Chapter 161 Trust Your People
Xie Chengyan discovered that she was trying to help him find the spy in the mansion, and it seemed that he had misunderstood her.
He stared at the golden silkworm Gu in her hand for a long time, and what had happened in the past few days came to his mind. This medium-sized insect really helped him a lot. First, it cured his eye disease, and then it controlled the dying insect that Chu Xiu used to slander Pei Song.
He didn't believe in these evil spells, but what was happening now made him at a loss as to how to explain it.
For some reason, he suddenly thought of Prince Ning. Back then, Prince Ning was just like him. He had no interest in the mysterious things in Southern Xinjiang and even felt a little disgusted. Later, he chose to defect to Southern Xinjiang and become an enemy of Dayin.
He guessed that his elder brother must have witnessed something extraordinary in southern Xinjiang, just like his current situation.
Ye Lanzhou is too mysterious. I thought she was just a concubine who was married off as a substitute. Who knew she would be related to Southern Xinjiang?
The insect still lay in her palm, its soft body caressing hers. This golden silkworm Gu was no ordinary creature. Ye Lanzhou actually possessed one. He had many informants, covering every corner from Jinling to Nanyang and then Shangjing. But he couldn't find out where Ye Lanzhou had learned these things, who her master was, or where she came from...
Xie Chengyan said, "Then I'll trouble you with this matter. Just go ahead and check whoever you want to investigate. There's no need to greet me."
Just give her the right to thoroughly investigate the palace?
Now it was Ye Lanzhou's turn to be puzzled. She touched the golden silkworm Gu with her fingertips, causing it to retract into her clothes. She rolled up her sleeves and asked, "Why don't you ask me what my plan is?"
Xie Chengyan shook his head: "If you employ someone, trust him; if you doubt him, don't employ him."
As she was speaking, Ye Lanzhou saw a flash of white in her peripheral vision. She turned her head and looked over. The snow was falling one by one, and finally it seemed as if it was falling in clusters.
It’s snowing in Shangjing again.
It was a snowy winter, and Ye Lanzhou clearly remembered that the last snow had not melted yet.
Outside the window, snow was falling all over the sky. In a short while, the eaves of the house were covered with snow. Everywhere I looked, there was white. It seemed to be even bigger than the snow a few days ago.
She murmured, "Does it snow so heavily every winter in Shangjing?"
Xie Chengyan followed her gaze and looked out the window. After a moment of concentration, he said, "This is also the year with the heaviest snowfall since I came to the capital."
It never ends. After one snowfall, what comes is not the dawn, but the beginning of the next snowfall.
There are no sunny days, only eternal falling snow.
The two of them were silent for a moment, and then Ye Lanzhou suddenly asked for no apparent reason, "How many years has the prince been in the capital?"
"Four years." Xie Chengyan said, "I returned to the capital the year the war in southern Xinjiang subsided."
The twenty-fourth year of the Yinjing reign marked the end of the war. The war had lasted three years, and Xie Chengyan had defended the southern frontier for three years until both sides were exhausted. He was then summoned back to the capital. Later, Lu Qianshan, the second son of the Marquis of Xiaoyong, who had been slated for execution, married Xie Zhaohe, and Lu Qianshan was sent to garrison southern Xinjiang.
After Xie Chengyan returned to the capital, the old emperor praised his hard work in defending the city for three years, so he gave him the position of Imperial City Inspection Officer. Also, because his research on gunpowder had far surpassed the imperial court's level during his defense, he was given the Shenjiying, a unit directly under the Ministry of War.
He suddenly sighed: "Times change so fast."
Ye Lanzhou sat opposite and listened. It was rare for him to talk to her about these past events.
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