After Xiaoman, there was more rain in Shengjing.

The river water under the Falling Moon Bridge is deep, and as soon as the silkworm festival passes, "the silkworm woman cooks cocoons, cures the car and reels silk", the new silk is listed, and the business of the tailor shop and the silk shoe shop next door is booming.

The wind was cool in the morning and evening, Du Changqing was too ruthless to reduce his clothes and accidentally caught the wind cold, and he rarely came to the hospital these days. The business of the hospital is deserted, and after the sale of "Spring Aquatic Life", there are very few people who see the disease.

Ah Cheng went to the market to buy bitter herbs, and it was advisable to eat bitter herbs to improve qi and lighten the body, and Lu Tong cleaned and picked bitter herbs in the medical hall, while listening to the chatter of the vendors on West Street.

In this chat, the Ke family in the porcelain business of Shengjing kiln is occasionally mentioned.

I heard that the Ke family, who sells kiln porcelain in Shengjing, has been having a hard time recently.

Master Ke drowned mysteriously in Wan'en Temple, and the people from the government came to check and found no traces, only to close the case when he was drunk and fell into the water. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Ke Chengxing was deliberately skipped by the government because he privately worshipped the statue of the former court.

Since this happened to the Ke family, the people who had been doing business with the Ke family came to the door one after another. Since the birthday banquet of the Taishi Mansion, the Ke family has relied on the relationship of the Taishi Mansion to catch up with a group of officials. Now that it is about the previous dynasty, who dares to joke about the black yarn hat, and they have withdrawn the list with the Ke family.

Ke Chengxing was newly married to the Qin family, and in order to win over Qin's father, Mrs. Ke handed over the power of housekeeping to the Qin family. Now that the Qin family returned to her parents' house in a rage, Mrs. Ke realized that before she knew it, the Qin family had spent a lot of money to subsidize the Qin family, and the account books were in deficit.

As a last resort, Mrs. Ke had to pawn the house to pay off her debts, and there was not much left of her savings for decades. There was chaos in the house, the people were scattered, the people ran away, and some rolled up and left. The Wanfu family, who had accompanied Ke Chengxing for many years, also said goodbye one night and secretly left Beijing.

Lu Tong was not surprised when he heard the news, Wanfu is a smart person, Ke Chengxing still kept him by his side when Lu Rou had an accident, just because he was cautious. Wanfu is not greedy, Ke Chengxing's death is inseparable from him in the final analysis, and it is easy for the government to stop pursuing it now, if he doesn't take advantage of this to escape, he will be turned out of old accounts in the future, but I am afraid that it will not end well. It's better to take advantage of the chaos in the Ke family and leave with your family.

What surprised Lu Tong a little was the Taishi Mansion.

Mrs. Ke's family was defeated, and in desperation, she secretly went to the Taishi Mansion once, and she wanted to ask the Taishi Mansion for help. However, I couldn't even enter the door of the Taishi's Mansion.

Lu Tong originally thought that the Taishi Mansion would lend a helping hand to the Ke family because Lu Rou's handle was in the hands of Old Madam Ke, but he didn't expect that the Taishi Mansion was not afraid at all. Later, after thinking about it, Lu Rou died in the hands of Ke Chengxing, and even if he said this, the Ke family would not be able to please him. The Taishi Mansion naturally has no fear.

But......

Dare to come to the Taishi Mansion at this juncture, no matter whether Old Madam Ke has a threat or not, the end will not be too good.

The last bush of bitter herbs was picked, and the silver kite walked in from outside the shop.

Ah Cheng swept the floor at the door, and Yinzheng walked to Lu Tong's side and said in a low voice, "Girl, I heard the news from the Fan family." ”

Lu Tong raised his eyes.

Yin Zheng lowered his voice a little lower: "Lord Fan, the judge of the trial court, was promoted once in September the year before last. ”

Lu Tong was stunned: "Promotion? ”

In September of the thirty-seventh year of Yongchang, it was three months after Lu Rou's death, and at this time, according to what Wanfu said at the beginning, Lu Qian had already come to the capital, met Mrs. Ke, and somehow became a wanted suspect by the government.

Lu Qian's imprisonment is related to the promotion of Fan Zhenglian, a detailed judge of the trial court?

Yinzheng continued: "In September of the previous year, there was indeed a case in the Criminal Prison Division, and the messenger of the Criminal Prison Department mentioned that someone first asked to see Fan Zhenglian to denounce the official's family, and then somehow, the complainant was wanted again, saying that he had entered the house to rob money. Cao Ye's people said that at that time, the whole city was wanted, and there was a lot of trouble, and the suspect was hiding in hiding, and it was his relatives who killed their relatives and confessed his hiding place to the government before he was arrested. Girl," Yinzheng hesitated, "do you have any relatives in Shengjing?" ”

When Lu Tong heard this, he didn't know, so he only shook his head: "No." ”

The Lu family has thin relatives, if there are really relatives in Shengjing, maybe Lu Rou will not be weak and bullied so much.

"I have asked Cao Ye to continue to inquire about who that relative is, but Cao Ye said that it is not easy to inquire about the affairs of the Guanguan Mansion, and there is still silver...... "Yinzheng sighed, "The silver that inquired about the news this time is still the money that the shopkeeper Du took us to make new medicines, these days he is sick and has not seen it, if you know that we have spent most of the silver, and we have not made anything so far, I don't know how much fire we have to make......"

As he was talking, he suddenly saw Lu Tong stand up, open the felt curtain and walk inside.

Yinzheng was stunned for a moment: "What is the girl going to do?" ”

Lu Tong replied: "Make a new medicine." ”

Ah Cheng followed behind with a broom and said strangely: "Didn't you say in the morning that you don't know what new medicine to make?" ”

"Now I know."

……

The palace marshal's mansion is located in the southwest of the imperial city, in the south of the Jinmen, backed by a large area of martial arts training grounds. The summer is in full bloom, and the martial arts arena is full of fire.

The dungeon was cold.

Faint torches flickered on the walls, and screams could be heard from the depths of the cell.

In a type room in the back, six people were locked on a row of iron frames. The two men in black stood in front of the rack, and with a "swish", two buckets of thorny salt water were splashed on the shelf, and there was a scream in the prison.

On the sunken wooden chair in front of the frame, a man was sitting. The young man, dressed in a black arrow coat and holding an iron tong, was carelessly fiddling with the soldering iron in the brazier at his feet.

There were torture instruments scattered all around, the knives and needles were glowing with a dark and cold light, and someone's voice sounded, with suppressed pain, and said angrily: "Pei Yunyao, if you want to kill or give you a good time, why bother?" ”

"How's that going to work?" Pei Yunyi smiled and said, "It's all here, how can it still make you happy?" ”

The iron tongs in his hand were fiddled in the brazier a few times, and the black jade inlaid turquoise ring between his fingers reflected a little emerald.

He walked over to the speaker.

All six of them were stripped naked, their eyes tied with cloth and locked on an iron frame, and there was hardly a piece of good meat left on their bodies. After being tortured, he poured chili salt water, and if he didn't have full perseverance, he would have confessed after the first punishment.

But not everyone in the world is afraid of pain.

He stood still in front of the speaker, looked sideways at the other, and the red-hot iron under the tongs suddenly headed towards the man's chest.

"Whew-" sound.

A burning smell of burning flesh rushed up, and a hoarse howl rang out from the cell.

This person has already been tortured in the chest, and the old wound is not healed, and the new wound is added, how can it not hurt. Pei Yunyi's expression was indifferent, he couldn't distinguish between joy and anger, his hand movements were not loose at all, and the soldering iron was tightly attached to the opponent's chest, as if he wanted to drill into the opponent's flesh and melt into his bones.

The scorching atmosphere filled the surroundings, the screams echoed in the dungeon for a long time, and the blindfolded people could not see the picture, and the grim man became more and more terrifying.

After a long time, amid the screams, the prisoner on the far left finally couldn't help but speak: "...... I say. ”

"Shut up!" The person who was being tortured was shocked when he heard this, and he didn't care about the pain in his body, and shouted, "You dare to ......"

The next moment, the snowy silver light flashed, and the scolding stopped abruptly.

Pei Yunyi's long knife was sheathed at his waist, if it weren't for the blood on the ground, it seemed that the murder he had just drawn the knife was not from him.

The neck of the man on the shelf drooped, and blood gushed from his throat, and there was no sound.

In a suffocating silence, he turned his head sideways, threw down the iron tongs in his hand, looked at the person who had just spoken, and said with a smile: "Now, you can speak." ”

There was a moment of silence in the cell.

The prisoner was blindfolded, the unknown was more terrifying than the known, although he couldn't see what was happening, but the person who had scolded him just now didn't say a word, how could he guess a few points. The man had some fear on his face, and he suddenly spoke, "...... Yes, it's Fan-sama. ”

"Oh?" Pei Yunyi raised his eyebrows, "Fan Zhenglian? ”

"Yes...... Yes," the prisoner said nervously: "On the day of the accident of the military and horse supervisor Lu Dashan, the subordinates of the Criminal Prison Department were sent by the adults in advance, and the adults knew about Lu Dashan's death. ”

Pei Yunyi smiled: "Sure enough." ”

He turned around, took the handkerchief handed by the person next to him, lowered his head and carefully wiped the blood on his hands, and at the end, walked out the door.

The guard behind him followed: "Master." ”

Pei Yunyao stood still: "Did you hear it clearly just now?" ”

Before the guard Qingfeng could speak, someone hurried in front of him, a man dressed as a servant. The servant walked up to Pei Yunyao, and after saluting, he said respectfully: "Shizi, the little one is here on the order of the master, next month is the master's birthday, the master is worried about the son, please go home for a gathering." ”

Qing Feng stood behind Pei Yunyi and didn't dare to speak.

Everyone around knows that Pei Yunyao and Zhaoning Gong are used to disagreeing, and after returning to Beijing a few years ago, he simply bought a house outside, except for the annual gift to the ancestral hall of the first lady, he never returned to Pei's house for the night.

When it comes to the Pei family, there is no closeness in the eyes of his master, only disgust, thinking about it, the servants of the Pei family are going to return in vain this time.

Sure enough, when Pei Yunyao heard this, he didn't want to answer: "I'm not available." ”

The servant wiped his sweat and said with a smile: "The prince hasn't seen the master for a long time, the lord has been in poor health recently, and I hope the prince will ......."

"Do you want me to say it again?"

The minions are stagnant.

This prince is happy and angry, seems to be kind, but in fact he is ruthless, and his temperament is not as gentle and polite as the second young master, and he is as strong as Zhaoning Gong can't control this son, let alone a little servant like him.

The servant Nono nodded and fled.

Pei Yunyi stared at his back, his eyes were as dark as the deep black in the dungeon, and there was no sadness or joy.

Qingfeng asked, "Master, what to do with the prison?" ”

The desired news has been obtained, and the criminal trial is over.

"The people who are taught by the prison department have hard mouths and soft bones."

He said: "The one just now is left, the others are useless, kill them." ”

"Yes."

……

"Girl, the two herring fish sent by Sister-in-law Song from the silk shoe shop next door have turned their white bellies, and the scales have been taken out......"

"The rest is useless, let's kill it." Lu Tong said.

"This ......"

Yinzheng looked at the two dying fish in the wooden basin with some embarrassment.

The street vendors on West Street have a good relationship with their neighbors, and Du Changqing and Ah Cheng originally owned the Renxin Medical Center, and they were too lazy to deal with the surrounding hawkers. Since the two of them came, the situation has changed a little.

The silver zither mouth is sweet and the most observant, often share some cheap fruit snacks to the neighbors, people are there to have contacts, she is born pretty and likable, come and go, and the people in the street shop are familiar, from time to time to receive some gifts from others.

These two big herring fish are the return gifts from Song's sister-in-law.

Sister-in-law Song sent the two herring fish to Yinzheng and instructed her: "Yinzheng girl, take these two herring fish back and boil soup for your girl to make up for her body, Dr. Lu is too thin, paper-like, I'm really afraid that a gust of wind will blow away!" ”

Yinzheng took the herring back, and before he could decide whether to eat it steamed or burned, Lu Tong first took a knife and scraped off the scales on the two fishes, saying that he would use the scales as medicine.

The fish was scraped off its scales and floated on the surface of the water with its white belly, and it was not good to see.

Yinzheng stood still and didn't move, Lu Tong raised his head and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

“…… Girl," said the silver kite, embarrassed, "I won't kill a fish." ”

In the flower building, she learned to sing and dance, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, but she never learned to wash her hands and make soup. This cooking skill is still barely learned by Lu Tonghou, and it can only be said that the food is cooked, and as for the bloody thing of killing fish, it is even more respectful.

Lu Tong glanced at her, stopped grinding the medicine, stood up from the stone table, picked up the knife and walked to the corner of the courtyard with a wooden basin and squatted down, grabbed a herring and threw it on the case.

The silver kite was staggering.

"Girl, you can even kill fish." Yinzheng brought a small pestle under her for her, sat on the side and looked at it, and couldn't help but say in admiration, "Look at it, it's quite skilled." ”

Lu Tong picked up the gourd in the water tank and poured a scoop of water on the fish, washed away the dirty blood, grabbed another herring, cut open the intestines with a knife, bowed his head and said: "In the past, I used to kill people often in the mountains. ”

"Huh?" Yin Zheng was stunned for a moment, and suddenly reacted, "Is it because you want to take medicine?" ”

Lu Tong's hand kept moving, and after a long time, he said "um".

Yinzheng nodded: "I see." Glancing at the blood on Lu Tong's hands again, he swallowed his saliva, "It's just that it's bloody and a little scary." ”

Lu Tong didn't speak.

In fact, she is not only good at killing fish, but also at dealing with other beasts, but not to get medicine, most of the time, just to fill her stomach.

Yun Niang is a person who is very particular about eating, and also loves to cook, making tea needs to use the snow and water that has been saved for a winter, and the pastry should be made into a delicate chess piece, and the twenty-four gas wontons must be made once and twenty-four different solar terms of flower-shaped fillings.

It's a pity that Yun Niang has too little time in the mountains.

Yun Niang often goes down the mountain, and it is most of the month when she goes, sometimes the rice and grain left on the mountain can last for a few days, and sometimes Yun Niang forgets to keep what to eat, and Lu Tong can only be hungry.

At that time, she had just arrived at Luomei Peak, and she couldn't even find the way down the mountain. The first time I was hungry and dizzy, I picked up an injured on the ground in front of the house.

The young Lu Tong struggled for a long time, and finally roasted the.

When she was in the Lu family, she was timid and pampered, and she rarely worked at home, and she was frightened when she saw a bee and snake in Su Ri, but when people were hungry and dizzy, they didn't care about being afraid or not, they could only be driven by appetite.

Lu still remembers the feeling when he ate grilled for the first time.

At that time, she was jerky and clumsy, and she didn't even understand that roasting birds needed to pluck their feathers and remove their internal organs, so she just put them on the fire and roasted them into a pitch-black ball.

Lu Tong cried as soon as she said "wow", a trace of disgusting bloody breath came out of her throat, she opened her mouth to vomit, but the hunger in her stomach reminded her that there was no other food here. So I could only endure the unbearable fishy smell and swallow the blackened into my stomach one by one.

It was the most painful meal Lu Tong had ever eaten since he was born.

Since that day, though, she has come to realize one thing. In Luomei Peak, if you want to live, it is not possible to always pin your hopes on others. Gradually, she learned to make traps to catch small rabbits, and she learned to keep them clean and stored them in jerky so that she wouldn't run out of food next time.

When Yun Niang came back, she was very surprised that she was still alive, and when she saw the jerky she hid in the jar, her eyes were even more strange.

"Not bad." She said to Lu Tong: "Until now, you are the one who has lived the longest on Luomei Peak." She approached Lu Tong and smiled strangely, "I can't say, you can go down the mountain alive." ”

I don't know, you'll make it down alive.

Lu Tong lowered his eyes.

Later, Yun Niang died, and there was no one else on Luomei Peak, she did go to the end and went down the mountain alive.

It's just that......

It's just that the kid who would cry and swallow roasted at the same time is probably gone forever.

The herring fish under his hand flicked his tail suddenly, and the splash splashed on his face, dyed with a hint of coolness, and Lu Tong came back to his senses.

The herring fish have been cut clean, but there is still strength to move. Lu Tong wiped the water droplets on his face, and Yinzheng got up and lifted up the two cleaned herrings, put them in the kitchen, and said with a smile: "It's okay now, how does the girl want to eat this fish?" ”

"Whatever you want."

"Then it's steamed." Silver Kite Road. Her cooking skills are mediocre, but fortunately, Lu Tong is not a picky eater.

The silver kite steamed the herring fish, and Lu Tong at the other end had already called her into the house, and when she entered the house, she saw a stack of thick paper notes on the table in front of the window.

"This is ......" Yinzheng picked up a piece of paper and was stunned.

This paper is very beautiful, it is a light pink, and if you smell it closely, you can smell a faint floral fragrance. If you write on this piece of paper, if you don't say anything else, just looking at it will inevitably make people feel excited.

The pen and ink were ready, and Yin Zheng looked at Lu Tong in a daze.

"The new medicine is almost ready." Lu Tong said: "I still need your help." ”

"Do you want to write?" The silver kite was suddenly.

The reason why the previous "Spring Water Sheng" was able to become popular in Shengjing in a short period of time was that in addition to Hu Yuan's help at the flower viewing party, the poems wrapped in the medicinal tea by the silver zheng also played a lot of roles. There are many literati and writers in Shengjing, and the people who are good at tea are more elegant, and when they see the name of "Spring Water Sheng", they are also willing to spend money to buy some fun.

Always a gimmick.

However, at the moment, this paper is different from the paper used in the previous spring. It's like a woman conveying affection, or a flower note used for poetry in the boudoir.

"What does the girl want me to write?" Yinzheng asked.

Lu Tong thought for a while: "Do you have any good words and phrases to write about a woman's slender appearance?" ”

"Sometimes there is, but it's ......"

"Just write that." Lu Tong said.