Chapter 570, hanging
The follow-up came quickly.
When Zeng Rong and Zhu Heng were eating, there was movement outside the door, and a shopkeeper came over and asked Zeng Rong if he had any other needs.
Zeng Rong glanced at Ah Chun and whispered a few words to her, Ah Chun opened the door and said to the shopkeeper: "This little second brother, our master said, we are all on a boat this one, and we are tired of eating fish and shrimp, so we want to eat some refreshing vegetables. ”
After speaking, Ah Chun took out a small piece of broken silver from his purse and gave it to the other party, the shopkeeper took the silver and left happily, before leaving, his eyes glanced in, and he didn't see anything else, and vaguely saw someone sitting at the square table eating, and he left with a little pride.
Seeing this, Jiangdong glanced at Jiangxi and Jiangbei, leaving Jiangnan to guard, and the three of them went out.
After touching a stick of incense, the three of them brought the shopkeeper in, and after an interrogation, they learned that the shopkeeper also received a hundred taels of silver from the other party, and the other party gave him a small bottle and ordered him to pour it into Zeng Rong and Zhu Heng's dishes.
As for what was in the bottle and what it would bring to the guests, the shopkeeper didn't know anything, and the other party only told him that he had to watch the wheelchair man eat it himself, and then the other party would give him another hundred taels, and he could take the two hundred taels of silver tickets back to his hometown.
It's a pity that when they caught the shopkeeper in the stove room, they alarmed the people who were hiding in the shadows, so when they went to find the other party according to the shopkeeper's confession, the other party was nowhere to be found.
"Master, this is the silver ticket and the small bottle that were found from him." Jiang Dong took out two silver tickets of fifty taels and a small white porcelain bottle.
Zhu Heng didn't answer, only glanced at the silver ticket, the silver ticket was issued by the largest business in the capital, but this business has a branch in the whole country, except for proving that the person who killed them was from the capital, nothing else can be proved.
"The other party should be near us, and they followed us all the way to Slender West Lake." Zeng Rong said.
"Bao Buqi still lives in the same inn as us, but luckily we cook our own food." Ah Chun only felt a tingling on his scalp.
I used to think that there were a lot of bad things in the palace, but I didn't expect that going out of the palace would not be peaceful.
"But what kind of venom is this? Even the old decay is hidden? Lu Lang took the small bottle from Jiang Dong's hand and sniffed it again.
This time, he didn't dare to taste it himself, but after his repeated speculation, he suspected that the bottle contained a snake venom, so the silver needle could not be tested, and it could not be smelled when it was put into the dish, but it smelled directly from the mouth of the bottle, and there was a faint smell of blood.
In the early years, he had treated several people who had been poisoned by snakes, and he knew that snake venom was powerful, and there were many snakes in the south, especially in summer. Therefore, there are really people who use this poisonous snake liquid to harm people.
"Go grab a chicken and see how toxic this thing is." Zhu Heng spoke with a cold face.
Jiang Nan went out, and after a while, he brought a chicken over and fed it some fish soup, and within half an hour the chicken wilted, and then, I was afraid that it would not move on the ground.
"So poisonous?" Ame asked tremblingly.
Zeng Rong glanced at Zhu Heng, Zhu Heng's face could wring out water, his body was also a little trembling, and his upper and lower teeth were also a little trembling, so he hurriedly went over and hugged him.
"Okay, the weather will be clear, why don't we go to the lake, it's a rare trip, and take a good look at the scenery of the south of the Yangtze River." It is reported that this slender West Lake is no worse than the West Lake in Hangzhou, when I just came, through the rain curtain, looking at those buildings and pavilions, the poem popped out of my mind, 'Four hundred and eighty temples in the Southern Dynasty, how many buildings are in the smoke and rain'. Zeng Rong proposed.
"Really? I want to go and see the twenty-four bridges, read the red medicine by the bridge, and know who is born every year. Zhu Heng raised his head.
This poem is what his mother likes, and his mother also likes the sentence "Twenty-four Bridges and Bright Moon Night", he saw in his mother's notes that his mother has always wanted to stand on the Twenty-four Bridges, look up at the bright moon, look down at the peony, and turn around and there is someone to rely on.
Unfortunately, this is the mother's wishful thinking after all.
But he, a few months ago, probably never dreamed that he would have the opportunity to come here, and he would stand on the bridge, relying on the bright moon and peony on the twenty-four bridges, and the sound of his mother.
"Okay, listen to your husband, just go and see the red medicine by the bridge." Zeng Rong pushed Zhu Heng out of the door.
As for the shopkeeper, Zhu Heng ordered Jiangdong to send him to the yamen and hand him over to the government for conviction, but Jiangdong used some means and ordered the government to send people directly to be forced labor.
Let's say that Zeng Rong pushed Zhu Heng out of the wine shop and walked along the embankment of the lake, there are many islands and pavilions in the middle of the lake, some of them pass through the hole bridge, some of them are directly connected to the embankment, and some need to take a boat to go over.
Zeng Rong pushed Zhu Heng to visit a few, these pavilions can be regarded as cultural landscapes, there are many inscriptions of literati and scholars, among which there are many famous artists and everyone, Zhu Heng is more interested.
Zeng Rong noticed that the four Jiangdong did not follow them closely, but divided into groups of twos and twos, and also pretended to be tourists, wanting to secretly observe whether there were any suspicious people following them.
It's a pity that after two hours, nothing was found.
You don't need to ask to guess that since the other party knows that they caught the shopkeeper, they must have opened early.
Because Zhu Heng and Zeng Rong wanted to see the bright moonlit night of the Twenty-Four Bridge, after turning a few places, they went straight to the Twenty-four Bridge.
The Twenty-Four Bridge is a single-hole arch bridge, also called Wujia Brick Bridge, also known as the Red Medicine Bridge, which is full of peonies nearby, but unfortunately they missed the flowering period, and only a few residual flowers hang lazily.
In fact, whether it is the bridge or the red medicine on the side of the bridge, it does not give people a sense of amazement, far inferior to the pavilions and pavilions they just went to, at least, there are many celebrity inscriptions or poems and various carvings there.
But they turned around on this bridge and found nothing, just an ordinary brick arch bridge, some dilapidated, some mottled.
In fact, the main thing is that it has witnessed history, Yangzhou City has been repeatedly burned in history, this bridge has witnessed the tourists of Slender West Lake and the flowers are blooming, and it has also witnessed its door and smoke and grass. Therefore, it has become the preference of literati and rioters, and it is only through their pens that so many popular poems have been left behind. Zeng Rong said with emotion.
She was afraid that Zhu Heng would be disappointed, and she was afraid that Zhu Heng would think of Fang Cai's unhappiness again, so she threw out this topic.
"Yes, in fact, the main thing to see is also a person's state of mind, the same scenery is different in different moods, if I am asked to write poetry at the moment, I will never be able to write that kind of sadness." Zhu Heng touched Zeng Rong's hand on the wheelchair swing hand with his backhand, he understood Zeng Rong's hint and understood her intentions.
In fact, he didn't want Zeng Rong to worry when he said this.
But his mother's regrets, Fang Cai's experience, and then thinking of his own growth experience over the years, how could he not be sad?