The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty. 《成化十四年》Chengnian Shisi Nian
The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty, Chapter 7: The extra Ingredient
The intuition of the person’s danger is profound and mysterious, and to describe the feeling with the brush and ink will be difficult. Just now, Tang Fan still felt uncomfortable. As a result, he immediately verified his hunch. The danger was imminent, and from the strength of his neck, the other party was to kill himself!
His eyes opened wide and saw a white and a hooded figure in front of him. Although he was very close, he could not see what the other party looked like, because that face was still wearing a white mask.
With the pain in the neck, the ears were sobbing and complaining, and the sound of murmurs coming intermittent, as if someone was calling the soul, but it was vague, and only vaguely could hear the "unjust soul" and "the divine fox". Kind of words.
Tang Fan has read the book of sages since childhood, and what was written there made him respect and stay far away to the ghosts and gods and other supernatural beings. In this situation, he can only make four words appear in his mind: Pretend to be ghost!
Regardless of whether the other party is a real ghost or a fake ghost, he is prepared and immensely powerful, but Tang Fan was suddenly attacked, caught off guard, and soon got stuck and cannot breathe.
In just a few short breaths, he was struggling to no avail, but he was in his way final roll of his eyes and passing out.
At this moment, the sound of the sword sheathing came out of the air!
The pressure on Tang Fan's neck lightened, and he held the wall in one hand and touched the wound that had been strangled with one hand, and couldn't help coughing violently.
The white shadow fluttered suddenly over there, but the man with the white mask directly fought with a black shadow.
Someone grabbed Tang Fan’s arm and pulled him up.
“Master Tang's mouth is very sharp, why is he so badly armed?"
Tang Fan raised his eyes and looked closely, yo, that is still an acquaintance ‘face!
It wasn’t the Jinyiwei General Northern Administrative Court Zongqi, Sui Zhou, who met in the Huichun Hall two days ago.
Sui Zhou’s tone is like that of his people. Cold and unfeeling has no feelings, but Tang Fan can still hear a trace of sarcasm from this icy remark, and can't help smile bitterly.
The reason why Sui Zhou and he did not deal with it was not all because of the issue of the Marquis of Wu’an Mansion.
The Jinyiwei have always been unhappy with the Shuntian Prefecture. This history has to be traced back to Jinyiwei’s functions.
In short grudges had ended for a long time, a long story, we do not need to talk about it, the moment Tang Fan coughed quite a few times, he did not argue with him for nothing, with a hoarse voice he asked:? "He is who, why the attack on me? And why did Master Sui and appeared here?"
Sui Zhou said coldly: "It's just the aftermath of ’Demon Fox Case’, just normal pretending to be supernatural."
Between the words, the man in white had been captured by a Jinyiwei under Sui Zhou, and the white mask on his face was also pulled, revealing an ordinary, panic-looking face below.
With the lantern lighting, Tang Fan noticed a shallow lotus on the white mask.
"The White Lotus Sect?" He was stunned for a moment, combined with what Sui Zhou said just now, and it quickly responded, "Could it be that the ’Demon Fox Case’ two years ago was related to the White Lotus Sect?"
Sui Zhou: “Master Tang has also seen the emblem of the White Lotus Sect?"
Tang Fan: "Yes, I passed by Qinzhou when I was a teenager. I happened to meet a man in the mansion there and a captured White Lotus. The emblem on his body was similar to that on this mask. But why did this white lotus attack me?"
Sui Zhou did not speak, but Jinyiwei, who carried the lantern beside him, said: "Since the ’Demon Fox Case’, the demon Taoist Li Zilong issue has been going around. In the footsteps of last month, they would attack an example was a drunk man who walked the night. He was almost killed by this group of people who thought he was the Demon Fox. Perhaps it is because Master Tang did not wear an official uniform, so he became the target of their start. Don’t come out so late in the future. "
Tang Fan smiled at him: "Thank you for telling... cough cough cough!"
Although he was held in a choke hold throat for a short period of time, but because the other party exerted too much force, his throat is now hurting fiercely, and it is difficult to speak.
Seeing that he was fine, Sui Zhou greeted his men to take the White Lotus believer and turned to leave.
Regardless of the pain in his throat, Tang Fan quickly stopped him: “General Sui Zhou stay!"
Sui Zhou coldly reviewed: “Master Tang does not go to the wounds, what else?"
Tang Fan: “The Marquis of Wu’an Mansion is a murder case, and the joint benefits are both involved benefits. Please I also ask the General Sui Zhou to reconsider!"
Sui Zhou was unimpressed: "Where is the benefit?"
Tang Fan coughed: "The Northern City Administrative Court has the body of Zheng Cheng, and I know what happened to the pills that Zheng Cheng took before his death!"
Sui Zhou finally turned around.
Tang Fan said dumbly: "The medicine in the pill is indeed different from the formula of Fuyangchun. I have found an expert to restore the medicine in the pill. There is a lot of trouble here. If the General Sui Zhou intends to cooperate, I wish to tell the truth. "
Sui Zhou stared at him for a moment and finally said: "I will find you tomorrow."
Seeing that the cooperation is promising, Tang Fan finally breathed a sigh of relief: "Tomorrow I will rest, you come to my house, the first one in the Liuye Alley in the Dingfu Street, in the north of the city."
Sui Zhou nodded slightly, turned around and walked away. He was really a shy of words, and he didn't want to talk more about nonsense.
Looking at the backs of several people hiding in the dark, Tang Fan shook his head, touched his throat, and smiled bitterly: I wonder if I can talk tomorrow?
As if to prove his worries, the next day, Tang Fan’s throat hurt so much worse than yesterday. Taking a look in front of the bronze mirror, it seems that he can still see the blue and purple pinch marks on his neck. And they hurt so much.
Because of the appointment with Sui Zhou, Tang Fan did not go out to buy medicine, but just cooked some millet porridge by himself, and ate it with pickles from his hometown sister, which was crisp and refreshing.
Tang Fan rented this single-family yard on Dingfu Street after he became an official in the capital. The house was originally next door to the Li Family. The ancestor of the Li Family bought the big house in Liuye Alley It turned out that one of the yards was once housed by a concubine of the Li Family who hanged herself. The host thought it was unlucky, so he divided the yard into a small house and rented it out separately because it was a "bad house". It was not spacious, and the price was relatively cheap, so it was rented by Tang Fan.
It is said that it is not cheap to live in the Imperial capital. The Dingfu Street is in a good location. Most of the people live in the city. The house is of course more expensive thing for them. If the house wasn’t rented cheap because it was thought to be haunted, Tang Fan can’t afford to rent it.
However, he has lived here for more than two years, and he has not encountered any weird and strange things. It is nothing but that the light is not transparent enough during the daytime, and it seems a bit eerie, and the rumor has become it was a "haunted house", which turned out to be cheaper for Tang Fan.
The next generation of the Li Family’s Master is doing business in the field, but the family has not followed with noble title. The family is still one of the old families. After two years, the relationship with Tang Fan is also good, and they have contacts with each other.
Right now Tang Fan has just eaten by a half, and someone knocked outside.
He thought it was Sui Zhou and got up to open the door, but there was a little girl standing outside.
"A-Xia?"
As soon as he opened his mouth, the hoarse and unpleasant voice startled and scared the little girl. The other party saw the blue and purple pinch marks on his neck, and exclaimed, “Master Tang, what's wrong with you? Could it be that something unclean last night...? "
The little maid's imagination was really rich, and she immediately thought of the haunted house. Tang Fan shook his head, gestured, and asked her what was wrong.
A-Xia was frightened and raised the basket timidly in her hands: "The lady of the house asked me to send you some fruit, which was grown by us and just picked."
Tang Fan nodded and smiled, whispering in a hoarse voice: "Thank you for your lady and master for me..."
He frowned as he spoke and twitched his vocal cords. A-Xia girl felt affectionately for the handsome Master Tang next door. She felt very distressed when he saw it. She was busy and said: "If you have trouble speaking, you don’t have to say anything. Having said that, it's still a good to rest, Master Tang, if this house is uncomfortable, it is better for me to go back and report to the lady and let you withdraw the rent, so that the town will not be scared, and it will be so, so... "
The more A-Xia looked, the scarier the finger print on his neck felt.
Tang Fan: "You misunderstood, my injury has nothing to do with here, I met the gangster last night..."
A-Xia covered her mouth: "What kind of criminals are so cruel, they even dare to attack a Magistrate.”
Tang Fan shook his head, not wanting to say more to her: "In short, you don't have to talk more after you go back, lest your mistress and they misunderstand, plainly panic, nothing, it’s just a cough, big things."
A-Xia finally had some calm. When she saw that he had difficulty speaking, there was no further harassment. After asking Tang Fan if she would send dinner to him, and getting a negative answer, she reluctantly said goodbye.
As soon as she turned around, she saw a man standing behind her.
A-Xia was startled and almost screamed out.
No one knew that Jinyiwei’s robes, especially when the coming person stared at her coldly. A-Xia, a little woman almost scared her legs went weak, and left her head quickly without saying anything.
Tang Fan smiled slightly and made a please gesture.
Sui Zhou stepped inside.
"If Master Tang really has any clues, let's just say that if it is valuable, cooperation matters can naturally be considered." Sui Zhou sat down on the stone bench in the yard, and did not greet him. He opened the door directly.
Tang Fan took the basket of fresh fruits left by A-Xia and put them aside. The pears inside were all yellow and clear pears. If they were simmered together with rock sugar, the heat and throat were clear, which was right for his current situation.
"I don't know what the three members of the Huichun Hall, Master Liu, after being taken to the North Administrative Court in the north have said, maybe you can tell me?" Tang Fan’s voice was dull, he spoke one word at a time, and his speech speed became very slow.
Sui Zhou did not conceal: "After interrogation, we found that they really have nothing to do with this matter, and now they have been released."
Tang Fan drew a piece of paper from his arms and placed it on the stone table: “The Fuyangchun was taken before Zheng Cheng died. I have searched for ancient books these days and finally found the source of that prescription."
Sui Zhou picked up the paper and saw that there were two rows of medicinal herbs listed above. There were many repetitions. He didn't know what to do and looked up at Tang Fan.
Tang Fan explained: "Above the line, is Fuyangchun prescription, and Zheng Cheng’s manservant can account for it, and exactly below the line, you will find the herbs needed to make it. Zongqi Master please take look, what is the difference between the two?"
Sui Zhou remembers that Tang Fan said before that although there is no prescription, many of the world's clever doctors can trace the ingredients and restore the medicinal materials one by one based on the signs of the pill itself, etc. Looking, he found that there is one more medicine below than above.
“The Chaihu?"
[1] Chaihu is Chinese thorowax
- The Sleuth of the Ming Dynasty -
The author has something to say: The White Lotus Sect is a cult organization with a long history and originated in the Northern Song Dynasty... but it has nothing to do with this case, and Ji Min appeared in the previous chapter has nothing to do with this case, just came come out to walk first and show a sense of presence, In order to avoid confusion, this is the explanation.
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