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Chapter 166 Was there someone who came to ask for marriage in the past?
But wasn't Shen Ying already expelled from Beijing three years ago?Before leaving Beijing, she had nothing to do with the court...

A string in his brain seemed to move suddenly.

He unconsciously looked out the window, and brought the cup to his lips again.

It was only when he raised his glass that he realized that there was no water—it turned out that at some point, he actually held the empty glass in his hand again.

……

Ling Yuan's official business is not too much, and he rarely goes to the government office on a daily basis. Apart from the official work at the dock, he also asked Guo Jiao to lead his men to investigate the banditry in the Huhang area, and he also went to Hangzhou Bay when he found time.

There are not many bandits in this area, especially pirates, and bandits often appear in coastal villages.If it is really necessary to abolish river transportation and promote sea transportation, this is an inevitable obstacle.

He stayed in a small suit near the Hangzhou mansion, but was approached by Feng Shaoqing this day. It turned out that Shaoqing and Huang Ji had been lurking nearby for several days, trying to find out who the Gu family and the prince were colluding with the pirates. When they found him staying at the inn, they followed him .

Hearing that Changying asked him to check this, he couldn't help being puzzled.

"Changying has recently become friends with Song Cheng's daughter-in-law, and heard that Song Cheng has made a lot of noise about the shipping, so she asked me to check and see if I can find any clues."

Ling Yuan remained silent for a while after listening.

Every time he heard her actions in business affairs, he would feel a sense of distance. The little girl who could only be coquettish and mischievous in the past can now stand alone in the military camp, which still makes him unacceptable.

It was as if she had run a long way, but he was still wandering alone in the age when she was bouncing around and secretly poking at him.

After staying in Hangzhou for three days, he returned to Huzhou after leaving two guards to listen to Shaoqing.

As soon as Ma arrived at the gate of the mansion, he saw Huo Rong pacing back and forth under the tree under his door with his sleeves rolled up and his hands on his hips.

The setting sun stretched his shadow to a long distance, over the steps and over the threshold.

Ling Yuan was about to get off his horse, but he didn't. He looked at him with disdain immediately: "Are you planning to fight with me, or are you planning to demolish my house?"

Huo Rong stopped under the tree and said with a smile, "How dare you? I can't beat you, cousin."

Ling Yuan turned cold.

Huo Rong raised the paperwork in his hand: "I have military affairs and ask to see Lord Hou."

Ling Yuan led him into the study room, there was only one chair in the study room, and Ling Yuan sat on it by himself.

Huo Rong didn't care, he put the documents on the desk, looked at the bell under his window, and said, "What's the result of the investigation you sent to the capital?"

Ling Yuan frowned: "How do you know that I sent someone to the capital?"

Huo Rong smiled, dragged a flower table over to him and sat down.

Huaji is almost as high as the desk, and when she sits on it like this, her long legs stretch out, and her aura seems to overwhelm the master who is sitting on the grand teacher's chair behind the desk.

Ling Yuan couldn't put on airs with a scoundrel, so he took a look and then looked away.

"Changying didn't leave Beijing until she was 15 years old. Before that, no one came to ask for marriage?"

Ling Yuan looked at Gongwen: "Why, if there are some, you still want to run over them one by one?"

He had 1 thoughts to kill the skinless and shameless person in front of him, but he thought that he would be able to see him cry in a short time, so he didn't have to do something that would damage his dignity.

"No. I just thought, when the Eastern Palace went around to recruit young ladies from the powerful mansions to enter the palace, he didn't think of Ling's?"

Hearing this, Ling Yuan paused, then raised his head.

Huo Rong sat with his arms folded in front of him, a little unpredictable under that layer of shallow cynicism.

Ling Yuan paused for a moment, then said, "What do you mean? Do you think we will let Ling Dang go to the Eastern Palace as a concubine?"

"Whether you let it or not is different from whether the East Palace has this intention." Huo Rong said, "Liu Wei was arrested in the Water Transport Department, and the news that Chang Ying is here has probably spread to the capital. There will inevitably be some troubles, even if Donggong doesn't have it, aren't you worried about what other people will do to her?"

Ling Yuan leaned back in the chair, frowned for a while: "What made you think of this?"

"Frankly speaking, some killers attacked me a few nights earlier, and I saw the tattoos of the palace guards on their bodies.

"After thinking about it, I didn't offend anyone in the palace. Recently, only Changying arrested Liu Wei, and Changying and I have the name of husband and wife.

"If Donggong wants to kill someone for the dock, then Changying should be killed first, but he pointed at me, which is unreasonable."

Huo Mingzhai hadn't seen any suspicious people for several days in a row, so it was already certain that Yang Ji was not after him, so there was no need to keep silent about being assassinated.If the assassination of him was related to Changying, then there shouldn't have been no signs before, and as the head of the Ling family, Ling Yuan should be the one who knew better than Changying.

Ling Yuan's pupils narrowed slightly, he stared at him for a while, and said sarcastically, "Do you regret it?"

Huo Rong didn't comment.

Ling Yuan restrained his thoughts, and said for a long time: "I have parents, how can I get involved in her marriage."

Finally, he looked over again: "How can you be sure that your assassination was brought by Bell?"

"Of course not sure." Huo Rong straightened up, "It's just a guess."

Ling Yuan watched him go out with a frown, put the documents in his hand back on the case, and called Guo Jiao.

"Have you heard that Yang Ji intends to marry the Ling family?"

Guo Jiao was slightly stunned: "I haven't heard of it. Even if there was, the master and wife would never agree at that time."

Ling Yuan thinks about it too.Even if they agreed, he would not agree.

He picked up the paperwork again, and said, "Let's write a letter and ask my wife."

……

Huo Rong returned to the mansion, and Xie Peng, who was escaping the summer heat in the garden, immediately went to the study.

"How about it?"

"Ling Yuan doesn't know if there is such a thing, but he also said that the marriage is in the hands of Ling Yan and his wife, so whether there is or not, Madam Ling must know." Huo Rong leaned back in the chair and drank tea and said .

Xie Peng nodded: "Ling Yuan will probably ask at this level, we don't have to worry about it. But even if Yang Ji thought about trying to win over the Ling family, he would kill you now. Could it be that Ling Yuan will fall if he gets Shen Ying?" To him? I'm afraid it will backfire."

Xie Peng already knew a lot about the things in Huzhou when he was away earlier, and because of the assassination these few days, he took the time to find out the things between him, Shen Ying and Ling Yuan.

From this, I also understood Huo Rong's thinking. Shen Ying is Ling Yuan's cousin and sweetheart. Given the importance the Ling family attached to her, if Yang Ji could accept her as his concubine back then, even if the Ling family would not stand by her, At least for the time being, it will not be against them.When he succeeds to the great line in the future, he may also use Shen Ying and the Ling family to restrain each other.

But something like that happened four years ago, Huo Rong is Shen Ying's "husband" now, it is uncertain whether Shen Ying still has influence on the Ling family.

So after Yang Ji heard that Ling Yuan had covered Shen Ying, he made a decision to kill Huo Rong if Ling Yuan couldn't bear to touch Shen Ying.

Because if Ling Yuan is still reluctant to move Shen Ying under the revenge of killing his father, then Shen Ying is still important to Ling Yuan. Now Ling Yuan is the head of the entire Ling family. As long as he still values ​​Shen Ying, then Shen Ying There is still value.

But if Yang Ji wanted to accept Shen Ying, how could Ling Yuan, who was thinking about Shen Ying in his heart, give her up?
(End of this chapter)