Chapter 17: Exploration
As the saying goes, there are clouds, and the moon of fifteen is sixteen round. In fact, it is a common astronomical phenomenon, when the new year appears relatively late on the first day of the new year, the hope appears on the sixteenth. And this year's full moon actually appeared on the night of the sixteenth.
In the Xiaoxiang Garden of Li Mansion, Li Yuanfang brewed a pot of fine flower tea, glanced at the bright moon in the sky, and then took a bite of the five-kernel mooncake, which was sweet and crispy. After that, she looked at the "Water Tune Song Head" that was sung in the capital today, and read it softly: "I don't know the heavenly palace, what year is it in the past?" ”
Then, as if she had thought of something, she went back into the house. She took out a book with a thin layer of ash from the top of the bookshelf, gently patted away the layer of ash, opened the book and flipped through it, and the title page of the book read, "May the eldest sister be healthy and fulfill her wishes for a lifetime, Su Man". It was a cold script that Su Man specially found for her when Li Yuanfang celebrated her eleventh birthday.
Thinking of Su Man, who was trying to integrate into the White Deer Academy at that time, Li Yuanfang shook his head lightly and showed a helpless smile. Then something came to mind, and there was a blur in her eyes.
At this moment, Su Man had already returned to the General's Mansion, asked the people in the mansion, and learned that Su Cheng had not returned to the mansion yet, Su Man just looked at the bright moon in the night sky, and today's moon seemed to be rounder and brighter than yesterday.
At noon today, Sunan suddenly appeared in Anping Village, and he reported something in Su Cheng's ear with a solemn face, and saw that Su Cheng's originally cold face instantly dropped a few degrees. After leaving Su Dong to Su Man and instructing her to return home as soon as possible, he set off for the western suburbs of the capital.
And Su Man didn't return home immediately, she stayed and said that she left after a pillar of incense for Zhang Sihai. The news of the death of the chief Zhang Sihai soon spread in the small village of Anping, and the mourning hall was quickly placed in the courtyard of Zhang Sihai's house.
Almost the whole village came to mourn the chief, and Su Man also wandered in Zhang Sihai's mourning hall to observe the various beings in Anping Village. In fact, to know the interpersonal relationship of this person before his death, it can be seen from the funeral after his death.
Most of the people in the village were saddened by the death of the chief of the guard, and of course, Su Man also read disdain and disgust on the faces of a small number of people. However, to Su's satisfaction, she actually read this emotion on Mrs. Zhang Sihai's face, although it was only for a moment, she could be sure that this lady was by no means as grief-stricken as she appeared. This naturally aroused her curiosity.
"Miss, the general has instructed you to leave for home before the time" Su Dong's tone was not kind, because he was also very anxious at the moment, Xiaobei had disappeared for a year, and now he finally got a trace of his news, he didn't want to accompany the eldest lady to play the game of "condolences" to strangers.
Hearing the displeasure in Su Dong's tone, Su Man frowned. Ah, isn't this coachman too serious about her? Originally, she wanted to ask her father for this coachman to be her escort, but now she dispelled this idea, and it was better to find a cronie herself.
"Got it" Su Man also replied coldly, "You wait for me here, I'll go in and come out with incense"
Entering the courtyard of Zhang Sihai's house, it was crowded with people, and Su Man also took a piece of silk gold after entering the incense. When Su Man was talking to Mrs. Zhang, Zeng Yunyi, who was not far away, had been secretly paying attention to them, and he was worried that Su Man would say something that would stimulate his sister-in-law. Of course, there was another pair of eyes in the crowd that were watching this side.
"Captain Zeng," several members of the security team suddenly blocked Zeng Yunyi's sight and said, "A few of us have discussed, since the security chief has passed away, we all think that you are the most suitable to be the new security chief." When you're healed, take us to the city to work, and we'll do the same with you."
"Yes, the security chief promised us that he would take us to the official family in the city to work after the Mid-Autumn Festival, and he arranged it."
"When did the eldest brother promise you?" Zeng Yunyi's eyebrows twisted, why had he never heard his eldest brother talk about it.
"It's the second day we arrived in the capital."
August 13 has been planned, Zeng Yunyi's eyes flashed a trace of coldness, it seems that the eldest brother is really hiding a lot of things from him. He still remembered that on the night of the fourteenth, his eldest brother came to him to discuss how to get people to go to the back to meet the other victims. At that time, the eldest brother somehow said that the capital was not a city, and they had no relationship with each other, so they proposed to hijack the official family and force the other party to save people, but they were stopped by Zeng Yunyi at the moment.
It's just that on the day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, I went to the city to ask for help, and the attitude of the county government was too deceitful, so I acted impulsively. Looking back now, it seems that the eldest brother at that time was leading him to hijack the carriage of the General's Mansion. Thinking about the past, Zeng Yunyi felt cold, and he was afraid that he would recognize the wrong big brother without eyes.
At this time, she didn't know when Su Man appeared behind them, she suddenly asked out loud, "Which official family are you going to work in?" ”
She asked unintentionally, and the listener naturally replied frankly, "We don't know, the chief said that it was a job introduced by one of his distant brothers-in-law." Said to be a nursing home for people."
"Oh~" Su Man's voice was long, she looked at Zeng Yunyi as if mocking and said, "You guys are really rough in your long way"
Hearing this, Zeng Yunyi's old face turned green, and what he said when he hijacked Su Man's carriage was that they had no way to ask for help, and then he guaranteed with his life that there was no problem with the chief of the guarantee. I'm really slapping my face, it's so fragrant!
"I... I don't know the arrangement of the security chief," Zeng Yunyi could only reply sneeringly.
Hearing Captain Zeng's answer, the guards were anxious, they were still counting on the job introduced by the security chief to live in the capital. However, some people immediately thought that since they were relatives of the chief of security, Captain Zeng didn't know, so could they ask Mrs. Zhang?
But who knew that after Mrs. Zhang heard their inquiry, her face suddenly became ugly, and she bluntly said that she didn't know about Zhang Sihai. But Su Man saw that Mrs. Zhang's eyebrows were raised when she answered, her eyes couldn't help but turn to the right, and she nodded her head and shook her head invisibly. A typical liar, the corners of Su Man's mouth curled slightly, interesting.
"Mrs. Zhang, do you know who Zhang Sihai's relatives are? Maybe I can ask my servants to go to the city and inquire for you."
"Yes, yes, sister-in-law, if you know the name of the other party, you can ask Miss Su to help you inquire," everyone began to ask around Mrs. Zhang.
At this time, a young man couldn't help it, and immediately pushed everyone away, protected Mrs. Zhang behind him, and said, "My sister said that she didn't know, but she didn't know, why are you so annoyed, if you want to ask, go and ask Zhang Sihai himself."
"Hey, how did this kid speak, the chief has already gone, is this a curse for us?"
"It's just that I always call my brother-in-law's name, no big or small."
"This kid eats and uses the chief of security, but he works against the chief of security all day long, and he is an immature wolf."
"That's enough, guys, the body of the chief is still here. I'll go into the city another day to see where there are jobs. Even if we don't have the job introduced by the security chief, we are not incompetent, and we can always get enough food here. Zeng Yunyi became a peacemaker, although he already knew that the chief of security did not live with him, but he didn't want everyone to quarrel in his mourning hall, and others couldn't just leave their hearts.
Su Man could know from the hatred in the eyes of the young man when he mentioned Zhang Sihai just now that the relationship between the two was very bad, and it seemed that this young man was Zhang Sihai's real brother-in-law. She watched as the young man helped Mrs. Zhang into the back room, and she followed.
"Mrs. Zhang......"
Before Su Man finished speaking, he was stopped by the young man and said, "Miss Su, you can go back after watching the excitement."
"Ah Cong! Don't be rude" This time, Mrs. Zhang scolded the young man sharply, she bowed to Su Man and apologized, "This child is reckless, please forgive Miss Su"
"It's nothing, it's nothing" Su Man could only say embarrassedly, this young man is not too young to look at, maybe he is older than the original owner, his name is Cong, but no matter how you look at it, he is not smart, and his emotional intelligence is worrying.
"Miss Su, I know why you and General Su are here" Mrs. Zhang looked at Su Man and did not beat around the bush, her eyes were very open when she looked at Su Man, this woman was a smart person. Now it was Su Man's turn to be embarrassed, she coughed lightly twice and then stopped going around the corner, and said directly, "Then please ask Mrs. Zhang to tell the truth."