After the fiancé was cut off by the county owner

Chapter 27 Offense
When Yan Li and Qi Tanying met alone, someone was talking about this case.

Xingqingfang, Suzaku Street
In an unremarkable small house at the end of the street, in a dimly lit wing room, a middle-aged man with a medium build and a square face was full of sadness, "Your Highness, the Holy One has ordered Wu Han, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, to secretly investigate the collapse of the Jiaozhi Hall. case."

The young man sitting opposite him had half his face hidden in the darkness, "What are you afraid of, Father-in-law? You didn't find us back then, but now you can?"

"But."

"Unless the father-in-law didn't wipe off the traces back then."

Hearing this sentence, cold sweat broke out on the forehead of the middle-aged man, "Your Highness, although all the people who participated in the exchange of wood died back then, I always feel a little uneasy."

"Don't be suspicious, the collapse of the Jiaozhi Hall was caused by the purchasing officer Liu Heng's greed for personal gain, and has nothing to do with this hall or your father-in-law." The young man warned him.

"What Your Highness said is true, what Your Highness said is true." The middle-aged man nodded repeatedly.

Although he said so in his mouth, it was still difficult to calm down in his heart.

His gaze fell on the young man's face, and he asked an irrelevant question, "Will His Highness go to Tangshan Palace to escape the summer heat this year?"

The young man spat out two words: "No."

Since the Tangshan Palace was built, the number of times he went to the palace to escape the summer heat was rare.Fortunately, he had legitimate reasons not to go. Apart from a few brothers who complained, even his father didn't say anything for so many years.

In addition to not liking the humidity and rain in Tangshan, I am also afraid that the palace I live in will collapse like the Jiaozhi Temple one day, so I don’t go if I can’t go, and even if I do, I will try to leave as soon as possible.

Who would have thought that the Tangshan Palace built with that batch of problematic wood has persisted for ten years.

Now that Dali Temple has started to investigate the case back then, according to his father's suspicious nature, he probably won't go to Tangshan Palace this year to escape the summer heat.

Thinking of this, he glanced at the middle-aged man, "Keep an eye on Dali Temple, don't let them really find out anything."

The middle-aged man agreed, and the young man added, "If necessary, I can ask my imperial brother to help."

The middle-aged man understood his intention after only a little thought.Diverting disasters to the east is also a good way.

"Your Highness is wise!"

The only answer to him was the laugh of the young man.
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After Yan Li came out of Jiang's house, he went back to Dali Temple with his face bruised and swollen.As soon as he appeared, he immediately attracted the attention of his colleagues.

Seeing his appearance, Wu Han frowned and asked, "How did you do it?"

Yan Li smiled with embarrassment, "Xiaguan brought a matchmaker to the Jiang family to propose marriage, and collided with the third young master Jiang."

"Go to Jiang's house to propose marriage?"

"To be precise, it is to propose marriage to Miss Qi who lives in Jiang's family."

After hearing this, Wu Han glanced at him coldly, "I asked you to find a reason to get close to the Qi family, but you actually came up with such a way."

After finishing speaking, he put the file in his hand on the table and made a soft sound, "Young lady's family is famous, don't act like this in the future."

Yan Li said: "Thank you for reminding me, son. However, the lower officials are not pretending to marry for the purpose of investigating the case, but sincerely want to marry Miss Qi."

Wu Han's eyes darkened, he swallowed the words of reprimand, and asked, "Can you get any useful clues at Jiang's house today?"

"Not yet."

Wu Han's brows were tightly frowned. The Holy Spirit ordered him to find the timber ledger and find out the real culprits behind the scenes within half a month. It has been four days but no progress has been made, and the subordinate officials have no aggressive intentions. Propose marriage.

Yan Li knew that he was not doing well, so he didn't dare to delay any longer, and led his people to continue to track down the whereabouts of the timber ledger.

They checked Qi Heming's most frequented places during his lifetime, the residences of colleagues and friends he had made good friends with, and searched Qi's house several times, but still found nothing.

In desperation, Yan Li invited Qi Tanying to the Juxian Teahouse where they met earlier.

Qi Tanying didn't want to go to the appointment at first, since Yan Li was beaten up by Jiang Zhenyu last time, everyone in the Jiang family knew that he came to propose marriage, and Jiang Zhenyu's shocking remarks caused her to be discussed a lot.

Especially Mrs. Jiang, as soon as Yan Li left, she called Mrs. Jiang over and reprimanded her.

The meaning inside and outside the words is that Qi Tanying did not obey the rules, so that she would have less contact with the Jiang family girl in the future, so as not to bring her granddaughter down.

Mrs. Jiang was naturally angry again, and even blamed Qi Tanying for having too close contact with Jiang Zhenyu.

Qi Tanying was also very speechless, she had never been alone with Jiang Zhenyu, on weekdays Jiang Zhenyu came to the long room to tease Ah Yan, and her two cousins ​​were also present.

Is this also called back and forth?
What made her even more annoyed was that Yan Li came to ask for marriage and everyone knew about it. Mrs. Jiang Er even congratulated her on finding a good son-in-law in front of Mrs. Qi. Gifts are given.

So seeing Yan Li again, Qi Tanying didn't even have a trace of a smile on her face.

Yan Li saw that she was unhappy, poured a cup of tea and gently pushed it in front of her, "This is the new heat-relieving tea from Juxian Tea House. It tastes good. Miss Qi, try it."

Qi Tanying glanced at him, and urged: "The tea is free, if Master Yan has any questions, please ask quickly."

"The heat is unbearable these days. Drinking this heat-relieving tea can make you calm down." Yan Li got up and walked to Qi Tanying with the tea, and bowed with a smile, "A few days ago, I rushed to ask for marriage, how offensive, Take this cup of tea as Yan's apology to Miss Qi."

Reaching out without hitting the smiling face, Qi Tanying took a sip of the tea, and then put the teacup on the table.

"I've had the tea, so can Lord Yan get to the point now?"

Yan Li smiled and nodded.

When he asked the question "Did your father really leave no clues about the ledger?", Qi Tanying no longer wanted to answer.

He has asked similar questions countless times, and she answered no every time.The father left suddenly, even if he wanted to leave something behind, it would not be left to a child who was only six years old.

"You have searched carefully for the things my father left behind. If there are any omissions, I am willing to let you check again."

Dali Temple investigated the case, and Qi Tanying cooperated very much, hoping that this matter would pass quickly and not affect their lives any more.

Yan Li changed the question, "Are those boxes the only things you brought out from Qi's house, or anything else?"

"Of course it's only that." Qi Tanying was about to answer without thinking, and suddenly froze after saying a few words.

That day they took more than a few boxes of calligraphy, painting and articles from Qi's house, as well as her sandalwood box containing gadgets.

Yan Li has been holding on to the relics left by her father, and the sandalwood box is hers, so she didn't mention it.

Qi Tanying told Yan Li about this, Yan Li's eyes lit up, and he grabbed Qi Tanying's wrist, "Follow me."

Qi Tanying didn't prevent him from making such a move, and immediately shook off his hand after realizing it, and glared at him angrily.

Yan Li's heart skipped a beat, as if he had offended her again.

(End of this chapter)