Chapter 85: The Hiding Place
Thanks to the murderer who killed people in public at the city gate, during the Double Ninth Festival in the third year of Taiye, the entire Huocheng was a little depressed, and Xinan Xiaozhou Mansion was no exception.
Although everyone in the city knew that the murderer who was hiding in the city would not attack ordinary people, the cautious people still tried their best to restrain their children from going out, for fear that the caravans of traffickers who were still searching people outside the city would find trouble in plain water. According to the caliber of the caravan's arrest, the murderer was a northland boy about five feet tall.
This statement made a bunch of teenagers in the Zhou family very excited, although only Zhou Shen had officially apprenticed to learn martial arts, but it did not prevent them from having an inexplicable curiosity about the teenager who might kill someone at about the same age.
As soon as the lessons of the Cultivating Heart Hall were dispersed, the brothers of the Zhou family rejoined the heated discussion that lasted for half a month.
"That's about as tall as you! If you go to the street, it is estimated that you will be grabbed by those Qingyuan people and take a closer look......", Zhou Ke's hand drew a half circle in the air, just marking his own brother Zhou Ti, the eldest son of the fourth room, Zhou Xin, and Gao Wei, who has officially studied in the Zhou family recently.
The three boys were all around this height.
Gao Wei's face turned red, and he defended hoarsely: "Those slave traders are not from Qingyuan. β
The sound that was originally as clear as a spring is now like a blunt knife filed on a wooden tabletop, which is very unpleasant.
Sixteen-year-old Zhou Chen listened, and couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth. Recently, Zhou Chen is changing his voice, and he feels that his voice is unpleasant, but he doesn't want to have a high-dimensional companion who has eaten the wrong thing, but he is also comfortable.
Man Yun, who had been sitting quietly in the corner, got up and lifted a teapot resting on the corner table. Thoughtfully poured a cup of medicinal tea for each of his brothers.
A cup of tea was also gently handed to Gao Wei's eyes, the pale yellow surface of the tea soup. There is also a slender chrysanthemum petal.
"Xiexie Sixth Sister!" , Gao Wei hurriedly thanked him and took it from Man Yun's hand. The tea soup rested on his lips, looking at Man Yun, who had turned to Zhou Shen, and hesitated.
"Sister Yun'er! The doctor said that my cousin can't drink chrysanthemum tea! Zhou Shen couldn't bear to lend a hand.
Gao Wei put down the cup with a sigh of relief, and smiled awkwardly at Man Yun, who was surprised.
Truth be told, people die? Man Yun secretly sneered disdainfully, Gao Wei's unrequited gentlemanly style, she had long known it. What's more, Gao Wei's slight poisoning symptoms in recent days were her handiwork.
Chrysanthemums are already poisonous, and the leaf stalks are eaten raw or directly touched to the skin for a long time, which will cause uncomfortable symptoms of swelling and pain.
So when the sisters in the family cooked the chongyang cake together and distributed it to the brothers, Manyunte gave Gao Wei a piece of crushed chrysanthemum peanut leaf powder. Gao Wei now lives in the east courtyard of Xiuyutang, and Man Yun is not worried at all, he will accidentally hit the passenger car and injure Zhou Shen. In order to be safe, Man Yun also sent pots of chrysanthemums to his brothers and sisters in the family as a desk confession, but he just applied an extra layer of attractant to Gao Wei's two pots.
These two days. Gao Wei's throat was swollen and sore severely, and after seeing the doctor, he said that he was not accustomed to the water and soil when he first came to Huocheng, and he rejected chrysanthemum products.
But he only secretly withdrew the chrysanthemum in the room. But he couldn't bear to tell Man Yun directly, and Man Yun was happy to prepare chrysanthemum cake and chrysanthemum tea in Gengxin Hall every day.
Man Yun didn't feel that her actions were naΓ―ve, she was just asking for justice for Zhou Shen, who was still blue in the corners of his eyes.
Zhou Shen, who was brought up by the second uncle, was a little too honest. Just like Zhou Manyun in his previous life. At the instigation of Gao Wei, he was severely beaten by the second uncle. also ignorantly worships his cousin to the extreme, and maintains it everywhere without complaints.
It's a pity that it can only be such an innocuous prank. Man Yun looked at the boys who were chatting again with regret, and let out a long sigh of depression. She understands that the current Gao Wei is still a child who has not grown up, and she is not the same person who bears her in her previous life, but it is undeniable that when she really tortures Gao Wei who doesn't know anything like this, she really feels a little happy.
"Chivalry is forbidden by force, regardless of whether the deceased is innocent or not, it is always wrong to kill people like this." , The argument of several teenagers gradually divided into two sides, and gradually showed some faint fireworks.
"But those slave traders are really hateful. It is said that the merchant who died at the city gate and his companions came to Huocheng to send a group of Beidi teenagers to the Youzhu Pavilion in the west of the city...... And when the man knew it, he was sure to kill him. Zhou Chen argued strongly with a rough voice.
"Brother, what is the place of the Youzhu Pavilion?" , Zhou Huai, the youngest in the hall, shook his brother Zhou Xin's hand and asked loudly.
"Youzhu Pavilion is a little ......", Zhou Chen replied seriously, and was covered in his mouth by Gao Wei's outstretched hand.
Gao Wei lowered his voice and prompted: "The sixth sister is here!" β
Zhou Chen looked at Man Yun and touched his head embarrassedly.
Man Yun glanced at Gao Wei coldly, and said calmly: "Broken sleeves and peaches, the ancient style has been a long time, just like the Qinglou, the Youzhu Pavilion is also in the skin and meat business, but the people in it are all teenagers." β
The little boy, the second uncle who is cold and unscrupulous in his own house is also able to talk about it, but several teenagers here, including his own son, don't know.
"The sixth sister has never been raised as an ordinary boudoir daughter......", the red-faced Zhou Shen whispered to his shocked cousin in the ear.
If only I could scare this one away. Man Yun leaned back on the chair idly, continued to talk without being shocked, and said: "Don't be chivalrous, I think the murderer must be psychologically suppressed and demonic, and deliberately kill people to vent their anger." And after killing a few people and not leaving Huocheng, there should be another goal. Either you successfully kill the target you want to kill in the end and leave, or you just kill all the people, in addition to the slave traders, even the innocent Qingyuan people will be killed! β
Gao Wei's shoulder was immediately patted and patted sympathetically by several palms, and the Zhou brothers couldn't help laughing, just waiting for their sister to continue to taunt.
"Then the sixth sister, let's talk about it, half a month has passed, where will the murderer who has not been found hide yet?" , Gao Wei secretly hid the glint in his eyes and asked softly. He suddenly felt that the eloquent Man Yun was better than the delicate and simple appearance in his memory, and his childhood sweetheart's playmate was cute, but if it was his future wife. He really hopes that he can resonate with him, like the little sister who has to embroider at home. He can be spoiled, but he is also bored.
"If I were a murderer. Definitely not hiding in those inns and restaurants. He was only in his teens...... The big families in the city are the most haode, and even if the soldiers and traders who hunt for the murderers are suspicious, they don't have the courage to go to the door to investigate. If there is an empty courtyard to live in, smooth the clothes, eat, and mix for a long time......"
Zhou Manyun gradually straightened her waist in her lazy narration, and she suddenly remembered that after the murder in her previous life, Xiao Zhoufu in Xinan found that some of her belongings had been lost by thieves. The second aunt, Gao, once held her and sobbed and said sadly. She didn't take care of the relics left by Manyun's biological mother and let the thief pry the box.
Several brothers of the Zhou family also looked at each other.
Zhou Xin suddenly bounced up and said, "To put it this way, the most capable of hiding people in Huocheng is the Great and Small Zhou Mansions. β
Xiao Zhoufu in the afternoon suddenly became excited. Amid the shouting of a group of teenagers, each courtyard and room began an inexplicable inventory.
Back in the five-room courtyard, Zhou Manyun dragged his steps and climbed up to his small embroidery building, his eyes in a daze.
She had shouted that even if the man was hiding in the yard, don't startle the snake. But except for Zhou Ke, Gao Wei and two or three who are calmer. The rest of the righteous faction, who were eager to catch the murderer, and the perverts who wanted to cover the prisoner's escape, fell into the same frenzy.
"I hope that person is staying in Xibei Dazhou Mansion!"
The candied fruit box holding the golden thread of the treasure flower was opened, and Man Yun first beckoned a few maids to eat some homemade honey pickled fruits, and then instructed Qingying. Let her open the box and take out a few yellow incense cakes and an incense burner.
Pale yellow smoke erupted from the slightly open crane beak and sprinkled densely on the surrounding panes, and Man Yun deliberately pointed to the four big girls to spray a few more back and forth in some key positions.
The maids bowed their heads and didn't dare to ask more. only secretly handed each other eyes to express their wondering, Sister Yun'er's excuse that she was trying to prevent insects and ants from entering the door seemed a bit far-fetched.
It's time to hold the lights. Man Yun, who stayed in the building, got a string of news from Hongmei, who was full of ears.
There were no valuables lost in each room and courtyard, but Zhou Xin, who lived in Xiuyutang, and a scholar who was next to Zhou Ti lost two old clothes. Because Mrs. Zhou was sent to the countryside by Zhou Xian. Because it was close to the Cultivator's Hall, the renovated Shuyudo Hall was also zoned to the front yard and made it a place for the boys to live together.
Some people say that they should have lost it accidentally, and some people think that it was taken away by the murderer.
The children's struggle was reported to Zhou Xian, and they were reprimanded by the old man for "doing nothing".
Grandpa was afraid that he also thought that the person might have been or was still in the garden, but he didn't dare to easily stimulate the murderer.
"Maybe it's really because people haven't killed enough, and when it's time to leave, it's estimated that they won't pry the box and steal until they leave."
Man Yun waited for Qingying to blow out the candle and walked out of the door, and then secretly tiptoed around the room, leaning on the window and looking around.
Looking from upstairs, the lights in Du's room had already been turned off. Man Yun still feels a little uneasy, in her mother's room, she also took someone to smoke incense, although there is no relic in this life, but the thought of being inexplicably stolen by thieves is really infuriating.
"Are the thief and the murderer in the previous life the same person? At that moment, what ...... did he steal again", Man Yun tossed and rolled on the bed a few times, and did not fall asleep in a daze until the second watch.
The night sky was covered with dark clouds, and there were no stars in sight.
A refined figure came out of the window on the fourth floor of the Zhou family, and a few people sat on the top of the building, condescendingly taking in the entire Zhou Mansion in front of their eyes. In the direction of the southeast corner of Zhou's mansion, it is a four-story library building, because Zhou Xian has an order, few people come here on weekdays to make noise.
The Zhou family has only been in the Zhou family for two or three days, and many places have not yet been figured out, but for some reason, some people have been walking back and forth since the afternoon, afraid that someone will find out or realize that something is wrong.
The dark shadow sitting on the roof of the building looked at his hands and smiled meaningfully.
"Don't stay long, just before leaving, let's make an end!" , with a light sigh, the ground fell on the green tiles on the roof of the building, and the black shadow had quietly touched in the direction of the sight. (To be continued......)