Chapter Seventy-Six: The Dark Shadow in the Old House

Li Xusong walked around the holy city with a silver bag, and he had already been to the teahouse, and the proprietress of the teahouse said that on the day when the saint ordered the whole city to ban the ringer, she gave Qiu Tang a sum of money and let Qiu Tang leave, and she didn't know where she went. Li Xusong had no choice but to wander around the street, hoping to meet him on the street.

"Father-in-law, are you busy?" Yuluan, who went out to purchase, saw Li Xusong looking around on the street, and saw it when he entered the palace to congratulate the Queen Mother on her birthday, and knew that it was the big eunuch next to the prince.

"Are you ......" Li Xusong looked up and saw a young man, familiar in his eyes, but he couldn't name him.

"Xiaosheng Yuluan is Boss Gu's eldest apprentice." Yuluan reported the name.

"Oh oh, yes, I mean it's familiar." Li Xusong nodded, "Why are you going?" ”

"Oh, my master told me to come out and buy some food. Why is Gonggong Li idle today? ”

"Oh, I'll do something for the prince." As he spoke, he continued to look around.

Seeing that Li Xusong had no intention of talking, Yuluan was inconvenient to disturb anymore: "Since my father-in-law has something to do, then Xiaosheng won't bother my father-in-law." "Say it, bow down and leave.

Facing Yuluan's departure, Li Xusong only nodded slightly, if this kind of ninth-rate drama was not for a jade character in his eyes, he would not even be qualified to talk to him.

Where do I find this...... Li Xusong complained in his heart, walking around the city on two legs. I went around all day until the sun went down, and I didn't see the girl. Li Xusong was very irritable, no one was found, how could he go back. Li Xusong sighed and went back to the prince's mansion.

"Holy! Holy! You Dexing's panicked voice rushed out of the imperial study, Mu Jianyu was originally in the imperial study with a good hand, but for some reason, he suddenly fell headlong on the desk, no matter how You Dexing shouted, he didn't wake up, "Go and pass the imperial doctor!! ”

You Dexing beckoned the little eunuchs to lift Mu Jianyu to the soft collapse of the cabinet, Mu Jianyu closed his eyes tightly, his breathing was weak, his hands and feet were cold, and he was trembling all over. You Dexing tucked the quilt for Mu Jianyu, and urged the little eunuchs to ask for a doctor over and over again.

"Niangniang, the little eunuch next to the saint came to report that the saint had just fainted." Qingxing woke up Zhang Wan, who had just fallen asleep. Now that the queen is gone, only Xiao Guifei has the highest position in the harem, Mu Jianyu is sick, so she naturally wants to inform this Xiao Guifei Niangniang.

"Fainted?" Zhang Wan got up and dressed up with the help of Qingxing, "Have you summoned the imperial doctor?" ”

"I heard that I've already asked for it." Qingxing buckled the last buckle for Zhang Wan.

"Let's go, let's see." Zhang Wan didn't care much about Mu Jianyu's fainting, and going to see it was just a passing scene to go as a concubine. When she was implicated by her sister Zhang Rou, she already knew that even if her temperament was like Concubine Yun, Mu Jianyu would not regard herself as Concubine Yun, not to mention that she entered the palace to seek the throne, and she couldn't talk about half of her feelings with Mu Jianyu.

"Niangniang, the saint fainted." Zhipei gathered the candle flame in front of the Buddha shrine and said softly.

"Got it." An Jieyu's voice was not alarmed, and she couldn't hear any emotion.

"You go to Qihe Hall and ask Hong'er to pay more attention to those outsiders who enter the city these days." After a moment of silence, An Jieyu stopped the rosary in her hand.

"Outlander?" I don't know why.

"Tell Hong'er the original words, he will understand." An Jieyu did not give any explanation.

"Yes." Zhipei bowed and retired.

Qiu Tang sat on the edge of the bed, kneading her legs for Xu's mother, and Dr. Li said that in addition to drinking medicine, it is also very necessary to pinch Xu's mother's arms and legs every day.

"Qiu Tang, take a break." Mother Xu patted Qiu Tang's hand.

"It's all right, ma'am, not tired." Qiu Tang rubbed his sour eyes and barely cheered up.

"Go to sleep, it's getting late." Mother Xu stretched out her hand and brushed the broken hair in Qiu Tang's ear, she originally complained about Qiu Tang, she didn't say many things, it doesn't mean that she doesn't know, she saw Qiu Tang's abnormal behavior before Lingcheng was slaughtered, to say that Lingcheng was slaughtered and Qiu Tang had nothing to do with it, she didn't believe it. But now that things have happened, no matter how much you resent Qiu Tang, you will never get back what you have lost. In the days when I couldn't say it and couldn't do it, my mind became clearer day by day, watching Qiu Tang take care of himself after being busy, and seeing Pearl take all the money and leave, no matter how hard Xu's mother was, she was also kneaded into a pool of spring water by Qiu Tang.

"Then Madame should rest early." Seeing that it was indeed late, Qiu Tang helped Xu's mother to lie down, and helped her cover the quilt before extinguishing the candle and closing the door.

Qiu Tang, who returned to the west wing, lay on the bed and couldn't fall asleep, she had been in the city for some days, and she had been busy because of Xu's mother's body, and now Xu's mother's health is getting better day by day, and the old accounts in her heart are like seeds stained with water, growing up little by little, germinating, pulling out one long vine after another, wrapped in her heart, making people breathless. Qiu Tang fumbled to get dressed, and listened to Xu's mother's steady breathing, and then slipped out over the wall.

The holy city in the middle of the night is not as lively as the mausoleum, there is no gambling house for drinking and gambling, and Fengqi Pavilion has also become much quieter because of the ban on ringers. Qiu Tang bypassed the husband who played the watch, passed the small streets and alleys in his impression, and finally came to the door of Chen Guoshi's mansion.

The door is still lacquered, the porch is still carved and painted, and the mottled stone is still mottled, except for the weeds in the cracks of the stone and the cobwebs between the beams, everything is exactly the same as when he left home at the age of five. Qiu Tang stood beside the stone lion in front of the door, stroking his favorite stone lion in his childhood, and endless sadness spread in his heart. The knocker and nail on the door were already stained with rust, and a pair of seals were pasted on the double door, the words on the seals were blurred, but they were still firmly attached to them, and no one dared to open them. Qiu Tang thought about it, bypassed the front door, and slipped back along the root of the wall, there was a garden in the back, because there were a lot of thorny plants planted in it, so the wall over there was a little lower, Qiu Tang found the slightly lower wall with his memory, the original lush plants in the wall were gone, Qiu Tang looked around, turned over, and turned into the yard.

Through the moonlight, Qiu Tang saw the desolation of the courtyard, and there were traces of fire everywhere, as well as splashed blood and mottled knife marks. Qiu Tang suppressed the pain like a tear in his chest, and walked through the garden by the moonlight, and walked towards the back house. The back house is the place where she was separated from her parents that year, and it is also the place where she was taken away by Chen Zhong and Chen Xiao, how many days and nights have passed, Qiu Tang always feels that the back house hides some secrets that she doesn't know, but are very important.

Along the moss-covered steps, Qiu Tang gently pushed open the door covered with cobwebs, and with a squeak, it startled the wild birds hiding in the yard, and Qiu Tang entered the house in the dark, it was pitch black, and he couldn't see anything. Qiu Tang just wanted to light the candle on the table, when a dark shadow ran by the door, startling Qiu Tang sweating: "Who?!" Qiu Tang shouted in a low voice.

The courtyard was quiet, not like someone at all, Qiu Tang walked out of the door, looked around cautiously, and didn't see half a figure, but the feeling of someone behind him just now was so real. Qiu Tang didn't dare to stay for a long time, re-covered the door of the house, and hurriedly climbed over the wall and left.

Qiu Tang's chest was still pounding when he returned home, and the black shadow disappeared and entrenched in Qiu Tang's heart, and the familiar but somewhat unfamiliar feeling made Qiu Tang scratch his head.

Maybe he ran too fast, maybe he was frightened, in short, Qiu Tang soon fell asleep in a daze.

"How's it going?" Yue Shumei Tuan sat on the soft collapse, playing with the Ruyi in her hand, her eyes closed slightly.

"Hearing the news from inside, he has fainted." Kesha was waiting on the sidelines.

"Heh, I really underestimated Yuechan at the beginning, but I didn't expect things to be really neat." Yue Shumei opened her eyes and smiled.

"Miss Yuechan's father is one of the best assassins in the clan, and Miss Yuechan is naturally not too wasteful. Madame, when are we going to do it? ”

"Don't worry," Yue Shumei changed to a more comfortable position, "That Prince Qi, I always feel that there will be movements, wait a minute." ”

"Yes."

"What has that waste prince been doing lately?"

"I heard that he was ordered by Mu Jianyu not to leave the prince's mansion at will, so he was teasing birds and raising insects in the prince's mansion every day. However, a few days ago, I seemed to hear that he asked the eunuch Li Xusong around him to secretly go out of the house, saying that he was looking for someone, but I heard that he didn't find it. ”

"Looking for someone? Who? ”

"I heard it's a woman."

"Woman? Hehe, this waste prince is really a waste, in addition to teasing birds and insects, he is looking for a woman. Leave him alone, and don't expect him to do anything anyway. Yue Shumei sneered.

"Madam, this is a decoction, I will simmer it on the stove for you, I want to go out, can you drink it yourself?" Early in the morning, Qiu Tang moved the small stove to Xu's mother's bedside.

"Where are you going?" Mother Xu pulled Qiu Tang's sleeve, her eyes full of reluctance.

"Madame, don't worry, I'm just going out to do some work and exchange some money, and I'll be back at noon." Qiu Tang felt Xu's mother's worry, she was afraid that she would be like a pearl, and she would never come back if she left.

"Then you go. Thank you for your hard work. Mother Xu let go of her hand, "I'll drink the medicine myself, don't worry." Alas, I'm dragging you down. ”

"Madame, don't say that." Qiu Tang took Xu's mother's hand, "If it wasn't for Xu's mother who bought me from Renyazi, I don't know if I would have lived so much." You should be taken care of. ”

"Go ahead, don't be too tired." Mother Xu's heart is warm, maybe buying Qiu Tang was the wisest thing she had ever done. At the beginning, Qiu Tang was the person the government was looking for, and it was also the wisest trace of kindness.

Qiu Tang comforted Xu's mother, and when she went out, she did not go to Fengqi Pavilion, but walked around all the lively streets, and returned to the old mansion of Chen Guoshi's mansion again. It was too late last night for her to see anything, and she decided to go in during the day to take a good look, even if there was any danger.