Detective in the Red Chamber

Xiren shook his head lightly, then hesitantly said: "It seems... It seems that there is an epidemic in the city."

Chapter 964 The Days When Sun Erlang Was Not Around [Part [-]]

[There will be more tomorrow, but I didn’t pay attention for a few days, and I was blocked for a few chapters]

Qiu Yunfei bid farewell to the crowd from the Yihong Courtyard, strode straight to the front yard, who knew that he had just passed the corridor bridge in front of the gate, and suddenly his feet stumbled.

"Lord Qiu, you..."

The servant next to him hastily stepped forward to help.

Qiu Yunfei raised his hand to keep him away, and shook him accordingly: "The wine has some stamina today, so it's okay, just let me rest here for a while."

As he spoke, he leaned on the railing and closed his eyes to rest.

Seeing this, the boy wanted to ask for a bowl of hangover soup for him, but he was afraid that he would accidentally fall into the water and he would not be able to rescue him in time.

When he was in a dilemma, he caught a glimpse of Banhe and Saohong walking over with an empty bucket, talking and laughing.

The young man was overjoyed immediately, and rushed to greet him: "Third Brother He, what a coincidence that you guys came here, hurry up..."

"Look, look."

But before he could speak clearly, Banhe smiled and pointed out: "I just said that this kid has a dog's nose, but if there is something expensive, you can't hide it from him!"

Sao Hong next to him also smiled: "Look at you, you are so anxious, the three of us are on duty today, can Ban He and I take away your benefits?"

As he spoke, he took out a small paper bag from his arms and threw it into the boy's arms.

"This……"

The boy hugged him subconsciously, glanced around suspiciously, but didn't have time to think about it, and hurriedly said: "No, I..."

"That's a lot."

But Banhe's face turned cold immediately: "The best tribute tea is worth several taels of silver for a penny. If you cheat too much and get caught by someone, it's not as good as ours!"

Sao Hong also chimed in and said: "Let's pick up the corners and corners for a share, and say that we are greedy and want to try something new, so the second master Bao will not say anything when he finds out."

He paused, as if he was afraid that the young boy would be dissatisfied, and then said under his throat: "When you sell it outside, just tell people that it was rewarded by our Second Master Bao, and I will guarantee that you will not lose it!"

"No!"

Ban He proudly shook off his sleeves, and bragged with Thumbs up: "In these days, any piece of rotten wood can be used as an envoy if it is stained with the three names of our Rongguo Mansion, let alone the tribute "rewarded" by the second master Bao. Tea?"

"is not that right!"

The boy on the opposite side also forgot his business for a while, carefully put away the tea bag, and said frothyly: "A piece of spring stool flowed out of our house a while ago, and for some reason, it was pulled onto our second master's head. Immediately, it was sold at a sky-high price, and was bought by a country rich man for 85 taels..."

Just as he was talking, he suddenly saw two people in front of him, Companion Crane and Sao Hong, bowing down in unison, saluting respectfully:

"Lord Qiu."

The boy was shocked, and then he remembered his original intention, and asked with a smile, "Lord Qiu, are you feeling better?"

"It's okay."

Qiu Yunfei raised his chin: "My lord still has some business to deal with, let's go."

As he spoke, he hurried along the willow embankment to the front yard.

The young man looked at Banhe and Saohong with a bitter face, and seeing that they were both staring at each other, he wanted to explain a few words, but he didn't really dare to leave Qiu Yunfei alone, so he had to bow his hand and say, "Wait for me." When I come back, I will tell you again, so I chased after him like flying.

But Qiu Yunfei walked forward with his hands behind his back, and he didn't go far, when he suddenly saw something darkly covered in the flower garden by the roadside, when he looked closely, it was a dense layer of tea leaves.

Thinking of the conversation between the three servants just now, he couldn't help but pause.

It happened that the young man came up from behind, and Qiu Yunfei pointed to the flower garden and asked, "Why are all these high-quality tea leaves scattered in the flower garden?"

"Huh."

When the boy first heard the word "tea", his heart was agitated. Later, when Qiu Yunfei asked about flower gardens, he became a little more general, and he hurriedly laughed and said, "Isn't this just a 'honey roasted deer lips'?" , that stuff is fishy and sweet just after making it, it must be rolled in the best tea soup to remove the fishy smell and greasy, and then soaked in some tea fragrance..."

Having said that, he raised his finger and pointed to the flower garden: "However, the tea leaves that have been brushed with oil and honey can no longer be used, so they have to be used as flower fertilizer."

The tea leaves in the garden might weigh more than a catty!

If the young servants hadn't boasted indiscriminately just now, wouldn't this dish have cost hundreds of thousands of taels of silver? !

Even a dude like Qiu Yunfei couldn't help but click his tongue.

Probably because his face showed color, the young man peeped out, and explained with an apologetic smile: "It's just to treat you today, otherwise our Second Master Bao is very frugal, unlike the Eldest Master, If you raise a few whores, you'll get gold and silver..."

Halfway through speaking, he suddenly woke up, shut his mouth hastily, and forced a silly smile on his face.

After all, he has been hanging out in the mansion all year round, so he naturally understands the truth that misfortune comes from his mouth, but because of the matter of privately withholding tea from his master, Qiu Yunfei listened to it seriously, and felt uneasy, so he inevitably talked too much.

But Qiu Yunfei didn't mean to ask carefully.

Besides, he is responsible for the general judge of Shuntian Mansion, and he is also the son of the Deputy Marshal of Wucheng Bingma, so how could he not know what the elder of Rongguo Mansion did?

Speaking of which, it was only half a year since the birth of the second prince. Although the voice of Yi Chu was growing day by day, and even the concubine empress took the initiative to endorse the second prince, Rongguo Mansion also swelled up a little faster!

The great master Jia She and the servants, those cheating, kidnapping and domineering behaviors, let's not talk about it for now.

Even the most prudent second master, Jia Zheng, has been making frequent moves recently, writing letters to impeach all kinds of wrongdoings by officials in the court, and even overshadowed many censors for a while.

Although this is not a crooked thing, but the people offended and the future troubles left behind are more than those of Jia She!

If there is something good or bad...

Shaking his head secretly, Qiu Yunfei stretched his legs again and rushed to the front yard—father and mother are married, everyone cares about each other, he should deal with the official affairs in the yamen first.

…………

In the summer of the 15th year of Guangde, there was a severe epidemic in Gyeonggi.

Those who are old, weak, and dying are innumerable.

By the Mid-Autumn Festival, the epidemic gradually slowed down.

…………

August 23.

In the south of Beijing, the autumn wind is rustling, rolling up a field of wormwood.

Under the sound of the big banner, Sun Shaozong sat on the back of a dark cloud treading snow trustingly, looking over the heads of the crowd, looking at the majestic city in the distance.

It's finally back!

If it weren't for the official from the Ministry of Rites to lead the way, he wished he could run wildly on his horse...

This is really what he wanted, and he wished he could hurry up, when he saw a horse galloping towards him, and the people who were strangled in front of the team stood up.

Before the horse's hooves hit the ground, the knight shouted loudly: "The concubine is ill and dies, and the world mourns. All officials at all levels must change their mourning clothes at the post station before they are allowed to enter Beijing!"

Toffee disease...

The emperor's biological mother died?

Sun Shaozong was still pondering what impact this matter would have on the competition for the reserve position, but the gray-bearded official from the Ministry of Rites beside him couldn't bear to step forward to inquire.

"May I ask why the empress dowager passed away suddenly? When I left Beijing five days ago, I didn't hear that the empress dowager had contracted the epidemic?"

The official who sent the letter did not hide anything, seeing Sun Shaozong staring at him, he even raised his tone on his own initiative.

Just listen to him say: "The empress dowager did not contract the epidemic, it was the second prince who contracted the epidemic - but after the second prince died of illness, the empress dowager was so sad that she also passed away with her."

The second prince is also dead?

Sun Shaozong suddenly felt a rush of inspiration, and his mind was full of four words:

oh~

I won!

Chapter 965

[There will be more tomorrow. 】

Sun Mansion, Xikuanyuan.

Xing Xiuyan sat sideways in front of the dressing table inlaid with a mercury mirror, first used a plain hairpin to coil her hair full of black hair, then scanned the bottles and cans on the table, hesitated for a long time, finally did not touch the rouge and powder, only used a little tea Comb the temples with oil.

After tidying up as simple as that, she wanted to get up from the round stool.

"Auntie!"

Seeing this, the maid serving next to her was a little anxious, and blurted out to persuade her: "I won't talk about it last night, Aunt Ruan is the only one, and no one in our house can surpass her, but today you will always It's time to fight..."

What she said was hers, but Xing Xiuyan didn't seem to hear it, she got up and went to the layman on her own.

The servant girl was so bored, she pouted and stomped her feet, but she could only chase out resentfully.

The two master and servant went out of the outer room and turned directly along the corridor to the Xiangling House in Dongtou.

Ever since Xing Xiuyan married Rusun's mansion, the two of them have lived together in this Xikuayuan. They have been inseparable from Mengmeng and Mengmeng all day long, and today is no exception.

It's just that when Xing Xiuyan entered the room, she saw Xiangling wearing a small coat, staring at a table of rouge, gouache, and head jewelry, distressed.

It has been more than half a year since Xing Xiuyan married into Sun's family, and she has always been seen as easy-going, magnanimous and dispensable, but now it is really rare that she looks so sad and pensive, so she can't help laughing out loud.

"ah!"

Xiangling jumped up half-shocked and half-ashamed, folded up the front of her little coat with both hands, and complained without a word: "Sister's surprise, almost scared everyone to death!"

While complaining here, I scanned Xing Xiuyan up and down, and saw that her whole body from head to toe looked cleaner than usual, so I couldn't help reminding: "Sister, master has been traveling around for half a year, and it's hard to come back. After leaving the capital, we... we should... we should..."

Although it was intended to remind her, she is not the master who is used to dealing with people with sex, and she also knows that Xing Xiuyan is soft on the outside and strong on the inside, but she is actually arrogant in her bones, so she is inexplicably lacking in confidence in the middle of the sentence.

Xing Xiuyan smiled slightly, went forward, picked out a few pieces of jewelry, and while drawing on Xiangling's head, said: "It is a happy event for the second master to return to Beijing, but now the concubine has a new funeral, and the eldest wife has gone to the palace again. Zhong Shou Xiao, if we dress up in fancy dress, I'm afraid it won't be suitable."

That's the reason, but Xiangling always felt that the reason why Xing Xiuyan didn't want to dress up carefully was not because she was jealous of these things.

…………

But they said that the two of them packed up neatly, and led Qingwen and other maidservants to rush to the main hall of the second room.

As soon as he entered the gate of the courtyard, he could hear the roar of the West Wing corridor, but it was Sun Chengyi leading his younger sister and cousin, chasing and laughing in the corridor.

The two small ones were nothing more than nothing, they were just holding wooden swords wrapped in fine velvet, running back and forth in the corridor.

Sun Chengyi, who is already four and a half years old, scurry up and down like a monkey, climbing over railings, climbing rocks and digging into flower gardens. The place he passed was a mess, and seven or eight women couldn't stop him with their arms stretched out.

Pomegranate was jumping anxiously at the side, suddenly saw Xing Xiuyan coming in from the outside, she was overjoyed immediately, hurried forward three steps in two.

"Aunt Xing is here! Look at what the big brother is doing, if you are arguing with the second master..."

Xing Xiuyan gave her a peaceful look, walked a few steps sideways and coughed heavily.

"cough!"

Sun Chengyi, who was having fun, froze for a moment, and when he turned around, his face was full of apprehension.

He expected Ai Ai to take a few steps forward, and bowed politely: "Hello, Aunt Xing."

At first, Ruan Rong wanted to give her son to Xiangling for enlightenment, but how could Xiangling's soft temper be so shocking to this monkey?

Later Xing Xiuyan married into the Sun's residence, and her knowledge was higher than that of Xiangling, so this job fell on her.

After more than half a year, this monkey has really put a curse on it - even in front of Ruan Rong, he has never been so obedient.

But Xing Xiuyan nodded slightly, and then his face darkened again: "Why didn't I see you send me homework yesterday?"

"This……"

Sun Chengyi faltered in his mouth, but his eyes were wandering around. After a while, he settled in the east room of the main room, pulled a banner like a tiger's skin and said: "Daddy just came back yesterday, I..."

"Your father also likes children who do their homework seriously."

But Xing Xiuyan had already seen through his thoughts, and blocked his mouth immediately.

Helpless, the little guy had no choice but to bid farewell to his siblings, and followed Pomegranate to the study in a dejected manner.

After dealing with this little episode, Xing Xiuyan and Xiang Ling entered the main room.

"Sure enough, you guys are here."

As soon as she entered the door, Ruan Rong laughed and said, "Except for Sister Xing, no one in our family can restrain that monkey!"

Xing Xiuyan smiled slightly, but Xiangling next to her couldn't hold her breath. She looked around and asked suspiciously, "Where is the master? Did you go out so early?"

"Where!"