After the rebirth, I was picked up by the prince

Since Qin Gong had never met his aunt, Qi Zizhen had no way of asking him to identify whether the woman was his aunt.

Just when the few people were at a loss, the guard suddenly interrupted: "Speaking of which, I have a friend who is good at collecting all kinds of information, why don't I ask him?"

"It can't be your debt of favor again?" Qi Zizhen raised his eyebrows and teased casually.

The guard coughed lightly: "This time it was an accident. I never thought that so many acquaintances in the capital before are left with only my master."

Qi Zizhen saw that he was scratching the back of his head and looked uncomfortable, so he didn't dwell on this topic to say anything else, but agreed to his suggestion just now: "Then I'll trouble you to ask again."

The guard smiled and waved his hands: "No trouble. Anyway, our exchanges between Jianghu and Jianghu are like this. You ask me to do things, and I will help you. Occasionally, we meet for a drink or two, and if we don't like it, we have a fight before drinking. They're all a bunch of people who are used to doing whatever they want,"

After confirming that this was really not an embarrassment for the guards, Qi Zizhen was relieved, and he couldn't help being a little envious of the way of communication he described.

Do whatever you want...

He narrowed his eyes and collected the rest of his thoughts, carefully put away the small paper package containing the incense ash, and after careful consideration, he confirmed that there was nothing else to do, so he asked Tang Leyuan and Qin Gong's plans for tonight.

Now that it is the time of Zi, although the Ling Dynasty does not enforce a curfew, there are few ordinary people walking around at night, but there may be more thieves.

In the end, both of them chose to deal with each other in the National Teacher Tower for one night. On the second day, when Yinshi and Yinshi left early, Qi Zizhen took Xu Xiaoqi to the palace together.

The sudden death of Shangshu yesterday, and indeed most of the officials in the early court today mentioned this incident.

The vast majority of them are naturally because of the strangeness of this matter, and most of them think that it must be the ghosts of the three officials responsible for the snow disaster.

It was also mentioned that the story of Zhu Fengyu's wife crying in front of the palace yesterday had already been widely circulated in the capital. At that time, his wife was still holding his second son who was only two years old in her arms. It is believed to be the fault of those officials.

At the same time, some people also mentioned that the snow disaster case was just a corruption case, but the investigation from December last year to March this year failed to produce a result in less than half a year, questioning the efficiency of court officials and even Song Yaoxu.

However, when Song Yaoxu was listening to their performance, he didn't comment from the beginning to the end, and his expression was the same as before, only a professional smirk, making it impossible to guess what he was thinking.

In the end, he just said that he would hand over the matter of the snow disaster to the prime minister Zhou Hancai to continue to deal with it, and by the way, he promoted Yu Feiang to be the minister of the Ministry of punishment.

All the officials and ministers didn't know what his plan was, but Qi Zizhen knew it very well.

Song Yaoxu told him yesterday that he had handed over the matter of the snow disaster to Yu Feiang, but in the morning he said he would hand it over to Zhou Hancai, presumably to confuse others and protect Yu Feiang to continue the investigation in secret.

Zhou Hancai's abilities are outstanding, and the Zhou family he relies on behind him is even at the same height as the former Wei family, with huge power, Song Ping can't easily touch him.But Yu Feiang's background is relatively ordinary, and he is not sociable on weekdays. Now at this juncture, Song Yaoxu and Qi Zizhen dare not say that they can protect him well.

After all, Zhu Fengyu is a precedent.

Moreover, most people now think that the snow disaster case is just an ordinary corruption case, and there is no need to continue to investigate deeply.

Only Zhou Hancai has the ability to suppress these officials.

After going down to court, Qi Zizhen left as usual, and after a while, he turned back from the secret passage to find Song Yaoxu.

Just at this moment, Song Yaoxu had just finished exchanging progress with the officials investigating the Enke matter, and was sitting in the imperial study to sort out recent available news.

"Come on? Come and sit down."

Song Yaoxu raised his eyes and saw him, with a smile in his eyes, as soft as a spring day, and motioned to him for the bench that had been prepared before the place where there were no items on the right side of the desk.

Qi Zizhen stood all morning, so of course you are welcome to sit down now. After sitting down, he put his hands on the table, leaned on the edge of the desk and asked, "Is there any progress on Enke?"

Song Yaoxu was flipping through the content submitted by the investigating officer just now, nodded and continued flipping through while summarizing.

"At present, it seems that there are certain clues to the purpose of Enke's opening. At that time, the person who proposed to open Enke was a civil servant, and most of the people who opposed Enke's opening were the majority, but the emperor still adopted that. opinion of civil servants.

"besides……"

Song Yaoxu's voice was gentle and soft when he spoke, not loud enough for Qi Zizhen to hear clearly.

Qi Zizhen was lying on the desk, feeling drowsy from lack of sleep, feeling vaguely as if he was in a classroom in the real world, listening to the teacher talk about some boring and plain content.

He yawned silently, and lay down on the table looking extremely sleepy.

Song Yaoxu noticed his small movements, stopped talking and put down the file in his hand, raised his hand and rubbed the heads of the people around him: "How long did you wait last night?"

"It's halfway through." Qi Zizhen let him ravage his hair, his voice became a little vague.

In order to go to court, he had to get up at the right time, so he only slept for an hour and a half.

Song Yaoxu felt a little distressed in his heart: "Then you want to go to the inner room to rest for a while? Don't be too tired."

Qi Zizhen, who was too sleepy, still shook his head stubbornly, pulled himself together and said, "It's okay, after all, the matter of Enke is also of great importance."

But even though he said so, when Song Yaoxu continued to talk, he became confused again, and Song Yaoxu didn't even notice that he switched from telling about Enke to telling stories to lull him to sleep.

After a short story was finished, Qi Zizhen had already fallen asleep completely.

Song Yaoxu paid attention to his state, smiled helplessly when he saw him falling asleep, carefully got up and went to the inner room to bring him a small woolen blanket.

Maybe it was really sleepy, Qi Zizhen was not awakened by his movements, and lay down on the table with his face sideways to rest.

Pressed on the black gold court dress, the fair face was a little more fragile, the faint black and blue under the eyes were obvious, and the blue blood vessels could be seen on the slightly exposed slender wrist.

It's hard for him to go through such a toss because of his poor health.

Song Yaoxu sympathetically covered him with a small blanket, and then walked to the bookshelf on the other side of the imperial study room and flipped through the books as silently as possible.

The entire imperial study room fell into silence, with only the occasional soft rustling of paper pages.

At this moment, Cui Liang suddenly entered the imperial study room as if he wanted to report something, but Song Yaoxu interrupted him as soon as he uttered the word "bi".

Song Yaoxu glanced in Qi Zizhen's direction, and then Cui Liang noticed that someone was resting, and hurriedly nodded to calm down the original movement.

After confirming that Qi Zizhen was not woken up, Song Yaoxu gently put down the scroll in his hand and signaled Cui Liang to go out and talk.

Cui Liang clasped his fists silently to accept the order, retreated and waited for Song Yaoxu to close the door before handing him the things in his hand: "Mr. Ning is back today, this is what he ordered someone to send."

Song Yaoxu took the thing in his hand, and found that it was a mass of white fine hair, stained with blood-stained dark red.

white fine hair...

Could this be the hair on Lingning's body?

Song Yaoxu frowned. Based on his previous contact with Lingning, after careful identification, he could almost confirm that it was the cat hair on Lingning's body.

But why is there blood on the cat's fur?Why did Ning Qingwei order someone to send this over?

There are only two possibilities in Song Yaoxu's mind——

Either something happened to Lingning, or something happened to Ning Qingwei.

He immediately said to Cui Liang: "Order the servants to prepare the sedan chair, and I will go to Ningguo Shifu later."

"Yes!" Cui Liang embraced the order, turned around and went out to follow Song Yaoxu's order.

At this time, Qi Zizhen, who was awakened by the noise outside, came out of the room yawning, still wearing the blanket that Song Yaoxu had covered him just now.

He rubbed his eyes and asked in a daze, "what happened?"

Qi Zizhen just woke up from the dream, and only vaguely heard something about preparing a sedan chair, and his tone seemed to be quite anxious.

Song Yaoxu raised his hand to straighten his slightly messy hair, and said, "Master Ning is back, but he ordered someone to send a ball of Lingning's cat hair, which was stained with blood. I wonder what happened. .”

"What?" Qi Zizhen was stunned for a moment, and his brain, which was still slowly starting up, was completely activated with a ding, "I want to go too!"

Song Yaoxu did not refuse, and after arranging his hair briefly, he said: "I have ordered someone to prepare the sedan chair, first go and change into regular clothes before we leave."

Qi Zizhen nodded in response, and then walked back to the imperial study with Song Yaoxu.

He's been quite busy recently, and Song Yaoxu has a change of clothes in the imperial study on weekdays, and he also prepared a few sets of Qi Zizhen's by the way.

After changing their clothes as quickly as possible, the two of them took a chariot together towards Ning Qingwei's mansion.

But when they arrived, they happened to meet Qin Gong who also came over.

"Your Majesty, Mr. Qi." Qin Gong respectfully saluted them at the gate of the mansion.

Song Yaoxu waved his hand and asked, "Why is Mr. Qin here?"

Qin Gong also seemed to be a little puzzled: "Mr. Ning called me here, I don't know what happened?"

Qi Zizhen and Song Yaoxu looked at each other, and finally decided to go to Ning Qingwei's yard as soon as possible to see how he was doing.

Then when they arrived, they approached Ning Qingwei's door and heard that he seemed to be arguing with someone.

"Just a normal scrape."

"Mr. Ning, I'm really just an ordinary doctor."

"It's not difficult."

"...How about I give you something and you come by yourself?"

"..."

It didn't sound like Ning Qingwei had an accident.

Qi Zizhen didn't stay at the door for a long time, knocked on the door and pushed it open: "Brother-in-law, I'm coming in."

As he said, his foot had already taken a step directly.

The two people in the room subconsciously looked at this side at the same time. Ning Qingwei was still holding Ling Ning in his hands, and happened to yawn lazily, looking leisurely and carefree.

When Ning Qingwei saw them, his eyes were confused: "Didn't I just call Qin Gong, why are you here too?"

Qi Zizhen and Song Yaoxu were equally confused, so Song Yaoxu directly took out the ball of cat hair and said, "Cui Liang said that you ordered someone to send this ball of cat hair, and I saw blood on the hair, so I thought something happened to you or Lingning." .”

"Ah?" Ning Qingwei looked even more confused, and stroked two handfuls of Lingning's hair, "I cut off that ball of hair when Lingning accidentally scratched it, and I ordered someone to give it to you. A note."

Qi Zizhen and Song Yaoxu looked at each other, still confused.

Ning Qingwei called the servant who helped deliver the things and asked him what was going on.

The servant rubbed the back of his head, as if he didn't quite understand: "Didn't the sir ask the little one to send the things on the table? There is only that ball of cat hair on the table."

As he said that, the servant pointed to the table on the side, and there was nothing there.

Ning Qingwei let out a soft "Hey" and walked over with Ling Ning in his arms. After looking at it for a while, he seemed to have discovered something suddenly. He knelt down and picked up a piece of paper, and said very calmly: "Sorry, it fell on the ground. gone."

Qi Zizhen: "..."

Song Yaoxu: "..."

All right, don't worry for nothing.

The author has something to say: Thanks to [An Arctic Rabbit] and [Lemon Essence] for the nutrient solution mua~