Chapter 29: Yu Rong (Part 1) (3)

There was an uproar on the two tables. Xu Jin was so anxious that he stamped his feet: "It's over, it's over! This is too vulgar. The lady refused to show up!" "Miss?" Di Renjie finally understood that they were so active to meet a lady, and the adopted daughter of the Xu Sihan family. Di Renjie's heart suddenly moved. He thought for a while, stood up and said, "Xiaojun is busy grabbing and sending it into other people's population. Is it okay to know the taste?" "Okay!" Everyone praised in unison. As soon as Di Renjie sat down, Xu Jin gave him a thumbs up: "Brother Huaiying, I said it well! I hope you can turn the tide!" Di Renjie shook his head repeatedly: "I really don't understand what you are doing?!"

On the main table, Xu Sihan whispered with a maid who had entered the room at some point. After a while, a mysterious smile appeared on Xu Sihan's vulgar old face. He stood up and announced: "The mystery you have just met is not satisfactory." He deliberately paused, and then bowed flatteringly to Xu Jingzong, and then continued: "But the little girl decided to add another question for the sake of the promotion and demotion of the adults. If anyone can guess, the little girl would definitely come to the seat for everyone in person to entertain everyone."

Xu Jingzong leaned on the back of the chair, narrowed his eyes, and said half-tonguedly: "Is there going to ask questions again? Sihan, why is your adopted daughter's airs bigger than the empress?" "This..." Xu Sihan smiled embarrassedly: "No, there is no way, I'm spoiled." Xu Jingzong exhaled his anger and sneered: "No, it's good to have enough tricks, it's fun enough. Sihan, tell me your puzzle?"

Xu Sihan looked around and then slowly said: "This riddle is a four-character riddle, 'unparalleled country', a sentence from "The Analects of Confucius"." There was suddenly silence on the two tables, and everyone began to concentrate on thinking. Xu Jin quietly pulled Di Renjie's sleeve: "Brother Huaiying, I can't guess this riddle, it depends on you." Di Renjie said lightly: "This is quite a well-educated man, why do you expect me to be the only one?" Xu Jin curled his lips: "Brother Huaiying, it's not that my brother said you, when will you stay if you don't show up? The Prime Minister is sitting on it... Besides, even if Brother Huaiying, you don't want to be arrogant and gain beauty with your talent and knowledge, isn't it a matter of elegance?" Di Renjie asked back: "What kind of beauty is worth your attention to?" Xu Jin snorted and simply ignored him.

Di Renjie thought quietly, and was confident. He looked around and saw that everyone on the seat looked in a difficult face. Di Renjie thought to himself that this riddle was really rare, and the person who did the riddle was indeed a little knowledgeable. If it were a woman, it would be extraordinary. The adopted daughter of Xu Sihan's family... The tall and slender figure appeared in his mind. Will the black and white eyes be her? Is it possible? With some indescribable expectation, Di Renjie impulsively raised the chopsticks in his hand, tapped the wine glass, and slowly said: "Those who know will not lose their own words, nor will they lose their words."

Seeing that everyone was stunned, Di Renjie smiled and explained: "'Unparalleled territory' is what Xiao He said to Han Xin in "Records of the Grand Historian: Biography of Huaiyin Hou", and used this to introduce a sentence in "Mencius": 'What is faith'. If you disassemble the word 'faith', it will become the 'no one will lose people, and no one will lose words' in "The Analects of Confucius". " "Good guess!" Xu Jin couldn't help but slam the table and praised loudly. The two tables were making noises, and everyone praised: "Yes, guess well, guess well."

Amid the noise, the door opened gently, and a figure flew into it and walked straight behind Di Renjie. Everyone suddenly calmed down again. Di Renjie looked up and saw his eyes shining like morning stars. His clear eyes stopped on his face without any hesitation, focused, curious, pure, and profound... Even though Di Renjie was a confident and unrestrained gentleman, he was also uncomfortable to see. Later, he recalled the scene of this day countless times and found that although he was very much looking forward to seeing Yu Rong, he was still the only one who really saw clearly. This was her, her unique gaze, as if she could see through everything, and at the same time she confessed everything about her, and she also had a little madness.

"You guessed my riddle?" Di Renjie was stunned, and realized that the clear and smooth voice was asking him. He calmed down and stood up and bowed to Yu Rong: "It's down." "I know you." Those eyes were still on his face without blinking. Di Renjie had never been seen like this by a young girl, and it was really a bit embarrassing. Obviously, he felt his embarrassment. The other party smiled, and a series of uncontrollable commotions suddenly appeared in the silence in the room. The admiration, envy, and the desire to be naked was intertwined, pushing the seemingly elegant banquet that night to the scorching **, and also letting the well-dressed gentlemen reveal their true faces.

Yu Rong was nowhere to beside her, with her eyes squinted, holding the exquisite jade cup in her hands, and steadily raised it to Di Renjie: "The little woman is named Yu Rong. Mr. Di, you guessed the mystery, Yu Rong invited you to drink this glass of wine." "Okay, thank you Miss Yu Rong." Di Renjie took the wine glass from her hand and drank it all in one go. The beautiful wine and beautiful woman were drunk, and it seemed that she was not in the world at this moment...

"Sihan, what's going on? Is your adopted daughter here to cheer everyone up? Or is she here to drink with others?" On the main seat, Xu Jingzong looked slanted, crossed his hands in front of his chest, and said sarcastically. Xu Sihan shouted: "Yu Rong! Come and toast the Lord of Prescriptions!" After several screams, Yu Rong gently moved away the gaze fixed on Di Renjie's face, turned her head to glance at Xu Jingzong, and walked slowly towards the main table.

When she came to Xu Jingzong, she had just picked up the wine glass, but was stopped by Xu Jingzong. The demotion made the adult's face swell like a pig's liver, and he looked very drunk. His confused drunk eyes kept wandering on Yu Rong's face. The more he looked, the more he became more and more interested, and suddenly he laughed blindly. After laughing for a long time, he said breathlessly: "Yu, Yu Rong... Miss. You are very good at making riddles, haha! Today, I also have a riddle for you to guess, how?"

Yu Rong looked at Xu Jingzong steadily, neither keen nor disgusted, but just waited quietly for his following. Her calm expression stimulated Xu Jingzong even more. The demotion made the generals froze and said with joy: "Miss Yu Rong is knowledgeable. I must show that this riddle can be as good as Miss Yu Rong's character! This riddle... The riddle, uh, is also four words. There is a sentence in "Zuo Zhuan, Zhao Gong" 'The maid', which is a sentence in "Mencius"! Miss Yu Rong can guess?"

Everyone was stunned and staring at Yu Rong like a wooden chicken. Di Renjie looked at the farthest part of the second seat, his palms were covered in sweat because of tension. He had guessed the answer and was really worried about Yu Rong how she should deal with this situation... From this perspective, Di Renjie could only see Xu Jingzong's obscene smile and Yu Rong's lonely and thin back, but she couldn't see her face.

After waiting for a while, there was no answer. Xu Jingzong couldn't stop drinking and laughed loudly: "Haha, can't you guess? I'll let the girl choose, Miss Yu Rong, I'm asking you to 'decide you're going to be a man'! If you want a beauty like you to choose a man by yourself, are you okay? Hahaha..." Suddenly, the laughter was interrupted. The wine that Yu Rong poured on Xu Jingzong's face flowed into her nose and mouth, choking him to cough repeatedly, and almost passed away. The face of the mat was in chaos, and the governor Qi looked pale. He held Xu Jingzong and beat his back and rubbed his chest. Xu Sihan jumped up angrily and slapped Yu Rong with a loud slap: "Little bitch! Are you looking for death!"

Di Renjie saw that the slender figure swayed and immediately straightened stubbornly again. Xu Sihan was so angry that he gritted his teeth, his whole face was twisted and deformed. He raised his hand and slapped him with all his strength: "I really think I am the eldest lady! Bitch! Why don't you kneel down to apologize to Lord Xu!" It seemed that he didn't hear Xu Sihan's words at all, Yu Rong turned around without saying a word, leaving the dumbfounded men in the room and left.

The next day, when the tutor led the team to leave Bianzhou, his face was as heavy as if a layer of ink was painted. He didn't even say a word to the Bianzhou officials who came to see him off. The governor Qi and a group of officials bowed their heads and sent him silently, all of them were as anxious as a dog, and even the gongs, drums and firecrackers were so loud that they were powerless. As for the chief minister Xu Sihan, he simply avoided his illness and was recuperating at home since then, and never showed up in the Bianzhou governor's office.

Almost half a month has passed, and Di Renjie is busy with business during the day every day, and he is focused on it. But at night, when the night is quiet and the family is lonely, he stands alone in the yard with his hands behind his back, looking at the clear moon flowing on the green bricks all over the ground, and those eyes always appear inadvertently. For such a moment, the night is deep and alienated, but also contains the most sincere and passionate desire. Whenever this happens, a faint worry arises in his heart. I think Xu Sihan will not treat Yu Rong well who has caused a disaster, and her so-called adopted daughter has finally been clear until now. Unfortunately, all he can give is just a long sigh in the lonely moon night.

Di Renjie never expected that his entanglement with Yu Rong had just begun.

That morning, Di Renjie was working in the yamen, and heard a noise outside the house. Then a yamen runner rushed in in panic, shouting, "Master Fa Cao, Master Fa Cao! What's the matter wrong!" Di Renjie frowned and said, "What's the matter?! If you have something to say, the yamen runner opened his mouth. Before he could spit out a word, the governor Qi Sheng stepped in and shouted loudly: "Huaiying! Something big happened!" Di Renjie was shocked and jumped up from the chair: "Master Guard, what's wrong?"

"Cough!" Qi Sheng stamped his feet: "Xu Changshi is dead!" "Oh?" Di Renjie hurriedly let Qi Sheng sit on the chair and asked, "When did Xu Changshi... die suddenly?" Qi Sheng looked at Di Renjie, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Diet death, it's cured. Huaiying, this trouble still has to fall on you." Di Renjie bowed: "Please make it clear by Lord Qi." Qi Sheng frowned and said with a sad face: "Alas, Xu Quan, the butler of Xu Changshi came to the governor's house to report the case, saying that their master was poisoned to death!" "Poisoned to death?!" "Well, I insisted that he was poisoned to death. Oh, Huaiying, you, Lord Fa Cao, should you take the coroner and investigate the case quickly! Xu Quan is still waiting outside the main hall."

Di Renjie nodded and bowed to Qi Sheng: "Please be at ease, so please go investigate the case now." Qi Sheng waved his hand: "Go, go." Di Renjie quickly walked to the door, and Qi Sheng shouted behind him: "That... Xu Changshi is also a royal relative. Cough, cough, this case should be decided quickly, and you should not dream too much. In short, big things turn into small things, and small things turn into too many things." Di Renjie frowned, but turned around and replied to Qi Sheng: "Please don't worry, the governor, the minister must deal with it carefully." Qi Sheng's face was full of sorrow, and he looked like he wanted to stop talking. Di Renjie was unwilling to care and hurried to the main hall.

He brought the coroner and several yamen runners to Xu Changshi's mansion with Xu Quan. In order to seize the time, Di Renjie asked Xu Quan about the incident while walking, and then he understood why Qi Sheng's concerns and concerns came. According to Xu Quan, his master Xu Sihan fell ill since the banquet half a month ago. He took medicine every day, but his condition did not improve. Not long after breakfast this morning, he suddenly felt pain and rolled and struggled on the bed. Everyone was panicked and rushed to invite the doctor, but who knew that before the doctor arrived, Xu Sihan had already had black blood flowing out of his orifices and died!

Di Renjie thought to himself: "It's no wonder that he was poisoned to death by the seven orifices. He asked quietly: "When you came to report to the official, you said that the master was poisoned to death. How can you be so sure?" Xu Quan swallowed: "Well, little, how can you understand these things. It was my young master who told the young master to say so. The young master also said that it was Miss Yu Rong who poisoned the master. He had taken the mansion in the mansion and waited for the government to come and make a decision!" "Yu Rong?" Di Renjie blurted out, Xu Quan was furious, but he didn't see it.

Master Fa Cao was a little ill-behaved, thinking that he didn't know Yu Rong's identity, so he kept explaining: "Yes, Miss Yu Rong is the master's adopted daughter, my second lady. My young master said that because Miss Yu Rong was serving the master this morning and no one had entered the master's room before the accident. Who would be the one who poisoned the person?!" Di Renjie snorted coldly: "Oh? In this way, I, the master, don't need to come forward, you will cut the case yourself!"
Chapter completed!