Chapter 199: The Cat on the Road
By the time they finally got out, it was almost hour, and a few people came out of Sun's room to the two-seater carriage. Very literary
When Sanniang came out of Sun's door, she saw Aunt Cui standing under Sun's corridor, and Aunt Cui rarely walked on the road in front of everyone in recent years. Wang Dong is not in the mansion, the Sun family does not value her granddaughter, and she has nothing to fight for.
Today, she is still dressed in plain white clothes, and she has only seen a plain silver hairpin on her head, although her face has not changed much compared with four years ago, but she is a little more tired. It's just that she should still be happy today, and she can't hide the joy between her eyebrows.
This time, the carriage dispatched by the Wang family, Sanniang, looked back from the gate of the courtyard, and saw the beginning but not the end. Sanniang didn't bother to count, and after greeting everyone, she got into her own carriage.
After the carriage marched, Bai Ying took out the white porcelain locket that had been boxy.
"Miss, you haven't taken your medicine today."
Sanniang turned her head to look at the medicine box in Bai Ying's hand, and couldn't help but feel a little distracted.
Two years ago, Imperial Physician Jiang had come to Jinan Mansion to treat the Holy Hand Yao Chong, and Sanniang secretly went out to ask Imperial Physician Jiang to check the pulse under the pretext of going to Qingming Temple.
Imperial Doctor Jiang said that the toxins in her body had been basically removed, but she still needed some warm and tonic things to nourish her body, so she changed her prescription and went to the Hanging Pot Medical Center every month to get Ying.
It's just that since she took the medicine bottle from Ting Lan four years ago, she has never seen the medicine that looks like a small beauty like the one Xuan Shao gave her before, but this kind of boxy porcelain
Four years have passed, but Sanniang has not forgotten Xuan Shao. This feeling is very strange, obviously it is not related, but it is undeniable that Xuan Shao is the first outsider to treat her well after she came to this world.
I heard that the people sent to the south have not found Xuanshao's people, neither alive nor dead. A good man just disappeared into the southern miasma forest.
Sanniang once wondered if Xuan Shao was actually not dead, so over the years, Wang would always go to the Hanging Pot Medical Hall every other day to find out if there was any news of Xuan Shao. It's a pity that every time it is in vain.
Sanniang took the request from Bai Ying's hand, opened her mouth and swallowed it, which was slightly sweet and fragrant, and the taste was very similar to the Bazhen Pill that Xuan Shao gave her before, and it was the same as the medicine that might be used.
"Miss, you don't need to eat any more after eating this box. It just so happens that we are going to the capital at this time, otherwise we don't know where to get the medicine. Bai Ying whispered.
Sanniang nodded and closed her eyes to recuperate, she was always sleepy as soon as she got into the carriage.
The carriage stopped for a while as it passed through the city before leaving the city, and it looked like it was about half an hour. Sanniang heard the sound of mother-in-law and maids whispering outside. Bai Guo rolled his eyes and sneaked out to look.
When she returned, her face was a little red.
Because the carriage stopped, Sanniang couldn't sleep, and when she opened her eyes, she saw Bai Guo's face a little strange and said, "What's going on outside?" ”
The ginkgo ginkgo vomited for a long time, and his face became even redder. In the end, Bai Ying reprimanded him before he stubbornly said: "Sir, he just picked up a woman and got into an empty carriage in front." ”
"What woman?" Bai Yinghu said suspiciously.
"Yes······ It's ······" Bai Guo raised his eyes and glanced at Sanniang, gritted his teeth and said, "It is said to be a flower girl." Very literary"
When she had just lifted the curtain, she saw the woman walking towards the carriage with a scarf over her face, and although she didn't see her face, the woman walked in a very graceful manner, as if she was soft and boneless, like a ······ It's like a snake. At first glance, she is not a serious woman.
"......" The people in the car were silent for a while.
Bai Ying glanced at Sanniang, couldn't help frowning, and said, "Third Miss, eldest master, how can he be so ......" Hu Lai couldn't say the word Hu Lai.
"How can you pull those dirty and smelly ones into the convoy when you know that there are ladies in the carriage? If people know, you and Miss Fifth will be faceless. ”
Sanniang also had a headache.
This uncle of hers, although his ability is average, is good-hearted, and he usually takes good care of their nephews and nieces. It's just that one bad thing is lustful. Once the lower half of the body is impulsive, you can't control yourself, this kind of person has a good word to describe it in modern times, that is: sperm on the brain.
It's just that Wang Bai is her elder after all, and she can't say anything.
This incident was just a small episode, after all, the carriage didn't stop for long, and Wang Bai should have arranged for someone to wait there.
From Qingcheng County to Texas, it took nearly two days. Because of the large number of people this time, the carriage traveled a little slower.
During this time, Wang Bai rarely showed up, and the woman never came out since she got in the car. Because the two were in the same carriage, the people who followed inevitably had some peach-colored fantasies, and the people who followed the car listened to the movement in the carriage with their ears pricked up, and some people even wanted to lie on the wall of the carriage.
Not to mention, on the night he arrived in Texas, there was really a follower who had been holding back for two days and was not afraid of death and ran to the door of Wang Dong and the woman's room in the middle of the night to listen to the corner.
It's just that he didn't know what he heard, and his leg slipped and fell, making a movement. Wang Bai was so frightened that he opened the door and came out, so Wang Bai, who was angry and ruined, beat a hundred boards and drove out. Some of the followers did not sympathize with the person who was beaten by the board at all, and at the same time, the men understood what a sad thing it was to be scared and soften at the critical moment.
It's just that when the attendant was kicked out, he couldn't help but shout at the former colleague who carried him out: "I saw that the eldest master was actually so good, and I fell down in shock." ”
As soon as this sentence came out, even a man was curious, and some people even immediately suspected that the "woman" was actually a man dressed as a woman.
is still a person who has a good relationship with that Suihu on weekdays and finally asked the truth: the eldest master and the woman were tied to the head of the bed when they were in the room, of course, the posture is still female, up, male, and down.
Everyone finally came to their senses, and they said that the old man, who is not very informal, on weekdays, why did he get so angry today, and he felt that he had been faced! So when they went to the dock early the next morning to take a boat, everyone saw the faint red marks on Wang Bai's wrists, and they all tacitly made clear glances at each other.
The waterway from Texas to Tongzhou is quite peaceful, but one day Sanniang wanted to go to the bow of the boat after dinner, and she had food in her belly. But when he passed by the woman's room, he found the king tiptoeing away from the woman's window with his little servant, with a mischievous smile on his face.
Sanniang thought about it and stopped, thinking that she might as well go back to the cabin and stay, so as not to cause trouble. That night, the boat happened to stop at the Cangzhou wharf, and Wang Bai was invited ashore by a local official who was familiar with Cangzhou to drink.
It was only Sanniang who turned around and walked to the corner, and a scream came from the woman's room, and Sanniang subconsciously stopped.
Immediately after that, the door of the warehouse was pushed open, and a woman wearing a smoky long jacket and a pink pleated skirt walked out, and Sanniang was attracted by the things in her hand before she could see her appearance clearly.
Through the wind lamp on the porch, Sanniang saw clearly that it was a snake that was more than a foot long and still writhing.
Then a woman's cold voice sounded: "It's just a child's thing, look at your little bit of talent." As she spoke, she raised her hand, and there was a sound in the water, and she threw the snake into the river.
"Yes, the girl and the maid know that she is wrong."
Because Sanniang was standing in the dark, the woman didn't notice that there was anyone here, so she stood on the side of the boat facing the shore for a moment before turning around and returning to the warehouse.
It's just that between walking, it is soft and amorous, and I don't see the momentum when I just grabbed the snake with my bare hands. If Sanniang hadn't been paying attention to her, I'm afraid she would have thought that the two were not the same person.
After the woman entered the room and closed the hatch, Sanniang took Bai Ying to appear from the shadows.
Sanniang stopped Bai Ying and didn't let her speak, and the two returned to their warehouse without saying a word.
"Miss······ Just now, that was ......" Bai Ying was safe, and his face was a little pale.
Sanniang sat down at the table, her right hand gently tapping on the edge of the table, thoughtful.
How weird it was to look at that scene just now. She didn't even pay attention to the woman's appearance because the scene was so weird.
Among women, there are few who are not afraid of snakes, and even if they are not afraid, they may not dare to catch them. The woman pinched the snake just now, as easily as she was pinching a hemp rope.
She remembered that in her previous life, she had watched a suspense drama in which someone died in a big house, and the detective investigated and locked the murderer among several women in the inner courtyard.
The daughter of the deceased, who is the most gentle and kind-hearted woman on weekdays, is the least like a murderer, and is almost excluded. But one day, the detective suddenly saw this gentle and kind woman fluttering a butterfly, and the girl fluttered a butterfly, which was a very eye-catching sight. But then the detective felt like he had swallowed a fly.
I saw that the woman gently stroked the butterfly for a moment, and suddenly as if pulling the petals of a flower, she tore off the butterfly's wings one by one and crushed them under the embroidered shoes. Then he went to pounce on a butterfly.
In the end, the detective discovers that the woman is the murderer.
The reason why Sanniang remembered this was because she thought of a sentence: abnormality is a demon.
Four years ago, Sanniang still remembers Wang Bai's shock. Now Sanniang no longer thinks that it is as simple as Erniang wanting to stop Wang Bai from investigating the case. Wang Bai has actually been stared at all the time, and Sanniang suspects that it is Shuiyue's people.
"Let's find out where this woman came from." Sanniang explained to Bai Yingdao.
Bai Ying took the order and went.
When Sanniang was about to go to bed, Bai Ying inquired about the news: "Miss, a grandmother found out from a personal servant next to the master that this woman's name is Bailu, and she was born in the Spring Breeze Pavilion of Hualou in Qingcheng County. Since the Li Niang of the Spring Breeze Pavilion became good two months ago, the eldest master has combed the egret. ”
Bai Ying knew that the stakes were high, so she also put down her twist and said truthfully.
Sanniang nodded: "You go to the Fifth Young Master tomorrow and ask him to arrange for Mr. Deng beside him to help me keep an eye on this beautiful girl, especially when the eldest master is alone with her." ”
Bai Ying glanced at Sanniang and said with some embarrassment: "Then, what about after the lights go out?" Do you want to keep an eye on it too? ”
Sanniang nodded solemnly: "Especially after the lights go out." ”
Bai Ying's face twitched, and she remembered the meat words she had just heard from the big-mouthed mother-in-law about the eldest master. Just now, because he was thinking about resuming his life, he didn't think about it so much, but now that he thinks about it, Bai Ying's face can't help but turn red.
Sanniang was also a little helpless when she saw Bai Ying's face, it was indeed quite a strange thing for her to arrange for someone to listen to her uncle's corner. It's just that this woman's whereabouts are unknown, so she can only stare at it first.
It was early in the morning when the ship arrived at the port of Tongzhou, which was located in the southeast of the capital and was under the jurisdiction of Shuntianfu and was the terminus of the North Canal. This place is still nearly 100 miles away from the capital. Originally, there was a waterway in Tongzhou that could go directly to the capital, but the water in the north was small, and the river was silted up by sediment every year. During the time of the first emperor's visit, out of strategic considerations, he sent people to rest every year to ensure that grain from the south could be directly transported to Kyoto.
Because in the previous war, once the enemy's army forced under the city, and the capital was under martial law. However, the grain that was finally collected and transported from the south was placed in the granary of Tongzhou due to the lack of waterways. The emperor at that time had ordered the soldiers and civilians to move all the grain into it before closing the city gate, and they could count as much as they could, and whoever moved it would count whom, but it was not finished for several days, and in the end, what could not be transported was burned, in order not to leave it to the enemy.
This battle was fought very fiercely, and one of the important reasons was that the capital was trapped and there was a shortage of food and grass. It's all about the impassability of the river. Emperor Jianwu learned the lessons of the previous dynasty and attached great importance to the matter of the river.
However, when Emperor Shunde ascended the throne, the imperial court's finances were stretched, and there was no extra money to dredge the river in the past few years.
And now, after more than ten years of rest, it is no longer a question of whether the imperial court has money to repair it.
Because land transportation is a large expense, the cost of transporting grain from Tongzhou to the capital can feed a large number of officials every year. Naturally, the official in charge could not give up this benefit, so the section of the river from Tongzhou to the capital was abandoned.
When we arrived in the capital, it was almost evening, because the Wang family's carriage team was too large, and the road from Tongzhou to Beijing was now a busy time for grain trucks. So I walked a little slower.
After a long journey, Sanniang had no leisure to be curious about the scenery of the capital after abandoning the ship and boarding the car. slept until he was about to enter the inner city gate, and then he was called up by Bai Ying to change his clothes and comb it
After tidying up themselves, the carriage has arrived at Wang Dong's house in Beijing, and the courtyard of Sanjin is small after all, so only the master's carriage entered the alley, and the other cars were arranged by Wang Bai to be stored in other houses, and they will not move things until tomorrow. Clear