I go to the ancient imperial examinations

Chapter 295: One Death and One Injury

into the night.

The study room was lit with candles, Zhan Feiyu paused, and the ink from the tip of the pen fell on the paper, creating an ink dot in an instant.

"Miss?" He Nuan, who was doing needlework, put down the cloth in her hands and stood up. The charcoal basin was still warm, and the miss had only drank water not long ago.

Putting the brush on the pen holder, Zhan Feiyu didn't care about half of the article, and asked eagerly: "Did something happen at night, so the big brother left in such a hurry?"

"The slaves don't know about the Seventh Lord." He Nuan didn't lie. After she and He Sheng followed Zhan Feiyu, He Nuan didn't know anything about the Forbidden Dragon Guard.

He Sheng also got in touch with the Forbidden Dragon Guard because he wanted to protect Zhan Feiyu, but He Sheng didn't know about the internal affairs of the Forbidden Dragon Guard.

"A Nuan, I'm going to visit the Fu family." Zhan Feiyu recalled what happened in Meigu during the day, what if Guicao wasn't targeting Qiu Jinyu?
About the girl from the Fu family?He Nuan glanced at the window, and could feel the chill outside through the thick window paper, especially after nightfall, when the outside was already dripping into ice, it was too cold to go out at this time.

But now that Zhan Feiyu had made up his mind, He Nuan, who was an attendant, couldn't stop him no matter how worried he was, so he hurriedly opened the cabinet and took out the warmest fox fur, "My maidservant, go get the hand stove, Miss, put on the moccasin boots first."

The Fu family is the richest man in Xiangwu County, otherwise Zhou Shuyao's previous post would not have been given to the girl of the Fu family, but even if there is more money, for a family of officials like the Zhou family, the Fu family is still not a merchant on the table.

After nightfall, the Fu family's mansion was quiet, only the lanterns hanging under the corridor swayed slightly with the wind, emitting a dim light, and the women and servants who were watching the night were also drowsy at this moment.

"Miss, are you cold?" He Nuan asked in a low voice.

Zhan Feiyu wears a lot of clothes, and still holds a hand stove in his hand, but the cold wind blows from time to time, and the chill still makes Zhan Feiyu shiver, feeling that the heat in his body has been blown away, "I'm fine, let's go .”

He Nuan hugged Zhan Feiyu, stepped over the towering wall with his toes one by one, fell into the shadow, and then walked quickly to the backyard.

Miss Fu lives in a main house with a width of five rooms. There are wing rooms on the left and right sides, and small gardens in the front and back. Even if there is no scenery in winter, the rockery and strange rocks stacked in the garden can tell that the cost of the yard is quite high. Fei.

He Nuan just jumped over the wall with Zhan Feiyu and landed on the ground. In an instant, two eyes looked over from the dark.

Even if the opponent concealed the murderous aura around him, the well-trained He Nuan noticed it immediately, but the opponent restrained his breath, and He Nuan didn't realize where he was.

He Nuan didn't open his mouth, holding the long sword in his right hand, and stepped forward slightly to block Zhan Feiyu's figure. It's fine if it's the Forbidden Dragon Guard, but if it's an enemy who is lurking in the dark?
At this moment, He Nuan suddenly regretted bringing Zhan Feiyu out to take risks.

"Big Brother." Seeing the figure walking from the Moon Gate, even though it was still in the dark, Zhan Feiyu recognized Yin Wuyan at a glance.

He Nuan raised his eyes and looked over, the person came out from the darkness, illuminated by the dim light of the lantern, it was indeed his Seventh Master, the hanging heart was relieved.

Dressed in a black brocade robe, Yin Wuyan seemed to walk calmly, but in the blink of an eye, he walked up to Zhan Feiyu, "Nonsense!"

Ignoring the threatening chill around Yin Wuyan, Zhan Feiyu walked out from behind He Nuan, but forgot that the snow on the ground was frozen, and under the slippery conditions, his expression of surprise turned into panic in an instant.

Stretching out his long arms, he hugged the little girl who slipped and fell, Yin Wuyan still had a sullen face, "What are you doing out in the cold?"

Wrapped like a bear, Zhan Feiyu hugged Yin Wuyan's arm, raised his head and grinned, "I figured out that something happened tonight, so I asked Ah Nuan to bring me over to have a look."

If he hadn't met Yin Wuyan, Zhan Feiyu would have planned to visit the Fu family overnight, and then go back without anyone noticing, but when he saw someone, Zhan Feiyu knew that his guess was correct.

It is possible to be indifferent to anyone, but the little girl who is smiling like a flower in front of her makes Yin Wuyan unable to keep a straight face, and there is only pampering and indulgence in her cold phoenix eyes.

After shaking Zhan Feiyu's hand, it was warm, and the chill on Yin Wuyanjun's face dissipated a bit, "Follow me."

After a while.

"Is this the boudoir of the girl's house?" Zhan Feiyu looked east and west, his eyes rolling curiously, and those who didn't know where they thought they were disciples.

Yin Wuyan was amused by her appearance, "I have a house in the capital that is idle, and you can arrange it however you like."

Zhan Feiyu's small courtyard in Shangsi County is not big, it is probably a habit in her previous life, her room is mainly simple, except for various furniture, there are also some utensils placed by He Nuan, which is not elegant.

The Fu family is not short of money, so Miss Fu's boudoir is fully furnished. The outer room is a small hall for receiving guests. There is a bookshelf against the wall, and the four treasures of the study are placed on the desk, and a few scrolls are placed in the open bottle next to it. On the wall is a picture of ninety-nine cold dispelling that suits the occasion.

Screens, bead curtains, veils...all of them are the girl's favorite style.

As he got closer, the faint scent of plum blossoms emanated from the incense burner, but it still couldn't cover up the bloody smell in the inner room. Zhan Feiyu paused, "Big brother, Miss Fu?"

The subordinates of the Forbidden Dragon Guards were deployed inside and outside the courtyard, and Yin Wuyan didn't need to lower his voice, "Zhou Shuyao will stay at Fu's house tonight."

No matter how to deal with the girl from the Fu family in the future, it is inconvenient for Yang Xu to stabilize the situation and prevent the Fu family from making trouble, but Zhou Shuyao, the cousin, stayed at the Fu family on the grounds that she would accompany the girl who was frightened during the day.

For the Fu family, even if Yang Xu and Miss Fu fell into the water at the same time, they could be regarded as "skin relatives", but the Fu family was also worried that the Yang family would not admit it. After all, Yang Xu was implicated by Miss Fu, otherwise he would not overboard.

Furthermore, after falling into the water, Yang Xu also hugged Miss Fu in order to save her. An eight-year-old child with no hair at all, the Fu family used this to force her into marriage. The Yang family had no choice.

Even if there was a lot of trouble, outsiders would think that Fu Jiaen's revenge was for the sake of gaining success.

Fortunately, Zhou Shuyao's gesture of favor gave the Fu family a reassurance. If not, the whole Fu family would treat Zhou Shuyao as an ancestor. If Zhou Shuyao had a good relationship with her and she was in the middle, the marriage might really come true.

Entering the inner room, seeing the chair turned over, the cup fell, the bedroom was messy as if after a scuffle, Zhan Feiyu's gaze was fixed on Zhou Shuyao who was lying on the ground, life and death, with blood on his forehead.

Zhan Feiyu took another look at Miss Fu, who was half lying on the bed, and was startled, her voice was a little cold, "Are they dead?"

The two girls were going to talk at night by candlelight, and the maid who served them left after the two were settled, and she was probably fainted afterward, so even though Zhou Shuyao and the girl from the Fu family had a fierce fight in the bedroom, I didn't see the maid and mother-in-law coming either.

"The girl from the Fu family is dead, she has fingerprints on her neck, one of Zhou Shuyao's nails was broken, and her face was scratched..." Yin Wuyan stopped Zhan Feiyu from going over to check, and briefly explained the situation of the two of them.

Although Zhou Shuyao is also a girl in the boudoir, she is three years older than the girl from the Fu family, and she is much stronger. She has also learned horseback riding and archery, and her arms are stronger than ordinary girls.

The girl from the Fu family is different. She was raised by the Fu family. The family of merchants wanted to learn how to raise a girl from a scholarly family, but they only learned superficially. They only let the girl from the Fu family be gentle and demure. Rude things were naturally excluded by the Fu family.

So after the two confronted each other, the girl from the Fu family was strangled to death by the mad Zhou Shuyao with almost no strength to fight back, but Zhou Shuyao's forehead was also smashed by the teapot, and the smell of blood came from it.

"Ah Nuan told me that if you take too much osmanthus grass, it has medicinal properties similar to Wushisan." Zhan Feiyu murmured, and looked at the girl from the Fu family who was half lying on the bed again. Although she had calculated Yang Xu, but Sin is not unto death.

After a moment of silence, Zhan Feiyu began to think about the purpose of the people behind the scenes. The girl from the Fu family died. Should Yang Xu be charged with murder?

In the messy murder scene, the person who did it was Zhou Shuyao, who was Yang Xu's cousin in terms of blood, so the people behind the scene could definitely think that Yang Xu ordered Zhou Shuyao to kill the girl from the Fu family.

"I've seen everything that needs to be seen, let's go back." Yin Wuyan said, the smell of osmanthus still persists in this room, if it comes tomorrow, the smell will almost dissipate.

And three or four hours before dawn, the osmanthus grass in Zhou Shuyao and the others' bodies will also disappear, and it is absolutely impossible to find out with the help of Xiangwu County's forensics, and what's more, the dead are girls who have not left the cabinet after all, so it is impossible to find out. Let Wu do a detailed autopsy.

Zhan Feiyu nodded, turned around and walked outside, took a few steps and looked back again, who would have thought that the person he would still meet during the day would be separated by Yin and Yang.

When Zhan Feiyu returned to Qiu's mansion and lay down in the warm blanket after washing, it was almost midnight.

He Nuan tucked in the quilt, looked at Zhan Feiyu who was about to fall asleep with his eyes closed, and asked involuntarily, "Miss, do you think that Master Qi will not be saved if he dies?"

From the beginning to the end, the Forbidden Dragon Guards were lurking in the dark, whether it was Zhou Shuyao and the girl from the Fu family who went insane because of eating too much osmanthus, and finally fought, or Zhou Shuyao strangled the girl from the Fu family to death in the end. Wei Du was watching, but he never intervened, otherwise the girl from the Fu family would not have died.

In the darkness, Zhan Feiyu shook his head, "Forbidden Dragon Guard obeys the order of the Holy Master, which is equivalent to a sharp knife in the hands of the Holy Master. If the weapon has feelings, then there is no need for it to exist."

Outsiders thought that the commander of the Forbidden Dragon Guard was cold-blooded and ruthless, a murderous executioner, but they never thought that if Yin Wuyan had feelings, would the Holy One dare to reuse the Forbidden Dragon Guard?
He Nuan was startled, he didn't expect Zhan Feiyu to see it so thoroughly.

After returning from Fu's house at night, He Nuan saw that Zhan Feiyu didn't say a word, and thought that she had a grudge in her heart, so she asked a question.

……

Probably because he had something on his mind at night, he didn't sleep well, and he went out in the middle of the night, and when he woke up early in the morning, Zhan Feiyu found that his nose was blocked and his throat was so dry that he couldn't speak.

"It's a cold." He Nuan knew that he had caught a cold last night when he felt his pulse, and couldn't help but feel annoyed that he shouldn't let Zhan Feiyu go out in the middle of the night.

Feeling the voice of a male duck, Zhan Feiyu said indifferently: "I'm the one who wants to go out, it's okay, just drink some medicine."

"Miss, you lie down, I'll go get the medicine." Stuffing Zhan Feiyu back into the bed again, He Nuan worriedly covered the quilt up to Zhan Feiyu's chin, "I'll call someone to come in and take care of me."

"No, I'll just sleep for a while. I can't sleep with outsiders around." Zhan Feiyu shook his head, feeling confused and uncomfortable, "Ah Nuan, go and ask old Mr. Qiu for leave."

He Nuan saw that Zhan Feiyu closed his eyes and went to sleep again, and exited the bedroom gently. Instead of letting the maid in, He Nuan asked someone to guard the door.

The commonly used medicines are already stocked in the warehouse of the Qiu Mansion, so He Nuan doesn't need to go to the pharmacy to get the medicines, as the medicines are being boiled in the kitchen.

In the bedroom, Zhan Feiyu couldn't fall asleep after taking a short nap. Thinking of the death of the Fu family girl, his mind became a mess again, but he still couldn't figure it out.

After a while, Qiu Zongxi, who got the news, came to visit him. He could be Zhan Feiyu's grandfather at his age, so naturally he didn't need to avoid suspicion.

Looking at the little girl wrapped in the quilt, Qiu Zongxi said coldly, "running outside in the middle of the night, if it doesn't freeze, who will you freeze?"

"I didn't know it would be so cold outside." Zhan Feiyu groaned twice to defend himself.

The winter in Nanxuan Mansion is also cold, and the river will freeze, but the coldest is minus one or two degrees, but the temperature in Xiangwu County, Zhan Feiyu estimates that it will be at least minus eleven or two degrees in the middle of the night, which is not a big night When I went out, I got sick from the cold.

"Grandpa Qiu, is the capital also this cold?" Zhan Feiyu's scalp tingled. She will go to the capital for a test in the future. The weather in January and February, wouldn't she freeze to death in the dormitory?
And the teacher is in the capital, and Zhan Feiyu suddenly wants to retreat when she thinks that she may live in the capital forever. She really wants to go south, the four seasons are like spring, even if she wears a jacket in winter, she can live through the winter.

Qiu Zongxi had been to the capital of course after traveling through various state capitals during the Daqing Dynasty. Seeing the little girl with a bitter face, he couldn't help stroking his beard and laughing, feeling very happy.

"Maybe it's not as cold as Longyou Road, but the capital is windy in winter, you can just ask Gu Qingzhou. Walking outside is like scraping a bone with a steel knife."

Zhan Feiyu shrank back into the bed again, looked at the old Mr. Qiu who was gloating, and replied with a stiff neck, "It will be at least six or seven years after I can try it, maybe ten years later, the teacher should also retire , when the time comes, my teacher and I will go to settle down in the south where the seasons are like spring!"

The honesty of Gu Qingzhou was not forgotten in the three sentences, Qiu Zongxi refused to admit that he was jealous, and said angrily with his old wrinkled face: "You are also familiar with history books, do you think Gu Qingzhou can get out of the whole body?"

These words are not scaremongering by Qiu Zongxi, now the Holy Majesty and Gu Xueshi are the same as the monarch and his ministers, but how many years later?Who can ensure that the Holy One still trusts Gu Qingzhou so much?
What's more, a big problem that lies in the middle is the establishment of the crown prince. If the future new monarch is afraid of Bachelor Gu, let alone retreat, he may be charged with various infamy and crimes and end up in jail.

Qiu Zongxi's words were blunt and harsh, but Zhan Feiyu knew that he was only worried about the teacher, so he couldn't help saying: "The teacher will definitely arrange a retreat for himself, and besides, General Yang and I have reached an agreement. As my backer, even if the new emperor ascends the throne, he would not dare to embarrass our master and apprentice."

At most, their masters and apprentices would give up all their rights and stay away from the court, so that the new emperor would not be able to kill them all. Moreover, with the teacher's status among literati, as long as the new emperor is not a faint king, he might not dare to use the teacher as a knife.

In fact, Zhan Feiyu is most worried about Gu Qingzhou. From a teacher to a first-rank bachelor, he has a very good reputation inside and outside the court, and he is from the Gu family in Nanling. This is the teacher's life-saving talisman.

But the eldest brother was burdened with infamy, and everyone shouted to kill him. Once the new emperor came to the throne, Zhan Feiyu didn't dare to think about Yin Wuyan's end.

(End of this chapter)