Su Lingling looked at the messy lines, just stroked Xiao Tao with pity, and said, "The painting is good." ”

Later, I thought that in fact, those lines were the map of the Hou Mansion, but Su Lingling still didn't suspect this kid, and just thought that he was thinking too much.

But then Xiao Tao's series of behaviors showed some unusual places, for example, she occasionally got up in the middle of the night and would see Xiao Tao swaying in the courtyard, Peony explained that Xiao Tao had a problem with sleepwalking, although Su Lingling felt strange, but most of the time sympathy occupied reason, without deep thought, plus later Sun Xian Lin had an accident, she didn't care much about the two sisters.

When she came to the capital before, Peony Xiaotao was reluctant to come, and now she has to leave with Su Lingling, and what she inadvertently showed was not like the behavior of a child with a three-year-old mind.

"Peony," Su Lingling came to the kitchen, and saw that Peony was squatting by the stove to help make a fire, so he called, Peony raised her head, and wiped a little stove ash on her face, seeing that it was Su Lingling, she hurriedly stood up and wiped her face with the back of her hand, but it was even dirtier, Su Lingling took out a handkerchief to help her wipe it, and Peony asked, "What is my sister looking for me?" ”

Su Lingling looked down at her and said, "Peony, tell me honestly, who are you and Xiao Tao?" ”

Peony's face changed slightly, and then she smiled: "I told my sister before, Xiao Tao and I are just the daughters of an ordinary family, both parents died, and they were sold to Yihong Courtyard by their uncle. ”

"But I heard that some time ago, someone went to Yihong Courtyard to look for you, and that night Yihong Courtyard was set on fire, and all the people inside were burned to death, and none of them survived."

Peony's hand trembled suddenly, panic flashed in her eyes, she didn't dare to look up at Su Lingling, so she had to lower her head, Su Lingling frowned, "You tell me honestly, if you have any difficulties, I will definitely help you." ”

Peony's tears suddenly fell, and she shook her head, "No, we will affect you, I'm sorry Sister Su, we can't stay here any longer!" ”

After saying that, she turned around and ran, but Su Lingling quickly caught up with her, "What the hell is going on?" ”

Peony still refused to say, and Su Lingling said, "You are being hunted down by the enemy, right?" ”

"Nope!"

"Then why are you afraid that we will be affected?" Su Lingling stared at her tightly, "Your parents were also killed by those people, right?" There's no such thing as an uncle selling you to a brothel, right? Why are you lying? ”

"If I said that, you wouldn't have taken us away."

"Now that you're all following me, why don't you tell me the truth?" Su Lingling pressed step by step, Peony was forced to the end of the corridor, and on the other side, Xiao Tao was looking at them, still holding the small bottle in her hand, Peony shook her head at her, Xiao Tao glanced at the two of them, and suddenly turned around and ran.

"Little Peach! Come back! Peony chased him out regardless of it, and Su Lingling followed closely behind, but in the end, he let Xiao Tao run away, and Peony stood in the middle of the courtyard, turned his head to look at Su Lingling, and tears flowed all over his face.

"Sister, I'm sorry."

Su Lingling couldn't ignore them, but he couldn't bear to force her to speak out again, so he had to walk over and soothe: "It's okay, don't cry." Sighing, he said: "I will send someone to find Xiao Tao back, you don't have to worry, if you are good boys, I will protect you, but if you have any bad intentions, I will not hesitate to kill you." ”

The murderous aura that flashed in her eyes frightened Peony, Peony looked at Su Lingling in a daze, Su Lingling stroked her back, and said, "I'm waiting for the day when you tell me the truth." ”

She deliberately showed her murderous aura, Peony was very smart, sensible, and kind, but Xiao Tao, although she was still so young, Su Lingling felt that she couldn't understand her, what was she thinking in that little head, why was she pretending to be stupid, and what she was planning.

Su Lingling left on the second day, and she couldn't let go of helping Sun Xian find Linglong bones, she told Tassel and Su Yansheng to take good care of Peony, and also sent someone out to find Xiao Tao, when Peony sent her away, she wanted to stop talking, Su Lingling wiped her tears with a slight smile, and said: "I'll come back once every half a month, you don't have to worry, if someone bullies you, tell Brother Yansheng and let him help you get ahead." ”

"Sister, Xiao Tao, she-" Peony frowned, her eyes were already swollen from crying, she and Xiao Tao had been dependent on each other for so long, and now that Xiao Tao was not by her side, why didn't she worry? Xiao Tao had been planning to leave the Hou Mansion before, and even drew a route map of the entire Hou Mansion, when she caught up with it yesterday, Xiao Tao suddenly shook and disappeared, but she followed but didn't find the way.

She clenched her fists, wiped her face, and finally smiled, "Sister, you can go with confidence, I will take good care of myself." ”

Su Lingling looked at her pretending to be strong, couldn't help but feel distressed, bent down and hugged her, then got up and rode on the horse, Peony looked at her back and disappeared, and her eyes gradually became complicated.

"Sister Tassel, let's go back." She took the initiative to reach out and hold the tassel, and now that Su Lingling is gone, she must work harder to please the people in the house in order to survive.

Tassel hummed softly and led her back to the Hou Mansion.

In a place where the two of them didn't notice, a small figure appeared in the corner not far away, she watched Peony being brought into the Hou Mansion, her eyes rolled, and she was about to catch up, when someone suddenly grabbed her behind her.

She raised her throat with a heart, turned around, and saw an old woman with goosebumps, the old woman was only as tall as her with her waist bent, Xiao Tao was stunned, switched a few glances in an instant, and finally asked with a smile: "Mother-in-law, what are you pulling me for?" ”

The old woman pointed to her throat and waved her hand again, and Xiao Tao realized that she was a mute, blinked, and asked, "Does the mother-in-law want me to help?" ”

The old woman nodded.

"What does my mother-in-law ask me to help with?"

The old woman took out a few copper plates from her body, put them in Xiao Tao's hand, gestured with her hand to make a steamed bun, and then stretched out two fingers.

Xiao Tao understood, so she said, "Okay, mother-in-law, you wait here, I'll be back later." ”

However, the old woman shook her head, pointing at Xiao Tao herself, and then pointing at herself, shaking her head.

"Mother-in-law, what do you mean, let me buy it for myself?"

The old woman smiled and nodded, and the little peach head shook like a rattle, "Then what's the matter, mother-in-law, you wait, I'll buy it and we'll eat it together!" ”

Xiao Tao ran away with the copper plate, the old woman turned around with a smile, but saw the woman in white in front of her, her eyes moved up, and she could see her red lips under the silver mask, as well as those cold eyes.

"You've found it here." The old woman spoke, but the voice was that of a young woman.

The woman in white covered her mouth with her sleeve and smiled softly, "I didn't expect you to escape here." ”

The old woman raised her head when she heard this, and her loving eyes turned into anger, "What do you want to do?" You've got everything you want! ”

The woman in white shook her head and said with a smile: "Who said that I have got everything I want, it is not enough, far from enough!" ”

She bent down slightly, looked at the old woman at eye level, the cold eyes were as black as a deep pool, the old woman turned her head resentfully, the woman in white smiled lightly, and said: "Even if you voluntarily disfigured your appearance, your eyes still haven't changed, what beautiful eyes." ”

The woman in white casually said words of praise, the old woman snorted, glared at her angrily, the woman in white pursed her lips and stood up, "I know that you handed over the red face to the maid of the Dongxiang Hou Mansion, and instigated her to drug your own young lady, but you accidentally harmed the prince of the Zhenhai County Palace, what are you doing this for?" ”

"What am I for, and what do I have to do with you?" The old woman didn't want to say more, she limped away with a cane, and the woman in white reached out to drag her, but the old woman's rickety body dodged quickly, the woman in white squinted, and a white silk flew out of her sleeve, binding the old woman, and the old woman had an extra dagger in her hand to the white silk, and the woman in white turned her wrist, and the other hand threw out a white silk again, binding the old woman's hand with the dagger.

Xiao Tao, who happened to come back from buying steamed buns, saw this scene, she was so frightened that she didn't dare to make a sound, she didn't dare to rush over to help, so she hurriedly hid behind the wall and poked her head out to see the situation over there.

The old woman's body was tied up by the white silk, and she couldn't move at all, and the woman in white smiled contemptuously, approached and said, "You'd better hand over the shutters, I'm not patient, but I don't know what I'll do." ”

The old woman didn't even bother to look at her, and said lightly: "What else can't you do?" ”

The woman in white pressed her hand, and the white silk tightened again, and the old woman frowned with white eyebrows, but she still refused to let go.

Xiao Tao walked the path into the back door of the Hou Mansion, hid all the way, and finally found Peony in the small study, Peony was accompanying Su Yansheng to read a book, Su Yansheng was sleeping sweetly on the table, but Peony was holding a book, sitting on the bookshelf and reading seriously.

"Sister!" Xiao Tao lay at the window and called her, but Peony didn't hear it, Su Yansheng turned over, and Xiao Tao was so frightened that she hurriedly squatted down.

After a while, Xiao Tao sneaked out again, pinched a small pebble in her hand, and threw it towards the peony, she often threw stones to hit birds when she was a child, and she was very accurate, the pebble just landed on Peony's book, Peony raised her head, saw the little peach in the window, and was so shocked that she almost screamed, and saw Su Yansheng hurriedly covered her mouth again.

She walked out of the small study lightly, came to the window, and saw that Xiao Tao was fine, she sighed, and couldn't help but blame: "Where have you been?" Do you know how worried I am about you?! ”

Xiao Tao didn't care about this, and said hurriedly: "Sister, now you ask Brother Yansheng to take someone to the nearest alley in front of the gate to have a look!" ”

"What's wrong?"

"Oh, don't worry about it for now, go quickly, or someone will die!"