The gauze on Ling Xiao's arm was uncovered layer by layer, and finally revealed a messy scar, the wound had scabbed, and it was no longer painful, but it was extremely hideous to look at. Lu Jingxing changed the medicine for her: "This injury will be healed in the next day, but this scar is estimated to be difficult to heal, unless you use the method of peeling, but then you will have to suffer a little." ”

"It's just a scar, and it's not bad to keep it." Ling Xiao doesn't care about this, it's good to get used to it, and it's not to cater to others.

"Then it's up to you." Lu Jingxing wrapped the new gauze around Ling Xiao's wound.

"Mansion master, the young owner of Yuliu Villa is here." Lu Boyu reports.

"You let him in." At this time, Lu Jingxing had already disposed of the gauze.

"You have guests, I'll go first." Ling Xiao and Lu Bo went out together.

"Is the girl still used to living there?" Lu Bo asked with concern.

"Good."

"The lord of the house is busy, and it is the same if he needs to tell us." Lu Bo is the housekeeper of the Lu Mansion, and he is also extremely meticulous in his work, and now he just hopes to stay here more comfortably when he says to Ling Xiao.

"Thank you, Uncle Lu."

"Thank you, it should be. Nothing else, I'm one step ahead. "Lu Bo has a busy day, coming and going in a hurry.

Ling Xiao's current days, in addition to the piano and books, also have a flute, she feels that by doing these things every day, time passes faster.

At night, Ling Xiao sat quietly on the swing, and next to her was Yu Niang, who sat on a stool to relieve her boredom. She looked at the broken moon in the sky, the moonlight was not dimmed because it had become mutilated, and the eaves cast dark shadows and moonlight to form a light and a dark spread on the bluestone slab. Ling Xiao's flute had been practicing for a few days, and Lu Jingxing could have explained the next step to her, but she was called away by the young owner of Yuliu Villa to assist him in investigating the murder case, and two days had passed with two subordinates.

"It seems that the girl misses the lord of the house." Yu Niang saw Ling Xiao quietly looking at the shadows on the eaves on the ground, and said as if she had seen through everything.

"Why should I think about him?" Ling Xiao thought that she had nothing to do to think about what a man was doing, a little inexplicable.

"Isn't it?" Yu Niang's smile became more and more meaningful.

Ling Xiao immediately understood what Yu Niang meant: "Yu Niang, you think too much, Lu Jingxing and I are just friends." "Fifteen-year-old body, twenty-five-year-old soul, Ling Xiao is no longer a girl who has not been deeply involved in the world, Yu Niang understands her friendship with Lu Jingxing as a lover relationship, how can Ling Xiao not understand.

"You just didn't notice it yourself. It was like that when I was younger. "Yu Niang is talking about a meaningful feeling that has gone through vicissitudes. Ling Xiao didn't say anything anymore, and the more he explained, the more chaotic it became.

"Why aren't there many people in this huge Lu Mansion?" After a while, Ling Xiao finally asked the questions that had arisen in her heart in the past few days, Ling Xiao felt that she liked to ask questions more and more, and her previous indifference to things was changing little by little.

"A large number of people are not in the house, some are running businesses in various places, and some are wandering in the world, so there are only thirty or forty people in the house, taking care of big and small things on weekdays." Yu Niang said to Ling Xiao.

"What about the women?" A few days passed, and apart from seeing a few women of the same age as Yu Niang, Ling Xiao had not seen any other women.

"After Madame died, there were only a few of us female dependents left in the mansion, and I have followed Madame since I was a child, and I also grew up watching the lord of the mansion." Yu Niang said a little sadly.

Yu Niang is Lu Jingxing's mother's maid, and she naturally has feelings for her young lady, but Ling Xiao didn't expect that Lu Jingxing's mother had passed away.

After a moment of silence, Ling Xiao said to Yu Niang: "Yu Niang, you can call me Ling Xiao in the future." Ling Xiao felt that the people in the Lu Mansion were very good, kind, kind-hearted, and loyal, if it weren't for this, Lu Jingxing would not hand over the entire business of the Lu Mansion to a housekeeper to manage, only responsible for regularly checking the account books, Ling Xiao now also wants to really integrate into them.

"Ling Xiao is also a little different, why don't I call you Liu." There was kindness in her tone. Ling Xiao was suddenly a little touched, for so many years, only her mother called her so, people in the business world called her Mr. Ling, and the maids at home called her Miss, and she was an English name abroad. Now hearing someone call like this, she feels both familiar and strange.

Ling Xiao sighed: "Only my mother called me like this." It seems like many years have passed. ”

"If you don't like it, then I don't call it that." Seeing Ling Xiao say this, Yu Niang had a hint of self-reproach in her tone.

"You call it that, I like it. I used to think that my mother didn't love me in cold blood, forced me to learn a lot of things I didn't want to learn since I was a child, and rarely spent time with me during the year, but now I miss her. Ling Xiao said calmly.

The scene in front of the hospital bed that day is still fresh in Ling Xiao's memory, the noble woman cried as desperately as a child at that moment, but the dying Ling Xiao couldn't help it, Ling Xiao's indifference to her mother for many years was blown away by the wind like green smoke just because of that scene.

"In addition to loving mothers in this world, there is no shortage of strict mothers, and their hearts for their children are the same." Yu Niang said earnestly.

"Yu Niang, thank you for talking to me." Ling Xiao's mood has broadened a lot.

"Thank you for what I did, talking to you, I was relieved of my own boredom. It's just that you, like the lord of the house, don't like to talk too much, and like to keep it in your heart if you have something on your mind. This is not good, if you have something on your mind, you should say it, so that your heart will feel better. As soon as Yu Niang's words fell, Lu Ci entered the courtyard.

"It's pitch black, why don't you light the lamp, are you afraid that the Lu Mansion can't afford to pay for lamp oil?" Lu Ci stood not far from Ling Xiao, holding his hands on his chest.

"I don't give way, I think it's good." Yu Niang said first.

"Isn't there moonshine? Why do you need lights. The moonlight was bright and the lamp was lit, but Ling Xiao felt that there was no hazy artistic conception.

"You're thinking differently."

"Are you here?"

"When the mansion master leaves, I'm afraid that you will be bored in the mansion alone, so let's go out for a walk with you more."

"You're not going to tell me to get out now, are you?" Ling Xiao was slightly surprised.

"Of course, there is a shadow show in the inner courtyard of the teahouse tonight, I'll take you to see it." Lu Ci looked very excited.

"Let Xiao Xiao go out with you, I'm not at ease! Frizzy, don't go out. Ling Xiao didn't speak, Yu Niang said first.

"Go on your own, I'm not interested." Ling Xiao didn't have much interest in these things, so he might as well swing here. But she did swing the swing too. The moonlit swing and her shadow moved to and fro on the ground, for short periods of time. There was no wind, but because of the rise and fall of the swing, there was a slight sound of wind in Ling Xiao's ears, and even the placket was flying.

"It's boring to stay in this dark place, I'll take you and Yu Niang out, you've been here for a few days, and you haven't ...... yet" Before Lu Ci's words were finished, he let out an ouch sound, and then a pear rolled on the ground several times, and finally rolled down in the moonlight.

"Damn pear, dare you smash me." Lu Ci complained.

"A genius giant is about to be born." Ling Xiao suddenly felt a little funny, and at this moment, Yu Niang was already laughing on the side.

"What do you mean by that? I don't understand. Lu Ci looked dazed.

"It's nothing, it just means that you'll be smarter if you're hit by a pear." Newton is the scientific giant who was smashed by an apple, and now that Lu Ci has been smashed by a pear, Ling Xiao thought of Newton.

"I was smashed, you are still gloating here, I have never heard of anyone who is getting smarter and smarter the more you smash." Lu Ci said aggrievedly.

"It's me who is bad, I'm sorry." Ling Xiao also felt that what she had just done was inappropriate, after all, it was because of the shaking of the swing that the pear fell and hit him, and in the final analysis, Ling Xiao was the culprit.

Yu Niang got up and picked up the pear: "It's a pity, it's broken." ”

"If it's broken, it's bad, I'll find someone to pick all the pears on this tree tomorrow, it's too unsafe." Lu Ci decided.

Ling Xiao is no longer swinging, worried that it will not be good to smash Yu Niang if he falls again.

"Where did I just go? Oh yes, you've been here for a while, and you haven't been outside yet! "The matter of pears has passed, and Lu Ciyou has mentioned the matter of going out.

Lu Ci talked for a long time, and in the end there was no way, so Ling Xiao and Yu Niang agreed to go out with him.

In front of the Lu Mansion is facing a main street, and a large stone lion is placed on the left and right of the gate, which is solemn and majestic. The street is crowded with pedestrians and brightly lit streets, dotted on both sides of the road and stretching to the end of the street. Ling Xiao and Yu Niang walked side by side in front, followed by Lu Ci.

"How? It's a lot more fun than staying at home. Lu Ci was a little proud.

"It's all the same." Ling Xiao poured a basin of cold water on him.

"The murmuring is quiet, which is like you, I can't stop." Yu Niang glanced at Lu Ci.

"It's because it's quiet, so I have to change it." Lu Ci expressed his opinion.

The three of them walked around and talked, looked around, and soon entered the inner courtyard of a teahouse.

At this time, the inner courtyard was full, the voices were boiling, and the little two in the teahouse were busy adding tea to the guests. Before the shadow puppet show began, Ling Xiao saw a Baijuan screen on the high platform in front of him, and no one was in sight. The three of them found an empty table and sat down, Xiao Er immediately came over and politely added tea for them, and Lu Ci threw out a silver ingot: "Bring the best dim sum in your store." ”

"Okay, guest wait." Xiao Er took the money and left.

"Isn't it lively here?" Lu Ci's voice was mixed with the noise, and Ling Xiao heard it very vaguely. In fact, for such a noisy place, Ling Xiao mostly didn't like it, but he didn't want to sweep Lu Ci's interest, so he nodded in response to him.

The little second-hand feet were very sharp, and with a cup of tea, the dim sum was served. Five plates are arranged on the table in turn around a plate, forming a five-petal flower.

"Try this pastry, it tastes good." Lu Ci pointed to one of the plates against Ling Xiao.

Suddenly, a gong sounded through the inner courtyard, and the noise disappeared in an instant, and the surroundings became unusually quiet. Ling Xiao looked up at the high platform, there was already a figure behind the screen, a man in a short cloth shirt was holding a gong in his left hand and a hammer in his right hand, and the gong sound was struck by him just now. And in the innermost part of the high platform sat several soundtracks. Soon after the gong stopped, the background music of the shadow puppet show sounded, and the sound of gongs, drums, and orchestral strings blended out, and the scene instantly heated up. Two small figures appeared on Bai Juan, and their bodies moved as soon as they moved, just like a low-level version of the robot, which could only move their shoulders.

This is just a prelude, but the people present have been sucked out of their souls, staring at the screen with relish. Lu Ci had forgotten that there was still a piece of dim sum between his fingers, Yu Niang seemed much more normal, seeing Lu Ci like this, he patted him, and this piece of dim sum was eaten by him in his mouth, Yu Niang shook her head helplessly, and then watched the play.

The shadow puppet moved a few times behind Bai Juan, and the man sang, the voice was like a modern Peking opera, what was sung, Ling Xiao didn't understand a word, he could only stare at the screen and watch the shadow shake. The background music is accompanied by applause from time to time, people are intoxicated, and with the increase in the number of applause, the shadow puppet show has also entered the **, the singing is more passionate, the orchestral sound is more urgent, and the shadow puppet action changes faster and more tricks. Ling Xiao watched it until now, and only then did he understand the content of its performance, which turned out to be the story of Nie Zheng assassinating Xia Tired for Yan Zhongzi. The four great assassins of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Ling Xiao had only seen it in the "Historical Records", and it actually appeared here, and Ling Xiao felt that other historical books should also be recorded.

** Before that, with the sound of the wine glass breaking to the ground, there was a fight a few tables away, and the scene was chaotic for a while, and the spectators fled in all directions. When the shadow puppeteers on stage saw this scene, they panicked and fled empty, and in the background they were replaced by the noise of people and the clashing of tables and stools.

Lu Ci protected Ling Xiao and Yu Niang behind him, and followed everyone out, and the group of people was still fighting happily, with the crisp sound of swords colliding from time to time, and the sound of tables and chairs shattering, which was terrifying.

"I told you not to bring the murmur out, but you just didn't listen, now it's okay." The three of them finally got out of the teahouse, and they were standing on the side of the street at this time, and Yu Niang blamed Lu Ci.

"It's okay, let's go back." Ling Xiao said.

"What are you afraid of, even if I really call over, I can still deal with the little gangsters of White Dusk Villa and Wandu Pavilion." Lu Ci said very lightly, and he walked lightly at the moment, not affected by Yu Niang's words at all, and Yu Niang glanced at him angrily.

"You know these guys?" Ling Xiao asked.

"You don't know the pattern of the rivers and lakes, it's normal. Let me tell you about it. Nowadays, there is a mansion, two palaces, three pavilions and three villas in the rivers and lakes, one mansion refers to our Lu Mansion, two palaces refer to Yiyue Palace and Juechen Palace, three pavilions are Dark Yan Pavilion, Junjian Pavilion and Wanjian Pavilion, and Sanshan Villa refers to Yuliu Villa, Baidu Villa, and Qianmin Villa. Among them, the Absolute Dust Palace, the Dark Pavilion, and the Wan Jian Pavilion belong to the evil sect, the Yan Dark Pavilion specializes in killing people for their employers, and the Wan Jian Pavilion steals other people's secrets and then sells them. The road was much more deserted, so Lu Ci's words were particularly clear in Ling Xiao's ears.

"What about the Liu Mansion that was destroyed a few days ago?" Ling Xiao knew that the Liu Mansion seemed to be also a sect of rivers and lakes, and the corpses were piled up, and the court didn't even ask.

"That's just a small sect, what I'm talking about is influential in the rivers and lakes." Lu Ci explained.

"You just say something useless to the house, and when the lord of the mansion comes back, you will be good-looking." Yu Niang said angrily.

"Yu Niang, don't be nervous, isn't this good?" What Lu Ci said made Yu Niang give him another roll of his eyes.

The night was deep, from the teahouse to entering the Lu Mansion, Lu Ci said a lot of things about the rivers and lakes, and Ling Xiao was also a little tired at the moment, and he just wanted to go back to the courtyard to rest quickly.