Wen Yuan thought about it again and again, but he really didn't want to bring too many servants to swagger through the market, and after a little discussion with General Duan, when he went out, he still only had Rong Eleven and Twelve as his bodyguards.

Yan Bing learned about this within two days, so she simply went directly to her husband's adoptive father, Duan Rongxuan, who knew the internal service and the general of the auxiliary state, well, he was promoted to another rank, from the second rank to the second grade.

Wen Yuan and his wife said that they lived in Duan's house, but in fact, it was a side courtyard with a separate side door to enter and exit, and the residence of General Duan and his wife was separated by a not thin wall.

Yan Bing took advantage of Wen Yuan's errand to go out on an errand, but General Duan happened to be resting and asked to see him, and he wanted to be helped by Yaxiang and Nuan Xiang to go to the flower hall in the front yard, but who would have thought that General Duan and his wife deigned to come by themselves, saying that they didn't want her to be tired.

Yan Bing received the pair of parents who looked quite young in the hall, and saluted with her waist straight: "Father, mother are blessed." ”

"Quick, quick." Mrs. Ye hurriedly took two quick steps, helped Yan Bing with her own hands, and carried her to the rosewood high chair on the side to sit down.

The daughter-in-law has been pregnant for seven months, and because of the twins, her belly looks very big, and she has to bend her knees to salute, Mrs. Ye always feels a little shocking to watch.

After she sat down, she began to gently ask Yan Bing how she ate and how she slept.

"My appetite is okay, but no matter how long I lie down, I feel a sore back, I can't sleep, and I always wake up at night." Yan Bing picked out part of the content to answer, and did not tell her mother-in-law that she was actually deliberately controlling her diet, for fear that the child would be too big to give birth.

"I heard that there are few twins born to term, and they can't survive for two months, so it's almost better." While Mrs. Ye said comforting words, she reached out and pinched Yan Bing's jacket sleeve with a silver ruyi pattern on a red background, and tried its thickness, softness and hardness.

Then she whispered and said with concern: "It's cold in October, so pay attention to keeping warm when you get up at night, and don't catch a cold." I've got a new cloak with a red fox fur there, and it's not bad, I'll bring it to you later." Is there anything missing? ”

"Thank you, mother, the clothes are enough." Yan Bing casually said a few polite words, but in her heart she was thinking about how to pull the topic back to the direction she wanted. Clothes and food are not the point!

Fortunately, General Duan is a person who doesn't like to grind, and before the two women could say a few words, he omitted indifferent greetings and asked directly, "What's the matter with me?" ”

"I want to ask my father for help with Wen Yuan's matter," Yan Bing saw that he asked directly, and he didn't go around in circles when he answered, and said straightforwardly, "Didn't he help the Cui family kill an attacker a few days ago?" Now that gang of murderers has not been caught, I am worried that someone will rush to Wenyuan to retaliate. ”

There was no need for Yan Bing to say more General Duan understood what she meant, and said bluntly: "You want me to arrange a few more guards for him?" ”

"Yes, as long as Eleven and Twelve Lang follow him, will there be less?" Yan Bing heard that Cui Servant was besieged by more than a dozen thugs, and always felt that Wen Yuan only had two guards and was too few.

General Duan didn't expect that adopting an adopted son would have to help solve the problem of poor information communication between the two young people, he sighed slightly, and after a little thought, he said: "Wen Yuan has his own thoughts, presumably because he was afraid that you would be worried and did not tell him directly. ”

Hey, there's still a secret? Yan Bing suddenly felt a little nervous, and her upper body involuntarily leaned forward slightly to look at General Duan and said, "Can Father solve his son's doubts?" ”

"In addition to the two on the surface, there are three or five people in the dark who follow in shifts, all of whom are good players in the army who can be ten with one. In addition, I am a lieutenant of the Tiancheng Army, and I have already arranged for a small group of people to patrol according to Wen Yuan's usual route and time," General Duan first appeased Yan Bing before he said with a straight face, "In addition to not wanting to show off, he also intends to use his body as bait." ”

Yan Bing was slightly relieved after listening to the many foreshadowings in front of him, but she was also surprised by the last sentence: "...... Bait?! ”

"It's just an assumption, the possibility is extremely low, in short, you can rest assured, there are enough people to protect him." General Duan didn't say anything more, and left first, leaving only Mrs. Ye to sit down slightly.

At dusk, Wen Yuan returned home from Dali Temple, and was very surprised to hear that his wife had asked his adoptive father, and he reluctantly apologized: "I don't want you to worry so I don't want to reveal the truth, in fact, it's really not dangerous at all, it's just a gesture to Shangfeng to express my determination." Now, the city is full of strong men with Hanzhong and Shu accents, those people have long been dormant, how can they continue to kill people on the street? ”

"Won't a dog jump off the wall in a hurry?" Yan Bing was a little suspicious - rabbits will bite when they are in a hurry!

"That's right, if you're in a hurry, you should jump off the wall and escape, not continue to kill. Recently, the task given to me by Shangfeng is to thoroughly investigate the cause of Cui Fu's death, and I already have a little clue, it should be to seek revenge or extinguish the mouth, and it has nothing to do with others. In order to reassure Yan Bing, Wen Yuan revealed a little information.

What Wen Yuan didn't say was that in addition to investigating the case, he would often go to the city gate when he had nothing to do recently, and he wanted to see if he would catch people who mixed out of the city.

The saint has issued an edict: If one is caught, the reward will be 100 yuan, and the reward will be 10,000 yuan if the leader is caught! If you catch it, you can make a fortune in one fell swoop, much faster than selling pastries to make money.

He sometimes even thinks that if he hadn't met Yan Bing, hadn't entered Beijing by mistake and recognized General Duan as his father, he would probably go to catch fast because he couldn't pass the Jinshi exam, or he would be the kind of ranger who specializes in catching bounties and taking bounties.

The next day, Wen Yuan did not go home during his lunch break - Yan Bing asked him not to wander the streets when he had nothing to do, and to go out less.

However, he still ran out and took the time to go to Earl Shu's Mansion to talk to Xingyi secretly, and asked him to quietly pay attention to whether there were any suspicious deeds among the people who came back from Shu when his father-in-law brought back from Shu.

"I've been observing for a long time, do you need to say this? As soon as I said that the murderer copied the accent of Shudi, I immediately closed the door," Xingyi sneered, and sighed again, "Grandpa has been an official in Shu for a long time, and the Mao family that Shiro married is also a southwestern scholar, and there are some relationships in the family, and I don't usually feel like it, it's really annoying for a while." ”

"There may be more annoyance in the future, just close the door. Also, you hurry up and pick up the letters of your father-in-law, check them, and burn them if you don't need to keep them. Wen Yuan pondered for a long time, and finally gave this suggestion to prevent problems before they happen.

"What? This is the ...... Isn't it just a robber murder case? Xingyi listened to his sister-in-law's words, and suddenly a spirit changed, and his face changed in an instant.

"Robbers kill people to see who is dead, and there should be a thunderstorm when the storm rises in the capital. After Cui Fu was shot to death, someone went to his study to steal, but he was discovered halfway, and he couldn't get his hands on what he wanted to steal. I have already read the last book he wrote before his death about the secret book of Shudi, although it is not finished, but it is already shocking. I don't want to say much about the content, in short, you remember what I said just now, hurry up and quietly check the house, and you can't leave any ambiguous words. If you can find some clues, be sure to let me know first. Wen Yuan left the Shu family after leaving this sentence, leaving Xingyi alone to think.

Listening to the meaning of my sister-in-law's words, it seems to be alluding to the rebellion of the King of Shu?!

Grandpa was the governor of Yizhou at the beginning, assisting the Prime Minister of Shu in all affairs, and it is difficult to guarantee that this matter will not implicate him - the great crime of destroying the nine clans, I can't think of it.

Unless, unless, Grandpa was also aware of the conspiracy of the King of Shu and was deliberately killed! Yes, he said a word before he died, but he didn't know what it meant. There is also Xingxuan, Xingxuan has not passed away but refuses to go home, and there is not a word coming, does he know anything? Was he doing something in secret?

…… Seven or eight days of hard work was wasted, and the case did not make much progress, except for the panic and various rumors caused by the city-wide search, Dali Temple, Jingzhao Mansion, Tianchengjun and others found nothing.

Today is very angry, in addition to scolding the relevant officials, and sending cruel words to order the case to be solved within a time limit, once again issued an edict to reward "those who can get the thief will be awarded the five-grade official, and the thief will also be rewarded", of course, at the end of the edict, do not forget to add a sentence "It is not as good as the edict, the clan".

Although it was not explicitly stated, the case was already regarded as a conspiracy. Even in order to stimulate everyone's passion for exposing, Jing Zhaoyin directly ordered people to put several large baskets of copper coins at the three city gates to show them.

Under such a heavy reward, it was impossible for the murderer to sit still, so Wen Yuan quietly disguised himself at the east gate of the city, and he estimated that it was more likely that the group of people would go out from this gate.

When it was approaching the peak of dusk out of the city, a team of mourners wearing linen and filial piety suddenly appeared on the road. A pair of thinner men held a guide flag, followed by a teenager holding a spirit card, six tall and burly men carrying the coffin, and the rest of the people holding mourning sticks wrapped in white cloth followed behind.

There are not many people, Wen Yuan took a hasty look, there were only twenty-two or three, it was normal to mourn at dusk, and the strange thing was that there were only three female dependents in the entire team, and they were all young women.

"Eleven Lang, hurry up and say hello to check. Be careful with the mourning stick, I suspect there is a narrow knife wrapped in it. Wen Yuan said that he asked Rong Shiyi to find the Tiancheng Army team squatting in the alley not far away.

Both of them are General Duan's subordinates, they know each other, and it is just a matter of one sentence to find out who they are.