The Golden Bough and the Dog Verse 56
Her eyes were not clear overnight, but they were blurry little by little, and by the time she realized them, she was helpless.
After leaving the Imperial Mausoleum, she wanted to go to the doctor for treatment, but unfortunately she was helpless at that time, she was frightened and timid, and did not dare to step into the medical hall, and then fell directly into the hands of Yun Zhu.
Tang Xian sighed, this person was obviously not in the mansion, but his shadow was everywhere around him.
Forget it during the day, every night, Tang Xian often dreamed, dreaming of the boat floating on the lake that night, the movement of Yun Stop wiping the blood from the corners of her mouth with her fingertips, and the body she saw inadvertently......
Tang Xian blushed and sighed again, the doctor is here.
For the sake of those eyes, she not only had to adjust her diet, drink medicine every day, but also undergo acupuncture.
While the doctor was giving the needle, Tang Xian inquired about the outside world.
"If we want to talk about a major matter, the biggest incident in Beijing in the past few days is the case of the captain of the Yulin Army and several officials who were beheaded by raiding their homes......
The doctor is an old acquaintance, the same imperial doctor who saw Yun Yuan last time.
Yun Zhu personally ordered him to see Tang Xian, and with Yun Xuan in front of him, he said whatever he knew, and he didn't hide it at all.
Tang Xian asked the names of the convicted people, and found that one or two of them were something she had heard of before, and she couldn't help but feel a little sad.
She asked again, "What is the crime?" ”
The doctor replied: "Collusion with the enemy ......"
Tang Xian was shocked, this was not a small fault, and hurriedly asked, "Are you sure?" ”
"The three divisions will be tried, and His Majesty will personally judge at the court meeting, and there is absolutely no possibility of a wrong judgment."
Seeing that she didn't know anything about the outside world, the doctor said a few more words, "Because of this incident, the capital is much more peaceful, and those idle gentlemen have shrunk their heads." ”
Tang Xian couldn't figure out why those people did this.
People say that the golden nest and the silver nest are not as good as their own kennels, no matter how ridiculous this court is, it is also giving birth to its own land, what should it do to collude with the enemy state?
After thinking about it, she returned the treasure map to Yun Zhu, although she was not colluding with the enemy, but she was also disloyal to the imperial court, in a sense, was she the same as several people who betrayed the country?
It's different, right? At least Yun Zhu is also a citizen of the Great Zhou, and he will not bully the common people or plunder the people's wealth.
He kept saying that he was short of money, and in the face of peasant girls and fishermen, he did not give half of the copper plate less than half of the silver money that should be given.
Having said that, Tang Xian still felt that this matter could not be thought about in detail, and hurriedly drove this thought out of her mind.
She wanted to ask the doctor about Lou Qianhe, Bai Xiangxiang, and others, but she didn't dare to say it explicitly, so she went around in a circle and asked, "What about the other things?" A few days ago, a large family got married, right? I saw it from afar, and it was so lively. ”
Speaking of this, Yun Yuan was happy and said, "It's so lively! I still want to see a parent! ”
The old man was moved by her and said with a smile: "It's so lively for a big family to get married...... If Miss really wants to see it, wait a few days, there may be a marriage in the building, and there will be a lively scene to watch at that time. ”
"Which building?" Yun Yuan's heart moved, and she asked Tang Xian expectantly what she also wanted to ask.
"Lou Taichang is in the house."
Tang Xian's spirit was shocked, and she asked the maid to close the small window, blocking part of the wind and rain, and she listened more seriously.
This Lou Taichang is Lou Qianhe's father.
It's just that in Tang Xian's memory, there should be no children of marriageable age in his house, and there should be no marriage.
"Is it the marriage of a son or lady in the Loufu?"
"The eldest son of the Lou family."
"Lou Qianhe?" Tang Xian asked, didn't this person have already married?
The old doctor pulled out the silver needles on the acupuncture points for her, motioned for Tang Xian to close her eyes, and moved in front of her with a candle lamp. ”
"Speaking of which, it's because of the incident on the moon landing upstairs a few days ago...... Lou Da Gongzi lingered in the Moon Tower, saying that he was looking for someone, but he didn't know if he was looking for it, but he met a cousin girl from the countryside of Mengfu......"
"Which cousin girl in Mengfu?"
"This old decay is not clear, it is all passed on by people." The old man paused for a moment and said, "Master Meng was born in the northwest and far away from the capital, and he has only been in Beijing for two years, and no one can say what relatives he has, but I heard that he is a distant cousin who came to Beijing as a guest......
"You said it was Mengfu...... Isn't it on the government? Tang Xian interrupted the old man again.
She always thought that the Meng Mansion that the old man was talking about meant the Meng Lan Mansion, and in this way, she had a little relationship with Bai Xiangxiang.
After listening carefully for a long time, the more I listened, the more confused I became, and only then did I realize that what the old doctor said was not the Meng Mansion she thought she was.
"It was Meng Siqing, the top student in high school the year before last, and Master Meng's mansion."
Tang Xian suddenly stopped thinking about inquiring.
This champion has nothing to do with her, and if it is this Meng family who will marry Lou Qianhe, then she has no need to inquire.
The old man did not see that she had lost interest, and told everything he had heard.
Lou Qianhe traveled to the Moon Tower for a long time in search of Shuang'er girl, and that day he drank too much wine and bumped into a little girl, and somehow became entangled.
The girl naturally took care of him not far away, and accidentally broke the railing during the pushing, and the little girl almost fell downstairs, but fortunately she was pulled by the people in the house, and she was rescued without danger.
Tang Xian lost interest and was absent-minded, Yun Xian, on the contrary, she loved to listen to stories the most, urging the old doctor to continue talking.
"The man was saved, that is, the girl's clothes were torn when she was pulled...... The lights of the moon tower are not extinguished every night, there are countless people upstairs and downstairs, and a little girl shows her back in front of everyone, how to get married in the future? ”
Speaking of which, it was all the fault of the eldest son of Lou, who was also ashamed, and because of Meng Zhuangyuan's face, he promised in public to marry the girl back to his home. I heard that I have gone to Meng Zhuangyuan's mansion to get a dowry, and I guess the marriage is not far away. ”
"It's a threat of innocence again." Tang Xian grinded her teeth secretly, Yun Zhu insisted on leaving her, didn't she rely on her innocence?
The difference is that he uses the innocence of a big man, not the innocence of a girl.
Every time Tang Xian remembered his righteous words to defend his innocence, she was very angry. But when I tossed and turned on the couch in the middle of the night, I felt ashamed.
I just don't know if Yun Zhu is serious, or if he uses this as an excuse for not wanting to let her go......
Not wanting to think about him anymore, Tang Xian thought for a moment in her heart and said, "Since her home is far away in the northwest, she can just go back." No one knows her name on the left and right, pack your bags and go back to the northwest, you can always find a suitable person, why marry Lou Qianhe? ”
"If there is no mark on the girl, this is indeed a way. When she returned to the northwest and stayed away from the capital, it was the news that no one could identify her. ”
The old man sighed and said with pity: "The birthmark on the girl's back is revealed, and all the people who went to the moon tower that day saw it!" ”
Within half a day, it had spread all over the capital, and almost everyone knew that Meng Zhuangyuan's cousin had a gorgeous butterfly birthmark on her back, which was charming and moving.
"When the news really spread to the northwest, there was no need to mention the name, just saying that the dark red butterfly birthmark on the back reached the ears of the girl's husband's family, and the girl would not live! It's better to find someone who knows the reason to marry. ”
Tang Xian suddenly fell silent.
The old man took pity on the girl and comforted her: "The Meng family is poor, and the cousin girl is from the countryside, and her reputation is also ruined, so she can still marry the son of Lou to be a continuation, which is considered a high climb, and it should be content......
The old man felt so from the bottom of his heart, that is, the eldest son of Lou was willing to be responsible, and this girl was a little related to Zhuang Yuanlang, and if she was an ordinary girl from another family and encountered this, I was afraid that there was only one way to die.
No way, this is already the best choice.
After sighing, seeing that Tang Xian didn't speak and Yun Yuan pouted, the old doctor followed suit.
Tang Xian's eye diagnosis and treatment lasted only a few days, and there were no obvious results.
The old man packed up the pulse pillow and silver needles, washed his hands, and told Tang Xian about Tang Xian's medicine with the maid, and then asked to leave.
Before she had gone far, Tang Xian hurriedly chased after her and shouted, "Doctor, stay here!" ”
The flowers and trees on both sides of the vermilion corridor were beaten by the wind, and the rain invaded under the corridor, leaving mottled water traces on Tang Xian's skirt.
She didn't check it, and opened the maid who sent off the guest, but for some reason, her voice was not very steady. "Sir, do you know how old the cousin girl in Meng Zhuangyuan's mansion is now? What is the appearance? ”
"I have never seen that girl, but I have heard about it from other people, saying that the girl has the appearance of a sunken fish and a goose, but she is a little younger, and now she is only fifteen ......."
"Thank you, doctor." Tang Xian greeted the doctor and asked the maid to send people away.
When she returned to the attic, she sat down at the table and stared at the yellowed candlelight in front of her, but the candlelight was flowing under her eyes, but she did not move for a long time.
The words on the side had been written, and I didn't see her praise, so I shook her arm and asked, "Maomao, what are you thinking?" ”
"I'm thinking about Lou Qianhe......" Tang Xian replied subconsciously.
"What do you want him to do!" Yun Yuan still remembered the bullying son, and said loudly, "He's a bad person, don't think about him!" ”
Tang Xian was disturbed by her, and was just about to promise not to want him, Yun Yuan shouted: "If you want to think about your brother, your brother is better looking than him!" You miss your brother! It's raining outside, maybe my brother is raining, don't you feel sorry for him? ”
"You are really ......" Tang Xian couldn't cry and laughed, "You are really his own sister......"
Boasting over the clouds and coaxing her to eat, Tang Xian carefully analyzed what she had heard from the old man in front of the rain curtain.
What is the moon tower, the building Qianhe, these are not important.
What disturbed her mind was the little girl who was entangled by Lou Qianhe and almost fell off the building.
Tang Xian didn't know that Meng Siqing Zhuangyuanlang, let alone his cousin, a girl with a butterfly birthmark on her back, she had never met her.
All she'd ever seen was a butterfly birthmark.
On her brother's back.
When her brother was young, what she saw with her own eyes was true.
Counting it, my younger brother is almost fifteen years old, the same age as the cousin girl in Meng Zhuangyuan's mansion.
But he is not a girl, let alone in the capital, he should stay in Yuzhou with his parents in peace.
The royal family has decreed that the Tang family and their in-laws, regardless of men and women, are not allowed to enter the capital area within five generations without an edict.
If there is disobedience, regardless of the reason, the whole clan will be killed.
Chapter 47: Painting the Boat
Tang Xian was determined to meet the cousin herself, but before she could do so, she had to find out the origin of the Meng surname.
After hesitating for a long time, Tang Xian asked the guards to collect the relevant case files of officials surnamed Meng in Beijing.
The fact that she wants to find a son surnamed Meng has long been exposed, and there is no need to hide it.
I don't know what Yun said before he left, the guards did whatever they told them to do, and they were ordered to go down, and in just one hour, the thick case file was delivered.
Meng Lan, Meng Siqing, and the rest of the officials surnamed Meng, regardless of their official positions, were all included in it.
Among them, Meng Siqing's birth date, several members of his family, the gentleman he studied with, his classmates and friends, and even the transcription of the poems and articles he wrote when he was taking the exam.
Tang Xian looked through it in detail, and could only see that he entered Beijing for the first time last year, and that he was from a humble background, diligent and studious, and outstanding in character and literary talent, but there was nothing related to the Tang family.
After two days of heavy rain, Tang Xian pondered Meng Siqing's case file for two days.
On the day of the first sunny day after the rain, when she took a nap in the afternoon, Yun Yuan once again mentioned that she was going to take the examination for the promotion of people and the top prize.