Jian An Kee

Note 1: Paozi, the cook

The funeral news was delivered to Shangyu via a fast horse, and the uncle and eldest cousin came to Jianye soon. According to the uncle, since the tomb of the Wei family ancestors was moved from Runan County, Yuzhou to Kuaiji County, Yangzhou, grandma should naturally be buried. there.

I watched from the sidelines, but he didn't have the slightest doubt about his grandmother's death, and the sadness on his face was probably just pretending.

I changed into plain clothes and went to visit my cousin at the post house, but he was not there. My eldest cousin came out to greet me.This cousin is my uncle's eldest son, Wei Shu, whom I met once a few years ago.

"Cousin." I saluted him, and he hurriedly returned the salute, with a little uneasiness on his face: "Third sister came by accident, father just went out."

I said coldly: "Uncle can't wait to visit friends before the first seven years of elders. This is really unheard of."

Wei Shu replied embarrassingly: "Cousin misunderstood, father went out on some important business, not to visit friends."

Uncle is now a small commoner, why should he go to the house of the county magistrate?This is strange.

Seeing Wei Shu sincerely defending his father, I didn't want to point it out, so I put on a smile that was not a smile: "It's okay, my sister came today, I wanted to tell uncle, and I will go back to Shangyu with you in a few days."

He nodded: "If my sister's husband's family agrees, it will be fine."

This cousin is very different from his father, he has a rare upright temperament, and because of this temperament, he is not liked by the county officials and chiefs, so he has been reluctant to recommend him for an official position. My cousin is very worried about him. No, even when welcoming the coffin, he did not forget to plan for him.

When he returned to the mansion, he only saw a group of guards shuttling outside the courtyard wall, and the few servants he met all looked stiff and nervous.So I was surprised and asked the maid who came to greet me: "What happened?"

The maid replied: Your Excellency General has found evidence of the arsonist in the mansion and is currently interrogating him in the outer court.

I listened, and said blankly: "Take me there."

Shen Yu stood at the door of the outer hall as the gatekeeper. I looked him over, and he seemed to have something to say to me, but finally bowed and lifted the bamboo curtain himself to invite me into the room.

The outer hall is the first main room of the General's Mansion. It is usually only used for entertaining guests and showing off. Today, there was a row of guards standing beside the door. Two people knelt on the ground. Sun Quan sat on the main seat, with a serious face.

"I have met the general." I kowtowed at him.

He frowned: "You came back just in time, and found the witness and physical evidence, you can take a look."

I looked down the hall, and there was a man and a woman kneeling on the ground. I didn't recognize the man, but the woman was Lu Cui.

I remember that it was Sun Quan who insisted on bringing her here for my review, but she was forgotten by everyone after arriving in Jianye.She mainly focuses on the treatment of gynecological diseases and soil poisoning, and it seems that she has also treated Wu Guotai's relatives.

When Lu Cui heard my conversation with Sun Quan, he took a few steps forward and said in a crying voice, "Madam, save the little girl! Please enlighten me! The little girl is definitely not an arsonist, I..."

At this moment, I finally remembered the blood debt in Danyang, so I turned to Sun Quan, and said softly, "What Doctor Lu said is that she is an innocent girl, how could she be so determined to kill and set fire?"

When she heard the words "murder and arson", her face hesitated and her chest heaved violently.

Sun Quan gathered his knees in his wide sleeves, and wrapped his fingertips around the coat of arms on his cuffs: "Zhang Sui, tell Madam what you just said again."

The man kneeling on the ground hurriedly agreed: "Yes. Back to Madam, the youngest is Zhang Sui, who is in charge of the manger in the mansion. Three days and nights before the fire broke out in the mansion, the youngest went to the back kitchen to ask for some bean shells Feed the horse, seeing this Dr. Lu coming in from the corner gate with a black cloth bag and walking straight to the inner courtyard, I didn't think much about it at the time."

"So what?" I asked.

Sun Quan laughed and looked at me sharply: "In the small courtyard where Dr. Lu lived, we found kerosene, which was wrapped in black cloth to hide it. It's exactly the same. It's more than that." After finishing speaking, Sun Quan raised his hand and said to an attendant:

"Bring it up."

A bamboo slip was handed over to me, on which was written in Xiaozhuan: Tonight Shen Shi, South.I am very familiar with this handwriting, obviously it was written by Lu Cui.

"Doctor Lu, how do you explain this bamboo slip, but you invited someone? You should know that the fire happened at Shenshi that day." I couldn't help being moved.

"I, I..." She knelt down on the ground slumped, unable to explain why.

This time, the witness and material evidence has indeed reached a sufficient situation.

I sincerely pleaded with Sun Quan and said: "The cloth bag can be planted, but the bamboo slips can't explain anything. She will be locked up in her room first, and it will not be too late to hand over her to custody when she finds conclusive evidence."

Sun Quan stood up, leaned closer and whispered in my ear: "For the possible culprit of arson, Alan is really tolerant."

I bit my lip and smiled contemptuously and mockingly, and then said: "People can't be resurrected after death, the fate has come, who is to blame?"

In the evening, the news that Lu Cui was the arsonist had spread throughout the entire family. Although the owner of the mansion strictly ordered not to spread rumors until more evidence was found, the people's words were terrifying, not to mention Dong Yuan was assassinated on the street a few days ago. Everyone says that being a doctor these days is life-threatening.

I went to see Sun Li.Wu Guotai was not very happy when she heard her attendants talking about this matter, after all, for a period of time, she was very partial to the medicinal food prescribed by Dr. Lu.I don't know the effect of eating it.

Xu Guan was standing next to the flower stand under the window, fiddling with a few freshly picked gardenias, seemingly unintentionally said, "My sister, if I remember correctly, is that girl you brought back from Shanyin, sister Zhou?"

Wu Guotai raised her eyes and said in a serious tone, "No need to insinuate, Ah Wan, be careful what you say."

Xu Wan pouted, with a look of reluctance.

I held Sun Li in my arms, and casually said, "Guotai, you are a sensible person."

"Okay, okay, you two, don't talk about such horrible things in front of the child." Wu Guotai ordered the wet nurse to carry the child over, and I looked at Sun Li reluctantly.He can talk a lot now, such as daddy and grandma, but he never calls me.

Back at the residence, I met Shen Yu waiting at the door.

"What's your business, Manager Shen?"

He pointed to Ge Xuan who was carrying a medicine box under the steps: "The villain is ordered to bring this doctor to take your pulse."

I raised my eyebrows high: No matter how superb his Taoism is, or his mastery of Taoism is as high as the sky, he is always just a warlock in the eyes of those in power, and now he is casually assigned as a personal doctor.

Ge Xuan raised his head, his eyes were full of sorrow.How could he hold his breath when his daughter was about to go to jail?

After taking his pulse, he told the diet taboos in a soft and slow voice, while I picked up an osmanthus cake, chewed and asked, "It's all nonsense, Mr. Xiang came here today, does he mean me or Pei Gong?"

He was speechless and moved his feet uneasily.

"I……"

"You have something to ask me, just say it."

Ge Xuan once explained my illness in detail, and boiled it down to one sentence: the little magic he cast with Sun Quan was harmless, but it was the blood pact planted in my body by Zhou Yu to control the "bundle" that almost killed me. Soaked up.At first, I almost believed his rhetoric, all because of Ge Xuan's great reputation.In retrospect, even though he was the great Ge Tianshi, when he met Sun Quan, he still had to bow his head.

I remember Lai Yan said that when the previous owner passes the "beam" to the next one, it must first be willing.Sun Quan used illusion to transform into Zhou Yu's appearance, so that I took the initiative to pull out the blood contract, but in the end I stole Qiao'er, and I can't count it. Otherwise, now that all three parts are in his hands, Dong Yuan would not be assassinated in the street anyway.

Ge Xuan understood the general's thunderous tactics, and if Lu Cui was involved in the arson case, if he interceded, he would not be able to hide the fact that Lu Cui was his daughter.With his daughter in hand, this time Sun Quan can pick it up and let it go gently, but what about next time?

"Ah, so Dr. Lu is actually the daughter of a celestial master? Then I should try to help you as much as possible."

Ge Xuan said: "If my wife rescues my daughter, Xuan will be sent."

This sentence undoubtedly expressed loyalty to me.There was no trace of fear on his face.

"The day the Heavenly Master lied to me, did you ever think that this day will come?" I smiled, raised the dagger, cut open the meridians of his left wrist, and injected blue worm eggs.The translucent sixteen-clawed worm quickly broke out of its shell and reconnected with the veins. I wiped away the blood that splashed on the ground, leaving no traces.

On the morning of the second day, I sent someone to look for Shen Yu, and the attendants reported that Guan Shi was not in the mansion, and accompanied General Sun to the military camp in the east of the city.

"Why did the general go to the army again?"

"I don't know about this... slaves, but there are rumors everywhere in Jianye City, that Prime Minister Cao raised his troops and wanted to go south, and there may be a war in Ala Jiangdong."

"What have you heard, tell me."

"Yes," the maid saluted, "there are more and more refugees from Jiangbei in and out of the city. The people in those counties and counties in Jiangbin have been ordered by the imperial court to move to the north within a time limit. The big guys are fighting again. All of them are heading to the east of the Ala River. The servants heard that refugees are clogging the roads, robbing travelers of their goods, and even murdering people..."

"You have to be more careful when you go out, maybe there will be robbers who robbed the girl's house." I half-jokingly said, "Look at them in Jiangbei, they tried their best to refuse Sun Po to enter Lujiang City. Now, I'm afraid people from Lujiang, Jiujiang, Qichun, and Guangling have all fled, and I don't know how many people have crossed the river to the east."

"Who says it's not." The maid named Mu Yan sighed: "The world is impermanent."

I smiled at her: "Mu Yan, that's the name, right? You followed General Sun before, but now you come to me, I've wronged you."

She was blessed in a panic: "It's a slave's blessing to be able to serve Madam after killing the servant."

I stood up and walked to the window: "Blessings and everything are false. In such a troubled world, it's good to be alive. Let's go to the flower hall. It's time for dinner."

In the dead of night, a black shadow sneaked past the south corner of the general's mansion. When the patrolling guards left, the black shadow quickly turned over the wall and disappeared into the alley.