The next day, at dawn, Lan Shu got up and went to the Criminal Department with Du Xueyi with the assassin's body.
More than twenty corpses were placed outside the gate of the Criminal Ministry, so Xie Shen, who was about to go to court, had to go back to the Criminal Ministry first and take over the case.
Lan Shu and Du Xueyi, as the victims, followed into the Criminal Department and waited for Xie Shen to investigate the case.
A Lu came back early and informed Wei Qingyan about the situation in the Criminal Department. After a while, Wei Shiran also came with Gong Jin.
"Are you injured?" Wei Shiran saw Wei Qingyan and walked around her first.
On his way to court in the morning, Gong Mingcheng heard that assassins had entered the Anyuan Hou Mansion last night, and he hurriedly sent his personal attendant back to the house to tell Wei Shiran.
Wei Shiran was still lying on the bed. Hearing this, he lifted the quilt, simply washed himself and came here. As soon as he arrived at the door of the house, he met Gong Jin's master and servant, and they came over together.
"I'm fine." Wei Qingyan smiled, then let Gong Jin and Gong Jin continue to practice the basic skills from yesterday, and led Wei Shiran into the room to talk.
After having that weird idea last night, Wei Qingyan felt like she was possessed by a demon. The more she thought about it, the more she felt that maybe she and Abu were biological siblings.
They have similar looks, the same food preferences, and they get along very well with each other. Otherwise, they would not have cooperated so well, making it impossible for Shi Yu and Du Xueyi to recognize her identity as a woman.
And she and Abu both have two spins on their heads.
Maybe they are Auntie's children.
Otherwise, why has her mother, Mrs. Wei Xiao, not wanted to return to Beijing since the incident in Huangshaling?
"Sister." Wei Qingyan organized his words, "The incident in 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 Mrs. Wei would come back, but thinking about how to reply to Wei Qingyan so as not to make her uncomfortable.
As a mother, if it was about her child, she would have rushed to the capital overnight, but she, the second mother...
After thinking about it, she comforted, "She is far away in Yongzhou. Maybe the news from the capital is slow to spread. Maybe she is already on her way here."
This comfort is really weak.
If she wants to come back, she will definitely send her servants back to Beijing to clean up the Duke Protector's Mansion. It has been a long time, and there is no movement from the Duke Protector's Mansion.
Wei Qingyan smiled and said casually, "Is it possible that I am not my mother's child?"
Wei Shiran's eyes suddenly felt pity. It was pitiful that Qingyan was so cold-hearted by Er Niang that she began to doubt her own life experience.
She hurriedly put her arms around her younger sister's shoulders and said, "That's impossible. When my second mother was pregnant with you, she asked the imperial doctor to protect her, and she was pregnant with twins."
"That doesn't necessarily mean she's pregnant with me." Wei Qingyan continued to test.
Wei Shiran felt even more distressed after hearing this, and softly comforted her, "Qingyan, don't think too much, the Duke Protector's Mansion is not a small family.
When Er Niang gave birth, all the maids and women were there, and the father was sitting outside the house, so nothing could be faked.
If you were not a child of my Wei family, how could my father have handed over one hundred thousand national defense troops to you?
Moreover, look how similar you are to your father, how could you not be his father's child? "
Wei Qingyan lowered his eyes.
She follows her father and is influenced by his words and deeds. It is inevitable that she has some shadow of her father, but their appearance is different.
Seeing that Wei Qingyan still looked suspicious, she continued, "There is something that I couldn't tell you, and I only found out about it a few years ago.
Er Niang originally had a sweetheart, but she was allegedly married to her father, and she was much younger than his father. In addition, my father always remembered my mother in his heart.
The relationship between the two was not good. It was more than a year after marriage that you and Wanyi got married. Later, your father insisted on pretending that you were a man.
She doesn't want to let you go through hardships, and is worried that you will be buried in horse leather in the future, and she even had a big fight with her father.
Father's majestic aura makes ordinary people afraid of him. Erniang never dares to speak loudly to her father, but that time she even offered to take you and Wanyi to reconcile with your father.
I think she actually cared about you and was strict with you, maybe because she wanted you to learn more skills to save your life, but later on, your words and deeds became more and more like your father..."
My mother doesn't like my father, so I don't like myself becoming more and more like my father.
If it is true, as the eldest sister said, that the father was in the house when the mother gave birth, then the possibility of the mother substituting one thing for another is indeed unlikely.
She thought about the first time she was injured, her mother's eyes were swollen from crying, and then she thought about her mother's various reactions after her death.
Wei Qingyan was at a loss.
Were all the thoughts last night wrong?
Wei Shiran treated Qingyan as both a sister and a daughter. He was afraid that she would be uncomfortable because of this, so he racked his brains and said a lot of words to comfort her.
Wei Qingyan wasn't really sad at all, so he just smiled.
After Wei Shiran and others left, Wei Qingyan changed his clothes and planned to go out to see what was going on outside, when he saw Yan Lan coming in dusty.
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 go to Linzhou, chased Luo's mother and his party, and returned to Linzhou with them.
She had harmed Yan Lan many times before, how could Yan Lan not take revenge.
Wei Qingyan knew what Yan Lan was thinking, so he pointed out two secret guards to her.
After Luo Congyun caught up with Luo's mother, Yan Lan killed both mother and daughter of the Luo family, which was considered to have settled the grudges of the past years.
"I asked, and Luo Chengzhou's mother confessed that it was the Liu family's suggestion that the Luo family decided to get engaged to me.
The Luo family also saw that my father was favored by the old general, so she pretended to get close to my mother and arranged this marriage. "
This question was what Wei Qingyan had asked her to ask Luo's mother before she left.
The Liu family is the natal family of Luo's mother and Liu He.
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 bones.
Yan Lan's nose felt sour and she replied, "Okay."
Then he left Fengxiao Courtyard.
At that time, the Luo family knew clearly about Luo Congyun's identity and that Luo Chengzhou liked Luo Congyun, but they insisted on going against Luo Chengzhou's wishes and set him up with Yan Lan.
No matter how much Lieutenant General Luo gained his father's trust, he was still only a Lieutenant General of the National Guard Army, which could not compare with the glory of being the son-in-law of the Emperor.
Moreover, Luo Chengzhou's father was the prefect of Linzhou, so it was not impossible to find someone with a better family background than Yan Lan.
Wei Qingyan had a gut feeling that something was wrong, and now that he knew it was the Liu family's intention, he felt even more strange.
The Liu family was so depressed that they almost faded out of the elite circles of the capital. Why did they want to get involved in their grandson's marriage?
After Yan Lan left, she summoned a secret guard to come out and "keep an eye on Liu He's family."
The secret guard was given to Wei Qingyan by Du Xueyi. After hearing the order, he quickly cupped his hands and said, "Yes."
After thinking about it, she added, "Let's go find Dong Zang first and ask him to ask Nanny Chen about the situation of the Liu family."
Aunt Chen followed Liu He into the Wu family from the Liu family as a dowry, so she should have some knowledge of the Liu family.
Not long after the secret guard left, Dong Zang came in person and brought a small porcelain vase containing Shi Yu's blood.
Used to smear Wei Qingyan to break evil spirits.
Shi Yu was summoned into the palace.
"Do you know why he came to the palace?"
Dongzang hesitated for a moment and said truthfully, "The emperor wants to grant the prince a marriage."
"Which girl is from that family?" Wei Qingyan asked.
Dongzang shook his head, "I don't know."
That's all their people got.
He glanced at Wei Qingyan and then again, trying to see something on her face, but Wei Qingyan always looked as usual.
Dongzang sighed for his master in his heart. The master's emotional road was long and difficult.
Wei Qingyan felt Dong Zang's gaze and roughly guessed what he was thinking.
It's not that she doesn't have troubles in her heart, she just believes in Shi Yu.
In recent years, the emperor and the queen mother had often asked Shi Yu to marry, but Shi Yu had always blocked them.
Now that they had made up their minds about each other, Shi Yu would not easily let the emperor interfere with his marriage.
But Wei Qingyan didn't expect that the marriage decree would come down.
