The turmoil in the princess's mansion for several days has made most people frightened and frightened from the beginning, and gradually adapted to and then numb.

But some people are numb, and some people are stimulated by various reasons, and they become more and more restless.

"When will you be the leader this day?!"

"Hey, make do with it. It's better than the street or someone else's house, isn't it? At least now no one beats and scolds you, and the rules in the house have been loosened a lot. ”

Li Qiang, who prunes the branches and leaves in the garden, is working while complaining to the garden keepers who are over half a hundred years old.

And the old man only smoked dry cigarettes, and there were good words to persuade him.

"But you can't always do that, can you?"

He prunes off a dead branch and throws it at his feet. As he spoke, he glanced sideways at the back garden, which was becoming more and more depressed because no one took care of it.

This huge garden, because of the dismissal of many people, and the rest of the people are too lazy and slippery because of the fluctuation of people's hearts. Now there are only a few honest people who are willing to work, busy all over the courtyard.

At this time, I looked at the past, and I couldn't even see a human figure as far as I could see.

Li Qiang didn't know much, but he felt it in his heart. If the courtyard in front of you can be said to be the back garden of the princess's mansion, then the ruined temple in the eastern suburbs of the city can also be regarded as the other courtyard of the small rich family, right?

In fact, no matter who is in charge of affairs in the princess's mansion, who comes and who leaves, or how the people above make trouble.

None of this has anything to do with him.

A few years ago, he fled from the famine and left his hometown, and he traveled to countless mansions, and finally settled in the princess's mansion two years ago with his skill of planting flowers and trees.

So he just didn't want to have a stable life that he had finally won, and he would change again.

But look at the current princess's mansion, just talking about these flowers and trees in the garden that can't be moved, and not involving the purchase of seedlings and soil and other monetary transactions, there is already a lot of chaos.

For example, some of them he bumped into by chance.

Fearing that they would be sent out of the house at some point, some people secretly stole flowers or plants from gardens and glass sheds and sent them to the market on East Street to sell. It is also said that he will save some silver taels, and he will not lose a hard time in the princess's mansion.

Others caught rare birds that had no intention of breaking into the garden, or killed them on the spot to eat meat, or hid them and smuggled them out of the house, and secretly sold them for silver.

All this made him stunned.

This is just a corner of the garden, and the inside of the princess's mansion, where there are countless treasures and valuable things, you can imagine what kind of chaos will become, and how the strange things can make people's jaws drop.

Fortunately, I haven't heard of it now, and there is a death somewhere in the princess's mansion.

But if it continues like this, let alone this kind of petty stealing and robbery. Maybe the rumors will spread, and they will also attract bandits to take advantage of the situation. At that time, won't it cause a catastrophe that will ruin the family and destroy people?

Li Qiang didn't know what the real owners of this mansion were high, and he had only heard what the famous princess of Qinghe and the lord of Danyang thought.

But he has signed the deed of sale, and he has long regarded the princess's mansion as his place to settle down, so he doesn't want to see such a tragedy happen.

It's hateful, I can only walk around the back garden on weekdays, otherwise......

Li Qiang, who turned this thought around because of the sobriety in his mind and the anxiety in his heart, couldn't help but slam his fist on the flower tree next to him, and at the same time said indignantly:

"It's really true that the wine shop is right, the gentlemen in the capital are not as good as the Danyang County Lord!"

The gardener was about to persuade again, when a sound of footsteps passing in the distance suddenly stopped, and quickly rushed towards him.

Although the old man is not young, he has no bad habits, and he walks around the yard all the year round, and when he was young, he was a famous hunter on the outskirts of the city.

The sound of the ears came from far and near, and the old man secretly said in his heart, not good!

didn't have time to explain more, he only turned his head sideways, and warned Li Qiang in a low voice with a serious face:

"For a while, whoever comes, you are only cutting down trees and pruning branches, and you have not spoken, and you have not heard any movement!"

The old man's nervousness made Li Qiang confused, but he probably guessed that he was quick to talk for a while and caused trouble.

In a panic, he could only nod to the old man again and again, and at the same time admit in his mouth:

"I know, I know!"

As he spoke, a figure had emerged from the bushes in front of him.

The moment the three of them looked at each other, they were all stunned in place.

Opposite Li Qiang and the old man was a middle-aged woman with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, dressed as a second-class servant.

After seeing the person clearly, Li Qiang was stunned again, and suddenly his heart became empty.

Hey, are you really so unlucky?

This person can't be the housekeeper somewhere, right? She happened to pass by, and heard herself scolding the county lord?!

Just when Li Qiang was nervous, and cold sweat broke out at the corners of his back and forehead, the mother-in-law opposite came back to her senses first and muttered as if dissatisfied:

"I heard someone talking here, complaining softly, did you say that?"

Li Qiang saw that the other party had no intention of arresting him, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. But he still remembered the old man's reminder, so he only stiffened his neck, shook his head again and again, and said:

"I didn't speak, did you hear me wrong?"

It's a pity that he is used to being honest, how can he deceive people by lying suddenly?

After the mother-in-law glanced Li Qiang up and down again, she snorted and burst out laughing.

"Hey, you big man, not only talk like a little daughter-in-law, how can you be guts like a big girl? No, you're not as good as the county lord in our house, and you're like a little girl in the village. ”

Li Qiang's face turned red the moment he was squeezed, he snorted, and was really excited:

"What's the matter, what's wrong with what I said?"

The garden keeper didn't have time to stop him, so he could only say "hey", sighed again and again, smoked a dry cigarette, and stopped talking.

But who knows, after the mother-in-law coaxed the truth, she didn't embarrass Li Qiang.

He only glanced at his big shoulders and round waist again, and looked like a boy of a very impulsive and aggressive age, and smiled and persuaded:

"What you said is naturally nothing, that is, since you are also a man, you are dissatisfied in your heart, why don't you talk to the people above? Fight for yourself, too. ”

Li Qiang was stunned when he heard this, "Say it?" Who to talk to? "Who will listen?

He was just a laborer-friendly servant, and even the steward didn't care what he said.

When the mother-in-law heard this, she smiled and said:

"I don't listen to it on weekdays, but now I have a good opportunity. Will you catch it? ”

The garden keeper heard that something was wrong, and immediately stepped forward to stop and persuade Li Qiang.

"Hey, Hadron, you've figured it out. It's not like you can change this ...... if you say it."

Although he wanted to persuade him, the old man was not able to speak too bluntly in front of his mother-in-law.

Therefore, before he could finish speaking, the woman opposite interrupted impatiently:

"It has nothing to do with you old man, what's the matter? Let's go, I'll take you to a place where you can be reasonable, if you miss this village, you won't have this store. ”

As the mother-in-law spoke, she started directly and dragged Li Qiang out of the forest. Leaving the old man in vain, he paused and sighed in place.