The hairy head silently walked to the side of the bed, which was just the right height, and rested its chin on the bed, two swarthy eyes looking at its master.

It doesn't seem to understand why its owner hasn't gotten up yet, and it's usually full at this time.

Maotou licked his nose with his big tongue and flicked his big fluffy tail in an attempt to get his master's attention.

It's a pity that its owner is completely out of the state.

Looking at Qi Yi who was walking towards him, Zhu Yuanyu's heartbeat began to speed up uncontrollably. He looked away uncomfortably, and reached out to rub his hairy and fluffy head in disguise.

Maotou wagged his tail happily.

"Did the young master sleep well last night?"

Qi Yi put the teapot he was holding on the table, held a teacup in his other hand, poured a cup of tea and brought it over.

Zhu Yuanyu took the teacup, it was warm, and took a small sip to his lips.

Just when the two of them had nothing to say, Cui'er walked in, just breaking the awkward atmosphere.

"Young master, the slave maid has brought you water. Cui'er held a wooden basin in both hands, and said with a gossipy look: "I don't know what's going on in this inn, there is a circle of people downstairs, noisy, and they are all clamoring to sue the official!"

Putting down the wooden basin, she twisted the face towel, walked over and handed it to Zhu Yuanyu.

Zhu Yuanyu took it and wiped her face and hands, returned it to her, moved her feet under the bed, and paused.

Seeing this, Mao Tou obediently moved his buttocks, revealing the squashed shoes underneath.

"Oops!"

Cui'er had sharp eyes, threw down the towel and hurriedly walked over, squatted down and picked up the shoes and straightened them, until the shoes were restored to their original state, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

"Young master, the slave maid will serve you to put on your shoes. She said, tilting her head.

Who knew that a thick hand suddenly reached out from the side.

"I'll do it. ”

Qi Yi said quickly, and then didn't leave a chance for her to object, and rudely grabbed Zhu Yuanyu's feet and put them in. After that, I realized that my actions were a little offended, and I secretly regretted it in my heart.

But Zhu Yuanyu didn't say anything, and when the shoes were put on, he stood up, "Cui'er, where did you put the jerky on the hairy head?"

Listening to the sound above his head, Qi Yi felt relieved, but he was inexplicably a little unhappy.

"Is Maotou hungry? The slave and maid will go and bring it, and put the bag of jerky in the slave and maid's room!"

Cui'er said as she went out with a wooden basin in her hand.

At the same time, a luxurious mansion somewhere in the city of Youxi.

"Old, master, young master, he, he's gone!"

The subordinate ran in in a panic, knelt down and said. He didn't dare to look up at the person in front of him, and the beads of sweat on his forehead kept rolling down.

After waiting for a long time, the voice of the person above sounded, and said gloomily: "Why don't you go and find it-"

The subordinate wiped the beads of sweat and nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes, the minion is going!" When he got up and retreated, he accidentally aimed at a corner, and goosebumps suddenly appeared.

The subordinates didn't dare to look more, and quickly retreated.

When he arrived at the verandah outside, several men dressed as subordinates immediately surrounded him, and their clothes were only one grade worse than his, and several people asked, "How is it?

The man shook his head and continued to wipe his sweat.

"Hurry up and find it! If the young master really has three longs and two shorts, you and I can't escape...... Even if people come back, they may have to suffer a meal of flesh and skin. ”

One of the younger ones said strangely: "Young master, maybe he went to be happy, why are you so nervous, boss?" I think the old man is quite kind, not like the kind of unreasonable person." ”

The subordinate sighed, "You haven't been here for long, of course you don't know ......"

The young subordinate looked like everyone else was in the know, and his curiosity was aroused, and he asked.

"What's wrong? What's wrong? Is there anything I don't know? Tell me about it!"

The others glanced at each other, and the person from before said, "It's a long story, let's go to the young master while I talk to you slowly." But well, I can just listen to this matter, and don't spread it to the outside world, do you know? In fact, these are just some rumors in the house, and they can't be ......true."

This luxurious mansion is the house of a wealthy merchant, and the owner's surname is Tao, and everyone calls him Master Tao.

Master Tao has a wife and a son, and the couple respect each other like guests and dote on their only son.

A few months ago, Mrs. Tao died of illness, and it didn't take long for Mr. Tao to marry a house-filler who was thirty years younger than him.

That's really a beautiful girl, although she is only thirteen years old, she has great ability, and she grasps Master Tao's heart firmly, so that those concubines in the backyard grit their teeth with hatred.

It's just that this filling house, Master Tao is very precious, and almost no one has seen her true face, which is very mysterious.

As for why she is a beautiful girl, it is because if she is not beautiful, how can a man like Master Tao, who has met countless different types of women, be obsessed with this?

It's strange to say, generally the son of the original partner will keep a proper distance if he is not hostile to filling the house, but the son born to Master Tao and the original partner gets along very well with this beautiful girl, if it weren't for the fact that the beautiful girl is a few years younger than him, people who don't know still think they are the mother and son.

Master Tao used to treat his subordinates very gently, but since marrying Mei Jiaoniang, his temper has grown day by day, and he will punish the subordinates who have made mistakes at every turn, so the experienced subordinates in the house will carefully consider the tone every time they have something to tell.

Like this big incident of "the young master's suspected disappearance", the subordinates who reported it all went with a worried heart, and a bad one might lose his life.

But I didn't expect Master Tao to be punished, maybe because Mei Jiaoniang couldn't say it on the side.

"So, boss, you saw the new lady?"

The young man's face was full of excitement, and he grabbed the arms of the boss in his mouth tightly with both hands and asked.

The subordinate's face changed, as if he remembered something bad, and shook his head silently.

"Old Tower, have you seen something? Tell us about it! How beautiful is Mei Jiao Niang? Could it be that she is a fairy?" someone next to him laughed.

Lao Ta saw that the other party had an obscene face, and he didn't know what he was thinking, so he snorted and scolded with a smile: "Get out of your mother! If the old man hears it, you will suffer it then!"

He was right, there was a little guy who didn't know the height of the sky and the height of the earth before and secretly said unclean things behind the back of Master Tao and several other accomplices, and I don't know how Master Tao found out, and then he got angry, and finally those little guys were no longer in the house.

Everyone said that those little guys were kicked out of the house, but Lao Ta didn't think so.

In the Tao Mansion, Master Tao's study is a forbidden place.

The old tower was fortunate enough to enter it once, and that time gave him a new understanding of the dangers of this pottery house.

He saw with his own eyes that the little guys were escorted into the study, and then he didn't see anyone come out, and the little guys seemed to disappear out of thin air, and then there were rumors in the house that the little guys were kicked out of the house.

At first, Lao Ta didn't feel scared, and he wasn't in charge of the study, maybe a few of the little guys left when he didn't pay attention?

But later, what he saw with his own eyes completely dispelled his optimism.

He went into the study that time and came out with a package.

What was inside the package, Master Tao didn't tell him, but he faintly felt that the contents of the package felt like bones, heavy.

Master Tao asked him to find a secret place to bury him, and he was not allowed to open it and peek.

The old tower did so, but at the last moment he could not control his curiosity and opened the package.

Inside were snow-white skulls, torso bones, and limb bones, and the two black holes in the skull stared at him eerily.

Lao Ta was startled at the time, and he didn't know what he thought, so he actually counted it.

Four skulls.

Those little guys happened to be four people.

The old tower didn't dare to think any further, and covered the soil with trembling hands.

He didn't tell anyone about it, not even his own mother-in-law, for fear of bringing trouble to himself and his family.

After burying the package, Lao Ta returned to the study, it was night, and Master Tao, who was supposed to rest in the bedroom, stayed in the study with his beautiful lady.

The old tower, who had not received an order, did not dare to leave at will, so he kept vigil outside the door of the study.

Master Tao is in the prime of life, like a dragon and a tiger, and his movements are a little big.

The old tower listened to the door in a flustered and dry mouth, and somehow, he went to the window and poked a hole in it to peek.

At that time, he was the only one keeping vigil outside the door, so he didn't worry about being known.

He poked his eyes into the hole, his eyes widened, his heart beat faster, and his lower body ached faintly.

It turned out that Master Tao was working the desk, and the paper, ink, pen and inkstone on the desk were scattered, and some of them had fallen to the ground.

Because the study is lit up, half of Master Tao's buttocks can be clearly seen from the angle of the old tower, Master Tao did not take off his clothes, but in addition to the pants, the two snow-white slender legs of the beautiful lady were high on the shoulders of Master Tao.

Just as the blood was boiling, the beautiful eyes of the beautiful lady swept over.

It's been discovered!

The old tower was excited, and suddenly came to his senses.

But Mei Jiao Niang's two eyes were so black that people couldn't see through it, and Lao Ta was horrified to find that he couldn't move, so he could only watch Mei Jiao Niang smile weirdly at him.

Then something happened that scared him even more.

A group of flies and insects flew from nowhere all over the study, and Master Tao moved unconsciously, letting those flies lay wriggling maggots on his hair, neck, and shoulders.

The old tower was sick to his stomach, and when he found that his body could move, he immediately left the window.

In the end, Lao Ta risked his life to rush in as soon as his brain was hot, only to find that the study was empty, only a lit candlestick was left alone on the desk.

The old tower was completely confused, but he didn't dare to think about it, and hurriedly withdrew from the study.

He didn't notice at the time that there were two or three tiny maggots in his ears.

"I didn't see Madame, I was only concerned about returning to the young master, and my life was almost gone, where did I have the heart to look at the other things that I didn't have! Okay, okay! Hurry up and get to work, let's all disperse! I still have to find the young master!"

The old tower drove everyone away angrily, but his mind kept remembering the scene he had just unintentionally glimpsed.

Master Tao sat in the hall, but the beautiful lady next to him wore a black veil, and a pair of deep eyes looked ahead, like a lifelike and delicate puppet, lifeless, and the feeling of the old tower was very weird.

He shook his head uncomfortably, trying to put aside the scene he had just seen, and went to gather people to find the young master.

……

Joy Inn.

Zhu Yuanyu looked at the embarrassed little scholar with a smile and said, "Do you need to be responsible?"

"W-What?!" the little scholar blushed, "Just, you don't need it! Don't talk nonsense!"

When he got up this morning, the little scholar found himself lying in Li Zhuangzhuang's arms, his clothes were a little untidy, and he thought that he had suffered something indescribable, and grabbed Li Zhuangzhuang, who looked confused, to ask for an explanation.

Just when Zhu Yuanyu came in, the little scholar shook his small body and immediately left Li Zhuangzhuang, but it was still too late, Zhu Yuanyu had already heard it and seen it.

So there was the above conversation.

Zhu Yuanyu was just joking, and when he saw that the little scholar was nervous, he couldn't help but tease him.

"Okay, I just came here to invite you to have breakfast together, you don't have to-" Zhu Yuanyu looked up and down, "It's like a big enemy." ”

The little scholar breathed a sigh of relief, and then couldn't help but feel distressed by his behavior.

Zhu Yuanyu didn't care about him so much, when the notice arrived, he left, followed with his hairy fart, and didn't forget to look back at the little scholar before going out.

The little scholar felt as if he had been hit by a great crit, and the whole person suddenly fell into a state of depression.

He—he shouldn't have been talking to a lifesaver like that.

The little scholar grimaced and walked to the bedside dejectedly, he still had to take care of his classmates, and he couldn't leave to have breakfast at will-

Gollum......

But his stomach was so hungry, the wontons he ate last night had been completely digested after a night's time, and he touched his belly and wrinkled his nose.

Zhu Yuanyu went downstairs and saw that the shopkeeper of Yuelai Inn was surrounded by a group of people, and in the face of the menacing crowd, his face still looked like an ancient well without waves, and he was gloomy.

As if sensing Zhu Yuanyu's gaze, he slowly turned his head and glanced at it.

Zhu Yuanyu smiled at him, walked through the crowd, and walked out of the Yuelai Inn.

There was the shopkeeper's weak voice from behind-

"We will give you an explanation about maggots...... But if someone wants to take advantage of this to make trouble, then don't blame me for not being emotional...... You are all regular customers, and you should know that the Tao family behind this store is not easy to mess with...... I advise you to go back and think about it first, and weigh your own weight......"

Zhu Yuanyu raised his eyebrows, walked without stopping.

The shopkeeper of Yuelai Inn glanced out of the door expressionlessly, withdrew his eyes, picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea.