A glance at the spring breeze

"Spring breeze... blowing the face... willows... Yiyi..." Early in the morning, there was a burst of intermittent singing singing in the courtyard of Granny Lu next door.This burst of singing has a weird melody and dull timbre. It can be said to be otherworldly and refined, and very human can appreciate it.

"Brother, what are you singing! You don't even have a tune!" Qi Wen threw away the chestnuts in his hand and cried while covering his ears.

Sitting under the tree, Granny Lu was peeling peaches. Judging by her expression, she was obviously more calm than Qi Wen. The peel of the fruit fell to the ground in circles, revealing the white and fat flesh.

"This is what my mother taught me, so you can just listen to it." After Qi Mo finished speaking, he continued to sing, "Birds...Flowers...Yangchun...March..."

Qi Wen picked up the chestnut shell at hand and threw it at Qi Mo, and said with a look of disgust: "Come on, mother won't sing so badly. Every time you say that you sing what mother taught you , the result is that the first few characters are the same every time, and the latter are different every time! How can there be such a song, you can lie to people!"

Qi Mo was not annoyed by the chestnut shells sprinkled all over his body: "Oh... I was young when my mother taught me this song, how can I remember so much... It's good to remember the tune."

"Liar! The worst thing you sing is the tune!"

"In the past few days, I haven't been able to sing well after going out early and returning late. I'm suffocated. Today, Ruan Lan and his brother are sleeping soundly in the courtyard next door, so let me sing a few words quickly."

Qi Wen hugged his arms together, "hum" said: "It's fortunate that Granny Lu woke up early, otherwise I will definitely beat you back, let's see where you sing!"

Facing his younger brother's disdainful face, Qi Mo was very open-minded, and continued to sing confidently: "Spring breeze... blowing face... willow... Yiyi..."

"Grass grows... Yingfei..."

In the middle of singing, a peach was stuffed into Qi Mo's hand.

The peach flesh is white with a light pink, with a bright luster.At first glance, it is the kind of good peach with sweet and juicy flesh.

"Qi Mo, hurry up and eat." Granny Lu smiled kindly and kindly, "It's specially cut for you, it won't taste good after a long time."

"Thank you, mother-in-law!" Qi Mo immediately raised his forehead, stopped singing, and said while eating, "Well, this peach is delicious, sweet and soft."

"Heh... Then the mother-in-law will continue to cut two more for you."

"Thank you mother-in-law!"

Qi Wen next to her secretly gave Granny Lu a thumbs up.

Huh... the ears are finally quiet!

……

When Ruan Lan woke up in a daze, there was nothing around her.

Looking back, Yin Jian had already put on the clothes that Ruan Lan gave him yesterday, and was sitting at the table frowning slightly, staring at his fan inlaid with gold and silver.

For some reason, Ruan Lan felt that Yin Jian looked... quite vigilant at this moment.

As soon as Ruan Lan sat up, she heard Yin Jian say, "Are you awake?"

"Um……"

"I just checked your hand and found that your fingertip is broken."

"What?..." After hearing this, Ruan Lan quickly spread her hands in front of her eyes, and she saw that a layer of skin was scraped off her right fingertips at some point, but there was no blood spilling out, so it should be fine.

Ruan Lan said: "It's just a little bit of skin damage, nothing serious."

Yin Xian walked up to Ruan Lan and stretched out a hand, only to see that the flesh on the fingertips of the five fingers of the left hand and the knuckles of the index finger of the middle finger had already festered, looking scarlet and terrifying.

"This is..." Ruan Lan woke up completely from the sleepiness in the morning.

Yin Zhen withdrew his left hand and said: "Yesterday, this fan blocked a white smoke from that house for the two of us, do you still remember?"

Ruan Lan said: "Remember."

Yin Jian continued: "When I took back this fan, I used my left hand. Yesterday I didn't notice any abnormality, but when I woke up this morning, my left hand suddenly changed into this look... Afterwards, I put the clothes I wore yesterday I took it to have a look, and found that after one night, the place where the folding fan was originally placed has been completely broken."

Fortunately, there were clothes blocking it, otherwise, the torn flesh would be the flesh on his chest.

"I also touched that fan yesterday." Ruan Lan recalled carefully, "It's just that the poison on the fan surface was diluted by rainwater at that time, and most of it had seeped into the fabric, and the toxicity was greatly reduced. Therefore, my finger It's just that the skin is broken, but there is no blood."

Yin Jian agreed, "Exactly."

"But...Your Majesty, what kind of poison has such a miraculous effect? ​​It is obviously the poison powder that was applied yesterday. Since it can achieve the effect of festering the flesh, it should be poisoned immediately. Why did you and I find out this morning? ..."

Yin Xian shook his head, his eyes full of suspicion: "It was originally white when it floated in the air, but it became colorless and tasteless when attached to the flesh. If it weren't for the fact that the skin on my hand is now ripped apart, you and I wouldn't be able to notice it at all. Interesting What's more, it is corroding the flesh, and the flesh seems to be corroding it too. There is no trace of poisoning in the wound, and there is no poison powder residue. Although I don't know what kind of drug it is, but it is different from the effect and form of ordinary strong poisons. I suddenly remembered someone."

Ruan Lan's thick eyelashes fluttered, and he looked up at Yin Jian, with an imperceptible gleam in his eyes: "Unfortunately, I also think of someone."

The two looked at each other for a while, and said in unison: "Lianfang."

Lianfang was the maid who died in the well of the imperial garden.

She died silently, but only a skeleton and skin remained after her death.

——The internal organs in the body are all gone.

But not only did he not have any cuts on his body, nor did he find signs of poisoning in his body.If the dose of poisonous powder on this fan is just right, can the internal organs be corroded just right, leaving only a pair of skin and bones?

The fan inlaid with gold and silver is still intact, so it can be seen that the poison can only corrode flesh, but cannot corrode hard things like gold, silver and bones.

Ruan Lan looked at Yin's bloody left hand and felt even more uneasy. He took out the package from under the bed and found the small roll of gauze that Qi Mo hadn't used up before.

"Your Majesty, please give me your hand."

Yin Jian looked at the ball of white cloth in Ruan Lan's hand, stretched out his hand, and smiled at the corner of his mouth: "A Lan, I thought you wanted me to die."

Ruan Lan wrapped the gauze around and around, and said very honestly: "Under the whole world, there is no king's land; within the four seas, there are all kings and ministers. Although in terms of love, I really hate Your Majesty, but Cheng Wang Defeated bandits, your majesty is your majesty after all, and the king is the guide of ministers. Even if I am a guilty minister, I can't break the rules of the three cardinal guides and five constant principles. If all the ministers only treat people according to their temperament, and don't obey the words of the saints at all, the world Isn't it going to be a mess?"

"..."

After hearing this, Yin Jian didn't show any emotional changes on his face, he just pursed his lips tightly, didn't answer, and remained silent for a long time.

After Ruan Lan finished bandaging Yin Xian, she heard Yin Xian say, "When I went out just now, I learned that Grandma Lu had been sent down the mountain by Qi Mo."

"Going down the mountain?" Ruan Lan asked suspiciously, "Why?"

"It is said that Granny Lu's daughter is going back to her natal family today to visit relatives."

"So... it seems that we have to find other people to ask."

"Just now Qi Wen told me that every morning on North Street, there is an old man who sets up a stall to buy pancakes there. The old man also moved up from the mountain."

"Then we can go ask him."

"You wash up as soon as possible, and we will go to North Street for breakfast in a while."

After the two rushed to North Street, they walked all the way west, and they saw a pancake stand with a thriving business.There was a long queue in front of the booth, and at the head of the dragon stood a shirtless old man with a shiny face, sweating profusely and spreading pancakes in front of the stove.

There was also a piece of paper pasted next to the old man, on which three lines of big characters were neatly written: "Come from the capital, the secret recipe passed down by the ancestors, the emperor said it was good after eating it."

After watching Ruan Lan, she turned her head and glanced at Yin Jian.

They stood in front of the pancake stand for a long time, and when they saw the long queue gradually disappearing, they walked up to the old man and said, "Two pancakes."

The old man quickly made a ball of dough with both hands and slapped it on the iron plate: "Okay, do you want chopped green onion?"

"want."

"Please wait, it will be ready soon. It's ten coins in total."

Yin Jian took out a large ingot of silver from his bosom, and the old man stared straight at the sight: "This little brother... I'm a small business, I can't find it for a while..."

Yin Jian threw the silver into the old man's coin box: "Don't look for it, it's for you."

"This..." Although the old man hesitated in his words, his face was obviously full of joy and joy, "Then, guest officer, I'll add another egg for you. Look."

Yin Jian said: "Actually, apart from buying pancakes, I also want to ask my brother one thing."

"What's the matter?" The old man put the shiny silver in the change jar into his purse, "I will answer every question, and I will tell you everything!"

Yin Jian looked at the old man and said, "Brother, I heard that you were not from Qijia Village."

"Haha, this is not a rare thing. Everyone in Qijia Village knows that the owner of the pancake stall on North Street is not from the village, but moved from the mountain." The old man laughed heartily, and the pancakes under his hands "sizzled "The ground is filled with the fragrance of chopped green onions.

Yin Jian narrowed his eyes: "Then... since when did you live at the foot of the mountain, brother?"

The old man shoveled away the edge of the golden pancake that was pasted on the iron plate, and replied, "I have lived here since I was born, and I have almost never left. Why do you ask this?"

Yin Xian said: "Then do you know what happened to the Yin House in the back mountain?"

The old man was about to roll up the pancakes and put them in a paper bag, when he heard Yin Jian's question, he immediately stopped what he was doing, leaned over and extinguished the firewood under the stove.

"I'm not doing business today, little brother, you can go." The old man suddenly lowered his face and waved his hands. Pick up the remaining basket of eggs, turn around and leave.

The half-rolled pancake just lay on the iron plate and never got up again.

"and many more……"

"Little brother, I don't think you are from Qijia Village. You can go back wherever you came from. I advise you not to inquire about this matter."

Afterwards, the old man shook his head holding the egg, ignored the two of them, and sighed softly as he walked away, "Today is really bad luck..."

Yin Jian was still holding the ingot of silver that the old man returned to him, looking at the distant figure of the old man, he asked Ruan Lan, "Why?"

Ruan Lan also had doubts on her face: "It's probably because I'm afraid in my heart, so I don't want to say more."

The two turned their heads and saw the three lines of bright characters next to the pancake stand again.

Looking at it now, it is quite dazzling.

The third sentence is clearly written: the emperor said it was good to eat.

But before the emperor could eat it, the stall owner abandoned his stall and ran away.