Chang’an’s First Beauty

Chapter 71

It was in the middle of summer, and the cicadas from far and near rang up and down in his ears. Lu Yan woke up from dreams, opened his eyes dimly, and saw a certain cool-loving half of his body stuck to the wall. He patiently endured for a while. He grabbed her by the wrist and held the person in his arms.

The summer clothes were so thin that the corners of the person’s cold eyes changed as soon as she put them on.

The temperature of the man’s soldering iron made Shen Zhen involuntarily hold his breath, his eyes moved from the incense to the beam of the room, and he grabbed the palm of his hand.

Lu Yan pulled her jaw, pressed her nose against the tip of her nose, and pecked her lightly.

With eyes facing each other, Shen Zhen ghostly raised his hand and touched his chin.

Lu Yan does not grow beards, he always shaves cleanly and neatly. No matter how hard he shaves, his age is also here. A man in his twenties, when he wakes up, will have some thin stubble.

Shen Zhen doesn’t have one, so he likes to touch him. This person used to be too cold and the tentacles were cold, she didn’t dare, but now she is not afraid.

The man chuckled, “Have you played enough?”

There was a little smile in Shen Zhen’s eyes, and he said nothing.

The thin white fingertips still wandered on his face.

After a while, Lu Yan pressed her backhand under him and rubbed her Bai Shengsheng’s neck with his chin until it became blush, to hot, until she smiled and begged for mercy before he let go of her.

After washing, the two had a meal together.

On the table are a bowl of yellow pumpkin porridge, a bowl of bi-ying vegetable porridge, a plate of white-cut chicken spread evenly, a small plate of sauce, a plate of chicken shredded in vinegar, and a plate of taro. Simmering choy sum, and some steaming sugar cakes.

Shen Zhen holding a porcelain spoon slowly stirred the pumpkin porridge in the bowl. There are also lotus seeds, red dates, yam, and wolfberry. With her movements, there is a touch of sweetness, which is really a bowl of porridge with delicious colors and flavors.

After a long while, Lu Yan put down the wooden chopsticks, picked up the prepared towel, wiped his hands, and said, “Madam Fang’s craftsmanship, are you used to it?”

Shen Zhen nodded.

He thought that he was obviously more picky than her, and the people he chose were naturally very good.

“Yeah.” Lu Yan stood up, squeezed her face, and said, “When I come back, I will take you to a place later.”

Shen Zhen suddenly raised his head, stood up, looked at him and said, “Where are you going?”

Lu Yan said, “You’ll know when the time comes.”

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On May 28th, Jingzhao Mansion.

As soon as they entered the yamen, Lu Yan and Sun Xu received an anonymous report letter-someone converted a mansion in Chongrenfang into a place where people gather for gambling.

The Great Jin Dynasty was prosperous on the surface, but the national treasury was in shortfall. Emperor Cheng Yuan raised taxes last year and ordered full-length gambling to be banned. Anyone who dares to violate the order and operate a casino without authorization will be severely punished once discovered.

The minimum is five years’ imprisonment.

The residence of Chongrenfang is the first place where foreign businessmen live when they come to Beijing. It has an excellent geographical location. It is the imperial city to the west, the East city to the east, and Pingkang Fang to the south. It can be said to have the largest flow of people in the whole city. local.

Sun Xu straightened the black hat on his head, and said: “The casino business is not trivial. How about Master Lu going with me? Let’s split up, surrounded by front and back, and the thief-like servants in the province will report.”

Lu Yan threw the wolf’s hair in his hand and nodded, “That’s fine.”

When he walked to Chongrenfang, Cao Gong joined the army with Yali, and immediately surrounded the residence. Lu Yan and Sun Xu entered through the front and rear doors respectively, and caught the gambler in the room.

“Ah!” howled for a while.

Lu Yan followed his reputation, and saw two big men in the middle of the house, pressing on a man crying for his father and his mother. The man had only four fingers left, and he kept kowtow to a woman sitting on a high place. .

At this time, Ya Li rushed in and packed away the physical evidence in the house one by one.

Everyone from the government came, and immediately became a mess.

Sun Xu commanded Yali and took away all the people in the house.

The imperial court banned gambling, firstly because gambling is huge profits and shouldn’t be run by the people, and secondly because the casinos are going to cause troubles every three to five. Whatever things go bankrupt and pay for their lives, in this dark house, It never stopped.

It’s just that Lu Yan and Sun Xu, no one thought that the owner of this casino was Suning Bo’s wife, Shen Lan.

Lu Yan frowned and forgot.

This one in front of me should be regarded as… Shen Zhen’s aunt?

Shen Lan knew that the evidence was present and she could not tolerate her sophistry. So when she returned to Jingzhao Mansion, no matter how Lu Yan interrogated her, she would only have one sentence, “Before the adult is tortured, can I see my uncle? ”

Lu Yan rushed outside the door and said coldly: “Where is Bo Suning? Have you invited it?”

“It’s already at the door.”

As this person was talking, Bo Suning walked in and raised his hand to Shen Lan, hating iron and steel, then put it down reluctantly, and said: “I would not let you do something… why would you dare to recite? Hold me! Hey!”

Shen Lan smiled coldly, and suddenly felt that her retribution had come too soon.

When the Shen family had an accident, she gave up the Shen family, so when she had an accident, no one would come to protect her.

Lu Yan looked at the couple who were flying in a catastrophe, and pursed their thin lips. He guessed that soon, Bo Suning would speak to him and ask for a chance to speak alone.

one two Three……

Bo Suning turned around and turned his head back to Lu Yan and politely said: “Master Lu, my wife and I have two words to say separately. I wonder if it would be convenient?”

Lu Yan got up and went out, “Uncle, you are polite.”

Uncle Suning smiled and immediately said: “Count me owe the son a favor.”

It’s just that Bo Suning and Shen Lan couldn’t even dream that the cell they were in was the “West Twin Room” of Jingzhao Mansion. The so-called West Double Ownership means that there is a secret room on the west side of this cell, and it is the same as the original plan in this room.

To put it bluntly, it is designed for monitoring.

This is the secret of Jingzhao Mansion, except for Zheng Jingzhao and the two young Yins.

Lu Yan walked into the secret room and sat down. After a while, she heard Shen Lan speak, “Uncle, the way you cross the river and demolish the bridge is too inferior! The money is in your bag, and I will carry it, so that you can straighten those cheap hoofs in the Xiaokua courtyard? ”

Uncle Suning frowned and said: “It’s all about this time. Madam Peng also has to think about Brother Peng. He is my aunt. If I lose the title, he will have nothing.”

Shen Lan said with tears in her eyes: “It’s difficult for a court like Suning Bofu to find someone to commit the crime?”

“The crime?” Bo Suning moved away and sat down. “You think it’s that easy? What is the place of Jingzhao Mansion? Is this the local county government?”

“You and I have been married for many years, so I will speak straight if I have something.”

Shen Lan said quietly, “The uncle did the Shen family’s debts, right?”

Uncle Suning was taken aback, “What did you say?”

“Before the Yunyang Mansion, you had a drink and chat with your elder brother until dawn. You took the Shen family’s seal at that time.” Shen Lan smiled: “You forged the loan receipt and handed it over. Jin’s Qian Yinpu, right?”

Uncle Suning said: “You woman, you are simply unreasonable!”

“I thought you just wanted to catch King Teng, but I didn’t expect that there would be Xu family behind you.”

“I can’t understand what you are saying.”

“Don’t pretend.” Shen Lan stood up and smiled with tears in the corners of her eyes: “Last year, on the ninth day of October, the day before the Shen family paid the debts, you and the eldest son of the Xu family, Xu Wei and King Teng, were drinking in the golden building. I was there. Listening to you next door, it’s clear.”

Bo Suning looked at her gritted teeth, “Dare you!”

“The three of you, laughing together and discussing how to enjoy my niece’s body together! Are you her uncle! Are you still a human?”

As soon as the words fell, Lu Yan’s body became stiff.

“Don’t tell me nonsense here!” Uncle Suning said.

“I’m talking nonsense? If it wasn’t for Shen Zhen to run away, she would have fallen into your hands long ago! Not only can she threaten Yunyanghou with her, but also allow you to have fun at will, these eight thousand pens are worth it!”

“Shen Lan, if you dare to go out and talk nonsense about what you just said, you won’t survive tomorrow night.” Bo Suning raised his hand and slapped her, and said in a low voice, “Be sober, I’m not just a son, Brother Peng. , You confess your sins so that when you come out, you can still have your son to fulfill your filial piety.”

Bo Suning turned and left.

Shen Lan covered her face with her hands and whimpered.

After a while, Lu Yan walked in, sat down, and said directly: “My official advises you, don’t believe him.” Lu Yan took the opportunity to put some medicine in the tea in front of her.

Shen Lan’s pupils shrunk slightly, looking up and down, “These are all real bricks, how can adults…” She threatened Bo Suning just to save herself, she didn’t really want to destroy the Xie family.

Lu Yan ignored her panic, and she said to punish Xin, “As the saying goes, if you have a stepmother, you have a stepfather. Wait for your wife to go out? Xie Peng still doesn’t know if he will live until that day.”

He slowed down, and then said, “Of course, there is another possibility. He can’t recognize the wife standing in front of Xie Peng.”

Shen Lan’s hands on her knees secretly pressed hard.

Lu Yanzhu Xin’s skill has always been great. From the title of Xie’s family to Xie Peng’s life, Shen Lan’s eyes were completely stunned in the end.

“What do you want to know?”

“Where is Shen Wenqi’s official seal?” Lu Yan said.

Shen Lan was silent, “Without the official seal, it is long gone.”

Lu Yan knocked on the table casually, in a posture that he wanted to follow her to the end.

Shen Lan drank tea, and after an hour, her expression began to become blurred.

“Where is Shen Wenqi’s official seal?” Lu Yan said again.

Shen Lan opened her mouth and whispered: “Buried in the wine cellar of Lishan Villa…”

After Lu Yan wrote a note, he said: “On the ninth day of October last year, King Teng and Suning were anxious for the eldest son of the Xu family. What did they say in the Jinlou?”

Shen Lan’s gaze gradually faded, as if he was thinking of that scene, and then, in a low voice, he repeated the conversation of those men…

What’s more, it’s all the joy of how three men play with women.

Lu Yan listened to these words that were so dirty that they could no longer be dirty, his thin lips pressed tightly, and his whole body seemed to have fallen into the deep sea… it suffocated him.

While talking, Shen Lan’s head “clammed” on the table and fell into a deep sleep.

Lu Yan returned to the signing room with a deep face like a shadow envoy. When Sun Xu saw it, he couldn’t help raising his eyes and said, “What’s wrong with Master Lu? But what’s wrong?”

“Master Sun.” Lu Yan’s throat rolled, and he said word by word: “I’m optimistic about Mrs. Xie’s family. No one is allowed to visit. I guess someone might kill her.”

Sun Xu’s eyes were solemn, “Is it so serious?”

“Yes.”

Lu Yan sat down, wrote again, wrote a submission, folded it, and put it in his arms.

In the evening, when Yang Zong prepared the carriage, Lu Yan bent over and said in a low voice, “When will Shen Hong enter Beijing?”

“They are in the post outside the capital right now, the fastest, and they can enter Beijing tomorrow morning.”

“Then tomorrow morning, it won’t be dragged.” Lu Yan turned the Bai Yu’s finger in his hand, and said: “Send this piece of paper to the East Palace, and by the way, tell His Royal Highness that the person he asked me to find can enter Beijing tomorrow. .”

Yang Zong bowed and should be.

——

The temperature tonight is warmer than usual, the night wind is sluggish, the leaves are rustling, and the birds flutter with their wings scattered.

Sitting in the pavilion, Shen Zhen looked down and lifted his cheeks, thinking about what Lu Yan said in the morning.

Where is he taking her tonight?

Today, Tang Yue and Mo Yue He Ye are mysterious… it’s really a bit weird.

As the sky darkened, Lu Yan walked through the courtyard, hurriedly walking to her side, and said, “Where is your drapery hat?”

“Here.” Shen Zhen took the curtain hat from the round stool on the side.

Lu Yan nodded, and then said to Tang Yue, “Are everything packed?”

Tangyue nodded, “My son, it’s already done.”

Shen Zhen frowned and looked at the two.

Lu Yan turned around and rubbed her soft hair, “Go first, I will tell you wherever I go.”

The carriage bumped and screamed, crossing Zhuque Avenue, all the way south, into Baoningfang, and stopped in front of a house without a plaque.

Shen Zhen was anxious along the way. Seeing this empty, half-person house, he suddenly felt another chill, rushing from his fingertips to his heart.

Across the hanging corridor, Lu Yan led her into the room, lit the lamp, and whispered, “Sit down.”

Shen Zhen looked around. Although the outside of the house was a bit desolate, all the furnishings in the house, such as the bed, screen, makeup, table, incense burner, etc., were obviously just recently cleaned up…

Thinking of Tangyue’s actions today.

The little girl’s back was stiff, and some cold sweat was faintly oozing out, as if she had guessed his purpose of bringing her here in the middle of the night. Is he going to let her go?

Lu Yan looked at her clear eyebrows and couldn’t help thinking, if he hadn’t paid back the eight thousand for her and let her be looted by King Teng, would she still live?

The man took a breath, his thoughts confused, his throat was full of bitterness.

The candlelight flickered, and his eyes met. Shen Zhen looked at his inexplicable expression and became more sure of what he was thinking.

“My lord has something to say, just say it straight.” Shen Zhenrou said.

“I sent someone to bring your brother back from Yangzhou, as well as your maid and maid.”

Hong Er.

As soon as the voice fell, Shen Zhen’s heart hung a huge boulder for several months, as if it smashed down with a “clang”, the boulder sank to the bottom of the sea, and she no longer had to fear that others would find that she had become the outer room of the powerful.

She should be at ease and content, shouldn’t she?

Shen Zhen looked at the man sitting in front of the Huanghuali wood screen, and suddenly felt that he was familiar and unfamiliar.

Lu Yan took out the peach wooden box, put it in her hand, and said, “There are the title deeds of this house, two shops in the West Market, and a box of goldfish. You live here by yourself and bring your brother, I Don’t worry, remember to buy two more maids back.”

Shen Zhen didn’t say a word, but looked at his eyes quietly, and gradually clenched his fingers.

“You like to eat the food made by the mother of the house, then leave her with you.” Lu Yan said softly, “If you have any difficulties, use that pigeon to send me a message at any time, huh?”

Lu Yan pointed to the homing pigeon on the low couch.

Suddenly, there was a night breeze, and the window screens in the room fluttered freely.

His voice rolled back and forth in her ears, gradually turning into a buzzing sound, and she couldn’t listen anymore.

Lu Yan frowned and took a deep breath. As he was thinking about how to start his next words, his heart suddenly hurt.

Shen Zhen lowered his eyes and said dumbly: “I don’t want your money, nor your pigeons.”