Chapter 177: Frightened
In the past few days of the Chinese New Year, there are New Year's greetings in the house, as well as provincial relatives, and early in the morning on the sixth day of the new year, Zhou Xiaofu and Zhou Xiaoyang went to Tianjin to pay New Year's greetings to their grandfather. Yesterday afternoon, Zhou Xiaofu asked someone to bring a message to Zhuangzi, asking Ziling and Lan's mother to stay until the ninth day of the new year and then come back, and she and her brother could not return to the house in three days. This trip was just a New Year's greeting, and I couldn't stay too long, so I only set a three-day deadline. The government sent a carriage and rented two, and recently the carriages in the house have been used by the ladies of various courtyards, and they are all returning to their parents' homes, so the government can only give them a carriage in their own house, and the rest is for hire. But Zhou Xiaofu doesn't care about this, what she cares about is going out, it's like a cage in Zhou's mansion, everyone is calculating, and she can't breathe when she is depressed. He sent a letter to Sun Wang early and asked him to arrive at General Jindu's mansion on the morning of the seventh day of the new year. Originally, I thought that I planned to meet Sun Wang on my side of Zhuangzi on the fifteenth, but the fifteenth may not have the opportunity to go out, so I took advantage of this time to go to Jindu to meet together, and began to arrange some things. In the past, Zhou Xiaofu didn't think about doing much business, just enough money, but this time the freight station she planned to do had a different meaning, she planned to use it to deliver news, and the group of people she met before made her feel very uneasy. On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, the sun is good, although it is in winter, but the sun shines at noon and still feels a little warm. Kyoto is located east of Jinto, and you can reach the Tanggula customs gate in three hours, and you can enter the Jindu Castle in another half hour. The congregation had arrived at the Tangula customs, and it was already past noon when they came out in the morning. Zhou Xiaoyang got down from the carriage in front of him and took a little rest at the inn in front of him, and he was on the road, there was still a way to go, and the cattle were also tired. It's better to rest for a while, anyway, it will be there in half an hour at most. There are four or five inns for guests to rest and stop on the official road into the city near Tanggula Customs. The guards looked at the big ones and said hello, there were small private rooms to eat, and there was a large yard behind them to park the carriages and horses. The guards beckoned the coachmen to go to the backyard to park the carriage first, unload the carriage, and let the horses rest and eat some forage, while Zhou Xiaofu took Qingbi and Zhou Xiaoyang to the small private room upstairs. Zhou Xiaofu will be wearing a cloak early outside. And Qingbi will be the role of a servant, dutifully helping Zhou Xiaofu upstairs together, although it will be the sixth day of the Lunar New Year. But this inn is still very lively, the meals are all over, there are still many people, and there are people to eat and drink. There is Zhang Luo who wants to stay in the hotel. Zhou Xiaofu was in a good mood and walked upstairs with her brother. I just walked to the door of the innermost private room No. 7. There were two men, one wearing a black cloak and the other dressed as a butler, frowning and walking to the door of the seventh private room. Seeing that Zhou Xiaofu and they were about to go in, the housekeeper quickly stepped forward and asked, "Little brother, are you No. 7?" Zhou Xiaoyang was stunned, yes, it was the steward downstairs who said it just now, how could it be wrong. The steward frowned and wanted to ask again. Suddenly, the man in the black cloak whispered, "Something else." After speaking, the two left, and Zhou Xiaofu looked up. Xu was mistaken, and he saw that the steward downstairs also came up, and he was sorry to hold his fist at the man in the cloak and said that he had made a mistake in settling in, it was the No. 7 private room on the third floor, and he was in a hurry to say the wrong thing just now. Zhou Xiaoyang breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out that the steward downstairs made a mistake, so he said, just now it was clearly said that it was No. 7 on the second floor, why were the two teams arranged in a private room. Zhou Xiaofu also felt that it was nothing, there were many people, and when there was always a mistake, she went into the private room with Zhou Xiaoyang, but she didn't see Qingbi coming up, so she looked behind in confusion. But seeing Qingbi wearing a purple cotton jacket, sweat beads fell straight down in the cold weather, and the whole person trembled like a sieve, Zhou Xiaofu walked up to Qingbi for some reason, and helped her shoulder, and felt that Qingbi's whole person was extremely stiff. Qingbi, whose face turned blue-gray, looked panicked, scared, and desperate, and all kinds of emotions were mixed. Zhou Xiaofu was a little strange about how Qingbi suddenly became like this, and wanted to ask for some reason, but saw Qingbi shaking her head in despair in her eyes. Years of life in the last days made Zhou Xiaofu more alert than ordinary people, nodded and stepped forward gently, stretched out his hand to hold Qingbi's arm and slightly blocked it with a cloak, and couldn't tell who was holding whom from behind. Slowly moved to the small private room. Zhou Xiaoyang saw that the two of them were strange, and saw Qingbi's sweat on his head, and couldn't help but glance at his sister. Zhou Xiaofu pretended to be relaxed and said to Zhou Xiaoyang: "Brother, Qingbi is a little uncomfortable, her stomach hurts badly, you order food first, and I will accompany her out." When Zhou Xiaoyang heard that the girl was uncomfortable, he was really embarrassed to ask, and said with a slightly red face: "Go, come back quickly." Zhou Xiaofu nodded at Qingbi, and then the two of them went down the stairs together like master and servant, and arrived at the toilet in the backyard. Slowly leaving, I saw that Qingbi's face was a little better, but she was still very nervous, and she didn't know what scared her. When they arrived at a place where the wind was blowing, the master and servant stood still, Qingbi raised her head and gently swept down the surroundings, and Zhou Xiaofu also scanned it with her spiritual power, and there was no one around, so she approached Qingbi. Qingbi said a few words softly, but Zhou Xiaofu was frightened all of a sudden, and asked with some confusion: "It happened ten years ago, can you be sure that this voice is?" Qingbi was a little puzzled, and was in a trance for a while before she said affirmatively: "It's changed, the previous one was a little green, and now the voice is more mature, but I'm sure it's not wrong, it's this person." Zhou Xiaofu stood there after hearing this, it was really troublesome, if this was the case, it was really troublesome, if this person was really the person who taught Qingbi and them to stimulate their abilities back then, then it means that this person already had abilities ten years ago, and since he knew how to stimulate, then the practice of abilities must also have his own exercises. You can't stay here for long, but it's too obvious to leave like this, and it was said that you would have to eat and leave, but it would be suspicious to leave immediately, and they bumped into someone just now. Forget it, I didn't use my mental power to scan upstairs just now, and Qingbi also had a magnet on her body, so she should be fine, after deciding, Zhou Xiaofu whispered to Qingbi about her plans, and appeased Qingbi, and the two went to the thatched house together. After returning to the small private room, I saw that Zhou Xiaoyang and Xiaozhu had already ordered a few dishes and a big bowl of soup. Zhou Xiaofu didn't say anything and sat down directly, so she hurriedly started to eat, Zhou Xiaoyang glanced at her sister and always felt that something was wrong there, but she couldn't say it, but she saw that her sister was still eating as usual, so she put her mind at ease and quickly ate it. After eating, he and his brother sat on the side and drank tea, and hurriedly beckoned Qingbi to eat, Qingbi had no appetite, and said that she was full after eating two bites, Zhou Xiaofu glanced at her lightly, didn't say anything, and after a while, the two of them finished eating, Zhou Xiaoyang hurriedly went downstairs, settled the account, and saw that the guards and coachmen were also full of food and sat downstairs waiting. After settling the account, he was about to leave, but he saw that the black cloak was also walking down with the butler, and the butler was carefully leading the way in front. Zhou Xiaofu obviously felt that something was wrong with Qingbi again, the whole person was extremely stiff, and the sweat flowed down wantonly. Zhou Xiaofu stepped forward and grabbed her and began to walk out, and said softly in her mouth: "What's the matter, it still hurts, tell you not to play in the snow, you don't listen, look, it hurts badly." The voice was not loud or small, but it made the people within three meters next to him hear it clearly, and the people who heard it understood a little bit that she was afraid that this little girl was having a moon, she had played in the snow before, and she had a cold and a stomachache, no wonder her face was white like that. And the black cloak behind him also heard it clearly, and there was no reaction, just thought it was a normal phenomenon, and stood there with the steward waiting for the bill. Zhou Xiaoyang also finished settling the account, the coachmen drove the carriage to the side door, Qingbi has already eased up, I don't know why she was scared stiff, in fact, she is not afraid of death, but she does not dare to recall the things of her childhood, it was a time of purgatory, a day that made her desperate. Qingbi and Zhou Xiaofu got into the carriage, Zhou Xiaoyang and the guards also got into the carriage, and the other carriage pulled some New Year's gifts, which Zhou Xiaofu bought with her own money, as well as a few things given by the old lady. Zhou Xiaofu didn't talk to Qingbi all the way, and saw that Qingbi's whole person fell into memories, and her face showed negative feelings of fear, panic, and despair from time to time, Zhou Xiaofu actually wanted to ask, but Qingbi wanted to talk about these things, this is not a good time, it is better to wait for a while, until she is willing to say it, otherwise Qingbi will collapse, everyone has a chord, and it will break if it is stretched for too long. Soon arrived at the door of the General's Mansion, and the concierge, who had already received the letter, had been arranged to wait early. Seeing that it was the cousin of the aunt's grandmother's house, they all enthusiastically helped carry the things, and soon everyone arrived at the gate of the old lady's yard together, and as soon as they arrived at the door, they saw Wang Errong coming out of it with the maid. As soon as she saw Zhou Xiaofu, she immediately stepped forward and took her arm and said happily: "Why did you come, I've been waiting for you for a few days, I've come out to see it three times, looking at the hour, you should have arrived an hour ago." Zhou Xiaoyang listened to his cousin's words, and his face suddenly turned red, he arranged to rest by himself, otherwise he would have arrived early, in fact, it was okay to come directly without resting, but he ate too little in the morning, and he was so hungry that he couldn't bear it, so he had to eat some and come again. Wang Errong was a good person, and immediately knew the reason, and he didn't dwell on these things, and warmly welcomed the brother and sister to go in to greet the old lady. (To be continued......)
ps: Plus today's pink tickets for nsleijing, exactly five, add more at night, pink plus more is not in arrears, enough to pay it back on the same day.
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