The heavy snow does not stop, it has been floating for seven days, seeing that the entire Lanling City is covered by wind and snow, it is all wrapped in silver makeup, ice carved jade, but it is also pleasing to the eye, making people feel good.

Xie Qingning was sitting on the newly built hot kang ordered by Chief Steward Xie to read a book, and suddenly heard who the Zheng was talking to in the courtyard, and the crisp voice floated intermittently, as if he was talking about a banquet.

After a while, Bang Zheng returned to the inner room and said, "Miss, the big girl in Mrs. Qin's room has come over with silver makeup, saying that the Xie Mansion will hold a plum banquet in three days, and the guests in the house will be like a cloud. ”

"Really?" Xie Qingning raised his eyebrows and said without raising his head, "Our bamboo courtyard is so remote, which distinguished guest will break into here, but Mrs. Qin is too worried." ”

"I think so, and I deliberately ran to say it, and I didn't say that I wanted to invite you to attend, this is intentional, right?" Xie Qingning asked her with a smile, "Do you really want to participate in that kind of banquet?" ”

"Huh? I...... I'm not ......," Bang Zheng hurriedly waved his hand to deny, looking at her worried appearance, Xie Qingning's eyebrows moved slightly, and he couldn't help but put down the medical book in his hand and asked her, "You are sixteen years old this year, right?" Can you be married at home? ”

"Yes, no, there is no marriage," mentioning these boudoir matters, Bang Zheng immediately blushed and hurriedly denied it.

"Oh, do you have anyone in mind?" Xie Qingning was kind and seductive, but he didn't want her to follow him, but he was going to end up being ruined by Xie Hua, so he wanted to mention her.

Bang Zheng waved his hand again to deny, his face was as red as a ripe cherry, and even his earlobes were bright red like a glow.

"It's okay if you don't have someone, if you have someone in mind, it doesn't hurt to tell me, I can always help you refer to it and see if it's a good match." Xie Qingning stopped persecuting, smiled and continued to read.

Seeing that she didn't ask any more, Bang Zheng quietly breathed a sigh of relief, and when she turned around to leave, she seemed to remember something and said, "Miss, do you think that at night recently, there are always people sneaking around, probing their brains, as if they are watching our bamboo courtyard?" ”

Xie Qingning's eyebrows didn't move, but he only said, "No." ”

"Oh, am I thinking too much." He muttered a word before turning around and walking out of the inner room.

Waiting for her figure to leave, Xie Qingning frowned and raised his head, looking at the closed window and remembering that since three days ago, the bamboo courtyard had been monitored, she had used her spiritual sense, but she was just an ordinary person with no spiritual power, but this kind of probe always makes people uneasy, and I don't know which force sent it.

She had doubted Xie Zhongshu, but she felt that she was now attached to the Xie family, and her words and deeds were in the eyes of the people of Xie Mansion, so why did he bother to do this?

She also doubted Xie Huayan, but I heard that she had been recuperating in the hospital since she first recovered from a serious illness and rarely went out.

The last thought was Ye Chong, although he didn't show his face in front of him last time, she and Xie Huayan were not poisoned and died, with his cunning and insidiousness, it was normal to suspect that he had done something to send someone to monitor.

Thinking about it like this, she has nothing to fear, a little Ye Zhong, she doesn't pay attention to it.

Xie Qingning is thinking about another thing at the moment, in more than a month it will be the moon, she received the cultivation heart sutra on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve in her lifetime, and she will inevitably have to sneak out of the Xie Mansion at that time, she is just worried that the encounter in this life will be completely reversed, will the old servant who gave her the cultivation heart sutra really appear?

"What are you thinking about?" The black cat's voice was so sudden that she almost threw away her medical skills.

Hearing this, she rolled her eyelids before turning her head to look at the black cat who was getting up from the bed, stretching her waist and asking, "You have been sleepy all these days, but are you uncomfortable?" ”

"What else can I do but sleep?" The black cat's movements were a little stiff, and his eyes were a little lonely.

Xie Qingning thought about it and couldn't help asking, "You...... Did you encounter any danger that forced you to attach the original spirit to the cat? ”

Unexpectedly, the black cat suddenly roared, "What's the matter with you, let's take care of yourself first, someone wants to get rid of you." ”

"You know that, too?" Xie Qingning was stunned for a moment, and asked in surprise, "Why do you see that they want to kill me?" ”

"Hmph, I'm ...... My spiritual sense extends much more widely than yours, and those people want to get rid of you because your mother once had a magic weapon, and after she died, that magic weapon disappeared, but you have been so dazzling these days, they will inevitably suspect that you are so arrogant because of your mother's magic weapon, and what is strange about wanting to take advantage of your young age. ”

Magic weapon? Xie Qingning heard for the first time that her mother Xie Lanying still had any magic weapons, but she had never seen it in her previous life, so how could she talk about this life? Hearing this, I couldn't help but lower my eyebrows and think, so I heard Xiao Zheng suddenly shouting in the courtyard, "Who is sneaking outside the door?" Be careful that I went to sue Chief Steward Xie and skinned you, see if you dare to make a mistake? ”

Then there was a rush of footsteps, and finally I heard Yanyu shouting, "Don't come back if you have a kind, next time I meet you, my aunt and grandmother have to look good!" ”

Xie Qingning was very puzzled when he heard this, so he had to put down the book, put on his cloak and walked out of the house.

Passing through the hall, I happened to meet the panting smoke and rain and the kite, and the faces of both of them were as bright as red, obviously they had just done strenuous exercise.

"What's going on?" Xie Qingning asked.

"Miss, we just found a little guy poking his brain at the door, so we thought about catching him and interrogating Miss to see which one of them dared to be so rude, but unfortunately he ran so fast that he disappeared after chasing for a long time." Yanyu's explanation made Xie Qingning frown, although she didn't care who was watching at the gate of the bamboo courtyard, she couldn't tolerate them not even scrupling in broad daylight, did she really think she was a soft persimmon?

After thinking about it, she beckoned them to come over, and then taught them a few words in their ears, and the two of them were overjoyed, and Yanyu's eyes widened and said, "Really? That's great, let those people suffer a little, and see if they dare to come again! ”

In the middle of the night, I heard a terrible cry from outside the courtyard, and the three people who were sitting around the fire and waiting quietly laughed, and the zither and the smoke and rain immediately ran out, and sure enough, a little man in cloth clothes who was dripping blood with a rat trap holding his right foot and dragging it into the hall.

Xie Qingning, who was already waiting in the hall, held the stove in his hand, looked at him condescendingly, and asked with a moving expression, "Who are you?" Why are you sneaky at the gate of my bamboo courtyard? ”

The little guy was so entrapped by the rat that he begged for mercy again and again, but he didn't say a word about who instructed him.

"Since you don't know each other like this, don't pay attention to him, and wait for his blood to drain and throw it out to feed the dog." Xie Qingning's face was slightly cold, and he got up and walked towards the inner room.

The little girl was so frightened that she hurriedly told her to spare it, "Miss spare your life, little one...... The small one was ordered by the four masters, but it was just ...... It's just to see what Miss does every day, just report it truthfully, it really doesn't mean to hurt Miss, please Miss check it out! ”

Four masters? Xie Zhonghuai? Does he make people stare at him?

Xie Qingning didn't speak, but he didn't mean to leave, seeing that her expression was silent, but her young age revealed a calmness and wisdom that was extremely inconsistent with her age, even the little guy didn't dare to say more, not to mention the zither and smoke and rain that had been with her for a while.

After a while, Xie Qingning waved his hand and said indifferently, "Since that's the case, let him go, presumably the fourth master will look for me sooner or later, why rush." ”

Hearing her say this, Bang Zheng and Yanyu glanced at each other, and could only let go of the little guy's arms, and after he limped away, he was busy fetching water to clean the blood stains on the ground.