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The sun was still hanging above his head, but Shen Mingan felt that everything around him seemed to be covered in a layer of haze.

The cold wind rolled down the few ginkgo leaves left on the branches, and fell one by one from the front of the eyes. Some of the warmth I felt just now faded away instantly. The air in the winter morning was damp and cold, as if it was cold to the bone.

There was a brief moment of blankness in Shen Mingan's mind, his heart throbbed, and the memory he had deliberately forgotten was pulled out again because of Wang Xingyan's appearance, and spread before his eyes bit by bit, forcing him to be forced to remember.

Shen Mingan stood where he was, he wanted to go up and question Wang Xingyan, about that jade pendant, about why he happened to appear in the mansion on the day when the Shen family was wiped out, and about why he brought his homeless self back to the mansion. Purpose.

But he wanted to turn around and run away again. Shen Mingan had an instinctive dislike and fear of Wang Xingyan, and would even develop disgust towards himself because of Wang Xingyan.

He feels dirty.

Even if he is no longer that child who is only eight or nine years old, he will still be afraid to see Wang Xingyan.

She was afraid of Wang Xingyan's obsessive and greedy eyes towards him, and even more afraid of Wang Xingyan's earnest greetings and false care for him.

Shen Mingan's throat was dry and aching. He stood there in a daze, turned his head slowly, and asked Zhang Ling who was beside him, "Who are these two...why are they here?"

Zhang Ling is a smart person. Shen Mingan has been an official for so many years, and he would not fail to recognize someone from the household department. Zhang Ling knew that he was actually asking someone else, but as soon as he asked, Zhang Ling answered seriously. : "This is the person next to Mr. Xie Huarong from the household department. Now that the end of the year is approaching, there are a lot of things to buy in the palace. Therefore, there are many people coming and going at the palace gate on the south side every day. The other person, the old slave, has seen it once or twice. But I don’t know it again, maybe it’s a businessman who has contacts with Mr. Xie.”

Xie Huarong is from Yuhang. Xie Huarong's family is very famous in the weaving industry in Jiangnan. Xie Huarong is sophisticated and tactful, and he is very good at pleasing Lu Chengjing. When Lu Chengjing visited Jiangnan, Xie Huarong fell in love with him and asked Lu Chengjing to marry him. The conversation was very happy, and in a moment of joy, he was directly named an imperial merchant and asked him to take a temporary post in the Ministry of Households.

Xie Huarong is greedy for profit, but his ability is not bad. Lu Ciheng has only been on the throne for a short time, and there are too many changes in the promotion and promotion of officials in the court, otherwise it is easy to lose people's tongues. The businessman chose, so Xie Huarong was kept for use.

The status of imperial merchants is higher than that of official merchants. They are engaged in imperial business, in charge of salt industry, tea horse industry, and silver casting. Wang Xingyan was just an ordinary merchant in the past. It may turn into an imperial merchant.

But Shen Ming'an didn't expect that Wang Xingyan would develop a relationship with the imperial merchant and come to Shangjing to appear in the palace.

The cold wind intruded through the collar like needles. Shen Mingan was suffocated, his whole body was cold, he had a severe headache, and his consciousness was in a trance. stay there.

When Zhang Ling called him, Shen Mingan came back to his senses as if he had just woken up from a dream. He tried his best to calm down, and handed the document in his hand to Zhang Ling, "I feel a little unwell, please ask my father-in-law to send it to Qinghe Gate for me."

Zhang Ling was in a hurry to respond, but Shen Mingan did not return to Guangyi Hall, but asked someone to prepare a carriage and went back to Shen's residence.

The Shen residence is far away from Miyagi, and Shen Mingan has already asked the boy to drive the carriage as slowly as possible, but sitting in the carriage for too long, the baby in his belly is not safe, Shen Mingan got dizzy when he got off the carriage, and felt a little nauseous covering his mouth .

When he arrived at the Shen Mansion, he happened to meet Liu Heyu who was about to go out. Shen Mingan lived behind the Guangyi Hall, and Liu Heyu was basically helping to take care of the Shen Mansion.

Liu Heyu hadn't seen Shen Ming'an for a long time, and when he saw Shen Ming'an getting down from the carriage, he was both surprised and happy, and hurried over to help him, "Why did you go home today, sir?"

Then he said with righteous indignation as if remembering something: "Is that person surnamed Lu treating you badly?!"

"No." Shen Mingan laughed, patted his hand lightly as a relief, and forced a smile, "I just came back to look for something."

"What are you looking for, sir? I'm not in a hurry to leave, I'll help you find it together."

Shen Ming'an wanted to go back to the Shen Mansion to find the blueprint of the jade pendant. When Shen Ming'an saw this jade pendant on the snow mountain near Dongyang Village, he suspected that the style of this jade pendant was drawn for him by his mother himself. Shen Ming'an At that time, I wanted to search through his parents' relics to see if I could find the drawing from that year for comparison.

But after returning to Shangjing from Dongyang Village, things happened one after another, which made Shen Mingan overwhelmed. Later, because he was pregnant with a child and his health became worse, this matter was shelved.

Now seeing Wang Xingyan again, Shen Mingan couldn't wait for a moment.

Shen Mingan always carried the jade pendant close to his body. No matter what the reason was, such a resemblance of jade pendant appeared in Wang Xingyan's hands, and it would not make people feel suspicious.

Most of the Shen family was burned down by a fire. There were only a handful of relics left by Shen Ming'an's parents, counting them down, only his mother's favorite hairpin and jade bracelet, some scattered small objects and a box that had been sunk. A medical book that my father regards as a treasure.

The medical books in the wooden box were found by Shen Ming'an at Shen's house after he was admitted to the number one scholar and went to Beijing to take up his post.

The fire in Shen's house started from the front yard. Father Shen's study was in the back yard. The fire spread to the back yard and was put out not long after, so the fire in the study room was not that big.

There were few relics left by his parents, and Shen Mingan was reluctant to lose any of them, so he packed all his father's medical books that were still in good condition into wooden boxes, brought them to Shangjing, and placed them in a high place in his study.

He was afraid of seeing things and thinking about others, and he never dared to open the relics of his parents after they brought them home. Liu Heyu helped him move the wooden box down from a high place. The box was locked, and there was a layer of dust on it. But nothing has changed.

Shen's father's medical skills are well-known far and wide, which cannot be separated from diligent study and study. Almost every medical book has its corners curled up, and all kinds of annotations are densely written on it.

Shen Ming Anzai searched carefully for a long time, but he couldn't find the blueprint of the jade pendant, but when he put the medical book back into the wooden box, a letter fell out from one of his father's most read medical books, which could not be mailed in the future.

Wang Xingyan's former name was impressively written on the envelope's addressee. Shen Mingan knelt down on the ground, opened it suspiciously, and pulled out the yellowed letter paper. After reading it for a moment, he began to tremble uncontrollably.