Chapter 37: Waste garden

Because of the characteristics of the position, the action of the hanging mirror has always been low-key and secret, and Xia Dong did not publicize it after returning to Beijing.
But for those who are interested, it is not difficult to detect her actions.
However, Xia Dong was not deliberately mysterious about the many eyes in the dark and the dark. After the palace, the Ning Guohou Mansion, and the Mu's Beijing mansion, she stayed in the house after staying in these three places, and stayed in the Suspense Department. Within Yaya.
But what surprised Zhaoye was that the storm of the "invasion of land" caused by Lieutenant General Xia Dong's return to Beijing did not immediately explode. However, this kind of feeling that the mountain was raining and the wind filled the building was even more difficult. Guo Gong Baiye had already been sick at home, and according to Taiyi, he was not pretending to be sick.
Another thing that everyone expected did not happen. The man who was rumored to be the Junma was still in the Ningguo Palace as a guest. The emperor gave him two ink treasures and declared that he would drink tea once in the palace, but the marriage news was a little bit. There is no wind.
It was the day after the owner of Nihuang County sent a letter to him the day after Xia Dong's visit, and he did not know what medicine these people sold in the gourd.
The prince who had thought about it behind closed doors performed extremely well. Although he was inconvenienced to publicly apologize to the county master because of the fact that he was concealed, the people of the Prince ’s East Palace who went out to meet the king ’s palace would be sideways and courteous. The irritated Mu family could not pick up the thorns, and the relationship between the two parties failed to publicly deteriorate.
After the concubine Yue was relegated, it was even more painful. The rapid aging and haggard made the emperor's heart pity gradually, and his anger was not as good as it was.
In this stagnation and dull situation, Su Zhe, who has become a celebrity in Kyoto, leisurely picked a beautiful day and invited several young friends to go out with him.
Mottled white walls, broken pink eaves, and a gaping parapet wall appeared from time to time, and the walls were covered with dead stems of wisteria, creeper, and briar.
All things considered, there were only decayed grasses, semi-dried lotus ponds, decayed rockery rocks and promenades all over.
Only the outer wall, which undulated along the slope, still firmly surrounds this little manor that has not been popular for a long time.
In the middle of the manor, the outline of an arc-shaped flower garden can be seen vaguely, but there are no flowers in the garden, only the vines and weeds, and the yellowish brown area extends everywhere.
However, in the middle of this dry and cluttered wild grass, a few people in Chinese clothes and beautiful clothes stood extremely uncoordinated, all looking away, as if admiring the decaying scenery around them.
"If you don't look up and see the spire of the Chongyin Tower, I really don't know where I'm going ..." The person who spoke was handsome in winter, holding the fan's grand uncle, "No Thinking of Jinlin City, there is such a desolate place, Brother Su, how did you find here? "
"I didn't find it myself," the shirtless man who replied with a wry smile, "I just asked a business firm and said I would buy a garden in the city, and the boss recommended it here, saying it was excellent ..."
"Excellent ..." Xie Bi repeated these two words like an echo wall, and stared blankly at the half-collapsed flower stand.
"He said it was excellent, and you believed it? You paid for it without looking at the place? Jiang Zuomeng has become rich like this?" Yan Yujin clearly expressed his disapproving point of view in a third-order way.
"I ... I sent Fei Liu to see it, and he said excellent ..."
"Excellent ..." The echo wall sounded again and again, Fei Liu's body image was in line with him, brushing the ground flashed from the front, disappeared into the rocky group of crooked rocky mountains, it seemed to be playing on Xingtou .
Yan Yujin embraced his chest with both hands and tilted his head to look at the man in Wenxiu in front of him.
The buying firm bought the garden and only sent a child to pay at a glance. This is the style of the Qilin talent? It really is different ...
"In fact, it's not too bad here," Mei Changsu laughed. "At least the location is good and the size is right. No one has lived for many years. It's not surprising that it has been abandoned.
It ’s just that I ’m going to ask someone to repair it again. It should be beautiful when it is cleaned up, and Fei Liu also likes it ... do you mean, Jing Rui? "
The young man who didn't talk much from beginning to end made a response and counted it as a response.
"What's wrong?" Xie Bi leaned over, "Surely Brother Su was cheated when he bought the garden. Why does it look like you are more upset than him?"
Yan Yujin glanced at his friend with Yu Guang, instead of teasing him with Xie Bi as usual, but slowly tapping the palm of his other hand with a fan, walking around leisurely, as if to think Look at the garden more clearly, but only ten steps have been taken, and suddenly the sound of "ah" disappeared.
The people next to me were frightened and ran towards the mysteriously missing place of the living people. Xiao Jingrui had the best skills. Naturally, he was the first to arrive. At the same time, he shouted "Yujin! Yujin!"
"Here ..." A muffled voice came from under the ground, "Take me a hand ..."
After Xiao Jingrui grabbed his wrist and pulled it out again from the ground, his uncle's beautiful robe was covered with black dust and yellow grass scraps. Xiao Jingrui used his hand to help him beat back and forth, throwing out the dust .
"It's a dry well, looking at the spooky ..." Xie Bi carefully clawed away the weeds that overflowed the wellhead and looked down. "All the wells have collapsed, no wonder you didn't notice ..."
"Fortunately, I have extraordinary skills, and grabbed the edge in time," Yan Yujin pulled the grass stem in his hair, his face stretched out, "It's really dead!"
Xiao Jingrui thoughtfully said, "Fortunately, the person who fell is you. If it is Brother Su, he must be unable to catch anything, directly to the end ..."
Yan Yujin gritted his teeth and looked at his best friend, just like looking at a white-eyed wolf, and said in a hateful way: "What is it that fortunately it fell to me? You have no conscience ..."
Mei Changsu also came to help him organize his body, Wen Yan asked, "Are you hurt?"
"No, no expert like me, how can it be so easy to hurt?" Yan Yujin smiled and waved with a careless expression.
"That's it," Xie Bi nodded solemnly, "He's very good at grabbing something hanging in the air. I used to see him hanging like this in Shurenyuan ..."
Fei Liu arrived at the scene sometime, his eyes widened at the dirty speech of his body, he was not right, and he felt more embarrassed.
"I don't know where there is danger in the wasteland. It's better to walk on the stone road when everyone goes out." Xiao Jingrui urged, and looked back at Mei Changsu. "Brother Su, you are walking on our steps."
"You are too careful," Xie Bi sneered. "The garden that is no longer desolate is just a garden. How can there be a well everywhere?"
"Be careful not to overdo it," Mei Changsu smiled and defended Xiao Jingrui. "Although Fang Caicao is dense, if Yujin is more careful, it may not necessarily fail.
It was covered with grass, uneven, and it was indeed time to go back to the main road. "
The weight of older people is different. Everyone heeded his suggestion and returned to the main road together. After wandering through the places they didn't go to, they could walk around again, but they were all the same desolate everywhere.
The garden was not big, and soon the rear corner door was reached. The two door panels were actually closed, locked with a rusty iron lock.
With the exception of Fei Liu, no one wanted to go back through the garden again, so Xie Bi, who was at the forefront, stretched out the door, and somehow the whole door fell off.
"Oh my god, it's so bad, maybe only those few blue brick houses are still good?" Yan Yujin shook his head, "There is nothing that needs to be repaired ..."
"The house's doors and windows are afraid to be changed, even if it is immortal, it is too dirty." Xie Bi also said, "Who is Su, how can I live in such a simple garden? I heard that there is a good city in Dongcheng ... … "
"Forget it," Mei Changsu smiled and cut off his words. "The money is paid, what else to say? Just like Yujin said, our Jiang Zuomeng is not rich enough, we can buy a few in Kyoto. The garden is empty. "
Xie Bi hurriedly said: "The garden of Dongcheng doesn't need money, His Royal Highness said ..."
"Xie Bi," Xiao Jingrui said a little annoyed, "Brother Su will plan these things himself. What do you say so much?"
Xie Bi was slightly annoyed and was about to retaliate. Mei Changsu had inserted between the two and joked: "This garden is not good anymore. Since I bought it, I have to live anyway, or should the brothers in the league should scold I'm spending money indiscriminately, can't you bear to see me being scolded? "He said in his mouth, but he was secretly thinking about what His Royal Highness Hsiang Bi said, and what kind of Royal Highness was it?
"If you want to cultivate in this garden, you can live, I am afraid that it will take more than a month." Yan Yujin smiled, "but anyway, Brother Su is not in a hurry, Jing Rui does not want you to move out so quickly, you see, but it came out today. Looking at the garden, he looks as if he is in love. "
Xiao Jingrui pursed his lips, did not refute the words of Yujin, and remained silent for a while before slowly asking: "Brother Su really ... Do I have to move out to live?"
"It seems that I will be staying in the capital for a while, and I'm always harassing in the palace, and I'm not stable." Mei Changsu Ning's eyes looked soft, but his words were very polite.
"Xuelu is a guest house, and it will not interfere with the main house. There is nothing to disturb." Xiao Jingrui said with a sullen tone.
Mei Changsu smiled faintly, "I know Lord Hou and Princess Chang are not accountable, but they are always inconvenient ..."
Although this sentence is simple, but it is self-existent.
None of the people present were stupid, thinking that sooner or later he would be an important staff member of a certain house, he naturally knew where the inconvenience was and he could not help being silent for a while.
"It doesn't matter if I move out, and it's not far anyway.
For me, it is more convenient to visit Brother Su here than to go to Xie's House. "After a short while, Yujin Fang broke the dull atmosphere with a loud laugh." But this is not a big place, but it is a whole garden. " "How can you and Feiliu live? You should add some maid guards."
"I never wanted to be served on my own, and Fei Liu has always taken care of himself.
However, it is not difficult to hire a few maidservants who clean the courtyard. As for the guards, as soon as there is a fly, there are also a few friends who are staying in Beijing, and they can invite guests to stay. "
Xiao Jingrui remembered that Yujin had said that the four masters who had escorted him into Beijing had not yet left. He suddenly understood in his heart that he could not help feeling some taste, but at the same time felt slightly relieved.
"It's better to live with more people, but ..." Yan Yujin didn't know where he was, and he squeezed his eyes and smiled, "Abandoned house in the deserted garden, there are many monsters in the garden.
Brother Su only had to be careful when he came over with his friends. If a beautiful woman knocks on the window in the middle of the day, you must hold it. It is best not to even look at her when you open the window, so as not to get hooked. "
"Cut," Xie Biqi said. "You didn't even look at it. How do you know it's a beautiful woman?"
"Once the goblin has the power of transfiguration, of course, it must be a good-looking appearance. If it turns into the appearance of Lord Sun, it might as well be exposed."
The surname of the official Sun is well known for its appearance and ugliness in the capital. Xiao Xie and two of them thought about his appearance, and they could not help being amused for a while. Xie Bi also laughed and scolded: "It's your heart to judge the appearance of others! He looks so handsome, why did Master Sun provoke you? "
Yan Yujin snorted, opened the folding fan and shook it, and said proudly toward the wall: "Listen to the vine spirit tree monsters, if you want to transform, it will change from the look of Master Young, and everyone will change afterwards. Praise Yushu for the wind ... "
It ’s okay if it ’s usual, but at this moment he is still a handsome face, but there is a little mud all over his body, and his hair is also made into a messy mess when picking grass roots. Where is the Yushu Linfeng, obviously the chicken nest Linfeng Not only did the two old friends smile and bend over, even Mei Changsu turned his face to one side, his shoulders trembling slightly.
"How can you learn this kind of attitude in three steps in the wind?" Xie Bi choked with laughter, coughing and said, "Or ask Brother Su to clean up a room for you alone and come to live for a few more days , Let those elves of the family look carefully ... "
"Don't care about you," Yan Yujin turned to Mei Changsu with a very serious expression. "The two of them were jealous of me since I was young. I'm used to it."
"Yes," Mei Chang Su Zheng focused on the head, "I also think they are jealous of you."
"Go back and change your clothes," Xiao Jingrui punched a friend and laughed consciously at this scene. He felt a lot more comfortable. "The reputation of the first embroidered pillow in Beijing is hard to come by. At least you must keep this pair of skin bags."
"I am obviously good at both inside and outside? Are you a jealous man ..." Yan Yujin sighed, and he lowered his head again and dusted the unfinished shirt. Who knows how to wipe it twice, his His hands suddenly froze.
"What's wrong?" Mei Changsu immediately noticed the difference and asked quickly.
"It's gone ..."
"What is missing?"
"My Cuiyuejun ..."
"Ah?" Xiao Jingrui and Xie Bi both knew how precious Cui Yuetun was to Yan Yujin, and they all took a step forward. "Will you not bring it out?"
"Cuiyuejun is set on this belt, and the belt is still on the waist. Why didn't you bring it out? I've touched it before going to you ..." Yan Yujin said, his face was a little bit hairy. White.
Although Mei Changsu didn't know what treasure they were talking about, but looking at everyone's expressions, he also knew that it was extraordinary, and he quickly said: "It must have fallen off.
We hurriedly searched along the place where you walked out today, I'm afraid I can still find it. "
"Yes," Xiao Jingrui echoed, stroking his friend's vest to persuade, "I can't find it and don't hurry today. If you reward Xuanxun, you will find it back."
Yan Yujin was anxious in his heart and did not want to say more. He turned back across the back door that was torn to the ground and re-entered the desert garden. He turned the grass along the road and looked carefully.
After Mei Changsu whispered Xiao Jingrui about Cui Yuejun's general appearance, the three men also bowed their arms and helped them find out together.
Fei Liu dangled on a tall tree, and looked curiously at the scene he couldn't understand.
This return trip to the wasteland took nearly an hour longer than when it came. All the places I walked on in the impression were turned upside down, and there was a pile of garbage, but no shadow of jade.
In the end, everyone straightened up with a sore waist, and looked at a place at the same time.
The collapsed dry well among the barren grass.
"Won't it be so coincident?" Xie Bi said a little uncomfortably, "It's not easy to find if it falls into this well, even if there is no water, I am afraid there will be a thick layer of silt ..."
Xiao Jingrui frowned, pushed his second elbow with his elbow, turned to smile and patted Yujin's shoulder, and said with a relaxed tone: "It's just a dry well. If it's tight, I will go on. I will find it for you. come out!"
"Let me go down," Yan Yujin understood his kindness and returned a smile. "Anyway, my clothes are dirty. Why don't you drag you down again ..."
"Go," Xiao Jingrui gave him a punch with half-truth, "What is the clothes? The black below, my eyesight is better than you at night, let's say your younger master is not the most afraid of snakes? The snake is ... "
As soon as the words fell, he received four contempt glances from his brother and friends, and he was a little puzzled. Mei Changsu whispered beside him: "Jing Rui, it is winter now, and the snake is going to hibernate ..."
"........."
"Leave him alone," Xie Bi gave his brother a white glance. "I'm going to find a rope. No matter who goes down, I have to tie it up." He said he turned to go, but was stopped by Mei Changsu.
"Feiliu has gone to find him, he moves faster ..." Just explained, the figure of the teenager quickly swept over, and he was really holding a thick roll of twine.
Xiao Jingrui stretched out his hand and grabbed it, and tied one of his ends to his waist. He said that Yujin knew that he could not be seen like a blind man when he arrived in the dark, and he was not polite. He just reached out to help him check whether the knot was firmly tied. He said softly in his mouth: "Be careful."
"Huh." Xiao Jingrui promised, looking back and seeing Mei Changsu squatting on the ground to pull up the hay. He could not help but ask strangely, "Brother Su, what are you doing?"
"Take hay and wooden sticks as a small torch, you take it with you."
"No, I see things clearly at night. They all said that I looked like an owl."
Mei Changsu smiled and shook his head, "It's not for your lighting, this well looks not shallow, and the wellhead is covered by weeds, the airflow must be not smooth, there must be muddy air below, if you go down, the torch can't continue to burn , People ca n’t stay long, otherwise it is easy to suffocate. "
Yan Xie and the two were taken aback. They squatted down together to help pull the grass. Soon the simple torch was fastened. Mei Changsu found a small pair of flint from Fei Liu ’s body and lit the torch. Xiao Jingrui was in In his hand, he slowly hung from the wellhead.
Xie Bi and Yan Yujin held the rope tightly and lowered it little by little. Mei Changsu leaned over the wellhead, paying attention to the brightness of the flame at any time.
Since Cuiyue is a thing that can be worn on the belt, the volume will not be so big, so Xiao Jingrui went down for a long time, only to hear him keep calling down and down, it seems that he has nothing to gain.
"Stop, it's the end, the silt is really thick," Xiao Jingrui's voice came again from the well after a long while, and it was echoed by the wall covered with moss. It sounded a little deformed, "Not very easy to find, I will turn it over Just do, the grass on the torch is almost burned out, do n’t worry if you see the fire extinguishing ... "
"But ..." Yan Yujin bit his lower lip, and he was very disappointed in his heart. He wanted to say it again. He felt a heavy shoulder and a hand pressed up. Looking back, he met Mei Changsu with a smile. eye.
"Don't worry, the flame has been burning steady, it should be fine."
Looking at him with all his gaze, Yujin lowered his eyes and whispered: "Jing Rui ... This is the most clean person ..."
"It's just silt in the well, and it's not impossible to wash it away," Mei Changsu laughed. "He doesn't mind, what do you mind? That Tsuiyue is important to you, right?"
"Well," Yan Yujin nodded, "That's a family inheritance, my grandfather gave me before he died ..."
"So," Mei Changsu smiled slightly, "helping good friends find his most important things is also very important to Jing Rui."
Yan Yujin gave him a deep look, suddenly smiled, and screamed down at the wellhead: "Jing Rui-there is a rare opportunity to offer me diligence, you must work harder-"
"Go to death!" There was laughter and scolding underneath, "Wait until you come out and wipe your mud!"
Mei Changsu was a little amused by the two, but Xie Bi shook his head with a smile, the atmosphere relaxed for a while.
After about half a cup of tea, the following has been full of wordy, as if nothing was found.
"Jing Rui, come up if you can't find it, and it doesn't have to fall inside ..." Yan Yujin shouted.
"For a while ..." Xiao Jingrui's voice came from the urn, but the remnant did not fall, and the rope suddenly swayed, and at the same time he heard him exclaiming "ah" below.
"What's the matter?" Yan Yujin was shocked, leaned down half of his body and shouted, "Jing Rui! Jing Rui!"
There was a pause under the mine and there was a response: "Nothing ..."
"There's nothing you call scary?" Yan Yujin couldn't help but scolded and turned to Xie Bi, "Let's pull him up!"
"Don't panic," Xiao Jingrui hurriedly stopped, "There is no place to turn over, it will be fine soon ..."
Mei Changsu gently persuaded: "Don't worry, Jing Rui will say something.
Now that you are going, at least you need to be clear. "
Yan Yujin curled his eyebrows and sat down again at the wellhead. He pressed his temperament and waited for a while before he heard the following voice again: "Pull me up!"
It is naturally easier to go up than to go down. In the blink of an eye, Xiao Jingrui ’s head popped out, and the two hands were black as well as the mud that everyone expected.
Yan Yujin grabbed his hand silently and wiped it rudely with the inside of his shirt, but instead Xie Bi asked, "Are you looking for it?"
Xiao Jingrui raised another black hand, curled up his fingers, clenched his fists, and then slowly spread out, lying on his palm was a small crescent-shaped hard object covered with black mud.
"Yeah, it really fell here," Xie Bi drew a handkerchief from his sleeve, wiped Cui Yuezhu clean, and handed it to Yan Yujin. The latter glanced silently, reached out and took it back into his arms. .
"It's good to find it, two stupid ghosts, go back and take a shower!" Xie Bi sighed with relief and slapped a palm behind his back.
"Second brother," Xiao Jingrui turned his head, and his expression was solemn. "We'll go back to take a shower, but I'll trouble you to go to Jingzhao Yinyamen."
"Jingzhao Yamen? What?" Xie Bi didn't understand.
"Report.
I saw that in the mud ... someone's bones ... "
"Ah?" Everyone was taken aback, saying Yujin lost his voice: "You just called that just because you found the corpse?"
"Ok."
"Then don't you hurry up?"
"I saw green leaves on the other side of the dead leaves.
Cuiyuejun is so small, if I come out to make people corpse, it must be turned over somewhere, so I want to find it again, but fortunately it is really it. "
"Fool!" Yan Yujin gritted his teeth and scolded, "Smelly dead, go take a shower."
"The dry well hides the corpse ..." Xie Bi's face paled slightly. "It sounds weird. You are so brave. How long can you stay underneath ... For me I crawled out ..."
"Can you compare with Jing Rui? He is half a river and lake people anyway!" Yan Yujin immediately shifted the target again.
"Yes, I'm the most useless official in the officialdom!" Xie Bi laughed back at himself, shrugging, "Come on, Brother Su."
Xiao Jingrui stared at him strangely, "Where do you call Brother Su?"
"Go to Jingzhao Yamen to make a report!"
"Can you just go?"
Xie Bi raised her eyebrows, "Brother, this garden is now bought by Brother Su. Of course he is the most suitable person to report the case?"
"Xie Bi was right," Mei Changsu's eyes lightly swept across the wellhead in the barren grass. "I really should go."
Xiao Jingrui's thinking made sense, plus the smelly and sticky body was very uncomfortable.
A group of five people was divided into two teams, and after leaving the garden, they went their own way.