Fang Qiong smiled lightly and glanced down the corridor again.

A little girl who was only seven or eight years old was standing in front of the porch, laboriously pulling up a bed/mattress, and slapping it vigorously, and a white dangling thing fell out of the gap between the mattresses with her movements.

"What's that?" Fang Qiong asked casually, picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea.

The little girl picked up the things on the ground, looked at them around, tilted her head and said, "I've never seen this before, it's a villain, Sister Fangqiong, do you know what this is?" ”

As the little girl spoke, she raised the thing in her hand and shook it at Fang Qiong.

Fang Qiong turned her eyes and glanced at it, and was about to speak, when she suddenly heard someone shouting in a deep voice: "Give me something!" ”

The voice was so loud and loud that the little girl's hands shook in fright, and the thing she was holding fell to the ground. Fang Qiong stared at it, but saw a little figure with paper cuts lying on the ground. The paper figure still has cinnabar writing on it.

Fang Qiong was stunned, suddenly her face turned pale, Huo Di got up, but forgot that she was still holding the teacup in her hand, and with a "snap", the teacup fell to the ground and shattered.

"Where did this come from?" A gray-clothed servant woman had already come to the little girl and asked in a cold voice.

The little girl was so frightened that her teeth fought, and she shook her hand and pointed to the mattress on the railing on the side: "Back to ...... If you go back to Mom/Mom/, yes...... Drop ...... from there Fall...... out. ”

Fang Qiong had already walked over with a white face at this time.

She knew the gray-clothed servant, which was used by Mrs. Li in the front yard, and everyone called her Sister-in-law Zhong.

"Sister-in-law Zhong. How did you get here? As Fang Qiong spoke, she looked around again, and found that there were seven or eight more servants in the courtyard, all of whom were dressed in gray clothes and looked very capable, all of whom were under the hands of Li Niangzi in the front yard.

As soon as these people entered the courtyard, they closed the courtyard gate first, leaving one person to guard the door.

Fang Qiong couldn't help but panic.

How did the people in the front yard get to the Hengslash Pavilion? So many people came and sealed the door, what does this mean?

Sister-in-law Zhou glanced at Fang Qiong lightly. Bend down and pick up the paper figure. He shook something at her and pointed to the mattress on the railing: "This is falling out of that/bed/mattress, whose mattress is that?" ”

Fang Qiong suppressed the panic in her heart, leaned over and asked the little girl, "Where did you pick up the mattress from?" ”

The little girl turned her head and pointed in the direction of the back room. He said in a trembling voice: "It was taken out of the room behind the left." ”

"Take me there." Sister-in-law Zhong said in a deep voice.

The little girl timidly answered yes. He looked at Fang Qiong again.

Fang Qiong had regained her composure by this time.

When the little girl pointed to the back room. Fang Qiong knew that this matter had nothing to do with her today.

There have always been only two people living in the back room: Gu's mother and Fu Xue.

These two are Zhang's most useful henchmen, and they usually have to get in touch with some secret things. Therefore, I lived in the back cover room, which was convenient for listening. However, Fangqiong, Liu's mother and others lived in the upside-down child's room, which was far away from the main room.

Fang Qiong's heart relaxed, and she smiled politely at Sister-in-law Zhong: "Mom, don't blame me for stopping my head, in fact, the back cover room is the place where our wife lives the most, and it is easy not to even enter me." Mom, why don't you go to the room to sit for a while, and also invite all mothers to have a cup of tea and rest, I'll go and ask someone to give our wife first, what do you think? ”

Sister-in-law Zhong looked flat, didn't speak, only reached out and took out a pair of black lacquer bronzing cards from her sleeve and shook it at Fangqiong.

Fang Qiong's expression immediately calmed down.

This is the pair of cards for the steward at the end of the Hou Ye. The people in their inner house are not very reachable.

She lowered her voice a little, lowered her head and said respectfully: "It turned out that it was the order of the Hou Ye himself, and the maid was wrong." Mom, please. ”

Sister-in-law Zhong saw that she called herself a "maid", which showed that she was also a sensible person, and her heart was relieved. only smiled faintly, and took people to the back room.

Fang Qiong returned to the porch and asked the little girl to clean up the broken porcelain pieces on the ground, while listening to the movement from the back room. After a while, I saw that Fu Xue, who was recuperating in the room, was put out by two servants, and Sister-in-law Zhong followed behind, with another thing in her hand, which looked bright and shiny, like a flat copper box.

"Mom, Sister Fuxue is still sick, what's the matter with you......" Fang Qiong greeted her with a worried face. However, before she finished her words, Sister-in-law Zhong said lightly: "Miss Fangqiong is still in charge of herself, and you don't need to interfere with the others." ”

Fang Qiong's face turned pale when she was spoken, and she lowered her head and retreated.

This is on the order of the Hou Ye to search the house, and it is already a great love for her to be able to come up and help Fu Xue say a few more words.

Sister-in-law Zhong didn't delay much, put the copper box and paper figure into her sleeve, walked to the middle of the courtyard, and raised her voice: "Master Hou has lost something important, and told us to take a look at each house." Don't panic, let's just take a look and go. I also advise you, and don't make trouble, if you have any grievances, go and tell the Hou Ye, I just did things according to orders, and it is useless to say to me. ”

As she spoke, she showed the pair of cards with gold letters.

When everyone saw the pair of cards, they had nothing to say, so they could only search the house by the gray-clothed servants. In addition to the master's bedroom, even the aunt/mother/residence was also searched. Fortunately, these servants were well-trained, and their hands and feet were clean, and they only searched and left, but they did not make much movement.

Fu Xue was set aside by the two mothers-in-law, her face was like ashes, she only lowered her head and looked at the ground, and she had no intention of struggling.

She had been ill, and although the weather at the end of March was warm, there was no sun under the porch. She stood for a moment and began to cough, and the more she coughed, the more severe it became.

Fang Qiong called a little girl to pour tea and sent it to Fu Xue on a plate. The servants did not stop her.

"Sister, let's drink saliva." Fang Qiong said softly and handed the teacup to Fu Xue's lips.

Fu Xue's hanging head finally raised, and a pair of misty eyes looked at Fang Qiong through her unkempt hair, and suddenly laughed "hehe".

The laughter echoed in the courtyard of the spring day, and there was an indescribable desolation. For a while, the people in the courtyard were silent, and only Fu Xue's laughter was heard floating outside the courtyard.

After a while, Fu Xuefang stopped laughing, looked at Fang Qiong with unpredictable eyes, and said softly after a while: "Sister is so comfortable." ”

Fang Qiong's heart was slightly cold.

Somehow, she always felt that there was a bit of foreboding in Fu Xue's voice......

In the end, Fu Xue didn't drink the tea handed over by Fang Qiong. (To be continued.) )