Ran Er and his entourage set off on August 17 to come to Cannes, walked for 10 days on the road, and arrived at the Pounding Clothes Lane before the evening of August 26. In the blink of an eye, I came to my grandfather's house for five days, it was already the first day of the ninth month, and there were five more days to hand over the cold dew festival and enter the late autumn season.

On the afternoon of the first day of the new year, Guan Zhongping, who had been living in a simple place, quietly found Ran'er.

"Miss, in the past few days, Wang Jun and I have found that there have been people snooping on Ge Mansion at the entrance of the alley, if the guess is correct, it should be someone from Xie Mansion."

"There is a lot of movement when we come back, and Xie Fu must have known about it. It shouldn't matter during the day, but at night you have to worry a lot about the adults and the king's guards. ”

"You don't need the eldest lady's orders, Zhongping will do his best."

On this day, it was overcast from the morning, and there was a small northwest wind blowing. By the time of dinner, the sky was already overcast, and the north-westerly wind was stronger. The cold in Jiangnan made it difficult to get used to, and soon after dinner, my grandfather's family went back to their rooms and lay down in bed early. After Ran'er and Qinglian returned to the room, they hid in the bed and talked.

"Lian'er, tonight, you go to Yu Peizhong to accompany your mother and Aunt Ling, my sister is guarding outside."

"Sister, yesterday it was Lian'er's mother and Aunt Ling, and tonight it's time for my sister."

"Hehe, Lian'er is so clear? From now on, we will each accompany my mother and Aunt Ling for five days, and Lian'er will only accompany her for one day, so let's go. ”

didn't wait for Qinglian to object, Ran'er moved her mind and sent Qinglian into the mustard seed world of Yupei. Ran Er is a little worried about whether Xie Fu will take action tonight, Qinglian has always been arrogant, if Xie Fu really makes a move tonight, and Qinglian sees it, it is hard to guarantee that he will shout, and if the neighbors know about it, I am afraid that it will make things bigger. Before she completely tore off her face with Xie Fu, Ran'er didn't want to make too much trouble, which would not be good for her uncle's family who still wanted to stay in Linkang City. Therefore, Qinglian was coaxed into the jade pendant to accompany her mother and Aunt Ling.

Because she had something in her heart, Ran'er didn't sleep very deeply, and she seemed to hear movement in the yard in a daze. Immediately afterwards, I heard the voice of the flat voice in the tube:

"You give me honesty, otherwise don't blame me for abolishing you."

Immediately, I heard Guan Zhongping walk to his window and whisper through the window:

"Miss?"

Ran Er hurriedly got out of bed, walked to the bed and whispered to the outside world:

"Lord Guan, take the visitors into custody for the time being, and deal with them after dawn, otherwise it will alarm the neighbors."

Guan Zhongping understood what Ran'er meant, so he escorted the visitor back to his and Wang Jun's room. As soon as the day dawned, Ran'er got up and came to the courtyard, and saw that her grandparents and uncle's family had not moved, so she gently came to Guan Zhongping and Wang Jun's room, and before Ran'er knocked on the door, the door was opened from the inside, and Ran'er flashed into the house. I saw a black shadow curled up in the corner of the house, motionless, as if I was asleep.

"Miss, I have already interrogated me at night, and it is indeed sent by Xie Fu. But it's not from Xie Fu, it's a habitual thief hired from the street. ”

"Has he ever seen Xie Yu?"

"No, it's just a subordinate of Xie Mansion, after finding him, he gave him fifty taels of silver, let him come here to steal a piece of jade pendant, and if he succeeds, he will be given another two hundred and fifty taels."

"How did he know that person was from Xie Fu?"

"The two of them knew each other before, and the other party didn't hide their identities."

"What does Xie Yu want to do, throw stones and ask for directions?"

As he was saying this, he heard the door of his uncle's room, and Ran'er said to Guan Zhongping:

"Don't let him go for the time being, lock him up here first, and then make plans when we think about it."

"Yes, Miss."

Unconsciously, Guan Zhongping's tone of reply to Ran'er's words has become like a family member. Ran Er didn't seem to notice this change, and flashed out of Guan Zhongping's room, and went back to her room, first letting Qinglian come out so that she could freshen up. As soon as Qinglian came out, she protested to Ran'er:

"My sister must get Lian'er's consent in the future before she can send me in."

Ran Er looked at Qinglian's puffed up, and felt funny in her heart, but she pretended to be extremely serious on her face, and said to Qinglian:

"Does Lian'er still want to go in?"

"Sister, you ,......"

Qinglian gritted her teeth a little exaggeratedly, pointed her finger at her, and only said three words, and she couldn't help laughing first. Since the appearance of the mother, the grandparents decided to go back to the Bamboo Forest Villa to retire, and the smiles on the faces of the sisters have become more and more, but they have shown more of their little daughter's demeanor than when they were children.

After breakfast, Ge Liang went to school, Ge Tong went to the shop, and his uncle also had something to go out, leaving only his grandparents, aunt, cousin, and Ran'er sisters at home. Of course, there are also Guan Zhongping and Wang Jun, who rarely show up. Ran Er took advantage of the excuse to open Qinglian to accompany her cousin and called Guan Zhongping to her grandfather's room. Ran Er told her grandparents what happened at night. Grandpa also felt that this should be Xie Fu throwing stones to ask for directions.

"If it's really Xie Fu who is throwing stones to ask for directions, then what will they do next?"

Guan Zhongping was a little puzzled.

"I think the other party must have guessed that we will definitely not go through the government to make a big deal out of it. After all, no matter who has a jade pendant with a shocking secret in their hands, if it is spread out, it will be an extremely troublesome matter. Therefore, Xie Fu's actions are nothing more than one purpose, that is, to make us weak-hearted, and we will definitely leave Linkang City as soon as possible, so that they can intercept us on the road. ”

Guan Zhongping and his grandfather both felt that Ran'er's analysis was reasonable, Guan Zhongping saw Ran'er's calm face, and couldn't help asking:

"Isn't the eldest lady already calculated?"

"Lord Guan, if you transfer someone from the palace, how long will it take?"

Guan Zhongping lowered his head and thought about it and said:

"Arrive in half a month, how many people does the eldest lady need?"

"It doesn't take too much, if you are about the same as the seven of you, twenty is enough."

"What is the eldest lady going to do?"

"Since the Xie Mansion wants us to leave Linkang City as soon as possible, let's make a plan. When I turned around, my grandfather went out to pay a visit, and said that we would leave for the end of September and return to Xia Village. Lord Guan immediately notified the palace to send someone to come, pay attention to secrecy on the road, and after the person comes, find a place outside the city to hide, so as not to let the Xie Mansion find out. ”

"The eldest lady wants to make it look like she is going back to Xia Village, luring out the people of Xie Mansion, and then capture them in one fell swoop?"

"Exactly, this time we must scare the other party's courage and make them dare not harass us again in a short time."

"Okay, I'll go and deliver a letter to the palace."

"Master Guan, there is one more thing to trouble you. After sending a message to the palace, please go out of the city to explore and see where it is easy to ambush people, so we can analyze the place where Xie Fu chooses to do it. Besides, since Xie Fu wants to throw stones to ask for directions, so that we are weak-hearted, we will definitely not send only one person, and in the next few nights, Lord Guan and Wang Guards will have to work a lot harder. ”

"By the way, Miss, what about the people you caught last night?"

"Let it go. This will make the Xie Mansion more convinced that we don't want to go through the government and make things bigger. ”