Gu Xiyan sat on the toilet and continued to grind.

A girl's crisp voice suddenly came from outside: "Aunt Duan, Deacon Ding asks to see!" ”

"What is he doing here?" Duan Niang's voice was tense, as if she was very unhappy to see this person, "Just say that the second girl has fallen asleep." ”

"I said it. Deacon Ding said that if the girl fell asleep, let the aunt wake up, saying that Master Sheng Jing had sent a message. ”

Duan Niang was silent for a long time, and suddenly turned into the screen and appeared in front of Gu Xiyan's eyes, she looked at Gu Xiyan with a strange expression, and stopped talking: "Second girl......"

Gu Xiyan sighed in her heart.

Deacon Ding is the one who wants to sell the disobedient girl! I don't know anything, what should I do if I see it?

Gu Xiyan stroked his forehead with a headache and said, "You just said that I couldn't wake up when I fell asleep." "An evasive attitude.

Duan Niang's eyes flickered and looked at her for a while before she said "yes".

Not long after Duan Niang went out, Gu Xiyan heard a quarrel.

"The two girls were fine two days ago, how can you say that you are sick, you have to explain this matter clearly......" is a man, and he seems to be not very old when he hears his voice.

"I've been in the Gu family for almost twenty years, can I still lie to you!" There was a hint of contempt in her voice, it was Duan Niang's voice.

"In that case, why don't you dare to hand over someone!"

"How did you learn the rules, the girl fell asleep, and the subordinates forcibly woke up!"

"Sleep, I think there's something wrong with you, don't you explain! Don't think I don't know, what's going on with that corpse? ”

"You, what nonsense are you talking about!" Duan Niang's voice was very panicked, and when she heard it, she knew that she was trying to cover it up.

Gu Xiyan's heart tightened when she heard this, and she raised her head in trepidation.

The little girl who had been waiting for her comforted her and said, "Second girl, don't be afraid. Aunt Duan and I have already moved the corpse to the Heming Palace, and Deacon Ding can't find out? ”

Gu Xiyan nervously held the girl's hand: "What corpse?" How did I not know? ”

The little girl showed an expression of sudden realization, and shook her head in a panic: "I didn't say anything, I didn't say anything!" ”

Gu Xiyan immediately wiped his hands and got up, and said, "You asked Deacon Ding to come in!" ”

The little girl knelt in front of Gu Xiyan with a "horn": "Second girl, you, don't believe that Deacon Ding, he is uneasy and kind, he is Madame's mother's family......"

Gu Xiyan's mind turned around, with a straight face, and said, "You tell me what's going on, and I'll believe your words for the time being." ”

The little girl muttered for a long time before she said intermittently: "That day, the second girl and Duanniang ran out angrily, so we went around looking for it, and in the second half of the night, we finally found the girl in the camphor forest next to the Seven Floating Pagoda after viewing...... But there was another person beside the girl, dressed in a praise robe...... It's out of gas...... I was half scared to death, so I had to find Aunt Duan...... Aunt Duan said that this matter is too strange, I am afraid that there is some story in it, let us keep silent and carry the body back...... The girl was unconscious, and the doctor of Qixiaguan went in and out of this house, and Aunt Duan was afraid of being seen, so she moved the girl to the Heming Hall with Talang last night......"

Gu Xiyan asked in a state of confusion: "Is the Heming Hall very safe?" ”

The little girl nodded and said, "That is the place where Qixiaguan specially offers coffins to pilgrims, and Aunt Duan gave Aunt Jimin Daogu two hundred taels of silver for sesame oil...... He also specially instructed that she should hand it over to the viewer with her......"

Gu Xiyan gradually had a little eyebrows in her heart, she walked out of the screen, and the little girl followed her and muttered, "Second girl, you promised me......"

The quarrel outside seemed to have stopped, Gu Xiyan walked out of the house and found that there was a hall house outside, and the bamboo curtain hanging on the door of the hall house was dotted with purple spots, as if it was made of Xiangfei bamboo. Through the bamboo curtain, you can see a small courtyard outside, and in the middle of the yard is a wisteria, with oily green branches and leaves, full of white jade-like flowers, and the air is filled with the fragrance of flowers.

When Gu Xiyan looked out, she happened to see the back of a thin and tall man stepping out of the door of the small courtyard, while Duan Niang walked towards the hall with an angry face.

She hurried back to the house, and the little girl next to her followed her back to the house without leaving her. Gu Xiyan chose a Taishi chair by the window and sat down, as soon as Duanniang came in, Gu Xiyan looked at Duanniang with sharp eyes, and said straight to the point: "You take me to the Heming Palace, I want to see the girl's body!" ”

Duan Niang was startled, and glanced at the little girl beside Gu Xiyan with sharp eyes.

Gu Xiyan obviously felt that the little girl was trembling with fright.

Duan Niang said with a kind face: "It's not early, let's go again tomorrow!" ”

I sneered: "If Aunt Duan doesn't have time, then I'll go to Deacon Ding as well." ”

The green tendons on Duanniang's white forehead were clearly visible, her face was very scary, and she whispered to Gu Xiyan: "What time is it, why are you still so ignorant?" Don't think that Deacon Ding is really helping you, think about it, I'm gone, what's the benefit for you? ”

Gu Xiyan was unmoved, and said in a cold voice: "I won't be swept away since I was a child!" ”

When Duan Niang heard this, she was like a deflated ball, and she didn't say a word for a long time.

Gu Xiyan took the lead and said abruptly according to the meaning of Duan Niang's words: "I don't know what happened that day, so I want to go and see, you have been serving me for so many years, you don't help me, and you still stop me everywhere, what do you make me think?" And how do you make me believe you? ”

Duan Niang listened, and looked at Gu Xiyan like a monster.

Gu Xiyan's heart trembled, knowing that there was something wrong with what she said, but she was too eager to understand the truth of the incident in her heart, and she couldn't care about it. She insisted, "Take me to the Crane Ming Palace." ”

Duan Niang had to order: "Okay, but it's later." ”

Gu Xiyan didn't know what she was afraid of, but she was new to the city, and it was always too wrong to learn more from the experience of the elderly, so she agreed to go later.

Seeing this, Duanniang seemed to be relieved.

Dinner was exquisite, a bit of a Japanese shelf-style. A small white bone china dish and a small bowl, two golden yellow croaker, four verdant cabbage, and a bowl of white porridge as white as jade are placed in a small fan-shaped red lacquer tray, which makes people's appetite move. Gu Xiyan ate a small bowl of white porridge under the care of the little girl, and the sky gradually darkened, Gu Xiyan remembered to go to the Heming Hall in his heart, and an anxious look appeared on his face.

The little girl who had been waiting for her asked her in a low voice, "Girl, do you want me to go with you?" ”

In fact, Gu Xiyan had been playing the drum in her heart, and when she heard the little girl say this, she also felt that there were many people, and if there was something to deal with, she nodded.

The little girl told the people outside from the beaded curtain in the room: "I will serve in the girl's house tonight, Mo Ju you are worth the first half of the night, Xinghong is worth the second half of the night, and the waves will come for me at dawn." ”

Gu Xiyan thought in his heart for a while, thinking that this might be called Hengyue.

There were crisp responses from a few little girls outside.

Gu Xiyan tried to call out "Hengyue".

The girl turned around and asked, "What do you want from the second girl?" ”

Gu Xiyan had to show a hesitant look.

Hengyue misunderstood Gu Xiyan when she saw it, and hurriedly stepped forward to explain: "Girl, don't look at that Mo Ju's young age, she is clever, let's go out, let her be on duty, there is someone who can do things." ”

Gu Xiyan didn't expect Hengyue to be so thoughtful, seeing that she was young, she despised her a little. Hearing Hengyue say this, he gave Hengyue an encouraging smile: "You do things, I don't worry." I'm just a little worried that I'll get to the Tsurusong Hall ......."

After all, this body is filled with a mature soul, and if she says it, she will naturally be much smarter than the little Xiyan who is ignorant of the world, to be honest, Hengyue has been waiting for that Gu Xiyan for four or five years, every time she is not satisfied with the black pot because the master is in trouble, or she is not satisfied with the work and is scolded by the master, when has she heard such intimate praise, her heart is warm, a tear overflowed from the corner of her eyes, and she lowered her head and murmured: "Second girl, don't worry, what is there with me......"

Gu Xiyan just took this as a polite remark, but Hengyue over there thought: Heng and vertical are a life, in case something happens to the girl, she will not have good fruit to eat. In case something really happens, this ink pot will be carried by himself, maybe the master will be able to take care of the widow who stayed in Shuzhou with this merit.

After a while, Duan Niang came in. Her face was solemn, carrying a white angry lantern, and she instructed Hengyue: "You put a dark cloak on the second girl, it's windy outside." ”

Hengyue went into the back of the screen and took a black cloak out, and went to pick up the lantern in Duan Niang's hand.

Duan Niang raised her eyebrows in surprise.

Yokotsuki explained with a smile: "I'll go with it too, if there's anything, I need to have a helper!" After speaking, he glanced at Duan Niang with a deep gaze.

Mo Ju and Xinghong are newly selected, Hengyue and Treading Waves were taught by Duanniang herself, one is anxious and the other is loyal, Hengyue's glance, Duanniang immediately understood, she was thinking that if something happened, she would carry this black cauldron!

Duanniang's heart was sour, Hengyue was using her life to help herself survive this catastrophe!

Gu Xiyan was raised by her since she was a child, how could she not know her character. If she behaves casually, she will be nothing, if she shows her concern for Hengyue at this time, Gu Xiyan will be even more disobedient to advice, and she will mess with her with her temperament, and even if you say that she wants to go to the west...... At this juncture, Duan Niang didn't dare to reveal anything, nodded coldly, and said, "Let's go!" ”

When he went out, the sky had completely darkened, but by the moonlight, Gu Xiyan found that he was living in a forest, and outside the door was a bluestone passage with mottled shadows and silent voices.

Hengyue carried the lamp, Gu Xiyan forced herself to calmly follow Duan Niang on the passage, every other way, Gu Xiyan would see a small courtyard with a single door, like a huge black shadow in the moonlight, like a monster lurking in the shadows, which made Gu Xiyan feel palpitations.

She silently remembered the way.

When they walked through the thirteenth courtyard, the trees in the forest turned into camphor, and the special fragrance stimulated Gu Xiyan's nerves from time to time, and when they walked for a few minutes, a very tall palace-like building appeared in the camphor forest.

Gu Xiyan's heart was terrified.

The three characters of the Crane Ming Hall are Chinese characters, simplified Chinese, and official scripts.