"Oh, Gu Tixing, which gust of wind blew you here."

As soon as Xiao Zihui heard that his family had come to report to Dali Temple Gu Ti for punishment, he hurriedly strode out.

"Marquis Xiao, I have nothing to do today." Lian Sheng stood in the doorway with a smile, followed by two guards.

Xiao Zihui has a big personality, but he is not stupid, and suddenly realized that Liansheng may have come to investigate the case this time, and looked at her suspiciously, his tone was full of puzzlement: "But it's because of business?" My Lao Xiao doesn't know what our family can have to do with Dali Temple? ”

"Let's go in and talk about it, there are some things I want to ask Master Hou."

Lian Sheng carefully observed Xiao Zihui's face, he showed more doubts than a weak heart, could it be that those two acacia seeds had nothing to do with him?

It's impossible, he and Li Xinkui must know each other, it's just that he's trying to control his expression and emotions, right? The person who can quickly hug his thigh when Yu Shizhao throws an olive branch and defeat the Xu family in one fell swoop cannot be as arrogant as he appears on the outside.

With such an idea, Liansheng followed Xiao Zihui into Xiao's house and sat down in the main hall, because it was a business trip, naturally he couldn't let the female dependents come out, so Xiao Zihui personally ordered the maid to pour tea.

"Xiaguan came here today, just to ask Hou Ye, Li Xinkui I saw in the Ministry of Rites that day, do you remember Hou Ye?"

"Yes." Xiao Zihui nodded, with an unnatural smile on his face: "But what happened to him?" ”

"Yes, he's dead."

"Huh?" Xiao Zihui was shocked: "Dead? Why didn't I hear Shu'er mention it? Didn't he live in the dormitory? Can the Ministry of Rites know if it is dead? Or is it dead outside? ”

"It's true that he's dead outside."

Lian Sheng sighed and continued: "Originally, this person should have set off for his post tomorrow, but I didn't expect this kind of thing to happen. Young talents, it's really a sigh. ”

Xiao Zihui's face was also full of regret: "It's not, it's not a good young man, why did he die." ”

"Listening to Master Hou's words, why does it seem that he is very familiar with this person?"

Lian Sheng asked tentatively, while observing the change in Xiao Zihui's expression.

"This ......" Xiao Zihui paused, as if he didn't know how to talk about it, rubbed his hands, his face was obviously a little embarrassed, and finally said as if he had made up his mind: "Ten years ago." I once went to Guanzhong Academy. At that time, Li Xinkui was studying there. ”

"Yes, Li Xinkui mentioned this matter last time, but I think Master Hou was only inspecting the academy at that time, and it was far from being familiar with the students studying in it. Why did Hou Ye blurt out. Let's just say that Li Xinkui is very good? ”

"Huh. This one, he was lifted at a young age, and he can still be released. Isn't this a young talent, I just said casually, hehe, Gu Tixing, you are not kind, this is to lead my old Xiao to the fork in the road. ”

Xiao Zihui couldn't help but smile, hiding the embarrassment in his heart, clenching his fist with his hand, gently putting it on his mouth, coughing a few times, and then picking up the tea bowl again, without even looking at Liansheng, nor signaling for Liansheng to drink tea.

This is not hospitality, Xiao Zihui, a gentleman from a family, should not make such a mistake, he is really a little nervous.

Drinking tea, like smoking in later generations, is to ease your anger and relieve your own tension.

Lian Sheng was not in a hurry, took out the two red beans and the tourmaline beads, pinched them in his hand and played with them, and at the same time looked at Xiao Zihui with the corner of his eye, only to see that he didn't care about the family style at all, drank the tea in a big gulp, and then looked at the tea bowl in a daze.

Liansheng looked at the furnishings in the main hall again, and she noticed that there were peacock feathers in the duster bottle behind her, Ruyi with mutton fat and jade cloud heads inlaid on the sandalwood handle, and dust whisks and so on. This kind of duster bottle is generally placed on both sides, and small households are plugged in feather dusters, and large households are basically used for decoration.

Well, the ruyi of mutton fat jade seems to be a very common thing in the Xiao family, and it is casually inserted in the duster bottle.

When I entered the Xiao family just now, I could clearly see that the Xiao family was a little dilapidated. The house has not been repaired for a long time, the wooden pillars on the corridor are mottled with paint, the roof tiles are also very old, the ash is even overgrown with weeds, there are few servants in the house, there is no maid standing at the door of the main hall, and no one even makes a curtain, and the maid who served tea just now is also wearing a very old gown, and she is not timid at all.

"I don't know if Master Hou can recognize these things."

Liansheng spread out his hands, two heart-shaped red beans and a green tourmaline bead in his palm, which looked particularly bright in the sun.

Xiao Zihui only glanced at it, then lowered his eyes: "What is this?" I don't know, I don't recognize. ”

"This is Acacia, it is said to be used to sustenance Acacia, coincidentally there is a very small Xiao character on this tourmaline bead. The strangest thing is that this was found in the hands of Li Xinkui, who was not killed, and the deceased must have grabbed this acacia in his hand when he died to identify the murderer. Marquis Xiao, what do you think? ”

"Well, probably." Xiao Zihui picked up the tea bowl again, but the water had just been drunk, so he slapped the table and shouted, "Pour the tea." ”

This was saying this, and suddenly called pouring tea, which was a bit wrong.

Because in etiquette, when a guest comes to serve tea, serving tea again is a hint of sending off the guest. Therefore, Lian Sheng did not back down, and continued to ask: "It turns out that Master Hou wants to send off guests." ”

Marquis Xiao was a little anxious, and his face turned red to defend: "How can there be, how can there be, how can my old Xiao be so illiterate, it's just that I'm thirsty." ”

"Hehe, just kidding with Hou Ye, Hou Ye suddenly felt thirsty, but he still felt his heart beating faster and his hands were still slightly sweaty? This is because Hou Ye is hiding something, but his body can't hide it. ”

Xiao Zihui asked a little annoyed, "Gu Tixing, what do you want to ask?" ”

"I just want to ask if this handpiece belongs to the Xiao Mansion, what happened between Marquis Xiao and Li Xinkui, so that you can bring a large number of treasures to see him, and even wear a sheep fat jade Ruyi."

"Sheep fat jade ruyi?" Xiao Zihui was obviously stunned, and then saw Liansheng observing himself, he knew the superiority of this sentence, since he was able to come to inquire and explain that he was confident, he was still honest, so he said: "That string of bracelets was indeed given to Li Xinkui back then." ”

"You send him lovesickness?"

Liansheng thought it was incredible.

Xiao Zihui smiled embarrassedly: "My old Xiao was quite excessive when he was young, and he was a wanderer, that ...... That used to be better for a while. ”

is blazing, Marquis Xiao is so manly. Liansheng also hurriedly picked up the tea bowl and took a sip, she really didn't know what to say.

"Ten years ago, I used to be a messenger in the Ministry of Rites, and I was ordered to go to Guanzhong Academy to inspect, Gu Tixing, you don't understand, our good manly people are easy to find their own kind in the crowd, as soon as I arrived, I saw that Li Xinkui was good, he was only fourteen or fifteen years old at the time, and he looked good, it was the type I liked, so I seduced him with silver, and gave him a string of acacia seeds as a mark, and when I returned to the capital, this dew love affair was broken, and I saw it in the Ministry of Rites that day, it was really ...... Hehe, I don't know where to start when I see each other. Xiao Zihui's expression had too much remembrance, and there was a smile on the corner of his mouth, it seemed that he enjoyed the sweetness of his memories very much.

Liansheng unconsciously touched his arm, always feeling that it might be covered with goosebumps.

"Punishment, this handpiece is the origin of this, maybe Li Xinkui was dragged off between the murderer, my old Xiao Ke really never saw him again, sentence, I told you all these dirty things, I really didn't hide it at all, I tried to put it down, I have to believe me."

Xiao Zihui grinned and shouted vigorously.

Li Xinkui is Xiao Zihui's old lover, but what about Director Fang and Zheng Hanlin?

"Do you recognize Fang Yunsheng and Zheng Xun?"

"Zheng Xun I know, the Tanhualang back then, he was a good person, but it's a pity that my old Xiao is not good at that mouthful, just look at it, I really don't want to think about it, I'm saying that the person is not the same as us at first glance."

"You can really distinguish your own kind."

"Of course, it smells the same, just look for one."

"At that time, you were in the academy, didn't you find any gentleman who was also a good man?"

"No, no." Xiao Zihui shook his head like a rattle: "At that time, I had the most contact with the gentleman of the academy, but I really didn't find any of them that were good, or I wouldn't have gone to see middle school students, that kind of fresh chicks, not easy to train." It's fine-tuned.,Just a little bit of taste people have to go.,Thanks to it.。 (To be continued......)