The old man Qing Yao's old eyes flashed with surprise, and he said with a smile: "Your Excellency, you really want to ask the old man. The old man has been an orphan since he was a child. This name was given by his deceased parents. What does it mean? The old man also
not understand."
Hearing this answer, Lu Hanjiang didn't react and just looked at him with a smile. Qing Yao saw that the other party had no reaction. After hesitating for a while, he asked again: "The noble man cares so much. I wonder what's wrong with the old man's name?"
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After a moment of silence, Lu Hanjiang laughed and said: "Qing Yao, Qing Nu, the daughter of Qing Yao. This is the name of Jade Girl. I am just curious why my father-in-law would use the name of a woman."
Qing Yao was startled for a moment, then his expression relaxed, and he smiled bitterly and said: "The noble man is laughing at you. The old man's parents are both farmers. Maybe he chose this name casually, but he didn't know that there is such a meaning behind the name."
"Oh, it's a coincidence."
Lu Hanjiang seemed to mention it casually. He bowed to him and said, "Don't worry, I'm sorry. My sister-in-law brought this unknown disaster to me today. I will be responsible for it to the end. If you have any requests, please ask me."
Qing Yao said no, Lu Hanjiang shied away from him for a few more times before saying goodbye. He took the two girls back to the inn to rest, and then secretly asked Cui Yixiao, who was accompanying him, to fetch some things for him.
When Cui Yixiao first heard what Lu Hanjiang wanted, he was also very puzzled, but he was calm by nature and would not raise doubts at this time. Since the Lord had given orders, he would just do it.
So, after returning to the room after dinner in the evening, Yongle saw Lu Hanjiang reading "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" with the lamp on.
Yongle was not surprised by Lu Hanjiang's interest. After all, she had seen it in the study room at home. The entire bookshelf was almost full of miscellaneous notes and anecdotes, or Qimen gossip. Anyway, there was only one volume of Confucian classics from beginning to end.
The Analects of Confucius given by Master.
It was still early, and Yongle with such a lively temperament would definitely not be able to sleep, so she walked around with nothing to do, so she simply lay on Lu Hanjiang's back and read a book with him.
But after all, this was just Lu Hanjiang's personal interest, and Yongle felt bored after reading only two pages.
However, just when she was about to lose interest, she discovered that on the page that Lu Hanjiang was looking at over and over, there was such a description between the lines, which made her read it out unconsciously -
"Ten miles to the east, it is called Qingyao Mountain, but it is actually Qingyao, the secret capital of the emperor? Hey, isn't this the name of the old man today?" Yongle said in surprise.
"Well, yes," Lu Hanjiang closed the book and said with a smile, "I thought I had heard this name somewhere, and I asked them to find these books based on my impression. It seems that I did remember it correctly."
"Qingyao, Qingyao Mountain, so that's what it means."
Yongle suddenly said, she is a royal princess, so she has naturally read books. She was also surprised at first. The so-called Qing Yao refers to Qing Nu, a green-waisted jade girl. She is the goddess in charge of frost and snow in rumors. How could a grown man take this?
Such a name.
Lu Hanjiang explained to her: "It seems like this. Legend has it that there is a special kind of grass on Qingyao Mountain. It is shaped like orchid, with a square stem, yellow flowers, and red fruits. People who eat it can make people...
The complexion becomes beautiful.”
Yongle is a woman. When she heard that this kind of fairy grass can beautify her face, her eyes immediately became twinkling. Lu Hanjiang laughed dumbly, tapped the other person's head with his finger, and said: "This is just a legend, who knows?"
I don’t know where Qingyao Mountain is.”
"Oh" Yongle lowered his head in disappointment.
Lu Hanjiang put down the book, then looked at the sky outside, stood up and said to Yongle, "I'm going out."
In the blink of an eye, before Yongle could say anything about taking her with him, Lu Hanjiang turned into a gust of wind and left the door, closing the door behind him.
Yongle froze on the spot, and after a long while, she went back to bed to rest with a sigh of relief.
After Lu Hanjiang left the inn, he used Qinggong to step on the eaves for several steps. In a few ups and downs, he arrived outside the city. The Jin Yiwei had already prepared horses here. Lu Hanjiang rode on them and headed towards the path into the deep forest.
For about a quarter of an hour, Lu Hanjiang reined in the horse's rope and quickly lit countless torches around him. All the guards hidden in the darkness appeared and illuminated the dark forest with the light of their hands.
"Sir, it's over here." One of the guards in golden robes hunched over to guide Lu Hanjiang.
After walking a few steps forward, Lu Hanjiang came to a tomb. Although this tomb in the mountain forest was desolate, it had been cleaned up very cleanly. There were no weeds growing around it. It was obvious that someone came to clean it from time to time.
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Lu Hanjiang ordered people to illuminate the tomb with firelight. He looked down and saw the name of the deceased - Xun Yinge - engraved on the stele.
Lu Hanjiang stared at the tombstone. After a moment, he waved his hand, and the guards on both sides immediately stepped forward, holding shovels and shovels, and began to dig out the tomb.
Jin Yiwei moved quickly, and soon the coffin in the tomb was revealed, and several people worked hard to move it outside.
One of them pinched his nose and stepped forward to take a look. Although it had been buried in the soil for several years, it was still very well preserved. He frowned when he saw that the coffin was not old. He turned back and said to Lu Hanjiang: "Sir,
Something seems wrong."
Lu Hanjiang stepped forward to take a look and asked, "What do you think?"
The Jin Yiwei who came here was a good expert in funeral arrangements, and he pointed out the problem in one sentence: "Sir, this person was buried lightly. It was more than ten years ago when he was buried. The body must have long ago decayed, and the body must have been corrupted long ago.
Even this coffin is not immune, but you see"
Lu Hanjiang followed his direction and saw the old coffin. He understood what he meant, so he nodded slightly and ordered: "Open it and take a look."
"yes."
Several Jinyi guards pried open the coffin neatly. Someone covered his mouth and nose and stepped forward to take a look. He immediately turned back and bowed to report: "Sir, there are only some clothes inside, and there is no body!"
Lu Hanjiang narrowed his eyes slightly, pondered for a moment, then turned around and left, leaving behind his last instructions: "Clean up this place."
"Yes." After hearing this, the Jin Yiwei behind him immediately started to restore the tomb again.
Lu Hanjiang, on the other hand, hurried back to the city. He did not return to the inn directly, but sneaked into the academy under the cover of night. If it was as he expected, then that person should be waiting for him at this moment.
Sure enough, when Lu Hanjiang came to the academy, all the lights in the courtyard were lit. There was no one in the academy, so naturally he couldn't light the lamp at night. The only one who could do this was this young man he met during the day.
Old man.
Lu Hanjiang fell with the wind, and a gust of evil wind blew out nearly half of the lights in the courtyard. He stood in the shadows and looked at the hunched Qing Yao in the lights, wearing a green shirt, waiting for him.
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"Sure enough, you have discovered it." Qing Yao's voice was neither sad nor happy, and his turbid old eyes were extremely bright at this moment, showing shock, helplessness, fear, and a bit of hope.