Qingzhu Lane from the small courtyard

On the wooden table in the courtyard, three bowls of rice, a few plates of green vegetables, and a light red lantern on one side of the tabletop.

Congxi praised while picking up the rice: "It's still Sister Lan's cooking that is delicious, you see how thin I am, it's all because the food I cook is too unpalatable." ”

Congran sneered: "At least I still do it, my grandmother and mother used to cook, but now I do it, sister, you stretch out your fingers and count how many times you cook, just stretch out one hand." I'm worried about it, if you marry a brother-in-law who can't cook, will you starve to death? Now think about it, it's good that you marry into the Qu family, at least their family has a big business, and there should be a cook in the family, and they won't dislike you for not being able to cook. ”

From Xi didn't say a word, he stretched out his hand and knocked heavily on the top of his head.

Lan Chuwan smiled, and then turned positive: "Congxi, you really want to be coerced by Mrs. Qu to marry that Qu Zaichen, you don't know him, and you don't know what kind of person he is, isn't it similar to me marrying Zhang Zhishan?" ”

Congxi said: "It's too much, isn't it?" Zhang Zhishan is taking advantage of the danger of others to bully you, Mrs. Qu only proposed a quid pro quo for me to choose, after all, she really doesn't have to save Yu Tong, it is a condition that can be regarded as help, I promised her to marry Qu Zaichen, and I was not threatened by her, she wanted a granddaughter-in-law, see how fate I and Qu Zaichen are. I want to save people, find people, and investigate cases, which are beneficial to each other, so why not?

As for Qu Zaichen, Mrs. Qu said that he likes to float on the clouds by his son, maybe he is too lazy to bow his head and glance at me, I can live happily for two years in the name of the young lady of the Qu family, what a good thing. ”

Lan Chu said: "What about two years later? ”

Congxi: "If Qu Zaichen and I can't get along, I will leave the Qu family, remarry, go to the rivers and lakes to play in the mountains and rivers, and continue to live, well, this is to make more money in the Qu family." ”

Lan Chu: "But at that time, everyone knew that you had been married, and there would be a lot of gossip?" ”

Congxi blurted out: "Then I'll find someone who doesn't care about gossip, only cares about me." ”

Lan Chu; "What if you can't find it?"

Congxi: "Isn't there still you, um.. If you also get married, I will go on a tour alone. ”

Lan Chu said seriously: "I'm married, you can also live with me." ”

laughed jokingly: "I thought Sister Lan would say, I don't get married, and you don't get married." ”

Lan Chu was stunned for a moment, looked at Congxi, and made a serious promise: "I can not get married, and I can always accompany you." ”

Cong Nuan smiled: "Sister Lan, I'm teasing you, I don't need you to accompany me, I just want Sister Lan to live as she likes, get married when she wants to get married, and if you don't want to get married, we'll live happily together." Let's talk about the future later, in short, how to rejoice, how to live. ”

Lan Chu thought for a while, and then said, "That Mrs. Qu and the county lord of Xin'an, they will definitely embarrass you, right?" ”

Congxi nodded: "Well, they should try to get me out of Qufu, right?" Or if you are too obsessed with Qu Zaichen, maybe you will want to get rid of me. When we arrived at Qufu, let's observe their words and deeds more, and then act randomly. When you get to the Qu family, you should be cautious. ”

Lan Chu and Congran nodded solemnly, their faces were worried.

After a while, Congran asked suspiciously: "Sister, why haven't you told me about your uncle and your mother's friends before?" ”

Congxi said slowly: "Didn't you use to be small, now I'll tell you, my mother used to say that my uncle has been outstanding in appearance and talent since he was a child, twenty-five years ago, when my uncle was twenty years old, he won the second place in the state examination, and my grandfather, grandmother, mother and neighbors all felt that even if my uncle was not the champion in the future, he would definitely be a Jinshi." Unfortunately, the world is impermanent, and during a gathering with seven classmates, my uncle killed two of them and absconded, at least that's what the government decides. For twenty-five years, my uncle has not heard from me until a few months ago, I saw a few dandelion flowers in front of my mother's grave, and my mother said that she liked dandelion flowers the most when she was a child, except for my grandfather and grandmother, only my uncle, and... Our father knew about this, and I guess the person who placed the dandelion flowers in front of my mother's grave was probably my uncle. ”

Congran: "Twenty-five years ago, after so long, if my uncle had been alive, why didn't he come back to us?" ”

Congxi shook his head: "I don't know, so I want to find out what happened back then, if my uncle is still alive and he was wronged, he may come to us after avenging his grievances." ”

Congran: "What if he really killed someone?" ”

Congxi: "Bear the consequences for what you do, after all, there are two lives." ”

Cong Ran hesitated for a moment and said: "Sister, my mother said that my father has passed away, but we have never worshiped him, and we don't have his tombstone, right....?" ”

Congxi nodded: "Well, he didn't die, after his mother married his father, he went to the capital with him to take the exam, and his father failed in the exam, and they lived in Kyoto to make a living, so that his father could participate in the department, and after his father failed for the second time, he climbed to the daughter of a five-grade official in Beijing, divorced his wife and remarried." My mother can only hold you who are one year old, pull me who is five years old, go back to Jinzhou, and go to my grandparents, our so-called father, who never came back to see us, his name..."

Cong Ran's gaze gradually turned from joy to gloom, and finally returned to darkness: "Sister, I don't want to know his name, just assume that he is not there." ”

Congxi stretched out his hand and touched the top of Congran's head: "Okay, I won't mention him in the future, my mother said that when she got the letter of resignation, her father was a stranger, not a relative, not an enemy, just a stranger." ”

After pondering for a while, he nodded solemnly: "I know." ”

Congxi withdrew his hand and continued: "Mother met a friend when she was in the capital, and happened to have the same surname as Sister Lan, surnamed Lan Minglan, and a family of three struggling to survive in the capital, Aunt Lan is good at embroidery, her husband is a nine-grade petty official of the Ministry of Rites in Beijing, and Aunt Lan rents a narrow embroidery shop in Beijing, selling some handkerchiefs, silk scarves, and shoe uppers to subsidize the family. Aunt Lan has a son, five years older than me, named Jian Xuan, I remember that when Aunt Lan and her mother were busy, Jian Xuan often held Cong Ran and teased. ”

Recalling the childhood scene, he smiled warmly: "It was Aunt Lan who taught my mother a variety of embroidery needles and helped my mother recruit work, so that our family could barely survive in the capital." After the mother returned to Jinzhou, she often exchanged letters with Aunt Lan, but unfortunately only a year later, the mother did not receive the letter from Aunt Lan, the mother was worried about their situation, and four months later and her grandfather went to the capital, but saw that Aunt Lan's embroidery shop had been repossessed by the landlord, and the house where they lived had been sold. Aunt Lan also died of illness in the rented house a month ago, Jian Xuan carried Aunt Lan's body on her back, was kicked out by the landlord, and has not been known since. My mother and grandfather couldn't be found, so I had to come back in frustration. 's mother has a wide heart, and few worries fall into her heart, but she has always been worried about Jian Xuan, and she doesn't know whether he is alive or dead. ”

Lan Chu felt the same way: "He was still young at the time, without a father or mother, without relatives and without a reason, he should be extremely lonely and have no place to live, I don't know what he experienced later." ”

Congxi sighed lightly: "When I find him, let him tell us in detail, if the Qu family is really willing to help, maybe we will be able to see Jian Xuan soon." It's just that when I arrived at the Qu family, I wanted to stabilize myself, but I was afraid that there would be a big battle, and I hoped that we would all be safe and sound, and Jian Xuan would live safely. ”

Lan Chu and Congxi nodded vigorously, but there was a hidden worry in their eyes.

In the early morning of the next day, in Youyun Garden, Qufu, the Qu family gathered in Quzaichen's bedroom. You are frightened and I am asked, you are panicked, noisy and chaotic.

Old Madam Qu shouted loudly: "Shut up and listen to Luo Yi." ”

Luo Yi glanced at the old lady, pretended to be flustered and said: "I don't know what's going on, when I got up in the morning, I found that the second son and Yun Gongzi were like this, no matter how they called, they couldn't wake up, and there was nothing abnormal when they looked at it, it seemed that they were just asleep, I hurriedly asked Sister-in-law Yu to invite Dr. He, and then asked the old lady and the old lady and the lady to come and visit." ”

As soon as she finished speaking, Sister-in-law Yu led He Ren into the bedroom. Everyone was busy pushing He Ren to Qu Zaichen's bed, He Ren slowly sat on the brocade stool, stared at his eyebrows and cut his pulse for a while, bowed down to remove Qu Zaichen's eyelids, inspected the half-sound, and then lowered his head and shook his head. The hearts of everyone hanging in the air were suspended to the clouds, staring at He Ren tightly. He Ren slowly turned around and looked at everyone: "Let's go and see Yun Gongzi again." ”

Sister-in-law Yu hurriedly led Dr. He to Yunxian's bedroom. Everyone followed, staring intently at He Ren. He Ren slowly sat down on the brocade stool in front of Yun Xian's bed, stared at his eyebrows and cut his pulse for a while, bowed down to remove Yun Xian's eyelids, inspected half a ring, and then lowered his head and shook his head, everyone felt that their hearts had stopped, and stared straight at He Ren with bated breath, He Ren slowly turned his head to look at everyone: "You can please be smart, I can't detect the symptoms, I can't find the cause, and there is no way to treat it." ”

Everyone felt that their hearts had fallen to the ground, and they fell to the ground violently, crushing into powder and numbness. He Ren's medical skills are second to none in Jinzhou, please be smart, say it lightly, who else can you invite, isn't this equivalent to letting the Qu family make a coffin for Qu Zaichen and Yun to be idle?

Xin'an County Lord Feng Nianqing's face turned pale, and he said in a hurry: "I'll write a letter now and ask my father to ask the imperial doctor to come over quickly." Then he ran out in a hurry.