Chapter 42: Step by step
"Bastard!" Zhang An was so frightened that he got up from the bed with a grunt. Looking at the house that stumbled into the house, "What's wrong?" ”
The family was trembling all over, and he couldn't speak: "Death...... He's dead. ”
"Who died?" Zhang An picked up the collar of the family.
"Wine ...... Wine...... Wine putty ......" Looking at Zhang An's fierce gaze, the family was so frightened that his soul was about to leave his body.
Zhang Anxin said that it was not good, threw the family on the ground, and rushed out.
The wine putty was still tied to the pillar, his head was hanging low, and Zhang An tried his snort with his hand, and he knew that there was no play. Look around the pillar, the family who knelt with him last night is still kneeling aside, trembling. "A bunch of trash!" Zhang An snorted and went back to the house.
The family stabilized his mind, followed into the house, and moved to Zhang An's side, "Master, do you want to invite me over?" ”
"Idiot! Shut your mouth and get out! Zhang An roared. Seeing that Zhang An was angry, the family didn't dare to say more, and ran out with a roll.
"Come back! Untie the wine putty and bring it in! "Can't shout, Zhang An decided to do his own autopsy. He didn't believe that the drunken putty died here so coincidentally.
The dead body of the wine putty was lying on the ground, and Zhang An took scissors to cut open the clothes of the wine putty and looked at it carefully.
About an hour later, Zhang An gave up. He was unable to find anything unusual from the corpse. Zhang An called the family to put the dead body out, closed the door, sat on the stool in a daze, twisted the beard on his chin, and pondered carefully, the wine putty was put into the Xue Mansion in front of everyone, although it was a side door, but it was impossible for someone to see it, and before he could ask anything, the person died, and the death was strange, there was no wound, and there was no sign of poisoning, and he died suddenly in the courtyard, Zhang An really didn't want to admit that this was a coincidence, but the body was examined by himself, and there was indeed no wound and no signs of poisoning. They are talking about the daughter of the family of the Emperor Zhang of the Holy City, as soon as there is a clue, the person died, and if you want to find it, it will be difficult to find it. Zhang An was very bored, he paced back and forth in the room, thinking carefully about yesterday's words of wine putty, trying to find something from it.
"Get up." Zhang An pushed open the door, looked at the kneeling family at the door, and went back to the house with his back hand.
The family members looked at each other, and they didn't know what kind of medicine was sold in Zhang An's gourd, so they helped each other to stand up and entered the house tremblingly.
"Close the door." Seeing that everyone had come in, Zhang An sat on a stool and ordered the door to be closed.
"Master." Qingxing walked to Zhang Wan's side and was slightly blessed.
"It's back. What do you think? Zhang Wan nodded and asked, her face was as calm as she had never been.
"The virtuous concubine has already rested, and Xu is taking care of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince for days and days, and she has hallucinations."
"Hallucinations?" Zhang Wan sneered, "Hallucinations can also be bad. Sister, she is still too compassionate. After speaking, Zhang Wan seemed to realize that her emotions were not suitable, and she changed her expression in the blink of an eye, "Were you seen when you went last night?" ”
"Don't worry, the slave didn't notice that there were others."
"Well, you go and rest. If someone asks about him in the future, you only say that I sound like my sister's voice, so I sent you to check it out, as for why the virtuous concubine suddenly went crazy......"
"The slave only said she didn't know." Qing Xing met Zhang Wan's gaze and took the second half of the sentence.
"Good. Go ahead. Hearing Qingxing's answer, Zhang Wan relaxed slightly. But after thinking about it, the brows that had just been unfolded were twisted together again, and it seemed that it was time to do it. Thinking of this, Zhang Wan got up, closed the door, turned around and walked into the dormitory, and closed the curtain.
"Run! The government has arrested someone! "As soon as the day dawned, the market exploded, and the people fled in all directions. The family of Zhangfu was ordered by Zhang An to come to Renshi and bring all the people's teeth to the yamen.
The common people are not afraid to see the officials, they flee and flee, but they can't stand their feet, although the family members have wasted some effort, but in the end they still caught all the people in the market.
A rope, tied to his hands, tied to a string, and a sack around his head, stumbled towards the yamen.
"Come again!" In the West Garden, next to the pond, Yuchen was practicing his body in the pavilion, and Huachen and Qiutang were playing tricks on the side. Although Qiu Tang is a woman, after all, there are no weak soldiers under the strong generals, and she has been trained by Huachen for so long, and now she can live three or five rounds with Huachen. Qiu Tang took advantage of his softness, slid like an eel, and could always unexpectedly avoid Huachen's attack, go around behind him, and carry out a sneak attack.
"Good!" Huachen stopped, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and smiled, "It's getting better and better." ”
"Uncle Shi is letting Qiu Tang." Qiu Tang panted and said. After playing tricks with Huachen, Qiu Tang felt hearty.
"Qiu Tang, look." Hua Chen raised his hand, only to see two black shadows flying out, and two sparrows on the treetops fell to the ground.
"Good skills!" Boss Gu's voice came from behind him, and Yuchen, Huachen, and Qiutang saluted one after another, "Get up." ”
Yuchen hurriedly wiped the stools in the pavilion and helped Boss Gu to sit down: "Master, why are you here?"
"I'll come to see Begonia." Boss Gu rubbed the walnuts and looked at the three people in front of him, "Qiu Tang, a letter was sent from the Holy City, let me take them to the Holy City in three months, and prepare to congratulate the Queen Mother on her birthday, you sang well, I want to take you with me." Even if it's just to see the world. ”
"Thank you Master for your love." Qiu Tang picked up his clothes and knelt down, "But the master knows that Qiu Tang's life was given by Xu's mother." Qiu Tang has to listen to Xu's mother about this. Qiu Tang really wanted to go, and on the way here, she heard that the people in Lingcheng had been arrested, and she also wanted to find a chance to go out and avoid it. But she also knew that she was not qualified to decide this kind of thing.
"Okay, even so, I'll go tell Mother Xu." Boss Gu smiled and stood up, "You go on." Even if Qiu Tang can't go to the Holy City, I hope you can finish teaching the religion before you leave the Mausoleum City. ”
"Obey the teacher's orders!" Yuchen and Huachen both saluted and watched Boss Gu leave.
"Master Luan, you can count it on." Mother Liu opened the corner door of Caifeng Tower and welcomed Luan Pu'an, the head catcher at the entrance of the yamen.
"Mother Liu." Luan Pu'an smiled and followed Liu's mother into Caifeng Tower from the back door.
"Come, let's see if this girl is okay?" Mother Liu pushed open a small room in the backyard of Caifeng Building, and there was a clean little girl sitting in the cabin.
"Well, it's not in vain that you have waited so long." Looking at the little girl in front of him, Luan Pu'an's heart finally landed, after the girl had an accident before, Xue Bowen was very annoyed for a while.
"The sedan chair is ready, Master Luan, please." Mother Liu picked up the child and led Luan Pu'an to walk out.
"Show me all carefully! Have you ever sold this girl before! Zhang An ordered people to hold up the portrait and show it to the teeth of the people tied to the pillar.
"I didn't ...... No...... This master, there really isn't one...... "A person who was already scared to pee had his teeth trembling.
"Really?" Zhang An's cold voice was like a knife, and the teeth were like sifting chaff.
"Really...... There really isn't ......," shouted the people.
"Hit!" Zhang An saw that he couldn't ask anything, so he ordered his subordinates to be executed.
The whip stained with salt water was whipped on the body, and the blood was seen, and the teeth of the people cried and screamed.
"Stop." After about a cup of tea, Zhang An shouted to stop the family, took the whip in the hand of the family, and walked in front of the people, "Say!" ”
"Leper Monk!" A person's teeth couldn't stand it anymore, and he gritted his teeth and shouted, "The leper monk may have seen it!" ”
"Who is the leper monk?" Zhang An searched for the voice, and picked up his bloody and saliva chin with a whip.
"The leper monk is also a human tooth, he, he only sells good-looking girls."
"Very well, what's your name?"
"Big ...... Vigorously ......"
"Untie it." Zhang An turned around and ordered someone to untie the force from the pillar.
"Dali, come and see, which of them is a leper monk?" Zhang An pointed to the people who were still tied to the pillars one by one.
Raised his head vigorously and with difficulty, looked at the faces, and shook his head slightly: "No ......"
"You kid is playing Laozi!" Zhang An was so angry that he kicked it, and he was kicked away at that time, his head hit the ground, and he lost his breath.
"Miss Qiutang, please get on the sedan chair." Quan Ye looked flattering and opened the sedan curtain.
"Don't dare to work for the right master, in the future, I will do these little things myself." Begonias are blessed.
"What did Miss Qiutang say, your little hand still has to play the piano, I'll do these things. Girl, please get into the sedan chair. Quan Ye smiled.
"Thank you, Master Quan." Qiu Tang said and got into the sedan chair. The little servants carried them to Mingyue Xuan, and Fei'er and Wantong hurriedly followed the sedan chair out of Linglong Pavilion.
"See, learn the song hard, practice hard, you will also have a day in a sedan chair!" Mother Xu took the girls of Linglong Pavilion to watch Qiu Tang's sedan chair and leave.
"Yes." The girls are all blessed.
"Alright, let's go and get ready to go to the piano hall." Mother Xu sent the girls down, sat on the chair alone, pondering Boss Gu's words at noon, Qiu Tang is now the time to turn red and purple, from a silver hairpin at the beginning, to a box of jewelry a day now, the limelight has long overshadowed the peony of Caifeng Tower, let her go to the Holy City at this time, she will lose a lot of silver. But if she doesn't go, Xu's mother is afraid that her nightmare will come true.
"Sister." Zhang Wan took Qingxing and carried a food box to the Prince's East Palace.
"Why are you here?" Zhang Rou rested on the table, heard Zhang Wan's voice, and raised her head.
"I heard that my sister was hallucinating, and I thought it was because my sister had been working hard for days, so I specially made a few snacks to relieve my sister's fatigue and calm her nerves." Zhang Wan motioned for Qingxing to put the food box on the table, and brought out two plates of delicate dim sum from it.
"Alas," Zhang Rou sighed, looked left and right, and stopped talking.
"You all stand down, and we sisters will speak." Zhang Wan immediately understood, and withdrew from the palace people who were waiting on the side.
"There are some words that I have suppressed in my heart for a long time, after all, I can't stand her, although it is for the sake of the family, but after all, it is two lives." Seeing that there was no one around, Zhang Rou took Zhang Wan's hand, her eyes were slightly red, "Now that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is seriously ill, she should have stayed by her son's side, but she is gone, I am staying here, also to make my heart feel better, and I have done things that hurt heaven and reason, so I can't complain that God will not let me sleep peacefully." Zhang Rou said, and tears slipped down quietly.
"Sister, don't think too much, life and death, wealth and prosperity are not something you and I can control." Zhang Wan smiled lightly and poured a cup of warm tea for Zhang Rou, "Sister is tired, drink some tea, eat some pastries, rest for a while, I'll just keep watch." ”
"Wan'er, now in this deep palace where all the organs are calculated, only you treat me best."
"My sister said this, and she was divided, why do you want to say this." Zhang Wan handed the pastry to Zhang Rou with a smile on her face, "Eat." ”