The waterway of Min'an County of the Canglan River was blocked, and the business of the Zhao Mansion could not be done, so Zhao Tai, who had been out on darts all the year round, was also rarely idle, and he had been staying in the house for the past two days.

After two days of contact, Zhao Ting also figured out that his half-brother has a very bold personality, and he is also very close to him, without a trace of suspicion, but he is a very good person.

As for his innate divine power, Zhao Ting personally tested and praised it, after all, he saw that when he was practicing martial arts, he broke the wooden stake made of white beech wood with one punch.

You know, this beech wood, in terms of toughness alone, is better than gold and iron!

Since then, Zhao Ting's slightest idea of wanting to compare with Zhao Tai has come to an abrupt end.

He still has a number in his heart, he is only a mortal fetus in the flesh, how can He De compare with beech wood?

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It's the third day in the blink of an eye.

When Zhao Ting got up, washed and dressed under the clothes of his subordinates, it was already three poles of the sun.

After having breakfast in a hurry, he walked all the way down the promenade and water pavilion from the south courtyard where he lived to the backyard to greet Zhao Ziqi and his mother Wang Yan.

Since Zhao Ziqi mentioned that his predecessor had this habit that day, Zhao Ting decided to continue this habit.

After greeting the second elder, he came out of the backyard, and after walking a few steps, Zhao Ting arrived at the Lanting Pavilion in the mansion, and in the past few days, he has gradually become familiar with the layout of the courtyard of the Zhao Mansion.

From a distance, he saw that at this time, in the Lan Pavilion, a young man wearing a white robe and embroidered with gold wire at the neckline was leaning on the railing, as if he was holding a handful of fish food in his hand, and he was constantly throwing himself into the pavilion lake.

When the fish entered the water, it stirred up layers of ripples on the calm surface of the lake, spreading, and in a moment, many colorful and two-inch-long koi fish swam to the surface of the water to compete for food.

Seeing this scene, Zhao Ting couldn't help but smile, walked into the Lan Pavilion quickly, and called: "Xiao Tai, you are really an elegant person!"

"Haha," Seeing Zhao Ting appear, Zhao Tai laughed, threw the remaining fish food in his hand suddenly, and threw it all into the lake, and then said: "My brother is also idle, and he is bored in the house, so he came here to tease and tease the fish." ”

Zhao Ting nodded, and didn't say much on this topic, but asked: "Xiaotai, big brother has a question for you, you have been out on darts for a year or two, have you encountered anything strange or weird in the past two years?"

"Just like the "King of the Canglan River" you met this time, is there anything like that?"

His attitude towards questioning was very serious, but Zhao Tai sneered when he heard it, sat down on the stone steps, and muttered with some disdain: "What kind of bullshit is the king of the Canglan River? It's just a black turtle essence that has only lived longer and eaten a few people." ”

Saying that, Zhao Tai was a little puzzled, turned his head to look at Zhao Ting, and asked, "But, big brother, why are you asking these things?"

Zhao Ting heard a little meaning from his words, and his heart was excited, but he said quietly on his face: "Brother is just interested, just ask." ”

"Oh," Zhao Tai replied, "Since the eldest brother wants to hear it, then I'll pick a few interesting things that happened on the way to the dart." ”

"Once, I took a dart, the employer asked us to send the goods to Qingyue County, Yanzhou, big brother, you know, we have two brothers in the dart bureau, both are good players, one is called Lin Lang, the other is called Qi Tian, I took the darts with me. ”

"When I learned that our destination was Qingyue County, these two thieves were excited, and they both shouted at me, they each had a lover in Qingyue County, and asked me to go to Qingyue County to give them a few days off, so that they could go to their respective little lovers to relieve the pain of lovesickness. ”

"I'm a person, I've always been reasonable, so I agreed. But guess what?"

Although this story was very boring and boring, Zhao Ting still listened patiently and asked, "What's the matter?"

"The "lover" in the mouth of these two goods is actually a woman, or a prostitute, after learning the news, both parties felt that they had brought each other a green hat, and they fought on the spot......"

Seeing that Zhao Tai was so happy that he couldn't even close his mouth, Zhao Ting couldn't help it, and interrupted: "This is what you said about "interesting"?"

"Uh......" Zhao Tai stopped laughing and looked at Zhao Ting, who had a frosty face, "What, isn't it interesting?"

"Funny chicken...... Mao!" Zhao Ting's words came to his lips, but he couldn't hold back and didn't burst out on the spot, "What I want to listen to is that kind of weird and weird life experience, such as ghosts and gods, not this kind of trivial life story, do you know what I mean?"

Zhao Tai was also a little innocent, and spread his hands and said, "Brother, look at what you said, if I had met ghosts and gods, how could I still live until now?"

"Why don't I tell you another story about how I once "punched the North Sea Jiaolong"?"

"Hehe," Zhao Ting sneered, "Didn't you just tell me yesterday that you are invincible in the world with a pair of iron fists, and no one is afraid? Why are you afraid of "ghosts and gods" like a tiger today?"

"Brother, that's because you heard it wrong," Zhao Tai blinked and said with a serious face: "Actually, there are many things I'm afraid of, such as that I am a natural landlubber, and my body's instinctive reaction makes me uncomfortable as soon as I get close to the water." ”

Zhao Ting expressed his disbelief: "Hehe, you have been walking along the Canglan River all the year round, and the big rivers are like walking on the ground, do you think I don't know?"

"That's a last resort," Zhao Tai sighed, "What my father told me, if I can't do it well, how can he attach importance to me, an illegitimate child?"

Speaking of this, Zhao Tai smiled slightly, walked out of the Lan Pavilion with his hands behind his back, and left a word.

"I haven't told anyone about this before, it's a secret between the two of us!"

Looking at his distant back, it seemed a little gloomy, and Zhao Ting was rarely silent.

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Night fell, covering the sky like an invisible black net.

Now that the Mid-Autumn Festival has passed, the weather is gradually getting colder, and the clouds are very thick tonight, and the moon is dark and the wind is high.

It was just after the end of the day, and there were few pedestrians on the main street of Linshan County, which was still very lively at this time on weekdays, even if they occasionally bumped into one or two, most of them were in a hurry, looking like they were in a hurry to go home.

Zhao Mansion.

On the south bank, a large and dark river with a wide water surface is flowing along Linshan Bay to the north.

This river is the mother river of the people of Li in the four southwestern states, the Canglan River.

The Canglan River originates from the Qilian Mountains in Jiangzhou, a place in the southwest, flows through Jinzhou and Yizhou, and reaches the boundary of Qingzhou, the channel of the Canglan River has become wide and deep, the water flow is gentle, and there are few undercurrents in the river.

It can be said that all the people of Qingzhou, whether it is draft, laundry, or shipping irrigation, are inseparable from this generous river.

At the beginning, the location of the Zhao family's mansion was also selected on a high slope near the north of the Canglan River in Linshan County, and it only took less than half an hour to reach the Canglan River from the back door of the house.

It is precisely because of this that the subordinates of the Zhao Mansion wash and draft water directly from the nearest river on weekdays.

The clouds are sparse and the stars are scarce.

At the seven-shaped river channel at the back door of Zhaofu, the river surface with gentle water flow on weekdays was rarely a little turbulent at this time, as if there was some monster hidden at the bottom of the river and was about to rush out.

The river water hits the bluestones on the bank, and from time to time it makes a "bang, bang, bang" sound.

On the north side of a very smooth bluestone washed by the water over the years, a middle-aged woman in gray coarse cloth clothes is squatting, holding a child's arm-thick pounding stick in her left hand, and is pounding the washed clothes on the bluestone vigorously.

"Whew, whew," After beating for a long time, the middle-aged woman took a breath, raised her hand to wipe the fine beads of sweat oozing from her forehead, and said, "It's finally washed." ”

With that, she stood up and threw the laundry into the laundry tub one by one.

suddenly

"Hey, what is this?" Through the dim, somewhat pale moonlight, the middle-aged woman saw that a coarse cloth robe in the basin was sticking to a green and somewhat bright aquatic weed, the color of which was a strange color, like the color of squeezing out the pulp of a plant and dyeing it.

The middle-aged woman muttered casually, and ripped off the water weed.

The feeling of starting is very silky, without the friction that ordinary plants produce when they come into contact with the skin, and it is so silky that it doesn't even look like aquatic plants, but more like a woman's long hair.

After rubbing her hand twice, the middle-aged woman didn't care, and casually threw the aquatic plant in the basin, and then walked quickly towards the back door of the Zhao Mansion with the laundry tub.

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Early the next morning, it was just dawning.

Zhao Ting was woken up by the noise in the house, there were crying and shouting, and the sound of a group of people walking around, even in his own southern courtyard, he heard some of them.

He straightened up half of his body from the bed and shouted, "Zhao Si, Zhao Si." ”

Zhao Si, who was guarding outside the door, heard the sound.

"What's going on outside?" Zhao Ting asked impatiently.

Zhao Si said respectfully: "Hui eldest son, it is the grandmother of the house, she drowned in her house last night, and it was the man who was crying outside." ”

"This grandmother is not a subordinate in our house, she is just working temporarily, so she can't be private! This is a death, and the officers and soldiers of the county government also came early in the morning to investigate the cause of Grandma Sun's death. ”

"Drowned in your own room?" Zhao Ting keenly grasped the crux of the question, "What is the drowning method?

Zhao Si shook his head and said, "It's strange to say, it's not a Sima jar, Grandma Sun drowned in the copper basin where she washed her face, and the copper basin looked only two inches deep, how could she drown a big living person?"

But Xiaohong in the house said that when she went to Grandma Sun's house early in the morning to shout for dinner, she found that Grandma Sun's whole person was lying on the ground in a big shape, only half of her head was stretched out in the copper basin, the water turned over the ground, and a water weed fell next to it. ”

She thought that Grandma Sun was practicing holding her breath, but when she got closer, she found that Grandma Sun had already lost her breath, her face was white from blisters, her eyes were wide open, only the whites of her eyes remained, as if she was staring at her, she was so frightened that she quickly ran out. ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Si refuted Xiaohong: "As far as the villain knows, Xiaohong never lies, but Grandma Sun's man doesn't believe it, so he has to say that Xiaohong drowned Grandma Sun and made a lot of trouble in the house, which attracted those officials." ”

"Eldest prince, don't you say this is nonsense?" Zhao Si said indignantly, "Xiaohong's thin arms and legs are just a little white flower, how can it be the opponent of a middle-aged peasant woman who works all year round, let alone drown others!"

"Yes," Zhao Ting nodded thoughtfully, "Help me change my clothes, let's go and have a look." ”

"Yes. ”

Waifu.

Zhao Ziqi, the head of the Zhao family, was standing outside the door, discussing the case with several officials in official robes.

On the bluestone steps outside the mansion, there was a corpse wearing white embroidered shoes, the corpse was dressed in coarse cloth, and the white cloth covered his face and could not see his face.

There was also a middle-aged man in a gray shirt with a short figure of five short bodies next to him, crying and shouting, thinking that it was the husband of the deceased grandmother.

These officials were too busy to take care of maintaining order, and many people in the palace also took the opportunity to hide behind the door and watch.

After Zhao Ting glanced at this, he slowly walked to Zhao Ziqi's side and called, "Dad." ”

Seeing him coming, Zhao Ziqi took his hand and pointed to a middle-aged man wearing a black python robe and a short beard beside him, "It's not called Uncle Xu yet?"

"Hello Uncle Xu!" Zhao Ting said obediently.

The middle-aged man bowed slightly, then gently patted Zhao Ting's shoulder and didn't say anything more.

At this time, a catcher came over and whispered in the middle-aged man's ear: "My lord, the results of the autopsy have come out, this Wang Sun did commit suicide, and no external force was found." ”

And Zhao Ting, who was on the side, listened to all these words in his ears because he was closer.

"Kill yourself?" he sneered inwardly.

It's okay to use these words to deceive others, but if you want to deceive him, hehe!

Zhao Ting was also a well-known medical expert in Huahai in his previous life, how could he not know such a simple truth?

A normal person can't kill himself by "holding his breath", even if you want to die in your heart.

Because people have the desire to survive, which is an instinct engraved in the body, when the brain realizes that it is on the verge of death, it will do whatever it takes to get itself out of this situation.

This is the reason why those who try to commit suicide by "holding their breath" fall short every time.

But now, the catcher in front of him actually said that Grandma Sun was relying on a basin and drowned herself!

How is that possible? This is not scientific!

However, it is right if it is not scientific, which just confirms Zhao Ting's innermost thoughts.

He was thinking about it, and Lord Xu, who was wearing a black python robe, and was very dignified, slowly spoke: "Wang Ergou, now, the results of the autopsy have also come out, this peasant woman Wang Sun did commit suicide, and she can't complain about others." ”

"My lord, this is impossible, my lord," Grandma Sun's husband Wang Ergou knelt on the ground at this time, with a lot of snot and tears, and looked like he was choked with grief, "Ya Ya Niang just asked me the day before yesterday, does the new clothes she made for Ya Ya fit...... fit?"

"Yaya Niang also said that she misses Yaya......"

Master Xu interrupted coldly: "You mean, this official is lying?"

Before the meeting, the official master's face darkened, and Wang Ergou suddenly choked and swallowed the rest of the words into his stomach, but he didn't dare to say any more.

"That's it," Zhao Ziqi sighed, it was not a matter for this Wang Ergou to keep blocking the door of the mansion like this, "Butler, give this Wang Ergou five taels of silver, and the right should be given to the funeral expenses of Wang Sun's family, after all, it is a matter in our mansion." ”

The fat old man with a white beard behind him bowed slightly and said respectfully, "Yes, master." ”

After getting the white flowers and silver handed over by the fat old man, Wang Ergou stopped crying, and pushed a cart to pull his wife's body home for burial.