Rumo's face froze, and after recalling it carefully, he explained: "At that time, after my brother-in-law's family was killed by bandits, my sister once dreamed that my father-in-law had a dream, and my father-in-law told my sister in a dream, saying, 'The one who killed me is an ancient time and a cow'." ”

"Overnight, I dreamed that my husband had a dream, saying, 'Whoever kills me will be according to the ancients, and will not come out.'"

Su Jiudong muttered: "In ancient times, a cow, according to the ancients, Xu did not come out...... This is clearly an anagram. ”

Rumo hurriedly nodded: "Not bad, yes, but the slave's sister couldn't think of the answer to this anagram, so she hurried to the capital to find a master or a wise man to solve the riddle, but after half a year of solving the puzzle, she still had no clue." ”

Su Jiudong immediately put down the teacup in his hand, gestured back and forth in the air with his fingers, muttered silently in his mouth, and continued to read along with his fingers while gesturing, "Ancient Shiyue, a cow." According to the ancients, Xu will not come out".

After nearly a quarter of an hour, the carriage traveled to the general's mansion, and Su Jiudong, who had been thinking about it for a long time, also had a clue, and replied to Rumo: "Ah! I should have guessed the murderer who killed Sister Ling's husband and her father-in-law's family. ”

"Really?" Rumo was very surprised, but she didn't expect that the anagram that had plagued Cui Xu for nearly half a year would be solved by Su Jiudong in just a quarter of an hour.

Su Jiudong said solemnly: "Where is your sister now?" Invite her to the General's Palace, and I'll tell her the answer myself. ”

Rumo is a cheap slave sold to the General's Mansion and has been living in the General's Mansion, so when Rumo's sister Cuixu came to the capital to seek refuge in her, she could only temporarily rent it in Anchangfang in the west of the city.

"Thank you, Miss!" Rumo wiped the tears of excitement from the corners of his eyes, jumped out of the carriage and helped Su Jiudong down, then turned around and ran towards the west of the city.

Su Jiudong smiled helplessly at Rumo's obviously excited and excited back, and shouted loudly: "What are you doing running so fast, obviously there is a ready-made carriage that you don't need, so you have to run with your feet...... You let the coachman drive you in a carriage, no faster than you run back and forth? ”

"It's the slave who is too excited...... Rumo ran back with tears in his eyes after hearing Su Jiudong's shout, and blessed Su Jiudong, and then got into the carriage with grateful, and let the coachman drive in the direction of Changfang, Xi'an, the city.

Su Jiudong walked into the main hall and learned that Su Fenglan was still in the military camp on the outskirts of Beijing at this time and had not returned, so he instructed the housekeeper Uncle Fan to send food to Su Fenglan and several generals in the military camp, and then sat down in the side hall and waited for the arrival of Rumo and Cuixu.

From Kangpingfang near Dongshi to Anchangfang, it still takes more than half an hour to walk quickly, and Su Jiudong didn't know how much faster it would be to drive a carriage back and forth, so he asked Uncle Fan to prepare lunch, intending to eat while waiting.

Uncle Fan said with a smile while presenting dishes to the servants: "Miss Jiudong, the old slave specially instructed the kitchen to make your favorite meat on weekdays, the general is not in the mansion today, and the young lady can eat slowly today." ”

Su Fenglan marches and fights all year round, and the soldier's eating speed is to pay attention to the word "fast".

Su Fenglan's stormy eating speed is comparable to that of a eating machine, and it is an existence that Su Jiudong can't catch up, so every time Su Jiudong and Su Fenglan dine together, they can only hurriedly pick up the rice, and there is rarely a time to savor the delicious food slowly.

Su Jiudong couldn't help but laugh when he heard this: "Ha! Daddy's eating speed is really fast...... I remember that we dined in the Guogong Mansion before, and the people in the Guogong Mansion paid attention to chewing and swallowing slowly, and the speed of eating could suffocate Daddy. ”

Uncle Fan took Su Ting'an and Ah Rong from the study of the second courtyard to dine together, Su Jiudong saw Su Ting'an growing taller, and couldn't help but sigh: "I remember that Daddy also intended to cultivate An'er's eating speed at the beginning......"

"He often set a time for An'er to eat lunch, which must be eaten within a quarter of an hour, and he can't eat again after that time, and then he will be hungry until dinner, but An'er will be starved."

Uncle Fan smiled and continued: "It's not, children are growing their bodies, how can they be hungry......"

"In the end, it was Miss, you strongly reflected to the general, saying that children can't gobble up their meals, and they must chew slowly to be beneficial to their health, which made the general temporarily give up the idea of cultivating Young Master An's eating speed."

In the face of the conversation between Su Jiudong and Uncle Fan, Ah Rong has been eating silently beside her, perfectly practicing the principle of "food without words, sleep without words".

Su Jiudong looked at the silent Ah Rong, and couldn't help but remember that Su Fenglan had said that because Ah Rong was a girl's family, she had to chew slowly to conform to the girl's style, so she did not impose a prescription on Ah Rong's eating speed.

Therefore, Su Jiudong felt a little more helpless for Su Ting'an, Su Jiudong rubbed Su Ting'an's little head, and picked up a piece of braised pork into Su Ting'an's bowl, "Take advantage of Grandpa's absence today, An'er eat a few more bites!" ”

Uncle Fan looked at the harmonious eating scene of the family in front of him with a relieved face, and tried his best to retire silently: "Miss and the little young master and the little lady eat first, and the old slave will send food to the general first." ”

A quarter of an hour after Su Jiudong took the two children to eat, Rumo returned to the General's Mansion with her sister.

Rumo introduced Su Jiudong and Su Ting'an and Ah Rong to Cuizhu, and Cuizuk wanted to kneel and salute as soon as she saw Su Jiudong. Bashan loves

"Don't ......" Su Jiudong hurriedly put down the dishes and chopsticks, picked up Cui Xu, and pointed to the east side hall: "Let's go to the side hall to talk." ”

Before leaving the table, Su Jiudong did not forget to tell Su Ting'an and Ah Rong to eat slowly, and called the maidservant next to him, and instructed in a low voice: "Let the kitchen prepare another meal for two people, send it to the east hall, and give it to Rumo and her sister." ”

Su Jiudong came to the side hall and sat down, Rumo and Cui Xu didn't dare to take a seat rashly because of their identities, so they stood straight.

Rumo was the one who served by Su Jiudong's side, and he was more comfortable in the General's Mansion, while Cui Xu looked much cramped, and the small hands in front of him were nervously kinked together.

Su Jiudong looked at the cui xu in front of him, cui xu and Rumo facial features, both of them are women with delicate faces, but Cui Xu's height is much shorter than ink, Su Jiudong guessed that it should be too much labor when he was a child, which caused his body to grow short and slow.

However, the slender and thin woman in front of her shouldered the burden of seeking revenge for her family, which is really admirable.

Su Jiudong pointed to the seat next to him, and said to Cuixu in a gentle tone: "Presumably you are Rumo's sister Cuixu...... You don't have to stand, just sit down. ”

When Rumo drove to Anchangfang to find Cuixu and told Cuixu that Su Jiudong had solved the anagram, Cuixu was still skeptical, but seeing that Rumo could drive the carriage of the General's Mansion to pick her up, presumably the treatment in the mansion should not be bad.

Now that Cui Xu saw Su Jiudong with her own eyes, and experienced the gentle and amiable eldest lady in Rumo's mouth, she was relieved.

As soon as one relaxes, sadness wells up in one's heart. Cui Xu replied with red eyes: "The little woman is Cui Xu, today I heard from my sister that the eldest lady has solved the anagram, so I came to ask the eldest lady for advice." ”

Cui Xu was an ordinary person who couldn't read a word, and when he used to speak, he was also out of the oral language of the market, and after half a year of negotiation with the master and the wise, Cui Xu's language has also been improved a lot, so the choice of words and sentences are biased towards the official tendency.

"Before, Rumo told me that you dreamed of your father-in-law on the first day, saying that the murderer was an ancient time and a cow. On the second day, the husband dreamed that the murderer was according to the ancients, and he could not come out. ”

Su Jiudong picked up a pen and wrote on the table on the left-hand side, and wrote the words "Hu Sheng" and "Hu Jiu" on white paper.

Su Jiudong pointed to the four characters on the paper and asked Cui Xu: "Do you recognize these four words?" ”

"I barely recognize ......" Cui Xu stumbled and replied: "Hu Sheng, Hu Jiu..."

"Not bad." Su Jiudong nodded, and then explained: "The person who killed your father-in-law is named Hu Sheng Shenlan, and the person who killed your husband is named Hu Jiu. ”

Su Jiudong pointed to the words "Hu Sheng" and "Hu Jiu" on the white paper, and explained and demonstrated for Cui Xu.

"The so-called 'ancient time and month' is extended from the poem 'Today's people do not see the ancient time and moon', which is a 'Hu' character." And a cow', add a 'one' word below the word cow, which is the word 'sheng'. Therefore, 'ancient times, a cow', is Hu Sheng. ”

"And 'according to the ancients' is also extended to the poem 'this month has been according to the ancients', it is still the word 'Hu', the so-called 'Xu', the sun is also, the sun does not come out, that is, the sun does not come out, it is the word 'nine'. Therefore, 'according to the ancients, Xu can't come out' is 'Hu Jiu'. ”

Su Jiudong made a final decision: "Therefore, the people who killed your father-in-law and husband are Hu Sheng and Hu Jiu...... Do you have any impressions of these two? ”

After listening to Su Jiudong's analysis and dismantling, Cui Xu immediately cried bitterly, unable to cry, and thanked Su Jiudong again and again when he was in tears, Su Jiudong immediately went to help Cui Xu, but only helped his hands full of tears.

Rumo, who was listening quietly on the side, also cried silently, and knelt down and kowtowed to Su Jiudong together with Cui Xu: "Today, there is a young lady who solves the riddle for the slave maid, Miss, your great kindness, the slave and maid are really grateful!" ”

The little woman knew about these two people, and they were the old family members of the little woman Xianyang...... This time, the eldest lady has generously solved your doubts, and the little woman is grateful! The little woman has nothing to repay, and when the revenge is revenge in the coming day, the little woman is willing to be a cow and a horse for the eldest lady! ”

Su Jiudong raised his hand to help Rumo and Cuixu, and gently persuaded: "This is really not a favor, I just solved the anagram for you, you don't have to make this big gift." Hurry up. ”

Cui Xu and Rumo wiped their tears, stood up, and looked at Su Jiudong's eyes overflowing with gratitude: "The eldest lady solved the anagram today, which is to find the murderer for the little girl, of course, it is a great favor!" ”

In the end, Su Jiudong handed over the paper with the words "Hu Sheng Hu Jiu" to Cui Xu, and asked Rumo to go to one hundred taels of silver as a coil and hand it over to Cui Xu.

Cui Xu folded the paper finely and put it in her arms, but waved her hand at the hundred taels of silver ingots and refused.

Su Jiudong directly stuffed the silver ingot into Cui Xu's hand and persuaded: "If you want to go back to your hometown in Xianyang, you must need road money, this hundred taels is my reward for you, and it should be regarded as a reward for Rumo to serve me well, this is what you and your sister deserve, and you must not shirk it again." ”