"Cui Yuanzao, my official position will be higher than yours in the future." Lan Yin smiled uglier than crying.
The sunlight was just right, and the mottled shadows of the leaves fell on Lan Yin's face, making her face seem transparent and with a broken beauty.
Cui Yuanzao felt his hand was a little itchy, rubbed his thumb and index finger, and finally couldn't help but stroked Lan Yin's head.
"There are leaves."
"Yeah." Lan Yin lowered her head and felt her nose was a little sore.
"Liu Siji will take care of me from now on." Cui Yuanzao said softly.
"What a beautiful idea." Lan Yin raised her head and said harshly.
Cui Yuanzao smiled and finally felt a little happier.
Cui Yuanzao pulled Lan Yin's sleeve and led her to the carriage parked on the roadside.
"Why aren't you happy?" Cui Yuanzao asked in a persuasive manner.
Lan Yin sniffed, and for some reason, she felt that Cui Yuanzao was particularly pleasing to the eye at this moment, so she said, "I suddenly feel that I may never have the same life again in this life."
"The old days?"
"When I was on the mountain, I watched the sun rise and set every day. The only worry was that my senior brother ate an extra chicken leg. Maybe I shouldn't go down the mountain and I shouldn't be so greedy."
Lan Yin didn't know why, but she had an intuition that she would never go back.
"I have never had a life like yours in my life, wouldn't it be worse than you?" Cui Yuanzao said with a smile.
Lan Yin felt a thump in her heart, as if she had been comforted. Sure enough, the best way to comfort someone is to compare themselves with others.
Lan Yin patted Cui Yuanzao on the shoulder and said, "I will take you to the mountains to play in the future."
Cui Yuanzao smiled, very gently. Lan Yin couldn't help but blush, and cursed in her heart, "Damn monster."
Maybe even Lan Yin herself didn't realize that she promised "in the future".
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Cui Yuanzao didn't like Princess Hanyang and didn't like the Guo family, but this time he felt he even needed to thank them.
Cui Yuanzao knew that Princess Hanyang had her own purpose for lowering her stature so much. Which of the dignitaries in Chang'an City was innocent? Not to mention the royal family?
She fell in love with Lan Yin, firstly for the reasons she said on the surface, but also because she was his unmarried wife. Pulling Lan Yin into the water was equivalent to pulling the Cui family of Qinghe into the water to protect Concubine Guo Xian.
A few days ago, Cui Yuanzao might have been angry, but after Lan Yin disappeared, he began to understand his own feelings.
There was nothing to hide, he was in love with her.
He himself doesn't know when it started, but if he likes it, he likes it. If he likes it, he should think about the future.
He knew clearly that Lan Yin was not Yang Rong. If he wanted to marry her, he could only assume Yang Rong's identity, but this identity could easily be exposed. But if her identity was recognized by the saint, no one would dare to question it. .
This is the first benefit of entering the palace.
Another advantage of entering the palace is that it isolates Lan Yin from her past world.
Cui Yuanzao had to admit that when he saw the way Lan Yin and Su Mo got along that day, he was jealous, jealous of Su Mo, and jealous of his relationship with Lan Yin's childhood sweetheart.
He knew that even if she took Lan Yin away from Su Mo this time, no matter how big Chang'an City was, Su Mo would still find her one day.
There was only one place that Su Mo couldn't enter, and that was the Daming Palace.
And he needs time, time to get along with Lan Yin, and let time become their bond.
Cui Yuanzao knew that Lan Yin had a secret. She liked her master so much, but she wanted to escape. That only meant that she had more important things to do, but she didn't trust him yet. He could wait, he just needed time.
"What are you thinking about?" Lan Yin couldn't help but ask when she saw Cui Yuanzao's long silence.
"I'm thinking it would be nice to be a female official in the palace this time." Cui Yuanzao said with a smile.
"I thought you would be angry!"
"Why should I be angry?"
"I'm so angry that I pretended to be Mrs. Yang and went to the palace. If I was exposed, I'm afraid I would take you Qinghe Cui family to the ditch." Lan Yin muttered.
She wasn't brainless, Cui Yuanzao felt funny, "Then you still agreed?"
Lan Yin bit her lip. She still didn't dare to trust Cui Yuanzao completely. Her Aye was guilty of treason and she didn't dare to say it.
"I know that Princess Hanyang is too powerful. They always have many ways to get people to do things for them. No wonder you." Cui Yuanzao said with a smile.
Lan Yin looked at Cui Yuanzao suspiciously. She always felt that something was different about Cui Yuanzao. Could there be some conspiracy?
Cui Yuanzao felt that Lan Yin's eyes were a bit funny, like a confused little fox, and he felt his hands were itchy again.
"Actually, Princess Hanyang wants to use us, so we can also use her in turn!" Cui Yuanzao added in order to divert attention.
"How to use it?" Lan Yin panicked. Did Cui Yuanzao know something?
"There are still many doubts about Wang Shang's case. Didn't you say you wanted to help me?"
Lan Yin nodded.
"Look, let's sort it out. Lu Qian undoubtedly died due to the condensation and reflection of the concave-convex mirror. The source of Wang Shang's concave-convex mirror is a mystery. It is very likely that the person who gave Wang Shang the concave-convex mirror was the murderer of Wang Shang. .”
Lan Yin nodded. She already knew all these things, but what does this have to do with her entering the palace.
"The concave and convex mirrors were originally a pair and should have been stored in the inner treasury. One of them is the one in my uncle's hand. It should have flowed into the market through Ma Yuanzhi. The other one has left the palace. It is unclear when it left the palace. You know, this kind of investigation is completely impossible for us to conduct outside the palace, but as the Secretary, you can check various documents and classics and find the owner of the concave-convex mirror from clues. In this way, are we closer to finding the murderer? One step."
This is indeed the truth. Lan Yin couldn't help but look at Cui Yuanzao. She always felt that he had a kind of light when he was solving cases.
"One more thing, didn't you say that the soldiers from Zhaoyi Town were going to meet with the palace informant? Aren't you curious who it is?"
"Oh, I feel like there are so many things to do." Lan Yin felt like she couldn't wait.
Cui Yuanzao looked at Lan Yin amusedly and said softly: "You should also pay special attention to whether there are any monks coming in and out of the palace."
"Why?"
"Zhao Jinggong Temple, Xiangji Temple, Monk, and Daming Palace." Cui Yuanzao unfolded a piece of jute paper, dipped it in ink, and wrote.
"These are the keywords I sorted out. I don't know how to connect them together, but these words make me care more."
"Okay, I'll pay attention."
Just as Lan Yin was about to put away the jute paper, the carriage suddenly stopped.
Lan Yin stumbled and fell on Cui Yuanzao. She tried to get up, but was hugged by Cui Yuanzao.
"Cui Pingshi, Li Shaoqing asked you to return to Dali Temple quickly. There is an urgent case." Sun Mao's voice came from outside the carriage.
Sun Mao's voice was very loud, but Cui Yuanzao felt that the voice was noisy and ethereal. He seemed to be trapped in Lan Yin's eyes, and he saw a blush on her face.
"You still won't let go?" Lan Yin slashed Cui Yuanzao's arm with her hand blade.
