A strong aroma came from the kitchen, and Dan'er took a deep breath as she walked to the door, the smell of the air making her stomach growl. "Qingniang, what are you cooking today? So fragrant. ”

Qing Niang is the cook in the back kitchen of the palace, and she is responsible for the food of several masters of the palace. "The chicken soup that Mrs. Jing ordered to boil for the young master." Qing Niang's eyes moved out of the cauldron, and when she saw someone, she was stunned. She knew that this Dan'er was the person next to Aunt Cheng, and Aunt Cheng ...... He is not treated well in the house.

"I'm here to get lunch for Aunt Cheng, why haven't I delivered it today?" Dan'er said.

"Oh, oh." Qingniang nodded busily, Dan'er touched her with her hand, and urged: "Qingniang, hurry up, you see what time it is, what's going on with the person who delivered the meal today!" ”

"You wait." Qingniang took the food box in Dan'er's hand and stepped aside. Seeing that people had passed, a small ball of paper balls appeared in Dan'er's hand, she didn't dare to delay, she shook her hand and poured the contents of the paper ball into the pot, and the tumbling soup quickly melted the white powder.

"Alright." The young lady came back with the food box and handed it to Dan'er.

Dan'er smiled at her, "Then I won't delay you." ”

Back in the outer courtyard, Dan'er put a few dishes on the dining table one by one. Cheng Lian'er sat down and asked her, "How is it?" ”

The other maids in the house were all cleared, Dan'er didn't listen, lowered her head and replied, "It's done." ”

Hearing that the matter had been done, Cheng Lian'er was a little relieved. "Where's my mother?" Only then did she realize that Meng Shi had not yet come, looked left and right, and ordered, "Go and invite my mother over." ”

At this time, Meng Shi was trembling. She looked at the person who suddenly appeared in the room, her expression gradually stiffened, and when the person took a step forward, she took a step back. The windows and doors of the room were closed, and Meng Shi quickly measured the consequences if she shouted at this time. Maybe the others didn't call, but she was choked by the people in the room first.

"Meng Ling, you're very comfortable, right?" Li Zuo had a playful smile on his face, but there was malice in his voice.

Meng Shi endured it so that she didn't let herself kneel on the ground, she trembled her lips, and stumbled in one sentence, "Big ...... Adult ......"

A dark shadow flashed in the room, and the next moment Meng Shi had already pulled her hair fiercely, "If you don't want to die yet, just do what I say." ”

"Good! Good! I listen to you, I listen to you! Meng screamed.

She was thrown to the ground by Li Zuo, her hands and feet shook the ground, and then she slowly stopped moving.

Li Zuo looked at her condescendingly and said, "Cheng An has entered Beijing, find a time to meet him!" If you don't do what I say, you know the consequences. ”

Li Zuo's voice fell, and there was no longer his figure in the room.

"Meng Niang? Meng Niang? Outside the door, Dan'er knocked lightly on the door.

……

During the time she came to the capital, Cheng Yuru thoroughly saw its prosperity.

Yongning and Xi'er followed closely behind Cheng Yuru, and the street was almost crowded with people, if they didn't follow closely, they would be separated from Cheng Yuru in a blink of an eye.

"Miss, be careful!" Xi'er took Cheng Yuru's hand and wanted her not to go so fast.

Cheng Yuru blinked and said playfully: "Don't worry, it's okay." "Today is the West Market, and I just came out to buy some materials needed for the Ming Yu Shop. However, as soon as she finished saying this, Cheng Yuru felt a pain in her body, and a woman in pink bumped into her.

Xi'er and Yongning shouted at the same time: "Miss! ”

There are people all around, and when Cheng Yuru is knocked down, the surroundings are in chaos. Many people were knocked down one after another because they couldn't dodge, Cheng Yuru was thinking about it, but she felt something on her body, she turned around, and the woman's hands were on her.

Cheng Yuru took a step back with a cold face, and as soon as she moved, she was vigorously pulled back, "Miss, are you okay?" Yongning and Xi'er protected her by their side.

Cheng Yuru thought of the movement on her body just now, and felt that something was very wrong.

Before she could speak, Yongning beside her said to the woman, "Who are you!" The woman's body moved, Cheng Yuru looked at her and felt more and more that something was wrong with her, Yongning reached out to grab her, "Stop!" ”

The woman in pink panicked, pushed aside the crowd and ran outside.

Suddenly there were shouts and scoldings all around, "What are you squeezing!" ”

"Miss, do you have any discomfort on you?" Xi'er worriedly swept Cheng Yuru from beginning to end. Just now, she and Yongning saw the woman hit Cheng Yuru with their own eyes, but after she knocked it down, she didn't leave, but put one hand on Cheng Yuru's back!

Cheng Yuru shook her head, feeling scared for a while. It's not the first time this kind of thing has happened, the last time in Minzhou, those people were more clever, and this time the means were so inferior that they wanted to knock her down and make those shady methods. The woman who bumped into it just now was blind, and she didn't say a word from beginning to end, revealing that something was wrong all over her body.

Today, I can't go to the West Market, Cheng Yuru said: "Go back." ”

Mingyu Shop already has a subordinate who specializes in selling jade, and today it is Linglong who is staring at the store, and she doesn't need to go over. The three of them went directly back to their house in the capital.

As soon as he entered the main hall, Cheng An was already inside. He was reading a book in his hand, preparing for the imperial examination in the spring of the coming year.

"Ru'er, what's wrong with you?" Cheng An saw that Cheng Yuru's expression was unnatural, and she didn't understand how to go out once, and when she came back, her person changed.

After Cheng Yuru sat down with Cheng An, she told him what she had just encountered on the street. I don't want Cheng An, but I said that there are already Miao Jiang people in the capital.

Seeing that Cheng Yuru couldn't understand, Cheng An explained: "More than ten years ago, there was a fluctuation in Dongxing about the Miao Jiang people. They reappeared more than a decade later, and it couldn't be something that could be done overnight. ”

Since the battle more than ten years ago, the Dongxing royal family has been very jealous of foreigners, and the border control is very strict. The Miaojiang people suddenly appeared more than ten years later, and they are not a few people, they are organized, I am afraid that they were not cleaned up at all more than ten years ago!

Cheng An said: "Don't go out alone recently, Miao Jiang is menacing this time, and I'm afraid Dongxing will be chaotic again." ”

Miao Jiang people, Gu insects, weird tattoos. One thing after another, it seems that it is not related, but in fact, everything is interlocking. Cheng An suddenly fell silent, he didn't know how many things he didn't know in the abyss of the capital.

The current clues of the case of that year all point to Miao Jiang. The strange tattoo on the murderer who hurt his mother, his father was accused of treason after the Battle of Miaojiang, and the Miao Jiang people who reappeared in more than ten years, and the Gu worms they brought.

Why did his mother go crazy back then? One mystery after another was gradually picked out, and he really had no clue about the truth of the matter.

"Maybe you can ask Tranquility about this matter." Cheng Yuru said suddenly. In the letter from Tranquility, it was said that he suspected that Wang Liande was in Gu, and Cheng Yuru and Cheng An had never been in direct contact with Dao, so it was better to start investigating from Tranquility first.