Chapter Seventy-Three: Conspiracy
The structure of the Xiao Mansion is unique, and the internal corridors of the entire mansion are tortuous, and the rooms are hidden. Therefore, although there are many miscellaneous people in the house, as long as they are in the room or near the side room, they can not interfere with each other.
At night, the heavy rain is pouring down, and the raindrops fall to the ground like a spring, surging and washing the gate and outer wall of the Xiao Mansion, and the bumps and agitation are like the rumbling of drums, which makes people feel restless.
Xiao Yuan sat in the study and copied the scriptures, the carved window lattice was half-covered and half-hidden, and the lightning bolts were split from time to time outside the window, illuminating the room as bright as day.
He dipped in a full stroke of ink, and the pen was transcribing that "the fatigue of life and death starts from greed, less desire and inaction, and the body and mind are at ease." Before the word "in" was written, he heard a fluttering sound outside the wooden window, Xiao Yuan paused for only a moment, and then continued to write, and his lips lightly spit out two words "come in".
Then, the footsteps outside the corridor got closer and closer, and stopped abruptly outside the door, and the next moment the wooden door "creaked" softly: "Father." ”
After Xiao Fengnian entered the door, he closed the door, walked two steps and stopped in the middle of the study, raised his eyebrows slightly, and looked at Xiao Yuan who had never looked up at all.
"Luo Chengyu is really out of breath?"
Xiao Fengnian's face sank, and he said lightly: "Yes, the child was next to his bed at that time." ”
"You really don't remember what happened before?" Xiao Yuan's tone was flat, but the question was full of doubts.
"The child really doesn't remember. Xiao Fengnian frowned and said.
Xiao Yuan put down the brush, stood up, slowly approached Xiao Fengnian, looked at him meaningfully, and slowly turned around, turned his back to Xiao Fengnian, stood in front of him with his hands, and said quietly: "Didn't he say anything to Luo Feng before he lost his breath?"
Xiao Fengnian was stunned, raised his head slightly, but could only see the back of Xiao Yuan's head, "Father, are you copying Buddhist scriptures?"
Xiao Fengnian's eyes glanced at a piece of rice paper on the desk where the ink had not dried, and he laughed softly and said: "Life and death fatigue starts from greed, less desire and inaction, body and mind are at ease, father, is what you wrote true?"
Xiao Yuan didn't answer, and continued to ask him without hesitation: "Did you say that?"
Xiao Fengnian retracted his gaze, continued to look at the back of Xiao Yuan's head, and said flatly: "He seems to want to say it, but as soon as Luo Feng got closer, he lost his breath." ”
"In other words, Luo Feng doesn't know either?"
"That's right. ”
Xiao Yuan suddenly turned around, raised his chin, swept Xiao Fengnian under his eyes, and asked: "My eyeliner tells me, the one you know recently, Liang Bingruo, has mentioned the Luo family's treasures more than once under the city gate, and even outsiders know about it, how could he Luo Feng not know?"
Luo Feng really didn't know, the child saw with his own eyes that Old Man Luo was going to talk to him about the treasure, and the mouth shape of the child really saw it, but he really died without saying it. ”
"Then go ask that Liang Bingruo!" Xiao Yuan suddenly raised his voice, and his sharp eye knife shot straight at Xiao Fengnian.
"She's here to beg you to see what she's talking nonsense!" Xiao Fengnian clenched his fists and raised his eyes to look at Xiao Yuan.
"Feng Nian, don't think that if you have amnesia, you won't be my son! If you don't do this, I can send someone to do it, you can think about it." ”
"Father!"
"Get out!"
Xiao Fengnian brushed his sleeves away angrily.
After a while, another person knocked on the door, Xiao Yuan called in, and the person pushed the door in.
"What's the situation?" Xiao Yuan sat back at the desk, pinched his eyebrows with two fingers of his right hand, and asked with slightly narrowed eyes.
Outside the window, the wind and rain were heavy, and the night breeze invaded the room through the cracks in the window lattice, making it bleak and cool. The man's voice was eerie and low, and he couldn't tell his age. "They found a few old servants of the Luo family and tortured them, and it was indeed the case. ”
"But when the person died, he didn't even leave a last word to Luo Feng. Xiao Yuan sighed lightly.
"Someone must know about such an important thing. It's just that Luofu didn't commit a crime, and Lord Xiao can't take it by force. ”
"What do you think?"
"Hehe, Lord Xiao, there is a saying that the world is the great land of the king, and there is also a saying that the emperor of the sky is far away, ......"
Xiao Yuan thought for a moment, and the corners of his mouth hooked up a smile: "Hehe, you are still amazing." I'll go to the Imperial City myself tomorrow. But who are we going to send here?"
"Naturally, it's Xiao Gongzi, he is your only son, who else will be more loyal to you than Xiao Gongzi?"
"Feng Nian is not the Feng Nian of the year, he really doesn't seem to remember who he is. ”
"Hehe, Lord Xiao is too worried. He doesn't remember that he's your son, but he doesn't disbelieve he's your son. Lord Xiao, the truth that blood is thicker than water will not be understood because he has no memory......"
Xiao Yuan smiled again and began to pace around the room with his hands behind his back. After a while, he looked at the man and asked, "Feng Nian is still not at ease alone." ”
The man paused, and then smiled again: "Naturally, you can't let Xiao Gongzi go alone......"
After that, the two of them sat down and whispered in a low voice, sometimes thinking intently, sometimes looking at each other and smiling, planning and planning.
After a long time, the man bowed down and retreated, and Xiao Yuan was the only one left in the house. The scorching fire was coming to an end, and the night was lonely again, as if no one had ever come, no one had said anything, only the wind and rain outside the window......
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Three months later, a group of people and horses swept into Lanruo Temple, and the eunuch led by the herald rode a high-headed horse, came to the Bingruo house and stopped in front of the house, and shouted sharply: "Liang Bingruo, the daughter of the Orion villager, receives the order!"
Bingruo was cooking in the house at the time, and when he heard this, he hurriedly wiped his hand on his apron and ran out, and was startled when he saw the battle in front of the house, the eunuch who passed the decree was dressed in a gorgeous costume, holding the holy decree with a serious expression, and a group of imperial city soldiers behind him were also wearing armor and knives one by one, with solemn faces. There were already many monks and pilgrims in the temple around, and they were talking to each other one by one, with complicated expressions. Bingruo hurriedly bowed down and listened to the order.
"Fengtian carrier, the emperor edict said, Yunzhou City rich merchant Luo Chengyu, before his death to operate Luojia shop branch 276, Zhanghe transported 28 lines of silk and smuggled salt to the eighteen cities of the Great Cangguo, during which illegal smuggling, hoarding, evasion of tax silver, hiding the wealth of the former dynasty Xia Nan Kingdom treasury, and the jade seal of the previous dynasty, raided the mansion of Luo Chengyu in Yunzhou City, and ordered the insider Liang Bingruo to immediately set out to find the place where the Luo family hid the treasure, report to the imperial court, and admire this. ”
The surrounding crowd was in an uproar, and Bingruo's head buzzed, and he was stunned and didn't know what to do.
"Liang Bingruo, take the order. The eunuch raised his head proudly and looked down at Bingruo who was kneeling in front of him.
"What did you say? What confiscation? What national treasure?" Xia Xian squeezed through the crowd, his eyes blazing, and he glared at the eunuch fiercely.
The eunuch squinted his eyes and swept Xia Xian with disdain, and said: "Your Wuping County Yamen is too unruly, and you dare to talk to our family like this!"
"Xia Xian, come here. Zhan Li said as he forcibly dragged Xia Xian away from the front of the crowd.
Bingruo slowly raised her eyes, stretched out her hand to receive the holy decree with an expressionless face, she calmed down, and calmly said to the eunuch who passed the decree: "The people don't know what the wealth of the Luo family is a national treasure of the previous dynasty......
"But more than one person heard you tell the soldiers guarding the door, you know that the Luo family is rich and rivals the wealth of the country, haha, go and find it. ”
"That's what I said casually in order to ask to see Governor Xiao!"
"This, our family doesn't know, if you have any questions, go to the imperial city to talk to the emperor yourself, haha. ”
Bingruo took the holy decree, stood up, ignored the discussion of the crowd around him, went straight back to the house, and slammed the door shut.