[Baiyutang] Wind-dried clothes

But Ding Meng urged Ya Huan: "Don't worry about it, just buy the bergamot quickly." Seeing that Ya Huan was about to look at the front door, she hurriedly stopped: "Go through the back door! How can the guests see it?" Waiting for Ya Huan to go around the back door After she had gone, she hurriedly took off her turban, held the pearl hairpin steady, patted the cobweb dust on her skirt, and walked away slowly.

The evening breeze brings fragrance, and the twilight is all together.As Ding Meng walked, he kicked the small stones on the patio and path into the vegetation.Walking around the wall photo, what I saw was not a young man in fresh clothes, but a young girl in green clothes and yellow clothes, carrying a burden on her back, standing firmly on the front steps of the door, with her head lowered, and she was using her feet to lift the green clothes. Water in the depressions of the slabs.

Ding Meng was disappointed, but he didn't show it on his face, he only asked tentatively, "Who is the girl?"

The girl raised her face, looked at her, and said with a smile: "Sister Ding, isn't it? Fifth brother pointed me to my sister's residence."

Ding Meng hesitantly led her to the yard, and asked her: "Is this where Bai Yutang of Songjiang Mansion brought girls here?"

"Exactly," the girl said with a smile, "I don't know about my elder sister yet. My surname is Lu, and my first name is Lu Caichun."

Ding Meng only wanted to know Bai Yutang's whereabouts, so he asked, "Did the fifth brother come with Miss Lu?"

"Who knows why he didn't come?" Lu Caichun sneered, then smiled again, "Little sister is abrupt, I'm afraid I will disturb my sister for a few days."

Ding Meng thought to himself, Bai Yutang must have avoided suspicion, so he never came, and only sent this woman to report. She called Bai Yutang "Fifth Brother", but he didn't know what the relationship between the two was.But she was quite hospitable on her face, she just said: "It's okay. I will order the people below to sweep out the west wing room for Miss Lu."

Lu Caichun said: "This fifth brother asked me to bring some things, and I want to hand them over to my sister." Then he unloaded the burden and showed it to Ding Meng.

Seeing her in the courtyard, Ding Meng wanted to take things out of the bag, feeling displeased, thinking to himself, how can it be reasonable to take out valuables in the open air?It's too ignorant.So he hurriedly stopped her: "Miss Lu is exhausted, let's have a cup of tea first."

Inviting Lu Caichun to sit in the main hall, Ding Meng went into the back room, sifted herbal tea, and brought it out. Just as Lu Caichun was holding a flat lacquer makeup dowry, he said, "This is for the fifth brother to celebrate my sister's great joy." Ding Meng Putting the teacup aside in a hurry, she caught it, and seeing Lu Caishu took out another letter from her pocket, she continued: "This is a letter from Fifth Brother, and it's also for my sister—he also specially ordered, don't let Nanxia see it." .”

Ding Meng accepted the letter full of doubts, but Lu Caishu leaned forward: "Sister, just tear it down... If you don't offend me, can you give me a look?"

Hearing that she wanted to see it, Ding Meng was really not happy, so he broke off the wax paint, took out the letter paper, glanced at it quickly, quickly folded it, put it in his sleeve, and said: "It's nothing serious, it's just to celebrate my new year. He told me about your lodging in the humble house, and told me not to tell my husband that he came to Kaifeng—but he didn’t know that my wife had heard the news.”

Lu Caichun is smart, seeing that she is very guarded, he looked at her for a while, then smiled and said: "It's my younger sister who is reckless, sister forgives younger sister."

Ding Meng said: "Fifth brother and I have a deep friendship. Since you are his righteous sister, you are also my righteous sister. Are you apologizing?"

Lu Caichun only laughed and said nothing.Ding Meng turned his eyes to the door: "At this time, my husband should be back. Miss Lu, let's have dinner with us." As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Zhan Zhao hanging on his waist and walking into the room.When Lu Caichun met, he had heard that Zhan Zhao was a "Southern Xia" who was as famous as his uncle, so he hurriedly blessed him well.

Ding Meng said to Zhan Zhao: "This is my adopted sister, she will stay for a few days."

Zhan Zhao looked at Lu Caishu up and down, nodded his head, and went to the back room.

Lu Caichun thought to herself, since she wanted to live under the roof of someone else's house, she naturally wanted to please her host.Thinking of this, he took Ding Meng's arm and said with a smile: "Sister, I see that Bianjing has a lot of strange things, and I'm about to ask you."

But Ding Meng said: "I don't go out of the door and don't go through the second door. If you want to ask me, I can't answer."

Lu Caichun was startled, let go, and could only smile.When her eyes were wandering, she suddenly saw Ya Huan walking into the room with a big bergamot in her hand.Lu Caichun said: "This is Fifth Brother's favorite food - he has been chatting with me for a long time on the road, and my ears are callused from hearing it."

Ding Meng said: "You don't know, this is what his elder brother Bai Jintang often bought for him to eat. He said he was thinking about food, but in fact it was just thinking about the dead."

Lu Caichun finally had some calculations in his mind, so he smiled and said, "Fifth Brother has a deceased elder brother, but I don't know about it." After that, he never mentioned Bai Yutang in front of Ding Meng.

After the three of them had dinner together, it was time to go to bed soon.The sound of insects on the window screen, the moonlight enters the house.When Ding Meng took off his clothes for Zhan Zhao, he said, "Fifth brother came to Bianjing because of the assassination of Songjiang Qin prefect a few days ago."

"Isn't this matter already over?"

"According to my fifth brother, he knows something that others don't know. The person who instigated the prefect may be in Beijing. The fifth brother said that this person is very easy to identify - there is an old scar on his right eyebrow, the person who has lived in the past. Be lean and straight."

"Why did he talk about this with Third Sister?"

"Elder brother is working in Kaifeng Mansion - he still counts on me to find one or two clues from Mr. Bao's files."

"It's not right for him to work on the third sister." Zhan Zhao lowered the tent hook and said, "Tomorrow I will go to the execution room to search." Finally, he said to Ding Meng, "I see your righteous sister." , not like a woman who was born in a decent family."

Ding Meng said: "Xu is wandering all over the world, and he is also a poor person."

The next day, Ding Meng got up in the morning to make up.Dip your fingertips into the cold water in the vat, and the joints in your bones swell and hurt from the cold.A line of white fish belly is reflected in the east in the tank, Ding Meng thought to himself, he doesn't know why he has become so shy these few days.She fetched water, looked towards the direction of the cooking house, and before she got close, she saw a puff of green smoke steaming on the tiles of the scales, and all she could smell was the smell of fireworks.

Suspecting that the water was gone, she hurriedly walked in two steps at a time.He knocked open the half-covered door with his elbow, and saw Lu Caichun rolled up his sleeves, stuffed the firewood into the stove, wiped his face, straightened up, and looked at him.Lu Caichun smiled and said, "My sister got up really early. I was thinking of serving us a few bowls of Lengtao for breakfast—no, the vegetables are all cut."

Ding Meng glanced at the pickled vegetables and diced meat on the cutting board, and he didn't like Lu Caishu's tampering with the fireworks, so he said coldly: "It's because we didn't entertain well, and asked Miss Lu to cook by herself."

Lu Caichun hastily dropped the tongs, and said with a helpless smile, "It's me who turned against the customer."

Ding Meng didn't talk, he took the pickled vegetable with his hand and wanted to put it in a bowl, but he didn't want to smell the sour taste of the pickled vegetable, his stomach churned up to his throat.Seeing that Ding Meng was holding his hands on the stove, his shoulders were tense, and he retched twice, Lu Caichun couldn't help but asked with concern, "Did my sister eat something that shouldn't be eaten?"

Ding Meng covered his mouth with one hand, and shook the other hand at her twice.Lu Caichun still leaned forward, grabbed her wrist, and placed four fingers on her veins.Ding Meng glanced at her out of the corner of his eye and asked, "Miss Lu, do you know how to diagnose pulse?"

"I learned a trick from the barefoot doctor in the rivers and lakes." Lu Caichun still pressed his fingers on her pulse, and after thinking for a moment, Fang hesitated to say, "I don't dare to say for sure... But looking at my sister's pulse, it seems to be happy gone."

Ding Meng didn't believe Lu Caichun, so he slowly withdrew his wrist and said, "Mr. Gongsun will come and have a look later. I'm really not feeling well these days."

Lu Caichun hurriedly set up a bench from the side, and covered the door to block the morning breeze, and said, "Sister, it's better to take a rest. Leave the chores like cooking fire to me. After all, sister Su In my sister’s house, I don’t like to put lime on my mouth—it’s free.”

Ding Meng was also afraid that he was indeed pregnant as Lu Caishu said, so he didn't dare to move rashly and hurt the fetal gas, so he sat down and watched Lu Caishu busy back and forth.While the water was boiling in the pot, Lu Caichun asked casually: "When I came yesterday, I saw many refugees lying on the street with their children and children, and I saw a long shed set up at the Yamen of Kaifeng Prefecture, and they were distributing pasta. Thin porridge, I don’t know what happened.”

Ding Meng said: "The East Huainan Road was flooded, flooding eleven counties. Now the Kaifeng government is opening the granary to help the victims."

Lu Caichun said: "I came to Kaifeng Mansion by water, and I never heard such news."

Ding Meng said: "From south to north, traveling in mountains and rivers, these are naturally not seen."

Lu Caichun felt that the words were boring, so she kept boiling the water without saying a word, and never spoke to Ding Meng again...

At noon, Gongsun Ce was invited to check Ding Meng's pulse.

After a while of consultation, Zhan Zhao asked, "What kind of disease does Zhuo Jing have? I've seen her feeling sick recently."

Gongsun Ce laughed: "If my sister-in-law is sick, it is a disease that all women in the world will catch - she is sick."

Lu Caichun, who was by the side, couldn't help laughing when he heard this, and said, "It just so happens that I got it right."

Zhan Zhao and Ding Meng looked at each other with a happy smile.The two held hands together, and Zhan Zhao said to Gongsun Ce: "At that time, I will invite you to come and drink the full moon wine with the Kaifeng mansion."

Lu Caichun said, "I'm going to stew chicken soup and meat porridge for my sister." After saying that, he hurried to the kitchen.

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The golden leak gradually moved, and the beggar in the west of Kaifeng was belching, with a ragged bag on his shoulders, and a dog-beating stick with eyebrows, and was limping towards the alley.

The west of the city is not as lively as the city. As soon as the sun goes down, every household closes their doors and windows and falls asleep.At this time, the moon was in the middle of the sky, and there was a crack in the two walls on the left and right of the alley.The beggar looked into the gap, and he could see a crescent moon, like a bowed tiger's mouth, locking the two flour walls together.He murmured: "The halo of the moon is so big, it's going to rain."

He slowly knit his legs, looking at the far gate of Xi'an City at the end of the alley.He took money from someone today and wanted to look around for a thin man with a scar on his right eyebrow.He thinks that this Anyuan Gate likes to leave some desperadoes the most, so he locked the gate down, maybe he might run into him if he is not sure, and then he will ask that handsome brother for a reward.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew up the gravel and weeds on the ground, looking at his feet.Somewhere, a cloud floated up, covering most of the moon.It was dark in front of his eyes, and he could only see two miserable white lanterns hanging on the city gate, swaying against the city wall in the wind, making the city gate look like Hades.The beggar muttered to himself, thinking that the wind blowing was too evil.

A little further on, there is a diagonal street that cuts across.As soon as the moon was in the sky, the beggar suddenly saw a figure walking from the north end, only five feet long, without a lamp in his hand, just walking by the moonlight.He was dragging something in his hand, it was longer than him, black blocks, like a sack thrown on the ground, grinding the stone pavement, making a rustling sound.

The man was not walking fast, but he was quickly swallowed up by the wall of the house.Beggar still walked forward with a limp.When he came to the fork, he looked at the ground, and his heart suddenly trembled.Putting the dog-beating stick down, he spread his lame leg and leaned over to look at the marsh-colored mark on the ground.After hesitating, he stretched out his palm again and wiped the mark, only to feel that his hand was sticky and clammy.He raised his hand and looked at it carefully under the moonlight.

——With a fishy smell and a tangy dusty smell, he saw a few strands of long hair sticking to his palm.

Cold sweat suddenly poured down the back one by one, and the 36 teeth were fighting each other.He panicked to look in the direction the man was going, only to see the bloodstain stretching several zhang away under the moonlight.The surroundings were so quiet that only the sound of the wind remained. As far as he could see, it was either a long street or a high wall, but there was no one at the end of the bloodstain.

Suddenly, the dragging rustle sounded again.

With a dog-beating stick in his hand, he limped and ran towards Anyuanmen as if desperately, flustered like a drum beating, panting like a knife cutting his throat.He saw that the city gate was getting closer, and the rustling sound was getting farther and farther away, so he couldn't help but slowly let out his breath.

Looking forward and running a few steps, the voice in my ear came back again.

right in the ear.

The beggar cried out in surprise, but the cry seemed to be cut off, and was soon swallowed up by the blowing wind and the boundless night.

With a "click", some rain hit the oil-paper-pasted lantern, and it slid down in a hurry.

A round of the moon gradually extinguished its light.From time to time, in Kaifeng Mansion at night, rustling sounds came from all directions.There was a lot of rain, noisy and loud, far and near, and hundreds of millions of curtains hung down, as if to cover the entire Kaifeng Mansion.