Meng Tianchu asked, "What's the idea?" ”

Xia Fengyi said: "Let Miss Ripple play the piano and sing in our Xizi Restaurant in the future, and all the money she earns will belong to her." We take care of her food and shelter. This may also be good for business. ”

A music restaurant? Haha, great idea! Meng Tianchu smiled: "Ripples, what do you think?" ”

Ripples have no relatives, it is better to have such a place than to drift around and sing, in the past, when I was a geisha singing, the money I earned was someone else's, but now the money I earn is my own, and there is a stable place, this result is tantamount to a pie falling from the sky for Ripples, and I was pleasantly surprised: "Ripples are willing, thank you Meng Ye, thank you grandma!" ”

Feiyan smiled: "By the way, the chef Guan in our restaurant is very responsible and has skills, and he is still single, or let the ripples be given to Chef Guan?" ”

When Ripple heard this, his face turned red again.

Meng Tianchu said: "This marriage matter, it's better for Miss Ripple to make her own decisions, let's not be too enthusiastic." ”

Feiyan said: "I think Chef Guan is very good, Miss Ripple will definitely like it." ”

Meng Tianchu said with a smile: "If the two of them have feelings and have this fate in the future, then of course it is good." Or is it better for them to develop on their own. ”

Back at Yamen, Meng Tianchu immediately entered his hut and took out a miniature microscope to compare the black residue extracted with the black residue in the stomach contents of Ke Chou's corpse, and found that the two had very similar organizational structures, and concluded that they were the same item. Thus, it was determined that the black pill that Ke Chou ate on the Yinyue Flower Boat at that time was the black residue found in the stomach of the corpse, that is. Ke Chou was undoubtedly poisoned on the Yinyue Flower ship.

How did this black residue come from? Who gave it to him? Did someone trick him into taking this pill? None of this is clear, and to find out this question, it is necessary to question Li Ruhan, because he was present at the time.

Meng Tianchu decided to visit Li Ruhan's house. At this time, the porter came to report that the shopkeeper Lin was visiting and was waiting in the living room.

Meng Tianchu packed up his things, came to the living room, and saw a small box on the tea table next to the shopkeeper Lin, and thought to himself. This old boy must be giving himself a gift again.

Sure enough, Shopkeeper Lin said a lot of words of apology and gratitude. After handing the deed of sale to Meng Tianchu, he opened the small box on the tea table. It was full of a hundred taels of silver.

Of course, Meng Tianchu understood that Shopkeeper Lin knew that the son of Governor Ke was poisoned on his Treasurer Lin's Yinyue Flower boat, and Meng Tianchu was obstructed and threatened with violence by the servants of the Lin family when investigating the case. Therefore, Shopkeeper Lin sent this silver to make amends and block Meng Tianchu's mouth, so that he would not be angry and add fuel and vinegar to talk nonsense in front of Governor Ke.

Meng Tianchu had already explained on the flower boat just now that there was no way to hide the fact that the son of Governor Ke was poisoned on the flower boat. must report to the Ke Governor's Mansion, and Shopkeeper Lin only asks Meng Tianchu not to talk nonsense. Therefore, Meng Tianchu decided to accept this silver, and what he lacked most now was money. As long as you don't have a conscience for money, you won't refuse to come.

After sending off Shopkeeper Lin, Xia Fengyi and Feiyan saw that Meng Tianchu got another hundred taels of silver. I'm very happy for him.

Most of them were sent out to follow up and investigate Zuo Jiayin, and Meng Tianchu decided to go to Li Ruhan's house alone to inquire about the investigation.

He came to Li Yuanwai's mansion in a sedan chair specially allocated to him by Cai Zhixian, and only found out when he handed over the prayer post. Li Ruhan had already taken his servants out to the West Lake to cruise on the flower boat.

These children of rich families don't have to worry about firewood and rice, they just need to think about how to spend money. Of course, the whole day is spent drinking.

There was no need to go in if the people were not there, so Meng Tianchu decided to immediately rush to the West Lake to find Li Ruhan.

Meng Tianchu sat in a sedan chair and came to the West Lake to print the moon flower boat, at this time it was already dark, the guests on the flower boat were like clouds, the old bustard with a clear nose and swollen face was greeting the guests, and at a glance saw Meng Tianchu stepping on the pedal to come up, he was scared and panicked, and his words were a little unfavorable: "Meng Ye... You... You're coming. ”

"Well, what? Not welcome? ”

This sentence frightened the old bustard: "No, no, how dare the little one, Meng Ye, please." Girls, Meng Ye is here, come and pick up the guests! ”

Several girls like flowers and jade immediately floated over like flowers and butterflies, surrounding Meng Tianchu, singing and dancing.

After the incident in the afternoon, the girls and turtles on the entire Yinyue Flower Boat already knew that this very powerful young man was a person who the shopkeeper of the proprietor Lin did not dare to offend and deliberately stammered, and the turtles were all waiting carefully, and the girls even tried their best to let Meng Tianchu enjoy a fairy-like life.

Meng Tianchu was surrounded by a group of girls, all of whom were young, beautiful and smart. However, Meng Tianchu didn't come to play now, so he turned to the old bustard and said, "Is Li Ruhan and Li Gongzi on the boat?" ”

The old bustard's head seemed to be a little sluggish by the slippers of the shopkeeper Lin, so he shook his head at first, and then nodded quickly.

Meng Tianchu scolded with a smile: "***! Is it coming? ”

"The others haven't come yet, but they've sent servants to locate the son."

"Locator? Do you still need a locator for this flower boat? ”

"Master Meng, you don't know yet, today we have a new Oiran Tianqi girl in Yinyue, who was invited from Nanjing. Today is the first game, so everyone is here to cheer, which is what needs to be positioned. ”

"Oh? Oiran? Hehe, I want to see it too," Meng Tianchu became interested when he heard it, anyway, this Li Ruhan hadn't come yet, and when he looked at this flower boat at the same time, he would kill two birds with one stone, and he had a long insight, and asked, "Is there any place else?" ”

The old bustard looked at a turtle man next to him, who must be in charge of arranging the seats, and said with a smile: "Master Meng, this... All the previous places have already been booked, and you can only... Then there were only a few standing positions..."

This time, the bustard reacted quickly and slapped him: "Idiot! Who are we Meng Ye, standing? You can't figure it out! Immediately go and arrange to change a front position for Meng Ye! If you can't do it, take off your head and use it as a stool for Meng Ye to sit on! ”

Meng Tianchu smiled and said, "That's not necessary. It's uncomfortable to sit in a bloody place, I can't blame you for this, it's only that I'm late. Everyone is here to see the face of your new girl, so who wants to change it? ”

"No, no, where did you go, Master Meng, I'll personally arrange it for you! You go to the private room and sit down. ”

A group of little girls surrounded Meng Tianchu into the private room, and after a while, when the old bustard came in with a smile, Meng Tianchu's face was already covered with the girls' lipstick marks. The old bustard smiled and said, "Master Meng, the location is arranged." Come with me. ”

Meng Tianchu first found a towel to wipe the lipstick on his face, and followed the bustard to the top floor.

The seats arranged by the bustard are not the highest. But it's already pretty good, a little to the side of the second row. The first three rows are all VIP seats. The decoration is very luxurious, the coffee table is full of melon and fruit snacks, and there is also the best fragrant tea.

At this time, it was getting dark, Meng Tianchu sat down on the chair, looked around, it seems that there are really a lot of people tonight, and there are already many scholars wearing robes in the open spaces on both sides of the top floor. It seems that there is no place to buy a standing ticket. Most of the seats in the back were also full, only the VIP seats were still empty, and only a few people who looked like family members were taking care of their respective hosts' seats.

When the gongs and drums on the flower boat sounded, the guests in the VIP seat got on the flower boat one after another, but they never saw Li Ruhan's figure, and the servants of the Li family also stood by the boat and watched. But until the Tianqi girl appeared, this Li Ruhan did not appear.

That day, Miss Qi was really beautiful, maybe it was the first time I saw it. Meng Tianchu felt that this girl was almost the same as Xia Fengyi, twenty-eight years old, her voice was delicate and pleasant, a pipa was like flowing water, compared with ripples, it was simply incomparable, the aftermath was dispersed, and everyone listened to it as if they were drunk.

Meng Tianchu always thought about Li Ruhan's affairs, listened to a song, and also appreciated the style of Nanjing's No. 1 Geisha, and decided to do the right thing first, at the beginning of the day when the strange girl played the second song, he got up and walked out, and when he went downstairs, he noticed that the strange girl's eyes were burned on his body by two marks.

Meng Tianchu came to Li's house in a sedan chair and asked, and learned that Li Ruhan did not come back, which is strange, this kid Hua Girl didn't look at it, and she didn't go home to serve her father and mother, where did she go to get nervous? In this era, there are no mobile phones, or you can make a call and ask, but now you don't know where to check. Let's go back to the yamen first, and send Wang Zhutou and Song Xiangyu to investigate the situation today, and I don't know if there is any news.

Back at Yamen's house, Uncle Li, the housekeeper of Mr. Li's foreign family, came to visit and was talking to Xia Fengyi in the living room, sending flower seeds to Xia Fengyi.

After Meng Tianchu sat down, he glanced at a large bag of flower seeds on the table, a sneering smile flashed in his eyes, and asked, "Old Uncle Li, I heard that Miss Zuo is sick, how is it?" Is it serious? ”

"Alas! The old problem, it's really hard to leave the girl. Lao Li Tou sighed and said, "She has been taking care of her at home all day today." ”

"Oh, how do you know that Miss Zuo has been taking care of her at home?" The implication is that you are the housekeeper outside of Li Dayuan, and although Zuo Jiayin is the daughter-in-law of your Li family, she has not lived together. How do you know?

Old Uncle Li leaned over and replied, "I have been accompanying our young master to Old Man Zuo today, so I know." ”

Meng Tian Chuqi said: "Oh? Your young master is at Zuo's house all afternoon? ”

"Yes, Xiaodi has been accompanying the young master to serve at Zuo's house, just now Miss Zuo took the time to ask me to run and send flowers to grandma, and she was still thinking about it."

At this moment, Wang Zhutou came back, and Uncle Li said goodbye and left with interest.

Since Wang Zhutou is back, he is not in a hurry to find Li Ruhan, and first listen to what news Wang Zhutou and they heard.

Wang Zhutou said: "We changed into civilian clothes and went to Zuo Girl's house to wait outside, and wanted to wait for it to get dark, and Song Zhutou would sneak in to find out the news." Not long after, I saw a carriage coming out of Zuofu, it was the carriage that Miss Zuo sent us back last time, fortunately we were ready to have horses, I rode a horse to follow from afar, the carriage moved forward slowly, the weather was hot, the carport was open curtains, so I could see the situation inside. ”

"It's not Miss Zuo in there, is it?" Meng Tianchu thought to himself, just now Uncle Li said that Zuo Jiayin was at home all afternoon to serve her seriously ill father.

"No, there was a woman in the car, her figure didn't look like a girl Zuo, she seemed to be a little older, her face was not clear, and she was wearing a veil, as if she was afraid that others would recognize her. The guy who drove the car was not a taste-savvy person, he thought he was a family member in the house, and he had kung fu, and his kung fu didn't seem to be shallow. ”

"What's strange about that, Zuo Jiayin is full of martial arts, and he has a connection with Dongchang, and his entourage is definitely not bad in martial arts. You go on! ”

"Yes, the carriage went out of the city, all the way up the mountain, walked for more than half an hour, came to a large manor on the mountain, and then stopped the car, I at first because I took into account that they were all people who knew martial arts, so I followed it relatively far, for fear of being discovered, and only after they went in did I quietly climb over the wall and go in. I didn't expect it to be as beautiful as a picture in front of me. ”

"The beauty of the picture? Hehe, you can use this kind of word to describe it, which means that it is really beautiful inside. It's called 'Good Sound Villa, right?' ”

"Yes..., master, how do you know?"

"I've been there, and the flowers are beautiful."

"That's right, there are a lot of beautiful flowers in it, and those flowers are all kinds of colors that I have never seen before, and they are very gorgeous. I peeked out among the flowers, and saw the veiled woman directing several servants to carry out the bags from the car. ”

"What's wrong?"

"That woman is so ugly! The face looked as if it had been burned, and it looked very hideous in the moonlight. ”

Meng Tianchu sighed, frowned and thought about what kind of person this extremely ugly woman was from Zuo Jiayin.

Wang Zhutou continued: "Later, I saw the man who drove the car from a corner of the yard with a hoe and began to dig the ground, and after a while he dug a big hole, and several servants threw the bags into it, and the bags looked very heavy, and then the pit was quickly buried again. After being buried, the ugly woman went out of the manor in a carriage. ”