[Baiyutang] Wind-dried clothes

The fog locks the reeds, and there is no sky or water, only a vast expanse of whiteness.Sailing the boat in the cool mist, I can hear the sound of oars swaying in my ears, but I doubt in my heart that the boat is traveling in the clouds.Standing at the bow of the boat was a young man dressed in moon white, and at the stern of the boat was an unremarkable boatman, who was Bai Yutang and his servant Bai Fu who had fallen into the empty island.

Bai Yutang had just returned from Yangzhou, and Bai Fu was his confidant most. When he got on the boat, he asked about the affairs of Yangzhou: "Is there any progress for Fifth Master?"

Bai Yutang didn't answer him for a while, and Bai Fu was about to ask again, but was interrupted: "Don't make noise, I was thinking about something."

That day, Bai Yutang followed Fen Lan into Nongliuwu, what he saw was ruined wells, collapsed pillars and scorched beams.The wind blew past, kicking up a burst of burnt ash, which rushed straight towards the person's head.Fen Lan hastily backed away a few steps, covering her mouth and nose with a silk scarf.Seeing this, Bai Yutang cupped his hands and said, "This place is so salty, it's better for Miss Fenlan to wait outside the courtyard."

Fen Lan didn't want to get close, so he nodded his head and backed away.Bai Yutang approached quickly, put his hands on the burnt black broken beam, turned over and jumped into the house.While walking in the house, he looked around the house.The house is not big, in front of the screen is the outer hall, inside the screen is the inner hall, a cozy bed has been burnt to the point of breaking its tent, and all the beautiful bedding has been reduced to ashes.The footprints on the ground are messy, probably left by the previous team of males.

Suddenly, Bai Yutang noticed something unusual on the ground.It turned out that the floor was paved with stone bricks. After the fire, most of the stone bricks turned black, but half a step away from He Huan's bed, where the bricks and stones were dark in color, there were a few pieces. The bricks are turbid yellow.Bai Yutang felt strange, bent down and brushed the muddy yellow bricks and stones with two fingers, and brought them to the tip of his nose, the stench was unpleasant.

Bai Yutang frowned and thought for a moment, then he saw a nest of ants outside the burnt down wall.He came up with a plan, hurriedly walked out of Nongliuwu, and said to Fen Lan who was waiting outside the courtyard: "Please trouble me to order someone to bring a pot of sugar water."

Fen Lan ordered the servant girl to bring two pots of brown sugar water and handed them to Bai Yutang.Bai Yutang brought it into the room, rolled up his sleeves, and poured sugar water on the ground, even the turbid yellow stone bricks and their surroundings were covered with sugar water.

After waiting for a while, the ants in the ant nest moved out one after another.From time to time, the floor tiles drenched in sugar water were densely covered with ants. There were only turbid yellow stone bricks for a week, but no sweet ants crawled.Bai Yutang stepped back half a step, and saw a group of ants vaguely outline a human figure on the brick.

Bai Yutang suddenly thought of an evil medicine powder that had recently appeared in the Jianghu.Sprinkled on the wound, it can turn all flesh and bones into pus.

He thought about it, and said to himself: "Last night, one of Zhang Shu and the one surnamed Li may have died here. If the one who died was the one surnamed Li, Zhang Shu wouldn't go silent after setting fire to extinction. His relationship with Fen Lan He has deep meaning and has the heart to redeem her body. Now he burned her residence and caused her a lot of trouble, but he didn't leave a word. Even if he fled in a hurry, it doesn't make sense. I'm afraid that the one who died here is Zhang Shu .”

Just as he was thinking, he suddenly heard someone calling him not far from the door, it was Fen Lan: "Young master, can you find that rare thing?"

Bai Yutang hurriedly wiped the sugar water all over the floor with his toes to lure the ants to other places, and then responded: "Miss, I have something to tell you, you stay outside the door for a while."

Leaping out the door, Bai Yutang took off the adornment around his waist, and said to the astonished Fen Lan, "I'm the Songjiang Mansion's spies, and I've tracked the numbers up to this point."

Fen Lan took two steps back in shock, covered her mouth with the silk scarf, and said after a while, "He...what did he do?"

Bai Yutang said: "Don't dare to lie to Miss, what Zhang Shu committed was a murder case."

Seeing that Fen Lan was shedding tears, Bai Yutang sighed and said, "I thought that the girl and Zhang Shu were in the same boat, so I didn't tell the truth. I hope the girl will forgive me."

Fen Lan tremblingly said: "Then... then where is Zhang Lang... now?"

Bai Yutang shook his head and said, "I don't know—it's just that Zhang Shu will come back to look for you in the future, you should cut it off as soon as possible, and don't have any more contact with him." After saying that, he left in a hurry, leaving Fen Lan alone to deal with it. Weeping softly in front of the ruins of Liuwu.

After finding the old bustard, she bought a portrait of Mr. Li from her for five taels of silver, and Bai Yutang left her a written receipt, which can be used to ask for the silver for repairs from the Songjiang Mansion—but it depends on the old bustard's ability to get it. up.

Don't bother me, at this moment Bai Yutang boarded the small boat that sank back to the empty island, still thinking about Qin Zhihai's death, he asked Bai Fu, and as he expected, Hu Silang's body was salvaged from the Songjiang River within a few days , set up a name of committing suicide in fear of crime, and closed the case.Bai Yutang lowered his head to play with the scroll tied up with silk ribbons in his hand, and had a vague idea in his mind.

It was approaching the empty island, Bai Yutang didn't realize it, but fortunately Bai Fu knew the way and didn't steer the boat astray.When Fang stepped on the land of the empty island, he heard Bai Fu call out: "Miss Six is ​​fishing here!"

There was a "hush" sound from the left, and the Sixth Miss lowered her voice and said, "Don't make any noise, you may scare away the fish."

Bai Fu shut his mouth, but looked at Bai Yutang schemingly.The second monk Bai Yutang was puzzled, and looked in the direction of the sound. Through the thin mist, he saw a girl in a pine green pleated skirt sitting on a small stool, with her legs crossed, and her embroidered shoes were pointed. One corner sticks out.There was a fishing basket beside her, with a bamboo pole in her hand, hanging a piece of fishing line, staring at the water without turning her eyes.

Lu Caichun saw the filaments on the rod head tremble, and hurriedly raised the rod to pull the thing in the water.Lu caishun was delighted when he just showed his white and tender fish mouth that opened and closed with a click, and thought to himself that it must be a heavy four-gilled perch just looking at the strength of pulling the fish.Just when it was about to come out of the water, there was a sound of piercing through the air, a gray shadow passed by, the filament snapped cleanly, the tail of the fish slapped the water, and there was a circle of ripples on the surface of the water, which disappeared in the blink of an eye trace.Lu Caichun was furious, threw the fishing rod, stomped his feet and said, "Which thieves ruined this girl's good deed?"

Turning his face to the side, he saw the young man in the moon white robe sneeringly taking out the locust stone from his waist pocket and pinching it between his two fingers.Lu Caichun swallowed the swearing words, bowed her head and fled, Bai Yutang chased after her.

The terrain of the hollow island bends left and right, and it is not as straight as it was on the flat ground that day. Bai Yutang held the locust rock in his hand and was about to pop it out, but it was often blocked by vegetation and rockery, and he lost his aim, so he still couldn't hit it.Bai Yutang gritted his teeth, thinking that this guy has a way of running for his life, and he doesn't know who taught her to be familiar with the topography of Sunken Island.

While you were chasing after me, I suddenly saw a person coming up from the veranda in front. Lu Caichun took a closer look and shouted loudly: "Third brother, save me! Fifth brother, he is going to beat me!"

Bai Yutang thought to himself: Where is the Fifth Brother?It's clearly the young master, I want to arrest you!

The visitor heard the words and shouted: "Fifth brother, be merciful! This is your sixth younger sister, I can't beat you!" Before he finished speaking, he turned over the corridor like a kite, and stretched his arms to protect Lu Caishu behind him.

Bai Yutang stopped, stared at Lu Caishu who was hiding behind Xu Qing, who was rolling his eyes, and after a little thought, he knew that this little thief had used some tricks after he came to the island to trick Xu Qing and the others into sworn brothers and sisters with her. .Thinking of this, he felt unexplainably angry, and he sneered and said, "I, Bai Yutang, don't want to get mixed up with your deep affection for Jinlan."

As soon as the words were finished, Jiang Ping, the Jiangjiang mouse, turned from the side. This man was as thin as a bamboo pole, with a yellowish complexion, and he looked like a sick ghost, but his eyes were still shining.He stepped forward and grabbed Bai Yutang's sleeves, persuading him: "It's not that brothers don't know about your quarrel with Sixth Younger Sister, but listen to my brother's persuasion, you must forgive others and forgive others."

Bai Yutang laughed back angrily: "Brother, what you said is unreasonable. This little thief was fishing on the handicap of the sky island. What broke the rules of the sky island is that I caught her in accordance with the rules and regulations. How could it be possible?" Is my holiday with her?"

Jiang Pingdao: "Just as you said, we don't care about this matter with her in the empty island. You don't know that our sixth sister is the nephew of Beixia Uncle Ouyang!"

Bai Yutang's face suddenly changed, but he still held back his anger, just raised his hand and pulled out his sleeve, saying, "Even if it's the Heavenly King, I, Bai Yutang, don't want to be a dwarf forever!"

These words made Xu Qing so angry that he rushed to the top of his head, and he shouted: "It's just that you, Bai Yutang, have a backbone, so why don't you put your brothers in your eyes?" Bai Yutang snorted coldly, and didn't answer .

Jiang Ping was still giggling, but turned his face to Lu Caichun, and said: "My fifth brother is very angry, it's not that the eldest brother and the second brother can't subdue him, you should hide behind the third brother, and I will go to rescue the soldiers . " After saying that, he ran away without knowing where to go.

Bai Yutang didn't pay attention to Jiang Ping anymore, and only said to Xu Qing: "Your brother made a slip of the tongue, but this little thief must be punished today."

Xu Qing also said: "As long as I, Xu Qing, can stand upright, I won't let you touch a hair of Sixth Sister's hair!"

"I don't know what kind of enchantment this little thief has used for you, and everyone's brains are out of order." As soon as he finished speaking, Bai Yutang moved his body and grabbed Xu Qing behind him.Lu Caichun looked terrified, and hid in a panic, but Bai Yutang couldn't get a piece of her clothes.

Seeing this, Xu Qing became more and more annoyed, bent his elbows and slammed into Bai Yutang's ribs, his moves were sharp and fierce, not at all like his usual meek and careful gestures.Bai Yutang twisted his body, and passed his hand under his ribs, using four or two strokes of a thousand catties, grabbed the attacking elbow, and pushed it away with force, Xu Qing staggered, and Teng Teng staggered two steps backward.

Lu Caichun hurriedly stepped forward to support Xu Qing, and asked repeatedly: "Is third brother alright?"

Xu Qing patted her on the shoulder: "I'll make Sixth Sister laugh."

Bai Yutang's face was blue, and he couldn't help but say sarcastic words: "It's only third brother that you can trust her hypocrisy."

Lu Caichun was about to retort, but Xu Qing took a step faster than she said, curled up, rolled over like dough, while Bai Yutang was not paying attention, hooked his hand into a snake kiss, and pecked at Bai Yutang's arm.Bai Yutang knew that the third brother wanted to use real skills, the bone shrinking technique of the mountain rat is not a child's play, when it shrinks and grows suddenly, the capture is even more difficult to dodge than ordinary Lianjiazi.Fortunately, he had quick eyesight and quick hands, and hastily withdrew his arm. He didn't want half of his arm to be folded in Xu Qing's hand, but he still gave him half of the coat.

Xu Qing pinched half of Bai Yutang's sleeve with his fingers, and threw it on the ground angrily, with a pair of strange eyes staring at Bai Yutang who was out of the way.Bai Yutang felt his arms go cold, and something rolled down from the rest of his sleeve, like a scroll, Zhengjiao Lu Caichun saw it.Her heart moved, her eyebrows raised, she thought it might be a treasure, and she rushed out like an arrow. Before Bai Yutang had time to bend down to pick it up, she squatted and stretched her legs, and the pointed embroidered shoes fell He hooked the scroll in the dust and grabbed it in his hand.

After getting the scroll, Lu Caichun made a quick decision, one word - tear it down!After untiing the knot tied by the silk ribbon, there was a shake in the air, and the scroll swayed in the wind. I saw a man painted on it, with a scar on his right eyebrow, dressed in brocade clothes, with a jade button on his waist, carrying a burden. He Wu, a few lines of small characters were inscribed next to the portrait. Lu Caichun glanced at the ten lines at a glance, and vaguely saw the word "Bianjing" on it.

Bai Yutang rushed forward to snatch it, but was stopped by Xu Qing, and the two fought back and forth.

At this moment, the three of them suddenly heard someone calling not far away: "Fifth Brother, please be quiet!" When the three of them heard the sound, they cast their gazes in the direction of the person, and saw Lu Fang and Han Zhang, the rat from the sky, walking towards him. , followed by a giggling Jiang Ping.Seeing that the two people who had been fighting so fiercely before gave up their hands one after another and withdrew at both ends, Lu Caichun also quickly rolled up the scroll in his hand, tied the silk ribbon, and threw it in the air. It landed just right, and was being caught by Bai Yutang who raised his hand live.

Bai Yutang pointed the scroll at Lu Caishu, and said: "Break into the boundary of Sunken Island, catch fish in the river, overturn the boat in Lu's Village, and even hurt our people with An Qingzi - all the brothers said that there will be no punishment, Have you ever asked me?"

Lu Fang glanced at Xu Qing and Lu Caichun on the left, and Bai Yutang on the right. After thinking about it for a moment, he hurried towards Bai Yutang and said, "Fifth Brother, brothers are considerate of you. Although Sixth Sister had a conflict with you before , but it was just a misunderstanding. When the misunderstanding is resolved, it will be cleared up naturally. What is there to talk about whether to punish or not? After all, the sixth sister is a guest, and we are the masters. So why not give her a few fish? Don't be annoyed anymore Isn't it great that everyone gathered together happily?"

Bai Yutang stared at Lu Fang, raised his eyebrows, stared for a while, then glanced at Xu Qing who was staring at him with round eyes, sighed, turned around and was about to leave.Han Zhang stood aside, saw the situation clearly, and made up his mind to smooth things over, so he said with a smile: "Brother, what you said is biased."

"Second brother, how do you say that?" Lu Fang hurriedly answered.

Bai Yutang turned his head to see what Han Zhang said, only to hear him say: "Brother is too partial to the sixth younger sister, but the fifth younger brother is protecting the empty island inside and out, and now he is taking advantage of the wind and the dew. Yangzhou rushed back, but I saw you coming out like this, without saying hello, and left him alone, and married Liumei one after another, even I felt aggrieved. To be fair, it was Liumei who caused the trouble in the end First, how can we not be punished?"

Lu Fang glanced at Lu Caichun, and Fang asked, "What kind of punishment?"

Jiang Ping said with a smile: "It's better to punish Liumei to cook a table of delicacies for our brothers."

Xu Qing also smiled after hearing this: "That's right! As expected of the second and fourth brothers, their brains are better than that of a reckless man like me. Speaking of the fifth brother, you don't know that the sixth sister's skill in cooking fish is rare in the world."

Han Zhang smiled and asked Lu Caichun, "Would the sixth sister be punished?"

Lu Caichun hurriedly shouted: "It's the younger sister who collided, and she should be punished. The brothers still show mercy to the younger sister."

Bai Yutang snorted coldly, walked away with a flick of his sleeves.Lu Fang and Xu Qing hurriedly looked at Han Zhang, only to hear him say with a smile, "Fifth Brother, this is forgiving us."