Chapter 62 Find Lu Yijia
The two looked at each other and agreed that the person the envoy was complaining about was the Lu Yijia they were looking for.
Xie Huaichu coughed slightly and focused her attention on herself.
Changming was startled and turned around to see two strangers. She asked hesitantly: "Are you a guest coming to visit the Lord?"
"Yes, Mr. Qiu has left temporarily because of something. Let me wander around the house first." Xie Huaichu said, "I wonder what the female envoy is called?"
"Oh, my name is Changming, and I am the female envoy beside the Lord." Changming replied.
Ji Yutang raised his eyebrows, thinking that there would be no place to go after trying to break through the iron shoes. Since Chang Ming was the female envoy beside Qiu Mengdan, she must know a lot about him.
Xie Huaichu first exchanged a few polite words with Chang Ming, and then said: "Although Lord Qiu allows me to wander around the house as I please, I am not familiar with this place after all, and I am afraid that I will go somewhere I shouldn't and violate Lord Qiu's taboo."< br>
Changming replied cheerfully: "There are no taboo places in the house. The master is very easy-going and you can go there as you like. But there is one place I want to remind you, it's best not to go near it. It's in the small garden near the backyard. , there are very high It’s best not to go there on the fence. That’s where the Lord refines elixirs. He has some weird habits and doesn’t like to be disturbed. There are very few of us who do things there, which will make him unhappy. .”
After Xie Huaichu thanked her, he took Ji Yutang to go somewhere else for a while.
"Since Changming said they rarely go to that place, it must be the best hiding place. Lu Yijia might not be there," Ji Yutang said.
Xie Huaichu agreed with her statement and decided to explore the small garden Changming mentioned.
The two of them carefully avoided the maids and women in the palace and slowly approached the small garden.
It is said to be a small garden, but it actually looks like an extremely spectacular building. There is a fence surrounding the outside that is higher than the head. Many spiked vines are wrapped around the fence wall. Inside, you can vaguely see a greenhouse built with precious colored glass. There was an indescribable strange smell floating around, and the overall feeling was slightly depressing.
Xie Huaichu felt uncomfortable. He covered his nose and whispered to Ji Yutang: "I feel very uncomfortable here. You should be careful and follow me closely."
Ji Yutang nodded, decisively took out a silver needle, and looked around cautiously.
When Xie Huaichu saw it, he shrank behind her honestly: "Ms. Ji is so powerful, I'm so tight on you."
Ji Yutang smiled and winked at him: "Hey, it's not going to work, right? You don't know Kung Fu and you don't have anything to defend yourself. You're not as good as me, a doctor with needles. You'd better follow me."
Xie Huaichu sighed helplessly. He had already suffered several losses due to his lack of kung fu. When he was done with this period of time, he might as well learn boxing and kicking kung fu from a teacher.
The two walked carefully along the fence and found a small door near the wall. Ji Yutang pushed gently, and the door creaked open. "The door is unlocked and there is someone inside." Ji Yutang and Xie Huaichu ducked in and hid behind a tall green plant. This is a plant that neither of them have seen before. The branches are a bit like old wintersweet, and the leaves are maple leaf-shaped. The whole body is green, so green that it turns black.
Xie Huaichu suddenly pinched his nose: "Did you smell a disgusting smell?"
Ji Yutang twitched his nose and sniffed, then nodded and said: "It's a bit disgusting, it seems to be coming from this flowerpot."
Xie Huaichu frowned. He wanted to say something, but Ji Yutang stopped him and signaled him to look towards the door quietly under the cover of various plants.
A thin man stood at the door, locking the small door with his back to them. The man wore a Taoist robe similar to Qiu Mengdan's style, but simpler and plainer. His hair was tied up with a hairpin. From the back, he looked like a Taoist boy responsible for sweeping.
"I remember the door was closed. Did I forget again? My memory has gotten worse recently. Is the stuff in Qiu Mengdan too toxic?" The man said to himself.
Although Ji Yutang did not see the man's appearance, she was very familiar with his voice. She said to Xie Huaichu in an inaudible voice: "It's him, Lu Yijia."
Xie Huaichu clenched the flare in his sleeve, which he and Lu Zheng had agreed on yesterday. After getting the paper ball, he took the time to send a boy to find Lu Zheng and tell him about the paper ball. He also told Lu Zheng that he would enter Qiu Mengdan's mansion to find out the whereabouts of Lu Yijia, and asked Lu Zheng to lead a team of soldiers to wait nearby. Once a signal flare was seen, they would immediately surround Qiu's mansion and come in to arrest people.
Lu Yijia closed the door and walked towards the glass greenhouse.
An old voice came from the greenhouse: "Should we stop testing the medicine for today? There is a fly in the house, and it is buzzing around me. It's annoying." This person was Qiu Mengdan.
"What kind of fly?" Lu Yijia raised his hand, "Just catch it and test the medicine."
Qiu Mengdan sighed: "How can you just let people test the medicine? That's too inhumane. Besides, that's an official of the imperial court. I think the official values him very much."
"Come on, come on, forget about not being able to test the medicine. I don't think about anything right now. The only thing I'm worried about is the test of the medicine. The church is very dissatisfied with me now, and I was issued a warrant for sea arrest, so not only can I not return to the church I can't go back home yet. It's so frustrating to hide here for a few days. It's not that you can refine the elixir that the leader has been dreaming about. I help you test the medicine without any merit but with hard work. When the medicine is ready and presented to the leader, maybe he will be happy and forgive me for my previous mistakes. I’m not just spending time here, it’s not interesting at all,” Lu Yijia complained repeatedly.
Qiu Mengdan said: "Stop complaining. It's just the trap you poked. It's good that I didn't give you a kill order. The leader has already opened up a wide range of things."
"Did I make a fool of myself? I didn't do it on purpose. How could I have known that those two idiots Lu Renjia and Fang Wu were not careful and exposed their mistakes. If you want to blame them, they should be blamed. What does it have to do with me?" Lu Yijia sighed. A sound.
"After all, that's the person you developed, but you didn't manage it well." Qiu Mengdan scolded him, "Thanks to you, you are still an elder brother, and you can't control your own younger brother. How many people do you have under your control?" If you can't manage this, how can you let the leader trust you? How can I give you important tasks in the future? As far as I know, it's not just the two of you who were in trouble, right? The one named Meng Sanlang and the one from Huashen Temple were all killed, right? Look, just a few of your men are gone. The leader did not give you a killing order, which is a great kindness to you, and you are still complaining.”
Lu Yijia was immediately discouraged. He pounded the table hard and gritted his teeth and said: "Why am I so unlucky? All the people under my command were wiped out, and no one was spared. I am really convinced. That man is Lu Zheng." The governor of Bianjing seems to have suddenly enlightened, and he has identified many people in a row. I have never found him to be so clever before?"
(End of chapter)