Chapter 44: Tanxun Mansion
The dancing girl disappeared inexplicably, and she was very scared, thinking that it was caused by the unknown etiquette. Luan Chang sighed, "In this way, we have no way of knowing the authenticity of the hairpin." ”
Ah Tao was slightly stunned, and couldn't help but think of the scene when he first met Miss Xun Er at the ceremony.
Such a beautiful woman who is as beautiful as the sun and has arrogance in her bones is really not like such a timid person as Luan Chang's mouth.
Ah Tao had a whim, is it possible that Miss Xun Er is actually lying?
She immediately asked Luan Chang: "Have you ever confirmed the ashes of the items used in the ceremony after they were destroyed?"
Luan Chang looked at Ah Dao in astonishment, and pondered with his eyebrows.
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In the jade disturbing courtyard, Xiangyu leaned on the soft collapse, supported her head with one hand, closed her eyes and pretended to sleep.
Xiangqian walked into the study alone and walked slowly towards Xiangyu.
Seeing this, the tanuki slave who served on Xiangyu's side quickly waved away all the wild ghosts who were busy in the house, leaving the two of them alone in the study.
Xiang Qian knelt beside Xiangyu and sat on his knees, he glanced at Xiangyu, raised his hand to take the jade foot glass teacup on the table in front of him, and mentioned that he urgently needed to pour tea into the cup.
The gurgling sound of tea pouring down echoed in the silent air.
Xiangyu slowly opened his eyes.
"There's been no movement over there, and this time it shouldn't be their doing. Xiangqian said solemnly.
Over there, they refer to the clans of the royal family.
Xiangyu reached out and took an empty teacup from the table, but did not answer.
Xiang Qian blew a few stretches of tea leaves floating above the tea, and said, "After this incident, how far do you think her skill of controlling characters will improve?" said and looked at Xiangyu.
Xiangyu took the urgent beard from Xiangqian's hand, and after pouring the tea, he looked at Xiangqian and smiled lazily: "No matter what, what we want will only be that result after all, why should my father be anxious." ”
Xiangqian smiled: "Okay, it's good if you know it in your heart." After speaking, he raised his head and drank the tea in his cup.
A room in the inner courtyard of the Xunfu Mansion separated from Xiangfu by several streets, the veils are flying, the flower and bird pattern screen is unfolded, the water vapor in the wooden basin in the screen is dense, a maid carries a basket of rose petals and approaches the wooden basin, spreads the petals evenly on the water surface, and gradually gives birth to a fragrance of roses in the room.
Another maid slowly walked into the screen with a beauty in goose yellow tulle, the beauty had bright eyes and bright teeth, and her appearance was as gorgeous as the sun, it was Xun Yuse, the second lady of Xunfu who had just finished the ceremony a few days ago.
Xun Yuse's clothes were all gone, and he was helped into the wooden basin by the maidservants, and after his body was submerged in the water, he waved his hand and retreated.
After the maid left, Xun Yuse slowly closed her eyes and took a deep breath of enjoyment.
Placed not far away Xun Yuse's goose yellow clothes somewhere, at this moment emitted a very faint red light, if you look closely, you can see the thing that emits red light, it is difficult to distinguish from the goose yellow clothes, half a fingernail the size of an apricot flower crumb.
When the red light of the dandruff was gone, it floated up to mid-air, and then flew to the other side of the screen, and in the main room of Xun Yuse's boudoir, he began to drill around in all corners, as if he was looking for something.
Xun Yuse in the screen had opened her eyes at this time, and she didn't notice anything unusual at all, and she whispered "Someone is coming" outside.
Soon the porter was pushed open from the outside, and a maidservant entered, and the apricot blossom crumbs that were scurrying around flew out through the crack in the door before it closed again.
The apricot blossom crumbs flew all the way, and finally stopped in a secluded place of an unmanned rockery, a red light flashed, and in a blink of an eye, the crumbs changed back to the appearance of Adao.
Ah Tao glanced at the direction of Xun Yuse's boudoir where he had stayed just now, and began to think in his heart.
She searched everywhere in the boudoir, but did not find any trace of the hairpin, so she could only expand the scope and search all over the Xun Mansion one by one.
"Goo-goo~" A few screams suddenly came from his stomach, Ah Tao touched his deflated belly through his clothes, and said in his heart that he should go find something to eat to fill his stomach first.
Xunfu, like Xiangfu, is the home of Yin'an magnates, but in the end it can't compare to Xiangfu, the first clan of Yin'an, for Adao, who has figured out the structure of the Xiangfu mansion that has been several times larger than Xunfu, finding the kitchen of Xunfu is a piece of cake.
When Ah Tao stood outside the kitchen and smelled the faint smell of food, his heart was so happy.
At this time, both the nobles and the little maids in the house had just eaten the meal, and there was no one in the kitchen for a while.
In the kitchen, several kinds of ingredients are stacked neatly and orderly, and they can be seen everywhere, and Ah Tao is dazzled, and there are still various food aromas left in the room, and Ah Tao can't help but sniff greedily.
But she didn't do it right away, because she didn't eat everything.
For ghosts, their eating habits in meat are completely opposite to humans, humans eat cooked meat, but ghosts only eat raw meat, if the ghosts are stained with a little cooked meat, it will be like humans eating raw meat, abdominal pain and diarrhea and even illness.
Ah Tao took a quick look at the food in the kitchen, and there was an unexpected joy.
Little Yellow Croaker!
These small yellow croakers were wrapped in some of the condiments that humans are accustomed to, and Ah Tao took a tentative bite.
It's raw!
Ah Tao was immediately excited, and immediately picked up a large bowl of raw and mixed small yellow croaker, squatted on the spot, and dried the whole bowl into his stomach.
After half a pillar of incense, Ah Tao was already lying on the kitchen floor with a bulging belly, burping one after another in his mouth, and only one thought lingered in his mind at this moment.
I never knew that the raw yellow croaker with human condiments was so delicious.
After resting for a while, Ah Tao began to search for the whereabouts of the hedge hairpin throughout Xunfu.
Although she also has a ghost aura like other ghosts, due to the blood of the ancestor in her body, her ghost qi can easily be automatically ignored if the other party does not pay special attention to it, so she will be subconsciously regarded as a human by the other party.
It is thanks to this that her movement in Xunfu is much easier.
Ah Tao casually transformed into a servant girl and a servant in Xun Mansion, or a low-level servant, a steward in the house, and even some nobles in Xun Mansion, in order to find out the news related to the whereabouts of the fence hairpin.
Ah Tao will occasionally search for the hairpin directly, but she needs to always be careful not to be bumped into by the ghost deterrent master raised by the Xun Mansion and a nobleman in the mansion.
After a few days, Ah Tao has searched the entire Xunfu, but her only harvest is to go to the kitchen every night and always eat delicious raw and small yellow croaker with different new flavors.
Nothing else.
At this point, in the entire Xun Mansion, only the last place left could not be explored-
On that day and after the ceremony, Xun Yuse ordered people to burn the ashes behind the things used in the ceremony.
The ashes are usually collected and taken to a special place to collect filth, and there are special servants to guard and dispose of them, and Ah Tao has tried to get close several times, but for various reasons he has not been able to probe deeply.
Today is the day when the latest truckload of filth was transported out of Xunfu, and the ashes that Ah Tao wanted to investigate were mixed inside.
In order to avoid people's eyes, Ah Tao originally planned to follow the filthy car out of the house first, and then investigate, but coincidentally, today's servant of the cart temporarily had diarrhea, dropped the car and ran to the toilet, Ah Tao saw that there was no one around, such a good opportunity, how could she bear to miss it, she immediately had a hot head, a horizontal heart, and rushed to a car of filth parked on the Xiangfu path.
Ah Tao quickly recited the mantra in his mouth, and when the word "hairpin" appeared in the palm of his right hand, he placed the palm of his right hand on the filth and began to investigate and confirm.
After a thorough search in the darkness and filth, Adao withdrew his hand.
There was no trace of the hairpin in the ashes of the burnt object, which meant that it had not been destroyed, as she had guessed.
However, in the past few days, she has not found any trace of the hairpin in Xunfu.
Where did the hairpin go, as if it had completely disappeared out of thin air?
Ah Tao was thinking about it, and suddenly a young man's cold questioning voice came from behind him: "What are you doing there now?"