Chapter 215: The Storm Rises
Qianqian . , the fastest update of the latest chapter of the concubine!
As soon as the man turned his head, Bai Susu saw his face clearly, and couldn't help frowning.
This person is a high-level person, and his appearance is ordinary, but there is a large mole on the right side of his face that is particularly conspicuous.
She'd seen this face, and only recently.
Recently, the government has been checking last year's accounts, so many outside stewards have been entering the house to reconcile the accounts in the past few days. Bai Zhi met once by chance before, thinking that it was inconvenient for her to be seen by strangers in a concubine's room, so she hid aside.
The only person she had seen recently was like that, and the reason why she remembered this person was the only one among those people was because he had a big black mole on his face, and a quick glance left an impression.
The man didn't think that there was a person hiding on the rockery, remembering that what they said just now was likely to be heard by this woman, and suddenly his face changed greatly, his eyes showed a fierce light, and his feet just moved, and Bai Susu, who was standing on the rockery, spoke first, "I advise you to put down the child and go quickly, this will be the end of people's lunch break, I will shout a few times in a while, you can't run if you want to." ”
It is true that it is past the hottest time of noon, and soon there will be people walking around the garden. If you alarm people, it's really not so easy to leave.
The face of the man with the black mole was even more ugly, he subconsciously glanced at the man standing at the bottom of the rockery, then gritted his teeth, threw Lu Huai'an who was carrying it aside, turned around and hurried away.
Bai Susu did not breathe a sigh of relief, and looked down quietly at a place under the rockery, where a corner of clothes can still be seen, and it can be seen that the person standing at the bottom is still there.
She took a deep breath, this person was very similar to the voice she had heard by chance in the inn, she wanted to see this person's face but did not dare to act rashly, so she could only wait quietly.
Soon there was a sound of talking in the distance, it was the people who came to the garden, Bai Susu heard the voice and felt a little confident, she said, "Your companions are gone, why don't you leave?" ”
No one answered her words, footsteps sounded, the corners of the clothes moved, and soon the figure of a man was revealed.
Bai Susu was stunned, the person had a mask on his face, only revealing a pair of extremely indifferent eyes, and the eyes swept around her face, as sharp as a knife.
Scold!
This was a sneer from the man before leaving, Bai Susu didn't know what this smile meant, but he could hear the obvious contempt in it.
She had a hunch that this person would be good at kung fu and that his skills were not low. She was a little scared now, for fear that this person would kill her directly, after all, it would be too easy.
After a brief look at each other, Bai Susu felt a creepy smell, she took a deep breath, thinking that if this person dared to act rashly, she would pull her throat and howl a few times to attract the guards in the courtyard.
The man looked at her a few times, then turned around and went into the rockery, Bai Susu waited for a while and didn't hear any movement, estimating that the person should be gone, so he quickly climbed down from the rockery, ran to Lu Huai'an, who was lying on the ground, and reached out to hug her.
The man with the black mole was afraid that Lu Huai'an would attract others by screaming, so he fainted when he caught him. Bai Susu probed his breathing, thinking that it should be okay to fall asleep.
Bai Susu looked down at Lu Huai'an's appearance, he was a very good-looking child, with very white skin and long eyelashes, he was simply a miniature version of Lord Lu.
She looked at it and thought it was very interesting, not only did she think that this child was annoying, but she also felt strangely close to her.
This feeling didn't allow her to think deeply, and soon the voice of looking for Lu Huai'an outside sounded.
When she went to bed at noon, the nurse took a nap, and Lu Huai'an ran out secretly, she woke up and saw that there was no one left, and she was so scared that she broke out in a cold sweat on a hot day.
The nurse searched the yard inside and out, but there was no one to see. She had no choice but to go to Roche.
Luo almost fainted when he heard that Lu Huai'an was gone, and hurriedly asked his subordinates to find him.
I looked around but didn't see anyone, and Roche couldn't sit still, and when he was about to go out to look for it in person, he heard the next person report that someone had found it.
Luo's heart had just relaxed, and when he heard that it was Aunt Bai who had found it, his face couldn't help but become complicated.
Bai Susu carried Lu Huai'an into the house, Luo Shi saw that the person fainted, and immediately asked people to call the doctor, and he personally went over to pick up Lu Huai'an in his arms, and hurriedly entered the house.
The doctor came quickly, and after the examination, he said that he had just fainted, probably because the weather was too hot, and there was nothing serious.
Luo Zhi was relieved, Bai Susu stood aside but was full of doubts, she obviously saw the black mole man shake something in front of Lu Huai'an's nose, and then he fainted, how could it be because it was too hot.
After a while, Lu Huai'an woke up, and cried when he saw Luo's wow, Luo's eyes were also red, and he reached out and patted his back gently, while still coaxing him warmly.
Bai Susu looked at this scene and retreated to the outside room to wait, today's matter Luo Zhi must ask her what happened.
Sure enough, after waiting for a short time, Roche came out. Bai Susu didn't hide it, she told the truth about how she met Lu Huai'an.
Luo Shi furrowed his brows after hearing this, she had the impression that the black mole man was a housekeeper in the outer courtyard, named Wang Yi.
She turned her head to look at Qingmei next to her, and said with a cold face, "Send someone to find out where Wang Yi is now, and bring him for questioning!" ”
Qingmei answered, went out and ordered someone to go.
Bai Susu sat in the room and waited, and the next person didn't delay much time when he went and returned, but he brought back a not good news.
Wang Yi died, and hanged himself on the beams of the house.
At this time, not only Bai Susu was stunned, but also Luo Zhi was stunned, she felt a trace of unusual taste, as if there was some conspiracy hanging over the Lu Mansion.
Wang Yi's sudden death made the Lu family also alert, and after Lord Lu came back in the evening, he deliberately found Bai Susu and asked her to tell her in detail about the day's events.
After Bai Susu finished speaking, he frowned unconsciously, and Lu Zhiyuan said, "Did you think of something again?" ”
"Do you remember what I told you about what I heard at the inn, and the sound I heard here is the same as it was that day?"
Lu Zhiyuan's brows suddenly twisted, he naturally remembered the incident that Bai Susu had mentioned to her.
She heard the news that there was a family surnamed Zhu living in Sanli Hutong in the capital, and that person's plan was related to this family.
Lu Zhiyuan later sent someone to Sanli Hutong to check, but there was no such family, and there was no one surnamed Zhu in the entire Sanli Hutong.
This matter was later settled, and Bai Susu later thought it was a hallucination caused by his poor health in the past few days. Until today, hearing that familiar voice again, as well as Wang Yi's hanging himself, once again pulled her memory back.
She heard the events of that day right, there are indeed people who want to be unfavorable to the Lu family.
"By the way, are you saying that the man in the mask ended up in the rockery and never came out?" Lu Zhiyuan asked.
Bai Susu nodded, "I think there must be a road in the rockery, otherwise how could he go there." ”
Lu Zhiyuan also thought of this, and rushed to the rockery with people, and after entering, he found a problem, the rockery was just a cover, there was a mechanism inside, and after opening it, it connected to a secret passage underneath.
At the end of the road is a forest outside the city, and there are few people around, except for a few less obvious footprints at the entrance of the cave.
There is still a road to the outside in the courtyard of the Lu family, and everyone in the Lu family doesn't know that if Bai Susu didn't meet it by chance this time, if someone enters the house along this road later, the consequences will be unimaginable.
Lu Zhiyuan went to find Old Man Lu and asked him about the origin of this secret passage.
"It was all many years ago, and I didn't expect anyone to know about it."
Old Man Lu also felt very strange, the secret passage of the Lu family had been left for at least a few hundred years. In the early days of the Lu family's establishment, the situation in the court was unstable at that time, and the ancestors of the Lu family were afraid that one day the glory and wealth would not be guaranteed, so in order to leave a way for future generations, they secretly dug a secret passage for celebrities.
But as the generations passed, the Lu family became richer and richer, and the secret path was gradually forgotten. After arriving at Mr. Lu's house, he asked people to move the rockery to cover the intersection on it, and it has been until now, if it weren't for someone leaving from it today, even Mr. Lu himself would have forgotten that there was such a thing.
The secret path of the Lu family, a place that even the descendants of the Lu family may not know, how can outsiders know about it.
Lu Zhiyuan also had to face this matter again, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that it was not simple, I was afraid that the Lu family would be targeted.
In the next few days, Lu Zhiyuan kept going out early and returning late, and he sent someone to investigate Sanli Hutong again, and this time he really investigated and dealt with something different.
There was indeed a family in this alley not long ago, but it was not surnamed Zhu, but surnamed He.
The family moved in a month ago, and they rarely talk to the neighbors around them on weekdays, and the door of the house is closed from morning to night, so the neighbors don't know much about the family.
The yacha asked around, but did not find any useful news. Similarly, three days have passed in the blink of an eye, and the capital is still calm, and there is no useful news coming out at all.
The more this is the case, the less reassuring it is, and Lu Zhiyuan can only send more people to continue to investigate.
On the other hand, something happened in the palace.
Concubine Xian Niangniang angered Long Yan and was demoted to the cold palace, and her rank also went from one of the four concubines to the palace people.
As soon as the news came out, the Manchu Dynasty was shocked.
First, Concubine Xian is already one of the four concubines, and she is the head of the four concubines. There is no queen concubine in the court, and the highest rank in these years is the virtuous concubine, such an identity is degraded and degraded, and it is still directly reduced to a palace person, which shows that things are not simple.
Second, Concubine Xian is from the Lu family, although she is not a branch, but it also represents the favor of the Heavenly Family for the Lu family, and because of this, Concubine Xian has been favored for more than ten years in the palace, and even once there was news in the palace that the saint intended to make Concubine Xian the queen.
Now that it is said to be depreciated, there was no rumor at all before, and it can't help but make people suspect that the matter of the virtuous concubine may be just a harbinger, and the saint is going to move the Lu family.