At the beginning of the afternoon, the snowy Luomei Town passed by a car and a horse. It was Lao Sun who drove the car, and Ji Ping who rode the horse. The warm car was half leaning on the lord of Ji Ji Dabao. Lying flat on the unconscious little boy, lying on his stomach squinting and pretending to sleep.

About twenty miles northeast of Luomei Town is Jijiabao.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the gate of Jijiabao was spacious to welcome the owner returning home. Lao Sun drove the carriage straight forward, and soon stopped in front of a warm pavilion in the east wing, Ji Pingfei dismounted, carefully picked up the little boy from the car, and put it on the collapse of the warm pavilion. The warm pavilion is as warm as spring, with a fire, and the soft silk curtain blocks the cold outside. Ji Wei took off his cloak, cleaned his hands in the prepared hot soup, and took a cup of hot tea. At the same time, the little boy had been cleaned up, changed into shabby and ragged clothes, carefully avoided the wounds on his face and body, wiped them clean, and changed into a soft middle coat. The cleaned little boy was quietly unconscious, and his little face looked so beautiful and bright.

Ji Yan calmly looked at it, took out a delicate package, spread out the silver needle, twisted his fingertips, and began to apply the needle. Not to mention anything else, just looking at the slender fingers and clear bones makes people feel a kind of trust in their hearts, not to mention the clear movements that come with a stream of water.

But after a while, the boy's body was covered with silver needles, and a thin layer of sweat appeared on Ji Yan's forehead.

After a pillar of incense, the needle application was finally completed, and he breathed a sigh of relief and ordered: "Leave the needle for half an hour." ”

Someone next to him replied in a low voice: "Yes!" ”

I don't know when, a beautiful lady in her thirties walked in gently, and when she saw that the lord of Ji Bao was applying the needle with all her might, she quietly withdrew the two maids who followed her, and waited silently to the side.

After the lord of Ji Bao gave the order, he stood up and turned around and saw the beautiful woman waiting on the side, and immediately smiled and said, "Ah Zhuo, I'm back!" ”

Ah Zhuo smiled like a spring breeze, didn't say anything, staggered his body, and let Ji Wei go.

Ji Wei was even happier, and while passing by Ah Zhuo, he said, "Those who know me, Ah Zhuo also!" If you have a wife like this, what more can a husband ask for! He came to the table and picked up a pen, quickly wrote down a recipe on the paper, and handed it to the maid on the side, "Go and fry it immediately, and serve it when it is warm." One pair each morning and evening, report to me in three days! ”

The maid took the prescription and went.

After Ji Wei finished giving the order here, he grabbed Ah Zhuo's hand, took her into his arms, and said coquettishly: "Ah Zhuo, have you missed me for more than ten days?" Azhuo, I'm hungry! ”

This woman is Chen Zhuoer, the wife of the lord of Ji Dabao. It is said that the old castle lord and his wife Chen Zhuoer fell in love at first sight, fell in love at second sight, and tied the knot at third sight.

Chen Zhuoer was born in a solid family in the south of the Yangtze River, and his father, Mr. Chen, was a Confucian businessman who advocated Confucianism and Taoism all his life. Mr. Chen is shrewd and enthusiastic, and he has worked hard for half his life to earn a great business, and he has three sons. Miss Chen was enlightened at the age of five, and she didn't read works such as "The Biography of the Daughters" and "The Book of Filial Piety", and she didn't bother her with remarks such as "a woman is virtuous if she is not talented". Under the influence of his father, by the time he was seventeen years old, he was full of poetry and books. Miss Chen often reads poetry and books, and after reading the "Analects", she actually dislikes Confucius and his old man, saying that Confucius is too particular about it, "eating without speaking, sleeping without speaking, and not sitting at the seat" or something is too troublesome; Miss Chen likes to flip through the ledger in her spare time, often turning it to the middle of the night, and sleeping a little longer the next day. When I'm happy, I occasionally make a trick or trick, change into men's clothes and sneak outside for a good time.

Later, after marrying Ji Shu, who was uninhibited by nature, she came to Jijiabao with her husband. Time is like a flying horse, eleven years later, as a wife and mother, Miss Chen has already fallen off the castle owner's wife who has a full hostess taste.

Chen Zhuoer, who was full of arms, buried his head in the arms of his husband, thinking, what else did I say to you? I had to say vaguely: "Mmmm, okay, I know." ”

Mrs. Chen has a lot to ask, but after all, it is important for the castle lord to eat. So, the husband and wife walked out of the warm pavilion to their residence, Ji Wei briefly explained the various things he had seen and heard during the trip to Lin'an for more than ten days, and before he talked about saving people, he suddenly heard a soft and glutinous voice not far away shouting: "Daddy, daddy!" I saw a five- or six-year-old girl wearing a white fluffy cloak break free from a maid's hand and hurriedly ran over, threw herself into Ji Wei's arms, hugged his neck, and couldn't help but say "Let's chirp" and kissed him on the face, and then looked up at the red fluttering face, and said with big black and white eyes full of smiles: "Daddy, A-Ning misses you!" My brother misses you too, but he doesn't admit it! ”

An eight or nine-year-old boy with a faint juvenile stature came over, gave a salute, and said unhurriedly, "Daddy! - Aning, don't talk nonsense. ”

"A-Ning is not talking nonsense." A-Ning pouted, "My brother does his homework every day, saying that he is waiting for his father to come back to check!" ”

The boy scratched at the hem of his sleeve somewhat unnaturally.

Ji Wei smiled knowingly: "It seems that Mo'er has worked a lot in the more than ten days that I have been at home. Mo'er, come to my study tomorrow and I'll test you. If you have made a lot of progress, how about Daddy give you a gift? ”

"Yes, Daddy!" Ji Mo replied to his father, and said secretly in his heart, "Didn't you give me those messy gadgets again?" Daddy is good anywhere, it's just naïve. ”

The naïve lord Ji Dabao was satisfied with lunch, and returned to Fengxinzhai with his wife, and this was just the end of the day.

"Ah Zhuo, I heard a piece of news during this trip to Lin'an. It is said that some time ago, there was an extra business competitor in the Agarwood Pavilion, and at first the other party was menacing and faintly had a tendency to replace it......"

"Instead? Fuzhou Agarwood Pavilion has been standing in the rivers and lakes for so many years, after several generations of efforts have long been in the incense making, perfume skills are unparalleled, those beautiful rich and noble ladies who love beauty, wives and concubines are fond of the fragrance, balm, balm, perfume of the Agarwood Pavilion, highly respected. What's more, some incense products are easy to get and hard to find, not to mention that in recent years, ninety percent of the imperial incense products in the palace have come from the Agarwood Pavilion. Instead, I'm afraid it's not that easy, right? ”

Ji Wei: "Well, you have been using the things of the Agarwood Pavilion all along. ”

"It's really easy to use—so, what is the sacred going to move the soil on Tai Sui's head and pluck the hair from the tiger?"

"That's the strange thing I'm going to say. I always feel that this is not simple, and it is strange everywhere! Ji Wei knocked on the edge of the table thoughtfully, "Thinking of these things - I'm a little sleepy, and most mundane things delay me from sleeping, drinking tea, drinking wine, and reading medical books." ”

"The husband is mighty." Chen Zhuoer smiled, "Let's wait until we finish talking about this matter before we go to sleep, drink tea, drink wine, and read medical books, it's not too late." ”

Ah Zhuo occasionally thought that a serious man was the most attractive, although the charm value of the lord of Ji Bao fluctuated a lot.

So Ji Wei continued: "Opponents, although all walks of life can't avoid it, whether it's respectable or hateful, once it appears, it's hateful." And guess what? They opened the same shop next door to the Agarwood Pavilion business, selling the same kind of goods, and the price was much lower. ”

"This is malicious competition, and if you go on like this, Agarwood Pavilion will lose a lot." Ah Zhuo, who was born in a merchant family, said this in his mouth, but his eyes revealed a different kind of light. There will be different problems and tests in the business field, but the brain-burning problems can be a headache and a lot of excitement.

"That's right, you must know that Agarwood Pavilion has been operating for many years and has rich experience in dealing with it. They reacted as soon as possible, while sending someone to secretly check the opponent's strength background, and at the same time responding to this unpopular competition method, but, less than a month, the shop next door was inexplicably withdrawn like lightning, silently as if the whole thing had never happened, and the Agarwood Pavilion did not find out the clues of the other party. The other party's incense products have no distinctive formula, the incense boxes and bottles used are not special, and even the shopkeeper in the shop is not a local. ”

"That's weird, why? What's in the picture? Zhuo was puzzled. Isn't doing business to make money? Just to enjoy a one-time eye-catcher?

"That's the weirdness. I have a hunch that I am afraid that this matter will also implicate our Jijiabao. If they don't retreat, they will ...... I'm afraid that a conspiracy is brewing. ”

"You're saying they're weaving a web and will slowly expand their power, this time it's a temptation?"

"It's entirely possible, or it can't be ruled out. Our Jijiabao seems to have nothing to do with incense making, but we are proficient in disguise techniques, and we have the coveted 'feather in flying' on the rivers and lakes, and the fate of Jijiabao is always in the rivers and lakes. Ji Wei was thoughtful.

There are many people in the world who can disguise themselves, but the Ji family is the leader of the disguise technique, and there is no one who is out of the right. In the market, "the Ji family shoots, and there is no disfigurement" to say that the Ji family fort is unique in the world; The Ji family's light work "turning feathers into flying" is as light as a feather, as fast as lashes.

"Before I came back, my father-in-law reminded us to be careful until our suspicions persisted."

"It's nature."

"As for the kid just now," Ji Wei said, "it's really a coincidence, if it hadn't been for Ha Jiu to find him, he would have died in less than half an hour, and meeting me is a big fate for this little ghost." While Ji Ping was carrying him back to the carriage, I probed around, and found that there were traces of a fight on another fork in the road about two hundred meters away from the woods where he was found, and although it was covered by snow, it was not difficult to find the bloody smell coming from the wind. There were severed branches on the side of the road, ruts on the road, footprints, bloodstains, and ...... When the rope is broken, it seems to have been cut with a blunt object, but before it is broken, someone tears it hard before it is completely broken. ”

"Is it the rope that binds the boy?"

"Azhuo really has the right judgment - yes, this is it." Ji Xiao pointed to a dark-colored rope that had been placed on the table at some point, which looked hard. Mrs. Chen put a piece of paper in her hand, picked up the rope with her fingers and looked at it, and a faint bloody breath penetrated her nose.

"The boy's ankle was broken, and there were scars of rope, not shallow. There is brute force friction on the fingers that tear the rope. ”

"So, the thing that cuts the rope should be blunt—hard stone?" Mrs. Chen said: "In my opinion, there should be someone else to help him, does the person who helped cut the rope have a clue?" ”

Ji Wei glanced at his wife approvingly, and felt that Ah Zhuo was really quick-witted, "There is no more for the time being, I can only roughly judge that the one who helped is also a child, and the age is about the same as the boy I rescued." ”

"To say that the boy was kidnapped, it is certainly not for money, the child does not look like a young man of a rich family - the skin on his face and hands is a little rough, obviously not pampered, and there is no obvious holding a pen or a thin callus with a sword or anything like that." Mrs. Chen said thoughtfully.

When Ji Wei administered the needle to the boy, she was also very careful to observe from the side.

"The purpose of kidnapping is never just for money, ma'am. If I'm not mistaken, someone must have kidnapped some children and used a horse-drawn carriage to hide it from people, and the carriage itself should have been a big cage. Ji Xiao twisted his fingers, and continued, "I have asked Ji Ping to check and see if any children have disappeared in the vicinity recently." ”

"What! Is the carriage a cage? Mrs. Chen exhaled.

As a mother, her heart is always soft, and she was a little unbearable to hear Ji Shu say this. In terms of kung fu, Mrs. Chen will only talk about some three-legged cats to protect herself, although her life experience has increased over the years, but her heart is still difficult to harden.

"What are you going to do with this child?" Mrs. Chen looked at her husband and asked a question that needed to be solved urgently.

"Wait until the child wakes up. He had a dark wound on his body, and after taking half of the 'red face', he was able to wake up after three days. ”

"Hongyan? You, you ......" Mrs. Chen pointed to her loser and snorted, speechless for a while, "Why don't you use other medicines?" You only have three of these life-saving pills! ”

Ji Wei said softly: "At that time, the situation was urgent, I didn't have time to think about it at all, not to mention saving people's lives, better than building a seventh-level floating slaughter, seeing him, I remembered Mo'er and A-Ning." ”

"Mo Er Aning" made Mrs. Chen speechless for a moment, she stopped talking, and only let out a sigh.