readx;?“ Brother Zhiqing, are you there? ”

Ziyun gently pushed open the door and called into the room, and sure enough, he heard Zhiqing say yes in the room. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Who's there?"

"It's me!" Ziyun walked to the inner room with a little excitement, turned around and walked into the door quickly, but saw that Zhiqing was a little different from usual today, at this time Zhiqing was sneakily tidying up next to the wardrobe in the corner, and when he saw someone coming in, his face looked a little panicked.

"Brother Zhiqing, what are you doing, why don't you go to dinner?"

As soon as Zhiqing saw that it was Ziyun who came in, he hurriedly closed the cabinet and spread out some futon haphazardly, as if he was hiding something, but his movements were not too obvious, and he only replied to Ziyun in a hesitant manner: "I... I'm packing my things! ”

"Packing up? What has taken you so long to pack? Why don't you go to breakfast! Ziyun felt more and more that Zhiqing was a little strange, Zhiqing got up very early on weekdays, even if he cleaned up the house, he would not delay until breakfast was not eaten, plus Zhiqing looked a little flustered at the moment, and his words were a little slurred, as if he was hiding something, but he didn't know what he was hiding. Ziyun pretended to believe Zhiqing's words, and at the same time looked at the futon on the kang again.

"Hehe, it's nothing, I'm all packed, let's go eat, let's go!" Zhiqing walked to Ziyun's side again as he spoke, stretched out his hand to grab Ziyun's cuffs and wanted to go out, his face full of nothingness. But Ziyun is a clever girl, she has long been aware of Zhiqing's mysterious face, and she thinks that he must have something to hide from him, and when she saw Zhiqing pulling her out, she was even more curious. So she rolled her eyes, pointed to the messy bedding on the kang with her jade finger, and said to Zhiqing:

"Oh, Brother Zhiqing, look at your quilt, it's been covered for several days, it's definitely going to be moldy, it just so happens that today is a sunny day, I'll help you dry the quilt!" After that, he came to the kang and bent over to help Zhiqing clean up the quilt. Since the little monks of Jietai Temple are sleeping on the big kang, there are five or six monks sleeping on this bed, and the usual clothes and quilts are placed casually, like a dog kennel. As soon as Zhiqing saw that Ziyun was coming to help them dry the quilt, he hurriedly stretched out his arms to stop him and said, "Hehe, no need, Sister Yun'er, why is our quilt so troublesome for you to dry, or I'll do it myself." Let's go eat first, and when we're done, I'll dry the quilt again! ”

"It's okay, Brother Zhiqing, don't bother, I can still do this little work!" Ziyun said that, he bypassed Zhiqing's body, and then pulled the indigo satin quilt on the bed and pulled it out, but when he heard a "bang", an object was pulled out and fell to the ground.

"Huh? What fell on the ground? Ziyun walked over with a little curiosity, only to see that it was not something else that fell on the ground, but a delicate dagger. Although Ziyun grew up in the song building, he has also seen this kind of weapon, because in addition to many foreign merchants living in Yangzhou City, there are also some rangers, dart masters, and even foreign merchants from other places, these people often carry some self-defense weapons around them, and daggers are the most common, so Ziyun is no stranger to this kind of items.

"Why is there a dagger here?" Ziyun just wanted to bend down and pick up the short blade, but Zhiqing took the lead and snatched the dagger. Then he hurriedly said: "This dagger is very sharp, let me take it, so as not to hurt your hand!" Then he fastened the dagger to the scabbard.

Ziyun thought that her Zhiqing brother was sneaking in the house and would hide something delicious or fun, who would have thought that what he was hiding was actually a blade, which made Ziyun a little surprised, because in her eyes, Zhiqing is a monk who eats fasting and recites Buddha, and the blade represents cruelty and killing, although it is just a small dagger, but it also makes Ziyun feel a lot of worries and puzzles.

"Brother Zhiqing, how can you have such a dagger? What did you do with it? Ziyun frowned and asked puzzled.

"I ......" Zhi Qinghal didn't know how to explain to Ziyun.

"Brother Zhiqing, you won't use this dagger to kill people, right? When you passed by Yongyefang the day before yesterday, you kept inquiring about the county master's residence, did you give the county master ......? ”

"Shhhh - Zhiqing stepped forward and covered Ziyun's mouth, and begged in a low voice: "Good sister, don't talk nonsense!" If someone else hears it, we're in trouble! ”

Ziyun's head shrank, and he also knew the seriousness of this matter, so he only blinked his eyes and said softly to Zhiqing: "Okay, I won't talk nonsense, then Brother Zhiqing, can you tell me what you did when you went to the county master's mansion?" ”

Zhiqing saw that Ziyun was suspicious of herself, and she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to hide it, so she had to quietly close the door, and when she saw that there was no one around, she asked Ziyun: "Little girl, how do you know that I went to Cao County's mansion?" ”

The corners of Ziyun's mouth raised, glanced at Zhiqing lightly, and said with a slight smile: "Hmph, what can be hidden from this girl's eyes?" ”

"Cut! You're coming, come on, where did you know that? ”

Ziyun looked proud, coughed lightly, and said: "Brother Zhiqing, you forgot, that **** and I came back from Qinchun Building, when I passed by Yongyefang, you asked passers-by where the county master's mansion was, I thought it was very strange at the time, and asked you why, you just said that you just asked casually, and I didn't care too much about it when I had the opportunity to visit in the future, but I was a little worried when I saw that you didn't get up for a long time today, and now I saw the dagger in your hand and the bloodshot in your eyes, I knew that you must not have slept last night." Brother Zhiqing, you are loyal, and you don't lie and deceive people, just now when I entered the door, I saw you panicked, and I expected that you wanted to hide something from others, no, I guessed it, right? ”

Zhiqing listened to Ziyun's words, and immediately felt that this girl was not an ordinary girl, she had such superb insight ability, no wonder she dared to resist marriage and run away alone, since her actions had been seen through by her, it was not good to hide her anymore, she only scratched her head, and said with a smile: "Sister Ziyun, you are so smart, it seems that I can't hide anything from you!" That's right, I went to the county master's house, but I didn't kill anyone, I just asked him about some old things! ”

"Old things? What's old? Is it about your mom and dad? Ziyun is a smart and considerate girl, she knows that his Zhiqing brother is the same as herself, and what she wants to know most is her own background. Besides, these days, they are with each other day and night, and the most they talk about their own life experience is also about them.

Zhiqing heard the word "Daddy" from Ziyun's mouth, tears appeared in the corners of his eyes for a while, his face became solemn, and he sighed in a low voice: "Yes, it's about my father......"

"Oh...... That... Have you asked them all? Seeing Zhiqing's lost expression, Ziyun knew that things must not be so smooth, so he just asked tentatively.

"Well, I asked clearly, it was sixteen years ago......" Zhiqing's voice became deeper and lower, so low that Ziyun could only hear it with his ears sideways.

"Sixteen years ago? Could it be that the case handled by Cao County's order sixteen years ago... Sure enough, it has something to do with your father? ”

"Yes, the case handled by Cao County's order is my father's case, but he said that my father and mother were wanted by the imperial court and killed by the Flying Dragon Forbidden Army led by Yang Huan!"

"Huh? Is it a crime of the imperial court? So, your father... It's all... Villain? Ziyun was also a little surprised and disappointed, surprised that Zhiqing's parents had been killed, which undoubtedly made Zhiqing an orphan, and disappointed that Zhiqing's parents were important criminals in the imperial court, and they were all heinous people, otherwise they would not have been killed by the forbidden army.

"No, how can my father be a bad person?! Cao Xianling only said that they were fugitives from the imperial court, but he couldn't say what crime they had committed? I believe that they must have been wronged, if they really deserve to die, then Cao Xianling will not be so guilty for so many years, and he will not come to Houshan every Qingming Festival to worship and sweep, there must be grievances in this, but I don't know about it for the time being. Fortunately, I already have a rough idea of what happened back then, and if I can find Pei Yunhua or Yang Hui one day, I will be able to figure out the reason for this. ”

After Zhiqing finished speaking, he turned to Ziyun and said, "Sister Ziyun, I was planning to go to the back mountain to worship my parents, you can accompany me." ”

(To be continued...) ）

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