Chapter 12: The Death of a Flower (3)
Yang Xihua was frightened into a cold sweat. He is not afraid of death, but if he becomes a eunuch, it will be more uncomfortable for him than death. "I said, I said. Jin Ye, no, the old man asked me to investigate the situation of the Tang Sect in Shuzhong. The most important thing is to confirm whether the two people who came with Tang Wuwei are the key criminals wanted in Jinju. ”
The woman asked sharply, "How are you doing?"
Yang Xihua had no choice but to spit it out: "I found out the Huang boss of Kongtong Sanjie and the moral judge of Yangzhou." I haven't seen the two people in the Tang family, and I haven't seen the portrait of Jinju. Old man Jin said that he would get the portrait. ”
The woman smiled and said, "It seems that you are not small, and you have found a lot of things in just a few days." Let me ask you again, how did you meet a man from the north last night?"
Yang Xihua's heart was shocked, thinking that she had already been targeted by her, "You mean that kid surnamed Chen, right? He used to be from Chang'an, his father was an official in the court, and then he was demoted to Taiyuan, and the family went to Taiyuan." When we were young, we used to play together, and we often spent the night in ecstasy. ”
The woman said to herself, "That's how it is. Then he asked, "Do you have any relatives and friends in his family in Chang'an?"
Yang Xihua Yaoyao: "I haven't heard of it." It's been more than ten years, and he was young at the time, so he can't remember it. ”
The woman said, "I don't dare to criticize me if you want to." What are you going to do in the future?"
Yang Xihua is an old oilman, so she naturally wants to get through the current crisis first. "Listen to the girl, and I will do what the girl wants me to do. ”
The woman smiled: "Your mouth is sweet enough, I'm afraid that I will let you go in the house, and you won't admit it when you go out." ”
Yang Xihua coped: "Don't dare, don't dare." With the girl's appearance, Yang was willing to serve the girl. ”
The woman shouted: "Aren't you afraid of the three watch orders?"
Speaking of the third watch, Yang Xihua shuddered. "I am not afraid, but I am even more afraid of becoming a eunuch. ”
The woman couldn't help laughing and said, "But if you are free from my coercion, you are naturally not afraid of becoming a eunuch." I heard that your martial arts are not weak, how can you still admit my account? You want me to lose my wife and soldiers, don't you?"
Yang Xihua couldn't answer, what the woman said was common sense, and it was exactly what he thought.
Seeing that he couldn't answer, the woman said in a coquettish voice: "In this way, you take me a few pills, and I will give you an antidote in three days." Without my antidote, you will die of festering all over your body. Remember, if you don't take the antidote in time, your little brother will rot first. How?"
Yang Xihua was helpless, so she had to agree: "Listen to the girl." ”
The woman took out a few pills and asked Yang Xihua to swallow them, and examined them carefully, convinced that the medicine had gone down. "After tossing for so long, do you want to know who the slave family is?"
Yang Xihua wanted to know ten thousand things in her heart, but she didn't dare to say it. "I don't dare to know the girl's secret. ”
The woman shook her head: "I can't say it." The peony flower dies, and the ghost is also romantic. It's too embarrassing to be afraid to look like this in front of a beautiful woman. Say, speak from your heart, do you want to know who the slave family is?"
Yang Xihua plucked up her courage: "I want to, but I don't dare." If you know, you can't live. ”
The woman took a few steps back and forth: "This is the truth. But now that you've taken my medicine, even if you know who I am, I'll let you out of the door. After speaking, unravel Yang Xihua's acupoint.
Yang Xihua moved her muscles and bones, and when she saw that her whole body was the same, her courage gradually grew. But he didn't dare to make a rash move. He thought: even if he restrained her with his backhand, if he couldn't find an antidote, the consequences would be even more serious. Therefore, he wanted to know who the other party was first, and then think of a way, "Then please tell the girl." ”
The woman teased, "Aren't you going to resist and try my skills? Maybe the medicine I gave you scared you." ”
Yang Xihua endured: "Don't dare." ”
The woman sneered twice: "It's still an acquaintance, you come with your ears." ”
Yang Xihua approached her.
The woman was attached to his ear, and her voice was very thin.
Yang Xihua let out an "ah" and was so shocked that she didn't move.
The woman patted him on the shoulder: "You go." ”
Yang Xihuamu walked out in a daze.
The woman laughed coldly. She also walked out and watched Yang Xihua walk out of the back of the tea house in the porch.
Yang Xihua was like a zombie, leaving the tea house for a hundred and ten steps, and fell straight to the ground.
The people around were frightened and avoided one after another, and after a long while, they gathered around again, and a bold man squatted down to probe Yang Xihua's mouth and nose, and shouted in horror: "Dead man!"
The woman looked at it coldly: "I have harmed so many women from good families, this way of dying is cheap for you." ”
Sima Junjie hated Yang Xihua, the flower hand, and spent money to hire someone to find his traces. There are too many people in Chang'an City, and Yang Xihua is elusive, so it is not easy to find him. It took several days before someone came to tell Sima Junjie where Yang Xihua went: a mass grave outside the city.
This is called retribution. It's a pity that I didn't kill him with my own hands," Sima Junjie said hatefully.
At the same time, Steward Jin heard the news, and he was really shocked in his heart: Yang Xihua was fine yesterday, why did she die? Who killed him? Is someone also eyeing him? A series of questions, he felt that it was necessary to investigate. So, he asked the person who reported the news: "How did Yang Xihua die, and where did she die?"
The messenger replied: "The little one has found out clearly, it is the news of the Yamen's arrest: Yang Xihua went to Xinglong Tea House to drink tea yesterday and fell in love with a maid inside. Due to excessive wine, his body was weakened and yang, and he fell to the ground and died violently not far from the tea house. ”
Steward Jin asked again, "Is there anyone else drinking tea and drinking with him?"
The messenger replied, "There was an old man before, but the old man left early. The only one in the private room with him was the maid. ”
Steward Jin snorted: "You go down." After the messenger left, he asked Sima Junjie: "Young master, do you believe that he died like this?"
Sima Junjie thought for a while: "It's a little strange, judging from his age and body, he won't die violently." But the official family has already examined the body, and if he kills, he will naturally look for the murderer, and will not hastily throw his body into a mass grave without leaving evidence. ”
Steward Jin nodded: "What the young master said is reasonable." There must be no signs of a fight on his body, but could he have been poisoned?"
Sima Junjie shook his head: "How can there be no signs of poisoning in the arresting room? In my opinion, he has done absolutely bad things and attracted God's punishment." ”
Steward Jin was absent-minded: "Maybe yes." Alas, it's a pity. ”
Sima Junjie glared at him: "You still feel sorry for him?"
Steward Jin suddenly lost his temper: "I, hehe, I mean the young master can't kill him with his own hands, it's a pity." ”
Sima Junjie complained: "It's not you yet. I asked you to ask my uncle for someone to help me, but you didn't say a word, which made me lose the opportunity to hate me. I'm not a person who will be revenged, it's just that Yang Xihua is too hateful, I want to eliminate harm for the people and pick up some face in front of the Tang family. ”
Steward Jin looked innocent: "The young master blames me." It's just that the people who came were delayed for a few days, and today and tomorrow are scheduled. ”
Sima Junjie said angrily: "Only after the rain is sunny will the umbrella be sent." Who's here, he's a useless person, isn't he?"
Steward Jin straightened his goatee: "Someone who comes will definitely be able to control Yang Xihua, he is a famous sword bloodless Zhou Xingyun in the rivers and lakes." ”
Sima Junjie disagreed: "The sword is bloodless, I haven't heard of it." How is the coachman than Tang Susu?"
Steward Jin widened his old eyes: "You said that Huang Meng, hehe, the young master is not a person from the rivers and lakes, so he naturally doesn't know the ability of swords and bloodlessness." A first-class master, how can Huang Meng be his opponent!"
Sima Junjie still didn't believe it: "Hehe, it's so powerful, I'm going to give it a try." ”
As he was talking, a family member came in and handed over a note of greeting, informing him that a guest had asked to see him.
Steward Jin took the post and looked at it. "Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao has arrived, and the sword is bloodless. Quick, please come in. ”
After a moment of going out, he brought in the sword without blood.
Jian Wuxue clasped his fists with both hands: "I've seen Jin Ye." ”
Steward Jin smiled and said, "This is my young master Sima Junjie, this is the sword bloodless Zhou Xingyun"
Sima Junjie walked up to Jian Wuxue and held his hand. "I have heard the bloodless name of the sword for a long time, and I am very happy to see it today. "Say it secretly.
Jian Wuxue was nothing, "The young master thinks that Zhou is just a person who can eat and drink, right?"
Steward Jin smiled and said, "Brother Zhou, don't be surprised. The young master is not a person in the martial arts, although he practices martial arts, he is only a skin, and he doesn't know the depths. Young master, don't try it, with your cultivation, how can you try his skills? It's still far away. Brother Zhou is not only fast with a sword, but also first-class in internal strength. You'll have a chance to see it later. ”
Jian Wuxue said: "But compared to the Lord Ling, I am only scratching the surface." ”
Sima Junjie was puzzled: "Who is Lord Ling, and how is he better than my uncle?"
Steward Jin and Jian Wuxue glanced at each other and laughed.
Chen Xingwen was tidying up the house, sweating all over his head.
Chen Xingwu sat on the side without moving his hand, and complained: "It's good to eat and live in the Tang family, why are you running out?"
Chen Xingwen was angry: "That's not your home, do you have the face to live in that life?"
Chen Xingwu said: "After buying these things, there are no taels of silver left, how will I live in the future? This is no better than Jinzhou, where there is a piece of land, there is a harvest, and you will not die of hunger." ”
Chen Xingwen responded: "Don't you have hands and feet? If you don't go to find something to do, the silver will fall to you from the sky?"
Chen Xingwu said: "What can I do, I want to do some business but I don't have the capital." ”
Chen Xingwen said: "Those who repair locks and repair pots will learn to learn." ”
Chen Xingwu smiled and said: "I said that you Chen Xingwen is too unproductive, and our father was also a five-rank life official when he was alive, you asked me to repair the lock and mend the pot? ”
Chen Xingwen had a calm face: "Then what do you want? Teach you to write like a chicken chop, go begging for food." ”
Chen Xingwu was not annoyed, and smiled: "Don't you still have some silver, give it all to me, I'll go to the gambling house to make a handful, and then double it back to you." ”
Chen Xingwen said sharply: "Don't go to the gambling house, just these few silvers, you won't eat if you lose." Nine out of ten bets lost, when have you ever won?"
Chen Xingwu took out a few taels of silver from his arms and said, "Don't say it, I won two days ago." ”
Chen Xingwen asked, "When did you go?"
Chen Xingwu put the silver into his arms: "It was the night before leaving the Tang family." I had so good luck that day, and if I hadn't met that woman, I would have made a lot of money back. ”
Chen Xingwen asked curiously: "Did you sneak out?"
Chen Xingwu frowned and said, "She covered her face, but her gaze always felt familiar to me, but I couldn't remember where I had seen it." ”
Chen Xingwen was also puzzled: "Is the one who covered his face the one who saved us?"
Chen Xingwu patted his thigh: "Yes, as soon as you say that, I remember: the eyes are very similar, and the size is about the same, but the person can't see men and women." ”
Chen Xingwen said worriedly: "If it is really her, then she has been following us for a long time, what is her intention?"
Chen Xingwu was also a little uneasy: "The woman in the gambling house also knows martial arts, and she seems to know my origin. However, she did not mean anything towards me, she just told me not to go out and not to tell anyone about my origins. But who would be so nice to us?"
Chen Xingwen pondered for a while: "Who could it be? It won't be Jiaojiao, right?"
Chen Xingwu's tone was affirmative: "Impossible! Your mother-in-law, can't you argue?"
Chen Xingwen thought that he couldn't think about Jiaojiao, and said: "How to say, it's better for us to go out less, and with the rest of the silver, I will buy some oil, salt, firewood and rice, and stay at home for a while." Oh, brother, are you using the delicate golden hairpin as a gambling book? This is unacceptable, the golden hairpin is engraved with her name, to be cherished. ”
Chen Xingwu said angrily: "You don't want it for you, that's mine, how can I have the final say." Thou shalt be precious, and thou shalt redeem it with the silver. ”
Chen Xingwen said: "I still have ten taels of silver, I will redeem it!"
Chen Xingwu glared: "Ten taels of silver, you want to redeem a golden hairpin, don't dream! Brotherhood, at least fifty taels!"
Chen Xingwen said: "Fifty is fifty, I will give you the money I can find, don't take it to gamble, you can't get it back." ”
Chen Xingwu said: "When you find fifty taels of silver, I will earn five hundred taels with it." I want to redeem you quickly, I won't wait for you!"
Chen Xingwen knew his brother's temperament, and he did what he said in this matter. I can't control him from going to the gambling house right now, and the golden hairpin will definitely be gone in two days. He couldn't think of a way to stop Chen Xingwu for a while, so he had to threaten: "If you dare to use it as gambling money again, I will be promoted and make a fortune in the future, and you don't even want to stick to Mao." You know, it's easy for me to get promoted and get rich!"
Chen Xingwu understood that his brother's words meant something, and he was really frightened, so he hurriedly said: "It's just talking, I'm not willing to export it." I leave it to you to make a thought, and redeem it with the silver as soon as possible. ”