Everyone turned around, only to see the little slave girl who had just entered Qingshan Courtyard the day before yesterday standing behind the crowd, with a small figure and a childish voice, and said slowly: "Although it is winter now, our courtyard is next to the hot spring, the climate is much warmer, and there are many mosquitoes and moths. Rattans attract these small insects, and burning the horns of the vines dissipates heat, so that they will attract birds and mice that feed on mosquitoes, and snakes that feed on birds and mice. This is very common common sense, and slaves should have thought of it earlier. ”

Zhuge Yue frowned tightly, and after a while, he turned his head and said in a deep voice: "Who sent these pots of vine horns?" ”

Jin Xi's face turned pale, and he said tremblingly: "Young master, these pots of flowers were sent by Steward Zhu yesterday, and they are said to be specialties of southern Xinjiang. He said that the young master might like it, so he deliberately let the slave and maid be placed under the wall. ”

"Zhu Shun?" Zhuge Yue pondered for a long time, his long and narrow eyes were slightly cold, and he said slowly, "He's really becoming more and more majestic as a housekeeper." Next time, if he buys a dagger from the Western Regions and asks you to put it on Young Master Ben's bed, you will probably do the same. ”

Jin Xi was shocked, and hurriedly kowtowed to the ground and said, "The slave doesn't dare!" ”

Zhuge Yue was indifferent, and the subordinates were about to leave, when Zhuge Yue suddenly said, "You, serve in the inner room in the future." ”

Everyone was stunned, and they didn't know who he was talking about.

Zhuge Yue frowned impatiently, pointed at Chu Qiao and said, "It's you." ”

All eyes suddenly gathered.

Chu Qiao lowered his head and respectfully agreed: "The slave obeys." ”

Out of the main room of the Xuan Pavilion, the people had just thrown the bloodied brocade candles into the carriage. A weak woman was beaten with thirty boards, and she was about to be thrown into a place like the Anjun Academy, where would she be alive?

Jin Xi felt a chill down his spine, and his hands and feet were a little trembling. At this time, a sweet voice suddenly sounded behind her, she turned her head, saw Chu Qiao looking at her with a smile, and said with a sweet smile: "Sister Jinxi, we will work together in the future, I am young and ignorant, you have to take care of me!" ”

For some reason, Jin Xi was a little flustered for a while, looked at Chu Qiao and said calmly: "Everyone is a slave, ...... each other It is as it should be to take care of each other. ”

"Really?" Chu Qiao smiled and said, "Then those children of Nuanyu over there, Sister Jin Xi thinks it is time to open the net?" ”

Jin Si was slightly angry in his heart, but he still nodded and said, "They are almost at the same time, and it is time to disperse." ”

"Then I'll thank you for them." Chu Qiao walked over with a smile, letting the children who had been frozen and blue disperse, and then as if he suddenly remembered something, he turned around and said, "If Sister Jin Zhu could be as kind as Sister Jin Xi that day, the scholar would not have been beaten to death by the young master, so it is still necessary to have good thoughts in life." You see that Lin Xi has only been dead for three days, and the brocade candle will follow, and it is really chilling to the spine when you think about it. ”

Jin Xi couldn't pretend anymore, his face was pale, and he looked at Chu Qiao tightly with a pair of eyes open, only to feel that this little child was full of evil spirits, which was terrifying.

Chu Qiao slowly leaned forward, stood on tiptoe and whispered in Jin Xi's ear and said slowly: "As the saying goes, good and evil will be rewarded in the end, it's not that retribution hasn't come, it's just that the time hasn't come yet, right?" ”

Jin Xi was startled, suddenly took a step back, turned around and wanted to leave.

Chu Qiao grabbed her shoulder with a quick hand, and the girl was startled, jumped away suddenly, and shouted, "What are you going to do?" ”

Chu Qiao snorted coldly, there was no smile on his face, and he said in a deep voice: "What are you nervous about?" I'm just trying to get you back that plate of peaches. ”

"Peaches?"

"You and I are both maids in the inner room, there is no distinction between high and low, I worked hard to get the peaches from Nanyuan, don't you think it is more secure for me to present them by myself?"

When Jin Xi heard this, he was immediately speechless.

Chu Qiao turned around and walked towards the flower room, and said lightly as he walked: "Qingshan can't cover it, after all, it flows eastward, and those who know the times are Junjie." Some words can only be said once, some warnings can only be done once, how to act in the future, how to behave, you can think for yourself. ”

On a winter afternoon, the sun is shining, and the bright sunlight sways on the snow, stinging people's eyes.

This day was not a peaceful and ordinary day, the House of Elders issued a letter to send troops, and the Huangtianbu was about to set off to quell the rebellion, and the heads of the seven major lords were all vying for the position of the commander of the Huangtianbu. Zhuge Muqing, the patriarch of Zhuge Mansion, is not in the mansion, and all affairs are presided over by Zhuge Huai. Above the Great Xia court, the sword light and sword shadow are magnificent.

Also on this day, Zhuge Yue, the fourth son of Zhuge Mansion, was bitten by a poisonous snake, and although he received timely treatment, he still needed time to recuperate. Although Zhuge Yue is not very old, he is a major general of the Huangtian Department, born in the general hall, and has led troops to the northwest Shaman to quell the rebellion three times, with superb martial arts, and is the leader of the Zhuge family except Zhuge Huai. The other gate valve sources were extremely well-informed and quickly grasped the news. As soon as Zhuge Huai presented his younger brother with a request for war, the opposition of various families was sent to Shengjin Palace immediately after.

In the afternoon of the same day, the imperial physician in the palace entered the Zhuge Mansion, and the idea of the Zhuge clan getting involved in the Huangtian Department had to be quietly dispelled.

Pulling a hair and moving the whole body, the side blood patriarchs of the Zhuge clan came to the door together, and the Zhuge Lord's Mansion was suddenly overwhelmed.

On the same day, because of Zhuge Yue's injury, the same competition as peacetime was staged in Zhuge Mansion. The big girl in the courtyard of the fourth young master, who has always been bullying, was under the cane of the corpse, and the two cane bearers of the Qingshan Courtyard also beat each other, one dead and one injured, and the injured also died of their injuries early the next day and left. The chief housekeeper of Zhuge Mansion was beaten with twenty boards for no reason because of a few potted plants that caused trouble, and he is still recuperating in the room sighing and sighing.

In the Pavilion Lake, where crocodiles are raised next to the hot springs in the back mountain, three corpses once again sank silently, allowing the fish and shrimp to eat, but no one paid attention.

The night was thick and the stars were dark, Chu Qiao took the last string of paper money in Xiao Ba's hand and slowly put it into the brazier.

In the past few days, Jin Xi has been restless, every time she sees the child of the Jing family, she feels an irrepressible cold air arching up from the soles of her feet, making her think about tea and dinner, like a fish in her throat.

Early this morning, the weather was fine, the snow in the courtyard was cleared, and the people started their day's work in an orderly manner. Just as he was about to pass the meal, someone from Hongshan Courtyard suddenly came to report, saying that the little grandfather Mu of Lingnan Mu Mansion, the little young master Wei of Wei Mansion, the seventh highness Zhao Che, the eighth highness Zhao Jue, the thirteenth highness Zhao Song, and the prince of Yanwangfu were together in the glass hall of Hongshan Courtyard, the eldest young master was accompanying there, and the third young master and the fifth young master had already rushed to ask the fourth young master if he was in better health, and if so, he would also go to the lively and lively together.

Zhuge Yue's personality is more lonely, even if he rarely walks around with a few brothers in the house, he nests in the Qingshan Courtyard all day long, either reading books and planting flowers or eating snacks and fruits, without the spirit of flying eagles. If it's not that he's too cruel, he's a man who keeps to himself. At this time, he was lying on the bed, and after hearing the briefing, he told the messenger that he was not feeling well, so he would not go to accompany him.

Chu Qiao stood beside the incense burner and gently fanned the incense with a fan, and when he heard the words, his eyebrows were slightly raised, his face was pale and silent. In the middle of the night, the meal was served, and Chu Qiao followed behind the food delivery maid and quietly retreated.

Jin Xi glanced sideways slightly, secretly remembering in his heart, and after a while, he also retreated through the gap.

The glazed hall is called the hall, in fact, it is just a pavilion, located in the middle of the red mountain courtyard on the octagonal mountain, below is the blue blue lake, now it is the middle of winter, the lake is frozen, the snow is boundless, the two sides are the red and white plum forest, breaking the cold and blooming, bright and dazzling.

Outside the plum forest, is the Zhuge family's horse running mountain, a huge hillside is planted with the Zhuge family's fine pasture moved from outside the pass, specially used to captivate those good horses with good blood. This place is vast and sparsely populated, and people have nothing to do to enter, and it is very secluded.

Chu Qiao was a small person, and he deftly avoided the guards and entered Happy Horse Mountain, and climbed up the hill without being noticed.

Jing Yue'er's small body has advantages and disadvantages, just like now, if you want to move a potted plant, you have to work a lot.

Chu Qiao was just about to leave, when she suddenly noticed a figure sneakily passing by on the mountainside, she carefully lowered her body, and waited for the person to leave before slowly approaching. I saw a swarthy horse tied to a pine tree on the mountainside, tall and without a trace of miscellaneous hair on his body, and he didn't react when he saw Chu Qiao coming. Chu Qiao wondered in his heart, such a good horse should not be approached without guarding. When I looked down, I saw that there was still a small handful of uneaten buckwheat on the snow. Chu Qiao stood on tiptoe, grabbed the horse's head, looked at it carefully for a long time, frowned slightly, but ignored it.

Just as he was about to leave, he turned his head and saw dozens of snow-white feather arrows in the quiver on the horse's body. She took out one, the arrow was silver-white, and a small "Yan" character pen was engraved on it vigorously.

The masters of all the provinces were eating and appreciating the plum blossoms in the glazed hall, Chu Qiao ran along the remote cliff path of Octagonal Mountain, placed the pot of burning vine horns on the path of the cliff, and poured out a few small snakes from a cloth bag on his side.

"Hah! I knew it was you! ”

A shrill voice suddenly sounded, Chu Qiao turned around, and saw Jin Xi standing behind her, looking at her proudly and saying, "Look at me if I don't tell the fourth young master, you are going to die this time." ”

"Really?" Chu Qiao tilted her head, pursed the corners of her mouth slyly, her ears moved slightly, only hearing the footsteps approaching in the distance, she shook her head and said, "That's not necessarily." With that, her body fell sharply backwards, flipping down the cliff.

"Right there!" A childish voice sounded almost simultaneously.

Before Jin Si could exclaim, he was slammed to the ground by a group of big men.

Zhu Shun looked at the girl coldly, hated the root of his teeth, and said in a deep voice: "Jinxi, now that everyone has obtained the stolen goods, what else do you have to say?" ”

Jin Xi was shocked, and hurriedly said: "It's not me, it's Jing Xing'er, I'm here with her!" ”

"Nonsense, I saw with my own eyes that you sneakily went to Steward Zhu to steal a pot of rattan horns, and you want to frame others!" A crisp voice said suddenly.

Jin Xi turned his head and saw a little girl following Zhu Shun, looking very familiar. A flash of inspiration flashed in her mind, and she suddenly figured out the overall situation, and shouted loudly: "She and Jing Xing'er are in the same group, Steward Zhu, I can't believe her!" ”

Zhu Shun sat on a soft chair and was carried by four strong men. The twenty boards a few days ago hit him so that his buttocks were still swollen now, and when he heard this, he frowned, lowered his voice and said, "You said that you came with Jing Xing'er, what about her?" ”