set of flowers

Hua Qianyu spread several pages of paper on the desk one by one, from right to left——

On the paper is Wei Zhongliang's remarks on the matter of borrowing grain back then. The general idea is: in the 21st year of Ninghe, that is, 27 years ago, Wei Zhongliang, who was originally a civilian in Beijing, was transferred to southern Fujian to participate in the suppression of the chaos.Four years later, Wei Zhongliang had been promoted to marshal. At the same time, due to the flood of smugglers, a large amount of food was outflowed from Fujian, and the granary for storing military food was also burned by traitors. The soldiers would starve, so he sent people to the capital day and night to report the crisis , and asked the nearby states in the south of the Yangtze River for food supplies, but the responses from the south of the Yangtze River were almost all without receiving the imperial order, and they could not allocate food without authorization-only Wang Meng extended a helping hand regardless of the risk of concealment.On the other hand, Wang Meng had already transported the grain tax collected this year to the capital. In desperation, he could only take the risk of temporarily raising the land tax as an excuse to force the people to pay an extra grain, and the grain was collected and supplied to Wei Zhongliang in a short time. The army resolved the crisis.Wei Zhongliang sent a letter to thank him, and told Wang Mengruo that the emperor blamed him, and he would stand up and punish him.Since then, they have been busy with the war, and the two have no communication.In the first year of Xingzheng, An Qingxuan ascended the throne. In the same year, he announced the lifting of the sea ban and encouraged private trade. The smuggling group obtained legal status, and the Japanese pirates lost the soil for survival.Wei Zhongliang ended the struggle, and before returning to Luojing, he went to Suzhou to visit Wang Meng on the way. After this visit, Wei Zhongliang knew the whole picture of what happened back then, and was also surprised that Wang Meng kept concealing it.In order to repay the kindness of the year, he decided not to talk about it, but before the emperor exposed Wang Meng's crimes in the hall, he did not know about Wang Meng's embezzlement of taxes and grains.After that, Wei Zhongliang saw Wang Meng again after Wang Meng returned to Beijing.

After laying out the paper, Hua Qianyu gathered it into a pile again, put it into an envelope that was a circle larger than the paper, held the envelope in both hands, and handed it back to Xiao Zheng——Xiao Zheng was willing to keep the already sealed paper. Opening the envelope again, but not stubbornly letting him read the transcript with the same content is already tolerant, and he will not let this important confession written by Wei Zhongliang stay in his hand for too long, and show his respectful attitude to the officer with actions.

Xiao Zheng took the envelope, and asked in surprise: "See everything clearly?" According to what he saw just now, Hua Qianyu could almost read the entire page of black text at a glance. Although there is not much content on each page, Xiao Zheng wanted to I can't even read a sentence at this point of time.

Hua Qianyu responded: "Yes, the handwriting is neat, and the content is detailed and unremarkable." It seems sincere, but in fact, the blame is completely removed.

For some reason, even though there is no evidence pointing to Wei Zhongliang, Hua Qianyu still has great doubts about him—maybe he looks too good, and this handwriting is too perfect...

Hua Qianyu lowered her eyes, and her eyes fell on the envelope in Xiao Zheng's hand.

"Such a big event, Wei Shangshu naturally can't handle it casually." Xiao Zheng said, and at the same time praised Hua Qianyu in his heart that he was worthy of the name of a genius, and even his reading speed was beyond ordinary people.

"Before Xiao Yushi's visit, does Wei Shangshu know that there is still a confession to be written?"

Xiao Zheng shook his head: "Your Majesty never said in the hall that Wei Shangshu needs to cooperate with the investigation...but maybe Wei Shangshu has a preconceived idea in his heart."

"Are there any scraps?"

"What the supervisor sees is the first draft." Since it is a confession, how can there be any reason for people to embellish the rhetoric again and again?

After receiving the answer, Hua Qianyu asked again: "How did Xiao Yushi verify what is stated on this paper?"

"It's a pity that Wang Zhongshu died, and there was less evidence. There were not many people who could ask questions about what happened more than 20 years ago... Speaking of the events of that year, those people said that they respected Wang Zhongshu in their hearts in the past, and trusted him more. The order was never doubted. Most of the officials of the missing Governor Zhang also said that they did not know the inside story, and only thought that the overharvested grain was shipped back to Beijing... Those who doubted were thrown into prison in the name of committing crimes, and were trapped in the prison , the information available is limited."

"When the grain was transported into the granary, hundreds of stones were lost when it was transported out again... If you don't know, is it too much trust, or is it too good to cover up? What about the judge who is in charge of the granary and taxes?"

"Missing."

"Missing again?"

"Yes."

Hua Qianyu thought, in the end, I still have to go to the south of the Yangtze River again, and check it myself... I hope Gu Fang Villa is still there.

……

Hua Qianyu walked towards the door, he was still thinking about the next move in his mind, and he didn't realize that someone was coming towards him until they came within ten steps around him.He looked towards the person who came, and Lan Haiyi who caught his gaze bowed to him: "Young man."

"There is no need to give birth to more etiquette, just as always."

Lan Haiyi straightened his back, put down his hands, and said, "I should thank you."

Hua Qianyu smiled: "I should still apologize to you - if I hadn't taken a long detour, I wouldn't have spent such a long time and made you worry about your brother's safety every day."

"Both Haiyi and the old servant can't tell the way, and there are bandits on the way. Without your help, we might not only not be able to reach the capital, but we would even lose our lives for nothing."

"Ha," Hua Qianyu cut off the topic, "How about Dali Temple?"

"The case has been filed. I will return to Hangzhou with the officials sent by him as a witness today, and confront the dog officer face to face."

Hua Qianyu patted him on the back: "The execution of a prisoner needs to be reviewed by the Ministry of Criminal Justice and confirmed by the Holy Spirit. Those who harbor ghosts in their hearts should only imprison | imprison them, and will not execute people easily-I hope Brother Ling will be safe and sound." matter." If he didn't plan to go through this judicial process and solve it secretly, Lan Haiyi's eldest brother would probably have died on the day he was arrested.

Lan Haiyi looked at the ground: "Hope."

"Before then," Lan Haiyi raised his head and looked at Hua Qianyu, "I didn't want to cause you any more trouble, but I don't know when I'll be back in Beijing next time, and I'm afraid that my sister will be lonely if I can't go to my sister's grave to worship before I leave... "

Hua Qianyu looked up at the sky, looked at the position of the sun, estimated the time, and then said: "It's okay, I can still catch up, I will take you to Changxiyuan."

Lan Haiyi hurriedly said: "Miss Xian'er is not in Changxi Courtyard."

"Not here?"

"She has left there. I have been asking everywhere, but I have been unable to find any information, so I have to trouble you."

Three words flashed in Hua Qianyu's mind: Xu Taiyuan.So he asked Lan Haiyi to get into his own carriage together, and directed the driver to drive all the way to Xu Taiyuan's house.After getting out of the car, Hua Qianyu led Lan Haiyi to ask the guard at the gate where Xian'er was.So Hua Qianyu asked Xu Taiyuan if he was at home.Seeing the servant hesitate, Hua Qianyu said: "You just need to make an announcement at the entrance, saying that Hua Qianyu is welcome to see you."

As soon as he heard that the person's surname was Hua, the servant hurried into the mansion, and finally not only Xu Taiyuan came, but also a "man" bowed his head and followed Xu Taiyuan.Hua Qianyu sized up the familiar figure, before the two approached, he called out, "Master Xu—Sister Xian'er."

Xian'er, who was dressed as a man, raised her head when she heard the sound, and covered half of her face with her hands, but she couldn't hide her smile. She said, "It's because you still remember me."

Hua Qianyu apologized for leaving without saying goodbye, explaining that he suddenly got a mission and had to leave the capital.

Xian'er laughed softly, and came to greet Hua Qianyu and Lan Haiyi at the same time. Behind her, Xu Taiyuan had long since lost his sense of existence, and was only watching his wife talking and laughing with friends.

Hua Qianyu shook his head, did not follow her through the threshold, but stood where he was, introduced Lan Haiyi to Xian'er, and expressed his intention to come.Lan Haiyi first thanked Xian'er and asked Xian'er to tell her the location so that he could see his sister again.

Xian'er naturally wouldn't refuse, but the place where Lan Yuxi sleeps is located in a remote place, so she decided to lead the way herself.Just about to leave, Xu Taiyuan held her forearm and said, "I'll accompany you."

She turned her head and looked at Hua Qianyu, as if she was asking for Hua Qianyu's opinion. Hua Qianyu turned sideways, glanced at the carriage, and said: "Let's go together, we can sit down—it's just that Yu has something to do, so he can't." I'm on the same path with you." After exchanging a few words of greeting, Hua Qianyu led them to the coachman, and after explaining to the coachman, watched them step into the coachman one by one.

"Thank you." Before getting into the car, Xu Taiyuan said to him in a deep voice.

Hua Qianyu thought that this thank you should not be because he let Xu Taiyuan come with Xian'er, but because of the past.

Hua Qianyu didn't say anything, just nodded in response——suddenly, a thought flashed through his mind, so he called Xu Taiyuan who was about to get into the car, and said, "Help me make the right jade pendant!"

Xu Taiyuan was taken aback, and looked back at him.

"I will pay any amount of silver, can you help me make the right jade pendant?"

Xu Taiyuan only asked: "What kind?" It seems that he agreed.

"Butterfly loves flowers."

Hearing this, Xu Taiyuan understood the purpose of this jade pendant: "Recently, I happened to get a top-grade red jadeite, and it must be able to make it into the shape you want."

"Okay, how long will it take?"

"The fastest... seven days."

"Seven days...Okay, I will come again after seven days."

After bowing to Xu Taiyuan and greeting the two people in the car, Hua Qianyu walked to the street alone - the old servant was still in Huafu, Lan Haiyi always had to go back, he planned to go to An Mingxi again when he was in the car In order to say goodbye to Lan Haiyi before Youshi.

After three or four months, Xian'er and Xu Taiyuan have achieved a positive result, and Ah Shuo...

Come to think of it, the task he arranged has not yet come to fruition, and the past two days should not have been so busy that he should stop to visit his relatives and friends... Before he knew it, he walked to Huamanlou, and when he woke up in the morning The news that I overheard surfaced and turned into a golden plaque in front of me.

Brother Shu should still be here, right?

He stepped into the door, and two graceful young women walked slowly in front of him. Such a leisurely and slow pace, talking and laughing while walking, did not seem to be welcoming guests at all.Hua Qianyu ignored them and walked directly inside, but it turned out that the two women were indeed coming towards him——

"Is this your first time here, sir?"

The woman half-covered her face with a round fan while she was speaking, and even kept a proper distance. She was not like a madam, but more like a woman from a good family who was attracted by you and walked towards you—if her clothes weren't too revealing.

Hua Qianyu didn't reply, but asked, "Is the Silver Fire here?"

He knew that his second brother had been in business for many years and used this pseudonym.

The two women were shocked when they heard the name, and asked, "Are you..."

Yinhuo never disclosed that he is the owner of Huamanlou.

The woman glanced at him a few times, seeing that he looked similar to her master, she couldn't help suspecting that he was the master's illegitimate son, but this young man's age... How old is the master?

"It's a friend." Seeing the woman seemingly inadvertently standing in front of him, Hua Qianyu asked, "Aren't you in there?"

The women looked at each other, and then answered in unison: "Yes." Then the two separated and made way for Hua Qianyu to pass by them, they turned and followed.After stepping into the main building, the women walked two steps faster, pointing out the way: "Young master is right there."

Hua Qianyu looked in the direction they were pointing, and saw Hua Qianshu sitting on the second floor, drinking wine while concentrating on admiring the performance of the dancers downstairs.

Hua Qianyu stepped up the stairs, passed the corner, and before he approached, he heard Hua Qianshu, who was drinking alone, say, "Long time no see." After speaking, Hua Qianshu turned his gaze to the two anxious women downstairs, He waved for them to back off.

Hua Qianyu took his seat, and said to Hua Qianshu who was facing him diagonally: "Brother Shu, do you want a paradise close to home? Or is it just a business failure?" I don't know if it has something to do with time, but there are so few guests.

Only then did Hua Qianshu turn his gaze to his younger brother, put down the wine glass in his hand, and said, "Maybe it's both."

"Is it because you earn too much money, and doing business is less fun for you? It's a rare piece of land, so it's a pity that you waste it like this?"

Hua Qianshu raised his index finger, raised the corners of his mouth, narrowed his eyes slightly, and smiled at Hua Qianyu, "I'm waiting for someone." He stopped his hands, raised his head, turned his neck, loosened his muscles and bones, and continued Said: "If there are too many people, he may not come."

Hua Qianyu said with great interest: "Is my brother who is merciful everywhere suffering from lovesickness?"

"No, I'm just wondering why he didn't show up again."

"what happened?"

Hua Qianshu said frankly: "A month ago, I was drinking with a man downstairs. He asked me if anyone in the building could order? I said that I still need to get permission, so he asked if he could order me to accompany the bed...... He guessed I am the owner of the building."

——Hua Qianshu asked him why he made such a guess, and Wei Lan, who was a little drunk from drinking, replied: "I often see you here, and I often see you coming in and out of the guest room, but I have never seen you accompanied by a lady; I rarely Seeing you order food, but you are familiar with the menu; you go in and out freely upstairs and downstairs, but you are hardly noticed... In this kind of place, people like you are either the landlord or ghosts who occasionally disappear."

Hua Qianshu thought that she observed him more often, but she didn't want to be noticed.

Hua Qianyu endured a sudden smile and asked, "You agree?"

Seeing that he was struggling to hold back his laughter, Hua Qianshu couldn't help but also laughed, but there was a bit of helplessness in his smile: "I was offered a kiss before I refused."

"You pushed him away?"

"No," Hua Qianshu poured a glass of wine for himself and Hua Qianyu, "I kissed back."

"It seems to be the type you like." Hua Qianyu listened intently, and only realized that it was wine after drinking the contents of the glass, and couldn't help sticking out his tongue because of the spicy stimulation.

"Forget it." Hua Qianshu replied calmly, and drank the wine.

"and then?"

"Then no."

Hua Qianyu understands Hua Qianshu, a "shameless" person like Hua Qianshu, said there is no such thing, probably not because there is any inappropriate content behind it, but because the story really ends here, and he also No longer asked, but returned to the original question: "So you linger and want to have another romantic relationship, but the other party disappears, so you just stay here and look forward to the end?"

"I'm just wondering—" Hua Qianshu looked sideways at his younger brother, and said solemnly, "Is my kissing skills not enough to capture him? Why doesn't it appear again?"

Hua Qianyu's left eye twitched twice, and he was almost speechless—"Not everyone is as thick-skinned as you—I think he was so embarrassed after sobering up, so he made a wish to God that he would never have another... Did he bump into you? Maybe he begged you to forget about it too."

Hua Qianshu smiled lightly: "Maybe." He sighed, put his elbows on the table, propped his cheeks, and lazily said: "But, as expected, you should be so leisurely and carefree when you go home, and we can wait until we leave Beijing to make money. .”

"when are you leaving?"

"Maybe tomorrow? Maybe next year."

Hua Qianyu knew that he was easygoing, so he just let him go.After pondering for a while, Hua Qianyu asked, "Brother Shu, what should we do between men and men?"

This time it was Hua Qianshu's turn to be stunned.