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Seeing this, Wei Daopo was afraid that Wang Xifeng would not buy it, so she carefully explained to him how rare these two pills were, and it took six or seven years of careful maintenance to practice them well.

"Take care of it carefully? Do you still need to raise it for medicine?"

Wei Daopo realized that she had made a slip of the tongue, and quickly explained, "I said it is a kind of herb. It is extremely difficult to survive. It takes a few years of careful cultivation to bloom and bear fruit. This herb also has a good name, because it is so rare that ordinary people don't know it. It is called Chiqing grass, and the flower that blooms is called Chiqing flower. It blooms once every six years, only for a moment, and it must be picked off immediately at the moment when the buds open, before it can be used as medicine."

"This is new and rare." Wang Xifeng was really moved, and told Daowei Wei that she would keep the medicine, and asked Daowei Wei how much money she wanted, and Daowei Wei stretched out five fingers.

"500 taels?" After Wang Xifeng asked, she asked someone to get the money.

Wei Daopo shook her head.

Wang Xifeng frowned, "It's just two pills, and it costs 5000 taels."

"Grandma, I entrusted someone to get the seeds of this medicine from the southern border. Each seed costs 50 taels of silver. Among the forty or fifty trees, only one survives and blooms. During this period, it needs to be carefully cultivated day and night to bloom. For the first half of the month, I dare not be sloppy for a day, if I want to..."

"That's all, as long as you guarantee that this thing works, 5000 taels is nothing. Don't lie to me, otherwise don't blame me for turning my face and denying people!"

Wei Daopo was so frightened that she looked solemn, and hurriedly nodded her yes to Wang Xifeng.

After Wang Xifeng asked Ping'er to count the money to Wei Daopo, he asked Ping'er casually: "Is the old man back yet?"

Ping'er shook his head, "It's too soon, at most it will take a stick of incense."

Daoist Wei glanced at Wang Xifeng and was about to leave.Wang Xifeng wanted to ask someone to carry the sedan chair to take Wei Daopo back.Wei Daopo refused, and only said that walking is also a practice.Wang Xifeng didn't force her, and let her go.

Wei Daopo came out of Sister Feng's courtyard, walked a few steps, held her stomach and complained of pain, and asked the servant girl where the latrine was.Then he got into the hut and didn't come out for a long time.

The maid who was waiting outside became a little impatient and urged Mrs. Wei twice.

Wei Daopo hurriedly shouted: "I'm getting old, and I have this problem. If the girl is in a hurry, go to work first, and I will walk by myself in a while. People who are so old can know the way."

The servant girl agreed, and now I'm going.

Wei Daopo emerged from the hut, looked around, adjusted her appearance, and walked to the front yard of Rong Mansion.

After Jia Amnesty returned to Rongfu, he went to Jiamu's residence with great strides, and fixed the province on time.He never took many people with him, and now he went to the back house, not even Zhu Mao.

After Jia She passed the screen wall, he heard the sound of footsteps coming from behind him, turned his head vigilantly, and saw a woman walking over.The mother-in-law just raised her head and met his eyes, then stopped and hurriedly saluted.

Jia She raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at the woman, "Why are you here?"

Wei Daopo glanced at Jia She in surprise, knowing that Master Jia still remembered herself, she hurriedly grabbed the whisk in her hand and saluted Jia She, "I offended you on the street last time, I'm really sorry, I apologize again to you."

Wei Daopo saluted again, and then explained to Jia She that she was invited to come here and just accidentally went the wrong way.

Jia Amnesty said nothing more, turned around and continued walking.

Wei Daopo was stunned, looked up at Jia She's back, then caught up with Jia She, and said to Jia She: "My lord, please forgive the offense, how are you doing?"

Jia Amnesty stopped here again, and squinted at Daoist Wei: "You really offended."

Daoist Wei went forward again and again, and then said: "Poverty is a person of practice, and he hates seeing others suffer. There are black clouds over Mr. Jia's head. There must be something bad in the near future. If it's not you, then your family."

Jia Amnesty: "Who are you? Why should I believe what you say?"

Wei Daopo hurriedly introduced her identity, and pointing to the top of Jia She's head, expressing that she saw it with her own eyes.

"Liar, talking nonsense just for some money, really fooling me for a fool? Get out of here, don't show up in front of me." Jia She sneered, calling for people to send Wei Daopo away quickly.

Daoist Wei gritted her teeth secretly, but she didn't dare to do anything wrong, she hurriedly saluted and apologized to Jia Amnesty, she didn't need someone from the Rong Mansion to invite her, she could leave by herself.

Jia Amnesty saw Wei Daopo hastily choose the east road to leave, which is the direction to go to the west corner gate.He couldn't help laughing.Just now I told her that I was lost, but when I turned around, I knew the way so quickly.

Jia Amnesty then asked someone to quietly follow Wei Daopo closely to see if she really left the mansion directly.

After a while, Jia Amnesty was rewarded, and Wei Daopo went straight to the West Corner Gate and left without staying anywhere.

Jia She paused for a moment, then walked away.

After returning from Jia Mu's place, Jia Amnesty asked the housekeeper to summarize the list of all the people in charge of drinking water and cooking in the Rong Mansion.After reading it twice in detail one by one, and confirming that these people are very reliable sons of the Rong family and old people who have used them for more than ten years, they are considered to be worthless.

Jia Amnesty called Jia Lian and his wife again.

Jia Lian didn't know, so he just accompanied him, listening to his daughter-in-law and father talking about women with doubts in his mind, and said that he checked all the entrances in the mansion.

Jia Lian stretched his neck and listened for a long time, and finally couldn't help looking at his daughter-in-law and then at his father, "What's going on? Someone wants to kill us?"

"You don't need to worry about it, just don't bring any strangers home." Jia She dismissed her, and then asked Wang Xifeng for the two pills Wei Daopo gave.

When Wang Xifeng asked Ping'er to hand in the pills, there was still a trace of reluctance in her eyes.She really hoped that what Wei Daopo said was true, and that the infatuation medicine that Wei Daopo said in this world, if Jia Lian took this pill, could cure his lecherous disease.

Jia Amnesty saw through Wang Xifeng's thoughts at a glance, told Wang Xifeng to be more down-to-earth, and sent the couple back.

Wang Xifeng also understood the meaning of the last sentence of the master, she was indeed delusional again.There is no good thing in the world that can fly to the sky in one step without hard work.Anyway, she didn't meet her, and she didn't see anyone around her meet her either.Originally, she thought it was good luck that the master saved the fifteen princes and was suddenly appointed an official.Gradually, Wang Xifeng discovered that the old man was really capable. The reason why he was highly valued by the emperor was that he had talents that others did not have.

Wang Xifeng thought clearly, so she stopped thinking about anything.She glanced at Jia Lian who was walking back with her, and quietly took Jia Lian's hand.Jia Lian was stunned for a moment, then turned to look at Wang Xifeng, only thinking that her lowered eyebrows were pleasing to the eye and her flushed face was very attractive.Such a shy daughter-in-law is really lovable. Jia Lian smiled back and held Wang Xifeng's hand.

The couple tacitly took each other back to the room.

As a result, Wang Xifeng felt more and more that the relationship between husband and wife really requires mutual efforts.So I will also reflect on my own problems, thinking that I will have a good temper in the future.As for Jia Lian, she will try her best to lead him in a good direction.

……

Although the thirteenth issue of "Secrets of Neighbors" has been released for nearly half a month, as long as its content is mentioned, it will still cause some discussions among literati.

A poor scholar who finished his studies at Neighborhood Xuan went with his friends to eat wontons at the street corner.Because I heard the people at the next table talking about the elixir, I couldn't help but sigh.

"How many people practice alchemy and Taoism, delusional thinking that they can get longevity through a pill. But since ancient times, no one has really lived forever."

The friends who ate with him also said a few words when they heard the words.Some said that someone in their family died young because they believed in Falun Gong.When the people at the next table heard what they said, they quickly stood up and came over to explain to them, saying that there was indeed a Taoist priest who refined the elixir and became immortal after eating it, which was not like what was said in the book.

When everyone heard the words, they immediately refuted what the latter said, questioning whether they had seen it with their own eyes and whether there was evidence.

Seeing him shaking his head, everyone laughed twice, asking him not to talk nonsense.

"No matter how many rumors and hurtful things happen, there are still people who speak without evidence, talking nonsense!"

"That's right, look at Jia Yucun who is kneeling across the street. His mouth is rotten. If he hadn't repented in time and admitted that he had framed Mr. Censor, we would have been deceived into believing the rumors he fabricated. "

"It's pitiful to think about Master Jia, who was wronged by such a villain for no reason."

A few scholars finished their meal, because Jia She was wronged, they took the leftover wonton soup to the opposite side of the street one by one, and splashed Jia Yucun who happened to be kneeling there.

"You are really lucky. Kneeling here easily is considered a crime. Thanks to the kindness and generosity of Dr. Yushi, he doesn't care about a villain like you. You are not grateful to Dade, and kowtow to others to make amends!"

Jia Yucun was poured a head of warm wonton soup, and he lay on the ground with his buttocks pouted obediently.

A few scholars ridiculed that Jia Yucun's virtuous person was actually a Jinshi. They really humiliated the scholars and lost the face of their scholars. They spat a few times before leaving.

Jia Yucun tremblingly maintained a kneeling posture with his face on the ground. He had long been humiliated and abused a hundred times and a thousand times worse than this.Now his sense of shame is long gone, his whole body is numb, except for kowtow to apologize and explain to others that he is a sinner who framed Jia Amnesty, he hardly thinks or talks about other things.

In the afternoon, Jia Yucun was in a hurry to urinate, so he got up with sore legs and wanted to find a remote place to solve it.But he didn't want to be covered by two men in brocade robes and stuffed into the car as soon as he finished his work.Jia Yucun was terrified, struggling to beg for mercy, and wanted to continue kneeling at the street corner to apologize.He was afraid that Mr. Song's people would lose sight of him and think he was lazy, so they would take revenge on him and his family.

"I beg you to let me go quickly. I'm a sinner. I have nothing to catch. I can die, but I can't dishonor the reputation of my people, tarnish the ancestral hall and embarrass my ancestors, let alone make my wife and children look like street rats." , being despised and insulted by others.”

After Jia Yucun cried a few times, his mouth was gagged, and he could no longer utter a sound.

After bumping for a long time, the carriage stopped.Jia Yucun got out of the car with his face still covered. He felt the smell of flowers, grass and soil, as well as various birds and insects.Then he was pushed and pushed forward, and he could feel the grass under his feet, and the outside was bright and dark for a while, and he should be walking in a dense forest.

After walking for a long time, when Jia Yucun felt that his legs were sore and about to break, someone took off the cloth from his head.He squinted his eyes for a while, and found that there was a very imposing mansion in front of him. Even if he looked in through the high courtyard wall, he could still see the majesty and majesty inside.

The wind blows and the leaves rustle.

Jia Yucun turned his head to look around the house, where there were dense forests.The house seems to have been moved into the dense forest out of thin air, and the depths of the forest are somewhat dark, making it difficult to distinguish the north, south, east, and west.

I don't know, but I really thought this house belonged to a wealthy family in Beijing.

Jia Yu Village was immediately brought into the house, and there were rockery ponds, pavilions and pavilions in the courtyard, everything is complete.The most wonderful thing is that there is a small oasis in the pond, on which there are a pair of cranes, who are carrying them and walking leisurely with their slender legs proudly.

Even in the capital city, it costs a lot of money to get a house like this, not to mention it is built in the deep mountains.It can be seen how difficult and labor-intensive it was when it was built, and it is also enough to show that the owner of this house is powerful, and his identity must not be underestimated.

Jia Yucun was immediately ushered into a room where a bath and hot water had been prepared, and there was a new set of clothes, a plate of snacks, and a pot of tea on a table next to the tub.Jia Yucun took off his clothes, washed himself, put on clean clothes, and ate all the snacks on the plate.

This house is in such a deep forest, if you want to escape for a while, you will need a lot of physical strength, it would be too stupid not to eat.

After packing up all these, Jia Yucun was taken to the main hall by the stranger who escorted him.I saw a man with a whip and a mask sitting in the hall, watching Jia Yucun kneel down coldly.

"From today onwards, you are going to sell yourself to the Du Mansion, are you willing?" the man asked in an extremely pleasant voice.

"Du Mansion? Why? I am a dignified scholar, how can I sell myself into slavery—"

Before Jia Yucun could finish speaking, the man above him interrupted him with a sneer.

"Do you have any other choice? Signing this contract of sale will protect your family from any worries. I will also take care of Song Xi's side, and I will definitely satisfy you to 'keep the last face and not embarrass yourself in front of the clan'." wish."

Jia Yucun looked at the deed of sale, shook his hands, and remained silent.

"You already want to die, don't you? A person who is not even afraid of death is afraid of selling himself as a slave. Don't you want to overthrow the losing game that you made a mistake and start over again?"

The man reassured Jia Yucun that the deed was just a tool to make him obey the orders of the Du Mansion.As long as he is obedient and acts according to orders from now on, he will never publicize Jia Yucun's selling himself as a slave, even until his death, he can let him maintain a glamorous identity.

Jia Yucun was stunned for a moment, "Overthrow and start again? A bright identity? Heh, is there such a possibility for a person like me?"

"If you have such an attitude of resignation, you may have nothing at all." The masked man stood up, then snorted coldly, expressing his disappointment, and told people to throw Jia Yucun back to the street and continue to kneel.

Jia Yucun carefully looked at this person's figure, he was tall and slender, with peerless grace, and his voice sounded very young, only about twenty years old.Not to mention a young man like him, only 50 to [-] years old, there is probably no one in the capital who dares to challenge Song Xi.

"Who are you, and why can you influence Song Xi's thoughts?"

"You don't need to know too much, it shouldn't be just one sentence, my patience is very short." The man's voice became cold.

Jia Yucun immediately took the pen from the maid, wrote his name on it, and then marked it.

The masked man smiled in satisfaction, looked Jia Yucun up and down, then turned his head to his subordinates and said: "Although he is a bit older, there are still a lot of training steps. He will exercise his will in the first month. I don't want me The Du Mansion made an exception to accept No.1, who is actually a traitor who is hypocritical and hypocritical."

Jia Yucun was stunned, and was about to ask who he was and what the so-called training was, when he was dragged out by force.Jia Yucun took one last look at the man's back, and thought carefully about those aristocratic families in Beijing, but he still couldn't find anyone who could match up with this figure.

Jia Yucun was immediately led to the training ground in the back mountain. Seeing all kinds of strange things, he almost went blind.

Jia Yucun immediately looked at the person escorting him, "You don't want me to learn martial arts?"

The boy escorting Jia Yucun shook his head and pointed to a bush of thorns beside the training ground, surrounded by piles of rocks.

"Within one month, clean up this area, plant vegetables, and the task must be completed when they sprout. Otherwise, when the deadline is up, if you can't finish it, have you seen the wooden shelf over there?" the boy sneered. Let Jia Yucun guess for himself what the punishment method is.In short, the person on the shelf who has been on the shelf once, is desperately willing to die, and does not want to go to the second time.

While Jia Yucun was shocked, he was still full of doubts.He was still worried that Song Xi would take revenge on him when he found out that he had disappeared suddenly, as he had said at the beginning.

"The master's promise has never been broken. Since you have signed the contract of sale, you choose to obey the master, and you will never suffer. If you hesitate and delay the time, you will not only provoke our master's taboo, but also be punished." Song Xi's revenge is really a matter of life or death."

After Jia Yucun heard the boy's words, he stared hard, rolled up his sleeves and planned to do it quickly.

"What about tools? For example, sickles and hoes for land reclamation."

"No, figure it out yourself."

……

After Jia Amnesty was released from Yushitai today, he took a car to the Neighborhood Pavilion.

Jia Amnesty made an excuse on Tongtai Street that he did not see the kneeling Jia Yucun as usual.Jia Amnesty thought that the rumors in the capital had long since disappeared, and Song Xi should have sent Jia Yucun away.Jia Yucun also suffered a lot of inhuman humiliation and abuse during this period.For a scholar who was born as a Jinshi, what he experienced during these days was life and death, and he couldn't ask for death.

He deserved to be taught a lesson like this.

Jia Amnesty also stopped thinking about Jia Yucun, and focused on the matter of Wei Daopo, and listened to the surveillance reports of the secret guards in the neighbor's house every day.

In fact, from the time when Wei Daopo plotted against Grandma Huang, Wei Daopo's every move every day was under the control of Jia She.

Ever since Jia She found out that Wei Daopo was the woman who bumped into him, he knew that she was after Rongfu this time.

Sure enough, Wei Daopo got acquainted with Youshi through Grandma Huang, and cleverly asked Grandma Huang to lobby Youshi, so that she was recommended to Rongfu.

Of course, Wei Daopo didn't let Grandma Huang talk for nothing, and specially gave her 500 taels of silver as a reward.

Seeing that Wei Daopo has her eye on Rongfu, Jia Amnesty followed suit and joined forces with Wang Xifeng to sing a play with Wei Daopo.

Although Wei Daopo was dispatched, Dr. Min still lived in seclusion, did not do anything out of the ordinary, and did not contact Wei Daopo.

Jia Amnesty has been waiting patiently.

After Wei Daopo was provoked by his words in Rongfu, she obviously showed dissatisfaction and wanted revenge.

Based on her ferocious nature, which is used to getting human life in her hands, Jia Amnesty is sure that she will make another move, and she will definitely contact Dr. Min.

Wei Daopo has not returned to the Taoist temple now, since she entered the Rong Mansion, she has been staying in the inn and has not left the capital.

Four days later.

Wei Daopo and Dr. Min both went out at midnight and got together in a ruined temple in the east of the city.

Because the days in May are also warm, and the nights are not too cold.

As soon as the two people met, they did nothing else, they made a lot of noise, and then they made intermittent low groans.The secret guards who were watching by the third class of ghosts stared in surprise, which is considered a long-term experience.

Dr. Min usually looked like an ordinary man, but he didn't expect to be quite capable of tossing around.Gui San and the others waited for nearly two hours before they heard the obscenity inside stop, and then whispered voices came out.Not long after that, the two came out of the ruined temple one after the other.Guisan's men divided into two teams, tracking Wei Daopo and Dr. Min respectively.

After Wei Daopo returned to the inn, she took out a cloth bag from under her armpits, which was only big enough to be held in both hands.

Gui San and the others lay on the roof, observing quietly, and then sent a message to Jia Amnesty.

On the second day after that, Daoist Wei took the initiative to come to the Rongfu, saying that she would give Wang Xifeng a few amulets of town house and family prosperity. In addition, she also wanted to ask Wang Xifeng about the effect of taking the medicine.

Wang Xifeng didn't know what the medicine was, so she just smiled and said yes perfunctorily, and then asked Wei Daopo how to paste the talisman. After Wei Daopo instructed her to paste it on the lintels of various places, she said that the Stove Lord should also paste it.

Wang Xifeng sent the little maid to accompany Wei Daopo.

After Wei Daopo went to the two kitchens, she didn't do it when she had the opportunity. She waited until she arrived at the kitchen of Rongxi Hall. It landed on a cup of bird's nest, and while they were not paying attention, he conjured a bottle from his sleeve, intending to open the bottle to pour the poison, but was caught on the spot.

Wei Daopo was then secretly imprisoned in Gyeonggi Prefecture.Ghost San then went to search the ruined temple in the east of the city, and found a hidden compartment under the ruined Buddha statue. After opening it, there was a three-foot-square space inside, filled with various jars, incense and other things.

The third ghost wrapped these things in cloth and brought them all to Gyeonggi Province.In Gyeonggi Prefecture, Song Xi had invited a Nanjiang doctor who knew the art of poisonous Gu, and Gao Boming from the Imperial Hospital and two other imperial doctors also came to check it together.

The next day, the news that the elder of the Rong Mansion had a headache and went mad spread throughout the capital.