Chapter 66: Speak up
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No matter how many people in the Shinkoku Mansion stay up all night, life still has to pass.
Since Gu Qing and Li Ming explained the truth of the facts, although Li Ming was sad and often distracted, he did not distance himself from Li Rui as Gu Qing worried. It's just that Li Ming occasionally looks at Li Rui with that kind of "brother, I'm sorry for you, my whole family is sorry for you", which made Li Rui extremely uncomfortable.
Li Jun has injuries on his back, but he doesn't want to trouble the adults in the house, so he has to grin his teeth every night to fall asleep. Fortunately, he was young, and the wound healed quickly, and it didn't take long for the scab to finally scab, but there were a few marks on his back that looked like a woman's fingernails had scratched.
Li Jun didn't care about this, it was really normal for her husband to have a few scars on his body, and it was really not worth it. He didn't even frown, but Li Lao Wu didn't feel good, this scar looked too ambiguous.
…… He was afraid that Li Jun's daughter-in-law would misunderstand in the future.
Li Lao Wu mentioned it a few times, and also persuaded Young Master Sun to find some ointment to remove scars, but Li Jun didn't understand what he would misunderstand after a long time.
Li Lao Wu is an old man, he is embarrassed to talk about these boudoir things with this child who has seen him since he was a child, and when he saw that Li Jun's affairs about women were really "seven tricks through six tricks", he didn't bother to mention it again.
In the Splendid Courtyard, the Fang family had nightmares every night, and they could only sleep peacefully during the day. Li Ming listened to his grandmother's words and went to persuade his mother to take medicine, but after going a few times, his mother was resting, and he told him not to disturb him if he had nothing to do, so he could only return with regret.
Somehow, he didn't see his mother, but he felt a little relieved. He hasn't figured out how to face his mother, and now he doesn't have to face it, it's just a relief for him.
It's just that Li Ming is still very much looking forward to the child in his mother's womb. There are few people in the family, and he and his brother often envy other people's younger brothers and sisters for pulling out a large row, but their own family can't even finish the gold bills for the New Year.
If the mother gave birth to this child, the father would be happy. Maybe......
Li Ming thought without much hope.
In the temple of Zhiyun.
Li Rui told Gu Qing that the goddess and Mama Liu were dead, but he didn't want to say more details, for fear of scaring his grandmother, so he only mentioned it slightly, and did not elaborate on the deaths of the two people.
Yesterday, he listened to his uncle's words, and as soon as he returned home, he went to the torture room first.
He held back the fear in his heart and carefully examined the corpse, and found that the goddess was indeed strangled to death by Mama Liu, because Mama Liu had dander in her nails, and there were traces of nails and fingers on Liu Nu's neck.
But Mama Liu's expression is indeed very abnormal. The expression was terrifying, not like the resolute look of a person who had died in a wall, but as if he had discovered something terrible.
To put it simply, it is "living like a ghost".
Gu Qing was naturally surprised by this.
The two people who are good are gone, and they are still the goddesses who strangled Mama Liu, how suspicious they are.
She wanted to tie up the person, and she also asked her to lock it up and wait for Li Mao to come back and deal with it, she really couldn't imagine that anyone could guess what she was going to do, and arrange for this Mama Liu to enter the torture room to kill people and kill people.
Moreover, what mouth is extinguished? Isn't this an attempt to cover up?
This set looks a lot like a plot that often appears in suspense novels. And what she is most impatient to read in modern times is all kinds of suspense novels, and the most complicated one she has read is the level of Detective Conan.
Gu Qing felt that his brain was not very bright about reasoning, and he didn't want to bother thinking about anything, so he directly asked Li Rui what his uncle's family said.
Li Rui told Gu Qing about Zhang Ning's analysis, and raised the question in his heart by the way.
"Grandma, do you have any enemies in our family?" Li Rui asked Gu Qing with a glimmer of hope, if he knew the most about his grandfather and father's past, it must be his grandmother.
'How do I know the way!' Gu Qing's heart was dripping blood. 'I'm not the genuine Mrs. Qiu! ’
Gu Qing looked through the old lady's memories hard, but was taken aback. She found that if she really wanted to say that she had a grudge with the Shinkoku Mansion, she didn't have too many ......
"Your grandfather killed countless Hu generals, and also killed soldiers who disobeyed military orders, at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, he led troops to suppress the brother of the former emperor, the rebellion of the king of Jingjiang......" Gu Qing recalled vigorously.
"Your father used the 'desperate plan' back then, and threw a lot of corpses into the city, and those corpses were all people who died of the plague, and in addition to the Hu people who resisted in the city, there were also many people who got the plague, and there was no cure for Lu later......
“…… And your mother. When I was in charge of the military Chinese, I once exposed several generals who embezzled military salaries and took empty heads, and I heard that these generals also ended up miserable......"
The more Gu Qing spoke, the more he lost his temper. What the hell is this family doing! Didn't the old man lead his troops to war? Isn't Li Meng a military advisor? Why did this Zhang Jing disguise himself as a woman and worked as a clerical officer beside the emperor before!
If you count it like this, it seems that his family has made enemies everywhere (⊙o⊙) Wow!
She felt like she didn't have enough brains.
This family seems to have all the male protagonists and various routines that are often found in romance novels. No matter how you look at it, I think that Mrs. Qiu is the most ordinary and normal person in the family.
At least not a feud.
Li Rui also had a headache when he heard it.
"Ah, that's really ......," Li Rui shook his head. Grandma, isn't there anything particularly memorable? Is there anyone who hates the kind of person who wants our whole house to be left without chickens and dogs? ”
"How dare you say it. As I just said, no matter which one it is, I want our whole house to have a hard time. Gu Qing felt that her eyes were about to fall. Don't leave the chickens and dogs, it's scary!
"I went back and thought about it. If you think of something, I'll tell you again. "When you get bored in bed, look through the old lady's memory.
For a while, she thought, where did she think of it, and it was not imported originally.
Li Rui had no choice but to nod helplessly. Fortunately, it is winter, and the corpses in the torture chamber can still be put on display. He wanted to find someone to do the autopsy, but this matter was too troublesome, and the Fang family was a Dali temple, so it was difficult for them not to know the way of the autopsy.
He and his uncle also wanted to carefully explore the line behind Mama Liu.
"Otherwise, I'll go into the palace to find the queen again?" Gu Qing said without any psychological burden. "Let the Holy One find a way for you?"
Anyway, things have already come to this point, otherwise it is better to find foreign help.
Gu Qing completely regarded the queen and the emperor as characters like mission NPCs. Once the mission gets stuck, I want to try to see if I can make the plot continue.
It's just that I don't know what kind of expressions the emperor and empress of Lu Dao will have if they want to know that Lu Dao Gu Qing treats them as "outsiders" in this way.
"Grandma has entered the palace several times, I'm afraid there is something wrong." I just went to the first year of junior high school, and now I go again. If you have a heart, you will be even more likely to use this as an article.
"This matter is inevitably troublesome to my uncle. It's a pity that the two gentlemen won't come back until fifteen years later, otherwise there would be someone to discuss. "Li Rui still trusts the two masters very much, if the two gentlemen are here, they should give some better advice.
"Yes, Mama Hua went to the suburbs of Beijing to recuperate, and I am very worried......" Gu Qing really wanted to shake hands with Li Rui. She really understands Li Rui's mood too well.
Ever since she lost Mama Hua, she felt like she couldn't even walk.
Especially from the day she began to announce that she wanted to be a housekeeper, the housekeepers and the supervisors of each room who began to enter and exit Zhiyun Courtyard in a steady stream reported every day how much money they would add to this month, how much more expenses, and so on......
She wanted to die.
This tasteless year passed on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, and the hail finally came.
On the day of the hail, the black clouds that had been cloudy in the capital for seven or eight days finally dispersed, and there was even some sunshine, and the temperature suddenly warmed up.
The people are worshipping one after another, and they all say that the king of the stove is back to the mortal world today, and there are heavenly soldiers who open the way, and the evil is dispersed.
In any case, it is always a good thing that the black clouds that have been gloomy for many days no longer weigh on the sky in the capital.
On the morning of the fourth day of the new year, Li Rui took Li Ming to sacrifice on the stove and re-paste the statue of the god of the stove.
From today onwards, the family will no longer be able to feast to their heart's content.
Well, when it comes to feasting and drinking, the Xinguo Mansion has had the most "modest" year this year. In previous years, even if it was filial piety, there was no such thing as the master was not at home, the lady could not raise the fetus, and the old lady was unwell.
At this time, Gu Qing was in the front hall of Zhiyun Courtyard listening to the housekeeper's lady report on her daily routine.
It's about to change spring clothes, the lady seems to say how much cloth to use, how much to cut, how many needlework girls are sick in the sewing room, and a few needlework girls are in, and she is dizzy when she listens.
Gu Qing couldn't help but do a fierce ideological struggle in his heart, did he say that he was uncomfortable, or was it better to be in a hurry for a while?
Just when she was already fidgeting, it suddenly became dark outside.
There was still daylight, but suddenly it was dark. The fierce wind blew from nowhere, and the windows rattled.
The people outside were also frightened, running around and shouting, "It's going to rain!" It's going to rain! Then he began to check the windows in various places in the temple, and there were sounds of commanding the doors and windows to close and close.
Gu Qing shouted "not good" in his heart.
She was informed that the Qin Heavenly Supervisor had predicted the news of a possible hailstorm in Beijing. At this time, she was not busy talking about these needles and threads, she hurriedly asked the lady in charge to go out of the house first to give orders, and let all the subordinates and girls hurry up to a place with a roof, close the doors and windows, and especially not stand under the tree.
Hail is usually accompanied by thunder and lightning, and it is not fun to kill people.
In the Qin Heavenly Prison.
Zhang Xuan looked at the sudden change in the weather, pulled up his legs and walked out.
Several officials of the Qin Heavenly Prison, who were also Lingtailang with him, saw his galloping back and began to talk sourly.
"See, it's really hailing." A Lingtailang, who was about thirty years old, said, "Zhang Xuan can rest assured now." ”
"What do you mean by that?"
"He had predicted an earthquake, and many people said it was a coincidence. Later, it was speculated that the heavy snow in the north was dismissed as nonsense, but within a few days, some students made trouble and revealed that the heavy snow disaster in Tongzhou and Fenzhou was concealed. This Zhang Xuan is really favored by God, and people have to be convinced. ”
Later, he predicted that there would be hail in Beijing, and the entire Ministry of Industry was repairing the houses inside and outside the imperial city, and he heard that the people in the outer and inner cities, whether rich or poor, were also strengthening their roofs. With such a big situation, if it hadn't hailed, I'm really afraid he wouldn't have been able to finish it. ”
The Lingtailang said worried words in his mouth, but his tone didn't look like he was worried.
Instead, it was as if he was waiting for Zhang Xuan to "not be able to close".
Another Lingtailang continued: "Yes, this morning, the sky is fine, I see that he is constantly observing the celestial phenomena, thinking that he must be uncomfortable in his heart, there will be no hail on this sunny day, his prediction is not accurate, and his reputation will be damaged......"
"I said that you all kept staring at Zhang Xuan. As for it? "There was a Lingtai Lang who had just arrived, and he didn't know the name of Zhang Xuan, so he couldn't help shaking his head and sighing.
"You don't understand, this hailstorm came in such a timely manner, and this hailstorm wants to achieve Zhang's reputation as a 'Heavenly Master'. He just observes the stars and astronomy day and night, and he pities us sesame officials, who do more things than him every day......"
"If you don't want to be a parter, I can go to the Ministry of Officials and let you return to your hometown." Outside the photo booth of Qin Tianjian, a majestic male voice suddenly came.
When these Lingtailang, who were gossiping, heard the voice of the supervisor, they were so frightened that they immediately silenced them, and they didn't dare to say anything more.
"As officials of the Qin Heavenly Prison, you should be diligent in your duties when observing the heavens, calculating the solar terms, and formulating the calendar. If I look forward to a disaster for the sake of fame, I, the Qin Heavenly Prison, cannot tolerate such a subordinate official. ”
Zhang Xuan predicted hailstorms, so that the damage of disasters inside and outside the capital can be minimized, even if it is useless, it is also beneficial to the community. You don't want to help, but you are sneering, which is really cold! ”
The reprimand of the superintendent was already very heavy. The officials of Qin Tianjian are no different from others, and they cannot be transferred to other officials, once they are not in Qin Tianjian, other officials cannot be officials, so they can only return to their hometowns to be a feng shui gentleman.
The Lingtailang who was the first to talk lowered his head in shame, and the other Lingtailang didn't dare to come out.
"What about Zhang Xuan?" The supervisor of Qin Tianjian came to this subordinate official's house to consult with Zhang Xuan about the hail. At this time, if there is really a hailstorm, I am afraid that the emperor will announce that they are playing correctly.
"As soon as it gets dark, Zhang Xuan goes out."
"What? Do you know that the road is going to hail, and he wants to go out alone? The prison watched, looking at the windy weather outside, and his face turned pale.
If the hail falls too big, it will smash a hole in a person's head. What is Zhang Xuan's reason for going out this time?
"He has been going out a lot these days, wandering around the inner and outer cities, he has hands and feet, do we still ......have to stop him?"
His voice grew smaller and quieter in the prison's increasingly stern eyes.
That's what it is! Since the last time Zhang Xuan folded up, the prison has been biased towards him!
The prisoner was just about to reprimand a few more words, when suddenly he heard a muffled thunder, as if the heavens and the earth had exploded, and everyone in the room stood up.
The wind and thunder tore through the clouds, and in an instant, countless hailstones fell from the sky. The small ones are the size of copper coins, but the big ones are the size of eggs. By the time the prisoner had been running from the house to the bottom of the porch, the ground was already completely white, almost as if it was snowing.
"Prison, prison! Someone is in the palace! Your Majesty announced that you and Zhang Xuanzichen Hall are discussing politics! A petty official rushed out from the other side of the corridor, holding an umbrella and hat in his hand, and rushed over.
Qin Tianjian is in the palace city, and it is not far to go to Zichen Palace. It's just that this weather passes through half of Miyagi......
Prison Yuan Lang took an umbrella and a hat, and for the first time, he felt that being an official of the Qin Heavenly Prison would be so dangerous. Zhang Xuan was not there, so he had to enter the palace in person, and Chen Ming was at stake.
Yuan Lang put on a hat, raised an umbrella, and walked along the corridor to the outside of Qintian Prison step by step in the sympathetic eyes of a group of Lingtai Lang.
At the same time, Zhang Xuan, who was running along the eaves towards Jingzhao Mansion, stretched out his hand to cover his forehead.
A piece of hailstone had just been carried by the wind and grazed his forehead, cutting off a piece of his flesh.
But he couldn't stop. Hailstorms are no worse than snowstorms, and people must have a place to take refuge, otherwise they will either die or be injured. The hospital must also be opened during the Chinese New Year, and the collapsed houses must be removed......
He believed that these eunuchs would be made clear to His Majesty the Emperor, but there was one point, by the time the decree was issued, there were often countless casualties.
He is also a Beijing official who has traveled all over the world, and he knows how helpless the people of Lu Dao will be if they encounter a disaster.
Early this morning, the weather suddenly warmed up, and Zhang Xuan knew that something was wrong.
If it hadn't rained or snowed, the cloudy days in winter wouldn't have gone so fast for no reason. But now in the New Year, it is the day to welcome the god of the stove, and he went to the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households to warn, but no one wants to believe it. On the fourth day of the junior high school, there were many yamen who had not yet sat on duty, and there were also many officials among the courtiers who were sacrificing at home, and he was so panicked that he had no way to sit still.
As soon as the wind first came, he pulled out his legs and ran out, wanting to go to Jingzhao Mansion to report the disaster.
He has already thought about it, only the Jingzhao Mansion is not allowed to rest during the New Year's Festival in the capital, there are many servants in the Jingzhao Mansion, and he is responsible for managing the affairs of Gyeonggi, as long as he understands the Yin of the Jingzhao Mansion, a lot of poor people in the capital can be rescued.
He only hoped that it would be a little later under this hail, a little later.
He had to do something.
In the West Market, because the market only opens on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, there are not as many vendors on the street as on weekdays.
However, the fifth day of the new year is the time when the shops welcome the five gods of wealth and "catch up with the five poor", and many shops are busy in the shops on the fourth day of the new year, tidying up housekeeping, preparing incense, etc., so it is impossible to say that there are no people on the whole street.
When the hail came, Wang Dazheng, the owner of the incense and candle shop, was so busy that he couldn't even lift his head.
Other stores can open on the sixth day of the first lunar month, but only their line is open during the New Year's holiday. When he first heard the wind outside, Wang Da thought it was raining. But then many of the guests who swarmed in told him that it was not rain.
If it rains, it won't rain, and people's heads will be bleeding.
"Sure enough, it was hailing!" A guest who had just bought incense candles and horse curtains was shocked and said, "Good fellow, it must be the size of an egg, right?" I don't know what happened to those people in Xicheng......"
"Those sheds in Xicheng, I'm afraid that they will fall a lot, I just hope that no one will die."
"Didn't you put up notices everywhere a year ago? My house was roofed up in those days. Why don't you find some wood to reinforce the roof? Even if the house in Xicheng is broken, there will always be a roof, right? ”
"It's hard to say, look at this strong wind, there is a roof and it has been lifted......"
Wang Da from the incense and candle shop walked to the door and saw that there was already a thick layer of white on the ground. Those are ice slags. There was no one on the street in an instant, and in the West Market, where there were not many people, all the crowds hid under the eaves. There are a few places that are not very good, so I take things to protect my head, and I can't take care of anything else.
Wang Da's incense candle shop is not big, but it is still possible to squeeze in more than a dozen people, Wang Da beckoned pedestrians on both sides to enter his store to take refuge, and hurriedly asked the guys in the store to prepare hot water quickly.
This ice slag sticks to a person's neck, and it can freeze out of illness!
Most of the areas in Xicheng are inhabited by poor households, many of whom are begging for a living in Xishi, and there are also homeless people from other places who hide here.
When the hail came, the first thing to tear down was the roofs of many houses in the West Side. Most of these houses have thatched roofs and then wooden strips. There are also many shacks. The west city is not as good as the east city, there are very few houses built of bricks, stones, tiles and wood, and the most worrying thing for these neighbors is the fire on weekdays, and there are two large vats at the entrance of each neighborhood, which are filled with water to prevent fire.
So when there was a hailstorm, these people just made the roof stronger. But the roof, which is not very stable in the first place, how strong can it be?
Because hail is very uncommon, many families in the capital don't know what this thing looks like. Others optimistically estimate that hail will be a little heavier snow. People who have seen hail are naturally powerful, but the weather in the capital is not much warmer than in the north, and they estimate that the hail will not be too big, but comfort the people around them.
So when a hail the size of an egg falls to the ground due to gravitational acceleration, disaster happens.
Even if it's snow, when the rain falls, it still hurts people's faces, not to mention the hard hail as small as a mung bean and as big as a chicken egg.
For a time, the roofs of countless poor households in Xicheng were smashed out of holes, and some old people who didn't have time to move were directly smashed to the ground.
Obviously it was the New Year, and he was still facing the god of the stove, but the god of the stove did not greet him, and he greeted the hail first. These people who were caught off guard by the hailstorm told them that they should not be able to do it every day, and that the earth was not spiritual, so they could only tremble and put something on top of their heads, and ran out of the house that was about to fall.
The roof was torn off, hail smashed the house, and a violent storm ensued. The rain and snow in the cold winter will expose the bullying bodies of people outside the house. Their clothes were soaked, and they could only shiver in the cold wind, looking for shelter from the houses that were still alive in the hailstorm.
The lightning and thunder in the sky, the rain and snow, and the natural disasters caused by hail** are still continuing......
A father rushed out of his house that was about to collapse with his daughter in his arms and her leg injured by a hailstone. He was just secretly glad that when he turned around and looked back, his wife didn't run out.
The man's eyes widened, and he put his daughter under the eaves of the neighbor's house, and turned back to dig by the side of the collapsed house.
All around, there was a lot of chaos, countless houses collapsed, and everywhere there were shouts and the sound of houses being shaken by the wind. Many people were injured by the hailstones, and many shouted for help.
However, even in this noisy environment, the man could still hear the frightened screams of his wife in the collapsed room. He dug and cursed God. The girl lay on the ground weakly, praying that her mother was okay and that her father would be able to save her mother safely.
The man's head and face were smashed by countless hailstones the size of mung beans, and he only felt that his face was full of holes and he had lost consciousness, but he could only keep his head down and continue digging, his house was broken, and no one could die again.
Suddenly, there was a loud bang behind him, followed by a whimper that his daughter didn't scream. The man turned back in disbelief, and the neighbor's beams collapsed.
In front is his wife who was crushed under the beam of his house, and in the back is his daughter who was hit by a beam with a leg injury, and the man howls and cries to the sky.
"Thief God! Why don't you bury me with me! ”