What Miss Gu family hit an evil spirit, what Miss Gu family went to an unclean place and got dirty, what Miss Gu family was frightened and was about to die, etc., all kinds of rumors swept through most of Kangxi Town in just one or two days.

The Bai Mansion, the Shi family, and the Cheng family, who were good friends, came to investigate the situation, but they were all blocked out of the mansion one by one. The ancient mansion refuses to see guests, and whoever comes is the same. Not only that, but the townspeople found that the flavor snack shops and Guji grocery stores opened in Gufu were not open for business. In this way, it confirms the rumor that Miss Gu is dying.

In the inner courtyard of the ancient mansion, in Qingshu's house, Qingshu, who was about to die, was playing and chasing with Qingyang and Luo Xiaorong. Qing Shu pasted a note on his forehead, a note on his left cheek, a dot with ink on the tip of his nose, and his two hands were claw-shaped, laughing while learning to meow, and from time to time pounced on Qingyang and Luo Xiaorong, who ran away with a smile on their faces.

The three of them were making a fuss in the room, while Xiaojuan and Xiaoyu were standing outside the threshold of the inner room and looking inside, and their love was more nervous and high-spirited than the three frolicking sisters and brothers. Qing Shu pounced on Luo Xiaorong, and they shouted to Young Master Rong to run; Qing Shu pounced on Qingyang, and they shouted to the young master to run. When they are excited, they will also dance to remind them which way to run.

Standing outside the locked inner courtyard door, Mother Su shook her head sadly, sighed heavily, and found the housekeeper in front, regardless of the presence of five or six family members in front of her, she wiped her tears with her sleeve, "Master, Miss's madness is getting worse and worse, and it's not a way to lock up Miss like this, if Miss doesn't even recognize the young master one day, what if she hurts the young master?" ”

The housekeeper immediately scolded angrily, "Shut up, Miss is good, what nonsense are you talking about." ”

Mother Su's action of wiping her tears froze, and she immediately slapped her mouth in annoyance, "Look at this broken mouth, you don't say anything out of tune." Miss is good, she is playing with the young masters, and she is happy! What, there's still work at hand that hasn't been done, so it's gone. ”

As soon as Su's mother left, the housekeeper urged the stunned family members to continue to do things.

In the kitchen, Lily of the Valley talked to Xu Sanniang with a worried face, "Is Miss really sick?" Good young lady, why is she sick! ”

Xu Sanniang rubbed her face, and there was sadness between her eyebrows, "Don't talk too much, do your duty." "To be honest, she's worried. Good young lady, frightened by the filth, every now and then she drops things, and every now and then screams a few times. How good is that?

Feeling the gloomy and misty atmosphere in the house, the chief of the guard and the housekeeper on the opposite side nodded to each other and staggered by.

The chief of the guard went back to see Zhou Boyan, "Son, you can close the net." "Now don't talk about the outside, it's my own people, except for the few people who know, everyone believes that Miss Gu is scared crazy.

Zhou Boyan was playing against himself, "Wait." "The last big fish hasn't been hooked yet, so you need to be patient.

In the evening, Qingshu finished bathing, put on her underwear, took off the wrapped dry hair, and prepared to go to bed.

Xiaojuan and Xiaoyu lifted the mosquito net on one side, and waited for Qingshu to go to bed and lie down before putting the mosquito net back.

Xiaojuan's mouth was quick, "Miss, why did the housekeeper lock the door of the inner courtyard and not let us out?" ”

Qing Shu yawned, "How do I know?" So curious, you can ask the housekeeper tomorrow to find out. ”

Xiaojuan grimaced, "Don't, the housekeeper will scold the slave." ”

Qing Shu squinted his eyes and lay down, "It's good to know." "What kind of medicine is sold in the gourd by the housekeeper, she also wants to know. At first, she was not allowed to leave the house, and then she was not even allowed to go out of the inner courtyard door. Not only that, but even Xiaojuan and Xiaoyu, who were serving her, couldn't go out. The three meals a day were personally delivered by the housekeeper and Su's mother, and handed over to Xiaoyu and Xiaojuan in the door. Qingyang and Luo Xiaorong were also personally sent over by the housekeeper and Su's mother every day, and picked them up half an hour later.

Whenever this happens, the housekeeper will always ask Qingyang to bring her a note. And the content of the note was either for her to drop something at a certain point in time, somewhere in the inner courtyard, or for her to stand in the inner courtyard door and scream and scold a few times. Qing Shu cooperated once or twice and quit. Then the next note says that the housekeeper must pretend to be crazy in order to lure out the people behind the lie about the death in the Gufu shop.

Qing Shu immediately guessed that the person behind the incident of lying about the death in the shop must have followed up. However, why should she pretend to be crazy? In the past few days, she has cooperated when she is in a good mood, and when she is in a bad mood or lazy, she throws the cooperation out of the clouds. However, the housekeeper didn't protest, and those who cooperated or didn't cooperate were all up to Qingshu's temperament.

The "incarceration" life in the past few days has been very comfortable for Qingshu. She didn't have to think of a way, she was completely away from Zhou Boyan, who loved to do something to her, can this day be comfortable! However, her patience is limited, if the housekeeper and Zhou Boyan don't tell the truth and the truth before her patience runs out, she will be furious.

After Xiaojuan and Xiaoyu blew out the oil lamp and went out, Qingshu turned over and lay on his side facing inside, and fell asleep after a while.

A crescent moon hangs in the sky. At three moments, when he heard the footsteps in the courtyard, Zhou Boyan opened his eyes, "What's the matter?" ”

Gu Shishi, who was sleeping in the ear room, opened the door and went out while wearing a belt, and quickly turned around and came back, "Childe, I finally caught a big fish,"

Zhou Boyan didn't get up, "Hmm." ”

Gu Shi waited for a moment and didn't see any instructions from Gongzi, so he quietly withdrew and went to the courtyard to guard, waiting for someone to send news over.

At dawn, a qiē ended in silence. The housekeeper gathered all the servants of the house into the open space in the front yard, and the men stood on one side, and the women and children on the other. Ding Jiabao and Ding Jiamei, who were imprisoned in the firewood room, were also among them.

When everyone arrived, Qingshu and Qingyang appeared, and sat on the two chairs that the housekeeper had set up in advance, looking at the people below with expressionless faces.

The crowd was excited. Because the young lady is fine, and she is sitting in front of them at the moment.

At this time, the guards beside Zhou Boyan escorted a man about twenty years old. Seeing this person, a family member standing below was immediately stunned.

The housekeeper threw the little wooden man and the two letters at the feet of the man who was escorted up, and faced everyone, "Wu Qing, a person who came to Fengzhou, can no longer go to the battlefield due to injury, and is recommended by Yan Gongzi to make a living in the ancient mansion." The young lady did not think that he was disabled, so she kept him in the house, and allowed him to learn the craft of weaving bamboo baskets and baskets, hoping that he would have a skill. I never thought that he betrayed the young lady and the young master for five taels of silver, made internal responses for the wicked, and used the filthy witchcraft on the young lady and cursed the young lady, which is really hateful. ”

Wu Qing hung his head and knelt on the ground, not refutating, obviously admitting that what the housekeeper said was true.

Suddenly, a few people below waved their fists and were about to rush up to fight, but as soon as the butler said to stop, they all returned to their original positions and stood still.

The stunned family who saw Wu Qing before, was very young, only fifteen or sixteen years old, but now his leg injury has not healed, and he is standing in the ranks of men with a wooden stick. His name is Wu Cheng, and because he has the same pronunciation as Wu Qing's surname, he will always be considered a brother by uninformed people. On weekdays, their relationship has always been very good, two days ago Wu Qing suddenly disappeared, and he ran to ask the housekeeper worriedly, when the housekeeper told him that Wu Qing had gone out of the house. Can ...... now How so? He looked incredulous and stared at Wu Qing tightly.

The housekeeper then said, "The country has its own laws, and the family has its own rules. Based on what Wu Qing did, he should have been beaten to death with a stick or sent to an official to be sentenced to death. However, the young lady remembered that his family had an old mother, and even remembered that he had been loyal to Da'an, so he decided to exempt him from the death penalty, and was sentenced to 20 canes, expelled from the ancient mansion, and expelled from Huizhou. ”

Wu Qing knelt on the ground, "Thank you for the master's grace of not killing." ”

Seeing the puzzled faces of the people below, the housekeeper coughed, "These days, someone first maliciously lied that there was a murder in the shop, and wanted to trick the lady into going out; Immediately afterwards, a threatening letter appeared under the house gate; Then there was a series of events such as the Zamu people. In order to find out the culprit, Yan Gongzi's guards deployed a qiē. Ding Jiabao, you come. ”

Ding Jiabao, who had just been released from the firewood room and didn't have much work, was covered with ash and firewood and grass clippings. He said very stiffly, "My lord thinks there is an inner ghost, because he has carefully examined the vegetable garden under the root of the wall, and there is nothing at that time." But in just a quarter of an hour, a small wooden figure appeared in the vegetable bed, which was really strange. So the adult ordered the sister to pretend to be the first to discover the little wooden man. My sister pretended to be very panicked and got rid of it on the way to the young lady for people to see. Then she was beaten by Miss and locked up by Su's mother. I went to the housekeeper to reason with me, and I was also imprisoned. In this way, the inner ghost feels that he is not exposed, and he will still do it, and the inner ghost will think that the young lady will be frightened when she sees the little wooden man. ”

The butler nodded, "After that, the inner ghost stuffed the threatening letter under the door of the inner courtyard. Yan Gongzi's guards found out in time, arrested the person, and searched for the letter. In order not to alarm the people outside, he thought of a way to make the young lady pretend to be crazy. Now that the inner ghost has been found out, and the villains outside have been caught, everyone can do things with peace of mind. ”

After Gu Qiang let everyone disperse, he was called to the side hall by Qing Shu.

Qing Shu's tone was not very good, "You are quite good at concealing it, hiding it to death, so I didn't notice it at all." ”

Gu Qiang first confessed, and then talked about the things that Qing Shu was more concerned about, "Miss, Yan Gongzi has been arranged, and now he is chasing the culprit, and if there is good news, it will come back immediately, please sit back and wait for good news." ”

Qing Shu snorted, "The culprit can't be Li Haitang, right?" ”

Gu Qiang was taken aback, "Miss, how do you know?" ”

Qing Shu sneered, "Piercing wood and cursing others, these are things that only women can do." If I have the opportunity, I really want to ask her, did my Gu Qingshu kill her whole family, or robbed her man, she wants to be so resentful of me, she actually did something stupid. ”

Gu Qiang listened to the reason that Qing Shu guessed and felt that it was very reasonable. Men don't do that. There is also a question that Qing Shu wants to ask Li Haitang, which is also what he wants to know.