Lan Congxiao

"That's right, he said that my sister died when she was five years old." Xun Fei noticed the abnormal expression on the owner's face, and consciously closed his mouth.

"When his sister passed away, Qiu Zhu himself was only five years old. All these years, everyone in the villa kept silent about it. How could he think of going to pay homage to his sister?" Shuangshuang is a taboo in the villa, and Lin Zhengqing was keenly aware of it. The strangeness of this incident "Did your son encounter anything before setting off the river lantern?"

"Before... the big thing seemed to be the woman who committed suicide in the firewood room. I can't remember the rest." When he was ten years old, he didn't remember many things clearly. He only remembered that after that incident, Qiu Zhu was often worried. look.

"That's just the second lady's crazy maid, why should Qiu Zhu care?" If Xun Fei didn't mention it, no one would remember that woman that no one cared about back then, but after thinking about it, "Qiu Zhu" Did you find anything unusual?"

"Abnormal?" Xun Fei thought for a long time, but his memory was vague, "I don't remember."

"You kid, you are always unreliable at critical moments." Lin Zhengqing poked his head, put away the fishing rod, "Let's go, let's go home, we have business to do."

Just as Qiu Zhu was resting at Dr. Su's place for a while, Xun Fei's chattering voice came from outside the door.

From far to near, Dr. Su had no choice but to put down the gauze curtain to isolate the lobby, and Xun Fei ran in recklessly, and at a glance he knew that "the visitor was not kind".

"Why are you here again today?" Dr. Su glanced at the back room, there was some movement, it seemed that Qiu Zhu had woken up.

"Look at what you said, it should be replaced by "return", that's right." Xun very often likes to search around Dr. Su's place as soon as he enters the door. Dr. Su said angrily about this, "Didn't you just leave A few days?"

"You!" Xun Fei was angry, and was about to walk inside, "I want to sleep for a while, the owner took me to go fishing early in the morning, I was so sleepy!" He hurriedly grabbed the child, not letting him go any further. go inside.

"Why don't you go to the academy?" He took the opportunity to change the subject, and Xun Fei shook his arm, "I... I was going to go, but the owner took me to go fishing. It's been a long time now, and I'll go to school another day .”

"If the second young master finds out, you will be miserable." Dr. Su gritted his teeth and said, obviously speaking to someone in the back room.

"He won't know if you don't tell me. How can Qiu Zhu have such great powers? Can he hear it just by saying it? When he was at home, I often sneaked to you to play." Xun Fei didn't think Yi, went straight to the back room, took off his shoes and lay down on the couch where Qiu Zhu had just been lying down to rest, without noticing that there was still a person standing in the corner beside him.

"Huh." With a chuckle, Doctor Su outside went out in a blink of an eye, and he didn't know it was to avoid being caught in a row.

Xun Fei soon fell into a deep sleep, and Qiu Zhu sat next to him without feeling it, "Stinky boy!" He pinched the flesh of his cheeks with his fingers and punished him, "You will put on airs in front of me."

"Qiuzhu..." It was another dreamy voice.

Xun Fei is always noisy when he sleeps, and he is dishonest from mouth to hands and feet. As Lin Qi said, no one can stand this guy except Lin Qiuzhu.

"Qiu Zhu, I don't copy books, I don't copy books..."

"Little white-eyed wolf." Xun Feimeng held Qiu Zhu's sleeve, Qiu Zhu let him pull, and cursed with a smile, "I'm running around for you, but you have the time to daydream here."

On the other side, Lin Qi was hurriedly retrieved by Lin Zhengqing. Lin Zhengqing sent everyone away, leaving Lin Qi alone. The door of the study room was closed, which was very strange.

Lin Qi was terrified, because the owner sat on the chair with a very serious expression, staring at him without saying a word, which reminded him of the serious and serious attitude of being brought here after he took the young master to the street for the first time when he was a child. atmosphere.

"The owner came to find Lin Qi, what can I order?" He was no longer the trembling boy he was back then, and asked pretending to be calm.

"Lin Qi, you've been with Qiu Zhu for 13 years, right?" Lin Zhengqing smiled coldly after he spoke. Lin Qi was caught off guard when he laughed, and he picked up a cup of tea, "Qiu Zhu was only five years old back then." , has grown up in a blink of an eye.”

"Lin Qi has never dared to forget the life-saving grace of the owner and the young master." He knew in his heart that if the young master hadn't opened his mouth to say such a word, he would have starved to death on the street and no one would have paid attention to him.

"Then do you still remember why I brought you back to the villa?" Lin Zhengqing asked one by one in a calm manner.

"Young master...Young master speak up."

"Yeah..." There was no lack of exclamation in this voice, "At that time, Qiuzhu in our family didn't say a word for more than three months. I asked doctors, big and small, and prayed to God and Buddha, but he couldn't make him make a sound, but But because you were lying on the street and startled our carriage, Qiu Zhu asked to take you in."

"Villager..." Today, the lord burst into memories of the past, which made Lin Qi extremely uneasy. There must have been a major incident that caused the lord to settle old accounts.

"All these years, you followed him, inseparable, where Qiu Zhu went and what he did, the person who knows best is you." Lin Zhengqing leaned back in his chair, gave him a cold look, and then Lin Qi didn't dare to look up." There are many things in the villa that no one dares to mention, I want to know who reminded Qiu Zhu to think of his late sister Lin Shuangshuang."

The name Shuangshuang hadn't been mentioned for a long time, even Qiu Zhu himself seldom talked about it, why did the owner suddenly ask about it today.

"Master...Young Master, he...he just found out about Miss Shuangshuang by accident."

Lin Qi's words were vague, and Lin Zhengqing knew in his heart that Qiu Zhu must have known about Shuang Shuang's death back then, so he took a deep breath, "Did the second lady mention it to Qiu Zhu?"

"It's the lady's dowry maid, the woman who hanged herself in the firewood room." Finally facing Lin Zhengqing, Lin Qi still confessed everything that happened during their investigation.

After listening to Lin Qi's detailed narration, Lin Zhengqing was silent for a while, until Lin Qi couldn't bear to call out, then he slowly came back to his senses.

"So, you found out that the woman was not the second wife's dowry maid, but Qin Juan'er, the eldest lady's dowry maid." Lin Zhengqing knew the whole story at the beginning, if Qin Juan'er hadn't killed Shuangshuang, she would have died. The unharmed Qiu Zhu and his mother were separated from their mother and child.So when dealing with this woman back then, he knew that the second wife would not let her go, and let her go as well, and it was right to let her atone for her sin.

"I only know so much. In fact, the young master has not talked about everything to Lin Qi in the past two years. He also feels that Lin Qi is inconvenient to know about many things." After saying this, he felt a sense of loss. Can't answer either."

"I came to ask you today. You are a smart person. You should understand that in the future, such things should not be heard by others." Lin Zhengqing was very displeased, but Qin Juan'er never left On the contrary, he was imprisoned by the second lady, making people look neither human nor ghost.

"Yes, but there is one more thing. Three years ago, when my son and I went to worship in front of Miss Shuangshuang's grave, we bumped into the second lady who came to worship. My son talked with the second lady alone for a while, and then I heard the second lady behind me. Madame's cry." Lin Qi also felt that this kind of thing is not beneficial to the young master, and the owner of the villa loves the young master so much, it should be able to help the young master avoid some unnecessary troubles.

It's not wrong for the second wife to pay homage to the dead daughter, but what Qiuzhu can say to her is abnormal.He knew that the second wife held grudges about this matter, but Qiuzhu's behavior was really abnormal. What did he do, the second wife didn't come to complain, obviously this matter cannot be known, this is There is actually a secret between the two, he, as a father, finds it unbelievable.