Zhaoran stood up, at this time it had already passed the fourth watch, but the winter and spring had not arrived, the sunrise was late, the sky hung with a semi-regular cool moon, the gauze was full of fog, the cold wind entered the set of doors, and the wind blew into the ground, and the whimpering sound accumulated in front of the blow.

When one stood on the steps of the temple and looked out, the gatehouses seemed to be darker than the other.

Jiu Ru stood behind Zhao Ran and asked, "What are you looking at?"

Zhaoran turned around and asked, "Are you hungry?"

"It's fine. ”

"Shall we go to the kitchen and get some food?"

Jiuru glanced at him, and there was a bit of warning in his tone: "Don't want to roast rats to eat in the place of Buddhism." ”

Zhao Ran told him to debunk his thoughts, but his mouth was absolutely unadmitted, and he spread his hands and said, "Am I like that kind of unreasonable person?"

Jiu Ruyi glanced at him pointedly, and the look in his eyes clearly said, "Yes, you are such a person." ”

Zhaoran touched his nose and said, "Okay, let's go to the kitchen and promise not to roast mice!"

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The two entered the kitchen, and saw that Qiu Ru was directing the two female officers to make meals, and when she saw Zhao Ran, she bent down and said, "Buddha, my lord." ”

Zhaoran stretched his neck and looked at the pot and asked, "Is the pot a princess's meal?"

"In addition to the princess's, there are also female officials, who will have to have a morning class later, so these meals need to be prepared in advance. Qiu Ru said and sighed, "There are so many things happening in the temple, but what needs to be done still has to be done." ”

Zhao Ran stared at the pot and said, "What are you cooking?" ”

Qiu Ru saw him salivating, and couldn't help pursing his lips and said: "Lord Hui, this big pot is steamed with white steamed buns, the small pot is steamed with rice cakes, this bucket is filled with millet porridge, today's side dishes are braised double mushrooms in oil, stir-fried Chinese cabbage, and some small cabbage was sent to the palace yesterday, I want to pickle it." ”

"Is there anything left?"

"Adults want to eat baby cabbage?" Qiu Ru immediately realized that it was not unusual for baby cabbage to be left in spring, but it was difficult to eat a bite in winter.

"Yes, is there one?" said Zhaoran.

Qiu Ru turned her head and instructed the female officer: "Pick a handful for the adults and fry it." ”

Zhaoran waved his hand and said, "No, no, let me do it myself." ”

Qiu Ru said again: "Then wash it neatly and put it away." ”

Then she made a pot of tea herself, brought the fried peanuts and said, "Buddha, my lord, the kitchen is a little dirty, why don't you go to the front hall and sit." ”

Zhaoran waved his hand and said, "No, I won't have to cook food later." As he spoke, he pulled Jiuru to sit down at the low table in the kitchen, and Jiuru sat down with a flick of the stool, and then closed his eyes to recuperate.

The kitchen was full of smoke, the sound of the pot and the shovel was noisy, and it was clear that from the side, Jiuru's facial contours turned clear and soft, and there was a sense of beauty and natural selection, such a pickled place could still transcend the outside of things, he couldn't help but think that this person had become an immortal, why bother to visit Buddha?

He asked, "How many things do you use every day on weekdays?"

Qiu Ru was accustomed to Zhaoran's gossip with the main topic, so he quickly said: "We are twenty-three people in Fayan Temple, and we remove the steamed porridge and rice used in the fifteenth day of the first month, and generally use ten catties of millet rice, ten catties of wheat, one catty of millet rice, one catty of rice, two catties of all kinds of mushrooms, five catties of all kinds of vegetables and vegetables, and one catty of oil and salt and all kinds of seasonings. I will strictly control these in the future, and I will never have such a stubble as today. ”

Zhaoran reached out and took a peanut from the oil dish, looked at the peanut between his fingers and said, "On weekdays, the kitchen is Guiqiu sound pipe, right?"

Qiu Ru was slightly stunned for a moment and then said with a wry smile: "My lord is really wise, she is in charge of the kitchen on weekdays, but I also need to be careful about matters big and small, and today she ...... I was a little stimulated, so I had to come in person. ”

Zhaoran nodded: "This is also reasonable, at this time, the people below can do it willfully, but the people above still have to stand up." ”

Qiu Ru said sympathetically: "What the adults said is true. ”

Zhaoran picked up the oil dish and said, "The dishes are washed, I'll make something to eat." ”

Qiu Ru hurriedly got up and said, "Get out of the way for the adults." ”

The female officials have not seen the man go down to the kitchen, they are all watching from the side, only to see Zhaoran "dong dong" fried peanuts mashed, and cut the cabbage into pieces, and then asked for some leftovers to fry in oil, and when the rice was shiny, the cabbage was poured in, and finally mixed in the peanut rice crumbs, and suddenly a fragrance came to the nose.

Qiu Ru exclaimed: "Adults are good cooks!"

Zhao Ran said unashamedly: "This person sees whether he has aura or not, just watch him cook two dishes, so if you want me to say that women have aura more than men, especially the cook!"

The female officials were originally saddened by the events of the night, but now they couldn't help but cover their mouths and laugh, and turned their heads to Qiu Ru and said: "I nagged you in the middle of the night, so I borrowed flowers from fried rice to offer Buddha." ”

Qiu Ru bowed down and smiled: "Thank you, thank you for the reward." She turned her head and said, "Bring me the cutlery." ”

Zhaoran put a bowl of rice in front of Jiuru first, Jiuru's eyes opened, and he took out the chopsticks in the chopsticks cage and ate them, and when Qiuru brought the tableware, the two of them had already eaten it.

"Let's change the utensils to a better one. "Autumn is like a road.

Zhaoran waved his hand and said, "No, I'm hungry after a busy bowl." ”

Qiu Ru smiled and was not reluctant, took a pair of tableware and put half a bowl of rice in a bowl and tasted it, but felt that this rice had the strong fragrance of peanuts and the faint fragrance of cabbage, and the two aromas were intertwined, which made people have an indescribable appetite.

She nodded slightly, Qiu Ru was born as a female official, although she has passed the age of Huaxin Shaohua, her demeanor is not in a hurry and is pleasing to the eye, coupled with her soft expression, her appearance of four or five points can also taste seventy or eighty percent of the demeanor.

Qiu Ru lowered her head and just took another bite of fried rice when she suddenly heard Zhaoran say: "Actually, you are very happy in your heart." ”

Zhaoran raised his head and smiled: "Yifang is missing, Jinghui has been arrested, Qiurong is dead, Fayan Temple has lost three people with real power at once, and now there is no one more powerful than you in the entire temple." ”

Qiu Rusheng swallowed the rice in his mouth and said, "The maid doesn't understand what the adults are saying. ”

Zhao Ran took the rice bowl and said, "When I first met you, do you remember how you described Qiu Rong's death?"

"I ......"

Zhao Ran was not reluctant to recall Qiu Ru, he said: "You said that Qiu Rong's body was bitten to pieces, this word is used very vividly, but it is too vivid, it can't help but look cold." ”

"Servant, I ......" Qiu Rong was eager to confess, but Zhao Ran interrupted her, "Women are creatures with aura, usually things with aura can only be understood, difficult to speak, and their expression is the same, so when they see the death of their sisters who get along day and night, the first thing they think of is to express their feelings, because they will empathize with fear and pain, so they will not think of describing her death." ”

"You are a person with a heart, you don't care about the kitchen, you can remember exactly how much oil and rice you use every day, but why when you verify the account book, it is simply forward, it is because you already know that there is a problem with the account book. Zhaoran smiled, "In other words, you don't want to go in and out with them." ”

Qiu Ru smiled reluctantly: "It's a bit arbitrary for adults to blame the servant for this. ”

Zhaoran shook his head: "I'm not blaming you, but I'm going to ...... for others Get rid of you. ”

"Get rid of me...... My lord, even if what you say is true, is it wrong for a person not to want to go along with it?"

Zhaoran smiled: "Do you remember how you told me, you said that you saw a room of rats in Qiurong's room at that time, and you were frightened, so you fled back to the main hall along the road." And from then until we knocked on the door of the main hall, you should have never left, right?"

"That's right. ”

"Who closed the door?" Zhaoran looked at Qiu Ru's dilated pupils and asked repeatedly: "Who closed Qiu Rong's door? Who would close the door at that thrilling time? It's you, right? So when you go to open Qiu Rong's door, you won't be surprised at all, because you closed the door." ”

Zhaoran looked at the chopsticks and said: "The two pilgrims have nothing to do with what happened in the temple, Jinghui immediately asked Qiu Rong to burn the account book, so naturally there was a plan to say that you had already arranged the rhetoric, but you insisted on starting with the pilgrims, in fact, the main purpose is to vaguely remind the people who came that the pilgrims are the key to this case." Pilgrims came from Zhenze, a town in Suzhou, where the specialties were not only silk but also crabs. The crabs in Fayan Temple were supplied by the Zhenze merchant, right?"

Zhao Ran said leisurely: "If you look carefully, you may also find that the scholar's mother is most likely suffering from evil qi in the chest or scabies and other diseases. Crabs can cure the above two diseases, and crabs in winter are not easy to find in the north, but there are still in the south, so Fayan Temple only needs to leave the crab feet used, and the remaining part can be taken away by scholars. ”

Qiu Ru's face became paler and paler, and she said clearly: "Qiu Fang is missing, Qiu Rong is dead, as long as you get rid of Jing Hui, the entire Fayan Temple will be yours, and without Jing Hui's Gu'an County Lord, it is not for you to rub and knead round." ”

He leaned forward and looked at Qiu Ru and said seriously: "Although I don't like Jinghui very much, I like you more, but there is no way, I promised Jinghui that I will take care of Gu'an after she leaves, of course, it is impossible to see it for a lifetime, but I always have to get rid of a capable and ill-intentioned person around the county lord for her." ”

Qiu Ru almost lost her voice and said, "You didn't promise Jinghui anything at all?!"

Zhao Ran didn't think so: "I promised in my heart." ”

Qiu Ru pursed her lips tightly, almost white: "But what you say is speculation, how can you convince the public?"

Zhaoran frowned and said distressedly: "That's right, there is no evidence." ”

Qiu Ru's face just relaxed, but when she saw Zhaoran remembered something: "By the way, now you have it! You are holding lacquered chopsticks in your hand, you are just a little female official, how can you hold lacquered chopsticks? This is against the law...... When Emperor Hongwu was in the time, he had to kill the head, but now, it is no longer enough to kill the head, but you are so frivolous, I am afraid that it is no longer suitable to stay in the Fayan Temple to lead the female officials and serve the county lord. ”

He looked at Qiu Ru and grinned: "I said, I just need to get rid of you." ”

As soon as Qiuru's fingers loosened, the chopsticks in his hand fell to the ground.

Zhao Ran seemed to have a big appetite, picked up the fried rice in the bowl, and then took the bowl and said, "Bring me another bowl!"

The female officers next to him were all dull, and they seemed to come back to their senses a little when they heard his shout, but they looked at Jiuru.

Jiuru looked at the empty bowl in front of him and said, "You talk so much, I thought you shouldn't eat it." ”

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Zhao Ran walked out of the door of Fayan Temple half-full, and suddenly saw a beautiful woman walking in front of him, only to see her bend down and bow: "Young master, you can figure it out, we have been waiting for you here for a long time." ”

Aning ...... Zhao Ran breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he said that why did the Dragon Patriarch just send him to do things, and there was no one to take care of him, it turned out that there was, but the reaction was so slow, it had been more than half of the night, and it was enough for him to die dozens of times.

"We saw the young lady go back, and then we knew that the young master had left with Commander Wan, and it took some effort to find out that it was Fayan Temple. ”

Zhaoran glanced at the black-clothed young man sitting in the carriage in the distance, and immediately understood that A-Ning was guarding Jiang's mansion, and the person who responded on the road was naturally Yingning, but he stood by and watched Wantong take him away, and A-Ning saw Jiang Biqiao come back alone, and then he was shocked that something was wrong.

He sighed in his heart, this Yingning could ignore him for the sake of Runiang's human skin.

"Is she your concubine?" asked Jiuru.

Ay...... Zhaoran blinked and asked, "Do you think she's beautiful?"

A Ning's slightly drooping eyes slowly lifted, under the hazy candlelight of the gatehouse, the smoke eyes flowed like water waves, she was still a graceful and delicate woman before, and in a blink of an eye, she was full of charms, and she shouted in her heart, amazing, is this A Ning a fox spirit?

Jiuru looked at A-Ning's eyes and lightly gave a three-word evaluation: "Very ordinary." ”

After speaking, he raised his feet and left, and Zhao Ran looked Ah Ning up and down, and said in his heart: "Can't, this is still very ordinary?!"

He chased Jiuru's back and said, "This won't work, let's change another one!"

Zhao Ran was afraid that Jiuru would lose interest, so he caught up with him and said: "This man is nothing more than two kinds of divisions, stupid and stupid, but women are different, soft with rigidity, rigidity and softness, rigidity and softness, infatuation in evil, sometimes clever, sometimes stupid, ever-changing, wonderful." ”

"It seems that you are a woman's confidant. ”

Zhaoran pretended to be modest and said: "Talented, talented, Uncle Jiuru, don't worry, little nephew, I can always find a suitable one for you." ”

Seeing that Jiuru didn't object, he leaned closer and said, "Then let's find someone else next time?"

Jiuru turned his head to look at him, and said lightly: "Okay." ”

Zhao Ran is very happy, and he has a sense of accomplishment that more than half of his life goals have been completed.

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He said goodbye to Jiuru happily, turned back and got into the carriage driven by Yingning, and when he stepped into the carriage, he suddenly turned his head and said: "From today onwards, I will take Runiang's skin with me, if I am dying, the first thing is to burn Runiang's skin first!"

"You dare!" Ying Ning slammed the horse's head.

Zhao Ran sat down comfortably, completely ignoring Ying Ning's angry gaze and said leisurely: "I'm going to die, what else don't you dare, even if there is the skin of the emperor Lao Tzu, I will burn it first!"

Yingning's long and narrow phoenix eyes were flushed with red silk, and her tone changed: "But if you serve well, I can't ...... it."

"Give me back the skin!" Ying Ning said urgently.

It's a pity that Zhaoran said: "Give Ru Niang's skin a maintenance every three or five times, you know, if the skin is not oiled and not embalmed, it will also be rotten and moldy." ”

Ying Ning's fist clenched and loosened, loosened and clenched, and finally said expressionlessly: "Then young master, you sit down." ”

Zhao Ran said: "I'm tired today, if you knock me along the way, I'll go back and poke a hole in Runiang's skin!"

Ying Ning squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth: "Young Master Baozhun sleeps like a dead pig!"

"Clever. Zhaoran said and fell asleep in the carriage.

I don't know how much time passed, Zhaoran woke up yawning, and found that the sun was just right outside, and he was still sleeping in the carriage, as soon as he sat up, he found that his neck was twisted, he tilted his head and said, "Yingning, Yingning." ”

Ying Ning outside lifted the carriage curtain and said, "Young master, you're awake." ”

Zhao Ran said angrily: "Why don't you call me, my neck is sleeping!"

Ying Ning said expressionlessly: "Young Master, you said that you want to sleep like a dead pig, how dare I disturb you, Young Master is a powerful person who will poke holes in the skin of dead people." ”

"Tsk, sharp teeth. Zhao Ran didn't care about him, tilted his head and got out of the carriage, patted the door of Jiang Mansion, and as soon as the corner door next to him opened, the porter rushed into the door and shouted loudly: "Young master, young master is back!"

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Zhaoran watched him run all the way in, some of the second monks were confused, and as soon as he took a few steps inside, he asked Mrs. Jiang to hurry over with a group of female dependents.

"Ah Xian, are you okay!" Old Madam Jiang looked at Zhaoran's crooked neck and said with a change of color on her face, "Jinyiwei beat you?"

"No, no," said Zhaoran, waving his hand, "I slept in the carriage last night and put my neck on my pillow." ”

"Then hurry up and enter the house, shine brightly, and rub it for the young master. ”

He was hugged and walked into the hall, and as soon as he sat down, Mrs. Jiang bent down and said softly: "Ah Xian, what do you want to eat, my aunt will make it for you." ”

Since Zhaoran came to Jiang's Mansion, although Mrs. Jiang was polite, she definitely did not have such a gentle attitude, thinking that it was because Zhaoran helped Jiang Biqiao to relieve the siege.

"Where's Biqiao?" asked Zhaoran, turning his head and looking around.

Mrs. Jiang snorted: "Grounded, it should have been like this a long time ago, she was used to lawlessness, she thought that when she went out of this door, the world was still like Jiang's mansion, which could make her mess around!"

Mrs. Jiang said in a low voice: "She cried and swollen her eyes last night, and she already knew that she was wrong. ”

Old Madam Jiang still reprimanded: "It's best to know that it's wrong, who is Wantong? If you bump into him, you have to shed your skin if you don't die, if it is clear that there are three long and two short, how can you tell me to go underground to meet his father and mother." ”

Zhaoran waved his hand and said: "I also went out with me, if I am wrong, it is also the fault of two people, and I can't blame Sister Biqiao." ”

Mrs. Jiang was a little embarrassed and said: "We know Biqiao's temperament, you can replace Biqiao last night, and your aunt will accept your affection." ”

As she spoke, she squatted down for a moment, and Zhao Ran hurriedly got up from the chair to support her and said, "Auntie, don't be so polite, it's all a family." ”

"Exactly. Mrs. Jiang also couldn't look down on her daughter-in-law's grievances, and her words changed, "He is an elder brother, how can he stand by when he sees his sister in distress, you are his elder, you give him a salute, isn't it a blessing for the junior? ”

Mrs. Jiang burst into tears and smiled: "Okay, let's go." ”

Zhaoran was surrounded by a group of women, and Qingzhao rubbed his shoulders for him and asked, "Young Master, how did you say that the master of the horse is withdrawn?"

"Withdraw from relatives, retreat from what relatives?". Zhao Ran was drowsy again, and opened his eyes and asked.

Old Madam Jiang also glared at Qingzhao: "I can't say anything, when did we have a relationship with Master Concubine." ”

Qingzhao hurriedly made her words clear: "Master Ma sent someone to say that he had not thought well and scared the young lady of our house, and he also sent an apology to our house." ”

Zhaoran frowned slightly, and Qingzhao continued: "He also said that he and the young master hit it off at first sight, and gave the young master a post to you, so that the young master could get together at the house." ”