Queen's Detective

Lin Ye knew that there was no hope of escaping, and thinking that Li Yan was his young master's best friend, he weighed it up and told the secret.

The girl in the brothel was named Wan'er, as Yan Sanbai expected, she was eighteen years old at the time, and she was beautiful and lovely. After that night, Linye gave her a large sum of money and redeemed her body, letting her Go find a good family and live a clean life.For an unfortunate person like Wan'er who has fallen into the dust, this ending is undoubtedly the best, so she thanked her a thousand times, took the money and left, and never came to pester Chu Yunlou again.

In the first year, Linye sent people to pay attention to her, but later everyone lived in peace. Although Wan'er was not married, she lived well in renting a small courtyard, so Linye gradually forgot about her.

Yan Sanbai and the others immediately took Lin Ye to the small courtyard, but after so many years, the renters in the small courtyard have changed several times, and asked the owner, he still vaguely remembered the beautiful woman, but where did she go? I don't know.

Lin Ye respectfully stood aside with his hands down, not saying a word, but judging by his appearance, he knew that there was nothing he could ask.

Li Yan told him not to make a fuss in front of Chu Yunlou when he went back, so he waved his hand and let him go.

Wu Ziying and Panda were worried about Brother Ying, so they went to visit before, but now they came again, with not very good expressions on their faces.

Xie Xiaotang nervously asked if something happened to Brother Ying, Wu Ziying shook her head, "It's just that it's weird, he looks like a normal person, very calm, just sitting by the window and hugging him Playing the pipa, I don’t know why, it makes people feel empty.”

"To untie the bell, you have to tie the bell." Xie Xiaotang was particularly insightful in this matter, "Is it okay if Uncle Chu doesn't even pay a visit to him?"

Ling Ding couldn't help but glanced at her: that's not the point, why did this eldest lady accept the fact that two men love each other so quickly?

Things can't be so deadlocked, so Yan Sanbai suggested: "Well, let's go find them separately. Wan'er is a beautiful girl, and she always buys some rouge, gouache or silk satin on weekdays. The possibility of remembering her is relatively high, let's ask, there will always be gains."

So everyone dispersed, Wu Ziying and Panda were together, Li Yan was sticking to Yan Sanbai's side all the time, the two of them were never separated by more than one step, so that everyone subconsciously divided them into one group, and The two standing together are so eye-catching, no one finds it strange.

Xie Xiaotang was also careless, seeing that there were two of them, he patted Lone Ding on the shoulder heartily, "Hahaha Lone Ding, don't hold me back!"

Ling Ding: "..."

There are thousands of words in this room alone, let alone tell anyone, while Li Yan in that room is already waving a folding fan and ostentatiously walking through the market with his number one scholar.

"Look, look, it's the King of Luoyang and Tan Xia!"

"Aww, how can they be so beautiful!"

"Yan Xia Tan laughed so hard that my heart was drunk, what should I do?"

"My lord~~ My lord, look this way~"

"..."

Yan Sanbai walked away in extreme embarrassment, and now he completely understood why there were beautiful men in ancient times who could be watched to death.Fortunately, although people in Zhou love beauty, they don't have the habit of throwing things at beauties to show their love.

It's just that the waving handkerchief and the hot gaze still made Yan Sanbai lose the battle.

But he didn't know that it was his expression of smiling and helplessly begging for mercy that really drove people crazy.

"Tan Yanxia, ​​do you want to come to our shop?"

"Tan Yanxia, ​​my slave is here~"

The successive greetings pierced into Yan Sanbai's ears, causing his ears to turn red, but at this moment, with a bang, a folding fan suddenly unfolded in front of him, which just happened to block his troubled face.

The big hand touched his shoulder, and the man behind came up and pushed him forward, "Let's go into the shop."

In this way, Yan Sanbai was led into the cloth shop along the street with half push and half push, and the people onlookers sighed for a while, not knowing why the King of Luoyang blocked that one last time.

And Li Yan turned his head, put his index finger on his lips, blinked, "Shh—"

The people were excited, excited, and fried.

But Li Yan laughed it off, calmly, retracted the folding fan behind his back, and walked behind Yan Sanbai, blocking those fiery sights for Yan Sanbai.

There were fewer people in the shop, so the shopkeeper dared not let other people come in to bother him, he rushed up to serve the two nobles.This shop is near the courtyard where Wan'er used to live, so Li Yan did not choose the wrong place.

Yan Sanbai asked the shopkeeper, but Li Yan had nothing to do, so he looked around in the shop.When Yan Sanbai returned disappointed, he was seriously asking the buddy if he had any good white materials.

"Will the prince want to buy it?" Yan Sanbai was surprised, he didn't know that the dignified King of Luoyang also took care of shopping.

At this moment, the clerk happened to bring out a piece of material from inside. Li Yan spread it out and rubbed it carefully with his hands, saying: "I see you only have those few clothes, and if you want to walk alone in the rivers and lakes, no one will take care of you. Yes, I want to pull a piece of cloth to make you a dress, do you think this one is good?"

Yan Sanbai was stunned, and so was the buddy—it was said that Luoyang Wang and Yan Xiatan had a very good relationship, but they were so good that they pulled cloth to make clothes by themselves!This King of Luoyang is not quite what he imagined, he is so considerate and considerate to his friends, he is really a good man...

What a misunderstanding.

However, Duyan Sanbai knows Li Yan's heart.

Li Yan looked at Yan Sanbai's dazed look, and said again: "Silk is abundant in the south of the Yangtze River, this piece of cloth is no worse than the one in my palace, do you still like it?"

"The prince doesn't need to spend money." Yan Sanbai refused, but he knew it would definitely not work.Sure enough, Li Yan waved his hand and said, "There's no need to be polite between you and me", and asked the clerk to wrap the cloth and send it to Xie's house later.

There was an outsider, Yan Sanbai touched his nose and had no choice but to admit it.

Therefore, the result of indulging once is to indulge again and again. After inquiring all the way, Yan Sanbai has seen what it means to be a prodigal.

"My lord, this pair of Yu Ruyi is useless to me."

"But the shopkeeper said that this can bless lovers to stay together forever." Li Yan raised his eyebrows slantingly, and Danfeng smiled charmingly, "Besides, I'm trying to curry favor with you, don't you see? If you don't want me If I buy it, I won’t buy it. I’ll ask someone to re-engrav a pair and engrave your and my names on it.”

Yan Sanbai: "... up to you."

Yan Sanbai turned around and walked away, with a serious face, but the roots of his ears were red.

Li Yan stopped behind without leaving, and looked at his distressed appearance with a smile, and was in a good mood.

The only fly in the ointment is that no matter how much they inquired, there was still no news of that Wan'er girl.

But in the evening, when everyone met at Linjiang Pavilion, Ling Ding and Xie Xiaotang brought them good news.

"The Liu family in the east of the city? You mean that Wan'er works as a maid in that family?" Wu Ziying asked.

"Yes, all the conditions are met, that person should be Wan'er nine out of ten." Ling Ding said: "She has been in the Liu family for two or three years. At the end of the year, I wanted to take her as my concubine."

"You mean the original?"

"That's right, someone with more money has taken a fancy to her!" Xie Xiaotang couldn't help interjecting, the fire of gossip burning in his heart, "The aunts and grandmas in the market are all saying that last month Wan'er accompanied the eldest and youngest of the Liu family to go outing When swimming in the lake, a strange young man fell in love with him, and then for some reason, the Liu family gave Wan'er to that young man, and the original marriage would have ended."

It is not uncommon for rich families, especially princes and nobles, to give a maid as a gift, but everyone can't help but wonder why that strange son is the one who made the young master of the Liu family give away all the concubines he had appointed.

"It's a clever thing to say. We haven't seen this person before, but we've heard of him. Guess who it is?" Xie Xiaotang played tricks, hoping that they wouldn't be able to figure it out, and he was full of pride on his face.

But only Yan Sanbai bought her account and asked, "Who is it?"

"It's Mr. Mei from Wumei Villa!" Xie Xiaotang said, "Do you still remember the lake where we went to pick lotus pods the first day? The man who looked like a butler said that he is from Wumei Villa!"

"Mr. Mei? Are you a stranger? Why have you never heard of it?" Panda asked while stuffing something into his mouth.

"You know how to eat all day long, what do you know?" Wu Ziying took a sip of tea to moisten her throat, "I know Mr. Mei from Wumei Villa, and his painting boat was built by our family, that's great. It’s a big deal, and the other party doesn’t care about spending money at all, and the materials used are all high-quality, so I remember it very clearly. The young man seems to have something wrong with him since he was a child, he can’t bask in the sun very much, and he ordered us to open every window There are black curtains on them."

"How long has he been in Yingtian Mansion?" Yan Sanbai felt that it was not that simple in his heart, things were a little coincidental, and coincidence often meant danger.

"Probably...it will take two or three years. The painting boat was completed the year before last. As for whether he is here or not, I don't know." Wu Ziying had never actually met Mr. Mei, At that time, his father asked him to visit, but every time they said that the son was ill and it was inconvenient to receive guests, so he didn't see him once.

"Hey, no matter who that Mr. Mei is, we'll find out if we go and see him." Panda swallowed a mouthful, and said nonchalantly.In his opinion, there is Li Yan, who has a noble status, and Yan Sanbai, who has high martial arts, and he can go to the dragon's lake and tiger's den.

Hearing this, Xie Xiaotang immediately got excited, "Go, let's go, cousin, let's go, I heard that there is a very big koi pond in Wumei Villa! There is also a hot spring!"

Li Yan smiled, glanced at Yan Sanbai who seemed to be thinking from the corner of his eye, and said, "Then let's go meet Mr. Mei for a while."

Because it was a bit late, Li Yan asked Ling Ding to hand over the greeting card first, and then prepare a gift for the door tomorrow.It was a good excuse to break into the private lake by mistake last time.

He left quickly alone, and came back quickly. He didn't see Mr. Mei, but he saw the housekeeper who talked to them that day, and agreed to meet tomorrow at Sishi.

In the evening, Li Yan still went to Yan Sanbai's room to lie back, but unexpectedly Yan Sanbai seemed a little absent-minded, and didn't even open his mouth to chase him away.

"Is there something on your mind?" Li Yan asked.

"It's nothing." Yan Sanbai shook his head, raised his eyes, and saw a chessboard in Li Yan's hand, he was puzzled.

Li Yan smiled slightly, his smile softened by the candlelight, "Thinking hurts your body, how about a hand-to-hand chat?"

On the other side, the calm middle-aged butler walked through the cool and quiet corridor, opened the vermilion agarwood door, and walked into the small courtyard filled with steam.

The moonlight was dim, casting a brilliance on the water surface of the hot spring.A pure white lotus root arm protrudes from the water and climbs on the bare and exposed rock. The owner of the arm raises his head, revealing his slender neck. A drop of water drops along the graceful arc and falls into the water and disappears. not see. "My lord, the invitation has been received, and he will come tomorrow." The housekeeper stood respectfully behind him, lowering his eyes, not daring to overstep the rules.

This person is Mr. Mei from Wumei Villa.

He suddenly laughed, took the slender tobacco rod on the plate next to him, exhaled a hazy mouthful of smoke from his thin lips, and his pale face was flushed with water vapor, making him even more monstrous.

The butler waited quietly for a moment, knowing that he had nothing to order, and then quietly retreated.

The moment he closed the door, he let out a long breath in his heart.During the dog days, the temperature around the hot spring made him sweat immediately.

He turned his head to look at the maid who was kneeling by the door, bowing her head respectfully, and said: "Serve me well, don't talk nonsense, don't have any extravagant thoughts, you understand?"

The maid did not dare to raise her head, her voice was filled with tension and awe, "The servant knows."