Because of the death of the little beggar in the same room, Cao Yan did not dare to ask for help from the outside world easily, for fear that if the matter was revealed, he would be unable to escape death. So, before you know it, it's July 30, the Christmas of King Jizo Bodhisattva.

That said, the pilgrims who came to Lingyin Temple to worship the Buddha were several percent more than in the past, and wealthy businessmen, officials, and ordinary people all came to Lingyin Temple. In just half a day, Xing Er's silver money reached ten taels. Xing Er was in a good mood, and he was also a lot kinder to Cao Yan, and he spent a copper plate to buy him two rotten peaches.

Cao Yan was so dry that his mouth was dry, and he ate one in two bites, but the remaining peaches were put in his sleeves.

By the time of Shen, the tourists in the temple began to descend the mountain, and the number of pedestrians going up the mountain gradually decreased. Therefore, when twenty or thirty people go up the mountain, it is particularly noticeable. Among the people who came, in front was a young man in his twenties and a young man of fifteen or sixteen, the two looked somewhat similar, they looked like two brothers, and they were followed by an entourage of guards. Xing Er saw that the patron was coming, and just as he wanted to come forward to beg, he was set up by two guards.

Cao Yan looked at the two of them, and only felt vaguely seen, but he knew that it was definitely not his memory. He came to the Qing Dynasty for half a month, and he hadn't seen a few of them with extraordinary manners like these two brothers.

I heard the young man say: "Fourth brother, that little beggar is so pitiful!" ”

The young man snorted coldly: "Thirteenth brother, seeing may not be believing, it's just a deception in the market!" ”

"Fourth Brother" and "Thirteenth Brother" are two titles that are never unfamiliar to modern people, and they are also of the same age. Cao Yan's heart rose to his throat, and he only felt that his whole body was about to tremble, and the peach bones in his sleeves rolled down, just stopping at the feet of the "fourth brother".

The "fourth brother" stopped and looked at the peaches at his feet. Cao Yan saw that he was wearing a string of Buddha beads on his wrist, and his heart was more peaceful, and he used his arm to support him and crawled to the man's feet. He turned his back to Xing Er and stuffed half of the placket with blood written on it into the boots of the "fourth brother" before picking up the peach.

Xing Er began to think that Cao Yan was asking for help, and he was ready to escape, but when he saw that he was just picking peaches, he was relieved.

The "thirteenth brother" was really embarrassed when he saw Cao Yan's appearance, and he couldn't bear it, so he took out a silver ingot from his purse and threw it in front of him. Then, they went to Lingyin Temple again.

It wasn't until he turned a corner that the young man stopped, called the two guards behind him, and ordered them to keep an eye on the big and the small ones who were begging. When he had finished speaking, he leaned down and took the rag from the mouth of his boot.

The sky is pitiful, it can be regarded as Cao Yanfu's great fate, and the group of people who just passed is the two he thought in his heart. The fourth elder brother Yinzhen and the thirteenth elder brother Yinxiang. Originally, Emperor Kangxi wanted to tour the south to inspect river affairs, but because the queen mother was not in good health recently, he sent two princes to Jiangnan. The two brothers were busy with their errands, and just in time for the birthday of King Jizo Bodhisattva, they went to Lingyin Temple to offer incense.

The rag, the size of three or four Chengren's palms, had dark red blood letters on it:

Jiangning Weaving Mansion, Cao Yin, a thousand taels of silver, remaining.

Not only did the fourth elder brother's face change, but even the thirteenth elder brother was shocked when he saw the bloody word. The blood was so clear and glaring that it made the rag look like it had been washed, and I don't know how many times the person who wrote it had depicted it.

The blood character did not explain the preface and afterword, which is also because Cao Yan has only been in school for a few days, and it is reluctant to know traditional Chinese characters, let alone write. The words "Jiangning Weaving House" were written down because they were hung in front of the gate.

When Emperor Kangxi toured the south the year before last, the fourth elder brother and the thirteenth elder brother were all accompanying princes, and both of them had been to Cao's house. The thirteenth elder brother pointed to the word "顒" and said in surprise: "This is the name of Cao Yin's only son, or was it given by Huang Ama himself the year before last." ”

The fourth elder brother nodded: "Well, Cao Yan was four or five years old the year before last, and he should be six or seven years old this year, which is the same age as the child just now!" ”

Although Cao Yin's face is not big, his mother, the "Fengsheng Lady" Sun, is even Emperor Yanjing who has to pay three respects. The two brothers thought about the tragic condition of the child just now, and their teeth itched with hatred. The thirteenth elder brother wanted to turn around immediately to save people, or the fourth elder brother thought carefully, for fear of startling the snake, and left the villain's accomplices. It wasn't until it was dark that Xing Er resisted Cao Yan and returned to his lair that he sent someone to surround the yard and come to an urn to catch turtles. It's okay for those splashes to be ruthless to ordinary people, but they are a little bit of a big knife in front of these palace guards, and they are made obedient in three or two clicks.

The fourth elder brother and the thirteenth elder brother entered the house and were shocked to see the disabled children crawling all over the ground. When Cao Yan saw that the savior came, he knew that he had come to the bitter end, although he knew that he was embarrassed, he couldn't help but have red circles in his eyes.

Under the rule of the provincial government, on the shore of the West Lake, outside the Lingyin Temple, there was such a den of wicked people. The thirteenth elder brother took out the guard's knife and wanted to cut the scoundrels, but was stopped by the fourth elder brother. The fourth elder brother walked up to Cao Yin, hugged him, and asked softly, "Are you Cao Yin's son?" ”

Cao Yan nodded vigorously, and the fourth elder brother asked again, "How did you get to Hangzhou?" ”

Cao Yan pointed at Xing Er, opened his mouth, and pointed to his throat again.

When Ah Ping saw these strangers who came to look fierce, but he subdued the few splashes who tortured them, and he became a little bolder, and said beside him: "He is mute, he was abducted by Xing Er a few days ago, and he seems to have come from Suzhou." ”

The fourth elder brother took out a clean handkerchief and wiped Cao Yan's little face. After all, Cao Yan has been cultivated since childhood, and although his face is sunburned, his neck is still as white as before. In addition to being suspected of kidnapping the sons of the Cao family, these people also involved the local officials, and the two brothers were not easy to overcome, so they wrote a handwritten letter and sent a few splashes to Hangzhou Prefecture for detention. Most of the children were injured or sick, and they were taken to the hospital.

Fortunately, the others are okay, that Ah Ping is what Cao Yan is determined to repay, so he took the hand of the fourth elder brother, wrote the word "En" on it, and pointed at Ah Ping, looking at the future Yongzheng Emperor with blank eyes, hoping that he could understand what he meant.

The fourth elder brother nodded, and sure enough, he asked someone to leave Ah Ping, and then took the two children to the post station where the two brothers stayed, and asked the accompanying imperial doctor to diagnose the two children. The fracture is okay, it didn't hurt the tendons, and it will be fine if it is raised for ten months, but Cao Yan's throat was burned by medicine, and it is not easy to recover, and the medicine here in Jiangnan is also insufficient.

The two brothers sent someone to the capital to deliver a letter to get medicine, and at the same time sent someone to Cao's house in Jiangning to deliver the message.

Cao Yan was cleaned up from the inside out, his broken leg was also connected, and he lay on the bed like a dream. Thinking about these hellish lives, he couldn't help but feel like crying all over his body.

The fourth elder brother and the thirteenth elder brother led Ah Ping in, looked at Cao Yan lying on the bed, and then looked at Ah Ping, they were all good-looking, like two brothers.

When Ah Ping saw Cao Yan, he put down the hand of the thirteenth elder brother, ran to the side of the bed, pointed to his arm and said, "My injury is almost healed, and you should get better too!" The two masters said that you are the son of a weaver, so can you accept me as a little girl? I don't have a father and mother, and I don't know who to go to! "Later, the voice was inaudible.

Cao Yan shook his head, smiled and pointed to his hands and feet, and then to Ah Ping and himself. Ah Ping thought that Cao Yan refused to take him in, and tears were about to come out, and the fourth elder brother said: "He said, I don't want you to be a little girl, I want you to be his siblings, and you two are brothers." ”

Ah Ping couldn't believe it, stared at Cao Yan with round eyes, and saw Cao Yan nodding with a smile, so he cheered: "I have a brother, I have a brother!" ”

Cao Yan smiled, but he was shocked and surprised in his heart, the mature and steady fourth elder brother with a strong human touch in front of him was completely out of tune with the legendary ice-faced emperor. What is going on, what kind of experience is it that makes this prince who is dedicated to Buddha become an emperor? Really, unimaginable......

Although Cao Yan traveled four or five hundred miles from Jiangning to Suzhou, and another four or five hundred miles from Suzhou to Hangzhou, the nearest official road from Hangzhou to Jiangning was only six hundred miles. The people sent by the fourth elder brother changed horses along the way, and arrived in Jiangning on the morning of the third day.

His son has been missing for half a month, Cao Yin has begun to despair, where did he think that the peak turned around, he actually had a whereabouts, and he had been rescued by the two elder brothers. Seeing that the messenger was extremely tired, he asked someone to take him down and settle in the guest room, and then entrusted the affairs of the yamen and the mansion to Zhuang Chang, and went to the inner house to tell the old lady that he would go to Hangzhou, and mentioned that if he did not come back in a hurry, he might be able to pick up his wife and children.

The old lady hadn't seen her grandson for half a month, and she was thinking about it in a panic, when she heard that she might have to pick it up, she had a lot of smiles on her face. Cao Yin went to the second brother's house in Xifu to see his wife, and told him the whereabouts of his son, since he was with the two elder brothers, there was nothing to worry about, so he asked the Li family to be relieved and bring it back in a few days.

After arranging everything, Cao Yin took a few people out of the city and rushed all the way to Hangzhou. When the messenger opened his eyes in the evening, Cao Yin had already been gone for half a day. Only then did the man remember that he hadn't mentioned Cao Yin's injury to Cao Yin, so he hurriedly said goodbye to the housekeeper of the Cao family and returned to Hangzhou to see him.

Hangzhou, prefect's yamen.

Prefect Shi Guozhu looked at the confession in his hand, and couldn't help but tremble, such an inconspicuous group of ruffians and hooligans killed eighteen people in just three years, more than half of which were in Hangzhou Mansion, and the location of their corpses on the edge of the West Lake had been found, and a total of eleven large and small skeletons were found.

If such a big case is solved in an ordinary way, a great achievement will not be able to run, but at the moment, Shi Guozhu is sitting on pins and needles. Three years, which happened to be during his tenure, it was inevitable that he would be investigated for the crime of negligence, let alone promotion, and it would be difficult to think of not being demoted. Thinking of this, his face became more and more gloomy, and he couldn't help but blame the two elder brothers for having a lot of things, just a good trip to the mountains and rivers, why bother to fill him up.

I wanted to do something with my hands and feet, but because there were two elder brothers in the middle, Shi Guozhu had to rest, and immediately wrote a letter and asked someone to send it to the capital quickly.

Although this Shi Guozhu is not of high grade, he is the uncle of the crown princess and is considered to be the crown prince's disciple, so he thought of sending a letter to the crown prince and asking him to help intercede in Beijing to see if he can be exempted from this punishment.

At the Hangzhou Post Station, Cao Yin arrived with a few entourages and asked the guards outside to pass it on.

The fourth elder brother and the thirteenth elder brother listened and personally greeted them at the door. Cao Yin flicked his sleeves and said, "The slave Cao Yin has seen the fourth elder brother and the thirteenth elder brother, and the two masters are auspicious!" ”

The fourth elder brother learned to ride and shoot with Cao Yin when he was a child, and he didn't want to accept his big gift, so he personally picked it up and said: "Master Dongting is polite, please get up quickly!" ”

Although the thirteenth elder brother had met Cao Yin a few times two years ago, he didn't dare to be presumptuous with Kangxi at that time, so he couldn't help asking: "I heard that no one has been able to surpass the nine consecutive shots you set so far, are you really riding and shooting?" There was a hint of doubt in his voice. No wonder he asked, Cao Yin was already a little weak, and because he was worried that his son looked very haggard, he didn't have the courage of a military general, and he was more like a powerless scholar.

The fourth elder brother's surname is quite strict, and when he saw that the thirteenth elder brother was so rude, he scolded loudly: "Thirteenth brother, don't be rude!" He turned his head and said to Cao Yin: "Master Dongting, let's see Ling Gongzi first, and you can feel at ease." With that, he turned around and led the way.

The thirteenth elder brother knew that it was not the right time for him to speak, this Cao Yin's son had become like that, and when his father was naturally in no mood to talk about anything else, he grabbed his head and obediently followed behind the fourth elder brother.

The moment Cao Yin saw Cao Yin, he couldn't help but take two quick steps forward and came to the bedside, feeling a pain in his heart. Although he also thought that his son might suffer some crimes, when he saw Cao Yan, whose face was full of dark spots (sunburn) and two legs broken, his heart was full of anger, and he grabbed his son's two little arms and was speechless.

Cao Yan heard someone come in, and when he saw that it was Cao Yin following the two elder brothers, he couldn't help but feel a little angry, didn't he say that the Cao family was powerful in Jiangnan? Why did he lose this son for half a month, and this cheap father couldn't be found, if not, he wouldn't have to suffer the pain of this broken bone. Therefore, it was silent. In fact, even if he wanted to speak, he couldn't say it, although his throat was already being conditioned, he couldn't make a sound for ten days and half a month.

There was silence in the room, and finally the fourth elder brother spoke and briefly said Xing Er's confession. Only then did Cao Yin know that the reason why his son could not be found in Suzhou a few years ago was that his son was abducted and brought to Hangzhou by a wicked person. If he hadn't met the two elder brothers, his son would have wanted to ...... Cao Yin was afraid for a while, and looked at Cao Yin's eyes more and more lovingly.

Cao Yan saw the extra gray hair on Cao Yin's temples, and knew that he should not be angry with him, pitying the hearts of parents all over the world, and thinking of his parents and relatives in his previous life, his eyes were even more sour, but he was unwilling to cry in front of everyone, closed his eyes and pretended to sleep. Or because of the lack of body, he fell into a deep sleep after a while.