168, one step late

Overnight, 'Hua' Jiu interrogated Qin's old mother, the old mother knelt in front of 'Hua' Jiu, trembling like a sieve of chaff, still couldn't say why, she was coaxing Yaya to sleep, she turned off the lights and left to prepare to go back to the room to rest, if it was usual, she would get up once in the middle of the night to wake up Yaya to go to the toilet, but this night, she actually slept to the end, and she didn't even turn over, let alone wake up.

As soon as Old Mother Qin approached 'Hua' Jiu, 'Hua' Jiu's keen sense of smell smelled a smell like bitter almonds, which was so light that ordinary people couldn't smell it at all.

She picked up Qin's old mother's clothes, and as soon as her fingers 'touched' the collar, there were fine pieces of white 'colored' powder appearing on her fingertips, she took a closer look, and it was indeed a 'mystery' and 'medicine', but this is not an ordinary 'mystery' and 'medicine', with sleeping incense in it, as soon as the person who touches the smell will fall into a deep drowsiness 'desire' sleep, and when the 'chicken' crows, he can't wake up at all.

Sleeping incense is made of turnip as raw material, mixed with jasmine foam, and finally extracted by burning, the taste is slightly bitter, usually used to calm the nerves and sleep well, if you add a little bit of "fan" and "medicine", you can increase the "medicine" effect of "fan" and "medicine" several times.

This kind of incense is relatively small, and because of the bad smell, many people will not consider it even if they like to choose incense products such as soothing the nerves.

The "flower" and the nine gods are different in "color", and she will make incense in the huge Xifu, and the autumn harvest is not good, and now there is such a situation, could it be that there is still a hidden perfume master? Then she herself denied this idea, if there was someone in the Xi family who could mix sleeping incense, then the sleep incense would have bloomed a long time ago, and it would not be her turn to start preparing when she entered the mansion.

Let the 'Chun' give birth to a few people to watch and deal with this old Qin mother by themselves, and the 'flower' nine only felt a sudden pain in the center of his eyebrows, "I'll go to the incense room, don't disturb me." ”

When she said this, she directly ignored the worries of 'Chun' Xiaoqiu and Dong, and walked past the old mother Qin who was kneeling at her feet, and went straight to the incense room.

Wisteria, warm and tolerant 'shade', blooms 'flowers' in March and April every year, the fragrance is elegant and pure, and the white 'colored' wisteria is the top grade fragrance raw material.

But the 'flower' nine also knows, the 'jade' formula has a cloud, if the wisteria and the tonka encounter, that is, there is a strange 'flower' fragrance, this fragrance is strong and lingering like water, when the tonka dormant on the wisteria 'flower', the light purple small 'flower' will immediately attract countless butterflies who love 'flower' and live, this scene is magnificent, eye-catching.

'Flower' Nine gave Yaya a bottle of wisteria, although the glass bottle was broken in the end, but she looked for it throughout the room, and only half of the wisteria 'flower' that was stepped on the ground was at all, and the other half must have been stained on the sole of the person's shoes, so it disappeared.

'Flower' nine to make tonka incense, but also must be prepared before dawn, fortunately in the incense room has always been full of spices, there is no shortage of materials, what she lacks is time, according to the record of the 'jade's formula, this incense needs to be brewed for at least two days, and finally it can be completed, but there is also a quick way, which can be concocted in one night, and the price paid is to overdraft all the 'essence' and mind of the perfumer.

However, this 'flower' nine didn't care, she locked herself in the incense room, and the four girls in the 'spring', summer, autumn and winter stood outside the 'door', even if she was worried, she didn't dare to break through the 'door' and enter.

Finally, at the end of the day, from the incense room came a clear fragrance that only snow water has, with the freshness of the buds and branches, just smell can imagine the warmth of the early 'spring', the incense room room 'door' creaked, and the slender figure of 'flower' nine in the morning sun has an unreal drift.

"Girl......" 'Spring', Summer, Autumn and Winter shouted in unison, only to look up, and they were all stunned when they saw the 'color' of 'Hua' Jiu's face-

The palm-sized little face is very white, very different from the sickly white of Xi Huayue, with a transparency like ice, only there is a touch of blush on the cheeks, and the pale pink is like a very charming rouge, plus the nine eyes of the 'flower' are burning, and the complexion is extremely strange.

'Flower' Jiu was silent, she stepped out of the 'door' threshold, walked out of the incense room and stood under the afterglow of the morning sun, there was a hazy light passing through her, as if it came out of the body, she held a celadon vial bottle in her hand, 'Hua' Jiu smiled lightly and pulled out the cork.

The faint fragrance just now suddenly became stronger, and quickly spread like a surrounding spread, with a monstrous flood, and it took only a few breaths to quickly cover the entire Xifu, and early in the morning, everyone smelled this smell.

The smile on the face of 'Hua' Jiu deepened, the tips of the upturned 'lips' had a sharp 'color', the eyes narrowed, and the long curly eyelashes 'hair' blocked out all the morning light that was about to 'shoot' into the pupils, leaving only the dark shadow flowing under the eyes.

In half an hour, someone on the ground first discovered countless butterflies flying from the sky, some large and some small, which could make people's eyes look at the 'flowers'.

In this cold winter, where will butterflies appear at ordinary times, this abnormal scene not only makes the people in Xifu stunned, but also admires the people in the market when they see it.

Those butterflies overwhelmingly came to Xifu, hovering in the sky, scattered around, not going for a long time, and the sharp-eyed maid 'girl' looked at the ground in amazement, and saw that there were countless sudden rises in the ground, and then snakes, rats, sandworms and the like, as long as all the winter hibernation in the ground, all the 'spirits' crawled out vigorously, responding to the butterflies in the sky, this scene is weird and makes people feel extremely cold.

'Flower' nine heads raised slightly, looking at the butterflies in the sky, the thin cool 'lips' moved a few times, but it was silent, she didn't blink her eyes, watching those butterflies hovering and then hula in a certain direction, and more and more, all flapping their wings in one direction, and those snakes and rats also followed quickly in that direction.

'Hua' Jiu's heart was 'excited', and the blush on her face became more and more red, like a few 'desire' dripping blood, she lifted the hem of her skirt and ran in that direction.

“…… The girl ...... "'Spring', summer, autumn and winter are in a hurry, they naturally know that this strange scene is 'made' by their own girl, and they all know that they can't go out to 'mess' and say, seeing that 'Hua' Jiuyi is about to run away in the blink of an eye, the four of them hurriedly followed.

'Hua' Jiu has been turning through countless eaves, passing through the backyard, and the wings of butterflies around her feathers brushed her cheeks, and a little bit of warmth soaked into her heart and dissolved into the boiling 'chest' cavity.

In the end, 'Hua' Jiu stopped at the 'door' in the backyard of Xifu, and the mother-in-law who guarded the 'door' saw 'Hua' Jiu coming straight over, and shouted in fear, "Seventh young lady......"

Hua Jiu brushed her away, opened the door suddenly, and saw that a few meters away from the back door, there was a beggar burning something, and countless butterflies were surrounding the fire, and there were snakes and rats pounced into the fire and dragged something out.

The beggar was so angry that he fluttered the butterflies and drove away the snakes and rats.

'Hua' Jiu stepped forward with an arrow, kicked over the beggar, and wanted to stretch out his hand to pull into the fire, 'Spring' summer, autumn and winter arrived in time, 'Chun' Sheng shouted, and the other three dragged 'Hua' Jiu to prevent her from stepping forward to get into danger, and 'Chun' Sheng immediately took off his coat and threw himself into the fire, trying to extinguish the flames.

However, the fire should have been burning for a long time, and the fire was fierce, and finally burned all the coats of 'spring'.

"Oh, daughter-in-law, what are you doing here?" At this moment, the voice of the fifth lady Duan rang out suddenly, she stood at the back 'door', looking at the 'flower' nine in surprise, Xu saw that the 'flower' nine wanted to put out the fire, and turned her head to the maid 'girl' behind her and ordered, "Don't go and bring a bucket of water to the young lady." ”

'Hua' Jiu ignored her, just looked at the fire, and in an instant her face was like paper gold, how could she not see that she was a step too late, and the broken boot fabric fragments could be vaguely seen in the fire, and all the excess things were burned at all, without any trace.

'Chun' Sheng naturally knew what the girl was thinking, she walked a few steps to the beggar, kicked him fiercely and asked, "Let me ask you, who told you to burn this thing?" If you don't tell the truth, I'll kill you on the spot!" ”

The beggar was already frightened by this battle, and he kept shaking his head, "It's not me, it's not me, it's already burning when I came, I'm too cold, so I got close and wanted to warm ......"

"Daughter-in-law, why is your face so ugly? I watched the beggar tell the truth, so I might as well give up. "Duan walked to 'Hua' Jiu's side, his expression was amiable and warm, and even those words were soft-spoken.

"Dare to ask my mother-in-law," 'Hua' Jiu finally spoke, there was a hidden sharpness in her voice, although the tone 'color' was tired, but the coldness was not at all, "It's so early, where is my mother-in-law going?" Ready to go home or ready to leave? ”

She didn't even have half an hour at the back 'door', and no one from the Xifu Mansion came until now, and the Duan clan appeared the earliest.

Duan didn't seem to expect 'Hua' Jiu to ask this, she was stunned for a moment, and there was anger on her face, "Are you suspicious of me?" I'm a 'woman', and I'm also a mother, and I can't do this kind of thing, I tell you, 'Hua', you have wronged your mother-in-law like this today, I still have to get the grandfather to ask for an explanation, your eldest brother is still dizzy, I went out in the morning to ask another doctor to see, how did I get into a 'commotion'......"

'Hua' Jiu looked at her deeply, there was a cold quenched poisonous fire at the bottom of her eyes, and there was only a piece of scrap cloth the size of a copper coin left in the place far from the fire in the ground, and 'Hua' Jiu bent down to pick it up, and there was a thin and pale powder of blood flowing down from her seven orifices.

Mouth, nose, eyes, the blood slowly fell, it was a blood stain, and it looked extremely sad on the face as white as paper gold.

"Girl......"

'Flower' nine heard the exclamation of 'Spring' Summer, Autumn and Winter, she pinched this piece of cloth in her hand, looked up and saw that all the butterflies attracted by Lingling incense swayed and fell, and then fell silently to the ground, and after a long time her eyes were closed, she never woke up again.