Chapter 60

I can disagree with your position, even if we are close relatives.But for the common goal, I do not hesitate to make efforts.

This was Yan Shu's attitude. Looking at his uncle's straight back, Yan Ziqin felt endless gratitude in his heart.

It's the twelfth lunar month, and all the wintersweet in Dali Temple Qingyuan Tingyong's mansion is open, and it's the annual wintersweet party. The Yuan family has distributed invitations to invite relatives and friends to come and enjoy the beautiful scenery on this beautiful day.

The post was posted in Yan Ziqin's home, and Mingshu came to Jingzhao Mansion with the invitation, because she had promised Yuan Yizhen that she would expose to Yuan Tingyong at the Lamei meeting that Zhang Lin and Ding Huo tampered with Yuan Yicun's exam results and bullied Yuan Yizhen. Evil deeds may involve the confiscation of the Duke of Jin's mansion, so I came here to discuss with Yan Ziqin.

"Actually, I regret it a little bit." Ming Shu sat on the hard bed in the straight room of the yamen. This small room that can only accommodate one person is Yan Ziqin's residence for many days. It is surrounded by brick walls, and it is as cold as a room. cell.

When Yan Ziqin saw his wife came, he filled some charcoal fire and said, "What do you regret?"

Mingshu's ten fingers turned white, and said: "My mother will also go to Yuan's mansion, and then she will ask if I have any news. Recently, I have taken the tonic as usual and invited someone to check the pulse, but it is still the same. How can I talk to her? Tell me."

Yan Ziqin glanced at her with a smile, and said, "Normally, I don't live at home recently, so how could you have news."

Ming Shu hurriedly blocked his mouth, the walls and doors here are so thin, what if someone overhears it.

"Nonsense, even if there is news, it doesn't refer to these two days."

"Oh." Yan Ziqin counted with his fingers seriously, "Let me recall, once on the 16th of last month, twice on the [-]th, and on the [-]th..."

Ming Shu angrily covered his face with his clothes, and cursed: "Which pot is not opened and which pot is lifted, you are said to be fat, and you are still panting!"

Yan Ziqin said: "I am fat or not, and whether I am short of breath, you should know best."

As he said that, he sat down next to Mingshu with malicious intentions, and got a pair of warm eyes from the lady.

There was a sudden knock on the door, and Yan Ziqin immediately put on another face. Mingshu cursed in her heart, it turned out that a gentleman has two faces, and the righteousness on the outside is just pretending.

It was a yamen servant who came in, saying that he had found the cottage Yang Chun mentioned and rescued the person imprisoned by Wang Qinruo.Yan Ziqin ordered someone to settle him down, and he will arrive later.

After the yamen servant left, Yan Ziqin had no time to change into his official uniform, so he straightened the crown and belt in front of the mirror, and straightened the lapel of the gray casual clothes. Ming Shu stood behind him and said with a smile: "When outsiders are around, they are full of righteousness. The original shape is revealed, what about the promised gentleman Shendu?"

Yan Ziqin shook his sleeves and was about to go out. He said solemnly: "The love between husband and wife is in line with the way of heaven, and the sage will understand."

Before leaving, he also told Ming Shu: "If there is nothing wrong, go home early."

With a bang, the door closed, and the pillow that Mingshu threw at him was blocked behind the door.

When Yan Ziqin came to the front hall, it was already full of people. They were all Zhongliang Empresses who went to Beijing to appeal but were detained outside the city by Wang Qinruo. There are no old, weak, women and children.

When they saw Yan Ziqin coming, they didn't know who he was. A man in Tsing Yi who was about thirty stood up and asked, "When will your lords come over?"

There is a young man standing beside him, it is Yang Chun.

Yang Chun tugged at the man's sleeve, and whispered, "Brother, this is your lord..."

In an instant, more than a dozen pairs of eyes looked at Yan Ziqin in unison, either in surprise or eagerness, and the man who spoke couldn't help but let out a "huh".

He is Yang Chun's elder brother, Yang Hong, who brought his younger brother to avenge his father's grievance.Since his father Yang Yi was framed by Ding Wei and Wang Qinruo and relegated, he and his younger brother returned to their hometown of Pucheng, Jianzhou, where they lived for ten years by farming and studying.

For ten years, they kept their identities incognito and kept a low profile in order to reverse the case for their father one day.

The situation of the other people present was also the same. The situation of the Yang Hong brothers was not bad. There is no place to stand, and the sons and daughters live in the market, and there are also those who cannot eat three meals a day, and die in foreign lands.

One of them, named Dai Chang, whose grandfather was Dai Li, the magistrate of Qinghe County, was affected by the Ma Zhijie incident and demoted to a commoner.At the time of the accident, Dai Chang was only 11 years old, his parents died early, and he had no uncle. His grandfather was depressed and sick in his later years, and had no money to buy medicines. Dai Chang made a living selling grass shoes. When he returned home at night, he fell into a deep ditch without a lamp for lighting. His eyes were injured, and now he can only wander around the counties in the suburbs of Beijing, making a living by singing lotus flowers and begging.

On the other hand, Ding Wei's four sons, Gong, Huan, Huan, and Huan, are all officials, with gold and purple, and they hug each other. Comparing the two, they are all embarrassing.

The so-called accumulation of sand makes a tower, and all will make a city. What Yan Ziqin has to do is to accumulate Ding Wei's criminal evidence. When more and more people stand up to testify against him, even if he has the power to overwhelm the sky, he will eventually be unable to support him alone.

Arrange the relatives who came to redress their grievances, order the government officials to protect them day and night, and provide them with pens, inks, papers and inkstones, so that they can sort out their own experiences in detail and write them into pleadings.

On the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, Yan Ziqin went home and stayed overnight, because the next day was the day when Yuan Tingyong's family held a winter plum meeting, and he and Mingshu were going to the banquet.

In fact, it is just the beginning of the twelfth lunar month. If in previous years, there is still some time before the wintersweet blooms, but this year, for some reason, only the wintersweet in Yuan's mansion bloomed ahead of schedule. Yuan Tingyong, who loves flowers like his life, was surprised and delighted , I thought it was a sign of auspiciousness, and invited more guests to enjoy the wonders together. In the small courtyard, tourists in costumes can be seen everywhere, and the fragrance is floating everywhere, which is refreshing.

The men gathered in a small pavilion covered with thatched eaves to drink, and the women were scattered in the garden admiring the plum blossoms. Although Yuan Tingyong cherished the flowers and plants, he believed in the truth that "there are flowers that deserve to be broken." , allowing the guests to climb and fold, so the woman still lingers in the garden, looking for the most desirable flower branches.

"It's auspicious, but I look very strange." A dull female voice whispered in the corner.

This complaint happened to be heard by Mingshu, and she turned her head to look at the woman in surprise. In order to avoid her mother, Mingshu could only wander in a secluded place.I couldn't see Yuan Yizhen today, Mingshu was very worried, and suspected that she was bullied by Zhang Lin again, so it was inconvenient to go back to her mother's house for a banquet, but when she saw this woman, Mingshu's heart fluctuated, just because she was not married to her. The Yuan Yi at that time was somewhat similar, but upon closer inspection, it was not the similarity in facial features, but an unstoppable intelligence in the brows.

"May I ask which family's daughter the young lady is?" Mingshu suddenly felt close and wanted to chat with her more.

The little lady glanced at Mingshu, and said tentatively, "You...don't mean to sue the owner of this house!"

Ming Shu shook her head with a smile, and said, "If I wanted to file a complaint, would I ask you directly?"

The little lady breathed a sigh of relief, her pink face was very sweet against the snow-white rabbit fur collar, "I'm so scared to death, if my uncle knows that I said something unlucky, he will definitely be angry with me and tell my father I can't take it if my mother says bad things."

She said again: "By the way, my name is Xu Rou, what's my wife's name?"

It turned out that her surname was Xu.Mingshu remembered that Yuan Tingyong had a younger sister who was married to Taichang Cheng and Kaifeng county magistrate Xu Yan. Just now she heard Xu Rou call Yuan Tingyong's uncle, and she presumably was Xu Yan's daughter.

It turns out that she and Yuan Yi are really cousins, no wonder they resemble each other.

Ming Shu said: "My surname is Qu, and now I am married to the Yan family, and I am really good friends with your cousin Yuan Yi."

Xu Rou clapped her hands and said with a smile: "Madam is the elder sister Mingshu of the Qu family? When I was young, my cousin often mentioned you to me, saying that you are very loyal and good at telling stories, and what did you tell her... Run Tucha The story of the badger."

Wang Anshi, who was following Mrs. Shi's back, felt his back. His nickname is Badger Lang. Who wants to kill him!
Mingshu's face was full of black lines, complaining that Yuan Yizhen said everything.They were only 13 years old at that time, sitting by the small pool of Qu’s house eating watermelon on a midsummer night, Ming Shu looked at the golden full moon in the sky and the green watermelon in her hands, and suddenly remembered Lu Xun’s "Young Runtu", and casually wrote Said, but was remembered by Yuan Yizhen.

After comforting Wang Anshi who was "attacked" by Runtu, Ming Shu and Xu Rou came to sit down in the corridor together, holding hot tea to talk.

Xu Rou said with a sad face: "Speaking of my cousin, I haven't seen her for a long time. I thought she would come today, but I still don't see anyone. Since she got married, she hasn't left home for a year. I thought that married women would change. It's so boring and boring, but Mrs. Yan is also married, but she is different from them."

It turned out that the news that Mingshu was allowed to enter and leave the government freely had spread, and her ability to conduct autopsies was also spread. It was just that the gossip made the couple even more evil. Invite ghosts, let the dead open their mouths to sue and identify the murderer.

As a result, the Tongling case, the Shuzhou case, and the Jinxi case were all compiled into modern scripts, and people in Wasili talked about it every day, and it is said that the attendance rate was not bad.Because of the best-selling, artists with unlimited potential have compiled more cases, such as the case of the nine corpses in the Hangzhou brothel, the ghost murder case at the Saibei Post Station, and the poisoning case in the secret room of the merchant ship in the South China Sea.

But the problem is, they have never been to these places!

The common people expressed indifference, as long as the story is scary and pleasant.

What's more, it is said that Yan Ziqin was reincarnated without drinking Mengpo soup, and was reincarnated with the memory of his previous life, so he was familiar with the Five Classics at a young age, and he was born with an adult mind, and thus won the number one prize as a child prodigy.

These fallacies and heresies bothered the couple. Ming Shu once knocked his head and asked with a smile: "Master Yan, who didn't drink Meng Po soup, who were you in your previous life, tell me quickly."

Yan Ziqin lifted the hem of his clothes, and said seriously: "In the last life, I was your husband-in-law."

Mingshu thought to herself, I have a "previous life", why don't I know you as a "sister", so she smiled and said: "I left without getting married in my previous life, what kind of husband are you?"

Yan Ziqin also joked with her, saying: "Then I am the one who treats you best, think about it quickly, who is it?"

The person who treated her best in her previous life?In addition to her parents, she is the tutor of forensic science. From school to graduation, she has been following the tutor on missions. Even before crossing, she was at the scene of the crime with her tutor and was hijacked by the suspect.At that time, the mentor wanted to replace her as a hostage with himself, and she was in the Northern Song Dynasty in a daze.

The instructor is a 30-year-old forensic medicine king, and his smile is as warm as the sun in winter.There is a famous saying in their department-the instructor smiled slightly in the dissection room, and all the dead women were faked.

Then look at Yan Ziqin, who has just left the steamed stuffed bun form in front of him—what's with that salivating smile begging for sugar?

Standing on tiptoe and rubbing his head, Mingshu said, "Hey, take this plate of green tea and red bean cakes and go outside to play with Wang Anshi."

I really miss the time when I was about the same height as him, looking up at him is very tiring!
It's all because the rumors are too illusory, Ming Shu realized that Xu Rou looked at her with curiosity, even a little awe.

In desperation, he could only comfort her: "Miss Xu, don't be afraid, the same rice supports all kinds of people, and every husband and wife is different from each other."

Holding her bulging cheeks, Xu Rou sighed and said, "My father betrothed me to a poor scholar who he liked, and said that he would get married after high school in Chunwei next year. This situation is somewhat similar to Madam Yan back then. But I haven't decided whether to marry or not."

Mingshu smiled and said, "I don't know who is the talent that Uncle Xu has chosen for you?"

Xu Rou said sadly: "He, he seems to be called Ouyang Xiu."

Ming Shu was silent, she suddenly wanted to jump up, grabbed Xu Rou, shook her around, rolled her around, and yelled twice, attracting everyone to watch and hear her growl, "Silly boy! , stop complaining, grab that Ouyang Xiu!"

Wang Anshi seemed to see the frantic emotions suppressed by his mistress, he took two steps back silently, and said, "What's wrong with Ouyang Xiu, why is my wife so excited?"

Mingshu gave him a sympathetic look, and said in her heart, "Your predecessor, like you, is one of the eight great masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties!"

(End of this chapter)

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