you got on my tail

Lan Ziqing continued to investigate the case, while Bai Xuehe still didn't care about anything, eating and sleeping.

In the early morning of the second day, Bai Xuehe was still sleeping in the room, Wei Lan brought breakfast and entered the door lightly.

Suddenly there was a sound of "crash, la la", as if many things had fallen to the ground. Bai Xuehe frowned and raised his eyes, and what caught his eyes was Wei Lan's frightened expression.

"Snake! My lord! Snake!" Wei Lan's fingers were numb with fright, and the thin knife in her waist was already out of its sheath. Just now, Bai Xuehe groped for his chest and found that Xiao Hei had turned into a snake again, nestling obediently on his chest , Sleeping with tongue out.

Seeing that the little snake was about to wake up, Bai Xuehe quickly covered his mouth, frowned and said, "Why are you panicking? I raised this snake."

Wei Lan was stunned for a moment, seeing that the little snake was really not big and had no intention of biting, so she slowly put away the knife and took two steps back in confusion.

"It's not poisonous, I raised it to scare people, but I didn't expect to scare you." Bai Xuehe also lost sleepiness, and got up to get dressed, Heidan woke up dizzy, and he stuffed it into his sleeve.

Wei Lan put the breakfast on the table, got up and was about to go out, when suddenly he heard someone rushing over, sweat broke out on Bai Fu's forehead, he took a cup of tea from the table, and when he saw Wei Lan standing there, he poured out the tea lay down.

"What's the matter?" Bai Xuehe didn't blame, and continued to pass the tea, Bai Fu took a sip, looked at Wei Lan with flickering eyes, Bai Xuehe smiled and said: "Tell me, don't you know Mr. Wei?"

"It's nothing, just Mr. Xunluo Xun." Bai Fu wiped off his sweat, with a simple and honest smile on his face, "Master, he's fine, the emperor asked him to go back outside the Great Wall."

Wei Lan frowned, as if she didn't expect Bai Xuehe to send someone to inquire about this, but Bai Xuehe asked eagerly, "What does the emperor say?"

"It's been rumored outside that the emperor cherishes his generals, so he didn't punish Mr. Xun for his crimes." Bai Fu lowered his voice again, "I heard that General Xu was injured in this defeat. It was Mr. Xun who desperately rescued the border town. ..."

"Okay, you go down." Afraid that he would say something inappropriate, Bai Xuehe hurriedly waved him down, Wei Lan leaned over and raised her eyebrows and asked, "Do you still dare to meet him in private?"

"I didn't meet him in private." Bai Xuehe hurriedly shook his head, pointed to the ceiling, and then smiled inexplicably: "You heard it too, this is the emperor's will."

Just as Wei Lan was about to say something more, Bai Xuehe looked at him with a bit of sarcasm, "Don't ask if you can't figure it out, someone will come right away."

Before Bai Xuehe finished speaking, someone approached from outside the door, wearing official uniforms, and respectfully asked Bai Xuehe to go with Wei Lan.

Although he knew that it was Lan Ziqing who gave the order, Bai Xuehe walked very quickly this time. Lan Ziqing was standing in the lobby, and the person kneeling in the hall was the peddler he met in the restaurant that day.

"Is what you gave me real?" Lan Ziqing looked pale, looking at the few thin pages in his hand.

"How can this little one make a fake? The neighbors all know that the little one can't write." The peddler raised his head innocently and said convincingly, "The little one can't write, so the family trusted Ruan Jin to write it once. How dare the little one do this kind of thing?" It's a lie, adults can go and verify, whether my old family has received it."

Lan Ziqing didn't know if he dared to lie or not, but everything was very clear in black and white.

It was written by the peddler to his wife in his hometown. It was all trivial matters. It mentioned selling the chickens and ducks raised at home and not going to the somewhat crappy Xujiawan market next door.

Although Ruan Jin could read, his handwriting looked very scribbled. There was no dot in the radical of the word "Xu", only a vertical tick.

If Ruan Jin wanted to write "Xu" before he died, then the person he wanted to identify should be the Xu family, which had a great relationship with the mighty general Xu Yan.

Lan Ziqing lowered her head and looked at Bai Xuehe with burning eyes, but Bai Xuehe turned around with a smile, and pulled Wei Lan's sleeve out of the office.

"Now we can go back to Beijing, and we can also accuse Xu Gaoan of a crime." Bai Xuehe smiled, "Finally we can leave this ghostly place."

Wei Lan didn't seem to expect it, and froze in place for a while.

"Bai Xuehe." Heitan carefully slipped out of his cuff, and asked in a very low voice, "Can we go now?"

"Yes." Bai Xuehe nodded.

"Then I'm so hungry." Heidan replied happily and contentedly.

Three days later, Bai Xuehe returned to Beijing, cleaned the mansion by himself, went to the market and brought a fish back and put it on the chopping board.

The fish was very fresh, and it was alive and kicking in the porcelain basin used for scrubbing. Bai Xuehe wore an apron and a homely cloth, so he stabbed it confidently.

Unexpectedly, the fish flipped outwards and hit the basin with its tail fiercely, splashing the water all over Bai Xuehe's body. Bai Xuehe stared impatiently and threw the knife aside.

Heidan came running from outside the house, holding a bag of snacks in his hand, throwing off his shoes while eating, and Bai Fu followed behind him, holding other big and small bags in his hands.

Bai Xuehe quickly picked up the knife and pretended to start scraping the fish scales.

"You want to cook!" Heidan stared at Bai Xuehe in disbelief, squinting his eyes and said, "You will burn the kitchen down."

"What did you say?" Bai Xuehe didn't show weakness, staring at a pair of chubby feet on the ground, "Why don't you wear shoes, how many times have you been told!"

"What's the matter if you don't wear shoes!" Heitan ran forward and hugged his waist, the two quickly wrestled together, and in the end they couldn't care less about cooking and fishing, so Bai Fu had no choice but to clean up and scrape the fish scales by himself.

"Where did you say Yuyan went?" After arguing for a while, Bai Xuehe suddenly stopped, "You said you would come with her that day, but we never saw her again."

"She is indeed here!" Heitan blushed nervously, and after a while he said in frustration: "But she really doesn't know where she went? I thought that Wei Lan was going to bully you, so I asked her and Bai Tuantuan to go first." Let's go, but we didn't meet..."

Bai Xuehe just mentioned something casually, he didn't expect Heidan to be so depressed, he hastily rubbed the child's hair with his hands, pretending to be deep and said: "It is impossible for people to stay together forever."

"What about you?" Heitan raised his head, "Will we be together forever?"

"Sure." Bai Xuehe nodded, and the cooked fish was being brought up at this time. Bai Fu is from the north and has a strong taste. The roasted fish looked very delicious in thick oily red sauce.

Bai Xuehe also gave up a seat for Bai Fu, but one of them was drinking and the other was drinking water. Just when they were about to move their chopsticks, there was a sudden knock on the door.

Bai Xuehe felt something was wrong, got up and opened the door, the person who came in was wearing a flying fish suit with a thin knife around his waist, but it wasn't the Wei Lan they were all familiar with.

"Lord Bai." There was no expression on Xu Lin's young face, "I invite you to enter the palace by order."

"Then please wait a moment, my lord." Bai Xuehe was no longer a third-rank official, and hurriedly changed into neat clothes and went with Xu Lin.

Bai Xuehe often went to the palace and was very familiar with the palace officials, but this time Xu Lin led him to a completely different path.

The weather was getting colder, and the autumn wind was flying over the fallen leaves. The Snow Crane was so cold that it hunched over, and put its hands together.

"Master Xu, where is this?" Bai Xuehe asked respectfully, "I don't think this is the way to go to the imperial study."

"Of course not to the imperial study. I just said that I have a decree for your lord to enter the palace. The emperor is hunting in the paddock now. Where can I see you?" Xu Lin said coldly, and his steps gradually stopped. The red palace walls surrounded a tall building. In the main hall pavilion, a strong scent of sandalwood came from it.

Bai Xuehe raised his head and saw the words "Grace of Compassion and Ning Gong" written on the hall, couldn't help but tense up, and began to smile wryly.

"By the queen mother's order." Xu Lin took his arm, "Please go in and answer."