Chaos on the temples: You can't escape if you provoke treacherous ministers

Chapter 544 Lovesickness Lamp
Yan Mu asked Dahei to question Zhuangzi's servants, but no one saw Miss Liu and her maidservant coming to Zhuangzi that night.The officials searched Zhuangzi carefully, but found no clues.

But why did the maidservant's body appear on Zhuangzi?Where did Miss Six go?

Back in the city, the sky had already darkened. When I crossed the long street, I saw bright lights, like a fire dragon.There are various small stalls on both sides of the street, and there are crowds of pedestrians, shouting, bargaining, and laughing.

Yan Mu asked Dahei to bring the body back to the Ministry of Punishment with an official, and asked Wu Zuo to conduct an autopsy tonight, and they went to Dingyuan Hou's Mansion for further investigation tomorrow morning.

Several officials ran away for a day, and she hadn't eaten since noon, so she took out a piece of silver and gave it to Dahei.

"You bring some wine and meat back, I will work hard for you all tonight."

Dahei caught the silver, and said with a smile: "With Wangfei's words, we won't have to work hard."

After sending them away, Liu Yunxiang dragged Yan Mu to the market, "There's a seller of wontons in front of them. The skin is thin and the stuffing is delicious. It's very delicious."

He said he was going to eat wontons, but as soon as Liu Yunxiang walked in, he became interested. When he saw a silk flower seller, he went to pick one to wear on his head, and then asked Yan Mu if it looked good.

"nice."

"What about this one?"

"It's also pretty."

"Then which one looks better?"

Yan Mu directly gave the money to the small vendor, "I want both."

Liu Yunxiang smiled and said: "Thank you husband for giving me, I like everything my husband gave me."

As he spoke, he plugged in both silk flowers, and continued walking while holding Yan Mu's arms.

Going forward, I saw someone selling rouge gouache. Liu Yunxiang had his own gouache shop, so he happily went to pick it up.There was an old woman selling tiger-toe shoes next to him, Liu Yunxiang took a look, and it happened that Zhou Lihuai's wife, Mrs. Pan, was picking in front of the stall.

"Mrs. Zhou." Liu Yunxiang called out.

Pan's turned her head to see Liu Yunxiang, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute, but Liu Yunxiang hurriedly held her back.

Pan smiled, "I didn't expect to meet you at this night market."

"My husband and I were hanging out." Liu Yunxiang looked back and saw that Yan Mu had already walked to the front, waiting for her in a clean corner, she turned her head and smiled at Pan, "Maybe men don't like shopping with us very much. .”

"Your Highness has come with you anyway, my family will never agree."

"By the way, how is Dr. Zhou? I haven't seen him these days."

Mrs. Pan sighed, "He is in good health. He wanted to come to thank His Highness, but the hospital sent him to another place because of some urgent matter."

"Going to another place?"

"No, the letter came at night, just packed up two clothes and left."

Liu Yunxiang frowned, even if there was something urgent, it shouldn't be so urgent.

Liu Yunxiang saw that Mrs. Pan had picked out a pair of tiger-toed shoes, took them over to look at them, and said, "The embroidery on these shoes is really exquisite."

"Yes, I like it when I look at it."

Liu Yunxiang took a look at Pan's stomach, "How many months?"

"Almost six months." Pan said with a smile.

Liu Yunxiang returned the tiger-toed shoes to Mrs. Pan, "This night market is crowded and messy. Ma'am is getting older, so it's better not to come to this kind of place."

Mrs. Pan said with some embarrassment: "My husband is not at home, and my parents-in-law have also returned to their hometown. I live in the big mansion. Apart from talking to the maids around me, I can only read books in a daze at other times. It's really boring."

"If madam is bored, you can come to the palace as a guest. My house is lively."

"With Wang Hao's words, I have a thick skin."

"welcome any time."

Liu Yunxiang said a few words to Pan, afraid that Yan Mu would be in a hurry, so he left first.When he came to the corner, he didn't see Yan Mu, so Liu Yunxiang let out a sigh, and walked forward again to the head of Baiyu Bridge, where he saw Yan Mu standing there with a lantern in his hand.

Liu Yunxiang frowned, "Why didn't you wait for me?"

"Just now a little boy came over and told me that someone was waiting for me at Baiyu Bridge."

"Who is waiting for you?"

"I didn't see anyone, but a little girl came and gave me this lantern."

Liu Yunxiang looked down and saw that the lantern had a unique shape, and there were begonias painted on it.

"Hmph, Qiu Haitang represents lovesickness, have you provoked another girl?"

The corner of Yan Mu's mouth twitched, "The little girl said that it was a man who gave her the lantern."

"Ah? Why do you even provoke men?"

"Nonsense."

Liu Yunxiang looked around and saw no one, so he snatched the lantern from Yan Mu's hand, "No matter who gave it to you, now that the lantern is in my hands, it's mine."

Yan Mu had no objection, "Let's go eat wontons."

The wonton seller is an old man, in the alley opposite Huajie, the traffickers are tired all day, and they like to eat a bowl of hot wontons here, and there are also those who come to Huajie with their masters, and the boys guarding outside are hungry at night Come and have a bowl.

When Liu Yunxiang and the others came, because it was still early, there were not many people at the stall.

The two bowls of wontons came to the table quickly. Liu Yunxiang saw that Yan Mu was not very interested, so he scooped up a spoonful of soup and fed it to his mouth, "Taste it."

Yan Mu blushed, "I'll do it myself."

"Hurry up, my hands are tired."

Yan Mu looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to them, so he leaned over and took a mouthful of soup.

Liu Yunxiang chuckled, "If you drink mine, you have to feed me."

Yan Mu snorted and knew that Liu Yunxiang liked to play tricks, so he cooperated and scooped up a spoonful and fed it to her.

There was wind in the aisle, and a gust of wind blew over, blowing out the lantern.

Liu Yunxiang casually threw it aside, not paying attention.

The two of them were eating when two scholars dressed up came over and asked the old man for two bowls of wontons.

"Brother Li, I've gone to various inns today to ask, if it's not full, or the rent is too expensive, or let's rent a yard together with a few fellow villagers, after all, there is still a month before Qiu Wei, we We still have to wait for the rankings to be released, so it will take at least two months."

"Shengjing is a place where every inch of land is very expensive. Renting a yard is also expensive. Those who are rich go to live outside, and those of us who are left behind are from poor families. Everyone's thinking is that living in the Jiangnan Guild Hall for a day is a day. Even though it is broken everywhere, snakes, scorpions, insects and ants are infested, it is not a place for people to live at all."

"It rained the past two days, my room was leaky and there was no room to occupy it, and many books got wet."

"It's the same in my house."

The two scholars each sighed and said, "There was a riot in Nanzhou, and the imperial court said that it would send down talents regardless of style, but after all, they looked down on our candidates from Nanzhou. The Jiangnan Guild Hall has been in disrepair for a long time, and the imperial court should not know about it." .”

"Hey, board and lodging is still a trivial matter, I'm afraid...I'm afraid none of us will pass the exam."

"Shh, don't dare to say that nonsense."

"You and I know it well."

The two scholars ate very quickly, as if they were so hungry that there was no soup left, so they hurried back to study after eating.

"The third prince is in charge of Qiu Wei, I'm afraid he doesn't have the ability." Liu Yunxiang said.

Yan Mu picked his chin towards Huajie, "He has the ability, and this ability is to mess up Qiu Wei."

(End of this chapter)