Chapter 24 Chapter 22 That Incident in the Ming Dynasty

Opposite the photo studio is a branch store in the typhoon shelter. Na Lan went in for lunch. While waiting for the meal, she took out her mobile phone from her bag, only to realize that she had missed a call from Tao Zi. "Where are you?" Tao Zi asked immediately. "In a typhoon shelter." "What are you doing?" "What else can I do, of course I'm taking shelter from the wind." "What kind of wind to avoid? I arrived in Jiangjing last night. I was going to show up suddenly to scare you, but I found that the dormitory was deserted and miserable. I think I will wait for you until you go crazy playing outside. , as soon as I push the door of the dormitory, I can still scare you. But I waited all night, and you didn't show up. Only then did I understand that you have married into a wealthy family after I went home to visit my relatives for a few days." Tao Zi Talking is always so exaggerated.

Nalan smiled wryly at the phone: "You don't know, I have a hard time going home. Did you know that Ning Yuxin died?" Tao Zi said "Oh" and said, "Didn't everyone say that she was trapped by love and committed suicide? Does this have anything to do with your marriage to a wealthy family?" "I found her body. That day, she made an appointment with me to go to her house." Tao Zi was even more startled, and he said after a long time, "I always thought you were rivals in love?" "She originally wanted to have a long talk with me, probably to persuade me not to work for Qin Huai again. When I arrived at her house, I found that she had hanged herself. Bayusheng refused to tell me more about the case, but I feel that They have already ruled out suicide, someone must have killed her. Later, I found out that someone was following me and even trying to get rid of me." Nalan lowered her voice.

"then you……" "I had to hide and live outside, sometimes with my cousin, sometimes in a hotel, sometimes with Qinhuai." "My God, my terrible prophecy has unfortunately come true, and you will marry into a rich family after all." "'Great Family'? Howl?" Na Lan felt a little uneasy. She didn't want Tao Zi to know too many secrets. The more secrets he knew, the more dangerous he was. "It's good that you're back. The little hamster has been fed. In the past few days, my niece Cheng Yuanyuan has come to the dormitory to feed it."

Tao Zi said: "I met Cheng Yuanyuan, she is a little responsible little girl." Nalan said, "I may not be able to contact you much, for fear of getting you into trouble." "What's the trouble? You're too out of touch." Tao Zi was a little sullen. But Nalan decided to abide by the principle: "Really, you trust me... Next time, you will know when you see me, I am really troublesome now." Nalan swam back to the shore of the lake from the island in the middle of the lake late last night. After landing, she changed her clothes in the Qinhuai Odyssey and checked into an unremarkable hotel.There are still ten hours before dark, and after she finished her lunch, she went straight to the Jiangjing City Library.

She wanted to see the "notebook" that Cen Shanshan mentioned immediately. Although he was officially "undercover" in the Qin family, Qin Huai was not a carefree person, and would not let himself roam around in his study. There are two computers next to the service desk of the library for readers to search. Nalan typed "Jiangjing" and "note novels", and only a series of suspense novels with Jiangjing as the background came out. It's called Fang Wendong.Looking at Qin Huai's name, Nalan secretly hated, and suddenly had an idea: no matter it was the Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty, there must be only a handful of notebooks and novels about Jiangjing that have been handed down to the present and compiled into books.The key is that I don't know the title of the book. In fact, I just need to find relevant experts and ask.

Shouldn't such experts be in the library? The librarian in front of the service desk was a white-faced boy with a few thin beards, his eyes were fixed on the direction of the computer, as if he was in a trance, but his eyes kept following Nalan.Nalan finally walked in front of him, and he deliberately turned his eyes back to the computer screen, showing the concentration of "ignoring beautiful women".Nalan smiled and asked softly: "Hello, I want to ask a stupid search question." "The questions related to retrieval are not stupid, otherwise, would I have been studying stupid for four years in college?" The librarian smiled, showing some jagged teeth. "I'm joking with you, just ask, and tell me everything."

Nalan said: "I'm looking for a book, not necessarily about Jiangjing, but definitely related to Jiangjing, probably written by someone from the Qing Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty. It's a notebook novel... such a book, Where can I find it?" Xiao Huxiu's originally smug expression was reduced by at least half, and he scratched his thinning hair, and said, "Your question...not only is not stupid, but also very professional, so I need a professional to answer it, I just happen to... " Nalan waited for him and said, "I happen to be such a professional", but he grabbed the phone on the table and said, "I happen to be blind." Then he said to the phone, "Mr. Yao? I'm Xiao Zheng , I picked up a business for you, yes, I’m alive, I’ll bring her to see you.” Put down the phone and said, “Come with me.”

Nalan frowned: "Take business? A living person? You don't want to use me as a human meat bag, do you?" "It's really rare to find a beautiful woman with a sense of humor." The bearded Xiaozheng walked out of the service desk, took Nalan to the basement, and said as he walked, "This teacher Yao is an expert in our ancient books and local chronicles. If she doesn't know, we will You have to burn incense to pray to God." Teacher Yao introduced himself as Yao Suyun. Although he is called a "teacher", he is not old at all. He is in his early thirties, with good features, and unexpectedly wears smoky makeup that does not match the image of a librarian.In front of her desk was a small sign that read "Associate Research Librarian."After listening to Na Lan's question, she thought for a while and said, "There are so many books like this, I'll get you a few, and you can look through them to see if it's what you want."

When Yao Suyun left, Xiao Zheng also bid farewell to Na Lan, saying: "If you still have stupid questions, just come to me upstairs." Na Lan thanked me with a smile. In less than five minutes, Yao Suyun came back with three books in her hands. She pointed to the thick one and said, "This book is the most suspicious. It is a collection of notes from the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Notes, all about Jiangjing and surrounding areas." Nalan thanked her repeatedly, and took the book. On it were the words "Zhaoyang Chronicle", which was indeed very suspicious.She eagerly opened the pages, reading the contents one by one, looking for the words "A Mino of Misty Rain".

No. She recalled the characters and scenes in the first introduction of "The Curse of the Smoke and Rain": Zhaoyang Lake, Boyan Treasure, Phoenix Zhonglong, Wen Ying.She browsed the title again, and sure enough, she found an article called "Wen Bing Miscellaneous Records".Wen Bing is the Grand Master Wen in Qinhuai's masterpiece, Miss Wenying's father, a high-ranking official with great power. Although it is not a direct story about the Misty Rain Curse, it may be related. Na Lan found the "Wen Bing Miscellaneous Records" according to the page number.

Wen Bing, courtesy name Hongxi, nickname Sha Weng.Its predecessor Jiang Jingji Liao people.The father was charged, and he inherited the ancestral post and was attached to Jinyi Qianhu.Bingyou learned martial arts from his father and uncle. He is tall and falcon-eyed, brave and strong.A little longer, with accumulated knowledge of engineering and writing, the title of the poem is prominent, especially the artistic conception of the frontier fortress.He took the martial arts examination in the seventh year of Jiajing, and was awarded Jinyi Deputy Qianhu.In the nine-year literary examination, he was awarded Hanlin Xiuzhuan.His father died, and he attacked the commander of the Jinyi Department, but he was appointed to the Imperial Academy.Not long after, Zhuodu commanded Tongzhi and was in charge of brocade clothing. Bing and Yan Song enjoy poetry and wine, party and friends in the government and the public, with brocade clothes and powerful officials as minions, dissidents may end up in prison, or see violent corpses.Every time Bing captures and kills important officials, Juelu will increase.In the twenty-sixth year, he was promoted to the prince's Taibao, the next year, he was added to the Taifu, and in the 30th year, he was added to the Taibao. Bing Tengda became noble, probably because of his friendship with Yan Song.His wife, Yan Shi, is also Song's niece. She has only one daughter named Ying.Yingfu and Ji have a radiant complexion and clear skin. Because of the Lantern Festival tour in the Beijing Garden, they meet a scholar with a weak crown, his face is like a crown of jade, and his forehead is imposing, so they exchange eyebrows.The scholar is actually a bandit, named Feng Zhonglong, capable of flying beams and flying rafters, and his water skills are especially good.In the middle of the night the next day, Long Qian sneaked into Wen's mansion, had a good time with his daughter, and kept in touch with each other for a long time.In the autumn of the following year, Long entered the palace and stole a treasure map, which pointed to the place where Yuan Xiang Boyan was greedy for money and gathered wealth, under Zhaoyang Lake Island in Jiangjing Prefecture.Long Xuan went to Wenfu, and took his young lady Yijing with him. When they arrived at Jiangjing Mansion, there was a lame Taoist blocking the way, claiming to be a fortune teller, saying: "There is a disaster of blood and light, as long as you stay away from Zhaohu, everything will be fine." Long sneered.The woman said: "What's the explanation?" The Taoist said: "If you want to see people in coir raincoats fishing in Zhaohu Lake, someone must die."It was night, when the rainstorm came, the woman woke up suddenly, opened the window, and saw men in coir raincoats fishing in a boat, thinking it was a bad omen. At dawn, Long wanted to go to the island to search for treasures. The woman persuaded him, but Long insisted on doing it.According to the map, the dragon went to the treasure place and entered the water.The woman is eagerly looking forward to it, and there is no news for a day, and sleepless nights.The next day, the dragon corpse floated there and drowned. Bing lost his daughter, and his hair turned white all night. He rode guards in brocade clothes and hussars from Dongchang, and searched all over the world.After the death of the dragon, the girl had nowhere to rely on, and was found by the officials of the government. Bing went to Jiangjing to meet the girl in person, and then locked her boudoir again.The woman has been trapped by the nightmare for a long time. Every night, she howls and bleakly, and everyone who hears it is moved.Bing Guang hired good doctors to kill those who were ineffective.The daughter gradually recovered, and married Zhongman, the son of Xu Changshu, the servant of the Ministry of Officials.Zhongman's literary talent is outstanding, and he is a tool of the emperor.In the thirty-sixth year, Bing was punished all over the family, and the female alone was exempted. It is not difficult for Na Lan to read classical Chinese, and she is almost sure that this little legend is the source of the first introduction of Qin Huai's "The Curse of the Smoke and Rain".She read it carefully again, translating every sentence in her mind. It was a very interesting story. Only then did she pay attention to the author of the article: Yu Bailian.According to the author's introduction, Yu Bailian was a scholar during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, an "indigenous person" in Jiangjing Prefecture, his official career was not considered successful, and he only enjoyed poetry and books.This "Wen Bing Miscellaneous Records" and other works of Yu Bailian included in this book are all from Yu's anthology "Supplementary Notes on the Evening Pavilion". Na Lan borrowed the "Zhaoyang Chronicle" with her library card, and went upstairs to find Xiao Zheng sitting at the service desk.Xiao Zheng deliberately kept a calm look, and smiled lightly: "Welcome back." "Can you do me a favor?" "Serving readers is my duty." Nalan smiled: "I would like to trouble you to copy a few pages of this book for me, and then... I don't know if you have a scanning machine here, I want to scan it into an image file or PDF file, and then I can borrow your computer. " "That's three favors." "I can also solve this last task in the Internet cafe. If it's too troublesome, I can pay for copying and scanning." Xiao Zheng smiled again: "I'm just joking, these three little things are easy to do." He felt that today was a small climax of his emerging librarian career. Na Lan sent the scanned PDF file of "Wen Bing Miscellaneous Records" and several other works of Yu Bailian to Gong Jin, a graduate student majoring in classical literature in the Chinese Department of Jiangnan University.Gong Jin is two levels higher than Nalan, and has overtaken Nalan.According to Tao Zi, Gong Jin's pursuit of Nalan is a naked pursuit, and words like "bold" and "naked" are not strong enough to describe it, it is simply "shameless".Gong Jin wrote a love letter to Na Lan, using the gorgeous literary talent of Pian Si Li Liu, and he also hand-painted a picture of "Lady Yi Lan", which was pasted on the door of Na Lan's dormitory, and the face of the lady was Na Lan. , are more beautiful and vivid than the Twelve Girls' Band painted by Chen Yifei.If it wasn't for Na Lan's heart belonging to Gu Yiyang at that time, maybe she would really be tempted. Gu Yiyang chased after Na Lan, and only said one sentence, "Let's go to the movies." So Tao Zi criticized Na Lan because he made "Little Guzi" too easy to get started, so that he was so unfeeling, and after he went to Beijing, he was never heard from again.But between Na Lan and Gu Yiyang, there is a secret that Tao Zi doesn't know about. Na Lan doesn't want to mention it, but admits that when we children make mistakes, we correct them when we know the mistakes, and we are still good children. She went out of the library, flipped through the books in her hands, and sat on the steps in the garden behind the library for a while, breathing the fresh air that was hard to find in the city.She wanted to call Tao Zi again to explain that she was not seeing outsiders, but that she was really involved in a big right and wrong.She should have listened to Ning Yuxin and stayed as far away as possible, but it was too late. While Na Lan was still hesitating, her cell phone rang, and it was Gong Jin. Gong Jin said: "You want to change your major? You want to come to the Chinese Department? Do you want to be my junior sister?" Gong Jin is very good at this, and he is very tolerant of failure.After chasing Nalan failed, he immediately changed to chasing a department flower in the Department of Chemistry, and failed again; he also changed to chasing a talented woman from the Department of International Trade, and almost succeeded.He now finally has a girlfriend, a freshman girl. Na Lan said: "Don't you already have a junior sister? Can you tell me directly whether Yu Bailian is reliable or not? Is it true that Boyan's treasure and the coir raincoat man are fishing?" "I'm old Jiang Jing, so I still know who Yu Bailian is. This old man was one of the greatest talents back then. He was known as the three masters of poetry, calligraphy and painting, but according to my picky eyes, he can be called the most outstanding. It's his seal cutting..." Nalan reminded him: "Brother, this is too far away." Gong Jin said: "ok, that's how it is. In the Jiajing Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, there was no one named Wen Bing who was the third prince and mastered Jinyiwei. Yu Bailian was just making up a story, the novelist said. As for Boyan Treasure Treasure and Coir Clothes Man The story of fishing for life, my father and my grandfather are both old antiques of Jiangjing Mansion. Usually, they try to avoid instilling gossip to me, a pure child, but after a few glasses of wine, the two elders will still talk about it Legend has it that there are noses and eyes, which are very similar to UFOs. Some people say they have seen them, but there is no evidence. At the same time, I also found an interesting thing." Gong Jin paused, like an invisible man in coir raincoat, trying to catch Nalan's appetite. "I'm listening." Na Lan rolled her eyes at herself, pretending to be "hooked". "I searched and found that the two seniors in my family have collected three editions of "Wanting Sui Shi". Among them, "Wen Bing Miscellaneous Records" was included in a rare edition in the early years of the Republic of China. This shows that no matter who The edited "Zhaoyang Chronicle" must be very professional, or in other words, I have carefully found the correct version of "Wanting Sui Shi". Na Lan turned the "Zhaoyang Chronicle" to the inner cover, on which there was the name of the editor-in-chief and a list of names of the editors. One of them is "Qinhuai". Nalan said in a soft voice that could only be heard by herself: "This outstanding ancient book collation worker... I know who it is."