Chapter 28 The twenty-eighth round of searching the mansion, playing chess, knocking on Lingkou residence, preventing troubles and moving to Shanguzhai

Early the next morning, Bumbleshan cast eyeliner on the way from Shenwumen to Suofu.Sitting in the Ao Mansion by myself, waiting for the news.In the afternoon, I received a report: "As usual, the two small sedan chairs from the palace have entered the back side door of the Suo Mansion." Obai and Bumble smiled at each other, ordered the soldiers, and took the sedan chairs to go to the Suo Mansion. The big sedan chair came to Suo's mansion and landed gently, and Aobai stepped out with a bow. Seeing Oboi at the door, Geshiha stepped down and said, "Master Zhongtang, please please Zhongtang Jinan."

"Report to your lord, saying that the second-class prince and the minister of the guards, Oboi, came here to see your lord." "Zha!" As soon as he heard the "order", that Geshha hurriedly knelt down on his knees and kowtowed, then got up and flew into the back hall to report. Not long after, three cannons sounded like thunder, followed by the sound of drums and bells, and the middle door was opened in an uproar. Suo'etu was wearing a gold robe embroidered with nine pythons and five claws, a brand new golden pheasant suit, and blooming coral Behind the crown is a peacock feather with two eyes, and it came out with a dignified and solemn expression.

Aobai Jiaozhao visited Suo's mansion, originally intending to settle the matter quietly, but Suo'etu people did not come out.Then he set off cannons and played music, attracting all the neighbors to watch. He gritted his teeth with hatred, but he had to compliment him with a smile: "Suo Gong, Ao is not an outsider, why is this so?" Suo'etu bowed his waist respectfully and said: "Master Zhongtang came here according to the order, it is the arrival of an angel, it should be like this. Please!" After saying that, the two walked in hand in hand, and when they entered, Namo waved his hand Suddenly, the Imperial Forest Army under him dispersed suddenly, and surrounded the Suo Mansion airtightly.The common people didn't know what happened to Suofu, and there were more and more people watching.

Ao Bai followed Suo'etu into the hall with a smile on his face. After he was seated, he still didn't see Ao Bai proclaiming the decree, so Suo'etu deliberately asked: "Master Zhongtang, if you have any sacred orders, please declare it, students so that you can obey the decree." undertake." There was no imperial decree in the first place, Suo'etu said one by one: "Holy decree", "obey the decree", no matter how thick-skinned he was, it was too much for him, so Oboi was a little flustered, and said with a smile: "I escaped from the prison of the Ministry of Punishment last night." The guards of the two imperial convicts received a bribe of one thousand taels of gold, and they have already seized the law, but the main criminal has not yet been arrested. The emperor ordered me to check in the houses of the officials, and relevant personnel have been sent elsewhere. Only the Zunfu It is very unusual, and I am afraid that the next person will make mistakes and disturb the family members, so the special relatives will come to preside over it."

"This is the kindness of the Holy Majesty, Master Zhongtang." Suo'etu hurriedly smiled and said, "If that's the case, please send someone to check." Seeing that he was very calm, Aobai became suspicious, could it be that the third child is not in the mansion because of the wind?Looking closely at Suo'etu's expression, he was calm and somewhat frightened.Thinking again, how about relying on the fact that the third child is in the mansion and waiting for me to find it out, can you give me a chance?Thinking of this, he grinned grinningly and said, "Shu Ao is being presumptuous."

Then he yelled "Come on!" Namo, Waihu, etc. were waiting for this sound, and took advantage of the situation to rush in with a group of people, and the black crows stood in the yard.Aobai came out and ordered: "Namo goes to the inner courtyard, Crooked Tiger goes to the garden, look around casually, don't be presumptuous. If you disturb the family members, be careful." The two retreated in response, and Aobai and Suo'etu were at ease While drinking tea in the living room, the cries and screams of the family members came from the backyard, Oboi pretended not to hear, when he turned to look at Suo'ertu, he saw that he was calm, as if nothing had happened, secretly admired his self-cultivation.All of a sudden, a soldier stumbled over and reported, "Master Zhongtang, there is... a fight."

Who, Aobai stood up in surprise, and walked towards the back garden together with Suo'etu.It turned out that Crooked Tiger and Wei Dongting fought in front of the garden.Aobai hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Crooked tigers must not be rude." Wei Dongting also took advantage of the situation and returned his sword into its sheath, and made a long bow to Aobai and said, "Mark Wei Dongting to come to accept the crime." "Huchen, this crooked tiger is a fool, you don't need to be as knowledgeable as him." Turning his face and winking at crooked tiger, he said, "If you don't go down, do your own business." Crooked tiger walked away knowingly.Aobai smiled at Wei Dongting again, "It's a coincidence that you are here today." He thought that Kangxi must be hiding in the back garden.

Wei Dongting replied indifferently: "I heard that there is a very good rockery in Mr. Suo's garden. The emperor asked me to come and have a look." "Oh?" Aobai immediately stood up and said to Suo'etu: "We are sitting down anyway. Why don’t you go to the garden to have a look.” Suo’etu got up and said with a smile, “I will accompany you. Huchen, how about you go with Zhongtang?” Wei Dongting smiled and said, “You should obey.” The three of them walked to the moon gate of the garden, and saw Crooked Tiger and his men searching the garden.Ao Bai came over and asked: "Have you seen any suspicious people?" Wai Hu said: "Not yet. I want to send some more people to check carefully." Then he gave Wei Dongting a hard look.

Aobai waved his hand and said, "Then there is no need. I will check with Mr. Suo and Mr. Wei. You go down." Entering the garden, there is a rockery falling into the pool.A pack of white marble railings meanders to the water-pressing pavilion in the pool.On the other side of the pavilion, there are three huts.The water was sparkling, and a few goldfish floated up and down leisurely. Going forward, there is indeed a rockery that is very eye-catching-it is a whole piece of natural turmeric stone.In the lower middle part, there is a table-sized stone surface that is polished as smooth as a mirror, and the word "Lingkou" is engraved on it.

Obai saw that there were no Tibetans near the rockery, so he pointed to the three huts and said, "It's a good place to study there!" The three walked around the rockery along the curved bridge, passed through the gazebo and came to the front of the hut.I heard someone talking in the room, and there was a "beep" sound from time to time.Aobai suddenly became nervous, but he pretended to be elegant: "Looking at the water and bamboo, the wooden windows of the hut, once you get rich and noble, it is really a place where dragons and tigers are hidden!" I can't help but stand there in a daze.Where is there any Kangxi!It's just a yellow-faced man in his thirties and a young man in his fifteenth or sixteenth year who are concentrating on running towards each other.The sound of beeping just now was a chess piece!

Seeing Ao Bai's regretful and disappointed expression, Suo Etu secretly laughed, and hurriedly said: "Min Tai, come and see Ao Bai Shibo!" Then he turned and introduced to Ao Bai, "This is my nephew Suo Min Tai, this is Mr. Hu from the Imperial Hospital, he often comes here to play chess. Mr. Hu is superb at chess, no one in the capital can surpass him. I heard that Ao Gong is also very good at this skill, why not play a game?" Hu Gongshan also hurriedly handed over his hand Modestly said: "Please enlighten me, my lord!" Then he bowed down.When Oboi stretched out his hand, he felt a gust of wind blowing against his clothes, he knew that this person possessed martial arts, and when he was busy using his strength to support him, how could he stop him.Hu Gongshan bowed to the ground calmly, then raised his body and sat down carelessly.Aobai couldn't help being shocked: there is such a person in the Suo'etu mansion! At this moment, Aobai knew that he was in vain, and his heart was in a mess, and seeing that Hu Gongshan possessed a unique skill, he didn't want to get entangled, even Suo'etu and the others couldn't hear what they were saying, so he just nodded with a blank smile: "Ah... ah ...Where, the old man only knows a little bit about chess, but in fact, he is very superficial. —— Hu Chen is the one to come!" While they were talking, Nemo and Waihu came in from outside, Aobai saw their expressions and knew that something was wrong, he hurriedly said: "You don't need to talk about it. - Mr. Suo, I really offended you very much today, Rong Ao Pray for another day!" Then he told Nemo: "Remove the warning, and then go to another house to see." Suo'etu pretended to want to stay.Aobai didn't want to stay here even for a moment, he waved his sleeves and said, "Farewell!" Suo'etu still fired cannons to send him out. After leaving the Suo Mansion, Obai was still wondering, if Emperor Kangxi was not here, where did Wu Ciyou go? He didn't know that Wu Ciyou was invited away by Mingzhu early in the morning.According to Wei Dongting's arrangement, they came to Feng's Garden.When she came in, she found out that there was a garden that had been abandoned for many years among the thorns and ruins. Mingzhu murmured in her heart: "My cousin sent the two of us here. How did this dilapidated garden take half a day?" However, Wu Ciyou was happy and said: "The more desolate and decadent the place, the more monuments to find, and the more thought-provoking." So they stood among the broken walls, beside the rubble and barren mounds, Look here, look there, they actually found a few small poems, and I don't know which literati inscribed them here.Wu Ciyou's poems are very popular, seeing that the sun is passing, he still doesn't want to leave.Mingzhu couldn't wait a long time ago: "I said Brother Wu, let's rest and find a place to eat." "Take care of you. It's just that the wild grass and thorns are full of desolation, how can there be elegance here?" "Brother Wu, before we came out, I made an appointment with Huchen and others. Today, let's go to Baiyun Temple. Zhu'er recently opened a Shangu shop there. Shall we bother him?" "Ah? So he went there. Alas, it's not easy for him to run a small business, and the road is too far. Let's not go today." "Hey, what are you afraid of? You are afraid of eating him, and he still blames you for not going. Let's go, you can't eat him enough for a meal." "It's okay to go, but I don't take a car or a sedan chair." "Okay, I'm just going to take a walk too, let's just take a stroll." The two walked while talking and laughing, and they arrived in front of the Shangu shop outside Baiyun Guanwai at the wrong time.Zhu'er, wearing a felt hat and short jacket, a water skirt and apron, and a white towel on his shoulders, greeted him at the door early with a smile.Mingzhu laughed and said, "Brother, he is afraid of disturbing you, so he still refuses to come!" He Guizhu greeted Wu Ciyou with a haha ​​and said, "Second Master, you can't say that. Zhu'er has been a servant of the Wu family for several lifetimes. If you don't come, people will call Zhu'er ungrateful if they find out. By then It’s too late for me to take on a big stick to apologize to you. Please come inside quickly! Coincidentally, there are new eight treasures here: sea cucumber, asparagus, mushroom, Sichuan bamboo shoots, red scale fish, scallops , oyster roe, mullet eggs, there are many of them, and there is also a moment of frozen fish——Second Lord is a good food!" Wu Ciyou laughed loudly and said, "As the saying goes, it's better to be late than to be a coincidence!" As soon as he stepped into the door, the laughter stopped abruptly.It turned out that Wanniang was waiting inside with two little maids. Seeing Wu Ciyou come in, she hurriedly stood up.Wan Niang smiled and said, "Sir, I didn't expect you to come just now!" Wu Ciyou has always been generous, but seeing Wanniang at this time and this place, for some reason, she felt like a thorn in her back, with nowhere to let go.Aunt Su Ma knew what Kangxi meant, and sooner or later she was also Wu Ciyou's person, so she felt restrained seeing him like this, and she couldn't even make a joke.The two of them had their own thoughts, and their relationship, which was close at first, turned out to be unfamiliar. Mingzhu is dedicated to this matter, seeing that the two are warm and distant, and their eyes are close, she hastily smoothed things over and said: "It's really a coincidence, sister Wanniang is also here - such a table of delicate snacks, I'm afraid it's not for brothers. Brother Wu and I are hungry, so let’s bother you first!” Then he smiled and took a piece of palace-made fragrant ice cream and put it in his mouth, making a grimace and shouting, “Zhu’er, send the seafood over here on the table!" Although that Zhu'er hated Mingzhu's yelling and flirting with her as a servant, but when the situation came to an end, she had no choice but to agree to rectify it. Wu Ciyou wondered why today was such a coincidence: why did they all gather in He Guizhu's small shop?Then he smiled and said: "I want you to know that you are coming too. Wouldn't it be better to come out together this morning? It's past noon now, so don't you worry if we don't go back to your master?" How did he know that all his actions today were arranged by others who stayed up all night?If Wei Dongting doesn't come, Suo Mansion's good or bad will be uncertain, whether he can go back or not is uncertain.When La Aunt Su Ma asked, she suddenly thought of what the Suo Mansion was like now, so she forced a smile and said, "It's the same here as at home. The owner of this shop paid for it from an account outside my house." Wu Ciyou was even more confused: Zhu'er couldn't stay in the city, and he knew the reason for leaving the city to open a shop.But Suo'etu took him in and helped He Guizhu open the Shangu store again, which was a bit strange.It is reasonable to keep myself to teach, and to support Zhu'er to continue to open a shop outside, this kind of "righteousness" is beyond normal. Just as they were waiting to ask each other, they heard a sound of horse hooves coming from far and near outside the door. Everyone listened attentively, and the horse neighed and stopped outside the shop. "Master Wei is here," Zhu Er shouted loudly.Then, Wei Dongting broke in sweating profusely, and said with a smile: "I can't find you anywhere, so you are happy here." Zhu'er then lifted the curtain with four pots of hot seafood, and put the dishes on while smiling. Said: "You don't ask about prosperity and decline when you get started, but you can tell by looking at your face! Now that Master Wei is here, Second Master and Zhu'er are destined again, and I'm afraid they will have a good time together in my Shangu shop in the future. This place is so secluded, our second master is most afraid of the crowds, it's just right for the second master's taste." "Why, do we live here?" Wu Ciyou was dumbfounded! "Why do I get more and more confused the more I listen!" "The second master dare not know?" He Guizhu said, "Early this morning, Master Wei came to give orders, saying that the mansion is afraid that there will be no peace, and the young master wants to study in another place, so he chose the villain's place." .” "Not peaceful?" Wu Ciyou said hurriedly, "Why not peaceful, this..." Seeing that He Guizhu couldn't answer, Aunt Su Ma replied, "The Suo mansion has been searched by Oboi and the others. I'm afraid it's for the master." Wu Ciyou stood there stunned, looking for everyone's eyes.Finally, looking at Wei Dongting again, Wei Dongting nodded heavily and said: "It's really an auspicious sign, if you don't come out today, I'm afraid you'll be a ghost by the sword!" Mingzhu paused and said: "My good cousin What happened, can you explain clearly?" Wei Dongting picked up the jug on the table, drank it from the spout, wiped his mouth, and detailed the details of Oboi's visit to search the mansion in person. Talk to everyone.At the end, he said: "Who can believe the nonsense of the lost prisoner in the dungeon, and searched the study room specially, and didn't he come for Mr.?" Hearing Wei Dongting tell it again, Wu Ciyou was startled and angry, as if he had knocked over a bottle of five flavors in his heart, full of sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty.After a long time, Fang sneered and said, "I never imagined that I, Wu Ciyou, a scholar, with no desire to overreach and no power to restrain a chicken, would win such favor from Lord Ao for an article!" Speaking of excitement, he clenched his fingers tightly , slammed on the table, and there was a "bang", and the soup on the table jumped up, "I go out and surrender, what kind of crime should I be charged, and I will be the one!" As he said that, he pulled away and left, but was grabbed by Wei Dongting.Aunt Su Ma shouted anxiously: "Sir, you can't go!" Wu Ciyou made two bucks, but couldn't make any.Looking back, I saw Aunt Su Ma's expression changed drastically, half angry and half affectionate.Being dragged by Wei Dongting again, he could only let out a long sigh, and sat down angrily, bowing his head in silence. Wei Dongting said with a smile: "Mr. Wu, why are you in such a hurry. Didn't Oboi make a fool of himself? This chess is at a critical moment, so why be impatient?" "I won't turn myself in?" Wu Ciyou said, "Oboi will never give up. If something happens in the future, you will always be implicated." He raised his head and glanced at Wanniang. Aunt Su Ma's heart became hot, and her eye circles turned red. She endured tears and persuaded: "The "Liu Hou Lun" that Mr. told Long Er last time, there is a brave man in the world. Surprised, not angry for no reason'. At that time, we didn't mind it too much - we thought it was for others to hear, but now that something happened, thinking about it, we thought it was for ourselves. If you are acting on your will today, sir, how can it help you?" Wei Dongting also said: "Oboi searched the mansion, and he said that he wanted to take two people, why do you want one to surrender? If you want the other, where do you go to find it? ? "who's that person?" "That's a good question! How do we know?" Aunt Su Ma smiled and said, "You settle down in this place first. Long Er comes to school every day as usual, and returns to the city after the weather calms down. Isn't it good? ?" "It has to be like this." Wu Ciyou said dejectedly, "It's just that there are people coming and going in the hotel; how can it be easy to study?" "Second Lord looks down on me too much." He Guizhu stepped forward, "If Second Master teaches here, why should I open a shop? - You say it's not good here, please move to follow me to have a look at the back .” Wu Ciyou dubiously followed He Guizhu into the backyard, and Lagu Su Ma, Mingzhu, and Wei Dongting also followed in a file. At first glance, there was nothing unusual. They walked past the woodshed and two huts, and passed through an inconspicuous small door. !The competition inside is a world of great importance! I saw a large pond with a square of five acres, and a stone bridge leading to his heart island.The water in the pool is clear and clear, with turbulent ripples and sparkling light, clear to the eyes.Some green silver carps that are more than a foot long jump out of the water from time to time and make a plopping sound.Weeping willows and dragon-necked willows are planted on the banks around. When the breeze blows, the wicker swings and dances.Along the bridge and across the pool, there are seven or eight reed sheds and huts on the opposite bank.There are black plaques hanging at the door of the three huts in the middle.The three gilded characters "Shanguzhai" in the last letter are all simple and unclumsy bamboo and wood utensils.From the outside, this Shangu store looks simple and unassuming, but when you look closely, you can see that the craftsmanship is exquisite and the beauty is hidden inside.In contrast, it makes people feel that Suofu Garden is suspected of being chiseled.Wu Ciyou blurted out, "It's a good place. If you don't read Zhuangzi, you can't understand the beauty of this fast." "That's right!" Zhu'er hurriedly laughed and said, "The villain knows that the second master will definitely like it. There is still a rockery on Chixin Island that has not been repaired, and those Taihu stones piled up will look good when they are piled up!" Wu Ciyou said with a smile: "There is no need to repair the rockery. Put melon sheds and bean frames, and then plant vines, and the shade will look better. Why do you need to make artificial decorations?" As the people were talking, they saw an old man with a long beard and a floating chest, leading a few young men out of the hut. Although they were all in coarse clothes and hemp shoes, they were all extremely strong and strong.Wu Ciyou thought it was a guy used in the store, but he didn't care.He didn't know that these were the three Mu Zixu brothers led by Shi Longbiao, and a dozen guards selected from Da Nei to serve as guards here. In addition, there were 20 personal soldiers who entered Baiyun Temple pretending to be Taoists, secretly guarding the place. small shop.This is another villa that Xiong Cilu arranged for Kangxi, exclusively for him to study.Although Wu Ciyou is erudite and knowledgeable from ancient to modern times, how could he have thought of these things! The autumn wind was rustling, and the water in the pool was vast. Wu Ciyou couldn't help feeling sad when he thought of his life experience.He glanced at the people in front of him, and even Wanniang seemed to be a lot of strangers.He vaguely felt that everyone was hiding something important from him, but he couldn't think of what it was, and he couldn't open his mouth to ask.Immediately said with a smile: "It's good here, Long Er is afraid that he will have to run a lot of distance every day!" Wanniang laughed and said, "You teach your books yourself. If he comes, you can tell the book; if he doesn't come, you can sit on the bank and fish, which is also a good thing." Wu Ciyou nodded with a smile. At this moment, Zhu Er suddenly turned around and said, "Second Lord, look, isn't that Long Er coming?"