Chapter 63: Black Clouds Crush the City
I'm sorry, I'm late to come back, and I didn't start coding until 8 o'clock. Fortunately, I finished this chapter.
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There were many forks in the land.
Zhao Qian learned a swordsmanship called "Yue Nu Sword", not the martial arts of the Yuezhang family. If Li Rui really learns it, people who know swords will see it in the future, and they are afraid that they will laugh at his nephew to death.
Li Rui came to Zhang's Mansion for the New Year, and his cousins, cousins and others naturally came out to meet each other.
The eldest cousin Zhang Yuan and Lu later settled on a family, and it was the son of the patriarch of the Wu Zhongjiang clan. The patriarch of the Jiang family did not come out, and the sister-in-law set by his cousin was not the eldest son in the family. The future cousin-in-law's family, although noble, was not prominent. It's just that the in-laws of this patriarch are the Jin State Mansion, and this marriage, the uncle's family has a relationship with the two sides of the State Mansion.
Because my cousin was already engaged, I went back to the backyard after a little meeting, but a few cousins rushed up, pulling his arm and pulling his arm, pulling his leg and pulling his leg, insisting that he play with them.
He is used to taking his younger brother at home, but his younger brother Li Ming is not so immature. Especially the little cousin who is only three years old, he is chubby, and he bites his fingers when he speaks, which is the most cute.
He liked the little cousin, and threw him into the air a few times, which made him scream and laugh, "brother, brother" kept calling, and the last thing was that his aunt said that her heart couldn't stand it, and Li Rui was embarrassed to put him down.
The other children waited for a long time, thinking that they would also be thrown into the sky by this tall cousin, but their mothers turned cold and showed their awareness of staying away from this dangerous sport.
It made Li Rui a little embarrassed.
Zhang Ning knew that Li Rui was under too much pressure for a while, he was young, and he thought a lot all day long, for fear that it would be a loss to his mind, so he deliberately let a few children surround Li Rui and sell him well, so that he could relax and relax.
Now that things have happened, it is useless to say more, it is important to find a solution, but it is more important to let yourself have a normal heart, so that you will not be led away by others and mess up.
It is said that Li Rui came to his uncle's house with fear and anger, originally wanting to discuss with his uncle about the suicide of the goddess and Mama Liu, but Zhang Ning smiled and said that he was not panicking, he rarely came to Zhang's house, and it was better to have more contact with his younger brothers and sisters.
So as soon as several younger brothers and sisters surrounded him, he couldn't say those words.
My aunt didn't know what was happening in the Xinguo Mansion in Lu Dao, and when she saw Li Rui stunned for a moment, she didn't insist, thinking that there was nothing serious. Zhang Ning thought that his nephew was here to tell him how to deal with the Fang clan after Old Taijun Qiu entered the palace early in the morning, but the matter had already been settled, and he could only point out on the side, and he had no intention of going deeper.
Li Rui had lunch in Zhang's mansion and played with his younger brothers and sisters all afternoon, and he forgot what he was here for, so his uncle called him to the study.
Because he had already distracted himself during the day, Li Rui was relatively calm when he talked about it. When Zhang Ning heard that it was not something that happened after Mrs. Qiu returned to the house, in fact, when Li Rui went out, Mrs. Qiu had not yet returned from the palace, and his nephew said something else, so he couldn't help but be a little surprised.
He listened to his nephew talk about the things in the torture room, and gradually fell into deep thought. His thoughts are similar to those of his nephew, but he has some doubts and confusion.
Zhang Ning stroked his beard, feeling a little happy in his heart.
This kid has finally come through the experience.
"According to your words, do you think Mama Liu is a pawn of the person behind the scenes?" Zhang Ning gently knocked on the desktop of the desk, "If Mama Liu really has a bad heart and has always been by your aunt's side, then your aunt's madness will be in the past." Ren is that she has a good heart, and she can't stand being teased day and night. Why bother that your aunt is not a wise and decisive person. ”
Zhang Ning thought for a while, and then said: "If Mama Liu is a chess player, I'm afraid that there are more people with problems in your house." What did the rope that tied up loosen for a good? Did the person who tied it deliberately not tie it up, or did the person in the torture chamber secretly loosen it? Mama Liu has been hiding for so many years, since the goddess has already recruited everything, why do you want to strangle her to death? ”
"There are too many mysteries to explain. And your aunt was locked up by your grandmother, and she was full of resentment towards you, and she would definitely not tell the origin of Mama Liu. This Mama Liu has been in your house for so many years, but you don't think she has the slightest inappropriateness, it can be said that she is extremely cautious, such a good chess piece, it is really unbelievable to make trouble at this time. ”
"Mama Liu also has a nephew, which should be reserved for my younger brother, but I don't know why Lu Dao came to my side two years ago. I overheard their conversation, and I didn't like the boy and hung it there without reusing it. Li Rui thought for a while, "They probably don't know that I already know that the child is her nephew." ”
"But whoever is a spy of the dead will not send those he cares about to death." Zhang Ning shook his head, "This matter has become even stranger. No matter how many people in the Shinguo Mansion stayed awake all night before the goddess died, life still had 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 will also need to be removed......
He believed that these supervisors would be made clear to His Majesty the Emperor, but there was one point, and by the time the decree was issued, it was often too late.
He had to do something.
The author has something to say: It's too late to find a typo in this chapter, everyone finds a bug to say, and the author will revise it tomorrow when he updates.
Zhang Xuan appeared!