Chapter 69: Maggots (1st Update)
After going out of the pharmacy, Cheng Qi went straight back to the Guogong Mansion, and on the way she asked Ah Qiao and learned that he was the one who came to deliver medicine to herself last night.
But Ah Qiao has no reason to do this, and there is no motive.
Could it be that he is jealous of his beauty, or is he instructed by others?
But if he really did it, he shouldn't admit it so easily, he should have planted it for others.
Cheng Qi sat in the carriage, a little puzzled.
Anyway, Zhou Langzhong's side has eliminated the suspicion, and the old man is not lightly angry, but in any case, this person does not want to get involved in the private affairs of the Cheng family.
Today's maggot grass is clearly the pickled cat of the family.
Is it a three-room?
Cheng Qi shook his head, Cheng Yun wished that she would enter the palace after raising her face, add glory to the Cheng family, and give himself a high tree to shake money and power.
As for Cheng Yunshan, without the consent of Sanfang, he didn't dare to make his own decisions.
Who could that be?
Cheng Qi couldn't let go of this matter, so much so that he was absent-minded when he was eating at night in the Wuyuan.
Mrs. Cheng asked Mother Zhou to bring her the stack of kidney bean rolls, and said lightly: "Desert, why don't you eat well?" ”
Cheng Qi came back to his senses, shook his head and said, "Maybe it's because I'm tired from riding in the car, so I don't have much appetite." ”
"Man is iron, rice is steel."
Mrs. Cheng said: "If you don't have an appetite, you have to eat, for the sake of your health." ”
Cheng Pei sneered beside her: "Grandmother, haven't you forgotten, Sister Axiu is a person who is about to enter the palace, so naturally she has to eat less and move more, and condition her body like a willow, so ah, this is a reduction." ”
Mrs. Cheng asked Cheng Qi, "Desert, are you really reducing the amount?" ”
The man was speechless, and said in his heart that the old lady was old and confused, and Cheng Pei had to believe such stupid words.
But after thinking about it, she has eaten a lot in the past few months, and she has increased from emaciation to normal weight, isn't she 'fat'.
In addition, he didn't want to reveal the matter of maggot grass abruptly, so Cheng Qi had to say: "Yes." ”
Cheng Dai raised his head, and pushed over the bone broth that he only had one bowl of with an expressionless face: "No matter how thin you are, you can fly a kite on a leash, what weight to lose, drink this too." ”
Cheng Shu also said lightly: "Grandma, how long has your illness been cured, you lost weight too early, there is still a year and a half to enter the palace, take your time, you can't just ask for speed in everything." ”
Cheng Qi took a sip of the bone broth, and listened to Cheng Shu again: "I will go back to the Vermilion Bird Tower in a few days, it will be the end of the month, and the palace will come to teach Mama Xi to strictly check and assess, you won't be in a hurry to lose weight because of this." ”
Cheng Qi had no choice but to get off the donkey and nodded.
Cheng Shu was helpless: "That's too urgent." ”
Cheng Pei said untimely again: "It's useless." Raising his voice and sneering, "Besides, even if you lose weight violently, what can you do, it's better to take care of your face first, I see, it's going to leave a scar." ”
Her snarky appearance, coupled with the mention of her face, Cheng Qi raised her eyes cautiously.
"Pei'er."
Cheng Shu said solemnly: "What nonsense are you talking about, Grandma is going to enter the palace in the future, her face will definitely be good, close your mouth and give me peace of mind." ”
Cheng Yunshan saw her reprimanding Cheng Pei in front of her, and felt that she was a little embarrassed on her face, and was about to speak.
"Eat without sleeping."
Mrs. Cheng, who was seated, lowered her eyes and said coldly:
Cheng Yunshan had no choice but to give up.
"By the way, why hasn't Zong Yu come back yet?"
As soon as Mrs. Cheng finished speaking, she didn't say anything, and she became a flag of her own.
"Back to the old lady's words." Mother Zhou was helping her to arrange the vegetables, Young Master Zongyu had just taken over the account of Xiangfang, plus the accident a few days ago, he was recounting, the child was attentive and refused to be lazy to come back to eat. ”
"What? Do you still want to sleep in Xiangfang? ”
Old Madam Cheng looked up at her.
Zhou's mother said: "I guess so." ”
"That's it."
Mrs. Cheng put down her chopsticks, causing everyone to stop chopsticks one after another, and listened to her: "It's a great thing that this child is so attentive." He took the handkerchief and wiped his mouth, "Withdraw the meal and go back to rest." ”
"Yes."
A group of people got up, Cheng Qi took Qingdaitang out, and the left rear was the unhurried Cheng Pei.
She stopped suddenly, turned her head and stared at Cheng Pei, Cheng Pei was uncomfortable, and said contemptuously: "What do you think I'm doing?" ”
Cheng Qi didn't speak, and continued to star.
Cheng Pei has a red envelope around her neck.
She covered it with her hand unnaturally, bumped Cheng Qi's shoulder and walked out, and the person didn't shake, only held Qing Dai's hand tightly, and when she entered the courtyard gate of Tinglan Water Pavilion, she suddenly waved her hand.
Qing Dai was stunned: "What's wrong with the girl?" ”
Cheng Qi waved his arms wildly, and the man also learned suspiciously: "But there are mosquitoes?" ”
"I just saw one."
Cheng Qi had the reflection of the moon in his eyes, turned his head and asked Qing Dai, "Didn't you see it?" ”
This was originally Cheng Qi's blind drawing, Qingdai naturally didn't see it, but she was worried that Cheng Qi was bitten by mosquitoes, so she hurriedly said: "Girl, don't worry, there is mosquito repellent incense in our yard, and the slave will light it later." ”
"Don't."
Cheng Qi refused: "That thing is also ordered in Vermilion Bird Tower, it's too choking." Rolling his eyes, "I heard Ma Zhen say that you can use maggot grass to repel mosquitoes, that thing is not choking, you can get some." ”
Qing Dai muttered: "Maggot grass? His face was slightly embarrassed, "Although this thing can be seen everywhere, I haven't seen anyone pull it out and save some, why did the girl pick up that grass?" ”
Cheng Qi pushed her out and said with a smile: "You go get some, we are such a big Guogong Mansion, is it possible that we can't find two maggots." Pointing to her nose, "If you don't go, if you don't go, I'll tell you ghost stories in the middle of the night." ”
"Slave go, slave go can't go."
Qing Dai felt a chill in her back when she thought of Cheng Qi's ghost story full of stomachs, the last time she heard her tell a case of a dead man carrying a coffin, she was so scared that she didn't sleep well for three or four days, and she had nightmares every night.
"Hurry up."
Cheng Qi saw her go and pushed open the courtyard door of Tinglan Water Pavilion alone.
I didn't take a few steps on the flat stone bridge, but I saw a black lump floating in the corner of the blue lake, but I couldn't see it clearly in the evening, and it disappeared in a blink of an eye.
It seems to be a person.
…… How can it be.
Cheng Qi felt that he might be an occupational criminal, after all, he lived near the river in modern times, and always investigated some cases of floating corpses.
I guess that black lump is a pile of filth that hasn't been cleaned up for a long time.
She got off the stone bridge and stepped onto the wooden pavilion, and was about to enter the house, when she saw the opening in the doorframe.
Cheng Qi reached out and touched it suspiciously, and said in his heart that it was so smooth and so powerful......
It is estimated that the fine spicy accidentally made it.
This ruined girl knows that woe is a curse.
It's nothing to break a cup or plate normally, but this time it directly broke the door frame and must be punished.
She went up to the third floor, eating snacks in a daze, while waiting for Qingdai, and the man soon returned, the sound of light footsteps sounded on the stairs, and she carried a handful of maggots upstairs.
"Girl."
She panted and said, "The slave helped you find what you wanted." ”
Cheng Qi raised his head, his face flashed with some of the rigor of handling the case: "Where did it come from?" ”
Because Qing Dai remembered the ghost story that night, and she was scared when it was dark, she used to run back and forth, and she was very tired at this time, and she didn't notice Cheng Qi's abnormality.
"It's strange, this maggot grass is all over Dayi Mountain, but no one picks it at will, these are still looking for mulberry leaves, and she has it." Qing Dai handed it to her.
Cheng Qi frowned slightly.
Mulberry leaf?
Come to think of it.
Cheng Pei's personal maid.
Cheng Qi was not surprised, it was really her.