Lin'an

Feng Lan Niang had lunch and was sitting in the living room drinking tea and chatting, when she saw Song Chengjun holding her round belly and entering the living room with a smiling face. As soon as he came in, he kowtowed to Feng Lan and said, "Uncle Jiang, my little nephew has kowtowed to you." Feng Lan smiled: "You kid, what are you doing, get up quickly." I don't want to look at you for a trip, and I can pay back this big gift. Yinhuan, quickly bury the lychees in the cellar and take a box for Song Gongzi to taste. ”

A little maid left in response, and Song Chengjun smiled: "Thank you, uncle." Immediately, Song Chengjun turned around and wanted to kowtow to Jiang Cijun, but Jiang Cijun stopped him with a smile and said: "Usually when you go to the palace, I have never seen you salute me, why are you so polite today?" Song Chengjun smiled: "That's different, in the palace, you are my eldest sister, you are my eldest sister." But here, you're my grandmother. ”

Feng Lan heard the words and said: "Ci Shu is your grandmother, so what has become of my uncle?" Song Chengjun laughed and said: "This generation can't be wrong, you are my grandmother." Song Chengjun's words made the two women giggle.

Jiang Chuzhe got up, pulled Song Chengjun up from the ground, and said, "Song Gongzi, let's go and get down to business first." Jiang Cijun said with a smile: "Do the right thing, what can you do with Song Gongzi?" Feng Lan glanced at Jiang Cizhuo, and when Jiang Chuzhe was about to speak, Song Chengjun grabbed Bai and said: "It's really not a serious matter, Young Master Jiang said that he raised two gnats and they are about to die, so let me help take a look." ”

Feng Lan frowned and said, "Chu Zhe, when did you learn from others to raise grasshoppers?" Jiang Chuzhe smiled and said: "Mother, didn't my father also raise them in the past?" Jiang Ciyu said helpfully: "Mother, that raise grasshoppers in order to listen to the sound of insects." This is the same as listening to music and listening to the piano, as long as we don't lose our minds by playthings, it is also a good way to cultivate sentiment and self-cultivation. Before Jiang Cizhuo's voice fell, Jiang Chuzhe hurriedly said: "What my sister said is exact!"

With that, he pulled Song Chengjun and walked out of the hall quickly.

Feng Lan sighed lightly: "Chu Zhe, this kid, how can he get involved with this Song Gongzi." Jiang Ciyu smiled and said, "Mother, what are you worried about." Are you still afraid that my younger brother will learn badly from others?"

Feng Lan said: "Those who are close to Zhu are red, and those who are close to ink are black, how can I not be worried." Jiang Cishu smiled and said: "Chu Zhe is a very measured child, even if others push him to learn badly, he can't learn badly." Feng Lan said lightly: "I hope." ”

At this time, the little maid had already brought a plate of lychees with red skin hanging with hoarfrost and even more delicate into the hall. Jiang Cishu said: "Go to the young master's house." Feng Lan said: "Don't, get another box for the young master to send to them, and leave this plate for the young lady to taste." Resignation, this is the best champion red sent by Liu Zhizhou in Lingnan in May this year, and it has been put in the ice cellar to be frozen. Your father was going to send his old friends a taste of it during the Chinese New Year, but since you're here, let's eat a box of him first. Jiang Cijun pouted and said coquettishly: "Mother, you don't care about your daughter, such a good fruit, outsiders came, and you were quite generous and gave a box." My daughter has been here for two days, and I don't want you to give it to her. ”

Feng Lan said with a smile: "Stinky girl, what you said with your conscience? In the two days you have been here, didn't your mother personally cook for you to cook food in a different way." In fact, my mother has long forgotten the stubble of lychee, and I guess my father has forgotten it. If it weren't for Song Gongzi coming today, my mother wouldn't have remembered it. Jiang Cishu said curiously: "Why is this?" Feng Lan lowered his voice and said with a smile: "Then Song Gongzi is already round, and he is wearing a red robe today, but isn't it a big lychee that can be taken off!" Feng Lan said, and the mother and daughter giggled again.

Song Chengjun, who didn't know that he had made a great contribution, was staring at a gourd jar with a strange face. Suddenly, Jiang Cijun smiled and said, "Song Gongzi, what do you think?" Song Chengjun raised his head and said with a wry smile: "Young Master Jiang, I have to bury you for not being diligent and not dividing the grains." ”

Jiang Cishu smiled and said, "Why?"

Song Chengjun said: "Young Master Jiang, I really don't hide it. Your pair is not a gnat, but a pair of stunners. Jiang Chuzhe frowned and pretended to be stupid and said, "What is a shock?" Song Chengjun frowned and said: "The people of Shuzhou call this thing a stove chicken." Jiang Cijun was shocked: "Why did I, a grasshopper, become a chicken again?"

Song Chengjun slapped his thigh, cried and mourned, and said, "I said Young Master Jiang, don't play tricks on me." Where is this grasshopper, it's obviously a pair of crickets. It's still the mother's, the big one who can't scream. Young Master Jiang, you called me here, just say anything you want. It's scary. ”

Jiang Chuzhe smiled and did not speak.

Where did he have any gnats, but he had caught them from the corners of the kitchen. Seeing that Jiang Chuzhe didn't speak, Song Chengjun couldn't help but secretly say: "What kind of stupidity is this second child of the Jiang family......?

Jiang Chuzhe suddenly patted Song Chengjun on the shoulder and said, "I called Song Gongzi over, there are indeed some things to say to Song Gongzi in private." ”

Song Chengjun clenched his fists and said, "Young Master Jiang, please speak." ”

Jiang Chuzhe sat down on a chair and motioned for Song Chengjun to sit down. Song Chengjun sat down quite apprehensively, and he forced a smile on his face: "To be honest, although the old man of my family is Jiang Shumi's subordinate, I am also friendly with the Chai brothers when I am young. But I really don't have much friendship with you, Young Master Jiang. You must not have come to me because of personal matters. And Young Master Jiang is working in the Yamen of the Criminal Prison, is it not for official business to come to me this time?" Song Chengjun didn't pay attention, his tongue trembled when he said the second half of the sentence.

Suddenly, I heard the door "bang" and was pushed open. Song Chengjun was so excited that he almost slipped off the chair. Jiang Chuzhe turned around and said, "Huan'er, what are you doing?"

The maid who entered the door, Yinhuan, holding a plate, said with a smile: "Young master, the slave maid has come to bring lychees to you and Song Gongzi." Jiang Chuzhe stepped forward to take the lychee and said to Yinhuan: "You go down first and tell others that no one can come in without my orders." Yinhuan answered, and exited the room, she closed the door and smiled, and said in her heart: "This Song Gongzi is really like a big round lychee." ”

Inside the room, Jiang Chuzhe returned to his seat, poked the plate in front of Song Chengjun, and said, "Song Gongzi, please use it." Song Chengjun smiled, took a lychee, didn't even peel off the skin, and stuffed it into his mouth. After chewing twice, he spat the lychee skin, which was stained with saliva and crumbling pulp, onto the ground.

Jiang Chuzhe smiled and said: "This time I am looking for Song Gongzi, it can be said that it is for private affairs, or it can be said to be for official affairs. Song Chengjun laughed dryly twice and said, "Young Master Jiang, I, Song Chengjun, act above board, and I pay the most attention to the king's law, and this official matter doesn't seem to be able to hit me." ”

Jiang Chuzhe smiled and said, "Not long ago, a Taoist priest came to me, saying that he wanted me to join his teaching. I have been reading the book of Confucianism since I was a child, and of course I did not promise him. Jiang Chuzhe observed the change in Song Chengjun's expression, and saw that Song Chengjun's mood did not fluctuate much, so he continued: "After that, several major cases occurred in Lin'an City one after another, and as far as I know, it was an evil sect called the Secret Pestle Wheel Sect that did evil. ”

Song Chengjun's face trembled, but immediately, he sneered: "This group of people who chant scriptures, none of them are good! Fortunately, Young Master Jiang didn't go with that Taoist priest, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable." ”

Jiang Chuzhe said in surprise: "Song Gongzi is serious, that Taoist leader has nothing to do with this case, how can Song Gongzi know that the Secret Pestle Wheel Sect is a sect formed by Taoist priests?" Song Chengjun smiled and said: "Young Master Jiang, don't use the trial of prisoners on me, I said that on purpose just now." Since Young Master Jiang knew that the Dao Master had nothing to do with the Secret Pestle Wheel Sect, why did you mention it first?"

Jiang Chuzhe was slightly stunned, and he said in his heart: "This Song Chengjun is not easy to deal with. Song Chengjun said secretly: "But let me give Yuan back." He clenched his fists, his palms covered with cold sweat.

Jiang Chuzhe smiled and said: "Mention that Taoist leader, you have your own words, Song Gongzi, please listen quietly." Yesterday I searched for clues about the case and ran all the way out of the city. Outside the city, I ran into the Taoist again. The Taoist chief pointed out to me that if you want to find out about this case, you can go to King Zhou's mansion. ”

Song Chengjun's heart froze, and he said: "What the Taoist priest said, Young Master Jiang also believes it?" Jiang Chuzhe said helplessly: "I am a dead horse as a live horse doctor, and I think that Taoist chief does seem to be a person with real skills." As a result, I went to King Zhou's mansion once, and sure enough, I found a clue. ”

"Ah!" Song Chengjun couldn't help but exclaim, and hurriedly said, "Could it be that someone in the Zhou Palace's mansion is also dead?"

Jiang Chuzhe smiled and said: "The Zhou Wangfu is naturally safe and sound, I inquired about it in a family near the Zhou Wangfu, and on the night when several bloody cases were discovered, the owner of the family saw that there were two people who stayed in front of the Zhou Wangfu for a long time. ”

Song Chengjun's pupils condensed slightly, he picked up a lychee and stuffed it into his mouth, wiped his head with the sleeve of his robe, and muttered: "This lychee is very cold, I don't know how much cold sweat I have to leave when I eat one." Then, he raised his voice again and said, "Can you see the appearance of those two people clearly?"

Jiang Chuzhe shook his head and said, "That's not true, but the owner of that family is very familiar with the figure of one of them." He said...... "Before Jiang Chuzhe finished his sentence, Song Chengjun grabbed Bai and said: "People just stayed in front of King Zhou's mansion for a while, could it be that it has something to do with the case that happened that night?"

Jiang Chuzhe was overjoyed in his heart, and said secretly: "Song Chengjun's feet are showing more and more. He smiled and said, "Of course it can't, but those two deliberately cover their faces, which shows that they have ghosts in their hearts." Sometimes, a person's back is more recognizable than a person's face. Speaking of this, Jiang Chuzhe frowned and said, "But I don't understand, why is the disgusting Qing unwilling to enter his own house?"

Song Chengjun exclaimed: "You said that one of them is Second Brother Chai!"

Jiang Chuzhe nodded and said: "Yes, the master said so, he said that there was a Taoist priest in front of the Zhou Palace, and a man in black who covered his head with a pillowcase had stayed in front of the Zhou Palace, and the man in black was undoubtedly Chai Yanqing." ”

Song Chengjun suddenly smiled and said: "This is easy to explain, the second brother is fun by nature, maybe that night, he wanted to pretend to be a ghost to scare people." Jiang Chuzhe nodded and said, "I think so too, but maybe I'm wrong." So I called Song Gongzi to come, I want you to talk to Yi Qing about this matter, if he has other secrets, I hope Song Gongzi can persuade him to come to me. ”

Song Chengjun agreed, and then he took his leave and left. Jiang Chuzhe said in his heart: "According to Song Chengjun's temperament, if I startle the snake this time, he should take action." ”

Song Chengjun returned all the way back to the mansion, feeling uneasy in his heart. He said secretly: "Okay, this Jiang Lao Er clearly knew that person was me, but he put the basin on the second brother." It seems that he has already passed the anger with him, and in the end, this case will not only make me carry the black pot, but also pull the second brother into the water! Fuck! I said how did those cow noses come to me to wade into this troubled water, it seems that they have already thought of the way back! Okay, well, I want to die together!" Song Chengjun was full of anger, he bit his finger and wrote a letter in blood. He immediately took out a pigeon cage under his bed, and in the cage was a gray pigeon. Song Chengjun rolled up the letter and put it in a bamboo tube on the pigeon's leg. Then he took the pigeon and pushed open the window, and threw it out with one hand. Song Chengjun sneered: "Look who died miserably." ”

In a flash, it was evening.

The dinner in the Horse Mansion had been prepared, and there were only two people around Dong Ping and Ruo'er around the huge table. Dong Ping looked at Ruo'er and frowned, so he smiled and said: "Good boy, you can eat the food in your mouth, there are no bones and no thorns, eat it quickly." Ruo'er has always been obedient, as soon as Dong Ping said it, she picked up the chopsticks and put the vegetables in her mouth.

Seeing that she was interested, Dong Ping smiled and said, "What's the matter, do you miss your kind sister?" Ruo'er nodded and said, "My sister said that she was going out to do errands and would come back in a while." But Ruo'er waited for several hours, and her sister didn't come back, Master Ma, doesn't my sister want Ruo'er?" Immediately, the tears fell into the rice bowl.

Dong Ping smiled: "If she doesn't want you, then I will support you for a lifetime." But who would want to leave such a treasure behind? Don't worry, she will be home in a few days. Ruo'er didn't speak, but pulled the rice in the bowl with his head down. Dong Ping pressed his chopsticks against his forehead, and said in his heart: "I don't know if Master Huimin has a way to cure this little girl's eyes...... If Dong Ping knew that Master Huimin had already passed away, he didn't know what kind of feeling he would have in his heart.

Suddenly, a beautiful figure walked into the hall, it was Biyin. Biyin came to Dong Ping's side, knelt down and said, "I'm sorry for the concubine, the slave is late, and the slave is waiting for you to eat." Biyin was shocked and regretful, she went back to her room early in the morning to rest, and planned to get up and work if her legs were not numb. But she was born a little confused, and when she lay down in bed, she fell asleep, and she slept all day. Biyin said secretly: "I don't know how Master Ma will punish me this time." ”

Dong Ping raised his head suddenly and said, "Get up, Lord Tiezhu is not in the house these days, so you will be responsible for taking care of Ruo'er's daily life and chatting with her to relieve her boredom." Ruo'er hurriedly said: "Ruo'er can take care of herself and don't bother Sister Biyin!"

Dong Ping said: "Biyin, did you hear clearly?"

Biyin was overjoyed, and forgot to answer for a while, at this time Dong Ping asked this, she came back to her senses and said, "The slave maid heard clearly." ”

Bi Yin got up, came to Ruo'er's side, and said, "Sister Ruo'er, I don't dare not listen to the words of the master of the horse, can you pity the poor sister?" Ruo'er remembered that Dong Ping asked Bi Yin to kneel outside this morning, and felt that she was too willful for a while, so she hurriedly said: "Sister Bi Yin, as long as she doesn't dislike Ruo'er, it's okay." Biyin said: "Then how can it be, if my sister is so cute, it's too late for my sister to like it." As soon as she said the word cute, Biyin couldn't help but think of Chai Yanqing's unstingy face. Biyin said in her heart: "Tomorrow morning, I will wash the clothes of that son." ”

At this moment, a burst of laughter like silver bells came into the house. Dong Ping smiled: "It's Sister Juan Er's back." ”

Sure enough, after a while, the cuckoo walked into the room with a smile. Dong Ping said: "Sister Juan Er has been gone for most of the day, I thought you wouldn't come back." The cuckoo walked to Dong Ping's side, squatted down and gently pinched Dong Ping's legs and said, "It's the slave and maid who came back late, and the slave and maid made amends to the son." Dong Ping smiled and said, "You say, why did you go for so long?" If you don't understand, I won't be able to spare you. ”

The cuckoo smiled: "The slave didn't want to, but Xiangye didn't come back at noon, and he didn't return home until the sun was about to set." Dong Ping said: "The words have arrived?"

The cuckoo said: "The son's orders, how dare the slave and maid not do it." When the slave maid told the Xiangye what the son and the second master of Chai had said, not only did he not get angry, but he seemed very happy, and left the slave and maid to have dinner in the Qin Mansion. The slave and maid could see that Xiangye was really happy. But the slave didn't know why his old man was so happy. Mingming......" Du Juan glanced at Biyin and Ruo'er, and then stopped talking.

Dong Ping said paradoxically: "Because Qin Xiang is an understanding person, he can also see that I am an understanding person." He knew that I knew in my heart, and he was very happy. The cuckoo pouted, got up and said, "You understand, he understands, but the slave and maid are kept in the dark, confused, and don't understand anything." With that, the cuckoo snatched the chopsticks from Dong Ping's hand, took a piece of crystal clear Dongpo meat and stuffed it into his mouth. Dong Ping pinched the cuckoo's bulging cheeks and said, "Haven't you eaten in the Qin Mansion, why are you still like a hungry ghost." The cuckoo swallowed the meat into his stomach, wiped the soup at the corner of his mouth with his fingers, and then lightly opened his mouth, allowed his fingertips, and said: "Although Xiangye left the slave and maid to eat, where did the slave dare to move chopsticks in front of Xiangye." Or do you feel comfortable eating in front of your child...... Ahh She whispered to Dong Ping: "Childe, what are you doing, you are ashamed." Dong Ping took the hand that was open on the belly of the cuckoo and said with a smile: "I want to see if you are lying." Yes, if you have a flat stomach, you are indeed hungry. ”

The cuckoo said angrily: "Slave... The slave and maid ignore you!" said that, the cuckoo ran out of the door with his head down.