The matter of breaking into Qijiazhuang at night finally ended with the thief disappearing, but after this incident, the guards of Qijiazhuang became stricter, and more people were assigned between the inner courtyard and the outer courtyard.

As Chu Zizhan expected, Qijiazhuang even sent people to the courtyard where his group lived, nominally to protect Qijiazhuang's distinguished guests, but in fact to monitor Chu Zizhan and his party's every move.

These people who were sent over were all from the second room of Qijiazhuang, Chu Zizhan thought that it should have been Qi Lei's own instructions, and Qi Xuan, since the last time he came over, there has been no news, and it seems that he is really waiting for Qi Hanshan to give himself a thorough explanation after the first seven days.

As for Ah Li, because he was installed as a "woman" of the eldest prince of Chu that day, in order to keep the people of Qijiazhuang from suspicion, Ah Li will come to find the eldest prince of Chu in the past few days, and even spend the night here, and the people who were sent by Qi Lei to guard also truthfully replied to Qi Lei about the situation here, as for what kind of performance Qi Lei had, Chu Zizhan doesn't know here.

Time flies, and no one has come to disturb Chu Zizhan and his party in the past few days, but Ah Li and Qi Liancheng and Qi Lianyu often go over, and Ah Li doesn't feel annoyed by the two children, but every time they come over, he always takes out some candy and other things for the two of them to eat, but according to the convention, these candies are collected by Qi Liancheng first, and then distributed to Qi Lianyu.

Ah Li also ignored Qi Liancheng's careful thoughts, but smiled instead, feeling that these two children were becoming more and more cute.

And the people in the second room of the Qi family have not made any moves in the past few days, but they heard that Qi Lei has suffered an illness in the past few days, as for the reason, Chu Zizhan does not know here.

"Then why did Qi Lei suddenly fall ill, didn't he clamoring to come in and search for thieves a few days ago."

Since the last incident, Ah Li has also roughly guessed Chu Zizhan's identity, but he has not broken it, and Chu Zizhan has tacitly not mentioned this matter again, but since then, Chu Zizhan has not hidden anything from Ah Li, and some things will be said in front of Ah Li.

This is not to hear the news that Qi Lei suddenly fell ill, Ah Li came to Chu Zizhan here for the first time.

Chu Zizhan listened to Ah Li's words, pondered for a moment, and then said, "This illness did come suddenly, but I don't know if I am pretending to be sick." ”

Ah Li's eyes rolled

, and then said to Chu Zizhan, "Do you want me to go and see again?"

After listening to Ah Li's proposal, Chu Zizhan glanced at Ah Li, and then said, "Don't you think the matter last time was not big enough, be careful that no one will help you this time." ”

Ah Li smiled, and then said to Chu Zizhan, "Didn't the eldest prince of Chu also say it, we are now a group." ”

After the previous incident, Ah Li didn't notice that his attitude towards Chu Zizhan was changing, and this change was not superficial, but a change from the bottom of his heart.

For Ah Li's words, Chu Zizhan was completely shielded, and he was thinking about one thing now, that is, Qi Lei was sick, and Qi Xuan had no news, what kind of result would this Qi Jiazhuang give himself in the end

In the inner courtyard of Qijiazhuang, Qi Lei was holding a book and was sitting leisurely in his room, taking a look at it from time to time, and most of his attention was staring at the few pieces of paper scattered on the bookcase, which recorded the movement information of Chu Zizhan and his party in the past few days, as well as his own deployment and arrangements in the past few days.

At this time, there was a knock on the door outside, not loud, but very rhythmic, as if it was knocking on some kind of code.

After Qi Lei heard the voice, he didn't seem to care, and he didn't get up to open the door for the person outside, as if he was waiting for the other party to run out of strength, and the door would naturally not ring again.

The sound grew weaker and weaker, and suddenly stopped, because there was suddenly no sound, so there was some eerie silence here.

The footsteps walked away, and Qi Lei slowly put down the book in his hand, then got up and walked towards the door.

The "creak" door opened, and no one was outside, except for a few pieces of paper pressed with stones, which appeared in front of the door.

Qi Lei smiled, then leaned over and picked up a few pieces of paper on the ground, and after looking at them a few times, he nodded with satisfaction, turned around and went back to the house, put the newly obtained pieces of paper together with the previous paper on the bookcase, and then took out a fire fold from his arms, blew it twice, and the scorching fire protruded, burning a few pieces of paper in Qi Lei's hand.

Qi Lei looked at the burning paper in front of him, and said to himself, "Everything is ready, only the east wind is owed, big brother, don't blame me." ”

As for Qi Xuan, in addition to accompanying Meng Runan and Qi Lianyu at home these days, he will stay in the mourning hall, no one knows what he is doing, but he will see Qi Xuan sitting there all the time, as if he is too void and fugue, at that moment, he seems to be with

The world is separated, making people feel familiar and strange at the same time.

In the twenty-seventh year of the Great Calendar, the nineteenth month of winter.

Clear.

The seventh day of Qihan Mountain.

On this day, Qijiazhuang was busy very early, Qi Chongshan lost his legs because of the battle of Liuling that year, and had to be a wheelchair for 28 years, at this time he was pushed to the mourning hall, and many people had gathered in the mourning hall, Qi Xuan of the big room, Qi Zhen of the third room, Qi Yu of the Quartet, and the fat man Qi Hai of the fifth room, all of whom had arrived.

Qi Chongshan glanced at everyone, only to find that there seemed to be one person missing here, so he asked, "What about the person in charge of the second room, why haven't you come yet?"

At this time, Qi Hai spoke: "Second brother, isn't he sick these days, I guess he should have slept in the house for a while." ”

Qi Xuan added on the side, "I've already asked someone to call him, it shouldn't take long to come over." ”

Qi Chongshan sighed heavily, that sigh seemed to be full of helplessness, and then said to the person behind him, "Xingchen, you go and call the second master, let him hurry up, he didn't come over early on such a big occasion, isn't this nonsense." ”

Qi Xuan took the wheelchair and waved his hand to the man named Xingchen, motioning for him to go down and run errands.

Xingchen nodded in agreement and left the mourning hall.

"Xingchen, this kid, it's okay, but he doesn't like to talk too much." Qi Chongshan sighed again, but unlike the sigh of Qi Lei just now, this sigh was full of appreciation.

Qi Hai listened to Qi Chongshan's words, smiled, then touched Qi Yu beside him, and whispered, "Fourth brother, Xingchen's temperament, no matter how you look at it, is it the illegitimate child of the fourth uncle outside." ”

Qi Yu glanced at Qi Hai, and didn't pay attention to this fool at all, but Qi Zhen on the other side of Qi Yu opened his mouth and said, "You fool, what nonsense are you talking about?"

Qi Zhen and Qi Yu themselves are half-brothers, but after their father died in the Battle of Liuling, their mothers each shared a room, which can be regarded as a disguised separation.

That's why today when he heard Qi Hai slandering the fourth uncle there, he was so angry.

Qi Hai himself could be regarded as having provoked Qi Zhen, so he didn't speak again, but smiled at him embarrassedly, and then looked at Qi Xuan.