Chapter 106 Sorrow
"Qianxi." Yingxiang scolded softly: "Miss, you don't like gossipers the most. Don't say that anymore."

Millennium stuck out his tongue.

Ye Wanqing said calmly: "Be careful with your words and actions. When you go back, you will be fined one month's salary."

Qianxi immediately admitted her mistake: "I will never dare to do it again."

"Pass the food around."

After dinner, Liao Fuyu and Chu Xiaoyan still hadn't arrived.

In the private room next door, three rounds of drinks had already been served.

During the journey, Chu Anlan and Ye Chenxi came over several times.

Chu Anlan was very unhappy: "I will beat up Chu Xiaoyan again later! It would be fine if he didn't come, but he didn't let Fu Yu come. What's the point of leaving you here alone?"

As he spoke, the smell of alcohol wafted out with a slight scent of heat.

Ye Wanqing looked at Chu Anlan, whose drunk eyes were clearer and brighter than lake water: "Is the prince drunk again?"

"I'm not drunk." Chu Anlan looked at her with sparkling eyes: "I'll help you beat someone up, okay? Just tell me who you want to beat up."

"I don't want to beat anyone." Ye Wanqing said patiently, "The night breeze by the lake is very cold. The prince drank too much tonight. Go back to the inn and rest early."

"Will you take me back?" Chu Anlan asked.

Ye Wanqing's eyes were gentle: "Well, let's go back together."

There was a light cough at the door.

Ye Chenting raised his hand and knocked on the door frame: "Qing'er, have you finished your dinner? If you have, I will take you back to the inn."

Ye Wanqing replied: "It's good to use."

Inn.

Ye Chenting did everything himself. After asking people to prepare hot water, he turned to look at Ye Wanqing and Chu Anlan: "Chu Shaozhen and the others are going to go boating in the lake, you should go to bed early."

After that, he specifically said to Chu Anlan: "Chu Shengxi and the others always like to make noises. You are not like them. You can't sneak out in the middle of the night."

Chu Anlan stuck out his tongue: "You saw through me."

He was also thinking that after Ye Wanqing fell asleep, he would go to the lake to look for her.

Ye Chenting glanced at him and said to Ye Wanqing, "Qing'er, he always listens to you. You can talk to him yourself. I will go back to read first. You two should go to bed early."

Ye Wanqing nodded: "Second brother, take care."

Ye Chenting returned to the room.

After the door was closed, Ye Wanqing looked at Chu Anlan and said, "Tomorrow morning, I want to go up the mountain to pick some peach blossoms and bring them back to make wine. It will be used as the wedding wine at the wedding."

"You and I'll have our wedding wine?" Chu Anlan's drunken eyes revealed an excited look: "I'll go with you!"

Ye Wanqing smiled: "Okay."

Chu Anlan returned to her room happily.

……

the next day.

As soon as the day dawned, Chu Anlan got up from bed, took a bath, changed clothes, tied her hair, and fumigated her clothes and body with incense.

After doing everything, he knocked on Ye Wanqing's door.

The two of them, plus Ye Chenting, took their servants and bamboo baskets and went up the mountain to pick peach blossoms.

Bathed in the morning light, the city of Lin'an is filled with curling smoke from cooking fires, mist-shrouded lakes, endless mountains in the distance, and the sweet scent of peach blossoms in the wind.

Before I could fill the basket with flowers, I saw a servant coming up the mountain path, panting: "Second Young Master...something happened..."

The people who were picking flowers all stopped.

Ye Chenting put the peach blossoms in his hand into the bamboo basket and asked, "What happened?"

The attendant said with a dry mouth, "Last night, the eldest young master and his group went boating in the lake and had an argument with someone... This morning, someone fished out a body from the lake. The dead was the person who had the argument with them last night, the county magistrate's nephew and one of the tribute students taking the imperial examination this year... The eldest young master and young prince Xiaoye have been arrested." "What?!" the three were shocked.

County government.

When Ye Chenting brought his men, the area outside the county government office was already crowded with people.

The sound of crying could be faintly heard from inside the door.

Outside the county government office, the onlookers were whispering.

"Master Ling Xuan is so pitiful. His mother died of complications during childbirth. He finally passed the imperial examination and was about to become a successful man, but he was gone just like that."

"Yesterday he was celebrating his passing of the imperial examination, but today he has turned into a corpse. It's really unpredictable. Is his wife going to give birth in the next two days?"

"She is about to give birth. Master Ling did not stay in Jindu to wait for the results of the imperial examination. He rushed back to Lin'an early to take care of his wife who was about to give birth."

"I heard that the murderers include the prince of the royal palace, the prince of the county, and the eldest princess's son. I'm afraid Ling Xuanbai is dead."

"The heaven is blind!"

"..."

Ye Wanqing frowned as she listened.

Suddenly, Chu Anlan beside him spoke up: "Are you so sure that the murderer is the son of the prince, the prince, and the eldest princess? How come you saw them kill someone with your own eyes?"

The discussion stopped abruptly.

The person being questioned by Chu Anlan looked up at him and said, "Of course I didn't see the murderer kill anyone, but how many of the royal family's descendants are kind? In their eyes, we ordinary people are nothing but ants.

The power, money and official positions of the Western Wei Dynasty were firmly controlled by the royal family and the aristocratic families. For them, killing a person is much easier than stepping on an ant! In the final analysis, it is just a good fate and reincarnation! "

The man became more and more excited as he spoke, and even his beard was trembling.

Chu Anlan was so angry that he laughed: "Have you ever met the royal family? Who among them told you that ordinary people are ants? Who said that killing people is easier than stepping on ants? Do you really think that the laws of the Western Wei Dynasty are just for show? Do you really think that the royal family and the aristocratic families can ignore the laws and kill innocent people at will?"

The man was speechless after being asked.

Chu Anlan glanced at the onlookers and said, "Before the murderer is found, anyone who continues to talk nonsense and slander good people will be sent to jail!"

Everyone around fell silent.

Chu Anlan then looked at Ye Wanqing and Ye Chenting: "Let's go in and take a look first."

The three of them entered the county government office unhindered.

When they just arrived in Lin'an City, the county magistrate Qu Jie sent someone to deliver a visiting card, saying that he wanted to pay a visit to the princess and the prince.

Ye Chenting rejected the visiting invitation.

Today, Qu Jie met them for the first time.

A middle-aged man in his forties lost his loved ones overnight. Although he tried his best to hide it, he could not conceal the sadness all over his body.

After the ceremony, he invited them to sit in the meeting room.

Ye Chenting said: "Master Qu, please accept my condolences."

Qu Jie smiled bitterly, "Although Xuan'er is my nephew in name, I treat him as my own son. When he was born, his mother died of complications during childbirth. Three months later, his biological father took his second wife home in a grand ceremony, and within half a year, he had another son... During those years, the Qu family fell into decline, and I was away studying, so I couldn't reach him, causing him to suffer a lot. It was not until I came to Lin'an to become an official that I took him to my side and raised him, that he was able to live a good life and study...

Because of his childhood experiences, he was inevitably a bit stubborn and didn't like to give in, but he treated his friends and the people with all his heart. I thought he would be a good official who was honest and loved the people in the future, but he was gone just like that..."

Before he could finish his words, Qu Jie's voice was already choked with sobs.

The servant brought him tea, and he drank it reluctantly before choking and saying, "I lost my composure and made you laugh."

Ye Chenting said "My condolences" again.

Qu Jie sighed.

On the side, Chu Anlan was worried about Chu Shaozhen and the others, so he couldn't help but speak up: "It's been the whole morning, Sir Qu, have you found the murderer? If you have, then release the innocent man as soon as possible."

(End of this chapter)