Return of the Swallow

"No, no. Brother-in-law, I, I'll stand down then." Miss Eight bowed her knees and saluted, her ears were red and her face was filled with clouds, she lowered her head and walked outside.

Pang Xiao looked at Miss Eighth's back, smiled coldly, and asked bluntly: "Who asked you to come?"

Miss Eight stopped and turned around to look at Pang Xiao in horror and embarrassment.

"The Qin family doesn't even have a maid to serve tea. You are also a young lady of the Qin family. Whose idea was it to ask you to come to the front hall to serve tea?"

Pang Xiao has not calmed down his momentum. He has been irritable these days, and now he looks decadent. His face is more ferocious, and his eyes are as sharp as arrows shining with cold light. Even a grown man will be fooled by Pang Xiao. His aura was intimidating, let alone Miss Eight, a little girl.

The Eighth Miss stepped back continuously, and did not stop until her back was against the wall of the door. She stammered: "No, it's no one's idea."

"Lie." Seeing that she was so frightened, Pang Xiao didn't bother to say anything more. He just said, "The person who asked you to come out to serve tea has no good intentions. Although you are a commoner, your uncle is the minister of rites. Minister, with this status, you will be able to become a legitimate wife in the future, and the person who asked you to serve tea this time is just asking you to think of something small. You are not young. As a brother-in-law, I would like to advise you, go and You don’t have to listen to everyone in the end, you should think more about yourself.”

Having said this, Pang Xiao waved his hand and said, "Go ahead."

The eighth lady not only blushed, her eyes were red, tears fell, and she turned around and walked out.

Unexpectedly, when he arrived at the corridor, he bumped into Qin Huaiyuan, and he didn't know how much he had heard here.

The eighth young lady was so embarrassed that she lowered her head and bowed hastily, calling her uncle.

Qin Huaiyuan said: "Go tell the old lady and tell her to have a healthy life and stop interfering in outside affairs, so that she can recover quickly."

Miss Eight nodded, her tears flowed more fiercely, and she ran away sobbing.

Qin Huai has become much thinner in recent days. The dark blue Taoist robe on his body looks like it is hanging on a clothes rack.

Seeing the unkempt Pang Xiao, Qin Huaiyuan couldn't help but sigh.

It seemed that Pang Xiao was not having a good time these days.

"You came."

"Father-in-law.

"Pang Xiao came forward and bowed with his hands and knees.

Qin Huaiyuan sighed and helped Pang Xiao up, "We are all family members, there is no need to be like this. You came suddenly. Is there any news about Sister Yi?"

Qin Huaiyuan is always so keen.

Pang Xiao didn't show off and handed the note to Qin Huaiyuan: "This is the news from Master Mu of Mujing Lake. He is now in Tatar and saw Sister Yi."

Qin Huaiyuan read the note carefully several times, as if he wanted to split and reorganize each word to ensure that what he saw was true and not his hallucination.

"Are you sure this is indeed the news from Mr. Mu?"

"It's certain."

His daughter was safe, Qin Huaiyuan's shoulders relaxed for a moment, and his tense nerves were relieved.

"That's really good news." Qin Huaiyuan sighed and closed his eyes.

He only had a daughter. When he heard the news about her disappearance, he was so anxious that he wanted to find her in person. Later, when he heard about the situation in the cave after several Jingzhe came back, Qin Huaiyuan felt even more ominous.

Now that he learned that Qin Yining went to Tatar, what else did Qin Huaiyuan not understand?

"It seems that Tatar sneaked here quietly because he wanted the treasure. He has been following him for a long time."

"What my father-in-law said is true. It was my negligence that led to this situation. I should have prepared my defenses carefully at the beginning, so that I wouldn't have known that the Tatars had penetrated deep into the disaster area." Pang Xiao regretted it, if Given another chance, he would rather resist the order than take Qin Yining out.

Qin Huaiyuan smiled and comforted: "It's not your fault. When the Holy Emperor quietly arranged the relief work around the old capital, how could you dare to act rashly? What's more, the situation in the disaster area is already tense, the people lack medical treatment and medicine, and the court's relief has been delayed. , what you have to deal with are people who may riot at any time, and there are too many things to consider, and you can take care of them everywhere."

What Qin Huaiyuan said was the true situation at that time. But he lost Sister Yi. No matter what the reason was, this was unforgivable.

Qin Huaiyuan stretched out his arm and patted Pang Xiao on the shoulder, "You don't want to take all the blame on yourself."

Pang Xiao felt sour and swollen in his heart, and his eyes were red.

At this time, he would rather Qin Huaiyuan slap him hard and scold him a few times. The more understanding and tolerant he is, the more guilty Pang Xiao feels.

Qin Huaiyuan shook his head and sighed: "Okay, since you are married to Sister Yi, call me father-in-law, and you will be considered my son.

"Let me tell you the truth, even if something happens to Sister Yi, you will still be my half-sister. This is an indisputable fact. If I lose Sister Yi, my daughter, I cannot continue to lose you, my son. Otherwise, I will lose my son Yi." Wouldn’t it be a great loss for me, an old man? Even if you renew our relationship in the future, will you still call me father-in-law when you see me?

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br /\u003e "Fortunately, Sister Yi is fine now and everyone is happy. Don't blame yourself. I don't blame you for this. The most important thing now is that we discuss what to do next and how to ensure that Sister Yi will continue. of peace.”

Pang Xiao was very moved after hearing this. It took him a long time to suppress his surging emotions and said seriously: "The Tatars should have been keeping an eye on the whereabouts of the treasure for a long time. This time they went to capture Sister Yi. I'm afraid they just happened to meet her. At that time, they were in the cave. The situation was very complicated, Si Qin and his people suddenly arrived, and when they saw that the main people were there, they simply started cooking."

Qin Huaiyuan continued: "I just don't know how the people in the Qingtian League are doing now. But according to my guess, those people in the Qingtian League who were captured are in bad luck."

Qin Huaiyuan nodded and said: "I think so. Otherwise, given the attraction of the treasure, it has been nearly four months, and it is impossible for the Tatars to care at all about the whereabouts of the treasure."

"I think that with the Tatar people's concern for the treasure, they will definitely try their best to use Sister Yi and the second master of the Lu family to negotiate terms with us." Pang Xiao said with some worry, "It's just that I am in a tense situation now, and the Holy lord is resisting me. I have been disrespectful to the decree more than 30 times and still haven't done anything about it. I have been impatient during these days and offended many people. I'm afraid that the Holy One will not care about Sister Yi's life and death."

"The most important thing is that Mr. Lu Ge is in very bad health now, and the power change of the Lu family is also at a critical juncture. I'm afraid that Mr. Lu will also be given up by the Lu family." Qin Huaiyuan stood up and walked around with his hands behind his back. "Sister Yi is a woman. I think other than our family members who care about her, others only treat her as an accessory. Even if the Tatars negotiate terms, they will put the Lu family first. If they don't get the treasure, they can still ask for ransom. Or there may be other benefits. If the Lu family gives up, I'm afraid Sister Yi's situation will be even worse."

"Your Majesty! Your Majesty!" At this moment, Huzi ran in from outside and handed a carrier pigeon to Pang Xiao. "You see, it was sent by Mr. Mu."

Pang Xiao stood up hurriedly, took off the small paper roll from the carrier pigeon's feet, and eagerly unfolded it to see three words on it.

Kill Khan and escape.

"Father-in-law." Pang Xiao frowned and handed the note to Qin Huaiyuan.

Qin Huaiyuan looked at it and murmured: "What does this mean? The Khan was killed? No...could it be!"

"Who killed Khan and escaped? Sister Yi?"

"It must be Sister Yi, otherwise Master Mu would not have sent the message to you. Sister Yi is not a reckless person. She must have had a reason to kill the Khan, but now, the political power must have fallen to the consort Siqin. He is in his hands, he is a ruthless character and he will definitely make a big fuss out of this matter."

Qin Huaiyuan can now imagine Siqin's behavior. He has collected a lot of information about Siqin on weekdays, and he probably knows his ambitious temperament.

"I'm afraid it won't be good if this goes on. Not to mention whether the story about Sister Yi killing the Khan is true or false. Even if it is false, this news came from Mr. Mu, so everyone in Tatar must have recognized it. Yes. In my opinion, Si Qin will definitely take advantage of the situation and seize the power first before looking for other things."

Qin Huaiyuan said: "Perhaps even the murder was within Si Qin's plan."

Pang Xiao nodded in agreement.

Weng and son-in-law fell into deep thought and anxiety at the same time.

If the news of Qin Yining's murder of the Khan has spread throughout Tatar, regardless of Siqin's conditions for Zhou, it can only be said that Qin Yining's situation in Tatar must be very dangerous.

The two looked at each other and anxiously discussed the next possibilities and solutions.

At this time, Qin Yining's health was much better, and he and Siqin were hiding in the Minuo Department.

After getting along with each other for several days, Qin Yining realized that these Minuo tribe members were actually very warm-hearted, kind and honest people. For example, the two brothers Harbala and Chaganbala, because they are the sons of the former clan leader, are somewhat involved in political intrigue, so they have some scheming. However, Qin Yining and Lu Heng see that they are punished for using their brains to do things. They were quite straightforward, and it was even clearer that they actually had no bad intentions.

Because the two brothers had special status and were young, Anari wanted to keep them for humiliation, so they were not killed. However, the shame they suffered and the hatred of their parents' murder were deeply rooted in their hearts.

They are also very trustworthy people. They swore at the beginning that whoever could kill Anari to avenge their clan leader and clan members would be the next clan leader.

So even though Halbala and Chaganbala were not happy, they still regarded Lu Heng and Qin Yining as the new clan leaders, especially Siqin, who had a high status in their hearts.

Just a few days passed like this, and they searched the entire city and found nothing. Siqin was busy and gradually grasped the power in his hands. He could only ask his subordinates to supervise the work. He turned everything upside down and found no trace of the "murderer".

When the matter came back to Si Qin, Si Qin frowned and thought for a while, then said: "Let's investigate again, paying special attention to the participation of the tribes that were wiped out by the Khan, such as the Mino tribe. They hated the Khan in their hearts, and they were very Maybe he was in cahoots with the murderer."

The people below took the order and went straight to several slums in the city.

"No, we're searching!" A little girl in ragged clothes ran in outside the door, pulling Harbala and saying, "The officers and soldiers are searching! They'll be here soon!"

Harbala's face turned pale when he heard this. He stood up in a hurry and ran to the back room. He pulled Qin Yining and Si Qin and ran to the backyard.