There were two women sitting on the seats in the living room. One was Miao Tong. Today she was wearing a gray embroidered gown. Her hair was tied back and she didn't wear any earrings. She was dressed very simply and looked a bit like a married woman.
The moment Lin Yue opened the door, she was shocked. She looked a little panicked, as if she had done something wrong.
"Don't you have important business to deal with today? Why are you back?"
Miao Tong wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes with her hands to cover up her inner sadness, while pretending to be calm and said.
"Oh, on the way to the Yamen, I saw that the perfume store had new products on offer, so I bought two boxes and brought them back for you to try."
As he spoke, the Ziwu Yuanyang Yue hidden behind him disappeared. When he stretched out his hand, there were two very exquisite rouge boxes in his palm.
"Thank you, husband." Miao Tong took the rouge box and forced a smile.
"Who is this?" Lin Yue looked at the pretty woman on the other chair.
Wearing a sky-blue gauze skirt with a white lining on the inside, her long hair hangs down behind her, and the part above her head is fixed with a white jade hairpin.
If Miaotong is the feminine type, she is the delicate type.
Lin Yue asked her who she was. In fact, he knew who she was.
Zhou Miaoxuan, also known as Hokusai.
The big yellow dog came to warn Miaotong, which meant that a suspicious person had entered the house. He thought it was Yan Peiwei's son Yan Peiwei, the imperial envoy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, who came to look for Miaotong, but he didn't expect it was her who came.
The elder sister and the younger sister want to meet, and one can imagine what will happen. It is easy to understand that Miao Tong's eyes were red from crying.
"She is... oh, she is a tailor who specializes in making clothes for the girls in the Jiaofang Division. She has a good relationship with me. She heard that I was ransomed and had a home, so I came over to have a look. I didn't want to talk about it. What happened to a certain sister..."
Miaotong's mind was spinning very fast, and it took her just three or two breaths to find an explanation that sounded very reasonable.
"Ah, yes." Hokusai took advantage of the situation and made a blessing: "I have met Eunuch Lin."
Act, keep acting.
Lin Yuexin said that I have always used my acting skills to show off others, but you two, let alone know Beizhai's identity, even if you don't know, trying to hide it from him is just a daydream.
If a good actor wants to arouse the emotions of the audience, he must first integrate his own emotions. The woman in front of him is nice and respectful on the surface, but there is a flash of resentment in his eyes when he is doing Wanfu. She was like this when he went to Fangsi Hutong to pick up Miaotong. expression.
The eunuch, the lackey of Wei Zhongxian, the enemy of the Donglin Party, and the eunuch who occupied her sister, of course he would hate her, of course he would hate her.
"Yes." Lin Yue nodded: "No need to be polite."
Beizhai straightened up and turned to look at Miaotong, his eyes full of meaning: "It's getting late, it's time for me to go back. Take good care of yourself and don't let the sisters worry."
Miaotong said: "You can have lunch before leaving."
"Next time, I have some work to do." Hokusai stood up and walked outside.
"Then walk slowly."
Miao Tong stood up to send it off, but Lin Yue stopped him in front of Beizhai: "Since I am Miao Tong's good sister, I have to take care of the business. Where is the shop? I will cut some clothes."
The expression on Hokusai's face was a little unnatural.
At this moment, Miaotong grabbed his hand from behind and said, "Linglong has always done women's clothing."
Lin Yue glanced at her with a half-smile, and deliberately held her sister's hand in front of Beizhai: "That's it, that's such a pity."
For a moment, Hokusai's face seemed to be frozen by a cold current.
"Eunuch Lin, I hope you can treat sister Miaotong well."
After saying this, she turned and left.
Lin Yue looked at Beizhai's back and thought to himself, "Am I not kind enough to her?" How else to be kind? What do you mean by this? Isn't it a good idea to not be able to do certain exercises in bed?
Despicable!
After sending Hokusai away, the two returned to the house and sat down.
"Is she married?"
Miaotong was startled when she heard Lin Yue's question: "No."
"No." Lin Yue said half truthfully: "You have been here for so many days and no one has come to visit. Since she is your best sister, why not... I marry him so that I can have someone to keep me company. , you won’t be bored anymore.”
Miao Tong looked at him with an incomprehensible look. Who among the girls with some wealth and status in the family would marry a father-in-law? And is her eunuch husband too keen on acquiring women? More importantly, she and Hokusai are biological sisters, and they are both married to him?
"Don't get me wrong, I just think it's too boring for you to be at home alone every day. It would be nice to have someone with you."
"Husband, doesn't Zhang Ma come here every day to do housework? I quite like her."
Miao Tong took his words seriously. After all, he was a eunuch. He ransomed her because he liked her before. What's the point of marrying another one? So nine times out of ten, it is really to make her happy every day.
But raising one more person for no reason is a waste of money.
"Then it's up to you." Lin Yue smiled and did not continue the topic.
Judging from the way Beizhai looked at Miaotong when he left, he could almost guess the outcome of the conversation between the two. In this environment, it would be inevitable for the sisters to hug each other and cry when they meet again. However, when it comes to issues involving hurting him, Miaotong's choice should be to refuse. Cooperate, otherwise Hokusai's attitude towards him would not be resentful, but simply contemptuous.
People's hearts are made of flesh. He helped her redeem her life, gave her a status and a superior life, and a touching "infatuated love." Imagine that for such a partner, regardless of whether you love him or not, at least no kind-hearted woman would have the heart to harm him.
Want to poach my corner? You are still a little young.
After lunch at home, Lin Yue said goodbye to Miao Tong and went to the Dongchang Yamen. He happened to meet Zhao Jingzhong who was walking out with a dark face. He glared at him coldly and led two bosses into the warehouse.
The eunuch on duty told him that Wei Zhongxian took the parrot that was particularly good at speaking auspicious words to the palace. When he came back, he was very happy.
Lin Yuexin said that no wonder Zhao Jingzhong saw that she looked constipated. It turned out to be because of this.
But what's going on with Silly Bird?
He originally thought that Wei Zhongxian played with birds to relieve his boredom. After all, he had been under a lot of pressure recently, so he never thought that he would give it to Xizong.
In fact, it is understandable for Wei Zhongxian to do this. For a fun-loving guy like Xizong, who has been sick in bed for almost a month and is definitely suffering from suffocation, having a parrot who can speak human language to accompany him will go a long way in maintaining a good mood.
The key point is that the villain can actually say auspicious words. It seems that this bird is also a master who sees what is served. He is afraid that if he doesn't cooperate well, he will be plucked and deboned and made into a pot of soup for the eunuchs in the East Factory. Satisfy cravings.
Although I can't keep an eye on Wei Zhongxian, it's not bad to have such a result, and it may be of great help.
After fishing until evening, he went to Chunxi Hall and bought an jade hairpin. He then went to Liubiju not far away and weighed half a catty of pickles. He held it in his hand and walked home slowly.
As I was passing by the market entrance, I suddenly heard a dog barking from the side and in front of me. The big yellow dog my family kept came out of the alley and stood barking under the signboard of the cloth store next to me.
Lin Yue's expression changed and he quickly walked towards Dongcheng.
When I was young, I came to the front of the hospital.
The door was open, and Zhang Ma, who was hired to take care of Miao Tong, fell at the door of the woodshed. Lin Yue quickly stepped forward to check her breathing and found that she was still breathing, but she had just passed out.
He walked to the door of the north room in three steps and then opened the door quickly and entered the living room.
The stool fell over, the teacup fell to the floor, and several of the bead curtains that separated the living room and bedroom were broken.
One, two, three, four, all four rooms were found, but there was no sign of Miao Tong.
When he came out of the bedroom, he noticed a small arrow nailed next to the calligraphy and painting on the north wall of the living room, and underneath was a palm-sized piece of letter paper.
Pull out the small arrow and unfold the letter paper. There is a line of small words written in the middle - Do you want to save your woman? At three o'clock in the morning, only one person is allowed to come to Yunqi Slope.
Miaotong was kidnapped!
Yunqi Slope? It’s Yunqi Slope again.
You don't have to think twice to know who did it.
From the analysis of the signs in the room, Miaotong resisted when she was taken away by Ding Baiying's group. He was very happy about this. At least she trusted him more than those people.
Lin Yue sat down next to the Eight Immortals table, picked up the cup and took a sip of herbal tea.
If the soft one doesn't work, why not use the hard one? A bunch of bastards who even take advantage of a weak woman.
He closed his eyes and thought for a while, drank a few more sips of tea, then walked to the yard and woke up Zhang Ma who had fainted.
The old woman said she heard a strange noise behind her while she was doing laundry, and before she could look back, she was knocked unconscious by a hard object.
Lin Yue didn't say anything more, but took out a few pieces of silver and sent her to see a doctor.
At three quarters of Hai hour.
There is a bamboo forest on Yunqi Slope in the north of the city.
Lin Yue once again saw Ding Chong sitting on the big bluestone, playing the flute there, and thought to himself that it was so uncreative, why don't you try another pretense routine?
