The Golden Bough and the Dog v. 85

"Maomao-Mao-"

Yun Zhu was about to answer, when a shrill voice rushed ahead of him.

He looked around and saw a yellow-haired parrot hanging from the window, the one he had brought back from the mountains, and the one with a wounded foot.

After bringing it back, it was kept in Lanqin Zhai, and Tang Xian liked it, so even when she said goodbye to herself, she specially mentioned a parrot and asked him to raise it well.

"I taught it to say that my lame military master forgot to be at Maomao's house, so he had to come to raise a parrot." After Yun Yuan finished speaking, he asked expectantly, "Brother, you go to pick up Mao Mao and bring the military advisor back by the way, okay?" ”

Yun paused and said "um", and replied to Yun Yuan's original question, "It's revenge." ”

The eunuchs in the imperial tomb were already being punished, and how they treated Tang Xian and the women guarding the tomb over the years is now doubling down on what they are suffering.

But you can't die.

Directly dead, it is too cheap for them.

It is a pity that the culprit who gave the order died too soon.

"Filial pietyβ€”treasureβ€”" The parrot jumped, and suddenly spoke again.

Yun stopped slightly stunned and asked, "This is also what you taught?" ”

"It's not." Yun Yu said obediently, "This is what it would have been." Brother, what is Xiaoling? ”

Yun Zhu was silent.

This parrot was picked up by him in the mountains, and he had never seen anyone before and could not speak.

It's not taught by Yun Yuan, it can only be taught by Tang Xian.

Yun Zhu remembered Tang Xian's words of farewell to him for the second time, and asked him to take a look at the parrot more. β€”β€”After she confessed that the milk name "Yang Yang" had married her.

I am afraid that she was ready to return to the Imperial Tomb at that time, and wanted to inform herself in this way about the treasure mine hidden in the Imperial Tomb.

Even if he didn't ask later, Tang Xian would tell him.

Yun Zhu's heart is a little painful, a little stuffy, and it is very unpleasant.

He glanced at the parrot a few times, calmed down, and continued what he hadn't figured out.

In addition to the internal response of twins, there is another problem that is extremely easy to ignore.

The plan to subdue Lin Beishu and Shuli in the tea shed that day was a conspirator between Yanxia and the twins, which means that the three of them had known each other before this.

And the premise of the three of them getting acquainted is that Tang Xian is the hub to introduce them.

That is to say, before Yun stopped leaving Beijing, Tang Xian had met with the twins and Yanxia at the same time.

Tang Xian always had someone around her, and the only time she was able to meet Yanxia out of the guard's sight for a short time was when she went to the Tanglin River to see the dragon boat.

Yun Zhu's eyebrows stretched slightly, called out to the carp, and asked, "Who did Mao Mao see before the dragon boat accident that day?" ”

Shu Lili recalled and said, "Bai Xiangxiang, the county lord of Qiyang ......."

As she was counting, Yun Yuan interjected in a clear voice, "There is also the girl who wants a lotus, Mao Mao is afraid that she has been deceived by the bad guys, and wants to remind her." ”

"Miss is talking about Meng Siqing's cousin Sun Yaoyan, Lou Qianhe asked the people to send lotus ......flowers to please her," Shuli explained in detail.

Meng Siqing's cousin is also a little entangled with Lou Qianhe, don't think about it, this person must have something strange.

Yun stopped asking about Sun Yaoyan, but Shu Lili couldn't answer.

They have never cared much about these Beijing Wind Moon......

"She was so unlucky, she almost fell down the stairs, so that the family saw the birthmark on her back, and she had to marry that bad guy."

Yun Xuan's crisp voice once again attracted Yun Zhu's attention, "How do you know?" ”

"The doctor said it when he showed Mao Mao's eyes."

Yun stopped summoning the old doctor, and after listening to the matter, he closed his eyes, opened them after a while, and understood everything.

That Sun Yaoyan may be one of the twins he is looking for.

However, Tang Xian was still nowhere to be found in the Meng Mansion, and the Miss Sun Yaoyan also returned to her hometown half a month ago.

Don't think about it, if you send someone to investigate, you will be missing on the way and don't know where to go.

And Meng Siqing would rather go to prison than let go and confide in the twins.

The trail of cloud stoppage is interrupted again.

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After the clouds stopped, many things were quickly resolved, and the rain situation in various places was also improving, and the turmoil was basically over.

Half a month later, Zhuang Lian came back to his senses, and there were only two things left for his headache.

The first thing is where Tang Xian is here.

The second thing is that after Yun stopped coming back, he became unsmiling.

He used to have a bad temperament, but at least he could still have an angry look on his face, and now he is calm when he hears everything, not arrogant or impatient, and even angry is gone.

He'll be able to talk well!

Something is clearly wrong.

Zhuang Lian was in a hurry, no matter how desperately he tried to find Tang Xian, he couldn't figure out where Tang Xian could hide?

Meng Siqing's mansion, Bai Xiangxiang's place, all the places he could think of, even the mansion, were checked, but they were all gone, as if they had disappeared out of thin air.

Zhuang Lian had a headache, and suspected that if he continued like this, Yun Zhu would go crazy from the bottom of his heart.

In the evening of this day, Yun Zhu came back from the imperial mausoleum, still plain, and when he walked inside, he said to Zhuang Lian without hesitation: "Buy a cat for the curly again." ”

The lame civet cat she left in the tomb may have been killed by the guards, or eaten by wild dogs, but in short, it was not found in the tomb.

Zhuang Lian responded with a "hey", and followed him as he walked: "The missing girls in the imperial tomb have all been identified, and several of them died by accidentally touching the mechanism in the tomb, and some of them were probably impatient to torture and jumped off the cliff of the back mountain, and there were many ......corpses and bones at the bottom of the cliff."

In the final analysis, it was the sins left by Emperor Jingguang.

The other person is dead, and the account can only be settled with the ruthless guards and eunuchs for the time being.

Yun stopped and said: "A human life is scraped alive." ”

Zhuang Lian Dao: Yes.

The eunuchs had been locked up in solitary confinement in the depths of the tombs for more than 10 days, and there was no light to be seen every day, except for a brief break in the delivery of food and water. After such a long time, there are no more people and ghosts.

Speaking of this, Yun Zhu suddenly stopped, and Zhuang Lian, who was following him, almost hit his back.

"What's wrong with Childe?"

"Do you say, are her eyes so frightened that she cries because she was locked up in the tomb?"

Yun Zhu's voice was exceptionally calm, Zhuang Lian was stunned, and opened his mouth to speak, he had already raised his steps again.

Zhuang Lian hurriedly followed, pretending not to hear his last sentence, and babbled: "Son, the origins of those concubines and maids have all been investigated, some of them have no one at home, some of their relatives are not in the capital, and only half of them can find their relatives. What does Childe plan to do with them? ”

Yun stopped and said: "In another month, when the disaster situation a while ago is more relieved, each person will be given a hundred taels of broken silver." If you want to go home, arrange for the guards to send them back, and if you have nowhere to go, you will order Jing Zhaoyin to arrange for someone to settle down. There is no one left in the palace. ”

At the same time, Zhuang Lian lamented in his heart: It is indeed abnormal!

In the past, when cleaning up the mess left by the ancestors, when was it not a cold eyebrow, eager to dig up the graves of the ancestors?

It's so calm!

Zhuang Lian didn't dare to mention it, and followed behind Yun with a sad face.

When he was about to arrive at the study a few steps, a guard came and said, "Childe, someone in the palace has sent a message, and the second prince asks you to come over." ”

Yun Zhu turned around and went to the palace.

Zhuang Lian, who stayed behind, wanted to cry without tears, and when he received a message from Yun'an before, he always asked what was going on first, and then decided to ignore it, but now he went directly!

It's so abnormal!

But Zhuang Lian couldn't stop it, so he could only watch the clouds stop leaving.

In fact, Yun Zhu just suddenly had the idea of letting the twins throw themselves into the net, and he needed to use the holy decree, so he temporarily decided to enter the palace.

Yun An really didn't have anything serious, either begging to leave the palace, or letting Yun Yuan enter the palace to play, otherwise, it was just some complaints.

Yun stopped drawing up the holy decree with his nagging, turned around ruthlessly, and went home.

At this moment, the night had condensed, and the eunuch sent Yun Zhu out of the palace with a lantern, and as he passed through the imperial garden, Yun Zhu's ears twitched, and he caught a thin cat meow.

He remembered the kitten that Yun Yuan had lost, and when he followed the sound, he saw that it was an orange kitten, nesting in the flowers not far away, licking its fur, and it was cute and cute.

Yun stopped thinking When Yun Yuan knew that her lame military master had lost it, she would definitely be very sad, so why not pick this one up and give it to her, so as to coax her.

He walked towards the kitten, and the eunuch hurriedly followed, explaining: "A few days ago, Your Majesty fed a wild cat in the imperial garden, and after that, many ...... appeared out of nowhere in the palace."

As if to confirm his words, he finished speaking, "Meow--", and another cat meow sounded behind the grass.

The cloud stopped bending down to hug the orange cat.

He straightened up slowly, and through a bush of roses, he saw a gray kitten.

There were many garden lights in the garden, but there were so many flowers and plants that it was so dark that Yun Zhu couldn't see the kitten clearly.

He took the lantern from the eunuch's hand and walked towards the kitten.

As if frightened, the kitten swept its tail and ran away with its paws, lame, dragging its right leg behind.

Yun Zhu turned his head sharply and asked, "Where did that lame cat come from?" ”

The eunuch was taken aback by his expression, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty loves kittens, and no one in the palace dares to be violent against cats and dogs, and that waste-legged kitten was brought back from outside by a concubine......

"Which concubine?"

"Yes, yes...... the eunuch couldn't remember it a little, and when he saw Yun Zhu frowning, he was a little flustered, and said nervously, "The slave doesn't remember who the concubine is, but I remember that the cat was kept in the Luoying Palace......

Yun Zhu knew that the Luoying Hall was one of the palaces where the women who guarded the tomb were housed.

He left the eunuch and strode towards the Luoying Palace.

If he was not mistaken, the cat was the one Yun Yu had raised, an ordinary tanuki with a mediocre coat, brown eyes, and lame feet.

was obviously left in the imperial tomb by her, how did she end up in the palace?

Is it that other concubines like to pick up and raise?

It's unlikely, because there are so many cute, athletic wild cats in the Imperial Tomb that no one wants to have a crippled ugly cat in general.