September is full of flowers

"Ting'er, are you hungry? For my father, someone made you an osmanthus cake. Go back to your room and eat." Zhou Gai suddenly grabbed Zhou Ting's wrist, and quickly put the amputated finger bone into his sleeve, kindly Said to Zhou Ting confidently.

"There's sweet-scented osmanthus cake, the little bird loves it the most." Zhou Ting clapped her hands, bouncing around a few people, like a seven or eight-year-old child.

"Well, then you can take the little bird to eat." Zhou Gai returned the small bag to Zhou Ting, and found a clever girl to take Zhou Ting down.

When Zhou Ting stepped out of the room, she suddenly stopped, then turned her head, and smiled at Shen Man, "The little bird told you not to sleep for too long, because if you sleep for too long, your mind will become confused."

Shen Man was taken aback.Sleeping for too long... Could it be that she knows we are dreaming?

"Miss Zhou, wait, I still have something to ask you." Shen Man chased after him, but then followed a shadow. A piece of silk wrapped around her waist behind her made her stand on the spot.

Sensing movement behind him, Shen Man looked back, and saw Zhou Gai stopped in the room with a few circles of silk wrapped around his waist, the other end of the silk was in the hand of Gate Supervisor Tang, who was expressionless at the moment, His figure was still tall and elegant, as if he hadn't expended much effort.But the sound of the silk being stretched and about to break could be heard at the scene, which showed that a fierce contest was going on in the dark.

"Master Zhou, my sister just wants to chat with Miss Zhou, why are you so nervous?" Tang Jiuyue said calmly.

Zhou Gai snorted coldly, "The little girl is weak and needs a good rest."

"Then let my sister accompany Miss Zhou to the room to rest and chat for a while, it won't take too long." Tang Jiuyue refused to budge.

Zhou Gai couldn't get rid of her at this moment, so he could only verbally warn Shen Man, "Ting'er is weak and sick, you can't stimulate her, and you can't disturb her for too long, understand?"

Xie Fan saw that swords were on the verge of breaking out, so he hurriedly got up to smooth things over, "Master Zhou, these two Tang girls are sent by the Taige, and they will never be against Miss Zhou, you can rest assured."

Seeing that Zhou Gai said so, he finally gave Taige a little face, and let Shen Man accompany Zhou Ting to the boudoir.At this end, Tang Jiuyue also put down the long silk in her hand, and re-sat gracefully as if nothing had happened.

Sitting opposite her, Zhou Gai glared at Tang Jiuyue with the ferocious eyes he had trained in killing enemies in the field.However, this trick was of no use to Tang Jiuyue. Supervisor Tang tasted tea gracefully, and handed over the task of dealing with Zhou Gai to poor Master Xie.

"Master Zhou, when did your daughter become like this?" Xie Fan wanted to get close, showing concern in his eyes, full of acting skills, but at the same time he did not forget to seize the opportunity to investigate the case.

Zhou Gai showed displeasure, "Why do you ask these things?"

Xie Fan suddenly choked on the cold.

However, Tang Jiuyue slowly lifted the tea cover and blew away the tea leaves floating on it, her eyes were as silent as water, without waves.He asked calmly and comfortably, "Master Zhou, I heard that there are delicious sweet-scented osmanthus cakes, can you give us some?"

Meanwhile, the backyard.

Miss Zhou Ting was squatting on the ground watching the ants move, completely forgetting her promise to eat sweet-scented osmanthus cake.Shen Man also squatted on the ground with her, their heads were close together, and the sunlight pulled their shadows together.

"When did you get this bag?" Shen Man asked, holding his chin.

Zhou Ting blinked her eyelashes, and recalled carefully, "A long time ago, my father called me to be the bride of my eldest brother. Later, after my elder brother disappeared, he entrusted me with this bag."

Shen Man was a little surprised. It seemed that Zhou Ting's thinking was quite clear and she knew what she was asking. "Did that big brother be found later?"

"No," Zhou Ting began to murmur to herself, Shen Man couldn't hear what she said clearly, but finally he could hear some clearly. "Big brother has become a little bird, and the little bird has been talking with me." She shook the bag, and then listened closely to the bag, but suddenly burst into tears after listening to it for a while.

"Little bird? Where are you, little bird? Why don't you talk to me? Is it too dark and scary in that cauldron? Can I ask someone to light a candle for you?"

Shen Man trembled all over, he held her by the shoulders so that she could face him, and asked softly as much as possible, "You said that the big brother turned into a little bird, and the little bird was trapped in the dark cauldron ?”

Zhou Ting just murmured, "Little bird... I'll treat you to osmanthus cake... Can you not find your mouth? I'll ask Daddy to give you back both the hand and the mouth..."

Zhou Ting's emotions became more and more agitated, and she began to arrest people randomly.At this time, the girl who had been by the side jumped out, hugged Zhou Ting to calm her down, and hummed an unknown song, which sounded inexplicably warm and comfortable.

Sure enough, Zhou Ting gradually calmed down, and finally even closed her eyes, and fell asleep on the girl's shoulder.

The girl said to Shen Man, "Miss is tired, I'll take her back." She has great strength, and she can carry Zhou Ting on her back alone.

"I heard Master Zhou said that I changed a lot of girls before, and it was all because of your young lady?" Shen Man asked.

The girl responded, and didn't say much, just quietly carrying her young lady all the way, and disappeared at the end of the path.

Shen Man was going back to find Tang Jiuyue, it seemed that this trip was not in vain.

Back in the house, several people looked amicable.Shen Man went to Tang Jiuyue's side, leaned over and whispered a few words in her ear, Tang Jiuyue's expression remained normal, and after listening, she let Shen Man deal with it herself.Shen Man rubbed his nose and dared to question Zhou Gai, "Master Zhou, did the broken finger bone just now belong to Mr. Tang?"

Zhou Gai's face was ashen, and he denied it, "No."

"Whose is that?"

"I don't know."

"Did you know Mr. Tang is missing?"

"do not know."

Shen Man stopped and asked Tang Jiuyue for help with his eyes.Zhou Gai is a seamless egg, it seems that it is difficult to open the mouth.

Tang Jiuyue coughed lightly, stood up slowly, and then walked slowly to Zhou Gai.

Zhou Gai was a little nervous, leaned back, and asked, "What do you want to do, I am an imperial court official, a ministerial order!"

"Master Zhou, don't be nervous, I just want to ask a few questions." Tang Jiuyue said with a half-smile, "Who set up the cauldron at the door?"

"The onmyoji in the old man's mansion."

"Where is he now?"

"Retired and returned home."

"Such a coincidence?" Tang Jiuyue gradually put away her smile.

"believe it or not."

Tang Jiuyue curved her lips into a smile, and said leisurely, "I want to borrow something from Mr. Zhou's residence."

"what?"

Tang Jiuyue's lips opened and closed lightly, "The big cauldron at the door."

Shen Man, "..."

Xie Fan, "..."

Zhou Gai was very generous this time, he leaned comfortably on the chair and said at the end, "As long as you can get away, please—"

Tang Jiuyue didn't even think about it, "Thank you."

A moment later, Tang Jiuyue walked out of the Zhou mansion with Shen Man, and then Xie Fan chased after him in embarrassment, wiped off the sweat on his forehead and said, "Miss Tang, this tripod is too heavy, I found twenty arresters I can't even move my head!"

Tang Jiuyue asked, "Do you want to move the empty cauldron or the full cauldron full of corpses?"

Xie Fan was taken aback, and then compromised, "I'll continue to think of a way." Then he went back with his head bowed.

So the two Tang girls left Mrs. Xie behind in a grand manner and walked side by side on the bustling streets of the capital.Shen Man frowned and asked, "Why do you insist on transporting the tripod from the Zhou Mansion?"

Tang Jiuyue said simply, "I want to compare."

Shen Man frowned and said, "What do you want to compare?"

"Although the tripod in Zhou's mansion looks similar to the tripod outside the city at first glance, I always feel that there are some strange things, so I simply asked Zhou Gai for the tripod to go to the scene for comparison."

Shen Man nodded and said, "No one can transport such a large cauldron out of the Zhou mansion without anyone noticing it. Only Zhou Gai can do this. As for whether it was empty or full when it was transported out There is no way to know, but at least we can be sure that Mr. Tang must have died in the hands of the Zhou family, as evidenced by the finger bones in Zhou Ting's hand."

Tang Jiuyue said, "It is certain that Zhou Gai involved human life, but why did he kill people, why did he kill so many people, and why did he put them in a tripod and bury them in the soil, and gave this land to my uncle?" , these issues need to be resolved urgently.”