After settling Daddy and Hua Rong, Hua Qiao got into the car and embarked on the road to find out her own background and kill Auntie's murderer.

After passing through Wangnan Private School, Xu Zhijin was picking up a load of firewood, which was Mr. Wu's rule: to help in the college, it must be the student himself, not a dummy. When Hua Qiao saw it, she hurriedly got out of the car and said goodbye to him.

"You can go with confidence, Bao should have me. Now Uncle Hua lives next to the academy, and it is convenient for me to run. Even if the list is released next month, I won't set off until after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month next year. If you return to treasure for the New Year, we can still meet. ”

Xu Zhijin's smile is always so reassuring. Hua Qiao suddenly felt that in Baoying's memories, in addition to her father and brother, Xu Zhijin could not be missing.

It's the same horse and cart, but it lacks the laughter and laughter when it comes. Hu Yanjin was also sullen, he was not unhappy, but he was afraid that what he said would make Hua Qiao unhappy.

"Senior brother, the road ahead is easy to walk, can you let the dark clouds carry me?"

Hua Qiao suddenly lifted the curtain and asked with a smile. Hu Yanjin's face was full of surprise, how could he not agree?

He wrapped the buckwheat in his arms, lowered his head and kissed her hair, and whispered in her ear: "Don't be afraid, do whatever you want, and me." ”

"I don't want to enter the palace to be a princess or county lord, but I'm unwilling, I want to know the truth, my aunt's death, maybe it's related to my life experience. They killed my mother, and they must not be good people. ”

Hu Yanjin smiled lightly: "I will investigate the death of my master." The truth is not so important sometimes, you are you, no matter what identity you are, what I have in my heart is only you. ”

The buckwheat snuggled in his arms, feeling the warmth of each other.

Back to Yingtianfu, there are more things about Huyanjin, because this month foreign envoys have entered Yingtianfu one after another, and the envoys who came to worship this time have thousands of people, which is the most important state event after Yingtianfu became the accompanying capital.

The time of the imperial grandson was also full, and when he saw Hu Yanjin, he remembered Hua Qiao, and when he heard that her mother died, the imperial grandson rewarded some gold and silver to appease, so he no longer bothered her.

Hua Qiao learned to cook with Sister-in-law Mei in the house every day, and learned cutting and embroidery with Mother Li.

"Mother Li, have you grown up in Yingtianfu since you were a child?"

"That's not, when I was ten years old, I followed my father and mother to Yingtianfu, my father was also a craftsman, and then in the sixth year of Yongle, the plague was introduced into Beijing, and my father and mother unfortunately died of illness, I sold myself into a big family, and then buried my father."

"Yongle six years? I was born in the sixth year of Yongle...... Was there a plague that year? Do you remember what happened that year? ”

"How can you forget that? That year, I still lived by the Taiping Gate, outside the Xuanwu Lake, and the prison of the Three Law Divisions was also outside the city gate. The magnates don't like to enter and exit through this gate, so this gate is mostly a mix of people.

The plague broke out in April that year, and it is said that the weather will be warmer, and the epidemic will be less.

But that year, a strange thing happened, in an alley not far from Taipingmen, there was a courtyard where five families lived, and they were all killed overnight. And after that, the plague suddenly arose. Everyone said that it was the unjust soul who came to ask for his life. ”

Mother Li chattered, thinking of the tragic situation that year, she couldn't help but shake her head.

"Why were those five families wiped out? Who killed it? ”

"I don't know...... For soon after the incident came, the plague came, and the incident was soon overshadowed by new fears, and no one spoke of it again. ”

"Girl, this kind of thing sounds terrible, why are you still so interested?" Can'er smiled: "Our adults are coming back soon, you wash your hands and wait outside, or the adults won't be able to see you when they come back, and they will be looking for you all over the yard." ”

Hua Qiao smiled and nodded, and went out with a small basket of oranges that she had just bought.

She was holding a knife, cutting a lid on the orange and taking the orange petal out of the orange peel, Hu Yanjin walked behind him and looked at it for a while, and asked, "What are you doing?" ”

"Oh, senior brother, you scared me." Hua Qiao patted her chest and smiled: "I'm making a little orange lantern, Daddy taught me to do it." After a while, put a candle head in it, and it will become a lamp. ”

"What are you going to do in a while? I'll go get it for you. ”

Saying that, he turned around and was about to leave, Can'er had already come in with a few candlesticks, these were pierced by candlestick needles, and they were not easy to use, and the girl saw that she said not to throw them, but to keep them for her to play with lamps.

The small candle head burns in the orange peel, and the candlelight shines through the orange peel, and the whole orange lamp glows with orange light.

Hu Yanjin smiled: "You lamp...... Okay...... Although it can't shine, there is still a fragrance of oranges, you give me one, and I will smoke it by the bedside. ”

When he said this, Hua Qiao and Can'er both grinned.

Hua Qiao's smile increased, Hu Yanjin was also happy, and when he was eating, he told Hua Qiao about their reception of all countries to come to the court.

"Are there really 10,000 countries?" Hua Qiao asked curiously.

"How can there be so many? However, there are more than 60 of them, all of whom have come in groups, and according to current statistics, there are more than 1,200 people. Today we went to requisition some inns and inns for unified management. Although these people are small and inconspicuous countries, they should not lose their manners. ”

"Are they all here to pay tribute? But I can't see the emperor. ”

"The emperor is still in the Northern Expedition to Mongolia, and His Royal Highness the Emperor Grandson will accept the worship of the envoys on his behalf, and he will also make half of the country for the emperor as a vassal state."

"That's a nice thing to say, you want to ask Daming to give them silver flowers, right? In the past, many of the embroideries in my mother's embroidery workshop were requisitioned by the government to be rewarded by the vassal countries. You can't embroider it wrong, it is said to represent the Ming Dynasty! They give us tribute fruits, which grow on the trees themselves, and we give them many times more than the wise......

Hu Yanjin looked at Hua Qiao with a smile, and when he talked about his mother, he no longer cried and cried, and he regained his previous vigor when he spoke.

"Senior brother, what are you laughing at? Laughing so silly! ”

"Didn't laugh at anything...... I'm happy. ”

"Senior brother, I want to go out for a walk tomorrow." Hua Qiao took advantage of the senior brother's happiness and hurriedly made a request.

"Go, don't you go out with Sister-in-law Mei to buy vegetables every day?"

"I want to wander around Yingtianfu casually...... Farther than grocery shopping...... A little bit. ”

"Go, I'll ask Agua to drive you there." Although he didn't know where Hua Qiao wanted to start checking, he would support her, and he confessed:

"Now there are many people in the city, Ming, foreign, everyone. You are a big girl, don't be reckless to meddle in things, in case something happens, you have to protect yourself, and call someone to the James Mansion to inform me. ”

"Got it, I have you anyway......"

"There I ...... Okay, you're in trouble, I'll take care of it. ”