Chapter 8 The night is dark and the wind is high

The Red Mansion was still singing and dancing, and the literati, dignitaries, dignitaries and dignitaries were still discussing the new Oiran, Xuanyuan Hong rushed to find the woman, but the bell stopped him. "Oh, Miss Ling'er, you have a good performance tonight, and I officially congratulate you on taking up the post of the new Oiran of the Red Mansion."

"Fart, don't come and scrub me, call your landlord out for me, I'm angry, didn't I say okay, I didn't show my face while wearing a face towel, I actually dropped it, it fell off, this has to let others know, I'm still in Tongzhou!" Before Xuanyuan Hong could remove his makeup, he was tearing his teeth and grinning like a furry puppy.

"Talking in a hoarse voice, you don't see maids walking around," the bell pulled Xuanyuan Hong's sleeve and pushed open the door, "Go in, remove your makeup first." The landlord has said that he will accompany you back to Xuanyuan Mansion tomorrow. ”

"That's pretty much it." Xuanyuan Hong glanced left and right, and said quietly, "If I'm like this, no one should recognize me!" ”

"Don't you believe in my craftsmanship? Just this makeup, this eye-catching face, this waist, holding a bronze mirror, you can see it yourself, it doesn't look like Xuanyuan Hong. The bell handed him the bronze mirror on the dresser, and turned to fetch water from the copper basin.

"It doesn't look like it, the skin is white and beautiful, this appearance must be much better than that white lotus Ru Wanwan, Zhou Shen has seen this face tonight, and he must feel that Ru Wanwan's appearance is simply not worth mentioning." Xuanyuan Hong touched this face with his hand.

"Childe, you're laughing, I owe you a lot of credit for your face. To clean your face, this water has a unique secret recipe to ensure that your makeup is clean and does not hurt your face. The bell handed over the handkerchief in his hand, and then helped to remove the hairpin from his head. Childe will have a good rest here tonight, and the landlord will reassure Childe, and promise you something, you can wait with peace of mind. The maid will retreat left and right, the cubicle is the bathroom, the change of clothes has been prepared, the boy has a good rest, and I will leave. ”

"Go, go, go! Just let your landlord not forget our agreement. Xuanyuan Hong waved his hand, busy with the things in his hands.

Bell arranged everything and went to her landlord.

I saw the girl sitting on the table, her legs swinging, and there was a plate of snacks, a plate of grapes, and a plate of melon seeds on the table. Seeing this, the bell shook his head helplessly, walked over and shook his head, "Landlord, you can't sit on the table, this is going to be seen by the old landlord, and he has to chase and run." ”

"It's done," said the woman, who took the grapes from her plate and put them in her mouth.

"Okay, but the landlord, if you cheat him like this, you won't be afraid that he will trouble you."

"He doesn't dare, in terms of seniority, he still has to call me an aunt?"

"I'm going to see Master Hou tomorrow, this is a gift list, let's see what else needs to be prepared." The bell handed the gift slip over,

"Let's put it on, I'll take a look later, in the building, is there anything abnormal?"

Bell shook his head, "Miss, are you sure that the Hidden Family is ready to be born?" ”

"You think it's so easy for me to take Xuanyuan Hong, if it weren't for the old man's request for me, but if you calculate me, you have to get some interest." The delicate woman picked up the gift list and smashed it, "Call the landlord." ”

Bell stuck out her tongue, "Yes, yes, yes, landlord." ”

One of the rules of the Red Mansion is to close the door at a moment.

Mother Rong waved the silk juan in her hand and sent it with a smile, and she was very happy in her heart, alas, tonight, I made money again, and I had to make this oiran as a bodhisattva. instructed the maid to send off the guests well, and hurried to take a look. Then a maid whispered in her ear: "The landlord said, don't disturb Miss Zhao Ling'er, she has arrangements in the future, and I hope Rong's mother can rest assured." ”

Rong's mother muttered in her heart, this money-making signboard, with such a big face, it seems that it has to be well supplied. Hurriedly ordered, "Wait well, Miss Ling'er is awake, report quickly." ”

Everyone left, the literati said goodbye with both hands, Meng Gongzi walked towards the alley of his house, and suddenly a line of black-clothed people came out, holding a long sword in his hand, the white dazzling light reflected by the dim yellow light and shadow of the lantern, there was no one in the alley, Meng Gongzi carried the lantern to illuminate, and it happened that he didn't even bring a small girl. The lantern in Meng Gongzi's hand was immediately drawn out of his hand, and he hurriedly ran behind him. When the man in black saw him running, he stretched out his hand and signaled the people behind him to catch up, took off into the air, and spun in the air to stop him. This unarmed scholar sat down on the ground all of a sudden, with a sad face and a trembling hand: "Who are you?" Who sent you? ”

"The one who wants your life," the man in black approached, pointing his sword at him, "only the dead don't speak." Simply holding the long sword neatly, the dazzling sword shot into Meng Gongzi's eyes. Seeing him fall, "Go!" ”

Not long after they left, another group of black-clothed people came along the road, and saw that they were lying in the alley, and a man in black hurriedly stepped forward to investigate, and saw a bloody mark on his neck, and then kissed his hand under his nose, lifted and looked at the one next to him, shook his head, and saw that no one was left and right and quickly retreated.

Meng Yanzhi was reading a book in the study, the candlelight at the four corners illuminated the whole room, and he slowly looked up to see the man in black in front of him kneeling on one knee and burying his head. I had a bad premonition in my heart, but I still flipped through the book in my hand and said softly: "Failed? ”

"Childe, my subordinates are incompetent, and when my subordinates arrive, there is no breath, and we are late."

Listening to the news, he paused his hand and stared at the man in black, "Who revealed the news?" ”

"No, only one of my subordinates knows about it. The subordinates have probed the wounds, and they are all fatal with a sword, and the knife should have been wiped with poison. ”

"Keep investigating, see who else wants his life, go down." Meng Yanzhi got up and put the book in his hand back on the shelf, constantly wondering in his heart? The news that the fourth brother showed him that day, the Meng family in Tongzhou may be a breakthrough, originally I just asked the guards to teach a lesson in the name of the second lady of the Ru family tonight, but I didn't expect that there would be someone who would take the lead and directly kill someone, what does the Meng family know?

Meng Yanzhi picked up the pen and wrote quickly with his hand, and it was finished in a short time and bound. "Ah Fu"

Ah Fu responded respectfully, pushed the door in, Meng Yanzhi handed over the written letter, and carefully advised: "Send someone to deliver the letter to my father overnight." ”

"Yes" Ah Fu replied in a low voice, took the letter, quickly stepped back, and arranged for someone to send it back.

On the other side, Uncle Guo rested early, the calf has been unable to sleep at night recently, repeatedly went to the cowshed to see if the cow is still there, in order to understand the daughter-in-law's recent busy and hard work, Aunt Guo asked her grandson to sleep with her, who knew that the child had a fever in the middle of the night, and had no choice but to go out to find a doctor, Aunt Guo saw that the calf was not asleep, so she beckoned him to help. Who knew that it was like this, and he escaped.

A group of black-clothed people followed the news to Uncle Guo's house in Lijia Village, and the country doctor said that only people had ever come to their house, and according to the description, a man and a woman were very good-looking. As a result, the people went to the empty building and found news that their family had gone to Yaocheng to see his son.

Inky dress, with a scar on her face, just a ponytail tied with a headband, and no too much jewelry. "I'd rather kill by mistake than let it go, force a confession first, and find out if it's the son of the Earl's Court?"

The group received the order, stepped on light work, entered from the eaves, searched around, and with a bang, frightened Uncle Guo and Cui'er, who were sleeping, "Control!" ”

The group tied Uncle Guo and Cui'er and brought them to the hall, Cui'er shouted, "Daddy, Daddy", all the time struggling, trying to make them kneel, the woman in the ink-colored dress with her back to them, playing with a dagger in her hand. "I heard you saved two people? Tell me what their names are, you name them, and I promise to spare your lives. ”

Uncle Guo kept kneeling and didn't speak. "Are you sure you don't want to speak?" The woman turned and looked. I smiled when I looked at it. "I thought it was a hard bone? It turned out to be you, a traitor. "Use the tip of the knife in your hand to gently pick up Uncle Guo's chin." I didn't expect you to fall into my hands, Uncle Guo, did you say? It's really fate, a great fate. The woman laughed, "It seems that Uncle Guo is so forgetful that he doesn't even know who I am?" ”

Uncle Guo looked at her, recalling in his mind, and for a while he couldn't tell who the woman in front of him was.

"I called you Uncle Guo, it's for the sake of my dead father, why haven't you remembered who I am? It is worthy of being a conscience dog's lungs, the Xu family is full of beheadings, just because of you, I vowed to cut you with a thousand knives, but I didn't expect you to retire, at this time, it seems that God will not stop my Xu family. The woman looked sad, and Cui'er on the side stared at her father-in-law in disbelief.

"Tell me or not, who are the people you are saving?" The woman stabbed Uncle Guo with a dagger in the face, and the blood flowed, and Cui'er kept struggling to save her father-in-law. A backhand slap hit Cui'er in the face, and Cui'er fell to the side, poof, spitting blood out of her mouth.

"Cui'er, Xu Qing, you let go of me, let go of me, what hatred do you have, you come at me." Uncle Guo roared sadly.

Xu Qing looked at it with an indifferent expression, "Do you have to make you suffer a little before you tell me who you saved?" ”

With his back to the command, break his legs. Then all kinds of screams came, and Cui'er cried and shouted: "Don't don't, please, don't hit, Dad, Dad." ”

Seeing Cui'er crying, the other guards disliked the noise, picked up the sword in their hand, and stabbed it. Cui'er was stunned for a moment, blood flowed down the sword, and when Uncle Guo saw this, tears flowed down his cheeks and shouted, "You brute, how can you do this?" ”

Xu Qing looked at it in a blink of an eye, and there was no time to stop the guards, "Whoever asked you to do this, go down and get the punishment." "By the way, wave to stop." Dead one, don't you say? "Then Hugh blames me for being ruthless.

"Take it away, find a doctor to take a good look at it, if it's dead, you will come and see you." Xu Qing went out and rode a horse and galloped away.

Aunt Guo and Xiaoniu looked around, knocked on a lot of doors, and the doctor was closed, so they had no choice but to go to Changle Fang to find the manager. The steward found a doctor and tossed for the night. The sky was bright, Uncle Guo's door was wide open, and the little guy who came to report the news was very strange when he saw it, and after entering the door, he found that someone was tied up in the lobby, and blood flowed all over the house. So he hurriedly ran out to report the news, and soon the people from the yamen also arrived.

At this time, Aunt Guo and Xiao Niu, who were still in Changle Fang, listened to the little girl's report, and the sky collapsed all of a sudden. Guo Jun, the child still has a fever, so he can only stay in Changle Fang temporarily, and the head of Changle Fang, Aunt Guo, Xiao Niu, hurry back. The yamen's mansion is wrapping Cui'er's body. Aunt Guo asked, have you seen her head of the family, and they all shook their heads, looking at this blood flowing all over the place, there is a lot of luck and less luck.

There was a moment of sadness. If it weren't for Guo Jun's fever, the family would have died. Aunt Guo's eyes were dazzled and she fainted. The person in charge hurriedly asked someone to carry him back to Changle Fang and asked someone to find a doctor. And hurriedly sent a message to the son, so anxious that he turned around, how is this good, let the son take good care of it before leaving, but there was such a big thing, how to explain, anxious and restless.

On the other hand, Dream Ruyan is also in trouble.