"Two hundred stones today." Hua Chen dragged a large bamboo basket to the edge of the pond with a cold face.

"Uncle Shi...... You ......" Qiu Tang saw two red marks on Hua Chen's face.

"Throw stones well, a hundred in your left hand and a hundred in your right hand." Huachen ignored Qiu Tang, dropped a sentence, and left.

"Yes." Qiu Tang saw that Hua Chen didn't want to say more, so he seriously threw the stone.

"Qiu Tang, sing Sifan today." The sound of jade dust came from far away on the opposite side of the pond, but I only heard the sound and saw no one.

Qiu Tang was stunned, and sang as soon as he opened his mouth: "The little nun is twenty-eight years old, and her hair was cut off by the master in her youth......"

"Master, Master Zhang from the Holy City is looking for you everywhere." It wasn't until there was no movement in the room that the housekeeper Xue Chang knocked on the door of the study.

"Got it, I'll go over here." Xue Bowen got dressed, leaned down and kissed the little girl a few times, and then walked out of the study.

Through the corridor and through the courtyard, Xue Bowen came to the backyard where Zhang An and the others stayed, pushed the door into the house, and saw Zhang An and his subordinates gathered in the house, the atmosphere was a little depressing, Xue Bowen arched his hand and said: "Zhang Ye is so anxious to find the next official, is there anything wrong?"

When Zhang An saw Xue Bowen coming, his frowning brows stretched slightly: "You all stand down, I have something to say to Master Xue." Zhang An retreated.

"Lord Xue," Zhang An saw that everyone had left the house, got up and closed the door again, and then spoke again, "The famous wine putty in Lingcheng, does Lord Xue know where he lives on weekdays?"

"He, that's not good, either drunk in the east of the city or drunk in the west of the city, if you want to find him, you have to smell the wine and try your luck." Xue Bowen thought for a while and said, "Why did you remember to ask him?"

"Then he doesn't have any family?" Zhang An did not answer Xue Bowen.

"His money has been exchanged for wine and drunk, what do you take to marry a daughter-in-law, I heard a while ago that he also babbled that he lost his money, but I am afraid that he is crazy about money."

"Oh." Zhang An groaned, as long as this person's whereabouts are uncertain, then even if he dies, no one should pay attention.

"What? Zhang Ye wants to find him? I heard that didn't you bring this wine putty back a while ago? ”

"Seeing that he was drunk, he probably couldn't ask anything, so he let him go, but now there is something going on, I want to ask him, can't I find it." Zhang An hurriedly played the round, his brain was spinning rapidly, and he tried to change the topic, "Lord Xue, are you familiar with the people in Lingcheng?" ”

"Yo, I'm really not familiar with this, I only know that there are occasional children sold in the market, but it is said that they are all refugees from outside and can't survive. It's just selling himself and changing his appetite. Xue Bowen explained again and again that the matter of human trafficking cannot be talked about indiscriminately, not to mention that the tender and delicate girl still has to rely on human teeth.

"Okay, then I got it." Zhang An knew that he couldn't get any useful clues from Xue Bowen, so he simply stopped asking, "Lord Xue, a few of us may have to stay for a while, and there will be a lot of disturbances during this time." ”

"It's okay, stay, stay, you can stay." Although Xue Bowen was unhappy in his heart, he didn't dare to offend Zhang An, "It's still Huizeyuan's meal today, right?" ”

"It's all up to Lord Xue's arrangement." Zhang An said politely.

Looking at the back of Xue Bowen leaving, Zhang An recruited a family member and took out a letter: "You ride a fast horse, travel day and night, be sure to send the letter back to the house as soon as possible, and you must face the national teacher."

"Yes." The family took the order and left.

A while ago, he had already sent the news back, but he didn't see the instructions behind, Zhang Anxin was uneasy, and if he didn't find it, he naturally didn't dare to go back. This time the letter was just to ask for instructions, whether to go back alive to return to life and receive death or to cut oneself off on the spot, there must always be an explanation.

"You say...... When will the two of us be able to wear such beautiful clothes and jewelry? Wan Tong sat at the counter, supporting his head with both hands, and looked at the dazzling Qiu Tang on the stage with his eyes stupid.

"It should be soon. Look, how beautiful Sister Qiutang's movements are. Fei'er imitated Qiu Tang's every move on the side, smiling.

"I heard...... The proprietress of the teahouse invited Sister Qiu Tang to sing the song, and she had to give her mother silver every month. Wan Tong shook Fei'er's shoulder.

"That's what Mom deserves. How much money she spent cultivating us. Isn't it just so that we can make money for her in the future? Fei'er looked at no one around her, lowered her voice and said to Wan Tong.

"Hey, you say, if it were me, how much money would the proprietress of the teahouse spend to invite me?"

"You'll have to ask the proprietress about that." Fei'er said, her eyes didn't leave Qiu Tang for a moment. She vaguely felt that Wan Tong next to her got up and left, and she didn't pay attention to what Wan Tong was doing, but she felt that her ears were a lot cleaner.

"Little beauty~ Where are you hiding?" Xue Bowen returned to the study in the back garden after eating, closed the door of the study, and began to look around for the little girl that Luan Puan brought back to her.

The girl knew that she still couldn't escape today, but she still opened a bookcase in the middle of the study and hid inside. She didn't want to be caught by Xue Bowen, she had only been in Xue Mansion for a few days, and she was already scarred.

"Little beauty? Don't hide, I see you! Xue Bowen scared the little girl with his mouth, and continued to rummage in the room with his hands. Xue Bowen likes the process of searching, and the longer he searches, the stronger the joy he feels when he finds it.

The little girl hid in the bookcase, covering her mouth tightly, for fear that she would make a sound and lead Xue Bowen over. She held her breath and listened carefully to the sound outside the cabinet, getting closer and closer, Xue Bowen's footsteps were getting closer and closer, and the little girl felt that her heart was about to jump out of her throat.

"Found it!" Xue Bowen shouted loudly, opened a box in the corner, and then closed it in annoyance.

"Found it!" Xue Bowen opened the wardrobe again, and then "Bang!" It closed again.

"Found it!" Xue Bowen picked up the bed and looked under the bed, but there was still nothing.

Looking around, Xue Bowen tiptoed to the bookcase: "Found it!" Xue Bowen slammed open the door of the bookcase, only to see the little girl huddled in the cabinet with her head in her arms, screaming and trembling. Xue Bowen smiled strangely and hugged the little girl who had been scared and stiffened. The girl looked at the smile on Xue Bowen's face, struggled desperately, and shouted for help. Xue Bowen ripped off the girl's green belly pocket and stuffed it into the girl's mouth.

"Three hundred stones today. At least 100 should be thrown into the wooden box. Hua Chen put a basket of stones at Qiu Tang's feet, gave a few commands, and left.

"Qiu Tang, you sing the Hall of Eternal Life." After Yuchen finished speaking, he hurriedly chased out.

"Are you still angry?" Yuchen grabbed Hua Chen's arm.

"Nope." Hua Chen stood still, his voice cold.

"And say no, your face is full of anger." Yuchen shook his head.

"No is nothing." Hua Chen shook off Yuchen's hand and wanted to leave.

"Stop." Yuchen looked at Huachen's back and shouted, "Huachen, we are brothers. Is there anything you can't say? ”

"Yuchen, we have been brothers for so many years, and our masters have known each other, I thought I knew you very well, but you made me feel like I never really knew you." Hua Chen's voice was very low, and he could see that he was trying his best to control his emotions, "Yuchen, who are you?"

"I'm Yuchen." Yuchen's voice also cooled down, and his tone was full of loneliness, "If you want to know, I'll tell you." Yuchen paused, and pulled Hua Chen to sit at the base of the wall.

"I was sold into the troupe when I was five years old. It is said that my mother is the daughter of a large family, but she gave birth to me in the boudoir. After giving birth, I was secretly taken out by her nurse and sold to others, and later the person who bought me gave birth to a son when I was four or five years old, and the family was poor, so he sold me to Renyazi, and I happened to see the master singing on the street, so I kowtowed and begged him to buy me. Yuchen's voice was lonely, like a stone in the desert where the wind blew itself into gravel, lonely and helpless.

"Later, I followed Master around, sang operas, and made money. It was a man's body, but he wanted hairpins, hooked his face, wore ayara, and sang women with his voice. I've seen too much warmth and coldness, and I've experienced too much of the world's coldness. We are the lower ninth rate, if we are safe and stable to be a lower ninth rate who can't go to the hall, we can also beg for food, but we just got into the dragon's eye, gave the word 'jade', and became a plaything. ”

Huachen never knew that Yuchen still had such a past, for Huachen, relying on a body of martial arts, escorting darts to deliver goods, and earning a hard-earned money, he is the bottom person who sells coolies to make money and makes a living. Listening to Yuchen today, Huachen realized that behind Yuchen's glamorous surface was such miserable, sad, lonely and helpless.

"It's the same with begonias. From the time she started calling Qiu Tang, she couldn't help herself with this life. If she wants to live, she must hide her true self. We're all the same, and we've never been able to help ourselves. Yuchen looked at the sky, and two small birds flew in the distance, flying freely over the West Garden, and that freedom was Yuchen's unattainable dream.

"Jade Dust...... I ......" Hua Chen looked at the jade dust in front of him that seemed to have been drained of his soul, and he couldn't help but feel a heart-tearing pain, so painful that he didn't know what to say.

"Alright. Let's go see the begonias. Yuchen got up, brushed the dust off the snow-white robe, and stretched out his hand to Huachen.

Hua Chen looked up, Yuchen's face was no longer desolate, his eyes were colored again, the sunlight behind Yuchen made Hua Chen a little dizzy, and he felt like he was in a dream.

"Say hello to the saint, say hello to Xiao Zhaoyi." You Dexing lifted the curtain and entered the house and saluted Mu Jianyu and Zhang Wan.

"Get up, what's the matter?" Mu Jianyu was playing chess with Zhang Wan, and was disturbed by You Dexing, and Mu Jianyu was a little displeased.

"Back to the Holy Lord, just now the Tai Hospital came to report that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has recovered from his illness, but he has hurt his vitality, and I am afraid that he will not be able to sit for a long time in the future. In addition, Concubine Xian also fell ill because she was too tired from waiting for His Royal Highness the Prince. ”

"Smack!" Mu Jianyu slammed the chess pieces on the chessboard, "A bunch of waste! Go and tell the Tai Hospital, no matter what medicine you use, you must make up for His Royal Highness the Prince's body! ”

"Yes." You Dexing was ordered to exit the house.

"Don't worry about it, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is deeply blessed, he will be blessed by his ancestors, and he will definitely recover as before. What's more, there is also a virtuous concubine who is also taking care of it carefully, and it will be fine. Zhang Wan got up and brought a cup of tea and handed it to Mu Jianyu.

"Don't move around when you're pregnant with a child, just leave these things to the next people to do later." Hearing Zhang Wan's relief, and seeing Zhang Wan's bulging belly, Mu Jianyu felt a little more comfortable, "Fortunately, you are still by my side." ”

"Holy ......" Zhang Wan couldn't help blushing.