When Wei Hong took the order and went out, he saw Yang Xinyue coming from the opposite side.
"Mr. Wei." Yang Xinyue reached out to stop the person with a flattering smile on her face, "Mr. Guojiu, are you still angry?"
Because of Tang Zhou's letter, Wei Hong was in a bad mood. He didn't want to talk to Yang Xinyue too much. He just looked at the blue cloth bag in her hand and replied indifferently, "I am not an adult. You are in the room."
After saying that, he started to leave.
Yang Xinyue curled her lips, smiled and cursed with her expression.
She thought to herself that Uncle Guo was cold and fierce, but Wei Hong was just a servant who served Uncle Guo, yet he dared to shame her. If he wasn't afraid that Uncle Guo was still angry and would be scolded when he went in, She wouldn't ask this question.
Wei Hong saw what she meant, but he didn't care about her and kept walking.
Unexpectedly, the sword hanging on her waist accidentally caught the hem of Yang Xinyue's clothes, making her unsteady and tilt her head back.
Wei Hong was also startled, and subconsciously turned around to support her.
He clasped her shoulders with one hand, held the back of his head with the other, and quickly pulled her up.
It happened quickly, and it ended quickly.
Before Yang Xinyue came back to her senses, Wei Hong had already gone far away without knowing it.
She scratched her cheek, and Wei Hong's hanging hair fell on her face, making her face itchy.
"Why are you pretending to be cool? You're just a guard." She rolled her eyes at Wei Hong's back.
Then he turned around, with another grimace.
When he knocked on Tang Zhou's door and went in, Tang Zhou had already gotten up from the bed.
"Uncle Guo, the cloth bag has been found." She crept close to Tang Zhou, not daring to raise her eyes to look at anyone. She stretched out her hand respectfully and looked at her feet. She saw that she was almost in front of Tang Zhou. , then quietly raised his eyelids, saw that Tang Zhou had stretched out his hand, and immediately put the cloth bag into his hand.
After that, quickly move back.
"Uncle Guo, you..."
"Get out!" Tang Zhou didn't want to say a word to her.
Yang Xinyue was a little surprised, her eyes lit up and she asked, "Are you going to forgive me..."
"Prefect Yang has no idea how to teach his daughter. Ask him to come see me."
Hearing this, Yang Xinyue turned pale again. She understood that Tang Zhou didn't take her seriously at all, and even if he wanted to punish her, he didn't bother to talk to her. Instead, he wanted to talk to her father.
"Yes, Xinyue is resigning."
When she went out, Tang Zhou had another look on his face.
He felt relieved when he touched the familiar cloth bag. He reached around the table and opened the bag, poured out all the jelly beans inside, and then counted them one by one.
Count from one to ten.
Then count from ten to thirty.
Then there are ten, fifty, sixty, and sixty-seven in the west.
Only when you have a lot of them can you be satisfied.
She immediately picked up the jelly beans and smelled them carefully, confirming that they were the ones Shen Zhixi gave her.
I was satisfied at first, but then I frowned for some reason.
He started to peel off the oil paper from the jelly beans, peeling them off one by one, and threw the oil paper on the ground. The jelly beans were piled aside carefully, and he was going to ask Wei Hong to prepare more candy paper when he came back.
If someone else touches it, he thinks it's dirty.
Then, he took the empty cloth bag to the washstand in the house. There happened to be water in the basin. After wetting it, he took the soap and rubbed it on the cloth bag. After wiping out the foam, he rubbed it carefully and washed it.
Unfortunately, the blood stains on the bag had been stained for several days and could not be cleaned off.
But he couldn't see it anyway, he just wanted to feel at ease.
After washing it once, I asked the servant at the door to come in and change the water, and then washed it several times with clean water. I finally gave up when I couldn't even smell the scent of soap.
In order to make the cloth bags dry faster, he even asked someone to prepare a stove.
In the summer, people who came in carrying the stove were sweating profusely, but Tang Zhou didn't feel the heat, so he put an iron shelf on the stove and put cloth bags on top for drying.
He sat in front of the stove, and even though his face was sweating, he didn't feel dry in his heart.
Perhaps, when the cloth bag is dried, there will be news about his wife.
Soon, a servant of the Yang Mansion came over to report that Magistrate Yang was currently handling a case in the hall and would not be able to see him until later.
The one who arrived before Magistrate Yang was Wei Hong.
He has already found out the information. When he came from Yuejing City, he also brought secret guards with him, so it would be more convenient to find out the matter.
"Sir, the kitchen said they gave you food, but you didn't want it?"
"I can't eat it." Tang Zhou looked up at Wei Hongchu and asked straight to the point: "How is the investigation going?"
He asked easily, but there was an imperceptible nervousness hidden in his words.
Unconsciously, the hands on his knees were clenched into fists.
He wanted to listen, but there was another contradictory voice in his heart telling him not to listen.
If Wei Hong hadn't opened his mouth quickly, he might have really refused.
"Back to the young master, I found it. There is no such person as Liu Yuanwai in Yanzhou City, and there have never been two women named Bai in the city who have ever set up a rouge stall. Bai Linglan, there is no such person."
Baigulan, there is no such person!
Tang Zhou didn't say anything, just turned sideways silently.
The stove had already been carried down, and the cloth bag on the table had been dried. As expected, her news had arrived.
But this news is worse than not coming.
He knew Wei Hong's ability, so Wei Hong's words were not wrong, but why did he still not believe it?
"Sir, this is enough to prove that what was said in the letter is true. That Bai Linglan lied to you all the time. Otherwise, a member of the Communist Party of China has some status. You will find out after a little inquiry, but in fact there is no such person. There is a member of the Communist Party of China. , but the surname is not Liu, nor is it as good as the young master you said before, that there are more than a dozen concubines in the family, and they have not left the province to do business in the past two months, and none of them are suitable."
"perhaps……"
Tang Zhou frowned, subconsciously trying to find an excuse for Shen Zhixi.
"Perhaps his surname was not Liu originally. He wanted to forcefully marry Linglan. Linglan was afraid that I would seek revenge from that member of staff in the future and was worried about being in danger, so she deliberately gave me the wrong surname to lie to me."
But maybe he didn't even notice that when he said this, his tone was hollow.
"Son..."
"You." Tang Zhou raised his hand to touch the cloth bag, held it in his palm, and changed the subject: "Go and get some clean oil paper, sixty-seven sheets. These jelly beans will melt if not wrapped."
"Son..."
"Go ahead."
Wei Hong knew that the jelly beans were related to the white lily of the valley. After all, his young master had never eaten candy before. He didn't want his young master to think about that heartless woman anymore, so he naturally didn't want to help collect the jelly beans.
"Young master asked your subordinates to go and collect the punishment. I will go here after I finish my work."
After saying that, he turned around, not afraid that disobeying Tang Zhou would result in him being punished even more severely.
He left simply, and of course he didn't see a tear slipping from the corner of Tang Zhou's eyes.
In fact, Tang Zhou didn't want to cry, and he didn't even have any reaction to the sore nose that made him cry. However, the tears in his eyes seemed to have his own consciousness and fell down without anyone's reaction.
"Lily of the valley."
"Lily of the valley."
“……”
"Madam, I don't believe it until you tell me it yourself."
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Shen Fu Zhong.
Shen Zhixi, who was lying in the courtyard enjoying the cool air and eating grapes, sneezed.
