In the room, Meng Xuan shook his head disapprovingly and said, "Three inches seven? Isn't that similar to the embroidered shoes you dropped yesterday? You are originally a person who is deeply suspicious, if the size is still close, the Guan family's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law will lock you as soon as possible. ”

He Angelica glanced at him idly, and snorted: "If you really think about me, you won't cause me to lose a shoe, and you are embarrassed to blame me." ”

"It's not the time to be angry, and I think things are going badly. You'd better go home, and I'll figure out the antidote. Meng Xuan said, and took out the cowhide rope that tied people, "I won't come hard, Qing'er, you also cooperate, we have an account to go home and settle it." ”

"Don't you think about it." He Angelica stood up and said angrily, "If you don't explain the matter between you and King Ning, you don't want to give me any orders." Don't think I'm fooled. ”

"I can't say it now, but I'll tell you sooner or later." Meng Xuan said.

"Then I will follow in your footsteps sooner or later, but not this time." He Angelica replied.

The two were at a stalemate, when a hole suddenly opened in the paper window, and a willow-leaf red tasseled dart abruptly nailed to the wooden table, with a buzzing tail note. Meng Xuan took off the note tied to the dart and read it, and told He Angelica: "Zhu Quan has found his prey, and he will not continue to stay in the Guan family, Feng Yang will stay for a while." ”

He Angelica said: "Whatever they want, I'm not the same way as them." ”

Meng Xuan's pupils deepened, and he paused before continuing: "According to the agreement, I have to go to Daning again, and I understand that after I leave, it will be absolutely difficult to restrict your movements. ”

"Thank goodness you finally figured it out."

Meng Xuan said again: "I have seen the ten followers you brought from Qingyuan, and their martial arts are acceptable, but they are not very clever, and they can't follow up the inner garden." You yourself are clever and do not follow the ways of others. Also, that ......" Meng Xuan suddenly became slumped, "I am in your stomach...... It's still there, right? ”

"Huh?"

He Angelica didn't understand at first, but it wasn't until she looked at Meng Xuan for a moment that she understood it and became stuttering: "You, you mean that little ...... He hasn't been there for a long time, and you know he exists? ”

They are talking about Xiao Meng Xuan, who was engraved on the dagger, who once drilled into He Angelica's dantian and used his divine sense to talk to her, but then he has been dormant and has never appeared again.

"He's me, of course I know." Meng Xuan took off the saber he was wearing at his waist and put it on the table, his broad arms tightly hugged the person who didn't make him feel at ease, and sighed, "With him with you, I should have been relieved." But as long as I look at you one more time, my heart hangs again,"

He Angelica resisted him like a horned goat and said sullenly: "I know what I should do, I am not a child." ”

"It seems that bringing you back to Yangzhou is a wrong attempt."

"Then you regret marrying me?"

“…… You guess. ”

"Huh? What do you call me guess? You really regret it, you just admitted it! He Angelica grabbed Meng Xuan's collar.

"Don't make a fuss, let me hold you for a while."

"Meng Xuan! You make it clear, don't think about it, just forget it! ”

As soon as Meng Xuan was discharged from the hospital, he looked at Zhu Quan's sarcastic cold eyes, like two emotionless lighthouses on the sea.

The former deliberately dressed up to be unapproachable, with a long whip, a saber, and a piercing beard, but he did not feel dangerous, and as long as he made eye contact, he could find the reassuring factor in those clear eyes. The latter was the opposite, the man's brown eyes hid a voyeuristic beast, and even blood could not calm him.

"The agreement is so urgent, there isn't much time left for you to say goodbye." Zhu Quan looked at the birds in the sky and said.

"It's a long time to come, and we have time." Meng Xuan tilted his head and smiled, "It's you, Lord Wang, if I count correctly, you still have the last twenty-three hours, right?" ”

Zhu Quan lightly opened his thin lips, and his voice was his blade: "If you can't get what I want, no one will want to get what you want." ”

Meng Xuan replied: "I am only responsible for completing half of the matter, and if it fails, it can only be said that the number of days is like this, and no one needs to bury you, which is also part of the agreement." ”

"The king's word is an agreement." Zhu Quan said coldly.

"Then I won't do it, please go your own way, don't send it." Meng Xuan picked his pick.

Feng Yang couldn't stand it from the side, so he hurriedly came up to persuade peace: "Okay, okay, good cooperation, seeing that victory is in sight, why is it suddenly stiff!" Each side makes a move, and everyone is still good partners, otherwise our alliance across thousands of miles would be meaningless, wouldn't it? ”

When the allies here broke up, there was also an accident over there. He Angelica's grandmother ran into the forest to bury something, but was seen by the maid of the Guan Mansion, and the maid immediately reported it to Mrs. Song.

"What's buried, can you see clearly?" Song Zhihua trimmed the jasmine balls on the windowsill and asked.

The maid said, "Far away, there is fog in the forest in the morning, and I can't see it really." Looking at the old woman's appearance is very sneaky, she must not have done anything good. ”

Song Zhihua put down the scissors, blew off the broken petals in the palm of his hand, leaving only a hand of fragrance, a smile bloomed on his face, and said slowly: "I don't know how much the monthly money of a rough mother-in-law is, and how much does it cost to buy a rough mother-in-law?" ”

The maid didn't know why, so she replied: "Twenty taels of silver is more than enough, and the inferior people are all open-minded when they see money, and there are no exceptions." It's just that the two mothers-in-law don't go out of the yard and don't go out a single step. ”

Song Zhihua turned to himself: "That is to say, the secret of He Angelica is only worth twenty taels of silver......

There is a sweet water well in Sekifu, which only bubbles up at noon every day, and is usually supplied with only ordinary well water. Song Zhihua said that He Angelica was a guest, and sent her an extra bottle of water from the sweet water well, and also said that when the well was bubbling with water, He Angelica could take water at will.

He Angelica tasted it, the bowl of Shangbin-grade water was cool and refreshing, comparable to the melting snow water of the snow-capped mountains, so he smiled and said: "Mother Chen, you bring a water bottle and ask, if there is more water, you will ask for another bottle." ”

Mama Chen agreed, took the bottle to get water, and didn't go far before she was stopped by two people and pulled into a tightly closed room with doors and windows, and there were people guarding the door inside and outside. Sitting in the center of the room was Song Zhihua, the eldest lady of the Guan family with exquisite makeup.

"Madame...... How did you say this...... "With such a battle on the other side, Mama Chen was suddenly timid.

Song Zhihua said straight to the point: "I know, the county lord of Qingning asked you to go to the forest to bury something, I want to know where you are buried, this is the reward." Someone lifted the yellow cloth that covered the tray, and a row of round, plump silver bills was placed in it.

"This ...... The slave and maid only follow the master's orders, and do not know anything else. Mama Chen hesitated in her mouth and heart.

Song Zhihua took in her expression, and said: "I also understand that it is not easy for people at the moment, and I will not expose you to her." You see, I didn't ask you directly what that thing was, and I didn't force you to betray your master, I just wanted to know a place name, the name of a place where that thing was buried. ”

"In, behind a big bluestone in the bamboo forest." After Mama Chen finished speaking, she buried her head, feeling that a heavy bag of silver was stuffed into her arms, and someone pushed her out of the room from her back. In this way, she made a windfall.

Song Zhihua smiled and asked the maid, "Did you hear clearly?" ”

The maid nodded and said, "I heard it clearly, the slave maid immediately brought all the people and picked up that thing!" ”

"It's quieter, let's go to two people." Song Zhihua added.

"Yes!"

The maid who was sent out had just left, and the closed door was pushed open again, this time it was Mrs. Guan who came in. Song Zhihua's leisurely expression swept away, and he asked in surprise: "Mother, you got out of bed again!" The doctor said you should rest for two more days. ”

Mrs. Guan is still blocking the door with a soft sedan chair, her expression is languishing, and her face without fat powder is almost twenty years old, which is worse than the complexion of Mama Chen just now.

She said without energy: "Of course you want me to be quiet all the time, why don't I want to live a happy life, but you little ones, which one of them makes me worry?" First of all, Yun'er was dismissed, and her worth fell into the mud. Then there was Guan Mo, who sank into Taihu Lake with a boatload of weapons, because the imperial court strictly inspected the arms, and it was not even possible to salvage the corpses. I just didn't have a son or a daughter, and none of the other concubines became successful. ”

Song Zhihua comforted her softly: "You still confess to me and have three grandchildren, they are all extremely filial and obedient." If you are not good, don't think about the past. ”

"That's right, you are the most obedient, if Guan Mo is as obedient as you, he won't lose his life in vain......" Old Madam Guan's voice became smaller and smaller, as if she had fallen asleep in the sedan chair, her cheeks sunken and blue.

Song Zhihua tried to call her twice, but she didn't get a response, and an idea suddenly popped up in her heart, and slowly approached the sedan chair, and she didn't dare to breathe, wanting to stretch out her finger to confirm her thoughts. This powerful woman with skills, no one in the entire Guan family disrespects her and is not afraid of her, is that it...... He's dead?

However, the old woman's eyelids twitched, and she woke up again, her eyes still as sharp as before. She stared at Song Zhihua and asked, "The one who went out just now was He Angelica's descendant, right?" What are you looking for her for? ”

Song Zhihua didn't dare to hide it, and he also knew that he couldn't hide it from his shrewd mother-in-law at all, so he hurriedly smiled and said: "It was the girl who told me that He Angelica God mysteriously buried something, I said in my heart, don't be anything bad for the Guan family, right?" Only then did I buy the mother-in-law, dig out the things and take a look, so that I could confront He Angelica face to face. Otherwise, the person who eavesdropped on the roof yesterday was He Angelica, and she lost one of her embroidered shoes, fearing that the other one would also fall into our hands, and she couldn't throw it away, so she buried it. ”

"Oh." Old Madam Guan responded expressionlessly.

"I was going to tell my mother immediately," Song Zhihua said again, "But Angelica is cunning, and I don't dare to disturb my mother's rest before the matter is verified." Guan Bai just said that I was beaten yesterday, blaming me for my inability to share my mother's worries. ”

"Oh."

The man who had gone to dig soon returned, with an open bag in both hands, and in it lay a delicate embroidered plum shoe, exactly the same size as the one that had fallen from the roof yesterday. This time, even Song Zhihua, who had analyzed He Angelica's suspiciousness, was stunned, but he didn't expect to be sure that he was really accurate, the person who hid on the roof yesterday and listened to the major secrets of the Guan family was really He Angelica!

She swallowed her saliva and asked worriedly, "Mother, what should I do now?" ”

The old lady said coldly: "What else can I do, the Guan family is facing the worst situation, and there is only one last way left." ”