Later, when all the dreams dissipated, I seemed to hear the night wind blowing from the windows of the inn, and after a slight sound, something cold fell on my cheeks with a faint fragrance, and I paused for a few seconds before leaving, I don't know if it was the wind. I tried to wake up and look at it, but I didn't wake up.

When I woke up the next day, it was already dawn, and I only felt tired and cleaned, and my whole body was refreshed. I opened my eyes happily and found Shutong sitting on the edge of my bed, his brows furrowed terribly, and there was a faint dark color under his eyes, as if he hadn't slept all night.

I scratched my neck blankly, "How long have you been sitting with me?" ”

She frowned slightly, and her eyes were full of worry: "Sir, before I came, you and I clearly said that we would not watch the excitement, stay not much, do not approach the living, and we will return to Ningguo after buying Xiyuan." ”

This made me a little puzzled: I don't like to sleep in the same room with other people, so Shutong has always slept next door to me, and she had already fallen asleep when I went out last night, how did she know that I was close to the living and went to see the excitement?

After thinking about it, I thought that Shutong might be blowing me up, so I smiled and pretended to be stupid: "I slept after eating downstairs with you last night, did you have a dream, dreaming that I went out alone without keeping the agreement?" ”

Shu Tong smiled coldly, took out my money bag, untied it in front of me, the sweet and sour taste came to her face, she looked at me calmly: "Why don't you explain yourself, sir, how did the bag of gold leaves I prepared for you become a bag of sour plum tea?" ”

My face stiffened.

Then he leaned up and said to her: "Shutong, I was wrong, I shouldn't have gone out to buy sour plum tea last night, even if I ate a lot and people supported me last night." Afraid that she wouldn't believe it, she hurriedly added two sentences, "This sour plum tea is terrible, the boss said that it is a century-old tea, which is worth thousands of gold and is very expensive." ”

The corner of Shutong's lips twitched, and he immediately pinched out a handful from the money bag and put it in the palm of his hand, and looked at it slowly: "Yo, this tea is really good, you look at this black plum, it is still fresh enough to pinch out the water after a hundred years, and this bag of gold leaves is really worth it." ”

I had no other way, my face was full of sneers, and I confessed: "Did You Sifang's eyeliner see me and report to you later?" I felt out the willow leaf next to the pillow and looked at it, "It seems that someone followed me all the way to the inn last night, and finally seemed to be hidden in the willow canopy, and he shook off a leaf and I picked it up." ”

The face of the person in front of him was stunned, and he pondered for a long time before he said, "That's right, it was Brother You who sent someone to tell me." Nowadays, Nanguo Mansion is mixed, sir, you should be careful, and don't run around at night. Even if you want to go out, you have to call me. ”

I hurriedly said okay, this one thing can be regarded as a turning page.

But some things are destined to be not so easy to turn the page, not only can they not be turned over, but they are introduced layer by layer, interlocking, and lead you into the dark night and the abyss step by step.

For example, at noon that day, as soon as Shutong and I got out of the inn, we saw that the small ferry where I got off the boat last night was crowded with people on the third and outer three floors, and there were even countless boats blocking the lake.

I've been in the house for too long, and I'm finally going to come out, so naturally I can't miss this kind of lively, whim, and I ran away, "Let's go over and take a look." ”

Shutong couldn't screw me, so he had to run after me while reminding loudly: "Sir, be careful!" ”

After running over, I didn't see anything inside, and the crowd of onlookers talked about it: "I heard that it was the young master of the Hu family, who molested a son on this painting boat last night, and he was made like this." ”

Another picked up the conversation and said: "It's just been molested, and it won't lose a few catties of meat, so as not to harm people like this?" ”

The one next to him said indignantly: "But isn't it, this is also a bit ruthless." Besides, the son on this painting boat was originally the kind of business he did, isn't it right to be molested, he has stepped on this kind of boat, what else is he pretending to be high? ”

A large group of people sympathized with the young master Hu and belittled the son who was molested in the painting boat, and the remarks became more and more intense, but I felt particularly harsh when I listened to it. Frowning and thinking for a while, I turned around and said to Shutong: "I'll go in and have a look, you wait for me outside." ”

There was no figure of Shutong behind him, so I guess he didn't keep up with me, but my burning heart couldn't delay for a moment, and I grinned and pulled for a while before squeezing into the innermost part of the crowd.

When I looked at the ground, I saw a man's hand lying on the ground with blood, it was the open palm holding a sandalwood bone folding fan, and on the thumb of the hand, a golden wrench came into my eyes, and I was suddenly shocked-

Isn't this the hand of the guy who teased me with a fan last night?!

In spite of the horror of the scene, I forced myself to compose myself, and looked at the hand with a wrung eyebrow, and I found that the broken section of the wrist was very flat, not like a broad, blunt axe, but like a thin and fast knife, with a very thin edge, sharpened like clay.

At this moment, a cold gaze came from the opposite side, I looked up, and what I saw was no one else, it was the ink-robed boy who broke the folding fan at the staircase of the painting boat last night, and a smile tugged at the corner of his lips, and when I looked up at him, the gaze in his eyes was much gentler.

I was about to say hello, but when I caught a glimpse of the silver moire on his inky cuffs, I subconsciously frowned.

There were a few threads stained scarlet on the moire, and the inky cloth that met it had a dark color the size of a fingernail. A bad thought came to mind, but I felt that it shouldn't be him, a stranger couldn't do it for me, or maybe I was too worried, the owner of this hand on the ground might have molested another son, and the son's good looks couldn't swallow this breath......

Thinking like this, I found that the ink-colored robe standing opposite me was gone, and I panicked, could it be that the murderer was him? Could it be that he absconded in fear of sin?

I didn't care about anything else, and I stepped over the bloody hand and rushed into the crowd opposite, trying to catch up with him and ask for clarification.

The sun is already high, and the trees in Nanguofu in March have shown a posture of flowers, especially those along the lake, Pingsuli has absorbed enough water, basked in the sun, strong and straight, and can easily hide two or three people behind them.

From time to time, I saw the inky robe walk into the back of a tree, but when I walked in, I found that the back of the tree was empty, and there was no one in sight.

"Shouldn't you go too fast and fall into the lake?" Thinking like this, I walked to the lake, leaned over and took a serious look into the lake, although there were ripples on the surface of the lake, they were all very small and light, and the aquatic plants in the lake were shaky, growing strong, and the silt was smooth and slippery, not like someone had just fallen into it and stepped on it.

I was full of thoughts about where he had hidden, so I didn't pay attention to my feet, stepped on a slippery aquatic plant by the lake, and slid down, and my whole body threw myself uncontrollably towards the surface of the lake. It was my last thought when I was about to fall into the water, completely forgetting that I actually knew how to water.

The expected drowning did not happen, and the leaves fell overhead, and an inky sleeve burst out of the air, reaching over my waist and encircling me, and then my body was pulled back with a force until my back hit a stiff chest.

I stood still by the lake, and was really stunned for a while, until the hand on my waist and the sleeve of my shirt were retracted, I reacted, turned around and thanked him: "Thank you Gongzi for coming to the rescue." I wanted to pretend to be sincere and serious, but for some reason I always wanted to clear up those confusions first, so that the words that came out later were very strange, "You just ...... Hidden in the canopy, right? ”

He lowered his eyes and brushed the fallen leaves from his sleeve, and did not answer my words, but smiled lightly.

My eyes fell uncontrollably on the faint blood color on the silver moire on his sleeve: "When I was watching at the ferry, I found that the three silver threads on my brother's sleeve were stained with blood. "I regret saying this, this boy saved me, but I spare no effort to doubt him.

But his face did not look gloomy, but he lowered his head and carefully looked for the three thin silver threads I said, and finally made sure that I was not lying, his face was happy, his eyes met my eyes, and he laughed softly: "You can see clearly in such a small place, your eyes are ......" paused, his voice softer than the wind, as if talking to himself, "Your eyes are so good." ”

My brain was hot and I blurted out, "Do you like it?" ”

He didn't answer, but raised his eyebrows and changed his words: "I was at that ferry just now, and I saw the excitement from a distance, and I ran away, and there was no ambiguity at all." ”

"You're laughing at me?"

He shook his head and said with a light smile: "You are in such good spirits now, how can I laugh at you." ”

I thought what he said was strange, as if he had known me before, as if I had bad eyes and bad spirits.