The Sick Beauty in the Republic of China

"The thing in the black cloth really has nothing to do with holding the demon?" Not long after leaving the yard, Qi Chensheng asked Yingtao to go back first, and Wang Luan asked after seeing no one around.

"No." Qi Chensheng still gave the same answer, and there happened to be a small pavilion shaded by flowers in front of him, so he carried Wang Luan into it, and then took out the thing wrapped in black cloth: "Ninth Brother, don't believe it, Just take a look."

Of course Wang Luan would not disbelieve Qi Chensheng's words, but he was still curious about what was inside, so he took it and lifted the black cloth layer by layer.

"This is—" The old man who told the fortune, presumably just in case Aunt Yu became suspicious, opened it to see what was inside.Therefore, I didn't fool too much, but put a black-colored jade-like stone in a decent shape, engraved with fine runes on it, and it looks quite interesting.

Qi Chensheng took the stone over, fiddled with it a few times and said coldly: "It's just a bluff, it doesn't even have the slightest hint of a demon."

"Then..." Now that the heat was coming up, Wang Luan's chest felt a little tight again, he suppressed the cough in his throat, and said, "Then what really happened to Aunt Ji was the ceremony?"

"It's not all," Qi Chensheng gently patted Wang Luan's back, and he didn't want to stay outside any longer, so he hugged and supported him again, and said as he walked, "It's even more taboo to add the usual rituals to appease a dead baby." bloody."

"The dead baby may have turned into a holding demon in the first place, and was intensified by the blood of the parent—after Aunt Yu left, that person must have done other tricks to get the porcelain bottle we found earlier."

Speaking of this porcelain vase, there are more doubts above. First of all, who exactly put the porcelain vase in the rockery pile.

"It stands to reason...the time shouldn't be too long," Wang Luan raised his eyes and looked in the direction of the main courtyard. Even though it was far away, he could still see some corners of the eaves: "Aunt Ji's child is not very old. Besides, Yingtao didn't tell me, the child didn't get sick until after the full moon."

"So this porcelain bottle was probably only buried in the last few months."

Qi Chensheng frowned, and Aunt Yu said that she hadn't seen the fortune-telling old man since three years ago, but there were many people in the East Court, and if outsiders got in once, they could get in a second time.

But -- a thought came to him faintly in his heart, who can say for sure, it wasn't someone from the Qi family who did it?

After all, it was not easy for outsiders to sneak in. It would be much more convenient for insiders to hide a bottle in the courtyard.

The two were talking, not long after they left the pavilion, Wang Luan saw Yingtao, who had left before, rushing back and forth, followed by another woman.

He thought this was another aunt from the east courtyard, but when he got closer, he saw that although the woman looked like she was in her 20s, she was dressed like an unmarried woman.

"Ru Ling?" Qi Chensheng squinted his eyes a little, knowing that Wang Luan didn't recognize her, so he said to him, "That's what I said before, Ru Ling from the third room."

"She also took over the role of star supervisor. In the past, most of the affairs of the inner house and courtyard were left to her to handle."

With such a mention, Wang Luan will be able to match the number. This Miss Ruling is the daughter of the third master who was raised with a prostitute when he was young. It seems that the third master Qi never thought of bringing her into Qi It's just that after Ruling took over the Star Supervisor, she had to take him back.

Not long after, Ruling followed Yingtao and rushed to the front of the two of them, not much to say, only her demeanor was very generous and calm.

The light blue shirt was embroidered with clusters of flowers and grass patterns, the neat skirt swayed with the steps, a pair of fine jade bracelets were wrapped around the white wrists, and a few silver flower hairpins were inserted into the black hair.

She wasn't too afraid of Qi Chensheng, but still kept a little respectful, and said with a light smile: "Yesterday, I heard that the second brother is back, and I was stuck and couldn't come to the door. Don't blame the second brother."

"You have a lot of things to do now, so it doesn't matter if you don't see me," Qi Chensheng looked at her nonchalantly, then held Wang Luan's hand and said, "This is you—"

"My surname is Wang," Wang Luan was really afraid that Qi Chensheng would really say the word "Second Sister-in-law", so he squeezed his hand hard, and said to Ruling first, "Miss Qi called me Wang Luan."

"How can this be possible?" Qi Ruling naturally heard the news, and even though she was talking, she couldn't help but secretly glanced at Qi Chensheng's expression, and she already had some calculations in her heart: "Even according to the etiquette, I should call you Mr. Wang." .”

"I heard that you came back with the second brother. Now that we meet, I realize that there is really such a good-looking person as Mr. in this world. No wonder the second brother has been thinking about it all these years."

"You can talk now." Qi Chensheng raised his eyes, "praising" Qi Ruling in his mouth, but what he saw in his eyes was Wang Luan in his arms, and his unclamped hand was crushing somewhere behind Wang Luan's waist without a trace. Press, just a light touch makes the person in his arms soften.

Wang Luan bit his lip in time, so he didn't let out any warm words, and was held in the crook of Qi Chensheng's arms, but it was really hard to do anything in front of Ru Ling, so he could only stare at him angrily.

Qi Chensheng's disabled eyes dimmed, even though he hugged him full of people, his heart became more and more dissatisfied.But he didn't show anything on his face, he just continued to hold Wang Luan's slender waist, turned his head and asked Ruling: "I look at you like this, it seems that you followed Yingtao to find us, what's the matter?"

Ru Ling frowned slightly, but said truthfully: "There are indeed two things I want to tell my second brother. One is that Aunt Ji has been found. Although I haven't had time to ask what I did last night, she has already been sent to the house. The eldest lady has dealt with it, and I will follow when I turn around."

"Secondly..." Ruling looked at Wang Luan before continuing: "I just came over from the old lady, she said that while the old lady was going to play chess at Zhao's house, she asked the second brother to bring him there and show her. "

As soon as these words came out, Qi Chensheng hadn't reacted yet, but Wang Luan's hand tightened suddenly. Even though he had never met before, he still knew the name of this old lady from the Qi family.

"Ninth brother, don't be afraid." Qi Chensheng felt the change in Wang Luan, and the thoughts of playing with him just now were completely gone. He only stretched out his hand to brush the hair on the side of his face, revealing his pale but beautiful face: "Go It's good to meet you, the old lady won't embarrass us."

Wang Luan lowered his eyes, but finally raised his face, looked at Qi Chensheng, and nodded: "Okay...then let's go."

It didn't take too long to go from the east courtyard to the main room where Mrs. Qi lived.To Wang Luan's surprise, he thought that with his status, the old lady of the Qi family would avoid some people to meet alone, and if something really happened, there would not be too many bad news.

Unexpectedly, when they actually walked outside the main room of the main courtyard, they found that it was very lively inside.

As soon as they entered the five main rooms, seven or eight girls aged thirteen or fourteen, either wearing nets or carrying embroidery sheds, were enjoying the shade and laughing.Seeing Qi Chensheng and the others coming from a distance, two girls in yellow and pink shirts called "Second Brother" and got up to greet them.

Knowing that this is the Qi family's young lady again, Wang Luan turned to look at Qi Chensheng beside him, and Qi Chensheng said knowingly: "That's Rumo Rurong from the second uncle's family."

Several other little girls also stood upright one after another. Obviously they were still a little afraid of Qi Chensheng, and their manners were much more regular.Although the two ladies of the Qi family were not as cautious as the girls, they did not dare to play around anymore. The older one, Rumo, held her sister's hand and said, "It's so hot, second brother, come in."

Xu Shirurong was more lively, although she was afraid, she still secretly blinked at Wang Luan, Wang Luan noticed the little girl's gaze, nodded and smiled at her, but made her blush.

Qi Chensheng naturally noticed this too, but he didn't want to pierce the face of the younger sister at home, so after saying a few words, he led Wang Luan into the room.

The front of this door is a [-]-[-] fold jade-faced screen, the green and white texture is engraved with landscape patterns, as if it is refreshing and cool.

After turning around the screen, he was led into the outer small room, where there are still rare and rare treasures everywhere, which is both magnificent and elegant.Before they could go any further, they ran into a clean-born young man, wearing the green uniform of the high school outside, coming out from inside.

After the young man saw Qi Chensheng, although his eyes flickered a little, he still shouted with a smile: "Second brother, you are here."

"The old lady was still talking about you in the room just now."

"Well, why didn't Mu Yao go to school today?" Qi Chensheng originally intended to chat casually, and when he was in school in the early years, he also found excuses to skip class every now and then.

But when these words fell into Qi Muyao's ears, he felt as if he was waving a teaching rod to question him, even scarier than his father or his teacher personally intervening. He said, "As of today, the weather is really hot—"

Qi Chensheng looked up casually, but he was completely frightened, and opened his mouth to say: "Second brother, I, I dare not! Go back to school now!"

After finishing speaking, he hid the pictorial he just got behind his back, and was about to run out in a hurry.

Wang Luan looked at the young man who had almost fled in a hurry with complicated eyes, and then raised his eyes to look at yourself. Qi Chensheng, who was accustomed to it, spoke after deliberation: "Shen Sheng, you..."

Before he was outside, Wang Luan had heard many people's vicious names against Qi Ershao, and he was almost terrified.At that time, he had blamed himself in his heart. If he hadn't put such a scar on his face, maybe Qi Chensheng could have saved some of his reputation.

But now it seems...

"Why do you call these siblings who grew up together afraid of becoming like this?"

Qi Chensheng was silent for a moment when he heard the words, and tried to defend himself: "I am quite different in age from them, so I can't count as growing up together."

"You see Ruling is not afraid of me."

It was really hard for Wang Luan to agree, but Qi Chensheng still put his arms around his shoulders, leaned over to his ear and said, "Didn't Brother Ninth be afraid of me before?"

"Are you still afraid now?"

"Don't be afraid, just don't be afraid." Seeing that he was about to enter the inner hall, Wang Luan didn't dare to let his temper behave like this, and said according to his mind.

Unexpectedly, Qi Chensheng raised his chin, and with deep meaning in his broken eyes, he approached more and more: "Oh? It turns out that Brother Jiu is not afraid of me anymore, how can this be good?"

"Shen Sheng——" Wang Luan only felt that his heart was beating faster, but he was already locked in Qi Chensheng's gaze, unable to escape like others, and he couldn't help but feel that there was a bit of begging in his voice .

Qi Chensheng looked at Wang Luan's appearance of allowing him to take pity on him, and just now felt that he had made up for the lack of not being able to hear his younger siblings calling "Second Sister-in-law" just now, so he let go of his hands and then wrapped his arms around Wang Luan's back. , with an imperceptible smile on his lips.

"Let's go, go see the old lady first... I'll come to see if brother Jiu is afraid of me tonight."