get married first, fall in love later

When the two walked out of Zuixianglou, they were both a little discouraged. This incident was full of weirdness, but all the clues were suddenly cut off, as if there were two eyes watching their every move behind their backs, and they made corresponding adjustments at any time, which made people feel uncomfortable. no idea.

"Xiaobao, why do you think it's such a coincidence that Lanying and Chuntao are gone? One of them left and the other died in an accident. Is this related to revealing your identity information?"

Qian Xiaobao bowed his head and thought for a while, then replied: "As a cousin, he certainly wouldn't deliberately deceive each other, so the source of the news must be Chuntao."

"Could it be that she was assassinated because you inadvertently revealed the mystery of your identity?"

When Qian Xiaobao heard this, he suddenly stopped in his tracks. After a pause, he turned to face Ouyang Xi and made a gesture of silence.

"What's wrong?" Ouyang Xi opened his mouth to her and asked silently.

Qian Xiaobao didn't answer, grabbed her wrist with one hand, and quickly turned to the narrow alley beside him, then lightly stepped on the wall with his feet, and took Ouyang Xi to jump up to the top of the wall with his strength.

A moment later, a girl dressed plainly as a servant girl appeared at the entrance of the alley. She had an unconcealable look of confusion on her face. After looking around, she still walked over hesitantly.

"Strange, why did it suddenly disappear?" The girl whispered as she walked, as if she was looking for someone.

The alley is not big, and the end can be seen almost at a glance, but the girl still walked forward a certain distance without giving up. After confirming that there was no one, she shook her head in disappointment and prepared to leave. At this moment, Qian Xiaobao hugged Ouyang Xi fluttered down and blocked in front of her.

"Ah!" The girl was terrified by the two people who suddenly fell from the sky, and they retreated to the base of the wall involuntarily while exclaiming.

Qian Xiaobao stared at her face for a while: Although there was an inexplicable sense of familiarity, it was not someone he knew.She asked, "Who are you? Why are you following us?"

The girl seemed to be quite frightened, she patted her chest and gasped for a long time to calm her beating heart.

"You...why are you so elusive?"

As soon as this sentence was obviously an accusation, Qian Xiaobao laughed without warning: "Is it reasonable for you to follow us secretly? How dare you complain."

The girl blushed instantly when she heard the words: "I didn't mean to follow you, it's just... just something to tell you."

After hearing this, Qian Xiaobao walked around her with his hands behind his back, and asked uncertainly, "Are you from Zuixianglou?"

"Yeah." The girl nodded her head, "My name is Xia Guo, and I'm Jin Ying's servant girl."

No wonder just now I felt familiar when I saw it for the first time, the maids and maids in Zuixianglou have always been dressed like this.

"I don't have much contact with Jin Ying, you..."

Qian Xiaobao was interrupted by Xia Guo hurriedly waving his hand before he finished speaking: "It's not about her, it's about Sister Lanying and Chuntao."

"Lan Ying?" Qian Xiaobao was a little surprised, raised his eyebrows, stared carefully at her eyes for a while, and while judging whether her words were true or false, he asked seemingly unintentionally: "Are you not Jinying's?" Girl? How did you know about Lan Ying?"

But he didn't want Xia Guo's eyes to blush as soon as he said those words.

Qian Xiaobao had always disliked girls crying, let alone being made to cry by herself, she froze on the spot for a moment without making up her mind, she didn't know if she should continue to ask questions, or pass a handkerchief to wipe the tears first.

Fortunately, the girl didn't waste too much time, she sobbed and said in a low voice, "Chuntao's death was definitely not an accident... definitely... must have been killed by those people, I know."

"Who are they?" Qian Xiaobao asked sharply.

Xia Guo wiped away her tears with her hand, and continued: "A few days before Sister Lanying left, Chuntao came to me with a lot of worries, saying that she shouldn't be greedy for money to help her master spread those news, and gave me a piece of paper. Please ask me to bring a large amount of money back to her hometown and give it to her parents."

"Are you fellow villagers?"

"Yeah." Xia Guo nodded. Although she stopped her tears, her eye sockets were still red and swollen from crying just now, and she spoke with a characteristic nasal voice: "She died within a few days after saying this."

Qian Xiaobao frowned and asked: "Did she say anything else that day?"

Xia Guo shook her head: "I didn't see her much in the next few days, until... until the day Sister Lanying left, I followed my master to say goodbye to her, but I saw Chuntao's flustered face at the stairs It was inconvenient to ask at that time, I wanted to go look for her tomorrow, but I didn't want...she died unexpectedly that night..."

Speaking of her sadness, Xia Guo twitched, and was about to cry again, Qian Xiaobao hastily opened his mouth to change the subject: "You said that you went to Lanying's room the day she left?"

"Ah."

"Then you can see the person who picked her up?"

Xia Guo said: "I see."

Qian Xiaobao asked again: "Do you recognize him? Is it Lanying's former benefactor?"

Without even thinking about it, Xia Guo replied, "I don't know." After thinking about it, she frowned and said, "I haven't seen it before."

Hearing this, Qian Xiaobao probably had some understanding of what happened in his heart: Chuntao was ordered by Lan Ying to spread unfavorable news around him, and then left in a hurry before they returned to Yongshan County, and The only remaining person who knew the truth was decisively silenced.

From this point of view, Lan Ying's identity is by no means as simple as she showed before.But if Qian Xiaobao's identity is really exposed, there will be chaos in the Qian family, whether grandma will be angry because of this, let's not talk about it, the second uncle's lineage will definitely insist on her being a daughter , causing quite a storm in the mansion, and she will also be kicked out of the head of the family at that time.

It would be fine if she just lost the right to inherit the property, but if something happened to her grandma, she would definitely not let it go.But what is the benefit of all this to Lanying?She tried her best to hide her identity in Zuixiang Tower for several years, is it just to ruin her own family?

Qian Xiaobao thought about it for a long time and couldn't remember when he offended such a No. [-] person, but if he was doing things for others, who was this person?

"Xia Guo, Lan Ying's maid has always been Chun Tao, has she changed to someone else?"

Xia Guo said without hesitation: "No. Chuntao is well-behaved and smart, and has always been very popular with Sister Lanying."

"Then have you ever heard her mention the unusual things about Lan Ying?"

Xia Guo thought for a moment and shook her head, "No."

Could this hard-won clue be broken again?When Qian Xiaobao was feeling slightly annoyed, Xia Guo suddenly said, "You said that, but it reminded me of something. Chuntao told me before that Sister Lanying seems to have received female guests."

"Female customers?" Ouyang Xi widened his eyes with interest when he heard the words: I didn't expect that the ancient brothels were so advanced that they didn't reject les at all.

"Actually... Actually, this is not a big deal..."

This is not a big deal?I really didn't expect you Zuixianglou to be so open-minded.

The fluctuations in Qian Xiaobao's heart were no less than those of Ouyang Xi, but she was always good at hiding her thoughts, and she didn't show the slightest on her face.

Of course, Xia Guo also knew that the secrets in Zuixiang Building should not be easily revealed to outsiders, but in order to avenge Chuntao, she didn't care about it now, so she simply said: "I just heard from Chuntao that although the female guest She has a high-pitched voice and sounds like a woman, but her figure is very muscular. She was curious and wanted to take a closer look in the name of giving snacks, but she was scolded by Sister Lanying when she first entered the door."

With a high-pitched voice but a strong figure, isn't that...?

An answer was ready to come out in Qian Xiaobao's mind, but she suppressed it with all her efforts.

When they returned to the mansion, the night was already dark, and the two of them lay down on the bed after taking a shower, and they didn't even feel sleepy for a while.

"Why, I finally went to Zuixianglou as I wished, my lady is so excited that she can't sleep?" Qian Xiaobao turned to look at Ouyang Xi and teased.

"What?" Ouyang Xi waved his hand: "This brothel is nothing more than that, nothing new, I was thinking about what Xia Guo said."

"Oh?" Qian Xiaobao asked her with his head tilted, "What do you think of?"

"The 'female guest' she's talking about is probably a eunuch?"

These words coincided with Qian Xiaobao's thoughts, she nodded and said: "I think so too."

Hearing this, Ouyang Xi immediately turned over and sat up, stared at Qian Xiaobao with round eyes and asked angrily: "Could it be that Mu Huaijin arranged this again?"

Unexpectedly, her dear Mr. Xianggong unexpectedly shook his head this time: "I don't think so."

"Why not? This eunuch must be from the palace. Isn't Mu Huaijin the only one who has a problem with you in the palace? Expose your identity, make your family ruined and have nowhere to go, and then you are not willing to enter the palace obediently. Her woman?"

Qian Xiaobao watched her finish speaking intently, and then smiled in a good mood.

"What are you laughing at?" Ouyang Xi didn't understand, so everything she said made sense.

"The way I laugh at my wife being jealous is really lovely!"

jealous?does she have it?But that's not the point, okay, Ouyang Xi asked persistently: "You haven't said what's wrong with me yet."

"Mu Huaijin doesn't know my real identity. If he knew, he could have issued an imperial decree to order me to enter the palace. It wouldn't take so much trouble."

These words immediately fixed Ouyang Xi in place like a blow to the head: "So it's definitely not him?"

"I can't say for sure. After all, it seems that Lanying may or may not know my true identity. Maybe they just wanted to use this to stir up trouble, but they never thought that they had guessed my hidden secret by mistake. .”

Ouyang Xi nodded thoughtfully: "You are right."

"No matter what, the most urgent task now is to stabilize Second Uncle and completely dispel his doubts."

Ouyang Xi relaxed and lay back on the bed, looked at Qian Xiaobao with his hands on his chin and asked, "How to cancel it? Do you have any good ideas?"

Qian Xiaobao shook his head: "I don't have any ideas, but I guess the second uncle must have his own little plan now. We played outside the house for a long time tonight, but he didn't catch the opportunity. If there is no accident, tomorrow night He might have acted."

"Action?" Ouyang Xi had question marks in his eyes: "What do you mean?"

However, Qian Xiaobao pretended to be closed at this time: "You will know tomorrow." After thinking about it, a smile of unknown meaning floated on the corner of his mouth, and added: "Perhaps, I should study it carefully tomorrow. That Huangdi Neijing."

"The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic? What do you mean?"

Ouyang Xi was still confused, but Qian Xiaobao came up and kissed her on the forehead, and then fell asleep.