Chapter II

"Amber, I still don't know something, why did the lieutenant kill so many people?" Jiang Linan was puzzled.

"There are more wolves and less meat, there were a lot of refugees at that time, and the people at the soup kitchen were eager to boil a pot of porridge with a dozen grains of rice, but where was a bowl of rice soup enough for the thirties to survive. Later, at the time of separation, the little woman left me a sentence: 'Sometimes you can't trust other people's words too easily', and after listening to this sentence, I gradually understood that there is no wild game, where is the hometown feeling? This is just a trap, a trap set by some people selfishly for their own survival. ”

Hearing this, Jiang Linan exhaled deeply, clenching his fists tightly: "These people are really not as good as beasts, how can they careless of human life." Is it really worthless to believe that this is true? ”

"Madame, you are too kind, you will suffer in this way. Amber glanced at Jiang Linan and reminded.

"There are some things that you can stay where you are if you close your eyes and don't think about them. Jiang Liannan didn't know if he was telling Amber or herself.

Amber didn't know what he was talking about. It's just that the world is simply black and white, light and dark.

That night, Jiang Linan, who was sleeping soundly on the bed, frowned, her body trembled slightly, and Mu Baiyan gently patted her shoulder like a child sleeping. Amber's words just now seemed to be still in my ears: "Master, Madame saw you and Miss Cheng sitting in a restaurant on the street today." ”。

"Then she..."Amber waited for a while, and Mu Baiyan said again: "Have you had a good meal?"

"It was delicious, and I had a little fruit after eating. Amber said.

"Then she has—" Mu Baiyan paused and said, "That's it." ”

What do you want to ask? Ask her what scene she saw, whether it was the scene of Cheng Lin'er feeding him vegetables, or the scene of him frowning and chewing. Ask her if she's sad, if she's crying?

I didn't want her to go through this, but now it seems...

It wasn't until I saw her brow stretched and her breathing was steady that she raised her feet and left. Before leaving, Mu Baiyan told Amber, who was waiting outside the door: "Don't tell Mrs. that people have been here tonight. There is also a soothing incense in the house to talk about the taste. Recently, there has been no peace in Lin'an City, so I asked my wife not to go outside anymore. ”

Amber wanted to say something more, but Mu Baiyan had already turned around and left.

Amber looked at his back and sighed deeply.

In the following days, as usual, Jiang Linan went for a walk in the small garden every morning, and went to bed to rest when he was in the middle of the day, as if the scene he saw on the street that day did not exist.

Spring is the season for kite flying, and occasionally watch the people in the courtyard fly kites.

She was also very fond of flying kites when she was younger.

At that time, his father was still Sima, and his father was very busy with daily affairs, but she would beg her father to help her paste kites every spring, as long as she was coquettish, her father would wipe her head with a smile every time and say: "Okay, it's all up to my little princess." Whenever this happens, her mother will scratch her little nose with her hand and say to her father: "You spoil her so much, you will spoil her to heaven, and no one will spoil her so much when she gets married in the future." ”

What did my father say at the time, my father smiled and sighed: "I don't want my little princess to marry so early." ”

"Miss, you have been sitting outside for an hour, and now the morning is too heavy, do you want to go back to the house to rest? Jiang Linan's personal maid Jiang Meiyan reminded.

The memory was interrupted, and she raised her eyes to look at the little maid who had been with her since she was a child.

Meiyan's original name was Zhao Meiyan, but in order to thank Jiang Linan for saving her life, she decided to change her name to Jiang Meiyan.

When Jiang Xiannan was eight years old, once she went hunting in the mountains and forests with her father, she saw a skinny little girl stumbling to the place, looking at the leopard in front of her with a vigilant face, she shot the leopard in front of her, and saved the poor little girl from the leopard's mouth.

When I asked, I found out that her father and mother came to Lin'an to find relatives to take refuge, but when she passed by this wood, she was attacked by fierce beasts in the woods, and her father and mother couldn't even find her body in order to save her. It may have become something in their womb.

When asked who she knew about the relatives her father was looking for, she shook her head and said, "My father and mother didn't tell me." He only said that he wanted to take refuge with his relatives. ”

Jiang Linan saw that she was lonely and decided to leave her in Jiang's mansion, but this relative was nowhere to be found.

Ten years have passed.

"Miss, what's wrong with you?" called Meihan anxiously.

"What?" she looked at Mei Ya blankly, and she saw it dimly, and Mei Ya's face was flushed. Helplessly, he touched his eyes, which were already in tears, and wiped the tear stains from a teardrop.

Even after all this time, it still hurts when I think about it. She never imagined that her father, who was so busy that he didn't have time to eat or sleep, would kill her mother and grandfather and kick her out of the house.

Even his own father, let alone the husband who is not related by blood. The only thing left of her now is the child in her womb, and the beautiful girl who has been by her side since she was a child.

"Miya, don't worry I'm fine, but I suddenly thought about what happened before. Jiang Linan forced a smile on his tear-stained face.

"What I asked you to check before, has there been any progress?" wiped the tears from his face, looked at the people who had dispersed around him, and opened his mouth to ask.

"Miss, that slut is too cautious for ordinary spies to approach at all. Why don't we use my uncle's people, I think my uncle is also sincere to you, since the old general and Mrs. had an accident, my uncle has been busy taking care of the aftermath, but recently my uncle has been a little busy. Jiang Meiyan was puzzled.

"Meiya, I only trust you in this world now, and I can't trust the people next to me. Today, I heard from people that a new Seven Days Pavilion has opened in Lin'an City, and as long as you want the information you want, you will get it within seven days. As long as it doesn't work, the more difficult it is, the greater the price to pay. Is there such a thing?" said Jiang Linan.

"I've heard that there is a shop. Mei Yan thought for a moment and said.

"Then today you go to the Seven Days Pavilion to inquire and see what you need to pay to find Aunt Mei. The hope in Jiang Linan's eyes was rekindled.

Aunt Mei's full name is Li Chunmei, and she has served by her mother's side since she was very young, and she also asked her mother and Aunt Mei how they met in her early years.

My mother said that once she and her father were on the way back from Thanksgiving Temple, they saw Aunt Mei being punched and kicked by her father-in-law on the street. So my father sent for the man to be subdued. and let Aunt Mei reconcile with her.

Aunt Mei also has a two-year-old daughter, and her daughter has been following her since she left, Aunt Mei's father-in-law abducted her daughter in the name of visiting her daughter, and she has been with her since then.

Until something happened to her mother, Aunt Mei was nowhere to be found.

The suspicion of this matter is here, even if her mother died, but Aunt Mei grew up watching her grow up, how could she suddenly disappear without even saying goodbye. This matter may be solved only after finding Aunt Mei.

For several months, she had asked Meiya to go to Jiang's Mansion to keep an eye on it to see if there were any new clues, but nothing was found.

She didn't want to ask Mu Baiyan for help, she was embarrassed to trouble him at first, but now it seems that she really shouldn't be troublesome.

In the evening, Mei Yan hurried back, Jiang Linan was eating, put the chopsticks that were halfway on the table, pulled Mei Yan to sit down, and asked anxiously, "What do you need to change?"

Mei Yan couldn't hold back the joy in her heart and said: "Miss, it is very simple to show a mandarin duck handkerchief to the person you ask, and the people in the pavilion also emphasized that you must show it in person, not by pretending to be someone else's hand, and the heart is spiritual." ”

"Mandarin duck handkerchief?" Jiang Linan wondered.

"Yes, I repeatedly confirmed with the people in the cabinet several times, and I was sure that it was a mandarin duck handkerchief. Mei Yan smiled and looked at the stunned young lady of her house.

"Is it a big opening reward?" Jiang Linan muttered, just wanted to say that this request was too simple, and then pouted: "But I don't know how to embroider." ”

Yes, she doesn't know how to embroider, her mother's embroidery was one of the best among the ladies in Lin'an City that year, so her mother planned to teach her personally.

Because my father is a military general, although his literary style is not inferior to that of a literati, he still has the character of a military general in his bones. always hopes that his daughter can inherit his mantle in martial arts.

So when he was a child, the female red always secretly went to practice swords with his father, and his mother saw that she would train her a few words at most: "You don't even know how to be a female red, how will you marry when you grow up?"

"Mother, I didn't marry someone to show off to others, and I don't still have you, it's a big deal for you to help me show off. Jiang Linan is coquettish in her mother's love.

In the end, her mother had no choice but to go with her, and she couldn't bear to be angry with her, so she could only vent her anger on her father: "It's all you, you have to get used to her, I can't get married when I see it, I can only accompany you to practice swords at home for the rest of my life." ”

My father always smiled and said, "Nan'er will raise her for the rest of her life if she doesn't marry." Then he lifted her up and took her around in circles. The mother followed them and said, "Be careful, be careful." Then the laughter of the family of three spread throughout the courtyard.

"Ah, miss, I forgot about this, and I was glad to have been there all the way. However, the people in the pavilion said that as long as the heart of the city is spiritual, as long as it is the heart of the city, no matter whether it is beautiful or ugly, I believe that the pavilion master can feel it!"

"I'm still not at ease, tomorrow you go to the Seven Days Pavilion to ask, and then by the way, what are the other people who come to the Seven Days Pavilion for. Jiang Linan looked at Mei Yan cautiously and asked.

How can there be such a coincidence in the world, when you are hungry and thirsty, there are Table Mountain delicacies, and when you are desperate, a carriage appears and says it wants to take you for a ride.

This night, Mu Baiyan sat at the head of Jiang Liannan's bed, looking at the little woman in front of him. Groping her warm and soft little hands exposed outside the quilt, she said, "Why don't the people who are looking for the Seven Days Pavilion look for me?"

He knew from the moment Jiang Liannan married him that she was tracking down someone, a person named Aunt Mei said at that time: "You and I are married, if you have something, I can help you." He said it so clearly, and the trace refused.

Later, whenever he asked to say that he could help her check, she changed the subject.

Gently put her hand into the quilt, pinched the palm of her hand and attached it to her stomach, probed the child who was still in the belly, and a strong heartbeat came from her hand.

Mu Baiyan moved slightly, took out a short knife from his waist and cut his index finger, and the blood immediately flowed out, drawing something back and forth on Jiang Liannan's stomach with his constantly bleeding index finger.

After a while, the spell that had already formed on his stomach emitted a golden light, gradually fading until it disappeared.

"Miss, miss, miss" Meiyan pushed open Jiang Linan's door and stumbled in.

"What do you know?" Jiang Linan saw Mei Yan come in, and hurriedly stood up holding on to the table.

"Miss, I inquired, and the people of the Seven Days Pavilion said that as long as it is embroidered with heart. And I also found out that the conditions given by the Seven Days Pavilion were to make a lantern and make a fan. And there is also a man who has saved enough for a cart of cow dung, and it must be his own cows. Hahahaha. Miya laughed as she spoke.

"It seems that this pavilion master is really a strange person. So it seems that our quid pro quo is not so bizarre. Jiang Linan squinted his eyes and smiled, and said.

"And I also heard that this pavilion master has a very strange temper, maybe the conditions of the exchange will be changed after a while, I can only say that we are really lucky, just in time for the pavilion master to be in a good mood. Miya continued.

"Meiya, get the needle and thread quickly, I'm going to hurry up and embroider the mandarin duck. Jiang Linan raised his hand and wiped the residue of the plum blossom pastry he had just finished eating on the side of his mouth.

Since she was pregnant, she has been very fond of the taste of plum blossoms, so Amber often keeps plum blossom cakes in her room. I heard Amber say that it was a pastry from Li Ji's pastry shop, but every time she wanted to buy it herself, Amber had already bought the pastry back, and she really wanted to see this Li Ji pastry.

Mei Yan put the embroidered mandarin duck things she bought from the street in front of Jiang Linan, so there was a scene of the picture freeze, the master and servant stared at the colorful threads in front of them, and the needles of different sizes were dumbfounded.

Jiang Liannan looked at the beautiful man who was still tinkering with needlework in front of him and asked, "What is this first step?"

Mei Yan took out two pieces of paper from her sleeve, one with the footwork corresponding to each needle, and the other with a mandarin duck drawing.

Fortunately, the proprietress of the needlework drew the mandarin duck on a piece of paper for her to copy before hearing that Meiya said that her family could not embroider mandarin ducks in her novels, and also drew the footwork corresponding to the needle.

Otherwise, she probably wouldn't know the difference between a mandarin duck and a duck. I don't know what so many needles are used for.

"Why don't we embroider from the mandarin duck head first?" Jiang Linan looked at the big colorful duck suspiciously.

Mei Yan took out the smallest needle and threaded it on the thread and put it in her hand.

Jiang Liannan looked at the piece of paper with footwork written on it, and read it repeatedly: "I know every word on it, but I don't know what it means when I put it together." ”

"Meiya, I regret it, I shouldn't have asked you to accompany me to practice swords, I should have asked you to go to school girl Hong. Ahhhh