Chapter 023: Suspicious
As he spoke, he took Gu Yu's hand, walked to the object that Shi Cai had dropped from the tree, and with another "ahh
Gu Yu saw that there was a goose-yellow little magpie in the bird's nest, as if it had been injured on its leg, and a small soft white silk was tied on it, and there seemed to be a little red blood oozing out of it, and it was also a loss to fall from such a high place, this little magpie had not been killed yet.
Gu Chongzhi also patted his chest very happily: "It's okay, it's okay, Xiao Que'er is fine, otherwise, I would have committed a big precept!" ”
"What vows?" Gu Yu quipped.
Gu Chongzhi glared at her and said, "Kill the ring!" My aunt said that when I was born, she went to ask the eminent monks in Miao'an Temple to tell me my fate, and I couldn't kill, otherwise I would lose my life. ”
Myoan-ji Temple?
Hearing these three words again, Gu Yu's heart jumped, and she couldn't help but tighten her eyebrows again, she didn't have time to check the pack of soul incense that Chen Yu asked for from Miao'an Temple, but it is certain that the owner of this bag of spices given to Chen Yu must be a believer in the Heavenly Master Dao, and now the Heavenly Master Dao is prevalent in the south of the Yangtze River, and many gate lords such as the Langya Wang clan, the Wujun Lu clan and even the Long Kanghuan clan are all believers in their sects, and Du Tianshi Du Zigong is the general leader of the Five Doumi Sect, and his people are the best at pretending to be gods and ghosts, so they make a mystery, and the Tao is boundless in mana, It can bring the dead back to life and prolong life.
Many of the disciples of the gate valve are addicted to it, the son of Yi Shaogong in the previous life, Langya Wang Ningzhi was killed by the enemy because of superstition about this religion, Huan Wen, the father of Huan Che, was even more obsessed with the elixir in his later years, and died of illness before he could carry out the third Northern Expedition, but let Huan Che, the concubine, inherit his will, not only magnified the Huan family, but also directly abolished the emperor and ascended the throne.
It would not be surprising to say that Zhang was superstitious about this.
But...... When Gu Yu's gaze fell on the bird's nest again, he showed a trace of doubt and incomprehensible curiosity.
Gu Yu was still frowning and pondering, and she didn't feel that her hand was warm, but it was Gu Chongzhi who hooked her hand again, held the bird's nest in front of her, and looked at her with a pair of big eyes as clear as a blue spring and said, "Eleventh sister, don't you think this magpie is cute?" ”
Gu Yu smiled, and was about to answer when a sharp voice came from behind him.
"Oh, Xiao Langjun, how did you get here? Let the slave be easy to find! ”
A maid wearing an apricot yellow silk skirt and holding a double bun hurriedly ran over from the edge of the brocade scale pool, and as soon as she arrived, she took Gu Chongzhi into her arms and said repeatedly: "Go back with the slave quickly, otherwise if the lady can't find you, she will be in a hurry!" ”
"Sister Aqiao, you are using A-Niang to bluff me again, she was called by her grandmother, and she won't come to me for a while." Gu Chongzhi stubbornly got out of the servant's arms, hid beside Gu Yu, and said, "Besides, didn't you tell me, is there a bird's nest on a willow tree by this brocade scale pond?" I'm having fun with Little Magpie! ”
Gu Chongzhi said, Gu Yu's face sank, and in a blink of an eye, he saw that the maid named Ah Qiao was also panicked, and his face turned almost imperceptibly white.
"What nonsense is Xiao Langjun talking about? Sister Qiao also heard others say that there is a bird's nest here, how can there really be one, besides, you can't run here alone to play, not long ago, your tenth sister and eleventh sister accidentally fell into the pool, everyone said that there are likely to be ghosts in this brocade scale pool, which will hook people's lives, go back with Sister A Qiao! Don't come to this kind of place in the future! ”
Ah Qiao was talking, and suddenly felt a figure in front of her, so she raised her head and saw that it was Gu Yu looking at her, and hurriedly smiled: "It turned out to be the eleventh lady, and the slave didn't ...... just now."
Before she finished speaking, she heard a "snap", and her face suddenly rose with hot pain, she covered her face that was missed, looked at Gu Yu in surprise and shame, and said with a little unwillingness: "Eleven lady, why are you beating me?" ”
Gu Yu called Shihua to the front and said, "Shihua, you come and tell her, why did I beat her?" ”
Shihua was slightly stunned, and said in her heart, could it be that Eleven Niang was testing her, she couldn't help but be happy, nodded, looked at Ah Qiao and said solemnly: "There are two reasons why the lady beat you, one is that you, as the master's personal slave, actually instigated the master to come to the Jinlan Pond to play, but he was not beside him, to say lighter, this is a dereliction of duty, to say a heavier, you are deliberately plotting to kill the master, and his crime should be punished!" ”
When he said this, Ah Qiao's face was already pale, and he was about to argue, and then he listened to the poem and painting, "Second, the master is young, simple-minded, and still in the age of teaching, you actually use the theory that there are ghosts by the pool to intimidate the master, what is your intention?" ”
In the last sentence, the tone of the poem and painting is tough, as if there is a big girl's frame, but this maid named Ah Qiao just changed his face, bit his lip and retorted: "You are a crime that you want to add, wronged me, where can I think so much as a slave and maid, and I don't listen to the master, besides, even if I am wrong, it is not your turn to teach me a lesson!" ”
What she meant in her words was that Eleven Niang was just a concubine, and as a concubine, the poetry and painting of a servant were even less qualified to teach her, the personal maid of a serious master!
Seeing that this servant had such an arrogant and domineering arrogance, Gu Yu was a little surprised, his eyebrows narrowed slightly, and at this time, another voice came: "What are you arguing about here?" ”
Gu Yu turned around and saw that it was Zhang who walked over with an old servant.
"Big Lady!" The poems and paintings immediately saluted.
Gu Chongzhi ran over with even more joy, got into Zhang's arms like a monkey, and said coquettishly: "Ah Niang, just now the eleventh sister beat Ah Qiao because Ah Qiao told me that there was a bird's nest on the big tree by the Jinlu Pond, Ah Qiao felt that she was wronged, saying that the maid next to the eleventh sister was not qualified to teach her, so they quarreled!" ”
As soon as Gu Chongzhi finished speaking, Ah Qiao's face changed, and it was blue and white, and at this time, Zhang also looked at her and asked, "Ah Qiao, why did you encourage Xiao Langjun to come to the Jinlan Pond to play?" ”
Ah Qiao was so frightened that he fell to his knees, his shoulders trembled, and he denied again and again: "Madam forgive me, the slave really said it casually, I didn't expect Xiao Langjun to ...... him."
"Give me a slap!" Before she could finish speaking, Zhang shouted angrily, "Such a bold slave, even the maid beside the old lady is not qualified to teach you a lesson, who gave you this guts?" ”
Shi Fei, the old servant beside Zhang's side, said yes, and immediately walked up to Ah Qiao and slapped her a few times, Ah Qiao was stunned and scared, but she also understood one thing in her mind, she was calculated by Eleven Niang! Who would have thought that the maid beside this eleventh mother would be given by the old lady?
is so ruthless Eleven Niang, she wants to borrow Zhang's hand to kill her!
Ah Qiao bit her lip, and wanted to explain something to the Zhang family, so she listened to Zhang's impatient order: "Find a tooth woman to take people away, I can't accommodate such a slave in my Gu Mansion!" ”
"Yes!"
Seeing that Shi Fei was about to walk over to her in response, Ah Qiao at this time suddenly realized how much mistake she had made, and begged for mercy again and again: "Madam, the slave will never dare anymore, never again!" ”
Zhang flicked his sleeves impatiently, and Shi Fei was already grabbing Ah Qiao's arm with both hands and was about to drag it away.
Unexpectedly, he heard Gu Yu call: "Wait-"
Ah Qiao's crying suddenly stopped, and Zhang also looked at her in amazement.
I heard her say: "Auntie, Ah Yu thinks that since Ah Qiao has sincerely reformed, why not give her a chance to atone for her sins and betray her, you will never know who wants to harm Chongzhi's brother!" ”
Zhang's face suddenly sank and became extremely solemn, and when his eyes fell on Ah Qiao again, there was a hint of inquiry and suspicion.
As if he didn't want Gu Yu to know anything, Zhang only frowned, but he didn't intend to ask Ah Qiao.
Seeing Zhang's thoughts, Gu Yu naturally didn't want to stay here, so he said: "Okay, this is the matter of the eldest aunt's family, Ah Yu shouldn't have said more, it's getting late, I should go back!" ”
After saying this, Gu Yu took Shiqin and Shihua away, Gu Chongzhi called "Eleventh Sister", and was about to catch up, but was pulled into Zhang's arms.
"Auntie, I fell from the tree just now, and it was the eleventh sister who saved me." Gu Chongzhi said suddenly.
Zhang's face changed, and there was a bit of surprise and shock in his eyes.
"What do you say? My son, why did you fall from a tree? Zhang asked.
Gu Chongzhi smiled and said, "It was Sister Ah Qiao who told me that there is a bird's nest in this tree, so I want to climb up the tree to see the magpies in the bird's nest." Didn't A-Niang say that there was a famous man in the previous dynasty when he was about to go to Jingzhou, and when the officials saw him off, he had dug out the bird's nest as if no one was around. ”
"Nonsense, my son, you can't do this in the future! Otherwise, you have to worry more about your mother! Zhang said, hugged Gu Chongzhi into his arms, but his eyes became complicated.
Here Gu Yu was walking on the way back to the Dusk Smoke Pavilion with Shiqin and poems and paintings, the two maids had been looking worried, without saying a word, and after walking all the way, Gu Yu suddenly asked: "You say, when do swallows usually build bird's nests?" ”
The two maids were still pondering what Gu Yu had done along the way, and when they heard her suddenly ask, both of them were stunned for a moment, and the poems and paintings replied first: "Spring comes and Yan returns, March is still cold, and the slave remembers that it seems to be April and May!" ”
"Then why is it that it is only March now, and there are already magpies nesting?" Gu Yu asked with a smile.
Poetry and painting are a daze.
Gu Yu no longer discussed this issue, but folded a peach blossom on the side of the road and asked, "Follow me, aren't you wronged?" Originally, you should be as gorgeous as this peach blossom, and you have a bright future that belongs to you, but now you have been sent to serve one of my concubines. ”
Shiqin shook her head again and again and said: "Don't be wronged, the lady saved the slave today, and the slave's life is the mother's, what grievances are you talking about." ”
Gu Yu's footsteps were stunned, as if this sentence had echoed in his ears a long time ago.
Seeing her stop suddenly, Shiqin and Shihua also paused, and looked at her in amazement and some awe.
After about a quarter of an hour, Gu Yu turned around, looked at them, and said very seriously: "Actually, I am a very simple person, I am good, you are good, if I am not good, you will not be much better, I have always believed that the truth of rabbits and dead dogs cooking, and there are eggs under the nest is the same everywhere." ”
The two maids couldn't hear the meaning of her words, so they quickly knelt down and said, "Lady, the slave doesn't dare to have two hearts, if there are two hearts, I am willing to deal with them by the lady!" ”
Gu Yu looked at them with an unclear expression, and after a long while, he said again: "Well, since you are willing to show your loyalty, I just need you to help me do something." ”
"In addition, the names of Shiqin and poetry and painting are too vulgar, I will give you a name, and in the future, Shiqin will be called Miaofeng, and poetry and painting will be called Miaoyu!" She said and smiled at them again, "In the future, no matter how sad the wind and rain are, we will all be in the same boat." ”