There is an inn, and the inn naturally can't really be called an inn, and they can make do with it all night, and when Ning Que and Sang Sang rubbed their eyes and yawned the next day, they didn't remember the name of this inn.

After finding a kind old mother on the street and asking for the road, the master and servant walked to the south of the city, and finally saw two big locust trees.

From the moment he saw the locust tree, the memories that should have been vague and actually very clear when he was a child poured into Ning Que's mind, he closed his eyes and thought for a while, and then walked over with Sang Sang.

There is a quiet street and alley between the two big locust trees, wide and narrow can pass the carriage, but it does not seem to be extravagant, I don't know what is the house of the family on both sides of the street, there is no sound, many towering trees stretch out from the courtyard wall, put on the top of the heads of three or two pedestrians, cover the clear light of spring, sprinkle a shade.

In the middle of the alley, there are two mansions facing each other. The stone lion standing next to the stairs on the right hand side is exceptionally clean, there is no conspicuous dust and fallen leaves on it, the Zhu door is closed, and the copper ring is silent.

The one on the left side seemed to be much more decayed, the patent leather on the door was peeling off, and the two seals were weakly floating in the wind, and only one stone lion was left, and the other did not know where it had been moved, even if the remaining one was broken, missing ears and claws, and there was black old mud behind the pedestal, some like congealed blood.

Ning Zhiyong looked at the broken stone lion in front of him, remembering the past when he was a child and Xiaoshun frolicked beside the lion, and then was caught by the adults in the house to clean up the family, and then walked through the corner door alley next to the house, he seemed to see the picture of the little guy running away from home bravely when he was four years old in order to avoid Mr.'s plank.

Sang Sang's gaze went back and forth between the two doors and Ning Que's face, feeling that his mood at the moment was gloomy, complicated and low, I don't know why, her mood was also low and sad, and she felt that the wind in this alley was a little cold.

That dilapidated courtyard is the mansion of former Xuanwei general Lin Guangyuan. In the first year of the Apocalypse, His Majesty the Emperor inspected Nanze, and a major case of collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country broke out in Chang'an City, and His Royal Highness the Prince personally presided over the trial, and the prime minister and the ministers watched from the sidelines, and finally determined that Lin Guangyuan was convicted of treason, and the Lin Mansion was beheaded by the whole house.

This case has long been handled as an iron case, and no one in the government and the opposition has thought of overturning the case at all, even if some people who remember this matter occasionally think of those servants and stewards who should not have died, and they regret it and hate Lin Guangyuan for his heinous crimes, not only ruined himself and died, but also dragged down so many innocents.

After the general's mansion was repossessed by the imperial court for more than ten years, there were several times to be given, but as soon as the officials who received the gift heard that it was this murderous place, they all thanked Bumin, and there were many mansions in Chang'an City, and they were not afraid that they would have no place to live, but in this way, this mansion had long been empty in this street and alley, becoming more and more decayed.

When he walked through the gate of the General's Mansion, the gloom in Ning Que's eyes flashed, and he could no longer see any unusual feelings on his face, he didn't stop, and he didn't even slow down a bit, he still walked as usual, so Sang Sang, who was carrying a big black umbrella, had to follow as usual with almost trotting, and the big black umbrella was bounced off the little girl's back and then fell back, crackling like a drum beat representing the passage of time.

The two of them walked calmly through the long alley, between the Zhumen and the broken door, looking for the ordinary, just like two of the most ordinary tourists from other towns who strayed into a street and alley in Chang'an City in spring.

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"No one wants that murderous house, but the house opposite the door is very popular. Why? Back then, General Xuanwei and the general discussion doctor lived opposite the door, and General Xuanwei was all over the house, but the general discussion doctor was soaring, and now he is a bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion, and the mansion where his old man lived back then, how many officials of the fourth or fifth grades do you say want to be touched?"

In a restaurant at the corner of the alley, Ning Que and Sang Sang sat at a small table in the corner, quietly eating small dishes and drinking gruel, but listening to the chatter of those old neighbors. For these old households who have lived in the neighborhood for decades or even several lifetimes, the most worthy of their talk is naturally the treason case of the General's Mansion and the Qingyun Avenue of the General Doctor.

"Speaking of Zeng Jing, he was just a general doctor back then, but then he suddenly rose to prominence, there is a wonderful thing here, I don't know if you have heard of it?"

"This incident was so big back then, even the palace spoke, who hasn't heard of anyone who lives in this city?"

A middle-aged man shook his head and said mockingly: "The dignified doctor married a fierce wife, and the lady of the main room actually attacked the concubine's stomach because of jealousy and hatred, which is not surprising, but the concubine was born with great difficulty, and she also had to attack the poor child, and in the end, if it wasn't for the palace decree, who knows what the palace would become." ”

"You only know that it was the palace that sent the message, so do you know who sent the message?" The person who spoke before sneered, and waved his hands towards the north of Chang'an City, "I want to teach you to know that it was the Holy Queen who was furious after knowing about this, and personally handed a letter to Lord Zeng Jing, ordering him to discipline his mother-in-law well." ”

"Queen's mother, ......"

The few people drinking at the table glanced at each other, showing a smile in their hearts, everyone in the world knows that there is a great queen mother in the Tang Empire, who is deeply favored and absolutely trusted, and even has the power to approve and review officials, but this queen mother was just a very ordinary concubine in the palace back then, in folk words, she was the concubine of the emperor Xià, and later became a wife.

There is a queen mother with such a background, and she is so concerned about the family affairs in the doctor's mansion, because the doctor's wife is so angry about abusing the concubine and murdering the concubine to have a child, everyone can think of what the reason is.

"Lord Zeng Jing's wife was born in Qinghe County, and it is precisely for this reason that she has always been more tolerant, but I didn't expect that the cowardly civil officials in the eyes of others would be really ruthless! After the queen's handwritten letter was sent to the mansion, Lord Zeng Jing gathered his family overnight, killed three stewards who murdered concubines and gave birth to children with a cane in public, and then sent his wife back to Qinghe County with two slaps and a small sedan chair, and divorced his wife so cleanly!"

"It is said that the boss was so decisive back then, most of them were forced to protect himself under the power of the queen's mother, but he didn't expect that he did it neatly and fell into the blue eyes of the mother, and felt that this person was useful, plus some of the later reasons, it actually made this old man prosperous since then, and now he has entered the Wenyuan Pavilion! It is said that blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, but who dares to imagine that there is a fierce wife who kills concubines and destroys children, and in the end he can achieve a man's fame?"

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