Moth

It was just after dawn that a very ordinary carriage drove up from the checkpoint of the North City Gate, and the carriage was pulling an iron pot the height of a person.The coachman held the whip in his hand, but his eyes were wandering around restlessly, the corners of his mouth were tightly pursed, and his expression was strange. The calf, which was half hanging on the edge of the carriage, did not sway back and forth with the carriage and horses, as if a muscle Rigid and fixed in place, it is very eye-catching.

The gatekeeper immediately detained the carriage and brought it to the Yamen.

When he opened the big iron jar, Fang Bingbi immediately thought about the lawsuit - he saw that the jar was full of liquid, which was faintly green, and there was a motionless green turtle lying on the bottom of the jar.The skin of the green-haired tortoise's exposed limbs was wrinkled, and it seemed extremely dehydrated and listless, as if it was about to leave the ranks of thousand-year-old bastards and join the ranks of tortoise shells used for divination.

Fang Bingbi asked someone to seize the driver and the tin can, and at the same time sent someone to Jinglun to call Liu Changzhou.

The coachman knelt down with a "plop", his head was almost buried in his chest, and he said in a trembling voice: "Little, I just bought a turtle for the old man in the family, and I have no other intentions."

Fang Bingbi laughed inwardly, there was no need to tell the truth of such a self-confessed asshole - there must be other intentions.

Liu Changzhou is an impostor scholar, and it doesn't have any special meaning for him to pretend such an identity in Jinglun, he just feels the need to come to an arty place like the academy for a while.

Lu Hanzhang is a genuine luthier.Most of the rich and noble families in Jinglun don't usually do production, but are good at such elegant things as piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, so the most popular subject in Jinglun, Fuqin should be ranked first.

He Chengwei's father died, not to mention walking sideways in the academy, he couldn't even cross the threshold of Jinglun, and left in a desperate manner with his bedroll in his arms.Another person in the academy, Liu Ziming, who looks like he has a kidney deficiency, instantly felt that he had become a hero of the world, and it was time for him to step onto the big stage of Jinglun.

The friendship between gentlemen is as light as water, and the friendship between villains is as sweet as sweets. The friendship between wine and meat is probably so worthless.

Liu Ziming's ability to cause trouble is no less than that of He Chengwei, Liu Changzhou is the only one in the academy who can hold him down.He had offended Liu Changzhou before, and he knew that this person could not be offended, but unfortunately, Liu Changzhou didn't stay in the academy at all.Moreover, Liu Ziming, who was very thoughtful, found that since the college changed the piano teacher, Liu Changzhou had only taken piano lessons recently, and he could not see any other lessons.

However, he didn't come to today's piano class.

The new luthier is a very strange man.The man looked sickly, weak and terribly weak, like a half-dead ghost who never died, and he never followed the rules in class. It's fun, as soon as he took his class, Liu Ziming felt like he was being played like a monkey.

The luthier seems to be in class depending on his mood. When he is in a good mood, he will play a palindrome preface to everyone present like a convulsion. The technique is extremely fast, and his fingers are hopping on the strings like butterflies shaking their wings. As soon as it came out, it was extraordinarily gorgeous.When he's in a bad mood, he can mess around with a string and say something that seems to make sense but is completely nonsense.

On this day, the new luthier was probably in a bad mood, so he stood aside with his arms folded and asked everyone to take turns playing a piece of music.Just listen to the tuberculosis ghost say this: "The old saying is that 'a teacher does not have to be better than a disciple, and a disciple does not have to be inferior to a teacher'. I believe that everyone here must have something unexpected that is worth learning from. In addition, the Supervisory Court has posted an assessment notice a few days ago. So this time it will be counted as a reference record in Class A and Class B.”

After he finished speaking, he took a wooden box from the side and opened it, and continued, "However, I have a request."

I saw a stack of neatly folded notes protruding from the box, all cut to the same size, and there was no difference in appearance.The meaning is very clear, draw lots.

strange.

When Liu Ziming drew a note, he opened the note and looked pale.I saw that the note was not the name of the Guqin tune, but a few big characters that were very clear - playing with your feet.

Liu Ziming: "..." He rolled his eyes, thinking that today might be a good time to make trouble.

He stood up from his seat, pretended to bend over and made a scholar's salute, and said politely: "Students don't know, may I ask the head of the mountain to teach students to play with their feet?"

There was a sudden snickering all around.Liu Ziming stretched his chicken neck and looked around, and saw that the notes of the students around him were full of very polite names of ancient songs, as if he was the only one who was the problem.

Lu Hanzhang glanced at him indifferently, and said slowly, "Could it be that the mountain chief who taught Chinese studies didn't teach you what it means to draw inferences from one instance?"

The corner of Liu Ziming's mouth twitched. Usually, most of the mountain masters in the college would not get along with him, and this luthier clearly did not buy him.He came up with bad intentions: "Students are ignorant, please ask the head of the mountain to clarify."

A voice sounded outside the Chunqiu hall, and the man said sleepily: "Just play it, why are there so many nonsense?"

Liu Changzhou, who disappeared early in the morning, staggered in and gave Lu Hanzhang a thumbs up very cryptically. The two made eye contact tacitly, and at the same time thought that today is a good time to teach this grandson a lesson.

Lu Hanzhang raised his eyebrows, and said in a bright mood, "Let Liu Yaoshan demonstrate."

Liu Changzhou: "..." What about the comradeship we agreed upon?

He turned around and smiled at Liu Ziming, and said, "Fool Liu is watching."

After saying that, he stepped on a corner of his writing case unexpectedly, stepped on the side of the writing case, and the piano stood on the ground along with the writing case.This kick was not enough, he used his knee to push against the piano seat again, and the whole piano drew a half arc and jumped into the air, the side of the strings turned down, and one pedal The heels in the moiré satin shoes followed, like a dragonfly touching the water, across a series of scales on the twelve strings, and it was smooth and pleasant to hear.

As the qin fell downwards, Liu Changzhou bent over backwards, switched legs and plucked in the opposite direction again.At the moment when the piano was about to hit the ground, he lightly hooked his toes on the edge of the piano seat, turned the piano in one direction and landed on the desk firmly.

Turning around, Liu Changzhou smiled maliciously and said, "It's your turn."

Liu Ziming: "..."

He was aggrieved, bent down to take off his shoes and socks with a face full of humiliation, angrily hooked a few strings with his toes randomly, his appearance was not to mention how funny, just like a good woman who was being molested, I am afraid that one step closer It can be upgraded to the level of a shrew.

Liu Changzhou raised his eyebrows, turned around and sat in front of his desk, leaning on his chin, thinking about something.

What is the origin of that very weird green-haired turtle in the yamen?

At this time, he missed Zhan Baili very much, but Zhan Baili stayed in Qingliang and did not come because of worrying about his mother Ding, and he would not arrive until the end of the year at the earliest.However, according to the guards at the checkpoint at the city gate, after Mr. Fang tightened his inspections, all kinds of smuggling incidents have decreased a lot, but this kind of thing has never been seen before, let alone heard of.

There is another thing that people can't understand. The price of salt in the market has soared, and the whole trend of the salt market is that there is a price but no market.Liu Tong, the envoy of salt transportation, came to worship many times, saying that the vassals had run out of surplus salt and could not do enough.

Liu Changzhou tapped his fingertips on the habitual desktop, the more he thought about it, the more strange he felt.The matter of food was about to come to an end, and at this juncture, the incident of "Huarong without salt" suddenly appeared, he always felt that it was not a coincidence.But the very strong evidence of this fact is that the men in charge of tracking Liu Tong's mansion came to report one after another, and they didn't see any place where Liu Tong secretly stored salt.

However, Liu San in the prison interrogated the news. It turned out that the source of Liu San's food was still Hongyun Food Company.

Ordinary people who have no food to pay will go to Liu San to borrow food as a mortgage. In fact, they bought food from Hongyunli at a high price in disguise.He Yun, the dead ghost, made a grain chain that connects head to tail: the grain turned in each year deducts the portion that should be distributed to the capital, and the excess portion on the platform and the portion that should be distributed to the north defense are all deducted in the underground granary. In the Hongyun Grain Store and the pawn shop, some of them are sold to the local people with clearly marked prices, and the people who have no money will go to the pawn shop to ask Liu San to borrow money to buy grain, and the other part will be directly mortgaged.

Therefore, when it comes to food-related matters, you can't get away from He Yun after going around.Converted to ordinary people, it is called being eaten up, and it is called having nowhere to go.

It's not just a lot of money, it's purely nothing.

Liu Changzhou suddenly felt that it would be too light for He Yun to just boil it like this. He should peel off the skin, let the blood out, peel off the tendons, and throw it into the ant nest for the ants to chew on.

I don't know how long it took, the noisy sounds around him gradually disappeared, a hand waved in front of his eyes, and Lu Hanzhang's voice rang in his ears: "Wake up. What are you doing? Grinding your teeth so hard, do you really want to eat meat?" ?”

Liu Changzhou tugged on his earlobe, and looked so childish that he looked like a hanged ghost, the whites of his eyes rolled out, and he stretched his face and said, "It's so embarrassing, you saw it."

Lu Hanzhang couldn't help but pursed his lips and smiled.

The two of them struggled to go to Sanyu School with a rag and a water basin. Counting the days, they had been cleaning Sanyu every day for about half a month.

But today's Sanyu Book Hall seems a little weird.

As soon as the door of Sanyu Shutang was pushed open, a very pungent salty and wet smell came into the nostrils, making people want to hold their breath.The bookshelves lined up seem to have been touched, and there are a few white handprints left on the outermost side of each bookshelf.The "gentleman works all day long and is vigilant at night" Literary Federation facing the gate is also twisted and crumbling by people.There are still traces of being dragged on the ground, which is in a mess, very similar to the scene after the fox fairy in the fairy tales.

This movement seemed to be left over by someone who was in a hurry and didn't have time to clean up the mess.

Previously, the first row of bookshelves facing the gate were filled with books on Confucianism, but today they were all replaced by a shelf full of books on medicine.

Liu Changzhou stretched out his arms like a show and shook back and forth on the bookshelf to finish wiping. When he was about to leave, he suddenly saw a book titled "The World's Strange Poisons" among the piles of books.He looked back at Lu Hanzhang's back, and secretly stuffed the book into his sleeve, and he didn't know why he was sneaking.

The more the two of them cleaned inside, the more something went wrong. The bookshelves on the back floor became more and more disorganized. It seems that people are rushing to stuff them back.The pages of the book felt extremely damp to the touch, and the surface was covered with a layer of very sticky stuff, which could not be rubbed off even if it was dirty.

Lu Hanzhang, who was making a show in the corner of the room, suddenly asked: "What is this?" Then there was only a "click" sound like a hidden compartment opened, and a floor behind the innermost bookshelf suddenly fell into it, and a The black hole of the organ.

Immediately, Liu Changzhou threw away the dishcloth in his hand in high spirits. He felt that he heard a sound similar to "unlocking the next level" from a treasure map. He ran over in a few steps, picked up his trousers and squatted at the entrance of the hole, irresponsible. Guessed: "A mortuary?"

Just as Lu Hanzhang was about to say something, out of the corner of his eyes, he saw something flying towards him with a cold light, and at the same time, a black figure flashed behind the bookshelf not far away.

His throat seemed to be blocked, and he couldn't make any sound for a moment. The image of a soft body falling straight in front of his eyes slid across his mind. Liu Changzhou's back, and at the same time suddenly called out: "Mother!"

However, this voice was covered up by Liu Changzhou's exasperated "fucking".

As can be imagined, the two of them plunged in without any suspense, the hidden weapon rubbed against the corner of their clothes and hit the wall behind them, and then the hidden compartment above their heads closed in response.Halfway through the fall, Liu Changzhou stepped on the side wall, landed on Lu Hanzhang's waist, rubbed against the wall and slid to the bottom.

The disgusting, nauseating, salty smell of the underground is much stronger than before, as if there are hundreds of street beggars who haven't bathed in more than ten years, who have just spent a day outside in the sun, and their bodies are full of blood. They were all sweaty and ugly, and they dangled back and forth under people's noses without any self-awareness.

Liu Changzhou felt that almost all the contents in his stomach were turned upside down, almost up to his throat, and there was a burning thread close to the chest wall that was throbbing and painful, as if he had swallowed a bottle of rat poison.

There was no light in the surroundings, only the sound of the two people colliding back and forth when they fell to the bottom. Judging by the echoes, the bottom seemed very large and empty.

...pure inches.

When the two of them are together, it is a simple sum of bad luck and bad luck, straightforward and rude, naked/naked without any foreshadowing.

Liu Changzhou took out a fire pocket from his pocket to polish it, and looked around by the light. There were some wet powdery things on the walls, which seemed to be mold spots from the damp that hadn't seen the sun for a long time.He bent his knuckles and knocked, and said as a matter of course: "The next step is up to you, you know, Qimen Dunjia and so on..."

Lu Hanzhang took a breath, leaned back against the wall with great difficulty, covered his heart with one hand, whistled, and said very carelessly: "Hey, look, what is a sweetheart? Even after I die, I will be with you." The one he was buried with."

Liu Changzhou: "..." My lord, can your heart be a little smaller?Also, can you stop cursing yourself like this?

The space illuminated by Huozhangzi was limited, he couldn't see Lu Hanzhang's expression, he only heard the man sigh again, and said lightly, "When will Huarong's first snow come?"

This sentence sounds like a sentence is more sugary than a sentence, but Liu Changzhou's heart began to ring alarm bells.Lu Hanzhang's speech has never been so explicit, straightforward and straightforward, but he has never confessed his heart-songs one after another, as if he is eager to tell him all the love stories of his life so straightforwardly, which is inexplicably touching Panic.

He replied: "Nonsense."

When it fell just now, the book that Liu Changzhou had hidden in his sleeve slipped out and fell by Lu Hanzhang's hand.Lu Hanzhang took a look at it by the light, was silent for a while, picked it up and threw it aside indifferently, and said, "You know? Well, don't look at it, it's useless, I don't have this kind of thing on me."

He supported the wall and stood up, took over the arduous task of opening the mechanism without complaint, and began to grope around.

Liu Changzhou was stunned for a moment, feeling a small flame burning in his heart, he said without hesitation: "I'm going to die, what are you doing?"

Lu Hanzhang smiled, probably because he couldn't see his expression in the darkness around him, and wanted to tease him, so he said something very shameless: "The so-called love, how can life and death change your heart?"

Liu Changzhou: "...Go to hell."

I saw that there were very regular square plates on the wall, and the gaps between the blocks were seamless, and the sound made by knocking on each block was real.Some squares are painted with patterns of snakes, rats, ants, wolves, tigers, leopards, and monsters. I really don’t know how there is such a basement in the library building of the academy, and what is going on with that black figure just now.

The whole economics seems not as simple as it appears on the surface. From this moment, it seems that there is fog everywhere.

Lu Hanzhang wandered around and asked, "Have you investigated that bastard Xu Fu in private?"

Liu Changzhou gave an absent-minded "hmm" and said, "If you don't investigate, you can guess it with your toes. There is collusion between Jinglun and the officialdom, and Xu Fu's hands are more or less dirty. Most of these officials He Yun hid so much food in the mountains, and some other officials hid some stolen goods here with Xu Fu, but since they haven't been seen here, maybe they were moved away in advance. "

He said murderously again: "Fortunately, they turned away in advance, otherwise, I really saw it..."

Lu Hanzhang suddenly stopped in one place, stood facing the wall, and clasped the corner of a board with his fingers without saying a word.Liu Changzhou motioned for him to get out of the way, and punched it. The corner on that side was slightly recessed, and there was a tiny gap between it and other plates. He put his "Chess World" jade piece inside After a farewell, it was lifted up easily, and at the same time, the hidden compartment that had just fallen was opened again.

Liu Changzhou blew the fire, and said sincerely: "To be honest, Boss Lu's talent, it's really a waste to hide in the market..." He turned around and planned to take him up, but before he got close, he saw Without any warning, Lu Hanzhang fell back straight and knocked his head on the floor of the secret room.

The veins on Liu Changzhou's forehead twitched violently, and he really wanted to hang Lu Hanzhang up and beat him up.

In his life, he hates people who don't take themselves seriously, they toss themselves so that they don't look like a person, and they look sick all day long in front of people's noses, just to make others feel troubled.He really wanted to cut open Lu Hanzhang's head to see if it contained a ball of cotton.

Everyone has weaknesses.

In the past, his weakness was his home in the capital; but now, the man in front of him forced his way in, forcing him to remove a rib from his chest in order to make a space to accept this weakness Suddenly, a large piece of land in the heart lost its protection and became vulnerable.

Lu Hanzhang vaguely felt that someone was hugging him firmly, and a very soft thing was stuck to his forehead, and then a bitter voice came into his ears: "My sweetheart, I just want to live with him, not with him." die."

He tried his best to take a deep breath, but the feeling of suffocation was still lingering, this breath had almost no effect, and finally completely lost consciousness.