Chapter 4: Nine Rings
After returning to Jiangfu, Dai Nong went to the kitchen first, and Mr. said that this medicinal purple casserole decoction is effective, she thought about it and felt that there should be a purple casserole here.
Sure enough, it was the lady of the Zhao family who was responsible for boiling the soup and decoction on weekdays, and she was a little surprised when she saw Dai Nong, "Why is Dai Nong girl coming over today, where did Su Su go?" This lady of the Zhao family can't hide her words, "It seems that I haven't seen her for a few days." ”
Danon handed her the medicine and instructed, "Don't forget, send it to the lady's room with dinner." ”
As soon as she said this, Dai Nong remembered that there was indeed such a person as Su Su, she was serving in the old man's yard, so there were not many intersections, and she had the impression that this Su Su was as white as snow...... It just so happened to be right with what the old gentleman in the pharmacy said!
She asked, "I haven't seen her in a few days, do you know where she's gone?" ”
"I don't know this, I heard that people are living a good life, and they bought a yard to live outside the house."
Dai Nong secretly wrote it down, and planned to go back and discuss it with Jiang Yunyu.
Xie Qinglin was thinking about the case in the post house, writing and drawing on the paper, but he felt that the current situation seemed to be a mess, so he had no clue, so he dropped the pen in a distraught and accidentally splashed a drop of ink on his face.
But he didn't notice it.
The guard Yanbei came in to report yes, he was looking out the window with his hands down, and heard that the little girl from the Jiang family was coming to see him, so he didn't turn his head back and ordered someone to be brought in.
So when Jiang Yunyu came in, what she saw was such a picture: a man with an extraordinary bearing like jade standing by the window, his wide sleeves moving with the wind, but there was a black stain the size of a mung bean on his cheek, which was very conspicuous on his fair face.
Endure!
Fortunately, she is also a woman who has lived in the deep palace for seven years, and managing her expression as she wants is a skill that she should know, and holding back a smile is not a difficult thing for her.
Xie Qinglin is a person who pays so much attention to his image, and when he laughed out loud at this time, he was afraid that he would not be remembered for the rest of his life......
Jiang Yunyu restrained her thoughts and slowly expressed her intentions.
It turned out that she was rummaging in Jiang Zhu's study, and she really found a palm-sized hexagonal sandalwood box, which was hidden at the bottom of the huge bookcase, behind the Tao Te Ching.
And she didn't know anything about this box in her previous life.
The bottom of the box is hollowed out and carved with thousands of flowers, and the six faces are painted with landscapes, which seem to be interesting separately, and it is also a picture of endless rivers and mountains when it rotates!
There are nine jade rings inlaid on the lid of the box, which are intertwined with each other, and it is difficult to inseparable.
It's just that some of this jade ring is fixed on the top, and some can be moved, and after a while, the original fixed one seems to be able to move again, Xie Qinglin hooked a jade ring with his fingers, and frowned.
"Since it's something that Mr. Jiang left you, why doesn't he tell you how to open it?"
Jiang Yunyu smiled bitterly, if there was a clue left, she would have opened it in her previous life, so why bother to beg him again. I had to tell the truth: "My father never mentioned this matter to me before his death, and even this wooden box was found by me from his study without authorization." ”
But he also had a point, maybe her father had left her some hints.
"If you think about it carefully, did he mention any jade rings or anything like that to you?" Xie Qinglin clasped the table with his hand and asked softly.
Jiang Yunyu looked at his slender fingers, and remembered that there seemed to be such a pair of hands, dexterously pinching the jade ring and shuttling up and down......
She remembered!
Jiang Zhu once taught her to play a delicate thing called Nine Rings, and it was recorded in a book that "the two rings are one with each other, and they have to be connected, and they are solved into two, and they become one." "It seems to take more than 200 steps to solve the whole problem, which is very grinding.
Thanks to her patience when she was a child, she memorized this boring solution.
Although the mechanism on this box looks very different from the Nine Rings in appearance, the principle is the same.
Xie Qinglin had nothing to do, so he "condescended" and got up to pour tea for the two, and then watched her quietly solve this mechanism without disturbing her.
The onion-like fingers flew up and down, dexterous as a butterfly, and it only took a quarter of an hour to open the box.
Jiang Yunyu breathed a long sigh of relief, she felt a little dry after being nervous for so long, and unconsciously picked up the tea cup in her hand and wanted to drink it all.
When she came to her mouth, she suddenly remembered one thing: no one else had entered this room from beginning to end, so who poured this tea!
How can she be virtuous, how many people in the whole country can drink the tea poured by His Royal Highness the Prince? With this in mind, she drank the tea deliciously.
The box opened, and there was nothing but a folded piece of paper.
Jiang Yunyu quickly took it out, turned around and read the letter.
Xie Qinglin touched his nose, is he such a personless person?
- Don't say it, he's really curious.