carved heart

Chapter 40
Shangguan Shi Dao said: "Our surname Shangguan cultivated nuclei carving talents for the imperial court, but never participated in the affairs of the imperial court. The one who came here always summoned only our Shangguan family's nuclei engraver." After a pause, he said again : "In the future, if you can study nuclear science, you may also have the opportunity to meet that great man."

Ah was not modest this time, and said with a smile: "Master Cheng Shao's family has auspicious words."

She got to the point and said: "I came here today to ask about the Young Master's family. My sister and I have a deep relationship. If I go to Suizhou, I won't trust her..."

Before he finished speaking, Shangguan Shixin said: "It really is."

A Yin was slightly stunned, and asked: "What is the meaning of the word Shaodong's family really?"

Shangguan Shixin smiled and said: "That day Uncle Yuan said he wanted to take you as a disciple, but you had concerns. Uncle Yuan asked Shixin, do you know your concerns? I immediately guessed that it was related to your sister. Although I only saw you Your sister has done it several times, but it can be seen that your sisters have a deep affection. Miss Yin doesn't have to worry about this. If you want, you can bring your sister with you."

Ah Yin was overjoyed, and said: "Young Dong's family is indeed Ah Yin's bosom friend, and I have considered everything I think." She said happily again: "Young Dong's family, you are welcome, just call me Ah Yin."

Shangguan Shixin was not polite, and directly called her "A Yin".

Ah Yin responded.

Shangguan Shixin also said: "You don't have to be polite in the future, don't call me young boss, it's rare to meet a bosom friend in life, I'll call you Ziye." He said, looking at A Yin carefully, and saw that she didn't feel abrupt , slightly relieved.

Ah Yin never thought that the call-out word was too close to this level, he only felt that he had inherited the name of a bosom friend, and the call-out word was also reasonable.

She happily called "Ziye".

Shangguan Shixin smiled even more.

Next, the two agreed on a time to go to Suizhou. Ah Yin still had some matters to deal with in Gongcheng, so they set it in half a month.After listening to Shangguan Shixin, he felt a little pity, and said: "If it were ten days earlier, you would be able to return to Suizhou with me. But it doesn't matter, you deal with your affairs first, and Shixin will return to Suizhou in half a month. You are preparing a welcome banquet, just in time for you to get to know other nuclear sculptors and meet other nuclear sculptors."

Hearing the words, Ah Yin felt extremely yearning in her heart, and quickly said "thank you".

Moon River Wharf.

The building boat gradually left the pier, and the second master respectfully sent Mu Yanghou off on the shore.After the boat left, the second master wiped off his cold sweat, thinking that he had finally sent this nobleman away.The servant on one side asked curiously: "Second Master, it's strange, why didn't you see that eunuch? Didn't the eunuch say that he would greet Mu Yanghou in person a few days ago?"

As soon as the words fell, he was slapped hard on the head.

"You don't want to die, the person who can come and go freely in the Shen's house must die a noble person. Those two words can't be said casually."

"Then... is that father-in-law from the Shen family?"

"It's so stupid! Except for the Tian family, which family dares to raise eunuchs? Be smart!"

"But...but..."

"No but! Can't say any more! Be careful that it comes out of your mouth!"

At the same time, Shen Changtang on the upper ship was standing on the deck facing the wind.

He looked at the deep sunset in the distance, as if he was in deep thought.It wasn't until the setting sun completely dissipated that he asked, "Have you found Deng Zhong's whereabouts?"

Yan Shen said: "If you go back to Lord Hou, the subordinates have already sent people to investigate."

Shen Changtang said: "Before Zishi."

"Yes, my subordinate understands."

Yan Shen had a lot of questions in his mind. Eunuch Deng was in a hurry to take Lord Hou back to Yongping earlier, apparently at the behest of the man in the palace, and then he came to Gongcheng, and Lord Hou sent two groups of people to delay. is the last to pass.At that time, he thought of countless ways so that Master Hou could stay in the carriage for a while, but he didn't expect that as soon as he rushed over, the second group of people said that Eunuch Deng had left, and he didn't go to the road of Gongcheng. Another mountain road.

Yan Shen went to investigate. The mountain road leads to two places, one is Qizhou and the other is Suizhou. If you go further, you can go back to Yongping by land.

But now Eunuch Deng's people are gone.

At this moment, Yan Mo walked over, bowed to Mu Yanghou, and said, "Report to Lord Hou, I received a letter from Feige in Suizhou, and Eunuch Deng went to Shangguan's house in Suizhou."

Shangguan's house in Suizhou.

Yan Shen was slightly surprised.

It was not surprising that Deng Zhong went to Shangguan's house, but this time he came to greet Lord Hou first.Why did you run to Shangguan's house at a corner?Could it be that the one in the palace has a new purpose?
Yan Shen speculated: "Master Hou, could it be that there is something wrong with the newly promoted nuclear carver in the palace?"

But Shen Changtang asked: "Have all the assassins from that day been cleaned up?"

"When I returned to Lord Marquis, not a single one was left alive." After a deep pause, he added: "All the assassins who saw Miss Yin were killed."

Shen Changtang stared, as if thinking of something, and said: "The farmer has also dealt with it?"

"The subordinate took one hundred gold and placed all the two farmers who met Lord Hou and Miss Yin and their families that day in Shuzhou thousands of miles away."

"Well, well done."

Yan Shen asked, "Then Eunuch Deng..."

Shen Changtang said coldly: "Don't worry about it, go back to Yongping and settle the old account with the Queen for the past six months."

Suizhou.

A loud bang came from the house.

"That's unreasonable! I have never been so angry in my life! Why should he be a eunuch? It's none of my business to recruit apprentices!" Yuan Hong raised a pair of white eyebrows, and his voice was so loud that it almost tore the roof off!

Yuan Bei looked at the palm prints on the square table, and said in a good voice: "Father calm down, the body is the most important thing."

Yuan Bei is Yuan Hong's old son, and also has a lot of talent for core carving, and now he is one of the candidate core carving technicians.He said: "Eunuch Deng has spoken publicly, so it's better not to give him this face..."

"Fuck!" Yuan Hong said angrily, "The imperial court doesn't care about our Shangguan family's affairs, and our Shangguan family doesn't participate in court affairs. What does it matter if he is an eunuch intervening? Is he an emperor or a eunuch?"

"Father, keep your voice down, walls have ears..."

"The old man with eyes is not afraid! It's rare for the old man to fall in love with a disciple after so many years. If anyone dares to point fingers, the old man will stuff his mouth with peach pits! Smash his hands!"

Yuan Bei said again: "Father, in my opinion, the girl brought by Eunuch Deng is not bad..."

"Not bad? Your father has seen more nuclei carving technicians with good qualifications than you have ever seen! I want the best disciples, and I can't get into my eyes if I have good qualifications! Let Deng Zhong takes Lu Shi back to his Yongping!"

Yuan Bei sighed: "Everyone is here, there is absolutely no reason for them to leave, and Eunuch Deng is still a celebrity around the Holy One."

"Over the past few years, our Shangguan family has cultivated [-] or [-] nuclei sculptors. We are all celebrities!" Yuan Hong slapped the table and said, "If I knew it, I would cut it first and play later. Who leaked the news? Tell me!"

Yuan Bei swallowed, and said, "It's your father..."

Half a month ago, not long after the Fighting Nuclear Conference started, his father fell in love with the girl surnamed Yin. He was afraid that others would rob him of his apprentice, so he sent people back to Shangguan's house early to announce that his Duke Yuan was going to accept an apprentice. The Yin family of Gongcheng.

Now the apprentice has not been confiscated, nor recorded in the books of Shangguan's family. Eunuch Deng from Yongping came and killed a Lu family on the way.

This can be caught in a dilemma.

You must know that his father is an extremely picky person, he was picky all over his body when he was young, and it is precisely because of his father's high requirements that he has not accepted apprentices until now.Moreover, the Shangguan family has a death rule, and can only accept one apprentice, so he finally joined Ma Lao's sect.

Ma Lao specifically asked him to persuade his father not to hurt the peace with the court.

But my father has such a temper, and it is difficult to persuade him.

"……Is it?"

Deng Zhong said casually.

Lu Lan pinched Deng Zhong's shoulder obediently, nodded and said: "I heard that Yuan Gong didn't want to accept me as an apprentice. If it really makes things difficult for my godfather, Lan'er will return to Yongping. Lan'er will come to Suizhou this time. I just want to give it a try. If it doesn't work, it's no big deal."

Lu Lan is Deng Zhong's goddaughter.

Deng Zhong had a pair of women who ate food outside the palace. In the early years, Deng Zhongxiang had noticed the dexterity of this woman, so he brought her back to the mansion, and became a pillow person who knew the cold and the hot.Later, when she found out that she had a daughter, she didn't care about it, and brought them back to the mansion.

He said: "The Sa family opened their mouths, and it will definitely not fail, but it's a trivial matter, don't worry, you won't be able to escape."

"Godfather treats Lan'er so well! Lan'er will definitely study hard in Suizhou in the future and live up to her godfather's expectations for Lan'er. When Lan'er is promoted to a nuclear carver one day, she will never forget her godfather's kindness!"

"Your mother taught you well to have this kind of filial piety."

Lu Lan said with a smile, "It's also due to my godfather."

"This little mouth is so sweet."

Seeing someone outside, Lu Lan said again: "Lan'er knows that godfather likes to eat Yongping's donkey rolling, so I made a dish in the kitchen this morning, and now Lan'er brings it to godfather."

"Go."

Lu Lan responded and went out.

After a while, a figure from outside came in, knelt down and reported: "Speak to Eunuch, the person has already silenced."

"Oh? Shen Changtang didn't find out?"

"Returning to my father-in-law, that person is a distant relative of the farmer Afeng. He happened to come to steal a hoe that day, and happened to see Mu Yanghou and Yin's family. Mu Yanghou has already settled the couple, but the place has not been found yet. "

"There's no need to investigate, the results that the Sa family wants are already available." He slowly pulled his lips into a smile: "A wise man is bound to make mistakes. Shen Changtang wants to protect a small girl from a small family, but the Holy Majesty may not allow it."

For seven consecutive days, Ah Yin was so busy that his feet never touched the ground.

She is about to go to Suizhou, and the affairs of Gongcheng must be dealt with first.I used to think about leaving, but now it's different.If she wanted to study nuclear carving in Suizhou with peace of mind and enter the mysterious nuclear science, she had to settle her family first so that she would not have any worries.

And this time I went to Suizhou, I don't know how long I will stay, the nuclear house has to be cleaned up, and the nuclear carvings inside must also be taken to Suizhou.

Ah Yin ordered Dongyun to go to the nuclear house to clean it every half a month, and carefully instructed the details of the cleaning. What can be touched and what must not be touched are all particular.The original intention of the nuclear house left by my grandfather was to preserve the peach pits.Humidity and sun exposure are the most taboo for peach pits, so be extra careful during the rainy season.

Fan Haohe also found a nice house, a courtyard with three entrances, and a small lotus pond.Ah Yin looked at it and was quite satisfied.It was settled immediately, and after going to the government to register, the house deed was also packed into the soft bag that was taken to Suizhou.

A Yin had told his family earlier about his plan to go to the Shangguan's house in Suizhou. Yin Xiuwen had been oppressed for a while, and now he wished that his daughter would not be there so that he could regain his dignity as the head of the family.

Ah Yin knew her father's temperament, and it would not be good for the whole family to kill them all. It would be best if someone could take care of his father and keep him from causing trouble.

Ah Yin quietly left 50 taels of silver and handed it over to the Qin family.

Before leaving, Ah Yin had made a plan not to come back to this house.

In the past, he hated his father's ruthlessness and dissatisfied with his mother's favoritism, but now that he has to leave the family where he has lived for 20 years, Ah Yin suddenly feels that everything in the past is the past.

She went to Suizhou, maybe she will go to Jizhou, maybe she will go to Yongping, but she will never come back to Gongcheng again.

There is a new world in front of her, a sky where she is allowed to fly.

Then there is one more important thing.

Ah Yin was thinking about how to talk to Shen Changtang, saying that she was going to Shangguan's house in Suizhou.Shen Changtang's absence, needless to say, is naturally excellent.It's just that he sent Chen Dou to protect her, so he should write to him and tell him.

It's just how to speak so that he doesn't object...

Even if she knew that if Shen Changtang objected, she would still go.But if he can not object, that would be the best.Ah Yin thought about it for a few days, Jiang Xuan saw that she was so troubled, and said: "Master Chen asked Mr. Chen to protect my sister secretly. Mr. Chen must know every move of my sister. My sister has been acting a lot these days, maybe Mr. Chen It has already been reported to Lord Hou."

Ah Yin said: "Not necessarily, not many people know about this matter. I have asked my parents to keep their mouths shut, and it is not appropriate to publicize the matter before it is completed. And even if Chen Dou knows, the meaning of my initiative to write a letter is different."

Jiang Xuan snickered and said, "My sister just wants to write a letter to Lord Hou?"

Ah Yin shot her a look: "Nonsense."

"Okay, okay, I'm talking nonsense. My sister continues to tidy up the things, sister, you can write at ease."

A Yin wrote a letter, telling Shen Changtang that she was going to Suizhou, and if he wanted medical treatment, he hoped to tell her in advance.Ah Yin thought for a while, it seemed that he was very happy that she was willing to take the initiative to serve the sick, and maybe he would readily let her go.

After Ah Yin finished writing, he looked at it carefully again. He felt that the handwriting was not neat, so he wrote it again, put it in an envelope, and went to Chen Dou.

Unexpectedly, no one responded after shouting several times, and asked Tiger Eye Tiger Fist, both of them also said that they did not see Chen Dou.

Ah Yin thought that Chen Dou had something to do, so he didn't care.

But until the day she left for Suizhou, Chen Dou still didn't show up.

On the outskirts of the city, a carriage stopped.

There was a plain white hand on the half-opened curtain, Jiang Xuan looked around for a while, then lowered the curtain again, and said, "Sister, are you still waiting?"

Ah Yin said: "Wait for another incense stick."

Jiang Xuan said: "We have all waited for seven or eight days, could it be that Lord Hou called him back?" She shook her head again, "No, if he really left, why didn't he tell us? Sister, they should Are the secret guards always so elusive?"

A Yin shook his head and said, "Ever since we knew that he was following us, he has been appearing and disappearing mysteriously, but in the past, I only needed to call him, and he would appear. I don't know where he used to rest at night."

Speaking of this, Ah Yin felt weird.

After she knew that Chen Dou was the hidden guard, she tried it out several times to see where he usually hides.It's a pity that he hid it too secretly and his skills were too fast, so he couldn't find it at all, so he gave up in the end.

I didn't expect that there would be disadvantages in not being able to find anyone. I hoped that Chen Dou would leave quickly, but now Shen Changtang explained to her clearly that his hidden guard was gone, which made her a little worried.Mu Yanghou has a high position and power, but he is still in crisis, with constant assassinations.Now that the hidden guard is gone, I don't know if something happened to Mu Yanghou.

But apart from Chen Dou, she had no other way to contact Mu Yanghou.

"Big girl." Fan Haohe, who was outside the carriage, leaned close to the curtain, and said, "A strange person came over, with tiger eyes and fists, pay attention."

Curiously, Jiang Xuan lifted the curtain a little bit, looked around, and was so scared that she quickly let go.

"Sister, that person was staring at our carriage!" She described: "Most of his face was burned, and it spread all the way here." She touched her neck and gestured.

At this moment, Tiger Eye shouted: "Who are you? Why are you blocking our way?"

Huyan has a rough voice, and when he shouts, he has a very bluffing posture. His voice is rough, and his eyes are wide open, as if he wants to swallow life alive.Unexpectedly, the man was not afraid at all, and calmly said: "I am Chen Dou."

Startled, Ah Yin opened the curtain and looked up and down carefully.

His face has been so ruined that he can't see the original appearance clearly, especially the wound under his eyes, where tender red flesh is oozing out.Don't say that a little girl like Jiang Xuan would even feel sick to a rough guy like Tiger Eye Tiger Fist.

Chen Dou put on the bamboo hat.

Ah Yin asked, "How did you become like this? But what happened?"

Chen Dou looked around.

Ah Yin ordered: "Let's go to a remote place and talk about it."

Fan Haohe immediately drove to a forest, the forest was in full bloom in summer, and it was lush and lush, just blocking the official road outside the forest.Ah Yin didn't get out of the carriage, but opened the curtain and asked, "What happened?"

(End of this chapter)