Someone pushed the door open and came in, their footsteps light, mixed with the cold air outside.
Zhou Yuan's eyelids moved, and he opened his eyes before the man spoke: "Back?"
"Still sleeping? Get up and have something to eat."
"I want to get dressed, you go out." Zhou Yu'an squirmed under the quilt and moved the quilt upward: "Master Shen, are you sure you want to watch here? If so, I will come out."
Shen Chongming turned around quickly: "I'll wait for you downstairs."
Zhou Yu'an breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, he was out. If he had to stand here, she really didn't know what to do. He opened a corner of the quilt, looked at his night clothes, and quickly took them off.
Hearing the voice behind the door, Shen Chongming felt a little hot. He raised his eyes to face the sword and became more and more uncomfortable. He asked with a sullen face: "Did you send the person to the county government?"
"Sent him away, and I watched him being imprisoned."
Holding the sword, he glanced at the door of the house and asked, "Did you get kicked out by Miss Zhou?"
"Prepare the food." Shen Chongming said: "Don't be salty, don't be sour, let the kitchen prepare something sweet, something sweet but not greasy."
"Okay, I'll go now." Holding the sword and holding on to the railing, he jumped lightly and landed directly on the first floor. Shen Chongming stood at the door and did not move until Zhou Yu'an changed his clothes and came out.
It was just dawn, and there were not many people eating in the inn. They were all those who stayed in the inn last night.
Shen Chongming poured a cup of hot water and pushed it in front of Zhou Yu'an: "The scholar has been detained and the county magistrate has returned to his hometown. If you have nothing else to do, after this meal, we will set off back to Suizhou."
"Has the county magistrate's matter been cleared up? What did the book boy say?" Zhou Yu'an took a sip of hot tea and looked at Shen Chongming with his peripheral vision. Although he has an agreement with the book boy, everyone has weaknesses. Who knows if Shen Chongming will see the clues in him.
Three years ago, she went to Huzhou to investigate and found the county magistrate. Following the clues, he discovered that his mother was related to the counterfeit banknote case that year.
In order to find out the whole story, she disguised herself as a maid and sneaked into the house.
The master is a muddle-headed master who doesn't care about anything in the house except walking the cat and playing with the dog. He only spends half a day in the ancestral hall every Mid-Autumn Festival when the moon is full.
The ancestral hall not only enshrines his ancestors, but also enshrines his first wife and daughter.
His daughter's memorial tablet is covered with red cloth. It can be seen that he really loved the child and hoped that she would still be alive.
It seems that the couple is deeply in love, but in fact they are suspicious of each other and have their own complaints.
The step-wife complained that he was incompetent and was indifferent to his son's future, while he complained that the step-wife was vicious and lost his daughter for her own selfish reasons, leaving him unable to explain to his wife.
Zhou Yu'an found it interesting, and after careful investigation, he found out that the first wife's daughter was sold by the step-wife.
After checking Ren Yazi, they found Yang Kui, and checking Yang Kui found out about Xiaoyang Village. After checking into Xiaoyang Village, they found out about the case from that year. Through the case, they were pushed back to the step-wife, so they found out the identity of the step-wife and knew about her father. Not only was he involved in the counterfeit banknote case, but he also obtained half of the prescription by mistake.
Without that half of the prescription, how could she escape from the guards who were escorting her?
It's just someone plotting a prescription and secretly helping.
The step-wife was not stupid. She walked around the gate of hell again, so she knew the importance of the prescription. But how can she, a lonely and weak woman, protect herself? After thinking about it, I thought of my father's friend, the shopkeeper who specializes in making and selling ink in Huzhou but participated in the counterfeit banknote case with him.
Knowing that the prescription was in the possession of his step-wife, Zhou Yu'an began to investigate the prescription. Who knew that there were other secrets hidden in this small mansion.
There was a madwoman in a nearby courtyard. The madwoman was very afraid of her step-wife, but there was a trace of hatred in her eyes when she looked at her.
The madwoman would only be quiet when she was facing the book boy. Every time the book boy visited him, it would be in the middle of the night. The step-wife and the county magistrate were completely unaware of his actions.
This complex relationship is extremely interesting.
After a long and bright night, Zhou Yu'an sneaked into the other courtyard and took the madwoman's pulse.
The female madman is not really crazy, but is poisoned. The poison penetrates into the bone marrow and makes it difficult to wake up.
Through observation, Zhou Yuan determined that the poison was given to her by her step-wife, and that the book boy was the one who took care of and protected her.
In exchange for the madwoman's condition, she heard a story from the book boy that even the county magistrate didn't know, and the step-wife had close contacts with Beidi and the capital.
The book boy didn't know where the half of the prescription was. He only heard the two of them arguing when they were serving tea to the mother and son. The county magistrate asked the step-wife to destroy half of the prescription, but the step-wife disagreed, saying that her family had been in the police a long time ago, and keeping the prescription could still save her life, but without the prescription, she would not know when she would die.
Before Beidi's surprise attack on Shuozhou, a group of businessmen met with his step-wife in the name of doing business. Soon after, Shuozhou was occupied and the epidemic broke out in Suizhou. Zhou Yu'an went to Changming Mountain from Huzhou.
Xiaoyang Village, Yang Kui, she deliberately revealed the affairs of her legitimate daughter to the county magistrate. According to his nature, he would definitely go to Xiaoyang Village to investigate. By then, all it takes is the incident of the legitimate daughter falling into the well and the assassination of the new county magistrate to cause Xiaoyang Village to attract the attention of Qingyang County. As long as Qingyang County enters the situation, the magistrate of Qingyang County and the governors of the two states will inevitably be involved.
When things get serious, the water becomes muddy. Fishing in troubled waters is what Zhou Yu'an is best at doing. It's a pity that the book boy actually killed the county magistrate.
Whether it was an accident or not is no longer important. What is important is that the governors of the two states were involved, and Shen Chongming was also involved. Moreover, Shen Chongming stuck to her like a dog-skin plaster, making it impossible for her to do her own thing.
Today, Shen Chongming only wears a simple Tsing Yi, even taking off the jade pendant that used to hang around his waist. Ru Mo's long hair was tied up with a simple jade hairpin. No matter how you looked at it, he looked like a scholar who had nothing to do with the generals on the battlefield.
Seeing Zhou Yu'an looking at him in a daze, Shen Chongming raised his fingers and tapped on the table: "Don't want to eat?"
"I'm full just looking at adults."
Zhou Yu'an blurted out and saw Shen Chongming frowning and said quickly: "My lord is so beautiful that I am so fascinated that I have naturally forgotten about eating. Whatever your lord likes to eat, I will pick it up for you."
"Don't you know my taste?" Shen Chongming glanced at Zhou Mao'an openly. She was holding a candy corner with a smile, and this was what he hated the most.
"Your mother never taught you that picky eaters are not good children." Zhou Yu'an muttered and gave Shen Chongming a piece of pancake.
"I don't have a mother." Shen Chongming sat still: "She left before I could remember anything, and she didn't have time to teach me anything."
I bit into half of the candy corner, but I couldn't taste the sweetness at all. After reluctantly swallowing, Zhou Yu'an said guiltily: "I don't know, I didn't mean to."
"It doesn't matter!"
Shen Chongming picked up the pancake, and Zhou Yu'an quickly handed over a glass of water.
"I'm about the same as you. My mother only taught me this." Zhou Yu'an pursed his lips: "It doesn't matter, we have grown up without my mother, and we are very good. Will they be happy?"
