After not seeing him for a day, Qin Chu thought that Yongque had left on his own like Qi Jin, and didn't want to bump into him again when he returned to the courtyard. Qin has lived slowly for many years and has seen many people, but this is the first time he has seen such a handsome man. Whether it's pretty, the key is that it's not easy to deal with at the bottom.

She sighed in her heart, and she snorted and still resigned: "If it's not easy to see, you have to see, Mrs. Hua is the subject of the matter, and it is more reliable to ask her than to ask anyone." ”

Yongque interrogated people for a long time, and ran around for a long time. Burnout is not counted, after all, it is common to stay up for three days and three nights when you are on duty in the past, but it is only a little boring, and when you come back, you suddenly meet Qin Slow, who is diligent and attentive to find a dog, and can't help but joke: "There are many persistent and tenacious people in the world, but it is rare to be as persistent as yours in a ridiculous thing." ”

Qin Slow saw that he was still amiable at the moment, which was very different from the demon with red lips and white teeth in the middle of the night last night, and he was a little bolder, and explained to him with a straight look: "Childe's words are not right, most persistent people are respectful, because the people, things, and things they are obsessed with are different from ordinary people and difficult in the world. Qin privately thought that what he was asking for was only five hundred taels of silver, which was actually a mundane thing among vulgar things, and it was really not comparable to those who persevered and had a tough heart. ”

She didn't often talk so much to people in one breath, and after she finished speaking, her breath was a little urgent, and her face turned a little red, which added a little anger to her gloomy face.

A mouthful of Qin, full of stereotypical truths, old-fashioned and old-fashioned, not like a girl's family at all! Yongque is accustomed to seeing all kinds of concubines and beauties in the inner court, who are either enchanting or virtuous or unattainable, and when he sees such a Qin slow, he is not amazed, and he looks at each other without a smile, only full of laughter, and the desire to joke is gone: "That's it, rotten wood can't be carved." ”

He dropped a sentence lightly, picked up Duanfang's calm steps and paced back into his room, opening and closing, and the snow-blue figure disappeared into the room. Soon, a candle lit up and lit up half of the window.

Yu Chi shivered in the evening breeze of early spring, from the first time he saw Yongque to the present, this man has not given him a good impression. What's not good, he can't say it's up. I always feel that people like him are not born to be with them all the way, just like the moon and stars in the sky, which should be held high in the sky and overlook all living beings. But he didn't seem to be so noble and innocent, whenever Yu Chi touched the face that was almost like a celestial man, he hurriedly skimmed his gaze, not daring to look more, and after a second look, he felt that his spine was standing up with cold hairs.

Who is this person, and why does he live here with them?

Yu Chi thought about it, but he couldn't figure it out, and unconsciously read his heart out of his mouth.

Qin Chu sighed when he heard it, and muttered as he did: "Yes, how could this kind of person appear here." ”

Yu Chi looked at her embarrassedly, and she also turned her head and smiled gently at him: "Brother Yu, the wind is loud at night, rest early." ”

"Oh, that girl, you should rest early, Ming'er will be busy!" Yu Chi's heart is wide, and he doesn't want to think about things that he can't figure out! Then he went to his own room, and suddenly heard Qin Slow behind him call him, he turned around Qin Slow still stood under the dead tree, the thin and thin figure seemed to fall as soon as the wind blew, her voice was not loud or small: "Brother Yu, I will calculate a hexagram for you today, don't take the rest of the things in the near future, and don't approach idlers." ”

"Uh...... Good. ”

Hey! Is this girl still a little god? Yu Chi, who was used to being sluggish, suddenly had a feeling that Qin Chi seemed to be the same as the son surnamed Yong, and he was not a person from the same way as these ordinary people......

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Qin said that he was going to find Mrs. Hua, so he got up early and ran to the inner courtyard, and sure enough, as Yongque expected yesterday, she was stopped at the door.

It was not someone who stopped me, but Hua Fu, who came to ask Mrs. Hua for peace: "Miss Qin, Madame is unwell, and it is inconvenient to see foreign guests, if you ask me, I will know everything and say everything." ”

He said very politely, and his words were sincere, coupled with the graceful appearance and bearing of the noble son of the martial arts, the ordinary girl couldn't wait to nod again and again: "Okay, Hua Gongzi, let's find a remote place to talk, talk slowly, talk well!" ”

But Qin Slow is not an ordinary girl's family, she is a mediocre person who regards beauty as dung and money as life. In front of the five hundred taels of silver, she said that Mount Tai could not be moved, and the Yellow River could not be tilted: "Master Hua, but most of the diseases in the world are heart diseases, and the lost curly-haired puppy is Mrs. Hua's beloved thing, if it can be found as soon as possible, it will be beneficial to Mrs. Hua's condition without any harm!" Her eyes, which were slightly larger because of her thinness, flickered, "Master Hua, don't you want Mrs. Hua's knot to be resolved as soon as possible and recover as soon as possible?" ”

Hua Fu was speechless by her question, and after a long time, a servant ran to his ear to say a few words, he shook his eyebrows, coughed and made way of the way: "What Miss Qin said is very true, she is being stupid." After a pause, he added, "Madame is not in good spirits, but please Miss Hua to make a long story short, thank you." ”

Because of the latter sentence, Qin slowly glanced at him, and arched his hand at him with a solemn face: "Gongzi Xie Hua is accommodating." ”

Hua Fu watched Qin slowly carrying her small satchel with a complicated expression, and crossed the high threshold upside down, this girl really has something to do with Yongque, otherwise how could the dignified Dongchang Supervisor send someone to make a way for a little-known shrimp in the rivers and lakes?

"Overseer, my subordinates have a question......

"Are you trying to ask why I sent someone to let Hua Fu let Qin Slow into the inner courtyard?" Yongque asked casually, and his persistent pen drew fluently on the folds. The new emperor is young, and many things are uncertain and he still needs the help of him, a minister of the East Factory. It is undoubtedly fortunate that the right to approve the red is still in his hands after the change of dynasty. It's just that this little emperor is afraid that he is not like his uncle who died not long ago, he is not the prince raised in the palace, he is born and ambitious, this errand is a good thing to say is entrusted with a heavy task, to investigate the people behind the ghost and disturb the society, Yongque's heart is as bright as a mirror, the little emperor is driving him out, and wants to support the miscellaneous pieces of the Xichang gang!

Otherwise, if a small Beijing official dies, even if he drags his family with his mouth, it will only take thirteen lives, where is it worth it for a self-contained and arrogant lord like him to run this trip personally.

"Yes......"

"As the saying goes, the rivers and lakes are the rivers and lakes. Don't look at Hua Suqing, an old thing, who is obedient on his face, he can stand on this river and lake for more than ten years without falling, and he is afraid that he will be gnawed away by others with his outstanding martial arts! He said casually and lightly, but his heart was hovering in the capital thousands of miles away, "What's more, his martial arts are not top-notch." ”

He stopped at the point, and Qin cared about it. In the final analysis, Yongque is a person from the imperial court, and some people want to move but it is inconvenient to interfere, so they naturally want to find another way. can be selected as a chess piece in his eyes, and it seems that the little girl named Qin Slow does have two unique points. As for why you want to move Huasu Qing...... With Yongque's intention, I am afraid that it is inseparable from the murder and rumors in the capital.

So what do you say about the martial arts rivers and lakes, in the final analysis, this world is still the master in the middle of the imperial city, and he has aroused his suspicion, no matter if you are the master of the martial arts alliance, or you are alone in the world, you will not be able to escape that catastrophe after all.

Qin Guan knew that if he continued to ask, he would lose his subordinate duties, and smiled and put aside the topic: "The Overseer is very right, when it comes to martial arts, looking at the inside and outside of Dayan, I am afraid that there are few who can compare with the Overseer." ”

Everyone loves to listen to beautiful words, Yongque thinks that he is unavoidable, he leaned back in the chair lazily, and pinched his eyebrows: "Lian Er is relieved, there is news?" ”

"The thirteen methods are almost finished, and I didn't say a few words when I was killed, but I insisted that I didn't know anything about the murder case. But his subordinates listened to him, and although he didn't mention the murder in Beijing, it seemed to have something to do with the death of the water ghost Thirteen......"

The methods of interrogating people in the East Factory are used to being appalling, and when they are harsh, the light ones are whipped and burned, and the heavy ones are peeled and pecked, so that you can be iron-clad, and finally you have to spit out words if you have no words. Liu Wu, whose original name was Lian Er, was born in Dongchang, and naturally saw these torturous episodes, but now it is his turn, and from last night to now, Qin Guan has to say something of admiration. It's just that this admiration is never dared to be revealed in front of Yongque, who doesn't know that this lord has a deep hatred for defectors and renegades, and last time he was ordered to hunt down a general of Sanpin Yunlu who escaped by fraud for a confidante, and after falling into his hands, he fulfilled the sentence "There is no door to heaven and no way to enter the earth".

"Water Ghost Thirteen......" Yongque read the name softly, this person's death was exactly the same as the death of Jingguan Manmen, he looked at the words on the song, "Our family always feels that this time the matter is not so simple." ”

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"Well, I don't think it's that simple to lose this dog."

Qin Slow, who was waiting in Langfang, looked at the trees and flowers in the garden that were in urgent need of recovery and said to himself, the sun is very good today, and the servants in the inner courtyard rushed to take out the cleaned winter clothes and expose them to the sun, so that they could be stored in the cupboard for the next year. It's not a small courtyard, and it's a little cramped by busy people.

Looking at the people drying their clothes, they were in a daze, and a maid with a delicate face stepped forward and saluted: "Miss Qin has been waiting for a long time, and the lady has finished breakfast, so she ordered the slave maid to ask the girl to come over and talk." ”

Qin Chu hurriedly waved his hand and saluted back, and said, "Thank you sister for passing the word, Sister Lao will lead the way." ”

In the Xuan room, there was a wisp of Suhe incense burning in the Immortal Crane Shouding, but the gentle aroma was covered by the strong smell of medicine, and the two were in harmony, blocking Qin Slow's chest in the door.

Behind the curtain, a haggard woman leaned on the soft pillow, her face was slightly yellow due to her long-term illness, Qin slowed down for a long time, and the pair of eyes that didn't know where to stare slowly turned over, and said in a trance for a long time: "You are the Qin girl they said came to help me find a dog, please sit ......"

Although his demeanor was sluggish, he couldn't talk about madness, Qin was stunned, and sat down on the small stool outside the curtain in an orderly manner.

But after sitting down for a long time, Mrs. Hua behind the curtain never said a word again.

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On the first day that Qin Slow went to see Mrs. Hua, he returned fruitlessly, and he didn't catch a word.

Yu Chi didn't see any clues from her face, neither frustration nor discouragement, but after finishing the meal, the light in Qin's slow room was on for a night.

Yongque, who had also not closed his eyes all night, glanced through the window, and was slightly surprised, and his subordinates went to the door of Qin's slow room to turn around, saying that they didn't want to move much inside, and occasionally there was a faint sound of rustling and sizzling. Yongque touched the white python coiled on his lap, and looked at the silhouette on the window paper with interest: "What did Mrs. Hua Suqing say to her, she is not very smart, don't you also be taken stupid!" ”

He just didn't mean to say a word, and asked Qin Guan, who was sorting out the paperwork for him on the side, to hear it, but he remembered it in his heart. The old man is very different from this little girl of unknown origin, whether he is a pawn or not, it is good to keep an extra eye.

Qin Guan pondered, should Ming'er send two fans to investigate with him?

The next day, Hua Fu followed the routine and asked An to leave the inner courtyard, and as soon as he raised his head, he saw a restrained figure standing outside the courtyard gate.

He tugged at the corners of his mouth: "Miss Qin, this is ......"

Qin Slow said honestly: "Chat with Mrs. Hua." ”

"...... "God knows, what to talk about with a sluggish person who can't say three words a year. There was Yongque in front of her, Hua Fu was not easy to stop, and mentioned her: "Mrs. is unbearable, I hope Miss Qin is compassionate." ”

"Yes, yes!" Qin slowly nodded again and again.

Su Hexiang swirled in the room, the smell of medicine was still so strong that Qin Chu couldn't help frowning, and she sat hand and foot on the small stool of the previous day, looking at the people inside through two layers of bead curtains. The woman was lying on the couch, her withered face drooping, making it difficult to see her expression.

"Mrs. Hua, I heard that you lost a dog, can you tell me about its physical characteristics, likes and dislikes?" Qin slowly inquired about these questions from the porter maid, and for some reason she asked Mrs. Hua again, as if she was relieved to get her confirmation.

As yesterday, Mrs. Hua was like a wooden man, ignoring her, and should not fail to answer.

Qin waited for a stick of incense, remembered Hua Fu's reminder, and simply got up and said goodbye as yesterday: "Then Qin won't bother Madame much." ”

Only then did she turn around, as if she remembered something, she shook out a small purse from her sleeve, embroidered with a small dog's head, the shape is cute and honest, the fly in the ointment is the rough stitches, and at a glance you know that it is not often done by people who take needlework.

Qin slowly stretched out his purse behind the curtain and said, "Mrs. Hua, little gadgets, not a respect, for Mrs. to gamble and think about dogs." ”

For a long time, the curtain was still as quiet as death, Qin Chu did not retract his hand, and waited there persistently, waiting for her hand to be sore, and her palm suddenly lightened.

She looked at the empty palm, and then at the woman who was still bowing her head and saying nothing, blinked, and walked leisurely behind her back.

When he went back on this day, Yongque directly met Qin Slow outside the courtyard gate, and he said, "What can I ask today?" ”

She shook her head at first, thought for a moment, and then nodded, and it was impossible to tell whether she could ask or not.

Yongque seemed to be accustomed to her erratic behavior pattern, Qin Guan's kid was overwhelmed by the moment, and a chess piece that was slightly easier to summon was mistaken for a great character, and he sent two people to follow closely. No, the person hasn't come back yet, and the news has been delivered, and it was in vain all morning's work, one mute to another.

"It depends on the situation, Mrs. Hua is really sick." He said lightly.

Unexpectedly, Qin slowly nodded with a solemn face: "That's true." ”

After saying that, the two looked at each other, and were about to say goodbye when someone from Hua Suqing's side invited them over to the banquet.

When Yongque came, he told Hua Suqing that he didn't have to care, he didn't have to be deliberate, he didn't have to care, he just wanted to be a friend of the rivers and lakes who lived in the house temporarily. But the overseer of the East Factory is coming, how can Hua Suqing not care about it deliberately! If Qin Slow saw the furnishings and arrangements of Yongque's big room, he would definitely shout injustice!

Hua Suqing's name is that the first month will come out, and relatives and friends will get together, and Qin Slow and they will be invited together as the only guests in the villa.

Most of the people at the banquet were from Washington, and the only guests were Yongque, Qin Chu and Yu Chi.

After three rounds of drinking, Hua Suqing felt that it was time to mention the key points, and said slowly with Qin: "Miss Qin, it has been a few days since I took the Long Sky Order, I don't know how it is going?" ”

As soon as the person spoke, Yongque knew what he meant, and the old fox couldn't bear to have such a person in the family running around all day long, thinking about driving people away. He took a drink from his sleeves, watched the fire from the other side, and hung it high.

"Huh......" Qin slowly put down the chopsticks and bamboo chopsticks.

As soon as she sighed, Hua Suqing chuckled in her heart, and she couldn't help but look at Yongque's face. But seeing that Yongque didn't give them a little glance at all, he poured himself a drink leisurely and comfortably. Hua Su Qingzuan grinded his mind and looked at Qin Slow again.

"Well, it's been a few days." Qin Slow nodded in agreement.

She cooperated so far, but it made Hua Suqing not easy to say the prepared lines smoothly, not to mention Qin Wan's next words shocked: "In this way, give me another day, I will definitely find Mrs. Hua's lost dog." ”

As soon as the word is spoken, the hall is full of silence.

"Wow." The wine cup in Yu Chi's hand slipped onto the case, waking up a group of people, but Yongque remained unmoved, as if he was an outsider. In the matter of the Sky Order, he is indeed an outsider.

The smile on Hua Suqing's face slowly put away, full of solemnity: "What Miss Qin said is sure? ”

Qin Slow's tone was soft, but the words were loud: "A gentleman's words are quick and a whip." ”

"Good! Then the old man prepared five hundred taels of silver and waited for the girl's good news. ”

After the banquet was over, Yu Chi, who was so anxious that he was sweating, hurriedly pulled Qin Wan aside, rubbed his hands and said, "Sister Qin!" This military order is not set up randomly! Did you really find Mrs. Hua's dog? ”

"Nope." Qin shook his head slowly.

Yu Chi gasped, and was about to pull Qin Slow to escape from Fahrenheit Villa overnight, but he heard her say, "I'll find it tomorrow." ”

"Really ......"

Qin Slow's little face nodded seriously, and fell into the eyes of Yongque not far away, and no matter how curious he was, he was also curious. What is this girl's idea, you must know that Hua Suqing is not a vegetarian, just see what she plans to do tomorrow.

Yu Chi didn't sleep all night, he was really impatient as soon as it was dawn, and knocked on Qin Slow's door, in case Qin Slow lost his words, he could escape as soon as possible.

As soon as there was a knock on the door, Qin came out with a yawn and said, "Brother Yu, early wow." ”

"Morning ...... Early. Yu Chi's anxiety was offset by her composure, and when he saw that Qin Chi was dressed neatly, he unconsciously asked, "Sister, where are you going?" ”

"Go see Mrs. Hua." Qin slowly rubbed his eyes.

Today was the last day for Qin Kuan to go to Haikou, and Yu Chi felt that he hadn't helped her in the past few days, so he said, "I'll go with you." ”

"It's fine."

It's just that it's too early now, and Yu Chi said again: "It's better to go after breakfast, so as not to disturb people to rest." ”

Qin Slow gave an inexplicable answer: "No need, I can't argue." ”

When the two of them arrived outside the wall of the inner courtyard, as Qin Wan said, they would not quarrel with Mrs. Hua at all, because there were already people in the inner courtyard who were turning their backs and making a lot of trouble.

The slaves went in and out, and it didn't take long for a few Langzhong-like characters to hurriedly enter the inner courtyard again, Qin slowed down and quickly pulled a maid and asked in a good voice: "This sister, dare to ask what happened in the inner courtyard, why is there such a noise?" ”

She has been here for the past two days, and the maid in the courtyard has long been familiar to her, so she patiently stopped and said with a sad face: "It's strange! I don't know what the kitchen did for Mrs. to eat yesterday, but today on the fifth watch, Mrs. had a fever and a rash, and this time the kung fu burned so much that I don't know who is going to do it! ”

"Call me all the useless garbage!! Madame, if there is a bad thing, they don't want to get out of this Washington Mansion alive!! ”

After hearing who was roaring, Yu Chi looked shocked: "This, this is Hua Gongzi?!" ”

Qin Chu was not surprised, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he actually pressed out a smile: "Mrs. Hua is sick, he is naturally anxious." That's it, it seems that I can't chat with Mrs. Hua today, Brother Yu, go out with me. ”

"Huh? Where to? Yu Chi still couldn't find himself.

"In the city of Xiangyang."

"Do what?"

"Shopping."

On the way, Yu Chi couldn't help but reveal to Qin Slow, "If the dog can't find it, let's run away", Qin Chi looked at him and sighed: "Brother Yu, do you think the rivers and lakes are so big, where can I run if I offend the Hua family?" You can see that the Lord of the Huameng can safely and boldly let the two of us enter the city today, and you can see that he doesn't care whether we run or not. ”

Yu Chi scratched his hair in distress: "But sister, until now, I haven't seen you find a dog." ”

Qin Yan, who had found out the tiger's head money bag, sighed slowly, and said without waves: "Because Mrs. Hua didn't lose the dog at all." ”

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She counted her copper plates, and slowly swallowed: "To be precise, the dog that Mrs. Hua lost does not exist at all." ”

"What !!" Yu Chi was completely stunned, "This, this is impossible!" Didn't you say what kind of curly dog it weighed, how many pounds it weighed, what it ate, what it drank, what it played...... Do you say the same as you see with your own eyes? Why doesn't there exist zài? ”

Qin Chi sighed, carefully put the tiger head purse into his arms, and said slowly with Yu Chi: "Seeing it with your own eyes and seeing it with your own eyes are two different things. I tell you that the curly-haired dog, for example, has a snow-white coat, a spotted belly, and blue eyes; Chicken liver and wings; The big name is white and fat, and the small name is fat; I often play near the lotus pond and loquat garden in the east courtyard, weighing six catties and three taels and two dollars, etc., all from people and horses from all over Washington. Then the question is......" she tapped lightly on the carriage, "why is it that a puppy that has been kept in the inner courtyard all the year round and Mrs. Hua does not leave her for a moment even knows so well that the porter of the mansion knows it well, as if he sees it every day?" This is completely unreasonable, so there is only one reasonable explanation, before we came to Washington, someone made up such a dog, and ordered everyone to keep in mind a qiē about it at all times, so that the person who received the Changkong order believed that there really was such a dog. ”

Yu Chi was dumbfounded when he heard this, he didn't understand, and he didn't understand why the people in Washington had to work so hard to toss such a thing.

"Of course, what really convinced me was what I saw on the first day I went to see Mrs. Hua."