General Chin Ci Yutai (II)

Tonghua sister is different from A Yilan, she is the daughter of the stepmother of the owner of the village, the old owner of the village married the eldest lady of the rich family in the city at the age of fifty, with such a baby daughter, after the death of the old Quli, the wife of the owner of the village could not bear the loneliness in the cottage, so she took the little daughter back to live in the city. When she was sixteen years old, she suddenly returned to the cottage on the grounds that she couldn't get along with her mother and aunt. Because she is the daughter of the old village owner, and Qu Li's youngest sister, it is natural for her to settle down in the village. At the beginning of Tonghuamei's return to the cottage, everything was very novel, following her sisters to pick herbs and plant flowers, no one would arrange heavy operations for the little sister of the village owner, so life was stable. After the accident of the girl who raised the poisonous beetle, the people in the village followed the old rules and chose someone from among the unmarried daughters with the highest status to raise the poisonous beetle. It is only natural for Tonghua Mei to take over. said that she raised it, but in fact, most of the things were done by a few girls in the clan who were deputies, and she just looked at it every day, and occasionally helped pick up some medicinal materials. Because her mother was still in the city, she would leave the matter of raising to the other sisters on the first day of the first month of every month, and go into the city to stay with her mother for a few days. This kind of request is also human nature, so the people have never objected to it, and no one has paid special attention to it.

Poisonous beetles and cicadas are both things that are afraid of the cold, and they have been kept in the Ming Hall with a fire for many years. At the same time, they were afraid that the two poisons would blend and be chaotic, so one Mingtang was located in the northeast of the stockade and the other was located in the southeast of the stockade. After Tonghuamei took over, everything was normal, but before and after Laba, there was heavy snow in the mountains, and the beams of the southeast Mingtang suddenly broke and collapsed for some reason, and the snow accumulated on the ridge pressed into the Mingtang, extinguishing the fire in the fire hall. In a panic, the poisonous beepsticks and larvae were moved to the council hall of the cottage and lit a stove for temporary rearing. The nest and the shelves were removed together, and no one paid attention to how many poisonous beetles were in the nest at that time, until the next morning, when it was time to feed, Tonghua Mei exclaimed, and people found that there were two adults missing.

Everyone thought that the poison ran away on its own during the movement or when the snow was falling. Although the whole village was divided to search, but there was no trace, so they guessed that maybe the poisonous insects crawled out and froze to death in the ice and snow, and were covered by the snow last night, and there was nowhere to look for them. That's it.

It wasn't until Xinjie arrived at the cottage and listened to the description that he suggested that Qu Li might have stolen the poisonous beep at that time, and deliberately broke the beam of the house to cover it up, making people mistakenly think that the heavy snow had crushed the beam. And this person must be a master of martial arts, able to come and go in the ice and snow without a trace, and be able to carry the poison to a place where there is a carrier to hide its poison in a very short time. At that time, in order to track down the poisonous beetle, Xinjie had been visiting in Shonan for nearly two months under the guise of a merchant who was buying medicinal herbs. After many generations of migration and war, the Pubang people mentioned in the original book were left with nearly 1,000 people from this branch gathered in Youtong Village and relied on collecting mountain herbs to sustain themselves.

After Xinjie wandered around for a while, he met Erda, the younger brother of the owner of Quli Village, who was in charge of selling herbs in the village, through a local medicine store, and the two talked very closely, and Erda warmly invited Xinjie to return to Youtong Village with him, and that day happened to be the day when the cicada disappeared. When they returned to the stockade, there was chaos, and one hour before they arrived at the stockade, Ah Yilan had just fed the cicadas, and everything was normal, but half an hour ago, she suddenly remembered that some places under the shelves were not reliable when she cleaned up the cicada feces yesterday, so she took another girl with tools to strengthen the shelves, and suddenly found that there were two less cicadas. The two girls were so frightened that they immediately reported it to the owner of the village and recruited the clansmen to search for it with all their might. When Xinjie saw Ah Yilan, she was retreating in the corner of the council hall in a daze, because the poison was lost, she and the other girl would be divided by the clansmen to punish severely. Originally, there was a big incident in the village, and no one was in the mood to receive guests, but Xinjie's eloquence and well-founded analysis persuaded everyone, and the owner of Quli Village immediately ordered that all people were not allowed to go down the mountain, and asked him to re-survey the Mingtang where the cicadas were raised. Although many clansmen have been there since the loss of the ink cicada, for Xinjie, who has been wandering the rivers and lakes for many years, he still found the ink cicada hidden in the nearby cave through the clues left in the Ming Hall. The thieves had kept one cicada warm in a small smoker cage and was ready to send it down the hill at any moment, but the other was missing.

Since someone wanted to steal the ink cicada, Xinjie immediately thought that it was time for the other party to make a move. In other words, the other party is sure that while murdering the emperor, he can also remove the obstacles that allow him to obtain vested interests. At that time, the opponent is likely to choose the occasion when the emperor and the prince who will be the opponent will appear at the same time. That year is the year of the five-year round of martial arts scientific examinations, generally speaking, the emperor and the princes will go to watch the last few competitions, and the last martial champions, Bangyan and Tanhua, will be guided by the crown prince and the rest of the two princes to parade through the streets of the capital, to show the royal respect for talents. This kind of street parade is crowded and complicated in the capital city, and it is the best time to start.

Due to the urgency of the matter, Xinjie had to ask for help from the owner of Quli Village, reveal his identity, and ask him to send someone to immediately send a letter to his deputy in Xunjiang City, and quickly notify the person who answered the Ping'an Inn and the Queen Mother. Later facts proved that Xinjie's conjecture was correct, although the ink cicada did not arrive, but the other party's order to move has been issued, and some have not had time to withdraw, in addition to the opponent in the Wuju scientific examination room around the ambush, in Henan Province attacked the Yiting who surveyed the water power, Yiyi's mount was secretly inserted with a poison needle with slow-onset poison, and when he accompanied Wuju to explore the flowers and parade the street, he suddenly startled, If it weren't for Xintian and Xinyang protecting and blocking the poisonous needle secretly shot from the crowd of onlookers, the consequences would be unimaginable.

Xinjie in Youtong Village also further tracked down the person who stole the cicada with the help of the owner of Quli Village. By tracking down the herbal pollen that fed the cicada and various other signs, Xinjie locked most of his suspicions on Tonghuamei, and his deputies also found the so-called maiden home where Tonghuamei's mother lived in Xunjiang City after receiving instructions. A cruel and painful story was placed in front of the owner and the clansmen of Quli Village. Soon after Tonghuamei's mother returned to her parents' home, she had a new love, which didn't matter to the descendants of Pubang, the customs of the clan were originally civilized, and it was normal for them to marry another husband after death. But the problem is that this new love is a businessman about 30 years old from Jiangnan, it is said that he is extremely good-looking, and rich, he bought a lot of clothes and jewelry for Tonghuamei's mother and Tonghuamei, which is very pleasing to the mother and daughter. Tonghua Mei's aunt is also a water-based poplar person, and when she saw her sister-in-law hooking up with such a rich and decent master, she was also moved, so she had a bastard thing. Men always have to go out to do business, and it is said that after going to Jiangnan for a while, they brought back five or six so-called men, and they all stayed in that house from then on. Not only did the man play with Tonghuamei's mother and aunt, but even his subordinates also had fun together, and all the maids and servants in the family were affected, making the family miserable. Tonghuamei's uncle couldn't bear it anymore, and suggested that her sister move out to live in another place, not wanting to be killed by that person's men, so he quietly buried the body in the back garden. Because these people are all martial arts, the servants in the house are threatened, and no one dares to mention it outside.

In the sixteenth year of Tonghua Mei, this person's hand was on Tonghua Mei. As for the details of the middle, it is impossible to know now with the passing of the little girl. Xinjie deduces that this is the reason why Tonghua Mei returned to the cottage, and the other party used her to steal poison. The other party saw that Tonghua Mei had not sent the cicada back to Xunjiang after a while, so he knew that it had been exposed, and killed the old servant who went up to Tonghua Mei's mother to the door to sprinkle and sweep, all of them were brutally killed, only a kitchen servant in the kitchen escaped by hiding in the pickle jar, and was rescued by Xinjie's deputy. Almost all exhibits were destroyed.

When Tonghuamei first heard the bad news, she didn't believe it until Xinjie's men took her mother's bloody clothes from the city and the autopsy of the government to believe it. The little girl was so stubborn that she refused to say anything about the man, and that night wounded her people and fled. When Xinjie and A Yilan chased her, she was already standing on the edge of the cliff, and when she saw the clansmen chasing after her, she suddenly laughed and said to Xinjie: "Actually, I don't want to be sorry for the clansmen, I just don't want to live a boring life in this cottage or Xunjiang City, I don't want to marry these mountain people, I just want to have a clean and beautiful husband like you, follow him to the Jiangnan water town, to a prosperous and clean place." With that, she jumped down, and Xinjie tried to grab her, but was unsuccessful.

He felt very annoyed that a good life had been taken advantage of and disappeared like this. He felt unwilling, and felt a little sorry for the poor and ignorant little girl, so he went down the cliff to look for her, hoping to bring her back to the village and bury her. He's just trying to find out the truth, not watching these lives fall. Ah Yilan and several other young people in the village have been following him, looking for Tonghua Mei together. As dawn approached, they finally reached the bottom of the cliff. It may be that the branches and vines on the cliff have slowed down the fall, and when they found the Tung Blossom Girl, she was still alive. When he was about to help her up to heal her, she actually opened her eyes and looked at him, her eyes were full of strange brilliance: "I could have gone to Jiangnan with him, but now I can never go, I will never have the opportunity to see that prosperous world again, I am unwilling, I can't let you go back to that prosperous world, you are so handsome, come with me." Xinjie hadn't figured out what she was talking about, and she already felt a tingle on the back of her hand, it turned out that the other ink cicada that had been lost had been on her body, in order to keep the ink cicada warm, she put it in a small box and put it close to her body. For so many days, no one has searched her body, and no one has thought that this little girl would keep such a poisonous thing in order to go to Jiangnan. At this point, she releases the cicada, intent on destroying the man who broke her dreams.

Xinjie never expected that this little girl would come to such a hand when he was coming, although he quickly detoxified and sealed the surrounding acupoints, but the poisonous gas still rose quickly. At that time, if it wasn't for the Bailing Cao and Longyang Dan that he had with him to help him lift his breath, maybe he would really have to accompany the little girl on the road. When he remembered it again many years later, he had to accept what his grandmother said, When you are ready to do good deeds, you must not only do good deeds, but also be responsible for the possible consequences, because not all good deeds will be rewarded, but we do not only do good deeds for the newspaper industry, we still have to do it when we should do it.

The people of Youtong Village raised ink cicadas, which originally had an antidote, but Ah Yilan didn't expect this to happen, so he didn't take it with him. Xinjie had to rely on his own strength, with the help of Centenarian, to sit on the ground and slowly exercise detoxification. When he was about to finish it, a miasma began to slowly rise in the mountains, and the people of Youtong Village had to quickly take him away, thus disrupting his practice, so that some of the poison remained in the body, and because of the slight slower rate of departure, it was eroded by a slight miasma.

When he opened his eyes again, he was already in the Yau Tong Village, and Ah Yilan told him that he had been asleep for three days. Both the ink cicada antidote and the earthwork used to treat miasma are effective, but no one has ever been attacked by both poisons at the same time. He was able to come back to life, which surprised Qu Li and Ah Yilan and the others in the village. When he was still recuperating on the sickbed, Xinjie took the antidote to the poisonous beetle from the people in the village and sent it to Beijing secretly. However, the antidote of Youtong Village is only prepared for the people who raise poisonous scorpions, and it is only useful for poisonous scorpions, and they are all used in the early stage of poisoning, and there is no solution to the new poison made by mixing scorpion venom, although there is a certain relieving effect, but it still cannot remove the poison that has eaten away the bones in the emperor's body.

After the heavy injury, Xinjie himself also raised in the oil tung village for more than two months, and his physical strength gradually recovered. At that time, the people of Ping'an Inn found him under the leadership of Erda and took him to Yueyang. During those two months, he did his best to persuade the people of Pubang to give up keeping these poisons. Qu Li was a very sensible person, he was suspicious of these empty sacrifices, and many of the young people in the clan also objected to this, but now there was such a painful bloody case, which even affected the royal family, and the clan finally decided to give up the animal sacrifice and poison that had been passed down for generations, and destroy the poisonous insects to prevent future troubles.

What he didn't tell Lian'er was that during that month, the simple Ah Yilan accompanied him all day long. This simple and innocent girl made him admire it very much, as if he was appreciating an unpretentious work. Everyone has a love for beauty, For natural and simple beauty, men often have a primitive like, He can also read love and worship from her eyes, but he knows that they are people of two worlds, his world Ah Yilan does not understand, except for a short period of mutual appreciation, They will not have a common language, and they will not be able to hold each other for a long time. A Yilan's world is like pure spring water, like a snowy field, and he is a person who struggles in the rivers and lakes and blood, and he has no right to leave any traces on this pure white silk. His evasion also hurt the girl to a greater or lesser extent, and he still remembers the helpless look in her eyes when he left.

When the people from the Ping An Inn appeared, Ah Yilan knew that the Tang General in front of him was the young owner of the Ping An Inn and Baicaotang after the Tang Gate that his brother had repeatedly mentioned. Although the people of Pubang live in the cottage, each owner of the village can go outside until he succeeds to the throne at a young age. Because one of the big businesses in Youtong Village is to sell medicinal herbs, Qu Li has heard about Tangmen and Baicaotang in the past study tour, and has always paid great attention to them, and has always had the intention of making friends.

Xinjie thanked them for saving their lives, although he couldn't be the master of Baicaotang, but he could mobilize Baihuatang, so he took Qu Li and A Yilan to Baihuatang in Yueyang. Although he hadn't heard from Ah Yilan for a long time, he knew that part of the honey-made peach paste that arrived in the capital from Baihuatang in Xiangzhong yesterday must have come from the peach blossoms that had just bloomed all over the mountains in the spring. Nor did he tell his wife that some of the medicines she had recently used to make all sorts of nitrate powder might have come from the mountains there.

Although Xinjie did not mention Ah Yilan again in front of Lian'er, Lian'er could guess from his flickering eyes that her husband might have owed a love debt that could not be repaid in this life, and this person can still cause waves in his heart, she thought that she was the only one for her husband, and it seemed that her expectations were too high. He was still immersed in his own memories, not noticing the momentary disappointment in the eyes of those around him.