Chapter 349 Ning Anbo Mansion
Three days later, the sun had just risen from the east.
The gate of the capital city slowly opened, and two fast horses rode out of the city one after the other.
Zhu Qingyan took the lead, galloped for a distance, then stopped and turned back to wait for Zhu Lan.
"Are we really not taking Chu Xin with us when we go to Yunzhou this time?"
Zhu Lan also rode his horse to catch up.
"She doesn't know how to ride a horse and she's too young. I'm afraid she can't stand the hardship on the road.
Don't worry, Xiao Wan will take good care of her."
The two of them were running side by side, and Zhu Qingyan finally had time to ask her:
"By the way, what are you going to Yunzhou for this time? You haven't told me yet!"
Zhu Lan continued walking, glancing at her with a smile, "You agreed to go with me without knowing what I was going to do. Do you trust me so much?"
"Tsk." Zhu Qingyan rolled his eyes at her.
"Who's following you? I'm going to see Jing!"
As Zhu Qingyan spoke, she patted the package tied to the horse's back. Inside was all the little gadgets she brought for Ajing, all of which could not be bought in Northern Xinjiang or Yunzhou.
Counting the days, she and Ajing haven't seen each other for almost a year.
I have grown taller, but I don’t know if Ajing has grown taller or if she is stronger than before.
"Okay, let's get down to business." Zhu Lan said, "We are going to the Ning'an Marquis's Mansion in Yunzhou this time."
"Ning'an Marquis' Mansion?" Zhu Qingyan thought about it and felt a little unfamiliar.
“Yes, if I’m not mistaken, the Ning’an Marquis’ Mansion is the key to unlocking the secret, and it is also what Chu Xiuning wanted to tell me the most before he died.
The Ning'an Marquis's Mansion is far away in Yunzhou, so it's normal that you haven't heard of it. I just found out about it."
As the two of them sped along the official road, Zhu Lan told them what he had heard.
It's not complicated, nor is it a secret.
Twenty years ago, a plague broke out in the palace. Originally, the newborn Chen Zao was to enter the palace to secretly replace the prince.
Zhu Qingyan also knew what happened next. A fire broke out in the palace and only one baby survived, the current Crown Prince Yan Xiuyun.
Zhu Lan: "At that time, Concubine Lan and the emperor both believed that the one who survived was the real prince. They were afraid that he would be targeted by the plague god, so they immediately sent people out of the palace to find a suitable baby and successfully exchanged identities with the prince.
The plague was raging at the time, and the child who stayed in the palace was not able to escape and was infected. But he was lucky and survived, but he was left with some sequelae. "
"Sequelae?" Zhu Qingyan asked.
Zhu Lan nodded gently, "I don't know what the specific symptoms are."
"Two years later, the plague subsided, and the prince who was outside the palace was safe and sound, so he was brought back to the palace.
The family that exchanged identities with the prince was named Gongsun. Because they protected the prince from disaster and made great contributions to the court, they were awarded the title. "
Zhu Qingyan responded quickly, "That family is the current Ning Anbo family?"
"That's right. The baby was too young, so his father Gongsun Duan was given the title of Earl of Ning'an, and his descendants were given the title by hereditary title."
"I see. So they will know the truth about the prince's life experience?"
"I can't be sure, but I think it's possible."
Zhu Qingyan shrugged upon hearing this.
It doesn’t matter. If I can’t find out the truth, I’ll just think of it as a visit to Ah Jing. At least it’s not a wasted trip.
After you come back, you can receive salary from the Hanlin Academy.
Zhu Qingyan experienced the joy of paid vacation for the first time.
She was in a good mood and squeezed the horse's belly hard, and the horse immediately surpassed Zhu Lan by a large margin.
If both of them ride horses, at this speed, they can reach Yunzhou in about seven days.
…
Double Ninth Festival is here again.
The Northern Frontier Camp still stood quietly dozens of miles outside Yunzhou City. From a distance, the camp looked like a huge oval.
Smoke from cooking fires rose up, and the sounds of soldiers training echoed over the Northern Frontier camp.
On this day, a huge team of carriages and horses stopped outside the camp. In addition to a luxurious carriage, there were more than a dozen large carts following behind, and each cart had seven or eight large boxes piled on it.
A soldier ran in quickly to report, and soon the King of Zhenbei came out of the main tent and came to the outside of the camp to greet them in person.
An old man and a young man got off the carriage one after another, smiling and bowing to King Zhenbei from afar, and walked over with a somewhat attentive smile on their faces.
"Hahaha, Uncle, I haven't seen you for a long time. How are you doing?"
The cloak behind King Zhenbei was blown up by a gust of wind. He was wearing armor, which made a clanging sound as he walked with powerful steps.
"The prince actually came out of the camp in person. This really makes me embarrassed!"
Seeing that the Prince of Zhenbei came to greet them in person, Ning'anbo Gongsun Duan hurriedly quickened his pace with his son, almost jogging.
Behind Gongsun Duan followed a young man in his twenties with a pale face and plain features.
It was Gongsun Duan’s only son and the young master of the Ning’an Marquis’s Mansion, Gongsun Yushu.
The weather in northern Xinjiang is still hot in September.
Gongsun Yushu was wearing a thin, light green silk robe with shortened sleeves, and an even lighter-colored tulle overcoat that was so thin that it was almost transparent.
Through the smock, one could see Gongsun Yushu's right arm at a glance - it was a completely different shape from his left arm.
He was so skinny and emaciated, his muscles had atrophied as if he were a hundred-year-old man.
But apart from this right arm, everything is normal.
The northern border is vast and windy, and when the wind mixed with sand blew, the sleeves of the coat were blown up, and Gongsun Yushu's right arm was almost completely exposed.
However, he had no intention of hiding it at all, and every time he showed his terrifying right arm, a hint of pride even appeared on his young face.
As if showing a medal of glory.
Ning Anbo and King Zhenbei met and exchanged a few words of greeting. Ning Anbo's attitude was obviously a little more humble.
This is normal. After all, let alone in the Northern Frontier, even in the entire Daliang, there are not many people who can be personally welcomed by the dignified King Zhenbei.
Earl Ning An knew very well that if it weren't for the carts of things behind him, the King of Zhenbei would not even look at a small earl like him, let alone welcome him in person.
I used some means to purchase those teas at extremely low prices from tea merchants in several nearby counties and states.
As for what the specific "means" are...
In short, there are some ungrateful guys who deserve their families to be destroyed.
And the new magistrate Ding in Yunzhou was also an annoying guy who made things difficult for him everywhere and even secretly sent people to search for evidence of Ning'an Marquis's crime in his mansion.
But he was the Earl of Ning'an conferred by the imperial court, and now he has the support of the King of Zhenbei.
How can a mere prefect be able to try to shake a tree like an ant?
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