good season

Chapter 45: Voice from the Yandere (two chapters in one)

"Brother, will I come to Wanfu Temple to find you in the future? Besides Wanfu Temple and that grocery store, is there any other reliable place?" Zhao Shiqing asked.

Zhao Tinghan told them one by one: "Wanfu Temple is supported by the Liang Wang Mansion. There are 25 monks in the temple, all of whom are orphans adopted by the abbot. However, human nature is hard to be pitied. Even outside the mortal world, there are bound to be people who commit verbal sins. Therefore, my whereabouts here have never been made public.

If you want to deal with people in the future, just recognize these four people.

The first is Master Fangzhang. Although he is an outsider, he also has a family background. His ancestral home is in Liangdi. In the past, his father was framed by his biological mother and brothers for murder and the family property was seized. His mother and sister committed suicide due to humiliation. His grandfather was out on patrol. He was only thirteen years old that year. He stopped the street to file a complaint. His grandfather took the complaint and ordered people to go to the local area to re-investigate the case, severely punish the real murderer, and restore his father's innocence.

After he became a monk, he came to the capital and later became the abbot of Wanfu Temple, but he was always grateful to the Liang Palace.

Even without me, he would still help his father to be liberated.

The second is Master Tongjing, who is an orphan adopted by the abbot and the person the abbot trusts the most;

The third one is Master Tongda, the monk who was in charge of reception. When he was young, he was a member of the royal guard. The fourth one is Dengxin, now called Huideng. Although he was ordained, he did not receive the precepts and could only be considered a lay disciple.

In addition to the Wanfu Temple and that grocery store, there are five other stores in the capital that are owned by the Prince of Liang’s Mansion. I think you know about these five stores.”

Zhao Shiqing nodded. These five shops were acquired through a clear path. They were bought by his grandfather when his father came to the capital as a hostage. All the profits were used to give his father pocket money. Later, his eldest brother was taken as a hostage, so these five shops were given to him.

These five shops should have been on the Jinyiwei's small notebook for a long time. If there was any sign of trouble, the Jinyiwei would know it before the Liang Palace.

When Zhao Tinghan said this, he suddenly paused. Zhao Shiqing was so smart that she immediately saw a hint of embarrassment in her brother's eyes.

What happened, brother?
But without giving her time to daydream, Zhao Tinghan continued, "There is another person who is also trustworthy, but her identity is somewhat special. Don't involve her unless you have no other choice."

"Who is it?" Zhao Shiqing was curious.

Zhao Tinghan took a deep breath and said slowly, "She is Yuan Xiaotang, the daughter of Yuan Jiangcheng, the former doctor of the Ministry of Rites. She is now the widow of Lin Lu, the late master of Jiang Pingbo Mansion. She is temporarily living in Xiaohanzhuang, 30 miles outside the city. Xiaohanzhuang is my property."

Zhao Shiqing was completely petrified.

A widow is a widow. This widow of the Marquis Jiang Ping's mansion now lives in her brother's farm.

Please save the baby, the baby can’t understand.

"Brother, can you explain it in a more understandable way? I don't understand."

Zhao Tinghan felt a little regretful. It was right that his younger sister couldn't understand. He should have discussed this matter with his older sister. After all, he and his older sister were twins, boy and girl, and it would be easier for them to communicate with each other.

Instead of with my younger sister, who is still a child.

But once words are spoken, it is difficult to take them back, and my sister looks so eager to learn that it is obvious that if I don’t explain it clearly today, it will not work.

Zhao Tinghan hardened his heart and still went ahead to explain.

"Back then, the emperor sent the crown prince and Doctor Yuan to his hometown in Chu to worship his ancestors on his behalf. Lin Lu, the son of the Marquis of Jiangping, went with him as a royal guard. Unexpectedly, they encountered an assassin on the road. Lin Lu blocked the knife for the crown prince. When he was dying, the crown prince asked him what his wish was. He looked at Doctor Yuan and told the crown prince that he and Doctor Yuan's beloved daughter were in love and had decided to spend their lives together. He asked the crown prince to help them!"

Zhao Tinghan said the last two sentences with gritted teeth.

Zhao Shiqing was stunned: "Is he really in love with that Miss Yuan?"

Zhao Tinghan sneered: "He just has unrequited love. Jiang Pingbo's family is a noble family, and Yuan Langzhong is only a fifth-rank civil official. The two families are not in the same circle and have no friendship.

I was puzzled at first, but later I checked and found out that Lin Lu had met Xiaotang twice and wanted to propose to her, but was rejected by the wife of Marquis Jiang Ping, who believed that Xiaotang was of too low a birth and was not worthy of being the Crown Prince's wife.

Later, when he was drunk, Lin Lu told others that his mother had agreed that as long as he married a wife, she would allow him to take Xiaotang as a concubine.

How could Xiaotang fall in love with such a pervert and secretly get engaged to him?"

Zhao Shiqing understood. Not to mention that the two of them had no such relationship at all, even if they did, she would ask the prince to fulfill her relationship before she died. This was either treachery or evil.

"Then what? Did the Yuan family agree?" Zhao Shiqing asked.

Zhao Tinghan sneered: "The Yuan family naturally disagrees, but the prince believes it to be true, and so do the others present. It is said that when a person is about to die, his words are good. Moreover, when Lin Lu said this when he was about to die, the prince did not think much about it and agreed immediately.

The prince is the king, and the king does not joke.

After returning to the capital, Lin Lu's remarks became widely known, and it was obviously the work of the Jiang Ping Marquis's mansion.

Doctor Yuan did not agree with this marriage, but the Jiang Pingbo Mansion asked the emperor to grant the marriage. Lin Lu was seriously injured while saving the prince, so the emperor had no reason not to arrange the marriage.

So Xiaotang had no choice but to marry according to the emperor's order. Lin Lu's younger brother Lin Feng married her on behalf of his brother. Lin Lu was supported by others to marry Xiaotang, but he died just after being sent to the bridal chamber, and the wedding banquet turned into a funeral banquet.

Xiaotang wanted to return home and asked her father and brother to help her, but Lord Yuan was a pedantic person. He believed that since she was married, she would be a member of the Lin family both in life and in death. Even if she died, she would die in the Lin family. He even wanted Xiaotang to commit suicide for her.

Xiaotang had a falling out with her parents' home and never went back.

A year later, Lord Yuan was demoted and his family left the capital, and he ignored his daughter Xiaotang.

Last year, Jiang Pingbo wanted to get his hands on Xiaotang, but was stabbed by Xiaotang. Although he did not die, he was disabled.

Xiaotang took advantage of the chaos to escape. With nowhere to go, she hid in Wanfu Temple. When I learned about this, I secretly sent Xiaotang to the manor. She has lived in the manor for a whole year.

Zhao Tinghan finished speaking in one breath and saw his little sister opening her mouth wide, stunned.

He stretched out his hand and waved it in front of Zhao Shiqing's eyes: "What's wrong?"

Zhao Shiqing: "Are you done? It seems like you missed one thing."

"What's the matter?" Zhao Tinghan was puzzled.

Zhao Shiqing grinned wickedly. When she smiled, her eyes narrowed into a line, her little nose wrinkled slightly, and her smile was so obscene that Zhao Tinghan couldn't look at it directly. How could his own delicate little sister smile like this?

"You didn't tell me that you like Miss Xiaotang. Don't think I don't know if you don't tell me."

The secret that had been hidden in his heart for many years was forcibly revealed and exposed to the sun without any cover. Zhao Tinghan felt embarrassed for a moment, but soon felt relieved.

"Yes, I liked her. When I first met her, I was seven and she was ten. I ran away from the palace and was targeted by a group of beggars. She rushed over and helped me drive away the group of people. She was very strong and powerful. She protected me behind her and didn't let the beggars get close to me. The second time I saw her was in Wanfu Temple. She was thirteen and I was ten. She was framed by her stepmother and sister. After she testified, she was still scolded by her father. She sat on the stone steps in front, in a daze. She heard my cough and asked me to wait a moment, then she ran away. After a while, she ran back with two pears and asked me to eat one of the pears. The pear was very big, and she broke it open with a little force.

The third time I saw her was at Wanfu Temple. At that time, the news that she and Lin Lu had secretly engaged to each other had spread everywhere. She was fifteen years old and I was twelve. She asked my name for the first time.

Zhao Tinghan didn't say anything else. He had already said too much today, and it was the first time he and the little sister met.

But he didn't know why, he just wanted to talk. It might be because he hadn't seen his relatives for a long time, or maybe it was because Zhao Shiqing had this kind of approachable trait.

After leaving Wanfu Temple, Zhao Shiqing began to think about how to let his elder brother return to Liangdi openly.

In fact, her original idea was very simple. Wouldn't it be enough to hide her elder brother, avoid investigation and leave the capital?

But on second thought, she couldn't do that, and things were not that simple.

It is indeed easy to sneak out of Beijing, but what should I do afterwards?
The eldest brother is not an ordinary person, he is a hostage, and he is also the lord of Liang.

If he returned to Liang without the emperor's permission, it would be tantamount to treason.

At least for now, the Prince Liang's Mansion has neither the intention nor the ability to rebel.

She wanted her eldest brother to return to Liang with dignity, take over the Liang Palace, and become the next King of Liang.

On the way to the capital, Zhao Shiqing thought of several methods, but when she saw the real Zhao Tinghan, she knew that these methods were all ineffective and she had to start over again.

Instead of hiding away and thinking hard, she wandered around like a street kid.

As she was walking, she was suddenly bumped into by someone. The person was carrying a large book box, and when he turned around, the box hit her.

The man was dressed like a scholar. When he saw that he had bumped into someone, he apologized quickly. Zhao Shiqing didn't care and just waved and let him go.

However, Zhao Shiqing also discovered that there were suddenly many more such scholars around, and they were all heading in the same direction.

The first time she came to the capital, she just wandered around aimlessly. This was the advantage of the capital: there were many people and it was lively, and kidnappers did not dare to kidnap people openly. Besides, if she got lost, she could just ask a sedan chair to take her back to Youxiyingmen.

She didn't know where she was, but when she saw so many people reading walking in the same direction, she became interested and followed the big book box in front.

She soon knew where this place was.

Kuixing Tower!
In August, candidates from all counties and prefectures under Zhili Prefecture will come to Beijing to take part in the provincial examination. There are still three months before the provincial examination, but some candidates from other places have already come to Beijing in advance to prepare for the examination.

The first thing these scholars did when they arrived in the capital was to go to the Kuixing Tower to worship Kuixing and pray to Kuixing for blessings in passing the imperial examinations.

Zhao Shiqing was staring at the Kuixing Tower not far away in a daze, when she was suddenly bumped into again. She turned around and saw that it was a scholar in a blue shirt who bumped into her and ran away without even saying "sorry".

Zhao Shiqing frowned, as if something was wrong.

She lowered her head and found that the purse hanging on her waist had been taken away.

Damn scholar, he is just a thief.

Zhao Shiqing didn't want to indulge him, so she chased after him and grabbed the man's shoulders, but the next moment, the man slipped away from her hands like a loach.

Zhao Shiqing chased and dunked again, but the man slipped and slid away again.

Zhao Shiqing raised his leg and kicked the man to the ground. The man screamed, "Someone is hitting me, someone is hitting me, help me!"

There are scholars everywhere around. Although scholars look down on each other, it depends on the situation. For example, now, when they see someone bullying their peers in the street, these scholars get angry.

"She's a girl, beating people in the street, shameless."

Zhao Shiqing was too lazy to pay attention to these people. He bent down and took out a purse from the man's arms. The man shouted, "Someone is robbing me! Someone is robbing me!"

The scholars said: "In broad daylight, under the feet of the emperor, they are robbing in public. Go report to the police, report to the police quickly!"

Zhao Shiqing curled her lips, what a bunch of guys who can only chatter.

She raised one foot and stepped on the man, then took the purse in her hand. The purse was bulging and it was obvious that there was a lot of money in it.

She said to everyone, "This purse is mine. It contains dried fish and a stone ball the size of a pigeon egg. I said this man stole it from me. Do you believe me?"

Everyone saw with their own eyes that the purse was found from that person, so it should have belonged to that person. Besides, which normal person would put dried fish and stone balls in a purse? Isn't this nonsense?

In fact, it was just that their noses were not sensitive enough. If it were Zhao Shiqing herself, she could smell the scent of dried fish even though she was five or six steps away.

Seeing that these people did not believe him, Zhao Shiqing opened his purse, grabbed a handful of dried fish, and then took out a stone ball.

Let's go and worship Kuixing and stop meddling in other people's business.

Everyone dispersed, but the thief was still stepped on by Zhao Shiqing. This time his scapula was stepped on, and the loach function was useless. He could only lie on the ground and say nice things.

He cursed in his heart, what kind of good person would put dried fish and stone balls in his purse? Isn't this cheating?
I thought this in my heart, but what I said out loud was: "Girl, sister, elder sister, please forgive me this time. I have an 80-year-old mother at home. If I don't take the money back, she will starve to death."

The man was lying on the ground with his face touching the ground, with only half of his profile exposed.

"You are only in your teens, your mother is quite capable, she was able to give birth to a big kid like you when she was in her sixties or seventies."

That guy is screwed, it won't work this time.

"Big sister, you see I didn't steal your money, and you didn't suffer any loss, so let me go today, and we can be considered as friends after fighting, is that ok?"

Before Zhao Shiqing could say anything, a childish voice came from behind him: "Hey, isn't this Loach? You don't want to sing opera anymore, but play the role of a scholar instead?"

Zhao Shiqing looked in the direction of the voice and saw a boy who looked more like a street urchin than her. His face was pitch black, and she couldn't tell if it was because he was dirty or just naturally dark. The whites of his eyes looked whiter and the blacks of his eyes looked darker. When he grinned, his teeth were glowingly white.

(This is a 4000-word chapter with two chapters combined, and there will be an additional chapter later)
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