Chapter 5: Speculation
The little girl wiped her tears and ran away.
This little brute is really bold and unscrupulous.
It's not uncommon for the young master to flirt with a girl, but he doesn't dare to be in this broad daylight courtyard, not to mention that this is still in someone else's house, and it's someone else's girl who is molesting.
No wonder in his previous life, he would steal someone else's concubine, and when he was discovered, he not only didn't know what was wrong, but also killed someone......
Xie Roujia's heart couldn't help jumping when she thought of this, and the servant woman next to her naturally saw this scene, and she was raising her feet angrily while opening her mouth to shout.
"Hey, you ......" she shouted, and as soon as the words came out, she was grabbed by Xie Roujia and ran inward as if flying.
There is a sight to look at from behind.
Xie Roujia felt a chill down her spine, she quickened her pace, turned the courtyard door, passed through the corner of the corridor, and then stopped panting rapidly.
"Miss Roujia, why are you pulling me, you dare to mess around in our Xie family's old mansion, he is really impatient." The servant woman said angrily.
Because of Wuqing Niangniang, the Xie family has always been deeply feared by the people in Bashu Pengshui, and it is blasphemous to say a disrespectful word every day, not to mention that she molested the girl of the Xie family in the old mansion of the Xie family, which is dedicated to the lord of the past dynasties, and it is not an exaggeration to be stoned to death on the spot.
However, that person is Zhou Chengzhen.
killed someone, and the emperor only drove him back to the Zhenbei Palace, without scolding Zhou Chengzhen, who was beaten and scolded.
Molesting a girl, if this servant woman goes up and accuses him like the people of Peng Shui, and annoys him and beats someone, who can help him.
However, how did he get here? What else is a businessman?
"I went to tell the fifth master, and the fifth master just entered the door and heard that someone was staying at home, and it was because he was sick. Let's go and ask the doctor to come and see him, what are you looking at, and drive them out. The servant woman said indignantly, and walked inward with her feet raised.
Xie Roujia hurriedly grabbed her.
"I'm going to talk to five... Say it, sir. She said.
Xie Wenjun was sitting in the guest room fiddling with the chessboard, and was a little surprised to see Xie Roujia come in, but he was very happy.
"That's right, since you're in. You can come anywhere. He laughs.
The last time Xie Roujia came to deliver fish, she was just willing to go to the backyard and kitchen. Refusing to set foot in these dwellings.
"Come on, Jiajia and I play a game of chess." Xie Wenjun greeted with a smile.
Xie Roujia sat down in front of him, reaching out to hold the chessboard and disrupting the chess pieces that had just been placed.
"Fifth uncle. Have you seen this stayer? She asked.
"You know that, too?" Xie Wenjun smiled, "I've seen it." ”
"And who are they?" Xie Roujia asked anxiously.
Xie Wenjun sighed and put down the chess pieces in his hand to look at her.
"Did you see them?" He asked.
Xie Roujia shook her head.
"And how do you know they're not foot traders?" Xie Wenjun asked.
She knew that someone in the family had stayed overnight, and it must have been the servant woman who said it. The servant woman would have told her who she was staying with, but when she came in, she asked them directly. Obviously, he didn't believe the identity of the servant woman at all.
Of course, Xie Roujia can't say it, because one of those people is her "stepgrandchild".
"I just went in and saw a young man who said the maid was staying at home." She pondered for a moment and said, "I don't think the foot trader will be like this, the person who does business is the most disciplined, how can he do such a disrespectful thing to the master's family." ”
Xie Wenjun frowned.
"There is such a thing." He said. "It's not like the guest's style, the guest is very calm and polite."
"Have you seen him?" Xie Roujia asked nervously.
Xie Wenjun nodded and shook his head again.
"I heard I'm coming. They came and greeted me and invited me over. Said that their son wanted to thank me in person. He said.
Say thank you in person? Please come over? Why not come in person?
Xie Roujia sat up straight.
Xie Wenjun understood what she meant and smiled.
"Because this boy is sick." He explained.
Sick? I'm sick and I'm still in the mood to tease the girl.
Xie Roujia discussed and listened to Xie Wenjun continue to speak.
"They lived in the guest room, and when I went over, I saw seven or eight men standing in the courtyard, all dressed in ordinary clothes, and their appearance was loyal and honest.
"He lay on the bed, put down the tent, I could not see his description, heard me come in, he apologized in the tent, said that he was a little sick, lest he give me too sick, should not have disturbed me again, but I heard that the lord's house was coming, and I was not upset when I saw it, so I was invited to come over and say thank you in person."
"He has a great voice......
Xie Wenjun said this, and Xie Roujia tensed her body again.
"Fifth uncle, it's a Beijing accent." She chimed in.
Xie Wenjun shook his head.
"No, it's Jiangnan Wu language." He said.
Yes? Xie Roujia was stunned, Zhou Chengzhen has lived in the capital since he was a child, and he has never stepped out of the capital, and being driven back to Zhenbei Wangfu from the capital is the first time he has walked such a long way.
Gangnam accent? It's deliberate, it's deliberately to confuse the fifth uncle about his origin!
"He must have pretended." Xie Roujia said categorically.
Xie Wenjun smiled.
"Your fifth uncle and I have been traveling from south to north for so many years, how can I not tell whether the voice is pretending or not." "It's really a very standard Wu accent," he said. ”
It must have been learned from others in the capital, Xie Roujia thought again, there are people everywhere in the capital.
"However, they say that they are foot traders, and they are indeed pretending." Xie Wenjun said with a smile, "It seems that the every move of an ordinary entourage is full of kung fu, and it is not the momentum that an ordinary dart master can have." ”
Xie Roujia nodded hurriedly, it must be a royal guard.
"However, it is always inconvenient for people to go out outside, and since they say so, they naturally have the helplessness to say so." Xie Wenjun said with a smile, "I followed his words, I was concerned about his illness, and wanted to ask a doctor to take a look at him, but he didn't refuse and thanked me again." ”
"Although I didn't see him, I listened to his voice and spoke steadily and politely, and he must have been a well-bred and cautious person."
"Flirting with girls."
Xie Wenjun shook his head when he said this.
"That's what people don't do."
Xie Roujia sat back. That......
"Presumably his entourage did it." Xie Wenjun said.
Zhou Chengzhen's identity, who can be an entourage, Xie Roujia sighed.
However, how did he come to Bashu? From the capital...... The capital, the royal one! March 3rd!
Xie Roujia jumped up.
"Fifth uncle, they are the people sent by the emperor to watch the third day of March!"
Xie Wenjun was stunned.
An envoy sent by the emperor to observe the ceremony?
How is this possible?
Now in the middle of February, news came that the royal envoy had left the capital. The envoy was the emperor's own uncle, the son of King Anding.
"King of Dongping County." He said. looked at Xie Roujia, "You mean that Yan Gongzi is the king of Dongping County?" ”
King of Dongping County.
Xie Roujia was in a trance when she heard this name.
The last time I heard about it was at the funeral of my husband, King Zhenbei. He came to mourn as the emperor's envoy, and the girls in the Zhenbei Wangfu were very happy, saying that it was the emperor's value to let the king of Dongping County come.
So he is a person who is very valued by the emperor.
"I don't know if it's him, but I know they're royal." Xie Roujia gritted her teeth and said.
Now the royal people who can come to Pengshui are naturally the messengers of the ceremony.
Now the entire Kuizhou Road is preparing to welcome the king of Dongping County and his party. But his niece suddenly told him that the royal envoy was in the guest room of their Xie family's old mansion.
Xie Wenjun looked at her.
"Why?" He asked.
Because she recognizes.
Xie Roujia took a deep breath.
"Because the ancestor Wu Qing Niangniang sued me." She said.
Xie Wenjun sat in front of the chessboard. Looking at the girl who was standing condescending in front of her, at this time the sunlight outlined a light and shadow behind her, and suddenly couldn't say a word.
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The two carriages and four horses stopped in the courtyard of the Xie family's old house, and before the servants and girls who got off the carriage behind them came to support them, Miss Song had already lifted the curtain and jumped down by herself.
But I didn't see the expected person greet me.
"Where's the fifth of you?" She asked.
"There is something in the mine suddenly, please ask the fifth master. He just passed. The steward said with a smile, "Please rest for Miss Young Master Song first, the tea and refreshments have been prepared." ”
Miss Song pouted. Turning her head to look at the woman who was being helped out of the car by the servant.
"Where can't you eat tea and refreshments." She muttered, "Don't invite people if you have something." ”
"Wasn't it okay when you were invited?" Miss Nana laughed. Grabbed her arm, "The matter in the mine is related to human life, and it cannot be shirked." ”
Miss Song smiled.
"You're considerate." She said, shaking her hand and walking inward, and suddenly stopped with a sigh, "What a person! ”
Everyone followed her gaze and saw a young man in a brocade robe sitting on the railing on the corridor in the courtyard, looking at the two women unscrupulously.
Looking at him, he has obviously been sitting here for a long time, and he doesn't know how to avoid it when he sees his female relatives coming in, and he still looks at him so unscrupulously.
"Who are you, what are you looking at?" Miss Song couldn't help but glared and said, "It's really unruly." ”
The young man sneered.
"Ugly." He said.
It was the first time that she was called ugly by a foreign man in public, and Miss Song's face suddenly turned red.
The young man threw off his robe and jumped down the cloister, and walked away.
"You, you," Miss Song shouted angrily.
Miss Nana reached out to stop her.
"Forget it, if you can be here, you must be a guest." She said.
"What a guest, so annoying." Miss Song said angrily, "Associated with such a nasty person, Fifth Master Xie is also annoying. ”
Miss Nana smiled and shook her head, and before she could speak, she saw someone poking her head out cautiously in front of the courtyard gate on one side.
It's the girl who sells fish.
Her eyes lit up.
"Look, Fifth Master Xie is really hospitable." She said with a slight smile as she pulled Miss Song towards the courtyard over there.
The girl had shrunk back.
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In the guest room, an attendant hurried into the house, the tent in the house was still pulling, and the two shopkeepers were sitting and talking to the people in the tent.
"Childe." The attendant knelt down on one knee and whispered, "Xie Wenjun is in the mine. ”
The two shopkeepers glanced at each other and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Childe, you're too worried." One of them said, "Just by saying a few words, how could Fifth Master Xie see our identity?" ”
The man in the tent did not answer him, but continued to ask the attendant.
"No one left the mine, but there were pigeons flying out?"
The people in the room were stunned.
"These mines are the most prone to sudden incidents, so they are also used to using pigeons to transmit news, are you sure that Xie Wenjun did not leave, can you be sure that not even a bird or beast has left?"
The attendant hung his head.
There was silence in the room.
"But how is that possible?" A shopkeeper still couldn't help but say.
As he spoke, a young man's voice came from outside.
"It's suffocating, when can I get out, there's nothing here, not even a beauty, it's either ugly or stuffy."
Hearing this, a hand stretched out from the tent, with slender joints and a white complexion tinged with wheat.
"Zhou Chengzhen, come in."
With this indifferent but unmistakable voice, the tent was lifted, and a young man sat on the edge of the bed.
He was dressed in dark clothes, his delicate face became more and more graceful in the dim light blocked by the tent, and a pair of deep eyes looked at the door.
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After 11 p.m. (To be continued) R466