Is your brother-in-law a great general who has fought many battles?

  "Snowy!" Seeing Xueyan run out, Tang Lin followed her out. When she looked at the owner of the horse on the road, the horse had already galloped away. She couldn't see his face clearly, only a strong and slender back figure.

  "Sister-in-law——" Xueyan Han rushed towards the horse with her life on the line, but the horse's speed was something she couldn't catch up to, and it was a precious sweat-blooded horse at that.

  She couldn't run anymore, Han Xueyan fell to the ground, her eyes brimming with tears as she watched that horse and that familiar figure disappear from her sight, her heart aching like an arrow piercing through it.

  Tang Lin ran up to her side and stopped in his tracks, worriedly asking: "Xueyan, what were you just doing?"

  Han Xueyan choked out in a sobbing voice, "Little Tang sister, I saw it, I really did!"

  Tang Lin helped her up and walked towards the stone steps of the wine building. After sitting down on the stone steps, she asked: "What did you see?"

  "Brother-in-law! I saw my brother-in-law, who has been missing for several years!"

  "Did you run out of your house to look for your brother-in-law?" Tang Lin asked.

  "Hmm!" Han Xueyan nodded, still looking gloomy, "And my sister too!"

  Tang Lin sat down and asked seriously: "What's going on?"

  Han Xueyan recounted the whole story, "Five years ago, my sister and brother-in-law left home, saying they were going to the capital for a trip and would be back in a month or two. But from then on, they never came back! I looked for them for half a year, but there was no sign of them!"

  Tang Lin asked: "You dress up as a man just to make it more convenient for you to find your sister and brother-in-law?"

  Han Xue nodded and said: "Uh-huh!"

  "What about your sister and brother-in-law?" Tang Lin asked with some curiosity, of course, subconsciously wanting to help Han Xueyan find her sister and brother-in-law. "What's your sister's name? And what's your brother-in-law's name?"

  Han Xueyan said: "My sister is called Han Lingying, and her husband is Shao Qi!"

  "Shao Qi..." This name made Tang Lin feel a little familiar, wasn't that the "good short sleeve" border general Shao Qi mentioned by Feng Die? "Xue Yan, could it be that your brother-in-law is the current war-torn General Shao Qi?"

  "No way!" Han Xueyan immediately denied, "My brother-in-law is just an ordinary person, how could he possibly become a great general in just a few years? It's impossible!"

  Tang Lin nodded in agreement, "You also make sense, but just now I seemed to hear you call a passerby 'brother-in-law', did you see him?"

  At this point, Han Xueyan became excited and her eyes welled up with tears. She grasped Tang Lin's hand tightly and begged: "Sister Tang, please approve my leave of absence! I want to go find my sister's husband, please grant me permission!"

  "Tang Lin kindly reminded: 'Ke Xueyan, it's been a while since everyone passed by, and they were riding horses. In this vast imperial capital, how can you find him? What if that person is not your brother-in-law? Wouldn't you be very disappointed? I just caught a glimpse of the horse, and I think the person on the horse is either rich or noble. Otherwise, why would he have a precious horse like that? That's a horse that can travel thousands of miles during the day and eight hundred at night, not something an ordinary person can tame or own. It's likely that the person on the horse is someone extraordinary. You said your brother-in-law is very ordinary, but it's absolutely impossible to connect him with the person from just now. Maybe you made a mistake!'"

  It's common for people to mistake others these days, and she was even mistaken for the current queen by someone!

  "No," Han Xueyan's expression fluctuated, "I won't be mistaken, the person just now was indeed my brother-in-law, Little Tang Jie. Snowy, please, let me go find my brother-in-law, okay? I'll come back after finding him!"

  "Alright," Tang Lin sighed, helping Han Xue up, and said softly: "I promise you, if you want to go, then go. Later, we'll head to the workshop to get some silver. From now on, don't ever steal from others again!"

  Han Xueyan was so excited that she burst into tears, "Thank you, Little Tang sister!"

  Afterwards, Han Xueyan went to the studio and took some silver given by Tang Lin, then packed up some valuables and left.

  The ground is good. The imperial heart is in the building below, seeing Han Xueyan carrying a package and rushing out of the door, she can't help but feel some loss and panic, thinking that Han Xueyan is leaving Jun Die Xuan with her package. So she put down her work and went upstairs to find Tang Lin in the studio.

  Tang Lin was interviewing an ordinary middle-aged man who had just come to apply for a cook, and when he saw Yu Xinrui rushing in, he smiled apologetically at the middle-aged man and whispered: "Sorry, please wait a moment!" Then, she turned to face Yu Xinrui who was about to walk up to her.

  Yu Xin Rui asked as soon as she entered: "Little Tang sister, why did Xue Yan take her luggage and leave Jun Die Xuan?"

  "I didn't expect that she was here for this matter," Tang Lin replied truthfully: "Oh, it's like that. Xueyan has something urgent to attend to and will be away for a few days!"

  "Wait a minute," said the young lady, "Is he going out? When will he be back?"

  Tang Lin shrugged and couldn't give a deadline. "I don't know either, it's estimated to be more than a year or two, or less than half a day!"

  Her face revealed a look of loss and sadness, "How could he just leave like that without even saying a word to me!"

  "What's wrong with you?" Tang Lin couldn't understand why Yu Xinrui was so down today because of Han Xueyan's departure. "Isn't Snowy the person you hate the most? Why are you now so concerned about her whereabouts? You're a bit contradictory!"

  "I..." Yu Xinrui couldn't get the words out, but a thin layer of red appeared on her face.

  Tang Lin said, "Xin Rui, Xue Yan has gone out to find her sister and brother-in-law. If she finds them, she will naturally come back here. Anyway, you won't be in the wine tower in two days either. Why bother about where she's going? Just like she doesn't care about your whereabouts!"

  "Little Tang sister..." Yu Xinrui's eyes suddenly misted over, her eye sockets still red, as if something Tang Lin said had struck a chord in her heart.

  Tang Lin was startled, seeing Yu Xinrui's eyes were red, her heart tightened two points, she quickly got up and hugged Yu Xinrui into her arms to comfort her, "Good Xinrui, don't cry, don't be sad, little sister Tang didn't mean to say it that way, actually Xueyan still cares about you very much!"

  Her heart ached as she shook her head in her arms, "Little Tang sister, don't comfort me anymore, I know that Xue Yan doesn't have me in his heart at all!"

  "Ah?" Tang Lin was taken aback, finally noticing something off, and immediately let go of Yu Xin's sleeve. Looking at her red eyes and nose, she carefully asked: "You wouldn't have fallen for... Xue Yan, would you?"

  Upon hearing this, Yu Xin's face turned red and she lowered her head, "There isn't."

  Tang Lin raised her head and asked seriously: "Honestly tell me, is there?"

  "I... ummed and ahhed for a while before Yu Xin Rui finally had the courage to nod, "Yes! I like it a bit!"

  Tang Lin smiled weakly, "You still have a bit of liking for her? Obviously you like her a lot, look at how you've cried for her! Xintui, listen to me, don't invest your emotions in Xueyan, you can't like her!"

  Her face flushed with anger, she pouted and protested: "Why? I just like him!"

  Tang Lin couldn't help but laugh and cry, "Xiao Cao also likes you, it's better to like him than to like Xueyan, besides, Xiao Cao often makes you happy, he knows how to coax you!"

  "Hmph," Yu Xinrui let out a light hum from her nose, "I hate people who try to curry favor with me the most!" Just thinking about those sycophants in the princess's mansion and their fake smiles made her feel nauseous.

  But Xue Yan was different, he looked refined and elegant, and had a kind of aloofness that kept people at arm's length, which was exactly the type of person she liked!

  Tang Lin was speechless, "Alright, I'm truly convinced by you! However, Xin Ruo, I've already warned you, Xue Yan is someone you can't like, can't love. Don't get too deep, otherwise the one who'll end up getting hurt will only be yourself. I'll be leaving in two days, and it's unlikely we'll meet again. I won't be able to take care of your affairs either, so you all take care of yourselves!"

  "Little Tang sister..." As soon as she heard that Tang Lin was leaving, Yu Xinrui's heart felt empty again. "Will we never have a chance to be together again? You haven't even taught me how to mix drinks yet, and I've discovered that you're even better at math than I am - I want to become your apprentice!"

  "We'll talk again later, okay?" Tang Lin patted Yu Xinrui's arm and said, "I still have to interview others, you go ahead and take care of your own business!"

  "Oh!" Yu Xinrui reluctantly turned around and walked out of the workshop.

  Tang Lin's emotions slowly calmed down, then she looked at the middle-aged man with a smile and said: "Let's continue..."

  After a while, Cao Dan appeared at the door of the studio.

  At this time, Tang Lin had already finished interviewing the middle-aged man. She said to him: "Uncle, go to the kitchen in the backyard and find a person named Lao Tu Zi. He will arrange your accommodation. For the next two days, our chef Yu Zi Chen will teach you how to make dishes for our wine shop. That's all for now, please go down first!"

  The middle-aged man thanked and then walked out of the studio.

  Cao Dan waited until the middle-aged man walked away before entering the studio, coming to Tang Lin's side with an inappropriate smile on his face. "Sister Tang!"

  Tang Lin raised her chin and looked at him lazily, asking: "So eager to talk to me?"

  Cao Dan rubbed his suddenly chilled arm and dryly said, "Tang Jie, don't say those two words, okay? Others can say them without a problem, but when you say it, I immediately feel the surroundings getting cold, my whole body feels cold too!"

  Tang Lin said bluntly: "I think you've done too many shameful things, that's why my military majesty has exposed your true form! Speak up, what's going on?"

  Cao Dan emphasized: "We're recruiting again today, Sister Tang, and we must recruit Xiao Er first!"

  Tang Lin glared at him, "Are you so eager to leave Jun Die Xuan? You never mentioned leaving before, why are you all thinking of leaving now that I'm gone? What's the hurry?"

  Cao Dan risked being given a cold shoulder by Tang Lin and plucked up the courage to ask: "Tang sister, can I... keep a secret from you?"

  Suddenly, Tang Lin shouted: "No! Tell the truth!"

  "Alright, I'll say it!" Cao Dan's energy was immediately drained, and he replied truthfully: "On the first day of next month, I have to participate in the Imperial Guard selection competition, so... I must leave Jun Die Xuan!"