After dinner, it was drizzling outside, and Ximen came to Qiuqiu and Tong Ning'er's room to play, but saw Qiuqiu with his back to the door, writing over and over again on the paper "The son of a daughter can't sit down" eight big characters. He quietly looked at the back for a while and asked, "Xiao Qiu'er, did Uncle Yunhua punish you?" Qiuqiu was writing in a hurry, and was suddenly frightened by this voice, and the vertical of the word "thousand" was suddenly pulled out half a foot long, and she crumpled the paper into a ball with a sad face, and said: "Yes, a piece of paper can only be written twice, and it takes fifty sheets of paper." When Ximen March heard this, he said: "Let me write it, Xiao Qiu'er, I was not careful when I had an accident today." As he spoke, he squeezed onto the stool and reached out to take the wolf pen in Qiuqiu's hand.

Qiuqiu was squeezed off the stool, stood aside and said, "How can this work, I have made a mistake, you help me write it, wouldn't it be a crime on top of a crime." Besides, don't you get a headache when you smell ink? Ximen March writes very fast, but it is better than Qiuqiu's pen by stroke, he wrote while saying: "I just don't like to study, writing is still easy, and the master taught me to cherish the old and the weak, I help you like this, it is also a good thing to accumulate virtue and do good." ”

Ou Jinshu happened to walk in from outside, heard Ximen March's words, and said with a smile: "March, before you do things, do you have to find a name for yourself?" Simon March raised his pen and dipped it in ink and said, "Well, the master said that you can't be a teacher without a name when you do things. He suddenly raised his head and said to Ou Jinshu: "Aunt Ou, you have always had the best temper, don't you tell Uncle Yunhua, I'm here to help Qiuqiu." ”

Ou Jinshu nodded and said, "Okay, I won't say it." She suddenly beckoned and said to Qiuqiu, "Xiaoqiu, you come and sit." Qiuqiu was puzzled, and walked over and sat on the edge of the bed in a daze, Ou Jinshu pretended to inadvertently put his fingers on the tendons of her wrists, and said to her: "I heard your master say that you fell and injured yourself some time ago, are you okay?" Before Qiuqiu could answer, Ximen March exclaimed, "What's wrong with Xiao Qiu'er?" Qiuqiu hurriedly said: "It's okay, I'm going to help Uncle Zhao collect medicine, I just fell and injured myself, and now I'm better." ”

Jin Shu had a look of concern in his eyes, touched her head and said, "It's really pitiful, fortunately, there is nothing wrong with you, do you feel uncomfortable now?" Qiuqiu shook her head, she realized that Ou Jinshu was asking herself tentatively, as if she wanted to find out something, and she couldn't help but be shocked. This fright, it was difficult to see on her face, but Ou Jinshu detected it from her pulse.

Ou Jinshu remained silent and continued to ask: "Before and after the fall, who did you see?" Qiuqiu thought to herself, it seems that the speech at the General's Mansion has made Ou Jinshu suspicious of her, at this time, if there is no reason, I am afraid it will be difficult to get by, she calmed down and said: "Aunt Xiaoou, there was no one in the mountains at that time, but I always have dreams recently, dreaming of a person, saying that he is my father, and he will tell me something in his dreams." ”

"Huh?" Ou Jinshu didn't expect Qiuqiu to say this, so he couldn't help but be full of surprise and asked, "What does he look like?" Qiuqiu learned the tone of a child and said, "Much taller than me, with round eyes, and very kind speech." "It is said that the daughter is like her father, her own eyes are round, Zhao Hong should be about the same, and, judging from the attitude of Su Mengtang and others when they mentioned her father before, Qiuqiu's father should be a generous person.

Ou Jinshu took a breath: It is not easy for children to describe a person, but the three points that Qiuqiu said: tall, round-eyed, and kind, are clearly a portrayal of Zhao Hong. Her eyes were red, she let go of the hand attached to Qiuqiu's wrist, held Qiuqiu in her arms and said, "Good boy, this is indeed your father, he has come to see you." "When people listen to other people's descriptions, it is easy to compare what others say with the people and things in their imagination, and once they can match, they believe that what others say is indeed true.

When Ou Jinshu was a child, there was always a picture of a spring cow attached to the "Earth Mother Sutra" in her mother's room, which was used for divination of the year's fortune and good fortune, and she liked to follow her mother to read from above since she was a child. It turned out that Ou Mu was weak when she was young, and she had sent her name in Jiuhua Mountain Ganlu Temple, which was also a coincidence, since she sent her name, the symptoms in the womb got better year by year, and then she was all better, so she was convinced of the false talk of Buddhist reincarnation and Taoist help. For this reason, when Ou Mu was teaching Ou Jinshu to read, she always taught her some divination techniques that she had learned, so that she could avoid evil and protect herself in the future.

Ou Jinshu was born with a clear mind, and he mastered the door in a few years for the art of divination, and he also believed in things like dreams and out-of-body affairs. Therefore, when she heard Qiuqiu say that she had spoken in her dream, she had already believed a little, and when she saw that Qiuqiu had accurately stated the characteristics of the person who supported the dream, there was no more suspicion in her heart, only distress and remembrance remained. Ximen March saw Ou Jinshu hugging Qiuqiu, and the two of them were affectionate, so they only lowered their heads and wrote, and there were no more words.

At this time, in the bedroom of the main house, Yunhua and Zhuo Ran sat cross-legged in front of a long bamboo table, on which was placed a wine jug of Ru kiln porcelain, full of sake, and two wine cups. Drinking at this moment, it is by no means as restrained as in Donghai Hall, Li Zhuoran cup after cup, kept pouring it into his mouth, Yunhua said: "You drink slowly, I am afraid that it will not be long before you get drunk." Li Zhuoran picked up the wine jug again, filled it for himself, and said to Yunhua: "I can't wait to be drunk now, so I don't have to worry about this and that all day long." ”

After speaking, he let out a "snort" and put another glass of wine into his bowels. He leaned forward and said to Yunhua: When I first arrived in Jiangning, Qingzhou had been poisoned and unconscious for three days. I asked Changfan to find out all the people in the house who had access to food, except for the cronies brought by Lin'an. As a result, from the maid to the cook, there is no one who does not shout wronged, so he can't find it at all. ”

Yun Hua took a sip of the wine in the glass, raised his eyes and asked, "So you'd rather kill by mistake than let it go?" Li Zhuoran looked at the void, as if thinking about the situation at that time, and said: "I think, but how can Lao Zhao say that he is also an official of the imperial court, and all the servants in the family are registered, if I kill them all with a stick, won't I cause trouble for him?" I only drove these people out of the second gate to do rough work. Yunhua nodded and said: "Yes, but there is another possibility, the poison was not given by the servants in Qingzhou Mansion, but by someone from outside, and he left after it." ”

Li Zhuoran shook his head again and again and said: "Lao Zhang, you don't know, this poison is called phoenix gall, after eating it, people will be like a phoenix nirvana, there is no clue on the outside, but there seems to be a fire burning in the abdomen, and the internal organs can't help but burn, and they will collapse one after another." Ke Jinshu checked the last meal in Qingzhou, and found that the poison was given many times, only a little at a time, and even the silver needle could not be tried, once it was eaten for three or four days, people would vomit and fever, and the symptoms were similar to wind and heat. After two or three days of eating, the person will be unconscious, and if it is not detoxified as soon as possible, it will be... He didn't go on.

Yun Hua's eyes lit up, and he put the wine cup on the table: "In Qingzhou Mansion, there are such vicious people. But since the silver needle can't be tried, how did Sister Jinshu find out this phoenix gall? Li Zhuoran smiled bitterly and said: "She has a copy of the "Hundred Poisons Sutra", which was purchased by Ou Lao Yuanwai from the descendants of the Kongtong faction, and the Kongtong faction is the best at making poison and detoxifying, and the hundreds of strange poison methods, poisoning reactions and antidotes in the world are listed one by one in this book, which can be compared. ”

Yun Hua asked puzzledly: "Since this poison is in the body, it is difficult to see from the outside, and Qingzhou is unconscious, how is it compared?" Li Zhuoran said: "Lao Zhang, listen to me." At that time, Jinshu learned from Changfan's mouth that Lao Zhao had vomited and had fever for days, so he suspected that it was the toxicity of this phoenix gall, but there was also a poison in the book, called Boiling Blood San, the symptoms were similar to this, only one more symptom of night sweats, Jinshu was difficult to decide, so he ate the leftovers of that day in Qingzhou. Yunhua was stunned for a while: "Eat!" Poison test? ”