Chapter 92 Is She Lan Shu's Daughter?
The next day, Lan Shu got up at dawn and went to the Ministry of Justice with Du Xueyi and the assassin's body.
More than 20 bodies were placed outside the gate of the Ministry of Justice, forcing Xie Shen, who was about to go to court, to return to the Ministry of Justice and take over the case.
As victims, Lan Shu and Du Xueyi followed Xie Shen into the Ministry of Justice, waiting for him to investigate the case.
A Lu came back early and informed Wei Qingyan of the situation in the Ministry of Justice. After a while, Wei Shiran also came with Gong Jin.
"Are you hurt?" When Wei Shiran saw Wei Qingyan, she first walked around her.
On the way to court in the morning, Gong Mingcheng heard that an assassin had entered the Anyuan Marquis Mansion last night, so he hurriedly asked his personal attendant to go back and tell Wei Shiran.
Wei Shiran was still lying in bed, but when she heard the words, she threw off the quilt, washed up quickly and came here. As soon as she arrived at the door of the mansion, she met Gong Jin and his servant, and they came over together.
"I'm fine." Wei Qingyan smiled, then asked Gong Jin and the others to continue practicing yesterday's basic skills, and led Wei Shiran into the house to talk.
After having that bizarre idea last night, Wei Qingyan was like a possessed person. The more she thought about it, the more she felt that perhaps she and Abu were actually siblings.
They look similar, have the same food preferences, and get along very well with each other on a daily basis, otherwise they wouldn't cooperate so well, making it impossible for Shi Yu and Du Xueyi to tell that she is a woman.
And both she and Abu have two swirls on their heads.
Maybe they are A-gu's children.
Otherwise, why has her mother, Madam Wei, not shown any intention of returning to Beijing since the Huangshaling incident?
"Big sister." Wei Qingyan organized her words, "The incident at Huangshaling has become such a big deal. Do you think my mother will return to Beijing?"
Wei Shiran thought for a moment, not thinking about whether Madam Wei would come back, but thinking about how to reply to Wei Qingyan so as not to make her feel uncomfortable.
As a mother, if this matter concerned her child, she would have rushed to the capital overnight, but this second mother...
After thinking for a moment, she consoled him, "She's far away in Yongzhou. Perhaps news from the capital is slow to arrive, so she might be on her way."
This consolation is really not very powerful.
If she wanted to come back, she would definitely send her servants back to Beijing to clean up the Duke of Protectorate's Mansion first. It has been a long time, and there has been no movement from the Duke of Protectorate's Mansion.
Wei Qingyan smiled and said casually, "Could it be that I am not my mother's child?"
Wei Shiran's eyes suddenly showed pity. Poor Qingyan was so disappointed by Er Niang that he even doubted his own life experience.
She quickly put her arm around her sister's shoulders and said, "That's impossible. When Second Mother was pregnant with you, she hired the imperial doctor from the palace to take care of the pregnancy, and she was pregnant with twins."
"That doesn't necessarily mean it's me who's pregnant." Wei Qingyan continued to test.
Wei Shiran felt even more distressed after hearing this, and softly comforted him, "Qingyan, don't overthink it, the Duke of Huguo's Mansion is not a small family.
When Er Niang was giving birth, all the maids and old women were there, and her father was sitting outside the house, so it couldn't be fake.
If you were not a child of my Wei family, how could your father hand over 100,000 national defense troops to you?
Besides, you look so much like your father, how could you not be his child?"
Wei Qingyan half lowered his eyes.
She followed her father around, and her words and actions were influenced by him. It was inevitable that she had some of her father's shadow, but the two of them did not look alike.
Seeing that Wei Qingyan still looked skeptical, she continued, "There's something I didn't want to tell you, and I only found out about it a few years ago.
Er Niang originally had a lover, but was betrothed to my father. She was much younger than my father, and my father always had my mother in his heart.
The relationship between the two was not good. It took more than a year after their marriage for you and Wanyi to be born. Later, your father insisted on dressing you up as a boy.
She didn't want you to suffer, and was worried that you would die on the battlefield in the future, so she had a big fight with your father.
Ordinary people are afraid of the majestic aura of father. Second Mother usually never dares to speak loudly to father, but that time she even proposed to take you and Wanyi to divorce father.
I think she actually cares about you and is strict with you, perhaps because she wants you to learn more skills to save your life, but later on, your words and actions became more and more like your father..."
My mother doesn't like my father, so she doesn't like me becoming more and more like him.
If it is true as my eldest sister said, that my father was at home when my mother gave birth, then the possibility of my mother replacing the baby is indeed unlikely.
She thought again of the first time she was injured and her mother's swollen eyes, but then she thought of her mother's various reactions after her death.
Wei Qingyan was at a loss.
Were all my thoughts last night wrong?
Wei Shiran treated Qingyan as both a sister and a daughter. She was afraid that she would feel bad, so she racked her brains and said a lot of words to comfort her.
Wei Qingyan wasn't really sad, so he just smiled.
After Wei Shiran and the others left, Wei Qingyan changed his clothes and planned to go out to see what was happening outside, when he saw Yan Lan coming in, looking exhausted.
That day, after Luo Congyun was driven out of the palace, he was worried that he would really be beheaded, so he hired a carriage to Linzhou, caught up with Luo's mother and her group, and returned to Linzhou with them.
She had harmed Yan Lan many times before, so how could Yan Lan not seek revenge?
Wei Qingyan knew what Yan Lan was thinking, so he pointed two secret guards to her.
After Luo Congyun caught up with Luo's mother, Yan Lan killed both mother and daughter, thus ending the feud that had lasted for so many years.
"I asked, and Luo Chengzhou's mother told me that it was the Liu family who suggested the Luo family get engaged to me.
The Luo family also saw that my father was highly valued by the old general, so they pretended to be close to my mother and arranged this marriage."
This was the question Wei Qingyan had instructed her to ask Luo's mother before she left.
The Liu family is Luo's mother and Liu He's maternal family.
Wei Qingyan nodded, "I understand. You go and rest first. We will go to Yongzhou in two days."
Going to Yongzhou is to look for my brother's body.
Yan Lan's nose felt sore, and she replied, "Okay."
Then he left Feng Xiaoyuan.
At that time, the Luo family knew Luo Congyun's identity and knew that Luo Chengzhou liked Luo Congyun, but they still insisted on going against Luo Chengzhou's wishes and arranged for Yan Lan to be his partner.
Even if Lieutenant General Luo had his father's trust, he was still only a deputy general of the National Protection Army, which was nothing compared to the glory of being the emperor's son-in-law.
Moreover, Luo Chengzhou's father was the prefect of Linzhou, so it wasn't impossible for him to find a better family background than Yan Lan.
Wei Qingyan had a hunch that something was amiss, and now that he knew it was the Liu family's idea, he found it even more bizarre.
The Liu family has fallen on hard times and has almost faded out of the circle of powerful people in the capital. Why would they want to interfere in their grandson's marriage?
After Yan Lan left, she summoned a secret guard and told him to "keep an eye on Liu He's family."
The secret guard was given to Wei Qingyan by Du Xueyi. He quickly bowed and said, "Yes."
After thinking for a moment, she continued, "Let's go find Dong Zang first and ask him to ask Nanny Chen about the Liu family's situation."
Nanny Chen followed Liu He from the Liu family to the Wu family as a dowry, so she should have some understanding of the Liu family.
Not long after the secret guard left, Dong Zang came in person and brought a small porcelain bottle containing Shi Yu's blood.
Used to smear the evil spirit on Wei Qingyan.
Shi Yu was summoned into the palace.
"Do you know why he came to the palace?"
Dong Zang hesitated for a moment, then told the truth, "The Emperor wants to grant the prince a marriage."
"Which girl is she?" Wei Qingyan asked.
Dong Zang shook his head, "I don't know."
That was all the news their people got.
He looked at Wei Qingyan, and then again, trying to read something from her face, but Wei Qingyan remained calm.
Dongzang sighed in his heart for his master. His master's emotional journey is long and difficult.
Wei Qingyan felt Dong Zang's gaze and roughly guessed what he was thinking.
It’s not that she didn’t feel any emotion in her heart, she just believed in Shi Yu.
Over the years, the emperor and the empress dowager have asked Shi Yu to marry many times, but Shi Yu always refused.
Now that they have made up their minds to each other, Shi Yu will not easily let the emperor control his marriage.
But Wei Qingyan didn't expect that the imperial decree granting the marriage would still come down.
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