It's a long way to go

The weather is getting hotter and hotter, Lian'er set up a cool bed under the grape trellis in the yard, hang up the Luo smoke yarn tent, Xinjie will accompany Lian'er to lie in the yard after practicing every day, and look at the stars and the moon together, sometimes tell her about the different starry sky, night and customs that she saw when she walked the rivers and lakes with her aunt when she was a child. More often than not, I enjoy the tenderness of my wife through the beautiful night.

On this day, Lian'er suddenly received an unexpected gift at home, a fox fur coat sent by the Ping An Inn. Dog days send fox fur, anyone thinks it's weird, and there is no post letter stating who the sender is.

"Someone is telling us that winter is coming? "Xinjie is also puzzled." Snow in June, summer to cold, it's going to change, and it's going to get really weird. A sign of heaven is a sign that something is happening. ”

Lian'er flipped over to look at the fox fur: "Do you think this fox fur seems to have been specially trimmed?" And where does this texture look like you've seen it? ”

Xinjie suddenly pointed to her wrist: "The bracelet on your hand." ”

"The coat of arms of the Shiye tribe."

"Is it grandma?"

"Northern Xinjiang is looking for an old friend, the Turkic Shiye Khan."

"The fox is the most cunning of animals, and when dog days come, the grass grows and the eagle flies, and it is the most active season of the year, and it is also the season when it is most concealed in the grass, and it is also the season when it has the most prey. No matter how cunning an animal is, it will be excited when it sees its prey, and it will go out. It seems that it is almost time for the other party to make a move. ”

"You said that the old demon of Mobei has an apprentice named Nine-Tailed Fox? You fought with her in southern Xinjiang and on the way to the Turks? ”

"Yes, my eldest brother has also fought with her in southern Xinjiang before. And the day we got married, I seemed to see her on the street. ”

"Does this fox have anything to do with the Turks? Someone wants to tell us that the foxes are coming, and they are not only related to the Mongol Timur, but also to the Turks? ”

Xinjie came back from Pingluan Pavilion and sat in the room without speaking.

"What's wrong?"

"The gold ship of the Southeast Bureau of the Gold Bureau disappeared in Suzhou, and the 30,000 taels of gold on board were missing, and the amount of gold was not much, but the ship and the people were missing. Jiangnan has not had a single case of attacking an official ship in ten years; The robe and magic weapon given by the emperor to the abbot of the Cicada Ming Temple in the Lonely Mountain disappeared overnight; Xing'an County ordered to go out of the city to inspect farming and disappeared; The treasury in the city of Lin'an was stolen; The warehouse of satin and embroidery prepared by the Suzhou weaving workshop for the emperor's longevity accidentally caught fire, and the embroidery was discarded everywhere in the market; They are all small and small incidents, but they make the court lose face. ”

"Distraction, the opponent is going to make a move, but the main battlefield is definitely not in Jiangnan."

"Yes, and I don't know if it's someone else who poisoned the emperor."

"I don't know if it's the emperor's illness, or if it's caused by the jade fish or your poisonous orchid?" Lian'er joked about him, Xinjie smiled helplessly, he was worried about more than that, today's letter also said that the courtyard in Yumen, Hangzhou, was attacked, and the Yuda family left Hangzhou a few days ago to go north, and disappeared three days after departure. And what he is most worried about is that the emperor has no genius, and he has to command political affairs, and today he has summoned him to ask him to go to Jiangnan secretly to investigate these things, although he insists that these things may just be a distraction, and the opponent may not really want to do anything in Jiangnan, but the emperor is stubborn and can't listen. He didn't want Lian'er to worry, he didn't want to leave his wife, and he couldn't take her to Jiangnan for an adventure. He decided to postpone it for two days. The Queen Mother hasn't spoken yet, and he has already reported it to the Queen Mother.

In the evening of the next day, two uninvited guests came to Aoki Garden, one was Yu Zhiping, the head of foreign affairs of Yumen, and the other was He Qiangfeng, the head of the Gyeonggi Province of Yumen, who had injured his right shoulder on the way to Beijing. Before these two people appeared, Lian'er had forgotten that Xinjie also had a grandfather who was far away in Jiangnan.

"A month ago, the big boss received a report from his brother in Gyeonggi Province that the young master had married privately in the capital." As he spoke, Yu Zhiping secretly looked at Lian'er who was standing next to Xinjie, he originally asked to see the young master alone, but the young master refused to let this woman out, so he could only tell the truth. Xinjie hurriedly grabbed Lian'er's hand and tightened her waist. "The big boss was very disappointed and annoyed at the time, and was going to go to Beijing to find the young master, but something happened in Zhenjiang, and the big boss went to Zhenjiang first, and then set off from Zhenjiang to Beijing, but after the boat crossed the mouth of the two rivers, the head of Yuxiang came to report that someone had attacked Huanglong's Yumen Courtyard, and all the valuable medicinal materials in it were lost, and the big boss had to turn back. The big boss had a letter to the young master on the road, bitterly stating the pros and cons, but after not seeing the young master's reply for so long, and the brother who sent the letter did not go back, the big boss realized that the letter might not have been delivered to the young master at all. Ten days ago, the big boss set out to the capital again, was attacked in the territory of Qinghe, the boat was scuttled, the other side had more than 20 masters with nearly 100 people to besiege, more than half of the brothers on the boat were killed and wounded, the big boss was injured, Yuqiang and other brothers kept the big boss and retreated to Lin Yun Villa. The big boss asked me to come to the capital overnight to invite the young master to return to Jiangnan to preside over the overall situation. ”

"Who is the other party?"

"We don't know."

"How did you get hurt?"

"On the way here, someone has been chasing me, and I was injured three miles from the Gyeonggi Provincial headquarters, but I really can't see the number of the other party's road, it doesn't seem to be Central Plains martial arts, and it's very weird."

"Only one person is following you?"

"No, there have been different teams. ”

"Oh, it seems that either the Jade Master has extremely high martial arts, or the people who come don't know where your young master is, and need you to lead the way? Or do they want your young master to go to Jiangnan with you no matter what? Lian'er spoke suddenly, so that Yu Zhiping didn't know how to respond, although these words were mean, but the reasoning was good. Who helped you with the wound of the Jade Administrator? ”

"Yes," He Qiangfeng answered: "After the head of Yu came to the headquarters with an injury, he hurried to see the young master, so I didn't have time to ask Lang Zhong, wrap him up and we will rush to see the young master." ”

"Can Chief Manager He apply any medicine or antidote to Chief Jade?"

"It's just an ordinary hemostatic medicine."

"Can you show me the wound?" Yu Zhiping and He Qiangfeng were very surprised, and they didn't know what the origin of this woman who married the young master privately and made the big boss very angry. But since the young master did not stop it, it was not easy for them to object.

Seeing the expressions of Yu Zhiping and He Qiangfeng, Lian'er felt funny: "Don't you know that you were poisoned yourself?" ”

"Is it toxic? How do you know? ”

"Look at your speech and your face, do you feel tinnitus and sore throat? Stretch out your palm to see if it's yellow, if your scalp is a little itchy, and then turn around yourself to see if there's a black ring around your navel. Yu Zhiping and He Qiangfeng looked at each other, hesitated, but couldn't help but turn around and take off their clothes and look at their navel. Lian'er looked at their expressions and knew that what she said was correct.

"The poison of the sand armor. Third brother, it seems that your old acquaintance is here. "Since Wang Yong's incident, Lian'er and Xinjie have specially collected and sorted out the poisons used by the old demon of Mobei." It seems that the prince of Temur is not only eyeing the Tang Gate but also the Yumen, and he also wants to leave traces for you to track him down, I don't know if it is specifically to argue with you or someone deliberately wants you to find trouble with the prince of Timur, you fight with the prince of Temur, and someone takes advantage of the fisherman. ”

Xinjie frowned: "I really can't think of who it is for a while." How is my grandfather's injury? ”

"The big boss's injury is not optimistic, at that time, many people on the other side besieged the big boss, the big boss injured his lungs for one of them, and the palm was poisonous, ordinary Lang Zhong didn't dare to take over, when I left, the head of Yuqiang had already sent someone to Wenzhao Houfu, hoping that the Hou Mansion could help the old lady and the young master in the face, and heal the big boss and pull out the poison." Lian'er originally thought that the old lady was referring to the grandmother, but later learned that it was Xinjie's grandmother, Lin Peixin, the wife of Yu Zhenxiang, who studied medicine in Wenzhao Houfu when she was young, and was a sister with her grandmother, the queen mother and her own grandmother.

"The big boss invites the young master to return to Jiangnan, Yumen is in an eventful autumn, only when the young master returns, can the collapse be reversed."

Lian'er felt Xinjie holding her arm and trying to bring herself closer to him, she knew that her husband's trip to Gangnam would be inevitable.

In Chunhui Palace, it has been a long time since so many people have gathered, and Tangmen's brothers and Lian'er in Beijing are all there.

"The emperor has already told the mourning family, he wants you to go to Jiangnan, and he said that you don't want to move."

"I think they deliberately created trouble in Jiangnan, just to transfer me over."

"Yes, it's very possible, but the affairs over there in Jiangnan also need to be dealt with."

"I have discussed with my eldest brother, the capital is temporarily handed over to him, I will go to Jiangnan first, Pingluange Gangnam Province and Gyeonggi Province have already activated the danger alert, and later the Queen Mother needs to ask the emperor to issue an order, during my absence from Beijing, Brother Yun can mobilize people from Pingluange Gyeonggi Province."

"This is okay, but what about Ning'er?"

"She stayed in the capital to help her eldest brother, and Baicaotang, Ping'an Inn, and Aoki Society have activated all the guards. Pingluan Pavilion Lianghu Road has used senior guards to go to the Wuchang area to protect the prince, and Wanning has also mobilized Baihuatang's masters in the south to respond to the Poyang Lake area. Although Xinjie is reluctant to leave his wife alone to face all this, the situation in Jiangnan is unknown, and the risk may be higher. And at this time, she is familiar with the operation of Baihuatang and Baicaotang, and she also needs her to help Xintian in Jingzhong.

"Is there any news from Biyan?" This is what the Tang brothers and Lian'er are most worried about.

"No, but I received a fox fur the other day, and I don't know if my grandmother sent it to me. The fox fur was sent in June, without signature, and the fox fur was carefully trimmed in the shape of the Turkic Shiye emblem. My third brother and I always thought that my grandmother might have gone to Turkia, but her old man didn't say it, and the people at the Ping'an Inn said that the fox fur was transferred from Suzhou. So we're not sure either. ”