Except for stealing

Shopkeeper Chen personally came and brought the best doctor, the best tonic and a lot of servants.

But Shen Yiqing had a high fever repeatedly, and finally retreated, but she never opened her eyes.

Pei Yan was busy with official duties during the day, and stayed by his bedside at night, unable to sleep a wink all night.

There was a knock at the door, Pei Yan pulled the quilt for Shen Yiqing and said, "Come in."

Jia Er walked in, and saw Mr. Pei sitting beside the bed, holding Shen Yiqing's hand, just looking at him quietly.

Jia Er came over and said in a low voice, "My lord, I checked all the people in that booklet, and it is indeed on the missing list."

Pei Yan didn't look back, and said calmly, "Where's Youlan Bieyuan?"

Jia Er: "Go back to your lord, the security there is heavy, we can't get close, we still need an opportunity."

Pei Yan responded, "Go out first."

"What roster..."

The voice was hoarse and unpleasant, weak and unassuming, but the two people in the room were all startled.

Pei Yan got up quickly, carefully approached Shen Yiqing, and said, "Qing'er, you're awake."

Shen Yiqing opened his mouth, but this time he didn't make a sound.

Pei Yan stroked his cheek and said softly, "You know what? You slept for two days."

Shen Yiqing: "..."

Where do I know where to go?

Jia Er said happily: "Mr. Shen is awake, I will tell the kitchen to prepare some porridge."

After Jia Er went out, Shen Yiqing raised her hand slightly, grabbed Pei Yan's sleeve, and finally squeezed out a word from her throat: "Water."

Pei Yan was afraid that he wanted to die of thirst.

He glared at Pei Yan while drinking water, making Pei Yan laugh.

He rubbed Shen Yiqing's hair, and said: "I have no conscience, I have guarded you for two nights, and I will kill you when I wake up."

Shen Yiqing drank water, and his throat finally felt better. He lay back on the bed, breathed a sigh of relief, and said tiredly: "I had many nightmares, one after another, ghosts and ghosts. In my dreams, I was thinking about why I had the amulet you gave me, and it caused bad luck. Then I remembered that the amulet was wet by me, so it didn’t work anymore. I found you and complained that the amulet you gave me was not waterproof, and I wanted you to ask for another one. I just woke up when I opened my mouth.”

Pei Yan poured him another glass of water, and replied, "I'll ask for it tomorrow."

Shen Yiqing turned over to look at him, touched her sore throat, said slowly, "What booklet did you just say?"

Pei Yan gave him water and said, "You don't talk much."

He covered Shen Yiqing with a quilt, and said: "Jia Er found it in the secret room of Song Xiwen's study. The two booklets are full, and they are all the detailed names and origins of the missing person."

Shen Yiqing's eyes brightened slightly, and said, "Is it possible to arrest people for interrogation?"

Pei Yan shook his head: "It's just a brochure, there is no other evidence. Jia Er copied a copy and put the brochure back without disturbing Song Xiwen."

Shen Yiqing nodded thoughtfully, and said, "Where's Youlan Bieyuan? Is that girl awake? Is it related to our investigation?"

Pei Yan shook his head again.

Shen Yiqing frowned: "Where is the Zhaixing Building?"

As soon as the words were finished, there was a sudden "cuckoo" sound from the window, Pei Yan went to open the window, and a snow-white pigeon flew in and landed beside Shen Yiqing's bed.

Shen Yiqing untied the bamboo tube tied to its leg, unfolded the note, and Pei Yan read it with him, but for a long while did not understand the meaning of the strange mess of symbols.

Seeing Shen Yiqing's eyes bent, Pei Yan asked, "What did you write?"

Shen Yiqing: "The people from the Zhaixing Tower found a strange place. It's in the basement of the building in the southwest. It only opens once a month."

Pei Yan: "What else?"

Shen Yiqing: "No, there are only these for now."

He closed the note, stroked the feathers of the pigeon, and the pigeon flew out obediently.Shen Yiqing said: "This is my family's secret language, I will teach you in a few days."

Pei Yan: "The Chen family still has a secret language for doing business?"

Shen Yiqing: "It didn't exist at first. My grandparents exchanged friendship when they were young, and they were afraid that the family would know. They created it originally. Later, it was used to deliver important letters."

Pei Yan raised her lips: "That's something to learn."

Shen Yiqing moved into the bed, patted the side beside her, and said, "Come up."

Pei Yan took off his boots and lay down beside him.

Shen Yiqing poked Pei Yan's face with her fair fingers, and said, "Second brother, go to sleep."

Pei Yan held his fingertips, looked at Shen Yiqing with a pair of bloodshot eyes, his eyes were quiet and gentle, without blinking, as if he couldn't see enough.

Shen Yiqing put his hands over his eyes, and he slowly closed them. After a while, he was tired and fell asleep.

After Shen Yiqing woke up, he recovered quickly. He picked out delicacies from mountains and seas every day, picked the best supplements, stayed in the yard to bask in the sun, read idle books, and was very happy.

When Pei Yan came back from the outside, he saw Shen Yiqing sitting under a tree in the small garden of the other courtyard enjoying the cool air, a large bunch of crystal clear grapes was placed on a low table beside him, he was lying on the rocking chair swinging his legs, turning a page of the book from time to time , the grape skin was spat all over the ground by him.

The young master returned to the look he had when he was in Chang'an, Pei Yan raised his lips and walked over, saying: "I will sweep the floor myself in a while."

Shen Yiqing looked up at him, ignored him, and ate another grape.

Pei Yan approached slowly and said, "Did you hear that?"

Shen Yiqing closed the book, raised her neck and spit out a grape skin, which landed right at Pei Yan's feet.

Pei Yan paused, laughed lightly, walked up to Shen Yiqing, leaned over to him, and said, "On purpose?"

The birds on the tree were chirping, and the roses in full bloom in the pavilion were swaying with the wind. A smile flashed in Shen Yiqing's eyes, but his face remained calm, and he leaned back slightly to avoid his approach.

Pei Yan supported both sides of the rocking chair with both hands, and moved closer. He stepped back step by step, and Pei Yan pressed on step by step, until Shen Yiqing couldn't avoid it, and the whole person stuck tightly to the rattan chair. Putting his handsome face in front of his eyes, with the look of a dandy molesting a boy from a good family, he smiled lightly and said, "You should keep hiding."

Shen Yiqing snorted softly, crossed his arms, and said, "Second Master Pei, you are a bit of a rascal."

Pei Yan directly covered his mouth with her lips, and kissed him hard on the lips.

Shen Yiqing's face turned reddish, and she wanted to hide, but seeing Pei Yan's eyes smiling, she kissed him again.

This time Pei Yan didn't kiss anyone, he looked down at the book between their lips, raised his eyebrows and said, "What are you doing?"

Shen Yiqing covered half of her face with the thin notebook, bent her eyes and pushed him, saying: "Pei Yan, you need some shame."

Pei Yan: "..."

He stood up, straightened the rocking chair, and was about to tease him, but suddenly stopped.

Shen Yiqing followed his gaze and saw that Jia Er and Wang Biao were standing, sitting or squatting like big horses and monkeys, eating melon seeds on the wind and rain corridor, grinning and staring at the excitement here .

Shen Yiqing: "..."

Shen Yiqing's ears were red, and she looked at Pei Yan with deep eyes.

Pei Yan took a step back calmly, Shen Yiqing stood up, without looking at Pei Yan, and walked into the house with grapes.

Pei Yan thought he was angry, looked at him sideways, and then felt a sharp pain in his foot, Shen Yiqing walked away.

Pei Yan gasped, and when Shen Yiqing entered the room, he narrowed his eyes and looked at those people.

In the blink of an eye, the wind and rain corridor returned to silence, a yawning toad hadn't closed its mouth yet, and half of the people here were gone.

Shen Yiqing fell asleep, and it was dusk when she woke up.

He sat up and stretched, and was about to go out for a walk, when someone came to report: "The Prince Yin's mansion is here."

Only then did Shen Yiqing remember that he had been here for several days, and he didn't go to visit Prince Yin himself, so he had to come to invite him in person, which was really wrong.

Shen Yiqing said: "I'll wait for Pei Yan to go with me, you go back first."

The servant said: "Prince Yin only invited the third son."

Shen Yiqing: "..."

He went back and changed his clothes, and met Jia Er on the way out.

Seeing him, Jia Er still had an unscrupulous teasing smile: "Mr. Shen, where are you going?"

Shen Yiqing squinted at him: "Prince Yin invited me to Zhaixing Tower, and you can tell Pei Yan when he comes back."

Jia Er smiled and frowned slightly: "I haven't figured out the details of the Zhaixing Tower yet, so be careful, my lord."

Shen Yiqing: "It's okay, Lord Yin watched me grow up since I was a child, and there are people from my family in the Zhaixing Building, so nothing will happen."

Jia Er saw what else to say, but saw that Shen Yiqing had already left the door in a hurry.

Just at this time, Wang Biao hurried over: "Is Mr. Pei back?"

Jia Er went up to meet him and said, "No, what happened?"

Wang Biao said, "That woman is awake."

Shen Yiqing followed Lord Yin's servants towards the direction of Zhaixing Tower. On the way, he met a restaurant, stopped, and said, "I'll buy some wine for Lord Yin."

The servant said with a smile: "Zhaixing Building has all kinds of fine wines, you don't need to spend money."

Shen Yiqing rested her thoughts, and said curiously: "Can there be Ruilu and Huanggan."

The servant praised: "Young Master Shen understands wine. Although the two things you mentioned are rare, there are also Zhaixing Towers."

Someone once wrote a poem to comment on Fanlou. The poem said——Liangyuan's singing and dancing are full of romance, and fine wine is like a knife to relieve sorrow.

This Star Picking Building is no different.

Yin Wang's servant led Shen Yiqing into a hall, and as soon as he entered, Shen Yiqing was dazzled by the magnificence inside.

Prince Yin greeted him with a smile: "Yiqing, do your eyes feel uncomfortable?"

Shen Yiqing put down her hand rubbing her eyes, and said: "There are too many gold and silver decorations, and I was dazzled by the light when I first came in."

Lord Yin turned his head to look, and said with a smile: "Okay, come in quickly."

Although the hall is large, it is almost full of attendants, singers and beautiful girls from the Star Picking Tower, Prince Yin really only invited him.

Shen Yiqing sat down with King Yin, and said with a smile: "Yiqing came to Wuling County for several days and didn't come to visit the prince, so he should be punished."

He raised his wine glass, motioned to Lord Yin, and drank it in one gulp.

King Yin laughed happily, clapped his hands and said, "Okay, okay, I have the demeanor of your father back then."

Shen Yiqing leaned over, winked at Prince Yin in an unreasonable manner, and said, "My father can tell you that when the prince was still in Beijing, you all drank up all the wine stored in Mingyue Tower. Have a drink with the prince."

No one expected that the injury on the girl's face was only half healed, and she could see her beauty.

Standing in front of the girl's bed, Pei Yan asked the doctor, "May I ask questions now?"

The doctor said: "If you can ask, it's not too long."

Jia Er sent the doctor out, closed the door, Pei Yan looked at the weak girl lying on the bed, and said, "Are you better?"

The girl looked around the room without saying a word.

Pei Yan: "What are you looking at?"

The girl said softly: "Young master who saved me that day..."

Pei Yan: "He's fine, let him see you later."

"That...that..."

"Girl beware, Yangpu mother and son have been captured."

The girl's eyes gradually became wet. She almost gritted her teeth and struggled to get up. Although she was furious, she couldn't hide her hatred: "I'm going to kill them...I'm going to kill them."

Jia Er helped her to lie down, and comforted her: "Be at peace, girl, you will see them when you get better."

Seeing that she had calmed down, Pei Yan said, "I don't know if the girl knows about Youlan Bieyuan?"

The girl shook her body slightly and observed Pei Yan vigilantly. Seeing that his face was calm, with no evil thoughts and no malicious intentions, she nodded timidly.

Pei Yan: "I wonder if the girl can talk to us?"

"Youlan Bieyuan..."

The girl muttered, her eyes were in a trance, and she said softly: "Are you going to send me back?"

Jia Erdao: "No one wants to send you back, we only ask you some questions, and we don't care where you go after that."

Orchid Bieyuan...

"I escaped from Youlan Bieyuan," the girl said, "I went in since I was eight years old, and I'm sixteen this year. This is the first time I've seen what it looks like outside now."

Pei Yan was slightly startled.

Youlan Bieyuan is a big place, with mountains, forests, and lakes inside, all surrounded by high walls.

From the outside, I saw the big and gorgeous appearance of the other courtyard, but I never knew what it was like inside.

"The people inside were all kidnapped, both male and female, and of all ages, but there are two things that are the same," the girl whispered: "They are all under sixteen, and they all have the appearance of a city."

The men and women who were kidnapped were given courses such as rites, music, poetry and books, and this was only part of it. They needed to learn a lot, and even had someone to teach kung fu in bed.Those who are particularly outstanding will be taught individually and taught differently, as if they were tailored according to people's preferences.

From time to time, someone will come to select candidates. Those who are selected will be taken out of the other hospital and never come back. Those who have passed the age of 16 but are not selected will also be taken out and never come back.

They all knew what would happen if they were not selected and taken out, and they could not escape death.

This girl's name is Yan'er, and her name in Youlan Bieyuan is Yasheng. She is already sixteen years old, but she has never been selected. She knows in her heart that she will not live long, so she desperately escaped. It is also her luck. Well, she escaped the guards, and she was unlucky, and met Yang Pu.

Pei Yan said: "Do you know who the owner of Youlan Bieyuan is?"

Yan'er shook her head: "No one knows, even those who come back to select candidates wear masks or masks, we can't see them."

Pei Yan frowned: "Is there something unusual about those people, such as their clothes and speech."

Yan'er was already very tired, she tried her best to think, and lost her voice.

Jia Er waited for a while, then sighed, and said, "I guess there is nothing more to ask."

Pei Yan nodded, turned around and said, "Call the doctor in."

As soon as he took two steps, his footsteps stopped suddenly, and Yan'er behind him suddenly said: "I remember one time when I was young, I saw one of the people who came here with a finger wrench on his hand. It was dark green jade, and it was engraved with a vicious big word. The python is very expressive."

Pei Yan was shocked, and suddenly looked at Jia Er: "Who did you say Yiqing was looking for?"

Jia Er's face was full of horror: "Yes...it is Prince Yin."

The only person in Wuling County who is qualified to use Mangwen is Prince Yin.

King Yin twirled the dark green finger on his thumb, and looked at Shen Yiqing, who was enjoying the singing and dancing, with a dark light in his eyes.

He patted Shen Yiqing's shoulder with a smile, and said, "Yiqing, you are almost at the age of weak crown, and you still don't have a sweetheart?"

Shen Yiqing propped her cheeks, looked at King Yin slowly, with a little drunkenness, and said, "No, there is no rush."

The King of Yin asked someone to refill the wine for him, and said: "Don't worry about your father and mother. There are outstanding people in Wuling County, and there are countless beautiful girls. If you like it, I will reward you as the master."

Shen Yiqing shook her head quickly, and said: "My lord spared me, I don't want to be taken care of by others. It's not that my lord doesn't know what my father will look like when he gets married. I'll tell you quietly..."

Shen Yiqing leaned close to King Yin's ear, and whispered: "My father has saved less than 100 taels of private money over the years."

Prince Yin laughed and sighed: "There are a few women like your mother in the world. If I had married her back then, I would have been willing to be controlled."

Shen Yiqing shook his head: "If there is no money, you can't drink fine wine, you can't enter the gambling house, and life is too boring, no, no, no."

Prince Yin rolled his eyes slightly, and said: "Marry a wife and marry a virtuous man, but you haven't married a wife yet. Of course it can be absurd."

He raised his hand slightly, and said: "There are not many people in this Star Picking Building. If Yiqing likes it, feel free to take it away."

While speaking, a group of dancers in exotic costumes stepped into the doorway.

Shen Yiqing was not very interested, raised his glass to the King Yin's wine, and said with a smile, "Yiqing respects the prince."

King Yin clinked glasses with him, and said casually: "I also only recently heard that the second son of the Pei family has entered Dali Temple. It's really a tiger with no dog."

Shen Yiqing's hand holding the wine glass tightened slightly, but soon, he waved his hand and said with a smile: "Pei Yan can't do it. When you enter Dali Temple, you just have to stop once a day. It was ridiculous before, but it's still the same now."

A gleam flashed in Yin Wang's eyes: "Oh? But I heard that he solved a big case in Zhao County."

Shen Yiqing laughed happily, and he laughed for a long time before saying: "I was with him at the time, and the black shop was also unlucky. I met a group of chivalrous people from the rivers and lakes, and they almost cleaned them up. He went to pick them up." credit."

The attendant filled him with wine, and King Yin took a sip, "Oh?" He said, "Is that so?"

Shen Yiqing couldn't figure out what King Yin was doing with this case, so he changed his mind, and he could only say this, if there is something wronged, the case will be solved and then an apology will be enough.

He took a sip of wine slowly, and was about to say something about Chang'an, when King Yin said again: "The county magistrate of Nazhao County is also a fool, he doesn't even know that there is such a big den of thieves in the area under his jurisdiction."

Shen Yiqing echoed.

King Yin: "Master Song told me about this a few days ago. He went to Zhao County to pick up people himself, but unexpectedly he didn't see the gang of thieves."

Shen Yiqing winked at the person standing behind him, who immediately poured wine for him neatly.

His face was flushed, and he said drunkenly: "Of course he can't see it."

King Yin: "How is this?"

Shen Yiqing: "That group sent people to escort Chang'an that day."

"This..." King Yin said, "Isn't this in line with the case handling process?"

Shen Yiqing glanced at King Yin, his eyelids were drooping, and he didn't know what he was thinking in those shrewd eyes, he said with a smile: "I don't know what the process is for handling a case, but the county magistrate of Zhao County is a wonderful person. Got a lot of good stuff from him."

King Yin scoffed, "It's just a sack with some money."

Shen Yiqing looked down at the singing and dancing below, pretending not to hear.

But when he saw this, he was suddenly taken aback, and fixed his eyes on the group of dancers, and saw a bearded girl among the group of girls, who looked very familiar.

"Yiqing has a good eye." Prince Yin shook his fan, gave Shen Yiqing a wink of "you understand me", and said: "This Hu girl has only come to Wuling County these days, and she has attracted the attention of many people, but He is clean and self-sufficient, and has not favored anyone so far."

Shen Yiqing was puzzled in his heart, but there was no abnormality on his face, he looked at the woman very strangely, shook his head, and said with a smile: "My lord doesn't know, because of this woman, my mother beat me so hard that I couldn't get out of bed for half a month. "

Prince Yin: "Is there anything else?"

Shen Yiqing told the whole story in the future, and said: "My life is important, I can only give her some money and let her go."

"Your fate is very hard. I remember that when you were young, you fell off the horse once and it was okay?" Prince Yin laughed and patted Shen Yiqing on the shoulder, and said, "Your mother is not in Wuling County, so I will make the decision for you."

Sizhu rested, and after watching the dance, the girl saluted the prince, looked at Shen Yiqing, and smiled softly: "Young Master Shen, we meet again."

Shen Yiqing leaned against each other, squinted her eyes, looked at her for a moment, and said: "Sure enough, Shen and the girl are destined, come and have a drink."

Pei Yan entered the Zhaixing Building by himself, asked the whereabouts of King Yin, and ran all the way upstairs, but the men behind him couldn't catch up.

Pei Yan pushed open the door, but there was no figure of Shen Yiqing in the hall, only a few guys were cleaning, and he looked over strangely.

Pei Yan slowly clenched his hands and said, "Where is Prince Yin?"

The man apologized and said with a smile: "Yin Prince has just left."

Pei Yan: "Where is the young master who drank with him?"

Dude: "This little one doesn't know."