- Unlike the previous times, when he stopped a street away, Wu Shu sent Mo Ye directly to the gate of the Song Mansion this time.

Mo Ye thought that Wu Shu had sent her to the door, so she might as well go one step further and sit down for a while. The family at the gate of the Song Mansion had already seen him, and Mo Ye felt that taking him in at this time only needed her to say a word.

After staying in Kyoto for nearly three years, Mo Ye remembered very well the benefits he had obtained with the convenience of this ugly man. Long ago, the ugly man had directly admitted that he had helped her out of official business, and that her more than ten years of history had already become an open file with him, which had once embarrassed her to meet him.

But perhaps because this ugly man did not just treat her as a page of file, all kinds of help, sometimes soaked in his blood and sweat, beyond the scope of so-called official duties, made her have to be moved by it, and remember a kindness.

No one in this world is born to dedicate themselves to you, even if it is your parents, raising and caring for you is also based on feelings at both ends of the scale. Family affection makes your parents and relatives pay for you without thinking, but in the same way, I also hope that when you grow up, you can give back without thinking.

And for other people who are not connected by the chain of family affection, you may not be able to reciprocate the help to them without thinking, but you can't do without a kind of self-knowledge. At the very least, you have to remember that there are people who have helped you in some things that they could have not.

Ordinary people will probably only remember the kindness of life and death together, and they can only see the truth in the midst of tribulation, but Mo Ye also remembers some of the little things she experienced in Kyoto in the past three years, in fact, in the final analysis, it is still because of the tribulation to see the truth. The fire three years ago almost burned her reliance in Kyoto, and although she was calm on the surface, she was actually wandering and swaying in her heart all the time.

At this time, whoever can help her will be like charcoal in the snow. She certainly remembers it well.

In the past, Wu Shu would be present every day except for supervising her martial arts practice at the beginning, and after leading her to "get started", he would not care so often. Except for the first half year. After that, Wu Shu would only see her about three or five times a month, and the content of the meeting was only to find out if there was any abnormality in her meridians during her martial arts practice. There is no entertainment, and every time we meet, if we don't check the progress of martial arts practice, even if there is something else, it is also a pre-planned business category.

But despite this, he was often sent by Wu Shu to say goodbye only one street away from the Song Mansion, and Mo Ye gradually imagined what it would be like if he was invited to the Song Mansion as a guest? Once the thought comes to mind. As time passed, I became more and more excited.

Counting on my fingers, except for the encounter in Xingjia Village, all the friends I have met in Kyoto in the past three years are related to each other. Shi Yi and Ye Nuonuo often come to the Song Mansion to eat and drink in the autumn breeze. Those people in Dongfeng Tower, although they are not good at visiting the Song Mansion because of their special identities, but in fact, Ruan Luo and them have crossed paths in Dongfeng Mansion several times. Not long ago, it was the convenience of Tuo Ruan Luo, who defrauded the Yan family of a lot of money in the chassis of Dongfeng Building, and even gave Dongfeng Lou a lot of meeting gifts.

Even Cheng Xu, who had a close relationship with Wu Shu, seemed to be under the orders of a superior commander. But Cheng Xu has the identity of the owner of the grocery store, and also forged the identity of her cousin, and has also been to the Song Mansion several times.

Only Wu Shu seems to be an isolated person. He was so active in the streets of Kyoto, but he didn't interact with others. The cityscape of Kyoto is no more gorgeous, and he walks in the middle of it. It seems that what lasts forever is only a shadow.

Mo Ye's mind turned around a few times, and finally when she was about to step up to the threshold, she suddenly stopped, turned to look at the back of the figure who had just turned around and was about to leave, and said seriously: "Can I invite you in for a cup of tea?" ”

……

When Qingqiang dragged a bed of cotton wool rolled up with a sheet. On the last trip to the small courtyard where the eldest lady lived, she suddenly saw two young men pulling a cart of firewood more than ten paces ahead.

The small courtyard where the eldest lady lived was close to the back door of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and looking at the direction in which the two young men walked, it was also to go to the back door of the Shifu, so Qingqiang was on the same road as those two people.

The two of them couldn't walk too fast with the firewood cart, and Qingqiang was dragging a bed of cotton wool in her hand, so naturally she couldn't go fast. The two sides are slowly embellished on the same road one after the other, and no one has thrown off anyone, but no one has copied anyone's forward road.

After walking for a while, Qingqiang saw clearly the short knives hanging from the waists of the two young men, and recognized that these two were members of the Ten Generals, and she couldn't help but be a little puzzled.

The duty of the ten generals is to protect the safety of Xiangye, although they are servants, but they are by no means simple. Occasionally, they do side jobs, but they don't do the menial work of dyeing their hands in a firewood house.

Until Qingqiang suddenly saw a corner of her clothes exposed between the firewood piles on the firewood cart......

She thought that she was too tired in the past few days because she had taken care of Cen Chi day and night, so she was dazzled.

But the chariot was in front of her, and with her on the same road, she could easily look at what she thought she was looking at the flowers again.

And when she blinked, and saw that the corner of her clothes was indeed under the pyre, her heart fluttered and a bolt of lightning slid through.

She is very familiar with this kind of clothing, in fact, the maid dress she wears herself is made of this kind of fabric.

Why is this kind of clothing pressed under the pyre? Why is the firewood cart full of firewood not sent to the house, but to the outside? Why is the firewood cart transported by the people of the ten generals, and what are the rough servants of the firewood house doing......

Gathering many clues, Qingqiang's thinking direction suddenly entered a realm that she herself felt scared.

And when she was about to look at it again and see clearly, a figure suddenly flashed into her sight! Because she was so focused on the front that she forgot what was going to happen behind her, the sudden arrival of this scene made her so startled that she almost fell backwards to the ground.

"Sister Qiang'er!"

After approaching Qingqiang lightly, he shouted coldly, and suddenly jumped in front of her from behind Qingqiang, his original intention was to surprise her, and by the way, he also wanted to scare her, but he didn't expect to really scare her into such a situation.

Seeing Qingqiang's face turned pale in an instant, her eyes were straight, and she was a little panicked with coldness, and she probed her long arms. He held Qingqiang's body and said in surprise, "Sister Qiang'er, what's wrong with you?" ”

"Oh... It's nothing ......," Qingqiang replied casually.

The sudden intervention of another person gave her a delusion. As if the unspoken discovery in her heart was exposed to the eyes of others, she reflexively spoke perfunctorily.

It wasn't until she saw the person in front of her clearly that she breathed a sigh of relief, and then a smile appeared on her face, and she said, "Xiao Leng, why are you?" ”

"Why can't it be me?" Leng saw that Qingqiang was relieved, he was also relieved, and then he was about to help with the futon that Qingqiang was pulling with some difficulty, "I'll help you get it." ”

After recognizing the coldness. Qingqiang was defenseless against him, and easily let go of her hand, and the bound bedding slipped into Leng Yi's hand and carried it.

With a light hand, she couldn't help but look at the two people pulling the firewood cart again. It's just that in the time of a pause on her side, the cart of firewood had been pulled away by the two of them. The image is blurry, and the corner of the clothes on the chapel cart is not very clear.

Qingqiang turned her gaze back, and the corner of her gaze slipped over the knife hanging from Leng Yi's waist, and stopped on the slightly sharpened cowhide handle, and she thought more seriously, although Leng Yi was only thirteen years old, he was still a few months younger than herself. But he does have the status of one of the ten generals.

I have long heard that even if the members of the ten generals are not guaranteed, there are at least seven adults, and the blades of the green steel knives hanging diagonally around their waists have licked human blood.

Although the coldness in front of him rarely goes out of the Prime Minister's Mansion, the wear and tear of the handle of his saber is mostly due to his diligent practice, and the reason is relatively simple. But if he grows up for a few more years, he will inevitably be the same as the other members of the Ten Families......

As soon as she thought of this, Qingqiang coughed dryly, and then asked softly, "Xiao Leng, are you here for something?" "While speaking. She stepped back half a step with minimal movements.

Leng Yi seemed to be unaware of Qingqiang's small action, but in fact, it was because he didn't care in the first place, and thought that this was a normal expression of a woman's reserve, after all, the two of them were really a little too close just now.

Hearing Qingqiang's soft inquiry, Leng Yi replied with a smile: "Uncle Housekeeper asked me to protect the eldest lady...... And you, don't you know? ”

It wasn't for him to mention it, Qingqiang really didn't know about it. She had just gone to ask the old butler about his move, and the butler agreed, but did not mention anything else, perhaps because he had forgotten.

But she thought about it, she had met the lord in the courtyard before, and the lord not only personally assigned her to serve in the courtyard of the eldest lady, but also mentioned that he would also send someone to guard the safety of the courtyard. In this way, what Leng Yi said is true.

It's just that it's still surprising, but I didn't expect the other person sent to the eldest lady to be Leng Yi.

Qing Qiang looked at the cold young face, endured it, and didn't glance at the saber on his waist again, and a trace of complexity floated in her happy mood.

Leng Yi was also staring at Qingqiang's face.

He felt that the sister Qiang'er in front of him, who had been frolicking together since the beginning of entering the Prime Minister's Mansion, had not seen each other for a while, and her appearance seemed to have changed. Her eyebrows and eyes are softer, and her cheeks are not as round as before, but they are a little more feminine, which still makes him look good.

Then, he noticed the slightly stunned look in her eyes, and before she could speak, he smiled again and said, "Maybe the housekeeper uncle was too busy and forgot to say it." However, it is the same for me to convey this matter to you now. ”

His thoughts are some the same as Qingqiang's unspoken pondering, but there are some differences.

Qingqiang smiled a little reluctantly, glanced at the direction where the firewood cart was going away just now, and said, "I thought you were here to help those two big brothers." ”

Leng Yi followed Qingqiang's gaze, and soon saw the firewood cart, but the firewood cart had already reached a turnaround on the road, and disappeared at the intersection in the blink of an eye, almost equivalent to almost leaving the back door of the Shifu.

"Ha, that's the fifth brother and the seventh brother." Retracting his gaze, he said coldly: "It's the fifth brother and the seventh brother who want to help me, and in the future, I must live next door to the courtyard where the eldest lady lives, and they will clean up the firewood house." ”

"Oh......" Qingqiang hesitated for a moment, and then asked: "These trivial affairs, you can call the miscellaneous servants in the house to do it, aren't the two eldest brothers just doing things for Xiangye?" ”

"The fifth brother and the seventh brother are not on duty today, they are in the mansion in their spare time, and they were originally going to accompany me to practice swordsmanship. Later, the housekeeper and uncle found me and ordered me to be responsible for guarding the safety of the eldest lady in the future, and the two elder brothers were also present, so they all knew. You're going to start helping me. ”

Looking at Qingqiang coldly, Wen Yan recounted what happened. As he spoke, he always had a smile in his eyes. This gentleness was reflected in his extremely young face. It seems extraordinarily pure, without a little other affection.

"My two brothers always take special care of me, so I have to do it myself. However, I heard from the servant in the firewood room that the firewood in the small firewood house had been stored for almost a year, and the moisture was very heavy. If I asked the little sisters in the house to help me do those things, I am afraid that I would be scared enough. ”

At this point, the coldness raised the futon in his hand again. Lang Sheng said: "If you have some strength, you should do it with a man." ”

Qingqiang's heart warmed when she heard this, and she finally completely let go of the vigilance and fear just now. At the same time, she also silently reminded herself not to always worry about the 'thing' she just saw. Don't indulge in thinking about things that are common.

Thinking about it, as a prime minister, although his status is extremely high, when he uses his power to make decisions, it is inevitable that some people will be unconvinced, jealous, and then cause trouble. The ten families will be by the master's side, and occasionally need to draw a knife to remove trouble. It's also to protect the lord. The loyalty of the protector could not be more normal.

Although the members of the ten generals are all from martial arts training, if you look closely, you will find that they are not rough people who only know how to use martial arts. They are loyal to their head of the family and love their brothers.

Of course. And people like Leng Yi who are so delicate!

Seeing that Leng Yi's tone did not lag when he spoke, and he looked straightforward, Qingqiang no longer suspected him.

When her mind calmed down, Qingqiang was worried about the very damp little firewood house he mentioned. After pondering for a while, Qingqiang advised, "If it's too wet, don't live in it immediately." Beware of musty and damp smells. ”

"It's still Sister Qiang'er's heart." Leng Yi blinked and smiled, "I listen to my sister, I won't live in tonight." ”

……

The fifth brother and the seventh brother mentioned in the cold words, the former is surnamed Ji, and as his name is, he ranks fifth among the ten generals. The latter's surname is Tian, in fact, Qingqiang should have a little impression of this person, because she had only seen this person a few days ago, Tian Qi was one of the two people who were in charge of escorting along the way when Cen Chi went to the temple in the southwest corner of the inner city of Kyoto that day.

In addition to being more familiar with Leng Yi, Qingqiang couldn't distinguish the names and appearances of the other nine members of the ten generals. She didn't have a chance to get close to the chariot just now to take a closer look, so she ignored Tian Qi, who had several faces, and also missed an opportunity for her to see the dark side of the ten generals.

The things she speculated about just now are indeed cold enough.

Out of the back door of Shifu, Ji Wu and Tian Qi pulled a firewood cart through the streets and alleys and came to the vicinity of the garbage mountain in the south of the city.

While the whole of Kyoto is thriving in commerce, there is also a phenomenon that a large amount of garbage is discarded every day, and it is necessary to pile up at an outlet after cleaning. However, the main component of the garbage mountain is construction waste, and it is difficult to completely eradicate the inner city area for a while. The garbage mountain has been standing here for a long time, and gradually formed its unique 'garbage culture'.

A corner of the garbage mountain, in addition to the usual dirty image on the surface, is also a sin on the inside.

The root of the evil lies in the fact that the garbage piled up here is not only the waste caused by people's livelihood activities, but also the abandoned life.

If it weren't for the fact that not far away, from time to time there would be bells and chanting Buddha in the small temple, but I was afraid that the south of the city would be empty because of the sin located in the corner of the garbage mountain.

In the nameless lake next to the garbage mountain, the water of the lake is dark blue all year round. In the past, the swamp by the lake often swallowed passers-by, and it was difficult to find the dead body, so there were rumors that the reason why the lake was blue was precisely because it was a symbol of the pool of the dead in the world.

This kind of rumor spread to the people, and gradually caused two phenomena. In addition to those who are passively swallowed up by the swamp, some people who can't think of it will also take the initiative to come to this place, but not deliberately to step on the swamp, but to deliberately jump into the lake, with their lives, hoping to get a good reincarnation.

Later, the swamp was filled in, and the shallow water in the swamp was pushed into the lake area and piled up, raising the water level of the nameless lake, but the disappearance of the murderous swamp weakened the rumors, and instead caused far fewer people to run to the lake to seek their deaths.

But between the huge lake and the mountain of garbage, which can never be cleaned up, there is another area, which is the corpse dump.

Originally, it was strictly forbidden to dispose of corpses in Kyoto, and those who did not have the money to bury their deceased relatives could go to the yamen to receive subsidies. Emperor Nanzhao took the land closest to him as the first model of his statecraft after he took power, and after nearly ten years of management and control of the official and civil order in Kyoto, until now, there will never be a situation where people die for a few days and are not buried in the territory of Kyoto.

And if the city patrol sees a wandering beggar who died silently in the street. He will also send his body to Yizhuang in the south of the city for burial. Every year, Yizhuang receives material support from the imperial court and is obliged to take care of these affairs.

However, although Nanzhao has established these comprehensive laws and implemented them very efficiently, these are the treatment of adults. And among the dead corpses, there is another kind of zài, that is, dead babies.

Whether it is a difficult birth in the mother's womb, or suffocation at birth, or a more cruel death...... In short, this kind of corpse is the most difficult to dispose of, and it is a dead body that even Yizhuang is unwilling to receive.

There is an eternal legend that is difficult to dissolve, saying that the infant spirit has three uncertain souls, seven souls lack six, and only one human soul is the strongest, and it has a trace of anger of the reincarnation of the undead in the previous life. This kind of soul after death is not easy to exceed, but it is easy to be held hostage by the evil spirits scattered in the world. Therefore, no one in the world wants to touch a dead baby, and perhaps only their distressed mother does not mind.

But the dead babies who have left traces of life in the world, so they do not need to erect a monument to commemorate them, they are not cats, dogs, livestock, but also human beings. It also needs to be buried seriously. If no one or department wants to take over this kind of thing, there is only a private settlement.

And most of the things that need to be settled in private are not in order, and being in this environment inevitably adds to the weird atmosphere.

Although the standard of living of Kyoto residents has improved in recent years, and at least no matter how poor they are, they cannot afford to have children, there are still a few accidents. It occurs when a woman gives birth.

In the gloomy corner next to the garbage mountain, although the place is not large, occasionally after a month or two, a woman with red and swollen teary eyes comes with a basket, maybe to bury the corpse, maybe just to burn a few yellow watches. Enshrine the land here and commemorate some regrets and sorrows.

The main reason why it became a burial ground for dead babies is because of the nearby temple, which has long been rumored to be there mainly for the purpose of suppressing evil spirits.

However, there are people everywhere who are outside the rules. The burial of the dead sometimes occurs in the burial ground, and this change is actually a practice that the people of Kyoto know in private.

Ji Wu and Tian Qi pulled the firewood cart to the area where the baby was buried next to the garbage mountain, and then stopped.

When the two of them left the back door of the Prime Minister's Mansion, they had already untied the saber on their waists, took off their coats, wrapped them, and hid them in the firewood cart. At the same time, they untie the hair bands and use their fingers as a comb to break up their hair. With such a slight change in appearance, the two of them look not much different from ordinary chaifu.

Camouflage is a skill that the ten generals must learn, and these are just small tricks, and it is enough to deceive passers-by.

At this time, when they arrived at their destination, they took out their clothes wrapped in knives from the firewood cart and threw them on the ground, and then the two of them pulled out two bamboo tubes from under the board, tore off the wooden cork, and splashed them on the firewood cart.

The light yellow thick liquid in the bamboo tube is sprinkled on the wood cart, there is no smell, it seems to be a relatively pure oil, but it is a little different from the oil for stir-frying. The two not only sprinkled the firewood with this grease, but also did not miss the firewood cart.

After doing this, the two threw the bamboo tube to the car, and each took out the fire fold from the sleeve of the coat, blew it up, and lit the firewood cart back and forth.

The firewood, which originally looked so damp that it was about to rot, seemed to burn violently in an instant with the help of the kind of grease that had been poured before.

Not only does a cart of wet wood burn and the fire rages, but the temperature and color of the flame on the pyre also seem strange. The two who lit the fire only hesitated for a moment, and the skin of their arms exposed outside their clothes was scorched red by the heat wave that churned out from the flames.

The flame seemed to be attached to a kind of magic, it didn't seem to come from the firewood, but as if the air was burning, and then it actively devoured everything it could get its hands on - even the damp wood, even the three newly dead corpses covered under the wet wood.

The sound of "zi-zi-zi-" could still be heard in the flames, but it quickly faded away.

With the flames that soon dimmed, the firewood, the firewood, and the three corpses all turned into burnt white ashes, and there were not even half strips of carbon left.

The two of them, who had stepped back a few paces away, watched the scene change with cold eyes, until the fire was extinguished, and then they slowly approached again.

In the place where the body was burned, the fire had been extinguished, but the temperature was still relatively high. The kind of flame that seemed to be able to swallow a qiē almost instantaneously was only ignited on the firewood cart at first, and after the firewood cart collapsed, the flame stayed on the surface of the ground for a short time with the ashes. But it was only because of this moment of work that the slightly wet land was about to be scorched.

Ji Wu walked to the pile of white ash left behind after the incineration, squatted down and stretched out his palm, and probed close to the white ash. Then he nodded sideways to Tian Qi beside him.

Tian Qi didn't speak, just exchanged glances with Ji Wu, and he knew something in his heart.

After killing people, the corpses were cremated, and it was not the first time that Tian Qi and Ji Wu had done this. The two of them have cooperated on this kind of thing several times. There are some rules that are already familiar with each other.

It's just to do this kind of thing to the people in your own house, after all, it's very rare. When Ji Wu stood up and walked away, a complicated look vaguely slipped in his eyes, but Tian Qi, who was standing, didn't see this scene.

Wait for Ji Wu to walk away a few steps. Tian Qi took out the knife wrapped in his clothes and fiddled with it a few times in the white ash. After some examination, after making sure that there were no intact items left, he held the hand of the knife and turned his wrist slightly. With a flick of the blade, he picked up two burnt and deformed iron rings on the ground and threw them into the blue lake on the side.

The two rings, which had been nailed to the wheels, were now the only remnants of the flames. If you leave iron sheets, it is easy to wonder why even the car is burned when the garbage is burned. Remove these, and the land is white and ash. It is closer to the residue of burning the garbage.

The blade turned, cut off a section of the sleeve of the undershirt, and brushed away the ashes stained on the blade, Tian Qi put the knife into the sheath, wrapped the knife into the coat again, and then looked sideways at Ji Wu on the side. Calmly said, "You can go." ”

Ji Wu nodded slightly, and walked with Tian Qi, at this time he was vaguely different from when he came, when he left the crematorium, Ji Wu did not walk side by side with Tian Qi. Rather, it is a little behind.

Ji Wu's temperament is a little silent and withdrawn, Tian Qi has long understood this, so he doesn't care. And even if he had the leisure to chat with Ji Wu about how he felt when he burned the corpse just now, he knew that now was not the time.

After walking a distance, Ji Wu and Tian Qi did not go back to Shifu directly, but turned a corner and walked into the emerald green bamboo forest next to the nameless lake.

Tian Qi and Ji Wu entered the bamboo forest, but they did not want to go to the small temple located in the depths of the bamboo forest to worship the Buddha. The two of them really wanted to take advantage of the dense cover of the bamboo forest to take off the camouflage on their bodies.

By the time the two of them came out of the shade, their loose hair had been neatly tied up, and their saber coats were neatly put back on their bodies, and the saber hung on their waists as they were used to.

The two of them came to the nameless lake again, and without thinking about whether the blue water of the lake would contain any harmful substances, they quickly scooped up a handful of water and washed their faces. After the firewood ash that was deliberately wiped on their faces when they left the Shi Mansion just now was wiped clean, the two of them had already recovered the kind of spiritual qi that belonged to the ten generals.

Standing up on the shore of the lake, Ji Wu glanced at the faint surface of the lake, looking at his distorted reflection in the water, he suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

Tian Qi finished washing his face, and then stood up as well, he heard the sigh of his old partner in his ears, and naturally followed Ji Wu's gaze to the water.

Looking at the two reflections that stood side by side and distorted together, a thoughtful look appeared in his eyes for a moment, and he suddenly asked, "Why are you ...... Reluctant? ”

When Ji Wu heard this, he first turned his head sideways and glanced at Tian Qi, then he shook his head and didn't say anything.

"Look away, we're only burning three dead bodies." Tian Qi said lightly: "It's not that you haven't killed people with your own hands, why do you suddenly seem to be a little uncomfortable." ”

After Tian Qi said this, he took steps to leave the lake, this time he was ready to go back to Shifu to resume his life.

Ji Wu followed closely behind Tian Qi, but his eyes were slightly straight, as if he was a little distracted.

He didn't care if Tian Qi could see it, and after hearing Tian Qi's questioning words, he shook his head again, and finally was willing to speak, and said slowly: "Betraying Xiangye, they deserve to die." I'm just thinking about something else. ”

"What's the problem?" Tian Qi's steps slowed slightly, and when he looked back at Ji Wu, his steps moved slightly to the left. He is still used to walking side by side with Ji Wu, and he is not used to this taciturn partner almost silently behind him.

"If these three people have an afterlife, will they become a family?" Although Ji Wu's words mentioned 'family', there was no trace of warmth in his voice, "That man, in the final analysis, was dragged down by those two women and died." ”

"If that man wasn't alone, maybe he would be like the other two nurses, not to death, but to be driven back to his hometown to farm." Tian Qi also sighed like Ji Wu, and then said, "I seem to understand a little bit why you think so. ”

"Nope." Ji Wu immediately denied it. A cold smile appeared on his face, "I didn't think about it so much, I just think that they died together, if they want to be reincarnated." It should be the same way. ”

Tian Qi was slightly stunned when he heard this, he was a little surprised by Ji Wu's true thoughts.

After a moment of silence, he suddenly snorted coldly again, and said: "These two women are not gentle people, just playing, if there is such a person in the family, it will be difficult to prosper the family, and it will only cause more trouble." ”

"Huh! The Wang family..."Ji Wu said suddenly: "Do you believe these? ”

Tian Qi ignored him, and just continued what he just said: "In addition to meeting that need, you can make up a number, an eventful woman." Still nothing is better than nothing. ”

Ji Wu lowered his head and rubbed the handle of the knife on his waist, which was rough to the touch, and did not speak again.

The shore of the lake is not too far from the small temple in the woods, and the bell in the temple is heard, and the sound is very clear. Tian Qi suddenly closed his palms on his chest, and he didn't know if it was a prayer. He quickly let go of his hand and lowered it back to the hilt at his side.

……

Mo Ye walked into the large but somewhat empty Song Mansion alone, she originally wanted to ask the housekeeper in charge of the gate what Ruan Luo was doing at this time, but after thinking about it, they might not know this.

In the past, when she lived in Xingjia Village, the first thing she said when she came home. It must have been the two handymen who could be seen every day in the yard shouting, "Where's the aunt?" ”。 When I am alone at home, I ask others the most about the sentence, "What about Master?" ”。 And every time she inquires, most of them can quickly find the person she asks.

Today's living environment makes Mo Ye feel distance and estrangement. When I was recuperating in Yefu a few days ago, this feeling was not yet profound. After coming to the Song Mansion, the five-fold mansion was surrounded by layers. It is difficult to see the inside, and this feeling is so strong that it is impossible to ignore Cheng dù.

As a big family, it is necessary to save this complicated house pattern, but Mo Ye can't adapt to it for the time being.

People often have fame, but they also have responsibilities and troubles. It naturally formed the concealment pattern of the tall gate mansion. When the momentum is gained, it shows the dignity and dignity, and when the momentum is lost, it can be used as a resistance and buffer when it is necessary to meet the trouble head-on.

Although Mo Ye is not fully familiar with the whole picture of the Song Mansion at present, if she just goes to one place, it will not make her lose herself.

After a few turns of the thoughts in his mind, Mo Ye finally found that in the entire Song Mansion, there were only two people he was most familiar with at present. And when it comes to the importance of it, Ruan Luo is more important.

Bai Tao is a companion to himself, but Ruan Luo is a responsibility to himself, and it is the responsibility that he has to fulfill when he is arranged by some people to the Song Mansion.

When he came to the courtyard where Ruan Luo's study was located, Mo Ye heard a "crackling" sound coming from the house before he could get closer. She listened for a moment, then thought for a moment, and remembered that it was the sound of the abacus colliding with each other. When she first saw the abacus in the drawer of Ruan Luo's desk that day, Ruan Luo had fiddled with it in front of her.

The two maids standing at the door saw Mo Ye approaching, and hurriedly bowed down, and said softly: "Miss Mo." ”

Mo Ye smiled and saluted, and asked in a very soft voice, "When did the young master enter the study?" ”

At present, most of the servants in the Song Mansion still use 'young master' to call Ruan Luo, or prefix a 'table'. This may be because most of the servants in the house are used to serving Master Song, and they are still a little unfamiliar with this young master who came relatively suddenly. And the situation like Bai Tao who has begun to call Ruan Luo the head of the family is a minority after all.

The two maids hesitated when they heard this, and one of the maids reacted quickly, so he replied: "The young master only went in after lunch, counting... Stayed inside for less than an hour. ”

Later, another maid said, "Young Master Cousin said that we don't need to serve inside, so we have to stand outside." ”

Mo Ye nodded and said with a smile: "It may be that he needs a quiet environment so that he can concentrate on doing some accounts, I'll go in and see him." ”

In addition to the stack of old account books that Ruan Luo got back from Boss Jin that day, Master Song, as his uncle, died suddenly, and there were also many unsettled accounts in the business, which needed to be gradually cleared by Ruan Luo in the future. Most of the servants in the Song Mansion also knew the situation mentioned in Mo Ye's words.

The two maids standing at the door naturally knew the duty of Mo Ye's arrival, and when they heard this, they didn't say anything else, but only bowed slightly and watched Mo Ye enter the study.