On the second day, as soon as An Lan got up, she noticed that something was wrong with the atmosphere in the entire courtyard.

The golden finch got up earlier than her, and at this time he happened to carry water with a few little incense slaves, and after looking at her, he quickly pulled her aside and whispered: "Oh no, Gui Zhi seems to have found something, Wang Xiangzhi and Lu Xiangzhi quarreled early in the morning, and I heard that the incense slaves of the entire courtyard will be interrogated in a while!" ”

An Lan was slightly surprised: "What's the matter?" ”

"It's not clear." As he spoke, he looked at both sides and whispered, "I heard that Gui Zhi went to Wang Zhangshi last night to get the key to the incense room, and then stayed in the incense room until midnight. ”

An Lan tried not to show a panicked expression, pursed her lips and was silent for a while, and quietly held the golden finch's hand: "Isn't it, we have been discovered?" ”

The golden finch shook An Lan's hand back: "It shouldn't be, if it is, the two incense envoys won't quarrel, just come over and ......."

Seeing that other incense slaves were coming, An Lan gave the golden finch a look, then took his own basin to fetch water, and then asked in a low voice: "How did Gui Zhi think of checking the incense room?" ”

"I don't know." The Plantage crouched down next to her, handing her the tooth powder, and whispered, "Even if she really finds out that something is missing from the incense room, it doesn't matter, they ......" the Plantage said, glancing around and lowering her voice, "None of them know that I will open the lock." ”

Despite this, An Lan felt a lot of uneasiness in her heart, and after hastily rinsing her mouth, she turned around and went back to the room.

"How?" The golden finch followed An Lan into the room, and when he saw An Lan carefully lift the bed board and take out the incense card hidden underneath, he asked puzzledly, "What are you doing with this now?" ”

An Lan said: "I always feel that today's things will not be good, and after a while, they are afraid that they will send someone to search the house, this can't be placed in our house, we have to find another place to hide." ”

The goldfinch thought about it for a while, and said, "Why don't you take it to the kitchen and quietly throw it into the stove to burn!" ”

An Lan shook her head: "This is a stack of fragrant wood, even if it is inferior, it will still have a fragrance when burned." ”

The golden finch was a little nervous, thought about it, and said, "Then throw it in the well, I'll go and branch out those little girls who carry water!" ”

"This is not water agarwood, wood will float when it falls in the water." An Lan was made to smile by the expression of the golden finch, but she was worried in the end, so she smiled very shallowly, and the corners of her mouth had disappeared before she could rise.

"Ah, I forgo......t," said the goldfinch, biting her lip, "give it to me, and I'll take it to the courtyard and find a place to bury it first." ”

But as soon as she finished saying this, someone knocked on the door outside, An Lan was startled, and quickly hid the incense card in her sleeve, and then both of them looked at the door alertly.

"What are you doing when you get up?" Lychee wanted to push the door in directly, but found that the door was bolted from the inside, so she muttered strangely, and then shouted, "Come out quickly, Wang Xiangzhi and Lu Xiangzhi shouted that we should all go to the courtyard." ”

An Lan hurriedly said: "I'll change my clothes, I'll go." ”

Lychee said again: "Hurry up, I've already come here, and there are a few fierce mothers-in-law, and I don't know what's going on!" ”

"Got it." An Lan straightened her sleeves, wiped away the panic on her face, and then went over to open the door.

The goldfinch grabbed her arm, looked at her seriously and whispered, "Give it to me, you can't put it on your body, in case you search ......"

"Maybe it's something else, after all, no matter what they came here for, you and I don't know anything." An Lan shook her head, pulled the latch of the door, and walked out.

When the two walked to the courtyard, there were more than 30 incense slaves standing in a row, Lian Xi'er, Wang Meiniang and Lu Yunxian standing on the corridor, and next to them were six mothers-in-law with round waists and four sturdy court attendants, and behind several incense envoys stood two small servants beside Wang Zhangshi. An Lan noticed that Guizhi was standing at the front of Xiangnu, so she motioned for the Golden Sparrow to stand and walk to the back, but Guizhi kept staring at the two of them, watching them go to the back, so she snorted coldly: "What did you do to dare not see people, secretly stand back!" ”

The Plantage glared at her and replied sarcastically in a low voice: "We can't see people, how can we be like some people, we can't wait to take off and go to see people!" ”

Gui Zhi immediately sank his face: "Who are you talking about!" ”

The Golden Sparrow looked surprised: "You don't think I'm talking about you, do you, do you really like to be so watched?" ”

Gui Zhi's face turned pale: "You-"

Some people couldn't help but purse their lips and snicker, and the originally somewhat depressed atmosphere was relieved a little by the words of the two of them, but some people's faces suddenly sank because of this. In Yuanxiang Courtyard, the hookup between godfathers and daughters has long been an open secret, but no one has ever dared to say anything about it.

An Lan hurriedly pulled the golden finch and signaled that she couldn't go any further, Wang Meiniang was also present, if Wang Meiniang heard these words, she would definitely offend Wang Meiniang.

Gui Zhi held back for a while before he spit out a sentence from between his teeth: "I see how long you can be proud!" ”

An Lan's heart sank slightly, and she glanced at Gui Zhi, who happened to be looking at her as well, and saw that Gui Zhi's eyes were a little uncontrollable excitement, and she was a little more vigilant in her heart.

Is this really against them today?

An Lan lowered her eyes and stood silently in the back row, the hand that hid the incense card was quietly clenched.

Lu Yunxian was in a better mood because of the few words of the golden finch just now, and looked at Wang Meiniang with a smile and said: "Everyone is here, but I am talking ahead, if you can't find anything, you have to give me an explanation, this kind of thing of being a thief shouting to catch a thief is not new!" ”

Wang Meiniang sneered: "This hasn't started yet, what are you nervous about, I didn't say that you stole incense, nor did I say that your incense slaves stole incense, and now I call them all out, isn't it just to find out the real thief, so as to save the good people from wronging." It's true that there are thieves who shout back to catch thieves, but there are more people who desperately cover up after being thieves, don't you say? Sister Lu? ”

Lu Yunxian didn't have Wang Meiniang's neatness, and Wang Meiniang choked on this sentence, and her face suddenly became ugly, and Lian Xi'er next to her said: "Okay, don't forget to fight at this time, if this matter can't be found, we will all be punished!" ”

It turned out that when Guizhi went to the incense room to check last night, he didn't find out that the piece of incense that the golden finch secretly cut was missing, but found that the incense room was less than five catties of agarwood cakes. This is not a small amount, Gui Zhi is extremely excited, feeling that he has finally caught the handle of An Lan and the Golden Finch. Half a month ago, Jinque and An Lan had been in and out of the incense room with Lu Yunxian a few times, and now those two suddenly acted so generously, and when Chen Lu asked people to come over to inquire about it last night, she felt that An Lan and Jinque must have been involved in stealing incense.

So she hurriedly went to Wang Meiniang to tell her about it, but Wang Meiniang was not interested in the two little Xiangnu, in her opinion, Xiangnu was not so bold, even if she really stole it, it was not easy to make a move. But the incense envoy is different, especially the incense envoy with old qualifications like Lu Yunxian, it is too easy to sell a few catties of agarwood cakes. So she pointed the finger at Lu Yunxian for this matter, but Lu Yunxian could not be handled by her, and the two immediately quarreled, and Lian Xi'er had to come out to play a round, so there was this incident early this morning.

It's just that An Lan and Jinque don't know the inside story, so when the two of them heard the conversation between Lu Yunxian and Wang Meiniang, their hearts jumped violently. The golden finch gritted her teeth and handed An Lan a reassuring look, anyway, that bit of incense has already been used, as long as she doesn't admit it, Wang Meiniang and they won't be able to find her.

The incense room has always been locked, she can't get in, how can she steal incense!

An Lan was worried and a little puzzled at the same time, the amount of incense that the golden finch stole was really small, even if it was discovered, it would not make such a big move, and it could still make Wang Meiniang and Lu Yunxian quarrel in public......

Without waiting for An Lan to figure it out, after Lian Xi'er finished speaking, she ordered Lu Yunxian and Wang Meiniang to watch her mother-in-law search the house, and the sound of rummaging through boxes and cabinets came from behind her. The incense slaves all lowered their eyes in horror, they still remembered that last year, there was a fragrant slave who secretly took two incense pills because he went to the incense room to clean, and after finding out, his right hand was directly abolished! After that incident, some people say that she threw herself into a well and died, and some say that her family took her out and then sold her to a cripple man as a wife.

No one knows what the result will be today, even if they have never done anything wrong, their hearts are beating.

Coldly hidden in this warm fragrant nephrite, like a beast that does not know where it is potential, it can always jump out and bite you when you are most relaxed, reminding you of what kind of place this is and what your identity is.