After leaving the Yimen, Xue Bai made a cross-hand salute, feeling that it was a coincidence.
After escaping from crises twice in a row, he met Yang Shenjin, as if he had to receive some prize from Yang Shenjin.
"Xue Bai, you are very good." Yang Shen smiled stroking his beard, praised Xue Bai a few words, and finally said: "It's a pity that you couldn't see the right minister early enough to stop Ji Wen."
"Yes, I deeply regret what happened to Yang Zhongcheng."
Xue Bai agreed, but his politeness was a little distant.
He didn't want to get too close to Yang Shenjin for a very simple reason. He didn't like Li Linfu because he didn't have a wink, and getting closer to him would definitely affect his progress.
However, Yang Shenjin did not feel the alienation from the Du sisters and Xue Bai. He only regarded them as being restrained and continued to chat.
He was of distinguished family background, had extraordinary knowledge, and was rich in talents. He said many elegant things and was very proficient in practical matters. He could guess how much the hairpin on Du Mei's head was worth. Later, we mentioned that he also served as the Minister of Household Affairs.
A few interesting stories from the past when I was in charge of the country's balance of payments.
Xue Bai could see that this man was indeed quite talented and had good character, but he was too short-sighted. If it was not difficult to be a capable minister when the political situation was clear and clear, he didn't know what he would be like in the current dynasty.
Then, Xue Bai yawned greatly.
"Sorry, sorry, I didn't sleep all night last night, I was really tired."
Yang Shenjin just brought the topic to Taoism, hoping to open up Du Wei's conversation, but was interrupted by the yawn, so he had to say: "It doesn't matter, you have worked hard for the right minister."
"Goodbye." Du Jin was already impatient, so he took Du Wei's arm and left.
However, Xue Bai went to chat with the concierge for a while before leaving the Youxiang Mansion.
The Tian brothers were squatting across the street and rushed over when they saw him coming out.
"Why don't you wait in the front yard?"
Tian Shengong smiled and lightly kicked his brother, saying: "Aren't you such a coward? You don't dare to stay in the Prime Minister's Mansion."
"I'm not afraid, I'm afraid that I can't hide it on my face and people will see it as a drag..."
"Shut up." Tian Shengong cursed hurriedly.
Xue Bai couldn't help but smile and said, "Let's go."
He vaguely felt that something was missing around him.
So I reviewed the case again and considered what would happen if Jiwen confessed and what would happen to Mr. Pei.
What's missing?
"Mr. Lang." Tian Shengong asked, "Won't Jiao Nu follow you?"
Xue Bai suddenly realized and relaxed a little.
"It shows that the right minister already trusts me."
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"You haven't slept all night. Stop riding and get in the carriage."
"I'm not sleepy."
Xue Bai raised his hand and waved it, feeling that it was great to be young.
Although I am a little more squeamish now, my energy is good. In my previous life, I would have felt weak in my internal organs after staying up all night.
He was pushed into the carriage by Du Jin.
The door of the carriage was opened at the back, and the carriage was not big, so I just sat down. I opened the curtain and looked forward, and saw that the driver was Quan Rui.
The Tian brothers followed behind on horseback, so no outsiders could eavesdrop.
I can finally speak with confidence.
Xue Bai said: "I asked Jin Wuwei to find Quanfu in Dongshi last night. He said he was beaten badly, but fortunately he was not fatally injured. He was in Wuhoupu, Dongshi."
He asked Guo Qianli for help. To Guo Qianli, it was just a trivial matter, but to Quanfu it was a matter of life and death.
"The Jinwu Guards had already sent the people back when we left." Du Wei responded, "Thank you very much."
"There is also Wulang. I asked him to hide until the curfew is over before returning home."
"Have you seen Wulang? He's also home, with a bruised nose and a swollen face."
"Ji Xiang beat him." Xue Bai said: "By the way, I have to go to Yang Zhao's home to find him."
He just asked the concierge and found that Yang Zhao had gone home.
The Du sisters all wanted to know what happened last night. Seeing Xue Bai caring about others first when he opened his mouth, they felt that he was really kind.
Little did they know that thirty-eight people died in Chang'an City last night.
"What's the matter?"
"There is a slave in Ji Wen's mansion, and I promised to help her get out of her humble status."
"All in charge, go to Xuanyifang..."
"No need, I'll send you back first, I can go alone." Xue Bai said: "That guy..."
He didn't know how to describe Yang Zhao.
The Du sisters knew his good intentions and listened to his arrangements.
Only then did the three of them talk about what happened last night. Xue Bai spoke in detail, which made them tremble with fear.
When Ji Wen guessed that everything was Xue Bai's fault, Du Wei exclaimed and quickly covered her face with her sleeves.
Du Jin frowned.
"So, there are many insiders, Ji Wen, Wu Kangcheng, and Mr. Pei. Are you afraid that there are hidden dangers in this matter?"
"Don't worry." Xue Bai said: "We will definitely not be able to cover up the truth. There will always be news leaked. But there will always be more wrong news coming out at the same time. Li Linfu will not be able to discover me so quickly."
He has experience, so he knows that it is very difficult to find out the truth of a matter.
There must be a clue, but the clue is often not a long thread, but broken into individual threads, some are long, and some are only a short section after being pulled up with great effort.
The difficult part of investigating a case is to find those few clues and piece them together from countless wrong threads.
Finding a needle in a haystack takes time. What's more, Li Linfu no longer intervenes personally, but leaves the matter to a group of ruthless officials who are good at weaving accusations.
Just wait.
Wait until he accumulates the strength to protect himself first.
"What do we do next?"
"There is no need to spend your time covering up the truth. It will be impossible to fill the hole completely." Xue Bai said: "Strength, we must have strength as soon as possible."
Du Wei asked: "Leaving Chang'an?"
“In a world of great power, where can there be no strife?”
In the minds of people like Xue Bai, when he stays in Chang'an, the only people who can decide his fate are at least high-ranking officials. If he flees elsewhere, a county magistrate who breaks his family or a governor who destroys his family can kill him.
Retreat or advance, he can only advance.
"I know, you have to make progress." Du Jin said: "We have to let the East Palace fulfill its promise to give you official status."
"Yes, but we can't just place our hopes on them. Wu Lang and I have to pay a visit to Mrs. Guo Guo in the past two days."
The reason why Xue Bai left Li Linfu's relationship was because of helplessness. Yang Yuyao's relationship was definitely more worthy of leaving, so he took it as a matter of course.
"Um."
The conversation stopped.
Xue Bai asked: "Uncle Du, can you go?"
Du Youlin asked him to call him "uncle" so that he could scold his life-savior like an elder.
At this time, with such a question, the matter of visiting Mrs. Guo Guo's house immediately became serious.
Du Wei glanced at Xue Bai and felt ashamed when she thought that she had just misunderstood that he planned to go face to face.
Du Jin shook his head and said, "I probably don't want to go. I'll try to persuade him."
Having said this, the carriage slowly stopped at the side door of Du's house.
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In the front yard of Du's house, Du Wulang, who had a blue nose and swollen eyes, was visiting Quanfu.
Several servants who gave birth to children were busy taking away the smelly clothes, moving a stool for Du Wulang to sit on, and taking out a handful of pine nuts from nowhere for Du Wulang to eat.
"Wulang is really... he was injured and came to see Ah Fu. It's really a blessing to meet such a master in his previous life."
"Speak softly and don't wake him up. I just got a skin injury, it doesn't matter, it was left when I was fighting with someone."
Du Wulang waved his hand and ordered in a low voice: "Go and buy some incense threads, and when they are empty, go and put incense sticks on the Duan Inkstone?"
"There is no one who goes to burn incense at the master's house. It's fine for me to go there."
"I have something to tell him."
"Wu Lang, please tell him this."
"You can't tell me." Du Wulang was quite mysterious and moved a few times uneasily, "I can't tell you."
Several slaves couldn't help but scratch their heads.
"Wu Lang, how can Duan Yan listen, but we can't? We are also very loyal."
"Can you and Duan Yan be the same? If you don't... can you still say it?"
At this time, Quan Fu woke up again, opened his eyes and murmured: "How can I let Wu Lang come here in person?"
"Hey. You all go out. I'll talk to Quanfu. Close the door."
Quan Fu lay there unable to move, staring straight at the door closing, and couldn't help crying.
"Wu Lang, the villain really thought he was dead. He really didn't want to die. They said it was Xue Langjun who asked them to save the villain... Xue Langjun was sent to the Du family by the gods, right?"
"Ah, when you say that..."
Du Wulang was stunned for a while.
"I wanted to say that he is really capable, but he is so capable. Hey, don't cry. Why are you crying?"
The master and the servant had a conversation, but they couldn't say anything. They just sighed with emotion from time to time.
"He's really capable."
…
"Coming, coming! Back!"
Finally hearing this shout, Quan Fu suddenly wanted to stand up. Du Wulang hurriedly asked him to lie down, and he hurriedly ran to the yard.
But when he rushed to the front yard, he only saw two sisters entering the yard, but Xue Bai was not there.
When he heard a horse neighing outside the courtyard, Du Wulang's expression changed.
"Xue Bai, he has returned to the Xue family, has he?!"
Qing Lan ran out and happened to hear this sentence, which almost made her cry again.
Du Jin pursed his lips and smiled. Just as he was about to laugh at this silly brother, there was another "oo" sound outside the courtyard.
Everyone turned to look and saw Xue Bai rushing off again.
"Why are you back again?"
"Something happened."
Xue Bai glanced at Du Wei and walked towards the second courtyard.
Du Mei understood and quickly followed with her skirt in hand.
The two of them hurriedly entered a guest room in the east wing that had been unoccupied for a long time.
"Close the door."
Du Wei followed him in, quickly closed the door and bolted it. Turning around, she saw Xue Bai undressing.
She couldn't help being surprised, her face felt hot, and she didn't know what to do for a moment.
Then, Xue Bai took out a series of objects from his clothes.
He hid it so deep that it was difficult to dig it out.
First, he took out two and a half jade pendants.
"This is the order from Du Clan from Jingzhao. Return it to him."
Du Wei answered.
Then there is a piece of paper.
The strange thing is that a piece of the left side of the paper has been torn away. The words after the last column of "Important Things of Time" can no longer be seen, and half of the seal is also missing.
"What's this?"
"Mr. Pei gave me a letter about my contact with Wu Kangcheng."
Du Wei couldn't help but be confused and asked: "You later borrowed people from him, but he didn't ask you to go back?"
"I bought the same paper before I went to Jingzhao Mansion. I was planning to use it to deceive Ji Wen."
Destroyed.”
Du Wei nodded and whispered: "Then let's keep this."
"And this, it's a deed of deed that was found from Xin Twelve. We need to find out who he found to forge it."
"good."
…
Finally, Du Wei picked up a post and asked, "What is this?"
"Picked it up on Jixiang's body."
"Better greetings?"
"Well, these are all things that can kill us. Yang Zhao knows that I am not good at drinking, and I am afraid that he will get me drunk on purpose. You must keep it safe."
Du Wei held these objects and felt the warmth on them, as well as his trust. She nodded vigorously and firmly.
"Don't worry."
"Gone."
Xue Bai left the door without any further instructions and walked out.
Du Wei's eyes followed him and she felt that his back was very handsome.
"Hey, please put your clothes in order quickly."
~~
After bolting the door again, Du Wei looked around and didn't know where to hide the items Xue Bai gave her, so she simply kept them close to her body.
She thought to herself that no matter where he was hiding, someone might find him, but she would definitely be able to put it away.
The only thing is...it feels a little weird.
When she picked up the deed of deed, she glanced at it and was suddenly stunned for a moment, realizing that the buyer's name looked familiar.
"Is it...Princess Xianyi?"
Du Wei was startled, then picked up the greeting card and read it again, her face suddenly became nervous.
She quickly put her things away without telling Du Jin. She just said she was tired and went back to her room alone, sitting on the couch with her arms folded.
"I can't figure it out."
Why did Xin Twelve write the buyer as Princess Xianyi in Xin Twelve’s forged document?
Why does Jixiang want to visit Princess Xianyi again?
