The study was quiet, and the page in Qi Xiangsi's hand slowly fell, covering the side of the dead people.

The hidden secret was suddenly revealed, and this feeling was not pleasant for Qi Xiangxi.

Before she had the idea of escaping, Lu Qin, who went to pour tea, was late, and when he entered the house, his hands were still empty, and he didn't do anything, he only looked at his master respectfully, and asked: "Lord Wang, you have been in the study for a long time, you should also go out for a walk, your subordinates have prepared tea in the pavilion, do you want to invite Miss Qi to sit down?" ”

Yan Congyu didn't speak, the master and servant looked at Qi Xiangsi together, that look, if she refused, it would be a big sin.

Qi Xiangsi coughed lightly: "Then there will be labor." ”

In the huge palace of the king of reputation, except for the guards, there is not a single person who serves, and there is really not a maid.

The mansion with few people inevitably looks deserted, after the corridor, Lu Qin led the way in front, Qi Xiangsi walked on the garden path, and there were no flowers planted in the flower beds on both sides, all trees.

In the middle of February, the buds are dewed, the branches are showing a bit of emerald, after passing through the flower bed, you have to go through a garden to the place arranged by Lu Qin, Qi Acacia looks at the flowers, only a glance, and the footsteps are fixed on the road.

Just on her side, up the steps is a small bridge for two people to cross, the bridge is less than a zhang long, the bottom of the bridge is a small stream dug out by hand, this month the spring rain has not yet arrived, the stream is very shallow, clear to see the stones at the bottom of the stream.

The small bridge used to follow the path, and what greeted Qi Xiangxi's eyes was a room, and the reason why she stopped and looked stunned was that every qiē outside the house made her feel familiar.

The house is like a country village, with brick and tile painted walls, a thatched roof on top, and an escalator hanging from the bottom to the top of the huge camphor tree outside the house, and when it reaches the middle part of the camphor tree, the center of the branch is knocked with a wooden board where two people can sit.

There was a small pergola next to the camphor tree, and in front of the hut there was a small circle of bricks, the only difference was that there was nothing planted in that circle.

Qi Xiangsi crossed the small bridge and walked towards the house, and the voice of the little prince came from his ears: "I don't know what was originally planted in the flower garden." ”

"It's not a flower garden." Qi Xiangsi squatted down, brick by brick and tile were really similar, "I planted some herbs before, but they didn't grow well, and then I planted some dandelions." ”

As soon as he looked up, he saw the escalator hanging on the locust tree, Qi Xiangsi was a little stunned, got up slowly, looked around again, and then looked at Yan Congyu: "You have been to Qi's house." ”

Yan Congyu followed her line of sight and looked at the camphor tree: "Hmm." ”

The more Qi Xiangsi looked, the more she felt that something was wrong, she walked past him to the camphor tree, touched the escalator above, grabbed the escalator and climbed up without saying anything, she stopped after climbing three steps, and in front of her, several clearly visible scratches on the bark of the camphor tree entered her eyes.

It should be a "橼" word, but there are too many strokes, Qi Xiangsi was still young at that time, and he was caught by his sister when he carved the wooden character on the left with a carving knife, and he accepted the carving knife.

The word "wood" carved by the carving knife is not good-looking, but Qi Xiangsi will never mistake its appearance, the tree has grown taller in the past ten years, the position has changed, and the scratches can still be distinguished.

She turned to look at Yan Congyu, her eyes flashed with love, and she couldn't believe it: "You dug up the tree?" ”

Yan Congyu stood under the tree and nodded.

A Qi family's house has experienced a fire, burned beyond recognition, when Yan Congyu went to Qi's house, only the camphor tree in the west courtyard happened to avoid the point of fire, and it still grew very well.

So Yan Congyu sent people to dig it back to Kyoto.

The original escalator on the tree had long been rotten, so he asked people to make a new one as it was, and the house in the house was burned with only four brick walls, and the black one could only be easily distinguished that it might be a thatched house, so Yan Congyu asked the craftsman to make it as much as possible.

The small bridge, the stream under the bridge, the stake swing by the bridge, the small flower garden in front of the house, the pergola under the trees.

It can't be like ten points, but it can be like seven or eight points, this is the best preserved place in Qi's house, and the rest has almost become a pile of black charcoal, so many years have passed, and the unguarded house is often secretly broken into to find property, and even those stone scenes that can be sold have been moved.

Qi Xiangsi's heart was swollen, blocked in his chest, and he was a little out of breath.

Yan Congyu at the bottom suddenly asked her, "Do you want to go up and sit." ”

Above, there are reinforced planks, which remain in their original appearance, and the craftsmen have made them old to make it look a little older.

Qi Xiangsi gently touched the words engraved there, looked down at him, and smiled at the corner of his mouth: "Do you want to come up?" ”

It used to be for two children, but now it's a little cramped for the two of them.

Qi Xiangsi looked down at the tree and pointed to the section below: "It's tall, I used to sit here with my sister, and I was only so tall." ”

"Your sister?"

"Yes, my sister." Qi Xiangsi turned his head to look at him, and then looked at the room over there, looking down from the tree, it was a different sense, "Her name is Qi Xiangli, she is five years older than me, if she is still alive, now the children will jump up and call me aunt." ”

The gentle and lovely eldest lady of the Qi family, knowledgeable, beautiful and kind, often follows the two masters of the Qi family to go out to help and help, in that small Nanxian County, Qi Xiangli has a good reputation.

"My sister is good at female popularity, she follows her mother's temperament, she understands medical science a little, and she is not as keen as me." Qi Xiangsi looked at the medicine garden next to the house, and her voice paused, "She has good cooking skills, and the recipe prescribed by her grandfather is the best medicinal food made by her." ”

"When my sister was twelve years old, the matchmaker stepped through the threshold, Nanxian is a small place, and anything spreads quickly, the Qi family has a good reputation, and the eldest lady is gentle and virtuous, many families want to settle down early, and it's okay to get married a few years later."

Qi Xiangsi said and smiled: "My sister actually has a sweetheart, my cousin came to Qi's house to study with my father for a few years, and he had to ask me to help pass the letter, and then he was almost discovered by my mother." ”

"The imperial court once went to Yongzhou to summon a group of doctors to Kyoto to take the examination of the Tai Hospital." Yan Congyu found out these when he investigated the affairs of the Qi family, "There were several places in Nanxian County at that time, and the Qi family was on the list. ”

"When?"

"Eight years ago, it was supposed to be an official document in October."

"October." Qi Xiangsi muttered softly, her expression froze, at that time Qi Henian and her father had known each other for a while, and often came to Qi's house to ask her grandfather for advice, once she took her younger brother to hide behind the screen to play, as if she heard her father and him have some disputes, and finally Qi Henian left and said that his father was stubborn, is this for this?

"In the end, Nanxian only sent one person up, and in the end, he didn't enter the hospital." Yan Congyu flipped through the list of personnel at that time, and there was no one surnamed Qi, which means that the Qi family directly refused.

"My grandfather and father didn't want fame or fortune in the first place." Qi Xiangsi said in a deep voice, "If I had been called at that time, maybe, I would still be alive." ”

Yan Congyu looked at her slightly drooping shoulders, and his voice slowed down: "In May of the following year, Imperial Physician Qi came back from his travels, entered the palace to meet his father, and presented treasures, and half a month later, his father rewarded him greatly. ”

"Why is it only rewarded half a month later?"

"My father is very old, and he has old diseases in the past, and his health was not very good in those years, and after Imperial Doctor Qi came back, he recuperated his father for half a month, and his headache was reduced a lot."

Qi Xiangsi sneered: "It's just a mistake, has the headache of the saint been committed again over the years?" ”

Yan Congyu nodded: "It's been a few years, and I did it again three or four years ago." ”

"Qi Henian only knows how to use it, but he doesn't know how to raise it, that Yaoding grandfather didn't burn it out to decoction to cure diseases, but his own interest, so although this thing uses a lot of precious medicinal materials, it is not practical." In Qi Xiangsi's memory, my grandfather was very fond of this medicine tripod baby, and he used it twice, and the rest of the time was spent on maintenance, and his grandfather liked it too, and he always took the trouble to raise it.

Yan Congyu didn't understand this, and he hadn't seen this medicine tripod: "I don't know how to raise it?" ”

"Eventually, it'll end up as a pile of scrappy." Qi Xiangsi turned his head to look at him, "It is used to decoct medicine, which is not as good as an ordinary casserole." ”

Therefore, the saint's body has only been getting better for a while and then getting worse, maybe Qi Henian discovered this problem, and the medicine tripod is gradually failing, so there will be the incident of selling the Qi family's house three years ago.

Qi Henian is playing a trick on her and her younger brother.

Yan Congyu frowned slightly: "There is no way to recover?" ”

Qi Xiangsi chuckled: "The little prince can hand me over to the emperor, my younger brother is young, and I am the only person in the Qi family who can know this." Maybe I can remember something under torture. ”

"I want to use this to cure starlings." Yan Congyu looked at her calmly, he was a little curious about the effect of the medicine tripod, "The cough before the starling brother was also cured by Master Qi, maybe this will also be useful." ”

Qi Xiangsi's cheeks flushed slightly, and she was a little embarrassed by the words she had just said: "I'm sorry." ”

The two of them got closer, the expression on Qi Xiangsi's face was clear, Yan Congyu raised his hand, pressed her head with a big palm, and there seemed to be a smile on the corner of his mouth, and Qi Xiangsi's whole head was noisy again.

At this time, there was a sudden commotion of leaves on the camphor tree, and a shadow rushed out of the branches towards them, Qi Xiangsi's body avoided it, but because there was nothing to support next to it, he almost fell off the tree.

Yan Congyu grabbed her, and when Qi Xiangsi looked towards her in shock, a gray squirrel scurried to the treetops, and disappeared in an instant.

The position on the tree was too narrow, Yan Congyu hit Qi Xiangsi in his arms as soon as she pulled it like this, she hurriedly got up, but the position just now was really not very good, and she was pulled back when she fell back.

Lu Qin, who was standing not far away, turned his back, if he continued to look down, when Miss Qi left, he might not be able to save his eyes.

This kind of Qi Xiangxi can neither pretend to be asleep nor have the ability to escape, so he has to beg him: "You help me." ”

Yan Congyu held her hand and helped her sit firmly, Qi Xiangsi stabilized her mind: "Grandfather didn't completely cure the illness of the Eighth Prince, otherwise he wouldn't have done it again." ”

"Starlings are poisoned."

The wind rustled the leaves, Qi Xiangsi looked at him in a daze, poisoned?

"Starling's body wasn't so bad before, and he would cough more than he stopped when he was poisoned."

"In other words, after my grandfather cured the Eighth Prince, he was poisoned again?"

Yan Congyu nodded silently, Qi Xiangsi knew that she had guessed correctly, she didn't know much about what the palace was, but she had already seen what the royal palace was, it was a cold-blooded family with no family affection, when fathers can use their sons, brothers are stabbing each other, I don't know who will die one day, behind a smiling face, maybe thinking about how to get the most benefit from each other.

The little prince has a bad fate, and there are many accidents, and it is not a big deal for the eighth prince to be poisoned.

Qi Xiangsi lowered her head, she didn't learn her grandfather's unique skills, and she didn't read all the medical books she left behind, if the illness of the eighth prince was brought out of her mother's womb, she couldn't help it now, but if she was poisoned

"I'll try."