Chapter 171: Let's Make a Statement
It is said that it is all burdened by reputation, in order to avoid suspicion, the young lady of the Xia Jiang family in the south is in the capital to learn Yi, and there are only two guards and a maid by her side, and if something happens, she can't even find someone who is in charge of the idea.
After the female maid did the autopsy, Xia Jiangying was sent to Yizhuang, Xia Mingming rarely showed his assertive side, arranged for the guards to accompany him, and personally went to the nearby post house to repair the book and go home, the matter was done, and then returned to the women's hall with the maid, sorted out Xia Jiangying's relics before his death, and handed over the trial of the case to Dali Temple.
At this juncture, of course Yu Shu will not leave Xia Mingming alone, she will accompany her from beginning to end, and she is obliged to help if there is anything she can do.
Xia Mingming was sad, and did not have any doubts about Xia Jiangying's death, Yu Shu was suspicious of Xia Jiangying's death on a rainy day in her dream, but the reality did not rain, she was very suspicious, Xia Jiangying escaped the death predicted in Xia Mingming's dream, and happened to enter another dead end.
Yu Shu did not mention these suspicions in front of Xia Mingming, but just reminded Xue Rui a little, leaving them to Dali Temple to have a headache.
As soon as Xia Jiangying died, Xia Mingming no longer had the need to live in the Fengyuan Inn, and arranged for the maid and the guards to live in the Chengbei Inn, so that they could inquire about the progress of the case at any time. In the evening, he hired a carriage with some of Xia Jiangying's relics, and returned to his residence on Huixing Street with Yu Shu.
Yu Xiaoxiu saw Xia Mingming, who had been gone for less than two days, and realized that the atmosphere was wrong, so he didn't make a joke, but helped Yu Shu carry her luggage to the house, and under Yu Shu's instructions, he went to clean up Xia Mingming's room.
After making the bed, Yu Shu pushed the depressed Xia Mingming back to the house to lie down, and brought the door to let her be alone.
As soon as the door was closed, I heard a cry in the house. The corners of Yu Shu's mouth pursed into a straight line, and his face darkened.
Jingchen and Yu Xiaoxiu were waiting for her in the courtyard, and as soon as she came out, Yu Xiaoxiu stepped forward, pointed to the door and whispered, "What's wrong with her?" β
Yu Shu beckoned to him and led the two of them to the kitchen door, avoiding Xia Mingming's window, not wanting her to hear.
"Mingming's fourth sister is dead."
"Huh?"
Jingchen was stunned. Yu Xiaoxiu opened his mouth in surprise: "How, how did you die?" It's not that I meanβ"
Yu Shu made a "shhh" gesture at him, interrupted his words, and lowered his voice: "Okay, don't ask too much if it's none of your business, go to the kitchen and start a fire." I'll make dinner later. β
Yu Xiaoxiu scratched his head, looked at Xia Mingming's door sympathetically, and obediently entered the kitchen.
***
Yu Shu returned to the house, took a pen and paper and a book, took it to the hall that had not yet been covered by night, studied the ink with a blank face, and included Xia Jiangying's birth date and the date of his murder in the book, and after doing this, he looked at the booklet that it was specially used to record all kinds of disasters. Xia Jiangying's pale death suddenly appeared in his mind, rubbing his forehead, a little impetuous.
Jingchen walked in silently, lit the oil lamp on the table, it was dark outside, and his vision suddenly brightened, Yu Shu blinked, turned his head and collided with Jingchen's sight. For some reason, seeing the pair of clear and clean eyes that could reflect her figure, the irritable heart suddenly calmed down.
Jingchen sat down on Yu Shu's left hand, and when she saw that she was busy with the things at hand, she poured a cup of tea and dipped it with her fingers, and wrote on the table:
'What are you thinking?' β
Yu Shu looked at the transparent water droplets that slowly spread out on the table, and was slightly distracted. Then he blurted out:
"I wonder if I'm a little ruthless?"
When she heard Xia Mingming's nightmare that day, she didn't think that Xia Jiangying's death had anything to do with her, if it weren't for Xia Mingming, she wouldn't even interfere, but this person was really dead. Seeing Xia Jiangying's death with her own eyes and Xia Mingming's grief, she regretted it because of sympathy.
She would even think that if she hadn't taken this matter casually and hadn't watched from the sidelines, would Xia Jiangying have been able to escape this catastrophe
This kind of afterthought, is it considered a tiger hanging rosary, fake compassion?
Yu Shu pursed the corners of her mouth self-deprecatingly, and saw Jingchen shaking her head at her, denying her ridicule of herself with one action, and refuting her doubts about herself with a line of water:
'You're kind. β
Yu Shu stared at the flashing words on the table that were depicted by the dim light, was silent for a moment, remembered that at that time, this person had said this to her, raised her head, stared at the seriousness of Jing Chen's face that did not eat fireworks, and for a moment felt that this unattainable and secretly mocking word for her in the past had become kind and cute.
"Xie Lu Xie," Yu Shu said softly, putting aside those messy thoughts, sweeping away his sad face, holding his cheek in his hand, and said to Jing Chen:
"After you say this, I found that I am really kind, you see, you and Mingming's lives are considered to be saved by me, I took care of the two of you along the way, contributed money and efforts, got up early and went out to make money greedily, so that you could be fed and clothed, is it good for you to have nothing to say?"
Although he heard someone praise himself like this, Jing Chen still nodded and agreed with her statement.
He doesn't remember the people and things before the amnesia, if he only says that after the amnesia, she is undoubtedly the best person for him.
Yu Shu saw that he was in the trap, and his face did not show anything, "Then you say, I am so good to you, should you find a way to repay me in the future?" β
Jingchen nodded without hesitation.
Yu Shu secretly laughed at him for being so confused, while quickly getting up, went back to the house to get a clean piece of rattan paper, put it in front of him, handed him the brush, and commanded proudly:
"Now, I said you write."
Jingchen took the pen from her hand, dipped it in ink, and waited for her to speak.
Yu Shu scratched his chin and thought for a while before saying: "You just write-I, the person of Jingchen Dao of Longhu Mountain, was saved by Yiyang Yu Shu, and my life was saved. β
Halfway through Jingchen's writing, he stopped, looked up at Yu Shu, didn't he say that he wanted him to repay him, why did he write like this?
Yu Shu was a little uncomfortable by him, and she couldn't tell him honestly, she was afraid that he would remember it later, because of that Laoshizi Duxing, and she would say something "don't say goodbye" to her, and then walked away, and she didn't get along with her until she died.
Then she took care of him for so long. Isn't it a chicken hatching duck eggs, busy in vain?
"Look at what you see, write if you want to write, write quickly." Yu Shuhu banged on the table with his face and bluffed.
Jingchen nodded, although he didn't understand what she meant, but he still wrote it down as she said.
"Well, one more sentence - it is contrary to that. In the next life, let me be a leper dog. Yu Shu was a little proud, this "poisonous oath" was still learned by her from Qing Zheng Daoren, vicious and humane, much more tasteful than the heart-losing spells of those dead fathers and dead mothers.
Jing Chen paused, raised his eyes to look at Yu Shu's triumphant face. With one hand clenched into a fist under his lips, he chuckled silently.
Yu Shu was suddenly happy when she saw him, and wondered for a moment, then realized that she had scolded herself for being a leper dog just now, her face turned black, and she slapped the table angrily:
"What are you laughing at, write quickly, write that you are a leper dog. Not me. β
was deliberately scolded by her, Jingchen didn't care about her, held back his laughter, and put pen to paper to complete this sentence, which would not be violated, so why not swear an oath.
Yu Shu saw that he had finished writing, so he took the note away and looked at it. Finding that there was nothing wrong with the exception of one place where "she" was written as "he", he nodded in satisfaction, dried the ink, carefully folded it twice, and went into the room, where he put it at the bottom of the cabinet. In a cloth bag with her ancient sword covered in green rust.
Jing Chen clasped his hands, sat in the hall, calmly watched Yu Shu's actions in the door, with a light smile on his face and a little connivance in his eyes.
At this time, he didn't know. What exactly did you set up?
***
Xia Mingming has not yet recovered from the blow of losing her sister, she is depressed, leaving her at home, Yu Xiaoxiu will not coax people, Jingchen has nothing to say to her, if she is emotional, she can't find someone to talk to.
Yu Shu didn't worry about her, she didn't go to Qiu Kwai Fang to go to the stall in the past two days, went to the street early to buy vegetables, cooked a good meal for a few people at noon, and tried to coax Xia Mingming to eat a few more bites.
There was no movement from Dali Temple, probably because there was no progress in the case, and no one mentioned that Xia Mingming had gone to the hall for interrogation, Yu Shu took advantage of his leisure at home to make up for Yu Xiaoxiu's homework for two days, and jumped directly from simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division to an equation containing unknowns.
Yu Xiaoxiu didn't know that this was the knowledge of five hundred years later, Yu Shu taught what he learned, gave full play to his advantages of diligence and hard work, and was too harsh on Yu Shu, without complaining.
During this period, there was another thing that gave Yu Shu a headache -
"Brother Jing, how to write the word 'tank' on the water tank, you write one for me to see."
Yu Shu put a few good arithmetic problems in Yu Xiaoxiu's hand, put down the pen, walked to the window, looked at the courtyard, and was sitting opposite Jingchen, holding a pen and paper to ask him for advice.
Zhou Fangfang, the niece of Aunt Xu, went to live on Huixing Street yesterday, Yu Shu went out to buy vegetables yesterday and came back to see her, the little girl squeezed into the door with the back of her buttocks, and she didn't recognize her at all, so she generously asked Jingchen to teach her to write, and let Yu Shuming point out that it was inconvenient, so she just stayed in their house, came yesterday, and came today.
Yu Shu was helpless, and she couldn't force people away, for fear of hurting the neighbors' harmony, so she had to let Jingchen deal with her, and then count Zhou Fangfang's eight characters more at night, beware of her being killed by mildew at home.
Jingchen sat in the courtyard as usual to bask in the sun and paint, for the other side of the person, the time of the ink was disturbed, although it was uncomfortable, but because of Yu Shu's explanation, he had to give up the preference of staying alone quietly, and was distracted to instruct the girl to write that week.
"It turns out that the word 'tank' is written like this, I thought this word would look like a water tank, not like it at all, ha, haluha."
As the butcher's daughter, Zhou Fangfang has a very cheerful personality, such laughter and laughter are constant, and it can usually mediate the atmosphere, but in this courtyard, with everyone's mood, it is a little annoying.
finally managed to get up to dinner, Aunt Xu next door came to call someone, Zhou Fangfang reluctantly packed up the paper, took away all the words written by Jingchen, and went home with Aunt Xu for dinner.
As soon as she left, three people inside and outside the courtyard breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, one was tired, two were annoying, only Xia Mingming's house did not make any noise.
Yu Xiaoxiu said to Yu Shu impatiently: "She won't come back in the afternoon, right?" β
Yu Shu patted him on the head: "Bear with me, I heard Aunt Xu say that she will leave the day after tomorrow." β
Yu Xiaoxiu pursed his lips, looked at Jing Chen in the courtyard, and muttered in a low voice, "It's all to blame Brother Jing." β
Yu Shu looked up at the beams and pretended not to hear. (