"No."

Snake answered.

Ji Li patted Sishe's arm with his folding fan: "Hey, she asked you and you answered? You didn't even ask her what her intention was?"

Snake said calmly: "The intention is hers, the answer is mine."

Ji Li felt bored, opened his folding fan, and looked at Meng Qianqian suspiciously: "Xiao Yinhu, what are you planning now?"

Meng Qianqian blinked and said, "Answer me first, have you secretly married in the past few years? Do you have a confidante?"

Ji Li: "Tsk, this commander... has countless beauties!"

Meng Qianqian: "That means no."

Ji Li: "Who do you look down on?"

Meng Qianqian said bluntly: "You are so poor, wouldn't your confidante be starving if she were with you?"

Ji Li was speechless.

Meng Qianqian touched her chin and murmured softly, "But the princess is rich, she can afford to support ten of you."

Ji Li frowned: "Hey, what are you mumbling about?"

Meng Qianqian said seriously: "Ji Li, your fate cannot be suppressed by ordinary people. You have to find a true nobleman so that you will not be burdened by your fate."

Ji Li patted her head with his folding fan: "I don't think I accepted you as my apprentice, but you acted like a charlatan in front of me!"

Meng Qianqian grabbed his fan and said, "I'm serious, do you want to try it?"

Ji Li said speechlessly: "Just tell me who you have a grudge against and who you want me to defeat?"

Meng Qianqian: “…”

Sishe said: "You came to us suddenly, is there something wrong?"

Princess Wanping’s marriage... Meng Qianqian couldn’t say that, it would make the atmosphere awkward.

Meng Qianqian let go of Ji Li's folding fan and said seriously, "Hai Zhu confessed a key witness in the Ministry of Justice that day - Luo San. He was once a retainer of the Crown Prince's Mansion. It was he who acted as the Prime Minister's running dog and instigated the Crown Prince to destroy the Chu family behind the scenes."

"In a few days, the emperor will be training his troops for the autumn hunt, and Luo San is likely to go. I hope you can help capture Luo San together."

At this point, Meng Qianqian added, "Food and lodging are provided, with both meat and vegetables."

Ji Li: "I have no objection."

Sishe paused and said, "Okay."

Meng Qianqian said again: "Ji Li, can you tell me where Luo San is?"

Ji Li waved his folding fan: "First, I need Luo San's birth date, and second, I need my compass."

Meng Qianqian asked curiously, "Where's your compass?"

Ji Li sighed, "It's broken, unprecedented, the most complete breakdown, the pointer is broken. Blame him!"

Ji Li glared at Si She mercilessly.

Snake told what happened that night.

Meng Qianqian frowned: "It turns out that the person Haizhu met was one of the Twelve Guards."

She became even more curious about which of the Twelve Guards knew so much about the Chu family's case. It seemed as if he was deliberately pushing them closer to the truth.

"Why doesn't he come forward and make peace with us?"

Meng Qianqian couldn't understand.

Ji Li said: "It must be that dog!"

Meng Qianqian looked at him: "What do you mean?"

Ji Li analyzed, "Don't you think so? Among the twelve people, the one who likes to do things secretly the most is Xu Gou, and he is also the one with the most information. He was in charge of the Black Armor Army's scout camp back then. It's not surprising that he found out the truth before us."

Meng Qianqian's memory was incomplete, but when she heard Ji Li talking about the Xu dog, some scenes of her interactions with the Xu dog emerged involuntarily in her mind.

"what happened to you?"

Sishe noticed that something was wrong with Meng Qianqian.

Meng Qianqian pressed her brows and said, "It's just a little headache, it's okay."

As far as I can remember, Xu Gou is indeed in charge of intelligence. He was a scout, and all the scouts under him are as fierce as falcons.

Is it really the dog?

Meng Qianqian said: "Again, if it is a dog, why doesn't he recognize us?"

Sishe frowned slightly, as if he also found this point difficult to understand.

Ji Li said: "Well, he is worried that we are also traitors!" Meng Qianqian thought: "This is the only explanation at the moment."

Ji Li waved his folding fan and said, "Instead of guessing here, why not go and ask Haizhu directly."

Meng Qianqian: "Go ask."

Ji Li stretched out his hand: "Five copper coins! Meals included!"

Meng Qianqian: "Deal."

Having said that, Meng Qianqian didn't think Ji Li could get the other party's identity from Haizhu's mouth.

No matter who the other party is, it doesn’t matter for now. Their goals are the same, and this is a good enough situation.

Meng Qianqian went to visit Grandma Feng. The weather was getting cold, so she made some autumn pear paste and bought a new quilt and thick mattress for Grandma Feng.

Lei Qianfu was not there again, but he knew that Meng Qianqian had come to see him last time but came back empty-handed, so he gave the key to Grandma Feng and let Meng Qianqian go in directly.

Meng Qianqian also prepared several cans of autumn pear paste and several jars of the best girl's red wine for him.

She looked at the nest of bamboos in the yard and blurted out subconsciously: "The little bamboo shoots back then have grown so tall."

"Brother, what are you doing?"

"Call uncle."

"Oh, uncle, what are you doing?"

"I plant flowers. The ones I planted a few days ago died again. Are you alone? Where are your parents?"

"My parents are dead."

"Hey, don't cry! I didn't mean it... I didn't know your parents were gone... There must be someone else in your family..."

"Wow——"

Gone, all gone.

The Shang family...she is the only one left.

"Uncle, let me plant a bamboo tree here. If you let me plant a bamboo tree, I will stop crying..."

"You can plant as many as you want! Just don't cry!"

Meng Qianqian touched the bamboo, and all the forgotten memories came flooding back to her mind: "So that's how it is."
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When Meng Qianqian returned to the Governor's Mansion, Tan'er also returned from the Princess's Mansion.

Meng Qianqian asked: "How?"

Tan Er held her chin with her fists and said intoxicatedly, "The braised pork from the Princess's mansion is so delicious!"

Meng Qianqian held her forehead with her hand: "I am asking you, has Princess Wanping agreed to go on the autumn hunt?"

Tan Er described vividly: "She didn't want to go at first, but I told her that my sister, the Grand Commander, and Bao Zhuzhu would all go, and she agreed to go! Sister! I like the Princess's Mansion so much!"

Banxia entered the house holding Meng Qianqian's clothes and asked, "You like the braised pork there, right?"

Tan'er made a face at Banxia.

Banxia said angrily: "Why don't you go to the princess's mansion and be a maid."

Tan Er pouted: "I'm not going!"

Banxia put the clothes into the closet: "You don't want to eat braised pork?"

Tan Er folded her arms and looked up at the sky: "Go and tie up the cook!"

Banxia chuckled.

The maids and old women working in the yard also laughed out loud.

At night, the family took a walk in Tinglan Garden to digest their food, and watched Baozhuzhu and Tan'er compete with each other in wits and courage.

Meng Qianqian looked around: "I haven't seen Yu Zichuan all day, where is he?"

Lu Yuan said: "We went to the paddock."

Meng Qianqian was puzzled: "So early? Isn't there still a few days left?"

Lu Yuan said calmly, "There are hot springs in the enclosure, but they are scarce, so it's first come, first served."

Meng Qianqian nodded: "The Grand Commander's cold has not healed yet, a hot spring bath will be good for you."

Lu Yuan said coldly: "You can also take a dip."

Meng Qianqian smiled and said, "My cold has healed."

Qingshuang: "The Grand Commander wants to take a bath with you." (End of this chapter)