When it was getting dark, Zhen Jing came back after fetching the water. She said with a smile, “Xiaoyi, I heard that the two ‘chivalrous men’ and other guests came back together. But as soon as they were about to step in the gate, they were respectfully invited by Zhen Gong to Fu Mian Yard of Younger Master Tai Chen.”
He Danggui smiled and opened the oil-paper bag on the table, saying to Zhen Jing, “Come here, dear. I have some delicious food!”
Zhen Jing turned her head and suddenly widened her big eyes in surprise, “This…Where did you get this?”
He Danggui blinked mysteriously. She pulled Zhen Jing closer, pressed her on the stool, laughed and said, “The ‘Dream Goddess’ gave us this by the same way as that pot of wine. You can eat it. Don’t worry.” He Danggui picked up a dried meat slice and put it into Zhen Jing’s hands, “This is a famous snack of Fengyang City, ‘Crispy Dried Meat Slice with Sesames’. Have a taste. I have to eat the congee fo
In the evening, Tai Chen invited nine guests including Duan Xiaolou to the banquet. After three rounds of drinking, a bottle of banned medicine emerged in the banquet. Geng Bingxiu immediately ordered to tie Tai Chen up, and detained all the Taoist nuns who came to see what happened in Fu Mian Yard. Now, Duan Xiaolou, Liao Zhiyuan, Gao Jue and Lu Jiangbei were ordered to come to the Medicine Room and find more evidences. After entering the room, Gao Jue used his broadsword to hit all the medicine cabinets to the ground quickly. The medicinal materials were piled up like a hill, but they couldn’t find the banned medicine they were looking for. When He Danggui knocked on the door, the four people were quarreling. Duan Xiaolou blamed Gao Jue for disturbing the medicines, which was not conducive to searching for evidences.Duan Xiaolou quickly took out a chair from the medicinal materials, and brought it to He Danggui. Then he asked, “Come and sit. Why is your face so pale?
Liao Zhiyuan raised his wrist and a dazzling silver light flied from his sleeves. Then the brocade box overhead appeared in his hand suddenly. He opened the box. 7 to 8 fist-sized medicine bottles appeared in front of them. He Danggui sniffed these bottles one by one. Seeing that, Duan Xiaolou couldn’t help enjoining, “They are inedible.” All the people here were speechless for him.He Danggui nodded and said, “Yes, medicines in these 3 bottles are Wushi Powder. It can be divided into the upper level, middle level and low level according to the content of red halloysite. In addition, Hehuan Pill and Yiqing Potion are also the same kind of banned drugs except those 3 kinds of powders that Tai Chen said.”Duan Xiaolou stared at her delicate face curiously as if he wanted to know whom He Danggui really was. He asked, “How do you know these medicines? Even if members of Luo’s Family teach you to recognize medical materials, they shouldn’t let you know this kind
After waking up from a nightmare, Tai Chen felt severe pain and screamed immediately. Jiang Pi threw an apple to gag her mouth accurately.She looked at everyone in the room in horror, such as Fourth Lord Geng and several of his companions, and... Tai Shan and Tai Xi! Tai Chen looked at Tai Xi like seizing the life-saving straw. She hoped that Tai Xi could save her. She didn’t want to go to jail or die! 26 years ago, she and her uncle passed by Yangzhou. Her uncle was jailed for reselling the philter and then died in jail—she didn’t want to go to jail!Tai Xi read a chant and ignored Tai Chen’s gaze for help. Then she looked at Master Geng.Master Geng nodded and said, “Since the account book is found in the Medicine Room, the suspicions of the rest of you will be eliminated.” Tai Shan and Tai Xi felt relieved, but Master Geng continued, “But there is such bigoted woman in your Taoist Temple. You not only don’t know it, but also provide her wit
Zhen Zhu stared at He Danggui as if she was sent by the immortals to help her, then she stunned for a moment and got out of the mountain road.She walked towards He Danggui and held her hands, appreciating her for what she had done for the nuns. Although Zhen Shu and another 6 nuns usually behaved badly and always quarreled with Zhen Zhu. The oldest people among them was only 19 years old. They were brought up by Master Tai Chen, and it was easy for them to learn her bad temper. If they could become maids in a decent family for several years, they would develop a tempered personality. Then there might be a bright future for them.Biddy Cheng and Biddy Wu put the silvers in place, and then they left away with smile. Zhen Zhu held He Danggui’s hands firmly. She wanted to thank her but didn’t know how to speak.Last night, Shui Shang Temple was in great trouble. Everyone inside was nearly wiped out. At that time, Zhen Zhu remembered that Childe Du
Duan Xiaolou went back to the Taoist Temple. He heard He Danggui was in the Medicine Room to put the medicines in order, so he leaped on the roof and jumped in front of the Medicine Room within seconds.“I’m sorry about the mess here, otherwise you wouldn’t have to clean here.” Duan Xiaolou said apologetically, “I know some herbal medicines. Let me help you.”He Danggui shook her head, “Childe Duan, you don’t have to apologize. I should thank you instead. If you hadn’t messed here, I couldn’t have had the chance to come here easily to take the medicine. And what’s the result about the previous incident?”Duan Xiaolou looked at her softly, “As you expected, the two vicious women took my money from you but took the nuns to the brothel simultaneously. I called a few yamen runners to sue for their ‘seek for two buyers with only one goods’ crime. Then, they searched them and found the 50 liang silver I told them before. Therefore, they sent them to
Tai Shan was eased that the fire was put out, but what Lu Jiangbei said really made her sacred. His last words almost scared the hell out of her. Tai Shan stood up trembling and turned around to face all the Taoist nuns. She stared at them like a predator and said very loudly, “Who did this? Tell me who cooked here and set the fire!”But no one replied. All the 77 nuns kept silent.Tai Shan was so pissed off that her body shook badly. She yelled again, “No matter who did this, if you could step up right now, you will live. Otherwise, if you get exposed later, I will kill you for sure!”Still everyone looked at each other. No one came out to confess.Tai Shan was determined and yelled out loud, “Anyone who exposes the arsonist, I will give her 20, no, 30 liang silver as a reward now!”Whispers in the crowd were like buzzes. After a while, a tall and fat middle-aged Taoist nun pointed at a nun on her right, who was lowin
As time went by, the Taoist nuns gathered to whisper and took quick glances at those 4 tall and handsome men from time to time.Most people were pleased inwardly. In this way, He Danggui would get in trouble. How could she, just a little girl, capture the fancy of officials and be protected by them! Bah! And she even wanted to compete with them for men! Naive! Although they got internal conflict with Huai Xin, without Tai Chen’s protection, they could easily deal with her later. But He Danggui was known as “the daughter of the official”. Bullshit! She was no nobler than them from head to toe. They couldn’t bully her at ordinary times, but this time, they wouldn’t let the chance escape easily.Duan Xiaolou and Liao Zhiyuan stood under a poplar in the alley while Lu Jiangbei and Gao Jue closed their eyes for a rest.Liao Zhiyuan rolled his cat-like eyes with his arm rounded Gao Jue, “Hey, Master Cool Face, are you still in that philter’s effect?
Duan Xiaolou was holding a pink wool cloak. His chest moved up and down. There were full of stars deep inside his dark eyes. He didn’t say a word, but opened the cloak directly and wrapped it around He Danggui. Then he tied the mixed satin ribbon into a bowknot carefully.He Danggui frowned. She was struggling in her mind, “I can’t do this anymore. No matter he has other thoughts or he’s just like what Lu Jiangbei said—so enthusiastic to girls. He had done too much.”She couldn’t accept this kind of care, and he offered his gentleness to the wrong person.Lu Jiangbei noticed He Danggui’s inconspicuous expression. And he thought she was not accustomed to showing her intimacy in front of others, so he changed the topic hastily, “What should we do now? How about… letting the yamen runners search through the Taoist Temple?”This scared the hell out of Tai Shan.All the IOUs she got from usury were locked in the closet besi