With the uproar of the crowd, the black-faced and thin-skinned Baiyue King angrily threw a whole white broken leg under the porch.

All the men crowded around, and we women went straight back.

The smell of blood is filthy and foul, and it makes people cover their noses. I glanced through the crowd, and saw that the flesh and blood of the bare leg was blurred, irregular, and connected with bouncing tendons, as if it had been cut in half with a knife, and then the leg was dragged off alive, which was full of misery.

Li Can's face darkened, and he pretended to be calm: "Brother Zhou, why is this?" ”

King Baiyue was hoarse and spoke in non-standard Beijing dialect: "You came to ask me?" This is not the person you ambush on the road, ready to assassinate me in half! ”

"Brother Zhou, Brother Zhou! There must be a misunderstanding, since I have placed an invitation, how could I do such a suspicious thing! ”

Li Xuan danced and hurriedly clarified, while his eldest son had already crouched down, examining the corpse.

"See for yourself!" Zhou Wang Ye threw a waist card to Li Can.

Li Cane looked at the sign back and forth, and said hesitantly: "Don't hide it from Brother Zhou, this waist card is really something in my house." But this king really did not give such an order, and asked Brother Zhou to let me for two days, and set the power of the whole government to find out this matter, and give Brother Zhou an explanation! ”

Zhou Wangye covered his hands and nodded: "Okay!" And the king will give you two days. If you can't prove yourself, we'll see you in front of you! Naturally, if you are really innocent, this king will personally come to the door to make amends. Today's wine banquet will be waived first, farewell! ”

After that, he didn't allow the prince to stay with the exhortations, so he turned around and left.

Li Xuan sighed: "Where are the other parts of this corpse?" ”

The guard on the side replied: "Still lying at the entrance of the alley where we came in." ”

Li Xuan said angrily: "Don't hurry up and accept it, quickly check the details of this person!" ”

watched from the sidelines, but felt that Li Can's true feelings were rare for a while, but he was as sad as if he had really been wronged.

Reading the prince and the matter: "Brother Li should not be angry, what was falsely accused by the traitorous villain, how can he be asked to cover the sun and the sky, and you will know the truth after checking!" ”

The son of the Nian family, who has always cherished words like gold, rarely spoke: "Uncle Li, why worry about a trivial matter, my nephew is still waiting to drink your wine." ”

When there are many people, Nian Yi'an will not steal the limelight from his eldest brother, and when he shouldn't speak, he has been silently waiting aside.

The comfort of the crowd made Li Xuan regain some mood and face, and he also forced a smile: "Since this is the case, we can just enter the table, and ask our subordinates to check the rest." ”

He stretched out his arm: "Nian Wangye, sons, we have an invitation in the flower hall." ”

Then the family surnamed Nian used their happy atmosphere to carry Li Xuan and his eldest son and walked away.

At dusk, the jade wheel in the sky is rising.

The big girl in the house smiled sweetly and led us to the princess's palace in the backyard.

In front of the hall, there are two rows of red gauze lamps, and several bottles of lilies in the room are darkly fragrant, and the red shadows shine on the flowers, which is full of the meaning of welcoming guests.

The princess is dressed in luxurious makeup, with fragrant clothes and sideburns, and she talks politely, except for her normal figure, her appearance is very similar to that of the queen.

When we were greeted by the princess, the princess gave the milk doll in her arms to her nurse, and I glanced at the child, who had just grown four lower incisors, and whose big eyes were round and round, and who was drooling and felt acceptable, and wanted to pinch his little face.

The nurse went down with the little son in her arms. However, the dinner will be held on the old-style table, with one table per person, which is different from the large square table that has gradually emerged in Beijing.

There was also a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, about the same age as me, who had already sat in her second seat automatically, and did not make a sound when someone came, but only knocked on the sunflower seeds on the desk.

The young lady's eyes lit up: "This is the county lord of Kaikai, right?" I've always heard that the county is a beauty, but now it looks more like a fairy. ”

The princess and the county lord both had a happy face, and the princess scolded lightly: "Kaikai, don't you say hello?" ”

Only then did the county lord stand up and give a shallow salute: "Sister-in-law is blessed." ”

The princess took the young lady's hand and sent her to the banquet to take a seat, and said in her mouth: "This child is used to being a little petite, and it has only been these two years since he added a younger brother to him, and he complains to me every day that he doesn't favor her now!" I plan to find her an in-law and take care of her. ”

The county lord pouted: "A-Niang, you are here again!" That's what people say. ”

The young lady smiled: "I don't know the birth date of the county lord, let me think about which Gaomen is the same age as Kaikai." ”

Talking about idle days, the princess also spoke brightly: "On the tenth day of the sixth month of the year of Xinmao." It was dog days, and I was covered with prickly heat in the confinement period. So this kid is just collecting debts~"

Hahahaha, there was laughter in the room.

I mocked in my heart, huh! It's only two months older than me, if this Kaikai was also born on Bai Luri, could it be that he would have met in Lishan a long time ago?

But I also remembered the old story that Li Chengyun told me in the polo pavilion a while ago, if it is true, it can be explained. Back then, the princess and a concubine had a pregnancy at the same time, and she felt that her status was threatened, so she tried to get rid of it, so it was also an old script.

Thanks to the princess's care, Dong Xiu and I, as "big girls" at the moment, also shared the closest seat to the door, and enjoyed the atmosphere of the banquet silently.

As soon as it started to get hot, the young lady and the second young master's unabashed problems began to appear, and they actually asked about the "public case" I was thinking about.

"I heard that when you were pregnant with Kaikai, Princess, there was a very restless concubine in the mansion who actually went out of the wall, but you were really merciful, and you only sent her out, and you didn't use family law to deal with it."

The princess smiled a little embarrassedly when she heard this: "It happened more than ten years ago, why mention him." At that time, I was pregnant with a child, and I was a lot of blessings, and I usually had to make offerings to the gods and Buddhas. ”

Yahu~, this rumor is really not groundless......

In a blink of an eye, I saw the micro-expression on the face of the county lord of Kaikai, as if he sneered, fleetingly.

Weighing the weight of it, it's wonderful.

I took the opportunity to answer: "The princess must be a benevolent and devout worshipper. The slave only knows the god that Lanqiang worships, and I don't know which god is worshipping in Beijing now, so please teach the princess. ”

The princess smiled happily: "The three gods of Fu Lu Shou, the old mother of Li Shan, and even the gods of Houtu and the door...... Buddhism has only been in vogue in the past few decades, and the people in Beijing worship different families, if you are sincere, the gods and Buddhas are all connected. Choose the most destined one, and worship it. ”

I made a sudden realization: "Wow~ Thank you for mentioning it, then if you have a fate, you can worship in the shrine in our house." ”

"It's just...... Our Lanqiang Palace's other places are well preserved, but the shrine is dilapidated. The idol had lost its original appearance, and it was impossible to see who had come. There are also a few tablets, but the font has been eroded. I don't know, can I be disrespectful to the gods? ”

As I spoke, the princess's face twitched a few times and she let out a few breaths.

Then he thoughtfully said, "The statue of the god is damaged, and it should be repaired as a sign of worship." However, you are not the master in the end, you can only ask the young lady of your family to see if she can preside. ”

The young lady glanced at me, and said in passing: "My big girl, I have always been like my young sister, repairing a clay sculpture, in the end, it is easy to say, I will answer her!" ”

Then I made a great blessing with joy.

"Thank you, Second Young Lady, thank you, Princess. And what should a slave or a maid offer? ”

The princess smiled with a smile on her face: "Flowers, fruits, water, sandalwood, and scripture transcriptions." ”

Before I could answer, the princess turned her head to the side: "Go and take the "Nanhua Sutra" I just copied and hand it to this girl." ”

Then he said to me solemnly: "After I go back, and ask the girl to burn this set of "Nanhua Sutra" in your temple for me, today I actually met the little initiates here and talked about my heart. ”

"Yes, thank you, Princess."

It's really good, poke your pain points, come to a "lure the enemy deep", and the results are achieved without effort.

The banquet in the second half helped to cope with it, and it was in a hurry.

All the way home, I won't repeat it.

After getting off the carriage at the door of the mansion, I subconsciously looked at the alley between the two mansions.

The black does not slip in the autumn, and the black rumbles......

There was a feeling guiding me. I pulled the winter break: "Bring the lantern, let's go explore the narrow alley again." ”

"Hey, little adult, aren't you afraid of the dark?"

"Then take two."

The night is getting thicker, the moon is not shining, and a few wisps of clouds are dragging overhead, which is not a clear night.

The two of us entered through the west alley, intending to follow the direction of the carriage that day and walk again.

After a short walk, I came to the garden corner gate in the front yard, where I had injured the horse's eye with a slingshot, and I looked through the crack in the door to make sure of this.

It was really dark, there was almost no moonlight, and the rather large yellow lantern in Dong Xiu's hand became the only light in the boundless night, and the two of us mixed hands and walked forward timidly.

Dong Xiu couldn't help but tremble: "Didn't you come to visit with the third son?" Why don't you come back~"

I'm sometimes bold and surprising: "I didn't find anything one, two, three, take a look again, steady." ”

Seven points of light and shadow, three points of moonlight, and after a few more steps, the road ahead seemed to be alive and changed.

My scalp went numb instantly, but I was calm. I saw that the alley, which at that time felt straight, was now twisted into an arc to the right in front of my eyes......

Straight during the day and curved at night –

Seeing this scene is like entering the yin!

I said in abrupt terms, "There really are ghosts." ”

Dong Xiu screamed and jumped to his feet in fright: "Ghosts, ghosts? Don't come and eat me! ”

Then there was a sudden voice behind me, which scared me and jumped a step.

"If you dare to come, what are you shouting?"

When he was clear, his chest suddenly tightened, but he was frightened. I rubbed my hands on my chest and inhaled a long breath: "Nian Yi'an, you're going crazy!" ”

He laughed: "I originally planned to follow you silently to protect you, but seeing that you are so afraid, I have to show up." ”

Winter break was already about to cry: "Two two, don't dare to toss anymore, I never thought that I would be scared to death one day!" ”

This cry was humorous, leading to a burst of laughter between me and Nian Yi'an.

After beating my chest and laughing, I pointed ahead: "Look, it's changed!" ”

Nian Yi'an slapped the wall left and right, and banged: "No, this is a real bluestone wall, how can it move by itself?" ”

I fluttered and blinked, and kicked the wall with my foot, very solid: "This may be a joke of fate and a gift from the gods......"

"You guy can really make trouble, let's take a look at it."

The three of us walked along the alley, which was not obvious to the right, but it was long enough to make it seem to turn to the right a lot. If you are blindfolded, it does feel like a straight road.

I looked for the wisteria that I had seen last time that spread out of the wall, probably before this location, there was a glazed light that was very dazzling.

Now look for it and see if the memory really exists. Oh my God, I have some suspicions that something is wrong with my memory......

After a while, the wisteria was found, and the lantern was closer, and the purple velvet ears that were waiting to be released seemed to be asleep in the dark night, not as conspicuous as on a sunny day.

I looked up to see if there was any shining, but unfortunately the moonlight was too dim to see any reflective medium. At this moment, the sound of trickling water was suddenly heard.

If you listen carefully, it comes from the house on the left-hand side, Luxi, and it may be just a diversion channel at the corner of the wall.

A few steps further, the sound of running water gradually farther away, but listening through the wall, I only felt that it was still flowing nearby.

Nian Yi'an held the lantern and stretched out his arms: "Look, the road is a little wider now, more than six feet wide." But if there is an arc, it should be more than that, it should be wider. ”

I suddenly understood: "It seems that the wall of the home on the left side is straight." ”

Speaking of this, Nian Yi'an and I widened our eyes at the same time, and a scene in our memory emerged in our minds.

"The corner gate of the west side of the road ahead is not the neighbor's!"