Chapter 23: Night Detective
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How shrewd is Li Yuanqing? As soon as I heard the words of this slave, I already knew it in my heart. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Either this miscellaneous didn't pass on the words, or this guy just went to the inner room to flirt with a maid, and he was pure and perfunctory.
Otherwise, I have already said that it is an urgent matter, and according to the current cooperative relationship, it is impossible for Miss Qu Jia not to see her.
Looking at the arrogant and indifferent appearance of this slave, Li Yuanqing smiled, "That's the case, then so-and-so family will come back tomorrow." β
As he spoke, Li Yuanqing walked towards the darkness in the distance.
Looking at Li Yuanqing's back, the slave couldn't help but spit disdainfully, "Hillbilly, I really don't understand the rules." On the big night, do you want to see my wife? Give back such a little silver. What about sending Hanako? Hehe, but it's not bad, I made more than a tael of silver for nothing. β
As he spoke, he closed the door gracefully.
But what he didn't notice was that next to him, a black shadow had quietly climbed the wall like a tanuki.
The slave was just about to go out into the yard when he suddenly felt a pain in the back of his head, and his eyes went black, and his body fell to the ground like a dead dog.
Li Yuanqing groped along his body a few times, then took back his silver just now, and threw this guy's body behind the flowers and trees on the side like a chicken.
One or two pieces of silver, although it is not much, is only a drop in the bucket for the current Li Yuanqing, but this guy dares to spoil Li Yuanqing's big event, how can he easily spare him?
Just now, even if this is a big life, but in this weather, a night of freezing is enough for him to drink a pot.
Although Li Yuanqing is quite heavy and informal, this does not mean that in his eyes, any sand can be accommodated.
He has been to the backyard of Baofeng Hall twice, and Li Yuanqing also basically understands some of its layout, at this time it is about 9 o'clock in the evening, except for the gatehouse at the door and the warehouse not far away, the rest of the place is in darkness.
In this era, nightlife was far less developed than in later generations, and at night, there was basically no entertainment, except for the most primitive human instincts.
In addition, the weather is very cold at this time, it is not early, everyone is busy all day, except for the vigil, who will come out to hang out at this point?
Li Yuanqing pressed down the brim of his hat, walked straight along the stone path, and soon came to a closed courtyard gate.
Through the crack in the door, you can see a lantern lit up behind it, as if two little maids are whispering.
Li Yuanqing listened carefully, no wonder he was complaining about the vigil and the gossip in the house, why didn't he let others keep watch? Why did they come to the vigil? Who bought what jewelry? Who's hooking up with whom.
Seeing that there was no useful information, Li Yuanqing stopped inking, turned to the corner of the wall on the side, and lightly climbed over the wall and disappeared into the flowers and trees next to him.
The house of Baofeng Hall is very large, called Sanjin, but in fact, because it is both commercial and residential, the specific layout is much more complicated than Sanjin.
Entering this courtyard gate, on the left is probably where the maids and mothers-in-law live, and on the right, there is a pharmacy warehouse and a 'processing factory'.
Li Yuanqing walked along the pharmacy, and soon, he came to a courtyard gate again.
Since it is entered from the back door, this courtyard should be the living place of Miss Qu Jia. And if you walk from the front yard, you have to pass through the guest room.
This courtyard is obviously larger and more delicate than the outside, with a rockery corridor with more flowers and trees, and a small pond in the middle of the courtyard.
In the direction of the main hall, the lights have been turned off, and in the side hall, the lights are still on, standing at Li Yuanqing's angle, you can vaguely see that several maids and women are holding abacus under the light, as if they are counting the accounts.
It can be seen that this Miss Qu family has the potential to be a strong woman in later generations.
However, after glancing around, Li Yuanqing didn't find Miss Qu's figure, could it be that she had already fallen asleep?
If that's the case, then tonight will be in vain, and I don't know what will happen to tomorrow.
And Miss Qu should be widowed now, looking at this appearance, there should be no man in this courtyard, Li Yuanqing suddenly felt a little strange in his heart.
This~, is this the legendary night knocking on the widow's door in later generations?
In later generations, Li Yuanqing can be regarded as a person with a bit of identity after all, if he is like this, not only will he be scolded by others as a 'dead pervert', but he will also lose his old face.
But at this time, Li Yuanqing is just a poor sling, and he doesn't have to worry about so much.
Sticking to the root of the wall, along the back of the eaves, Li Yuanqing walked cautiously, preparing to go to the back of the main hall.
The architectural layout of the Ming and Qing dynasties is actually similar, on the whole, the Qing Dynasty may be more refined, and the Ming Dynasty may be more atmospheric.
But after all, the Ming Dynasty came first, and most of the relics that have been handed down in later generations are the remains of the Qing Dynasty's mansions.
In later generations, whether it is the Qiao family compound, the Wang family compound, or the palace mansion in the Beijing-Tianjin area, or the beautiful mansion of salt merchants in Anhui and Zhejiang, Li Yuanqing has been to a lot, and he knows a little about the layout here.
At this time, the maids and women who can work in this courtyard must be the henchmen of Miss Naqu.
Miss Qu's living place should be near here.
There is a gap between the back of the eaves and the wall, which is used for drainage after rain, about a little more than a meter wide, allowing one person to pass without too many obstacles.
But at this time, the spring ~ is getting stronger, and it is in the alternating period of melting ice and snow, in this narrow space, there are ice stubble everywhere, and if you exert a little force, it will make a sound, which seems to be dozens of meters and a distance of an instant, but Li Yuanqing walked quite hard.
After a long time, Li Yuanqing finally came to the back of a room with lights on, finally breathed a sigh of relief, pricked up his ears, and listened carefully to the movement inside.
There seems to be the sound of playing with water inside, this room should not be small, Li Yuanqing didn't hear it very clearly.
Could it be that the maid is taking a bath?
It's a good thing I didn't rush forward to see it, otherwise it would have been a sin." Li Yuanqing said secretly in his heart.
At this time, a familiar and lazy voice came from the room, "Lotus, go add some hot water." β
"Yes, miss." A girl's voice answered, and the footsteps followed.
Li Yuanqing's spirit instantly lifted up, 'There is nowhere to find the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it'.
If it was a maid and a woman, Li Yuanqing might still feel a little guilty, but in the face of this Miss Qu family, Li Yuanqing did not have too many obstacles in his heart.
Now that we've come this far, how can we care about so much?
What's more, deep in Li Yuanqing's heart, he also has an indescribable meaning towards Miss Qu Jia.
Without much hesitation, Li Yuanqing carefully poured some saliva on his fingers, and with a slight poke of his fingers, he opened a small opening in the papier-mΓ’chΓ© glass window.
It is no wonder that in the martial arts novels of later generations, all kinds of lewd thieves always like to use this kind of trick, because the ancient architectural style of China is too suitable for this method.
However, Li Yuanqing was far from being so vulgar and eager as those people, and the location he chose was exactly in the center of a window petal, so that even if he looked from the inside, if he didn't look closely, he wouldn't find anything unusual at all.
After a while, footsteps sounded again, and it seemed that there was more than one person.
Immediately afterwards, there was a slight sound of running water, and the maid named Lotus asked carefully, "Miss, is it okay?" β
"Hmm. So be it. Miss Qu replied, "Lotus root, I'll soak for a while." You don't have to worry about me, go to sleep first. β
"Miss, what's going to do? Slaves and maidservants are waiting for you. β
"You girl. All right. Go to the kitchen and ask Aunt Wang to boil some rock sugar lotus seed porridge, and wait for our sisters to drink it together. β
"Wow. Okay, thank you, miss. β
After saying that, Lotus went happily.
Li Yuanqing heard that the relationship between this Miss Qu family and this maid was very good, and this might be her dowry girl.
Hearing the sound of footsteps walking away, Li Yuanqing carefully raised his head and aimed his eyes at this small hole, hoping to see the scene he was looking forward to and excited about.
But it's a pity that the eye-catching picture made Li Yuanqing extremely disappointed.
In the huge room, in addition to all kinds of furnishings, the clothes displayed on the hangers are only a large wooden barrel in the middle.
This big wooden barrel must be at least one meter and a half high, and the texture is quite good, and the worst should be a Vietnamese pear, but Li Yuanqing has no interest in studying its material at this time, because, from Li Yuanqing's angle, he can only see a small half of the black hair tied up by Miss Qu Jia, and the rest can not be seen at all.
'I rub. It seems that this prostitute is not easy to be. Li Yuanqing took a hard sip in his heart.
But at this time, the doors and windows are closed, and it is basically unrealistic for Li Yuanqing not to alarm Miss Qu to enter the room.
What the fuck.
Li Yuanqing suddenly regretted a little, it is better to break in openly, at least there is a way to say it, but like now, if it is discovered, this is really mud falling into the crotch of his pants------ you can't tell if you have a mouth.
But after all, Li Yuanqing had been through the wind and waves, and forced himself to be silent, and his mind was already running rapidly.
Frankly speaking, in the current world, in this environment, with Li Yuanqing's skills, even if he wants to do something rebellious for a while, I'm afraid that this Miss Qu family doesn't have much to do, so she can only swallow her anger.
But ~~, this is just a subordinate and dizzy choice, if this is done, all Li Yuanqing's previous efforts will be in vain.
It was just a roundabout in his heart, and Li Yuanqing had already distinguished the benefits and disadvantages.
For this Miss Qu family, you can only look at it from a distance, and you can't blaspheme it.
But in this state, how can I talk to her?
Li Yuanqing pondered and imagined tens of thousands of possibilities, but unfortunately, he couldn't enter the room.
At this time, Miss Qu in the bucket suddenly made a 'bang' and stood up, revealing half of the almost perfect outline on the back.
She seemed to have finished washing, carefully crawled out of the tub, went to the side, picked up a long cotton cloth, and wiped her body.
Li Yuanqing was thrilled to watch, and he couldn't imagine that this little girl's skin looked soft and weak, and she was so expected.
According to the scoring standards of later generations, just the back of it can be scored at least 90 points or higher.
It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and Miss Qu got dressed and pushed the door out after a short time.
Li Yuanqing breathed a sigh of relief, took out a dagger from his boots, carefully pried open the pole of the window, opened it, and flipped into the room.
Outside just now, Li Yuanqing saw a limited amount of scenery, and when he entered the inside, Li Yuanqing found that this room was very large, at least 5 or 60 square meters, and there was a huge bed in the innermost part on the left-hand side.
On the table next to the bed, there was also tea and wine and a few pieces of jewelry, which should be Miss Qu's belongings.
Li Yuanqing carefully closed the window, glanced around, and found that there was a large wardrobe behind the desk, more than one person tall, it was a good hiding place, without too much hesitation, Li Yuanqing took off his shoes, carried them in his hands, prevented footprints, and quickly got into the big wardrobe next to him, closed the door, leaving only a trace of gaps, and peeked into the scene outside.
Not long after, Miss Qu and the maid named Lotus came back together, each holding a bowl of porridge in their hands.
Lotus said: "Miss, after the caravan sets off this time, shall we still go to Zhangjiakou?" A few uncles and sons, they know that they are bullying the young lady, and they look at the slave maid, we are good here, why bother to look at their faces? β
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