In April in Jinyangjing, it is rare to see the spring rain lingering, day by day is the wind and smooth, the sky is high and the clouds are clean, so even if you can't go out to step on the spring horse, cruise the river to enjoy the scenery, most of the time you can only lie on the edge of the window, or lean on a few, accompanied by the sound of warblers and birds, "rest", the beautiful scenery does not feel a little depressed, only occasionally wandering outside the nine nights, guessing what the teenager across the street is busy with, and it is calculated for a few days.

In fact, since the day he returned home, Yu Feng has never been to the Guogong Mansion, only to let Rib come over to greet him every now and then, sometimes bringing a nourishing recipe, or a few boxes of exquisite pastries from the famous market, Qiu Yue admired - the small gifts of the prince are always very affordable.

The sisters are the most diligent is Siniang, but it is not like some time ago when she was always worried about Aunt Mei's matter, Yijing also thought that Siniang didn't want her to work hard, so she took the initiative to ask, only to know that it was really calm.

Xia Ke also said that according to Sanshun's observation over time, Mama Song's mother and son still have no contact with Dr. Nahu.

In short, these days, the small days of beautiful scenery have been quite leisurely, and they seem to be very relaxed.

But a trivial incident like a sesame mung bean that happened that day instantly aroused her vigilance.

Around the time of Shen Zheng, when Yijing was leaning against the window in a daze, he happened to hear a little maid and Qiu Yue in the porch whispering -

"Today is really bad luck, a pair of new embroidered shoes took me a lot of effort, just got on the foot, because just now at the behest of my sister, to Yuanyingtang in the morning Linglong sister sent over the carved white jade bowl containing cherries, only out of the courtyard gate, was Aunt Chen and the front of the Lan Xin hit a back, if it wasn't for my urgency to help a handful of locust trees next to the road, maybe even the jade bowl was smashed...... Sister, look, what did she step on in my shoes? The little maid lifted her skirt up and crossed her feet to let Qiu Yue look at the sludge on her head: "It's just that she is still very angry today, not only did she accompany me for half a sentence, but also made it difficult for me, saying that if I wasn't in a hurry to go to the thatched house, I would have to be unforgiving." ”

Yi Jing was idle to listen, but was noticed by Aunt Chen's three words, leaned over slightly, and recognized the little maid called the bell - or when the autumn moon was monitoring the sound of the warbler, the little tenant who developed, called both of them to the window, and asked the bell first: "Why did Aunt Chen's maid come to the vicinity of our yard?" ”

The bell was depressed, and replied listlessly, "The slave and maid don't know, but I saw her hurrying as if she were coming from the direction of the court." ”

Tong Youting is located on the east side of the Lvqing Garden, in fact, it is a plant garden built behind the verandah, there is a small fish pond in it, it is the lotus pond in the Lvqing Garden, every midsummer, the shade is like a shade, it is a good place to enjoy the shade, only this plant garden does not plant flowers, the scenery of this season is not better than other places, and it always seems to be cool, but it is inaccessible.

There is a corner door in Luqing Garden, which is connected with the verandah, only forty or fifty steps away from the secluded garden, only the corner door is not often opened, that is, it is either raining or scorching heat, and the beautiful scenery goes to Yuanying Hall to say hello, and will go through the verandah.

Lan Xin came from that end today, and there was just a corner at the main entrance of Luqing Garden, thinking that she was in a hurry and collided with the bell.

Yijing asked Qiuyue again: "Do you know what this Lan Xin's temperament was in the past?" I heard the fourth sister say that Aunt Chen is the most kind to others, is her maid a domineering? ”

Qiu Yue thought about it carefully and replied very affirmatively: "If you want to say that this Lan Xin is usually a good temper, it is rare to see her arguing with others. ”

So, this is something abnormal today?

What's more, the dispute is just enough, but he also emphasized the bell and is in a hurry to go to the thatched house......

So when you had dinner at the beginning of the year, taking advantage of the time to walk, because of this little doubt, the beautiful scenery was scattered a little farther away, and it was all the way around the Canglang Garden, where Ritchie lived.

Aunt Chen's place is behind Canglang Garden, a square courtyard, and there are only three rooms.

Aunt Chen was surprised and suspicious of the "rare guest" who came to visit Yijing, and hurriedly welcomed her inside, waiting to bring refreshments to entertain her, for fear that Yijing would not be clean, so she hesitated.

Yijing hurriedly smiled: "Originally, I heard the maid in the yard break her mouth, saying that she bumped into the girl in front of her aunt today, and she came to accompany her." ”

Aunt Chen was even more flattered, she didn't know that Lan Xin had a dispute with the maid of Luqing Garden, so she naturally blamed herself.

Yijing gave Qiu Yue a look, and Qiu Yue pulled Lan Xin out to talk.

Yijing then asked: "Listening to what my aunt meant just now, it seems that I went to Tongyouting today, and that place is still a little cold at this time, why is my aunt so interested?" ”

Aunt Chen didn't dare to hide it: "It's not that I want to go, I originally heard Lan Xin talk about it in the afternoon, and the second lady sent someone to tell me, saying that I should wait in the pavilion in the Tongyou Court, she has something to say...... As a result, I waited for half an hour, but the second lady did not come, and I came back again. ”

Yijing felt more and more lonely - even if Ritchie had something to talk to Aunt Chen privately, why would he go to that inaccessible place in Canglang Garden? And in the end, Aunt Chen waited for an empty time.

"Auntie can see someone else in that place?"

"I didn't see anyone else." Aunt Chen obviously also felt that this was strange, hesitated, and said: "If it is usual, there are those subordinates who take advantage of the idleness, or there are times when they go over there to laugh, but these days, the trivial matters in the house are complicated, and no one will be busy." ”

"My aunt never asked the second aunt, what is it for?" Yi Jing asked again, under normal circumstances, Aunt Chen would take the initiative to go to Canglang Garden to ask if she didn't wait for Li's.

Aunt Chen shook her head: "I thought that the second lady had forgotten for a while, for fear that she would miss something important, and she wanted to ask to see her when she came back, but I heard that the second lady was ...... today."

Yijing understood, and said that Aunt Chen was really a "considerate" person, if she knew that the second uncle was in the second aunt's house, and she still stepped forward, she would be suspected of "competing for favor".

Such a trivial matter, no head and no brain, to say strange, and really can't figure out the end, but to say usual, always a little weird, the beautiful scenery back to Luqing Garden, until the palm lamp is ten, still can't figure out the half-clue.

But today's weirdness wasn't just the afternoon.

When the watch was about to end, a few maids were laughing and laughing with the beautiful scenery, killing time, and there was a little maid on duty at night standing outside to report, saying that the Xianghui girl in front of Aunt Mei came to knock on the door and asked if she had seen Chanjuan in their yard.

The name of this maid undoubtedly made Yijing more sensitive - it was a tenant that Grandma Li had planned to develop, coercing Aunt Chen to buy someone who had poisoned Aunt Mei's medicine.

Hurriedly asked Qiu Yue to ask what was going on.

In less than a moment, Qiu Yue came back muttering, obviously very confused: "It was said that Chanjuan had not seen anyone at this time, Xianghui inquired around, and someone said that she had seen her near our courtyard in the afternoon, so she came to ask." ”

At this time, after all, it is not the height of summer, it gets dark early, and the inner house has to fall into the bolt, this time it is already the end, why hasn't Chanjuan gone back yet? If the maid in the inner house doesn't have the right cards, she can't go out of the house, and she doesn't even know the master of Aunt Mei, of course, Chanjuan can't get the right cards, but where did she go?

First Aunt Chen was inexplicably asked by Ritch to go to the Youting, and then Chanjuan "disappeared", two unpredictable and seemingly unimportant things happened in one day, but Yijing felt unstable.

After a little hesitation, she decided to explore the secluded court at night based on her instincts.

Because there is no need to go out of the inner house, it is not a big deal, although a few maids in the spring and twilight are puzzled, they do not dissuade them.

Xia Ke hurriedly found a brocade cloak and tied it on Yijing's shoulder: "You still have to guard against the cold at night, Wu Niang is not as good as before, and her body is still weak." ”

The four maids lit a wind lantern, surrounded the beautiful scenery, and walked out of the verandah through the back corner door with light steps, without alarming others.

There is no light in the courtyard, and the spring night in April is still a little warm and cool, although the moon in the middle of the moon is almost perfect, but it is always shuttling in the clouds, flickering in the dark, the dark shadow of the court is thick and faint, the wind is over, there seems to be a whimper sound coiled from nowhere, the four maids only entered, only to feel that the backbone involuntarily climbed a coldness, and shivered in unison.

But Qiu Yue said in a cold trembling voice: "Wu Niang, why are you here?" ”

As soon as the words came out, they were blown by the night wind like a ghost.

The spring twilight who was walking in front was almost frightened and dropped the lantern, and the autumn frost was even more stumbling, almost breaking her foot.

Yijing couldn't cry or laugh: "This is still in your own home, and you have never done anything wrong, what is there to fear?" ”

The four maids sighed together - they have been together for many years, but they didn't know that our master was Su Daring.

It's not that Yijing is unwilling to answer Qiu Yue's questions, but she can't say it carefully, but she feels that this secluded court may be weird, so she thinks about it.

Walking around the fish pond, Yijing deliberately went to take a look at the water-separated pavilion that Aunt Chen said, there was a stone table and a square stone bench, and there was nothing strange about it.

"Wu Niang, let's go back, this place is too infiltrating at night." Even Xia Ke couldn't help but persuade.

The beautiful scenery that found nothing was still unwilling, and it happened that the moon broke through the clouds at this time, making the eyes suddenly brighten.

She saw a shadowy room not far away, in the bushes facing the Red Pavilion, and couldn't help but snatch the lantern from Chundu's hand and take a picture of it: "I occasionally come here to fish, but I didn't find that there were still houses in the courtyard. ”

Qiu Yue looked at it with her feet and sighed softly: "It's a utility room, with some brooms, shovels or something, although this yard is only popular in midsummer, there are usually people to clean and tidy up." ”

"Let's see." The beautiful scenery immediately decided.

A few maids have bitter faces - what's there to see in the utility room? Even if you are curious, you should pick the blue sky and come in the daytime, this will be a black light, in case there is something hidden in it......

Because of this "sneaky" mentality, the maids trembled more and more, and the lights and shadows in their hands trembled, and when they came to the door, no one dared to take the lead in pushing the door open.

It was Su who boldly played his "heroic nature" and fearlessly pushed the door in.

Xia Ke gritted his teeth and followed closely, the lights shining in......

A short scream—

Standing in front of the door, Chun Du was almost frightened again, and after a little hesitation, he had already seen Yijing cover Xia Ke's mouth and walked out.

"Don't make a noise."

The girl's face was solemn.

Chun Du looked at Xia Ke again, but saw that her face was pale, and in just a few breaths, a layer of cold sweat was covered on her forehead.

Yijing calmly closed the door and closed his eyes slightly.

All the weirdness of this day seems to have an outline.

It's a pity that the bureau has already been laid out, and some things are still too late after all.