Winter of the thirty-fifth year of the Dali calendar.

In the Chu Dynasty calendar, on the fifteenth day of the winter lunar month, there was snow.

In the early morning, the streets of Kyoto Prefecture are covered with a very thin layer of velvet, and the shiny silver embellishes the streets of Kyoto Prefecture like works of art.

No one knows what happened in Alley 47 of East Street yesterday. They only know that when they woke up early in the morning, people were standing in front of the mansion facing the street. The governor of Kyoto mobilized dozens of soldiers.

The mansion was surrounded to prevent any extremely curious guy from running inside.

Xu San got up early today reluctantly. He originally thought that it snowed last night, so his tofu shop would be able to open later and he could sleep in, but he was stopped by the one at his home.

The mother-in-law kicked her out of her dream. So Xu San, who was still grinding tofu with Tofu Xishi in his dream, put on his clothes with an unhappy look on his face, and then prepared to go to the water shop in Alley 47, Kyoto East Street.

Fetching water from the house and filling up his own water tank can ensure that his tofu shop can be used for one day. This is what he does every day and what he must do every day.

What Xu San didn't expect was that when he walked to the 47th lane of East Street, he saw the big house at the entrance of the lane. It was surrounded by people. He didn't know what happened. That is,

Xu San's eyesight was better, and he could vaguely see a few people wearing soldiers' armor through the cracks in the crowd.

Xu San rubbed his groggy eyes and shook the pole carrying the bucket on his shoulder to make sure that he was not in a dream. Then he whispered to himself: "Hey, what big thing happened? How can we connect?"

All the government soldiers are dispatched."

Xu San carried a pole on his shoulders, and the buckets on both sides swayed as he walked, like two childish children playing.

He knew that house. His family lived in Nanluo Lane, East Street, two lanes away from Lane 47. This house happened to be at the entrance of Lane 47, but the water house was at the end of the lane.

, so every time I came to the water house to fetch water in the morning, I would pass by here. This house is really big. When Xu San himself was chatting with others, he heard others say that one of the rooms in this house has his own tofu.

The square is so big. So every time Xu San walks by here

Sometimes, I always look inside unconsciously, always wanting to see what kind of person the owner of the house with his own tofu shop is like, what does this person do for a living, and what can he buy?

Such a big house.

After all, he didn't know what the owner of the house did for a living, but when he went to the water house to fetch water every day, he could always see a carriage coming to pick up people from inside.

The horses pulling the cart were very handsome, even better than the horses he saw next to the stable when he accompanied his father to deliver tofu to the general's mansion when he was young, so Xu San took it for granted that this house

The owner of the house has some relationship with those noble people that he can't reach in eight lifetimes. It's just that the noble people live in the alleys of Kyoto Prefecture's West Street. Why do their families have to live in the East Street? And then, Xu San, who is not smart enough,

In his mind, he came up with what he thought was a reasonable explanation for this unreasonable matter - this was the illegitimate child raised by a certain nobleman on West Street. After all, the person he met back then must have been a child. Look.

He looks like he is only ten years old, and does not look like a concubine for a noble lady, so the identity of this illegitimate child is reasonable. Such things are still common in Kyoto Prefecture, just like the house in the west courtyard of my house

The woman who lived there was a woman raised by a certain nobleman, but later she was discovered by the nobleman's big house, and there was a quarrel here.

If this woman can be raised here, then the child can also be raised here. Xu San thought.

Everyone has curiosity, and Xu San is the same. Originally, he only had to walk through here with peace of mind, reach the water house at the end of the alley, and then pick up two buckets of water and go home. But when he walked past the house, Xu San

San still couldn't hold back his curiosity and took a look inside, and then Xu San joined the large group of people watching the fun.

"Fifth Aunt, what's going on? There's such a big commotion." Xu San happened to see the fifth Aunt selling vegetables here, so he asked.

"I heard that there are dead people. This morning, Uncle Liu, the water delivery man, found out when he came to deliver water. I heard that there are dead people all over the yard." The fifth aunt said to Xu San with a click of her tongue.

At first, when Xu San heard about Uncle Liu delivering the water, he couldn't help but think of his own guesses, and thought to himself: "A noble person is a noble person, and water is given by others.

"

"Xu San, look! Look!" The fifth aunt seemed a little excited, "It's been carried out! It's been carried out! Another one has been carried out."

Xu San was stunned for a moment, then looked in the direction of the fifth aunt's finger, and saw two soldiers in armor walking out of the house with an air of dignity.

Unsurprisingly, what was on the shelf was the corpse that Fifth Aunt mentioned.

Seeing this scene, Xu San thought to himself that some nobleman's eldest brother should have discovered this matter, but this eldest brother was too ruthless and killed him directly. Thinking of this, Xu San couldn't help but feel sorry for this.

I regretted the consequences after being discovered by the "big house", and then I thought that I could still live a comfortable life in my little life. I didn't have the troubles of "big house" and "second house" at home, and I didn't have to worry about messing with the "big house" one day.

He got angry and was killed by someone. The most he encountered was being kicked out of his sleep by his own mother-in-law, but there was no danger to his life.

"This is the fifth one." Fifth Aunt said to Xu San in a low voice.

In fact, this is just the first one that Fifth Aunt has seen, but the nature of people's rumors has been deeply rooted in their bones and cannot be changed. If they hear the rumors there, then they are true, and naturally "one" will become "one".

Five".

Xu San doesn't care whether one or five people are carried out. In his opinion, no matter how many people are carried out, it will become an imaginary number without substance when talking with others in the future. He will tell the next door

Wang Er, in which house on a certain day, many people died, not just one person, or five people. Maybe then he will use the few words he knows to highlight the difference between himself and the other party.

temperament.

Thinking of this, Xu San felt that there was not much point in standing around outside the house. After all, he already had the material to brag in front of Wang Er next door, and nothing else mattered. So he got up.

Then he hung up the buckets on both sides of the pole and wandered towards the water house at the end of Forty-Seven Alley. At this time, Xu San had already thought about how he was going to get back home soon.
Chapter completed!