Chapter 182: Turning into a Crane (3)
Outside the Song Mansion, the wind is cold, but it can't cover the brilliant sunlight of the clear sky. Such a bright daylight shines on people, but it has a lot of lazy meaning. When Xiao Qinglang left the Song Mansion with Xu Chu, Mrs. Song had already gone back to her room to rest.
In the next few days, the days were also quiet. Xiao Qinglang invested a lot of money and opened Wenyanlou and Qishan Bookstore branches in the east of the city, because Song Derong came in person and showed great enthusiasm for Xiao Qinglang, the owner, and Tang Rucai, who has always been arrogant, also came to the bookstore to borrow a lone book, so Wenyanlou and Qishan Bookstore have become famous in only five days after opening.
Of course, this coaxing is also indispensable to the amazing experiences of Zhou Gongzi and Miss Chu outside.
However, if you think about it carefully, it is indeed legendary, not to mention the theory of gods and ghosts, just say that these two people have solved several major cases in a few months, which is not comparable to ordinary people.
Thinking about it like this, who would dare to find bad luck with these two people?
is also because they have arrived in a prosperous place, and there is no case and corpse that Xiao Mingzhu has in mind, so the two of them have not seen each other all day. However, Xu Chu, who was familiar with their situation, would not be too worried at this time, after all, after the Furong Inn, Xiao Qinglang arranged a secret guard to protect Xiao Mingzhu, so as not to make any mistakes due to her reckless temperament.
"It seems that you scared that Aunt Yang a lot, and now you are begging Song Derong to come forward and discuss with you." Xiao Qinglang looked at the post sent by Song Derong and couldn't help laughing, "I just don't know if Mrs. Song knows about his behavior." ”
"This is also what I want to say, according to our original orthopedic office, the real Song Derong died in the second year after marrying his wife. So, can Mrs. Song, who is the pillow person, know that Song Derong has already been replaced? She has been with someone for more than ten years, and she has not taken a concubine from him, and even arranged for him, which is really strange. ”
"Xiao Chu also thinks that the Song family is haunted, and Mrs. Song is the most suspicious?"
Xu Chu nodded and wrote down the doubts one by one. But because they didn't see the haunting with their own eyes, and Song Derong didn't tell the truth all about it, so she had too little to speculate.
Xiao Qinglang saw her sighing appearance, and couldn't help but bring people to his side and hug her, "Some things can't be rushed, if you are in a hurry, you will go wrong, you are waiting for a few days, Song Derong will definitely come to the door in person." ”
Xu Chu was stunned and asked, "Are you saying that he doesn't believe us, so he will send someone to investigate?" ”
Xiao Qinglang looked at her looking up, his voice was slightly hoarse, and he smiled, "It's not that someone will be sent, but someone has already been sent." If my guess is correct, I'm afraid that the person behind the scenes will also intervene. ”
"How's that for good?" Xu Chu frowned, grabbed his arm and propped himself up and said anxiously, "As the King of Jing'an, anyone with some eyesight will not admit to it." ”
Xiao Qinglang didn't care at all, and only smiled: "Since this son is here, I am not afraid of him chasing him." ”
At this time, even though he didn't have a sharp expression, and even had some tenderness between his eyebrows, his proud eyes still made Xu Chu's heart move. She pursed her lips and breathed a sigh of relief, reflexively snuggled into his arms, and even hugged his waist with her arms as she did in the water pavilion of the mountain villa that day.
Sure enough, she felt the body under her hands suddenly tighten, and even her breathing and heartbeat were much faster.
Hmph, let your playthings be discouraged, let you read the words of those talented and beautiful people behind my back, so and see what other means you can use to flirt with your sister.
Xiao Qinglang was distracted by Xu Chu's sudden movements, and his always wise and calm eyes were also stained with a bit of intoxicating charm, and he even talked about how Ruyu's handsome face was flushed.
He enclosed the person in his arms, originally without the slightest distraction, at most he just wanted to appease. But he didn't want to, when her breath sprayed on the skin around his neck, he actually felt a crisp in his back, and the whole person was a little distracted.
The strands of hair hanging down her back faintly wrapped around Xiao Qinglang's slender fingers, turning his full comfort into a pool of spring water. In the end, he could only hold his breath and said hoarsely: "Xiao Chu, don't move!" ”
At this moment, all the tricks he had learned from his book, even the means of currying favor with women, were forgotten. However, the joy and happiness in my heart burst out like instinct.
His chin rested against her hair, his face was mixed with indulgent tenderness and love, and he said in a low voice: "I will dispatch the dark line and strive to find Xu Yanzuo ...... as soon as possible" Speaking of this, he paused and continued, "When the time comes, we will get married, if you like the capital, stay in the capital to investigate the case." If you don't like the bondage of the capital, I'll ask my brother to take you where you want to go......"
This is a promise, and it is also the sweetest love word Xu Chu has ever heard. In fact, Xiao Qinglang didn't say this time about the future plans of the two, but every time Xu Chu heard it in his ears, there would be ripples in his heart.
Sometimes, people who like each other don't need to deliberately say some love words or please each other, as long as they have the same heart, many times the casual words are a hundred times more tempting than those sweet words before the moon and flowers.
Recently, in addition to the popular Zhou Gongzi and Miss Chu in Jinzhou City, the Wenyan Building, which appeared out of thin air and attracted students all over the city, was even more talked-about. This teahouse only accepts literati and scholars, and does not shy away from being born to talk about the six arts, and what is even more rare is that the proprietor will invite a famous bachelor to come and teach every ten days.
As a result, the elegant place, which was originally only a gimmick for appreciating paintings and poems, has become the first choice for many students and literati in Jinzhou City to gather.
In the Great Zhou Dynasty, there were many poor students with great ambitions, but there were more scholars who had been carefully cultivated by their families or who had considerable assets in their families. After all, it is really rare for a poor farmer to tighten their belts to support a scholar. It is precisely like this that Wenyanlou is not only famous, but also has a booming business that it is not an exaggeration to make money every day.
They heard that the prince of Zhou was good at feng shui, and it seemed that the gluttonous buildings of the famous Great Zhou were all pointed out by him. With such an association, many wealthy businessmen in Jinzhou City also came to visit him, and they wanted to ask Zhou Gongzi to show each other a thing or two.
Naturally, with the blessing of those words, Xu Chu also received a soft hand when he received the worship post. Most of them are strange things happening in the house, or they feel that there are ghosts in the house. Xu Chu picked and chose to look at a few of them, and after hearing the ins and outs, some gave them a method, which made it even more famous.
The so-called unintentional insertion of willows and willows, hearing that she was spreading more and more evil outside, made Xu Chu extremely helpless. In fact, where is there such a god, the first one said that at night they always heard the sound of walking in the house, and it was very scary, but when they went up to the room to see, there was nothing. After Xu Chu took a closer look, she found a few cat hairs on the tile, and there were dead branches, so she concluded that it should be something like a tree branch hanging on the cat's body, so that it made a strange sound when it walked around. Later, she stayed with Wei Guang for half the night, caught the cat and went to the branches, and naturally there was no so-called ghost footsteps.
The next few were pretty much the same, and there was really nothing really frightening.
A few days later, Song Derong sent someone to invite Xiao Qinglang and Xu Chu into the house. This time, his attitude was better than the last time, but Xu was overly worried and lacked rest, which made his whole person look a little decadent, his eyes were sunken, his eyes were blue, and he did not have any official bearing.
If only he could understand that Xu Chu was so good, but Mrs. Song on the side was also so demeanorful, and even her body was more tired than Song Derong.
"Your Excellency let me come down this time, but I have something to order?" Xiao Qinglang asked.
Song Derong did not let Mrs. Song take Xu Chu away this time, but waved his hand tiredly to send the subordinates who were serving the tea down.
"Presumably, Gongzi Zhou and Miss Chu should have heard about the haunting of the official mansion." Song Derong sighed deeply and said weakly, "This official has found many Taoist priests, and even buried charms everywhere in the mansion, but it is still useless. ”
The people he sent to the capital had already sent back the news that Zhou Yunlang was indeed the young owner of Qishan Bookstore, and when he was young, he defeated the national teacher and showed his prominence. It's just that later, for some reason, he rarely appeared in front of people, some people say that he followed the national teacher to devote himself to cultivation, and some people say that he traveled around to study. But now I heard that Qishan Bookstore has been completely taken over by him.
As for his side, there is indeed a mysterious Chu girl. Song Derong thought of what his subordinates said in the letter, they found the tooth of the person who betrayed Chu Niang back then, and confirmed that Chu Niang's identity was undoubted.
If that's all the way, maybe he won't be completely relieved. However, the dark line left by Rong Gong on the side of the household department also handcopied a flying pigeon from the news of the household department, Zhou Yunlang's identity is undoubted, and although the Chu girl next to him is nominally a maidservant, she has actually redeemed herself and set up a separate female household registration.
Although he was a little surprised, he thought about it for a moment, and it seemed that this was also expected. After all, even if Zhou Yunlang gave her a favor and let her be free, how could a single-family woman survive when she was alone? It's better to follow a young master who is quite interested in her, and even has some affection.
From this point of view, it makes sense to explain why this Chu girl and Xiao Qinglang don't want a pure master-servant relationship many times.
Anyway, no matter what the inside situation is, he no longer has any doubts about the identities of Xiao Qinglang and Xu Chu now. Even, he has vaguely included these two people in his sphere of influence, commonly known as his own people.
"Originally, after the Chinese New Year, the house stopped for more than ten days, and I thought that the sneaky had been subdued. But I don't want to, it came out to commit a crime again last night, and ......" As soon as Song Derong mentioned it, he couldn't help but chill, "I've already let the yamen take a look, but there is still no clue, and the others are even more helpless." ”