Chapter 103: Abduction
"Auntie...... What the girl was talking about, the slave didn't know. Yunxi was so nervous that he even choked up when he spoke, and cold sweat penetrated his shirt in his invisible clothes.
Shi Manman had never thought that it would be so easy to let the other party comply, and her temptation to take out the lock was just a whim. It is difficult for others to prevent fire in Xiaolei Courtyard except for the people in the courtyard. She would use the copper lock to test Yunxi, just because she knew that Yalian had indeed not left Suju yesterday.
Although she was restless yesterday and closed her five senses, the little hooked snake did not. On the way here, she asked the little hooked snake Yalian if she had left.
Shi Manman saw all the emotional changes after Yunxi saw the copper lock, and he didn't miss a drop in his eyes. Even if Yunxi doesn't admit it, she must know something.
After getting the answer he wanted, Shi Manman slowly straightened up and said lightly: "Got it." Then he sat back on the chair prepared by Grandmother Xiao, and looked calm and relaxed, as if the person who had been sent down had nothing to do with her.
Before Shi Manman left Yunxi, her body under Shi Manman's shadow felt slightly loose. But the next moment, Yunxi's heart gradually became flustered, what did the "know" in Shi Manman's mouth mean? Does she already know the truth when she is calm and composed? No......
"How could the vines be free to come and see me today?" Grandmother Xiao didn't mention Yalian who was kneeling in the hall, as if she didn't see everything in front of her.
Shi Manman's hand rubbed the black copper lock in his sleeve, and said to Grandmother Xiao, "I'm here for one thing. ”
Grandmother Xiao seemed to have known what Shi Manman was going to say, raised her chin that was already loose and pointed at Yalian and said, "It's for this maid." ”
Shi Manman's eyelids were still lowered, as if he wanted to see through the copper lock in his sleeve, and he spoke: "Half." ”
Grandmother Xiao's face flashed with surprise, and at this moment, Xiao Lei, who was sitting in a simple sedan chair, was carried into the room.
"Lei'er, why don't you rest in the room and come here!" Grandmother Xiao hid the dissatisfaction in her eyes and looked at Shi Manman, and suddenly complained in her heart. Of course, she knew Xiao Lei's intention, if she hadn't taken Shi Manman's maid to ask for the crime, how could her grandson have to rush here.
"Grandmother, grandson has something to say to you alone." As soon as Xiao Lei entered the door and saw Yunxi and Yalian kneeling on the ground, Jian Mei twisted his eyebrows and said to Grandmother Xiao straightforwardly.
Xiao Lei's words in Grandmother Xiao's eyes were a blatant desire to protect the people around Shi Manman, she was angry from resentment in her heart, and her words were aggravated: "There is nothing unseemly, just say it." ”
Xiao Lei only regarded himself as a grandmother because he was injured, and he came here to excuse a maid and was displeased, he didn't notice that at this time, Grandmother Xiao's eyes when she looked at Shi Manman no longer had the initial satisfaction and joy, and was replaced by a shallow rejection.
Xiao Lei waved away the support of his subordinates, and walked to Grandmother Xiao step by step, Grandmother Xiao glanced at Sun Niang, and Sun Niang hurriedly stepped forward to support Xiao Lei.
"It's a matter of life and death for grandchildren." Coming to Grandmother Xiao, Xiao Lei lowered his voice and whispered in a voice that only the two of them could hear.
Grandmother Xiao moved the hand of the jade Buddha bead and froze after hearing these words, and involuntarily looked at Xiao Lei behind the stone vines, her face was already pale. "You all go down." Grandmother Xiao's knuckles clutching the Buddha beads turned slightly white.
Yunxi looked up at Grandmother Xiao who was blocked by Childe in surprise, she didn't know what Childe said to Grandmother Xiao, so she stopped interrogating.
But Grandmother Xiao has already spoken, and if she is entangled, she will be deliberate. Hateful underground, cold gaze swept towards the stone vines. I don't want Shi Manman to seem to have been paying attention to her, Yunxi's self-concealed gaze collided with Shi Manman's smiling eyes, as if he had been stripped of his clothes and seen through embarrassment.
He exited the door as if fleeing, and took a few deep breaths to calm his flustered heart.
"Stone girl?" This will make Grandmother Xiao even unfamiliar with the title of Shi Manman, and her disguised expression is stiff, as if she is enduring her emotions.
"The vines can stay." Xiao Lei said to his grandmother. When Grandmother Xiao changed her name to Shi Manman, Xiao Lei's heart was slightly bitter. But he still opened this mouth, not only did Shi Manman have the copper lock in his hand, but he also didn't want to treat Shi Manman as an outsider.
Grandmother Xiao frowned when she heard this, and she had already decided that no matter how Xiao Lei resisted, whether Manman agreed or not, their wedding was destined to have one more person. Even if Shi Manman comes from the mysterious Cangjie, since he has entered the WTO to marry them, the Xiao family must abide by the rules of the Xiao family.
"Say, what?" Grandmother Xiao is still in a hurry, she is mainly based on the Xiao family, if there is really an accident with the only heir of the Xiao family, then she will become the wedding dress of the insatiable moths in the clan if she is so worried about her strength.
Xiao Lei told him about being trapped in the sea of fire yesterday, and then put the copper lock in Manman's hand in front of Grandmother Xiao. Grandmother Xiao's face became more and more gloomy with Xiao Lei's words, until she saw the black copper lock, and she forgot that she was still holding the jade Buddha bead in her hand, and slapped her palm on the low wooden coffee table on the soft couch.
The anger in his heart had overshadowed the pain in his hands, "Who is it?!" With that, his gaze swept to the door and landed on the stone vine.
"If it was a vine, she wouldn't have had to save me that day. Someone framed her maid and wanted to set her body on fire. Xiao Lei saw that his grandmother's eyes were wrong when she looked at Shi Manman, and immediately said.
Grandmother Xiao would suspect that it was normal for Shi Manman to be human, so she naturally wouldn't think that anyone in the family would want to take Xiao Lei's life. "Could it be the ...... of the clan" Grandmother Xiao naturally remembered that after Xiao Lei disappeared, the group of people who were looking forward to the successor were going to pass.
"I'll investigate this matter, Miss Shi, and please take good care of the maids in the courtyard." Grandmother Xiao's words are to expose Yalian's accusation, but it does not mean that she has erased her suspicions about Shi Manman. Because of Xiao Lei's trust in Shi Manman, she naturally couldn't tell Xiao Lei what she was thinking.
After Yunxi learned that Grandmother Xiao had revealed this matter lightly, she could only swallow it in her stomach after biting her silver teeth. In Xiao's grandmother's warning, no one in the Xiao family mentioned the deliberate arson, as if it was really an accident.
Shi Manman forgot about Yuan Changqing and Lu Guang, who were still left out in the remote firewood room because of the fox demon and Xiao Lei, and when she remembered to prepare a full lunch box, it was already dark.
At night, there are no cicadas, and the remote paths are as quiet as if walking in uninhabited houses, where few people come, and the grass beside the road is so neglected that it grows luxuriantly to the cobblestone paved paths. From time to time, the wind dances and the leaves rustle. The little hooked snake also became immobile in the increasingly cold weather, and at this moment it was awakened by the cold wind that suddenly poured into its cuffs.
"Bringing food to those two fools again?" The little hooked snake has no good airway.
"They've been hungry for two days." At this time, Shi Manman's pace sped up a little.
"By the way, the last time I was wandering around...... Little Hooked Snake said of what he saw when he last met Yun Bi and took Grandmother Xiao to another firewood house not far from here.
"I think that old woman seems to be going to stuff Xiao Lei with a concubine between you." In these days, the little hooked snake knows more or less what a man's partner is called in the world other than wife.
Shi Manman didn't respond, suddenly stopped and looked at the little hooked snake and said seriously: "How about I kidnap Xiao Lei and find a way to go back to Kunlun?" ”