Kaoru Tandai stared at him, a little incredulous.

500 taels of rented house...... He had lost the key so lightly, and he didn't seem to be in a hurry at all.

"How did you lose it?"

Ye Chi paused, his eyes inadvertently looked to the side, different from Gao Jun's slender figure, was a gentle and amiable face: "I was hit by someone on the way here, and then I disappeared." ”

Kaoru Tai frowned slightly: "Didn't you go back to look for it?"

He spread his hands and said, "I didn't find out until I arrived." ”

Seeing that he didn't have the slightest pity, Kaoru Tai only felt that he was really rich and almost didn't use it as firewood, and sighed: "Since it is a rented house, that family should have a spare key." But...... I don't live in a house for five hundred and two months. ”

"Hmm...... It's not really good. ”

Hearing this answer, Kaoru Tandai was a little surprised.

In the past, he always felt that the two of them were under the same roof to damage each other's innocence, and he was always thinking about helping her find a house. Now it cost five hundred taels, and suddenly ...... Changed your mind?

She instinctively felt that something was wrong, but she couldn't tell. Ye Chi paused for a moment, as if he wanted to say something, but he never spoke.

Kaoru Tatai asked, "Is there anything else?"

"You...... Why do you think I'm like your father?"

He looked puzzled, and he could tell that he had been thinking about it. In fact, he is twenty years old, and he is a scholar who is as gentle as jade, which is very different from the Taishu who can scare away people on the street with a roar.

Ye Chi was different from the people of Qinzhou, this was the perception given to her from the inside out, but it was more of a curiosity than kindness, she didn't expect that he would think about it for so long for a casual reason.

“……”

Kaoru Tai didn't know how to answer, but it happened that Ah Yao was a little hungry at this time, so he dropped the wooden card and ran out, dragging her corner: "Sister, when is it time to eat?"

She just remembered the matter, and went to ask the old housekeeper, it was just time to start eating, so she led Ah Yao to the small hall.

Today's dinner was a bit strange, there were no less than ten tables in the small hall, and it seemed that many people were invited, but only a few of them showed up from beginning to end, sitting at one table, and the old butler served delicious dishes.

Ye Chi looked around, puzzled, and asked, "Is there anyone else?"

"It's gone, it's gone. Tan Taishu hurriedly waved his hand and cautiously glanced at his daughter. This made Ye Chi even more puzzled, but he didn't ask any more, he felt that his sleeve was being pulled by someone, and when he lowered his head, it was Ah Yao who slowly walked in front of him and whispered in his ear.

"Dad has a lot of subordinates, and my sister doesn't like them. ”

“…… Subordinates?"

"Loan sharks together. ”

“……”

No wonder Kaoru Tandai doesn't like them, and no wonder...... She knows the gangs so well.

After all, he wasn't particularly familiar, and he didn't want to stay, but he couldn't resist the kind invitation of the Taishu. At the dinner table, only Tantai Shu and Yuan Ziling spoke, and every sentence of this young man seemed to be said to Yutai Kaoru, always implying that the affairs of the business firm had nothing to do with him, and having a criminal record did not mean that he would commit it again, and his attitude was sincere and earnest.

Childhood...... It's just that I've known each other for a long time, and it's nothing.

Yutai Kaoru finished eating silently, didn't say a word, and after Ah Yao was full, he led him out of the house and waited in the study for nearly half an hour.

From the perspective of time, this matter does not seem to have anything to do with Yuan Ziling, but she can't figure out this person's mind, and always feels that he has mixed something in it.

The night was thick, and occasionally the evening breeze blew through the courtyard, and there were small noises, which seemed more quiet. Kaoru got up and searched the bookshelf, and soon saw a brush in a small pavilion, which was placed firmly on the pen holder, and it was obvious that it was well preserved.

She showed a faint smile, took off the brush, wiped it gently, and put it back again, hearing the sound of pushing the door behind her, and when she turned her head, it was Yu Taishu who walked in.

"Daddy. ”

"Won't you take this pen away?" said a yawn, sat down slowly beside Ah Yao, and touched his head.

"No, I promised my mother that I would take it away when I became the governor of Shangzhou. ”

Her words were always short and firm, which made Yu Taishu frown and sighed: "Your mother's business is not your fault, there is no need to push yourself so hard." You are also sixteen years old this year, and it is not a matter of going to the yamen every day to stay with a group of big men, so you don't think about Ziling......"

He didn't continue, noticing that Kaoru was carefully examining a painting in front of him. This study is actually not his, as the boss of the Tantai family, he doesn't need any study, it's enough to have wine to drink;

Every time she looked at these things, she would be distracted, and she couldn't hear anyone's words. Those words just now were probably in vain.

Ziling...... You've got a long way to go.

***

Ye Chi's key was never found, and he just paid the first month's rent and returned the house.

For Kaoru Tai, there was not much change in Yiqiē, but a group of people on the Yamen side heard about what happened in the trading house, and they were boiling.

Because, Ye Chi has completely become her landlord.

The rent was ten taels a month, which was a bargain price in that area, but considering that she would be in charge of repairs in the governor's office, both parties accepted the price.

For a while, the news that they lived under the same roof spread throughout Qinzhou, but no one dared to ask the person concerned, so someone arrested Changsu at the door every day, so scared that he had to go through the small door.

Haruka Tantai was bored at home, so most of the time he stayed in the Prefecture Pastoral Mansion, playing the flop with Kaoru Tantai or playing some other games. He would sometimes run out and call out "Su Tongju" by the wall, and then a large group of people would come out.

It was Su Yu who was the leader, and he seemed to be a little surprised that this child knew where he was, and before he could speak, he heard the other party say: "You accompany me to play games, and I will sue your sister and Lord Ye about it." ”

Of course they agreed.

To be precise, Yutai Yao's news is more well-informed than Changsu, for example, during breakfast today, Yutai Kaoru fed Ye Chi a mouthful of buns, and then the roots of his ears were red until noon.

The more they listened, the more excited they became, and Su Yu also touched his chin and said, "Okay, this kid, amazing." ”

However, for Kaoru Yutai as a party, this is another matter. The governor's house had been vacant for a long time, and the leg of a table in her room was loose. Ye Chi didn't know which tendon was wrong, so he took the tool and repaired it for her, but the table was repaired, but his fingers were injured, and the legs of the table were bloody, looking a little cautious.

Because his fingers were wrapped around the gauze, Ye Chi's daily life was affected a little, and the chopsticks were not very stable. At breakfast, Kaoru Tantai finally couldn't stand it, picked up the bun and stuffed it into his mouth, and halfway through the stuff, he realized that he seemed to be a little out of breath, and immediately let go of his hand and shouted that Changsu came to save people.

After a few days, it is estimated that because of Ye Chi's investigation, the movement on the side of the trading house has become smaller, but the commotion in the city has gradually begun to become obvious.

At the beginning, it was Hong Ting, the second leader of the Ninth Gang, who took the lead in making trouble, and said that the Sixteenth Gang bribed the firm, but because there was no evidence, he threatened to search the door. The most important thing between these gangs is face, so naturally they won't let him be satisfied, and they will fight if they don't make sense.

When Kaoru Tai went to the Sixteen Gang for questioning, she happened to meet Yuan Ziling on the street, and when the other party heard about her destination, she seemed very interested.

"Do you know about the Comptoir?" she asked coldly.

Yuan Ziling squinted and smiled, "I don't know." ”

"Even if you didn't do it, you must know who it is. Kaoru Tandai stared at him for a moment, and said bluntly, "I can see that you want that piece of land." ”

For some reason, Yuan Ziling seemed to be very satisfied with this answer, but Kaoru Yutai only clenched her fist slightly: she wanted to settle the matter before Ye Chi.

The people in the firm have basically checked everything they can investigate, and there is no one related to Yuan Ziling or those two gangs. She clearly remembered that her mother had said that in the capital, these fine works of infiltrating the trading houses had almost become an industry, so maybe ...... She checked the wrong direction from the start.

It's not a bribe, it's a transaction; Because it has never appeared in Qinzhou, it has been ignored for a long time.

Yutai Kaoru thought of something suddenly, and immediately returned to the yamen to read the files of previous years. As expected, the file has been completely sorted out, and Master Zheng, who is temporarily in charge of the bookkeeper's work, appeared inside with Ye Chi, not knowing what he was looking for.

…… Can't be preempted.

Kaoru Tantai read it silently in his heart, picked up the booklet that recorded the dossier and searched for it, but because there were too many things, it was densely written, and although it had been classified, it was still very cumbersome.

"What are you looking for?" Ye Chi heard her enter the house and walked around the bookshelf opposite. When he is not wearing official uniforms, he always uses to tie his hair up loosely, giving people a feeling as light as water and as smooth as jade. He was holding some other booklet in his hand, which looked like a family register.

Kaoru Tai was still flipping through the book quickly, and said casually: "When the case was filed two years ago, we checked some people from the firm, and the file should still be there. ”

"Oh......" he thought for a moment, "the third level of the bookshelf to your left, the sixth." ”

Hearing this, Kaoru Tantai looked at him incredulously. He didn't flip through any books, and was so calm that he seemed to say it casually. Puzzled, she took two steps to the left, her fingers brushing over the third shelf, and sure enough, it was......

Book 6.

"You just saw it?"

"No, I don't. Ye Chi shook his head, "I only remembered it after I heard you say it." ”

Kaoru Yutai was stunned, and couldn't help but think of the fact that he remembered all the seventy-two cards when he played wooden cards with Ah Yao, and felt very strange in his heart, and was about to flip through the booklet in his hand, but noticed that Ye Chi's hand was still wrapped in bandages, and the dark red was clearly visible;

"You ......" She hadn't seen his wound before, and it was just a small cut, but now it seems...... Maybe he was badly wounded.

Noticing her expression, Ye Chi looked down and said with some embarrassment: "It's time to change the dressing so soon." ”

As he spoke, he sat down and asked Master Zheng to help bring his small medicine box, which was sent by Chang Su early in the morning, with all kinds of small medicine bottles and bundles of gauze in it.

"I'll come. ”

Kaoru Tai suddenly spoke, walked in front of him and gently dismantled the gauze, Huo Ran was stunned.

His fingers are slender and beautiful, the bones are distinct, and the injury is on the index finger of his right hand, which is indeed just a small wound, and ordinary people should have scarred a long time ago, but his wound is still bleeding, and the tangled gauze is also red.

"You ......," she asked, taking a deep breath and looking up, "how many other strange illnesses are there?"