Chapter 62: How did you meet?
After talking about Concubine Zhen, Qi Wuhan seemed a little cautious. He carefully glanced at Jiang Lan's face and asked cautiously, "Is it really because of this that you didn't trust me before?"
Jiang Lan was stunned for a moment. Did he really not realize it at all before?
Rumors about him and Concubine Zhen were flying everywhere. Any normal person would think that there was something going on between the two of them. After all, flies don't bite seamless eggs.
She turned her back and ignored him again.
This time, Qi Wuhan came over boldly and held her in his arms, admitting his mistake to her again, "It's my fault. I should have made it clear to you earlier." Jiang Lan turned over and buried her head in his chest, wanting to get closer to him.
She couldn't help but think of her previous life. If she had asked, or if he had realized it earlier and explained it to her, perhaps their ending would have been different...
"Can you tell me now what that bastard Prince Rui said to you?" Qi Wuhan coaxed lovingly.
Jiang Lan leaned into his arms again and said, "That's all nonsense. I don't believe it now."
"You don't believe it now?" Qi Wuhan raised his eyebrows slightly, "You believed it before?"
Jiang Lan snuggled into his arms again, like a coquettish kitten.
Qi Wuhan felt itchy in his heart because of her nudging. He didn't want to "settle accounts" with her first, but pretended to be sad and said, "Do you know how I have been getting through these days? I can't eat every day." Before he finished speaking, he felt his face soften and was stunned.
When he realized that he had been kissed, he was ecstatic, and his peach eyes seemed to suddenly bloom with thousands of peach blossoms.
After Jiang Lan finished kissing him, she buried her head in his arms. After a while, she dared to look up at him. She looked at him with a pair of bright eyes and asked, "When did I become your sweetheart?"
Qi Wuhan felt itchy when she looked at him. He tilted his head slightly to suppress the deep look in his eyes, then raised his hand to gesture, "You were probably this tall back then, and you promised to marry me when you grew up."
Jiang Lan looked at the height he gestured. She must have been only six or seven years old at that time. When had she met him before and promised to marry him when she grew up?
How come I have no impression of it at all?
Seeing her lowering her head to recall seriously, Qi Wuhan reached out and gently lifted her chin, and said softly: "It doesn't matter if you can't remember it, as long as I remember it." The warm atmosphere warmed up little by little, and the deep color in his eyes spread out again. Jiang Lan's face became hotter and hotter. Then there was a knock on the door, and she immediately shrank her head and buried it in his arms.
"I'm coming in." Ye Rushui said outside.
Jiang Lan pushed Qi Wuhan out with a red face. The moment Ye Rushui pushed the door in, Qi Wuhan was standing by the bed as if nothing had happened, looking in a good mood.
After taking Jiang Lan's pulse, Ye Rushui prescribed a bottle of recuperation pills for her. She also reminded Qi Wuhan not to do anything beastly, and then left to collect herbs in the backyard.
Afterwards, Ling Feng went to Yipin Pavilion and bought back a portion of all the dishes that were usually delivered together with the medicinal food, and filled the table.
Jiang Lan looked at the table full of dishes and asked Qi Wuhan, "Has Brother Ye eaten yet?"
Hearing the name "Brother Ye", Qi Wuhan raised his eyebrows slightly. Seeing her looking at him so frankly, he felt that "if he had any other thoughts, he would be narrow-minded", so he did not pursue the matter further. While picking up some food for her, he replied, "He likes to cook for himself."
Jiang Lan asked curiously, "How did you and Brother Ye know each other?"
Qi Wuhan replied somewhat nonchalantly: "He owed money and was chased and beaten on the street. I saw injustice and helped him out, and paid back the money for him. After that, he relied on me. I paid for his food, clothing and shelter. He is just a freeloader." As he spoke, he scooped another bowl of soup and placed it in front of her, then supported his head with one hand and watched her eat with a smile.
Jiang Lan thought about it silently for a moment, then blurted out four words: "A beautiful woman hidden in a golden house."
Qi Wuhan felt a chill and whispered in her ear, "Xiao Lan'er, I'm not interested in that. If you don't believe me, I'll..." Before he could finish the rest of his words, Jiang Lan raised her hand and pushed him away. She drank a few mouthfuls of soup in silence, and after the heat on her face cooled down, she asked a serious question.
Did something happen in Luyuan before?
Not long after everyone had respectfully seen the queen off, the guards surrounded the garden inside and outside. After about an hour, Qi Wuhan came back and told everyone that everything was fine.
Those who stayed in the garden at that time speculated whether something had happened...
After the banquet, the discussion on the streets was all about Cui Jingshu's presentation of the painting. Later, news came out that the emperor was going to grant her a marriage with Prince Fu, but no news about the queen was spread at all.
Qi Wu Han told her that the wild cat that appeared out of nowhere that he mentioned that day was actually an assassin.
Jiang Lan probably guessed a little bit, but she was still shocked when she heard the news in person.
He dared to assassinate in broad daylight, and the target of the assassination was the mother of a country and the queen who was the master of the six palaces. He was really too bold.
"Don't worry, the assassin has been caught." Qi Wuhan comforted her. Jiang Lan asked in a low voice, "Is it the group that attacked the academy before?" He turned around and pointed to the seventh vertebra on the back of his neck and told her that the people of the Black Lotus Sect had a black lotus tattooed on this location, and the captured assassin also had such a black lotus on the back of his neck.
Jiang Lan's attention was all on listening to him. Qi Wuhan picked up some more dishes for her and asked her to eat while listening, then told her the basic situation of the Black Lotus Sect.
Under the leader there are four elders, twelve protectors, and twenty-four hall masters.
A hall master is in charge of twenty or thirty people, and there are two to three hundred followers, most of whom are desperate criminals.
They were trying to restore order under the pretext of deposing the crown prince, but in reality they were just a mob, committing murder, arson, and all sorts of evil, even more rampant than bandits.
A few years ago, Qi Wuhan led the Black Armor Guards to carry out a large-scale encirclement and suppression of this group of people. The Black Lotus Sect disappeared for a while, but now it has revived again.
The hall master who was captured in Sangcheng before gave out all 23 of his men. In addition to the 20 people he brought with him for ambush, the other three were government officials who were bribed by the Black Lotus Sect with a large sum of money.
Qi Wuhan followed the clues and investigated all the officials, big and small, in Zhangzhou. All those who were involved and those who were found to be corrupt, derelict in duty and taking human lives were secretly escorted back to Beijing by the Black Armor Guards. Some were dismissed from their posts, some were demoted, and some were imprisoned. Then a series of official assessments, selections, promotions and transfers were handled by the Ministry of Personnel.
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