Chapter 2

Just when Qu Mingshu was "studying in seclusion", the matchmaker of the Qu family had already gone to Yan Ziqin's house to secretly match.

Yan Ziqin was originally from Linchuan, and there was only one uncle in Beijing, named Xu Hang.The marriage matter should not have been intervened by his uncle, but when Yan Ziqin came to Beijing, he brought a letter from his family. In the letter, Yan Ziqin's mother, Mrs. Xu, had long expected that the government would mention the marriage, and she was a widow , living in Yuan County, and being tied down by his seven-year-old son, he really couldn't manage Yan Ziqin's marriage, so he entrusted everything to Xu Hang.

Xu Hang is a businessman who started out selling citrus. He has traveled all over the world for 20 years. Although he is not considered a rich man, he may have gained a firm foothold in Bianliang, the capital. After Xu's entrustment, he devoted [-] percent of his efforts to help him. Today's effort can be relied on in the court in the future.

Even though he knew that Yan Ziqin was favored by the world, when he saw the Qu family's matchmaker, Xu Hang's eyes dimmed in surprise. Thinking about coming to the court, the privy envoy is a first-rank official who specializes in military affairs, and his status is second only to The prime minister, Pingzhang, is also the minister who governs the world, and the daughter of the privy envoy's family is a match, which is no different from a heavenly girl getting married. After sending the matchmaker away with a nod and bow, Xu Hang couldn't help but hugged the ignorant Yan Ziqin and laughed.

"My son, my son! You are going to be a great success!" Seeing that he didn't smile, Xu Hang advised again, "Do you know what kind of honor this is?"

Yan Ziqin was unmoved, and said solemnly: "I am a disciple of the Son of Heaven, how can I get carried away by the matter of marriage."

Xu Hang nodded his smooth forehead, and laughed at him for being foolish in reading, "Nowadays, the officials and butchers in the court have no nepotism. It is a happy event for you to become the emperor's disciple, but after all, you are nothing more than a stepping stone. It's the talisman."

Scholars are a bit lonely. Yan Ziqin is young and simple-minded, and he regards the benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness in the book as a benchmark. Now his uncle has instilled some dirty principles about official career and economics. Even if he vents his anger on the future bride, he is also depressed. If Mingshu sees his swollen face, he will laugh back and forth a few times, poking his face and calling him "baozi".

Just when Yan Ziqin was angry about the marriage, and Qu Mingshu vomited his soul because of the endorsement, the parents of the two families had already completed the matters of acceptance, asking for names, accepting auspiciousness, and accepting recruitment. It's just a matter of asking for a date and welcoming you in person.

Qu Yuan Shi meant to choose an auspicious day after the palace examination and get married as soon as possible. In this way, it would be easy to arrange whether Yan Ziqin would stay in the palace of the capital, follow the path of the emperor and a close minister, or take up a foreign post.Xu Hang naturally agreed 1 times, and the letters he sent back to Yan’s family in Linchuan were like snowflakes, and sometimes he even sent several letters a day. He wanted to tell his sister Xu every detail, and he wanted to write this on his face. Let everyone in Bianliang know that he has a promising nephew.

In a blink of an eye, it was April [-]st, and it was the day when the candidates went to Da Nei Jiangwu Hall for the palace examination.Since Emperor Taizong, the palace examinations have mostly been held in March. This year, due to the earthquake in Western Shu, it was postponed to late April.

Whether Mingshu herself is willing or not, in the eyes of the Qu family, she is already Yan Ziqin's unmarried bride, and her husband's future is related to her life's honor and disgrace, so she can't be careless, so Mrs. Qu brought Mingshu to come here on the morning of the palace test Go to the Daxiangguo Temple by the Bian River, pray for Yan Ziqin's blessings, and be named on the gold list. Mingshu's blessings will be indispensable in the future.

Mingshu lacks interest in this marriage, but she has a love for Yan Ziqin that has nothing to do with love and love. She is also willing to burn incense and pray to the gods and Buddhas, praying to the gods and Buddhas that this little adult child will have a prosperous life and a peaceful life. It is best to find a beloved person. Let yourself go early.

After reading the previous words silently, when it was time to say "Let me go early", I was suddenly interrupted by a warm greeting. Looking sideways, it turned out that it was the wife of Taipusi Minister Yuan Tingyong who was walking tremblingly. Still follow daughter Yuan Yizhen.

Mrs. Yuan has a big heart and a fat body, kind and generous, and is the most understanding appearance. Although she is not very attractive, she is very enthusiastic. She and Ming Shu's mother have been close friends since childhood. They have known each other for half a lifetime, and they are better than sisters.

She has always been straightforward, and when she saw Qu's mother and son coming to offer incense, she pulled Mrs. Qu and said, "Rumei, your son-in-law became famous at a young age, and he is very talented, so lucky." Shu.

"It's no match for you. The two gentlemen are both in the palace examination. After today, father and son will be three Jinshi." Mrs. Qu laughed.

"They just read some books, and they come out to show off when they don't know much about it. There's nothing to mention." Madam Yuan kept waving her hands, but she was already grinning from ear to ear.

Mrs. Qu and Mrs. Yuan were close friends, they always had endless conversations, and now they caught up with the juniors, and they were more interested in talking, so they asked the monks to set up a vegetarian meal in the side room of the temple. After eating together, the two sipped tea and had a chat. Put the two girls to play in the small room behind Bisha's fan.

Without the control of their mother, both Qu Mingshu and Yuan Yizhen relaxed, leaning on the rose chair to rest and straighten their bodies for a long time.

Long before Ming Shu crossed over, the Qu and Yuan families became close friends because of his wife's handkerchief. Yuan Yizhen knew Ming Shu since she was a child, but because of her dementia, she could only look at this girl who was about her own age from afar. Later, Mingshu recovered from illness, and she had long since lost her place in the social circle among ladies. Yuan Yizhen voluntarily offered an olive branch and became her closest friend.

Yuan Yizhen grabbed a handful of money and asked Mingshu's maid, Chunxiu, to go to the busy market south of Longjin Bridge to buy a few bowls of sweet and heart-warming ice and snow cold yuanzi, and then sent her adoptive mother to look for fine porcelain bowls.

Mingshu looked at her showing power with cold eyes, nodded her head and said with a smile: "Bad bastards, send them all away, and then you will ask me some shameless words."

Yuan Yizhen squeezed Mingshu's greasy face, and said: "There's nothing shameless, congratulations on getting your son-in-law! Let the Ding family regret it."

The Ding family that Yuan Yizhen talked about is the residence of Ding Wei, the Duke of Jin. In the early years of Dazhong Xiangfu, Ding Wei served as a political adviser in Beijing, and the Qu Yuan Shi was an official under him when he was weak, and the two were also teachers. Yiyou, with his finger on his belly as a marriage, promised Mingshu, who was still in his belly, to Ding Wei's Si Ya Nei. Later, the Ding family found out that the girl was a fool, and the two families gradually became estranged due to political differences. Just give up.

Maybe it's because I haven't seen it with my own eyes, but Mingshu has never had a deep feeling for the Ding family's repentance. Besides, although Ding Wei has made several great achievements in water control and fighting against the enemy, he can collude with eunuchs, frame Zhongliang, abuse witchcraft, and deceive the emperor. There are too many things to enumerate, the world is treacherous, it is better not to get close...

"The Ding family is so famous, what difference does it make if you marry me or not? I want to congratulate you, both brothers are so promising." Ming Shu said.

"My eldest brother has passed the exam three times, and my second brother has also passed the exam twice. It is only now that I have fought my back. Otherwise, my father will let them go home and wait for the doctor to make up for it. A fellow Jinshi from the fifth rank is not like a petty official from the Yan family who securely won the rank of the first rank at a young age."

Yuan Yizhen complained about her elder brother on the surface, but in fact she lamented her marriage. She betrothed to Lao Pingzhang Zhang Zhibai's grandson, and she will leave the cabinet in the next year, but I heard that this small yamen does not make much progress, so she is really anxious.

This is a reminder to Ming Shu, since she is not capable of such a magical twist as escaping from marriage, she will still live under the same roof with Yan Ziqin for a period of time in the future, sharing weal and woe.

Thinking of this, her face was a little bewildered, and she couldn't cheer her up when eating snacks. Mrs. Qu saw that it was getting late and her daughter was dazed again, so she hurried back to the mansion. Afterwards, the two families lived in the east of the city, separated by three alleys. They wanted to cross Tianshuijing Lane before parting ways, but the car stopped suddenly.

Mrs. Qu was asking what Mingshu and Yuan Yizhen were talking about, when she stopped suddenly, shaking the mother and daughter.

"What's wrong?" Mrs. Qu asked.

"Return to Madam," said Qu Chang, the middle-aged steward of the Qu Mansion outside the car, "the road ahead is blocked by the imperial guards, I'm afraid it will take some time, so it's better to take another road."

Having said that, the heavy traffic behind has followed. For a while, walkers, riders, carts, and carts, all kinds of people crowded an alley to the brim, and the huge carriage of the Qu family turned around. open?Life and death are blocked on the road.

Mrs. Yuan didn't know, so she sent a servant to visit. Qu Chang explained the reason. After a while, the servant came again, saying that Mrs. Yuan felt bored twice, and he didn't know when the road was closed for no reason. To lift the ban, it's better for two families to get together in one car, so that they can have fun and take care of them.

Mrs. Qu was about to say that her carriage was more spacious and invited Mrs. Yuan's mother and daughter over, but she heard a terrified male voice outside, retching and saying:

"Dead...there is a corpse!"

The speaker was a middle-aged man dressed in rough cloth and short clothes, holding a wet wheelbarrow full of wooden boxes. He seemed to be a peddler selling well water.

The bustling crowd exploded, and an old man asked him, "Young man, what corpse? What's the matter?"

He snotted and burst into tears and said: "I just came out from the front, and fished out a male corpse from the well. The square scarf and shirt were worn by scholars. They were swollen with blisters. They were better than sauce jars. When they came out of the well, they couldn't pull them. It can't come out...the skin...the skin is torn apart, and the viscera is leaking everywhere!"

Everyone clicked their tongues after hearing this, and the discussion became more fierce. Mrs. Qu heard it clearly in the car, she endured her nausea and told the servants that they must never buy water from this well in the future, and told the Yuan family The servant went back to appease his wife and wife, it was very chaotic outside, so don't get out of the car.

Mingshu's heart also moved - a male corpse?well?Bubble swelling?Isn't it a phenomenon of giant view in forensic science?
The so-called giant view means that when the corpse decays and spreads to the whole body, the corrupt gas filled in the soft tissue of the corpse makes the whole corpse swell, the volume becomes larger, and the appearance is beyond recognition. It appears within a week after death, and can be shortened to one to two days in summer. The time is shorter.

Suddenly there was a disgusting stench, and people in the alley covered their noses one after another. Needless to say, it was the smell of corpses. Mingshu was a forensic doctor in her previous life, and recalling this smell still feels like a nightmare.

Qu Mansion's carriage was at the front, and he was the first to see a group of imperial guards with white cloths covering their mouths and noses coming out carrying a stretcher. The stretcher was covered with white cloths, and there was a suspicious shape raised high up, which should be the male corpse fished out of the well.

Mrs. Qu hurriedly ordered Chunxiu to put down the bamboo stick in front of the carriage, but it was too late, the wind lifted a corner of the white cloth, half of the head was exposed from the corpse on the stretcher, the skin was dirty green, the eyeballs were protruding, and the root of the tongue was exposed, which made Mrs. Qu faint past.

(End of this chapter)

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