Chapter 31: The Guangxu Unsolved Case (I)

At that time, there was no direct car from Beijing to Hangzhou, so he could only transfer from Shanghai, on the platform, the north and south were hurriedly dressed as wealthy businessmen, he was a little dazzling in it, Murong Yu was lightly equipped, and only carried a leather bag. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Lu Yuanyan explained to him how to transfer, and some things after he went, Fu Ruoning kept his eyes red and didn't speak, to his surprise, Murong Huan, who mentioned Lu Yuanyan and wanted to jump immediately, was also there, but he put on a beautiful and demure expression, standing quietly on one side, and judging the two of them that day.

The train entered the station at eight o'clock, and the big smoker exhaled like a "clang", the two got on the train one after the other, and sat down on the seat, Murong Yu looked at the first few blurred figures outside the glass window, suddenly stretched his waist, and the whole person nested into the soft seat, "I can finally go out and explore the rivers and lakes!" ”

"It's not out of Beijing yet." Zhou Mushu leaned on the seat, stretched out his hand to brush off a bit of ash from the window, Lu Yuanyan and his party did not leave, but shrank smaller and smaller as the train drove away, until it became a small halo.

Murong Yu couldn't be idle all the way, telling him the story of how he was accepted as an apprentice by Chu Dao, Zhou Mushu listened quietly, this was also the first time he heard that Lu Yuanyan had a senior brother named Chu Dao.

"You said that when someone met for the first time, he said that this kid of your family wouldn't live to be twenty if he didn't give me an apprentice, hey, my dad's temper that had mixed with the military region almost broke him." Murong Yu took a bite of the apple, "But what about him, he actually built a grass shed not far from my house and lived, and later my eldest brother married my sister-in-law, he actually ran to my dad and said that my sister-in-law was pregnant, I was afraid that I wanted my Murong family to be a big wrongdoer, my father didn't believe it, and as a result, my sister-in-law vomited on the happy hall that night." ”

Zhou Mushu flipped through the book "New Youth", "So did you finally enter the door?" ”

Murong Yu's eyes widened, and the apple core was thrown, "Can my Murong family be the leader of this wrong?" Of course not! After asking for a long time, I recognized it, and my dad drove him away. ”

"And then he agreed to let you be his apprentice?" Zhou Mushu said curiously.

Murong Yu finished eating the apples and began to dig out the peach crisp in the small bag, "Where is it so easy, but then my father was impressed with him, and then I had a hundred days banquet, and my master came to drink, at that time I knew a butt egg, and I grabbed the corner of his clothes when I grabbed the lot, and my father accepted it." ”

"That's a real fate." Zhou Mushu nodded, but Murong Yu slapped the table, "There is a fart fate, and later he confessed to me that he deliberately wore a white and yellow clothes that day, soaked in milk and dried them, who did I catch him if I didn't wean?" ”

"But then it was okay, I really taught me something." Murong Yu sighed.

Zhou Mushu closed the book, suddenly raised his head and said, "That night, what was Kanzi Mountain that you and my master were talking about?" Murong Yu was stunned, put the peach crisp in his mouth, and said in surprise, "Your master hasn't told you yet?!" ”

"Nope." Zhou Mushu shook his head honestly.

"Eh, forget it, I'll tell you, let me come along, and I guess it also means." Murong Yu waved his hand and took a sip of tea from the porcelain jar, "This matter, my master and your master have been tracking this matter for many years, and it is indeed a bit strange to say that we have a scruffy beard from our age to now." ”

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Zhejiang is different from the north, there are many mountains and rivers, there are many villages and towns on the side of the mountains and rivers, Huzhou is close to Suzhou and Hangzhou, and there is a small village called Luoxia Village in it.

During the Guangxu years, there was a girl named Xiutao in the village, who looked smart and hardworking, but unfortunately, the number of lives was not good, and there was no one in twenty who had not yet married, it stands to reason that this condition would not be unexpected, but she refused, because her parents died early, leaving a bunch of younger brothers and sisters to take care of her, the youngest just learned to walk, and the older one also entered the private school to study.

Seeing that Xiutao had become an old girl, people sighed and said it was a pity.

Jiangsu and Zhejiang silk grain rice is famous, the rise of industry and commerce nowadays, embroidery pottery smart, took out the inheritance of his parents and his savings for several years, purchased a few machines, raised silkworms, reeling silk weaving cloth to sell outside, and even started a business with foreigners, within three years, the family was built into a white wall and black tile Jiangnan courtyard, and also became a famous rich family in ten miles and eight townships.

But when this rumor still did not stop, it was the same as those jealous eyes, growing in the dark, more terrifying than ghosts, some people said that Xiutao was a traitor, and it was only because foreigners liked her that beautiful face.

In this regard, Xiutao has never expressed too much and said, and she is too lazy to pay attention to it.

When she was twenty-four years old, things took a turn for the worse.

Xiutao has a second sister named Xiuning, when she was sixteen years old, put on a big red wedding dress, married to a scholarly family in a neighboring town, Xiutao was happy, held a big banquet in her own yard, sent her sister to marry, although the villagers looked down on her openly and secretly, that looked down, but there was no enmity against the sumptuous banquet, shy face, and sat in the courtyard in a mighty way. A villager said, "She is shameless and foreigners, and the things we eat, but the foreigners' silver, should be used as a transfusion of foreign blood for me." ”

Someone ate with a mouth full of oil, and Ying He said, "No, it's just such a reason, this filthy deed, we came to the banquet to give her face, and if she doesn't marry at the age of twenty-four, which husband's family dares to ask for someone who is not clean?" ”

The child kicked happily with the duck leg in his mouth, and chirped, "But this table was bought by Sister Tao's silver!" Everyone cast unhappy glances, and the child's father slapped him on the head, "She is so rich, what is it for the villagers to eat a meal?" Yes? ”

The child's father wiped his sweat and arched his hand, "The child is not sensible, forgive me, forgive me." ”

Xiutao couldn't see the big drama singing in the courtyard here, because she was happily draped in a red hijab for Xiuning, and the housekeeper hurriedly ran in, wiping his sweat with a square scarf, "Girl, there is a poor scholar outside with two and a half children who said that they want to ask for a cup of wine to drink, and they also pretend to be ghosts and say that our house is haunted!" ”

Xiuning had a violent temper and immediately waved his hand, "Get him away!" My big day, bad luck! ”

Xiutao was silent, she didn't believe this, but at that time, people talked about a happy head, and the fact that it was inappropriate to drive people on the day of the wedding, so she asked the housekeeper to invite people in for a good meal and then send them away.

The book grew up to be a talent, that is, an old green robe was tattered, and he was holding two gray-faced teenagers, and set a table of wine and food for them to eat and drink, but the three of them were not busy, the two children were only eight or nine years old, and the eldest was only ten years old, but none of the ordinary children saw the appearance of eating and their eyes lit up, but after the scholar sat down, they scattered left and right, and began to walk a strange step around the full house.

After a cup of tea, the big one suddenly raised his eyebrows, threw a copper bell into a corner, the copper bell rang twice in the air, and suddenly stopped and fell into a bowl of soup!! ”

The eldest child didn't hear it, and immediately turned to the scholar and said solemnly, "Master, that thing is too high, and my meditation bell is difficult to deal with." ”

The scholar took a sip of wine and did not answer, but looked at the little one, the child also circled twice without saying a word, and finally paused in front of the sedan chair, which was a beautifully made yellow rosewood sedan chair, decorated with a red wedding curtain, and there was no one sitting inside, and the sedan chair man was squatting on the side and smoking a dry cigarette.

"Kid, what do you see?" One of the palanquin bearers joked with him, "Don't you want to marry a daughter-in-law?" ”

The other laughed loudly, "Mao hasn't grown yet, marry a daughter-in-law?" Hahahaha. ”

The child was quite polite, took out four small and delicate bamboo cages from the small cloth bag on his body, and one of them distributed a word, "There are many spirits in the mountains and fields, this thing can keep you safe and sound, and it is not a respect." ”

A palanquin man poked at the small cage and mocked, "What can this thing do?" Catching grasshoppers? ”

"Come on, Hu Si'er, what do you care about with a doll." There was a palanquin man who sneered and said, "Little brother, thank you, thank you." ”

The child bowed and ran back to the scholar.

The housekeeper had just finished cleaning up the mess, and he couldn't help but say to the scholar, "What do you say you're doing?" My girl kindly invited you to dinner, and it is really ...... for you two children to toss like this. ”

The scholar didn't apologize, but smiled, "Your girl is a good person, can you please come out and talk about it." ”

The housekeeper is also an old man, and he has the same mirror in his heart, "The idea of beating my eldest girl, I don't look at my poor and sour appearance, go back and repair for a few hundred years before talking!" ”

The scholar pressed the heads of the two tiger cub-like children beside him, and was about to answer, when Xiutao had already helped the bride out of the room, and when he happened to hear this, he immediately stepped forward and scolded, "Old Yang, how can you talk like this." ”

The housekeeper is also a knowledgeable person, and immediately lowered his head and muttered, "This kid has to inch in!" ”

The scholar smiled at Tao Mingmei and arched his hand, "Girl, I won't tell you anything, your house is haunted, and this bride tonight, I'm afraid she won't be able to leave the village." ”