Su Cheng pulled Jia Gui into the yard and ordered someone to arrange bed tents and a person to wash her clothes. Jia Gui quickly said, "I have them! It's in the inn." She blinked, pulled Su Cheng and whispered, "Sister.
, you haven’t said you want me to stay here.”
Su Cheng smiled and said: "Why are you pretending to be in your own yard? Do you think no one can see that you are a young lady?"
Li Xia smiled behind her and said: "Miss Wang, the girl who pretends to be a poor girl in the future must change her socks!"
Jia Gui said "Ouch": "You can even look at other people's socks!"
Lixia said: "And the girl's fingernails are also a little longer."
Jia Gui only had some nails left on her two little fingers, which were not long, so she stretched them out and said, "I didn't dye the impatiens..."
Lixia said: "It's not convenient to work. A girl who doesn't even have a maid, has to do many things by herself."
Jia Gui looked at his fingernails and sighed: "I won't take it seriously if I lose money, otherwise I might as well die."
Su Cheng knocked her for a while and ordered people to go to the inn to get Jia Gui's clothes and other things. She only said to the outside that the eldest girl wanted to keep Miss Wang at home for a few days. Jia Gui thought of something and pursed her lips:
"Xiao Yu already knew that I would reveal my secret, and didn't remind me. He even asked me to prepare the baggage I brought from home. I went to the street yesterday and bought so many clothes for nothing."
"If he thinks about everything for you, what else do you have to experience?" Su Cheng asked her, "In your opinion, what do those three women outside do?"
Jia Gui said casually: "I want to cause trouble for you."
Su Cheng shook his head gently: "If you want to find fault with me, just go to me and complain."
"Hmm? So who are they?"
"That aunt has no children, so there's no point in stepping on me." Su Cheng smiled and said, "You just want to blackmail me with some ideas and swindle me out of some money."
Jia Gui touched his nose: "It's better to honestly say that you are having a hard time and ask someone to help you."
"What's wrong with her?" Su Cheng said lazily, "She has no worries about food and clothing, she doesn't have to do any work, and she has nothing to do except occasionally serve me."
"Then why does she want so much money?"
"If you have money, are you afraid that you won't have anywhere to spend it? Even if you don't spend it, it looks good. You think everyone is as lucky as you." Su Cheng glanced at her, "Why not eat minced meat." Jia Gui pouted. Su Cheng stretched out
The lazy man scolded, "Liu Xiaoqi was so careless in what he did. He didn't even notice that he was being followed."
Jia Gui said casually: "Zhuge Liang still has a Lost Street Pavilion." Then he frowned and said, "That's not right."
"Um?"
Jia Gui whispered into her ear: "Sister Su, there are more than just people brought back from Beijing in this yard."
Su Cheng said: "There are arrangements made by the family. What's wrong?"
Seeing that she was not covering up, Jia Gui also sat down and said: "I don't know how capable Brother Liu Qi is, but I know that she is Aunt Chen's classmate. A master in the inner circle can detect Aunt Chen hiding nearby, let alone an ordinary person."
A daughter-in-law? In their line of work, there is no room for carelessness. Anyone who is careless would have died long ago. The more quiet the night, the more careful they become. If the wife really just got up in the middle of the night to take a pee and took a look, the seventh brother didn't notice it.
It makes sense; if he follows you, he will find you within a few steps."
Su Cheng immediately understood what he meant. If Liu Xiaoqi was so capable... Unless someone in his yard woke up in the middle of the night and saw something, he told his wife or aunt to know about it. Her mother, Mrs. Zhang, prepared the yard for her and chose the person.
Naturally, they are the most at ease. In other words, there may be traitors among Zhang's most trusted people. She and Jia Gui looked at each other and said, "Since you want to stay, come with me to see your mother and grandmother first.
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The two then went hand in hand to visit Zhang's courtyard. Zhang now knew that her daughter's old friend from Beijing, Miss Wang, was here. She was sending people to prepare a meeting ceremony when she heard that her daughter had led people to the entrance of the courtyard.
He hurriedly asked them to come in. As soon as they met, Zhang knew that this girl was pretty. Her eyes were very bright and clear, and her eyes were rolling. There was always a smile on her face, and she was as energetic as Su Cheng.
Very similar. Since Su Cheng came back, many valuable things have been added to Zhang's house. Miss Wang glanced at these things and turned a blind eye to them. She only took a second look at a pair of Yan Zhenqing's original paintings. Then she looked at the brand-new cloth she was wearing.
She wears trousers and cloth shoes, but her behavior is dignified and self-possessed. She bows politely and eats tea in a polite manner. She is obviously a young lady from a wealthy family. She couldn't help but laugh, and asked her daughter: "Which family's child is this?"
Seeing her clear eyes, Su Cheng glanced at Jia Gui with a smile: "Don't ask, mother, you are my friend after all."
Mrs. Zhang asked her name again, and Jia Gui quickly said, "My name is Fu'er!"
Mrs. Zhang's eyes widened. If she said her name was Gui'er, Mrs. Zhang would not be able to guess who it was. No one outside knew the name Jia Gui. However, Mrs. Zhang remembered that Su Cheng had mentioned "the lucky son of Rongguo Mansion".
He immediately guessed and looked at Su Cheng in surprise. Su Cheng smiled and nodded. Jia Gui looked at the two of them and realized that he had exposed his secret, and muttered: "This can all be exposed..."
Su Cheng couldn't help but pinch her cheek: "You don't look like a girl from a small family!" She and Zhang laughed together.
Jia Gui pursed her lips and changed the subject: "Aunt Su, Sister Su and I are guessing that there might be some inappropriate person in her yard."
Mrs. Zhang hurriedly asked: "What's wrong?"
Su Cheng said: "Last night, Fu'er sent a master to see me and make an appointment with me to meet today..." She casually said that Liu Xiaoqi was the bodyguard of Rongguo Mansion.
Mrs. Zhang was shocked: "The bodyguard is a man?"
Su Cheng said: "What does it matter to a man or a woman? That man was originally an imperial guard, protecting the emperor. Later, the emperor disappeared and the palace was in chaos. He had nowhere to go, so he worked as an escort in the escort agency run by Fu'er and his family. They were then
In the palace, I also protect the Empress Dowager and the Princess."
Jia Gui interjected: "There are also many eunuchs."
Even though the world had been divided for so many years, the palace was still an unfathomable place in Zhang's heart. After being frightened for a long time, she forgot about the relationship between men and women. Su Cheng once again told the story about the aunt who came to the door of her courtyard to make trouble.
Zhang was silent for a long time after hearing this: "I'll have someone investigate it right now."
Su Cheng thought for a while: "By the way, I also checked my mother's yard." Mrs. Zhang nodded slowly.
Su Cheng took Jia Gui to see Mrs. Su again. The old lady knew that Jia Gui was a young lady as soon as she saw her. She also heard that her surname was Wang and that her father was a member of the Ministry of Household Affairs.
"When I left the capital," he laughed and said, "Good boy, I hugged you when you were a child." Jia Gui lost his waistcoat again for some reason, and was very sad. Su Cheng laughed for a long time.
The two little sisters returned to Su Cheng's yard, and the man who had gone to the inn to pick up the luggage also came back. Dong Yu gave the clothes that Jia Gui had brought from home to the Su family, but he did not bring the new clothes he bought yesterday at all.
Jia Gui felt that his intelligence was insulted, so he arranged the objects with a puffy face.
She was sent to the military camp for a month or two every year for military training. This time she brought with her all the stuff from the special battalion. Su Cheng looked at it and saw it was so novel that she couldn't help but ask, "What is this?"
"Handcuffs," Jia Gui said, "If you encounter bad guys, they are cheaper than ropes."
Su Cheng had never seen it before and asked: "How do you do it?"
Jia Gui smiled evilly: "Do you want to try it?" Before he finished speaking, he picked up the handcuffs and shook them off.
Su Cheng said "Ouch" and her wrists were cuffed together. "This...this..." Su Cheng struggled twice and said angrily, "Let me go quickly!"
Jia Gui smiled and reached out to fiddle with the handcuffs somehow. "Click", the handcuffs were unlocked. "This thing is the latest development. There are only dozens of samples. I got it from Uncle Yang."
Su Cheng picked it up and pondered it for a long time, and then Jia Gui taught her how to use it. Su Cheng said: "It's really interesting. It's much lighter than the shackles in the yamen. Get me one tomorrow. How did you start it?"
Jia Gui shook his wrist and said, "Here's the key." The two of them pondered over the things Jia Gui had brought, and they spent a lot of time on the mushrooms.
In the afternoon, when Su Cheng went to see her mother, Jia Gui sat alone in the courtyard and read the commentary. Su Cheng's maids ignored her. Seeing no one around, a rough lady came up to talk to her. "
Where is the girl from?" "What are you doing in Jingzhou?" "How do you recognize our girl?" So and so. Jia Gui had already guessed that someone would tell her a story, so he just told her what to say, and every word was true.
All the words were false. The old woman kept talking for a long time without asking anything, and left angrily. Li Xia took a quick look in the room, and only said that the girl asked her to go out to do something, and went to report the news to Zhang's courtyard behind closed doors.
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Now that there are clues, it will be easy to investigate. Madam Zhang immediately took out the rough lady and her whole family, and randomly made up an excuse to kill them. The family cried and screamed, but it didn't matter how many slaves the mistress of the house had to kill.
? Mrs. Zhang only ordered "dragged out", and several stout servants came up, tied up the old lady and her whole family, and dragged them away. Seeing that Mrs. Zhang was about to be killed without even interrogating her, the old lady was so frightened that she shouted: "I have something to say, my slave."
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Mrs. Zhang sneered and said, "I don't want to hear it."
The mother-in-law cried: "It was all Aunt He's idea! I didn't get much money from her!"
Mrs. Zhang was stunned. This Aunt He was not the one who came to Su Cheng's door during the day to look for her. She ordered: "Drag her back." The mother-in-law was so frightened that she lost her soul, and she did everything possible.
Aunt He is the mother of the second girl and the second master. She is also a girl from a good family. Because of the disaster, her parents sold her to the Su family as a slave. A few years ago, her brother became successful and went to Wu State to do business and made a fortune.
Cai. He wanted to redeem his sister, but his sister had already become Su Tao's aunt, and her children were already so old. So he thought about helping his sister live a better life in the Su family. The Su family is not a poor family, and the uncle of the He family
There is no face to be gained by using money to help Aunt He. Money is always useful. The servants of the Su family don't have much monthly money, so Aunt He managed her business and won over many people, and this woman was one of them.
Last night, the mother-in-law got up to relieve herself and happened to see two men in black walking through the yard and entering the eldest girl's house. She was so frightened that they were stunned. However, she waited with bated breath for an unknown amount of time, but she didn't see the black men again.
The man in clothes came out and waited until dawn. Except for the girl who was a little tired and slept a little longer, everything else was as usual. The woman knew clearly that she was not blinded, so she hurried to tell Aunt He. As for Aunt He
She didn't know what she had done.
Mrs. Zhang was puzzled when she heard this and couldn't guess what Aunt He was doing. Su Cheng was also listening to the trial behind the screen. Since Jia Gui came to watch the fun, it was natural that he had to bring her along. Jia Gui then put her hands behind her back and walked behind the screen.
She walked out. When the old lady saw her, she shivered with fright. Jia Guisheng looked a bit like her mother. She always smiled and was very amiable, and her sullen face seemed a bit calm and self-defeating. She was picky.
He asked with red phoenix eyes: "What did that person named He look like on his face after hearing what you said?"
The mother-in-law said: "She changed her face, but she didn't say anything."
"How long has she been silent?"
The mother-in-law was startled: "I don't know, I've been doing this for a long time."
"Not for a quarter of an hour?"
The mother-in-law thought for a long time: "I'm afraid there is."
"What are the expressions of changing faces and colors? Tell me one by one in detail."
The mother-in-law smiled bitterly and said: "Girl, it's hard for me to be a slave. How can I remember it?"
"It turns out that you won't remember what happened this morning this afternoon." Jia Gui turned to Mrs. Zhang and said, "Aunt Su, this person is useless, please kill him."
Before Mrs. Zhang could speak, her mother-in-law rushed to say, "She...she was shocked at first!"
"Well, you still have some ideas to remember. What next?"
The mother-in-law was so frightened that she concentrated hard and thought carefully: "Then she was suspicious, then she was confused, then she was afraid, then she was confused again, then she was happy, and then she was afraid, and it went back and forth. The look on her face at the end, the old slave
I can’t understand.”
Jia Gui tilted his head: "Do you feel like you know everything? Or have you come up with an idea? Or are you taking a gamble?"
The mother-in-law thought about it for a long time and said, "It seems like I want to take a gamble."
"If you think about it more clearly, do you want to take a gamble?"
The mother-in-law thought for a long time, weighing Aunt He's expression in her mind, and said: "I really want to take a gamble."
Jia Gui nodded: "Okay. Aunt Su, let someone take her down."
Zhang ordered someone to take him down and asked, "Fu'er, do you understand anything?"
At this moment, Su Cheng had come out from behind the screen. Jia Guinai sat down and said, "Third uncle said, 'empathy' is to pretend that you are someone else, in someone else's situation, and guess what they would think and do. That Aunt He
, I have never studied and have no knowledge, and I don’t know that there are such creatures as Ouchi masters on the earth. A man in black entered Sister Su’s yard but never went out. She must not have thought that the seventh brother climbed over the wall and jumped out of the window. Otherwise, she would have to
They would think that Sister Su was stealing someone, and they would go all the way to Master Su."
Su Cheng held up the teacup and said, "So, she's not here to look for trouble, but to scare off trouble? What do you think she thinks?"
Jia Gui said: "She is scared, and she has been scared several times. If she thinks it is your fault, why should she be scared? Shouldn't it be that she is proud? From what the woman said, there has never been 'satisfaction' on her face.
'This expression is just a gamble in the end."
Su Cheng thought: "Since she can't think of the big inner master, what is she afraid of?"
"I'm afraid of ghosts and gods. Didn't the ancestral graves in the Deng family ancestral hall just cause a big trouble? She thought Sister Su was good at ghosts and gods, but she had caused Aunt Su a lot of discomfort over the years, so she was afraid." Nai sighed softly.
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Su Cheng smiled and held up her cheek: "Why are you sighing?"
"I kind of understand how Sister Su feels." Jia Gui said with a puffed face, "No wonder you don't want your concubine to be named under your mother's name. I wouldn't want to do it either."