Canghe

The outskirts of the capital are a little bit bleak. After the Spring Festival, the grass and trees that have been gray for the whole winter have not yet glowed with new vitality. The gray trees and the dark blue distant sky.Cang Lan walked to the mass grave, a little dazed, and picked a small path up the mountain.A few scattered and dilapidated tombstones are scattered and skewed on the mass grave. The trees on the hill are tall, and the branches without green leaves cover the sky. Crows walk among them, and the sound of singing is transmitted through the branches. Abrupt and disconcerting.

Tingwei Mansion

Because of Zhou Zifang's case, Ting Wei Li Maoding was overwhelmed with work, and took into custody a few hooligans who were wandering around at the time of the case.Several people who were traveling with Zhou Ziwei were sent to identify him, but they all said no, the case didn't make any progress, so Li Maoding had to bring those people to trial again and again.As a result, the rumors in the city became even worse, saying that Li Maoding was not capable enough to catch Gongsun, so he wanted to blame others.

Seeing that the seven-day limit is slowly approaching, even Li Maoding's wife, Mrs. Tang, can't sleep at night. In private, they use nepotism to help her husband search for talents to solve the case. They have also found a few capable people, but the case is still at a loss. , Could it be a sneaky act?Tang had to go to Guiyuan Temple to pray every day.

Li Maoding had just finished his lunch, and Mrs. Tang was wiping Li Maoding's hands with a hand towel, when someone from his servants reported that a person was asking to see him outside the mansion. He called himself Wei Yuan, and said that he could help him solve the case.Ever since the emperor gave him an order to solve the case within seven days, many people have recommended themselves to his mansion, but most of those people are mediocre people who just want to take advantage of Li Maoding's troubles and take the opportunity to board the big boat of Tingwei's mansion , Li Maoding's patience was gradually worn away.

At this time, Li Maoding was upset when he heard the report from the servants, he frowned and said, "No see."

If it was normal, Tang would not say a word, but thinking about her husband's recent troubles handling the case, he said: "Master, why don't you meet this Wei Yuan first, if you dare to recommend yourself, you must have some extraordinary skills, say Maybe I can share one or two for the master."

Li Maoding thought of those people who came to recommend themselves in the past, and snorted coldly, "Solve the case? I just want to seek profit, so how can I learn anything!"

"But the seven-day limit is getting closer and closer. If several people help the master solve the case, the master can relax a bit, right?"

"What do you, a woman, know?" Li Maoding became annoyed when he heard the seven-day limit, and immediately vented his anger on Tang.

Seeing Li Maoding's expression, Tang didn't say anything more, Li Maoding frowned and asked the servant to retreat.

Tang called his maid: "Prepare for me, and go to Guiyuan Temple to offer incense in the afternoon." The maid took the order and retreated.Thinking of her husband's irritable appearance, Tang sighed softly.

There were not many people offering incense in Guiyuan Temple. When Mrs. Tang walked into the gate of the temple, cigarettes filled the air, and there was the faint sound of monks chanting sutras. Mrs. Tang walked around the incense burner, bowed devoutly in the main hall, and lit three lamps for offering on the platform.Tang Shi brought some incense money, which was carried by a few servants. Tang Shi ordered her maidservant to hand over the incense money to the little master in charge.After offering incense, Tang walked around the main hall and saw a master who had unwrapped the lottery bowed to her, "Amitabha!" Tang quickly returned the salute and asked, "Master, can I ask for a lottery here?"

The monk looked at Tang Shi, then narrowed his eyes and said, "Does this benefactor have any unresolved knots in his heart?"

Tang Shi was startled, thinking of Li Maoding's troubles today, he said: "Yes, I hope Master can point out a way."

"The benefactor comes here and asks for a signature."

Tang shook the stick piously, and with a "snap", a lottery fell out.

When it rains and asks if it’s sunny, it will rain. When it’s sunny, ask the rainer if it’s sunny.

Tang was stunned, "Master, what is the explanation?" The monk took the signature and said to Amitabha, "Everything depends on destiny, don't force it."

Don't force it? "Thank you for your answer, master." Tang saluted.Na Hewei said nothing, put his palms together and bowed to Tang, then turned and left.

Don't force anything, obsession hurts people.

Amitabha.

Tang shi carried the signature in the sedan chair, feeling a little uneasy in his heart, heaved a sigh of relief, raised a corner of the sedan chair curtain, and looked at the street scene outside.Suddenly, I saw a man in white clothes without an official uniform and a bamboo hat standing in front of my house. Presumably, he was not my husband's colleague, so the only person who came to the house was a self-recommended person.Tang's heart moved, "Stop the sedan chair!" The bearer stopped quickly, and the maid asked Tang what he needed, Tang pointed to the man in front of the mansion, "Go and ask if he is Wei Yuan."

"Yes." The maid bowed.Tang Shi watched the man take off his bamboo hat from a distance, and politely said a word to the maidservant.

The servant girl reported back: "Mrs., that person is not Wei Yuan. His real name is Jin Li, and he wants to make a living under the master."

Everything goes by fate, everything goes by fate...

"Take him into the mansion." Tang put down the sedan chair curtain.

Jin Yue didn't expect that he could enter Tingwei's mansion so easily, he was stunned, and followed the footsteps of the maid.

Li Maoding was still working in the study, and Tang sent someone to inform Li Maoding that he led Jin Li to the study.

Li Maoding didn't want to see Jin Yue at first, but he regretted his attitude towards Tang Shi at noon, so he didn't refuse.The two talked in the study.

It was already dark when Cang Lan returned to Jin's Mansion, he went out for a walk but was more tired than usual.Back in the room, he took out the fox fur and looked at it carefully, his eyes were a little frozen, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Some kid blew up a cannon on the street, and he came back to his senses as if he had just woken up from a dream. After a while, he put the fox fur back into the bottom of the box, took out the lantern, and hung it under the eaves.

At the same time, Jin He stopped writing in the room, looked at the cold moonlight, sorted out the last letter, and told Mi Zhu to go to the deserted temple in the suburbs tomorrow.

A gust of wind blew by, and a pair of red lanterns swayed gently.

The author has something to say: I couldn’t make up the signature text (ashamed), so I just took it and used it. It can be understood that when it wants to rain, it will be drought for years, and when it wants to be sunny, it will be continuous rain.So let everything go with the flow and don't pursue it deliberately.