Chapter 262: Quiet, Restless
Zhaozhou City, which had only been sunny for two days, had goose feathers and heavy snow in a blink of an eye, as if to compensate for the lack of snow in the previous two days. Meng Shichen, who was active in the www.biquge.info of Pen, Fun and Pavilion, suddenly became lazy, neither killing Bai Haoran, nor using the undead to drive him out of Zhaozhou City.
Master Zhao was anxious and sent someone to urge him twice, saying that he must solve this matter before the eighth day of the lunar month.
Meng Shichen is not in a hurry, every time he replies to the message, he asks him to wait, there is still half a month before the eighth day of the lunar month. The weather was too cold, but she turned up the yard at home, saying that she was looking for some work, loosening the soil by the way, and waiting for a few new varieties of flowers to be planted next spring.
A few people have recently come to Lord Cheng's official mansion, Yue Yi, and his friend Tan Jiuling, who is from the Juying faction. It is said that several palace guards followed, but it is unclear whether they were staring at him or his assistants.
"Shang Junzhu, don't be lazy! There's a lot more to read. Meng Shichen was wrapped in a thick coat, leather boots, and Zhenghuan was digging in the yard with a hat and a small hoe on his head.
From time to time, I turned out a few insects that hid in the soil for the winter, and I would pick them up and clean them carefully after leaving the painting.
Song Yu fiddled a large brazier under the porch, on which barbecued meat skewers were set up, and a pot of green plum wine was warmed next to it. The beautiful boy with a sad face held his chin to watch the interaction between the three people in the yard, and next to him was a black cat that he couldn't see.
"Don't make a noise, I'm looking for it very seriously!" Shang Junzhu carefully skimmed over every inch of the garden land, and finally turned his face to stare at Bai Haoran with displeasure: "Boy, when your family used to live here, did you bury the things that Master Zhao wanted here?" ”
The beautiful young man under the corridor was stunned, and his expression was a little cramped. To be honest, he still hasn't reacted from the fact that Master Zhao killed his family, he only remembers that he was weak at that time and couldn't eat indiscriminately, so he didn't eat the pot of mushroom soup.
I never thought that the pot of soup was actually a poison specially prepared for their family......
"It should be, right here. I remember it wasn't a garden, and half of it was a cellar where a lot of stuff was buried. Only our family knows. Others don't know, but ......"
"But what?" The person who asked the question this time was Meng Shichen, she walked a few steps down the corridor with a hoe, and looked up at the beautiful young man wrapped in brocade clothes, "Could it be that you can't remember your own place?" ”
Bai Haoran shrank his neck abruptly and said with a forced smile: "At that time, my health was very bad, and I didn't even have the opportunity to get out of the room. It's hard to remember what is here, but I just have a rough idea. ”
"Meow!" The black cat stood up and nodded solemnly.
All right! Meng Shichen didn't ask anymore, and motioned Shang Junzhu to continue looking. From the results of the painting monk Junzhu, Lord Cheng did not know that Master Zhao killed the Bai family with poison back then, everyone thought that their family died by eating mushrooms, even Bai Haoran thought so, and Lord Cheng did not delve into it.
However, Cheng Fu does not seem to be simple. There is a spirit removal master guard in the house, so even if the black cat and Bai Yuyu want to destroy this marriage from Cheng Sangongzi, they can't do it.
Regardless of whether this spirit removal master appeared after Cheng Sangongzi's accident or not, the last Huatian incident outside Zhaozhou City proved a problem - it is very likely that Master Cheng knew all this, but chose not to report it!
There is a spirit exterminator living in the mansion, will he not be able to detect that there are outcasts in Zhaozhou City?
There is also the Zhao Mansion, Master Zhao killed the Bai family for business matters. But what they were looking for didn't seem to have been found, and when they stared at the painting, they found that Master Zhao had always been sorry for the Bai family's secret recipe for refining incense.
It seems to be a book, which records the recipes and refining methods of various incense products that the Bai family, a family of incense refiners, could make in the past.
What Meng Shichen is looking for now is this book, and then come to a "the way of others and the body of others" to let Master Zhao's evil deeds back then be exposed to the world. This is not only because of Bai Haoran's commission, but also because she herself wants to get out of this mud bath smoothly.
Back then, most of the old man Zhao was to get this thing, and the Zhao family is now mainly selling all kinds of incense. But at the beginning of the troubled times, although the business has improved, it has not been as developed as the ancestor for a long time, and he is in a hurry, so he makes the power of killing business partners and marrying his daughter in a hurry to collude with Lord Cheng.
As the wedding date approached, although Zhao Jin got better from the nightmare, he was often silent. There were no nightmares, and she woke up from the muddy nightmares, and she remembered the night when she was almost bullied and Bai Yuyu died for her.
In the snowy winter, Zhao Jin would always put on a cloak casually and go to the garden with a bone umbrella.
She would often stand under a tall acacia tree, staring blankly at the slightest claw mark on it. The servants who followed her waited silently, and no one knew what the seventeen-year-old girl was thinking.
Even Madame Zhao would feel that she was standing in the snow and contemplating very far away, as if this was not her own daughter, but a lost girl who had inadvertently intruded into her garden.
Cheng Fu has already begun to prepare for the wedding, buy things, and make furniture. There were also many cumbersome etiquette arrangements, and invitations were also sent in Zhaozhou City immediately after the Zhao family. Meng Shichen actually received one.
Bai Haoran became more and more anxious, and the whole person was completely unhappy to dig out the location of the cellar. He was worried that once the Zhao family and the Cheng family formed a family this time, it would be even more difficult for his Bai family's grievances to be cleared up.
But Meng Shichen was not in a hurry, she didn't seem to have any intention of reporting to the official, and she saw that Bai Haoran's heart was more like a dagger hanging.
Seeing that the eighth day of the lunar month was coming, Bai Haoran and the black cat disappeared together. "Sir, where are they going back on this snowy day? It's not going to be stupid, is it? Song Yu hurriedly pushed open the study, and Meng Shichen was drawing talismans very seriously at that time.
She had a copy of the Incense Book in her hand, the one she had found in the cellar of the garden.
"Don't worry, didn't the Zhao Mansion officially accept the Cheng Mansion's dowry today and have a big banquet? It just so happened that we went to Zhao's Mansion for a trip. Meng Shichen put the red pen in his hand away, and his face didn't care at all about the news revealed in Song Yu's words.
Song Yu blinked and pointed at himself: "We? Is it you and me, sir? ”
"It was natural, and it was unlucky to take the spirits of the dead with such an important occasion. Go with me. By the way, don't call me 'sir, sir' in the future, since you are a person in this courtyard, just call me Meng Shichen just like them. Meng Shichen put away the talisman and walked out slowly.
(To be continued.) )