Ziwen said: The slave doesn't know, why don't the slave ask? Su Mengtang got up and paced a few steps in the room, and said, "It's the second watch, Sister Ning'er is afraid that she is asleep, Brother Yunhua should be studying, you call someone to invite him, saying that I have something to discuss with him." Although Ziwen didn't know Su Mengtang's considerations, seeing that she looked uneasy, she hurriedly arranged for two little maids in yellow to go to Tsucuizhai to find Zhang Yunhua. Ximen March also sensed the tension in the atmosphere, and looked up and asked Su Mengtang: Master, what's wrong? Su Mengtang came over and said to him, "It's okay, Master asked Uncle Yunhua to come over and teach you how to play chess, so that you don't lose to Sister Xiaoqiu'er." ”

Ximen was a little unconvinced, he picked up a chess piece, blocked Qiuqiu's line that was about to be connected into four, and said, "Master, you look down on me, I can definitely win this game." "Although Qiuqiu is sitting here, he has been listening attentively to the conversation between Su Mengtang and Ziwen, and his mind is not all about playing chess. Hearing that Simon March was so serious, she smiled and said: Brother March let me, and when you want to win, you can naturally win me. Su Mengtang looked at Qiuqiu with appreciation: This little girl has such energy, she doesn't care about winning or losing, but knows how to give the opponent a step. Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel sorry for Zhao Hong: If Zhao Hong's brother saw his daughter like this, he would be very pleased.

In this side of the towering cuizhai, Ziyu asked the two little girls: What can the girl say? The little girl shook her head and said: The girl said that she had something to discuss with Zhang Gongzi, but she didn't say what it was. Yun Hua heard the words and walked out of the inner room, still holding a copy of the Book of Han in his hand, his eyes crossed the purple veins, and saw that the Chongxiao Pavilion on the opposite side of the courtyard had turned off the lights in the room, and knew that Tong Ning'er was asleep: It's late at night, why hasn't Su Mengtang slept yet? What's the point of looking for him so late?

Ziyu saw Zhang Yunhua walk out and said to him, "Gongzi Zhang, girl, please come over." Yunhua snorted in his mouth and said, "I heard it, Miss Su thinks it's in trouble, I'll go and see." Ziyu saw that Zhang Yunhua had changed out of the gown he wore during the day and only wore a blue-green cloth shirt, so he said: "I'll go get you a cloak, it's cool at night in the mountains." After that, he turned around and went to the inner room to get a light ink-colored cloak and put it on for Yunhua, and the group hurried to Lan Zexuan.

Su Mengtang calculated that Yunhua was coming, so he stood under the porch and waited. After a while, the two little maids in yellow carried lanterns and led Yunhua up the stairs to Lan Zexuan, followed by Ziyu. Su Mengtang stepped forward and said: It's really rude to invite Brother Yunhua to come over so late, but I really can't rest assured, I want to go to the Art of War Hall to have a look, and ask Brother Yunhua to come over and take care of the two children. Yunhua listened and hurriedly asked: What? Something happened to the Art of War Hall?

Su Mengtang shook his head: It's nothing, I'm afraid of going on a business trip, so I'll come back if I want to take a look. After that, he will walk out with purple veins. Yunhua hurriedly said: It's so late, I'll go for Miss Su. Su Mengtang hesitated a little and said: How does this make it. Yunhua said with a smile: It's the same if I go, don't go to the forest at the girl's house late at night, so as not to provoke anything unclean." Su Mengtang saw that under the moonlight, Yunhua's eyes were shining, and she didn't know how to refuse for a while, so she only said: That. There is Brother Lao Yunhua.

Yunhua smiled, his face was sprinkled with clear light under the reflection of the autumn moon in the mountains, what could he do to help Su Mengtang, which made him feel a little happy in his heart. Yunhua took the lantern in the hand of a maid in yellow and said to Su Mengtang: It's not early, Miss Su should rest early. With that, he turned around and walked out of the courtyard.

When Zhang Yunhua came to the pine forest, he saw the lights in the cave from a distance, and it turned out that Ziruo and several family members were keeping vigil in the cave and lighting two lanterns. At this moment, the pine waves in the pine forest are gusting, the evening breeze is quite cool, here is some distance from the central axis of the Jiangnan Villa, the buildings that are connected into a line, so the pine forest is black and dark, and you can only see the square inch of land illuminated by the lantern in your hand and a little moonlight sprinkled through the cracks of the pine branches. Hearing the rustling of footsteps, He San was the first to come out and asked, "Who is it?" Yunhua Dao: It's me. His voice was hoarse because of the heated argument with Coral in the morning. Ziruo got up and came out and asked, "Why did Zhang Gongzi come late at night?" Yunhua stood up in the night breeze and said, "I'll come to see the coral for Miss Su, don't make any mistakes."

Ziruo led Yunhua into the cave, and said as he walked: We have been guarding outside, and the Xuantie gate is tightly locked by Chai Wu, even if it is a mouse, it can't get out. Yunhua smiled slightly and said: Thank you for your hard work, open the door. Zi Ruo signaled, Chai Wu immediately stepped forward, opened the lock hanging on the iron door with a key, and opened the door outward, and the dark iron gate made a clumsy creak. Ziruo turned around and said to He San and the others: I and the Chai steward will accompany Zhang Gongzi to go in and have a look, you just stay outside, and after that, Chai Wu lit the torch, and the three of them walked into the passage.

The narrow passage was pitch black at the moment, and there was a faint hint of sweetness in the air. The Art of War Hall behind the iron fence has lost all light sources because there is no longer sunlight at night, like a black hole that does not know the depth. Didn't hear the expected coral scolding, Zhang Yunhua faintly felt that something was wrong, he just wanted to open his mouth to ask Ziruo about the situation inside, he heard Ziruo say behind him: When the slave came over just now, she came in and saw it, and she was inside. Yunhua walked forward to the edge of the iron fence, and he lifted the lantern in his hand to see where the coral was inside: near the chair, Coral was sitting on the ground, lying on top of the chair, face down, as if he had fallen asleep.

Yunhua turned her head and asked Zi Ruodao, was she still awake when you came over just now? Ziruo replied: Also asleep. Yunhua looked at Coral again, and felt that she had no reason to sleep so soundly, so Lian Tiemen said: Chai Wu, open the fence, I'll go in and have a look. When Chai Wu heard the order, he hurriedly took out a red copper key from his body, and wanted to reach out and pull up the reed lock and poke the key in. As soon as his hand pulled the lock, the whole door moved: it was closed, not locked. Yun Hua was shocked, and pulled the iron fence open, and before he had time to think about it, the three of them walked quickly into the Art of War Hall.

Coral was still lying on his stomach, a little disheveled, and Chai Wuda shouted: Don't sleep, get up! She didn't react. Chai Wu stepped forward in two steps, grabbed her shoulders, and wanted to twist her body around, but the coral on the chair was suddenly forced, and it fell backwards, with a finger-thick golden hairpin stuck in his throat, and on the placket below, there was a scarlet blood stain, which was particularly dazzling in the light of the torch. Zi Ruo was so frightened that she took half a step back, and said, "Is she dead?" Chai Wu saw it most clearly in front, he turned his head and looked at Yunhua in horror and said: Zhang Gongzi, this is not a coral, this is our family here, the one who just came to deliver the meal, called Deng Er, is dead.

Zhang Yunhua gasped, immediately calmed down, and asked Chai Wudao, "When was the rice delivered?" Chai Wu thought for a while and said, "It happened to be the time of the Urging Light, and it was already dark at that time. The Bihu girl was about to explain to us the matters of taking turns to light the lamp and handover tomorrow, when she saw Deng Er wearing a cloak and carrying food, he was an old man in the villa, and he knew him very well. I opened the iron gate for him and told him to pass it through the fence, but he insisted that he should wait for Coral to finish eating and take the bowl back, so that Coral would not smash the bowl and use it as a sharp weapon to harm himself. I didn't bother to argue with him, so I went back to listen to the Bihu girl explain the matter, and after a while he came out of it, without speaking, and went out with the food box. At that time, Pan Si also said that this kid didn't know where to make his fortune, and he didn't even look at us in our eyes. It should have been the case at that time."

Yunhua frowned when she heard this, and asked, "She walked past your eyes, didn't anyone recognize her?" Chai Wu said: "Childe doesn't know, he is used to wearing the hat on the top of the cloak, I was in a hurry to go up to the gable to light the lamp, I didn't care so much, locked the iron door and went out." Yunhua nodded, and immediately said, "Send someone to inform Miss Su first, it seems that she can't sleep tonight." Coral alone.,It's a newcomer.,Maybe you can't find a way out of the villa.,It's estimated that it's still in there.,Immediately let people block the villa.,Find her.。。 In addition, only the three of us know about Deng Er's death for the time being, so don't reveal it yet. ”

Ziruo immediately took Chai Wu out to give orders, and when He San and Pan Si heard that Coral had run away, they were so frightened that their souls were not possessed, and they hurriedly divided their labors: someone went to the corner tower to report the news, someone went to tell Su Mengtang, and someone went to find the family members who patrolled the village and called them to organize a manual search. For a while, only the corpses of Zhang Yunhua and Deng Er were left in the cave of the Art of War Hall. Yun Hua stepped forward to check and found that Deng Er's fatal wound was in the neck, and his trachea had been severed, but because the golden hairpin was not pulled out, there was not much bleeding: no wonder when Coral fled, Chai Wu and they did not smell the bloody gas. Yun Hua got up again and looked at the reed padlock on the iron fence, and found that the reed had collapsed, as if it had been pried with some hard metal, he pondered for a while, and already understood what had happened in his heart.