When the sun set, Su Huihui sprinkled waterproof medicine on the long wound, and endured the steaming evaporation. She closed her eyes and smeared the damn glass silk with the blood of the man who had just died.

Ruixiang changed the third bucket of water, only paying attention to her injuries, and said worriedly:

"How did the girl get like this, and how can she be born with a scar in the future. ”

Su Hui said expressionlessly: "It's okay, I won't leave a trace, I always use the best medicine." ”

Seeing Su Huihui's cold expression, she didn't dare to ask more, so she only pouted and said, "Girl, don't go to the street alone in the future, I'm very scared!"

Su Huihui pulled his hair and said hatefully: "I didn't look at the yellow calendar when I went out today." Fix your neck and glance at her with your eyes: "The security in the capital really needs to be improved." ”

Su Huihui knew that today's incident was inconvenient to spread widely, and he had to swallow it in his stomach if he broke his teeth. But when she saw Ruixiang's worried and curious expression, she thought it would be better to say something and let her stop thinking about it.

"Let's not forget to send some money to Dr. Wang's family on the winter solstice, and we have been busy working together. Doctor Qi has already gone to the government to go through the motions...... Go and report it, someone will deal with it. ”

Ruixiang finished handing over the melon bag, poured the words two or three times, shook his hand, and said "ah": "What...... Didn't you see Dr. Wang in the morning......? It can't be that she asked someone for a loan but didn't have the money to pay it back, and someone chased after her!" Her apricot eyes widened, and she had also heard about Dr. Wang's departure from the pharmacy in the morning, only to know that she was short of money and had to find another job to make ends meet.

Su Huihui knew that her father was asking for a loan, but he couldn't pay a penny, so he found the family and sold his daughter to a big family to be a rough girl. It's hard to say more, and say:

"We don't know, but someone from the pharmacy will come to check in the near future, so you can do your own thing. Although his appearance is not very good-looking, this matter has nothing to do with us, so don't chase after it. ”

She went to bed early that night, but she dreamed one after another. I woke up the next day, lying in bed and not wanting to move, and my mind involuntarily relived yesterday's events.

*

Ling Jieyu stretched out his left hand towards her, and his fingertips were covered with a layer of molten light, except for a little thin callus, even the palm prints were clear and beautiful.

Su Huihui has not studied the palm prints, saying that it is good-looking, that is, the sparse places that should be sparse, and the dense places that should be dense, making people feel that the lines are born in the palms, which is rare and pleasing to the eye.

She was so jealous that she was pulled back by reason at an inopportune time. There were still two taels of silver left in the money bag, and she simply prepared to put it in the hand that didn't touch the fireworks in the world with the newly made embroidered bag made by Ruixiang.

Ling Jieyu still looked unfazed, her eyelashes drooped a little, and she said lightly:

"There is labor. ”

Su Huihui couldn't care about why this person appeared in a remote alley regardless of his identity, why he was better than a killer who dared to appear in broad daylight, and why he talked to her with great interest, because she immediately thought of a dream she had in the inn.

But in the end, instead of throwing a stone, she respectfully handed over the money bag and the money worth a lot of things. In her conscience, it is not an exaggeration to say that the grace of saving her life will be reciprocated, but she has nothing to say about her words and deeds. Even if she asks for silver, isn't it usually the one who was rescued who took the initiative to mention it? She did jokingly offer to compensate him for his pair of chopsticks, but before the second half of the sentence came out, people couldn't wait.

Ling Jieyu watched her untie the embroidery bag, and when the exquisite embroidery on the bag was still an inch away from the palm of his hand, he suddenly turned around and walked towards the dark red grass.

Su Hui's arm froze there, and after a while, he took a breath and said softly:

"My lord, how many pairs of bamboo chopsticks do you want, although tell the folk girl that the folk girl can add a pair of ivory or green jade chopsticks if she scrapes together the money. ”

Ling Jieyu didn't stop and said, "White jade seeds are the best." ”

Su Huihui slowly withdrew the money bag, thinking that he had underestimated the governor.

She followed him aimlessly with a water bladder in her hand. The corners of his blue robe were swept up by the wind, and some of the oleander blossoms fell in the dirt, and it could be seen that two or three drops of rain had been sprinkled last night. His back was so close to the ground that it didn't catch the delicate petals that were slightly wrinkled.

The white flowers are dyed crimson, and in the touching bright colors, the cloud-like figure still stands up leisurely.

He spoke: "Doctor Su knows this person, and he takes the trouble to identify this official." ”

Su Huihui silently recited ten thousand times that he couldn't break the so-called backbone, and forced himself to glance at the blood stains all over the ground in fear, and he couldn't help but feel a shock in his heart at this glance.

The red-and-white head was a few feet away from her neck, but she didn't get much of a way from putting it together. The person who lost his head was Dr. Wang Jing, who took the initiative to resign in the morning and was urged away by her.

Su Huihui felt that as a person with poor tolerance, she was going to have nightmares for a few days.

She made up her mind, and the moment she looked up, she saw the curvature of the corners of his lips disappearing in an instant.

She turned a blind eye and said: "This is a doctor surnamed Wang in our pharmacy, who was dismissed by us this morning for embezzling money to make false accounts, his wife is sick, and his daughter is young, so he said that he acted like this because of insufficient savings." I finished dinner with another doctor at a noodle stall at the end of the alley and wanted to send the last of my month's money to his house, only to find that his wife had died in her bed. Doctor Wang left a message to come back tomorrow, and I saw that this matter could not be delayed due to the hot weather, so I asked the doctor to go to the government to report it, and I planned to go back to the pharmacy to discuss with everyone. As for who Dr. Wang provoked, we really don't know. ”

She couldn't be sure of anything else, but Wang Jing was not just a down-and-out poor doctor, but it was also a clear thing. If you owe money, it is enough for the other party to directly find a hooligan ruffian to clean up the mess, and it is really a bit of a boost to recruit such a high-end and skilled killer. In addition, Ling Jieyu, the right deputy envoy, appeared here alone, saying that he was going to eat as a guest, and he was only afraid of ghosts.

Ling Jieyu called her a doctor, just planning to go on business, and said that she knew this person, and she didn't know where to get it, anyway, it was a disguised threat. She couldn't prevaricate, so she could only say objectively in a discretionary tone.

Ling Jieyu tapped his fingers on the basket and said, "That's it." ”

Su Huihui nodded silently.

He said: "Doctor Su doesn't need to be so nervous, the official is not so good at detaining the doctor in the official palace without knowing anything. Didn't Dr. Su tell the truth?"

“…… Also, we didn't see Dr. Wang's daughter, the door was not locked, we walked through the gate and entered. Today, someone may have poured the dishes, the items in the room are neat, and Wang is lying on the bed, as if he has just died...... Of course, the quilt is cold. ”

Ling Jieyu stared at the dead head on the ground and said "um".

Su Hui paused for a while, looked up at his side face little by little from under his eyelashes, and bowed down with his hands folded:

"Doctor Wang came to the pharmacy for about four months, and it was Old Doctor Fang who recruited him, and Doctor Qi thought he was acting suspiciously, but he didn't say it. The girl had just arrived for more than two months and had not had much contact with him...... Except to dismiss him in the morning. ”

Ling Jieyu said clearly: "Doctor Su was unwilling to be a deputy envoy. ”

Su Huihui knew that he had lost his words from beginning to end, and although he was the last foreign official, he still had to formally claim himself in front of his superiors in Beijing. But she didn't know how to speak exculpatory, and she couldn't help but look at him blankly for a while, as if she was frozen.

Ling Jieyu stopped looking at her and squatted down to examine it carefully.

Su Huihui said with difficulty: "My lord's eyes are really like torches. ”

He turned his back to her gaze, and Shi Shiran showed a smile, "Doctor Su is so unconfident in speaking, this official is really pleased." ”

Su warmed his conscience and said in a loud voice: "My lord is wise." ”

She rubbed her forehead, and waited by him like a maid to finish checking it, and then she was about to take a hand.

"Go over there and see if he's got a leather bag for a human head. He really commanded.

Su Hui hesitated in place and replied truthfully: "The lower officials don't dare." ”

Ling Jieyu said: "Then take off the chopsticks for the official and get a pair together." ”

Su Huihui sighed and said: "The adult wants the material of the seed jade? Xiaguan will definitely buy it for the adult and send it to the Zun Mansion, and it is no problem to add another pair." ”

Ling Jieyu flicked off the blades of grass on his clothes, and said slowly: "This official has a bad habit, you have to see that items are neatly placed as they are, otherwise it will be difficult to sleep at night." With that, he stood up and walked to the wall, tapped his knuckles on the wall, and the chopsticks that had been attached to the wall fell to the ground with a bang.

When he pulled out the murder weapon on the killer's chest, Su Huihui closed his eyes and covered his ears, and when he opened his eyes, he saw that a pair of chopsticks had really reunited on the grass over all odds, and they were placed straight, and even the reddish-brown on them was very uniform.

Ling Jieyu waited until the bubbling liquid from the blood hole in the killer's chest turned black and purple, and then said with satisfaction:

"Doctor Su should go back and discuss with the people in the pharmacy. Today's events are very ominous, and we may bother the doctor again in the future. ”

Su Huihui followed his words and said helplessly: "Don't worry, my lord, the lower officials also have to take into account the future of the pharmacy, how can they mention it to outsiders when they open their mouths." ”

Ling Jieyu's eyes as dark as midnight gathered some light, and walked away towards the end of the alley with a basket full of hands. He paused at his feet and said:

This official only remembered that the water bladder was brought all the way from Nan'an, and he was a little reluctant, so he took Dr. Su's money bag. Dr. Su closed his eyes at that time, and he should not feel distressed. ”

He didn't walk fast, but his long figure was suddenly invisible in the alley.

Su Huihui was stunned at his back, touched his empty waist, suddenly reacted, and ran out of Yanwei Alley.

Not far away, a gust of wind blew across the ground, and the pair of symmetrical chopsticks moved, turning into powder in an instant.

*

Back in the pharmacy, Fang Yi learned about it, after all, she had a lot of experience, and she didn't say anything else in shock and asked her to go back to her room to talk about it. Su Huihui naturally wouldn't deal with him with half-truths and half-truths Meng Ruixiang's words, but he omitted the overly terrifying scenes, and even said in great detail such strange things as meeting the governor of Weifu.

Fang Yi said at the time: "That is to make the Lord acquiesce that this matter has nothing to do with us, and if there is anything suspicious, he will definitely investigate it privately." Qi Ming, this kid hasn't come back yet, but he has always been worry-free. Don't mention this matter in the future, the girl in Wang Jing's family, if we can find it, we will do our duty to help and expose it. ”

After Su warmed up the medicine, the bleeding stopped, and the pain subsided a little. She asked slowly, "Does Mr. Fang know where the Governor comes from?"

Fang Yi snorted from his nose: "We, ordinary people, how can we find out those big masters." He took a sip of honeysuckle soaked water, "But how the first emperor favored this Lord Ling, I'm afraid the entire capital knows." A cold door, from Nan'an, at the age of eighteen on the palace test won the champion, after entering the East Palace from the Hanlin Academy, promoted Shao Zhan Shi as a young master, can be described as extremely beautiful. However, ten years ago, it was found out that his mentor was involved in a big case and was released from Beijing. ”

Su Hui said: "Then the first emperor still trusts him. If you are involved in a case, you can still be a governor, don't others say it?" The governor is the eyes and ears of the saint and is in charge of supervision, and I have never heard of such a person who can move left to the third grade. The young master in his twenties may have been the only one in ancient times.

"Does he have a part-time official?"

Fang Yidao: "There is no fit between the concurrent, the addition, and the gift, and I concentrate on assisting the Eastern Dynasty." ”

Su Hui counted warmly, and cold sweat slid down: "That...... Isn't this year a year of confusion?"

Fang Yi calculated, "When the old man came to the capital, it was twenty years ago, and at that time, Lord Ling had just obtained the blue eyes of the first emperor, and this year should be thirty and eight. ”

He saw Su Hui's strange face and said, "What's wrong?"

Su Hui said: "Has Lord Ling been living in Nan'an for a long time? Also, is it possible that the Three Mutual Law has been abolished?"

Fang Yidao: "The laws of the national dynasty have their own accommodation. It is said that there is only one old lady in the Ling family, and she has no relatives in Fanjing, so in the final analysis, she is an exceptional lonely minister. is in Nan'an, and there are few people who have seen him over the years, and he is almost incognito. The first emperor decided to let him leave Beijing, which was to open the net, and those who wanted to be promoted would not step into the threshold of his house...... And about his past deeds, the first emperor also issued an edict not to mention it again. Our dynasty is different from the Northern Dynasty, and has always treated Wenchen leniently, and it is not the first case that the adults have been treated, and once those adults leave Beijing, there is a chance that they will not be able to return in this life. ”

Su Hui warmed his heart and said, where is his behavior a lonely minister? Where is it like a degraded official who has gone through the vicissitudes of life in the frustration of the sea! This governor seems to have made a comeback, and he has the right to divide and appease his subordinates, and no matter how big or small things are. The first emperor's methods of dealing with him were strangely tight, obviously waiting for this day.

"Lord Ling seems to know that Wang Jing is here for us. She whispered as she thought.

Fang Yi said: "This is not what we speculated. After returning to Beijing after the examination, time has passed, and Beijing is no longer what it was back then, and the position of governor today is no longer the position of governor of the year. He has a lot of inkstones, but none of them can talk, and as soon as he returned to the capital, he was well-informed enough to know this very small thing, maybe ...... There's something big involved. ”

Su Huihui listened to his speculation and was still unfinished, and just wanted to answer the conversation, but stopped again.

"When the adults were ordered to go to the country, all the officials were called His Majesty Xià Shengming. As he grew older, his role as the prince's teacher was also forgotten by the world. But last year, he intended to reuse this adult, not only rehabilitated, but also gave him the right to inspect the direct subordinate, and it was not difficult to come to Qingyun again. He must have known the current situation of our pharmacy through some people, and he had already prepared for it. As for what he is going to do, the old man thinks that he did not embarrass you, the deputy envoy, that is, he implied that he would not embarrass our pharmacy. And the ambassador of the pharmacy who really holds the palm print, how can he be regarded as a person in the Majesty's Hospital. ”

Su Huihui thought about it, and sometimes he did think too much.

Fang Yi coughed twice and said tiredly: "Doctor Su, tomorrow Duanyang Houfu will send a contract, and they will not have an ambassador, so you will do it for you." Remember to repair the book to the ambassador, it is estimated that the Yan family has already done a good job, but you have to do it all. ”

Qi Ming is Youzheng back. He said that it took a lot of effort on the road, and that the government had already dispersed by the time he arrived, but his attitude was good, and the man on duty promised to send someone to check on him tomorrow and close his account by the way. Su Huihui regretted that she missed someone, because the deceased's father-in-law also accompanied her.

"We still have to spend our own money to do a simple funeral, the pharmacy is about to be rectified, and if something happens, you all think it's not a good sign. ”

As soon as Qi Ming entered the door, he heard her say about the thrilling passage of the afternoon, and then pursed his lips and said:

"Actually......"

Su Hui's gaze pierced like a needle: "Don't irritate me anymore." ”

"Actually, when I left the yamen, there was a man who led Wang Jing's daughter to eat at the wonton stall in front of the yamen, and I thought I had recognized the wrong person, but the little girl's eyes were very poisonous and she recognized me. That boy is less than thirty years old, with a gentle face, looking at his magnificence, he is an official, wearing a blue robe,"

Su Huihui suddenly couldn't hold the cup steadily: "So...... Did he tell you anything?"

"I went up, and the girl was not quite the same as I remembered, she cried and cried, but she was very calm and in good spirits, and she said that she had been following her mother since she had died in the morning, and that someone had sent her to the government and told her that the lady had come back in the evening to ask her what she had said. ”

“…… I mean, the Governor. You haven't seen him in Zou Yuan, have you?"

Qi Ming was stunned and said, "Is it a governor? Dare Qing is the one who pickets the governor of Fuzhou...... My God, what kind of person is Wang Jing, he has to have such a big face!"

Su Huihui said calmly: "He said he was on the way." ”

The corners of Qi Ming's eyes twitched, "By the way, he also said that the funeral should be simple, please ask the Qian Guanfu who worked and bought the coffin to come out for that girl, let's leave it alone and continue to make a living." He seemed to know everything. ”

Su warmed the corners of his mouth: "Isn't it." He even knew that I wasn't short of money. ”

Qi Ming snorted and ran to the kitchen to get food.

Su Huihui was suspicious of today's events in the bedroom, and went through it from the beginning, decisively admitting that he had no talent for investigating cases.

First of all, Wang Jing, who dragged his family to Beijing, did not want to reveal his life experience, and his family did not agree with him, and his wife died less than a day before he traveled west. The killer who took his life wanted to cut off his head, in addition to the distorted mentality, Su Huihui believed that the employer behind him didn't want most people to know what the dead person looked like. Maybe the killer wanted to get rid of his whole body and abandon the corpse, or maybe he was going to take the head and hand it over.

Then there is the governor of Nan'an, the right deputy capital of the imperial envoy, a person's appearance can appear much younger than his actual age, but his temperament is difficult to change. The temperament he shows is the kind of pampered and well-behaved, not like he was born in a poor family, let alone the wind and frost that has not fallen from a high place and has been lurking for nearly ten years. Ling Jieyu's bearing is too dazzling, just like this is a fairly young person who has not suffered any setbacks, and Su Huihui has seen a lot of people who have had the opportunity to develop once, and a considerable part of the habits they have developed since childhood have not been lost, and they are even more incompatible with their identity.

The governor's every move was unconcealed, as if the stranger knew it and didn't care if he said it.

A small Huimin pharmacy, things can be so big, Su Huihui has a headache, what will she do when there are many people in the future. She began to envy the ambassador of the Tai Hospital, who had never appeared so far.