Reborn as the favorite of the cold-faced general

After sleeping lightly for two hours, it was already dark.

The monks in the temple packed the food boxes for dinner, knocked on the door, and put them outside the door, and would not come in, which saved two people from changing into those shameful women's clothes.

After the monk's footsteps left, Chu Tingyun opened the door, took the food box and opened it.He took out several stacks of side dishes one by one, green vegetables, tofu, cabbage, beans... Ye Huaiyun saw that his face was getting darker and darker, and finally, he slapped the chopsticks on the table with a "snap".

I can't see any oil or water, and I have no appetite.

Ye Huaiyun didn't know whether to laugh or cry. After washing his bamboo chopsticks with boiling water, he took a little bit of each dish and put them in his bowl. He persuaded: "The monks' six senses are pure. Since we have come to the temple, we must not destroy the Buddhist gate." rule."

Chu Tingyun gave a cool "um", swallowed a green bean as if chewing wax, and even frowned.

Ye Huaiyun saw it funny, and couldn't help asking: "How did you eat in the military camp before?"

"Grab the enemy's food." Chu Tingyun held his cheek with one hand, and licked his lips as if thinking of something delicious, "Hey, you haven't tasted it before. The pigs, ducks, cattle and sheep of the border tribes were put on fire. Baked, sprinkled with some salt and cumin... Tsk, that taste..."

Ye Huaiyun couldn't help but swallowed when he heard his description, and quickly interrupted Chu Tingyun's words, otherwise, even he would feel that the food in front of him was lacking.

He picked up the chopsticks again, and suddenly, "Ah——"

Outside the meditation room, a woman's sharp cry resounded through the night sky, and then the woman ran to the open space in front of the courtyard, shouting over and over again: "Come here! Is there anyone! Come and save my wife!"

Outside the house, there was a sound of hurried footsteps, Ye Huaiyun raised his head and looked at Chu Tingyun suddenly, and immediately stood up and wanted to go out to check.

Chu Tingyun grabbed his wrist from behind, glanced at his clothes, "Are you going out like this?"

It was only then that Ye Huaiyun realized that they were admitted to the hospital as women, even if they changed back to their skirts, it would not be appropriate to rashly mix in with a group of women.The two walked to the window, opened the window, and watched from a distance to see what happened.

The maids in the nearby meditation rooms seemed to come out to help, and boiled hot water with iron pans, but the screaming of the women in the room did not stop.

Although the two are men, they can guess what happened.

As far as they could see at this time, they couldn't see the scene in the room. Ye Huaiyun turned to look at Chu Tingyun: "What do you think?"

"Only based on this matter, it's hard to make a conclusion." Chu Tingyun shook his head, "What if it's really her own carelessness."

"But..." Ye Huaiyun pursed her lips and said, "The side wife also lost her child in the Qiuzi Temple, there may not be a connection between them."

"Then do you want to go over and find out?" Chu Tingyun saw his suspicion and asked directly.

"No need." Ye Huaiyun answered faster than he asked. He really didn't want to wear skirts anymore, so he said, "Let's go for a walk in the back mountain."

The night wind was blowing, and the two walked in the silent woods.

The temperature at night in the mountains was lower than in the city, and Ye Huaiyun couldn't help shrinking his neck when a few gusts of wind blew past.

"I told you to go out with so little clothes on." Chu Tingyun deliberately teased him, but he still took off his robe and put it on for him.

Ye Huaiyun stared at the plain white fingers tied on his chest, her throat rolled, and she silently swallowed the phrase "If you want to see me in women's clothing, just say so."

Suddenly, Chu Tingyun paused with his knotted fingers, and narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Why..." Just as Ye Huaiyun opened his lips, he put his index finger between his lips.

"Hush—" Chu Tingyun whispered into his ears, "There is someone in front."

Ye Huaiyun was dragged by him to hide on a short tree, there was a stone tablet below, and there were two monks kneeling in front of the stone tablet, one of them was the abbot of the courtyard.

The wind blows the leaves and rustles softly. Apart from this, the only thing in this silent jungle is the host who hums "Amitabha Buddha" for a long time.

After a long time, the host stood up and said to another monk beside him, "Junior brother, this is already the third life, I don't want to stay here any longer."

"Brother, that lord will not let us go." The monk also stood up with him, as if reminding him: "You forgot that we have something in his hands."

"But..." The host paused, and sighed in great annoyance, "I shouldn't have been obsessed with ghosts and promised him to do that."

After speaking, he bowed towards the tombstone again.

"Brother, you don't have to blame yourself." The monk stood behind him with a lukewarm attitude, "Even without our help, that lady's fate would not have changed. As for the three unborn lives...not us wrong."

Hearing this, the host suddenly turned around to look at him, clutching a Buddhist bead in his hand, "Do you know something?!"

The monk smiled without sincerity, "Brother, I'm thinking too much. I, like you, don't know anything."

It wasn't until the host left with a long sigh that Chu Tingyun brought Ye Huaiyun down the branch.

Walking to the tombstone, Chu Tingyun polished the torch.Ye Huaiyun's pupils shrank suddenly as the flames illuminated the words engraved on the tombstone.

—— Madam Ji Ding.

The two naturally knew that Mrs. Ding mentioned here refers to the side lady who pretended to be a female ghost.It seems that few people knew about her lucky survival.

It's no wonder that when they first came to the temple, the abbot frowned as soon as Mrs. Ding Fang was mentioned.

It seems... huh, it's a guilty conscience.

"According to what the monk said just now, it is not accidental that women living in the temple have miscarriages." Ye Huaiyun said: "Do you have any doubts?"

Chu Tingyun took his hand and walked back, but did not answer right away. Just when Ye Huaiyun was about to ask again, he suddenly said, "Poisoned."

"Poisoned?" Ye Huaiyun frowned.

Although he is a man, he grew up in the palace, so he has some understanding of this matter.

As far as he knew, the cause of the woman's miscarriage was nothing more than a severe bump and injury, or being injured by something inappropriate.

And the same thing happened three times in a row, if it was the former, it would be too coincidental.But if it is the latter, someone must have framed and drugged them, but just now the monk said that the loss of the little life was not their fault, and ruled out the possibility of someone doing something wrong.

After thinking about it, he just felt that he couldn't think clearly.

The two had already walked back to the backyard at this time, and the whole yard became quiet again. Chu Tingyun threw the wooden bucket into the well, fetched a bucket of water and went back to the room.

After closing the door and lighting the candles, Chu Tingyun poured two more cups of tea for each other before continuing: "It's because the monk said it wasn't their fault that I concluded it was poisoning."

Ye Huaiyun looked at him sideways, almost writing why in three big characters on his face.

Chu Tingyun stretched out his hand to wrap the broken hair scattered around his neck behind his ears, and said, "Someone is poisoned, not necessarily someone else is poisoned." He paused, and said more clearly: "If this poison... exists in what? where?"

Ye Huaiyun finally understood what he meant, picked up the teacup and shook it in his hand, but then he had a new question: "But what could be poisoned?"

Chu Tingyun shook his head. He has no thoughts on this point yet.

Ye Huaiyun sighed, subconsciously wanting to drink tea.

The candle on the table flickered, and a glint of glaze light flickered across the edge of the teacup. Chu Tingyun suddenly pressed his hand firmly, "Don't drink!"

Ye Huaiyun was taken aback by his sudden roar, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Chu Tingyun took the tea cup in his hand and put it on the table, then took out the tea set and used another porcelain cup that had not yet been poured, and moved the candlestick closer.

Ye Huaiyun looked along his line of sight, the inner wall of the teacup filled with water showed a faint turquoise color, while the other cup was pure white porcelain.

They didn't make tea just now, and the water they drank was groundwater directly drawn from the well, which should not be colored according to reason.

Chu Tingyun opened the lid of the teapot again, and Ye Huaiyun looked inside. The turquoise was deeper than that of the teacup, and he immediately understood that there was... something wrong with the water.

Ye Huaiyun recalled his previous experience of grilling fish on Tongpengcheng Mountain, immediately took out Chu Tingyun's silver mask from the package, picked up the teacup and poured water on it.

But the two waited quietly for a while, but they didn't wait until the mask turned black, which means...there is no poison in the water?

"It's heavy metal." Chu Tingyun suddenly said lightly.

Ye Huaiyun watched as half of his face was illuminated by the candlelight, while the other half of his face was hidden in the shadows, especially the sharp and angular curve of his jaw.As if thinking of something suddenly, Chu Tingyun raised his eyebrows, and the vermilion at the end of his eyes bloomed like a crimson flower shadow, and he looked up at him.

"I guess... somewhere on this mountain, there are iron mines."

Iron ore... Ye Huaiyun never thought of this bold guess.

He heard Chu Tingyun continue to say: "When I was young, I went to a village of the dead with my adoptive father."

The village is surrounded by several mountains and has little contact with the outside world.The reason why it is called the village of the dead is because the people in that village are very strange.

Either they are short-lived and cannot survive their [-]s; or they are disabled, stuttering and mentally retarded; and out of ten women, at least five have miscarriages, three give birth to stillbirths, and two give birth to deformed children.

It was not until later that his adoptive father found out the reason... It turned out that there was a large iron mine in a mountain next to the village, and the drinking water of the entire mountain village had to flow through the upstream mountains.

Ye Huaiyun fantasized about that scene in his mind, and felt a chill, so Chu Tingyun hugged him into his arms.

"And I can probably guess why the mountain road was built so winding." Chu Tingyun rested his chin on his shoulder, and continued: "It is probably because the sound of mining in the mountain is noisy, so the road construction was deliberately used. The sound is covered up. The rugged mountain road is just to increase the amount of work and prolong the construction time."

Ye Huaiyun was itchy on the shoulder pit where his chin rubbed, and moved half of his body, confused: "But if this is the case, there is no reason to build this Qiuzi Temple two months ago." After all, if this barren mountain has no Wouldn't it be more convenient for people to care about it and engage in private greed for iron ore.

"It's not easy." Chu Tingyun raised his head and smiled at him, "Incense money is suitable for pockets!"

Ye Huaiyun: "..."

This simple and straightforward reason really... makes sense.

He seemed to be able to think of how much money this Zhiyang County Prime Minister had coveted behind his back, and his heart suddenly became unhappy. Few of the local officials really had innocent hands and feet.

Ye Huaiyun rubbed his forehead point, and suggested: "Go down the mountain to explore the mountain road, and look for that iron mine by the way."

But Chu Tingyun said: "Let's go tomorrow, I'm a little tired today."

Ye Huaiyun nodded, thinking about it, after all, this person walked up the mountain with her arms in his arms today.He immediately took off his robe and walked to the bedside to rest.

Before he could shake off the quilt, someone hugged his waist tightly from behind.

"what are you doing?"

Chu Tingyun put his lips against his earlobe, and laughed hoarsely, "When I said tired, I meant... you will feel tired after a while."

"..." Ye Huaiyun has been with him for a long time, and his understanding ability is also increasing day by day, trying to push away the person who posted up like a mangy dog, "This is in a temple!" How good is it in front of the Buddha...

"Well." Chu Tingyun was serious, "I believe the Buddha will bless us."

[The author has something to say: Heavy metal seems to be hardcore all of a sudden.

However, Deng Deng, a professional in the Department of Chemistry, tells you that it takes a long time for heavy metals to leave glaze traces on porcelain, and it does not conform to scientific principles when water is poured here.For the sake of the plot, please don't pay attention.

Compassionate to the little cuties who follow the text and read the text~]