Liu Tan returned to the annex and went straight to the West Chamber.

Helan Chou waited in the hall to play chess, and when he came back, Fang put down the chess bowl, got up and said:

"The prince is back, how are you inquiring?"

Liu Tan said: "I am convinced, my cousin found two pieces of evidence from the murderer who assassinated Qincha, one is a secret letter with Liu Yi's private seal, and the other is the waist card of the dead soldier of Ning Wangfu. ”

Then, he told him what Xue Rui said, including Yu Shu's trip to Pei County to help.

Helan pondered: "Among these two people, there must be a culprit, and one of them is trapped, on the surface, it is more likely that the eleventh prince will do it, but this kind of means is like the handiwork of King Ning." ”

Liu Tan frowned, "I have a doubt-if King Ning starts, it will be Liu Yi who he designed and framed, but Liu Yi has always looked at him as the horse's head, and has not competed with him, even if King Ning is afraid of the strength of the Lu family, I am afraid that Liu Yi will be big in the future, and it will not be too early to do it now?" ”

Helan Chou's eyes flashed with deep thought, and he said softly: "If it is Xiang Zhuang dancing the sword, there are other plans." ”

"Huh? What does Mr. Helan mean? ”

"The prince might as well imagine that if the eldest prince Xue just captured the murderer, found the secret letter on his body, and didn't find the dead man brand, what would be the result?"

Liu Tan was stunned for a moment, but soon thought about it, and his face changed.

"In that case, the Xue family and the Lu family will face each other," he said in a deep voice, "someone can sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight." ”

Helan sighed lightly and said, "King Ning is calculating. It's a pity that the success fell short, and there was such a variable as a female operator, Xue Dagongzi had the help of nobles, and he inadvertently broke this situation, if he hadn't killed the murderer, I'm afraid it would be another situation now. ”

Liu Tan also nodded a little happily, although he felt a little wrong in his heart, he couldn't say it for a while, so he left it behind, in short. The current situation is what he likes to see.

"And according to the words of the gentleman. Since King Ning and Liu Yi were involved, and the case was handed over to Lord Guo, my grandfather didn't remind me, so I didn't need to act. Let's wait and see what happens. ”

Helan smiled sadly. Then he asked: "The prince has seen a female operator." Did you mention the future princess to her? ”

"Hmm." Liu Tan's expression turned pale, obviously not interested in saying more about it.

Helan stopped inquiring with interest.

"At the end of the month, the palace will be completed, and the secretary will choose a good day. The housewarming of the fifteenth of next month, the list of banquet guests is being drawn up, and it will be sent to Mr. tomorrow to look at it, or if there is something inappropriate, it will be changed again. ”

Helan should be worried, after the Shuangyang meeting in March, he officially became Liu Tan's guest of the curtain, lived in the inner courtyard of the annex, and gradually won Liu Tan's attention and trust with his erudition and good argumentation, as if he was already a confidant.

***

After Liu Tan left, Yu Shu and Xue Rui went out.

"King Jing's move is interesting, I want to see the woman before the wedding, and find us to accompany you, this is not a private meeting, right?"

Xue Rui smiled, he was clear about Liu Tan's thoughts, and he didn't say it because he didn't want Yu Shu to add trouble.

Xue Rui followed Yu Shu to the south of the city, and did not go home directly, but went to He Fangzhi's medical hall first.

Xue Rui's knife wound was not shallow, although it was stitched up in Pei County, and the good Jin Chuang was applied, Yu Shu was not at ease, and felt that it was best to let He Fangzhi take a look at it in person.

She didn't think much about it, the Xue family was so powerful, and it was just a matter of one sentence to ask a doctor to come to the doctor.

There is a signboard hanging outside the medical hall, and people come and go during the day, and there are three men in the front hall who grab medicine, and there is a slightly smaller one, standing on tiptoe behind the counter, holding a copper scale to measure medicine.

When Xue Rui saw the child, he turned his head and asked Yu Shu, "Why is Xiao Xiu here?" ”

Yu Shu was also strange, today was not Mu Xiu, it was early in the morning, Yu Xiaoxiu didn't go to school, why did he run here.

"Minor repairs."

Yu Xiaoxiu counted the medicinal materials, coldly heard Yu Shu's voice, looked up, and saw Xue Rui who was traveling with him, grinning:

"Sister, Brother Xue, why are you here?"

Yu Shu stretched out his hand and knocked on the door of his head, and said with a tiger face: "I want to ask you, if you don't come here without going to the school, are you skipping school?" ”

She allowed him to follow He Fangzhi to study medicine, but she didn't allow him to delay his studies.

"What's the matter, Master Chen, who taught today, is sick, and the academician saw that it was hot, so he allowed us to go home," Yu Xiaoxiu hurriedly denied it, afraid that Yu Shu would not believe it, so he pointed to the little fat man who was squatting on the wall not far away:

"Oh, Hu Tian'er came with me, you ask him."

Yu Shu hadn't seen the little son of the Hu family for a while, and when I looked at it today, this kid had gained more than two laps, and he almost didn't recognize it.

"Hu Tian'er?"

Hearing Yu Shu's scream, Hu Tian'er turned his face, saw someone, scratched his head, and turned over to say hello.

"Sister Yu, Big Brother Xue."

Xue Rui touched his head, Hu Tian'er was Guo Huai'an's grandson, and he was naturally familiar with him.

Listening to Yu Xiaoxiu, He Fangzhi was helping people in the back hall at this moment, and she couldn't turn her hand away for a while, so Xue Rui and Yu Shu were waiting outside.

Yu Xiaoxiu was no longer busy, moved chairs for the two of them, and sat on the corner of the counter to talk.

"Brother Xue, what's wrong with your hand?" Yu Xiaoxiu soon found that Xue Rui's left hand was inconvenient.

"Your eldest brother Xue fought with a murderer, and was slashed by someone, and his arm was almost cut off." Yu Shu was alarmist.

Facing the frightened eyes of the two teenagers, Xue Rui glanced at Yu Shu helplessly, and said to Yu Xiaoxiu:

"It's just a cut, your sister is scaring you."

"I'll be honest, I've become a scaremer." Yu Shu pulled Yu Xiaoxiu, "You have been learning from your godfather for these days, I hope to ask if you have met, and give you Brother Xue a pulse." ”

Yu Xiaoxiu didn't move, and said dryly: "Sister, I just learned to distinguish medicine, and I haven't recognized all the acupuncture points, and I can't read the pulse." ”

Yu Shu pinched his face and scolded with a smile: "It's really useless." ”

Yu Xiaoxiu said twice, not angry.

Xue Rui looked at the pair of sisters and brothers, and had doubts.

He Fangzhi freed his hand. went outside to greet him, and after hearing Yu Shu talk about Xue Rui's injury, he invited him to a quiet place in the back hall and examined him.

"Fortunately, the wound was cleaned, there was no inflammation, the wound was sewn in time, it didn't hurt the muscles and bones, it was fine, and it was carefully raised for two months. It's good if the flesh grows. ”

What He Fangzhi said was something that Yu Shu could understand. He asked Xue Rui what decoction he had eaten in the past two days, Yu Shu said the prescription, he corrected a few medicinal herbs, and Yu Xiaoxiu took a pen and paper and wrote it down beside him.

After the end, he told Xue Rui a few daily taboos. Tonics

Xue Rui and Yu Shu came out of the infirmary. Xue Ruicai asked her:

"How did Xiao Xiu learn medicine?"

Yu Shu said: "He likes it." Just let him learn. ”

"He is still young, and he has to study and study. If I learn from you again, will it be too tiring. Xue Rui knew that Yu Shu sent Yu Xiaoxiu to Baichuan Academy to learn some basic truths, and he must have intended to let him inherit the same lineage in the future.

Yu Shu spread his hands: "So if he wants to study medicine, I don't have to teach him Yi Shu, which is also his own choice." ”

Hearing this, Xue Rui was surprised. Listening to Yu Shu say it so easily, it seems that this is just an ordinary trivial matter, but in fact, how can the inheritance of Master Yi be a trivial matter.

Especially Yu Shu is a young unmarried woman, there are no offspring, and now he has a younger brother who does not teach him personally, but connives, which is simply an incredible thing in the eyes of outsiders.

What's more important is that with such a sister as Yu Shu, Yu Xiaoxiu is really more promising than studying medicine.

Xue Rui hesitated and said: "Xiao Xiu is still young, maybe he was reluctant, didn't you persuade him?" ”

Yu Shu walked beside him with his hands behind his back, turned his head to look at him:

"Is twelve years old still young, let me calculate, when the second son of the Zhu family ran away from home, he was only fourteen or fifteen years old, his father is the biggest mention point today, the world is the first to change, as an only son, didn't Zhu Qingjue study medicine?"

Speaking of which, Zhu Qingjue found her for help that day, and part of the reason why she agreed to help was because she saw the similarities with Yu Xiaoxiu in Zhu Qingjue, so she would be soft-hearted.

"I know what you think of Brother Lu Dao, I am capable of what people can't, this ability was originally meant to be passed on to Xiao Xiu, but he has other ambitions, I don't want to force him, make him unhappy, he is my Yu Shu's younger brother, I am happy to see him have a future, but he is doing nothing all his life, he is still my younger brother."

At this point, she has to admit that she appreciates the personality of Da Ti, which can be seen from the fact that Zhu Qingjue can be his second son of Zhu smoothly, instead of being expelled from the house by his Lao Tzu like Xin Lao Wu, and suffocating in a fan shop.

After listening to her words, Xue Rui couldn't help but stop and looked at her deeply: "Ah Shu, you always understand better than others think." ”

At this moment, he was very envious of Yu Xiaoxiu.

Blood kinship, as it should be.

"Are you complimenting me?" Yu Shu raised an eyebrow at him.

"It's the truth."

"Ha Luha, I love to hear the truth."

Xue Rui laughed at her sideways: "Is it because you love to lie?" ”

Yu Shu choked.

The two of them walked down the street, keeping a distance of two feet between them, not too close or far, just enough to hear each other clearly.

followed their eyeliner during the day, and from this angle, it was impossible to see any intimacy between the two.

When I went back to report it, I would only say that today the female operator and Xue Dagongzi went to the medical hall for consultation.

***

Si Tianjian

Outside the Taixi Building, it is as quiet as ever.

Jingchen was summoned, and after listening to the words of the person on the seat, his calm face showed wrinkles.

Zhu Muzhao looked at him and said kindly:

"Don't worry too much, I originally wanted a young master with no family background to take on this position, just there is such a suitable candidate as Yu Operator, and you are the acting right commander, in the future, you will be in the same bureau as the boss and subordinate, look up and don't look down, it's better than if you can't find a chance to get close to her."

Jingchen was silent for a while, and nodded slowly, but there was no joy on his face.

Zhu Muzhao knew that he had a low temperament, and he didn't care, so he smiled:

"When I have drawn up a letter of appointment and issued a downward order, you will go and inform me." (To be continued......)