It's late autumn again,

Qiu Yiran, wearing a black brocade robe, stood under a large sycamore tree in the middle of the garden. A gust of wind passed, and the withered leaves suddenly left the branches, then rotated and drifted, falling on his shoulders and feet, giving people a feeling of desolation and desolation.

He has been in the capital for five days.

On the first day, I learned from Xu Yuanniang that my sister Qiu Yanran would enter the fifth prince's mansion as a concubine rather than a concubine.

On the second day, he went to the Ministry of Revenue to report. He did not have the envy, flattery, and win over as he expected. Some were disdainful, sympathetic, and gloating. He still didn't understand. Didn't the prince's plan to plot against Yin Zhiruo without success? What he had always worried about did not happen.

On the third day, he learned through his own channels that the prince's trip to the northwest was not what he thought of as gilding and credit, but the emperor's punishment. Everyone was secretly rumored that the prince might have been abandoned by the emperor. Now the Qingyuan Marquis' Mansion has completely boarded the prince's ship. What if the prince is deposed, what will they do? Did you make this wrong move?

On the fourth day, Lu asked a little beggar to stop him on his way back to the house. The note handed to him by the little beggar suddenly said: "I want to know your life secret, please come...". His first reaction was to sneer. However, by some reason, he went to the designated location to meet Lu. Lu repeated the words of her mother and Yan'er that she heard from her mouth: "I must be strange to me. When she found me, she probably believed that I saved the eldest girl of the Ling family and her younger brother, but she didn't explain it clearly at that time. How could I know if the two brothers I saved were the two brothers she thought she had. Now that I have lost my plan, how could I blame me for lying to her?"

Lu's request was that Qiu Yiran would like to return her body contract to her and give her another 500 taels of silver to let her go. If she attempted to kill someone to silence her, as long as she died, the letter she placed elsewhere to reveal the secrets of the Qiu family would be taken out and made public. People in the capital would know that his life experience was different, and they knew that their Qingyuan Hou Mansion was in chaos and deceived the court in order to inherit the title.

Qiu Yiran really wanted to take Lu back and confront her mother and sister, and even sent her to the government. However, involuntarily, he thought of his grandmother's favor for him and her cousin Ke Qiaoqiao, and his indifference to others, including his father and Xiran; he thought of his grandmother's reaction when he was caught in the same bed with Ke Qiaoqiao before his grandmother committed suicide; he thought of his father and mother's preparation and his equally abnormal behavior that day; he thought of Qiu Yanran's changes before and after that and his parents' attitude towards him, he still attached importance to it on the surface, but the seemingly distant alienation often made him inexplicably...

Although I found it incredible, Qiu Yiran's firm belief at the beginning finally began to shake, and he quietly arranged for someone to start a secret investigation.

Of course, he would not let Lu down, no matter whether it was true or false, those words could not be spread.

Qiu Yiran curled the corners of his lips and curled up a cruel, cold and harsh smile. Even Lu's stupid slave wanted to threaten and blackmail him?

Today is the fifth day of Qiu Yiran's return to Beijing. When he arrived at the Ministry of Revenue in the morning, he heard the news that Yin Mingze won the Wenju Jieyuan. This autumn trial ended perfectly. The two brothers Yin Mingze, who had just returned to the capital, became the biggest winners and continued the Mid-Autumn Festival Palace Banquet. As long as they were full of glory, the criticism and ridicule of the Qingyuan Marquis' Mansion would naturally remain high.

Is the Yin family really going to get up again? After a while, others lost both money and money, what did they gain? The reputation of being indifferent to the sensuality? The joke of throwing watermelon and picking up sesame seeds? It also created a farce of poisonous incense case and almost losing its title?

During this period, he sometimes thought, was it really wrong to give up the Yin family and Mingzhe to protect himself? If he wanted to gain both money and sex, and marry another wife who would help him in his career, was it wrong to have the best of both worlds? No, the wrong thing was that he underestimated Yin Zhiruo. If he knew that Yin Zhiruo was so tenacious and capable, if he knew that Yin Zhao could not be convicted, he would definitely be a person who values ​​love and friendship and shares joys and sorrows with Yin Zhiruo. In that case, would his current situation be completely different, with wealth, sex and help, and a good reputation and the favor of the emperor?

Thinking of this, he blamed his mother Ji again. If it weren't for his mother's instigation, he wouldn't have wanted to demote Yin Zhiruo's wife to a concubine back then. At that time, he really liked Yin Zhiruo and knew that according to the laws and regulations of the Daying Dynasty, his mother was guilty and was not as guilty as that of marrying a daughter outside the country. His mother colluded with Ye, and then he had already planned it for him. He also swears that Yin Zhiruo was naive and cowardly, which caused the embarrassment of the Qingyuan Marquis' Mansion and the current dilemma.

Qiu Yiran closed his eyes and sighed. Could it be that he was not his mother's biological son? So her mother only wanted Yin Zhiruo's huge dowry and did not consider his reputation. In the future, she happened to find an excuse to deprive him of his identity as a prince to let Qiu Xiran inherit the title. However, she did not count on the fact that she had to let him attack the title in advance because she colluded with bandits?

It has to be said that once the seeds of doubt are planted, they will take root and sprout, and the brain replenishment ability can always expand infinitely, and it becomes a dangerous experience if you are not careful.

Qiu Yiran felt that his life had never been so dark. He had clearly gained the trust of the prince, promoted, and entered Beijing according to his plan, but in just a few days, he suffered an unprecedented blow. He had doubts about his abilities, choices, destiny, and even his life experience...

Suddenly, when he felt his shoulders sink, Qiu Yiran suddenly looked back and it turned out that his wife Xu Yuanniang took a silver-gray cloak to put it on him. Xu Yuanniang's voice was gentle and warm: "Is it very hard to just enter Beijing? Take your time, you have done a good job." Apart from a title, the Qingyuan Hou Mansion that Qiu Yiran took over is actually a mess.

Qiu Yiran held his wife's hand: "Thank you hard, but I can. I will give you the same decent appearance, family background, and ability as other marquis in the capital." Although Xu Yuanniang's appearance, family background, and ability cannot be compared with Yin Zhiruo, undoubtedly, at this moment when he felt extremely fragile, Xu Yuanniang, who had always supported Qingyuan's mansion with him and gave birth to a legitimate son, became the person he trusted and trusted. Now he was not sure who was his parents, younger brothers and sisters, and who was not. All he could be sure of was his first wife and his legitimate son.

Xu Yuanniang was about to say something, but Dacheng hurriedly approached: "Master, Madam."

Seeing that Dacheng looked like he had something to report, Xu Yuanniang left with a wink: "You talk, Marquis, you remember to come back to drink Chuanbei Xueli Soup. You have some cough these days."

Qiu Yiran nodded and responded to "ok", and his depressed heart finally felt a hint of warmth.
Chapter completed!