Brocade tears

The two sisters Meng Qing and Meng Ai are very familiar with Daoist Luo's handwriting, and because of the inheritance of their mother Zhao Shi, the Meng family has asthma. But died.Daoist Luo has been working on curing asthma ever since he took over the Zhao family and treated her.He has many medical books. The characteristic of these medical books is that all the parts about asthma are marked by Luo Daochang, and there are his thoughts and notes in the blank space.The characteristics of this "Huangdi Neijing" are so obvious, the sisters naturally recognized the owner at a glance.

"Daozhang Luo is in Linqing City by such a coincidence?" Sui'er was taken aback.

"No...it's not a coincidence. He should have been with us since we left Beijing. When the capital was closed, he couldn't get in from outside the city. After we left the city, he has been looking for opportunities to contact us." Meng Kuang responded. Very quickly, she suddenly remembered the mysterious fishing fire flickering on the river that night, and now she finally realized that it should be Daoist Luo sending her a signal.It is Qi Jiguang's back-cut code, and this "Huang Di Nei Jing" is a code book.Daoist Luo and his father, Meng Yi, are close friends, and his father is very familiar with Fanqi codes. Meng Kuang remembers that the first time he encountered military codes was not in Jinyiwei, but when he was playing games with his father, eldest brother, and second brother at home.Luo Daochang should also have learned the application method of the anti-cut code from his father, so his father's habit of passing the code is... She began to search her memory hard.

Three long, two short, three long...Meng Kuang immediately flipped through the "Huangdi Neijing", and she carefully read every page, and she found the first word twenty marked with cinnabar by Luo Daochang. There are 36 final rhyme characters.She took out her shorthand notebook and immediately jotted down these words.She thought about it, and according to her father's coding habits, the first three long lights should refer to the third tone in Jinling Yayan's octave—Yangqu, the two short lights represent the first tone, and the last three long lights It represents the last rhyme character. After such rhyme splicing, a character is obtained: "Meng."

"That's right, this summons was sent to me alone." Meng Kuang said with a long sigh of relief.

"Only one word... This message is really too brief." Sui Er said.

"In the beginning, the summons was just to say hello. It is impossible to deliver important news immediately without confirming whether I can receive the news. It is very clear that the messenger is telling me that they are My family." Meng Kuang said.

"Is the second brother and Daoist Luo together?" Meng Yan asked her sister in a trembling voice, and Bai Yuyin immediately cast a fiery look.

Meng Kuang smiled and said: "Yes, it is very likely that the two of them are together. They had already returned to the outside of the capital, but unfortunately they were unable to enter the city due to the closure of the city. After that, they should have managed to find out the news in the capital. I don’t know what channel I learned about our whereabouts after leaving the city, so I followed all the way, trying to get in touch with me using the anti-cut code.”

Meng Kuang's reaction was too fast. Lu Jingshi and Han Jiaer were still in a daze. They didn't understand how Meng Kuang came to these conclusions from the "Huangdi Neijing". After catching up with her train of thought, they only have some concepts about the Fanqie method, and they are still a little confused about the deduction process.Only Sui'er had the quickest reaction throughout the whole process, almost second only to Meng Kuang, who instantly figured out the ins and outs of the matter, including the entire deduction process of the Fanqie method.

"They're in the city, we...should we go find them..." Bai Yuyin subconsciously grabbed Meng Kuang's sleeve, and Sui'er's eyes fell on her movement, and she couldn't help frowning for a moment. frown.

"No, the purpose of their interrogation is to avoid direct contact with us, and they cannot appear in front of Guo Dayou. Now that we are surrounded by eyeliners, it is not wise to go to them. We don't need to do anything, everything As usual, I will pay more attention and wait for new news from them." While speaking, she put away the shorthand notebook and pencil case that recorded the anti-cut code.Then he threw the "Huangdi Neijing" directly into the brazier beside him and burned it.

Meng Yan whispered, this is the medical book of her master Daoist Luo, and it hurts her to burn it like this.Meng Kuang said:

"This book cannot be seen by Guo Dayou. Burning it is the safest way. Daoist Luo used it to convey the message, and this book has fulfilled its mission."

Her eyes swept over everyone present, and a powerful and intimidating coercion emanated from her body, making everyone concentrate, only to hear her order in an undeniable tone:

"From now on, everyone will never mention this matter, and everything will be as usual, as if it never happened. If necessary, I will pass on the news to you. Do you understand?"

Everyone couldn't help but nodded in agreement.Sui'er looked at Meng Kuang, and she realized that she saw Meng Kuang, a soldier on the battlefield at this time, and this was her posture when she was actually on a mission.

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Guo Dayou came back at the beginning of April [-]st with a pot of Linqing local self-brewed wine in his hand, humming a little tune, looking refreshed and extremely happy.After he came back, he briefly asked Meng Kuang about the situation in the inn. Meng Kuang mentioned that someone had attempted to assault Bai Yuyin in the kitchen of the inn. Guo Dayou seemed very angry, and immediately went downstairs to find the shopkeeper.Meng Kuang didn't stop him, and didn't follow him down. She understood that Guo Dayou knew that this kind of thing would happen. At this time, she pretended to go downstairs to find the shopkeeper to settle the score, but she went to find the inn accomplices to exchange ideas for the past two days. Monitor the situation.If she wants to follow, it will appear very "uninterested".

Meng Kuang stood quietly in the corridor on the second floor, watching Guo Dayou go downstairs with cold eyes, his face sinking like water.She has been in a bad mood since yesterday, because she found that some precious things hidden deep in her heart were gradually losing.After returning from the Northwest, she has experienced so many things. She has given Guo Dayou trust many times, but she has always been let down.

Guo Dayou is a very special existence to her.He is a good leader and has taught Meng Kuang many skills.Meng Kuang has great respect for him. Over the past two years, the two have worked as a team to go on missions. They have gone through countless dangers and difficulties, supported and cared for each other, and Meng Kuang has also built trust in him from the bottom of his heart.It can be said that before returning to Beijing from the northwest this year, Guo Dayou was a trustworthy boss and an amiable and respectable elder brother.All his ingenuity is aimed at outsiders, not at his own people. Under his wing, Meng Kuang always has a relatively good fellowship with all his colleagues in the Beizhen Governor's Inspection Office.

However, all of this changed after returning to Beijing. Guo Dayou played tricks on her many times, lying and cheating and secretly probing one after another, and he is still trapped in his lies and traps.All this has caused the rift in her heart to finally expand to an irreparable level, and her trust in Guo Dayou has also been completely lost.She finally stopped seeing him as her big brother and boss, and was determined to guard against him as an enemy.

Meng Kuang is not a person who is good at scheming, she became the Jinyiwei step by step, relying on her courage and absolute ruthlessness.The only purpose of her joining Jinyiwei is to find out the death of her father and brother. In order to conceal her identity as a woman, she is also known for being cruel and not close to strangers.All of these directly led to her isolation from the group, and she rarely came into contact with the intertwined network of relationships and the complicated and treacherous human struggle.And the patrol office also took a fancy to her purity, and used her as a cold front blade, a murderous weapon.She is currently only a low-ranking officer, no one expects her to be full of resourcefulness, the only expectation of her superiors is to become a good sword of Jin Yiwei.She'd better be simple and obedient, and be a good eagle dog, this is the quality Jin Yiwei needs most.And the person who used her knife was Guo Dayou. The reason why he was sent to partner with Meng Kuang was because his superiors fully believed that with his resourcefulness, he could completely control Meng Kuang's sharp blade.

That's the truth, cruel and realistic.Meng Kuang seldom thought about these things before, but now this fact was revealed nakedly in front of her.From then on, she has to face her own shortcomings, and she has to work hard to cover up and fill her shortcomings, so as to guard against Guo Dayou, who is good at this.This is undoubtedly painful and difficult for her.

Sui Er once said that Guo Dayou cannot be their enemy, but must be their friend.Facts have proved that Guo Dayou has his own plan. When the interests are the same, they can cooperate, but when the interests are not, they must be prepared to be an enemy of him.Sui'er is smart, she has come out of the deep palace battle, and she can indeed deal with Guo Dayou for a while.But Guo Dayou's sophistication and insidiousness cannot be compared with the conspiracy in the palace.His ingenuity has been cultivated by years of working as a spy and spy. He is best at setting traps and traps for people, and he is eloquent and eloquent, and he is very good at deceiving and bewitching others with words.Over the years, countless officials have fallen into his hands.These officials are all good people. In order to protect Wusha, they have made full preparations to get out. However, almost all of them were spared when they encountered the "thousand machine mace" Guo Ba. What's more, they were sent to prison and didn't understand themselves How did he stumble.Compared with this level of psychological warfare, making trips and framing people in the palace are small things, not worth mentioning at all.

Therefore, Meng Kuang knew in his heart that to deal with Guo Dayou, she couldn't completely rely on Sui Er, Sui Er was even worse than Guo Dayou.Only when she and Sui'er work together can they be evenly matched.

After the "settlement" with the shopkeeper was over, Guo Dayou came back with a roast chicken, saying it was an apology from the shopkeeper.For dinner, everyone will share the roast chicken.During the dinner, Guo Dayou talked about the process of his visit to Yu Shenxing with a smile, and there was no trace of doubt in his expression.Meng Kuang and the others remained calm, as if they were completely unaware of the temptation set by Guo Dayou.

On the night of April [-], everyone returned to their houses to rest.Guo Dayou asked the shopkeeper to add a bamboo bed to the house. When Meng Kuang washed outside and entered the house, he had already spread a quilt on the bamboo bed and lay on it.Seeing Meng Kuang enter the room, he said:

"Go to bed early tonight, and get up early tomorrow, so just blow out the oil lamp in a while."

Meng Kuang nodded, walked to the table, and blew out the oil lamp.Just before the oil lamp was extinguished, she caught sight of Guo Dayou's armed leather belt on the desk case. The parcel buckle he usually used to store the shorthand notebook was not sealed, and a yellow letter folded in half was exposed inside. .

Meng Kuang's expression didn't change, and his figure didn't stop. He reached out and quickly touched the package, and squeezed the letter in his hand.Then she walked back to the side of the bed in the dark, put on the cover to rest.Before falling asleep, I heard Guo Dayou tease her:

"Did you take advantage of my absence last night to try new things? It seems that I came back at the wrong time. Be careful, don't let anyone get pregnant. This marriage has not yet been consummated. It's not good-looking."

Meng Kuang didn't answer, and Guo Dayou didn't expect her to answer either.

About half an hour later, Meng Kuang heard Guo Dayou's slight snoring and judged that he was indeed asleep.So she slowly took the letter out of the quilt. It was difficult for her to read the handwriting in the dark, but she could judge the writing lines by touching the wrinkles left by the ink on the paper when it was wet and dried.She touched it carefully, and on the cover was written "Mr. Jing Yang personally".

Mr. Jingyang...Meng Kuang searched carefully in his mind for a moment, and finally remembered who Mr. Jingyang was.Gu Xiancheng, courtesy name Shushi, nicknamed Jingyang.This person is quite famous in the court. In the 15th year of Wanli, when the court officials in the capital were assessed, the imperial censor Xin Zixiu was in charge of the assessment matters.He Qiming, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, corrected the negligence in the assessment, and Xin Zixiu was convicted for not agreeing with the ruling minister.During the incident, Chen and Jiao impeached He Qiming and Xin Zixiu according to their will, in fact they attacked Xin Zixiu and protected He Qiming.So both of them were dismissed from office, and the four censors who had reported He Qiming were reprimanded.Gu Xian, who was the head of the Ministry of Officials at that time, became their grievance, and went up to defend. There were words in the words that offended the Sacred Heart, and was reprimanded by the emperor and demoted to the outside world.

What happened afterwards, Meng Kuang didn't know, this person should still be an official in another place, and has not yet been called back to Beijing.It's just why there is such a letter addressed to Gu Xiancheng on Guo Dayou?Who is the letter writer?

The seal of the letter was glued, Meng Kuang hesitated for a moment, and finally decided that he had to open the letter to read.So she listened to Guo Dayou's movements again, hearing that he was sleeping soundly, she got down on the couch lightly, and quietly left the house like a ghost walking in the dark night.

She went all the way downstairs and sneaked into the kitchen of the inn.I found a clay pot, added some water, set it on top of the clay stove, and lit it on fire.After a while, the steam rose, and she exposed the envelope seal to the steam for a while, and when the paste melted, she carefully opened the seal and pulled out the paper inside.

After spreading the letter by the firelight of the clay oven, her eyes froze slightly.Start:

"Brother Shu Shi said goodbye to Beijing and China, remembering the capital, listening to the conversation, the bright moon and the breeze, still in my eyes..."

Meng Kuang directly skipped the content and looked at the inscribed signature: "Zhiyou Nan Xingdun's first 20 years on the ninth day of April"

South star?Zhao Nanxing, the minister of meritorious service in the Ministry of Officials?Meng Kuang suddenly fell into great confusion.She quickly read the contents of the letter carefully, suppressed the turmoil in her heart, re-sealed the seal with dry paste, and then returned to the house with the letter.In the house, Guo Dayou was still sound asleep, she put the letter back into his package as it was, to ensure that it would not be noticed, and then went to lie down on the couch.Her heart was beating violently, and she seemed to have gradually understood the interest groups behind Guo Dayou.