Jiaochu

Chapter 92 Danger amidst danger leads the snake out of the hole ([-])
On the other side, Yan Fei rode his horse through the night and left the city just before the city gate closed. Half an hour later, he appeared outside the gate of the temple on the mountain.

After knocking on the door, a monk came over and opened the door. After chatting with Yanfei for a few words, the monk led Yanfei to the backyard, pointed him in a direction, asked him about it, and left.

As soon as he entered the moon cave gate, a black shadow fell from the sky and stopped in front of Yanfei.The man standing in front of Yanfei was tall and thin, with a black cloth covering his eyes.

"Uncle Meng, it's me."

Before Yanfei could speak, the person blocking him moved out of the way.Yan Fei looked at the lighted house in front of him, stood there for a few seconds and then walked over.After stopping outside the door, Yan Fei stood for a few more seconds. When he raised his hand to knock on the door, he stopped again. After another pause for a few seconds, he knocked lightly on the door twice.

"Mother."

Hearing the sound outside the door, the woman sitting on the couch playing chess alone was stunned for a moment. The chess piece slipped from her fingers and fell on the chessboard with a clang.

After a while, a maid opened the door from inside and brought Yan Fei in.

When entering the room, the cool candlelight flickered a few times. Su Hui had plain makeup and plain clothes. She looked less than thirty. There was a smell of sandalwood lingering in the room, and there was a Buddhist scripture on the table.

When Yanfei asked An to salute, Su Hui raised her hand to ask him to get up and waved him over. When Yanfei came closer, she looked at it for a while, nodded and said that she had grown taller, while Yanfei's face looked a little unnatural, as if Not used to the small talk between mother and son.After letting Yan Fei sit down on the couch, Su Hui asked him about his recent homework, and told him to put on two more clothes since the weather was cold. Although his tone was calm and a little light, the look in his eyes was deceiving. Inhumane.

"Why are you still going up the mountain so late? Is there something urgent at home?" After asking about Yan Fei's current situation, Su Hui asked what she meant. When she mentioned the word "home", her tone was very calm and seemed to be deliberately distant.

Yan Fei shook his head, paused for two seconds and said, "Does the mother still remember the anti-itch plaster that the mother used on the child when the child was young?"

Su Hui didn't need time to think about it, so she asked her maid to dig out a jar of ointment buried under a tree in the yard. After about a cup of tea, the maid came back holding a clean white porcelain jar and opened it. A cool fragrance floated out from the oil paper sealed at the mouth of the altar. Following this fragrance, Yan Fei's thoughts returned to an afternoon many years ago. His mother gently shook the fan to fan him while he lay on the bed. I fell asleep in a daze, with the ice on my back and the uncomfortable itching no longer. There was a cool fragrance lingering on the tip of my nose, like the fragrance of flowers or fruits...

"Come to me at night to ask for this. Who is it for?" Su Hui asked with a bit of curiosity and cunning. It seems that gossiping about her son is every mother's instinctive interest.

Yanfei turned his face slightly and said, "No one."

Seeing that her son seemed shy, Su Hui was almost certain that the other party was a little girl. A loving smile appeared on her face and she was not in a hurry to get to the bottom of it. "The city gate has been closed now. Let's stay here tonight." Su Hui asked the maid to clean up the room next door. There were only two people left in the room and an atmosphere of silence spread.

Su Hui picked up the chess pieces on the chessboard one by one and put them into the chess jar. The silhouette reflected on the window paper looked a bit lonely.When Su Hui picked up the last chess piece back into the jar, Yan Fei reached out and brought the chess jar containing the black pieces in front of him.The expression on Su Hui's face was slightly stunned, as if she was a little surprised, but she felt sincerely happy in her heart, and the seeming melancholy that shrouded her eyebrows was gone.

When the maid cleaned up the room and came over, she saw mother and son playing chess and quietly left.

After playing a game of chess, Su Hui asked Yan Fei to rest.

Early the next morning, Yan Fei and Su Hui had breakfast together. The temple provided porridge and side dishes with vegetarian steamed buns. Su Hui usually drank half a bowl of porridge with side dishes and stopped eating. Yan Fei finished the porridge and finished the steamed buns. Went down the mountain with a jar of ointment.

During lunch, Yan Fei gave the jar of ointment to Ye Xingye, saying it could relieve the itching, but did not specify who it was for. It took Ye Xingye a while to realize that it was for his little imperial sister, so he told Xiaoluzi to send it over.

When Xiaoluzi brought the ointment, Ye Lingxi was suffering from itching. She heard that it was the anti-itch ointment sent by Yanfei. Ye Lingxi quickly asked Hehe and Lingdang to apply it on her back. Not long after the ointment was applied, Ye Lingxi felt Lingxi felt much better, and soon became sleepy. After all, he didn't sleep well last night.

Last night, Ye Lingxi's back started to itch. The itch was so severe that she couldn't help but want to scratch it with her hands, but her hands were too short to reach it. Ling Ding wanted to laugh, so He He asked her to get aloe vera ointment. Come on, after applying the cool aloe vera cream, Ye Lingxi felt a little better. He lay on the bed and slept for less than half an hour, when his back started to itch again. After repeated tossing for most of the night, the master and the servant all felt a little better. They didn't sleep well, and when it was almost dawn, all three of them had dark circles under their eyes.

Seeing that Ye Lingxi fell asleep, Hehe and Lingdang were relieved. Seeing that Lingdang was so sleepy that she could hardly open her eyelids, Hehe asked her to go to sleep for a while. Lingdang said that he would take her place later and went back to the house first. Catching up on sleep.After Hehe sat by the bed and took care of her for about half an hour, Lingdang came to take her place, and told Hehe that when she came here just now, she seemed to see a figure outside, but when she looked behind the door, there was no one there again. Hehe said that she had just woken up and was dazzled. Lingdang also thought that she might have seen it wrong, and the two of them didn't pay much attention to it.

Zhao Ce hid behind the rockery and quietly stared at the palace gate not far away. It happened that a group of patrolling guards passed by and noticed something moving behind the rockery. He thought it was an assassin and rushed over to surround them without saying a word.After Zhao Ce yelled angrily, two guards personally escorted him back to the academy.

Five or six days later, the two Longying guards sent by Yanjiang to Qingzhou sent back the news using flying pigeons.

After the two arrived in Qingzhou City, they began to investigate the origin of the earrings. They learned that precious jade species such as Yuguo Tianqing had disappeared 20 years ago. This kind of jade was rare and difficult to mine. The last king of Xia In order to please the beloved concubine, he wanted to build a palace made of jade for the beloved concubine, and they did not hesitate to dig mountains to get jade. Thousands of slaves worked day and night to dig earth and move rocks, until the entire mountain was leveled, and cart after cart of precious jade It was transported back to the royal capital non-stop. In the end, it was not known whether the palace was built or not. Anyway, it would never be mined again after the rain.

Under the guidance of an old master, the two went to a time-honored pawnshop with earrings. The owner of the pawnshop was a middle-aged man. He recognized the earrings as soon as he saw them. They belonged to the wife of the former governor of Qingzhou. Madam loved the jade color of Yuguo Tianqing very much. In addition to this pair of earrings, she also had a pair of bracelets. Later, when the war broke out and the situation in Qingzhou City changed, the lady came to the pawn shop to pawn the pair of bracelets and some other jewelry. He should be preparing to flee.Later, the pawnshop owner heard that the governor's family was robbered on the road, and that both adults and children were murdered. He didn't know whether it was true or not.

(End of this chapter)