Attack Jade (攻玉) - Chapter 10

[Chapter 10]

The room was silent, and dozens of pairs of eyes were staring at Dong Erniang.

A palace person looked at Dong Erniang in doubt, and suddenly said: “The old slave remembered, a few days ago, Shizi traveled, Dong Mingfu’s calf car has appeared several times, the first shizi cut a short road from the bamboo forest to the Moon Lantern Pavilion, the Dong family’s car is also behind, if it were not for Shizi to set up a curtain tent outside the bamboo forest, I don’t know how long the Dong family will follow.” This Lady Dong, what are you thinking, and why do you always follow Shizi?

Duan Ningyuan didn’t know about this twist, and after the shock, his expression was ugly for a few minutes.

Absolute Saint slapped his head on the door: “I know, Master Brother, one of the master servants was poisoned in disguise, and the other tried every means to ask you for six yuan dan, if Lady Teng gave them the medicine, or if the master brother did not put the five Tibetan arrays, the six yuan dan would not be smoothly taken away by them.”

Dong Erniang’s eyes became flustered, but she still refused to open her mouth.

Lin Chengyou sneered, “Did you not make up a lie yet?” It doesn’t matter, I don’t have that patience either. According to the law of this dynasty, ‘Whoever steals more than fifty horses of silk shall flow for three thousand miles’, and although he is not allowed to steal, he shall be a disciple for two years. Your master and servant work together to steal the Six Yuan dan, and with the value of the six yuan Dan, it is no problem to fight for fifty years and two years of imprisonment, and such a felony does not have to bother with the trial of Wannian County. The people who came directly sent the two masters and servants to the Jingzhao Mansion. (Note 1)

Dong Erniang’s face suddenly became pale, and she subconsciously looked at Duan Ningyuan, and Duan Wenyin hid a faint disgust in her eyes, and silently blocked duan Ningyuan’s head, fortunately, Duan Ningyuan only fixed on looking at Dong Erniang, and did not impulsively make a mistake.

The palace people were about to surround Dong Erniang, when a thin layer of water mist gushed out of Dong Erniang’s eyes, and she suddenly said: “Slowly-”

She looked at Lin Chengyou with tears in her eyes and slowly prostrated herself to the ground: “I am not the Six Yuan Dan who intends to deceive shizi, but just want to save Ah Niang.” ”

You?!” The crowd was astonished.

Dong Erniang bowed her head silently and wanted to open her mouth, but her body shook violently, and she didn’t know what magic Wang Shizi had used for her, which made her unable to live with herself.

“My aunt started getting sick at the beginning of the year.” She was cold and hot, and forced herself to open her mouth, “My grandfather is looking for famous doctors, Bu Zheng acupuncture has tried everything, used countless medicinal stones, and Ah Niang has not seen any improvement.” Maybe it was a day of thinking and dreaming, one day Grandpa went to Ci’en Temple to offer incense, and when he returned, he had a dream, in which a Buddha told Grandpa that if he wanted to save his wife’s life, he could ask Wang Shizi for medicine. My grandfather woke up and inquired, and learned that King Cheng Shizi carried a foreign medicine with him, and his old man believed that this dream was a divine instruction, and the next day he took my brother to the Palace of King Cheng to pay respects, but unfortunately, King Cheng and his wife traveled far away from Beijing, and Shizi was not in Chang’an.

She was born extremely beautiful, her shoulders trembled slightly when she spoke, and her tears were hanging down, which was quite a gentle attitude of pear blossoms with rain.

“After that, my aunt was seriously ill, and my grandfather also fell ill because of the days of running, and a few days ago my brother and I heard that King Cheng Shizi had returned, and with a glimmer of hope, I went to wait outside the Chengwang Mansion, but maybe the timing was not good, let alone asking for medicine, and even the prayer was not delivered to Shizi. I told grandpa on the sickbed about this matter, grandpa lamented, everything is the law of fate, for several days he entrusted his colleagues to help matchmaking, everyone said that they could not help, Qing Xuanzi Dao Chief suffered a lot in order to refine the Six Yuan Dan, although the medicine was given to King Shizi, Shizi never gave this medicine to others because he cherished Master Zun’s painstaking efforts. The

people in the room secretly thought that this was the truth. Liuyuan Dan is comparable to a treasure, I don’t know how many people in Beijing are hungry, the previous year Wei Shangshu’s wife was critically ill, Wei Shangshu also wanted to ask for Six Yuandan for his wife, first looking for Shizi and then looking for Qing Xuanzi Daochang, all of which did not work. Later, he still asked the saint, and after the saint’s intercession, he got a grain.

Soon Qing Xuanzi Daochang spoke in public, Chengwang Shizi ordered Ge Qikun, need to keep this medicine for self-defense, unless the great demon is in turmoil or the situation is critical, it must not be used to give up people, otherwise Shizi himself will have a stake in his life, this word came out, only to completely break the thoughts of the people in Beijing.

Dong Erniang said sadly, “Grandpa said, ‘There are so many people in Chang’an City who are seriously ill, if everyone runs to the face of King Shizi to ask for medicine, will Shizi give or not give?’ Qing Xuanzi Dao’s words sounded inhumane, but in fact they saved Shizi a lot of trouble. There is no hope of asking for medicine, and if Ah Niang cannot be saved because of this, it is also fateful’.

“Since then, my grandfather and brother have stopped thinking of worshipping the king and the son of the king.” Ah Niang’s illness has not improved, I in order to serve Ah Niang’s bed and drink are wasted, Brother Ah saw that I described me as haggard, by taking advantage of the Shangwei Festival to force me to come out to the feast to relax my heart, I originally planned to go to the riverside to pray for Grandpa’s blessing, halfway saw King Cheng Shizi and the servants riding by…”

She glanced at Duan Ningyuan at the end of her eyes, saw that he did not move at all, his chest was tight, and he bowed his head and said: “I did not have time to go back to the city to tell Grandpa and Brother Ah, so I took it upon myself to order the steward to drive up, Who knew that he was detected by Cheng Wang Shizi and was once again blocked out of the bamboo forest.

“I was disheartened, and I had to take another detour, and when I reached the halfway point, the roof of the calf car seemed to have fallen on something heavy, and I opened the curtain, and just happened to see a black giant outside, and I was so frightened that I fainted on the spot…”

Suddenly remembering Lin Chengyou Fangcai’s warning, she took a cold look, and then changed her mouth: “Only, I fainted for a little while, and when I woke up, I heard someone talking outside, those people seemed to have just heard the news, saying that some people in the bamboo forest were attacked by demons, and many people were injured, and they were going to the Moon Lantern Pavilion to find Shizi’s idea, I, I will -”

“You temporarily pretended to be poisoned by the demon?”

Dong Erniang said with tears: “I thought at that time, since there are many injured people, it doesn’t hurt to have more than one.” Shizi was half a Daoist, and now that the demon was alive, he should have taken out the Six Yuan Dan to save people. If I took this opportunity to see Cheng Wang Shizi, I might be able to get a six-yuan Dan for my aunt, so I changed my mind and simply fell asleep in the car. I planned this alone, and my grandmother did not know about it. The

steward lady shook her head desperately, only hating to have socks stuffed in her mouth.

“It’s just me fainting.” Dong Erniang cried, “My aunt is now a candle in the wind, and I am really unable to make this decision.” She lost

her voice even more, her expression was very miserable, and two ladies had soft hearts and sighed: “Poor see, it was originally for Ah Niang.”

Duan Ningyuan was already frost-faced, and only when he heard this look did he feel a little relieved.

Who knew that at this time, someone coughed softly, Dong Erniang heard that it was Teng Yuyi’s voice, remembered all kinds of things tonight, knew that this woman had done a good job, she pretended to cover her sleeves and wipe her tears, but secretly she was like a great enemy, and she listened to Du Fu: “Even if you want to save your mother,” you can’t always pit others again and again.” The front is also counted, and when you are confused, but then Shizi said in public that the Six Yuan Dan has been divided, why are you still pretending to be unconscious behind the curtain, obviously unharmed, but you let you make a big fuss, causing Yu’er Pingbai to be cursed, what is your intention?

Dong Erniang secretly hated in her heart, but her face was panicked: “I didn’t know in advance that Liu Yuan Dan was not enough points, and I didn’t know that being poisoned by a demon would be so dangerous.” The demon chased after the Ziyun Building, I was also quite surprised, although I wanted to get six yuan Dan, but I never thought of affecting the lives of others, and then the medicine was finished, I knew that my fate should be like this, but as long as I thought that Ah Niang would give up, my heart was fried, waiting and waiting, just hoping that the king shizi could still come up with a method next to it. “It’s

such a good filial piety.” Lin Chengyou clapped, “In the name of filial piety, what you do is harmful, if you get this medicine, there will be people who are really poisoned and die because of the short medicine.” If the last pill was given to you, the male servant of Teng Mansion would have died at this moment.

Dong Erniang froze in tears, biting her red lip and shaking her head desperately.

Lin Chengyou glanced at her contemptuously: “Tricking Liu Yuan Dan first, mistaking me to catch the demon later.” If you hadn’t pretended to be poisoned and killed me to set up the Five Hidden Arrays, the demon wouldn’t have almost escaped from the Ziyun Building, this demon was about to become a demon, and if you really wanted to go out of the tiger, it wouldn’t be four or five people who were injured. All in all, it is not too much to break your staff. Dong Erniang opened

her mouth to argue, saw the blood on Lin Chengyou’s clothes, and her heart was completely flustered, it turned out that Lin Chengyou was so badly injured, she thought that she pretended to be unconscious for a while, and then find a proper opportunity to wake up on the line, the method of demons harming people is ever-changing, and it is reasonable to wake up again, who knows thousands of calculations, missing these mysterious opportunities in Dao, Lin Chengyou is not an ordinary prince and grandson, if his injury alarms the palace, The saints and queens must be held accountable, and at that time, I am afraid that even Grandpa will be implicated.

She looked at Duan Ningyuan again, Duan Ningyuan looked complicated, but did not avoid her sight, she vaguely lit up a glimmer of hope in her heart, she heard that Zhen Guogong and Jingzhao Fu Yin were friends with Mo Rebellion, as long as Duan Ningyuan was willing to come forward, there might be room for turning.

Lin Chengyou saw it clearly, laughed in his heart, and took out a packet of medicinal powder from his arms and rushed to the palace people next to him: “Tie her up with the old things and send her to Jingzhao Mansion together.” She has poisonous insects on her, and you should take the antidote before you do it. The room was

chaotic, Dong Erniang did not know whether she was afraid or itchy, her body was trembling more and more, the steward lady whimpered in her mouth, like a fat worm twisting vigorously, the palace people did not say a word to tie the two people up, and dragged them out of the room together.

At this time, the curtain of the bed arched, and the Absolute Saint ran out from behind the curtain with a bowl of rune soup: “Brother Master, the Duchess of An Guo has led out of the demon poison, this is good, don’t worry about her dying halfway before she reaches the Qingyun Temple.”

Lin Chengyou took the tea cup, and there was a wisp of ink hanging in the colored tea soup, although it was not much, but it was better than not being able to induce a drop. He raised an eyebrow and asked, “How about the other four injured?” “The

demon poison is almost clear, and I guess I will wake up tomorrow.”

Lin Chengyou asked the people outside the palace again, “Is An Guo Gong here?” “Here, just arrived

at the front building, Chun’an Junwang was also outside, An Guo Gong was too anxious to hurry, he accidentally fell off his horse and broke his leg halfway, regardless of the serious leg injury, he had to rush to the back of the building, thanks to His Highness the Junwang stopped him, he gave up, and now he is still bandaging his leg in the front building.”

Lin Chengyou turned around and walked outside: “Prepare the horse, and quickly return to the Qingyun Temple.” ***

The

lights outside the building were brilliant, and the carriages and horses were solemnly waiting at the door.

Teng Yuyi carried Madame Du into the calf car, and the coachman was about to raise his whip, and the carriage and horse behind him were noisy, and the carriages and horses of the Zhenguo Gongfu surrounded him.

Duan Ningyuan rode a silver saddle with a white nose, took the lead in controlling the reins to stop, got off his horse and gave a salute to the calf cart, and said respectfully: “Madame was frightened tonight, the juniors cannot rest assured, if the lady does not dislike the foolishness of the juniors, allow the juniors to escort you back to the city.” There was

no wave on his face, and when he said this, he stood up.

Duan Wenyin emerged from behind him and also got off his horse: “Madam, Yu’er, tonight Ning Yuan lost his temper after drinking and said some stupid things, but he has a pure and straight disposition, and he definitely does not mean to do so, many of which have been misunderstood, and they still need to be dissected in person.” He was already full of remorse, and just in time he told me that tonight there are tourists everywhere in and around the city, and the Teng family needs to take care of several injured people, lest you have no one to take care of you on the way back to the city, and take the initiative to send them. In

front of the Teng family’s calf car hung a green painted car, it was quiet, the curtain was rolled, Mrs. Du probed out, but it was Teng Yuyi in the car who spoke, only to hear her laugh: “Thank you Mrs. Meiyi, but it is not necessary.” The head was first in the Ziyun Building, in front of many elders, he had analyzed things clearly, although I was young, my heart was not confused, I could think through the things, the elders would only understand better than me. My cousin just took the medicine, the road should not be delayed for too long, this is going to leave, the lady does not have to send each other, but also ask Duan Xiao General Mo to block in front.

Duan Wenyin’s face stiffened slightly, and he smiled at Du Fu instead: “Aunt Du, the family does not speak two languages.” I remember that when Ning Yuan and Yu’er were engaged, they were only twelve years old, and after seven years had passed, Yu’er had reached Zhen, and Ning Yuan was also nineteen, but after all, he was not old enough to be crowned, and it was inevitable that there would be reckless times.

“To put it bluntly, in Chang’an City, there are very few young Lang Jun like him who do not fight wine and seek pleasure, just take those relatives of Duan Fu, which one has not acted absurdly? Concubines, prostitutes… Numerous. In detail, Ning Yuan’s character is really rare, when he was a child, he studied and learned martial arts, never saw him scream a bitter, and when he was older, he was sent to the army by Grandpa for training, and he even slept with the soldiers in the frost and snow. The Duan family has long had rules, before becoming a relative, there must be no room, after becoming a relative, you must not take concubines at will, Ning Yuan is the eldest son of the Duan family, growing up to nineteen this year, there is not even a maid in the room who is close to the waiter. Ning Yuan was mentioned in Chang’an City, who did not praise him for a good son.

“Madame Du, you are the one who came over, and you know better than Yu’er what is wrong with these young people.” Ning Yuan is good or bad, you just need to look at Chang’an, sometimes rubbing sand in your eyes is not necessarily a good thing, but in vain to increase your troubles, occasionally make a mistake is not nothing, change it is. However, I can see that these words May not be able to listen to Yu’er. But Madame is different, you are the elder who Yu’er respects the most, and the child’s heart knot still needs your help to solve it. Lady Du sighed

in her heart, Duan Wenyin’s words could not mean more clearly, nothing more than to say that the young man had a stupid time, even if Duan Ningyuan and Dong Erniang had an affair, it was not a big deal, if he retreated on impulse, he might not meet a better husband than Duan Ningyuan in the future. But after tonight’s events, don’t say that Yu’er’s attitude cannot be shaken, even her aunt will no longer agree to this family affair, she does not know how Duan Ningyuan knows Dong Erniang, but once the young man is emotional, his heart will not be able to take it back.

She thought happily, fortunately, Yu’er saw more thoroughly than she did and acted more decisively.

She looked at Duan Ningyuan again, this child was heroic and handsome, he was really a dragon and phoenix among people, even if he was so embarrassed, his etiquette was impeccable, but although he stood here quietly at the moment, only he knew where his mind was.

She smiled lightly: “Madam, when it comes to this, I also want to say something that is heart-wrenching.” Yu’er this child is no better than others, five years old there was no Ah Niang, at that time coincided with the Tubo invasion, Grandpa took care of her A-Niang’s funeral and rushed to shubian, I was an aunt, and because I had just given birth to a big lang, I couldn’t go to Tengfu to take care of it, in the first few days, Yu’er was around in addition to the old servant who was in charge, not even an elder who loved her, even if she wanted to be a grandmother, she could only carry it by herself at a young age.

Duan Ningyuan moved slightly, and subconsciously looked up at the half-hanging Cui Mo.

“Once I rushed to visit Yu’er, this child held the little ragdoll that Ah Niang sewed for her, a person sat on the swing in the garden and fell asleep, accidentally fell down, and a big knot appeared on my head, I cried at that time, this is just one of them, since I was a child, I have no mother,And she is a girl, how much grievances have Ayu suffered over the years, I don’t dare to think deeply about my aunt at all.”

Speaking of this, Mrs. Du’s eyes were a little hot.

“Later, Yu’er’s grandfather sent her to my side to teach, I was eager to take out my heart and liver to hurt her, Yu’er was wronged, it was worse than digging my flesh, Yu’er’s heart was not smooth, I would only feel more depressed as an aunt, so Madame wanted to fork, tonight’s things don’t say let me come to solve Yu’er, I’m afraid yu’er has to come to solve me, I also want to understand, although General Duan Xiao is young, he is not a reckless child, if it were not for the idea in his heart, Duan Wenyin was busy opening

her mouth, but Madame Du said, “Besides, the marriage event is definitely not a child’s play, how can an aunt come up with random ideas?” In a few days, the brother-in-law will return to Chang’an, and what to do, the brother-in-law will decide for himself. Madame stayed up in the middle of the night, presumably tired, and then urgent things, one night can not finish, it is better to say goodbye, each go back to the house to rest.

Duan Wenyin touched two nails that were not soft or hard in succession, but she did not move, and moaned for a while, she smiled and led the horse to the side: “It is also important to take care of the injured.” After a few days of our grandmother’s birthday, when the two families will meet, Madame and Yu’er will take a step first, tomorrow I will visit Du Xiaoniang.
Madame
Du pretended not to hear the first two sentences, smiled lightly and lowered the curtain, just at this moment, the Ziyun Building was noisy, and a line of richly dressed men came out of the building, discussing something as they walked.

It was late at night, the flowers and moons in front of the steps were reflected, and those few people stopped in the shadows of the half-light and half-dark lights, and it was difficult to distinguish their faces.

The servants led the horses forward one after another, and the few people moved down the steps, when the first man was purple-robed and jade-crowned, and he was cynical and unruly, not who Lin Chengyou was.

Lin Chengyou’s mount is a dashing and powerful horse, purple-maned snow hooves, decorated with brocade gold, about the tribute of Fan Bang, and the coat color is extremely unusual.

After he got on the horse, he whistled with his fingers, and the shadow of the road came out of the shadows, approaching Lin Chengyou and jumping on the horse’s back.

Madame Du covered her chest in fright, teng Yuyi looked over, the thing had blue eyes, sharp ears like scissors, it turned out to be a small cheetah with shiny black hair.

The little cheetah crouched behind Lin Chengyou, the physique is not large but also majestic, Chang’an City often has the prince and grandson of the prince to raise eagles or lynx, such a fierce and difficult cheetah is rare, but this is in line with Lin Chengyou’s consistent style.

Not long after, the guards escorted the Dong family’s carriage over, Duan Ningyuan took the reins and turned twice in the same place, but at the end he still did not hold back, and drove his horse to Lin Chengyou, Duan Wenyin’s face was heavy, and he immediately caught up.

The sisters and brothers had just reached the halfway point, when Lin Chengyou turned his head to look at the Teng family’s carriage and suddenly said something to the little Dao Tong in front of the horse.

The little Daoist priest nodded, picked up his Daoist robe and ran towards the Tengfu carriage: “Is Lady Teng on the carriage?” At

this moment, not only Duan Ningyuan and showed a look of surprise, But Lady Du was also greatly surprised.

Teng Yuyi asked curiously in the car, “What happened to the trail chief?” Jedi

scratched his head, “Can you let the poor road get on the bus?” This has to be said to the face. The

author has something to say: 1 See “Tang Law Neglect Discussion”

The Tang Dynasty did not have a distinction between criminal and civil, taking Chang’an as an example, small cases were usually handled by Fa Cao from Wannian County or Chang’an County, and large cases would be reported to JingzhaoFu by county order (Tang Dynasty people called county order “Mingfu”), and Jingzhaofu could not handle it, and would be reported to Dali Temple.

In the face of really major cases, the Dali Temple, the Criminal Department, and the Yushitai will coordinate the “three divisions to try”.

2 When the children of the nobles of the Tang Dynasty like to take their prey with them when hunting, there is a poem called “Mahou Cheetah Jin Langheng, the front of the Sea Green Side Wing Look”, referring to the leopard and Hai Dong Qing.

However, it seems that there are not too many princes and nobles who dare to use cheetahs, generally they are lyingellies and falcons.

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