The third son, Meng Ying, rode away, galloping, and inadvertently caught a familiar figure on the side of the road, "Huh-", he pulled the reins twice to stop the horse, and shouted in a low voice, "Yitong? What are you doing sitting on the side of the road? What about your master? "I happened to meet Yitong, and I can confirm whether what He Angelica said is true.

Yitong, who was sitting in the roadside tea stall, raised his head, and when he saw that the person was Meng Ying, who was disguised, he suddenly showed a surprised expression and asked, "Third son, do you have any news of our master?" I, Yi Yi and Miss Xiao are all about to go crazy, but I lost my son-in-law! ”

Meng Ying stood on her horse and asked quietly, "Lost?" How did you lose it, a big living person, and not a three-year-old child. ”

Yitong breathed a sigh of relief and told what had happened: "Actually, since the night before yesterday, my son-in-law has been abnormal, and he sat up in the middle of the night, saying that he was letting the dream be a nightmare. I served him to drink Dingjing tea and then went to sleep, but he was lying down, but his eyes did not close all night, and he stared straight at one place all night. Then the next morning I went to do 'that kind of thing', and I saw that he was lacking in energy, and I secretly pinched it in my heart, but I didn't expect that something would really happen later. Because the conversation was on a crowded street, Yitong's wording was very subtle.

"What's wrong?" Meng Ying stroked her beard like an old pedant and asked.

Yitong said helplessly: "Today, the third son, you go to the opera garden, didn't I tell you?" My son-in-law is injured! ”

"Huh? Aha! Meng Yinghan smiled and apologized, "I wanted to experience the life of the elderly, so I stuffed my ears with cotton to listen to the play, and it really had a different taste...... As for what you buzzed about, I forgive you for not listening carefully, sorry, tell me what happened again, why did you do that kind of thing on the spur of the moment? Didn't I tell you to take a break? They are not the main enemy, and even if they have to deal with it, it should not be now. ”

Yitong spread his hands and said: "Didn't I say that my son-in-law has been abnormal since the day before yesterday, he became like that, and he gave birth to a new idea after a while, and none of us could stop it, so we had to accompany him to toss." Just do it, anyway, the timing is good, but he went wrong at the most critical moment, and he was stunned when he was on the line of life and death, and I couldn't even call his soul back, and I watched the other party go down with a sword, hurting my son-in-law. ”

"Are you badly hurt?" Meng Ying asked with hindsight.

"I didn't think anything about it at the time, just because the sword was a weapon that we brought to the ground and let the opponent pick up, and it was impossible to quench the poison." Yitong recalled, "But after a long time, we found that the brothers who had been wounded by the blades and palms of 'certain people' were all wounded and painful, and the injuries were several times worse than before, so we suspected that they had been poisoned." But I went back to find the same sword wound to report the situation, but there was no one in the room, only a note was pressed on the table, which read, 'I will go to relax, I will return in three or five days, don't read it' - what do you say this is called, ten days later, it will be the 'that thing' we have been waiting for for nearly a year, and the son is injured and poisoned and missing! ”

"Have you searched everywhere?" Meng Ying asked inducingly, "Didn't we live in Luo Mansion a few days ago?" You didn't send anyone to look for it? ”

"I went, but there was no one in the garden where you lived." Yitong said sincerely.

So, Meng Ying finished asking and asked satisfied, Fang took out a small medicine bottle from behind the belt buckle, poured out a pill and threw it to the person under the horse, lowered his voice and ordered: "This is the antidote to the cold poison, I don't have much here, and I have to take it to treat Lao Qi's injuries, you first use half of it to share food for the injured person, and then give the other half to Su Niang, let her analyze the ingredients, how much can be seen, and compare grabbing some medicinal herbs to boil into soup for the injured to take." When the situation stabilizes, I'll try to find more antidotes in a day or two. Knowing that there were so many injured people, he asked for the box of antidote in He Angelica's hand.

Yitong held the pill in the palm of his hand, tilted his head and squinted and smiled: "You still have a way, the third son, you can get it as soon as you get out of the horse, unlike us, going around in and around for several hours on the ten-mile slope, there is no progress, and in the end a little girl is bluffed away in three or two sentences, and after entering the city, the more I think about it, the more wrong it is, I feel that we have been deceived, and there is a chance that the girl is in the same group as those people!" ”

"Little girl, what kind of little girl?" Meng Ying showed a little vigilant look on her face.

"Fifteen or sixteen, with a cloth covering her face, and her complexion extremely white," Yitong described, "a pair of eyes that seem to be able to speak, but they can't read what she is thinking through their eyes, and at a glance they know that she is a beauty." By the way, Sangongzi, how did you get the antidote? Don't you even know about our son's injury? ”

Meng Ying said vaguely: "I have my own method, you don't need to know too clearly." He had guessed that the masked girl that Yitong met outside the city was He Angelica nine times out of ten, but he didn't expect that she really broke into the tiger's den to get the antidote, why did she sacrifice so much? After pondering for a while, Meng Ying instructed again, "Yitong, listen well, first, you must not mention the matter of meeting that girl outside the city, let alone to your master." Second, if the old man asks you about the origin of this antidote after seven days, you just have to say......" and say two sentences like this and so.

Yitong didn't even ask the reason, nodded obediently and said, "Okay, the little one has been written down." ”

Meng Ying breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "In the middle of the night, don't sit on the side of the road in a daze, quickly take the medicine back, your master has been recuperating outside for the past two days, and you people are also a little more peaceful, you can wait in the house without going out, and wait and see what happens." ”

"I know," Yitong agreed, explaining, "It was because the little boy didn't sleep at night and was so noisy that Miss Xiao asked the little one to come out and buy some goat's milk paste for him to eat, and he would have to wait a while to get it." ”

"Lao Qi is also true," Meng Ying shook her head disapprovingly when she heard this, "If you don't hold your son at home and coax your son, but go outside to spend flowers, won't it hurt Su Niang's heart." ”

Yitong was stunned: "Hug your son? However, the little boy is not the son of my son-in-law! ”

Meng Ying was stunned: "Isn't it the son of Lao Qi?" Who do you listen to? ”

Yitong raised his eyebrows and said, "Me? Of course, I listened to Miss Xiao herself-Third Son, who are you listening to nonsense, saying that the two of them are biological father and son? ”

Meng Ying's eyebrows raised higher, hooked her lips and said, "Coincidentally, I also listened to Su Niang herself, and she also said that when Lao Qi returned to the capital, she would marry her." Besides, I have also probed the tone of Lao Qi, which vaguely means that he wants to marry Su Niang as a concubine and give their mother and son a name. What is not biological? This kind of thing can you say as a subordinate, but you can control your mouth in the future, and you will never be spared next time. ”

Yitong made a bitter face, tilted his head and said: "But it's clear that it's not biological, the third son, the little one really doesn't talk nonsense, the little one definitely has the right to speak in this matter!" ”

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"Really? You're not talking nonsense! A girl's coquettish voice sounded, "Why don't you Angelica and her mother live in Taoism?" ”

"What are you lying to you," another woman who sounded older and more stable laughed, "I have seen this with my own eyes, although I have never seen what He Angelica's mother looks like, but the daughter of the Sichuan character in Luodong Mansion, there are many people who know her, and the two old grandmothers around me know her, and they immediately covered their mouths and whispered, and said, 'Isn't this the aunt of Luodong Mansion?' It's weird, how can you carry a vegetable basket to buy fish at the vegetable market? The other said, 'That's right! It's her, listen, she's still bargaining with the fish seller, and wants to bargain for three cents! God, oh my God, hasn't Luodong Mansion collapsed? 'Hehehe,' the woman who spoke let out a long string of crisp laughs, "Miaoyi, do you think it's funny?" ”

The first girl to speak also laughed: "Buying fish at the vegetable market? Why should Angelica buy fish for her mother? Ha ha! If it weren't for Sister Guan Yun and you coming to see me, I wouldn't have heard such an interesting thing. Today I am carrying a basket of vegetables to the entrance of the vegetable market, and tomorrow I will not go to the street to beg with a rice bowl? ”

That's right, these two women, one is Ling Miaoyi and the other is Guan Yun, these two are talking at night in the inner room of the mansion, talking happily and happily. At this time, it was close to the fourth watch, the rain was still falling, and the owner of the mansion, Gao Jue, and the guest Liao Zhiyuan were not at home, but the lonely Ling Miaoyi waited for Guan Yun, a visitor, and brought fresh jokes, both of them loved to talk about this topic, and gradually chatted until late at night.

Of course, in addition to Ling Miaoyi and Guan Yun in the mansion, there is also another uninvited guest, who is now lying by the window, quietly listening to the conversation between the two - who else can this person be besides He Angelica? She held her breath, her long eyelashes lowered, covering her dark eyes, and listening to the laughter of the people in the room.

Ling Miaoyi asked with interest: "Sister Guan Yun, what does Angelica look like for her mother?" Abandoned by her husband twice in a row, she must be an ugly girl? ”

Guan Yun shook his head and smiled: "Ugly is not ugly, I look more pleasing to the eye than He Angelica, if her mother is rough, how can she give birth to a jade-faced fox spirit like He Angelica." However, I look left and right, and I always feel that it looks awkward......" Guan Yun said with a slight snort, "I feel that woman...... Too fat, belly too fat. ”

Ling Miaoyi sneered: "Ah, what's so strange about this, an aunt in her thirties, it's normal to have a big belly." When Angelica reaches that age, it may not become like that. ”

Guan Yun was still suspicious in his heart, muttering to himself: "That woman still supports her back with her left hand from time to time, how can I look at it, it looks a bit like a pregnant woman's posture...... Well, look at the clothes she wears, they are more than two circles wider than her normal size, if it weren't for the fact that she was too poor to wear clothes that fit, Miaoyi, what do you think it should be because? ”

Ling Miaoyi's eyes lit up, and she held her pointed chin with two jade fingers like spring onions, shaking her head with interest and saying, "He Angelica's mother is pregnant?" He Angelica's mother moved out of the Taoist temple and lived in a small market, and now she is pregnant? However, He Angelica's stepfather, He Fu, wasn't he in prison two months ago. Sister Guan Yun, what do you mean, why Angelica can't bear the loneliness and runs out to steal men again? ”

"Again?" Guan Yun yawned with one hand on her chin, wiped her eyes and asked, "Could it be that her mother has had a bad record in this regard before?" ”

"That's natural," Ling Miaoyi said proudly, "Sister Guan Yun, your news is too closed, this matter has been spread three or four times in the entire Chengxu Academy, it is the old story of her mother being kicked out of the capital He Mansion back then, I heard that it was also because of stealing people, and she was looking for a few dirty stinky beggars, tsk, it's really disgusting, what kind of mother will teach what daughter." ”