Qiaofu in Qiushui City covers a huge area, encompassing a large area on the shore of Lingbo Lake on the west side of Qiushui City.

In fact, the Qiao family's strong heritage of thousands of years, from the overall pattern of the four forests, three rivers and three buildings in the mansion, you can get a little peek at one or two, especially in the garden in the middle of the house, growing a particularly huge ginkgo tree, which is said to have been planted by the earliest ancestor of the Qiao family, and is now thousands of years old.

I don't know the clouds in the building, as the rain in the world.

At this time, it is the transition season of late autumn and early winter, and countless ginkgo biloba leaves on the body of this ancient ginkgo biloba fall like heavy snow in the wind, and a golden yellow is spread under the body, which gives people a sense of antiquity and dignity when viewed from a distance.

For all the people of the Qiao family, they are like the ancient ginkgo biloba in Chuzhou, and even in the entire hinterland of Great Xia, which has been inherited for a long time, and there will be proud sons who lead the family to stand above the torrent of time in every era.

But in fact, recently, whether it is the people of the Qiao family or the people under the small house, there is a little apprehension in their hearts, and they also keenly feel that everything around them has become a little weird.

Since the ninety-first year of the Great Xia Calendar, the eldest ancestor of the Qiao family was bedridden all of a sudden, this thousand-year-old family has quietly undergone some little-known changes, and this change has gradually become clear and clear after about half a year of fermentation.

Once under the ancestors, the head of the family who said the same thing was getting worse and thinner, and the whole person became like a walking corpse, exuding a thick twilight aura, and in the past few days, he has locked himself in the house and has not come out, but the voice of the Qiao family led by the eldest lady has gradually increased.

As the saying goes, the subordinates of the Qiao family gradually found that there were more and more instructions from the eldest lady, and they began to stretch out their hands to all aspects, and they had the potential to control the overall situation, but the eldest lady had been bullied in the past nearly thirty years.

In the middle of the Qiao family's mansion, on the side of the huge golden ginkgo tree, an antique house was built, and countless ginkgo biloba leaves exuding golden mangs fell on it, as if it was coated with a layer of gold film, dazzling and noble.

Inside the room, the temperature was warm and comfortable under the action of the charcoal fire that emitted heat, and at the same time, on the desk by the window in the room, there was a middle-aged woman wearing a precious embroidered brocade dress, the woman's sharp eyes looked at a figure lying on the bed in the depths of the room, and the indifferent voice then sounded:

"Old guy, when I entered your Qiao family, because I couldn't give birth to an heir for a long time, you treated me like a discarded goods, making things difficult in every way, in the eyes of outsiders, I am the eldest lady of the thousand-year-old family Qiaofu, but only I know that I am just a tool you use to consolidate your position.

"But you shouldn't have dreamed of it, the Qiao family, which you regard as your life's work, will end up in my hands, fortunately, you are dying, otherwise as soon as you step out of this door, you will see the entire mansion kneeling in front of me, and the taste will definitely be uncomfortable. ”

After the middle-aged woman's voice fell, following her gaze, you could clearly see that there was a sallow-faced, extremely weak old woman lying on the bed in the room, and this old woman's eyes were extremely dim, perhaps because she was stimulated by the woman's words, she was trembling all over her body at this time, foaming at the mouth and looking extremely embarrassed.

"Old Ancestor, you have to take care of your health, I don't want you to die so early, of course, it will be extremely interesting to see with your own eyes how I can take care of your Qiao family's people. ”

The words that came out of the middle-aged woman's mouth made the ancestor of the Qiao family, who was already terminally ill on the bed, tremble even more, and even opened his mouth to let out a hoarse roar:

"Woo, woo, woo!"

"Ancestor, aren't you very angry and powerless, isn't this feeling very uncomfortable? I just have been under this feeling for more than 20 years, and you just feel that you can't stand it for so many days, how can this work?"

After finishing speaking, the middle-aged woman got up and paced to the side of the bed, lowered her head to look at the embarrassed, trembling, and filthy old woman below, the cold color in her eyes became stronger and stronger, and after sneering, she turned around and walked out of the room.

The door of the house was opened under the ginkgo biloba leaves, the figure of the middle-aged woman walked out, and the little servants who had been waiting outside the house saluted together, and then the middle-aged woman sat directly at the stone table in the courtyard, waved her hand forward, and the voice came out:

"The situation of the old ancestor is improving, it is the time when it is necessary to recuperate, no one is allowed to disturb, the chief steward stays, and the rest of the people disperse. ”

"Yes, my lord. ”

After the family saluted, they all said goodbye, and then the big butler, who was also not young, stepped forward, knelt respectfully in front of the middle-aged woman, bowed his head and waited for the order, and then the woman's cold voice came:

"Big butler, how many years have you been with me?"

"It's been almost twenty-four years. ”

There was a slight tremor in the voice of the chief butler, not only because the power in the body of the middle-aged woman in front of him was becoming more and more powerful, but also because the two of them had an unclear past when they were young, and this dream-like memory was a taboo that the chief butler did not dare to touch in the rest of his life.

Therefore, the chief butler lowered his head lower, and almost the whole person lay on the ground like a docile cat, and then the eldest lady of Qiao's mansion frowned slightly, looked at the big butler in front of her, and after the disgust in her eyes flashed, she continued to ask:

"Has the eavesdropping storyteller dealt with it?"

"Mrs. Hui, it has been dealt with, sinking into the depths of Lingbo Lake, and it is difficult to find ghosts. ”

The chief butler raised his head and continued to speak respectfully:

"The rest of the people who had contact with this person were already under close surveillance, but it is said that a storyteller who had been drinking with him went to Shenjing City. ”

As soon as these words came out, the fierce light on the eldest lady's cold face became even worse, and then she said word by word:

"I don't care what method you use, find out that person and dispose of it, if the plan is broken, you know the consequences, and we can't turn back. ”

After the eldest lady finished speaking, she raised her leg and kicked the chest of the big butler in front of her, and after the latter snorted, she bit her lip and listened to the middle-aged woman's roar again:

"Why hasn't it been so long, Qiao Yue's girl hasn't been brought to me!"

The chief butler got out of the way under this powerful foot, and then he staggered to his feet, knelt on the ground and kowtowed in response:

"Mrs. Hui, I have already been escorted here, and I will come here immediately. ”

"I hope you didn't lie to me, otherwise Mrs. Ben will pick your skin, the importance of this girl, you should know very well, the ancestor and the master are already in my hands, and the only thing that can hinder the entire Qiao Mansion is Qiao Yue's girl. ”