Chapter 32: The Thief
Xie stood on the tread of the stairs, condescending. Her usually unmessy bun was a little loose, and her eyes were swollen like red hearts but she glared fiercely, like a wounded she-beast defending her territory.
Du Shi took her daughter's hand, she remembered the excuse of visiting, and when she arrived in this embroidery building, she caught a glimpse of the mother and daughter who were hugging and crying from the half-lifted curtain of the maid.
During the period of staying in Manhua Embroidery Building, Du saw Zhou Manhua lying on the bed all the time, looking frightened.
As soon as Zhang Shaoxiong broke into the building, Zhou Manhua screamed in fright and shrank into a ball.
Indeed, Manhua's situation looked very bad.
However, at this time, there is still some Meng Lang who cares too much about her aunt, maybe it would be better to let her mother guide her first.
Du Shi, who turned his mind, raised his eyes and looked at the eldest sister-in-law standing on the steps, squeezed the little hand of his daughter in his palm tighter, Wen Yan spoke, and said, "Sister-in-law! I'll take Yun'er back to the room first, you ......'."
Suddenly, in a small room by the staircase where the two of them stood opposite each other, the door slammed, and then the thud continued, as if something heavy was striking and was about to break out of the darkness inside.
Zhou Manyun grabbed Du Shi's shirt tightly, reflexively buried her head in Du Shi's arms, her small back was facing the strange door behind her, and she intuitively wanted to help her mother block it.
Liu Gui, who had been hiding in the shadows, stepped forward with an arrow, protected Man Yun's mother and daughter behind him, and then leaned his ears and listened attentively, and the knife in his hand slashed towards the shaking lock on the door.
The lock split in half and fell to the ground, and a black shadow rolled out of the door with a bang, and fell to the ground when stopped by the threshold, squirming towards the place where Du Shi stood.
'Don't be afraid! It's people! Du Shi fixed his eyes on it, smiled and touched Manyun's little head, signaling his tense daughter to relax.
It's talent that's even more terrifying!
Man Yun didn't let go of the hands holding his mother's waist, and only twisted his little head to look at the ground. Under the dim wall candle, she could only vaguely distinguish that leaning on the ground was a woman dressed as a servant of the Zhou family, looking at her body and hair, she should be a mother-in-law.
'Don't! A scream burst out of Xie's chest that rushed down, and she pulled Liu Gui's sleeve, who had always been strict about rules.
Liu Gui, who was about to pull out the cloth in the mouth of the man on the ground, straightened up, a little stunned. The mother-in-law who kept moving on the ground should be the Zhou family, her hands and feet were tied by ropes, and this situation had to make people think more about it in the night of the bandits' invasion, and he just wanted to ask questions.
'What's going on?' A voice came from behind from afar.
With the words, Zhou Tan hurriedly ran over with his robe and feet, panting heavily. Behind him was Du Xuanshuang, as well as several men and women who were cleaning up the garden just now.
The originally dim staircase was illuminated by the sudden increase of torches and lanterns, and it suddenly lit up, as if it were day.
As soon as they saw the old women tied up underground, three or two young men dressed in black and wearing weapons at their waists naturally dispersed and began to look around.
Under the reflection of the torches, Zhou Tan's face was blue and purple, and it was very ugly. Not only because this was the first time he had encountered bandits since he was a child, and it was also the first time he had seen so many corpses, but more because he was angry with Zhang Shaoxiong, who had just given up his hand.
Du Xuanshuang stood beside Du Shi, but his face was full of shame.
closed the door and beat the dogs, and was in the middle of the hunt, but encountered a sudden group of Pingzhou soldiers to make trouble. After a while, there was a lot of shouting, and not only did most of the bandits outside the wall run away, but even a few of them slipped inside the wall.
After the Pingzhou soldiers entered the park, Zhang Shaoxiong first insisted that Zhou Tan come to talk about the matter, and he tossed it all the way. But standing at the entrance of the garden, a bandit who was tied and pressed suddenly burst out and injured people, Du Xuanshuang took care of protecting Zhou Tan, and then was made a fuss by the old soldiers who shouted first when they saw the corpse, but Zhang Shaoxiong was missed.
Who would have thought that the surname Zhang actually touched the embroidery building, and he did not hide it when he was driven away by the Du family, and as soon as he arrived at the gate of the garden, he shouted and shouted to the people below to withdraw together, and said a few words of nonsense that inexplicably led people to reverie.
Du Shi, who wanted to leave, listened to Du Xuanshuang's whispers, but he was zhanzhu again, and Man Yun, who was so anxious to listen to it, shook his mother's hand.
Zhou Manyun wants to run, so she will run with her mother now, she didn't know Zhang Shaoxiong in her previous life, but she is no stranger to this name.
Du Shi, who was unknown, lowered his head and appeased Manyun, hesitated, and didn't move.
Because at this moment, Zhou Tan, who has always been gentle, is pulling the bellows angrily, staring at the arrogant eldest sister-in-law, as if he wants to ask something but doesn't know where to start.
"Second Brother Du! Here's another one! ”
Just when the Zhou family was at a stalemate, a black-faced man who followed Du Xuanshuang dragged out a woman from the small cubicle that the old woman had rushed out just now.
A young girl with loose hair, also bound hand and foot, with a veil in her mouth, her eyes full of fear and fear.
"Yuqiao!" , Du Shi screamed in surprise, only from the deformed half of her face, she also recognized that this was the big girl who was supposed to follow Zhou Manhua. When the riot broke out, when she helped restrain the people in the building, she also wondered where Yuqiao was going.
The one who rushed out earlier and fell to the ground was the princess. The person on the ground had been pulled up by half of his head, and even Man Yun, who was peeking at him, recognized the person.
Zhou Tan, who wanted to ask his niece about Manhua, was also stunned, pointed to the two who were left in one place, and asked the eldest sister-in-law, "...... the two of them?"
"These two minions eat inside and out, colluding with bandits!" Xie replied without hesitation.
Collusion with bandits! For a while, there was an uproar among the servants of the Zhou family on all sides.
Gui Zhi squeezed from the crowd to the two who were tied up, and with a snort, a mouthful of thick phlegm spit on Yuqiao, who was falling to the ground, but the mouth that was vigorously thrown out covered the face of the princess, and hit the old woman's mouth outward.
Gui Zhi's face was black and gray, and the corners of her skirt were still a puddle of blood red, but just like that, she also remembered who couldn't beat whom.
At first, Zhou's house was on fire, and what was lit was the firewood room on the west side of the outer courtyard, which was very close to the kitchen.
As if he had received news in the inner courtyard, the doors of all rooms were closed, and Guizhi, who was not allowed to enter the door, met thieves who rushed into the courtyard in a panic and was almost cut down.
Therefore, at this moment, she was very indignant at the two thieves, and forgot to respect her grandmother for a while, and shouted at the top of her voice, "Such disloyal and unrighteous dog slaves have to be sent to the government and cut off their heads." ”
There was a faint buzzing sound in the crowd, and a few people who wanted to show their intentions rolled up their sleeves, but they looked at the few masters who were silent, and did not dare to move.
"You don't have to send it to the government. Kill it directly at home, that's it!", Xie Shi, who had just looked flustered, regained his graceful appearance as soon as he eased up. She reached out to hold the hairpin on her head, turned around proudly and walked back to the staircase, holding down the handrail of the staircase, just looking at the back was imposing.
The grandmother in charge of the house gave an order, so naturally someone rushed up at the order and grabbed the two women on the ground with all hands and feet.
"Grandma!" , Xiao Man glanced at Yu Qiao, who kept writhing and struggling, and couldn't bear to whisper in Du Shi's ear, "When someone came in, I was on the top pavilion with Brother Huzi, and I didn't let anyone get close to the embroidery building." ”。 When the bandits climbed into the back garden, there were two bows in the attic, one of which was Xiaoman, and when she saw that the situation in the garden was settled, she instructed the tiger to climb the top and go downstairs before returning to Manhua's room.
"Yun'er is sleepy, let's go first." , Du Shi pursed his dry lips lightly and took Man Yun's hand. Not to mention what Xiaoman said, Du Shi thought of more doubts, but seeing Xie Shi's decisive look, she understood that there must be some things that she couldn't say or ask.
Kill? The lives of the two slaves and maids, Xie can end it with such a sentence. Zhou Manyun helped her mother down the steps, slowly walking step by step, and she suddenly felt the smell of blood in the air making her stomach vomit. In her previous life, when she was Yun Ji, she had several experiences of being shouted and killed again, and her footsteps became extremely heavy.
Liu Gui, who was splitting the locks, also had a look of anger on his young face, but he was silenced by Du Xuanshuang's gesture, and turned around to follow behind Du Shi with a few brothers.
He silently recited the general's confession when he left Yanzhou in his heart. In the Zhou family, they only listen to the young lady and the uncle, and they only care about them and the little young lady, and they don't participate in other things of the Zhou family.
There was a mess on the side of the path in front of the embroidery building, and although they had long been tied up in brown, the two men who knew that they were going to be killed kept struggling, making it embarrassing for those who were going to drag them to the execution.
A long body roll was rolling at Liu Gui's feet, and his gray hair was sandwiched with mud, sticking to the mille-feuille bottom that his mother had given him before he went out.
Liu Gui's eyes darkened, he leaned down and stretched out his hand to brush it away, and then rushed forward in great strides, catching up with the team in front.
The servants of the Zhou family, who hurriedly ran over, dragged the princess who fell to the ground again.
Mrs. Wang stared at the old eyes full of red silk, looked at the back in front of her intently, and then closed her eyes tightly and turned her head away.
The back of Du Shi and his party has already stepped on the long corridor around the lotus pond. As long as you pass through a small half-circle winding corridor and cross a row of houses, you will find the Moon Gate connected to the inner courtyard.
It's heavy, but it's fast, so you can ignore everything. Zhou Manyun exhaled softly, but at this moment, the tragic screams of the princess suddenly floated behind them.
"Wronged! I didn't collude with the robbers, I just shouldn't have seen the official surnamed Zhang tear off the big girl's skirt, and the big grandmother wants to kill people! Grandpa Chenghuang can testify! Just behind the temple ......"
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