The dream of "Tenderness of Iron Hands" begins in Tokyo

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Although the bleeding from the wound had stopped and the iron hand was out of danger, but because the wound was too deep, the rust on the tip of the gun still caused a lung infection. For the next five or six days, he had a persistent high fever, and most of the time he was still in the hospital. Practicing Qigong and regulating breath during drowsiness to suppress wound pain and adjust physical fitness.

Since Tie Shou was still unable to move, Zhui Ming, Leng Xue, Lu Po Zhi, and A Liang took turns to serve.After all, men and women are different, and Lu Mengyun couldn't help in nursing, so she took the initiative to take on the task of decocting the medicinal food.In addition to delivering soups and medicines to the old building on time, he also goes to the store every day to select a variety of fresh ingredients and cook delicious food to help the brothers improve their nutrition.After ten days of this, the fever in Iron Hand finally subsided, and although he couldn't get out of bed, he was able to sit up.He tied his hair up in a bun and shaved his beard clean. Although his complexion was still a little pale, his mental state was much better.

At noon this day, Tie Shou asked Zhui Ming who accompanied him while eating: "Is there a new cook in the mansion? This dish tastes good."

Zhui Ming smiled and said, "What kind of new cook, what you eat these days is all cooked by my junior sister herself."

"Ah? That's really troublesome for her." Tieshou said gratefully, feeling warm in his heart.

"Little Junior Sister's cooking skills are really good. I secretly tasted it a few times, and it's delicious. Haha."

"I didn't even have time to talk to her when I came back, but her shoulder injury has healed?"

"It should be better soon. However, you held onto his hand and called 'Xiaozhen' that day. That's not very good. Hehe."

"Ah? Is there such a thing? I don't have it!" Tie Shou said in shock.

"Is it false what the fourth brother saw with his own eyes? It's just that you can't remember it even if you are still in a coma. He is holding your hand to comfort you." Zhui Ming then said seriously: "I said the second, I also count How old are you, you have to listen to a word of advice. Although Xiaozhen is good, she is married after all. Now that she has even given birth to a child, you should let it go. If you pester yourself like this, you will only miss it. A caring person."

Tie Shou said gruffly, "I don't... these days... I don't really miss her that much..." He lowered his head thoughtfully.

Zhui Ming continued to joke half-truthfully: "Speaking of which, my junior sister is really nice. Not only is she beautiful, she is also kind and understanding, and she even cooks so well. Sigh, if I hadn't met carp, it would be a shame to have a cheeky old face." I want to chase her, haha..."

"Nonsense again, see if I don't tell Miss Lili next time." Tie Shou also laughed.

At this time, a woman's voice suddenly came from the yard: "Iron Hand! Iron Hand! Where are you?"

Tie Shou and Zhui Ming looked at each other unconsciously after hearing this, with awkward wry smiles on their faces.

It was none other than the capital's number one purple-clothed goddess catching tequila.She had just returned from handling a case in another place today to report to the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, and as soon as she heard about Tie Shou's injury, she rushed to Shenhou Mansion to visit her impatiently.

"Miss Long, this way, this way." Zhui Ming rushed out and led her into the house.Tequila ran straight to Tie Shou's bed, asking this and that with concern on her face, chirping endlessly.Touching his forehead for a while, looking at his wounds for a while, and scolding Lin Chong for a while, which made Tieshou very embarrassed.Seeing this, Zhui Ming snickered and retreated to the outside yard.

Although Tequila is a lady official, she is actually a good person, with a sense of justice and seriousness in her work.But because of his good background and good looks, he usually treats people a little arrogantly.Tieshou knew that Tequila really cared about him, and also knew that she had always been interested in him, but he never liked this kind of young lady's temper.Moreover, the father of her servant minister belonged to Cai Jing's party in the court, so Tie Shou has always kept a distance from her on purpose.But now people can't refuse people's condolences, so I have to echo her and deal with her reluctantly.

The afternoon sun is warm and harmonious, and the fragrance of wintersweet in the garden is refreshing.

Lu Mengyun carried the thermos pot filled with soup and came all the way to the old building.Brother Tie Shou was still awake when the meal was delivered in the morning. She entered the room and saw his face sleeping peacefully, she was very relieved, and thought: "Brother has deep inner strength after all, so I can wake up when the Chinese New Year is like this." These days Lu Mengyun Her mood has calmed down quite a bit, and she always reminds herself that she must cut off her emotions and return to her original intention. Although she still visits her every day, she deliberately avoids the opportunity to be alone with Tie Shou.She looked at her senior brother who seemed to have something to say to her, but she thought it was just some polite words, she didn't want to hear it.She told herself: "The way I treat him now is just to repay him for healing my wounds and giving me clothes a few days ago. After he recovers, there will be no debts. Anyway, I will return to Jiangnan in half a year. It really was a dream."

When Lu Mengyun stepped into the old building, she saw Zhui Ming sitting on a stone bench in the small courtyard, basking in the sun and having a drink. She looked very comfortable, so she joked, "Third brother is really too, why don't you just watch the patient fall here by himself?" Steal fun."

Zhui Ming smiled and said: "I'm just being funny, if you don't believe me, go and have a look. Hehe."

Lu Mengyun entered the room and looked into the bedroom, but saw Tequila feeding Tie Shou water.She blushed immediately, and her heart felt sour for some reason, and she was about to shrink back, but Tie Shou had already seen her.

"Junior Junior Sister, Junior Junior Sister, come in quickly." Tie Shou called her, his tone seemed urgent.

Now Lu Mengyun had no choice but to go in, and she said eagerly, "I'm sorry! Excuse me...I didn't know Long Butou was here...I'm here to deliver medicine..."

Tie Shou hurriedly said: "Nothing, nothing. I just want your help."

"Brother, please speak."

"I would like to ask you to tell Ah Liang if you can go to Zhou Daizhao's house on the East Street to buy a gourd soup. I haven't eaten for a long time, and I'm a bit greedy."

"Okay. But you may not be able to buy it at this time. If not, make a reservation for tomorrow, okay?" Lu Mengyun said.

"Oh, really? But I really want to eat it now..." Tie Shou sighed.

Tequila hurriedly said from the side: "I'll go buy it. If there is no one, let the cook make it now. I don't think he dares to follow." She stood up without saying hello to Lu Mengyun, and went out like a gust of wind.

Seeing that Tequila had left, Tie Shou heaved a sigh of relief, with a look of relief on his face.

Lu Mengyun said: "Long Butou treats senior brother really well."

"But I can't stand it. She hasn't stopped talking since she came." Tie Shou said with a sad face.

"Senior brother... did you do it on purpose?" Lu Mengyun suddenly came to her senses.

"Hehe..." Tie Shou smiled slyly, and said while holding his forehead, "It's really...my head hurts."

Lu Mengyun covered her mouth and smiled lightly, she never thought that the always honest senior brother Tie Shou would play tricks on rare occasions.She couldn't help but feel a little sympathetic to Tequila, and then felt a little joyful in her heart: "Although Senior Brother doesn't love me, at least he can be sure that he won't treat me like Miss Long." She poured out the medicine soup and handed it to Iron Hand : "The medicine is not cold yet, brother, drink it while it's hot."

Tie Shou took the medicine bowl, and said softly: "Your junior sister has been working hard for a while. Come, sit for a while. I haven't talked to you properly since I came back."

Lu Mengyun had no choice but to sit down on the stool beside the bed.

"Junior Junior Sister, is the injury on your shoulder healed?"

"Well, good morning."

"But... there are scars?" Tie Shou whispered, and the snow-white and smooth jade shoulders suddenly flashed in his mind.

"No. Senior brother's medicine is very effective. Thank you!" Lu Mengyun said shyly.

"That's good! That's good!...I left in such a hurry that day that I didn't even have time to say goodbye to you. I was always worried on the way to Cangzhou..." Tie Shou said.

"Brother Lao is concerned, it's been all right for a long time..."

Lu Mengyun saw that he took the empty bowl after drinking the medicine and stood up to clean it up.Tie Shou saw that she was about to leave, and said hesitantly,

"Little Junior Sister...I...I heard from them...I was rude to you a few days ago...I'm really sorry...I...I didn't mean to..."

Lu Mengyun's face turned red all of a sudden, knowing what he was referring to, she lowered her head and shook her head gently, and said in a low voice: "Well...no need to apologize...I'm not angry...Senior Brother Tie Shou is fine now. all good……"

"I don't know...I...I actually didn't think about it that way...I...I..." Tie Shou wanted to explain to Lu Mengyun very urgently in his heart, but he didn't know how to explain, and seemed a bit incoherent for a while.

In fact, he was really a little confused at the moment.He only knew that he was on a business trip to Cangzhou this time, and he was thinking about his junior sister more in his heart.During the two days at the inn, I had nowhere to go except to read books and watch the snow fall outside the window. I naturally thought of the happy and lovely appearance of my junior sister when she made a snowman during the Winter Solstice Festival, and worried whether the wound on her shoulder would leave a scar. , wanting to know if the clothes tailored by He fit her well... But he didn't know how to tell his junior sister about these things.He didn't know if he had already fallen in love with his junior sister when he thought about it like this?If this is the case, why do I still think of Xiaozhen unconsciously...

"I am obviously very happy to be with Junior Sister now... But what about Xiao Zhen, if I really forgot her, how could I call her name when I was unconscious? If I hadn't forgotten her, how could I tell Junior Sister Show love? Which one am I in love with?" Tie Shou was agitated for a while, blocking the flow of true energy in his body, and suddenly the wound ached, he couldn't help pressing his hands on his chest, and frowned.

Lu Mengyun saw that Tie Shou suddenly had a strange expression, and cold sweat oozes from his forehead, she hurriedly supported him against the head of the bed, and said urgently: "Senior Brother, Senior Brother, how are you?" Come!"

Zhui Ming rushed into the house, and when he saw this, he quickly adjusted his internal breath with Tie Shou, and then touched Tie Shou's sleeping hole to help him lie down.

Seeing Lu Mengyun's nervous face, Zhui Ming comforted her and said, "Don't worry, there's nothing serious. Maybe it's because I talked too much this afternoon and I'm a little tired. Let him sleep for a while."

After a while, Lu Mengyun was relieved when she saw Tie Shou's complexion turned calm and her breathing was smooth, but she couldn't help but sighed in her heart: "It must be that what I said just now reminded my senior brother of Miss Xiaozhen to be so excited. Alas... ..."

She suddenly asked Zhuiming quietly: "Third brother, I...do I look a little like that girl Xiaozhen?"

"Huh?" Zhui Ming was taken aback.

"I think Brother Tieshou always thinks of Miss Xiaozhen every time he sees me, so..."

Zhui Ming understood now, and he said softly, "It's not like that. Miss Xiaozhen is petite and thinner, her face is rounder than yours, and her eyes are bigger than yours. Well, don't think about it, you are you, smart Beautiful little junior sister. Hehe... the second child has such a temperament, I will remind him later."

"No! No! Don't say it, I'm just curious, just asking casually..." Lu Mengyun hurriedly said: "It's all right here, third brother, I'm going back."

"Ok."

After all, Zhui Ming is old, has extensive experience, and is good at observing people. As soon as this incident happened, he could see that Lu Mengyun had fallen in love with Tie Shou, and he was very happy for his senior brother, but now it seems that she is still a goddess. Meng also felt a little regretful.He looked at Lu Mengyun's slightly lonely back, then at the iron hand lying on the bed, and shook his head helplessly.

Iron Hand had a dream.

He dreamed that he accompanied his younger junior sister to Xiangguo Temple to go shopping in the market.The crowd was crowded, he was afraid of getting lost, so he stretched out his hand to hold the little hand of his junior sister, she blushed and shy but did not refuse, Tie Shou was extremely happy in his heart.

After playing for a long time, the two walked to the beach to rest. Tie Shou suddenly heard someone calling "Second Brother" behind him. He looked back and saw Xiaozhen standing under a big tree not far away. Qingchou looked at him, just like when he left Xijiazhuang.She complained quietly: "Second brother, you haven't seen me for a long time."

"I..." Tieshou couldn't help but took a few steps forward, but trainee Qiuya suddenly appeared, holding Xiaozhen in his arms and stroking her belly.Tie Shou took a closer look, Xiaozhen's belly was swollen, which was obviously Liujia's body.

Tie Shou sighed slightly, and didn't want to go forward to say hello anymore, but when he turned around, he saw the little junior sister turned her head and ran out of the courtyard into the vast sea of ​​people, and disappeared in a blink of an eye.While chasing after him, he shouted anxiously: "Junior Sister! Junior Sister! Wait for me."

Tieshou suddenly woke up, only to feel a pair of women's hands holding sweat towels to help him wipe the sweat from his forehead, and he pressed his hands on them: "Little Junior Sister!"

"Second, it's me." It turned out to be Yan Hunling.

Tie Shou's face turned red, and he said softly, "Sister Yan!...I'm sorry..."

"Hehe...are you dreaming?"

"Um... how long have I been asleep?"

"It's been almost two days. The day before yesterday you were out of breath, and the third child ordered you to sleep. How do you feel now?"

Tie Shou checked his inner breath and said, "It should be fine. I've slept for too long, I think I'll go to the yard to get some fresh air."

"Okay, I'll help you after you drink the medicine."

Yan Hunling waited for Tie Shou to drink the medicine, then put on a cotton robe for him, and walked out of the house with his help.

The weather was excellent, and the sunshine in the yard made Tieshou a little bit blind.After all, he had been lying down for half a month. When he first got off the ground, he felt his feet were weak. After walking around the courtyard for a few laps, he gradually got used to it. However, it seems that it will take time for his physical strength and skills to fully recover.

Seeing that he was in good spirits, Yan Hunling made a pot of tea and put it on the stone table in the courtyard, and said with a smile: "Thanks to your deep internal strength, it is really amazing to be able to get out of bed in half a month after such a serious injury. It is quite warm now, you Sit here and bask in the sun for a while. Today is the new year, and I have to deal with a lot of things in the company. They are also busy today. The husband was called to the palace by the official, and the others just Zhu Yueming urgently recruited him to the Ministry of Punishment. I asked Ah Liang to come and accompany you."

"You just have to go. I have nothing to do, so I don't need to accompany you." Tie Shou said again: "I've been called now, is there some serious case?"

"Yeah. Three weeks ago, a Ji girl was raped and murdered in Tianshui Lane, and another one in Xiji'er Lane last week. It seems that the method of the crime should be the same person. It is very cruel, killing first and then raping, and destroying the body."

"Kill first and then rape?" Tie Shou frowned.

"Yes. And draw a camellia with blood on each victim's abdomen. Absolutely perverted!" Yan Hunling said angrily.

"Camellia?" Tie Shou lowered his head and pondered, and said, "I went to Dali six years ago to handle the case. People there believed that if you put camellias on the body of the deceased, they would not be entangled by ghosts. Therefore, the murderer may be related to the one in southern Yunnan. It's kind of related."

"Exactly. Ruthless also speculates that way, and now he has personally met with the Dali envoy."

"Eldest brother is going out in person," Tie Shou said.

"Isn't that right. Because he went to Gao Qiu's house in the middle of the night the day before yesterday, his newly married No. 11 concubine suffered a disaster. It also hurt the little..." Yan Hunling suddenly stopped in the middle of saying this.

"It's so daring, how dare you provoke Gao Qiu."

"Well! The old guy went to the imperial court to cry and complained, which alarmed the officials, and now the Ministry of Criminal Justice is ordered to hunt him down with all his strength, alas! Then it will become our business."

"So that's it! It's a pity that I can't help right now..." Tie Shou sighed slightly.

"Don't worry about it, just take care of your injuries. I'm leaving." Yan Hunling said and left the old building.

The sun was warming with the fragrance of tea, and Tie Shou couldn't help but think of Lu Mengyun: "Little junior sister should go to the Ministry of Criminal Justice, I don't know what she is doing now? Will this kind of horrible case scare her? I hope they don't Take her to the autopsy room." Suddenly realized: "I do think about my junior sister more now. I like her very much, I liked her the first time I saw her. But everyone likes a beautiful and intelligent woman, Didn't the third junior brother say the same thing? So, this should be the relationship between seniors and sisters, right?...But, that day, I didn't have any objections, why did she have such a strong intimacy in her body? Could it be...I really love her She has a heart of love?"

Suddenly, he recalled the dream just now, and sighed in his heart: "Xiaozhen has always understood my mind and know who I am. She knows that I will not look back after I leave, so what if I don't marry Xi Qiuya? Wealthy, she also has status in the martial arts, Mr. Xi treats her well, it's better than marrying me and getting together less and leaving more. Sigh...as long as she lives well, what am I obsessed with!"

Tie Shou sat in the court thinking wildly for a long while, but his mind was not settled after all, so he got up and went to the study, looking for a book to read and clear his mind.As soon as he stepped into the study room, he could smell the fragrance, but he saw a large Ru kiln porcelain plate on the small table under the west window filled with more than a dozen delicate and exquisite bergamot, apparently picked from the tree not many days ago. .

Tie Shou went to the desk and sat down, seeing that the desk was clean and spotless, and there was an extra pot of narcissus.The buds of the green leaves are about to burst, and they will bloom in the near future. "Who placed these?" He was very happy but slightly puzzled.

Tie Shou looked around, looked down and saw a crumpled ball of paper thrown in the wastebasket by the table.He leaned over to pick it up, unfolded the ball of paper, and saw that the paper had been torn into dozens of pieces, so he put the pieces of paper on the table one by one, calming down his patience and putting them together.After a while, I saw someone filling in the small words "like a dream order" on it.

I only know that the spring in the south of the Yangtze River is good, but it is not as good as the cold wave.Beijing is frosty and the moon is cold, how many flowers fall in the dream.Don't worry, don't worry, it's better to go back as soon as possible.

Although those few lines of writing were a bit scribbled, Tie Shou could still recognize the handwriting of Junior Sister.He stared in a daze for a moment, and unconsciously kept pressing the folds of the paper with his palms, as if he wanted to smooth it out as before.

He was a little confused again: "It seems that Junior Sister is really unhappy. Who is she worrying about? Is it Shao Shang? In the Nishuihan case, the two of them also fought against the enemy side by side, and they had a close relationship. Is it a secret promise? Yes, Brother Qi is both civil and military, elegant and unrestrained, and he has many confidantes."

Thinking of this, Iron Hand felt very lost and dejected.

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