Zuo Jiayin said: "I ordered a dress for Sister Fengyi in the silk village. Yesterday it was supposed to be desirable, but I asked the maid to go. The shopkeeper over there said that he still wanted me to go, and said that he had a new one, but he asked me to take a look. I thought it would be okay, so I took my sister's clothes back by the way. What about you? Aren't you very busy? How can you be the same as Dayu, and learn to pass the door three times without entering? Aren't you afraid that the people in your family will see you and say you? ”

"The affairs of the yamen have been almost done, and I am also going to go to the street to see and buy a gift for Fengyi. After all, it's her birthday, and it's always not good for me to go back empty-handed. Now that I see you, then you can go with me, you know that I am inexperienced in choosing gifts for women, but fortunately I met you. ”

Zuo Jiayin smiled, nodded, and then asked the maid next to him to go back. I went to the street with Meng Tianchu talking and laughing.

The two of them decided to go to the silk village first to take the finished clothes and then go to choose a gift for her, and when they walked to the silk village, they found that a lot of people had gathered at the door, thinking that they were watching what was lively.

Meng Tianchu escorted Zuo Jiayin into the crowd, only to find that it was two or three men who were punching and kicking one lying on the ground. The men turned around and saw that it was the master of the city and stopped, Meng Tianchu motioned to Zuo Jiayin to help the woman up, the woman was disheveled, her clothes were messy, and she thought that she had been beaten all over her body, Zuo Jiayin took a lot of effort to help the woman up, and the people next to her were all talking.

"What's the matter with you, why are three big men so good that they even beat women?" Meng Tianchu said in a deep voice.

Zuo Jiayin helped the woman up, looked at the woman's face, and hurriedly pulled the corner of Meng Tianchu's clothes with his hand, Meng Tianchu turned around and looked over, taken aback, it turned out that the woman who was beaten was actually Xiaoqing who left from the yamen just now!

"We don't want to beat her, but she owes it herself." A young man with a wooden stick in his hand said viciously.

Meng Tianchu stared at the other party's face: "What do you mean by being beaten up?" ”

When the man saw Meng Tianchu's appearance, he was a little scared and stopped talking. A slightly older man next to him spoke: "Master Meng, you probably don't know the woman in front of you, right?" She is a flower in the former Nuanchun Pavilion, Nuanchun Pavilion you know, the woman who died last time died in this bitch's room, and now Nuanchun Pavilion dislikes her and doesn't want her. She was like a leper dog, asking people for things everywhere. ”

Meng Tianchu frowned, watching as more and more onlookers grew. Some people still spat in Xiaoqing's face, and he said loudly: "Everyone is scattered, what's there to see?" Quickly dispersed. ”

The crowd had no intention of leaving, and Meng Tianchu was angry: "If you don't disperse, I will ask the messenger to take you all back to the yamen, so that you can watch the excitement in the yamen." With that, the crowd quickly dispersed.

Meng Tianchu turned to look at the man just now: "If you have something, just talk about it, don't say it so ugly, why did she look for you, you beat people like this?" ”

"She said that she had made a few sets of clothes from us before, and now she was going to come and get them. But she didn't give us any money. Naturally, the clothes could not be given to her, and she was here to scold and make it impossible for us to do business. ”

"You talk nonsense! You let Fan Cheng come out to speak, this silk village belongs to Fan Cheng, when did I have to pay for making clothes in this place? When Xiaoqing heard the man say this, she yelled loudly angrily.

Meng Tianchu looked at Zuo Jiayin and asked, "Do you know who the shopkeeper of this silk village is?" ”

Zuo Jiayin nodded, "That's what this girl said about Boss Fan Chengfan." ”

Meng Tianchu looked at the three men, and suddenly understood why Xiaoqing said what he said when he left the yamen.

Meng Tianchu and Zuo Jiayin helped Xiaoqing to a teahouse next to him and sat down, the Xiaoqing looked dull and desperate, and he didn't talk to Meng Tianchu, just stared at a place blankly, not knowing what he was thinking.

Zuo Jiayin handed the tea on the second end of the shop to Xiaoqing's hand, and said in a low voice: "Girl, don't be sad, although I don't know what happened, but after all, it is the fault of those people to beat people, and you don't have the same knowledge as those people, not to mention hurting your body, but also hurting your heart, then it's even more unworthy." ”

Meng Tianchu sat opposite and nodded again and again.

Xiaoqing didn't speak while holding the cup, as if she couldn't hear what Zuo Jiayin was saying at all.

Meng Tianchu also followed Zuo Jiayin's words and said: "What Jiayin said is right, some people are not worthy of you to hurt your body and break your heart. I'll go back and send you to the Warm Spring Pavilion, and then tell Boss Fengming, you still stay in the Warm Spring Pavilion! ”

Xiaoqing suddenly smiled sadly and muttered, "What is love?" Is it just smoke and smoke after the pay? What is love? Can you get it and then you can go down the drain? I think love is forever, and I think that getting it is life and death, but is it? When a woman is old, the wild grass on the side of the road is trampled by people and no one cares for it, but I was also a delicate flower in the past! Why is it that when the years pass, people's feelings will also pass away? ”

Xiaoqing's words were very sad to hear, and Zuo Jiayin heard tears on the side. Meng Tianchu then remembered the sentence Lin Daiyu said in "Dream of Red Mansions": "When the flowers bloom, they are certainly beautiful, but when they are grateful, isn't it cold?" I just want to be happy when people get together, but don't you feel sad when you disperse? Words to come.

"It's just that when we are longing for love, see if we meet someone who can make us give such feelings. All people have love, and there is nothing wrong with love itself. Meng Tianchu said.

Xiaoqing shook her head, "Then you mean I love wrong, right?" ”

Meng Tianchu didn't speak, Xiaoqing nodded and said, "Also, if it's not my love's fault, why would he be willing to let his subordinates beat me so hard today?" That's it, that's it, people are so ruthless, why am I so affectionate? It's always good to ask for it when it's time to do it. ”

Xiaoqing drank the water in the cup in one gulp, as if she had made up her mind about something, and then looked at Meng Tianchu and Zuo Jiayin, the corners of her mouth moved slightly, and she wanted to laugh but didn't laugh.

"I won't stay in the Warm Spring Pavilion either, thank you, thank you Master Meng. I guess I'd better get out of this place that makes me sad. After speaking, he stood up, poured the water from Zuo Jiayin's cup on his hand, and then wiped it on his hair, skillfully pulling his hair into a bun, so that he looked a lot more energetic.

"I'm leaving, so I'm leaving."

Zuo Jiayin asked a little worriedly: "Girl, you look so badly injured, where are you going?" It's not too late for you to go to the doctor first. ”

Meng Tianchu also said: "Jiayin is right, let's go with you to see the injuries on your body." ”

Xiaoqing waved her hand gently: "No need, I grew up being beaten since I was a child, and I'm used to it." ”

Meng Tianchu and Zuo Jiayin couldn't screw him, so they had to watch her limp away alone.

The two of them saw that it was not early, and hurriedly came to the silk village, a middle-aged man in his forties in the store, very burly, thought that he was well maintained on weekdays, and his face was radiant, and when he saw Meng Tianchu and Zuo Jiayin coming to the store, he hurriedly stepped forward and greeted him with a smile: "Miss Zuo is here, I thought you couldn't come again if you had something to do today." ”

Meng Tianchu watched from the side and did not speak. I secretly thought so in my heart, because the man's voice was loud and sounded full of energy, and I thought that he should have practiced some kung fu on weekdays.

Zuo Jiayin smiled slightly and nodded to the man: "I must come, but I just met an acquaintance with Xianggong and delayed some effort, so I made Boss Fan wait for a long time, I really didn't want to go." "A thousand horses are hand-hitting

When the man heard Zuo Jiayin say this, he seemed to have noticed that there was an extra person in this room. Hurriedly gave a salute to Meng Tianchu on the side, Meng Tianchu symbolically returned the salute, but he thought in his heart, this person couldn't see that he was still a pig killer in the past.

Fan Cheng hurriedly called someone to bring tea. Then he invited Meng Tianchu and Zuo Jiayin to sit down in the back room: "I'll ask someone to send Miss Zuo, ah, no, no, look at me, it should be Mrs. Meng, and ask someone to bring Mrs. Meng's clothes." Fan Cheng smiled and went out.

Meng Tianchu took a closer look at the furnishings of this room, and found that it was a bit like a study, so he thought, this pig killer actually engaged in some elegant things, I am afraid that it is just to coax the woman he likes, so as to show that he is not just a nouveau riche.

There are flowers and grass in the room, calligraphy and paintings on the wall, and there are four treasures of the study on the table, Meng Tianchu couldn't help but smile after reading it. Zuo Jiayin looked at him and knew what he was thinking, so he gently tapped Meng Tianchu's forehead with his slender jade fingers.

"I know what you're thinking, you're probably thinking that these things probably won't be of any use other than to put them there for others to see."

Meng Tianchu hurriedly motioned for her to speak quietly, worried that the partition wall had ears.

After a while, Fan Cheng himself brought the clothes in: "Mrs. Meng, look at it, if you are not satisfied, I will ask someone to make it for you again." Zuo Jiayin took the clothes and opened them to see, it really deserved to be the craftsmanship of the master of the first silk village in Renhe County, it was really good, Zuo Jiayin was very satisfied, so he asked Fan Cheng to wrap it up for himself.

"Boss Fan, we won't bother, because there are still things." Zuo Jiayin and Meng Tianchu took the clothes and were about to leave.

Fan Chengxiang looked very reluctant, but it was not good to show it in front of Meng Tianchu, so he had to reluctantly send them out.

Meng Tianchu and Zuo Jiayin left the silk village, turned around and came to a jade shop, the careful Zuo Jiayin found that the signboard of this shop also had the word "Fan" written on it, she grabbed Meng Tianchu, who was about to go in, and pointed to the signboard with her hand, Meng Tianchu also saw it.

Meng Tianchu smiled bitterly and said: "I really don't think that this Fan Cheng's ability is really not small, and this small county town is afraid that there is no business that he doesn't do." ”

Zuo Jiayin also nodded: "Then should we return the store?" Anyway, this county is not just that Fan Cheng family. ”

Meng Tianchu shook his head and pulled Zuo Jiayin into the store.

When the two of them returned home after shopping, it was almost dark, and Feiyan was already a little anxious. After all, today is Xia Fengyi's birthday, and if Meng Tianchu and the others come back late, they are afraid that the birthday star will be unhappy.

"You still know how to go home?" Feiyan glanced at Meng Tianchu and said angrily.

Meng Tianchu didn't talk back to Feiyan like before. just walked in front of Xia Fengyi, who was already sitting at the dinner table, handed a small box in his arms to Xia Fengyi, and then said apologetically: "I'm sorry, I really don't know what to buy for you, I heard Jiayin say that you like jade earrings the most, so I bought you a pair, I hope you like it." ”

Xia Fengyi was naturally happy, although she came back late, but after all, she was choosing a gift for herself, so she was not angry, and took the gift with a smile. When I opened the box, I was even more overjoyed.

Feiyan saw that Xia Fengyi was happy, and she was also happy, and hurriedly ordered her subordinates to prepare a meal, but Meng Tianchu didn't have a superfluous word, just sat next to Xia Fengyi. Holding his chin in one hand and stunned. Xia Fengyi quickly found out that something was wrong, looked at Zuo Jiayin who was sitting on the other side, then stood up and said deliberately: "Sister, don't you want to see me wearing the clothes you gave me?" Anyway, it's not open yet, let's go to the room, I'll show you. ”

Zuo Jiayin naturally understood that Xia Fengyi had something to ask herself, so she stood up and left the dinner table with Xia Fengyi. Only Meng Tianchu was left alone, still stunned.

Xia and Zuo came to Xia Fengyi's room and closed the door.

Xia Fengyi asked, "What's wrong with Tianchu?" He's never been like this, what's wrong? ”

"Sister, don't think about it, I think he's probably also doing something about the case."

Xia Fengyi waved his hand and said, "No, he never brings the things on the case home to think about it, this is already his habit." ”

"Actually, it's not a matter of the case, anyway, I can't tell clearly, sister, do you know that Fan Cheng and Fan butcher in our county?"

When Xia Fengyi heard this, she nodded, "I know, who doesn't know?" What, does this case have anything to do with that person? ”

"The clothes I ordered for you today and the earrings that the young master bought for you were all bought in the shop opened by Fan Cheng, and his business is really not small."

"No, the more you say it, the more I don't understand, what do you want to say?" Xia Fengyi's expression was really confused.

Zuo Jiayin smiled and took Xia Fengyi's hand, she herself felt that it was wrong, but she knew what was wrong, and it was unclear to say it to Xia Fengyi like this, so she had to stop talking.

"Let's go, let's not talk about it, today is my sister's birthday, we won't talk about other people's things, it's almost time to eat, let's go."

Xia Fengyi didn't give up, she still didn't understand what was going on, with her own personality, she would suffocate to death.

"Do you always think that the Fan Cheng you are talking about has something to do with someone in the case? Why don't you say this for some reason? ”

Zuo Jiayin knew Xia Fengyi's character, so he could only tell the ins and outs of the case. Before Xia Fengyi could speak, Feiyan called them outside the door to eat. The two of them had no choice but to talk as they walked.

"How did you find out about this case?" Because Meng Tianchu was not allowed to ask his family members about the yamen at home, Xia Fengyi didn't know how Zuo Jiayin knew about this case.

"I just listened to some people talking about it when I was shopping at the market. Later, I met the girl named Xiaoqing today, and then I heard the young master say something vaguely, and I thought about it together, and that's probably it. ”

"It's still our sister Jiayin who is smart, you are so smart, you can connect a case together, why don't you share some of it for the young master, take a look at what you think is in the case, you can find a suitable way to tell him, and he may suddenly open up."

"Speaking of solving the case, I am naturally a layman, but the whole thing, I also feel strange, I can't figure out the things, naturally I can't talk nonsense in front of the young master, so as not to disturb his mind, and it's even worse."

Xia Fengyi felt that what Zuo Jiayin said also made sense. The two of them had already reached the dining room. When he saw Meng Tianchu, he didn't say anything about what happened just now.

There was no word during the banquet.

After the meal, Xia Fengyi knew that Meng Tianchu had something on her mind, so she excused herself that the sisters were going to get together to do needlework, say some private things, and let him go to the study alone. Meng Tianchu was also happy to do this, so he went to the study alone.

Meng Tianchu took Zuo Jiayin and Feiyan to his room to be female celebrities.

Meng Tianchu came to the study and lay on the bed. My mind was full of what had happened today, and these scenes were repeated in my mind as if I was acting, and I actually fell asleep thinking about it.