Relief

Forty miles east of Yingjing County, there is a mountain among the peaks, named Qionglai, also known as Qiongshan Mountain.

The mountains are steep, the ice freezes in summer, and the winter is extremely cold.In the canyon, there is a warm valley with blooming spring flowers and gurgling streams, during which a hermit built a villa here.

Surrounded by nine peaks in the canyon, there are four roads on the left bank and five roads on the right bank. The jagged ridges meet at one point, which is the Hermit Villa.

Jiufeng Jiusuo is called Jiuzheban, and the owner of Suozhong Villa is called Jiuzhezi.

Jiu Zhezi was the well-educated and famous scholar who raised five useless apprentices and lived in seclusion in Qiong Mountain.

Because of his friendly temperament and kindness, the apprentices and servants of the villa are all from the same family, and they are harmonious and harmonious like a paradise, which makes people live in a happy place and forget the troubles of the world.

The snow water in the mountains flows into the bottom of the valley along the trend, leading into the villa, like a path leading to seclusion, bringing the colorful grass and flowers along the water bank to send the spring scenery into the manor.

In the spring at the bottom of the valley, the breeze is slightly cool, mixed with the breath of ice and snow among the strange peaks and mountains, passing through the wind bells under the eaves, jingling bells, and the quick steps of young people in white clothes in the corridor.

The girls are admiring a painting in the morning light on the porch, the concubine's colors gradually spread across the paper, and the three figures in the peach forest come alive.

The young man in white walked over: "Hey, what is this?"

"Oh, third brother is here."

"Look, this is the group portrait brought back by Liu Liuer. These two are the second brother and the fifth brother. Do you think they look like each other?"

Wu Li's words were filled with sourness: "This is the group portrait of Mr. who is so precious that even I haven't seen it? How could he be willing to show it today?"

The girls gave him winks: "Mr. Liu Liu'er wants it, here, second brother, won't you come and get it yourself?"

In the garden, a small pond is built with moss-stained blue stones, and a wheelchair is parked beside the tick-tocking deer. of fringes.

Since the second elder brother in the village finally stopped wearing the old-fashioned gray robe, his popularity seems to have improved. The girls are willing to get close to the handsome and elegant young man, even if his personality is a little cold, it has become a different kind fun.

Wu Li paced over, and stood beside the wheelchair with his hands folded, Feng Zhi Chang lowered his eyes and was nimbly knitting something with grass leaves.

"You have a comfortable life, and you have such a leisurely heart."

Wu Li said: "Where is Xiao Wu, you haven't thought about what Xiao Wu should do?"

The light blue sleeves bulged, and the head of the black-scaled snake popped out, and the snake eyes stared at Wu Li Tuxinzi.

"You know which Xiaowu I'm talking about." Wu Li was dissatisfied.

The blade of grass transforms into a green crane at Feng Zhichang's fingertips, and he wraps his wide sleeves in one hand.Send the emerald crane to the surface of the small pond, float past the ticking frightened deer, over the purple-skinned and white-cored vines, all those birds that stopped among the vines that even frightened deer Fengduo ignored were all made of grass Startled and flew away.

Wu Li applauded: "Good trick, you are full of poison? Even birds are afraid of you."

He also said: "However, this Shanzi mushroom planted by the pond is more poisonous than you. Birds have no knowledge, and if they eat the medicinal fruit by mistake, they will die."

Fengzhi Chang's brows were indifferent, his hands on the wooden wheel seemed too lazy to listen to Wu Li's noise, and he was ready to leave at any time.

The hall door opened.The chattering of the girls stopped, and there was the sound of footsteps walking from the wooden corridor to the gravel path in the garden.

Wu Li turned his head and saw the person coming, and stepped aside.

"Mr. Feng." The visitor said.

Feng Zhi's hand that was often placed on the wooden wheel paused.

"Today, Mr. Tang came to the villa to apologize. The villain Tang Haifeng had a lot of conflicts with Mr. Feng in Suzhou, and he was very disrespectful. Mr. Tang made an apology to Mr. Tang on his behalf. Waiting for his disciples to find Tang Haifeng, the sect's criminal law The church will punish him severely."

Wu Li: "Tang Haifeng ran away?"

"Nephew needs to be careful," the visitor said slowly, "I just lost contact temporarily. After all, there are always many unexpected situations when I am away from home."

Wu Li: "I heard that there was a big riot yesterday in the noble family. The Liang family came all the way from Suzhou to ask for someone. They said that the disciple Tang Haifeng almost killed his eldest son in the Hudao cave."

The visitor said with a smile: "my nephew has good ears and eyes. Is there any gossip in the world that you don't know? But a wise man is always worried, and he will make mistakes if he talks too much. This matter has not been investigated clearly. How can we make a conclusion? Mr. Feng was not here a few days ago. In a murder case, the truth that the clearer clears himself, I think the two of you can't understand it better."

The sound of footsteps is not fast or slow, and gradually walks away.

Wu Li snorted coldly: "Old thing..."

The girl ran over from the corridor: "Mister asked you to pack your bags."

"how?"

"Fifth Brother sent a letter to Jiangling Mansion, sir asked you to follow and take care of him."

Jiangling, an important city in the southeast, controls Bashu in the west, connects Xianghan in the north, and connects Wuyue and Wuyue with the rivers and lakes.From Bazhou to Jiangling, from the west exit of the Three Gorges, although the distance is thousands of miles away, the previous dynasty also had a strong poem of repaying it in a day.It's just that the current in the Three Gorges is so fast that if it hits a rock accidentally, the boat capsizes and people die.Wu Li argued for a long time, but in the end he failed to convince Feng Zhi to go by water.

"Actually, we still have another choice," Wu Li insisted, "You can try to take the fourth child with me. Really, the speed is really fast. It takes less than a day to get there from the sky. Don't be embarrassed, this is also the fourth child. The way to realize the value of life."

"..."

"Then you should change to a horse-drawn cart. When the ox cart reaches Jiangling, Xiao Wu will have been eaten to the bone!" Wu Li finally protested, and took the money bag thrown by Feng Zhichang.

This time, there were only two people, Feng Zhichang and Wu Li, Liu Liu was left at home by his husband, and the helpless little girl was not allowed to follow the muddy water, so Wu Li became Feng Zhichang's official interpreter and personal assistant .

Fortunately, Wu Li had a quirk since he was a child—learn what is difficult to understand.From the perspective of behavioral motives, this is due to his deep-seated lack of self-confidence and fear of being compared with others, so he has to learn what others don't; from the perspective of behavioral results, he has become the only person in Qiongshan who can communicate with the fourth child. By analogy, he can also communicate with Fengzhichang without relying on the same root, because Fengzhichang is also of a type that is difficult for ordinary people to understand.

Anyone who talks with Feng Zhi often can't expect to get an echo, not to mention the echo rarely even looks in the eyes. If he has to express his reaction, it may be a series of ellipsis. As for what to omit, it's all up to your imagination.

As the saying goes, misfortune comes from the mouth and silence is golden. It can be seen that Feng Zhichang is not only a toxicologist but also a philosopher.

"But it's not that you can't talk, you just don't want to talk, am I right?"

It was a long way to Jiangling, they followed the caravan, there were strangers all around, Wu Li could only lie in the car and tease Feng Zhichang: "This is the same reason as you insist on using a wheelchair - not impossible, It's hypocritical. Because you walk with a limp and talk dumb, you just don't walk or speak. Isn't this hypocritical? I think you are not only hypocritical, but also extreme. It is purely your own personality to live a good life like this Due to defects, tsk tsk, only Xiao Wu always feels pitiful for you, so he insists on pulling you."

Feng Zhi often leans on an oil lamp to flip through a encyclopedia of poisonous science. The caravan marches with the sound of horseshoes, and a small dim and quiet room is opened by the curtains of the cars.

"Let me ask you," Wu Li said, "do you know why Master sent Xiao Wu to look for you?"

Crash - turn the page.

"That's because Xiao Wu himself has experienced drastic changes in his life experience, and he will sympathize with you and sympathize with you, and even wholeheartedly help you untie the knot. Let me ask you again, why did the husband send Xiao Wu first, and then let me follow?"

Crash—continue to turn the page.

Wu Li looked at Feng Zhichang: "What do you think of Xiao Wu? Do you think he is so stupid and careless, he doesn't understand the taste of hatred at all?"

Feng Zhichang seemed to be overwhelmed, and finally put down the book.

"This is a big mistake. No one understands the pain of falling into the mud in the clouds better than Xiaowu. When he first arrived in Qiongshan, he lost his parents in a fire. In order to prevent him from going back for revenge, the husband killed him. I tied my hands and feet with a leather belt and was trapped for three days and three nights. One day I opened the door and found that the person had disappeared, and the fourth child who was watching the door brought me back. It turned out that he broke the belt with his mouth, and his mouth was full of blood."

Wu Li said: "If it wasn't for his sudden failure of kung fu for some reason, except for the husband and the fourth child in our villa, we are all a bunch of helpless waste, who can trap him? Last year, Mr. Ji Guan bestowed a letter on him. False, even if you live in vain and die, it is not the meaning of being smart and enlightened. It is the same reason as your knowing your fate and keeping your routine. The husband sent him to find you, and then I realized that this kid also has something hidden in his heart, afraid that he will be provoked by you. I had some delusional thoughts that I shouldn't have, so I asked me to follow."

The halo of the oil lamp swayed under the slight shaking of the journey, like duckweed drifting without roots.

The fingertips unconsciously touched the cover of the Encyclopedia of Toxicology, and the gold-plated words fell into Feng Zhichang's eyes, and the emotions were so thick that they bottomed out.

Approaching the border of Jiangling Mansion, the caravan slowed down and rested in a post outside the city.I have only seen travelers in the past riding tall horses, majestic and imposing. Compared with the draft horses ridden by outsiders, it is the difference between a warrior and a sick man.

After inquiring, those tall horses were indeed war horses originally returned to the garrison of Jiangling Mansion.

After a few days, Wu Li has become acquainted with the leader of the caravan, holding herbal tea and squatting side by side under the post pavilion to watch the horses: "Why are the war horses released for civilian use?"

Leader: "Isn't it because of the newly appointed appeasement envoy last year, the new official took office three times, and the cavalry was laid off after changing from east to west. Hey, when the general caravan marches to Jiangling Mansion, they will exchange horses for rent. War horses at the same price are cheaper than ordinary draft horses." The journey is much faster. I suggest that you also exchange horses for your young master after you enter the city, Jiangling Mansion will take advantage of the advantages!"

Wu Li: "Huh? Who is the young master?"

The leader raised his chin, indicating that drinking tea in the shed is different from everyone else. You have to simmer it in a small stove and then cool it in a small purple sand pot, as if you have carved out a noble place alone.

Because of his inconvenient legs and feet, he seldom got out of the car and walked around. The people in the caravan looked at him strangely and in awe, and looked honored to be walking with the young master.

Wu Li: "...he is the young master, so what am I?"

The leader: "Aren't you his follower? I saw how well you served along the way."

"..." Wu Li, "Let's change the subject—isn't it a good thing for the army and the people to use it, and this new pacifier is enjoying the joy of the people."

"I bother!"

Wu Li was taken aback.

The chief slammed the empty teacup on the ground, and a crackling sound was clearly heard

"The dog official surnamed Hou is treacherous, he is a villain! No one in the Jiangling Mansion knows his despicable deeds. Two years ago, this surnamed Hou burned Xiejiazhuang to death, and burned to death the elder brother who was kind to him. , in exchange for a certificate of honor and a position as an official."

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