[Zhan Zhaotongren] Hongchen

"Why should I help you?" Su Xiaoxiao thought it was funny, she didn't have anything to do when she was full.

Su Xiaoxiao has to admit that a beautiful woman even frowns is good-looking, if someone loves her, it's a pity that she is not a man.

Halfway across the table, the beauty was drooping her eyebrows and biting the corners of her lips in thought, but the little maid behind her quit, snorted coldly, and said to Su Xiaoxiao, "Our young lady is very respectable." You just want to ask for your help, so it's not flattery."

Don't know how to flatter?Su Xiaoxiaodan's lips curled into a sneer, she naturally wouldn't get angry with a little girl, she got up and planned to go out alone, she didn't come here to look at the beauty in a daze, she still had something to ask Xu Caifeng.

Before Su Xiaoxiao's hand touched the door, a low voice came from behind, "Little girl, stop, Xiaocui has been with me for a few years, and I've spoiled me to the core. If there's anything wrong, Xiangyun I will make amends for you on her behalf. Xiao Cui, hurry up and apologize to the little girl!"

Xiaocui followed Xiangyun and got used to pointing her chin at others, but those young masters couldn't remember the principle when they saw the beauty. After coming and going, Xiaocui couldn't apologize, stood there with her mouth pursed for a long time without making a sound, and her eyes were full of tears. Reluctantly.

Su Xiaoxiao didn't care if their master and servant were singing together or if they really wanted to apologize, she turned around and put her hands behind her back and raised her chest, "There's no need to apologize. Since you want me to help, you have to agree to two conditions. First, You want to enter the Guose Tianxiang Building to be a girl. I am from the Guose Tianxiang Building, so naturally I will not help an outsider. I am used to bullying others, naturally there will be many people who cater to Miss Xiangyun. Since this is the case, you must not come to the capital to make a name for money. I don't care why you came. Don't implicate your troubles in Guose Tianxiang Tower, otherwise... "

Before Su Xiaoxiao finished speaking, Xiangyun's face was already ugly, she pursed her lips, her delicate face was a little pale at the moment, she didn't know whether it was because of anger or because Su Xiaoxiao had taken her into her heart.

Su Xiaoxiao glanced at her again, and then she was about to leave. She was too lazy to talk too much, but when she reached the door, she seemed to think of something and said, "Oh, I forgot... There is another one, if you want me to help you, you have to listen to me, and you have to listen to me for food, clothing, housing and transportation, you can think about it, I am a person with a weird temper."

Outside the door, Xu Caifeng didn't follow or leave, and listened to the corner of the wall for a while, Su Xiaoxiao's words "I'm from Guose Tianxiang Building" really helped her, and this person was right.

"Sister Xu," going out, Su Xiaoxiao looked up and saw Xu Caifeng, "I want to chat with you, is it convenient?"

Xu Caifeng nodded, and the two entered her room.

She didn't know much about Ziyan's elder brother, Xu Caifeng. After thinking for a while, she finally said, Ziyan said that her elder brother was a rare talent in both civil and martial arts, but his family was poor at that time, so he never had the opportunity to display what he had learned.

Zi Yan has a cheerful personality but rarely mentions her brother's matter, and once or twice when she mentions it, there will be a flash of confusion in her eyes.Once a girl in the building asked how old Ziyan and her brother were, but Ziyan said she didn't know.

Apart from these things, Xu Caifeng really couldn't think of anything else. A person would not know how old she was with her brother. Su Xiaoxiao frowned, "Splendid Pavilion is still empty now?"

Seeing Su Xiaoxiao asked, Xu Caifeng nodded. Someone died there once, and she felt that it was bad luck. Although the business of Guose Tianxiang Building is very good now, she still vacated that room.

"I want to go and have a look." Su Xiaoxiao got up, this Ziyan felt more and more strange, before she didn't know if there was anything else to be found in her room, but it was vacant since the accident.

Xu Caifeng didn't say anything, and just let Su Xiaoxiao go there alone, while she went out of the room and walked towards the third floor, where there was a famous girl from Jiangnan waiting.

Jinxiu Pavilion, this room is not the first time for Su Xiaoxiao to enter. At first, she just regarded this room as an ordinary room, but now it is a place where someone has died and there may be some clues. Naturally, her mentality is different.

The window of the room is closed, but it is bright, and there is a thin layer of dust on the furnishings, which is not too thick, but it is certain that no one has been here recently.

She went up and pushed the windows open, and a gust of cold wind hit her face. Didn't Liu Changshun pretend to be a Taoist priest before, why didn't he leave any trace?

Su Xiaoxiao looked carefully, the thickness of the dust can naturally show the traces of turning over, but she searched the room for a long time, the dust in all the places here is very tight, there is no trace of being moved later.

In this way, there are only two possibilities. One is that the person who moved it wiped it thoroughly, and the other is that no one has touched it at all. Su Xiaoxiao thinks that the second possibility is much more likely, because it has been haunted from here to now. It hasn't been too long since it opened, so there's no reason for the dust here to accumulate so thickly.

If there are any secrets left in this room, does Ziyan want to be seen, or does she not want to be seen?

If she wanted to be seen, by whom?Where should she put it so that it will be seen by the people she wants most?

There were no answers to all the questions, so Su Xiaoxiao went out and took a piece of cloth, and then began to pack it carefully in the house.

From the floor to the beams, and then to the bed cabinet, she even asked Liu Qiang to borrow a secondary ladder.

There were no traces on the beams. Legend has it that Ziyan hanged herself, but if she hanged herself alone, her front and back neck bones would never be broken.

Under the bed, in the cabinet, on the desk, Su Xiaoxiao wiped all the places that should, might or might leave traces, and finally she was so tired that she collapsed on the bed.

"Hey~~~" Youyou let out a long sigh, and people who didn't know thought she was a female ghost, but fortunately it was daytime.

The bed is made of high-quality peach wood, which already has an oily color, which shows that it has been used for a long time.

Su Xiaoxiao stared blankly at the top of the bed with wide open eyes. Ziyan's bed was not that kind of arhat bed but a hollow four-poster bed. See the beams.

"Hey~~~"

Another long sigh, this is the ordinary boudoir of a daughter's house, even if there are any differences, there are more... more...

Su Xiaoxiao sat up from the bed with a "huh!" If there was anything different in this room, it would be...she slowly turned her head to look at the wall. Xu Caifeng once said that Zi Yan likes drawing very much. Well, some of the paintings in this room are painted by herself and she likes to be framed and hung here.

How many?Su Xiaoxiao got up, which ones are there?

There are a total of six paintings on the three walls. It can be seen that Ziyan really liked painting when she was alive, and she also liked painting. Three of the six paintings should be drawn by herself, and two of them were hung in front of the bed. Another picture hangs on the wall to the right of the bed.

Su Xiaoxiao has limited common sense in appreciating paintings. After all, she is only a cook. The reason why she thinks that three paintings were painted by one person is because the signatures on the three paintings are the same, and the handwriting of the poems is the same, while the other three paintings are not the same. Each one is different.

She didn't have much interest in looking at other people's paintings, but as for Ziyan's three paintings, one was a landscape, the other was a beautiful woman playing the piano, and the other was a green orchid.

You Lan is just a bit of green ink, nothing special, but a butterfly parked on it made Su Xiaoxiao stunned for a long time. I don't know if it's because of the vividness of Zi Yan's painting, or because the butterfly looks too lonely.

Mountains and waters are undulating mountains, not the scenery of the south of the Yangtze River. There are no such mountains in Kaifeng area. It is clearly the momentum only in Sichuan area. A bright moon rising between the mountains.Can a woman draw such an aura?Su Xiaoxiao narrowed her eyes, why is it Haoyue and not Yanyang?It is night not day, and there is a lingering mist in the silence. It is very real, and it will make people feel immersive after watching it for a long time.

A beautiful woman playing the qin fits this place very well. The beauty's bright eyes, white teeth and long eyelashes droop slightly. In her hand is a twelve-string guqin. Su Xiao naturally knows the qin after elementary school, but as far as she knows, no matter how rare the qin is. It should also be thirteen strings.

What is twelve strings?Draw less?This is a very low-level mistake, Ziyan knows so well, he knows how to paint and play the piano, so he probably can't.

"The fragrance of orchids accompanies you when you are drunk, and when you wake up, you don't know if your dreams are broken." It was so sad, Su Xiaoxiao turned her head, "The majestic universe is vast and dotted with green, and the cold light of the Big Dipper shines on the lonely shadow..."

Su Xiaoxiao was fascinated by the grandeur and artistic conception of this ink and wash landscape, the cold light and lonely shadow, this is not likely to be a woman's state of mind, she went to look at the last picture of a beautiful woman playing the piano, "I chose Jinxiu in the Jinxiu Pavilion, lamenting that there is no one in the beauty." pity……"

Well, Su Xiaoxiao retreated to the bed, this should be the mentality of a beautiful woman waiting in her boudoir, it can be seen that Zi Yan was not as happy as she looked while staying in the Yihong Courtyard.

Seeing that there was nothing to check, Su Xiaoxiao cleaned the Jinxiu Pavilion again, and when she was about to leave the house, she clasped her palms together and said, "Miss Ziyan, for the sake of my frequent cleaning, let me hurry up Find something, at least let me know how you died?"

Closed the window, locked the door, and left the Guose Tianxiang Building. I thought about going back to Kaifeng Mansion, but halfway through the walk, I thought about going back. There is nothing to do and I would rather go shopping, so I turned my feet and changed directions.

The foot of the imperial city is still very lively during the daytime, there are vendors, jugglers, and exotic customs brought by the horse team from a distance. All the silver was given to Xiaofeng.

Tired from walking, she picked up a clean tea stall and ordered a bowl of tea. Thinking about it, if she could drink tea like this for the rest of her life, it wouldn't necessarily be so bad if she didn't do anything or think about it.

"You bastard! Tell you to be lazy, tell you not to move! I'll kill you bastard!!"

Su Xiaoxiao was feeling bored by herself, when she heard a scolding and the sound of a whip from a distance, it made her feel painful.

Many people followed the sound and looked over, but there were no people who really came close to it. Passers-by just walked over to watch the excitement. Su Xiaoxiao looked around for a while, and looked from a distance like a person holding a What is the whip doing.

She didn't have much curiosity, and she didn't plan to go there when she looked at it from a distance, but just as she lowered her head to drink tea, she let out a deep neigh, and the voice was filled with infinite sadness.

Su Xiaoxiao was taken aback, she didn't think it was a big deal when people hit people, after all, people have their own destiny and she is not capable of handling everything, but this person beats horses... She felt a little uncomfortable in her heart, and walked over without knowing how .

On the side of the road, a pile of grass taller than a person was scattered all over the ground, and a man with dark skin and pockmarked face was whipping his horse with a whip.

You don't need to guess, you know that the pile of prairie was originally pulled into the city on a horse-drawn cart, but for some reason the horse fell down, so the cart also overturned.

Su Xiaoxiao took a look at the carriage, and then went to look at the horse that caused trouble. It was skinny and skinny. If it wasn't for the dirty dark red hair, Su Xiaoxiao thought she saw a horse. Skeleton model.

The whip in the man's hand was not long, and the section of the hemp rope was already a bit worn out, but this did not affect the bloody boy.

Su Xiaoxiao frowned in displeasure. After all, she was her own horse, so how could she beat her to death? Wouldn't she feel bad if she was killed?

Thinking of this, she tilted her head and took another look. It just so happened that the horse was also looking this way, and her big black eyes were watery. It's gone--what a pity!

"Stop beating!" She flicked her sleeves and walked out, "Is this horse yours?"

"Yes, what's the matter?" The pockmarked face glanced at Su Xiaoxiao, although he couldn't see how extravagant he was, but at least he was a son and he didn't dare to offend him casually.

"It's okay, I want this horse, you make a price."

Mazi froze for a moment, then smiled and said, "Young master, I still point to this horse and drive every day, so I won't buy it."

Pointing to drive?Su Xiaoxiao doesn't cut, with such a style of play, if he doesn't kill him today, it will be tomorrow's business, "Stop talking nonsense, how much is it?"

"Well," seeing that Su Xiaoxiao was not joking, the pockmarked face pondered for a moment, then stomped his feet and said, "You can give me ten taels, I have raised this horse for several years, if it is not for my son, if you sincerely want to buy it, I will not sell it. "

"Ten taels?" Robbery, although she doesn't know how much the horse is now, but it is obvious that this person is a master of extortion, "Five taels of silver is my horse, how about it?"

"My lord, you can really joke, I won't sell five taels, I won't sell it," Mazi shook his head and went to pull the horse, then started to pick up the messy grass on the ground and ignored Su Xiaoxiao.

Su Xiaoxiao saw that the horse struggled on the ground a few times before being pulled up by the pockmarked face, its legs, not much thicker than a hemp pole, were still trembling while standing, and there was blood all over its body, some of them felt pain just looking at it. , She gritted her teeth and said, "Okay, it's only ten taels, but I don't have that much money with me, you can go back with me to get it. This cart is fodder for horses? I want it too, let's go."

Pockmarked face squinted at Su Xiaoxiao while packing up the forage, thinking that if he really turned around and left, he would go down a little more, but unexpectedly, Su Xiaoxiao didn't turn around and left, but also said that ten taels would be ten taels, and even This cart of fodder is all gone, and now he regrets it. If he had known earlier, he should have said 20 taels.

Forget it, fortunately, I don't have to go yelling and selling fodder anymore, thinking about the pockmarked face, I didn't say anything, grabbed the rein of the horse and followed Su Xiaoxiao away.

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