Today I was at the morning market and I heard a message.

Lord Zhao's family withdrew overnight, and the chickens and dogs were not left.

Yunyun guessed, I remembered Lord Zhao and Mrs. Zhao in the alley yesterday - could it be that they were just preparing to move out of Zixu before they unknowingly changed their properties?

I felt more and more uneasy, those people who had been away from the town during this time made people feel abnormal, and now Lord Zhao's family suddenly went away again - don't they think that a bunch of things together will be weird?

But the town is still a small town, selling fish and meat, and making a living.

As soon as I got home, I looked around for the dumb bell that had been on the basket the other day.

Xia Xia helped me find it, and asked, "What does Sister Fei want that dumbbell to do?" ”

I said, "Last night a tile on the wall of the courtyard fell off, and I was startled that I thought someone had come in, and I was going to hang this dumb bell on the door, so that if someone came in in the middle of the night, I could hear it." ”

Xia Xia nodded and said: "Smart, this bell is dumb, if it is blown by ordinary winds, it may not be able to shake the sound, only when someone pushes the door and hits it will have a sound." ”

"Found it." I happily straightened up with the bell and suddenly felt a wave of nausea.

Xia Xia hurriedly came over to help: "Sister Fei, what's wrong?" ”

I shook my head and said, "It's okay, maybe I've been squatting for too long." Go find a stool and hang it up, and I'll rest. ”

Xia Xia went out with a dumb bell, I endured the itch in my throat and coughed in a low voice, no, it seems that I have to get sick again this year.

"Sister Fei, someone from the Zheng Mansion is here."

Like the previous two times, getting up and leaving, Mama Xiong seemed to be in poor health, and she had been holding back a low cough along the way, and she coughed so much that I wanted to cough with her.

When I arrived at Zheng's house, I didn't go to kiss the Jade Pavilion to see Miss Zheng this time, and Mrs. Zheng didn't see it head-on, she seemed to be very busy, obviously she made an appointment to talk about embroidery, but Mama Xiong took it to take a look, and soon said that according to this, ten copies of each embroidery will be made first, and the rest will be decided later.

Isn't that an obvious dismissal for me? Although there is a sedan chair to pick me up, it will always make me tremble when I pass through Xihuayuan!

Mama Xiong explained Mrs. Zheng's decision, coughed a few times, and said, "Then let's stop here today, I'll send you out." ”

I smiled and said, "Mama Xiong is not in good health, so I don't have to send it, I'll just tell the sedan chair drivers, it's not the first time I've come." ”

Mama Xiong looked at me, relieved of me, and showed a slight smile on her rare face, and said, "Okay, then I won't send it." ”

After passing through the courtyard, many maids and family members greeted me politely when they saw me, Zheng Mansion was not as cold and arrogant as we were, but we thought of him too highly.

I was about to reach the door, when someone suddenly stopped me, and when I looked back, there were two loose buns, and I was holding a tea tray with a stew pot in it.

"Boss Yan, are you going to pull it?" The loops fall out of the extracted tooth tract.

I nodded and said, "Well, we've talked about things, and I'm about to leave." ”

Circle said strangely: "Leave so soon?" Why didn't you come*? ”

I was stunned and said, "Mother Xiong took me directly to see your wife, and after seeing it, she said that she could go back, but she didn't say that she wanted to see Miss Zheng?" ”

Huanhuan rolled his eyes and didn't understand, and said softly: "But in the morning, I heard that Miss was asking Mama Xiong about Boss Yan's coming, and asked Mama Xiong to take you to the small building to sit at that time, did Mama Xiong forget?" ”

I thought back to the previous few times when Mama Xiong and Mrs. Zheng didn't want me to have more contact with Miss Zheng, and probably knew why Mama Xiong "forgot", so I had to be sloppy and say, "Maybe." ”

"Oh." Circle nodded in confusion and walked away with the tea tray.

The sedan chair remembered that Miss Zheng inquired about my news from time to time, it turned out that she actually regarded me as a friend, and I didn't see me this time, and I don't know when it will be next time. The butterfly handkerchief that helped her embroider has been finished, and I originally wanted to show her today, so that she could be happy, and I am afraid that it will be in the unknown next time.

The sedan chair walked out of the territory of Zhengfu, and I suddenly lifted the curtain and said to the sedan chair man: "Uncles, can you please take a small detour and take me to the county government?" ”

The sedan chair man said strangely: "County government? That's all gone. ”

This news has already spread all over the town?

I'm still very strange and want to inquire again: "I seem to have seen Mrs. Zhao yesterday, how can I just leave?" ”

The sedan chair man said: "Who knows, Xu offended someone above and ran away overnight." Anyway, he snorted and laughed, "Boss Yan won't have any accounts and won't come back, this time it's also an empty trip, and nothing is left." ”

"No, no. I just wanted to check it out, just curious. ”

The sedan chair man said: "Okay, I can't make many detours, Boss Yan is on the sedan chair like no one is on the sedan chair, it's so light." With that, Mrs. Sedan chair went around in the direction of the county office.

I smiled and said to each silent and honest face, "Thank you for your hard work, uncle." ”

On the sedan chair, I have been trying to recall the conversation between Mrs. Zhao and Lord Zhao in the alley yesterday, as well as the hideous and vicious eyes of Lord Zhao, walking in such a hurry and mysterious, is it really as the sedan chair man said, offending someone for fear of getting into trouble? They are just county officials in such a small place, they don't have much oil and water, but they live a peaceful life, who can they offend?

"Here we are." The sedan chair slowly fell, and when I lifted the curtain, I saw that the sedan chair was placed at the entrance of the county office, as usual, but it felt very desolate.

I got out of the sedan chair, and the sedan drivers didn't seem to be interested in what was going on, and said, "We are waiting for the girl at the door, but don't stay too long, we have to go back to the house to report." ”

I nodded, and walked into the county office alone.

Familiar with the county government, I used to come often, my father is the head catcher in the ya, often take me with him when there is nothing to do, this used to be like half of my home.

Passing through the yatang, the left side is the residence of the county official, the right side is the yaren's courtyard, Zhao never allowed people to stay too much when he lived, I came to do embroidery are just a quick look, this time no one stops, I can watch wantonly, recall the time when my father was still there.

I stumbled into the workshop, and the mess of the workshop made me suddenly in a trance, how was it the same as in my dream two days ago—the cabinet door was open, the lid of the box was open, the clothes dragged outside, and—and some bits and pieces of stings at the door......

I straightened my neck and slowly turned my head in the direction of the backyard, probably an illusion, and the sweet and cold smell of blood wafted from that direction—

Won't it ...... I guess there was really a body buried there, right? The fear and curiosity in my heart were entangled and wrangling, and my feet seemed to be filled with lead, but my heart longed to fly to take a look, just to see if there were any traces of the same dirt that I had dreamed of—

"Boss Yan, the hour is almost there, and we have to take a detour back to the town." The suffrage of the palanquin man at the door woke me up.

Forget it, why bother scaring yourself with more trouble. "Oh, come on." I hurried out, and there was a gust of wind, and some pieces of paper and cloth flew desolate in the courtyard, like miserable paper money at a funeral ceremony.

With a whin, the wind was strong, and I shivered and desperately walked out of this gloomy compound.

As soon as I entered the town, I suddenly felt a huge amount of nausea, and hurriedly got off the sedan chair with a few procrastinations, leaning against the wall and coughing and vomiting.

Like crawling with countless ants and insects, my throat was dry and itchy, I coughed hard, trying to relieve the pain in my throat, I coughed hard with all my strength, and a stream of hot water rushed up to the teeth, and the goose-yellow handkerchief was bright red—

I stood frozen on the road to the market that no one passed, the wind curled my hair on my face, I felt that the cut was so painful, and the goose-yellow light silk surface was sandwiched with blood-red dots, like a lot of fiery red plum blossoms on the gentle life rolling paper......

I thought my illness was slowly improving, but why did I have hemoptysis again—is this what they say, a return to the light?