Chapter 843: Poking
Ah Yin opened the side door and saw An Huzi standing outside the door, and the two young men behind him were carrying a huge camphor wood box, "An Tong knows how you got here!" My lord didn't send you any message. ”
"How could I not know, and not look at what I do." An Huzi entered the door and looked around, "Where is the mourning hall, take me to worship!" ”
"In the back hall, An Tongzhi came with the little one." Ah Yin led the way in front and led An Huzi to the backyard.
In the mourning hall, a middle-aged man dressed in black and a man dressed in linen and filial piety snuggled together, throwing yellow and white paper money into the brazier one by one.
Wu Fuzhong heard the movement and turned to look back, and when he saw the person who came, he shook his head slightly and sighed and got up, "Brother is still here!" ”
"I can't stop anyone if they don't come, it's just that Brother Yong'er didn't catch the train, so don't be surprised. Let me worship my brother and sister first, and then talk to you. ”
An Huzi went to the spirit and took three sticks of incense and lit them on the candle, pinched them in his hand and bowed and inserted them into the incense burner. ”
"Good boy, get up!" An Huzi helped the girl up, and complained to Wu Fuzhong, "Look at this girl's thinness, what is your father." ”
The young man bit his lip and replied softly: "My mother has passed away and my niece has no intention of eating, so don't blame my father." ”
Wu Fuzhong instructed the girl: "Qiao'er, your uncle has come from afar and hasn't eaten yet, Ah Yin's craftsmanship is too poor, you go get some food." ”
An Huzi twitched Wu Fuzhong's shoulder, "What kind of father are you, I don't know how distressed I am when I am just this daughter." I've brought my own dinner, so you don't have to toss. ”
"It's inconvenient to have a coffin in the back hall, so my brother will follow me to the study to eat and talk."
"That's good!" An Huzi took a few lotus leaf bags from his subordinates and handed them to Ah Yin, "You take it and eat it with Qiao'er." You two study with the suitcase. ”
An Huzi followed Wu Fuzhong to the academy, looking left and right from time to time, "Your back office is quite big, overlapping, and cleaned up, and there is not even a single grass on the wall." ”
"Well, the yamen is a reconstruction of Zhang Shicheng's mansion in the past, and it is naturally larger than the ordinary yamen, and Ayinqin quickly cleaned it up." Wu Fuzhong glanced at the box carried in the hands of the two brocade guards, "The box should not be silver, I don't dare to accept it." ”
"It's not silver, if you want to get rich, you still use corruption and bribery, when you founded the Weaving Bureau, you could give yourself a serious way to make money, but you just don't do it, let your mother-in-law and children suffer with you."
"It's a shame that I didn't stay back then, otherwise you think I would still be able to get out of the edict, cough cough......" Wu Fuzhong covered his mouth and coughed lightly.
An Huzi patted him on the back, "The problem that fell in the edict is not healed?" It's all to blame for not taking good care of you back then. ”
"What did my brother say, if I hadn't taken care of me when you were there, I would have been a cripple now, if not dead." Wu Fuzhong took out the key, opened the door lock of the study, and pushed the door in.
"That's also what you asked for, who you didn't work with well, but you had to build the railway for Huang Fugui's rotten man, and it would be strange if he didn't kill you." An Huzi instructed the two subordinates, "Put down the box, you two go out to the outer door to guard, don't let you come in, leave the wine and food!" ”
"What can I do, who calls Suzhou and doesn't border Yingtian. Thanks to the gentleman who took the students to calculate the benefits of Yingtian's short section of railroad and handed it to the emperor, otherwise I would have died. Fortunately, now that the railway has been repaired, Suzhou will never be forgotten again. ”
Wu Fuzhong brushed the coffee table with his sleeve and opened the two lotus leaf bags, a package of pig's head meat and a bag of bad fish, An Huzi took out a small paper bag from his arms, took out a piece of dim sum from it and stuffed it into Wu Fuzhong's mouth, "Taste this." ”
"Manna cake?" Wu Fuzhong took two bites, and tears began to flow out, "Aunt is still thinking about me." ”
"You told me earlier that my brother and sister were sick, you didn't know that Grandpa and His Royal Highness King Zhou made a miracle medicine to save the prince a few years ago. Last year, my mother was sick and dying, so I begged my grandfather to give me an injection the next day. If I could have given it to my younger siblings earlier, it wouldn't stop there. ”
Wu Fuzhong shook his head and sighed, "It's useless, she has a heart disease and no cure, since I had an accident that year, she was frightened and miscarriage, and she often talked nonsense in a trance." I once sent a letter to my husband for consultation, and he said that he had no good way, so he sent Imperial Doctor Xu to Suzhou for consultation, and the medicine he prescribed has been very good, and I don't know what stimulated me a few days ago, and I couldn't think of it for a while, so I committed suicide......"
"Suicide? Alas......" An Huzi sighed, and the two fell into a long silence.
Wu Fuzhong wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes with his sleeve, "Don't mention the sad things, brother, let's eat, be sure to get me drunk tonight, I haven't dared to get drunk since I came to Suzhou." ”
"Okay, my brother will accompany you today without getting drunk!"
After a few glasses of wine, the two of them spoke louder, and the sad atmosphere immediately became much less, and they could laugh bitterly twice when they talked about the old things of the year.
Bang bang bang, the box placed on the side suddenly made a muffled sound, Wu Fuzhong's originally somewhat confused drunken eyes suddenly lit up, and he looked at An Huzi beside him, "What's the matter, it's filled with people." ”
An Huzi was also stunned, he didn't expect the box to ring here, and when he didn't arrive at the palace, he really couldn't suppress the urge in his heart to question Wu Fuzhong with human evidence, and after some conversation, he felt that today was really not the time, so he only said: "It is indeed a living creature inside, but it is not a human, it is a strange beast dedicated to the emperor by a businessman, and I happened to be escorted back to Beijing by the way." ”
"Help! Help me! There was a dull cry for help from inside the box.
"Oh, there are strange beasts that can speak, it is indeed rare, I want to see it!" Wu Fuzhong said that he was about to get up and open the box.
An Huzi grabbed his hem, "He's a personal criminal!" ”
"It's natural for Jinyi Wei to arrest people, when did you have to be so sneaky." Wu Fuzhong turned his head and looked at An Huzi with burning eyes, "Brother Huzi, everyone is afraid of Jinyi Wei like a snake and scorpion, and they can't avoid it. I have been in close contact with your brother for many years, and that is because I know that you have a good heart and leave room for doing things. But if you're as careless about human life as they are, then I'm wrong about you! ”
Wu Fuzhong said angrily and lifted his legs to turn over the wooden box, and a person with a big tie rolled out of the box, who was not the dirty old beggar.
"That's what you call a human criminal!" Wu Fuzhong shouted angrily and stepped forward to untie the rope on the old beggar's body, the old beggar adapted to the light in the room, and when he saw clearly that it was Wu Fuzhong who untied the rope for him, he hugged Wu Fuzhong's leg and cried: "Second prince, save me, he wants to kill me......"
An Huzi kicked the old beggar to the ground, "What are you shouting so loudly!" ”
Wu Fuzhong on the side seemed to have been immobilized, his body stiffened and his eyes were wide open, and suddenly he seemed to have been punched, staggered back a few steps and sat on the chair, and then suddenly raised his head and looked at the old beggar on the ground, "Who are you?" ”
"Second prince, the villain is Zhang Siqi, you don't remember the little one, before the city was broken, the prince entrusted the two princes to the villain and took them out of the palace."
Wu Fuzhong sneered, "It's the one who left our brother and ran away with his wealth!" ”
The old beggar sneered, "Yes, it's a villain." However, the young ones have been on the streets for these years, and they have suffered a lot of bitterness and retribution. The villain is not without a conscience, the villain did not run far back then, and after the city was broken, he saw the two princes being picked up by Mr. Pony before leaving with confidence, and he has not reported it for many years...... Yes! ”
Before he could finish speaking, Wu Fuzhong suddenly got up and slapped the old beggar in the face, gritted his teeth and said, "Shut up!" ”
He turned his head to look at An Huzi Zhengse and said, "That's right, I am Zhang Zongzhao, Zhang Shicheng's second son!" ”