Zheng Haizhu rushed to the county seat, and just jumped off the mule cart, a black shadow suddenly flashed in front of him, and then with a "poof", his cheeks touched a large ball of soft vegetable leaves.

"The one with the acne rash is from her Zhuangzi!"

"Yes, it's the homeless people from the north she brought!"

"Get back, get back!"

The surrounding sounds of cursing one after another, all of which were in Chongming's local dialect.

Yang Xiancheng hurriedly walked out of the yamen with his robe, put on the official authority of the second master, stared at him, shouted to the servants to drive away the onlookers, and pointed to the man who threw the vegetable skin and said: "Dare to be rude to Mrs. Fate, but he will be against him!" Rip off his pants and beat him with ten sticks first! ”

Zheng Haizhu hurriedly stepped forward to play a round game, and even said a few "forget it".

He bowed his hand to the onlookers again, and said loudly: "It is my Zhengjiazhuang people who have pox, but they have settled in Chongming, and it has already been a hundred days. And the patient has been in the county seat for half a month, and I have not found a pox in my Zhuangzi, otherwise, the eldest and second masters will not seal my Zhuangzi? ”

The turbulent public opinion was like a tide, and it calmed down a little, and it took a moment to squeeze in to see the excitement, with sharp eyes, pointing to the man who took the lead in attacking Zheng Haizhu and said: "Hey, Chen Er, you also scolded Mrs. Edict when you were drinking the day before yesterday, saying that the outsiders in her Zhuangzi would tease the little lady and take away your little cousin who is like a flower." ”

As soon as everyone heard this, they immediately shifted their interest again, and began to laugh at the descendant named Chen Er, ridiculing him for his body like a reed stick, and his foundation must be very empty, no wonder the young and sturdy cousin was hooked up by the tall Liaomin.

Zheng Haizhu didn't have the heart to listen to half a sentence anymore, and was led into the county government by Yang County.

Yue Zhixian's dough-like smiling face was impressive, but Zheng Haizhu sank his face and said unceremoniously: "County Zun, after I arrived in Chongming, what happened to me, I'm sorry for the county?" You have finished my people, you have come back to my people, you have finished my firearms, and you have come back to my people. He also treats people as mules! The local farmer has not left the island to do forced labor, my people, have you sent him to work outside the island? ”

As soon as Yue Yunhong heard it, he understood that this tigress guessed that the little carpenter had come for half a month and left the island.

The county magistrate is not a vegetarian either, and sneered: "There is also a matter to ask Madame in this county, didn't your Zhuangzi invite Lang Zhong from Songjiang to get pox a while ago?" That day, Yang Xiancheng mentioned to the little carpenter that he had already had a pox. Now it seems that the little carpenter is not honest either. There is a pox epidemic in Songjiang, if he can't avoid the epidemic, how can the county let him buy tools? ”

When Zheng Haizhu heard this, he was angry and thoughtful, and asked, "County Zun, is Carpenter Dong going to Songjiang by himself?" ”

When Yue Yunhong arrived at this time, he didn't bother to hide it, and said: "Yes, the northern dealer who collected cotton and cloth on the road, after leaving with the chair he made, came to ask for more styles this time, and the little carpenter said that the guy was not enough, and he wanted to go to Songjiang to buy this and that." ”

Yang Xiancheng, who was on the side, also took over the conversation and turned around for his boss: "Mrs. Zheng, it is also a matter of long-term vision to give two pieces of furniture to foreign businessmen on the island. Master Yue and I, don't you look at it, your little carpenter really has two brushes, and you can take apprentices if you do too much. There are many Chongming trees, and it is close to Wusong Wharf, and it is like Su Xiuhu Silk to beat out the name of the woodware, and the guests are like clouds, and you Zhuangzi also has silver input, right? ”

Zheng Haizhu waved his hand: "Pox is a disease that kills people, and I don't have the heart to think about silver now." ”

Yue Yunhong leaned back on the Taishi's chair and said, "Madame knows that the pox is bad, so it's fine." Therefore, we have no choice but to lock up the powerful women under Madame together. Who would have thought that after ten days of separation, the woman would be sick with lovesickness, and take the baby to have a tryst with the little carpenter! Lao Yang, you take your wife to take a look. ”

……

Aya was sitting on the half-rotten threshold, coaxing her daughter Xiaodoubao to sleep, when a noise suddenly sounded outside the hut.

She stood to her feet.

A good-looking man came out of the broken house behind him, and said in a deep voice: "What's wrong?" ”

Aya ignored him and walked straight to the gate of the courtyard.

Outside the courtyard gate, on both sides of the fire that was always burning wormwood, guards covered with cotton cloth and face towels came out, and she shouted: "Don't come out!" ”

"That's my owner! I told her two ......"

Aya didn't say anything, Zheng Haizhu had already strode over.

Yang Xiancheng hurriedly rushed to the front to stop her, and said kindly: "Madam, if you go further, you have to close the inside." This is the Anji House built by the gentry of Chongming, and all patients with epidemic diseases such as pox and leprosy must be confined here, and life and death are up to heaven. Chongming did not have a pox epidemic last year, and for the first time this year, the county people and scholars were staring at it, and Mrs. also saw the situation in front of the yamen. If you break through now, wouldn't it be more realistic? ”

Zheng Haizhu looked at each other with two guards who seemed to be gentlemen, their faces were fierce, they looked at her with disdain, and when they faced Yang Xiancheng, they only scribbled a little.

In the south of the Ming Jiangnan, in many counties, it is not uncommon for the county magistrates to look at the faces of the gentry with deep roots.

Zheng Haizhu approached Yang Xiancheng and discussed in a low voice: "Look at my female steward, she has pockmarks on her face, and she had acne when she was a child." Her baby had just had pox. How about letting her and her mother go back to Zhuangzi first? ”

Yang Xiancheng refused: "No." The maritime merchant who came to order the furniture also had a pox, and only talked to the little carpenter about how to get the furniture for an afternoon, isn't it still closed? It's okay for them to get wet, but the sickness and acne they bring out will be passed on to others. ”

"Madame," Aya said loudly through the smoke of wormwood, "Aya thanked Madame for her concern. In case Aya and Wa'er are not angry, from Chongming to Songjiang, don't bury our mother and son, beg Mrs. to send our ashes back to the Shandong hometown hall and bury it. ”

"No, no," Yang Xiancheng was embarrassed to hear this, and waved his hand at Aya, "Didn't your wife say that you had a pox skewer?" ”

Zheng Haizhu angrily pointed to the pig-like gruel in the wooden barrel next to the thatched hut and said, "Do you give them these to eat every day?" If you don't die of disease, you starve to death. ”

But in his heart, he was already pondering Aya's words.

The sentence "the hemp rope is specially selected and broken in detail" is one of the incisions in Wu Bangde's training of intelligence officers, indicating that the words behind him have a deep meaning.

Aya has never set foot in Songjiang, and when she thinks of her task, "From Chongming to Songjiang" is it talking about the little carpenter Ashan?

The Dengzhou Liu Baihu who made Aya pregnant with a child, Aya couldn't have any feelings, and talked about "Shandong hometown". Guild hall, where did Dengzhou Jindaozhai Private Port come from?

Shandong hometown? Shandong Chamber of Commerce in Songjiang?

Zheng Haizhu stared at Aya, but Aya showed her face again, as if she was relieved to Zheng Haizhu in turn: "Master Yang is right, Aya will get through." Madam, be careful to sail the boat for ten thousand years, this time Songjiang has a pox, Madame and Grandma Gu, don't go back. ”

"Be careful to sail the ship of ten thousand years" is also an incision, which means that the latter words should be understood in reverse.

Aya asked me to go back to Songjiang to check?

Zheng Haizhu realized that Aya should have discovered that Ashan had been to the Shandong Chamber of Commerce in Songjiang, but there was no other decisive discovery or evidence, so he was just passing on a confusing clue message to himself. Otherwise, since she had the opportunity to see herself, she would not use code words.

Aya turned around and walked back to the courtyard, Zheng Haizhu took out two silver horns and handed them to the guards in front of Yang Xiancheng: "Labor to add some meat steamed buns." ”

Yang Xiancheng sneered: "Yes, the little master with good craftsmanship inside, wait for him to survive this catastrophe, and let him give your master two good furniture." ”

……

"Water, water."

On the wooden bed, Yue Xuan, who was in a high fever, moaned.

Aya gently put down her daughter Xiaodoubao, who was already asleep, went out to scoop water, soaked it with a handkerchief, wiped it on Yue Zhi's chapped lips, and then gently twisted it, dripping it into Yue Zhi's open mouth.

Tong Fengnian hugged his arms, leaned against the door, and said coldly: "Little widow, you are quite good at serving men." ”

This traitor was teasing on his lips, but he was really irritable in his heart.

Tong Fengnian didn't expect that Master Yue managed to go to Songjiang and meet with the people of his old Tong family, and he came back with acne.

Yue Zhi is the right-hand man of the Four Baylor Emperor Taiji, if it is folded in the Ming Kingdom, even if their Tong family gets what the Four Baylor wants, the credit will be cut off a lot.

There is also the little widow from Zhengjiazhuang in front of him, what a fucking evil family, how the master came back from Songjiang The day after the little widow came, she said that she felt sorry for him and couldn't eat hot food when he was doing work.

Looking at the master's surprised and happy eyes, don't you really like her?

In the afternoon of that day, the master of Yue began to wilt, and then had a high fever, and it happened that Langzhong in the county passed by, and when he heard that the master had only gone to Songjiang, he immediately insisted that it was a pox, and at night, the southern barbarians of Chongming dragged them to this broken house.

After dawn, the master really began to have pox.

Aya ignored the man behind her.

She can't know Tong Fengnian's true identity at the moment, but she feels that although this person is handsome, his expression is a little gloomy, not like the kind and wealthy appearance of ordinary businessmen.

She didn't know that Ahsan, the little carpenter she fed water, was actually Nurhachi's grandson, but she took advantage of his high fever to look through his blanket and pulled out half of the paper of the Shandong Hall stained with shortbread crumbs.

Which dim sum shop takes such good paper to wrap food?

In the past few days, Tong Fengnian has always watched the lively and obscene state, monitoring Aya's actions in front of Yue Fu, and seeing nothing unusual at this time, he also went to the courtyard and drank the clean water boiled by the little widow's fire.

As soon as he turned around and took a step, he heard Yue Yu suddenly shout at the top of his voice: "Eniang, Bixin Mu Tai Mu Tai Mu Kige!" ”

This is the meaning of the Jurchen saying, "Mother, I came to see you".

Tong Fengnian suddenly stalled.