Duguyue woke up the next morning, and vaguely remembered the night before: after the two thieves escaped, her eyes were injured and she couldn't open them, she felt a person approaching, and she asked who the other party was? The other party did not answer, but he was still approaching. She pulled out the horizontal knife in a panic and slashed left and right, but the man's light skill was too high, and he was close to him before a round, lowering her hand holding the horizontal knife, and just as she was still struggling, she was hit the back of the neck, and she didn't know it.

When I woke up this morning, I still couldn't open my eyes, and my eyes were shy and painful. Lying on his own bed in the middle of nowhere. She touched her shirt and trouser legs again, and they were all ...... and breathed a sigh of relief. Busy shouting, "Someone's coming". Someone replied, it was the second mother of the Barberry Inn, she heard the shout, and hurriedly ran up to ask her what was the matter?

"Go and invite Nangong Han to come."

Erniang answered and went. After Erniang went, she suddenly thought, no. Last night, there were a man and a woman walking in the valley at night, and I suspected that the object of being hit by the master was not a Hu woman, it should be Erniang. Why is she still here?

Just thinking about it, Sima Cuo hurriedly shouted below: "How is the post chief?" How's the postmaster? ”

Duguyue is holding her stomach for a while, just your inn is hiding dirt and dirt, causing Benyi's eyes to hurt, and I don't know if I can open it, if I can't open it, I Duguyue will be ...... for the rest of my life. I don't dare to think about it.

When Sima came up, she scolded softly: "Pavilion Chief, do you want the whole town to know that my eye is injured?" ”

Sima Cuo immediately put away his voice and asked softly, "Captain, what are your eyes?" ”

Duguyue pointed to the next door: "Can't you speak lightly?" ”

Sima Cuo hurriedly responded: "Yes, yes." ”

"Last night I heard movement outside the house, so I followed out, and followed for nearly twenty miles, but accidentally was injured by a thief. Pavilion Chief, Qinglong Town is getting more and more complicated. ”

"The post chief is reasonable, yesterday I have sent a four-hundred-mile expedited, to Yuzhou to ask the assassin to send an arrest as soon as possible to investigate the mail car case."

"I also walked six hundred miles, and I urgently reported to Lord Chang'an." As she spoke, she lowered her voice even more and said, "Pavilion Chief, today I ask you to quickly investigate the people who disappeared from Qinglong Town since last night. ”

"Chief, why is that?"

"Catch the man who hurt my eye."

"If you understand it, you will do it."

As he was talking, Nangong Han came, followed by Nangong Yue. Sima Cuo said politely: "Mr. Nangong and Miss Yue are here, please go up, the post chief is waiting for Mr. to heal." ”

Nangong Han came up and saw Duguyue sitting on the bed, with her eyes closed, her eyelids slightly swollen, and her tears flowing, and she hurriedly asked, "Chief, why is this?" ”

"Yesterday, while admiring the moon in the courtyard, a sudden gust of prickly wind blew through and accidentally blew into my eyes."

"Oh. I'm not going to show you. Nangong Han was about to step forward and open his eyelids with his fingers to see if there was any injury to his eyes. Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived, Duguyue's horizontal knife handle was under Nangong Han's heart.

"Chief, why is this?" Nangong Han was at a loss and was embarrassed.

"Why, you didn't say a word when you came close to me. What do you want? ”

"I can do the same. Isn't it for you? ”

"Look at the eyes, you see, why do you have to do it? Can't this captain open his eyes on his own? ”

The chief opened his eyes. Why all the fuss. I have only been practicing medicine for a few years, and it is common to touch women's hair and skin. I haven't seen such a golden and jade body as the post chief, and I can't touch it. ”

"That means that Mr. Nangong has dabbled a lot. Hehehe"

"Captain, you're deliberately making things difficult for me."

"What is difficulty? You've dabbled a lot. ”

"The post chief didn't look at his eyes, so he didn't go first." After speaking, Nangong Han turned around and walked on the stairs to go downstairs.

"Brother, don't leave in a hurry. Haha" Nangong Yue laughed.

"The post chief doesn't look at his eyes anymore, what face do we have to keep here?"

In fact, Duguyue just wanted to try Nangong Han's skills, she guessed that the person who saved her last night should be Nangong Han. This white-faced man looks white on the surface, and he doesn't know how many flowers and intestines there are in his stomach.

But I felt it carefully, I don't know if Nangong Han was deliberately hiding it, or if it was really not him, judging from the airflow he moved, the skill of light gong was far inferior to the person who saved her last night.

Nangong Han was not really angry, he saw Duguyue's eyes at a glance, and knew that it was not caused by the stinging wind, so he took the opportunity to probe her details. This post chief must be a henchman of the prince's party.

Just thinking about it, Duguyue really called her.

"Mr. Nangong, you won't be so unlucky. I'm just kidding you. ”

Nangong Han stopped and sneered: "It turns out that the post chief's eyes are injured, and he is still in the mood to joke." ”

"Mr. Nangong, please come up, you don't have to meet me with a woman."

"Haha. Brother, in fact, I have known Sister Dugu for a long time, and when I heard that she was injured, I rushed over to see her. I know my sister is just joking with you and teasing you. ”

"Hehe, that's fine, say some funny things, and pass the time. Yue'er, go to Mr. Zhuge to buy two taels of cold water stones and a pack of barley. ”

"I'll go." Saying that, Nangong Yue went downstairs, and at this time, only Duguyue and Nangong Han were left in the room.

Nangong Han asked inadvertently: "The post chief's eyes are not injured by the stinging wind, right?" ”

"Then Mr. Nangong thinks what injured him?"

"Stinged by the Light"

"Mr. Nangong is really funny, isn't it clear what Benyi was injured by?"

"Haha! The post chief naturally knew it in his heart. ”

and said no more to each other.

After Nangong Yue brought the cold water stone, Nangong Han wanted to come to a small yellow clay furnace, which made a charcoal fire, put a new clay pot on it, put it into the ancient well water of Qinglong Town, put in one or two cold water stones, boiled for two quarters of an hour, melted the cold water stone, poured into a net porcelain bowl, after the water cooled like the ice formed in winter, and then soaked it with a fine soft cotton cloth and applied it to the eyes. Immediately, Duguyue's eyes were as comfortable as chapped and nectar, and the pain in her eyes eased immediately. This time, she said from the bottom of her heart: "Mr. Nangong is really Hua Tuo alive." ”

"No, I can't stand it. The post chief also needs to use the bitter barley decoction water as a tea drink, drain the liver through the fire, and it can be cured in less than three days. After Nangong Han finished speaking, he left Duguyue and Nangong Yue and turned around and went downstairs.

When I went downstairs, I met Mr. Zhuge with a ball of glutinous rice. It turned out that Mr. Zhuge was very unconvinced in the past few days, and Hu Yan's illness was wrong, and the pavilion chief didn't call him when the mail car was robbed and injured, and he was very sulky.

When Nangong Yue came to Huirentang to buy cold water stones and barley, he learned that the post chief's eyes were injured by the stinging wind, and he had experience in the prickly wind. When the wind blows, the burrs on the caterpillar's body flutter with the wind and are stung when they fall on the person. Because the burr is subtle, it is not suitable to wipe it off, and the person who gets the puncture is uncomfortable and uncomfortable. Mr. Zhuge has a way, that is, to use glutinous rice balls, dipped in cold water, wipe on the body, and the burrs are wrapped and removed. He heard that the post chief had been hit by the prickly hair, but Nangong Han sent someone to fetch cold water stones and barley, which was obviously wrong. Therefore, he hurriedly steamed glutinous rice balls and came for treatment. This time, the old gentleman was naturally self-inflicted and ran for nothing.

Sima Cuo walked around the town, there are only a hundred people in the town, a little count is clear, plus a few people in his own barberry inn, everyone is there, there is no less. When he passed by the "Burning Shop", he saw the shopkeeper Huangfu Dan looking around, and Sima Coo stepped forward to ask what he was looking for? Huang Fu Dan told him that the dumb man who carried water in the town did not come this morning, and the shop was waiting for him to carry water.

It turned out that this mute had been living here ten years ago and had begun to beg for a living, and the people of the town saw that he was pitiful and often gave him food. Dumb and well-behaved, not eating other people's things in vain, seeing that the shop that gave him food had to go to the spring at the foot of Qinglong Mountain half a mile away to fetch water, he helped the store to carry water, and after a long time he made a living from it, picking two loads of water for a penny. When the people of the town saw that he slept under the eaves at night and had no place to live, they asked him to live in a small abandoned temple outside the town. Because he could not speak, and the people of the town did not know where he came from. Whether you have relatives or not, you don't care about these things for a long time, and spend a few pennies a day to ask him to carry water, which saves time and effort.

Sima mistakenly heard what Huangfu Dan said, and immediately said to Mo Si, the entourage beside him: "Hurry up and ask Madame, and call your brother to the broken temple to check if the dumb man is still there?" ”

After Mo Si got the order, he went to Sima's house to invite Wan Qianmei. The ancestral house of the Sima family is in the Crouching Tiger-shaped mountain col half a mile away from Qinglong Town, and there are two courtyard houses, which were built by Sima Cuo's great-grandfather. Sima Cuo's position as the pavilion chief of Qinglong Town is hereditary, and his ancestor Sima was the military quartermaster of Hangu officials when he was Emperor Yang, ensuring the supply of the Hanguan garrison, transmitting information, and taking charge of local security. It has been passed down to Sima Cuo for four generations. Half of the residents of Qinglong Town are descendants of the soldiers under the command of the original Sima clan. The position of Li Zheng in Qinglong Town has been vacant, and Sima Coo has written to the county government several times to ask Li Zheng to be appointed to manage daily affairs, but the county government always prevaricates on the grounds that there is no need for Li Zheng. Over time, Sima Cuo was mostly concerned about the things in the town, and he didn't want to care, so he was determined to open an inn and be free. Therefore, many affairs in the town were handled by Wan Qianmei.

Wan Qimei was idle, feeding her beloved horse, when she heard Mo Si calling, she habitually shouted at the top of her voice: "Sima Wrong, what is the matter with calling the old lady again?" Mo Si stepped forward to explain the reason, she didn't say a word, took out her beloved horse, put on the saddle, lifted the Qinggang wooden stick, turned over on the horse, and said to Mo Si: "You come immediately", and went straight to the broken temple. When passing by the post street, there was a burst of smoke and dust, and the people in the post street knew that Mrs. Sima rode through the town on horseback, and something big happened.

Wan Qimei rode a horse to the temple and wanted to enter the broken temple, but the temple was overgrown with weeds, there was no way to go, and the surroundings were deserted and gloomy, so she didn't dare to rush in, so she had to wait for Mo Si and them to come over. Mo Si's entourage was also after the sergeants, they were Mo Si, Li Dao, butcher, blacksmith, and Wan Buddha, and their family had been centered on the Sima family for several generations, managing various affairs in Qinglong Town.

When the five attendants arrived, they brought their scythes and axes to cut a way out of the weeds. The blacksmith questioned while chopping: This dumb man doesn't have a way to live here, how can he get in? It's a strange thing.

This temple was built when Emperor Wu was in power, and at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, the Son of Heaven saw that temples were built everywhere, and the monks' temple properties continued to increase, so he issued an edict to curb the proliferation of Buddhist temples. Since the old monk passed away, the temple in Qinglong Town has been abandoned here without monks to operate it again. After the mute man moved in, few people came here to make incense.

When I arrived at the main hall, it was full of dust, and the Bodhisattva was also covered with cobwebs, and there was no trace of human habitation. There is a low door behind the hall, and the Buddha said: "There is a side room in the back, there is no need to look at it." Looking at this situation, the dumb man may not live here. Mo Si didn't believe it, and swung an axe to smash the door, but the door did not break. Strange, how can this be? He swung another axe, and the planks cracked, but behind it was a newly built wall. The older Li Dao often came to the temple to play when he was a child, and he knew that this gate was not a wall behind it at that time. He said that the dumb man might have gone through the back door, so everyone went out of the main hall and came to the back of the temple to look for the back door. After several searches, I finally found an entrance disguised by tree branches in an inconspicuous thorn. It was an entrance like a dog's hole, and when a few people bowed down to go in front of a wall, there was still no door. Wan Qimei knocked it with a wooden stick, and it was empty. The butcher noticed that several bricks in the wall were cracked, so he broke it with his rough hands, and it turned out to be a moving door. Everyone was taken aback and worried about what kind of mechanism it was.

When everyone cautiously opened the door and looked inside, they found that it was a house inside, and it was very dark. Wan Qimei shouted, "Palm lamp!" ”。 The Ten Thousand Buddhas then took out the fire fold from their bosoms, took off the cap, blew it vigorously, and it burst into flames. Seeing a lamp next to the table, he hurriedly lit it, and the room suddenly lit up.

Seeing this, Wan Qimei shouted again: "Go and ask the pavilion chief to come." Ride my horse to go. Mo Si rushed away.

Everyone looked at this room, there was a carpet on the floor, in addition to the kang where they slept, there was also a Hu bed, some Hu script was written on the wall, and a large cabinet was placed in the corner to the east, on which was locked. Just as everyone was carefully searching the house, there seemed to be a living creature in the cabinet kicking the cabinet board, and several people were so frightened that they quickly retreated to the west corner, clasped the guy in their hands, and broke out in a cold sweat. After kicking a few times, I also heard a "um, um" sound coming from what looked like a human being in his throat.

Wan Qimei plucked up her courage and said, "What are we afraid of!! After saying that, he picked up the wooden stick and smashed it at the lock, and the lock burst open, and the cabinet door opened, and when I looked closely, it was a person, and it was a woman, bound by a lot of flowers, and a piece of cloth was stuffed in my mouth. The clothes on his body were shabby, unkempt, and his body exuded a foul smell, mixed with the smell of sweat and urine......

When Sima Coo arrived, everyone had loosened the woman's ties and removed the cloth from her mouth. The woman, who was about thirty years old, was still trembling when she saw so many people, kneeling on her knees, and kept begging: "Ladies and gentlemen, please help me out." ”

Sima asked in the wrong place: "This lady please get up, and the contemptible person asks you, how did you get imprisoned here?" ”

As soon as Sima asked wrongly, the woman burst into tears and said: "About four or five years ago, the slave family went to Huayin County from Yuzhou Mansion to visit relatives, and walked on the Cuihan Post Road for a day without finding the inn. Unexpectedly, in the middle of the night, a beggar-like man came to warm up together, and when he saw that it was a beggar, the old coachman let down his guard, but he took advantage of the old coachman's unpreparedness, and plunged the old coachman into the back with a short knife, killed him, and then took me here...... I became his slave. During the day he tied me up in this cupboard before he went out, and gagged me so that I would not make a sound. When I came back in the evening, he gave me some food and water, and tortured me every once in a while. I haven't stepped out of this room for five years. Please help me out. ”

Sima asked in the wrong place, "Did that man ever speak?" ”

The woman replied: "Speak, but most of them are nonsense, and I don't understand them." ”

"The pavilion chief knows, this lady, I've hurt you. We'll get you out. Sima Cuo turned around and said to Wan Qianmei: "Please Mrs. take this woman home first, wash and bathe properly, please take care of her subordinates, and then investigate the reason carefully after the state capital is arrested tomorrow." ”

Wan Qianmei slapped her palm on the cabinet, the cabinet broke immediately, and said fiercely: "It's cheaper." After saying that, he helped the woman to go back.