The sun is getting better and better, and by the end of the day, the sun is scorching hot.
After Xia Zhaoyi left the house, she walked slowly along the long street, looking at the neighbors who had survived due to "house raids" everywhere.
The crowd was chattering excitedly, chatting excitedly about where they had been raided and who had been taken away by the officials.
The Tianrong Guard, which was once powerful and frightening in the world, was reduced to ashes overnight.
Arriving at Bi Mansion unknowingly, Xia Zhaoyi looked up at the splendid lintel. Although the white silk and white flags hung high, the glazed tiles and the vermilion painted door were still shining under the sun.
Shi Guoxin stepped forward to hand over a greeting card, but the servant who came out did not accept it. He only said: "The whole world is in great mourning, and everyone in the family mourns with us. Please wait until the fasting is over on the 27th before you come back."
Shi Guoxin came back: "Second Miss, you don't want to entertain guests."
Xia Zhaoyi said: "Then let's go."
Shi Guoxin was stunned and followed her: "Second Miss, are we leaving now?"
"Yes," Xia Zhaoyi smiled faintly, "Other than close relatives and friends, who can open the door to the mansions of these wealthy families who are in mourning at this time?"
"Then, why do we still come to hand over this greeting card?"
"In order to let them know that we have been looking for them, Hejing will be turned upside down a few days later. This unaccepted greeting card is their reassurance."
Shi Guoxin didn't understand very well, so he nodded vaguely and followed.
After that, Xia Zhaoyi went to Du Mansion and examined the injuries for Dr. Du. After setting the bones and changing the dressings, he also read the medical records of Li Ju left by Du Wenping, and rewrote several prescriptions and acupuncture points.
When she came out again, she took Shi Guoxin to Guanjia Zeng's rice noodle shop.
The front hall of the rice noodle shop was closed. She walked around and went in, only to see that the back yard was extremely lively, with ten or twenty people standing there.
She is dressed in a heroic attire, wearing a black shirt and is indifferent to male and female. With her clear and bright skin and delicate facial features, she attracted countless gazes.
She responded with a lazy glance or a slight nod to those who looked at her. She was neither humble nor overbearing, generous and polite, making more people curious about her identity.
Butler Zeng was talking to someone. When he saw Xia Zhaoyi, he was about to come over, but Xia Zhaoyi gave him a look that said no.
Butler Zeng then continued the conversation.
Butler Zeng was from Hengxiang, but with his very smooth Xizhou accent and his understanding of local customs, no one had doubted his origins.
Xia Zhaoyi stood beside the crowd and looked at these twenty people. They all had Mingtai County accents.
It can be heard from the content of the speech that it is related to the spring tax arrears.
Butler Zeng's business was very big, and they were all suppliers. They thought that Butler Zeng could open such a large shop in Hejing, and he had some connections, so they came to ask Butler Zeng for help.
Xia Zhaoyi listened for a while and realized that these people were not the first group to come to Beijing. There were also a large number of farmers, tenants, and small merchants. Many people had been to Hejing a while ago.
One of them, a gray-haired old man, kept wiping his tears and knelt down after talking to Butler Zeng.
Butler Zeng sighed: "Since those people came to Hejing and returned without success, then you know that I, a small commoner, can't help you."
The old man howled: "Master Zeng, we are at the end of our rope!!!"
"Yes, they are going to kill us!"
"Please help us!"
Xia Zhaoyi suddenly said in a crisp voice: "I heard that at the beginning of spring, a princess from the palace went to Mingtai County to buy shops and land. She bought and sold by force, and the price was low and the price was high. Didn't you drive her away at that time?
?Later, the imperial court sent Meng Xiaochuan, the crown prince of Xuanping Hou, to comfort him. It seems that it is better not to comfort him."
Ultramarine was furious, and one person said: "He's not here to comfort him, he's just a court hawk, he's here to catch people!"
Xia Zhaoyi asked: "Who to arrest?"
"Who else could it be? The six men who first attacked the officers and soldiers that day, and the two men who came out later to take the lead in accusing the princess."
"Caught?"
Everyone shook their heads.
Xia Zhaoyi said: "Is Meng Xiaochuan still in Xucheng now?"
The white-haired old man cried loudly: "He is useless here. Xu Cheng is in complete chaos!"
As soon as he opened his mouth, the others were also filled with grief and anger. Their bitterness seemed to have another place to pour out, and they all began to cry to Xia Zhaoyi.
Xia Zhaoyi's pretty face was calm and she listened quietly.
In fact, she had known this for a long time, but what she got from the letters from her subordinates was just cold words and numbers, which were not as touching as the cries of the tearful old man in front of her.
In the end, she only had one feeling in her heart. She was too gentle in her attack on Yang Ping that day.
After staying in the house for a long time, she felt deeply depressed. Xia Zhaoyi found an excuse to go out for some fresh air and sat down on a low stone pier in the lane outside the backyard.
The cool wind blew through the seats, and the back alleys were filled with the clothes and trousers of the neighbors, fluttering and fluttering.
Xia Zhaoyi looked at them solemnly, as if his heart was blocked by a big stone.
She used to be a very cold person.
Accompanying the mountains, singing with the wind, seeing flowers, birds, insects, fish, the sun, moon and stars.
During the five years that Master asked her to join the world, she seemed to be becoming more and more "secular" and more and more sympathetic to the joys, sorrows and joys of the world.
In fact, this is also Master’s intention.
She and her master lived in seclusion in the mountains and were always bystanders. Occasionally, they would reach out to help those in need, but the sufferings far away had nothing to do with them. Whether the people were prospering or declining, how could they have such long hands?
Stretch out.
But now, she has become a participant, because her hatred for Li Zhi is destined to overthrow the Li Qian royal family.
But once the royal family is overthrown, the world will be in chaos and all souls will be in ruins.
Therefore, Master spent five years asking her to enter the world.
Master is a responsible person, so since she was a child, she did not like others being implicated or influenced by her.
Now, since she wants to overthrow the dynasty, she must also be responsible for the people who are affected by the overthrow of the dynasty.
The master wrote three words "Life is difficult for the common people" on the night before she left. In those five years, it was not to let Li Ju live five more years, but to let her grow for another five years, until she was calm and strong enough to take up the world on her shoulders.
burden.
It is difficult to kill Li Juyi and save the troubled times.
At this time, an old man with a stooped back came staggering from the front, looked around from behind, and asked Xia Zhaoyi: "This young master, is this the backyard of Qianjin Rice Noodle Shop?"
Xia Zhaoyi looked him up and down, her eyes falling on his shoes.
With such a hunched posture to the right, the bottoms of both shoes are in good condition, with no trace of wear.
She calmly looked away and said, "This is it."
"Oh, these few rooms are all their backyards."
"What's the matter with you?" Xia Zhaoyi asked.
The old man smiled: "Nothing, nothing."
He turned around and walked towards the rice noodle shop. Suddenly his eyes hardened, he turned around and kicked her towards her.
After kicking her to the ground, he immediately pulled out the dagger and wiped it hard towards her throat.
