Holding the bowl, Yu Jinnian blew it cold spoon by spoon, and went to feed the man sitting behind the desk. In the bowl was the three-fresh porridge that was boiled last night but could not be eaten. It contained crushed minced chicken and shrimp, and mushrooms cut into beans. It was very fresh and fragrant, and it was Ji Hong's favorite in the past. Light taste.
It's too late to make new ones today, so I gave him yesterday's hot ones to eat.
However, this man was only focusing on wiping the blade slowly, and was not interested in the three delicacies porridge. It was not until Yu Jinnian pressed the spoon to his mouth that he raised his eyes and looked at it for a few times, and then reluctantly opened his mouth. Swallow it. He didn't eat anything last night, and a bowl of porridge was not enough. Yu Jinnian believed that he had depression syndrome, and was afraid that he would not take the medicine, so he secretly mixed Shugan powder into the sweet bean paste stuffing, and it was early in the morning. While Ji Hong was fast asleep, he ran to the kitchen and made a basket of rabbit buns.
The ears of the rabbit are made of red yeast rice powder and noodles, and the eyes are decorated with red beans. Out of the pot, the six white and fat little rabbits are mixed with the sweetness of bean paste and a touch of medicinal fragrance, but the entrance is not delicious. Bitterness is just right for someone like Ji Hong who doesn't like sweets in the first place.
After cleaning the sword, Ji Hong dragged Yu Jinnian to him without saying a word, and wanted to tie the Wu Calamity Sword around his waist. Yu Jinnian raised his hand to press the hilt of the sword, Ji Hong's movements stopped immediately, as if he was looking at his expression carefully, for fear that he would be unhappy; as soon as Yu Jinnian let go of the hilt, he seemed to be privileged, and he was in a good mood. The sword was tied up, and the position was carefully adjusted for a while before he was satisfied.
After seeing enough, he took the bunny bun in Yu Jinnian's hand, put it to his mouth and ate it slowly, without talking or fussing, he looked like a normal person, outsiders might not be able to see anything wrong with him. If Yu Jinnian hadn't turned on the light last night and hugged and comforted this person all night, he wouldn't have believed it himself.
Seeing that everyone in front of him was staring at him, Ji Hong frowned a little: "What's wrong?"
Yu Jinnian stared straight at him, pointed at Min Xuefei and asked, "Who is he?"
Ji Hong smiled softly: "Isn't it Xuefei? Second brother, why are you talking nonsense?"
Yu Jinnian: "..."
"Okay, it's okay. You eat, you eat..." He pushed the bunny buns back to Ji Hong's mouth, then stood up holding the sword at his waist, and looked at Min Xuefei who was sitting on the other side, "Look, this is the situation .How was he good in the early years?"
Min Xuefei also frowned and shook his head: "When he was young, I only saw him twice by accident. I don't know how good he is. It seems... he's on his own?"
It's like saying nothing.
Yu Jinnian looked at the others again, Duan Ming shook his head like a rattle, and he didn't know, after all, they left Ji's mansion not long after Ji Yan was buried, and later they didn't even know how Ji Hong grew up, let alone Not to mention anything else. And the old nanny and servants who were in charge of taking care of him at that time had been walking and dying all these years, and there was a sea of people who didn't know where to look for him.
Young Master Yu can't ask him to ask the Duke's wife? If the Duke's wife knew that Ji Hong had been foolish overnight, she might have clapped her hands and laughed loudly, because he was unhappy with retribution!
Jiang Bingren, who came to see the excitement, held his head and said in wonder, "Isn't he crazy? He won't get better in this life, right?"
"Bah, bah, you're crazy!" Yu Jinnian kicked the bench under his ass, and Shi Xing was so frightened that he reached out to catch it.
Jiang Bingren held his buttocks and said aggrievedly: "Aren't you unparalleled in the world in medicine? Save him, what are you kicking me for?"
Yu Jinnian immediately wanted to send another two kicks, directly kicking this little thing back to Xin'an. He knows something that people here don't understand, but it doesn't mean he knows everything! When it comes to internal and external women's bones, he can spend three days and three nights on some of them, but he has never studied Ji Hong before, so he really doesn't understand.
Min Xuefei said: "He has been alone all these years, without even a waiter around him. If it wasn't for my incompetent third brother who harassed him every day, I don't know if he would really drive himself crazy."
Over there, after Ji Hong finished eating the buns, he still opened the official document at hand, and began to review it as if nothing happened. Yu Jinnian thought, it's okay, it's okay, he can still handle official duties, at least it means he's not stupid enough.
Jiang Bingren said he was crazy, but he didn't believe that he was crazy in his heart, so he ran over boldly, circled him twice, and said abruptly, "Master Ji, let me ask you." Pointing Yu Jinnian's direction with his index finger, he asked him, "He is your second elder brother, who is Yu Jinnian? He will make you medicinal food, warm your bed, and stay by your bedside day and night when you are sick, in order to help you heal your illness. Epidemic, who was the person who fainted from being so tired that he had a stomach attack?"
"..."
Ji Hong held the pen, and ink flowed from the tip of the pen. He seemed to be stunned by Jiang Bingren's question, his eyes were full of confusion, and he didn't know how to answer for a long time. He looked at Yu Jinnian and wanted to call his second brother, but he couldn't.
Min Xuefei looked at the two of them, and was about to get up to make a rescue, but the young man beside him walked over first, pulled Young Master Jiang over, and said anxiously: "What are you doing? He's not clear in the first place. How can you help him?" I'll come out."
The two went out in a hurry, and Min Xuefei, Shi Xing and others also followed, fearing that they would fight.
Yu Jinnian dragged him to a distance and pushed him away: "Go farther away."
Jiang Bingren twisted his temper and raised his chin to argue with him: "If he really gets better, will you be his second brother forever? Let me remind you, if you become his second brother, you won't be able to sleep in the same bed in the future. Can't kiss, let alone hug, can't say those sweet words to him in the bed!"
He reached out and pulled the sword from Yu Jinnian's waist: "Go, throw the sword in his face! Tell him who wants to be your brother, and I want to be your lover. Do you think he is awake?"
Yu Jinnian frowned, spread his palms, and said stubbornly: "Give me the sword. I can't explain it to you!"
Jiang Bingren pointed back into the room: "Then you go and tell him! Why are you in such a hurry with me? I didn't make him stupid."
"Jiang Ya!" Shi Xing dragged him behind him, "If you don't say a few words, the chaos is already enough."
Jiang Bingren snorted, threw the Wu Calamity Sword heavily to his feet, raised a cloud of dust, and then turned his head and ran out angrily. Shi Xing looked at Yu Jinnian helplessly, and hurried to chase after him.
Min Xuefei stepped forward, bent down and picked up the sword with his uninjured hand, handed it to Yu Jinnian again, and comforted him: "He is actually targeting you, but his words are not nice. Don't take it to heart."
Yu Jinnian took the sword with a dejected expression, and wiped the ashes off his head with his sleeve: "Forget it, I'll go and change your medicine."
In the side room, Yu Jinnian put the sword aside, turned around and brought the medicine box, cut off the gauze on Min Xuefei's arm, applied the medicine again, and patiently bandaged it round and round, without saying a word the whole time.
Min Xuefei had personally experienced it before. Ever since Ji Hong was rescued from the snowy field, he has suffered from hysteria every now and then. He was so ill that he couldn't stop laughing and crying, and he didn't recognize anyone. As if speaking, he frightened the nuns who served him out of their wits, and went to inform the mistress, the eldest lady, that there was trouble at home with the second brother's injustice.
Mrs. Guogong has always disliked this concubine, and after Ji Yan's accident, she hated him even more. After the rumors of hauntings were reported in the house, she was courageous. , beat Ji Hong up, and locked him up.
Later Min Xuefei got a good item and went to him to taste it, only to find out that he had been starved for three days and had a high fever, half his life was gone, but fortunately, he woke up from starvation, There was no recurrence of the disease for several years.
Compared to that time, Ji Hong's present condition...is considered good. So even though Min Xuefei often didn't get along with Yu Jinnian, but at this time he understood him very well, and there was a rare pity in his heart. He raised his hand to touch the inscription on the sword, and chatted: "When the late emperor was around, there was a famous craftsman who used a thousand hammers of iron to cast two sharp swords and presented them to the late emperor. On the day when the sword was presented, a good omen came from heaven. , There was a five-color glow from the east, wandering above the palace city for an hour before dissipating. Immediately, two good news came from outside the palace, one was that General Ji broke the North Di, and the other was that the Twelve Princes bravely retreated from Xirong."
"The first emperor was overjoyed, so he gave these two swords as rewards to Ji Yan, the prince of Duke Li, and Yan Chang, the twelfth prince, respectively, and named them 'Wu Calamity' and 'Qu Ji'. For the common people to get rid of diseases, I hope that Daxia River will be clear and the sea will be clean, and the country will be peaceful and the people will be safe.”
Hearing this, Yu Jinnian knew that he was talking about the past of the sword, so he couldn't help but slow down.
"A good sword should follow the master of the Ming Dynasty. These two swords have followed the two of them since then, beheading enemies, traitors, and Xiaoxiao." Min Xuefei continued, with a little more emotion in his tone, "The heroes of the past Young, with long sword roaring to the west wind, tied to a horse and downstairs, how romantic and wanton."
Yu Jinnian wondered, "Do they have friendship?"
Min Xuefei shook his head, and said: "It's not just about friendship. The two of them are about the same age, and Ji Yan was chosen as the companion of the Twelve Princes since childhood. The two grew up together, and they share the same spirit and interests. They are very close. Because The second elder brother of the Ji family is free and easy by nature, and he is fond of drinking, and sometimes he will lie drunk under the willows on the river embankment. Whenever the restaurants along the street see him drunk again, they will rush to report to the Twelfth Lord's mansion. The fastest one can get the A handsome bounty."
Yu Jinnian felt a little strange: "But the two of them don't seem to have any friendship."
"That's because the two of them suddenly had a falling out in the first two years after Brother Ji's accident." Min Xuefei slowly placed the Wu Calamity Sword on the table, and sighed, "I don't know why, as if In one night, the two stopped seeing each other. They were clearly friends in the past, but later they turned tit-for-tat, and even met each other on the road and would not pay any attention to each other."
"Then what's the matter with this sword?" Yu Jinnian asked.
Min Xuefei said: "In the autumn of the first year of Jingyou, a group of Beidi people sneaked into Gyeonggi and kidnapped the two sons of the Ji family who left Beijing to enjoy the flowers. Shuluan later recalled that when they escaped from the Beidi camp and entered the snow mountain by mistake, The sword was still on the second brother. However, afterward, everyone involved in the rescue said that when they were found in the ice cave, the second brother was only surrounded by the unconscious Shuluan and a short dagger that was less than a foot long. Not this sword."
"The Ji family once sent people to search the nearby snowfields, and also visited all the tribes outside the region. They even offered a huge reward for this sword near Beiyan Pass, but they never found the trace of this sword. Ji Gong thought that this sword was lost. It's gone." Speaking of this, Min Xuefei's eyes darkened slightly.
Yu Jinnian questioned: "This sword is not a cat, a dog, a wild rabbit, why can't it run away by itself?"
"Exactly. That's why I think..." Min Xuefei glanced at him, clenched his hands secretly, and said with a frown, "Before Ji's family, someone once met the second brother and took away the Wu Calamity Sword, but they didn't treat them The two lend a helping hand."
Yu Jinnian rubbed his chin and speculated, "But someone was greedy for money and swallowed that sword?"
Min Xuefei: "In the vast snowfield, the ice cave is so remote that even the locals find it difficult to set foot here. What's more, if it's for money, why didn't the gold, silver and jade on the second brother and Shuluan's body be lost? Only the Wuhai sword Disappeared without a trace. In the past ten years, Ji Hong has never given up searching for the whereabouts of the Wu Calamity Sword, and even offered sky-high prices in the black market to buy clues for this sword. However, this sword seems to have disappeared out of thin air. Until today, it suddenly disappeared again. appeared before our eyes."
Yu Jinnian suddenly understood the key point of Min Xuefei's words, he thought about it for a while, and felt cold on the soles of his feet, as if a long worm had crawled up his waist, and a sense of apprehension rushed up his back. He stood up abruptly, and said in horror: "Then according to you, the person who took this sword knows Wu Calamity Sword, Second Brother, and even his whereabouts. If there is such a person—he is the real murderer!"
Min Xuefei raised her eyelids to look at him, and her eyes were filled with the meaning of "you are not too stupid".
But this is just a guess without any evidence.
"My God!" Yu Jinnian paced back and forth in the room. If this is the case, then how cruel would the person who took away the Wu Calamity Sword be so heartless that he would not save them, leaving them to die slowly in the cold and hunger. But fortunately, this sword was brought back by Jing Zhong, he must know something, as long as Jing Zhong wakes up and asks, the truth will be revealed.
This was obviously what Min Xuefei thought in his heart, the two of them locked eyes, and planned to go to the building together to see Jing Zhong's situation.
Just as he was about to go out, Shi Xing, who was chasing Young Master Jiang, rushed in. Looking at his steps, he was going to enter Ji Hong's room, but when he walked to the door, he suddenly remembered that his master was not in his right mind. He hurriedly stopped his legs again, turned around and came to the side room, and asked the second master Min, the backup think tank, for advice.
When Yu Jinnian saw him, he immediately asked, "Why are you in such a hurry, but Jing Zhong is awake?!"
Shi Xing shook his head flutteringly.
Min Xuefei: "What is that?"
Shi Xing concentrated for a moment, took a deep breath and said: "Mr. Min, there is a report from the north, saying that the Beidi people have entered Beiyan Pass, and now they have passed Yancheng!"
"What?" Min Xuefei cheered up. Beiyan Pass is a dangerous pass in the north, and it is even more important. Ji Gong once stationed at this pass and fought countless battles with Beidi people. The accident in the first year of Jingyou was precisely because General Ji withdrew the enemy for 30 miles and almost penetrated into the hinterland of the Beidi people outside the territory.
It was precisely because of this incident that angered Ji Gong, who was the Great General of Zhenbei at that time, and Ji Gong led his troops into the Beidi Imperial City in a rage, slaughtered the Beidi royal family, and burned Beidi. Three days and three nights in the imperial city.
Since then, the Beidi family has been exterminated.
Min Xuefei frowned: "Who is in Beidi, did you find out clearly?"
Shi Xingdao: "The leader of the army is called He Luoa, who claims to be the little prince of Beidi. According to the report, after Beidi exterminated his family, he escaped by chance and fled to other nearby small countries under the escort of several old servants. Nian kept his name incognito, tried his best, and worked hard. He actually overthrew the royal family of that small country two years ago, ascended the throne himself, and restored the country name of Beidi. This time, he broke the Beidi under the banner of revenge Goose Pass, drive straight in all the way."
Min Xuefei: "Where is the Marquis of Dingbei who is guarding the gate?"
Shi Xing: "Say yes... Marquis Dingbei is seriously injured, and he doesn't know whether he is alive or dead."
Min Xuefei couldn't help cursing: "This old man!"