Xue Ya was sitting by the pond leaning against a stone and was thinking about something. Looking at it from a distance, it was indeed an extremely beautiful picture.
Mr. Xueya's appearance and behavior are obviously worthy of his ranking among the best in the Yongfeng Hualu.
Ruan Yueli just glanced at him lightly and said, "He often sits there alone, not knowing what he is thinking."
Luo Junyao looked at Ruan Yueli and said, "You don't like him."
Ruan Yueli was also very frank and said with a smile: "Is it strange that I don't like him? Only if you meet my second brother will you know what real dislike is." Luo Junyao thought of Mr. Ruan Fu, and with his
It is clear how your temper and character will behave.
She looked at Ruan Yueli and said, "You know what I said is different." Ruan Yueli's dislike was by no means just the rejection and dislike of an outsider who suddenly broke into her life. Ruan Yueli was actually serious.
He thought for a while before replying: "You're right, he makes me feel very uneasy. Even if he is not the eldest son of the Ruan family, he is just an ordinary person I meet on the street. I don't like him. I guess
My father felt the same way, and he didn't treat him like a lost son."
Luo Junyao thought to himself: "Maybe it's because Ruan Ting really murdered his first wife and his son back then?"
Ruan Yueli looked at Luo Junyao, smiled and said, "Would the princess also think that those speculations outside are true?"
Luo Junyao blinked his eyes and said innocently: "What kind of guess are you talking about?"
Ruan Yueli sighed softly and said: "My father... is probably not a good person, but if you say that he murdered his first wife and legitimate son for his career, I don't believe it." Luo Junyao looked at her and said nothing. Why didn't he believe it? He did it for Ruan
Didn’t your family betray you as your daughter?
Ruan Yueli said: "The princess doesn't understand my father. He...how to put it? He will let me marry for the sake of the Ruan family and his own power, but he will never let me die for the sake of the family and power. Because in his eyes
A woman is meant to get married, the only difference is who she marries. The princess and princess can get married, so why can’t his daughter? But asking me to sacrifice my life is definitely not what he thinks is right."
"It's a very interesting moral concept." Luo Junyao said noncommittally.
Ruan Yueli smiled and said: "Students are always a little strangely stubborn. Besides, my brother was already eight or nine years old at the time, and my father was about to be transferred back to Beijing. I think if he really had that kind of intention, he shouldn't wait until that time. Of course.
, these are my own feelings, maybe there is some inside story? After all, he does seem to hate my father. I believe it is not just because my father later married my mother."
Ruan Yueli knows how people outside are secretly talking about the Ruan family now. Although she intuitively thinks that her father is not that kind of person, who knows what happened back then?
"The princess hasn't said yet why she came to me specifically?" Ruan Yueli changed the subject and asked with a smile.
Luo Junyao was about to answer when he saw Master Xueya, who was sitting by the lake, suddenly turned to look at them, then stood up and walked over.
"Brother." Ruan Yueli nodded slightly and said, "This is..."
Xue Ya whispered: "I know, this is the Princess Regent." His voice was elegant and sweet, like the sound of a piano, "I have met the Princess Regent."
Luo Junyao said with a smile: "Master Ruan, there is no need to be polite."
Xue Ya chuckled softly and said: "Princess, you should call me Xue Ya. You call me like this...I can't react for a while."
Luo Junyao said politely: "Master Xueya, your name is very special, but what is its special meaning?"
Xue Ya smiled and said: "Not really, if I must say it... maybe it's because I was picked up from under the cliff on a snowy day, right?"
"Sorry." Luo Junyao said softly.
Xue Ya shook his head and said: "Princess, you don't have to be like this, it's already a thing of the past."
Luo Junyao smiled and asked: "Master Xueya, do you have anything else to tell Miss Ruan? Do you need me to avoid it?" They were strangers to each other. Xueya couldn't come here specifically to say hello to her, right?
?
Xue Ya glanced sideways at Ruan Yueli and said softly: "I heard that my sister's wedding date has been decided?"
Ruan Yueli's face darkened slightly, obviously unwilling to mention this matter.
However, Xue Ya didn't seem to see her expression. He stretched out his hand and handed something over and said, "I don't have anything to offer, so I'll give this to my sister."
Ruan Yueli was startled and saw clearly that Xue Ya was holding a jade-carved doll.
It was a female doll carved from a whole piece of warm jade. It was not very exquisite but had a somewhat naive appearance. But the clothes and dress of the doll looked a bit like Ruan Yueli, and Luo Junyao noticed it.
She couldn't help but want to laugh. She really couldn't imagine the cold and reserved Ruan Yueli turning into such a chubby and cute appearance as a jade doll.
Ruan Yueli was stunned for a moment, then slowly took it and whispered: "Thank you, brother."
Xue Ya smiled, shook his head and said, "No need." Then he said nothing more, turned around, walked back to the lake and sat down again.
Ruan Yueli looked down at the jade doll in his hand with a somewhat complicated expression.
Luo Junyao said: "Does he sit there in a daze every day?"
Ruan Yueli raised his head, looked at the back of the figure sitting by the lake and nodded: "He rarely greets people and doesn't walk around the house. He spends most of the day either in his yard or sitting there."
After that, Ruan Yueli looked at Luo Junyao carefully and said, "The princess came here specially just to see him, right?"
Luo Junyao blinked and did not answer the question. Ruan Yueli sighed and led her outside, saying, "I underestimated others in the past. It seems that no one in Yonghuang City is really a fool."
Including the second young lady of the Luo family, the regent princess, who she originally thought was better off than herself.
From the time she reminded herself of the possible marriage between the Ruan family and the Bai family, to the sudden visit to the Ruan family today, it was clear that this princess was not just a pampered girl.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After leaving the Ruan family, they had just been sent out by the Ruan Yuelou brothers and sisters when they saw the carriage of the Prince Regent's Palace parked at the door of the Ruan Mansion.
The four people in the group were stunned. The curtain of the carriage had been opened, and Xie Yan walked out of it.
"I have met the prince." Brother and sister Ruan Yueli and Ruan Yuelou quickly stepped forward and saluted.
"No need to be polite, I am here to pick up the princess." Xie Yan got off the carriage and waved.
The Ruan family brother and sister said yes respectfully. They were not familiar with each other and naturally had nothing to say to each other. After the two parties said goodbye, the Ruan family brother and sister watched the three of them get into the carriage before turning back to the house.
In the carriage, Luo Junyao leaned on Xie Yan's shoulder and asked curiously: "Isn't the prince busy today? He made a special trip to pick me up?"
Xie Yan lowered his eyes and looked at her and said, "I just heard that the princess went to Asakusa Lane in the west of the city?"
Luo Junyao felt a little unkind when he heard the voice. He immediately sat up straight and wanted to move towards Luo Jinxing, but Xie Yan raised his hand and held his shoulder.
The two looked at each other for a moment, and Luo Junyao decisively admitted his mistake, "I was wrong."
"What's wrong?" Xie Yan said helplessly.
Luo Junyao said: "I shouldn't just take my second brother there."
Xie Yan sighed and said: "I know the strength of you and Jinxing. Even if we go to the west of the city, as long as there is no accident, we can escape unscathed." Luo Junyao heard this and said in confusion: "Then what are you worried about?"
Xie Yan said: "The place in Asakusa Lane is too messy, and it cannot be solved by your high strength."
Luo Junyao thought it was actually okay. She had seen what the underworld was like.
"Don't worry, if you don't believe me, just ask my second brother, there is nothing wrong with us." Luo Jun said.
Luo Jinxing twitched the corner of his mouth and nodded, "Yes, she scared the people in Asakusa Lane."
Luo Junyao said angrily: "It's because they are too cowardly." A small gadget that was not very powerful frightened those people so much that they did not dare to move.
Luo Junyao said: "Didn't Yu Mingqiu go to Sister Luo's place to recover from his injuries? Why are you still talking so nonsense?" It only took a while, but the news had already reached Xie Yan's ears.
Xie Yan raised his eyebrows and said, "Yu Mingqiu didn't tell me that."
"Then who else?" Luo Junyao was confused. It couldn't be the old man named Bian in Asakusa Lane, or Lei Ke, right?
Xie Yan said: "Think about it carefully, who else have you met?"
Luo Junyao reacted quickly, "Fengya Tower? Did you also go to the west of the city today?"
Xie Yan nodded. In fact, when they passed by Fengya downstairs, he was upstairs.
It was only then that he realized that this girl had only taken Luo Jinxing with her and ran to Asakusa Lane. Although both of them were not weak, Luo Jinxing himself was not a scheming person. Although Xie Yan was smart, Xie Yan always
Still can't help but worry.
Luo Jinxing sat aside and watched his sister skillfully hold Xie Yan's arm and act cute. Naturally, he also saw the helplessness and smile on Xie Yan's eyebrows, and felt a wave of toothache.
After making sure that Luo Junyao would not run to the west of the city or any other dangerous place today, Mr. Luo jumped out of the carriage and went home by himself.
It makes me heartbroken to see my sister being so close to other men!
The prince and the princess went out separately, but came back together.
When the stewards and girls of Jingyuan saw the two returning hand in hand, they couldn't help but smile in despair.
Only Qin Yao'er, who was abandoned by Luo Junyao, was very unhappy. She complained to Ling Lan that the princess left them and went to look for the prince. It wasn't enough to be bored in the mansion every day. Did she even have to look for the prince when he went out? Ling Lan
Lan reluctantly raised her hand and patted the head of this little girl who was a little shorter than herself, "I'll find out when you get married too."
"..." Qin Yao'er was speechless: I'm still a child.
"You went to see your uncle? What did your uncle say to you?" Luo Junyao lazily lay on the soft couch when he returned to the room and turned to ask Xie Yan.
Xie Yan glanced at her and said nothing. Luo Junyao reached out and grabbed the hem of his clothes and shook him. Xie Yan then sat down next to her and said, "It's nothing, just some of the movements in the west of the city in the past two days."
Luo Junyao asked curiously: "You didn't ask about the destruction of the Yao family back then?"
Xie Yan shook his head, "He refused to say."
Luo Jun frowned, he refused to say?
He refused to say that he might want to solve these things by himself, but this is obviously impossible. Yao Zhong sent the Jinluan Talisman to them, just dragging them into the water. Or should I say, with Yao Zhong's strength alone
, may not be able to solve these things. This has nothing to do with personal ability, but involves too much.
Then there is only the second possibility. This person's identity... is very important. Yao Zhong is not sure whether Xie Yan will be on his side.
Luo Junyao shrank his neck. Could it be his father? No, no... Luo Junyao shook his head. She still trusted her father's character. She believed that he would never do such a wicked thing no matter what the reason.
matter.
Xie Yan lowered his head and saw the strange expression on her face. He raised his hand and patted her back and said, "Don't think so wildly."
Luo Junyao smiled, took his usual notepad and charcoal pen from the short table on one side, and lay down on the soft couch to write and draw. In a moment, he placed the person who was still alive at the right time.
The names are listed.
"Take a look, do you think it might be one of the people here?" Luo Junyao asked.
Xie Yan glanced at her and looked at her in surprise.
There are only six names on the list, but their identities and locations before the incident happened to the Yao family are clearly written down. This is not a random writing, it requires accurately selecting from the many dignitaries in Shangyong who are of the right age, status, and who have the opportunity at the time.
There are also people who might do that.
Xie Yan still remembered that not long ago, Yao Yao even couldn't figure out the identities of many powerful people in Shangyong.
He stretched out his hand to pull her up and lean into his arms, "Did you go to check specifically?"
Luo Jun groaned twice, "What's there to check? I've scanned the information of all the officials, generals, and nobles of the third grade and above in Shangyong, excluding those who are dead and who obviously didn't have the time or opportunity at the time.
That’s all that’s left.”
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Xie Yan asked: "Which one do you think is the most likely?"
Luo Junyao looked at him hesitantly and said nothing. Xie Yan said lightly: "But it doesn't matter."
Luo Junyao clicked on two of the names, "Although Aunt Huang said there is only one left, but... I think both of them may have participated in what happened back then. This one should be the one Aunt Huang wants to protect, but uncle wants to
I’m afraid it’s everyone who wants revenge.”
Xie Yan lowered his head and looked at the booklet in his hand. Luo Jun pointed at two names with his slender fingers - King Mu and Dingyang Marquis Shang Puyun.
After a moment of silence, Xie Yan asked: "Do you think the person the Emperor Auntie wants to protect is Marquis Dingyang?"
Luo Jun shook his head and said, "Not bad."
Xie Yan frowned slightly and said: "When the Yao family was exterminated, Marquis Dingyang was only in his early twenties." Xie Yan seemed not even interested in mentioning it to King Mu.
Luo Junyao raised his eyes and looked at him, "At that time, the old Marquis of Dingyang was in his prime. When the Yao family was wiped out, the Marquis of Dingyang was in Qinan. It was less than three hundred miles away from the Yao family's ancestral home in Xinzhou."
Xie Yan remained silent, and Luo Junyao sat up and said softly: "In the summer of the sixth year of the Great Sheng Dynasty, the Xie and Bai families fought in Qinan with numerous casualties. In July, a flood broke out in Qinan, and people thousands of miles away in Zeguo were in dire straits. Old Dingyang
At that time, Hou was sent to Qinan by Emperor Gaozu to take charge of the overall situation. He once visited the Yao family and broke up with the head of the Yao family on bad terms. Half a month later, the Yao family was exterminated. After two months, the people of Qinan basically returned to normal.
It was also because he managed the flood in Qinan in just two months, a disaster that was almost a catastrophe. Except for the initial casualties, it hardly caused many casualties and greatly stabilized the situation in the world at that time. Old Dingyang Hou even
At that time, most of the Central Plains was almost as famous as a god. It is said that people in the Qinan area still enshrine the spiritual tablet of the old Dingyang Marquis in every household, and some people build temples to worship him."
"But... the old Marquis Dingyang fell ill less than two years after this incident, and died seven years later. He was not yet forty when he died."
Luo Junyao said: "After the death of the old Marquis of Dingyang, the Marquis of Dingyang has remained unknown and has never had any outstanding performance. But I checked some records from that year and found that this Marquis of Dingyang is not mediocre and incompetent.
Man. His mediocrity also started at that time, when he was also in Qinan. Some people say that he kept a low profile to avoid being jealous of the royal family."
The room seemed particularly quiet. Luo Junyao rested his head on Xie Yan's lap, looked up at him and said: "Ayan, these are all my guesses and need to be verified." To be precise, it is information analysis, but of course this cannot be regarded as evidence and
result.
Xie Yan stroked her silky hair and said softly: "I will have someone check it out."
Luo Junyao said: "It is a bit strange for a merchant to send his eldest grandson to a Jianghu sect to practice martial arts since he was a child."
If Shang Yue likes to practice martial arts, he may not be unable to hire a famous teacher due to his status in Dingyang Hou Mansion. Although it is difficult to find a top master like the master of Wenjian Pavilion, the goal pursued by a prince of the Hou Mansion is probably not to become a generational master.
Expert right?
Xie Yan grew up in Shangyong. Didn't he become a master of his generation? With the achievements of the old Dingyang Marquis and the royal family's favor to merchants, even if Shang Yue wanted to hire the same teacher as Xie Yan to learn martial arts, it would probably not be difficult.
.
Luo Junyao suddenly remembered something, opened his eyes and asked: "Lei Ke said that Mingyin Pavilion did not invite those masters from Jianghu sect to the capital. Is there anyone from Jianghu Pavilion?"
Xie Yan's eyes were deep and he said in a deep voice: "Yes."
