Guanqingzhai

Chu Jue didn't speak, but shook his head and looked at the path ahead.

Xuan Mingzi was holding a branch in his hand. He interjected, "I always thought that the woman named Lin Lian's cause of death was not simple, and I also met that girl named Xiao Ni. She didn't lie, and the neighbors They can all testify to her, and that girl is indeed a virgin, so she cannot be the same person as Lin Lian who was reduced to prostitution and married as a concubine."

Hu Yue asked: "But we have never seen Miss Linlian, and her body has long since disappeared."

Chu Jue paused, and said, "Brother Hu is right! It's true!"

Hu Yue said: "Brother Chu..."

Chu Jue quickened his pace, and urged Hu Yue, "Let's go and see the pool first."

Xuan Mingzi looked at Hu Yue, touched his chin and said, "Although Mr. Chu Jue says he doesn't like troublesome things, he really doesn't want to look like he doesn't like trouble."

Hu Yue smiled wryly and said: "He doesn't like troublesome things, but he really likes to get to the bottom of things. And he is very good at it."

Xuan Mingzi snorted, "That's why he knows your secret."

Hu Yue said: "So what? Didn't he say that he is much older than me. It's a bit too preoccupied for me and an old man who is older than me to let him know my age."

Xuan Mingzi sized him up maliciously and said, "Then he still follows you like that? What a weird person."

Hu Yue's eyes, which never wavered, seemed to be aroused by this sentence. He repeated: "Yes, he is a weirdo. That's why I think he is very interesting."

Xuan Mingzi trembled uncomfortably: "It's really not a good thing for you to find it interesting."

Hu Yue's eyes returned to that cynical look, but he didn't say anything to Xuan Mingzi again.

After drilling out of the rockery cave, there is a very delicate garden with whirling trees and a huge pond in it, which is a bit too big for this chic and small yard.

Chu Jue squatted down and tried the water with his hands, saying: "There is a current, so it should be running water. The temperature of the water is very low. This temperature should not be the temperature of an ordinary pool. There are no fish in this water, so Lin Lin How can Miss Lian's body be said to have been eaten by fish?"

Chu Jue filled some water with his hand and sniffed it close to his nose. He frowned slightly and said something in a low voice, then looked up at Hu Yue and said, "If you can go down to the bottom, you will know what it is. .”

Xuan Mingzi immediately stopped Chu Jue, and said, "You want to jump off? Now?"

Chu Jue shook his head and said, "Let's come again at night. If we're lucky, we might see it. If it's really this thing, then I probably know what's going on."

Hu Yue looked around and said, "What is it?"

Chu Jue stood up and approached Hu Yue and said, "It's something you can't think of, but if you want to know, I can tell you right now."

Xuan Mingzi, who was standing by the side at this time, said with a look of unbearable: "What the hell is it, don't be fooled."

Chu Jue shook the water off his hands, and said with a smile, "Maybe you will know at night, don't you have to take turns to recite scriptures at night?"

After speaking, the two looked at Xuan Mingzi at the same time.Xuan Mingzi had no expression on his face, and said as if he had nothing to do with himself: "Okay, but your wages are mine."

Hu Yue said, "Are you short of money?"

Xuan Mingzi said nonchalantly, "What I have is money."

Chu Jue asked, "Then why do you still ask for money?"

Xuan Mingzi raised his eyebrows, and said as a matter of course: "But I don't think too much."

Chu Jue said: "Now I have to meet Miss Xiaoni, she can tell us more clues."

Xuan Mingzi said, "I asked her, and she said she didn't know anything."

Chu Jue smiled and shook her head: "She doesn't know, because she doesn't understand what she knows."

Hu Yue looked at the ripples on the water surface, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said, "Oh, that's it, I really need to find that girl."

When the three of them returned to Huafang, they asked Hongqiao to find Miss Xiaoni. Unexpectedly, Xiaoni's father followed because he was afraid that his child would be taken away by Zhao's people.

Hongqiao usually took good care of Xiao Ni, and Xiao Ni was less nervous.But when Hu Yue was pouring tea for her, when her hand touched Hu Yue's fingers, she hurriedly avoided, and her face was flushed instantly.She whispered thank you to Hu Yue.

Xuan Mingzi approached Chu Jue and said, "This old monster is so attentive to the little girl, aren't you jealous?"

Chu Jue looked at Xuan Mingzi, and replied: "If you are jealous like this, I should be pickled into pickled cabbage by vinegar. And he doesn't have lust for anything at all. His interest in beauties is like Like the wind, the flowers, the snow and the moon, there is no desire."

Xuan Mingzi chuckled twice, turned his head and said in a low voice, "He is like an eunuch..."

Chu Jue's face showed a lonely expression, he looked at Hu Yue and said softly: "But I know he just stayed alone for too long."

Hu Yue handed over the fruit and said, "Miss Xiao Ni, don't be nervous, this time is because you were mistaken for Miss Linlian last time."

Xiao Ni nodded and took the fruit.Xiao Niu looked like she was in her teens, and she was very beautiful.But even so, her eyes are shy and innocent like ordinary girls.This is not the look that a prostitute would have.This made the girl's beauty less charming and more simple.

Hu Yue said: "Does Miss Niu have twin sisters?"

Xiao Ni shook her head, then looked at her old father, who said, "I'm just a girl, Xiao Ni."

Hu Yue said: "Miss Hongqiao, do you think Xiao Ni and Lin Lian look alike?"

Hongqiao said, "Like...but..."

Hongqiao wondered, "Although I really want to, why didn't I see it in the past?"

Chu Jue showed a smile, and Hong Qiao said, "Because I don't meet sister Lin Lian very often, but I often buy flowers from Xiao Niu. I saw the two of them in the past and didn't think they were very similar, but after Lin Lian died But I feel that Xiao Ni is more and more like Lin Lian. But Xiao Ni is still Xiao Ni, she hasn't changed, it's really strange."

Hu Yue continued to ask: "Then Miss Niu, has Miss Linlian met before?"

Xiao Niu still shook her head and said, "I haven't seen it, I just sent flowers a few times, but I haven't seen anyone."

Hu Yue snorted, and Xiao Ni pinched the cup in her hand and said: "Every time I send flowers, Miss Linlian is not there, so I leave the flowers in her room, and someone will send flowers to you the next day." My house. But I didn't see Miss Linlian."

Seeing that it was getting late, Xiao Niu's father urged his daughter to go back quickly.Hongqiao sent the two of them out of the boat, and sent someone to escort them back.

Back in the room, the three of them were still sitting on chairs drinking tea, Hongqiao asked, "Do you have any clues?"

Hu Yue squeezed the fruit on the plate, and said, "Miss Xiao Niu is not lying."

Chu Jue continued, "But his father is lying."

Hongqiao asked, "What's going on?"

Chu Jue said: "Every time he talks about Lin Lian, he is very nervous. That nervousness is not simply worrying about his daughter, but a nervous feeling of fear."

Hongqiao sat on the stool and looked at the three people who seemed to be thinking about something. She said, "Is there any clue about this matter?"

Hu Yue shook her head and said, "No, it's just speculation, we have to go to Zhao Mansion again at night to see that pool."

Hongqiao asked, "Is there anything to do with Chizi?"

Hu Yue said: "There is nothing strange about the pool itself."

"That……"

Hu Yue continued: "So tonight I have to go to the Zhao Mansion again."

Chu Jue suddenly said, "By the way, does Miss Hongqiao know the birth date of that girl Huayan?"

Hongqiao shook her head, Chu Jue fell into deep thought, and continued to ask: "Then was that girl born in Xia Tian?"

Hongqiao nodded and said, "That's right, oh, that's right! She was born on the summer solstice. Last year I ate birthday noodles from her. I gave her crystal soap and yellow cold dumplings."

Chu Jue didn't ask any more but nodded and said, "Let's visit Zhao's mansion tonight."

At night, there was a heavy fog, and the crescent moon could only see a silhouette. It seemed that it might rain the next day.

The three of Hu Yue changed into Taoist robes and followed Xuan Mingzi to the Zhao Mansion. At this time, the Zhao Mansion was free from the hustle and bustle of people coming and going during the day. The white lanterns swayed from side to side due to the night wind, like two balls of will-o'-the-wisps.

Xuan Mingzi took out his card lottery, and then the servant at the door let the three of them in, and there was no sound in the hall except for the sound of chanting scriptures.

Hu Yue squinted her eyes at the woman beside the Lingtai, and said, "She must be Zhao Yan's mother."

Xuan Mingzi said: "Yes, this Li family has a lot of background, she is the niece of the current prime minister. Her grandfather was once the grand master of the current sage, so Zhao Yan can be regarded as a descendant of the family."

Hu Yue knocked on his fan and said, "It turns out that the prime minister's surname is Li..."

Chu Jue laughed disapprovingly, and said, "How can we get to the backyard? Will we be discovered in the past now?"

Xuan Mingzi said: "Of course, we have to wait until after the shift before we can escape."

So the three of them began to pretend to sit on the futon, chanting words, anyway, they couldn't tell what scriptures they were chanting, they were just pretending to be counting. During this period, Hu Yue had been observing the expression of that Li Shi, the old lady was worthy of being a queen of a famous family The white-haired man sending the black-haired man was still very calm, but the empty sadness and despair in her eyes could not be concealed, but Hu Yue still had a trace of panic in those eyes. She squeezed the Buddhist beads in her hand, without saying He didn't move the beads, but pulled them tightly.She seemed to be afraid of something, or waiting for something.

Before midnight, shifts began to change. The Taoist monks who had been chanting scriptures all retreated. At this time, they were served tea and pastries in the side hall.And another group of people began to chant non-stop.

Taking advantage of this time, the three of them took off their Taoist robes, and they rushed into the back hall in a hurry. The two maidservants were still kneeling beside the coffin.

The three of them had already communicated with them before, and the girl named Liu'er stood up, and she said to Yan'er, "I'll take the three of you to the backyard first, and you stay here and watch. I went to the toilet. During the day, I told the servants that I had a stomachache, so the old lady would not be suspicious."

Yan'er nodded, and then Liu'er lit the lantern and led the three of them into the backyard. They still passed through the rockery cave. If it wasn't for the guidance of Liu'er, who has been working here all along, they would really have to leave some time.

Liu Er accurately brought the three of them to the lake. At this time, there was no light in the courtyard except for a white lantern in Liu Er's hand. At this time, the moon was no longer visible in the sky, and the entire back garden was pitch black.

Chu Jue stopped Liu'er at this time and said, "Miss Liu'er, you can just come here, even if you don't go ahead, you will know what it is."

Liu'er froze for a moment, then nodded with a slight smile. She wanted to hand over the lantern to Chu Jue, but Chu Jue said, "You can take the lantern with you. We don't need it."

Liu'er didn't say anything, just wanted to leave, but was stopped by Hu Yue, he looked at Liu'er and said: "Miss Liu'er, I want to ask a question, can I?"

Liu'er showed a weird smile, and she said, "Please tell me."

Hu Yue didn't let go, he used another force in his hand and asked: "What is the reason for you to stay here?"

Liu'er raised her head slowly, her face was very white, as if transparent, but her eyes were very bright, she smiled and said: "Of course it is to collect what should have been collected ten years ago, Mr. Hu , reincarnation of heaven."

Liu'er bowed her head and retreated, then turned around and left the place immediately.