V2.Chapter 56

"I have business with you." In the purple bamboo forest, Yan Ruyu looked at Xu Shao and said, "I suspect that Young Master Yan is suspicious of me."

Xu Shao frowned and said subconsciously, "What did you do?"

"I..." Yan Ruyu hesitated, turned around, and looked into the depths of the silent bamboo forest, "Where do I need to do? Paper can't cover fire, you know better than me, right?"

Xu Shao pondered for a moment: "Xu Zhou is very clean, he can't find anything, how do you think he suspects you?"

Yan Ruyu sighed: "I can't tell, it's just that I've been uneasy recently, and I'm just a little worried."

"Did you forget to take your medicine again?" Xu Shao frowned and looked at her.

Yan Ruyu's eyes turned cold: "I'm not sick!"

Xu Shao slowed his tone: "You have a loss of qi and blood, and you need to be carefully adjusted."

Yan Ruyu turned her face lightly, as if she didn't take this advice into her heart.

"What does Yan Jiuchao suspect of you? It's not the child's biological mother, or do you think you are hiding some of your past?"

Yan Ruyu shook her head: "He didn't tell me anything, I guessed it myself. He's not in the capital recently. Do you think he went to investigate what happened back then?"

Xu Shao said: "King Yan's death day is coming soon. He just went to the imperial mausoleum to sweep the tomb of King Yan. Don't think about it."

Yan Jiuchao left Beijing in the name of sweeping graves.

"Imperial Mausoleum and Gongcheng are in the same direction." Yan Ruyu looked at Xu Shao and said, "Aren't you worried that he is going to Gongcheng in secret? Xuzhou was cleaned up by you, but what about Gongcheng? Where is the house? ?"

Xu Shao said: "No one knows that you have been to Gongcheng, and no one will link Gongcheng to the whole thing."

Yan Ruyu wanted to say something, Xu Shao raised his hand: "Okay, this is the end of the matter, you can rest assured to be the biological mother of the little son, and I will figure it out for you."

When Yan Ruyu returned to the house, she did not go to dinner, but sat in the study and drew a portrait with a brush.

Caiqin stood quietly by the side, studying ink for her.

Yan Ruyu painted several pictures in one breath, almost every picture was the same. Caiqin didn't talk much on weekdays, but now she couldn't help but open her mouth: "Miss, why don't you have a face?"

The painting shows the back of a woman, standing in the tub, surrounded by water vapor, the woman's face is half turned, but the contours of her cheeks and facial features are empty, only the blue silk falling all over her head, covering half of her beautiful back.

And at the lower right of the beautiful back, near the holy vortex, there is a small cyan birthmark, half of it is exposed, and the other half is hidden in the blue silk.

"Is this the lady? It's so beautiful." Caiqin said sincerely.

Yan Ruyu smiled self-deprecatingly: "It's not me."

Caiqin snorted in surprise: "Who would that be?" Looking at the empty face, she said, "Why didn't you paint your face?"

Yan Ruyu only answered her second question: "Because that's not her face."

Full of red spots and black as mud, she once thought that the woman was born that way, until one day, she happened to see her beautiful woman bathing. Although there was only one back, she was suffocating.

She never knew that a person's skin could be as good as that, as delicate as white porcelain and like fine jade, how could such a beautiful woman have such a disgusting ugly face?

Caiqin didn't understand Yan Ruyu's words.

After Yan Ruyu drew the last stroke, she put down her brush and said, "I also want to see what she looks like, but unfortunately she was taken away after a while. After that, she gave birth to a child, and then..."

What's next? Caiqin pricked up her ears.

Yan Ruyu didn't say any more, stroking the beauty on the painting and saying, "Prepare the car, I'll go to the young master's mansion to visit the young master."

Caiqin said: "Miss, the young master has been sent to the Xiao residence, have you forgotten?"

Yan Ruyu's hand paused and she said, "Yeah, I forgot."

...

"Young master, who is the picture? Is it the biological mother of Xiao Gongzi? What does it look like? Why don't you show it?"

Shadow Six muttered in dissatisfaction.

They have already returned to the inn. On the side of Master Zheng, the young master sent a few dead men to rescue the son of Master Zheng. Since he is willing to take action, it means that this trip is rewarding, so he guessed that the scroll must be Portrait of the little boy and his mother!

It's just that he didn't understand why the young master didn't show them. Could it be that the little son's biological mother was too ugly to be seen?

Of course, it's not that it's too ugly to see people, it's that it's too revealing to see people...

Yan Jiuchao closed his eyes, suppressed the evil fire in his lower abdomen and said, "There is no face in the painting."

But there is something else.

Yan Jiuchao asked Yingliu to prepare the calligraphy, and drew half the birthmark on the paper with a pen. The other half was covered by blue silk. He always felt that the birthmark was familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere.

Ying Six and Ying Thirteen came over.

Ying Liu looked at it for a while and felt familiar, but couldn't remember it for a while.

On the other hand, Ying Shisan said solemnly: "Young master, this... how is it so similar to the totem on Bi Nu's body?"

After what he said, Yan Jiuchao's eyes moved slightly, and he drew the cyan flame on Bi Nu's body, and then he covered half of it with his hands, and the exposed half was exactly the same as the one in the portrait.

Bi Nu is a ghost clan, this is the mark of the ghost clan.

If this painting is true, then the woman who spent the night with him that night was the daughter of a ghost clan?

The reason why the ghost clan is called the ghost clan by the people of the Central Plains is all because of their elusive style. They are passed down by the rivers and lakes. In fact, no one has seen them. They only know that they are a small clan in the southern border. , because the Gu technique was too domineering, they were both jealous of the Southern Border Court and Jianghu. In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, they went into hiding.

I can't see a ghost clan in the southern border, let alone the Central Plains. If the woman that night was really a ghost clan, how did she come to the Central Plains? What are you doing in the Central Plains again?

"Young Master, this subordinate remembers a rumor about the ghost clan in the rivers and lakes." Ying Liu suddenly said.

"What rumors?" Ying Shisan asked.

"I didn't talk to you again!" Ying Liu glared at Ying Thirteen, then turned to look at Yan Jiuchao.

Yan Jiuchao repeated Ying Shisan's words: "What rumor?"

Ying Liudao: "Actually, there are many rumors about the ghost clan in the rivers and lakes, but there is only one about the woman. Eighteen years ago, the king of the ghost clan got married, but on the wedding day, the bride ran away."

Ying Thirteen said with contempt: "You can get married eighteen years ago, so I'm afraid that's not too young. Do you mean that the young master slept with a half-old milf three years ago?"

Ying Liu glared at him and said, "Do you still have a brain? How could I possibly mean that?"

"Then what do you mean?" Ying Shisan asked back.

Ying Liudao: "You never thought about it, maybe she fled to the Central Plains? She came to the Central Plains for so many years, didn't she get married? If she gave birth to a daughter, wouldn't she be half a ghost clan?"

Yan Jiuchao tapped lightly on the table with his fingertips, showing a thoughtful look.

...

"Madam!" The little maid stomped her feet and tried to dissuade Shangguan Yan for the hundred and oneth time, "Let's not go there, okay? What is there to go to in a ruined village? You are the mistress of Xiao's house, let people know What a shame you go to a place like the countryside!"

Shangguan Yan coughed lightly: "I'm not here to make him happy? I did something wrong, it's right to coax him, he likes to eat stinky tofu, I buy it for him myself, so he should be relieved ."

Life and death do not admit that I want to eat stinky tofu!

The little maid said with akimbo: "Madam did something wrong! You shouldn't have stuffed people into the master's room. Fortunately, the master didn't touch it. What if he touches it? If a concubine is born, Madam will be happy?"

Shangguan Yan sighed: "Don't I also want to leave a daughter for the Xiao family? Someone has to inherit such a big family property, right?"

"One, two, three, can't Madam see it?" The little maid pointed to the little milk packs sitting in a row in front of her.

Little Niuba couldn't understand what they were saying, but as long as they could see Wanwan, they would be happy. What the little girl said, they all nodded obediently.

The little maid raised her eyebrows and said, "Look, the young master is more sensible than the madam!"

Yes, yes, they are very sensible.

The little babes opened their black eyes, sat up straight, and put their hands well, indicating that they are really invincible and sensible!

The little maid continued to apply eye drops to her wife: "Don't be cheap, son, if you marry into the Xiao family, the Xiao family's property will be yours. After a hundred years, you will belong to the young master. After a hundred years, the young master will belong to the young master. In short, a Zi'er is not allowed to be left to outsiders!"

Shangguan Yan's left ear goes in and right ear goes out.

Suddenly, Little Treasure covered his stomach and screamed.

This is going to stink.

Shangguanyan asked the driver to stop the carriage, and the little maid led Xiaobao to the front for convenience. When Dabao and Erbao saw this, they also covered their stomachs for convenience. This is probably the case with triplets. , to pull also pull together.

There are no toilets on the road, and three small milk packs are squatting on the roadside and stinking.

Little Bao can't get out.

The big treasure and the second treasure can't be pulled out either.

The three of them squatted on the ground with their bare butts and played with the dog's tail grass in front of them.

Although this is a fork in the road, it is deserted, and there are no carriages coming and going along the way. The little girl never expected that a carriage would come galloping from the side road. Although it did not hit them, it ran over a mud pit and the mud splashed small. Milk packs all over the face.

The little maid immediately got angry and shouted at the carriage: "Who is so bold? Can't walk with eyes? Are there any children around you who haven't seen?"

The carriage stopped.

The little maid shouted, "I made my little son like this! You will pay!"

"What's wrong?" Shangguan Yan heard the movement, got off the carriage, and walked towards this side.

The little maid took out the handkerchief, squatted down and wiped the faces of the little babes: "Look, madam! The mud splashed all over the little boy's face! It's all dirty!"

The three little milk packs looked at Shangguan Yan innocently.

Shangguan Yan picked up the three little guys and put on pants for them: "Forget it, they don't mean it."

"What's not intentional? They almost bumped into someone, and they didn't even say an apology!" The little girl's voice was loud, as if she was deliberately saying it to the other party.

A large leather-gloved palm stretched out from the carriage and opened the side curtains.

The other hand reached out and pressed against his arm.

The man in the leather gloves understood, restrained his murderous aura, and put the curtain back.

Then, the carriage Juechen left.

The little maid stomped her feet angrily: "Running so fast! Who is really!"

Shangguan Yan also looks at people when she hates people. There are two types of people she doesn't usually deal with - irrelevant people, and people who are too dangerous. The carriage just now gave her the feeling of the latter.

Shangguan Yan looked at the direction the carriage was heading, and it seemed... they were also going to Lotus Village.

Lotus Village.

Yu Wan was sitting in the room giving Little Tiedan a surprise homework. Manager Cui sent the past year's Mongolian exam questions. The questions were not as complicated as expected. Most of them were memorization and writing. The scope of the questions was "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Characters" , Yu Wan has inquired about it. The next entrance exam for Mongolian school will be in June. After passing the exam, you can enter the school.

It is now late March, and there are only less than three months left. It is quite difficult to memorize the "Three Character Classic" in such a short period of time.

Little Tie Dan can no longer go out to play with Zhen Zhen, and can't go to the ridge to look for stones and the others. Every day, she is held in the room by my sister, studying and writing, and writing!

The little iron egg has a big head!

"If you miss a word, recite it again." Yu Wan said sternly.

Little Tiedan said, "Sister, I'm hungry."

"Eat it after memorizing it." Yu Wan said unsympathetically.

Little Tiedan recited aggrievedly: "The sky and the earth are dark and yellow, the universe is prehistoric, the sun and the moon are full, the constellations are arranged, the cold is coming and the summer is coming, and the autumn is harvested and the winter is hidden..."

Yu Wan was dedicated to doing two things. While listening to her younger brother's endorsement, she calculated the account at hand. She received a reward of 100 taels from the palace, which was enough to make up for the arrears of materials on the construction site and the wages of the craftsmen. The small workers have already received them. , There are still a few big workers and old masters left.

"...Jinsheng Lishui, Sunrise Kungang-"

"It's the jade that came out of Kungang." Yu Wan corrected Xiao Tie Dan's mistake.

Little Tie Dan is speechless, isn't he trying to settle accounts? How could you hear that he was wrong?

After that, Little Tie Dan deliberately made a few mistakes, and Yu Wan found out without landing. At the same time, Yu Wan's account was finished.

"So many mistakes, I think you want to punish you for copying." Yu Wan looked at Little Tie Dan calmly.

Little Tie Dan quickly waved his hand: "No, no, no! I don't want to punish you for copying!"

"Copy it again."

"don't want!"

"Then twice."

"what?!"

When the little iron egg was about to explode, Shuanzi came to the door in a panic: "Awan! There is an accident at the construction site! Come and see!"

The little iron egg stretched his head.

Yu Wan looked at him: "Don't even think about it, when I come back, you'd better have finished copying it twice."

The little iron is wilted.

Sister is too bad, too bad, too bad!

Yu Wan followed Shuanzi to the construction site of the factory building. From a distance, she heard Aunt Zhang yelling at a woman. The woman Yu Wan knew, called Miao Niang, came from Wujia Village. Miao Niang's man was a carpenter, who lived in Yu Mother Miao had nothing to do at home, so she asked Yu Feng if she could also come to help. Yu Feng thought that someone had to clean up the construction site, so he called her to come and do the sweeping.

Miao Niang works diligently, but her hands and feet are a little dirty.

A few of them had discovered it early, but it was hard to tell because she was a woman. Besides, there was nothing for her to go along on the construction site. The big deal was a few leftover buns and steamed buns. Baby, was caught once by Brother Shuanzi, crying and saying that the baby was very hungry, Brother Shuanzi warned her not to have the next time, otherwise she would be rude to her.

I don't know that Miao Niang doesn't have a long memory. After lunch today, she went to steal the buns again, and was caught by Brother Shuanzi. Brother Shuanzi was so angry that he wanted to abolish her hand. She bit back and said that Brother Shuanzi had wronged her.

Relying on her being a woman, Brother Shuanzi didn't dare to touch her, but Brother Shuanzi just stepped forward and kicked her into the mud pit!

Miao Niang's man was angry and called a few other Wujiacun craftsmen who also came to the construction site to work with Brother Shuanzi.

Seeing that the situation was not right, Er Niu rushed to persuade him to fight, but he accidentally injured his head, knocking his head on the shovel, cracking a large hole several inches long.

There was blood all over the place, and everyone was terrified.

When Aunt Zhang heard that her son had an accident, she put down her work and hurried to the construction site. When Yu Wan arrived at the scene, Aunt Zhang was squatting on the ground, covering Er Niu's wound with cotton cloth, while crying and scolding Miao Niang: "What's wrong with your heart? It's getting dark... hands and feet are dirty... go back to your own village... what are you doing in our village..."

"You, you... why are you mad at me? We didn't push it! It was him!" Miao Niang pointed her finger at brother Shuanzi.

At that time, it was indeed Brother Shuanzi who knocked down Er Niu, but Brother Shuanzi did not see Er Niu, and he was also pushed and shoved by people from Wujia Village.

"Stop arguing!" Yu Wan glanced at everyone coldly, and Aunt Zhang and Niang Miao, who were still arguing just now, were silent for a moment.

Yu Wan walked up to Aunt Zhang and Er Niu, and looked back at the crowd watching the excitement: "You are all stunned here, don't you have to do anything? You can't get paid just by being in a daze!"

Shuan tugged on his brother's sleeve: "Brother, let's go."

Brother Shuanzi looked at the craftsmen in Wujiacun with cold eyes, and went to do his own business. Soon, the rest of the craftsmen also dispersed.

Yu Wan squatted down: "Aunt Zhang, let me see."

Aunt Zhang shook the blood-stained cotton cloth and asked Yu Wan in tears, "Awan, will Erniu be all right? He's bleeding a lot..."

Yu Wan took out a clean handkerchief from her purse and touched Erniu's skull through the handkerchief: "The bones are fine, it's a flesh wound. I'll take Erniu to sew it up first."

"Sewing...sewing?" Aunt Zhang was stunned for a moment.

Yu Wan nodded, Erniu's wound was much longer than Yu Song's last time, and it couldn't be healed without stitches. Seeing that Aunt Zhang was still worried, she said patiently, "Aunt Zhang, don't worry, this hurts me, give me the second one. Brother has done it, I'm sure."

Aunt Zhang has only seen her to heal cattle, and I don't know that she can also heal people, but since she said so, she is sure to come, not to mention that her son was injured so badly, she couldn't wait to go to the town to ask a doctor, Aunt Zhang asked Er Niu to follow Yu Wan went.

Yu Wan cleaned Er Niu's wound and prepared needles and thread: "Brother Er Niu, it may hurt a little later, you can bear it."

Erniu blushed and hummed: "It's okay, I didn't get hurt in the military camp, it's a little... ah-"

As soon as the needle went down, the two cows screamed miserably.

Er Niu went in vertically and came out lying down...the pain was dizzy.

Aunt Zhang: "..."

"Cough, it's a bit heavy to start with." After all, they used to be sewed for pigs, "but I sewed well."

After all, pigskin is so thick, right, how easy is human skin to sew.

...

After treating Er Niu, Yu Wan went to the construction site and learned about the situation from the client and the witnesses. It was basically the same as what Shuanzi said. It was Mother Miao who stole things first, and Brother Shuanzi taught her later. The man who got Miao Niang called the crowd fight.

Yu Wan said lightly: "I asked you to come here to let you do things well, not to cause trouble at the construction site. It's not the first time for you, Miao Niang. My temple is too small to afford your big Buddha. You won't be here tomorrow. ."

Miao Niang was startled: "What? Are you going to quit me?"

Yu Wan said in a low voice, "Yes, you heard right, I'm going to quit you."

Miao Niang gave up and said with her arms on her hips: "Call your eldest brother here! It was your eldest brother who invited me here! It's also his resignation when I want to resign. When will it be a girl's turn to speak!"

Yu Wan's eyes turned cold and said, "If you keep arguing, I will resign your man!"

Miao Niang fell silent.

"And you." Yu Wan looked at Brother Shuanzi and the craftsmen in Wujiacun, "I think you are the first offender, this time I will only deduct the monthly payment for ten years, and next time, give me a package and leave! Of course! , You can leave now if you want. You have the craftsmanship, and the craftsmen in the town also have the craftsmanship. The big deal is to spend a little more money. Our Yu family is not bad for this amount of money! Please come and see the love of Grandpa Wu! Really When these few taels of wages are saved, will our Yu family be able to make a fortune!"

The craftsmen of Wujiacun, who had planned to use collective resignation to threaten Yu Wan, bowed their heads in unison.

It is true that Yu Feng paid them less than the old craftsmen in the town, but it was higher than other villages. The Yu family left them and could pay for better craftsmen, but they could not find better jobs.

Thinking about it this way, even if they were deducted ten months' money, they would recognize it.

I thought that as long as they hugged into a group, they would be able to threaten this girl, but who would have expected this girl to be so powerful, not worse than men...

"Brother Shuanzi, are you alright?" After the craftsman left, Yu Wan stopped Brother Shuanzi, who was walking back with a sullen head.

Brother Shuanzi turned around: "I've caused you trouble."

"Nothing, I know that Brother Shuanzi is for my own good. Brother Shuanzi don't have to take it to heart." Regarding Miao Niang, someone has to come forward to be a villain. Brother Shuanzi is not without the demeanor of a man, he It is to let go of the man's burden.

Yu Wan handed Brother Shuanzi a small medicine bottle: "Here."

Brother Shuanzi was stunned for a moment, then looked at his fist, it was actually a bloody mess, he smiled: "I didn't find it."

He took the medicine bottle: "Thanks."

"You're welcome." Yu Wan said.

Brother Shuanzi gave her a fixed look: "You and your mother really look alike."

Yu Wan smiled: "Yeah, it's all said, I'm like my mother, and my brother is like my father."

"It's good to be like your mother." Pretty.

"That's right." Brother Shuanzi took a few steps, thought of something, and suddenly stopped, "The Zhao family seems to have moved back."

"Huh?" Yu Wan was stunned, Zhao Heng owed her three hundred taels of silver, and she still had the face to bring it back?

Brother Shuanzi frowned and said, "I just passed his house and saw a carriage parked in front of his house, and someone was carrying luggage."