Qingzhou trip

Xu was afraid that Yun Bailu would be spoiled in the palace, so Xie Penglai would ask her to go back to read books after the lecture today.In fact, besides drying books, she still has more important things to find out. Right now is to find the culprit who set fire to the academy—there is still dried stone paint on the walls of the academy, which is often used by the army to make kerosene for attacking the city.

The people in Huaxiang and Jiuxiang were all interrogated, and no suspicious Beixia people were found.When asked about the piece, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, "There are hundreds of pieces played in Huaxiang, which one are you referring to?"

So she sent Yun Bailu to soak in Huaxiang for a few days in the name of "drying books" to inquire more.Yun Bailu was not willing to suffer, he stretched out his palm to beg for the money for the wine, and was finally shabby by Xie Penglai, who had searched for a long time before he could collect one or two.

Within two days, Yun Bailu handed over the roster: There are hundreds of people in the city who know how to play, play, play and sing, and there are only three flute players who are still performing in Huaxiang in the middle of the night, two of them are Han, and one is from Ganzhou Uighur .The one from the Uighur lived next to Huaxiang, so he didn't go to Washe that night.Going to look for someone again was also in vain.

That night, the city guards also noticed a black shadow riding and shooting outside the city, and they didn't dare to do so because the guards in the city were vigilant.

Xie Penglai, who was sitting in the courtyard drying his books after the lecture today, thought for a while, "The sound of the flute must be a signal. This Uighur is from Ganzhou, where stone lacquer has always been abundant here. Now he doesn't know where he is hiding. It’s not a good idea to search and arrest him all the time.”

Yun Bailu sat cross-legged beside her, casually flipping through the set of "Book of Tang" in his hand, "Today, Master Xie said that the feudal town is good for drinking." After flipping through a few pages, he stuffed the book into his arms, "I'll borrow this book to read. "

Xie Penglai glanced at the title of the book, pointed to the desk in the room, "Go and write the IOU." Suddenly seeing the raccoon lying on a pile of "Liu Dian of Tang Dynasty" and yawning, he raised his eyebrows and smiled, "You do have discernment."

"The horse thief, Beixia, King Jin's opponent, or the Uighurs, there are always people who have hidden evil intentions." Yun Bailu began to eat fried peas again at this moment, "Thank you, how do you find out?" What about the arsonist?"

"It's only half a stick of incense back to Flower Lane after setting fire to the academy. The Uyghurs may set the fire and go back to play the flute to send signals, or there may be other accomplices." Xie Penglai wiped the cover of the book, "things that will enter the city in the future I have to carefully check the primers of arson such as wax paint, I heard that there is a hopeful building in the capital, and I have long wanted to build one in Shahai."

Yun Bailu had also heard about this matter, but it was rejected by her father back then.It is said that they are afraid of costing material resources and manpower, and Shahai City is small, so they can just watch from the tower.In fact, he was afraid that building a tall building would make every move in the handsome mansion fall into the eyes of others.

"It's not what it used to be. Today's business has increased dramatically. The number of merchants living in Shahai has increased by hundreds of people every year. In addition, there are many more porters and domestic helpers. In addition, Shahai is now the comfort envoy of the three states. It is unavoidable that officials and their families will live in the city from all the way to the prefectures and counties in the future. The vacant land in the city is getting more and more crowded, and people will crowd into the auxiliary city, and there is also the risk of flooding there." Xie Penglai was talking As soon as she spoke, the scent of horns wafted from the front of the yard, she looked up and saw Li Suyue's slightly embarrassed face.

"Today I made a corner. I heard from Shan Cui that you have been busy trying cases and rebuilding the academy for the past few days. You must have no time to eat. I will bring some." Li Suyue walked in and handed the bowl to Xie Penglai .Yun Bailu sat up straight and stretched his neck to look into the bowl, and the raccoon cat immediately jumped up and walked over, yelling for a bite.

Seeing that there was only one person, Yun Bailu scratched his face in embarrassment, "Ah, it's almost here, thank you, I'll go back first." He left alone with a dull face, bent down and picked up the civet cat and put it under his arm They left together, "Take you to eat bone soup."

After she left, Xie Penglai blew on the still warm horn and bit his mouth, "Thanks to you, it's delicious." Seeing that Li Suyue was still looking at the door, she lowered her head and drank the soup before mumbled, "It's okay to eat at home." Same thing. She can't cook either."

"She has something to eat, and she spends her days fooling around in the Flower Alley or the Wine Alley. I'm afraid our family will look down on this kind of food." Li Suyue sat on the stone bench, looking at the yard full of books, she couldn't help frowning, " There is no business today, let me clean it up for you?"

"Great kindness. Alu can't help here. But these days, she went to Wine Alley and Flower Alley to help me, and found out some clues." Xie Penglai stopped in mid-air with his chopsticks, "The horse thief is still there. Who would be brave enough to take advantage of the fire in the middle of the night? I can’t think of Shagua Erzhou or Ganzhou in the west.”

"The master said, except for us who are both soldiers and bandits, no one in this business dares to attack the city at midnight." Li Suyue looked proud.

"Then last time it was pretty close, Hua Niang and the others used stone paint?" Xie Penglai still couldn't let go of this incident.

"I've used it. Ganzhou and Yumenguan have a lot of this thing. The master and the others have robbed several fierce fire oil tanks. There are pedals on the bottom and copper pipes on the top. After injecting the fire oil, it sprays out about two feet away. But that The object was too big and inconvenient to carry, so I dismantled it. Later, I figured out a way to make a few copper gourds, with iron cylinders on them, which can emit flames like a hand-held bellows." Li Suyue talked about her old business Building a military weapon is straightforward, "The master said that if my method is known to the military supervisor, there will be tens of thousands of taels of silver left."

"Then can you draw it for me?" Xie Penglai's request made Li Suyue feel difficult, "Writing is not easy, let alone drawing?"

"You look for A Lu, she will definitely be able to draw." Xie Penglai pushed out his apprentices, and two heads of a man and a cat poked out outside the courtyard, "Are you looking for me to draw? It's a trivial matter." Yun Bailu smiled confidently, "Yue Niang, how about Draw now?"

Knowing that her complaints must have been heard by Yun Bailu, Yueniang was undecided when she was moved by Xie Penglai's pleading gaze, "Yueniang, please, keep this matter secret."

Yun Bailu had put down the raccoon cat and went into the room to grind it. Li Suyue hesitated outside, and asked her after she walked in, "I'm clumsy with my mouth, I'm afraid I won't describe it correctly, please draw slowly."

"It's okay, let's talk about the structure of the iron cylinder outside the gourd first." Yun Bailu was already ready, closed his eyes and waited for Li Suyue calmly.

After waiting for a while, she didn't hear Li Suyue speak, she opened her eyes and saw Yueniang frowned, "Did you hear that?"

"I heard it." Yun Bailu smiled, "A horse thief is also a soldier and a bandit, isn't that capable of saving me from Man Pass?"

"But I... I also count." Li Suyue's fingers grabbed the skirt, but she heard Yun Bailu say, "Wait." She stared at Yun Bailu, and after a while, she picked up the pen and drew on the paper, Li Suyue took a step forward Only then did I realize that she could draw herself.Not to mention that they are very similar, but they also scored nine points of Shen Yun.After finishing the painting, Yun Bailu's stomach grunted, and she covered her stomach in embarrassment, "Soldiers, bandits, officials, civilians, heroes, prisoners, I have seen them all. I have been a prisoner myself for several years. Mother, I don't care about other people's identities, but I feel envious of you."

In the painting is Yueniang riding a horse and holding a copper gourd. "I'll give you this one. In the next one, you can teach me what the organs on the gourd look like." She held up the paper and blew on the ink, Satisfied, it was stuffed into Li Suyue's hand.

But Li Suyue remembered that Shancui said that scholars who spend their time in the flower alley love to splash ink to please courtiers, and it is obvious that Bailu is familiar with the way of painting gourds in the same way.She froze for a moment, then returned the painting to Yun Bailu with a straight face, "What do I want this for? Let's paint your gourd."