Before the steward's shouting fell, a thug rushed over, and couldn't help but cut Gu Yunxi's arms upside down and pressed her to the ground.

"My lord, the little girl doesn't understand the rules when she first enters the capital, she dares to ask what taboos she has committed, and beg the adults to tell her, and let the little girl die to understand!"

Her neck was clamped hard by the thugs, and the rough blue brick floor hurt Gu Yunxi's delicate cheeks, and she struggled twice, trying her best to ask.

"Are you embarrassed to ask me? Don't tell the truth, where did this flute come from, did you steal it! ”

The steward held the jade flute in his hand, snorted angrily, bypassed the square table and came to Gu Yunxi's eyes, arrogantly raising his head and smug.

Gu Yunxi was about to explode.

Although the things were found out of her baggage, she did not steal them, and she would never admit to the trumped-up charges.

Her brain turned quickly, she turned her heart sideways, and said in a false way:

"It's a little girl's thing, it's a little girl...... The relics left by the little girl's deceased mother were not stolen by the little girl. ”

"Humph!"

A heavy breath erupted from the steward's nostrils, and his mouth was furious:

"How dare you talk nonsense? Looking at your outfit, you know that you are from a small family, can your family afford such a valuable thing? Don't tell me where you stole the flute! ”

"The little girl's words are true, the little girl has never stolen anything-"

Gu Yunxi struggled with his arms a few times.

At present, her martial arts cultivation is not what it used to be, and it is impossible to deal with a thug.

But when she first arrived, she couldn't show her ability at will, so she could only pretend to be delicate and fight, and then put on a pitiful appearance of being bullied, and prayed to the male steward:

"My lord, you can let the little girl go, the little girl really didn't steal anything......"

The steward did not listen to the explanation, raised the flute, and looked extremely vicious:

"The girl still dares to lie, it seems that if I don't give you some color, I won't tell the truth......"

"Let her go."

The ghostly sound is like gurgling water, flowing from the depths of the corridor.

Then, the sonorous steps went from far to near, like a galloping whirlwind, swept in front of Gu Yunxi in an instant.

The moment the pair of dusty golden moire soap boots came into view, Gu Yunxi was shocked and stunned.

Is that...... Minglan's boots......

It's not unusual, the traitor used the means to take away the Youzhu Tribute Courtyard from Leng Qingtang.

When I come back in another capacity, there will always be a day when I meet him.

It's just that she didn't expect this day to come so quickly.

After the thug let go of Gu Yunxi, he flashed aside in a regular manner, and no longer acted rashly.

"Lift your head up!"

The voice is still feminine, and it sounds sharper than usual because of the inexplicable excitement of the strands.

Gu Yunxi was a little confused, he didn't expect that he had just stepped into the Tribute Academy, and the first acquaintance he met was actually him!

After all, they had a lot of dealings in the past, and they were two hostile identities, and at this time, Gu Yunxi was most afraid that he would not be careful, which would arouse Minglan's suspicion.

"Raise your head!"

He urged again, as if he couldn't wait any longer.

Gu Yunxi suppressed a complicated and melancholy mood, his knees touched the ground, his back straightened and knelt upright.

Slowly raise your head and make eye contact with each other.

As before, Minglan was wearing a neat white flying crane python robe, and a black gauze reticulated hat on his head was shining in the sun. The yellowish awl face is not stained with fat powder, eyebrows, or even lipstick.

If you want to say that you want to find a difference compared to before, it should be his self-contained and delicate facial features, but now it seems to be empty with a touch of vicissitudes, overshadowed, and there is no longer all the previous flying and arrogant, which makes Gu Yunxi very surprised.

In Minglan's eyes, the girl's eyebrows, nose and mouth are delicate and small, although they are not exquisite, but they can be called elegant and refined. There are not too many expressions on her face, and the alienation and indifference that does not match her age adds a bit of charm to her.

The brilliance in his eyes immediately plummeted, and Minglan's face without any whitewash showed indescribable disappointment.

The steward on the side noticed something abnormal, raised his hand to Gu Yunxi, and said in a broken voice:

"Something with eyes and no beads! This is the master of the West Factory, you still dare to look at the offense! I'll kill you—"

When you speak, you have to do it.

"Damn it!"

Gu Yunxi's figure shook suddenly, and he hurriedly bowed his head.

"That's it!"

Minglan frowned and glared, the steward hurriedly stopped, turned to offer the jade flute with both hands, and flattered and invited merit:

"Overseer, the things were found out of this girl's baggage. As long as she is tortured severely, she will be able to pry her mouth open and find out where she stole things from, and that place may be related to the palace dummy case. ”

Minglan took the jasper flute in his hand and looked at it, and handed it to Gu Yunxi one by one:

"Take it."

"Overseer......"

The steward was shocked.

Gu Yunxi didn't say a word, and grabbed the flute into his palm. It was also at this time that a pair of eyes fell on Minglan's gloved left hand, and when he saw that the last two fingers were empty, he couldn't help but gasp.

Minglan, have you encountered anything?

Minglan turned his head to the steward at this time and said:

"An ordinary flute has at least seven holes to make a decent tune. Her flute, on the other hand, has only three holes and is small, making it an obvious object for play. ”

"Governor......

The steward looked nervous, and hesitated to continue to say something, but was interrupted by Minglan's mouth:

"Since the case has been handed over to the East Factory to handle, why are we so troublesome? Take care of yourself and bring this batch of tribute girls. ”

East Factory ......

Gu Yunxi heard it clearly, and he didn't realize that his eyelashes were slightly moving, and the endless memories and scenes of activities were all outlined by those two words, and they were surging in his mind.

At the table, Minglan looked at Gu Yunxi's household registration booklet, nodded and said to himself:

"Well, Tu Duxue...... The Tanglin Tu family is a famous jade craftsman family. So, it's not uncommon to have such a delicate thing. ”

The faint gaze returned to Gu Yunxi, and he looked at it for another moment, his shallow eyebrows gradually closed, and his mood instantly slipped to the bottom.

Maybe it's just an illusion, after all, the sound is very similar......

Astringently hooked his lips, he said to her:

"Get up and let them arrange a place for you to stay. From tomorrow onwards, you will learn the rules and etiquette with Du Zhangshi, and you must not be lazy. ”

"Yes."

At the end of his eyes, he caught a glimpse of the corner of his clothes fluttering away, Gu Yunxi was relieved, got up with his head and collected his burden, and under the steward's stunned eyes, he followed the little servant into the courtyard.

……

Gu Yunxi was first led by the little maid to see Du Zhangshi in the hall in the front yard, a woman in her thirties.

Seeing that she wore a half-moon bun on her head, her hairpin was swaying high and upright, and her dress was gorgeous, it could be said that the charm still existed.

Looking at her, Gu Yunxi would think of Gu's mother.

Since leaving the prison of Dali Temple, she heard that Gu's mother was imprisoned by Xichang, and now she saw the new head surnamed Du, Gu Yunxi guessed that Gu's mother was afraid that she was already more than lucky, so she suddenly felt miserable.

The room assigned to Gu Yunxi by the Gongyuan is not large, but the whole is extremely exquisite.

There are sandalwood cases, lattice cabinets, six screens, dressers, etc., and a guqin is set up in the south corner, and next to it is a chess table.

On the east and west sides of the room, there are two pearwood shelf beds, which are finely carved. There is a clean room in the north, which is specially designed for getting up and washing, bathing.

When I first entered the door, there was a girl sitting at the guest table of the Eight Immortals Club in the room, wearing a rose-red dark flower wide-sleeved skirt, with bewitching eyebrows and swaying eyes.

When she saw Gu Yunxi, who was dressed plainly, she frowned deeply, looking bored and impatient.

The little maid introduced to Gu Yunxi that the girl who lived in the same house as Gu Yunxi was Sun Shengsheng, the daughter of Sun Min, the governor of Liangguang, and she would study in the Gongyuan in the future, so everyone would take care of her.

Hearing that Gu Yunxi came from a family of jade craftsmen, Sun Shengsheng's delicate pink face immediately showed more disdain.

Her defiant and disdainful eyes were very similar to Gu Yunjin who used to live in the same room with Gu Yunxi.

This kind of dog-eyed person is everywhere, and it is not strange to him, and Gu Yunxi doesn't want to worry too much about her.

In the past, she had always been a humble and weak person in this tribute courtyard, and it was Lord Leng who single-handedly cultivated her into a glorious girl, which made her gain self-confidence.

However, after a variety of experiences, she has now learned to forbear, hide all the edges around her, and carefully lie dormant in front of others.

After the little girl left, Gu Yunxi silently sat on the bed that belonged to her and cleaned up her things without saying a word.

That Sun Shengsheng only felt that Gu Yunxi Mu Na was boring, and after nagging for a while, he played the piano by himself, and then went out.

Only Gu Yunxi was left in the room.

She immediately closed the door and jumped on the bed, dropped the curtain casually, took out the jade flute in the hidden space, and examined it carefully.

The appearance of the flute is not abnormal, it is indeed only an insignificant three-hole, I believe that it is impossible to blow any decent tune with it, and it is not impossible to use it as an accompaniment to other instrumental music.

Thinking about it again, the most she had learned from the masked monster in the stone house in the past year was vocal music, and this time he gave her this flute, which must have been useful.

Gu Yunxi put up the flute, put it to his lips and tried to blow it. Indeed, there was a sound of air pouring out, like a breeze in the middle of the night, and the timbre was low and gentle.

Inadvertently, Gu Yunxi pressed his ring finger to the third hole near the end, and in an instant, a white light shot out from the sound hole of the flute, like a thin line of mercury penetrating the curtain of the smoke brocade bed and disappeared.

Gu Yunxi looked shocked. It turned out that this jasper flute was actually a unique secret weapon.

She didn't have time to think about anything else, so she got out of bed and searched in the direction of the silver light.

Not long after, a shining slender silver needle was found on the carved bedpost on the side of Sun Shengsheng's shelf bed.

Looking at the color of the sharp needles, Gu Yunxi knew that it was caused by simmering and poisoning.

She slapped her chest with her hand, and secretly said that it was okay, okay, but the proud and arrogant Sun Shengsheng was not in the room, and if she was injured by mistake, it would be really troublesome......

Gu Yunxi turned around and went to bed again, picked up the jade flute and looked at it for a long time, and finally found the tension spring mechanism of the poison needle at the bottom plug of the flute body.

After several repeated attempts, the silver needle that shot out could no longer be put into the flute, so Gu Yunxi had no choice but to hide it carefully.

Holding the jade flute in his hand, he didn't know how many silver needles were in this small flute.

This secret weapon must be the strange man's self-defense weapon, right? However, why did you refuse to inform in advance, and hide it secretly? I was almost taken as a thief.

This time there was no danger thanks to Minglan, but his expression when he saw her was so weird, it really didn't look like a high-profile person.

Gu Yunxi tossed and turned on the bed, and his mental activities did not stop for a moment.

In the year that she was trapped in the stone house, how many things happened in the capital that she didn't know.

Also, why did the steward of the Gongyuan burst into a rage when he saw this flute, and what kind of case did he say?

Gu Yunxi knew that if he wanted to find out all the questions, in addition to skillfully inquiring from other tribute girls, he still had to go to a place in person......

——

On the first day of entering the Tribute Academy, Du Zhangshi did not immediately arrange for Gu Yunxi to participate in the practice, but only asked her to go around and adapt to the new environment.

When teaching her the rules of the Tribute Academy, Du Zhangshi specifically mentioned Minglan.

She said that the Tribute Courtyard was under the direct jurisdiction of Xichang, and the Ming Governor would often go in and out of the Tribute Courtyard, so Gu Yunxi should be respectful when he saw the Ming Governor.

If, one day, he wants to teach her some skills in person, it means that the day when she will be sent to the palace to serve the emperor is just around the corner, and it will be a great joy. She must be obedient and must not disobey the Lord's will.

The night was bleak, and there was a cold and lonely moon in the sky.

The drum sounded three times to announce that the time had come.

Gu Yunxi carried the jade flute in his arms and slipped out of the room lightly.

She decided to go to Dongchang tonight to secretly find out some news.

I hope that there is him in the South Courtyard, even if I can't recognize him, at least I can hide from a distance and peek at him, at least I have a heart that has been worried about him for a long time, and I finally have a little comfort.

Now Gu Yunxi has made a lot of effort, even if she doesn't have night clothes, she has full confidence to take risks.

Her martial arts have improved by leaps and bounds, thanks to the many harsh internal force punishments under the masked man's palm.

Later, she gradually learned that under the lower abdomen of people is the dantian acupoint.

Qi through the dantian, the first few times will feel the piercing pain of the cone, and the later it is, the more the body will feel full, not only martial arts refinement, but also rapid and vigorous action, such as the magic of rebirth.

It turned out that the masked man was just wishful thinking to pass on some of his internal power to her, whether she accepted it or not.

Gu Yunxi walked down the steps in a few steps and stood on the alert left and right of the courtyard to take a look.

Just as he was about to perform light skills and go up to the room, the voice behind him came one after another, as if the glacier was opening in February, and the water rippled between the white freezing gas, and the abnormal cold was inexhaustible:

"You don't sleep in the middle of the night, where are you going?"

In vain, his heart went up and down, and he was beating up and down. Gu Yunxi still felt that his feet seemed to take root, and he couldn't move a single bit.

Faintly felt two cold blade-like rays of light behind her, binding her whole body......

PS: There is no doubt that Minglan loves the heroine deeply, although his feelings and some practices are a little perverted. Minglan will not give up a relationship because of his incompleteness, the reason is: why can the old guy in Dongchang flirt with the little girl, but the governor cannot. The things that the East Factory lacks are also lacking, and the things that are not lacking in the East Factory are also lacking (how can the word "virtue" be obtained), and it turns out that the Governor is better than him! Since the little girl can accept the incomplete beautiful uncle, she can naturally accept the incomplete handsome little brother.

However, the beautiful and greasy uncle of the East Factory is incomplete, only the sweet and soft little heroine knows best! (It's not clear now, the future is clear)

From this chapter onwards, I feel that the little heroine has grown up very quickly, and there is a trend towards the big heroine.