Yang Ning was immersed in these dozens of paintings and swords all night, and from time to time he tried them in person, and before he knew it, the sky was already bright. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

He knew that if someone found out that he secretly entered the courtyard, even if his current identity was the son of Jinyi, it would not be good after all, after all, the prohibition of admission to the hospital was a rule set by the old marquis of Jinyi when he was alive.

He sorted out the dozens of pieces of drawing paper and stuffed them into his arms, thinking that these old papers would be left there for many years and no one would care if they were taken away.

Climbed over the wall and went out of the yard, first returned to the house that he had prepared for himself before, found a silk cloth to wrap the dozens of pages of drawing paper, temporarily stuffed it under the bed, and was cleaning up properly, when he heard a shout outside, someone brought water to freshen up, after Yang Ning washed, someone came over to invite him to breakfast, and when he arrived in the restaurant, Qi Feng and several people were already waiting, but they didn't see Gu Qinghan's figure.

He knew that Gu Qinghan was tired these days, and he must still be resting, so he caught a glimpse of Wei Tong on the side, and asked, "The third lady hasn't gotten up yet?" ”

"Back to Shizi, I have already sent someone to call, the third lady is still resting, there is no answer, we are not good to disturb, Shizi rest assured, the kitchen is ready, wait for the third lady to get up, I will have breakfast." Wei Dong said respectfully.

The old mansion also has the rules of the old mansion, three meals a day are served on time, and the dignity and humility are orderly, although Qi Feng and the others are the guards of the Hou Mansion, they are also subordinates after all, and they can't dine with Yang Ning, but Yang Ning still doesn't adapt to this kind of life method of respecting and inferiority, so the subordinates also sent the breakfast of Qi Feng and others to the restaurant.

There are also two tables in the old house restaurant, the first one and the first one, but the upper one is obviously much more delicate and valuable than the lower one.

Yang Ning asked Qi Feng to sit at the first table with him, and the others were at the first table, and when breakfast came up, Yang Ning pushed and scared people out, and then whispered to Qi Feng: "You hurry up and eat, after eating, take two people to Jingzhou City." ”

Qi Feng was stunned and asked, "Jingzhou City?" "I thought I only came here last night, why did I have to rush back early in the morning?

"You go to Gangneung Taishou." Qi Feng said: "When I saw Jiangling Taishou, I asked him how many people he sent to escort the tax silver to the capital, if you really sent someone, you brought two soldiers who escorted the tax silver at that time, I will ask in person." ”

"Huh?" Qi Feng was surprised: "Shizi, tax silver..... The tax money was sent over? He took someone to escort Gu Qinghan back to Jiangling on this trip, of course, he also knew that it was for the delay of taxes and silver.

"You don't have to ask." Yang Ning said softly: "Do you know Jiangling Taishou?" ”

Qi Feng immediately nodded and said: "Jiangling Taishou is a good official who is honest and honest, he was recommended by the general back then, and the general rarely recommended people, but in order to benefit the homeland of Jiangling, he specially recommended a shrewd and capable official to serve as the Taishou in Jiangling." He lowered his voice and said: "I've seen this Taishou twice, I don't know if he still remembers me, but as long as Jinyihou is mentioned, he will not lose face, and he will definitely cooperate carefully." ”

"That's very good." Yang Ning said in a low voice: "In addition, the chief manager of the old mansion heard that he was paralyzed by a stroke, and now he is also in Jingzhou City, if this matter is true, it is impossible for Jiangling Taishou to know nothing, you let Taishou help you find the chief manager by the way, no matter what, we have done our best for the old mansion and the Qi family for many years, and we can't ignore it, you take me to visit the chief manager first." ”

Qi Feng said: "The prince can rest assured. He said in a low voice: "Does the prince have any other orders?" ”

Yang Ning groaned slightly, and then asked softly, "Do you know the background of the chief manager?" ”

"I only know that the chief manager's hometown is in Jiangxia, but he is from the same clan as the Qi family, and he seems to have dealings with the old marquis in his early years, so I don't know what kind of dealings he has." Qi Feng said in a low voice: "But the chief manager came to take refuge back then, and the old marquis immediately let him stay, and let him be the head of the old mansion, the old marquis trusts the chief manager very much, and for so many years, the chief manager has also taken care of the old house in an orderly manner." ”

"Do you know about his family?" Yang Ning asked: "Since he is the head of the old mansion, we can't be ignorant of his family affairs?" ”

Qi Feng shook his head and said, "I don't know, no one in the house seems to have talked about this." He asked in a low voice, "Shizi, do you think there is something wrong?" If I hadn't sent someone to Jiangxia to find out the situation, Jiangxia and Jiangling would not be too far away, and it would only take three or four days to go back and forth. ”

Yang Ning thought for a moment before he said: "That's fine, but there is no need to publicize this matter, send someone to Jiangxia quickly and find out the situation in the chief steward's housekeeper .....!" ”

Qi Feng nodded and said, "I'll arrange it immediately." When he got up and was about to leave, Yang Ning stopped: "If you don't eat enough, you don't have the strength to work, eat first." ”

Qi Feng touched his head and said to the guards: "Hurry up, there are still things to do." ”

Yang Ning ate two bites casually, didn't feel hungry, and went out, just in time to see Wei Dong whispering with a domestic servant not far away, frowned and walked over and asked, "What are you doing sneakily?" ”

Wei Tong hurriedly smiled: "The prince has eaten?" Talking about that madman outside. ”

"Crazy?" Yang Ningqi said: "What madman? ”

"That's the case, originally Cheng Ye said that he would come back last night, so the old slave has been guarding the gate, and in the middle of the night, he didn't hear any movement." Wei Tong explained: "The old slave estimated that there was something wrong with Cheng Ye, so he was about to rest, and before resting, he went out to take a look, and found that there was a hairy thing lying there at the root of the wall outside the door, which scared the old slave at that time, and thought it was a wild dog." ”

"Hairy stuff?" Yang Ning frowned.

Wei Tong hurriedly said: "Yes, but the old slave took a lantern and looked carefully, only to find that it was a person, and the man was lying under the wall and fell asleep, saying that he was a wandering beggar, but the person was wrapped in a black ......!" ”

"It's him!" Yang Ning's body was shocked, and he immediately thought of the ugly man, could it be that the ugly man in black clothes actually followed here? But he and Gu Qinghan were quick to whip up yesterday, and they had already thrown off the ugly man on the way, how could he know the road to keep up? It's not like a dog's nose, smelling and following me.

"Take me to see where he is now?" Yang Ning asked as he walked.

Wei Dong limped to the side to lead the way, and said: "Shizi, that's a madman, the old slave thought that he would leave early this morning, but when he opened the door to see, he was still lying there, the old slave gave him two nest heads, but he picked up the nest heads and smashed people, and the old slave could only let people drive him away with sticks." But now he ran back again, and he was still at the door. ”

Yang Ning said coldly: "If he doesn't eat Wotou, you won't give him something else to eat?" I see there are a lot of snacks on the table this morning, why don't you just give him some, why do you use sticks to drive people away? ”

Wei Tong said embarrassedly: "Shizi, not everyone can enjoy those dim sums, this is because Shizi and the third lady are here, and the kitchen was only made overnight last night....... ”

"Don't talk nonsense, get someone to pick up some of those snacks." Yang Ning said angrily: "This Shizi will tell you again, you also inform other people in the house, if there are beggars or people in distress here in the future, if anyone dares to drive people away with a stick again, this Shizi will pick his skin." Everyone has a time when they are in trouble, and it is a handful to be able to help, you are so old, you don't understand this truth? ”

Wei Tong obviously didn't expect Yang Ning to reprimand himself mercilessly for a madman-like guy, and he was a little frightened, but he didn't know that Yang Ning had the experience of living on the streets, although the time was very short, but that short experience still made Yang Ning feel the misery and misery of those people.

Out of the gate of the old house, sure enough, I saw that it was the ugly man leaning against the base of the wall in black, and when he heard the footsteps, the ugly man immediately turned his head, with a slight look of horror on his face, and when he saw Yang Ning clearly, the ugly face actually showed a smile, got up, trotted to Yang Ning, and stretched out his hand and said, "Hungry..... Eating..... Hungry.....! ”

Yang Ning saw that he was unkempt, and there was pity in his heart, he was already a tough person when he was strong and soft when he was weak, and said with a smile: "Why did you come with me?" Turning around, he took a large plate containing very delicate snacks, and asked with a smile, "Do you want to eat?" ”

The style of these snacks and the fragrance they emit naturally make people have a great appetite, the black ugly man has reached out to grab it, but Yang Ning is arm flashed, the ugly man grabbed the air, and was about to be anxious, Yang Ning smiled: "Look at your hands, they are all dust, if you eat like this, you will get sick." If you want to eat these snacks, just listen to me, go in with him first, let him wash you well, and then change into clothes, and after you are clean, these snacks will be yours, do you say? ”

This black ugly man chased here, of course Yang Ning didn't think it was just a coincidence, maybe this weird ugly man in addition to having the speed of a cheetah, he really had other unknown special skills, so he would follow and chase him, since people were chasing after him, he had to help him clean up.

The ugly man was a little anxious, repeating those two sentences in his mouth, and circled around Yang Ning, just wanting to get a snack.

Yang Ning's face sank and said, "Are you disobedient?" If you don't obey, you won't get a snack, and I won't give you anything to eat from now on. ”

The black ugly man obviously understood Yang Ning's words, and his face showed a look of fear, Yang Ning handed the plate back to Wei Dong, pointed at Wei Dong and said to the ugly man: "You go in with him now, he will find someone to help you clean up, wash and change into clean clothes, and he will give you food." ”

The black ugly man looked at Wei Dong, and suddenly nodded again and again, and made a sound of "uh-huh-hmm" from his mouth.

Although Wei Tong is just a janitor in the old house, his self-proclaimed identity is much higher than that of the ordinary janitor, and he is still a little disgusted when he sees the sloppy and unbearable appearance of the black and ugly man, but when the prince speaks, how dare he disobey, not to mention that he has just been reprimanded by the prince, and at this moment he tried to put on a smiling face and said to the ugly man: "You come with me, I'll take you to wash." ”

Yang Ning instructed: "This guy looks like he hasn't cleaned it for a long time, wash him more, and then find him a suitable set of clothes to change into, it doesn't need to be too good, just dress clean and comfortable." After a pause, he said: "For the time being, let him stay in the house, you will let the house take care of the food and clothing, and then make arrangements before I return to Beijing." ”

"The old slave obeys." Wei Dong was suspicious in his heart, and asked cautiously, "Shizi, have you seen it before?" This guy seems to know you? Seeing that Yang Ning glanced at him coldly, he didn't dare to ask more, and led the black ugly man into the house.

With Yang Ning's instructions, the people in the house really didn't dare to slack off, and it took the boss's strength to change six or seven buckets of water to roughly clean the ugly man, and change into a suitable clothes.

Qi Feng and the others had breakfast, so they set off separately, leaving three people behind, and he left the old mansion with two of them, and the others in the house naturally didn't dare to ask more.

Yang Ning thought to himself why Gu Qinghan had been in bed for so long today, he didn't eat all night, and he didn't know if he was hungry or not, so he sent the maid to call twice, but he didn't answer.

Gu Qinghan didn't get up here, and Qi Cheng never returned to the old mansion over there, Yang Ning could only take out the painting paper in his house to watch first, and unconsciously at noon, he packed up and went out, and learned that Gu Qinghan had not moved, Yang Ning faintly felt that something was wrong, and found the maid who served Gu Qinghan to sleep last night, and asked her to lead her to Gu Qinghan's yard, there was already another maid waiting in the courtyard, Yang Ning entered the courtyard and knocked on the door, the door was tied from the inside, but he didn't listen to anyone's answer.

Yang Ning screamed a few more times, but there was no movement, he knew that Gu Qinghan had slept all night, and his energy should recover, even if he was still a little tired, it was impossible to sleep so dead, his heart sank, and he asked, "The third lady has not come out since last night?" ”

"Back to the world, the slave maid waited for the third lady to bathe and change clothes last night, and then went to bed to rest, the slave and maid were supposed to serve inside, but the third lady said no, and personally bolted the door from the inside." A maid said: "The two slaves and maids took turns on duty in the courtyard last night, so as not to find anyone if the third lady has something to do. ”

Yang Ning groaned slightly, suddenly his face changed slightly, he took out the cold blade, and in the surprised eyes of the two maids, he simply opened the door neatly, and after opening the door and entering, he turned around and asked in a deep voice: "Where is the third lady?" ”

A maid hurriedly pointed to the left, Yang Ning didn't wait for her to speak, walked over quickly, kicked open the door, entered the room, only glanced at it, and his expression changed greatly.