"It shouldn't be!" Uncle Quan looked incredulous.

Jin Zhen pursed his thin lips and said, "I'm asking people to check his details." ”

Uncle Quan, who exited the study, walked out of the yard with his hands behind his back, still twisting his eyebrows and couldn't figure out this matter, and after thinking about it for a long time, he still ordered the slaves to pay attention, don't be surprised or bully the people in the courtyard.

Qu Xiaomo, who woke up refreshed, was in good spirits, and her bones fell apart in a hurry this month, and she slept in the wild for two nights, and yesterday she washed her whole body well, and washed the dirty clothes that she had changed before, and now she smelled the soaphorn smell on the clothes that had been dried overnight, and her mood was a lot better.

She walked through this yard yesterday, she lives here alone, next door seems to be the yard where the servants of the house live, and yesterday I also used a delicious dinner, the taste of mushrooms and chicken is still greedy when I think about it, the people of Beijing are rich, and even the food treatment of the small house is so good, but she still likes the home cooking of the chef in the Futai restaurant.

Breakfast was also sent early, a bowl of porridge, a little pickles, a few meat buns, Qu Xiaomo, who was full of food and drink, is now full of energy, isn't it just brushing the bucket? She is not that squeamish person, brush it, it's a big deal to eat less than a bowl of rice, for the sake of accommodation and food, plus the unique experience of being the second-in-command after brushing the bucket for six months, she can bear it.

took out a face towel to cover his mouth and nose, put on cowhide gloves, Qu Xiaomo picked up a brush and washed it after boiling water by the well, and worked all morning until it was time for lunch before brushing a small half, and I don't know how this gong bucket can be piled up so much and no one washes it, so she seriously suspects that it will not be someone tricked to clean the toilet for them!

After seeing so many gong buckets and washing them with his own hands, Qu Xiaomo got his wish and used one less bowl of rice than yesterday, but when it came to dinner, he ate it all.

This brushing Gong bucket is also a hard work, I don't feel it at the beginning of the morning, but after brushing for a day, my back hurts, and I am used to seeing and smelling it.

When the old housekeeper who had been brushing the toilet for five days came to ask if he could adapt, Qu Xiaomo didn't have any complaints at all, and nodded his head to say that he was used to it.

Squinting eyes, Jin Twelve couldn't help but be surprised when he heard the report from Uncle Quan and Jin Yu, and couldn't help but praise: "This kid can do it!" It's good to be young and forbearing. ”

Jin Yi glanced at him coldly, turned away and said, "When will Jin Yi come back?" ”

Jin Twelve hurriedly replied respectfully: "A few days ago, the eldest brother flew back from the book and said that it would take ten days, and I am afraid that it will be two or three days before he can arrive in Beijing." ”

"Hmm." Jin Yu answered and waved his hand to let the two of them stand back

As soon as the door was closed, he rubbed his sour eyes, remembered the man in the backyard, and sighed softly: How can it be a man?

Leaning on the back of the chair with his eyes closed and thinking for a long time, he suddenly opened his eyes, summoned Jin Shisan, who was guarding outside, and said, "Send someone to check the whereabouts of Master Zhihuai." ”

"Yes!" Jin 13 led the order to retreat and instruct people, Master Zhihuai is a monk of Yunyang Kingdom, who can judge fortune and fortune, and every time is extremely accurate, it is very sought after by the people, but this person is extremely difficult to meet, the master has encountered it once in the early years, and then there is a copper plate with a red line in his hand, although he doesn't know why he wants to find Master Zhihuai now, but he doesn't dare to ask more, just follow it.

The hot wind in June was just washed away by a rainstorm, and it ushered in the dry heat of July, Qu Xiaomo, who came to the Jinfu mansion to brush the Gong bucket, had been here for half a month, and the Gong bucket brushed every day gradually decreased, and he gradually became familiar with the place near the yard.

Because the yard next door is where the slaves live, Qu Xiaomo wandered in the past after brushing the gong bucket, and got to know a few small servants and aunts who were waiting for the house.

On this day, Qu Xiaomo finished brushing the gong bucket early, and after going back to wash up, he held a bag of melon seeds and shook the pu fan to the yard next door, where there happened to be a few familiar people who had just changed shifts and rested, and a few people made a pot of herbal tea, and sat outside at the stone table under the big tree together, knocking melon seeds and gossiping.

I only heard a little guy named Minzi grabbing a handful of melon seeds and knocking and saying, "Have you heard?" ”

"I heard it, I heard it." Everyone nodded in response

Only Qu Xiaomo swallowed melon seeds and asked with a confused expression, "What did you hear?" Tell me about it. ”

Na Minzi clicked a melon seed and spit out the shell and said: "It's Peng Dashan in the capital, who was sued yesterday, saying that he sold kidnapped children." ”

Qu Xiaomo asked curiously, "Isn't he a great benevolent?" How could you do such a thing? ”

"Hey, you young man who has not entered the world knows it, which one of the people in the capital is simple, just like this Peng Dashan person, who looks like a bodhisattva on weekdays, he was not arrested by the officers and soldiers yesterday, I heard that a lot of abducted children were found in his other villages outside the city, and the government is now notifying the family members one by one."

"He really did it!" Qu Xiaomo said in surprise

Minzi said: "No, I don't know how much money I made, I heard that our master still has business dealings with him, and he is busy dealing with it at this time." ”

Qu Xiaomo's eyes rolled and asked, "How can the master do business with such a person?" ”

Toshiko sneered: "This business is a mutually beneficial thing, as long as there is money to be made, who cares so much." ”

"Yes!" Qu Xiaomo responded: "I don't know if our master is involved." ”

"Bah, what nonsense." Minzi looked around, and then lowered her voice and said, "If you want to be heard, you have to eat the board." ”

Qu Xiaomo hurriedly covered his mouth with a panicked look, and listened to him again: "Not only our master, but many people in the capital have business dealings with Peng Dashan. ”

As he spoke, he cautiously looked around and whispered, "Do you remember the old lady who made a lot of trouble a while ago adopted her grandson?" ”

Qu Xiaomo naturally didn't know, she had only been here for a few days, but the other two who were sitting together and eating melon seeds all nodded again and again, and one of them, Lin Zi, also lowered his voice and whispered: "That pomp is like giving birth to a son, I heard that the adopted son is still from the 'Lonely Garden' donated by Peng Dashan." ”

Minzi laughed twice and said: "I don't know if it's a real fatherless orphan, if it is found out that it is an abducted child, Peng Dashan will have a lot of suffering." ”

"This is too much... Out of business? Qu Xiaomo asked, unless the adopted grandson is about to die, he will find a clever child from the side branch to raise and support the façade, and this is from the 'Lonely Garden', I am afraid that I can't even find a boy from the side branch.

Several people heard her question, they all nodded, Minzi said: "Today's Taifu originally had a son, married to the third daughter of the Hubu Shangshu family, the husband and wife wanted to go to Jiangnan to play not long after they got married, but they encountered thieves and robbers halfway, and they never returned. ”

Qu Xiaomo said with melon seeds: "Then it should also be looking for a blood relationship from the side branch, this adoption from the 'Lonely Garden' is not afraid of confusing the bloodline?" ”

"I heard that Taifu also wanted to find one from the side, but when I went out once, I saw that the child I am adopting now is very similar to his son when he was a child, so I adopted this child."

"Wait, there will be news in a few days."

Qu Xiaomo is not interested in this Taishi and Peng Dashanren, what she is interested in now is the owner of this manor, the ice cube man.

Listening to them change the topic and talk elsewhere, Qu Xiaomo took a sip of tea and moistened his throat, and asked again: "I just arrived, I don't know the master's temperament, and I haven't seen other masters in this house, do you have any suggestions?" ”

Minzi said: "Our master doesn't look at the cold face all day long, but it's still good to us people, and there is only one master in this house, and I don't know why he hasn't married a wife when he's twenty or three." ”

A few people on the side hurriedly stopped him and continued, Lin Zi said: "Don't talk about the master's affairs, let's do our part well." ”

Hearing this, Qu Xiaomo didn't want to ask any more questions, so he opened the topic.

Half a month has passed, and I still brush the gong bucket every day, and I don't know what is going on with this ice cube man, at the end of the day, he actually uses so many gong buckets, is it urethritis or taking laxatives!

After brushing the Gong bucket and going back to wash his body this day, he met the old housekeeper Uncle Quan coming over, making a pot of tea and talking for a while, Qu Xiaomo asked: "The old housekeeper, the little one has been in the capital for half a month, and now the Gong bucket is finished and wants to go out of the house to go shopping, I don't know if it's feasible?" ”

"I have to ask my master about this, aren't you in a hurry today?" Uncle Quan took a sip of tea and asked

He has a good impression of this half-old child, he looks good, he is down-to-earth, he is not a franchise, let the washing gong bucket be washed seriously, and when he is idle, he just goes to the next door to chatter and talk, and he doesn't ask nonsense or wander around, but the matter of the boy really makes him entangled, Master Zhihuai will not be miscalculated this time!

Qu Xiaomo was not in a hurry, and after sending the old housekeeper away, he moved a chair to the shade of the tree to cool off, the house was a little stuffy, I was afraid that it would rain heavily in the next two days.

Sure enough, the overnight uppour poured down in the early morning, and the face fell intermittently for two days, and the sky was also lightning and thunder.

Qu Xiaomo was a little afraid of thunder and lightning since he was a child, and he couldn't wash the bucket when it rained in the past two days, so he stayed in the house and didn't dare to go out, and he could only curl up under the quilt and cover his ears when thunder hit at night, which was also because he stayed alone in the orphanage in his previous life.

She was only seven or eight years old, and it was a rainy night, and she woke up in the middle of the night in a daze just as a lightning bolt struck outside, and she saw a dark shadow standing out of the window looking at herself, and she had been afraid of the weather ever since.