Daming Yinghua

Zheng Haizhu rushed to the county seat, just jumped off the mule cart, suddenly a black shadow flashed in front of his eyes, and then there was a "poof", and his cheek touched a large group of soft and rotten vegetable leaves.

"The one with acne is from her village!"

"Yes, those refugees from the north she brought!"

"Go back, go back!"

Cursing sounded one after another around him, all in Chongming's local dialect.

Yang Xiancheng hurried out of the yamen with his robe in his hand, put on the official authority of the second master, stared, shouted at the guards to drive away the onlookers, and pointed at the man throwing vegetable skins: "If you dare to be rude to Madam Chiming, don't Give him back! Take off his trousers, and beat him with ten sticks first!"

Zheng Haizhu hurriedly stepped forward to smooth things over, and even said a few times, "Forget it."

Then he bowed his hands to the onlookers, and said in a loud voice: "The people with the acne are from my Zhengjiazhuang, but it has been a hundred days since they settled in Chongming. If the acne is said to be infected, it must have been spread by people from Nanzhili. And the disease The patient has been in the county town for half a month, and no one with acne has been found in my Zhuangzi, otherwise, the Elder Master and the Second Master have not sealed my Zhuangzi?"

The turbulent public opinion was like a tidal wave, and it calmed down a little bit. After a while, some people squeezed in to watch the excitement, pointed at the man who took the lead in attacking Zheng Haizhu, and said, "Hey, Chen Er, you also scolded the edict when you were drinking the day before yesterday. Ma'am, she said that the outsiders in her village will tease the little lady, and take away your beautiful little cousin."

As soon as everyone heard this, they immediately shifted their interest and began to laugh at the young man named Chen Er, ridiculing him for his body like a reed stick. Hook up and go.

Zheng Haizhu didn't bother to listen to half a sentence anymore, and was led into the county government office by Yang Xiancheng.

The dough-like smiling face of Yuezhi County was impressive, but Zheng Haizhu's face sank, and he said bluntly: "Xianzun, after I arrived in Chongming, what happened to the county, I'm sorry? You finished me The people who stole my firearms, and after they stole my firearms, they came back and stole my people. They even treated him as a mule! The local farmer has not left the island to do corvee work. My people, are you sending him? Have you ever worked outside the island?"

As soon as Yue Yunhong heard it, he understood that the tigress guessed that the little carpenter had left the island in half a month.

The magistrate of the county is not a vegetarian either. He sneered and said, "Then the county also has something to ask my wife. Didn't your Zhuangzi invite a doctor from Songjiang to vaccinate the pox a while ago? The county magistrate Yang mentioned it to the little carpenter that day, and he said He already had acne. Now it seems that the little carpenter is not honest. If he hadn't been able to avoid the epidemic in Songjiang this time, how could the county let him go shopping for tools?"

When Zheng Haizhu heard this, his anger was mixed with thoughtfulness, and he asked, "Master Dong, is Carpenter Dong going to Songjiang by himself?"

When Yue Yunhong arrived at this moment, he didn't bother to hide it, and said sharply: "Yes, the northern dealer who recycled cotton and cloth last time, after leaving with the chair he made, came again this time to ask for more styles. The little carpenter said it was a thing. Not enough, go to Songjiang to buy this and that.”

The county magistrate Yang on the side also took up the quarrel and said on behalf of his superior: "Madam Zheng, it is also a matter of long-term prosperity to make two pieces of furniture for merchants outside the island. Master Yue and I, this is not just watching, you guys The little carpenter really has two brushes, and he can lead apprentices when he works a lot. There are many trees in Chongming, and it is close to the Wusong Wharf. Looking back, he looks like Suxiu Lake Silk, and beats out the name of the woodwork. The customers come like clouds, and your Zhuangzi also has them. Money comes in, doesn't it?"

Zheng Haizhu waved his hand: "Apox is a disease that kills people, I don't think about money right now."

Yue Yunhong leaned back on the Grand Master's chair, and said lightly: "Madam knows the severity of the acne, so it's good. Therefore, we have no choice but to lock up Madam's capable female generals together. Whoever wants to get it, but after ten days of separation, the woman It’s as if she’s suffering from lovesickness, and she took her baby to have a tryst with the little carpenter! Lao Yang, take your wife to have a look.”

……

Aya was sitting on the half-decomposed threshold, and was putting her daughter Xiaodoubao to sleep, when there was a sudden noise outside the hut.

She stood up abruptly.

A good-looking man followed out from the broken house behind him, and said in a deep voice, "What's wrong?"

Aya ignored him and walked straight to the gate of the courtyard.

Outside the courtyard gate, on both sides of the fire that was always burning with wormwood, a guard wearing a cotton cloth mask appeared, and she was the only one who sternly said, "Don't come out!"

"That's my boss! I'll talk to her..."

Aya didn't say a word, Zheng Haizhu had strode over.

Yang Xiancheng rushed to the front to stop her, and said kindly: "Madam, if you go forward, you have to be locked inside. This is the Anji Hospital built by the Chongming gentry, and all patients with pox, leprosy and other diseases are welcome They must be imprisoned here, life and death are up to God. There was no pox in Chongming last year, and it is the first one this year. The county people and common people are all watching. The situation in front of the yamen, my wife has also seen. If you forcefully break in now, wouldn't it be even worse? Reality?"

Zheng Haizhu looked at the two guards who looked like servants of the noble gentry. The two looked fiercely at her and looked at her disdainfully.

In the south of the Ming Dynasty, in many counties, it was not uncommon for the magistrates of the county to look at the faces of the well-established gentry.

Zheng Haizhu approached Yang Xiancheng and discussed in a low voice: "Look at my steward, she has pockmarks on her face, and she had acne when she was a child. Her baby has just been vaccinated. How about letting her mother go back to Zhuangzi first?"

Yang Xiancheng rebuffed: "No way. The sea merchant who came to order the furniture also suffered from acne. He only talked to the little carpenter about how to fix the furniture all afternoon, but it is still closed? They are fine if they get stained, but they brought it out. The sickness and pox of the disease will be passed on to others."

"Ma'am," Aya said loudly through the smoke of wormwood, "Aya thank you Madam for your concern. The hemp rope is cut at the thinnest place. When Chongming arrives in Songjiang, don’t bury our mother and son, please send our ashes back to our hometown club in Shandong and bury them behind.”

"No way, no way," Yang Xiancheng was embarrassed when he heard it, and waved his hands at Aya, "Didn't your wife say that you had pimples?"

Zheng Haizhu angrily pointed to the pig-like porridge in the wooden barrel beside the hut and said, "Is this what they eat every day? If they don't die of illness, they will die of starvation."

In his heart, he was already pondering what Aya said just now.

The sentence "the hemp rope is cut at the fine point" is one of Wu Bangde's incisions in training intelligence personnel, which shows that there is a deep meaning behind the words.

Aya has never set foot in Songjiang. Thinking of her mission, does "From Chongming to Songjiang" refer to the little carpenter Ashan?
It is impossible for Aya to have any feelings for the Dengzhou Liu Baihu who made Aya pregnant with the child, so what about "Shandong hometown".The guild hall, where did the guild hall come from in Dengzhou Jindaozhai Private Port?

Home in Shandong?Shandong Chamber of Commerce in Songjiang?

Zheng Haizhu stared at Aya, but Aya showed her face again, as if consoling Zheng Haizhu in turn: "Master Yang is right, Aya will survive. Madam, be careful when sailing for ten thousand years, Songjiang has acne this time Lump, Madam and Young Mistress Gu, don’t go back.”

"Be careful sailing for thousands of years" is also an incision, which means that the following words should be understood in reverse.

Aya asked me to go back to Songjiang to check?
Zheng Haizhu realized that Aya should have discovered that Ashan had been to the Shandong Chamber of Commerce in Songjiang, but there was no other conclusive discovery or evidence, so she was just passing a confusing clue to herself.Otherwise, since she had the opportunity to see herself, she wouldn't use code words.

Aya turned around and walked back to the yard. In front of Yang Xiancheng, Zheng Haizhu took out two silver coins and handed them to the guard: "Please add some meat buns to the inside."

Yang Xiancheng said coyly: "Yes, the skilled little master inside, wait for him to survive this catastrophe, let him make two good furniture for your master."

……

"Water, water."

On the wooden bed, Yue Tuo groaned in high fever.

Aya gently put down her sleeping daughter's little bean bag, went out to scoop up clear water, soaked it with a handkerchief, wiped it on Yue Tuo's chapped lips, and then gently twisted it, dripping into Yue Tuo's open lips in the mouth.

Tong Fengnian folded his arms, leaned against the door, and said coldly: "Little widow, you are quite good at serving men."

The traitor teased him, but he was also very irritable in his heart.

Tong Fengnian did not expect that Master Yue Tuo managed to go to Songjiang to meet with his old Tong's family, and he came back with pox.

Yue Tuo was Sibeile Huang Taiji's favorite right-hand man, if it was lost in the Ming Dynasty, even if their Tong family got what Sibeile wanted, they would lose a lot of credit.

And this little widow from Zhengjiazhuang in front of me, she's so damn evil, why did the little widow come here the second day after the master came back from Songjiang, and said that she felt sorry for him because he couldn't eat warm meals because of his work.

Seeing the surprise and joyful look of the master, don't you really like her?

In the afternoon of that day, Master Yue Tuo started to wilt and then developed a high fever. It happened that a doctor from the county passed by. When he heard that Master had just gone to Songjiang, he immediately insisted that it was pox. At night, Nanmanzi from Chongming dragged them away Come to this shabby house.

After dawn, the master really started to have acne.

Aya ignored the man behind her.

She still has no way of knowing Tong Fengnian's real identity at the moment, but she feels that although he has a handsome face, his expression is a bit gloomy, unlike ordinary merchants who are kind and rich.

She also didn't know that the little carpenter Ah Shan who fed her water was actually Nurhachi's grandson, but she took advantage of his high fever to check his bag and found half a piece of paper from the Shandong Guild Hall with crispbread crumbs, and she already felt strange.

Which dim sum shop uses such good paper to wrap food?

In the past few days, Tong Fengnian has always pretended to be a wretched watcher, and monitored Aya's behavior in front of Yue Tuo. Seeing that there was nothing unusual, he also went to the courtyard to drink the clean water boiled by the little widow.

As soon as he turned around and took a step, he heard Yue Tuo suddenly yelled: "Emiang, Bixin Mubei Taimkig!"

This is the Jurchen saying, "Mother, I'm here to see you".

Tong Fengnian suddenly faltered in his pace.