In the spring of the third year of Jiazheng, in the mansion of the Xun family in Yingchuan.

It was the weather in early April, and the willows in the back garden were still there. This year's spring is warmer than usual, and the peonies and peonies carefully cultivated in the garden are blooming in clusters. Some of the petals are still covered with dewdrops, and the breeze blows, trembling and trembling, which is very lovely.

Xun Qingran was wearing a goose-yellow spring shirt, and walked briskly on the path in the garden. It's just that it hasn't come out for a few days, and this garden is already full of purple and red. Xun Qingran sighed lightly.

Immediately behind Xun Qingran was a tall girl called a bellflower. She hugged the brocade cushion, which seemed to be infected with the master's good mood, while pointing to a cluster of flowers for Xun Qing to see, and did not forget to turn around and greet the little girl Baozhu who was a few steps behind. Baozhu is holding a food box and tea set in his hand. She was still young, and she was greedy for the koi in the pond, and when she heard the call of the bellflower, she hurriedly walked two steps to catch up.

Because the main mother Fang went to the temple to make incense, the housekeeper followed a lot. The maids and servants who did things also hid and were idle, so the garden was quiet and no one came and went. It was rare to be at ease for a long time, Xun Qingran was in a happy mood, and unconsciously smiled with his eyebrows.

"Haha, I've got you."

With the sound of the urn and the shout of the urn, a young man wearing a brocade robe, with a fat head and big ears, jumped out from behind the rockery and blocked the way of the master and servant. This person is only a head taller than Xun Qingran, but his figure is twice as wide as her. A big face was shiny, and there were acne sores and pimples all over his face. It has the advantage of leaving flies and mosquitoes with nowhere to put their feet.

This suddenly, Xun Qingran was frightened and instinctively took a step back. When he looked up and saw who it was, he frowned, and the black memory hidden in his heart was suddenly awakened.

It was four years ago, she inexplicably woke up in the body of an eleven-year-old girl, and the first person she saw in this world, the first living person to be exact, was the pig's head in front of her.

The girl lay on the cold ground, her clothes torn in several places, her mouth wide open but no sound came out.

Xun Qingran felt as if she was in a nightmare, and the girl seemed to be close at hand, but it seemed to be far away. She wanted to rush over to save people, and wanted to call for help, but she couldn't move or speak. At this time, the murderer who was holding the girl's neck let go of his hands, stayed for a while, and then trembled his hands to probe the girl's snort. The girl was motionless, apparently lifeless. The murderer sat on the ground and froze for a while before he got up from the ground, looked around, and then fled with a smoke.

Xun Qing's eyes are real, the broom eyebrows, the bridge of the nose, and the thick lips are the face in front of him.

On that day, a major event happened in the Xun family. Shuyun, the fifth girl of the Xun family, who was only seven years old, fell into the lake and drowned because she was greedy for fun. Fang's family was furious, and the subordinates who were waiting beside the five girls were killed by the cane, and the others were chased and sold. Shuyun's biological mother, Aunt Lu, went crazy that night and was imprisoned in the family temple.

Fang's sister, Aunt Zheng, was originally a guest at the Xun family, and she had only stayed for a few days. On this day, he suddenly received a letter from home, saying that there was something at home, and he left with his son Zheng Yuanshuo overnight.

But Xun Qingran knew clearly that Xun Shuyun did not fall into the water and died, but was strangled to death by Zheng Yuanshuo. This is a secret, and the Xun family knows this secret, and Xun Qing is not the only one who knows this secret.

Today, four years later, Xun Shuyun's small body has long since turned to ashes. But the murderer came to Xun's house again and entered the house in a grand manner. Because he is the nephew of the Fang family, and the Fang family is the wife of the eldest master of the Xun family.

The Zheng family is an imperial businessman, but Zheng's father is full of poetry and books, and he also hopes that this only son can achieve something in his studies. Zheng's father passed away three years ago, leaving Aunt Zheng with a son and a daughter to live. Aunt Zheng did not forget her late husband's wishes, and as soon as the three-year filial piety period passed, she sent Zheng Yuanshuo to her sister Fang's and asked him to study with Master Xun.

Yingchuan people have a strong reading atmosphere, and there have been many literati and writers in the past dynasties, and there are even thinkers and strategists who have left their names in history. Don't say that they are serious scholars, they are peddlers and pawns, ordinary farmers, they can memorize the three-character scripture, the surname of a hundred families, and say a few words of a sage.

The Yingchuan Xun family is a local family, and most of the children in the clan are from the industry, and there are Yingchuan people at the top of the list in every imperial examination, of which the surname Xun accounts for the majority. Aunt Zheng sent Zheng Yuanshuo here, firstly, to make some progress in Zheng Yuanshuo's studies, and secondly, to ask the uncle of Master Xun to detain him.

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"The third sister is out to play, and my cousin is free to accompany you!"

Zheng Yuanshuo smiled and leaned in front of Xun Qingran.

Xun Qingran woke up and quietly gave way to the side. This Zheng Yuanshuo must have known that the Fang family was not at home, so he skipped school and came back to play. Xun Qingran wanted to ignore this person, and walked away, thinking of Fang's personality of protecting the short and partiality, if he knew, he would definitely take the opportunity to find her, so he had to endure the boredom and do his etiquette first.

"At this hour, shouldn't my cousin be studying in school? But what happened? I'm going to ask my wife to come back. ”

Zheng Yuanshuo doesn't like reading the most, and Xun Qingran wants to mention reading, so that he feels bored and walks away.

Zheng Yuanshuo could hear the words "study" and "study", and he really drooped the corners of his mouth. But in a blink of an eye, he grinned again, and took out the folding fan that was always available in the four seasons in his sleeve, opened it with a snap, and fanned it twice, pretending to fan it twice, a pair of eyes first stared at Xun Qingran's body up and down, and then turned to the bellflower, and stretched his neck to look at the treasure bead behind. When he saw a black birthmark on the surface of the orb, as if he had seen something dirty, he pursed his lips in disappointment, and glued his eyes to Xun Qing's body.

"My sister is like a fairy, don't mention the matter of not going to school. Others don't know, my sister should know my family history, and I can't spend it all in my life. What are you going to read about those bad books of Rausch, and what are you fighting with those poor people? …… Is my sister sick, why have I been here these days, it's really not easy to see my sister once. …… My sister is really out of the ordinary, and she is getting more and more ......."

Xun Qingran didn't say what he said, so he hurriedly coughed twice and stopped the conversation. However, after a while, Xun Qingran had already smelled the smell of wine mixed with the aroma of fat powder, which was Zheng Yuanshuo's body. Xun Qingran subconsciously looked at the rockery behind Zheng Yuanshuo. The stone was no more than half a man's height, and it could not hide anyone. But behind the big stone is a bamboo forest, and there is a path next to the bamboo forest, which leads to the low wall of the garden. There was a narrow gate there, and behind that gate was Aunt Wu's courtyard. From Xun Qing's way of dyeing, you can't see this trail, but if there were people on the trail, you would have been able to see Xun Qing's master and servant a long time ago.

Could it be that Zheng Yuanshuo just came out of Aunt Wu? Or did they find out that their master and servant were out of the house and deliberately waited here to intercept them?

Thinking of some rumors in the mouths of Xun Fu's subordinates, Xun Qingran's disgust in his heart was even worse. Since Zheng Yuanshuo came, she peeked at this person's appearance and became more and more unbearable, and began to live in seclusion. In order to cherish the feathers and avoid meeting him. I didn't expect to come to the garden today, but I still ran into this pervert.

I have to say that the culprit who caused this situation was the Fang clan.

Fang's family has always been born in everyone, and he knows etiquette and rules. Open and close your mouth to everyone in the family, and take out the rules to take care of it. can treat Zheng Yuanshuo's nephew, but he is very doting and conniving, just because he is his sister's only son. Zheng Yuanshuo is seventeen years old, and he is an adult man in this era, but the Fang family allows him to come and go casually in the Xun family's house, and he does not shy away from it. And this Zheng Yuanshuo has a bad character and often speaks indifferently, but when it comes to Fang's mouth, he is said to be a sincere and honest child, and he doesn't have so many ghost eyes.

Xun Qing was stunned, and Zheng Yuanshuo's pig face had already come to him. Xun Qingran resisted the urge to swing a punch over, and said: "I'm just asking for nothing, my cousin naturally understands the truth better than me." My cousin is busy with himself, so I won't bother my cousin. ”

Zheng Yuanshuo didn't rest, and said with a salivating face: "Sister, don't be in a hurry to leave, my brother has a phoenix hairpin here, pure gold, sister see if you like it?" As he spoke, he took out a hairpin from his sleeve and handed it to Xun Qingran with a smile.

This is to use the method of hooking up with the maid and the servant woman to her, what an arrogant and ignorant thing, Xun Qingran scolded angrily in her heart.

"Young Master Cousin, let's be respectful and go back to school quickly. When I came back, the old man knew that the young master was skipping school, but he was angry. Knowing that the young master is rich and rich, he has that good thing, so it's good to give it to the fourth girl. ”

Kikyo saw Xun Qingran's face sank, and hurriedly opened his mouth to protect the lord. Xun Qingran is a girl's family, self-respecting, and tender-faced, and some words are not easy to speak. She is a girl, but she doesn't have to worry so much. She is only fifteen years old this year, and she has a duck egg face, and her skin is fair, and her face is flushed when she is angry.

Zheng Yuanshuo ignored the disrespect of the bellflower, but looked at the bellflower's face in a daze. Xun Qingran is a girl from the Xun family after all, and he still has some scruples, but the bellflower is just a girl. He was lustful, so he reached out and grabbed the bellflower.

"You're so interesting!"

Xun Qing's hands were quick and quick, and he pulled the bellflower over. Zheng Yuanshuo didn't catch the bellflower, but he saw Baozhu standing in front of him, with a face that seemed familiar, but a black birthmark the size of a child's fist on it, and stared at him again. Zheng Yuanshuo didn't know why, he was a little hairy in his heart, and he couldn't have a seizure for a while.

"My sister doesn't like this? …… I had prepared another big gift for my sister that morning, and I always wanted to give it to my sister. It's just that I live in a house, my sister is ......, and if I can't see my sister, ......it's hard to send it" Seeing that Xun Qing was not pretentious, Zheng Yuanshuo squeezed his eyebrows and said.

This time, Xun Qing quickly calculated in his heart. The two girls are her henchmen, shouldn't they take advantage of the fact that there is no one in this garden to find a way to clean up this pig.

While thinking about it, I heard the footsteps of a person from far and near.

"Big brother, you're here, let me find it easily."