Crown Sword

Hearing the voices, one is young, the other is old, and the old one is a handywoman, from some yard, who came to ask for charcoal fire, the excuse is that the young master is not there, and the maids are greedy to sell the things they get.The maid who bumped into her complained of grievances, and her temper was also staunch, the two began to quarrel.

The old man couldn't scold, and took a breather, but because he was in the elder's room, he would make jokes when he brushed his face. The girl lost her patience after being tortured, and simply pointed to the side room, yin and yang said: "There's something wrong here." No one lives there, and there are some rotten things with rotten teeth, if you have the ability to pick them up and use them as firewood!"

Seeing someone entering the house, Gong Yangyue immediately opened the window and went on the roof. Zhang Xiuyi translated the words to him as he walked, and just said a few words, then watched the woman roll up her sleeves, and really cursed and moved into the house.

The servant girl didn't expect her to dare, and felt a little resentful.

The old lady tossed and turned, her strength alone was limited after all, so she piled them up at the door, holding on to the door panel and panting heavily: "My good girl, you are really willing to sell these, and you can sell them for a lot of money."

When it comes to money, the servant girl is also moved. The owner of this house will not come back. Although the young master intends to keep it safe, but he is in Wandu City, and he can't go home twice a year. Whoever returns the things, why bother to fight for anger? That sharp-mouthed old woman who is cheap for nothing?She immediately retorted: "Sell it, sell it, you dare to covet the things in this yard, be careful, the old lady has skinned you!"

"Miss, you are joking, this is not the young master's house," the woman said with a chuckle, "what's more, the young master disobeyed the old lady by not allowing anyone to move or live in it, but it caused a lot of displeasure. If you can solve it quietly This troublesome matter, I'm afraid Madam will reprimand her publicly and praise her secretly."

"But the young master will always come back!"

"The young master should set up a new mansion in Wandu. If he has made great achievements and won the holy family, maybe the king will give him a mansion. Besides, the plan is done, how can you be harsh?"

The more she talked, the more the servant girl's heart moved, and she hated herself for being courageous at the beginning, so she lowered her posture, grabbed the woman's arm, and changed her face: "Mother-in-law, look..."

"You have a share!"

"Oh, my God! I'll get you out together, and there are some good ones, let's make a plate too!"

The two of them were lying on the roof and peeping, seeing all the things in the house being emptied, the people below became greedy and vicious, they were less concerned about face than the master's family, they were just sleazy dogs.

The partial house was not much to see, but the old lady mentioned that the old lady had said that she wanted to move, but Qiao Min refused to let it go. She must have lived in an important person, so she kept it as it was for thinking about it.Ever since Zhang Xiuyi teased the Ram Moon, he became more and more worried that Qiao Min didn't like red sleeves or blue faces, so he was so frightened that he was sweating coldly, so he urged him to go down and have a look.

Landed, entered.

The house should be full of furniture and utensils, and there is not even a grass left after the chickens and dogs are stolen. At first glance, the bare walls appear to be twice as large.

For Qiao Dawei's sake, let alone the four walls, if she had tools, she, Zhang Xiuyi, would have dug up the walls inch by inch, so she looked at it foot by foot, and finally found it on the stone surface next to the bed. The engraved small characters are Fuyu characters, arranged in a well-arranged way, not like words, but like poetry.

"Pianpian yellow bird, male and female depend on each other. If I am alone, who will return? (Note)" Zhang Xiuyi touched it with his hands and couldn't help singing.

The sound and tone of the words are somewhat familiar.

Noticing that Gongyangyue frowned slightly, she smiled and explained in Chinese: "It's Goguryeo's "Yellow Bird Song", which is said to be written by King Liuli to his Aiji to express his thoughts, but my mother When I was young, I often sang it to lull me to sleep, maybe my thoughts are too wide, not limited to those I admire."

""Yellow Bird Song"?" Gong Yangyue suddenly remembered that that night by the Wuding River, several people had a drinking order, and Shi Qi sang this song.

He stepped forward quickly and identified the handwriting by himself, but unfortunately the Fuyu script is different from Chinese characters and cannot be compared, but the traces are not deep, and it does not seem to be from the hands of an adult man, obviously the chiseler has limited hand strength, either a child or a woman.

Zhang Xiuyi was quick-witted and moved upon hearing the wind: "Did the one who traveled with you in the Central Plains also sing this song?" Before anyone could speak, the expression on his face revealed the answer.

The longing changes instantly.

Gong Yangyue reached out and grabbed the great master who was walking around and stood uneasy: "Don't be in a hurry to curse people?"

Zhang Xiuyi was surprised: "How do you know that I want to curse?"

"It's not necessarily for Qiao Min, you don't say it yourself, it's not limited to those you admire." Gong Yangyue leaned against the back wall as he spoke, and poked his toes up a little bit.

There are two windows in this room, one is opened by the door, and the other is a skylight. At the innermost position near the beam, three wooden strips are nailed to the surface, and only a few scattered lights can leak out.He hit hard with the back of his hand, smashed a hole in the wood chip, and a diamond mirror fell out of the gap.

Zhang Xiuyi hurried over to hold it, and boasted casually: "Your eyes are too poisonous." Afterwards, he pointed at the object and became very annoyed, "Look, you still say you're not a woman!"

The mirror surface is broken, only the engraving on the back is still intact.

"This flower in the mirror was fashionable in the Central Plains 30 or [-] years ago, unless Qiao Min favored half-aged ladies," makeup mirrors are common, and Lou Xijia has a similar side. Gong Yangyue dusted off the dust with her thumb, revealing a Han carved The word "Ling" raised his hand to signal Zhang Xiuyi, "The answer is self-evident."

Mountain character generation?

"Qiao Ling?"

Zhang Xiuyi's ears were buzzing, his eyes were dim, his hands and feet were numb, and his mind was in a trance. Obviously, among the sixteen brothers and sisters with names and surnames in the front row, none of them had this name and were worthy of the name, that is to say , besides the seventeen Qiao family children, there are also "fish that slipped through the net"?

She wanted to lie to herself, maybe it was a servant named Ling, but her intuition told her that Qiao Min's abnormality was the best explanation.Without waiting for Gongyangyue to shout, she ran out of the house, headed towards the old woman who was talking nonsense just now, and dragged her from the yard to the corner arbitrarily, threatening and intimidating.

"Who is that man named Ling? Is he Qiao Min's brother?"

"Ling?" The mother-in-law was so angry that she was wronged, and cried, "God damn it, where did the brother come from! The young master is the only child in this house, and he has no brothers at all."

Zhang Xiuyi asked, "Then who is this person?"

The mother-in-law's eyeballs turned straight, and she asked sideways, "Which person?"

Zhang Xiuyi said: "The one who lives in a side room."

The mother-in-law stopped crying and didn't speak, she seemed to be lost in thought, looked Zhang Xiuyi back and forth, seeing that his clothes were in tatters, she almost thought that he was someone who had escaped and came back in a different form.

"Say!"

"I said, I said everything," she couldn't stand the force, and she called them all, "I remember the old lady was a follower, about the same age as Master Qiao Min, always following behind people without talking, and later the young master went to Seven Swords Guards When he was on an errand, the man disappeared and never came back.”

Zhang Xiuyi asked: "Where did you go?"

The mother-in-law looked like she was chewing her tongue in surprise, she put her hands around her mouth, and said in a low voice, "I heard that you are collaborating with the enemy and traitorous country. If you run to the south, you don't know if it is true or not!"

To the south of Goguryeo is Baekje across the river.

Seeing that the question didn't make sense for a while, Gong Yangyue interjected: "What does that person look like?"

The mother-in-law shook her head, not because she refused to say, but because she had been in this house for decades, but she didn't know very well: "It should be ugly, otherwise he wouldn't have been wearing a mask all the year round. He used to sit in front of the door On the stone steps above, holding a clay doll in silence, people walked by several times without seeing any movement, it was very frightening."

Zhang Xiuyi turned his head and looked straight out from the lush greenery towards the corridor. There seemed to be a phantom in front of his eyes, a lonely child holding his beloved, sad alone.

Who is this Ling?

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After a round of investigation, it was not clear, but it added a lot of mysteries. Zhang Xiuyi went back to the National Teacher's Mansion anxiously, and Gong Yangyue got together and went to the inn.

After a while, Chao Chen and Cui Tanfeng couldn't stay, so they came back together.

The four of them met and spread out the only achievements on the table. The old Qiao family house was put aside first, and the old lady was mean and vicious without being superficial, and she was not a fuel-efficient lamp.

The Qiao family was born in the rivers and lakes, but it is a family of martial arts. The family members Ding Xingwang, starting from Qiao Minzu's grandfather, have several branches, and all of them have sons and daughters. Only Qiao Min's father, Qiao Xin, has few children. Then he got mixed up with a single-line biography, and logically speaking, he couldn't spread his branches and leaves. This old Mrs. Qiao should not be able to hold her head high in the family, but the reality is completely different.

Although there is the position of the Seven Swords Guard Chief here to raise his status, but he can manage the family and subdue others without any means, especially under such a disadvantage.

Regardless of whether this "Ling" is Qiao Min's brother or not, Qiao Xinjian's son is as strict as the servants in the mansion, and the old lady is the only one who knows the truth.

Trying to get words out of her mouth is tantamount to asking someone to die instantly.

Now is obviously not the time. Wandu City is not far from Qiao's old house. Seeing the end of the year is approaching, there is no guarantee that Qiao Min will not return.

Shocking the snake will only teach people to destroy the evidence first, let alone solve the confusion.

For the next two days, Zhang Xiuyi spent the next two days in the mansion studying what is meant by "do not step out of the second gate". The horseman went to inquire, and the gossip said that the bandits in Wandu were rampant, and the next target was the National Teacher's Mansion.

Ordinary people don't have to steal anyway, and they like to hear stories about robbing the rich and giving to the poor. When the horse-leader comes back to tell the time, he narrates it in a tone of "sit and watch the high-ranking officials and dignitaries suffer", and even makes up the time and place. So much so that he had been in and out of the inn for less than two hours, and everyone in the area knew about it.

"The national teacher is really dealing with it behind closed doors?" Shuangli was curious. After all, if the national teacher's mansion was also stolen, he would lose face and popular support. What's more, there is a Seven Swords Guard waiting to investigate the case and not deal with it. It's a good thing Everyone is waiting to see the show.

But after waiting and waiting, there is no result, but the right owner is waiting.

Zhang Xiuyi turned over from the top of the wall. He usually travels too ostentatiously, afraid of being recognized by others, so he wrapped his feet in three layers of cloaks.Fortunately, in winter, people wear thick jackets, so no one cares about a walking winter melon.

"I'm right!" Zhang Xiuyi took a sip of his tea and waved at Shuangli, "But I'm not the one who's in trouble. From the imperial army to the king's Yingwei, none of them have had a good time. The Seven Swords Guards must have hit their heads with their heels. The mansions of two little emissaries were stolen again, no, I don’t have time to take care of them.”

Hearing what she said, Gong Yangyue answered casually: "Has something happened in the palace?"

"I don't think there is any safer place than the palace, so I came here for this." Zhang Xiuyi put down the empty tea bowl, and tapped his fingertips against the edge, "The thief thought that someone was not good, so he chose to hit the royal family." Idea. The day before yesterday, Qiao Min had a face-to-face meeting, and news came out from the palace yesterday that the note was found in the mansion of Da Dui, and it was hidden in a clay doll."

That day in Qiao's old house, the woman also mentioned this by the way. Is the amazing coincidence really just a coincidence?

Gong Yangyue thought about it carefully: "Could it be the follower who defected?"

"Me, too……"

This question just came out of my mouth when Zhang Xiuyi was answering, when he caught a glimpse of Chao Chen holding Gong Yangyue's hand, biting his tongue on the spot, and it took him a long time to write the last word: "...Think."

The sight of the three people coming and going was full of weirdness.

The reason why Chao Chen stretched out his hand was because he felt that this burglary case full of storms was full of doubts, so he wanted to hold him back, so as not to fall into his usual thoughts.In the past, Qiao Min was the only one who was puzzled, and the case was never settled, but now two unrelated things suddenly come together——

"What's your opinion?" Gong Yangyue looked at him with a smile and asked softly.

Shuang Li rubbed the goosebumps on his arms, Zhang Xiuyi clutched his heart and retched, turned his face and left.Chao Chen seemed to be choking on food, and forgot what he wanted to say, but was confused by it: "What's wrong with her?"

Gongyangyue said: "She is jealous."

Chao Chen was confused: "Jealous?"

"Yeah, a coward in Fengyue, a prisoner in love." Gong Yangyue flicked the ashes in her nails, suddenly grabbed his arm and put it on her shoulder, "If you see her unhappy, rely on me Sit here, like this, one breath at a time." As he spoke, he uncharacteristically served tea and water, the cup in his hand, and brought the treat to Chao Chen's lips.

"...Why do I want to see her unhappy?" To be honest, Chao Chen has a docile temperament, except for this one in front of him, he rarely makes enemies with anyone, let alone a girl.

Gong Yangyue squinted, her hands froze in the air.

Chao Chen honestly finished drinking the water, Zhang Xiuyi lingered outside the door for a while, kicked it away: "Pretend, Gongyangyue, where is your conscience! God is really blind, but a girl like me who is as beautiful as a flower and jade can't get married , a bastard like you is loved by others."

After speaking, he slammed the door shut again, completely silent.

Chao Chen realized later: "But what's the intention?"

Gong Yangyue shrugged, and said in an innocent tone: "It's no intention, just for fun.

Chao Chen resentfully said, "You are indeed a bastard."

Gong Yangyue didn't speak again, but propped his head to look at him as if he was drunk. Since he talked with Zhang Xiuyi, he felt an indescribable sense of relief. If he hadn't taken care of Chao Chen, an idiot, he wished he would show up tomorrow. Tell the world, I don't know what this idiot is thinking, it's really annoying.

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Note: Quoted from "Yellow Bird Song"