"Chengyu, when will you go back?" Sun Xian suddenly asked.
Gu Chengyu pondered for a while, "I haven't made any plans yet, it may take two days."
"Then I have to go back first, I miss little Baozi." Sun Xian was actually embarrassed to say it, he also missed his wife.
"Brother Ziyuan, who is the little bun?" Zhu Pang asked curiously.
Ye Zhiqiu also smiles when he thinks of the little buns.
"That's his son, it's so funny! This nickname was given by Cheng Yu, I think it's very appropriate." Ye Zhiqiu is not married yet, so he likes round little buns very much.
"I see!"
Gu Chengyu remembered that Zhu Pang and Zheng Lun were about the same age. They were both nineteen years old this year, but they were not married yet.
Zhu Pang always resisted marriage because he didn't want to marry a wife to take care of his own children. However, last year, his father ignored his objection and made an appointment for him to be the eldest daughter of Kong Jin, the Imperial College priest.
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As for Zheng Lun, the elders in his family wanted to arrange a marriage for him, but his father refused. Their second wife wanted to tell Deng Lun about her niece, which made his father very angry.
The natal family of the second wife of the Hou Mansion is also considered prominent. She is from a well-known and scholarly family in Yingnan Mansion. But what she is talking about is the concubine of her family's concubine. Why isn't Deng Lun's father angry?
This is clearly a humiliation. The fourth master is a concubine, but his son is a legitimate son. Besides, among his two sons, he values Deng Lun the most. How could he ask him to marry a concubine and ruin his future?
This was the most violent moment of resistance from Deng Lun's father, who insisted that he wait until Deng Lun was admitted to the Jinshi.
Gu Chengyu knew this because Deng Lun told him once when he was drunk. Rich families also have a lot of disputes, and concubines are not valued in aristocratic families.
I was despised and suffered a lot of grievances from childhood to adulthood.
"Then Brother Sun, please go back first! If you don't go back, my second sister will come to me to accuse me!" Gu Chengyu came back to his senses and joked to Sun Xian.
Sun Xian didn't refute, just smiled.
Ming Yan stood in the yard outside and glanced towards the east wing. Gu Chengyu happened to see it and knew that he had something to report.
"You guys stay here, I have something to do, I'll come over later." After Gu Chengyu said that, he stood up and walked towards the door.
Ming Yan silently followed Gu Chengyu back to the main room. As soon as he entered the room, he reported the information he found to Gu Chengyu.
"Sir! I just went out to investigate, and there are indeed many secret guards around our village. I estimate that this area is under the control of the eldest prince."
Gu Chengyu frowned, then he might have to live in Zhuangzi for a few more days.
"Be smart and don't let those secret guards discover you. Keep an eye on me for the past two days. Those people haven't noticed you, right?"
Ming Yan shook his head quickly, "I was very careful, so I probably didn't notice it."
Gu Chengyu nodded. When it came to inquiring about information, Ming Yan was smarter than Ming Mo, so he felt relieved.
"Then you continue to stare and ask Ming Mo to keep an eye on Hoi'an to prevent him from secretly meeting his companions and not letting the secret guards find out about us."
There was a booklet in Hoi An's hand, and Gu Chengyu was afraid that Hoi An would be helpless and wanted to secretly give the book to his companions and hand it over. Therefore, it is very important to keep an eye on Hoi An.
"Young Master is kind-hearted, but Hui'an is a big trouble. What he did will not affect the Young Master, right?" Ming Yan became worried. He had heard before that the master of Hoi'an was working for the emperor.
Wouldn't it involve his young master?
"There was no good way to do it at the time. We couldn't just hand the person over, right? We've all been saved, so we can't regret it now."
Gu Chengyu shook his head, only feeling that he had not yet entered the court, but the dispute in the court had opened a wide net for him, which was really hard to guard against.
Sun Xian and Ye Zhiqiu went back together in the afternoon. Zhu Pang was very single and felt that there was no one to control him in the village, so he didn't see the steward sent by Jian's family to find him, and just refused to leave.
Deng Lun felt that he was at peace here with Gu Chengyu and didn't want to go back home. So, the two of them discussed and planned to stay in Gu Chengyu's village for two days. They called it a nice place to stay with him, fearing that he would be lonely.
The sky was getting dark, and Gu Chengyu was reading in the study.
Ming Yan hurried over from outside, "Sir! I noticed that the secret guards around me had changed, so I followed them to the other courtyard. It turned out that there was a lot of movement in the other courtyard, and they were moving things."
"Oh? Have you seen what it is?" Gu Chengyu put down the book and looked at Ming Mo.
"It's a box. There are many boxes. Some of them have seals on them. I saw them carry them out from another courtyard with my own eyes. However, I can't see clearly what is written on the seal and I don't dare to get too close.
.Although those people don’t know how to do light kung fu, their martial arts are not bad. I think it’s better to be careful.”
Gu Chengyu nodded, "Well done, be careful in everything."
Then, he thought of those boxes, "Besides the boxes, is there anything else?"
"When I went there, I only saw boxes. However, there were several carriages nearby." Ming Yan thought about it for a moment, then remembered the carriage parked at the door.
Gu Chengyu began to think deeply. This carriage must be carrying these boxes and sending them elsewhere. What kind of things need to be transported out at night? Is it because they cannot see the light? There is a seal on the box, and the seal seems to be affixed only when escorting escorts.
Suddenly, Gu Chengyu remembered the Wumen Escort Agency that they visited when they returned to Beijing two years ago. At that time, they picked up the escorts, and the escort items were some big boxes. Although they didn't see what was in the boxes at the time, Gu Chengyu guessed it was money.
Mostly.
Could it be that the box in the eldest prince's courtyard was escorted by the Wumen Escort Agency? Didn't Mr. Han reveal to him at that time that he could introduce him to his master? If his master is the eldest prince, then this matter
That makes sense.
Did Hoi An go to the eldest prince's villa really just to find pamphlets? No, maybe it had something to do with the money.
Two years ago, Hoi An followed Hu Mao to investigate the case of mountain bandits. Could this money be dirty silver stolen by bandits?
When he returned to Beijing two years ago, the eldest prince complained of illness. The timing was very coincidental. Could it be to avoid the limelight? Because Hu Maoqing had already found out about him at that time, right?
Gu Chengyu suddenly became a little cold-hearted. Those merchants who passed by were all people of Dayan. Did the eldest prince really order the murder of these innocent people for the sake of money?
But these were all his speculations, maybe things were not what he thought at all. He took a deep breath, maybe the teacher was right, Dayan was really in trouble inside.
According to what Ming Yan said, the eldest prince must want to transfer that batch of money. Maybe they will all evacuate tonight, after all, the eldest prince has announced that he will return to Beijing on a certain day.
I just don’t know, if there is really silver in those boxes, what is the silver used for? Is it?
Gu Chengyu thought about it and was extremely frightened, but later felt that it was impossible. The eldest prince was so favored that he would not do this.
He sighed slightly, but he was still not in the court. He received too little information, and there were many clues that were not coherent.