Chapter 45: The Theft of the Flower Mansion (4)
In the courtyard of a large family, there was an endgame that was nothing, but coincidentally, she had seen the chess game of this endgame. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
In their line of work, you always need to know a little bit of everything.
The most important thing to crack this game of chess is to find the array that makes Bai Zi alive, and now that he knows the array eye, Yu Ji expects that it will not take much time to solve this endgame.
However, Yu Ji was still a little surprised when she touched the chess pieces, this was not a chess piece used to play, but a decoration that was fixed on the chessboard by grooves one by one like Huarong Dao, and could only move back and forth.
She tried to put Bai Zi on the table as she wanted, but the board didn't change in any way, obviously laughing at her for thinking too much.
It was nothing to be ridiculed by a few chess pieces, and after Yu Ji looked around in the pavilion for a while, she left freely.
This road is very narrow, and there is a "trembling of flowers and branches" in front of me, which prevents people from seeing clearly.
"Ahh
Yu Ji hurriedly dodged, caught the few fruits that flew into the sky and stood shoulder to shoulder with the sun, turned around, and found that she had bumped into a maid just now.
"I'm sorry, I'm just looking down and thinking about things, I didn't notice that it was a little dark, and I accidentally bumped into you, are you okay?"
The little maid was obviously a little unresponsive, her eyes widened, her eyelashes fluttered, like two small fans in the moonlight, she blinked her big eyes, and looked at Yu Ji in disbelief. Hearing Yu Ji say sorry, she reacted, and was a little hurried for a while, "My lord, you are so powerful." ”
Yu Ji waved her hand, "What kind of adult am I, call me Yu Ji." ”
If Yu Ji is a handsome and unparalleled, or a handsome son, then this can be regarded as a good way to flirt with the girl.
Lianxin Lake and Baiguting are the last places Yu Ji is going to today, walking with Xiao Xia, chatting a few words, sorting out his thoughts, and asking about some things by the way.
Xiao Xia is the name of this little girl.
Sometimes, what happens in the house, the subordinates know more than the master.
"By the way, I passed by Lianxin Lake just now, and found that the scenery is very good, and the chess game in the White Gull Pavilion is very mysterious, do you know which skilled craftsman designed it?"
"Hehe~" Xiao Xia laughed mischievously, obviously a little relaxed after talking too much, "This pavilion is not built by a skilled craftsman, but the chief butler personally designed and supervised the construction." ”
"The big butler? The big housekeeper of the Flower House? ”
"Well, it's the big butler. Speaking of which, the chief butler is really talented, not only does he take care of the affairs of the house in an orderly manner, but I have heard that the chief butler likes to read poetry, and can also compose poetry. Many of the scenery in the house were designed by the big housekeeper, especially the Lotus Heart Lake and the White Gull Pavilion here, I have been looking at it for so long, and now I will deliberately take a detour to see it. "Speaking of the big housekeeper, Xiao Xia admires it very much.
It sounded like the big butler was a man with a story, and she really wanted to meet it.
"You worship the big butler so much, could it be that you have a crush on others?" Yu Ji joked about Xiao Xia.
"Not really! The housekeeper is almost fifty years old this year, and I am about to become someone's granddaughter...... But the big butler never got married, alas, what a pity. As he spoke, Xiao Xia sighed, flattened his mouth, and stopped talking, obviously very sorry for this.
A man who can even attract a maid, who is almost fifty years old but has not yet started a family, if he is not good at that, or if he really sees through the red dust, then he has a heart. If you can persist until you are almost fifty years old, I am afraid it is not that the flowers are deliberately ruthless.
If the other party really doesn't give any explicit hints, no one can have unrequited love for so long, and the gods can't do it.
In the dead of night, it's often a good time to snoop into someone's secrets.
The hour had passed, and Yu Ji touched the room of the big butler.
As the chief steward of the Flower Mansion, Hua Fu naturally enjoys a separate room.
Yes, this sounds like a very story and a talent, like a big housekeeper with the classic configuration of the second bitter man, whose name is Huafu.
He has been in the Huafu for a long time, so long that even Xiao Xia, who entered the mansion at a young age, doesn't know how long Huafu has been here. And for so many years, the big butler has been conscientious, and there has almost never been a mistake in the big and small affairs in the house, but in the last two or three months, there have been two such major thefts.
If it weren't for the serious illness of his relatives, the threat of loan sharks, the ransom of the Oiran, the gambling addiction, and the huge loss of his business, a person who has worked hard for the Huafu for decades, Yu Ji really couldn't believe that he was involved in these two thefts.
Relatives are seriously ill, Hua Fu is alone, he has been lost since he was a child, he lost his mother at a young age, he has no wife and no children, so why is he seriously ill?
Besides, the threat of loan sharks and gambling addiction are plagued, under Yu Ji's understanding, the big housekeeper Huafu is a good middle-aged man who does not gamble or drink, and has nothing to do with these two things.
As for redeeming the Oiran, it was a matter of spending money, and the fourth aunt he newly married was redeemed from the most famous Qinlou Chu Pavilion in Zhoucheng, and the flowers were naturally not the money of the big housekeeper. Taking other people's money and ransom his wife is too inauthentic.
And the business suffered huge losses, Hua Fu did invest in some small transactions outside, but I only heard that he made a lot of money, but I didn't hear that he lost a lot of money.
Putting aside these possibilities, then the big butler is a clean person, and he has almost nothing to do with this theft, but after all, he is a person with a story, who can really know about other people's affairs?
At this deeper exposure, the light in the butler's house was still on.
Climbing lightly onto the roof and carefully lifting a piece of tiles, Yu Ji looked inside.
A man who is about to be fifty years old, in the time when he should be asleep, looks at a handkerchief with teary eyes by candlelight, this scene has to be said to be very strange.
The faint handwriting on the handkerchief also confirmed Yu Ji's previous guess.
Tears and green silk see the old face
Do not apply powdered delicacy and Jun Lao
And Hua Fu's thumb gently stroked the word "gull" in the right corner, which confirmed Yu Ji's guess.
A woman with the word "gull" in her name, or a young woman with the word "gull" as a nickname, is probably the reason why he is still without a wife and a descendant at the age of fifty.
"Qingsi" and "With Jun Lao", if it is just a bit far-fetched to say that the white head grows old together, the most likely reason is that this woman is much younger than him, and she should be the object of his acquaintance in middle age, otherwise the old face and Qingsi will not be able to explain.
But Yu Ji still has doubts in her heart, it should be a happy thing for Jun Wanqingsi, why is it "tears and green silk"?
And since they were old acquaintances, Xiao Xia also said that he hadn't heard that Huafu had peach blossoms outside, which means that the two have been separated for a long time, why are they still so excited to see this handkerchief? Is it really possible to look at a handkerchief for ten years, or even longer, and still feel turbulent and irrepressible?
It wasn't until the next day that Yu Ji investigated the other side of the Flower Mansion and saw the four beautiful women who were rich and wealthy, and suddenly had an answer in her heart.