September is full of flowers

When Shen Man returned to the mansion with lingering fear, Ning Tao rushed out, grabbed Shen Man's shoulder, and asked impatiently, "Where is the second brother? Why didn't you come back with you?!"

Shen Man was taken aback, "He didn't come back?"

Ning Tao said anxiously, "He didn't come back at all!" After saying that, he pushed Shen Man away, and Shen Man staggered.

Ning Xu should have arrived long ago, but there was no news of him. Could it be... Could it be that the woman caught up with Ning Xu later?

no, I can not……

Shen Man shook his head, Ning Xu was the only person in the Ning Mansion who treated her well, if he was gone, then there would be no one in the Ning Mansion to be with.Touching the jade pendant that Ning Xu gave her on her waist, it was still gentle.

"Where are Chen Zhi and Xiao Xin?" Shen Man asked.Ning Tao was in charge of arresting the two who had been suspected before, but he didn't know the result.

"It's not the two of them at all, and Xiao Xin is not the person who snatched the house in the rumors." Ning Tao walked up and down in the hall, "Chen Zhi and Xiao Xin behave strangely because they have an affair. , just for fear of being discovered by us."

"However, Xiao Xin was present when strange things happened several times."

"It's all a coincidence..." Ning Tao became more and more irritable, stopped pacing, and said, "Come on! Go out and find Er, if you can't find anyone, don't come back!"

The guards who followed Ning Xu and the officers and soldiers of the magistrate were all standing in the hall. Chen Zhi and Xiao Xin were put in prison, and no one obeyed the order to leave immediately to search for Ning Xu.It's not yet dawn, going out now is tantamount to asking for death, no one is willing to risk their lives for Ning Xu.

"You...you!" Ning Tao became more and more angry, pointing his fingers at those wooden figures, his body trembling with anger. "Remember all of you!"

The boys all stood still as if they were dead, but at this moment Shen Man moved, stumbled up and walked towards the door.

"Where are you going?!" Ning Tao turned around and asked her, but was shocked by the thin shadow in front of him.Does she want to find it alone?

"I'm going to find elder brother," Shen Man said, "I'm a woman, so it's easier for me to find him, you don't have to take the risk. Besides, I lost him, so I have the responsibility to find him. I probably know where he will be, So I must go."

Although he was too scared, but human life was at stake, Shen Man didn't want Ning Xu to die.

Ning Tao looked at Shen Man, seeing her firmness, his eyes moved.A fire in his heart was aroused by Shen Man.Thinking that a woman like her is so willing to work hard for Ning Xu, and she is Ning Xu's blood brother, is it not as good as her?So he squeezed his hands and made up his mind, "This group of trash dare not go, I will go with you!" Then he took the lead to leave the house.

Shen Man glanced around for a week, the guards and soldiers all lowered their heads, or pretended to look away.Shen Man shook his head, but he couldn't blame them either.Compared with prosperity and wealth, perhaps saving one's life at this moment is the most important thing.

In the next hour, Shen Man and Ning Tao searched almost all the streets near Qingxiang Hall, but they couldn't find Ning Tao.

When the two were sitting on the side of the street resting, wiping their sweat, they saw the sun rising slowly, and the brilliance of the east turned their faces red.

Shen Man looked at Ning Tao's profile, his expression at the moment was somewhat similar to Ning Xu's.

"Shen Man, grandfather likes the second brother the most. If we don't take him back this time, do you know what will happen?" Ning Tao laughed at himself, "I might be able to save my life, because I am still the official grandson of the Ning Mansion after all." Master, but you..."

Shen Man lowered his head, looking at the toes of his boots.

I……

My mother and father eloped, the name was not right, and now they are both dead, leaving me alone.If brother Ning Xu couldn't go back alive this time, his grandfather would definitely blame him. At that time, he might not be able to survive.

After last night, Ning Tao had a slight liking for Shen Man, and wanted to remind her to make arrangements early, but when he was about to speak, he heard a few panicked shouts from afar.

"Third Young Master!" It was one of the guards brought by Ning Xu, "Third Young Master, we have news about Second Young Master!"

Ning Tao immediately stood up, lifted his robe, and asked the man, "Where is he? Is he still safe?"

The guard's face was pale, and he said in a low voice, "Third Young Master, just go and have a look."

Seeing his expression like this, Shen Man already felt bad in his heart, but he followed Ning Tao to check.Before they knew it, a few people came to the center of Chenzhou City, a dry well and a tree.

There was a "thud" in Shen Man's heart, as if something was broken.

Ning Tao's complexion was also very ugly, and he asked with a straight face, "Where's the person?"

The guard said, "We went around looking for the Second Young Master at dawn, but there was no news, until—someone groped here and found a piece of cloth from the Second Young Master's shirt...stained with blood...Third Young Master, I'm afraid that the Second Young Master has already been murdered, so there are more dangers than luck."

Ning Tao squatted down to look, and the fabric on the ground was obviously Ning Xu's, because it was impossible to see the material given by the palace elsewhere.

Ning Tao picked up the rag, held it tightly in his hand, gritted his teeth and said, "Keep looking..."

However, Shen Man seemed to have suddenly remembered something, pulled Ning Tao's sleeve, and said softly, "I actually met the person who snatched the house last night..."

Ning Tao was stunned.

Shen Man continued, "Last night, I actually thought she was a little familiar. Today, when I saw the fabric, I suddenly remembered that the person who snatched the house is actually very similar to a person."

"Who?"

"That's what we've all seen, Miss Yafu——Yashu."

Ning Tao came back to his senses and said suspiciously, "She is a delicate woman, how can she..."

"Listen, I suspected her from the very beginning, but she used words to lure us to Master Chen and Xiao Xin. Now that the suspicion of Master Chen and Xiao Xin has been ruled out, I thought about it. The biggest possibility is still on her."

Seeing that Ning Tao was still hesitating, Shen Man continued, "The men in Chenzhou City are almost dead, but the people in her mansion are safe and sound. This is the first doubt. The second doubt is that she started hiding black feather chickens in the mansion early in the morning. I originally thought that she was saving the lives of the people in the mansion, but now that I think about it, maybe it was because I was afraid that others would use black feather chickens to deal with her, so I prepared so much in advance. The third doubt is that when I passed the mansion that day, I fell into a trap. I thought it was Xiaoxin who did it, but Xiaoxin doesn't have that ability at all, that's where she belongs, and it's possible that she wants to harm me."

Hearing that her analysis was reasonable, Ning Tao was silent for a while, then looked up and down seriously at Shen Man.At first I thought she was just a stupid girl with no ideas, but in the end, she not only has courage, but also has ideas.Did I underestimate her before?

Shen Man observed Ning Tao's expression, knew that he had already convinced him, and continued, "Third Brother, Second Brother told me a lot about the seizure of the house yesterday, and the implementation of the seizure of the house does not happen overnight, and it will take some days to prepare. Let's go to Yafu first, maybe we can find something."

"Okay, let's go to Yafu now."

With Ning Tao and a group of people as companions, Shen Man is more confident in going to Yafu this time.I thought that Yashu would deny it to the death, but I didn't expect that since entering the mansion, no one has seen it. The whole Yafu seems to have been evacuated overnight.

"Come on, search for me." Ning Tao gave an order, and started to do it himself.

Shen Man remembered what Ning Xu said to him last night, raised his head and said to Ning Tao, "Do you know the fate of 'Zijin'?"

Ning Tao paused, and then said, "I didn't know, but one day the Tianmen prison came, and I just heard it outside the study. It is said that the fate of the second brother is once in a hundred years. How do you know?"

"Second brother told me personally." Shen Man's eyes became darker, "Third brother, we have to find second brother quickly, if it is too late, it will be useless to find second brother."

Ning Tao felt as if he had been struck by electricity for a split second, and he couldn't move for a while.Looking around at the empty and lifeless Yafu mansion, he murmured, "Is there really no other way?"

At the most critical time, Shen Man was attracted by a golden nanmu tree in the courtyard.The tree grows lush and lush, not affected by the seasons at all, exuding a sense of stability and stability everywhere.The branches and leaves are luxuriant, if you drink tea and play chess under this tree in summer, it will be a good talk.

Seeing her staring at the tree in rapt attention, Ning Tao reprimanded, "You don't think of a way, why are you staring at this tree?"

Shen Man didn't know why he was attracted by this tree, why didn't he notice it when he came here?Stepping forward to touch the trunk, a voice in Shen Man's mind called out, "Look at it, look at it...you may wait for the nanmu to mature? Why don't you wait...why can't you keep..."

"Wang Zhi..." Shen Man muttered to himself, looking around the house, suddenly thought of whether this so-called "Wang Zhi" is the owner of this Yafu house, Ya Wangzhi, the master of Yafu?

"Did you find something?" Ning Tao looked at Shen Man's face and asked.

Shen Man said, "There is a custom in the Dafeng Dynasty. If there is a daughter in the family, a tree will be planted on the day of birth. Rich families will plant a rich tree, and poor families will also plant willows. When the daughter grows up, the tree will be planted. The tree has also grown. The branches are higher than the wall, and people outside can see it. If the matchmaker sees it at this time, she will know that there is a girl in this family who can be a matchmaker. When the girl really gets married, she will cut down the tree. Make it into a box and fill it with carefully prepared dowry for a grand wedding."

Ning Tao asked in amazement, "How do you know so much?" Shen Man's performance in the past few days has really exceeded his expectations.

Shen Man smiled and said, "My mother told me this."

Ning Xu is the eldest lady of the Ning Mansion, and she must have planted a tree.Ning Tao remembered that this aunt had eloped, so she must not have had time to cut down the tree, and seeing Shen Man's pitiful look, he didn't tease her as usual.

"So what if you know the story of this tree, it must have been planted for Yashu."

Shen Man shook his head and said, "Miss Yashu is only 30 years old, but this tree is more than [-] years old."

"So what?" Ning Tao frowned, feeling that Shen Man knew something.

Sure enough, Shen Man expressed his guess, "I think this tree was planted for the previous owner, but she was not married for some reason. I think we should go and see the old man in this house first. Perhaps, sir, he can give us the answer."

When they were talking, they didn't find that there was a white shadow standing there on the roof of the courtyard in Yafu.His eyebrows are like willow leaves, and his eyes are like stars, but his skin is too pale.

She folded her arms, stood there with her waist straight, and stared at the person below who was talking to Ning Tao with indifferent eyes.Although it was far away, it seemed as if I could hear what she was saying...