As soon as I entered the gate of Xunyan Tower, I saw Ah Wei and Ah Qi anxiously looking in front of the Hanging Flower Gate, and when they saw Zhao Yan, the two of them stepped forward quickly and said in unison: "Childe." ”

But when he saw the girl next to Huaiyu, he was silent, hesitating and not knowing whether to speak.

Seeing this, Zhao Yan smiled at Huaiyu: "I'll go to the study first." ”

Huaiyu nodded.

Zhao Yan said again: "The apricot blossoms have to be kept for me." ”

Then he and Ah Wei Ah Qi went to the direction of the study.

There was a helpless Huaiyu and a flower girl standing in place in a daze.

Huaiyu lowered his head and smiled: "We don't care about him, come, go this way." ”

The girl obediently followed Huaiyu into the second courtyard, and a pair of eyes couldn't stop looking around, admiring while looking:

"How rich people are living here! Living in such a big and beautiful place, it's fun just to think about it. ”

"You like it so much, you can come and play more often in the future."

"Really?"

There was a brief moment of excitement on the girl's young face, but it soon became depressed again.

"My mother won't allow me to come often, and if I do, she'll scold me."

Huaiyu became curious: "Are you so afraid of your mother?" Is she fierce to you? ”

"No, my mother is very good to me."

"But in less than two moments since we met, you have already scolded you twice."

Huaiyu pushed open the door of the main room, several girls were gathering together to watch Liu and Duan Qinqin play, seeing Huaiyu leading a girl to come, Duan Qinqin put down the white child in his hand and walked over.

The girl immediately greeted politely: "Hello sister." ”

It made Duan Qinqin smile: "Ah, Huaiyu, where did you get such a clever girl?" What's your name, sister? ”

Liu and the girls also gathered.

"I know her, she's ......," one of the maids laughed, but immediately changed her mind again, "Harm, look at my memory, this sister looks a little similar to the granddaughter of Aunt Wang across the street, and almost recognized the wrong person." ”

Huaiyu looked at the maid who was talking, and knew that her name was Chunqiang, and she was also a secret agent cultivated by Xunyanlou, and seeing that she suddenly changed her conversation, Huaiyu knew that she must have a reason why she couldn't, so she didn't ask, only smiled.

Take out the flowers in the girl's basket and give them to Chunsheng: "Find a place to plant these flowers." ”

Chunqiang took the flowers and went to the vase in front of the window to fiddle with them carefully, and Huaiyu said to Liu: "Sister Liu, go to the house and get some silver." ”

"Oh, I see."

Duan Qinqin laughed.

"Huaiyu, you saw your favorite flower on the road, and you wanted to buy it but didn't have the money to buy it, so you had to bring the girl back, right?"

Huaiyu smiled but didn't answer, Duan Qinqin said to the flower girl kindly: "Sister, it's so late, have you eaten?" Hungry or not? Why don't you have dinner with us and go back? ”

Huaiyu didn't come back, and she and Liu didn't have much to eat, so the two sat in front of Huaiyu's chessboard and played chess.

"That's right, girl, you came back just in time, Sister Qin stewed duck soup today, and simmered in the back kitchen, and it was brought here, just right."

Liu took a silver ingot from the back room and put it in the girl's hand, because she asked, "What is your name?" Hungry? ”

"I'm not hungry, my mother is waiting for me at home, and if I go back late, she will ...... I...... I want to go home. ”

The girl stepped back, and out of the corner of her eye, she skimmed the spring blossom arranging flowers by the window, and the hand holding the basket involuntarily tightened.

Huaiyu raised her eyebrows, this was the third time her mother would definitely scold her.

Although she didn't come out directly this time just now, such an obvious pause that even Liu could hear it.

Liu smiled and comforted: "You see that it is already dark outside, how unsafe it is for you to walk on the road as a girl, you have dinner with us, I will personally send you home, okay?" ”

"No need, Sister Liu." The flower girl firmly refused, "Thank you for the silver." ”

Her flowers weren't worth so much silver.

Liu opened her mouth in surprise: how did she know her name?

The girl seemed to know what Liu was thinking, pointed at Huaiyu, and smiled: "This sister called your name just now." ”

Oh, Ryu reacted, "What about you, what's your name?" ”

The flower girl didn't come back, but said, "Thank you, sisters, but I'm going home, and if I have a chance in the future, I'll come and drink Sister Qin's stewed soup again." ”

Duan Qinqin also raised his eyebrows, looked at Huaiyu, and intended to ask: Where did you get such a clever girl?

Seeing that the girl insisted on leaving, Huaiyu said: "That is the case, you are on the road." Qiuwu, you send her. ”

Qiu Wu led the flower girl out, and came back in less than a moment.

Huaiyu and the others were sitting around listening to Chunqiang talk about the flower girl, and when they saw Qiuwu coming back, Chunqiang smiled and said, "Look, I'm on it, that girl won't allow others to follow her home." ”

"It's weird."

Qiu Wu shook his head and sighed.

"I have never seen such a stubborn girl, so I walked out of the gate of Xunyan Tower, and walked less than twenty steps down the street, and she stopped and told me to stay, otherwise she would not leave. Sister Chunqiang, do you know her? How come I haven't seen such a strange child before? ”

At the same time, looking for the secret agent of Yanlou Tsing Yi, Sister Chunqiang knows more than herself, alas.

They are all looking for Yanlou, and they are responsible for the transmission of news in this area of Anqing, and they don't know everything about every household in Anqing, and they have to know five or six out of ten.

But she didn't have any impression of this stubborn girl

"It's not your fault that you don't know." Chunqiang said, "Originally, a girl of her age was not on our key list of looking for Yanlou, and I also met her not long ago and knew something about her. ”

"What's the matter?"

"Her name is Yan'er, she lives in Wuyi Lane in the west of the city, her mother was a famous prostitute in Wuyi Lane when she was young, and later gave birth to her, and I don't know who my father is.

"Over the years, the mother and daughter have depended on each other, her mother sells herself at home, she goes out to sell flowers, and the mother and daughter are not less angry with the neighbors, so she always sells flowers from the west of the city to the east of the city, just to avoid acquaintances......"

"This ......"

When everyone heard this, they only felt as if there was a big stone pressing on their hearts, and they were depressed.

Chunqiang continued: "However, these are all news that I secretly inquired into, and I haven't checked whether it's true or not. Get up, I still saw Li Sanjie when I was investigating her death. ”

"Huh?"

A flash of inspiration flashed in Huaiyu's mind, and he looked at Chunqiang suddenly.

"You saw Li Nianqi when you were investigating her death?"

"Yes."

"Carefully."