Inside the flower hall of Kaifeng Mansion

Gongsun Ce was sorting out the case file in his hand, Bao Zheng took two sips of tea with the teacup in his hand, and asked Zhanzhao: "Why haven't you seen Miss Xue and her friends all morning?"

Zhan Zhao smiled and said: "The two of them were just outside the lobby of Kaifeng Mansion to watch the adults close the case, this time it is estimated that they are celebrating the revenge of the Xue family outside." ”

Bao Zheng smiled and said, "What are the plans of this Xue girl in the future? should she go back to Songjiang to rebuild the Xue Mansion or stay here and start over?"

Zhan Zhao was stunned for a moment and said, "This ...... I haven't asked yet, but I think that since Miss Xue is not really a member of the Xue family, she shouldn't think about going back to Songjiang, but she did mention to her subordinates that she wanted to send Xiaoxi's body back to Songjiang for burial, and her subordinates have promised her that when the case is over, they will accompany her back to Songjiang. ”

Gongsun Ce smiled: "Oh, when did the Zhan guards also do this thing to accompany the young lady to the coffin?"

Zhan Zhao's face was slightly red when Gongsun Ce said it, and he said embarrassedly: "I think it is very inconvenient for her to go on the road alone with a girl, and Songjiang happens to be my hometown, I also want to go back to take a look, if there is something wrong with the adults, the subordinates should stay." ”

Bao Zheng glanced at Gongsun Ce with a smile and said, "It's okay, there is something to trouble the Zhan guards, but it's not in a hurry, I'll talk about it when the Zhan guards come back." ”

Zhan Zhao hurriedly said: "Your Excellency, you might as well tell your subordinates now, and your subordinates have a number in their hearts." ”

Bao Zheng said: "Last night, the emperor recruited the palace into the palace, saying that King Xian wrote to the Queen Mother that she wanted to enter the palace and spend the Mid-Autumn Festival with the Queen Mother, and the emperor had agreed, but in case of safety, the emperor wanted to ask the Zhan guards to accompany King Xian when he arrived, and protect him. ”

Gongsun Ce said: "The emperor was so anxious to summon the lord last night, is it just for this matter?"

Bao Zheng said: "Mr. Gongsun does not know, that Xianwang is the son of the former emperor's favorite concubine Yanfei, the current Yanfei murdered the crown prince failed, was given death by the first emperor, this matter affected the Xianwang was moved to Shu, the first emperor was alive and ordered the Xianwang not to step into the imperial city half a step, now, he suddenly wants to come back for the Mid-Autumn Festival, the emperor is merciful, although the Xian Wang is more inappropriate, but still allowed him to enter Beijing for the festival. However, the emperor was not easy to say anything, and he was always a little relieved in his heart, and he inevitably had complications, so he ordered the guards to follow King Xian until he left Beijing. ”

Gongsun Ce said clearly: "It's called protection, but it's actually surveillance, I don't want the queen mother to be disappointed, but I can also reassure myself, the emperor can be said to be really well-intentioned." ”

Zhan Zhao said: "There is less than half a month before the Mid-Autumn Festival, and my subordinates will go and return quickly, so don't worry." ”

Gongsun Ce remembered one more thing, so he asked Bao Zheng: "My lord, why did you put Yue Qi and Rouge in prison temporarily?"

Bao Zheng frowned and said: "This mansion always feels that there are still many things that Rouge has not explained, and this mansion has an intuition, what does the Xian King seem to have to do with Rouge when he came to the capital, as for that Yue Qi, this mansion looks at Nuo'er pitifully, and wants their father and son to get together again, if Nuo'er is really helpless, let this child be accompanied by his father before leaving, and he will not be too lonely and afraid." ”

Gongsun Ce said movingly: "My lord is really kind-hearted, but it's a pity that this Yue Qi repented too late......."

That night, after dinner, Zhanzhao came to Feifei and told her that she could leave tomorrow to send Konishi's coffin to Matsue, and asked her to prepare and leave early tomorrow morning.

Feifei didn't expect Zhan Zhao to fulfill his promise so quickly, and he didn't feel a little good feeling for him in his heart, Ruoxi heard that Feifei was going to Songjiang, so he had to go with him, Zhan Zhao had no way to take Ruoxi, so he had to nod and agree, fortunately, the carriage in Kaifeng Mansion was big enough to sit down for the two girls, Zhan Zhao saw that everything was done, so he told the two girls to rest early when they were ready, and they went back to prepare their clothes.

Early in the morning of the second day, Zhanzhao and Feifei and Ruoxi resigned from Bao Zheng, and then escorted the coffin to Songjiang.

Ruoxi likes to quarrel with Bai Yutang the most, and immediately disagrees, Bai Yutang doesn't care about Ruoxi's objections, and the horse is parallel to Zhanzhao, Zhanzhao thinks that it is not bad to have Bai Yutang along the way, at least they can take care of each other, so they don't object to him following, Ruoxi saw that Zhanzhao agreed, and sat back in the carriage angrily, Feifei saw this, and secretly laughed in his heart, and didn't pay attention to her, and looked out at the scenery by himself.

Rushing all the way, unconsciously it was almost dusk, Zhan Zhaoying was worried about the matter of King Xian, so he went to Songjiang and did not take the official road, looking at the sky at the moment, it was expected that he would stay out for a night tonight, so he found a vacant land early, and after placing the coffin, he and Bai Yutang went to pick up some branches nearby, and beat a few game, Ruoxi happily carried it to the side to wash and peel, Bai Yutang looked at Ruoxi's skillful gesture of breaking the abdomen and cutting meat, and couldn't help but be curious: "Ruoxi, look at your technique, and the imperial chef in the palace has a fight." ”

Ruoxi glanced at Bai Yutang and said, "Have you ever seen the imperial kitchen cook? Don't brag, this is what Lord Zhan said I believe, what ......do you say, I don't believe it!"

Zhan Zhao heard Ruoxi mention himself, so he laughed and said: "Ruoxi girl, you can blame Brother Bai for this, Brother Bai has not only seen the imperial kitchen cook, but even he has eaten the imperial meal." ”

Bai Yutang saw that Zhan Zhao was about to reveal his bottom, and couldn't help but hurriedly say: "Zhan Zhao, shut up, you still mention old things, and you are embarrassed to call Nanxia." ”

Zhan Zhao saw that Bai Yutang was in a hurry, and he didn't want to say any more, so he just smiled and continued to make a fire on the side.

Ruoxi smiled at Zhan Zhao, then turned to Bai Yutang and said, "Have you forgotten what I do?" I'm a surgeon, taking a knife and dissecting a corpse is a basic skill, what is my ability, you haven't seen Feifei's craftsmanship, it's a veritable knife without bloodshed." As he spoke, he threw a plucked pheasant to Feifei.

Feifei smiled and took out the knife that Zhanzhao gave her when she delivered the baby for her sister-in-law that day, rolled up her sleeve, made a small opening in the pheasant's belly, and then put the knife in, and after a while, the bones of the whole pheasant were removed, because she was extremely fast, and the chicken really did not bleed a lot. Feifei wiped the knife clean, poured out the chicken blood and internal organs, and then handed the chicken back to Ruoxi, and scolded with a smile: "You are lazy and don't forget to find a reason, and you are not unfamiliar at all." ”

Ruoxi was pierced by Feifei, embarrassed to snort, and buried her head in washing pheasants.

Bai Yutang and Zhanzhao were amazed by Feifei's inadvertently revealed one-handed skills, the knife kung fu that was like flowing water, it was pleasing to the eye, and forgot that Feifei was actually killing chickens, Zhanzhao remembered the courage when she broke her belly for Ma's sister-in-law and gave birth to a child, although he didn't witness it with his own eyes, but when he saw her when she killed chickens today, it is no wonder that Mrs. Lu, who also studied medicine, was full of praise, but she is in this dynasty, if the world knows that she has the ability, I am afraid it will bring her more endless troubles and dangers in the world。

Thinking of this, Zhan Zhao couldn't help but look at Feifei worriedly, slowly peeling off the fire in front of him, Feifei sensitively felt that Zhan Zhao seemed to have something to say to himself, and also looked back at him. Ruoxi saw the two of them, you looked at me, I looked at you without speaking, and took Bai Yutang to the nearby stream to wash the game, for a while, only Feifei and Zhanzhao were left, and the atmosphere was much quieter.

Zhan Zhao put down the fire stick in his hand, turned around and took out a delicate small box from the baggage, handed it to Feifei and said: "This is a Mid-Autumn Festival gift for you, I originally thought of sending you that day, but unfortunately this time Songjiang came back, I have other official business, and I may not be able to accompany you for the Mid-Autumn Festival." ”

Feifei thought that Zhanzhao said that he would give him a gift that day just to comfort her, but he didn't expect Zhanzhao to prepare things seriously, and she felt sweet in her heart while taking the small box in Zhanzhao's hand, she joked: "What should I do, I haven't prepared a gift for you yet, such a delicate box, shouldn't it be any jewelry inside, Brother Zhan, I don't like to bring those, you are too expensive." ”

Zhan Zhao smiled and didn't answer, and said directly: "It's okay, it's not a valuable thing, you don't need to care, you can open it and take a look." ”

Feifei saw him say this, couldn't help but open the box, there was actually a row of surgical knives inside, although it was made of iron, but it was small and exquisite, Feifei reached out and picked up a scalpel, the weight was just right, the blade was polished extremely thin, but it was sharp, there was a faint cold light in the moonlight, and the handle of the knife was also carefully carved with a lotus flower, Feifei couldn't put it down as soon as he held it in his hand, he had been a surgeon for so many years, and it was the first time she had such a beautiful scalpel, and she couldn't help but wonder how Zhanzhao knew these things。

Zhan Zhao saw her holding the scalpel, laughing for a while, and looking at herself blankly with a smile, so he said: "That day you drew a set of such utensils in Mr. Gongsun's room on a whim, and described the usage, I see that you must want these things very much, it just so happened that I met a master who can build weapons on the rivers and lakes, so I painted these things to him, a few days ago he asked someone to bring things to me, I look very good, I don't know what you think?"

Feifei happily touched it one by one, holding the box like a treasure and said: "I think it's excellent, better than what I used before, thank you Brother Zhan, I like it very much." ”

Zhan Zhao saw Feifei's happy smile, and couldn't help but feel comfortable. Suddenly, he remembered something again, so he said to Feifei: "Feifei, after all, this is not the place where you used to be, there are many things that the world cannot accept, not everyone here can be as enlightened as Master Bao, Mr. Gongsun is so knowledgeable, your ability, if you are looked down upon by others, it is very likely that you will be regarded as a stranger, which will bring you a lot of trouble, and I can't always be by your side, so, you must not show these things to others at will until you have to, you have to learn to protect yourself, understand?"

Feifei looked at Zhanzhao's handsome face, felt embarrassed for a while, walked to Zhanzhao, wrapped his hands around his waist, buried his head in Zhanzhao's chest, and said softly: "Brother Zhan, I know what you mean, but just now you also missed a word, except for you in this world, no one will be so attentive to me, Brother Zhan, Feifei thank you." ”

Zhan Zhao was shocked by Feifei's bold move, thinking that this move was not in line with etiquette, but his hands were uncontrollably tightly hugged Feifei, he lowered his head and gently pressed Feifei's forehead, and the two stood quietly like this, neither of them spoke, enjoying this rare quiet moment that only belonged to the two of them.

I don't know how long it took, Zhan Zhao heard the sound of Ruoxi and Bai Yutang giggling, so he patted Feifei's shoulder, signaling that someone was coming, Feifei reluctantly left Kai Zhao's arms, put the box in his hand into the package, and sat back quietly in the distance, never daring to look up at Zhan Zhao.

At this time, Ruoxi and Bai Yutang carried the cleaned game, walked back happily, put the game on the shelf, and instructed this Bai Yutang to roast, and he walked to Feifei's side and looked at Feifei with a smile, Feifei was more and more embarrassed by her, got up and walked to Bai Yutang's side to help roast together, Ruoxi looked at Zhanzhao's slightly red face again, and couldn't help but laugh tacitly.

After a while, the smell of wild game spread all around, and after the four of them had eaten their fill, they rested and slept peacefully all night.

Early the next morning, the four of them continued to go to Songjiang in full gear, because they were walking on the path, not long ago, they had seen the three big characters of Songjiang Town from a distance, Bai Yutang saw that they had arrived in Songjiang Town, so they said goodbye to everyone and went to the wine shop to find his eldest brother, Feifei and Ruoxi wanted to bury Xiaoxi's coffin with the people of Xue Mansion, it was inconvenient to enter the town, Zhanzhao found Songjiang County Ya Ya to take them to the cemetery, and he was ready to go back to the old house to see his family, the four of them made an appointment, and after the matter was done, they met at Yuelai Wine Shop and returned to Kaifeng Mansion together.

Not long after Zhan Zhao returned to the old house, Bai Yutang hurried over, dragged Zhan Zhao outside and said that Feifei and Ruoxi were intercepted by a group of black-clothed people on the way to Xue Mansion, and the situation was directed towards Feifei, and the officials who followed him during the fight were killed, Feifei and Ruoxi were both injured, fortunately, Ruoxi was alert, and took advantage of the unpreparedness of the gang to escape with Feifei, and now he is resting in the wine shop. As soon as Zhan Zhao heard this, he immediately rushed to the winery with Bai Yutang.

Ruoxi and Feifei were resting in the room, as soon as Zhan Zhao came in, he saw Ruoxi with bandages on his arms, and was looking at Feifei who was half lying on the bed in a daze, Mrs. Lu on the side was also surprised, Zhan Zhao didn't think much about it, and walked quickly to Feifei's bed to check her injuries, Mrs. Lu looked at Ruoxi with a confused look, Ruoxi smiled at her and nodded, Mrs. Lu had a clear expression, and took a few steps back.

Feifei had woken up from this matter, and when he saw Zhan Zhao's nervous appearance, his heart was sweet and shy, and seeing that Mrs. Lu, Ruoxi, and Bai Yutang all had playful expressions, he unconsciously pulled down Zhan Zhao's hand to check the injury, and said, "Brother Zhan, I'm fine, Mrs. Lu has checked it for me, it's just some flesh wounds, and it's fine." ”

Zhan Zhao saw that Feifei was in good spirits, so he relaxed slightly, this time he remembered that his behavior just now was too abrupt, and he forgot that there were other people in the room, Feifei said this, and felt a little embarrassed.

Feifei saw that Zhanzhao's face was flushed, and he was busy thinking about helping him out of the siege, so he opened his mouth to talk about those men in black, and sure enough, as soon as the men in black were mentioned, everyone's attention was immediately diverted, Feifei said: "Brother Zhan, not long after you left, those men in black appeared, they should have come to me, and they seemed to know me, and they wanted to arrest me as soon as they appeared, but I don't think I recognize them." ”

Ruoxi recalled the scene at that time and said: "Those men in black are well-trained, not like ordinary robbers, besides, robbers are just robbers and robbers, they rushed away without saying anything, I think they came prepared,"

Feifei got up and continued: "The people related to the Xue Mansion have all been brought to justice by the adults, I can't think of anyone else who wants to arrest me, and besides, I feel that they are not trying to kill me, but just to take me away, but we resisted fiercely, and they had to hurt us. ”

Bai Yutang said: "Dare to kill all the officials, they are not ordinary robbers, they don't have the guts, I think someone should have instructed them to fly over." ”

A thought flashed in Zhanzhao's heart, but he couldn't hold it for a while, and he didn't realize that his brows were tightly wrung up, Feifei was reluctant to see this, and comforted him: "Brother Zhan, don't worry too much, you see I'm not fine." ”

Ruoxi heard Feifei's injury, and suddenly thought: "Feifei, what's the matter with you, such a serious injury, the wound recovered so quickly, it scared me and Mrs. Lu." ”

Feifei said confusedly: "I don't know, this is not the first time, last time I was seriously injured by rouge, and I slept for one night, Mr. Gongsun didn't know all kinds of reasons, only said that I might be more soulless than others." ”

Ruoxi suddenly had a flash of inspiration in her mind, took out a small jar from her bag, and when she opened it, it was actually a small white worm, Mrs. Lu looked at it and said in surprise: "This is a Gu worm?"

Ruoxi said: "That's right, this Gu worm was specially raised by me for experiments, and it is similar to the one on Nuo'er's body, Ruoxi, you drop a few drops of blood and take a look." ”

Fei Fei did as he said, dripping a few drops of blood into the jar, only to see that after the Gu worm encountered Feifei's blood, white smoke rose from its body, and the Gu worm's body writhed left and right, as if it was extremely painful, and after a while, the blood seeped into the Gu worm's body, and the Gu worm lay on the jar and didn't move.

Seeing this, Ruoxi happily clapped his hands and said: "Great, now Nuo'er is saved, I have been looking for a medicine to suppress the Gu worms in Nuo'er's body, but I didn't expect that there was nowhere to find it when I stepped on the iron shoes, and it didn't take any effort to get it, and this medicine introduction was to fly your blood." ”

Zhan Zhao said: "Why Feifei's blood? Is it really because of her soul? ”

Ruoxi frowned and said, "Unlikely, there is no direct relationship between the soul and the detoxification," her eyes flashed, and she suddenly asked Feifei: "Feifei, have you found the black jade talisman pendant around your neck?"

Feifei shook his head and said, "No, I found everything I could, but I didn't see this thing." ”

Ruoxi said: "I once heard my grandfather say that all treasures have spirituality, and most of them recognize the Lord, unless the master takes the initiative to give it up, even if the bones are broken, they will not leave their master." ”

Ruoxi thought thoughtfully and said, "After I brought back your ashes that day, the Soul Gathering Stone only appeared in my hand when I felt some induction, what kind of induction was strong enough to awaken the Soul Gathering Stone? I guess it was the black jade pendant on your body." ”

Feifei said, "But I don't have a ...... on me now."

Ruoxi suddenly patted his head and shouted: "I see, I see, I'm so stupid, how simple can I not understand." ”

Bai Yutang hurriedly said: "Tell me quickly, say it quickly, what's going on." ”

Ruoxi said: "Feifei, the thing on your neck probably melted into your body as early as when you fell off the cliff, so you can travel through time and space to be reborn here, so your blood has the effect of detoxification, so the healing power of your body is different from ordinary people, these are all because of the relationship between the black jade pendant, it is it that found the body for you to be reborn, and it has been protecting you." ”

After Ruoxi said this, Zhanzhao thought about many things that happened to Feifei, and his heart suddenly became clear, it turned out that everything was the relationship between Feifei and his treasures.

Bai Yutang and Mrs. Lu also felt that Ruoxi's analysis was very reasonable, if it was as Ruoxi said, then Nuo'er, the child, would finally be saved.

Feifei heard Ruoxi say this, thinking that his blood could save Nuo'er, so he said to Zhanzhao: "Brother Zhan, without further ado, let's rush back to Kaifeng Mansion to make Nuo'er." ”

Zhan Zhao hesitated and said, "Then you and Miss Ruoxi's body ......"

Ruoxi and Feifei said in unison: "I'm fine, it's important to save people." After saying that, the two looked at each other and smiled again.

Bai Yutang was beside him, glanced at Ruoxi and said: "Ruoxi, don't be reckless, you just used a blinding method to save people, this kind of spell is very hurtful, your face was white just now and the dead are no different, fortunately, my sister-in-law gave you an injection and used ginseng to renew your qi, otherwise, you are still lying on the bed now." ”

Ruoxi was exposed by Bai Yutang in public, and rushed to Bai Yutang in a hurry, just wanted to choke him, but he was really weak, and he almost fell down, but Bai Yutang was quick and helped her.

Bai Yutang said angrily: "Who told you to stand up so quickly, why is your body so uncarious, why don't you go to bed and lie down." ”

Ruoxi leaned on Bai Yutang and said softly: "I won't go, but someone knows the method of solving Gu, otherwise, you go and ask Rouge, if she is willing to tell you, I will have your surname in this life." ”

When Bai Yutang heard her say that she had his surname in this life, his heart moved, he glanced down at Ruoxi, and sighed helplessly: "That's it, you Bai Ye and I probably owe you, I don't dare to let you have my surname, I'll find a carriage for your two aunts and grandmothers." With that, he handed Ruoxi to his sister-in-law and walked out of the room.

Sister-in-law Lu giggled and said: "This is strange, my fifth brother is the most arrogant, usually no one can make him so obedient, what kind of method does Ruoxi girl use, can manage him obediently, you have to teach my sister-in-law well." ”

Ruoxi was embarrassed by Sister-in-law Lu's ridicule, and said softly: "Sister-in-law Lu, why are you making fun of me, who doesn't know, the fifth master is the most cold-faced and hot-hearted person, and everyone praises him for his chivalrous heart." ”

Sister-in-law Lu saw Ruoxi pretending to be stupid, so she simply said bluntly: "What kind of material is this fifth brother of my family, I don't know if I am the sister-in-law?" Miss Ruoxi don't put gold on his face, what he did a few years ago, you ask Brother Zhan, which one can be regarded as chivalrous, in my opinion, my family's five chivalrous are not chivalrous, sister-in-law I don't care, but he is a person who values love and righteousness, don't we women pay attention to the word love and righteousness when looking for men?"

Ruoxi's face was flushed when Sister-in-law Lu said, and she said that she was not, and if she didn't say it, she didn't say it, so she had to hum and bow her head and be silent.

Feifei looked up at Zhan Zhao, and saw that Zhan Zhao was also looking at him, Sister-in-law Lu's words were still in her ears, and every word was knocked into Feifei's heart, looking at each other, with affection, although neither of them spoke, but everything they wanted to say was not in words, and it was nothing more than that.