Hua Qiao jumped back home, pushed the door and called: "Daddy!" Auntie! "Hua Rong went to a private school today and didn't go home at noon.

Yun Niang glared at her, the towel in her hand slapped on the hem of her skirt, Hua Qiao raised her hand with a smile, turned around, and asked A-Niang to pat off the dust on her body for her.

Yun Niang was disgusted: "Where are you crazy again?" When it's time to eat, there is no one to be seen. Your dad has to wait for you to come back, wash your hands quickly, and go to the utility room to call your dad to eat. ”

After washing her hands, she ran to the utility room. When I went in, Daddy was fiddling with his watch again, and this time he wanted to think of a new way, maybe the blind cat touched the dead mouse and let him fix it? Seeing the flower ball coming in, Daddy's watch stopped repairing, and began to pack up his tools, and asked casually, "How is it?" ”

Hua Qiao hurriedly told Daddy what Xiao Er said in the inn and the mercury account in the elixir shop.

"Daddy, that barren mountain abandoned corpse should be the little wine pot boy, he and Miss Guo should have been killed by the same person. Why did this person poison with mercury? There is an easier way to kill people, but he chooses the most perverted one. ”

"Perhaps, what stimulated him to make him perverted to the point that not only did he want people to die, but he also wanted people to die in a humiliating way? What's more, this method of poisoning also has a certain degree of concealment, and if you don't investigate carefully, you really can't find out the cause of death. ”

Hua Youcai muttered again: "Mercury is acute poisoning, and it is poured into the body, and the dosage cannot be small." This thing produces toxic gas when it volatilizes, so the packaging is generally sealed with a bamboo tube or porcelain bottle. You go back and see what kind of packaging the gold shop throws away. ”

"You suspect it's a gold shop? But Brother Jianping doesn't look like a bad guy? Hua Qiao thought about it and said: "When you talk about container packaging, I really saw it today, a big-bellied and thin-necked coarse porcelain bottle." Brother Jianping said that that is what they put mercury in. ”

Hua Youcai smiled: "Now we have no evidence, I can say that I don't suspect anyone." However, the most taboo in judging the case is prejudgment, if you predict that Du Jianping is a good person, then you will ignore some details. For example, the changed data. Also, you've seen the packaging now, in case you see it next time, won't you know it's the same mercury? Detail! ”

Hua Qiao thought about it carefully and said, "Yes, don't make a judgment, you told me...... Since the mercury can't be found, Daddy, do you think we should persuade the innkeeper to go to the yamen to report the case? At least I know the identity of this son. ”

"Report the crime? What is the use of reporting a crime? Daddy put away his tools, got up and walked out, and as he went, he said:

"This young man of Yangzhou's small wine pot is a sin at home, even if he reports the case, the yamen will also press it down, what is the difference between it and the current case? The witness of the shopkeeper might as well be saved for the critical moment to be used, so as to save him from turning back or being killed. Now is an eventful time, don't make trouble. ”

"Eventful? Why? Isn't our Yongle Emperor in Shuntian Mansion? What will happen? Hua Qiao asked puzzled. She suddenly moved in her heart, and felt that the boy who lacked virtue and told the shopkeeper not to report the case also made sense, looking at it this way, he not only did not lack virtue, but also had some knowledge.

Of course, Hua Youcai would not tell her that in August next year, Emperor Yongle would die on the return journey of the Northern Expedition. The sudden death of the emperor led to the change of dynasty, how could there be no waves? There is a line of words in the history book, and I don't know how much blood and tears are hidden behind the words.

The traveler understands history, but cannot change it, because history is the past, and the past is a fait accompli that will never be changed.

"You're a girl, why are you asking so much? Let's go, go to eat. ”

While eating, Hua Qiao couldn't help but say: "Today I met a team of people on Dingdang Street, it seems to be ...... The horse team of the imperial grandson. They don't have any scruples to run around the county, and they are very fast. I was walking on the side of the road and almost hit me. ”

Yun Niang hurriedly asked, "Then you didn't fall, did you?" No wonder came back a skirt of ash. ”

"It's okay, your daughter dodged it with a quick move! However, I couldn't hold back my anger and picked up a rock......"

"Did you pick up a stone and throw it at the imperial grandson?" Hua Youcai was shocked, put down his chopsticks and stared at Hua Qiao. He knew that Zhu Zhanji, who was canonized as the emperor's grandson, was going to be the emperor in the future, and it would be terrible to throw a stone at him.

Yun Niang's face instantly changed when she heard this.

"No, no, no ......" Hua Qiao saw that her father and mother were so nervous, and quickly waved her hand to deny it.

"Oh, if you don't throw it, it's good if you don't throw it." Hua Youcai breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the chopsticks he had just put down and continued to eat.

Hua Qiao saw that he had already spoken, and simply finished his words with a gritted tooth: "However, I threw the leg of his guard...... The horse overturned, and the man fell. He sent men after me, and I got into the alley...... Ran. ”

Hua Youcai and Yun Niang glanced at each other, and their faces turned green.

Hua Youcai put down his chopsticks again, walked out silently, and plugged in the courtyard door. Walking back again, he looked at Hua Qiao and said solemnly: "You tell me what happened carefully, don't miss a word, Daddy promises not to beat you." ”

This sentence is often used by Daddy to talk about Hua Rong, but now his brain is messed up, and he also says the same thing to Hua Buckwheat, who has never been beaten.

Hua Qiao had no choice but to tell what happened on the road just now, and this time she didn't dare to hide the part where Hu Yanjin saved her.

"You said that the person who saved you was Xu Zhijin's friend?" Hua Youcai thought, he watched Xu Zhijin grow up, and he knew that he was rich and wealthy, even if this was the case, it might not be a big problem. I'm afraid that the emperor's grandson won't give up, and he will dig three feet into the ground to find out the buckwheat.

Yun Niang next to her had another thought, and now she just had to push her, and she could faint to the ground immediately.

In the sixth year of Yongle, she escaped from Yingtianfu with Hua Qiao, and wanted to flee to Shandong, but she didn't expect to meet robbers on the road, and the mother and daughter almost died in a mass grave, but fortunately they were found by Hua Youcai and rescued them.

When Yongle was nineteen years old, the emperor moved the capital to Shuntianfu with great fanfare, and Yun Niang was secretly glad that they were farther away from the capital. She never expected that Hua Qiao walked on the road of Baoying County, which could provoke the royal family.

Hua Youcai thought for a while and said, "Hua Qiao, you have been staying at home honestly for the past two days, and you are not allowed to go anywhere." I'll go back to the yamen now to inquire, what is the royal grandson doing in Baoying, and you can only go out when he leaves Baoying County. ”

After speaking, he didn't eat anymore, put on his coat, and went out to the county office.

Yun Niang was obviously more anxious than Hua Youcai, and she stared at her daughter's face, which was getting bigger and more beautiful...... No, she doesn't think about this, fifteen years have passed peacefully, and in another two years, Hua Qiao will marry an honest man and live a good life, and nothing will happen.

Hua Youcai loves Hua Qiao so much, and treats her like her own daughter. Hua Qiao, even her and Hua Youcai's daughter, no one can take it away.

Yun Niang didn't want to eat, so she silently went back to the back room, looking at the dark grid on the wall in a daze. Only Hua Qiao was left alone at the dinner table to regret:

If I had known this, I would have stoned the horse's butt!