Chapter 16: The Mystery Chest

Xi Yan glanced up at Xi Yu, looked back, the pot with the lid next to her, reached out and grabbed the lid next to it, moved two steps to the side, and lifted the lid hard, only to see the empty pot, clean and spotless.

Xi Yan looked at the pot, was stunned for a moment, held the lid in one hand, and turned her head to look at Xi Yu who was standing beside her.

''Eldest sister, didn't you say stir-fried vegetables to eat?'' Xi Yu held the oil lamp in both hands, and also turned his head to look at Xi Yan, pursed his lips and smiled.

Xi Yan looked at Xi Yu, pursed her lips and nodded, looked down at the stove, and put the lid of the pot aside.

At this time, the families who fled quickly ran out of Xi's Mansion and stopped outside the door of Xi's Mansion, holding their legs with both hands, panting heavily, and turning their heads to look at each other.

"Hey! What about the big bulls? A family member turned his head to look at the family next to him, gasped and asked, and as soon as he finished asking, he heard a voice behind him.

"Hey! Hurry up and help! Everyone turned their heads, and they saw the family carrying the big ox and walking out with difficulty.

"Hey! What happened to Big Bull? Everyone gathered around, looked at the unconscious bull, and looked up at the family member who was holding him.

"Don't ask, let's go back quickly!" The family with the big cow turned his head back slightly as he spoke.

"Yes, hurry up!" Everyone nodded, and the two family members walked quickly down the street with the big ox on their back.

After a while, the family of Xi Lao's family was just about to turn into the mouth of the alley, and in the mouth of the alley opposite, Xi Laosan's family happened to come out.

The outline who was walking in front of him hurriedly stopped, raised his arm, and stopped the family behind him.

The family member who was standing beside the outline looked at the group of people opposite: "We are late, Young Master Xi must have been arrested by them." ”

"How do you know that they have taken you." The outline glanced at the family and looked back at the big bull walking away from them.

"I saw them enter the third master's house, and then came back to tell the master, how long has it been, I am saying, you see! They were clearly holding a person. The family looked up at the outline, stretched out his hand and pointed to the dark alley opposite, where there were no human figures in sight.

"Let's go, go back and tell the master!" As he spoke, he turned around and squeezed past the family, and all the family members glanced at the other side and turned to follow the outline.

At this time, Mu Chen and Mu Qing were surrounded by a group of maids carrying lantern baskets, passing by the mouth of the alley, and the two walked towards the inn with a smile.

A moment later, Mu Chen and Jun An walked into the room, Jun An was in the back, turned around and closed the door.

"Jun'an, the more I think about it now, the more I feel that something is wrong with Xi's house!" Mu Chen walked to the table, stopped, and turned to look at Jun An, who turned around and walked over.

"Master Hou, my subordinates also feel that something is wrong! Today, when we went to Xi's Mansion, we saw a young master and a servant, as well as a dead maid and an old woman. Isn't it rumored that Kyori married a wealthy businessman? Why are there only so many subordinates, and I haven't seen Master Xi and Miss Li. ”

"Yes! I think there must have been something wrong with their family, and if I had known, I should have asked Aunt Li if she was in the house and handed over the letter to her. ”

"Master Hou, if you don't go to the Xi Mansion to investigate."

"Yes! Go and come back quickly, if there is anything, come back and discuss. Mu Chen nodded at Jun An.

Jun An saluted Mu Chen, turned around and walked to the door, stretched out his hand to open the door and walked out, and closed the door casually.

Mu Chen watched Jun An close the door, turned around and sat down, lifted the teapot on the table, picked up the teacup, poured a cup of tea, and raised his head to drink.

Jun An walked out of the inn quickly, walked quickly to the alley next to the inn, looked up at the roof in the alley, turned his head and took a few steps back, then vigorously went up, stepped on the wall a few times, jumped to the eaves, bent over, and ran quickly towards Xi's mansion.

After a while, Jun An came to the roof opposite Xi's Mansion, leaned on the roof with both hands, glanced at the open gate, and looked up at the dark courtyard.

Jun An pursed his lips, turned his head to look at the roof on his side, looked at the courtyard wall of Xi's mansion, turned around and ran along the eaves, ran three or four steps, and then stopped, pressed the bricks and tiles on the roof with both hands, jumped down hard, jumped off the house, quickly ran to the wall of Xi's mansion, jumped up, grabbed the wall with both hands and turned into Xi's mansion.

Jun An looked at the dark courtyard, without a trace of light, and walked lightly towards the inner courtyard.

At this time, Xi Yan and Xi Yu finished eating, Xi Yan held the burden, Xi Yu walked out of the kitchen with an oil lamp, and slowly walked towards Xi Yan's attic.

Xi Yan and Xi Yu just walked up to the pavilion, Jun An happened to pass by, the corridor connecting the inner courtyard and the backyard by the garden, Yu Guang saw the bright light, turned his head to look at it instantly, and quickly hid on the pillar of the corridor.

Jun An watched for a while, watched Xi Yan and Xi Yu walk into the attic, turned around and walked away quickly.

Xi Yan hugged the burden, walked quickly to the bed, raised her hand and threw the burden on the bed, turned around and sat on the bed all of a sudden.

Xi Yu took the oil lamp, walked to the lamp basket in the house, stretched out his head to look at the lamp basket, put the oil lamp on it, felt that it was wrong, frowned tightly, withdrew his hand again, and turned his head left and right to look at the Juansha lamp basket.

Xi Yan raised her eyes and looked at Xi Yu circling around the lamp basket, pursed her lips and frowned: "Hey! What are you doing? ”

"I'll light the lamp!" Xi Yu turned his head to look at Xi Yan, and continued to look at the lantern basket as he spoke.

"Oops! My eldest young master, haven't you ever eaten pork, haven't you ever seen a pig run? Xi Yan slapped her legs with both hands, got up and walked towards Xi Yu.

Xi Yan stopped beside Xi Yu, looked up and patted Xi Yu's arm: "Look at me!" ”

Xi Yu held the oil lamp, stood beside Xi Yan, looked at Xi Yan obediently, and saw Xi Yan stretch out two hands, grab the juansha lampshade of the lampbasket, and pick it up.

"Eldest sister, how can you do this?" Xi Yu stared at Xi Yan with wide eyes and turned his head to look at Xi Yan.

"Watching it on TV! Hurry up! Xi Yan held the lampshade in both hands and turned her head to look at Xi Yu.

"Oh!" Xi Yu nodded hurriedly, lit the candle in the basket with the oil lamp, and Xi Yan casually covered the lampshade.

"Hey! Eldest sister, there is still one here! Xi Yu turned around and walked to another light basket, and Yu Guang saw Xi Yan walking to the bed, turned his head to look at Xi Yan and said.

Xi Yan pulled her shoulders, took a deep breath, turned around and smiled at Xi Yu, and walked over slowly.

After a while, the four or five light baskets in the room were lit up, and Xi Yu watched Xi Yan walk to the bed, lie down on the bed, hold the oil lamp in both hands, and turn around and walk towards the door.

Xi Yan was lying on the bed with her eyes closed, and suddenly heard the sound of the door closing, she was stunned for a moment, quickly got up, and looked at Xi Yu holding an oil lamp in one hand and reaching the other door with the other: "Why are you going?" ”

"I'll go back to the yard and rest!" Xi Yu looked at Xi Yan who was sitting on the bed.

Xi Yan turned her head to look around the room, quickly got up and ran to the door, stretched out her hand and grabbed Xi Yu's arm: "No, you can't go!" ”

"Ahh All right! When you're asleep, I'm going back. Xi Yu was stunned for a moment, pursed his lips and sighed, looked at Xi Yan and said.

"No, I'm asleep, and you can't go." Xi Yan stretched out her hand to pull Xi Yu and stepped back.

Xi Yu raised his hand to protect the oil lamp, and Xi Yan pulled him into the house.

Bang Dong –

Xi Yan's leg touched the stool next to the table, Xi Yan hurriedly let go of Xi Yu, bent down and reached out to touch her leg.

Xi Yu glanced down at Xi Yan, walked quickly behind Xi Yan, held the oil lamp in one hand, bent down to help him up, rolled a few times on the stool, and looked up at Xi Yan.

"Eldest sister, are you okay?" Xi Yu looked at Xi Yan, holding the oil lamp in both hands and placing it on the table, then he was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look at the table, his eyes widened instantly, he reached out and picked up the box on the table, and turned to look at Xi Yan.

Xi Yan covered her legs with one hand, reached out and supported the table with one hand, sat on the stool on the side, raised her eyes to look at Xi Yu, and saw the box in Xi Yu's arms: "Hey! Isn't that your box? Where did you take it out? ”

"Eldest sister, this box has been on the table! We all forgot to take it! ”

"Oh! I said, I don't remember where I put it! It turned out that I had forgotten it for a long time. ”

Xi Yu hugged the box, sat down, turned to the table, reached out and pushed the food box on the table, put the box on the table, bowed his head, put his hand into his arms, and took out a purse from it.

"What's in your bag?" Xi Yan looked at the purse that Xi Yu took out, blinked, frowned, and raised her eyes to look at Xi Yu.

Xi Yu opened the purse, raised his eyes to look at Xi Yan, smiled slightly, looked down at the purse, stretched out two fingers into the purse, took out a key from the purse, held it in front of Xi Yan, and smiled at Xi Yan.

"Oh! It's the key to this box! Xi Yan looked at Xi Yu who reached out to pick up the lock in front of the box and said, seeing that Xi Yu turned his head to himself and smiled and nodded, he also pursed his lips and smiled, and quietly watched Xi Yu open the box.

Xi Yan watched Xi Yu open the lock, take it off and put it on the table, and reached out to lift the lid of the box, Xi Yan stood up with her hand on the table, and stretched out her head to look at the box.

"What is this?" Xi Yan looked at the box full of papers and turned her head to look at Xi Yu.

Xi Yan looked at Xi Yu, who was smiling at herself, reached out and rummaged through the box a few times, took out a few pieces of paper, and looked up at herself, Xi Yan frowned lightly and sat down slowly.

"Eldest sister, these are all the money earned by my father! This is the title deed of our shop. Xi Yu put the paper in his hand and put it in front of Xi Yan one by one.

"Oh! This is a silver ticket, right? Xi Yan picked up the money that Xi Yu said, looked down at the silver ticket in her hand, and turned her head to look at Xi Yu.

"Yes, it's a silver ticket!" Xi Yu smiled and nodded, and after answering, he was stunned, looked at Xi Yan's appearance, and asked softly: "Eldest sister, didn't you know that this was a silver ticket before?" ”

"Where did I know it, this is an antique!" Xi Yan didn't look at Xi Yu, and replied casually.

"Eldest sister, what do you mean?" Xi Yu frowned, tilted his head, and stared at Xi Yan intently.

When Xi Yan heard this, she was stunned, pursed her lips, slowly turned her head to look at Xi Yu, and grinned: "I didn't say anything!" ”