Qingguan Nightmare Shadow

Xiuzhu snowed.The snow in the south is not as violent as that in the north, and it is often light and fluttering, and it does not accumulate thickness on the ground.The snow this afternoon was even more intentional and invisible. It fell with the thin raindrops, and it turned into water before it reached the shoulders or palms, and it only appeared in the air like flocs like broken clouds.

An Cao and Song Chan were sitting in the front yard, and the servants were holding umbrellas, taking a nap on their mother's lap peacefully.It was peaceful and quiet, and they only whispered a few words when they had something to say. Only the sound of Uncle Zhang sweeping the ground with a broom could be heard.The sound seems to be there, and the scratching in the heart makes people have a delicate feeling of numbness.

There is still a carriage parked in the courtyard of the Anfu, which belongs to Mr. Song Yansong, the head of the Shuzhou Supervisory Station.It has been two ten-day holidays since He Dun, the head of the Supervisory Office, returned to Beijing. Today, Song Yan is reporting to Anyi on the investigation of the case of smuggling salt in Shuzhou.When Song Yan entered Anfu, he walked very quickly, and was led directly to Anyi's bedroom by Steward Li, without even having time to look at his daughter Song Chan.

Song Chan saw that her father's footsteps were fast but his face was gentle, knowing that what he brought was not a bad thing, she was relieved.

During the application period, Dr. Hao from the pharmacy came as scheduled, had a face-to-face meeting with Mrs. An Cao, and also went to Anyi's bedroom.Anyi's wind and cold hadn't shown signs of improvement for more than 20 days, and it kept getting worse. An Cao asked Dr. Hao to come back to diagnose her husband.

There was another conversation outside the gate of the mansion, An Cao looked around, and saw Butler Li who was about to come in to ask her for instructions.There were a lot of guests today, butler Li said that Mr. Song had brought his five students.

An Cao said: "Please come in Xiao Xin."

Xiao Xin was dressed in plain clothes, while the five students were all in green clothes.Xiao Xin led the students to bow their hands to Mrs. An Cao, and said: "Mrs. An, my students have come to thank Brother Su Rong."

Mrs. An Cao hugged An Ran on her lap to Song Chan, and said to Xiao, "What happened at Baiyin Temple that day?"

Xiao Dao said: "Exactly. Since then, the sick people in Sui Shui Town have recovered one after another, and now there is news that the plague has been completely eradicated. The family members of the students must write letters and ask the children to express their gratitude."

An Cao said: "The exorcism of the plague is the work of the wizards. I don't know what kind of mystery Ah Tong has shown off in Baiyin Temple, and he actually took the credit for himself." She and Song Chan looked at each other, and both of them looked at each other. There was a helpless but kind smile in the other person's eyes.

One of Xiao Xin's students said: "Mrs. An, Suishui Town only invited wizards at first, but the plague did not dissipate. Later, Mr. An's method was adopted. As a result, not only no one was infected, but even those who were terminally ill were cured. .”

Song Chan smiled and said, "Mother, this is really a miracle."

An Cao thought for a while, and asked Steward Li to call An Tong out of the study.

An Tong arrived in the courtyard, heard Xiao Xin's explanation of his visit, but before he could react, the five students knelt down and saluted him.An Tong hurriedly helped the five eleven or twelve-year-old children up one by one, but the one who was kneeling hadn't got up yet, and the one who got up knelt down again.

The people of Suishui town insisted on thanking them, and An Tong had no reason not to accept it, but he felt that there was no need to kneel down all the time, so he turned sideways to avoid their kowtow, and said, "Get up quickly."

A student said: "Sir, thank you is different, it depends on the kindness you receive. Mr. An is the benefactor of the whole town of Suishui Town, but other people can't all be present, since the five of us thank you on behalf of hundreds of people Mr. An, even if it is a small favor, you have to pay a big gift, let alone a life-saving grace." After finishing speaking, the five people turned to An Tong and kowtowed.

Seeing that they did not kowtow enough, An Tong would not give up, so he had no choice but to let them kowtow, secretly sighing inwardly that they were indeed the students taught by Xiao Xin.When the student was talking just now, he secretly glanced at Xiao Xin, only to see Xiao Xin nodding his head to show his affirmation.

The five students weighed that the thanks from the people of Suishui Town had been conveyed, and then got up by themselves.

An Cao looked at An Tong with half doubt and half reproach, and said, "A Tong, what method did you use?"

An Tong lightly wrote: "Praise Siming Xiaoxian."

Rao, the five students were taught by Xiao Xin, and their behaviors are standard everywhere. After all, they are still children with lively nature. Immediately, you described the ceremony taught by An Tong to the people of Suishui town, and even recited it. That part of An Tong's nonsensical words to threaten Si Ming Xiaoxian.

After hearing this, Mrs. An Cao sighed and laughed, and said, "A Tong, where did you learn it?"

A crunchy voice cut in: "Brother is the reincarnation of Prime Minister Su, and he knows everything!"

Everyone looked into Song Chan's arms together, and saw that An Ran had already slept enough, and her big eyes were spitting out admiration towards An Tong.

Mrs. An Cao didn't bother anymore, thinking that An Tong read miscellaneous books without telling An Yi, and read this passage from some book about ghosts and ghosts; With a mentality of no harm, he followed his strange idea and mistakenly believed that it was not the wizard but An Tong who expelled the plague.

After thanking An Tong, the five students went back to the private school to study.Mrs. An Cao left Xiao Xin to chat for a while, and when the chat was far away, she talked about An Tong and Xiao Xin's bare feet rolling and eating mud in the paddy field when they were young. Uncle Zhang and Butler Li beside him also laughed when they heard this.

An Tong's memory didn't recover until he was two or three years old. Maybe he was really like an ordinary child before, doing all the naughty things An Cao said, but he didn't remember it at all.

An Tong thought it was just a childish naughtiness, but looking at Xiao Xin's expression, he seemed to be unable to believe that he had rolled over the iron ring and picked out the bird's eggs, and he felt a kind of embarrassment of "I'm so ashamed to be that?" With a polite but unnatural expression.

An Ran secretly laughed, Song Chan pulled his face, "Aran, why are you laughing, you are already five years old, and you still want to do what your brother did when he was two years old."

An Tong also said: "Aran, tell me who rolled the dirt in the bamboo forest yesterday."

An Ran stuck out her tongue, fled away in a desperate manner, and hid somewhere else to play.

Although it was unintentional, Song Chan heard that An Tong had answered her own words, and showed a smile without a trace.

After the chat was almost over, Xiao Xin felt that he should leave too, and said goodbye: "Mrs. An, please say hello to Mrs. An on behalf of my father and me."

Mrs. An Cao said: "Originally Master An said he would go to see Xiao Fu when he recovered from his illness, but this time he was seriously ill and was also involved in the case of illegal salt trafficking, so he never went. Xiao Xin, you must tell Your father, An Yi, he is just busy, he has already let go of those knots, and told him not to..."

Before he could finish speaking, a voice came from Anyi's bedroom: "Bring Xiao Fu here, and we will interrogate him in Lord An's mansion!"

Song Chan stood up immediately, it was his father Song Yan's voice.

Everyone looked at each other, not knowing what happened.A servant came out of Anyi's bedroom in a hurry, and ran out of the courtyard gate, only telling Mrs. An Cao that Master Song Yan wanted to see Xiao Fu immediately.

Xiao Xin followed the servant and ran out, questioning repeatedly, the people in the yard heard the servant running outside saying: "Xiao Fu poisoned Mr. An, Master Song wants..." He ran fast, his voice suddenly stopped at the corner. And stop.Xiao Xin probably went to look for Xiao Fu with his servants, but he was not seen returning to An Mansion.

An Cao frowned: "Poisoned?"

Song Chan said: "Mother, didn't Xiao Fu give father a basket of crucian carp, maybe..."

An Tong said: "Xiao Fu is not like that kind of person."

Xiao Fu is a straightforward person, if he likes it, he likes it, if he doesn't like it, he doesn't like it, and he will never take revenge on An Yi in the name of visiting him, secretly feeding poison to the crucian carp.

At this time, Dr. Hao came to the yard and said: "Mrs. An, I have consulted Mr. An. Mr. An's wind and cold have recovered, but he still has symptoms of soreness all over his body and swollen head and soul. It is because of poisoning. This The time for the poison to attack is not short, if it is allowed to delay, Mr. An will have his life in danger."

Song Chan said: "Dr. Hao, hurry up and prescribe a detoxification prescription."

Dr. Hao wondered: "I am only good at treating common ailments such as wind and cold. Although detoxification has been dabbled in, it is still at the superficial level. I can only diagnose that Mr. An has been poisoned, but I need to detoxify..."

An Cao said: "Doctor Hao, you just said there is no way?"

Dr. Hao: "At my level, I can only delay it."

An Tong said: "Delayed prescription, you open it first."

"Yes, Mr. An."

An Tong: "Mother, where is Master He Dun's prescription for treating wind and cold?"

Mrs. An Cao: "At the servant who decocted the medicine in the kitchen... Ah Tong, do you doubt Mr. He's prescription?"

An Tong said: "Because I don't believe that Uncle Xiao Fu would poison Father."

An Tong went to the kitchen to get the prescription, and scanned the medicinal materials mentioned above, but did not find any medicine that would cause toxicity when combined.An Cao, Song Chan, and Dr. Hao also followed him into the kitchen. An Cao said, "A Tong, you don't know how to use medicine. What can you tell? Show this to Dr. Hao."

Dr. Hao said: "Recently, the servants of An's mansion came to my pharmacy to get medicine. I have paid attention to this prescription for a long time. They are all good medicines. Master An's poisoning cannot be because of this."

Not the best.

If the problem lies in the prescription, An's family will be in trouble.He Dun is an important member of the imperial court and the head of the Supervisory Office, one of the three prefectures. If he wants to murder An Yi and want An Yi to die, no matter what the reason is, there are thousands of ways to achieve his goal, and there is no need to be exact. The reason is just a trumped-up charge.

An Tong said: "I'm going to see my father."

An Yi was sick in bed, and Song Yan was standing beside him, both of them looked very bad.

Today Song Yan mainly came to tell An Yi that after more than 20 days of investigation, Shuzhou really could not find the private salt dealer He Dun mentioned, so that he could write a document directly to He Dun without having to investigate.Unexpectedly, he said here, Dr. Hao, who took Anyi's pulse over there, diagnosed that Anyi had been poisoned.

Song Yan immediately asked Anyi what he had eaten that no one else in the Anfu had eaten, and the servant who was waiting next to him said medicinal soup...and the crucian carp that Xiao Fu sent.

"Master Song, please give way." An Tong said.He walked to Anyi's bed, looked at the color of his eyes and tongue, and raised his father's wrist to feel his pulse.Everyone present was dumbfounded, this Mr. An clearly looked like an expert.If An Ran was here, he would definitely say that his elder brother is the reincarnation of Su Tong. Elder brother knows everything.

In the previous life, An Tong practiced alchemy in Baiyin Temple, and researched many methods of poison.He is not a doctor, but he is better at making and detoxifying poison than a doctor.

Anyi coughed a few times: "An Tong, what are you doing here?"

"See what kind of poison your father has?"

"You understand?"

An Tong answered concisely: "Understood."

If you don't know, you will be surprised, the poison in Anyi has a lot to do with An Tong: this poison was refined by himself.Of course, other people may have misunderstood or carefully studied and refined this poison. This poison may not be his unique secret recipe, but it doesn't matter. The important thing is that he understands it, and knowing it means that he can detoxify it.

An Tong said: "I want paper and pen."

Mrs. An Cao nodded and signaled Song Chan to fetch the pen and paper that An Tong wanted. An Tong wrote out a list of medicine names in front of everyone, and handed it to Dr. Hao, asking him to take the medicine and send it to Anfu.

Dr. Hao took the prescription and looked left and right, but he couldn't see any tricks.

An Tong said: "Doctor Hao, don't read it, just take the medicine according to the type and dosage written on it."

An Cao said: "A Tong, this is not a joke."

An Tong said: "Mother thinks the son dares to make fun of his father's body?"

Dr. Hao was about to leave, but Song Yan grabbed him as if thinking of something, and asked An Cao: "Mrs. An, do you still have the fish that Xiao Fu gave you?"

"Yes, they are raised in the pond inside the bamboo forest."

"Doctor Hao, go and see if there is anything unusual about those crucian carp."

An Tong walked towards the door: "I'll go and see."

Anyi, who had been silent all this time, stood up and said, "An Tong, Dr. Hao is a doctor after all, let Dr. Hao go."

Except Anyi who was lying on the bed, everyone followed to the bamboo forest.There were five remaining crucian carp swimming in the pond in the bamboo forest. Uncle Zhang picked up one and handed it to Dr. Hao.Dr. Hao used a silver needle to probe, and pierced the crucian carp's scales and mouth, and the silver needle turned black.

Dr. Hao showed the blackened silver needle to everyone.

Song Yan suppressed his anger: "Xiao Fu is really not a person!"

An Tong, who has been in contact with various poisons a lot, knows that the silver needle test is unreliable, but he couldn't find any evidence to refute Dr. Hao.In any case, he didn't believe that Xiao Fu harbored murderous intentions towards his father, so he thought for a moment and said, "Master Song, I think these five crucian carps should be boiled into soup and given to people to drink for a while, and then we can make a conclusion after observing and observing."

Song Yan said in disbelief: "An Tong, the evidence is solid, why don't you draw a conclusion? Besides, Xiao Fu and Mr. An have resentment, and it makes sense to put people to death through fish soup... You said boil the fish into soup and drink it for a while. For a while, what kind of words does this sound like? Who would drink it? A servant also has a life.”

An Tong said: "I drink."

An Cao's face turned pale: "Tong, what are you talking about? Uncle Zhang, go and dispose of these five fish."

Uncle Zhang was about to move, An Tong said: "Mother, I did this, firstly, I hope everyone will believe in Uncle Xiao Fu's character, and secondly, I hope everyone will trust the antidote prescription I just wrote to Dr. Hao."

Song Chan said anxiously: "For drug testing, livestock and poultry can be used, why do you take the risk by yourself?"

"There are some poisons, which are the same when used on humans, and the same when used on animals." An Tong said, "Mother, you also know that my son is not a reckless person, and he does things properly. I don't drink this soup, Uncle Xiao Fu I will be treated as a murderer and sentenced to death, I drink it, and if I am safe, I can save Uncle Xiao Fu’s life."

"..."

A loud cry of injustice broke the silence: "I didn't poison you! Mrs. An, I didn't poison you!"

Xiao Fu shouted confidently, striding all the way from the front yard of An Mansion to the bamboo forest.The servant following him who was panting for breath was originally going to detain him, but when Xiao Fu heard that the Anfu accused him of poisoning, he walked over without saying a word. His desire to come to the Anfu was stronger than the servant who went to invite him. Be urgent.

Xiao Xin also followed behind with a heavy face.

Xiao Fu looked around at the people present, and said: "Mrs. An, Mr. Song, Mr. An, Song Chan, I, Xiao, stand upright, and I can't do things like poisoning and killing people! I swear to God, ask my heart!" No shame!"

Xiao Xin also said: "Madam An, Mr. Song, there must be a misunderstanding."

Although Xiao Fu is just an ordinary person in the market, because An Tong and Xiao Xin studied in the same school when they were young, and they have a good friendship, when An Cao invites Xiao Xin to eat in Anfu, he also invites his only Relative Xiao Fu.Xiao Fu has a bright personality, and An Yi also became friends with Xiao Fu because of the children's friendship. The friendship between the two has nothing to do with status or interests.

Mrs. An Cao has a scale in her heart, and after many years, she has firmly believed that Xiao Fu is a good person who speaks out, speaks out, and vents his anger.This kind of thing happened today, she was really embarrassed, she didn't know where to stand to speak.

Song Yan was different, his only impression of Xiao Fu was the basket of fish thrown on Anyi's head and the words he blatantly scolded Master An.Seeing Xiao Fu, he grabbed the silver needle held by Doctor Hao and said, "Take a good look at what this is? The doctor found poison in your crucian carp."

Xiao Fu said: "Who knows whether his needle is poisonous or his hands are poisonous! My fish? Absolutely no problem!"

Dr. Hao was upset: "Xiao Fu, why are you slandering others?"

As they talked, the two parties started arguing.

Song Yan and Dr. Hao explained the evidence to Xiao Fu, but Xiao Fu stiffened his neck and compared his voice with them. After arguing for a long time, nothing came out.

Hearing Xiao Futian's fearless yelling, Song Yan's head turned into two big ones, and then thought, what reason do I have to reason with this kind of person?

Shut it up first.

Song Yan said: "Mrs. An, find some people and bring Xiao Fu to the surveillance platform first."

Mrs. An Cao said: "Uncle Zhang, you lead the way and send Xiao Fu to the monitoring platform." Uncle Zhang came to pull Xiao Fu, Xiao Fu broke away with great strength, and said a few words to Song Yan, the head of the Shuzhou monitoring platform. Disrespectful words are not considered insults, but they carry uncomfortable thorns.

Song Yan didn't argue with him, just said: "Take it away."

Uncle Zhang couldn't pull it alone, so he called two servants over, and the three of them worked together to lift Xiao Fu away as an object.

An Cao said: "Uncle Zhang, let Xiao Fu go by himself."

Uncle Zhang obviously didn't believe that Xiao Fu could leave by himself, he was taken aback, and opened his mouth to say something.

Mrs. An Cao interrupted him and said: "The monitoring station will not abuse lynching. Xiao Fu went, just to sit in another place for a few days. An Fu can make up for the loss of selling fish for a few days. Why can't Xiao Fu do it himself?" Let's go." She said these words to Uncle Zhang, Xiao Fu and Song Yan.

An Tong understood that his mother agreed with him to drink the fish soup.

Mrs. An Cao: "Doctor Hao, grab the medicine written by An Tong, and I will make it boiled for Mr. An to drink. Ah Tong, when your father recovers, do as you said."