"Brother Meng." The young man stood at the door of a silk and satin shop, looked up at the plaque with Du's silk and satin written on it, and said with emotion: "Isn't this just like breaking through iron shoes and finding nowhere to find them? It doesn't take much effort to get them. "

"Fart." Meng Changxun spat and said, "Isn't it a waste of effort? The household registration in Liangzhou Prefecture has been checked three times."

This is true. When they first came to Liangzhou, no one thought that Jiang Xuan would take her mother’s surname. After searching the household registration database for two days, they searched out all the families with the surname Jiang and compared them one by one. I even went to the local area to check, but found that it had nothing to do with Jiang Xuan.

Later, while chatting at leisure, Meng Changxun and Ding Yue inadvertently mentioned Yan Qing's conclusion that "Yin flourishes and Yang declines", and the teacher in the mansion heard them and instructed them to find someone whose mother's family name was Jiang.

This investigation is even more cumbersome, but fortunately it is rewarding.

Just as Yan Qing said before, Jiang Xuan's family was not poor, her biological father was a scholar in Liangzhou, who passed the children's examination at a young age, and was a well-known local student.

It is precisely because of this that Jiang Xuan's mother's family married her daughter to her.Jiang Xuan's mother's family is well-off, and she is a well-known wealthy businessman in the border town. She has businesses in the northwest area, mainly doing business with horses and horses.

At the beginning, the Jiang family valued Du's father's status as a scholar, and also felt that the Du family's poverty was poor, and there was no in-laws on top, so it was a good place to go without getting angry, so they gave the Jiang family's youngest daughter, Jiang Liao, to Du's father.

But who knows that Du's father is a high-spirited and low-spirited person. Since he got married, he has never made a name for himself. He spent the money of his father-in-law's family on reading and writing. He even failed to pass the provincial examination six times. "Students" became "those who cannot support the wall".

The Jiang family originally wanted to find an official family for their daughter but failed, so they could only reluctantly accept this husband who was not high enough or low enough, and used their own money to supplement a few points from time to time.

In addition, Du's father is a cowardly and soft-tempered person, so he dare not provoke his wife even more at home. He just looks after Jiang Liao's shop on a daily basis and doesn't interfere much with other things.

The Jiang family is well-off in the local area and is considered well-known.But as time went by, few people in Liangzhou still remembered Du's father. When they mentioned that family, they only said it was "Jiang's family", and Du's father seemed to be a married man.

Even Du's father didn't even know that his own daughter had "married" to the capital.

"Boss Du, I haven't seen your daughter for a while." Ding Yue leaned on the counter, his eyes followed Meng Changxun's movement in front of the cloth booth, and asked casually.

Standing in front of the cloth shelf, Meng Changxun made a gesture of picking and choosing, paying attention to listening to Ding Yue and Du's father.

Father Du is an honest man, and after so many years at home, he has always been angry with Jiang Liao, so he has long since developed a soft temper.Although he had never met Ding Yue, he didn't suspect it. He just thought he knew Jiang Liao's neighbor, so he smiled honestly, wiped his hands, and said, "Xuan'er is going out."

"Where did you go?" Ding Yue rolled his eyes, and after asking, he felt that it was not good for an old man to inquire about the whereabouts of other girls, so he hurriedly added: "My sister asked at home, and it took a long time. I haven't seen your daughter."

"I went to her grandfather's house." Father Du said, "His mother said, if I do my filial piety in front of her grandfather, I don't think I won't be able to come back for a year or so... Please worry about it."

Ding Yue looked up and exchanged glances with Meng Changxun. The latter gestured to Father Du. Ding Yue nodded knowingly, and changed the subject naturally: "Speaking of which, there was a caravan of horses and horses coming a few months ago. Liangzhou, it is said that they are people from the capital looking for relatives... My mother-in-law is envious when she sees it. If you marry a poor woodcutter like me, you will never see the end of your life."

"Hey, this thing is life. Poor relatives and rich relatives don't just ask for it." Father Du took his words seriously, sighed, and persuaded: "Ordinary people like us, Just don’t expect the pie to fall from the sky, otherwise it’s hard to say whether it’s a blessing or a curse.”

Ding Yue exchanged glances with Meng Changxun again—this Father Du seemed to have no knowledge of Jiang Xuan's coming to Beijing, nor did he know how Shu Qinghui got Jiang Xuan away.

The two personal guards of Xie's family were from the army, and they were both impatient and straightforward. Seeing that they couldn't find anything from Du's father, they stopped pretending to do business, casually said something about the next visit, and left one after another. shop.

"Brother Meng." Ding Yue followed Meng Changxun down a street before asking, "What should we do now?"

"Then what else can I do? Check her mother's house." Meng Changxun said angrily, "Jiang Zhaoyi is not a vixen from deep mountains and old forests, but jumped into the capital from a crack in the rocks."

At this time, Jiang Xuan, known as the "fox spirit", was adding a second pot of wine to Ning Yan without any trace.

Ning Yan was extremely indulgent today, especially when he was drunk. Jiang Xuan tried to serve him some food and tea, but he accepted it without any objection, and seemed unusually obedient.

Jiang Xuan didn't know who and what kind of person that "sweetheart" in Ning Yan's heart was, but at this moment, she was quite grateful to him.

——Thank him for making Ning Yan hesitate, for making him in a dilemma, for making him so fragile.

Ning Yan had something in his heart, and he was already very drunk after drinking a pot of wine. He even reached out and grabbed Jiang Xuan's wrist, pulling her towards him.

"Why do you..." Ning Yan said vaguely, "Why do you just refuse to look at me?"

"Even Jiang Xuan said that this world belongs to me." Ning Yan seemed to be unable to see her clearly, she narrowed her eyes slightly, tried to look into Jiang Xuan's eyes with some difficulty, and asked stubbornly: "You Why don't you think so."

His tone sounded too pitiful, and because of the upturned head, he looked humble and fragile. Jiang Xuan let him pull him indifferently, stood in front of him, and let him look down.

"I also said last time that as long as you—" Ning Yan paused, his eyes cleared for a brief moment, as if he recognized the person in front of him as Jiang Xuan, so he swallowed the second half of the sentence back .

"Forget it." Ning Yan smiled lightly, and let go of Jiang Xuan's hand.

"Forget it." He said again.

Jiang Xuan heard a strong sense of evasion from his calculation of these two sentences, she smiled contemptuously in her heart, then knelt down submissively, and touched Ning Yan's hand.

"Your Majesty." Jiang Xuan said: "You can treat my concubine as her, and my concubine doesn't care."

Ning Yan's eyes fell on her lightly, and he looked at Jiang Xuan lightly for a while, as if he had woken up from the drunken state, but he didn't.

"...No." Ning Yan paused every word, and spoke very slowly: "You are sent by the empress."

"The concubine is Your Majesty's concubine." Jiang Xuan moved closer, trying to let Ning Yan see the sincerity in her eyes. She clasped Ning Yan's hand on her lap with both hands, and said sincerely: "A woman is like Si Luoyi. Qiao Mu, Your Majesty is the concubine's husband, it is true that the Empress Dowager asked me to keep her informed of His Majesty's movements, but in comparison, I will depend on Your Majesty for the rest of my life."

She was telling the truth, and it sounded like she meant it.

"If Your Majesty doesn't believe me, you can replace all the people around me with His Majesty's." Jiang Xuan said: "The concubines are also willing to stay at home, as long as Your Majesty always remembers the concubines."

"...You have a good temper." Ning Yan whispered: "He is not as compliant as you."

Jiang Xuan's "love" just now seemed to have fed the dog, Ning Yan didn't care about her confession at all, and his "sweetheart" was still in his words.

Jiang Xuan secretly gritted her teeth.

Jiang Xuan didn't know if Ning Yan had listened to her confession just now. Ruan Yin once mentioned her. , Jiang Xuan can drag her out as a shield.

——Anyway, her old man and Ning Yan have no room to whitewash the peace.

But Ning Yan was too drunk, Jiang Xuan didn't know whether her confession would be effective, and was about to test it, Ning Yan raised his hand and patted the back of her hand.

"I and the Empress Dowager seem to be having a good time, but in fact they are just thinking about each other. If you are new here, don't trust her." Ning Yan said.

When Jiang Xuan heard this, her heart was filled with ecstasy in an instant!

She originally thought that she would only need to complete what Ruan Yin explained today, and then open a gap with Ning Yan, and then slowly dispel his suspicions, but she didn't want Ning Yan to be so talkative after being drunk, to see someone open to him. The meaning of the heart.

"Your Majesty—" Jiang Xuan was about to say more when Nan Xin, who had been standing in the corner, suddenly coughed.

Jiang Xuan didn't want to talk to her at first, and wanted to collect some words from Ning Yan while the iron was hot, but Nanxin saw that she was indifferent, and coughed in a more emphatic tone, as if it was not a reminder, but already a little threatening.

So Jiang Xuan had no choice but to swallow back what he wanted to say, and looked at Nan Xin with a worried expression, then turned around and asked: "Your Majesty is drunk, does he have a headache, my concubine, go and bring a bowl of hangover soup."

Seeing that Ning Yan was not sober anymore, he frowned and murmured indistinctly.

Jiang Xuan only regarded him as acquiescing, so she stood up and went to the small kitchen in person without being waited upon.

After about half an hour, she came back with a bowl of dark brown concoction in her hand.Nan Xin glanced at her hand, then lowered her head again.

"Your Majesty." Jiang Xuan held the bowl of sour plum soup, gently pushed Ning Yan who was lying on the table, and whispered: "Your Majesty...?"

Ning Yan opened his eyes drowsily, leaned against the table and rubbed his forehead, trying to wake himself up a little.

"...What?" Ning Yan asked.

"Hanging soup." Jiang Xuan said and handed the bowl to his hand, saying: "Otherwise, His Majesty will have a headache tomorrow."

Ning Yan nodded indifferently, and was about to reach out to take it, the little mink in his sleeve had already smelled the sweet and sour smell, and poked its head out of his sleeve.

Xiao Diao has always been greedy, so he poked his head out to sniff the sweet soup in the bowl first, but before Jiang Xuan could reach out to block it, Xiao Diao suddenly ran into her hand like a madman, and knocked her hand over. The porcelain bowl left in Jiang Xuan's hands was two bloody cuts.

The porcelain bowl fell to the ground with a crisp sound.

Jiang Xuan subconsciously looked at the broken porcelain pieces on the ground, and was frightened for a moment, and cold sweat soaked her clothes in an instant.

Ning Yan reached out and brought Xiao Diao over, touched its head, and stuffed it back into his sleeve.

He lowered his eyes to look at the broken porcelain on the ground, the dark brown soup soaked into the carpet, and soon spread out.

Ning Yan looked at Jiang Xuan again.

His eyes were very flat, showing no emotion.But Jiang Xuan's heart was pounding, and there was always an illusion that the rain was about to come. She and Ning Yan looked at each other, but she didn't dare to look away before him.

"Ah Che accidentally knocked it over." Ning Yan said lightly: "Go and fill another bowl."