Zhou Kui paused and said, "If the dagger is in the hands of others, it is naturally a scourge; But in your own hands, this is a weapon. These account books are Zhang Shicheng's private accounts, recording all kinds of private salt transactions, the handwriting and seals are true, and my name is true in them, but there are also the names of several officials in the court. Xie Zaixing can use the account book to blackmail me, and I can also use the account book to blackmail others. ”

"I was able to climb from your father's staff to the position of the fourth rank officer, and these ledgers have a great merit, so I have not burned them. Miss, you never contact your father Wei Guogong, do you think he is the real murderer behind him? I'm the one who is going to die, so I might as well tell you that your father is innocent. ”

Yao Miaoyi looked at the account book and sneered: "Want to match our father and daughter to release their previous suspicions and reunite the family?" □□ you are going to pretend to be a good person when you are dying? If you kill my mother, aren't you worried that I will kill your whole family to take revenge? ”

Zhou Kui laughed and said, "I am a person with clear grievances. Grandpa Guo has the grace of knowing me, and I will not splash dirty water on his head; If the Xie family threatens my life and future, I will bribe the killer and cut the grass to the roots; I'm going to die anyway, you're going to kill my family, I can't stop it. ”

"Kill, kill, since they have gained wealth by my despicable means, they should also bear the revenge of their opponents. Vanity Fair is so cruel, the winner rises from a tall building and feasts guests; The loser, just like your grandfather, wiped out the whole family. That's the rule, you do it. ”

Yao Miaoyi looked carefully at the account book in her hand, there were really several names of the senior members of the DPRK and the imperial relatives in it, and the bottom of the ledger was numbered, and the three account books that Zhou Kui got were just the tip of the iceberg, if all the account books were leaked out, there would inevitably be an uproar in the DPRK.

Looking at the three words "Xie Zaixing" on the account book, the ink was already old, and the ink was faint, but it seemed that the words were engraved in my heart, and the knife was bloody.

Yao Miaoyi suddenly felt frustrated: Is her grandfather really a traitor? Could it be that the more than 30 members of the Xie family deserve it? No! I don't believe it!

But the tears of her mother in her memory and the blood-red word "injustice" on her grandfather's relatives when they hanged themselves were so profound, Yao Miaoyi didn't believe Zhou Kui's words.

My grandfather was a thoughtful person, even if he wanted to betray Zhu Yuanzhang, the lord at the time, he would settle down the family first and leave a way back, how could he say that he would rebel and rebel, regardless of the life and death of the whole family?

What's so strange about this! I'm afraid that the only person who knows the truth should be Zhang Shicheng, but Zhang Shicheng committed suicide when Suzhou City was broken, and the Zhang family is said to have been wiped out by Zhu Yuanzhang, who to ask?

New hatred and old hatred, Yao Miaoyi used means to force Zhou Kui to confess, but Zhou Kui was so painful that he suffocated and never changed his words.

He tried his best to raise his head, looking at Yao Miaoyi with a vague gaze, as if he was returning to the light, the corners of his mouth pulled out a smile, like a wanderer who had gone through thousands of sails and finally found a home, there was a timidity of homesickness, but more inexplicable peace and understanding.

"Big ...... Miss, I killed your mother, I deserve to die, and the Xie family deserves to die. Zhou Kui was soaked in cold sweat, his pupils slowly dilated, and he said his last words:

"People live a lifetime, either collecting debts or paying debts. Die in the hands of the eldest lady, settle the debt, don't have to carry the grievances to the next life, I'm not wronged, haha......"

When the sky was hazy, the scholar in the west wing was woken up by the smoke, and the two ran out barefoot to take a look, and were stunned for a moment: but seeing a sea of fire in the study, the crackling sound of the fire could be faintly heard!

"Help! Let's go to the water! ”

The masters and servants of Zhou Shilang's Mansion all got up, and ran to the courtyard of the study with a copper basin bucket, the air was dry in autumn, coupled with the windy day of Chongyang, the study was shrouded in a sea of fire, and it was impossible to save it!

"Sir! Go and save the master! A middle-aged woman with a disheveled hair stumbled over with the support of many mothers-in-law and maids, and sat in the courtyard crying. She is Zhou Kui's stepwife.

"Madam, the fire is too big, it will burn over immediately, let's go."

The fire was raging, and everyone's eyes had a burning feeling, and they didn't dare to look directly at the fire, so they all lowered their heads and pulled Mrs. Zhou out.

"I'm not leaving!" Mrs. Zhou stubbornly roared: "Whoever rushes into the study to save people, I will give you a hundred taels, no, a thousand taels of silver!" ”

Bang!

The fire burned down the beams of the house, the study began to collapse, and the flying sparks and burning wood dispersed among the people who were fighting the fire, and the people did not care about the reward of 1,000 taels of silver, and they all abandoned the pots and buckets and ran out of the yard with their heads in their hands.

Mrs. Zhou's head was hit by a burning log, her hair was ignited by the flames, and there was blood and flames on her head, and everyone was frightened and stupid, and fell to the ground screaming into a ball of fire, and the maid and the maid poured a bucket of water on Mrs. Zhou together to pick up a life.

Yao Miaoyi was wearing the costume of the maid of the Zhou Mansion, which she stole yesterday when she pretended to be an embroidery girl and entered the Zhou Mansion, she mixed in the crowd and took the opportunity to escape from the Zhou Mansion, hiding Zhou Kui's account book in her arms.

The study was set on fire to cover up the secret room and the traces of the forced confession on Zhou Kui's body. The revenge for killing his mother was avenged, but the Xie family's injustice was still full of doubts, what happened to his grandfather Xie Zaixing back then......

The Double Ninth Festival is a day for the whole family to climb high to enjoy the autumn scenery, but the Quanfu Lane of Xufu Street in Dagongfang is full of smoke and fire, and not far away is the famous Wei Mansion Zhan Yuan, even Mu Xiu's grandfather Xu Da at home was alarmed, and took his generals to Zhoufu to fight the fire.

The fire was finally charged, and the generals found Zhou Kui's charred body from a piece of scorched earth. Just after losing his old comrade-in-arms Kaiping Wang Chang Yuchun, and now losing his former most trusted staff member Zhou Kui, Wei Guogong Xu Da looked at the charred corpse and was silent for a long time, sighed, took off his big hat, and covered the corpse.

Before noon, the news of the fire in the Zhou Shilang Mansion in Quanfu Lane spread all over Jinling City, and the soldiers of the Five Cities Terracotta Division walked the streets and alleys to post notices everywhere to warn the residents of the neighborhood to pay attention to fire prevention.

Song Xiuer came back from buying Chongyang cake from the dim sum shop. Baihetang still has no patients seeking medical treatment, and the Double Ninth Festival is to drink chrysanthemum wine according to folk customs, and occasionally some passers-by enter the store to buy dried chrysanthemums to drink wine.

Yao Miaoyi dozed off on her desk. I tossed almost all night in Zhou's mansion, I didn't sleep all night, my body was tired, and I was going to rest, but I kept thinking about Zhou Kui's last words in my head, and I couldn't sleep at all.

The reaction of the body and the brain was opposite, and the battle was fierce, and Yao Miaoyi felt that her head was about to explode.

"Miss couldn't sleep last night? Eat some chongyang cake and go back to make up for sleep, there are no patients anyway. Song Xiuer put the Chongyang cake on the table, and there were two white sheep pinched into noodles on the Chongyang cake, indicating the meaning of "Chongyang", and there were colorful pennant flags, the taste was sweet and greasy, Yao Miaoyi didn't like to eat Chongyang cake, but this cake was very festive in shape.

Just like eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival, whether you like the taste or not, you must also eat a piece, just for the occasion.

Yao Miaoyi yawned, forced herself to lie to herself, she couldn't sleep anyway, and simply said: "Sleep during the day, and lose sleep again at night." I'll still hold on, Xiu'er, Ah Fu, anyway, there is no business, why don't we close in advance and go out to play, the Double Ninth Festival climbs high and looks far away, where do we go to play? ”

Ah Fu, who was the gatekeeper, said: "I heard that there are many rich people beside the Qinhuai River who put chrysanthemum bonsai to fight for wealth, and there are all kinds of chrysanthemum flower stands along the river. ”

Hearing about appreciating chrysanthemums, Song Xiuer was playful, "It's too tiring to climb the mountain, it's still comfortable to enjoy the flowers, let's get close to the Qinhuai River, just walk away." Today, Uncle Lao Fu will look at the shop, and we will come back to bring you a package of crab shell yellow plum vegetable and meat pancakes. ”

Ah Fu is not happy without meat, and he has to eat meat for his dim sum.

The three of them shared the heavy yang cake while chatting, and the topic was nothing more than the fire house of Zhou Shilang's Mansion in Quanfu Lane in the early hours of this morning.

"I heard that the palace was alarmed, a eunuch went to the Zhou Mansion, and when I bought Chongyang cake, I saw the eunuch's car, followed by more than 30 guards."

The trip to Zhou's mansion had gains and losses, and the revenge of killing his mother was avenged, but the wrongs of the Xie family were still in the fog. Yao Miaoyi was preoccupied, she had no appetite, she lazily ate Chongyang cake, played with the small colored flag on the cake in her hand, and asked casually: "How do you know that the eunuch in the car is not an official or a female official?" ”

Song Xiuer said: "I saw someone saluting on the side of the road and calling the person in the car 'Huang Gonggong'." ”

Yao Miaoyi said secretly: Huang Gonggong? Could it be Huang Yan, the eunuch of Suzhou City who captured the Ming Sect secret party?

The three of them were talking, and two people who looked like family members walked in outside, with filial piety on their bodies, it should be that the head of the family had a funeral, but their expressions were quite arrogant, and they asked, "I heard that there is a female doctor here?" Come with us. ”

Yao Miaoyi is most annoyed by this kind of dog-fighting family, the family is like this, and the owner's family is not a kind person, she doesn't deal with this kind of person, no matter how much money she makes, it's not enough to be angry, so she simply pushes the business out, "We're closing, the two of you go elsewhere to ask for a doctor." ”

The housekeeper turned his nostrils to the sky and threw out a silver ingot on the table, "This should be enough, right?" ”

It's five taels of silver! From its opening to today, Baihetang has not made five taels of silver in total profits.

Ah Fu's eyes lit up, and Song Xiuer shook her head at him, saying that she would not accept this business.

Yao Miaoyi didn't sleep all night, she was in a terrible mood, her temper came up, she waved her hand and said, "Take the silver, please be smart." ”

A burst of rough air rushed out of Chaotian's nostrils, and the family rolled up his sleeves, "Ouch! I said that you guys from other places (fools), if you want to go to the doctor, do you want to give you face? Our Chang family is a dignified Kaiping Palace, and the imperial doctors of the Tai Hospital have been invited, but you, a folk doctor, are pushing back? ”