Seeing Qing Shu pacing around on the ground in annoyance, Steward Gu suddenly thought of something and felt that they were worried a lot, "Miss doesn't have to worry at all, no matter how the Wu Mansion tosses, he can't manipulate Miss's family affairs." ”

Qing Shu said, "You're right. My grandfather and grandmother have passed away for many years, and my father and mother are no longer there, so no one can control my family affairs. Those who don't have a good heart want to intervene, even if it is troublesome, I will pay them back one by one. ”

The ancient housekeeper knew that she didn't understand the meaning of his words, "Miss, that's not what the old slave said. ”

Qing Shu thought he had some good idea, "Oh? Let's talk about it. ”

The ancient butler said, "Miss, have you forgotten? You and the young master are keeping filial piety for your wife. ”

Hearing this, Qing Shu said with annoyance, "It's really a mess for yourself, and you actually forgot about not marrying during the period of filial piety." "She and Qingyang are keeping filial piety for their mother, who dares to risk the world to let her out at this time! However, Wu Fu is not stupid, how could he fight such an idea, it is too strange. Thinking of this, she instructed the ancient housekeeper, "This is not right, you arrange someone to check what kind of reputation the Wu Mansion is engaged in." ”

Steward Gu, "Miss, will the people sent by the Wu Mansion arrest or not?" ”

Qing Shu tapped the table with his fingers, and only spoke for a long time, "No, in this way, you go in person, go to the yamen in person, see Master Zhang directly, and then tell Master Zhang, the villagers of Dagujia Village are discussing one thing in private, and they say that Gu Hoe regards himself as my elder, and wants to be the master for me The matchmaker sent by Wu Mansion let me marry Wu Mansion Chongxi." In this matter, the villagers all scolded me in private for being unfilial, scolding me for being busy marrying during my mother's filial piety, and so on. Anyway, you can make up some ugly things that the villagers scolded me. ”

Steward Gu felt that it was inappropriate, "Miss, it's okay to sue the official, but you ......"

Qing Shu waved his hand and cut off his words, "That's it." Haven't the people of Wu Mansion left yet? Just right, let the yamen arrest people, let the yamen interrogate them. And our people must do their best to track down the affairs of the Wu Mansion. ”

After Steward Gu was ordered to run errands, Qing Shu sat quietly alone, trying to think of all the possibilities. Wu Fuming knew that she was guarding filial piety, why did she do this? Besides, the people sent by the Wu Mansion came yesterday, why didn't they leave that day, but stayed in Dagujia Village? The carriage of the rich and noble family appeared in the village, how eye-catching it was, why didn't it stop? Aren't you afraid of being discovered by her? Aren't you afraid of her means?

She believes in Xiao Zhixian, and these are the two things mentioned in Xiao Zhixian's letter. First, the Wu government sent a matchmaker to the ancient hoe's house in Dagujia Village. The second is the Ye Mansion and the Song Mansion where the Wu Mansion wrote a letter to the capital, as well as the Mansion of Gu Yunfu, who had a wolf heart and a dog's lungs. There was only one purpose, to ask any of these people to nod and promise her to the Wu Mansion.

The ancient hoe knew that she was guarding filial piety, but the people in the capital didn't know. Gu Yunfu did not report the funeral, Ye Mansion did not report the funeral, and the Song Mansion did not report the funeral before that she didn't know about it before. Could it be that Wu Ye's family wants to take advantage of this loophole?

"Miss, miss, miss......" Xiaoyu called five or six times in a row.

Qing Shu, who was too attentive about things, came back to his senses, "What's the matter?" ”

Xiao Yu reported, "Miss, there are several beggars outside the back door who have come to ask for food, and the kitchen has given some leftovers, but they don't want it, they just say they want to see something, and keep banging on the door. The gatekeeper wanted to go out and beat them, but the young lady had instructed the family in the house not to beat beggars. At this time, the housekeeper went out to run errands, and Steward Ding was not there, so the doorkeeper had to come to ask the young lady. ”

Qing Shu immediately stood up and walked out, and when she walked out of the door, she immediately stopped again, and thought for a while, "Let the young master come over, let the young master come alone." ”

Xiaoyu quickly invited Qingyang over.

Qing Shu stuffed a prepared oil-paper bag into Qingyang's hand, and commanded in a low voice, "There are a few beggars outside the back door, my sister has prepared some pastries, and you can help my sister distribute them among them." Remember, don't think they're dirty, you have to put the pastry in their hands. ”

Qingyang didn't even ask why, and promised, "Okay, Xiaoyang will go." ”

"Wait a minute." Qing Shu opened the oiled paper bag he was holding in both hands, pinched out a palm-sized pastry from it, turned it over and showed Qingyang the opposite, "Remember, when you put it in their hands, this side should be facing up, and the side with this mark should be facing up." ”

Qingyang stared at the mark that Qing Shu was pointing to, a pattern drawn inside a circle that looked like words but not like words. There was no pattern on the pastry, which was cut out of the pastry with a thin point. He nodded and said remembered.

Qingshu put the pastry back into the oiled paper bag and made the oiled paper wrapper, "You give them the pastry, they will talk to you." No matter what they say, you can listen to it, you don't need to respond, but you have to remember their words and come back and tell Sister Sù. I can only sue my sister, not others, and my brother can't. ”

Qingyang made it clear.

Qing Shu led Qingyang out and said to Xiaojuan, "Take the young master over." ”

Xiao Juan answered, took Qingyang out of the inner courtyard, and soon appeared at the back door. The gatekeeper was afraid that something would happen, so he called two other family members at this time. When these three people saw Qingyang, they hurriedly saluted Qingyang.

Xiaojuan asked the family how many beggars there were, and the family replied that there were four. Xiaojuan said to open the door.

When the back door opened, the four unkempt beggars scrambled to beg for alms, good men and rich lords, begging for alms.

The three family members didn't let the beggars come to Qingyang, and stared at the beggars fiercely.

Xiao Juan casually pointed to the thin person, "You, come in." ”

The family members thought they had misheard, "Miss Xiaojuan! ”

Xiao Juan waved her hand, "It's okay, let him in." ”

The family looked at Qingyang, and when they saw Qingyang nodding, they let the beggar ordered by Xiaojuan in.

Xiao Juan protected Qingyang by her side, brought the beggar in for a while and stopped, then she nodded at Qingyang.

At this time, Qingyang opened the oiled paper bag in his hand, took out a piece of pastry, put the marked side up, and then stood in front of the beggar and put it in the black palm of the beggar.

The beggar bent down and held the pastry in both hands, glanced at the mark on the pastry, shouted "head" excitedly, and knelt down to kowtow to Qingyang.

Qingyang didn't know why, but according to Qingshu's instructions, he didn't speak.

The beggar stood up after kowtowing, and whispered quickly, "There are more than a dozen faces in the town, and they all have knives hidden in them. Thank you for your almsgiving. With that, he took a big bite of the pastry in his hand and ran out.

Xiaojuan asked the family to let the second beggar in, then the third and the fourth. The fourth beggar was hunched and seemed to be quite old. After Qingyang gave him a marked pastry, there were still several pieces left in the oiled paper bag. He didn't even want to think about it, and even gave away the oiled paper bag.

After that, Qingyang went back to Qingshu to return to his life.

Qingshu pulled him into the inner room, "What did they say?" ”

Qingyang relayed the words of the four people, "The first person said, 'There are more than a dozen new faces in the town, and there are knives hidden in them.'" The second said, 'Yesterday there were two strange carriages hidden in the woods outside the town, and today one is parked in the same place, and the other is parked at the entrance of the town. The third man said, 'There is a trap on the way to Zhuangzi.' The fourth man said, 'Don't go out.'" ”

Qing Shu grabbed his hand, "Are you afraid?" ”

Qingyang looked up at her, "Don't be afraid, they listen to my sister." ”

Qing Shu was stunned for a few seconds, pinched his nose and asked with a smile, "Where did you see that?" ”

Qingyang grinned, "They listened to their sister's words, and my sister was willing to let them get close to Xiaoyang." ”

Qing Shu smiled, "Hehe...... Count you smart. Go ahead! Xiao Rong should look for you later. ”

When Qingyang was about to leave, he remembered something and asked Qingshu, "I almost forgot, the first sentence they said was 'head', sister, what is 'head'?" ”

Qing Shu leaned over and said very softly in his ear, "They are calling you young master." After that, she held Qingyang's face, and looking at Qingyang's surprised expression, she winked at him, "Another little secret of ours." ”

When Qingyang left, Qingshu began to pace again, things were not quite right, she hated this feeling of unease. "Xiaoyu, go ahead and call Guard Du and Guard Luo over."

Du Zhongxia and Luo San arrived one after the other.

Qing Shu looked at them, "Did you find anything abnormal?" ”

Du Zhongxia opened his mouth first, "There are two men with raw faces swaying outside the mansion, if the guess is correct, they are watching." ”

Luo San agreed, "My subordinates think so too. ”

Qing Shu felt that it was not good, "You two, one stays in the mansion to strengthen vigilance, and the other goes out to investigate the situation." It should be noted that more than a dozen dangerous people with fresh faces have arrived in the town, as well as suspicious carriages parked at the entrance of the town and in the woods outside the town. ”

Du Zhongxia and Luo San were ordered to run errands.

Qing Shu couldn't sit still, and when he heard that the ancient housekeeper had returned from the yamen, he immediately asked someone to come over.

Without waiting for Qing Shu to ask, the ancient housekeeper reported that the arresters had already set off to arrest people.

Qing Shu said very well and asked, "The last time I confronted Xiao Mansion, Ning Si brought a lot of people to help. Among those people, except for the three who stayed in the shop to do things, can you find the rest? ”

Steward Gu immediately replied, "Yes." For the young lady had said that if there was a suitable errand and asked them for help, the old slave wrote down their names and dwellings. ”

Qing Shu doesn't look at the time until now, and every time he has to ask others, "What time is it?" ”

Steward Gu went out to see the position of the sun, and then came in to report, "It's almost noon." ”

"In this case, you send someone to tell Ning Si that the palace needs to increase guards tonight, and that those of his brothers who are in good health and have good fists and feet, if they are willing to come and earn some copper plates to be guards for a few days, let him bring people over. In terms of wages, thirty copper plates a day were given. ”

Steward Gu felt that the salary was a little higher, but thinking of the safety issue, he arranged it without objection.

After lunch, the beggar came to the back door again. At this time, the ancient housekeeper was in the house, and Qingshu did not send Qingyang over again.

This time the beggar sent the news that there was suddenly an additional team of officers and soldiers patrolling the town.