Renew

Kong Qing said that it was blown by the wind, but in fact she knew very well in her heart that it was clearly sent by a ghost, how could the wind be so strong that it could even blow the letter paper from Zhou Mansion to Shan's house.

Bai Liu was even more frightened, she stared straight and asked, "Why are you still joking?"

Kong Qing doesn't say much on weekdays, let alone joking, she does everything she does with a serious attitude, not at all what a young girl at this age should look like.

Xiaofu poked her head out of the window and took a look, Fox questioned: "Isn't it someone who sent it over? Why did the wind send the letter as soon as you opened the window, and the wind will still negotiate with you."

Seeing no one, she retracted her head, and looked back at the thin paper, feeling even weirder, "But this word was indeed written by a girl, let's see what the girl wrote."

Bai Liu had already taken a step back quietly, her face was still tense, but her heart was already in a mess, she wanted to run away, but unfortunately the yard outside the house was dark, perhaps even more frightening.She turned around, went to pull up the quilt on the couch, and wrapped it around her body indiscriminately.

By the window, Kong Qing was already reading the letter, carefully reading it word by word, the more she read, the more she frowned.

Xiaofu was so anxious that her eyes rolled wildly, "The girl is going to Pengzhou? She, she must have not told Mr. Shan, otherwise why would we help spread the word? Today, some people say that she was caught in the imperial city. The spies came from Fuyu, Pengzhou is right next to Fuyu, there must have been a fight over there, even if you want to find the Fourth Young Master, you shouldn't be looking for it like this!"

Kong Qing turned a deaf ear and was still reading the letter carefully.

Bai Liu, who was wrapped in a quilt, asked timidly, "Miss is going to Pengzhou? Then, what about us?"

Xiaofu stomped her feet and said, "Young lady wants us to stay in Shan's house. If Shan's house doesn't want us to stay, then let us pawn all our jewelry and take the rest of the silver in the dressing box to find another place to live."

Bai Liu shook her head violently, "I don't really want to stay in Shan's house, it's also very haunted, haunted by ghosts."

Kong Qing's hand holding the thin paper trembled slightly, and the paper was crumpled, "Young lady should still be in Zhou Mansion, if she wants to go to Pengzhou, I want to be with her."

Xiaofu lost her mind, her eyes wavered, and she said after a while: "Then I will go with the girl, and accompany the girl to find the Fourth Young Master."

"You don't want to die?" Bai Liu was shocked.

Xiao Fu glared at her: "Miss treats us so well, how could she just run away like this."

"Kepengzhou..." Bai Liu hesitated.

"Let's go if we find the Fourth Young Master. Thinking about the best, maybe the battle will be over as soon as we arrive in Pengzhou." Xiaofu forced a smile.

Bai Liu was surprised and said: "You treat the war as eating, and if you say it's over, it's over."

Xiao Fu glared at her, "Anyway, I want to be with the girl, go wherever you like."

Seeing that the two were about to quarrel again, Kong Qing sighed: "What's the use of talking so much, the girl may not want to take us."

Bai Liu wrapped herself tightly in the quilt and didn't speak for a long while.

Xiao Fu said to herself: "When I was in the Rong Mansion before, the girls were mostly served by me, if I wasn't there, the girls would definitely not get used to it."

Kong Qingyan raised his blue eyes, and when he was about to take another look at the letter paper, he suddenly felt that the paper in his hand had softened a little, as if it had been soaked in water.

Bai Liu suddenly stretched out a finger and pointed at it, with his mouth open, "This, this letter..."

I saw the thin paper in Kong Qing's hand slowly turning into black smoke, curling up towards the sky, dissipating in mid-air, like ink melting into water.

Bai Liu rolled her eyes and fell to the ground with a thud. Fortunately, the quilt was tightly wrapped around her body, otherwise she would definitely fall in pain.

Xiaofu looked dumbfounded, and said falteringly: "What's the matter with this paper? Am I delusional? It hasn't caught fire yet, so why is black smoke rising!" She hurriedly reached out to grab it, and in midair He waved twice, but he couldn't catch the ink smoke.

The letter paper was gone, not even a speck of ashes remained, and it hadn't been burnt at all.

Kong Qing raised her head silently, watching the ink smoke dissipate.She suddenly remembered that before they arrived at the imperial city, they were resting in the mountains at night. The girl kept saying that she heard some sound and insisted on going to see it. Later...

Then she saw some blood, and saw the girl waving a pen and drawing something weird in mid-air, and then the ink disappeared and went off somewhere.

Kong Qing's mouth trembled, thinking, the ink will not condense into something she can't see, just like the letter paper in Cai Cai's hand just now, but the thin paper just now can be seen by her, while the last time it was not. no.

Xiaofu couldn't help but rubbed her eyes, and the more she thought about it, the more she became dazed, "Who sent the letter? Is it really the wind?"

No matter how big her heart was, she couldn't convince herself this time.

Kong Qing was silent.

Xiaofu couldn't wait for an answer, so she simply turned around, trying to help Bai Liu who was lying on the ground up, but just bent down, she heard Kong Qing say: "Young lady, there is a ghost following her."

Kong Qing paused, and then said: "I can't tell if it's just one or several. The girl asked me to go out with her several times, because of the three of us, I'm the only one who knows about this. The girl is afraid that you will be killed." Scared."

Xiao Fu took a deep breath, turned her head and looked Kong Qing up and down, "Are you trying to fool me?"

Kong Qing pretended to be calm, "Although I can't see the ghosts following the girl, the letter... must have been sent by them, and the girl passed on the letter, presumably because she doesn't want to hide it from you anymore."

Xiao Fu still wanted to find an explanation to convince herself, but after hearing this, she tilted her body and fell down with Bai Liu.

Kong Qing let out a long sigh, and packed up his things on his own. After finishing the arrangement, he knelt down and patted the faces of the two girls.

It took a while for Bai Liu and Xiao Fu to open their eyes, and they lay in a daze, as if their souls had been frightened away.

Kong Qing said: "Wake up, we have to find Master Shan and Mrs. Shan quickly."

Bai Liu burst into tears, she was worried every day when she came out of Qi'an, but she didn't dare to mention the word "fear" to her lips, and now she finally couldn't hold it back anymore.

Xiaofu patted her on the back, although she was also very confused and scared, she probably understood the meaning of Kong Qing's words just now, she thought about it, and comforted her: "It turns out that Rong's mansion is really haunted, just think about it, and now follow the girl There should be good ghosts around, otherwise the three of us would not be able to live."

Bai Liu didn't feel comforted at all, her shoulders trembled.

Xiaofu said again: "Okay, old people say that ghosts are afraid of evil people, but our girl is not extremely vicious, maybe that ghost can be considered timid in the underworld, even if you are not fierce, it will be afraid of you. "

Bai Liu choked, "Sure, really?"

Xiao Fu nodded, "Why did you lie to you?"

Bai Liu took a deep breath, opened her eyes wide, and pretended to be fierce.

Xiao Fu was speechless.

Kong Qing went to knock on the door of Shandong and Lin Que, and told everything in the letter. When asked where the letter was, she lied and said that she burned it after reading it.

Shandong propped his knees and let out a long sigh, his eyes were red, "What did you say she went to Pengzhou? Somewhat implicated, this time the officers and soldiers searched everywhere, can she, can she get out of the city gate?"

Lin Que was also disturbed, and ordered someone to call Shan Jinheng and the three grandchildren to him.

Dan Liushuang turned pale with fright, "Cousin, is she really leaving?"

That Shan Wanjin was also frightened, although she couldn't see that cousin from outside competing for the favor of grandpa and grandma, but she... would never expect that cousin to get killed, and immediately said: "Then what should I do?" , shall we look for it, Xu hasn't gone far yet."

Shan Dong shook his head, "Going to look for her now will put her at a disadvantage."

"You can't just wait like this." Shan Wanjin frowned.

Shan Dong said in a deep voice: "If she leaves, the Zhou family will definitely find out that someone will come later."

The imperial city is not peaceful tonight, there are officers and soldiers wandering around with lamps.The doors of some houses were already closed, but the door was still knocked. The officers and soldiers stood outside the house, and when the people in the house opened the door, they entered the house without any explanation to search.

The fact of the search spread throughout the city during the day, so no one dared to ask the reason when they were woken up in the middle of the night. Can.

Doors were knocked on door to door, even thatched cottages on the outskirts of the city were not spared. The inside and outside of the imperial city were all searched, and those who had already been searched during the day were knocked again at night.

This battle was really too big, but no one dared to complain. Naturally, the more careful the search, the better. If something was missed, it would be the common people who suffered.

I thought the Zhou Mansion was safe, but Rong Li just saw the skinning ghost came back, and before he asked the three girls if they had seen the letter, Hua Su said with a grim expression, "Someone is here."

Rong Li was taken aback, "Who?"

Hua Su closed his eyes, as if he had separated his consciousness to take a look, and said slowly: "Officers and soldiers."

Rong Li was stunned, "Why are the officers and soldiers coming? Isn't the Zhou mansion already searched during the daytime? Could it be that they don't even believe Mr. Zhou?"

Hua Su opened his eyes, and stood up holding the corner of his black robe, "The court is not so simple, ordinary people know intrigue best."

Rong Li hurriedly stood up, and stood by the window, "Then what should we do?"

"Don't worry." Hua Su said calmly.

After a while, a series of chaotic footsteps really sounded outside the yard.

Rong Li looked out from the window paper that was torn as big as a finger, and saw that the courtyard was suddenly brightly lit, and a group of people came in with lights.

One person sternly said: "Search, don't let go of any corner. Although this is Master Zhou's mansion, we will do things impartially. We must not violate the sacred will. I hope Master Zhou will forgive me!"

After the man finished speaking, he turned around and cupped his hands, with a look of certainty on his face, as if he was sure of someone hiding in the yard.

Beside him, Zhou Qinglin frowned and stood still, his lips were tightly pursed, and he glanced to the other side, obviously not daring to look.

Zhou Qinglin's wife stood beside her, also looking nervous and worried.

Rong Li stepped back in a hurry, reached out and grabbed Hua Su's black robe, and said anxiously: "I must not implicate the Zhou family."

"A group of mortals dare to jump here." Hua Su's phoenix eyes slanted, their eyes were cold.

Rong Li pinched the corner of the cold black robe, his lips and tongue were dry from nervousness, he had to lick the corner of his lips, then lowered his voice and said: "Tell me, where should I hide, what can this ghost do?" ?”

"Hiding?" Hua Su smiled, "You haven't done anything wrong, why do you want to hide?"

Hua Su's red lips parted, and a wisp of ghostly air escaped from her mouth.She looked indifferent, and when she really didn't pay attention to the mortals outside, when her lips were parted, she was inexplicably hesitant to speak.

Rong Li drove this thought out of his heart, this ghost... how could he be shy.

A ray of chill enveloped her, as if she had been stuffed into an ice cave, she shivered suddenly.The chill seeped into her skin, washing away her tense muscles, bones, and internal organs.

The ghostly aura surrounding his body turned into a light black robe, exactly the same as last time.

Rong Li hid his fingers in the black robe, "Is this all right?"

"Okay." Hua Su stretched out his hand to grab her face, and brushed her forehead hair away.

Rong Li took a step back, raised his hand to cover his forehead, and scratched a few times at will.

Outside, Zhou Qinglin said dryly, "This courtyard has been empty for a long time, nothing unusual."

"Since there's nothing unusual about it, it's okay to do a search, Mr. Zhou, tell me if it's true," the man said.

Zhou Qinglin had no choice but to keep silent, turned his eyes slightly, and quietly looked at the window of the room. The window was pitch black, no lamp was lit, and he didn't know what the scene was like inside the room.

Mrs. Zhou held his arm and raised her eyes nervously. Although she didn't say a word, all the worries in her heart were written on her face.

Zhou Qinglin patted his wife's arm reassuringly, but his own face was full of panic.

Xiao Zhu, who was sent over to serve, was standing beside her in a hurry, her eyes staring straight.

The officers and soldiers carrying the lamp walked away, and the two pushed open the door of the main house. The lamp was almost touching the skinned ghost's face, but they didn't notice it, and they still looked inside without changing their expressions.

Rong Li stood motionless in the room, when the light came to her eyes, she squinted her eyes slightly, couldn't help but took a step back, and kicked the earthen jar by the wall.

The crock made a grunt and nearly fell over.

Rong Li was taken aback for a moment, and hurriedly squatted down to help.

The officers and soldiers carrying the lantern turned their heads suddenly, only to see that the earthen pot on the ground shook a few times and stabilized itself.

Rong Li stood up, he didn't intend to scare this person, but the officer and soldier had already exclaimed and almost threw the lantern out of his hand.She coughed lightly, trying to hide the guilt in her heart, but she didn't want to, and the light coughing sound reached this person's ears again.

The officers and soldiers carrying the lanterns took a deep breath, and pulled the colleague who entered the room together with him, "Come to my side."

The man was confused, he looked through it for a long time but didn't see anything, he even looked at the roof beam carefully, "No one."

The one who was frightened just now asked nervously: "Nothing? Could there be a cat?"

Hua Su said indifferently: "I see you scare people."

This time Rong Li didn't dare to say anything.

Hua Su felt a little regretful, "It's a pity I didn't bring Chuizhu here, otherwise I would really let him see the cat."

Rong Li said, it's better to say goodbye, Chuizhu's blue eyes are as green as will-o'-the-wisps at night.

"What kind of cat?" The officers and soldiers who asked the question immediately "sucked and sucked" a few times, but failed to recruit any cats and dogs, and said in confusion: "There is no living thing in this room, let alone people, even cats." No dogs."

After finishing speaking, he wiped the table, checked the bed and the soft pillows, and said in surprise: "It seems that people have lived here, the tables, chairs and mattresses are very clean, but, what about this person?" .”

The frightened officer and soldier stopped talking, followed the ghosts behind him, and went out of the house on fire, reporting all the details in the house.

Just now he frowned at Zhou Qinglin's eccentric senior official, went into the room to take a look, looked under the table under the bed and on the beam, but really couldn't find anything.

He suppressed his anger and went out of the house, sneering: "Where did Master Zhou get the news? He knew that someone was coming tonight, and even kicked out the distinguished guests in advance."

Zhou Qinglin didn't know where Rong Li was going, so he pretended to be calm and said: "Where is this distinguished guest, this house has been idle for a long time, and the servants of the mansion come here to rest occasionally."

Xiao Zhu bit the bullet and said: "This servant has messed up the mattress today, and I will have time to clean it up in the future."

"Your manor treats your servants really well." The man paused, and said again: "Look outside, and they've been searched."

The officers and soldiers carrying lanterns responded one after another, turned around and walked away.

Mrs. Zhou let go of Zhou Qinglin's arm, walked into the room with her skirt in hand, and looked around, but she couldn't see Rong Li's figure. Although she was relieved, other worries came to her mind again.

This girl is not in the house, so... where did she go?

Rong Li glanced at Mrs. Zhou, then looked at Zhou Qinglin, stretched out his hand to pinch Hua Su's black robe, his lips moved, and asked silently: "Let's go?"

Hua Su figured out what she said, "I thought you would want to take a second look. This is probably the Lord Patrol Secretary, and it seems that he really has a grudge against Zhou Qinglin."

Rong Li shook his head, as long as the inspectors can't find her, Master Zhou will not be caught.

When Hua Su stared at people intently, his eyes were indifferent, as if he could see through people's thoughts.

Rong Li met her gaze, his eyes were bright.

Hua Su looked away, as if a bow full of arrows suddenly melted into water, inexplicably a little more angry than a living person, "Then go, see what I do, I can still stop you."

After finishing speaking, she put her hand on Rongli's shoulder, pushed him and walked out.

There was a crowd of people standing outside the house, none of them could see the person and ghost coming out of the house.

Zhou Qinglin frowned tightly, glanced at the back of the house, then looked at his wife after narrowing his eyes, and shook his head slightly.

The Lord Patrol Secretary who brought the soldiers sneered, "Please trouble Lord Zhou and Mrs. Zhou to come with me."

Zhou Qinglin turned around and followed him out of the yard.

All the servants in the mansion were brought over, Zhan Wei stood in a group, very nervous.

The lord of the Patrol Division has a lot of authority, and immediately said: "Although I and Lord Zhou are colleagues in the court, but they have different duties, and now I am ordered by the emperor to search. I hope you will not lie, otherwise you will suffer. It’s you, Master Zhou.”

The servants pursed their lips and kept their heads down, not daring to look away.

The man asked: "Today I received news that Mr. Zhou has brought an outsider into the mansion. I don't know who that person is and where he is now."

No one answered for a long time, Zhou Qinglin was about to speak when he heard the man say: "I am asking you a servant of your mansion, Mr. Zhou is really approachable, do you regard yourself as a servant?"

Hua Su let go of Rongli's shoulders, and snorted coldly, "Is there a knife in this man's mouth? No matter how he speaks, he can poke him in pain."

Rong Li thought to himself, in comparison, this ghost can be regarded as kind.

Zhou Qinglin's face was not very good-looking, "Master Liu, just ask, why bother to talk with a gun and a stick."

Master Liu sneered, "How can Master Zhou be so bold? Does this count as carrying a gun with a stick?"

Zhou Qinglin remained silent, with anger hidden in his eyes.

In the crowd, the maidservant named Xiaozhu rolled her eyes and said in a trembling voice: "The girl from the Shan family who entered the mansion today is a delivery of cloth. Madam's birthday is coming, and I want to make a new jacket, so I will give you a new coat." Order the Shan family to send the sample cloth, and the girl sent the cloth and left."

Zhou Qinglin raised his hand and rubbed the center of his brows, heaved a sigh of relief, he asked this maid to serve because of her cleverness.

Master Liu, the inspector who asked the question, frowned: "Really?"

"It's absolutely true." Xiaozhu choked up.

Mr. Liu snorted, "Where is Bu? I'll take it to the Shan family to ask. Speaking of which, when Qi An Zhizhou wrote a letter, he mentioned that Mrs. Rong's wife is the daughter of the Shan family. It's a Shan family on Longdong Street."

He paused for a while, and said meaningfully: "Master Zhou has delivered things to Shan's house all these years. People who don't know may think that Mr. Zhou should be named Shan. If the Rong family hadn't fallen into this situation, the eldest lady would have died. It's too early, making this case difficult to judge, and I'm afraid that even the Shan family will be punished."

Zhou Qinglin kept silent, if the inspector really went to knock on the door of Shan's house, he would not be able to ask anything, Shan Dong and Lin Que sent Rongli here, they indicated that they wanted to keep her.

Rong Li listened intently for a while, when he first came to the imperial city, he did not expect such a storm, but luckily the Shan family was not harmed, everything was still in time.

She paused, turned around and went back to the yard, and entered the house.

Hua Su followed, only to see that the girl took out the painting ghost, and by thinking, she made the brush as sharp as a knife, and slowly carved the words "Don't worry about it" on the table.

"Okay." Rong Li leaned over and blew lightly, blowing away the sawdust.

Hua Su lightly sneered, there seemed to be some inexplicable tenderness in his usually cold eyes.She stingily stretched out a finger, stroked the very shallow scratches on the table, and said indifferently: "I expected you to suddenly regret it and not want to leave."

Rong Li kept his voice down, "You can't make Mr. Zhou worry."

As soon as Hua Su leaned over, the braids slipped from her shoulders to the front of her body. She flicked her hands casually, "You are soft-hearted."

Rong Li didn't refute, he pulled the teapot over and pressed it against the notch.

After leaving the door of the Zhou Mansion, Rong Li supported the wall and panted a few times, "It's a pity, I wanted to see grandpa and grandma again."

"When things are over, you can come back and meet them." Hua Su didn't care.

Rong Li shook his head, "Forget it, I don't know when I will come to the Imperial City again."

There happened to be a carriage going out of the city, and the people on that carriage were the troupe who had sung in the Zhou Mansion earlier, one person and one ghost got on the carriage without hiding their bodies, and they left the city easily.

Not far from the city gate, the driver suddenly tightened the reins and said in surprise, "It's so late at night, why are there three girls standing by the side of the road?"

The people in the car raised the curtain and looked out.

Rongli tilted his head, and saw Xiaofu, Kongqing and Bailiu were looking around by the side of the road carrying their bundles.

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