Back at home, Xie Hanci took off his dirty clothes, ready to sleep well, and just untied his clothes, the letter in his arms fell out with a "click".

When I looked down, it turned out to be the letter she snatched from Liu Yuer's hand, and I put it in my arms at that time.

No wonder King Ning asked her if she had any letters from Master Shen in her hand, he must have rummaged through the pile of things in the Liu family, but he didn't find it.

She pinched the envelope, hesitated, and dropped it on the table, something she still knew little about. What's more, most of them are in code, otherwise they can't be sent to Liu Yuer in a grand manner, and those who don't understand it will be in vain.

Xie Hanci lay on the bed of the eight-treasure shelf, fell asleep after a while, and had a long dream, which was still the Shangyuan Festival.

Chen Laosan and her sat down at the table in Ronghua Restaurant again, as well as her brother and Yuanyuan. Chen Laosan pointed to the float downstairs and said that this year's float was made of a big Buddha lamp, the Buddha statue was six meters high, wearing a golden Buddha crown, wearing a red Buddha robe, and his hands were folded, looking majestic.

The float drove by, Chen Laosan and his brother were gone, and there was a sound of fighting behind her, and she ran aimlessly with Yuanyuan in her arms. Running and running, she suddenly woke up.

Looking at the goose-yellow soft smoke tent hanging on the bed, the amphora copper stove next to it exudes a good smell of osmanthus flowers.

"You're awake."

Shen Shuyi sat on a coral round bench, with an open letter in her hand.

"Mother, why did you open the letter?"

Shen Shuyi thought that this letter was written to Xie Hanci, but she was shy.

"Oh, what is there for my mother I can't know, someone loves my daughter, and I can't check it when I am a mother. Mother, I read that this person in the letter is very affectionate to you. “

Xie Hanci sat up, took a large green folded pillow and put it behind him, leaned and said, "Mother, pour me a glass of water." I'm so thirsty. ”

Shen Shuyi poured a cup of tea, sat on the edge of the bed with the letter, and asked unrelentingly, "Where is this person now?" Whose son? Can you meet him? ”

Xie Hanci thought about it seriously for a while, and replied: "According to my years of experience, this person should have stopped in Pingkang Yizhuang now, but he was burned to the point that only half of his face remained, mother, do you really want to see him?" ”

Shen Shuyi's hand trembled, and half a cup of tea was poured on the letter.

Xie Hanci hurriedly wiped the envelope with a handkerchief, looking nervous.

It's better to send her away quickly, stay here like a hot potato.

"Mother, you help me call Jingjing in, I have something to ask her to help me run errands." As she spoke, she put the blue water ripple brocade quilt on her head, ready to sleep back.

When he woke up again, it was already night, Xie Hanci learned from the maid Jingjing that Yuanyuan had been picked up by his aunt, Xie Hanci wanted to say something, but swallowed the words back from his mouth.

On the dining table, the father and son of the Xie family are like frosted eggplants.

Shen Shuyi complained about the two of them for an afternoon, counting that they didn't take the matter of their daughter and sister to heart at all, Xie Hanci had a caring Langjun, and now that everyone is dead, they don't know.

"You two are just pieces of wood. The man's letter to Xiao Han was stained with water, and she was so nervous that I guess it was probably the only relic he left behind. Ah, my poor daughter. “

The father and son were very innocent, and they didn't notice that Xie Hanci had any Xiaolangjun beside him, but they didn't dare to refute it when they saw Shen Shuyi's vivid description.

At this moment, Shen Shuyi kept crutching Xie Yuan with her elbows, and his ribs hurt when he was poked, so he had to ask hard: "Xiao Han, which prince of our family in Shuzhou City do you think is better?" Dad looks at the Yuan family Erlang is very good, with good character and handsome looks. ”

Xie Hanci took a chopstick fish and was sending it to his mouth.

The elder brother opened his mouth first: "Although Erlang of the Yuan family has a good martial arts, he is not fluent in literature and ink, I am afraid that I have nothing to say with my sister, these two people live a life, and we still have to find someone who can talk together." ”

Xie Hanci continued to pick up the rice, feeling that the milk-stuffed fish in his mouth had become unfragrant. On weekdays, Aunt Li picks the fish of the day and slaughters it, takes out the internal organs, does not chop it, and the whole fish is brewed with milk. Could it be that the fish used today is not fresh?

Xie Yuan brought the plate of sheng fish to Xie Hanci: "Your little sister is not a talented girl, her cabinet of books are all legendary stories, you don't put them on her face." People don't think it's good that she doesn't learn and can't learn. This matter still depends on my thoughts, Xiaohan, you tell your father, what do you think, don't be embarrassed. ”

Xie Hanci knew that he couldn't escape today, so he put down his chopsticks: "Dad, my daughter thinks what my brother said is very right, two people must find someone who can talk to each other, but my daughter's mind is full of murder, corpse splitting, adultery, and poisoning every day, which Lang Jun can talk to me?" ”

Shen Shuyi just wanted to refute, but Xie Hanci didn't give him this opportunity, and continued: "But my daughter thinks that my father is also right, I don't know how to learn, and I haven't read many serious books." But my daughter also read a poem Manyun, a woman is not a hero, and she rides the wind alone to the east. I don't necessarily have to get married, that's not my ambition. ”

Xie Yuan frowned: "What is your ambition?" “

Xie Hanqi got up and pointed to the four big words "beheading and draining blood" on the door, which Xie Yuan wrote a month after taking office, reminding himself from time to time that he could ignore life and death for the sake of justice.

At the beginning, Shen Shuyi always complained that these four words looked too bloody and made people unable to eat. Xie Yuan explained to her that if he was an official and made a mistake in judging the case, then the blood and tears shed by the people of Shuzhou City would be more than a hundred times more serious than these four words.

This is his wake-up call to himself, but it has become Xie Hanci's ambition.

"Dad, I want to avenge the people and solve the case for a lifetime. I want to enter the Criminal Division and be a female officer. There are also precedents to follow in this dynasty, and there was a female criminal officer in the martial arts family of the previous dynasty, and her daughter was also checked. “

Xie Yuan also put down the dishes and chopsticks heavily, the capital is now full of crises, and every day there are officials involved in party disputes who are imprisoned, the day before they were still guests, and today they have become prisoners. Three years ago, he finally managed to escape, but now she, a teenage girl, wants to go.

The maid Jingjing saw that the atmosphere was not quite right, and hurriedly served a snack: "Master, madam, this is what the young lady specially ordered me to buy in the East Market." ”

She took out a plate of lotus crisp from the food box, the ghee noodles exuded a sweet fragrance, the crispy layer was clear, and the look looked like a lotus flower. and served everyone a lotus cup: "The lord doesn't like to eat too sweet, the young lady explained, the lord does not put rock sugar in this lotus cup, only uses red dates to add a little sweetness." “

Xie Yuan drank the lotus cup, ate the crispy lotus crisp, thought about Xie Hanci and tossed all night, and thought about these things, where is there any anger.

Just looked at Xie Hanci with a stubborn look and said: "Your temperament should also be restrained, tomorrow accompany your mother to incense, listen to the Buddha's voice, don't think about some unrelated things all day long." ”

On the other side, Ning Wang Jingchen looked at the tea stains on the envelope, and his brows were about to knot.

In order to prevent sudden accidents, his informants will hide important information in the letters they exchange on a daily basis, and the other party will only treat them as ordinary content, but after immersing them in water, the letters will reveal the words written with secret medicine.

At first glance, Shen Lang's letter was just a love letter of deep affection, which made people sour, but when it was wet, it was a list of officials who had secret dealings with Da Yue.

However, what does Xie Hanci mean?

Could it be that the tea stains on this letter were deliberately done by her? However, the wet area is the edge of the stationery where the contents are not written......

Jing Yu slapped the table and interrupted his train of thought: "Uncle Huang, I know, she is provoking!" What she meant was that my mother knew how to read secret letters, but I wouldn't read them. ”

Jingchen: "......"

Early the next morning, Shen Shuyi took Xie Hanci up the mountain to incense, thinking that by the way, she would ask for a marriage. The maid Jingjing ordered Penglai incense in the car, and a plate of cut melons and a plate of candied water chestnuts were placed on the table.

Xie Hanci nibbled on the melon, looked at the street market outside the window, and recalled the previous days on the street in a trance.

Go back three years.

A Huanghuali carved wooden carriage slowly drove into Shuzhou City.

Shen Shuyi in the car was wearing a wide-sleeved skirt with honey-colored dark lines, her waist-length hair was tied into a bun, she was only wearing a silver hairpin, her face was beautiful, her eyes were flowing, and her face was full of tears, and the child in her arms was a little pale due to the fatigue of the boat.

"Master, how long will it take to go back this time? Lan'er is weak and afraid that he will not adapt to here. ”

"Now that the official family is old, the prince is young, and the capital is an eventful place. Although Shuzhou is not a good choice, it can also avoid disturbances for the time being. Madame, don't worry, I only have one child, Lan'er, and I will definitely protect him. ”

"It's all my fault, after giving birth to Lan'er, I haven't been able to add a son and a half daughter to my master. I sometimes think that if Lan'er can have more brothers, she can be more cheerful. I heard that the women in Shu are bright and charming, and they just happened to ......"

"Shuyi, don't mention this again."

The carriage shook suddenly, Xie Yuan lifted a corner of the curtain and asked, "Why did it stop?" ”

The guard outside the car came over and replied: "Master, there are two men in front of you who are fighting for property, attracting people to watch, do you want to take a detour?" ”

Xie Yuan touched the forehead of the child in his wife's arms and said, "I'll come when I go." ”

A man dressed as a coolie was arguing with a furrier, both of whom were pulling at one end of the sheepskin, and neither of them would let go.

The leather dealer shouted at the onlookers: "Look, everyone, this person is going to rob my skin, in broad daylight, Lang Lang Lang, there is no king's law." ”

The man spat at the fur dealer and said, "You are really shameless, this is obviously my skin, is it because you are a skin seller, and all the skins in the world are yours?" ”

Not to be outdone, the wholesale merchant dragged the sheepskin with both hands, but the man's strength was too great, he couldn't take it, so he had to continue to shout: "You stinky and hardworking, where did you get the money to buy the sheepskin?" It's clearly mine. ”

The man looked at the crowd around him and explained, "Although I am a coolie, I have to carry coarse salt every day. My lady was frugal and bought me a sheepskin, so that I could put it on my shoulders on weekdays, so that I would not be burned to the flesh. ”

The two of them were reasonable, and it was difficult to distinguish the truth from the false for a while, so some people persuaded the two to go to the government.

The coolie man opened his mouth first: "Ladies and gentlemen, not to mention whether the official can take care of such trivial matters, I am a worker, and I can't delay it every day. Now that the world is also in a recession, I went to the government with him, and I don't know how long it will be delayed. ”

The wholesale merchant's eyes rolled twice, pointed at him and shouted, "I see that you obviously have a ghost in your heart, and you dare not go." Give me back my skin. ”

A little beggar sprang out of the crowd of onlookers, ran to the middle of the two and said, "Two brothers, it's good for me to help break it." ”

The merchant looked contemptuous and did not speak. The coolie man nodded and said, "Thank you, little brother." ”

The little beggar, though he was dressed in patched clothes, was not too dirty, and he went up to an old man on crutches and asked, "Old uncle, can you lend me this cane?" ”

The little beggar took his cane, struck the sheepskin again and again, and said something in his mouth: "You bad sheepskin, bad sheepskin." If you don't recognize your master, I'll beat you and see if you can recruit you! Tell me who is your master! ”

The onlookers burst into laughter, and the old man's son stepped forward and snatched the crutch from the little beggar's hand, and angrily rebuked, "What are you doing? That's what you're talking about? Little madman, give me back the crutches. ”

The little beggar was not angry, and pointed to the sheepskin and said, "Why can't this be broken, you see, it doesn't move?" The people looked in the direction of the little beggar's finger, and saw white particles on the ground under the sheepskin.

The little beggar bent down and picked up one, blew it, put it in his mouth, wrung his eyebrows tightly together, and then spat on the ground, saying, "It's so salty." ”

It was only then that the coolie man said that he had to carry coarse salt every day, and that if he put a sheepskin on his shoulder, he would be stained with salt grains after a long time, and the little beggar would beat him with his cane, and the salt would fall to the ground.

Some of the onlookers scolded the leather dealer for being treacherous, some complained about the coolie man, saying that the leather dealer should be sent to the government, and more people praised the little beggar for not only being smart and clever, but also being righteous.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the fur dealer quickly packed up his things and ran away.

The little beggar laughed at everyone, said he didn't dare, and took out a broken bowl from his arms: "Brothers, sisters-in-law, I'm here to ask for a lottery, I have plenty of money in my hands, give me two coppers, and I'll go buy a steamed bun to wrap my belly." ”

The coolie man patted the little beggar on the shoulder, took out a large son from his bosom, and made a gesture to put it in the little beggar's bowl.

The little beggar covered the mouth of the bowl with his hand and smiled at the man: "Big brother, you and I are both hard-working people, I can't accept this money, next time you see me, just bring me a cake from home." ”

The onlookers slowly dispersed, and the little beggar walked down the street with a broken bowl.

When night fell, a bright moon hung high in the sky, like a big silver plate, bright and shining, shining in people's hearts.

The little beggar lowered his head, and saw a few shadows reflected on the ground, and someone followed behind him. He walked unhurriedly and continued on his way, passing a street corner, and as soon as he turned the corner, he pulled his leg and ran.

After running for a stick of incense, the little beggar could no longer run, and when he looked behind him, he saw that no one was catching up, so he rested against the wall.

Suddenly, a rock struck him, and a finger-thick cut was immediately made on his forehead, and blood ran down his cheek.

"You're a nosyman." The merchant came from the shadows in front of him with a strong man, who was carrying a wooden stick in his hand and shook it twice with bad intentions.

The two of them were approaching, and the little beggar had already walked into the corner. The stick swung at his head, with the sound of whirring wind.