CHAPTER XVII

The backyard of the White Mansion is divided into the East, West, and South Courtyards, and further on is the North Courtyard.

The north courtyard was the old general's mansion, and after the old general's death, the mansion was basically empty.

Mrs. Mu ordered someone to clean the entire house every half a month.

Bai Zhanqi and Mrs. Mu live in the East, West and South Courtyards, which are Bai Zhanqi's two aunts, that is, the houses of Bai Xiaoqiu's uncles of their generation.

The men of the old general's generation either died of old age or died in battle, and there are few left.

The two younger brothers had already sworn to die before the old general, and their lives were lost on the battlefield.

Inside the house, Bai Qingrui was hugged by the maid and cried.

Mrs. Mu hurriedly stepped forward to pull her daughter into her arms and asked, "Rui'er, what's going on."

Bai Qingrui just burst into tears, shook her head again and again, and couldn't say anything superfluous. threw himself on Mrs. Mu's shoulder and shouted "A-Niang".

The white face outside the door glanced at me coldly, and I ignored him.

I turned my head to look at Bai Xiaoqiu, and saw that he was looking at me, his face was very ugly.

probably felt that such an occasion was not very suitable, so he followed Bai Yanleng after a while.

Zhao Yinlan threw herself under Bai Zhanqi's chair with an unkempt face, pulled the corners of Bai Zhanqi's clothes, her face was full of tears, and she said sadly, "General, I was wronged, I was really wronged, I was lying on the bed resting at the time, and this miscellaneous piece somehow broke into my room, it was really not me."

Looking in the direction of Zhao Yinlan's finger, I saw a middle-aged man with a length of seven feet, who was sick and crooked, being escorted down by two soldiers and kneeling on the ground.

Bai Zhanqi's face was flushed, his forehead was bruised, one leg was hanging in the air, and he wanted to kick out, and shouted at the man kneeling on the ground, "Tell me honestly, what's going on."

The middle-aged man wanted to speak, but the words were robbed by Zhao Yinlan, and she said earnestly, "General, you have to administer justice for me."

Bai Zhanqi said fiercely, "I didn't let you say it, I'll let him say it" After finishing speaking, he raised his leg and threw Zhao Yinlan out.

Zhao Yinlan let out a sigh and fell to the ground heavily.

The middle-aged man trembled, raised his head, looked at General Bai Zhanqi, and whispered, "It's her, it's this woman." In the afternoon, I finished delivering the last bag of rice and was ready to call it a day and go home. I saw a delicate woman beckoning me with a smile." The man suddenly stopped and looked at Bai Zhanqi.

Bai Zhanqi said sharply, "Why don't you say it, what is she calling you to do, say it quickly."

The middle-aged man whispered again, "She wants me to seduce, the girl behind the rockery." How dare I, and then, and then she poured a bag of silver on the table, and I got hot at the sight of it, and then, I, the general, I don't know that it was the fourth lady, and if I knew, I wouldn't have the courage to give me more silver, and I hope the general will be gracious."

Bai Zhanqi suddenly stood up from the chair, slapped Zhao Yinlan in the face fiercely, and scolded "slut" in his mouth.

Then he kicked the man in the abdomen, waved his arms, and shouted, "Come on, put these two people in separate custody and wait for them to be released."

Zhao Yinlan covered her face and shouted "General, I was wronged."

It's just that no one will listen to her, and Bai Zhanqi went out without looking back.

The dignified seven-foot man couldn't stand the pain of prison, and he whipped dozens of boards, and he actually died in the middle of the night.

There is no proof of death, and Zhao Yinlan is speechless.

Bai Qingrui is different from her sister Bai Qingyang, and she can't see her relatives angry, especially her Mrs. Aniangmu.

And that Zhao Yinlan is not a fuel-efficient lamp, she knows her usefulness, and she knows that the general will like her again sooner or later.

She's young, beautiful, and more importantly, she's still alive.

As long as the general gives her a chance, she promises to give the general a big fat boy.

Therefore, in private, I always squeeze Mrs. Mu, come to find fault when I have nothing to do, and say some inconsequential cool words.

For the sake of the general, even if Mrs. Mu was angry, she was alone to bear it.

And all this, how can it escape Bai Qingrui's eyes.

When Daddy was not in the house, he ran to find trouble with Zhao Yinlan.

smashed her red Lou Jin teacup, overturned the freshly picked peach petals in the yard, and threw Zhao Yinlan's jewelry everywhere.

Once, the two were fighting on the edge of the pond where Ju'er fell into the water.

It's still evening, it's still the same little guard I used to be, and I'm not cold.

I followed the little guard through the old low house and went to the basement level.

The cold wind passed through behind him, and it was black inside, and occasionally a wisp of residual sun slanted on the wall, but it could not cause a single ripple, and the damp ground was filled with the smell of dried blood.

What is very different from before is that my mood at this moment is not to mention how comfortable it is, and I no longer feel that top-heavy, I just feel as relaxed as a swallow.

Zhao Yinlan wore her hair scattered, and was blown by the wind, her face was all over her face, like a ghost.

Seeing me coming, he glared angrily, "Why, Mr. Su has time to see my jokes."

I smiled contemptuously, "Yes, I'm here to see you, I'm here to see Aunt Zhao's habit of not being able to live here, what is missing, just tell me, I'll have someone send it to you when I go back."

Zhao Yinlan got up from the ground with a puff, grabbed me by the collar, and said viciously, "You don't cry here."

I shook off her hand and glanced at her, looking at the wall, and the light coming in from the corridor outside the door was dim and cold as silk.

I turned my back to Zhao Yinlan, only to hear her alone, and said to myself, "I dare to conclude that it is Bai Qingrui, yes, that's right, it's her, she must be deliberately making trouble, and she said a few days ago that she was going to find someone to deal with me." For the sake of her uncompetitive aunt, so that I can't turn over at all in the Bai family."

After finishing speaking, she knelt a few steps forward, threw herself at my feet, pulled the corner of my shirt, and said, "Mr. Su, no matter what kind of disagreement you and I had before, I hope Mr. will help me this time, and in the future, if I gain power, I will definitely repay Mr. Su."

I secretly said in my heart, Zhao Yinlan, I didn't expect you to have today, but unfortunately, you found the wrong person.

Kill my Ju'er, this alone will make you go to hell.

I pulled Zhao Yinlan's hand away with a hula, revealing a bright smile, "It's a pity, that man is dead, and you can't turn over anymore."

Zhao Yinlan lay on the ground with her body crooked, and then hugged her head and cried, shouting "Impossible, it won't be so coincidental."

I looked at Zhao Yinlan and said, "Self-inflicted, you can't live, do you calculate less on weekdays."

I said as I walked to the door, "Zhao Yinlan, good and evil will eventually pay off, you forced my Ju'er to death, and almost killed Azu, you are to blame for all this."

Before I knew it, I had been in prison for a long time, and when I came out, it was already dark.

On the way back to the courtyard, I met Mrs. Mu, and my heart trembled slightly and I shouted "Madam".

I couldn't see Mrs. Mu's face clearly in the dimness, I only felt that she seemed to have something in her heart, and she was sullen, standing in place and not moving.

She's waiting for me.

I looked at Mrs. Mu, my eyes flickering, and my heart still trembling slightly.

Mrs. Mu took a few steps forward and said at eye level with me, "I just came from Mr. Su's yard, it's so late, where did Mr. Su come back?"

I calmed down, coughed lightly, and replied, "I just went to see Aunt Zhao."

Mrs. Mu's eyes suddenly widened, as if she didn't believe it, and looked at me.

I hurriedly grabbed Mrs. Mu's arm and said, "Madam, I'll send you."

The two were silent all the way.

Mrs. Mu opened her mouth several times to say something to me, but she was exempt.

Suddenly remembered Bai Qingrui, she should have been frightened when she was noisy during the day.

I asked Mrs. Mu, "How is Qingrui, is it okay?"

Mrs. Mu shook her head slightly, looked at me again, and stopped talking.

I escorted Mrs. Mu all the way to the East Courtyard and said to her that she was okay.

Coming out of the East Courtyard, I turned a corner to see Bai Qingrui.

The maidservant opened the door for me, and when I went in, I saw that Bai Qingrui was already asleep.

I saw that she slept very sweetly, her eyebrows were stretched, accompanied by a slight snoring.

Presumably, the events of the day did not hurt her much.

It's been dull for a long time, and in the past few days, I suddenly feel refreshed, and I rarely took a puff fan and lay in the yard humming a small tune and shaking it.

Looking at the pomegranate trees in the yard, carefully irrigated by Ai'er, they grow very luxuriantly and have dense branches.

Ai'er told me that she will be able to eat pomegranates next summer.

This year's weather is not good, and the year is not prosperous.

Ai'er also told me that she had already eaten pomegranates at this time in previous years, but this year, only a few pomegranates had grown on the three pomegranate trees, and they were bitten by insects before they were ripe, and then they were rotten and could not be eaten.

I told Ai'er to take good care of these pomegranate trees.

Ai'er answered, and ran into the house with a small bucket to water the pomegranate tree.

Thinking of my Ju'er again, the corners of her mouth unconsciously smiled slightly, presumably she should be at ease under the Jiuquan.

Ai'er is always busy, and after watering the tree, she leaves again.

At this time, she was tidying up the room, the bedding was neatly folded, and the tables and stools were polished. The day before yesterday, the incense burner she got from somewhere was also smoked for me, and bursts of fragrance came to my nose.

The master is in a good mood, and he is naturally happy to be a girl, and he is like a grasshopper jumping inside and outside the house, and he only shouts "Mr. has another song, Ai'er likes to listen".

"It is indeed a good singing, who said that the women of Jizhou can only dance, and this singing is also a good one".

I turned my head to look and saw that it was Bai Xiaoqiu and Bai Yanleng standing at the gate of my courtyard.

First glanced at Bai Xiaoqiu, and saw that his face was expressionless, so he stood there motionless like a dried wooden stake, and turned his head to the side without looking at me.

If you don't want to see me like this, why do you want to come to my yard?

But Bai Yan was cold, smiled at me gently, and said, "It's rare to see you in such a good mood, one day when the weather is good, let's fly kites together."

I clapped my hands and said, "Okay, okay."

I heard a clatter, and a pink thing fell out of my pocket, and I was so frightened that I quickly picked it up and put it in my sleeve.

Bai Yan Leng had to break the casserole and ask to the end, but if I didn't tell him, he came to grab it with his waist, and he didn't pay attention and threw himself on the ground.

It's all because Ai'er is too careless, and I didn't see such a large banana peel.

Looking at the distorted expression on Bai Yanleng's face, I quickly pulled him.

squinted, and then peeked at Bai Xiaoqiu, and saw that there was a smile on his face.