Ye Chengguan didn't see anything strange in the shopkeeper's eyes. Instead, he was worried that he would ruin his business, so he ordered in a cold voice: "Go down."
The shopkeeper watched helplessly as the fair-faced boy changed the porridge bowls under his nose. He wanted to explain something with a grimace, but after seeing Hua Rujin's intimidating eyes, he immediately stopped thinking.
I didn't understand what the pair of cut-sleeves were playing, so I had to retreat obediently.
Hua Rujin picked up the porridge with satisfaction and drank it by herself.
Seeing Ye Chengguan turn around, she put some green vegetables into his bowl and said with a smile: "This porridge is so fragrant. Mr. Ye, you should hurry up and use some."
Ye Chenggui nodded with a smile, then calmly picked up the porridge and drank it slowly.
The two of them looked at each other, but after a long time, Ye Chengguan didn't notice anything strange about this girl.
This made him look anxious.
"What's wrong with Miss Hua?"
Ye Chengguan asked with a frown.
"I?"
Hua Rujin shook her head blankly: "No, I have eaten well and slept soundly. My whole body feels refreshed."
"wrong."
There was confusion on Ye Chengguan's face:
Could it be that the Mongolian sweat medicine has expired?
Or maybe you put in too little?
"Mr. Ye, what's wrong with you?"
Hua Rujin smiled evilly: "Why do you ask such a strange question?"
"Oh, it's okay."
Ye Chengguan pursed his lips and smiled bitterly.
"Are you really okay?"
Hua Rujin raised her eyes and stared at him closely.
"really."
Before Ye Chengguan finished speaking, his vision went dark, his vision was shaky, and he fell weakly on the table.
"Ahem, after all, it's Mr. Ye who has shouldered everything on your own."
Hua Rujin stood up unhurriedly and yelled at the shopkeeper who was hiding in the corner: "Get out of here quickly."
The shopkeeper tiptoed forward and begged for mercy: "Sir, this is no small matter. It was your sweetheart who forced me to take the Mongolian sweat medicine."
"What's your crush?"
Hua Rujin felt helpless at his address, and asked with a livid face: "What else did Young Master Ye tell you?"
The store owner was about to answer when he suddenly saw the waiter leading a young man in a blue gown rushing in.
Hua Rujin took a closer look and saw that it was her elegant cousin.
Behind him were the old beggar and the boy Ah Si.
Looking at the situation in front of them, several people looked startled.
"Cousin, are you okay?"
Shu Jinxuan called her and came up to check. He stared at Ye Chengguan, who was lying motionless on the table, and was very puzzled: "Master Ye, what's going on?"
"Oh, he worked too hard these days. He was so tired that he fell asleep right after breakfast."
Hua Rujin understood everything immediately.
It seemed that just as he expected, he wanted to use the Mongolian sweat medicine to numb himself and then ask his cousin to take him back to Jiangling City.
"The store owner, you haven't helped Mr. Ye back to his room to rest."
Hua Rujin didn't want her elegant cousin to know too much, so she hurriedly urged the shopkeeper, took out a tael of silver and handed it to him, and said in a deep voice: "Take good care of Young Master Ye, if anything happens to him,
I will demolish this shabby store of yours."
"sure."
The shopkeeper has already realized that these tourists in the house are not easy to mess with, and maybe the person who was fucked is an official of the imperial court.
After watching the store owner and the waiter carry Ye Chengguan back to the guest room, Hua Rujin felt at ease to greet her elegant cousin and the old beggar.
"Master, cousin, I would like to ask you to accompany me into the mountains."
Hua Rujin expresses her thoughts directly.
The old beggar guessed that this girl must have found some clues. He was also afraid that the Shu family would inquire about his apprentice's whereabouts, so he quickly pulled him and ran out: "It's just in time. The autumn weather is refreshing. Let's go to the mountains to collect some game and bring it back to the old beggar.
liquor."
Shu Jinxuan was like a two-foot-tall monk at this moment, completely confused.
Didn't my cousin go to the inspection department with Ye Chengguan yesterday? Why did they stay alone in the country inn?
Moreover, he did not believe that Ye Chengkui fell asleep due to overwork.
It looked like someone had drugged him to death.
Could it be that my cousin did it?
Shu Jinxuan walked out and turned to look at the flowers.
He really couldn't think of any way this girl could scheme against the always shrewd and capable number one scholar.
After getting on the carriage, Shu Jinxuan thought about leaving Ye Chengguan alone in the inn. He always felt uneasy and hurriedly asked: "Cousin, since we are going into the mountains, why don't we let the magistrate go with us?
Then he will definitely blame everyone when he wakes up."
"The magistrate has so many things to do all day long, how can he have time to accompany us to the mountains?"
Hua Rujin chuckled disapprovingly and said, "Let him stay here."
Anyway, he was the one who plotted against himself first, and he couldn't hold himself accountable.
"Girl, what you said makes sense. Let's go with a pedantic scholar. We don't have the time to travel around."
The old beggar had already seen the clues of the matter and did not expose it. He deliberately approached Hua Rujin and changed the subject: "Girl, the Baitou Mountain is very big. I heard that there are people from Jiang Fang's mansion patrolling the mountain. You
Have you figured out how to get into the mountain?"
"It's not difficult."
Seeing that neither of them paid much attention to Ye Chengguan, Shu Jinxuan stopped insisting on this matter and said instead: "Although Jiang'an County is a small county, the Chujiang Temple in Baitou Mountain is far and near.
To be famous, we just need to pretend to be pilgrims who go to offer incense and pray."
"That's a good idea."
Hua Rujin nodded in agreement.
So, I bought some joss sticks in a nearby town and hurried into the mountains.
Just when we arrived at the foot of the mountain, we encountered groups of officers and soldiers patrolling here. After asking about it, we learned that because a sacrifice was going to be held in the next few days, all the mountain roads to the Chujiang Temple were closed.
The old beggar sat in the carriage and rubbed his hands anxiously: "According to this situation, let alone entering the mountains, even getting close to the Chujiang Temple will be a problem."
At this moment, Hua Rujin finally understood Ye Chenggui's painstaking efforts.
Everything related to this case is met with obstacles.
Seeing that it would be the Mid-Autumn Festival in two days, she began to feel increasingly anxious and uneasy.
"Not in a hurry."
Hua Rujin tried her best to comfort herself, and also tried her best to comfort the two of them: "Since the right path doesn't work, then let's take the wrong path."
She was not interested in the Chujiang Temple. What was urgent now was to find out the connection between Mount Paektu and the Chujiang River.
If the changes in the water quality of the Chu River are indeed related to Mount Paektu, it would not be deep in the mountains, but along the river.
After thinking carefully, she said to the old beggar and Shu Jinxuan: "Master, cousin, why don't we ask around along the way to see if there are any other important buildings in this mountain besides the temple."
"Baektou Mountain stretches for hundreds of miles. Apart from Captain Jiang Fang's station, the rest are probably just some scattered hunters."
Shu Jinxuan frowned slightly, wondering why his cousin insisted on asking about things in the mountains.
"Then let's go look for the hunters in the mountains."
Hua Rujin made up her mind, and abandoned the carriage with Shu Jinxuan and the old beggar, and walked into the mountains from a hidden jungle on the river bank.