After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Suyue Garden is lively again. The maids and maidservants who came back from distant towns and neighbors brought their own "local products" as souvenirs. As the owner of Suyue Garden, Mingyue has received many novel gadgets. From insects woven by flowers and plants to living foals, all kinds of gifts made Mingyue feel a little overwhelmed. However, this is the first time this has happened, and it has never happened in previous years.

In the past, the maids would also come back with souvenirs, but no one dared to send the things they brought to Mingyue. After all, for Mingyue, their souvenirs are too simple to put on the table. But this year is very different. And all these changes are thanks to Youning, who has just entered the park.

Youning is very diligent and has a simple heart like a child. Although he has only lived in the garden for less than three months, he has helped many people more or less. After the New Year's Festival, most of the people he helped brought all kinds of small gifts to thank him. In addition, You Ning has the special status of Jiang Ming's closed disciple, and there are also people who give him some small gifts in order to appease him. Speaking of which, Youning is three years older than Mingyue, and he is close to a weak crown, so according to common sense, it is not so rare for these gadgets to be given by the little maids. However, the environment in which Youning grew up is relatively special. For eighteen years, he has been trained as a tool for killing, and his life can be called "isolated". As a result, Youning's knowledge of the world is very limited. Although these gadgets given to him by the maids are not valuable, they are indeed very novel to Youning. So Youning carefully tucked away every gadget he received. As for how these things changed from Youning to Mingyue, this has to start with the literacy class.

Since the tenth day of the first lunar month, Youning always has to stay in Mingyue's warm pavilion for one or two hours every afternoon, and the reason is naturally to learn words from Mingyue. Don't look at You Ning as a genius who learns martial arts, but he is a well-deserved "idiot" in the text. Over the course of a few days, within two hours, Youning could write down at most about ten Chinese characters with simple strokes, and it was good to be able to memorize two or three of these characters the next day.

When Mingyue promised to teach Youning to read and write, she didn't have any unrealistic extravagant expectations, but she didn't expect this situation at all. After teaching day by day, Mingyue's brows furrowed deeper and deeper. In Mingyue's opinion, the words he taught You Ning to recognize couldn't be simpler, and compared to the moves that You Ning and Jiang Ming learned, it was simply not worth mentioning. He thought that Yu Ning's brain was suitable for recording and analyzing the fickle martial arts moves and obscure internal martial arts methods, but he was not good at recording words with meanings and stories. Mingyue frowned because she disliked Youning, but it was more because she couldn't find a suitable learning method for Youning.

Since he began to read and write, Youning firmly believes that words should be the best way for him to communicate with the outside world if he can't speak. As a result, Youning's passion for literacy is far beyond ordinary people. However, Youning himself is aware of the dullness of his qualifications. When he saw the wrinkles on Mingyue's brows, Youning became more and more anxious. In Youning's opinion, the reason why Mingyue frowned was because she was learning too slowly, but Youning had tried her best to memorize, but those words were really difficult to distinguish in Youning's eyes. Just when Youning didn't know how to appease Mingyue so that Mingyue could continue to teach him to read, a pair of wishful knots around Youning's waist aroused Mingyue's interest.

This wishful knot is made of hemp rope and cotton thread, and it is not a good product at a glance, but the style is not exactly the same as the ordinary wishful knot, which is a large and a small two wishful knots superimposed together. Mingyue had never seen it, so when she taught Youning to read, she picked it up and looked at it for a long time. After learning that this wishful knot was given to Youning by the fire girl in the outer courtyard, Mingyue's eyes were full of envy. This sudden little thing gave You Ning a flash of inspiration. On the second day, You Ning came to Mingyue with a group of clay figurines sent by Aunt Pulp. As You Ning expected, Mingyue couldn't put it down when she saw the consequences. As a result, Youning embarked on the road of no return to bribing Mingyue. After a long time, Youning's "treasures" gradually came into Mingyue's hands.

As the saying goes, the hands of the man are short. After taking a lot of "treasures" from Youning, Mingyue was embarrassed to frown! Besides, Mingyue also wanted to open it herself. Although Youning remembers little, he remembers it well, and all the Chinese characters that he really remembers, no matter when he investigates, Youning will never forget. Thinking about it this way, Youning is learning slower, and they don't have to take any imperial examinations, so learning slowly has no effect. In this way, Mingyue felt that she didn't have to have a headache because she couldn't find a better teaching method. After Youning sent Ming Yue small things for nineteen days in a row, Ming Yue finally figured it out completely and never frowned again.

Get up early to learn kung fu from Jiang Ming, learn literacy with Mingyue in the afternoon, and play with a group of brothers in the martial arts hall in the evening. The full days always fly by, and in a flash, Youning ushered in the fifth month of entering the kindergarten. At this time, Youning can already understand some books with pictures and texts, of course, he can't fully comprehend the content of the book, but at least he can know a rough idea.

On the afternoon of the 19th day of the second lunar month of the fourth year of Ju Se, You Ning was studying in Mingyue's warm pavilion. Jiang Ming didn't even say hello before he broke in in a hurry.

As soon as he entered the door, Jiang Ming saw a man in white standing in front of the mountain and river map, so he raised his legs and walked over with a happy face.

"Hehe, Childe, we have caught it, we finally caught Song Lao Wu. As for Song Lao Wu's backer, we have also figured it out. ”

This Song Lao Wu is the former leader of the Cao Gang that Mingyue let go of last year. The reason why he let him go was also to find the backer behind Song Lao Wu. At first, Jiang Ming thought it would be easy. Which Cheng thinks that this Song Lao is very alert. Since he was released by Mingyue, he has been very careful. After exchanging the rosewood bracelet he had brought with him for silver taels, he rented a small house and a small field in a village near Xiajin Province. Since then, Song Lao Wu has relied on this small house and a small field to live the life of a small farmer. Wake up early in the morning to fetch water for cooking, farm during the day, and peel some skin at night. People who don't know his details will definitely think that Song Lao Wu is an honest farmer. Such simple and repeated days are three months at a time. During this period, Song Lao Wu did not show any signs of contact with the outside world.

Jiang Ming sent two groups of people to monitor Song Lao Wu day and night, but later, even Jiang Ming doubted whether Song Lao Wu had the value of being monitored. If Mingyue hadn't insisted, Jiang Ming might have withdrawn his surveillance of Song Lao Wu long ago. The emperor lived up to his wishes, and in the fourth month of surveillance, Song Lao Wu finally made a move. First of all, he dressed as a farmer and frequently went in and out of the market in Xiajin Mansion, and after finding that no one was following him, Song Lao Wu went to the big wine shop in Xiajin Mansion every few days - "Guest Return". Where does a farmer have the money to go to the famous liquor store in Natsu Province? At this point, Jiang Ming was completely convinced that Song Lao Wu was preparing to meet his backer. With such careful planning and preparation, he disguised for many months until he was sure that there was no stalker before getting in touch, which shows that the backer behind Song Lao Wu must have a lot of background and does not want to have an open trading relationship with the Cao Gang.

After Jiang Ming learned about Song Lao Wu's movements, he instructed the secret guards to keep an eye on Song Lao Wu. No, this morning, after Song Lao Wu entered the "guest return" again, the secret guard handed Jiang Ming a message. After the secret guard followed Song Lao Wu to the door of a house on the outskirts of Xiajin Mansion, Jiang Ming and the secret guard converged outside this house. After analyzing the form in front of him, Jiang Ming decisively divided the secret guards into two groups, one group was used to check who the owner of the house was, and the other group was used to enter the courtyard to arrest Song Lao Wu. When Song Lao Wu, who was knocked unconscious, was quietly carried under Jiang Ming's nose by the secret guards, the connections of this family were also sent to Jiang Ming, and the owner of this courtyard was the chief housekeeper of the prefect of Xiajin Mansion.

After nearly five months of ambush, he finally figured out the bottom of Song Lao Wu, and Jiang Ming, a simple-minded martial artist, was naturally very happy. So, Jiang Ming hurriedly ran to Mingyue to repay the results. Na Cheng thought about it, he talked for a long time, but he didn't get a response from Mingyue. Jiang Ming, who didn't know why, stopped his mouth after realizing it.

"Childe, we caught Song Lao Wu and found out the forces behind him. Why don't you see you happy? Jiang Ming asked with some confusion.

"Uncle Jiang, who said I was unhappy, I am very happy."

Mingyue held a roll of yellowed paper in her hand, dressed in a light blue satin coat, and walked out from behind the screen in the warm pavilion.

"Ahh Seeing Mingyue coming out of other places, Jiang Ming was so frightened that he took a few steps back. Looking at the white-clothed boy who was still facing the mountains and rivers with his back to him, Jiang Ming stretched out his finger and pointed at the white-clothed boy and asked, "Gong-childe, behind the screen———— then who is this-who is this person?" ”

Seeing this, Mingyue laughed out loud. After the white-clothed man heard Mingyue's laughter, he turned his head to look over in a daze. He turned his head, and Jiang Ming instantly recognized this person. This person is none other than Jiang Ming's good apprentice - You Ning. After recognizing the person, Jiang Ming took a step forward and slapped the back of Youning's head viciously.

"Unfilial apprentice, you dare to play tricks on me!"

You Ning rubbed the back of his head and looked at Jiang Ming very aggrieved.

"Uncle Jiang, don't be angry. When writing today, You Ning accidentally knocked over the paint next to him, and half of his clothes were dyed colorful. I couldn't look at it, so I gave him the set of clothes that the embroidery girl in the garden had made for me a few years ago. As for him not answering just now, eighty percent of them were fascinated by the mountains and rivers, and they didn't hear you speak at all. ”

Mingyue took two steps, put the book on the desk, and continued: "Song Lao Wu hid in the house of the prefect's housekeeper, and eighty percent of the people behind him are indispensable to the prefect's master. In this way, the matter of the Cao Gang is even more complicated. Oh yes, how is that scholar surnamed Fang now? ”

"It's not great, but it's manageable. Under our escort, the boy escaped several assassinations. ”

"The people in the hall that I said before—"

"According to the order, everyone in the Ye Cao Gang Council Hall took our pills, and now they are basically in the ground."

"Hey~"

Mingyue let out a long sigh. If you create evil in the air, you will lose your longevity. Mingyue understood the truth of this causal cycle in her heart, but in order to buy more time for Suyue Garden to accumulate strength, she had to make such a cruel choice.

"Hand over that Song Lao Wu to Fang Ping. I used to be too rigid, but now I've figured things out. Although-for-tat is not the best way to solve a problem, in this era of decay and law, a tooth for a tooth is indeed the most direct way to solve the problem. As for how Fang Ping disposes of Song Lao Wu, we don't have to worry. Since I said goodbye last winter, I haven't seen Brother Fang again, thinking about what I did to him before, hey, I'm also very sorry. This Song Lao Wuquan should be our reward~"

"Okay, listen to Childe."