While the two men were talking, the old butler knocked on the door again, pushed the door and walked in cautiously.

"Two adults! There was a poor man outside who was more powerful than those yacha in the yamen, and he didn't see him wearing the clothes of the yacha, and he also had a young man, and the two of them didn't know what the origin was, saying that they were looking for Du Sima!

I didn't know what they were all about, so I didn't dare to call anyone in, so I told the two of them to wait outside the courtyard! ”

Du Ruo was stunned for a moment, right now in this Songzhou territory, there are only a handful of people who can know that she is Du Sima, not to mention that if she can find the mortuary in Yuanchuan County at this time, it must be someone from the state capital or the Duwei Mansion.

The people in the yamen of the state capital didn't know that they had followed Ye Yuanzhou to Yuanchuan County to investigate the case of Miss Shijia, so this person could only be the Duwei Mansion, Ye Yuanzhou's personal entourage.

And the young man who came with him ......

Du Ruo was overjoyed, and hurriedly put down the things at hand and walked out quickly, Ye Yuanzhou didn't know why she was so happy, so he went out to have a look when he saw this.

The old steward followed suit, and did not forget to close the door of the mortuary properly when he went out.

There were two people standing outside the courtyard gate, one was about the same size as Ye Yuanzhou, wearing a black narrow-sleeved robe, and a pair of tiger eyes looked very sharp and quite imposing.

And beside him stood a young man, looking about twelve or thirteen years old, his body was a little thin, but his appearance was delicate, and he looked so clever, holding a wooden box in his arms.

Such a thin young man, standing beside the tiger-eyed man who was a lot taller than himself, did not have the slightest fear, and looked very calm.

When Du Ruo saw the young man, the soles of his feet also sped up, and as soon as the tiger-eyed man outside the door saw them come out, he immediately clasped his fists and saluted.

Only then did Du Ruo see that it was Ye Hu who had met before.

"Master! Dusima! Today, Du Sima's servants arrived in Pingcheng County, and because Du Sima could not be found, he was pointed to the Governor's Mansion.

When the kid heard that Sima was out to investigate the case, he said that he must come to her, and that there were important things that must be handed over to Sima in person, so I brought him with me! Ye Hu reported truthfully to Ye Yuanzhou.

Different from Ye Hu's one-glance manners, the young man beside him seemed much more enthusiastic after seeing Du Ruo, and immediately stepped forward to greet him, came to Du Ruo like a treasure, and held the wooden box in his arms forward: "Miss, look what I have sent you!" ”

"What a send-off! You've got to be clever enough! Du Ruo took the wooden box from his hand, nodded to him with satisfaction, and introduced by the way, "You kid still don't salute when he sees Ye Duwei?" Did you mess with me in the academy in the past?

Brother Ye, this is my little servant, named Du Zhi, this child is very clever on weekdays, but he follows my father's idleness at home, and he still needs to be trained in terms of etiquette, Brother Ye don't be surprised! ”

Du Zhi was also clever, realizing that being outside is not as good as at home, and his own master does not hold a shelf with the people in the family, which does not mean that he can be presumptuous after going out, so he immediately followed the example and saluted Ye Yuanzhou in a proper manner: "Du Zhi has seen Ye Duwei!" My young lady has caused trouble to Ye Duwei! ”

Du Ruo raised his foot to kick, Du Zhi hurriedly hid to the side, he didn't seem to be afraid at all, and he still held back a smile on his face.

"Forget it, for the sake of your things being delivered in time, I won't care about you today!" Du Ruo nodded at Du Zhi with his finger, "You wait in the courtyard, this mortuary is not convenient for you to enter today." ”

Du Zhi nodded clearly, obviously he was already surprised by his young lady's words and deeds.

Ye Yuanzhou glanced at Ye Hu, and Ye Hu understood: "Don't worry, master, I'll stay here with this kid." ”

Returning to the house, Du Ruo put the wooden box that Du Zhifang had just sent to him on the table next to him, opened it, and it was filled with all kinds of bottles and cans.

"Your father didn't even arrange a maid for you, but he got a small maid?" Ye Yuanzhou didn't know what kind of treasures were in Du Ruo's box, so he was embarrassed to ask directly, just stood aside, watching her fiddle with it, and casually asked about another thing that surprised him.

He shouldn't have been the first person to be curious about this, because Du Ruo's doubts about him were completely expected.

"There is a personal maid, called Du Qu, eighty percent because of timidity, I didn't dare to come with me today." She said as she retrieved a small white porcelain vase from the box, "

At that time, the two of them were the thinnest of the group of children, and my father looked at them pitifully, fearing that they would continue to fall into the hands of human teeth, and that the children who could not be sold for a price would be ruined, so he offered to buy them both.

It just so happened that I was also old at that time, and I couldn't go anywhere, so I was taken care of by the nurse, so I simply put the two of them by my side.

Du Qu usually takes care of my daily life, Du Zhi followed me to the academy, he is smart, people are also smart, my classmates in the academy are men after all, sometimes it is more convenient to take Du Zhi. ”

Ye Yuanzhou nodded: "Look, it is indeed a good seedling, and I can let him learn skills from Ye Long and Ye Hu in the future." ”

"Then thank you Brother Ye for lifting him!" Du Ruo only thought that Ye Yuanzhou was casually polite, and he didn't take it too seriously.

After all, the guards around him were all cultivated and selected by the Hussar General's Mansion for many years, although they had no power, they were powerful, and it was very difficult for ordinary people to cling to them, and that was not a role that Du Zhi could touch.

Du Ruo didn't have the heart to ponder the side at the moment, so he took the white porcelain bottle and returned to the corpse of Miss Shi Jia, put the white porcelain bottle to the wound on her wrist, and carefully repeated the backlog.

After many attempts, a little red liquid gradually oozed out of the originally white knife edge, just like the one in the spleen, translucent and thin, and the color was also weirdly scarlet, and after squeezing for a long time, only one drop flowed into the mouth of the bottle.

Du Ruo was not discouraged, tried many times, and finally squeezed out another three or five drops.

I couldn't squeeze out this arm, so I switched to the other side.

After several attempts, he finally squeezed out the blood from the shallow bottom of the small white porcelain bottle, which was not much bigger than his thumb.

Although it was not much, it was better than nothing, Du Ruo carefully sealed the bottle and retracted it into the wooden box

Putting away the small porcelain vase, she rummaged through the wooden box again, and pulled out a small stone mortar and a paper bag.

Du Ruo poured the contents of the paper bag into the stone mortar, scooped a little hot water prepared by the old housekeeper into it, and carefully grinded it.

Ye Yuanzhou seemed to see black plums, black beans, as well as white artemisia and some other herbs that could not be named.