Lu Yi just came back when the moon was in the middle of the sky.
As soon as he entered the small courtyard, he was stunned. The nearby pavilion was lit with lights, people were next to each other, and he could only hear "Plum blossoms, axes, copper hammers..."
"Big..." Cen Fu, who was leaning outside the pavilion watching the excitement, was the first to notice Lu Yi, but saw the eldest son make a silent gesture, and hurriedly swallowed the following two words.
Lu Yi walked slowly to the pavilion, and the others were immersed in playing Pai Gow without finding him at all.
The first thing he saw was this summer, with a smile on his lips, skillfully flipping cards and building cards, in a dealer stance. Next to this summer was Chun Yumin, who covered the card tightly in his hand and looked at it carefully, which made him a little surprised. The other two girls looked fresh, dressed gorgeously, with a slightly frivolous demeanor...
After the cards were dealt, he didn't look at his cards this summer, the cards were face down, and he only used his fingertips to rub the concave places on the card surface to know what cards he had in his hand.
"If you make a fortune, don't forget the silver taels you owe me." Someone whispered in her ear, making her ears itch.
"… Um?"
She turned her head to meet Shang Lu Yi's smiling eyes.
The others only saw Lu Yi at this time. Among them, Chun Yumin was the most in a hurry, as if he had done something wrong, he hurriedly put the cards on the table and called softly, "Big brother, you are back."
Seeing this, Lianlian and Sisi looked at Lu Yi's posture and bearing, hurriedly bypassed the table, and saluted him: "See Lord Lu in the slave family."
"Who are they?" Lu Yi looked at this summer.
"Reporting to your lord, these two sisters were sent by Governor Hu to serve you." This summer, he introduced him dutifully, "This is Sister Lian Lian, as her name suggests, I feel pity; this is Sisi. Sister, when the ends of the earth are poor, there is only endless love."
"… Oh."
Cen Fu stepped forward and added: "The Governor Hu also sent people to deliver a lot of things. The eldest son didn't say anything. I won't dare to do anything. I'm just putting it there now... eldest son, please take a step to speak."
After leading Lu Yi to a distance and making sure that the people in the pavilion could not hear their conversation, Cen Fucai said: "A Rui just said, let the eldest son not suffer from Hu Zongxian's things, saying that this is a trap and someone wants to harm you. We wanted to ask in detail, but he refused to speak. I was afraid that he would only speak if you went to the eldest son."
Lu Yi pondered for a moment, and then said: "I see. It's getting late now, you ask the store owner to open two more rooms for these two girls, the farther away from our small courtyard, the better, and those things are also moved to their room. in."
"I understand." Cen Fu was about to leave, but stopped and said, "That... Miss Yuan, Miss Chunyu and they played Pai Gow for a reason, for..."
"I know." He was interrupted by Lu Yi before he finished speaking, "Go ahead."
"Don't blame them."
After Cen Fu said this, he took the order and left.
Lian Lian and Ai Ai saw that Lu Yi did not drive them away, but because there were not enough rooms in the small courtyard, they opened another room for them, so they obediently followed Cen Fu away.
"It's getting late, you should also go and rest." Lu Yi just now had a hole under the board, and said lightly to Chunyu Min.
Chunyu Min looked at Jin Xia uneasily, but finally did not dare to go against Lu Yi's intentions, lowered his head and went back to his room silently.
At present, Jin Xia and Lu Yi are the only ones left in the pavilion. She looked at him with a magnanimous face, and she didn't see him speak for a while, so she sighed and tickled him.
"Sister Lianlian, Sister Sisi, you sounded quite affectionate." He grabbed her hand, forbid her to make trouble, and said angrily.
Jin Xia smiled and said, "Aren't the two sisters beautiful? You look at it, don't you feel itchy? People also ask me about your preferences, and they care about you."
"How do you answer?"
"I said, my lord Lu doesn't really care about women's appearance, but he only cares about property."
"... I take possessions more seriously?" Lu Yi raised his eyebrows.
This summer, he took a step cautiously and reminded him: "I didn't say nonsense. In Yangzhou, you knew that I couldn't pay, but you forced me to pay the rent of the boat, and you would deduct my salary at any time."
Lu Yi deceived himself and said softly, "You're calling the thief to catch the thief. That night at the bridgehead, who was begging me for two taels of silver, don't you remember?"
Thinking back on it this summer, he said proudly: "Whoever is begging for nothing, you smashed my stall. I fought hard at the time, so you gave me the money obediently."
"I thought you were noisy and wanted to get rid of you quickly." Thinking of the situation at the bridge at the time, Lu Yi couldn't help laughing, took a piece of Pai Gow to play with, and then asked, "You spent most of this time with them. Day, what happened?"
He also knows a little about the way of handling the case by the Six Doors. Because the three judicial divisions have many restrictions, the Six Doors are much more gentle than Jin Yiwei in handling cases, and they will never intimidate and intimidate things that can be contrived. Just like this summer, playing with someone is almost like playing Pai Gow, doing what you want, and letting the other party drop their guard, thinking that there must be a lot of things going on.
"It's not in a hurry, I'll talk about it later." Thinking of Arui this summer, he hurriedly dragged him to Arui's room and muttered, "This master broke the mirror today. It's a big mirror. My mother is here, I have to discount the legs of this prodigal son."
In order not to attract attention, A Rui and Cen Shou lived in the same room.
At this time, Cen Shou, who had already cleaned all the debris of the mirror on the ground, was now leaning on the chair, with his feet raised on the table, squinting together. Hearing Lu Yi's knock on the door, he woke up suddenly, almost fell, and hurried over to open the door: "Eldest son."
A Rui was still awake on the bed, and when he heard Lu Yi coming, he slowly turned his head, and without waiting for Lu Yi to speak, he said hoarsely, "Let everyone else go out!"
"Put your nose on your face, you!" Cen Shou said angrily.
Lu Yi lightly instructed: "You all go out."
Cen Shou didn't dare to go against his intentions, glared at A Rui, and turned to go out; he also withdrew this summer, not forgetting to close the door tightly for them.
Hearing no footsteps wandering outside, A Rui said slowly:
"The reason why he didn't embarrass you in Yangzhou is because he wants to let you come to Yangzhou and let you be buried with Hu Zongxian."
The "he" he said was naturally Yan Shifan, and Lu Yi knew it well.
"Hu Zongxian is obviously a strict party, why did he want him to die?"
"Hu Zongxian belongs to Zhao Wenhua. He has always hated Zhao Wenhua very much."
Zhao Wenhua, with the character Yuanzhi, with the number of Meicun, was born in the south of Congmaqiao, Cixi County, and was a Jinshi in the eighth year of Jiajing. At the beginning of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yan Song served as a sacrificial wine. He recognized Song as his adoptive father and was appointed as a political envoy.
Lu Yi didn't know why Yan Shifan hated Zhao Wenhua, maybe it was because Zhao Wenhua dared to cross Yan Song and sent Baihua wine to the saint privately; maybe it was because Zhao Wenhua was courteous to Yan Shifan's mother in every possible way; maybe he didn't need any reason, he just didn't like Zhao Wenhua.
"Why does he think I'm on Hu Zongxian's side?" Lu Yi asked.
"I don't know, but the crime he wants to put on Hu Zongxian is fornicating with Japanese pirates. As long as you get involved with this, you will die."
Lu Yi's face sank like water.
The sage seems to be devoted to cultivating the Tao, but it is naturally taboo to be a king. One is to make friends with courtiers, such as Xia Yan, although he is in the position of the first assistant, he will be executed if he wants to be executed; the other is that Collusion with foreign enemies is also an untouchable crime, and anyone who touches it will be executed.
Yan Shifan's hand is indeed ruthless, and someone must be collecting evidence of Hu Zongxian's dealings with Japanese pirates for him. Lu Yi took a deep breath and then asked, "Is there anyone around him who is very familiar with Hu Zongxian? Or is he familiar with Japanese pirates?"
"There is indeed a person, but I don't know who this person is." Arui paused, "In Yangzhou, this person was among the Japanese pirates, and he would say that he was an Oriental and was captured by us, but it was a pity that he slipped away. After the Japanese pirates were eliminated, I found this man on his boat."
"Do you remember what that person looked like?"
"If you see it, you should be able to recognize it. By the way, Miss Yuan has also seen him and interrogated him a few times."
This summer, he was dragging Cen Fu, who had just returned, to the side to settle accounts. The cost of playing Pai Gow belonged to Cen Fu. After he had agreed, if he lost, he would be counted, and if he won, he would be divided.
"You actually won?" Cen Fu poured the copper coins into the purse, and in addition to the principal, he also earned three copper coins.
After carefully receiving the three copper plates, he was very satisfied with his fortune this summer: "God bless you, your fortune is prosperous."
Cen Shou sneered at the side: "Three copper plates?! I know what it means to be 'not as poor and happy, as rich and polite.'"
Just as he was about to speak back this summer, he heard Lu Yi open the door and call out in a deep voice, "Come to my room this summer."
"Ah... oh..."
Lu Yi then ordered: "Cen Fu, prepare a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and let Yang Yue cook some sober soup and send it."
"Understandable."
Cen Shou hurriedly straightened his body beside him: "Eldest son, what about me?"
Lu Yi glanced at him: "You... It's none of your business, just go to sleep."
Cen Shou wilted suddenly and went back to his room boringly.
"You and those two girls are just playing Pai Gow, why did you drag sister Chunyu with you?" Lu Yi entered the room, took off his robe, and threw it directly to this summer.
"I asked her if she would play Pai Gow, and she said that she often accompanies the old lady to spend time at home." This summer, she was covered by a robe and ripped it off. She said in dissatisfaction, "Sir, can you be more reserved and don't always stand in front of me. Take off your clothes?"
Lu Yi put on a loose homely robe and stretched out his body. The next moment, he stretched out his arms and took Jinxia into his arms, leaning his head on her shoulder, and the warm breath was in her ear: "changing clothes is also called Aren't you reserved? Otherwise, if you change it in front of me, then the two of us will be even."
This summer blushed, pushed him away and said angrily, "Think beautiful!"
Lu Yi smiled and said, "Okay, okay, let's talk about this later. Let's talk about what you got out of those two girls tonight?"
Need to talk more about this! This summer, he felt that he was not as thick-skinned as he was, and with a solemn expression, he said solemnly: "Although it was not stated explicitly, the two of them are definitely Hu Zongxian's women. They both know a lot about the affairs of the Hu family's house, but unfortunately most of them are The matter of jealousy among women... Brother, Dudu Hu has sent all his women to you, and it can be said that he is very affectionate to you." She peeked at Lu Yi's expression.
Lu Yi's expression was calm, and he said, "Let's go on."
"To have so many women in the house, plus their daily clothes, is a lot of money. Governor Hu will not be a person with two sleeves, and it will not be clean. By the way, Xu Wei, Xu Wenchang, who your father is thinking about, I I also asked a few questions, he is really a celebrity in front of Hu Zongxian, and even those women envy his position in Hu Zongxian's mind."
"How?" Lu Yi poured a cup of tea and pushed it to her.
Jin Xia smiled and said: "There is another story in this. It is said that one day Hu Zongxian summoned his generals to discuss military affairs in the council hall, and no one else could enter. Who would have thought that Xu Wenchang would break in without even knocking on the door? After wandering around, he left without saying anything. If he were someone else, he would have been dragged out and beaten to death. Hu Zongxian didn't care about him, so he didn't mention it at all. These women are envious and envious. I was jealous again, and later one of the most favored people wanted to try it, but was blocked by the guards at the gate of the courtyard, and he couldn't even enter the courtyard."
Lu Yi disagreed: "It's just a means to win over people's hearts, it's not surprising."
This summer shrugged: "As for what's going on outside, Xu Hai, Wang Zhi, etc., they don't know very well. But there is one thing I think is a clue - they mentioned last year's Mid-Autumn Festival, Hu Zongxian was in a very good mood, and the family banquet was in a good mood. He also mentioned to them that he would take them to Mount Putuo to worship at the end of the year."
"Last Mid-Autumn Festival?" Lu Yi recalled for a moment, "Wang Zhi was arrested last September."
"Because of the Japanese pirates, and Putuo Mountain is an island, almost no one dared to take the risk to go to the incense pilgrimage. Since he said this, and it is still at the end of the year, at least it shows that he was very sure about pacifying the Japanese pirates at that time." This summer He said in surprise, "Why does Wang Zhi have such confidence before he has been arrested?"
Speaking of this, Cen Fu just knocked on the door and came in, with a pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the tray.
"We'll talk about this later..." Lu Yi got up, laid out the paper, and asked Jin Xia, "Since you have entered the six doors, Yang Zhaotou should have taught you to recognize faces and draw sketches, right?"
"Naturally taught." Jin Xia paused, then said, "It's just... I remember it clearly in my heart, but I didn't draw very well, and I didn't draw very much on weekdays."
"It doesn't matter, as long as you can draw it. A Rui said that you once caught a Han man who could speak Oriental, but he slipped away again. Do you still remember the appearance of that man?"
This summer was startled, frowned and thought for a while: "It's been a long time, I'm worried that I don't remember clearly."
"It doesn't matter, you can think about it before writing."
Lu Yi motioned to Cen Fu to study ink.