Chapter 111
Ye Chengwei didn't see anything strange in the shopkeeper's eyes, but was worried that he would ruin his business, so he ordered in a cold voice: "Go down."

The storekeeper watched the white-faced young man change the porridge bowls under his nose, and wanted to explain something with a bitter face, but after seeing Dazzling Rujin's menacing eyes, he immediately stopped thinking.

I also didn't understand what kind of tricks the pair of broken sleeves were playing, so I had to retreat obediently.

Satisfied, Hua Rujin picked up the porridge and drank it on her own.

Seeing Ye Chengwei turn around, she put some green vegetables into his bowl, and said with a smile: "This porridge is really delicious, Young Master Ye, you should use some too."

Ye Chengwei smiled and nodded, then calmly picked up the porridge and drank it slowly.

The two looked at each other, but after a long time, Ye Chengwei didn't notice anything strange about this girl.

This made her anxious.

"Miss Hua, what's wrong?"

Ye Chengwei frowned and asked.

"I?"

Hua Rujin shook her head blankly: "No, I feel refreshed after eating well and sleeping soundly."

"wrong."

There was suspicion on Ye Chengwei's face:
Could it be that the Mongolian sweat medicine has expired?
Or is it too little?
"Master Ye, what's wrong with you?"

Hua Rujin had an evil smile on her face: "Why do you ask such a strange question?"

"Oh, nothing."

Ye Chengwei pursed his lips and smiled bitterly.

"Is it really all right?"

Hua Rujin raised her eyes and stared at him.

"really."

Before Ye Chengwei finished speaking, he felt his eyes darkened, his vision was staggering, and he fell powerlessly on the table.

"Cough, after all, Mr. Ye, you took everything by yourself."

Hua Rujin stood up unhurriedly, and yelled at the shopkeeper hiding in the corner: "Get out soon."

The shopkeeper came forward on tiptoe, and begged for mercy: "My lord, this is not a trivial matter. It was your good friend who forced the young one to take the Mongolian sweat medicine."

"What kind of match?"

Hua Rujin felt helpless about his title, and asked with a livid face, "What else did Mr. Ye tell you?"

The shopkeeper was about to answer, when suddenly the waiter came rushing in with a young man in a blue gown.

Hua Rujin looked intently, it was Ruya's cousin.

Behind him was the old beggar and the servant A Si.

Looking at the situation in front of them, several people were all stunned.

"Cousin, are you okay?"

While calling her, Shu Jinxuan came up to check, staring at Ye Chengwei who was lying motionless on the table, very puzzled: "Master Ye, what's wrong?"

"Oh, he's been working too hard these days, and just after breakfast, he was so tired that he fell asleep."

Hua Rujin suddenly understood everything.

It seemed that it was exactly as he expected, he wanted to numb himself with Mongolian sweat medicine, and then asked his cousin to send him back to Jiangling City.

"Shopkeeper, help Young Master Ye back to his room to rest."

Hua Rujin didn't want her Cousin Ruya to know too much, so she hurriedly urged the shopkeeper, took out another tael of silver and handed it to him, and said in a deep voice: "It's good to take care of Mr. Ye, what's wrong if you let him I ordered to demolish your broken shop."

"sure."

The store owner has already realized that these tourists in the room are not easy to provoke, maybe the one who was turned over is an imperial official.

Seeing the shopkeeper and Xiaoer carry Ye Chengwei back to the guest room with her own eyes, Hua Rujin felt relieved to greet her elegant cousin and the old beggar.

"Master, cousin, I would like to ask you to accompany me into the mountains."

Hua Rujin expressed her thoughts directly.

The old beggar guessed that the girl must have found some clues, and was afraid that the Shu family would ask about the apprentice's whereabouts, so he hurriedly dragged him away: "Just in time, the autumn is refreshing, go to the mountains to pick some game and come back to the old beggar. liquor."

At this time, Shu Jinxuan was like a monk from Zhang Er, completely confused.

Didn't the cousin and Ye Chengwei go to the inspection department yesterday? Why did the two stay alone in the country inn?
And he didn't believe that Ye Chengwei was overworked and fell asleep.

On the contrary, it looked like someone had drugged her to numbness.

Could it be that my cousin did it?
Shu Jinxuan turned to look at Hua Rujin as she walked out.

He really couldn't think of any way this girl would be able to scheme against the shrewd and capable No. [-] scholar.

After being able to get into the carriage, Shu Jinxuan thought about leaving Ye Chengwei alone at the inn, feeling agitated in her heart, and hurriedly asked: "Cousin, since you are going into the mountains, why don't you let the county magistrate go with you? If he wakes up like this, he will definitely ask everyone.”

"The magistrate is busy with all kinds of affairs all day long, so how can he have time to accompany us to the mountains?"

Hua Rujin smiled disapprovingly and said, "Let him stay here."

Anyway, he was the one who plotted against him first, so he couldn't blame himself.

"Young girl is right. Take an old-fashioned and pedantic number one scholar to go with you. We don't want to travel around."

The old beggar had already seen the clues of the matter, so he didn't expose it, and deliberately moved to Hua Rujin to change the subject: "Girl, that Mount Baitou is very big, and I heard that there are people from Jiang Fang Xiaowei's mansion patrolling the mountain. Can you figure out how to enter the mountain?"

"It's not difficult."

Shu Jinxuan saw that neither of them took Ye Chengwei seriously, nor was he obsessed with it anymore, so he turned to say: "Although this Jiang'an County is a small county, the Chujiang Temple in Baitou Mountain is far away. If we are famous, we only need to pretend to be pilgrims who go to offer incense and pray."

"That's a good idea."

Hua Rujin nodded in agreement.

So, I bought incense paper in a nearby town and hurried into the mountain.

It's just that when we first arrived at the foot of the mountain, we encountered groups of officers and soldiers patrolling here. After inquiring, we found out that because of the sacrifices to be held in a few days
, so all the mountain roads to the Chujiang Temple were closed.

The old beggar sat in the carriage and rubbed his hands anxiously: "According to this situation, let alone entering the mountains, even getting close to the Chujiang Temple is a problem."

At this moment, Hua Rujin finally understood Ye Chengwei's painstaking efforts personally.

But everything related to this case hit a wall everywhere.

Seeing that the Mid-Autumn Festival would be two days away, she also began to feel more and more anxious.

"Not in a hurry."

Hua Rujin tried her best to comfort herself, and tried her best to comfort the two of them: "Since the right path cannot be followed, then let's take the wrong path."

She is not interested in the Chujiang Temple, and the most urgent thing now is to find out the connection between Baitou Mountain and Chujiang.

If the change in the water quality of the Chu River is really related to Mount Baitu, it must not be in the deep mountains, but along the river.

After serious thinking, she said to the old beggar and Shu Jinxuan: "Master, cousin, why don't we inquire along the way to see what other important buildings there are besides the temple in this mountain."

"Baitou Mountain stretches for hundreds of miles. Except for Captain Jiang Fang's residence, the rest are probably scattered hunters."

Shu Jinxuan frowned slightly, and she didn't know why her cousin insisted on inquiring about things in this mountain.

"Then let's go find the hunters in the mountains."

After Hua Rujin made up her mind, she abandoned the carriage with Shu Jinxuan and the old beggar, and walked into the mountain from a hidden jungle on the bank of the river.

(End of this chapter)

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