On the fifth day after the secret funeral of Gongsun Guangxiao, Zhou Xue came to Gongsun's house.

These days, she has been busy embroidering handkerchiefs for Gongsun Shengyan, which is the one that Gongsun Shengyan saw that was not finished at that time. On the handkerchief are two mandarin ducks playing in the water, both holding their wings, looking at each other, and the two long oblate beaks are up and down, as if there are endless sweet words. In the lower right corner of the handkerchief, there is a small seal script with the character "snow", which is embroidered with fiery red needle and thread, and it looks very warm. Zhou Xue carried a handkerchief and walked directly to Gongsun Shengyan's room.

"Brother Katsuiwa. Zhou Xue knocked a few times outside the door.

No one answered.

"Brother Katsuiwa. Zhou Xue knocked a few more times and was about to push the door, only to find that the door was locked by a small copper lock, and it was impossible to see it if he didn't look carefully.

Zhou Xue was puzzled, Gongsun Shengyan's door was never padlocked, what happened today. She saw a subordinate passing by the covered bridge opposite, so she shouted loudly, "Where has Young Master Shengyan gone?"

Seeing that it was Zhou Xue, the next person didn't dare to answer, so he turned his head and hurriedly returned from the way he came.

This can make Zhou Xue angry, she pursed her lips, clenched her two hands into fists, and chased directly in the direction of the next person's departure, thinking that she didn't know whose person it was, and after catching it, she must sue fiercely, and before she chased out ten steps away, a person carrying a bucket came out from the corner, Zhou Xue couldn't dodge, and hit the other party hard.

"Miss Xue, I'm sorry, it's me who is not good, I didn't see you......" The subordinate hurriedly apologized and apologized.

"Where did Gongsun Shengyan go, why was the door locked?" Zhou Xue asked directly, regardless of the other party's apology.

The hunched body of the "......" subordinate suddenly stopped, staring at his toes speechlessly, not daring to look up at Zhou Xue.

"Say, where did Gongsun Shengyan go!" Zhou Xue raised her voice.

"The little ones really don't dare to say, don't force the small ones. ”

Hearing the next person's answer, Zhou Xue felt that things were a little strange, so she lost her temper, snatched the bucket in the hand of the next person, threw it to the ground next to her angrily, grabbed the other party's shoulder with her hand, and kept shaking and saying, "Say, you say!"

"Small...... The little one really doesn't dare to say, Miss Xue, if the little one says it today, you won't see the little one tomorrow. Let go of the small horse, you should go and ask Young Master Shengqiu. The subordinates couldn't wait to kneel for Zhou Xue.

"Okay!" Zhou Xue pushed his subordinates away and trotted all the way to find Gongsun Shengqiu.

Gongsun Shengqiu happened to be at home, and during this time, he seemed to have become the young head of the Gongsun family. Before the old lady died, Gongsun Guangxiao mentioned the two candidates of the young family head in person, and now Gongsun Shengyan has fled without a trace, everyone thinks that it is logical to let Gongsun Shengqiu take charge of family affairs, Gongsun Guangshun, as the eldest son of the old lady Gongsun Yu, after discussing with Gongsun Shengqiu, plans to wait a few more days, and when everything calms down, he will announce the matter.

"Brother Shengqiu," Zhou Xue saw Gongsun Shengqiu and called out politely.

"Oh, Sister Snow. Gongsun Shengqiu put down the account book in his hand and looked at Zhou Xue with a smile on his face.

"Where did Gongsun Shengyan go, why did you hang a lock on the door?" Zhou Xue was reluctant to talk to Gongsun Shengqiu.

"He, what are you looking for him?" Gongsun Shengqiu sold Guan Zi with a hippie smile.

"I have something to do with him, and I asked my subordinates, and my subordinates didn't dare to say, so I could only come to you. Zhou Xue began to lose her voice.

"If something tells me, I'll tell him. Gongsun Shengqiu still didn't let go.

"Can I tell you?" Zhou Xue came here today, and his heart was full of happy fantasies when Gongsun Shengyan got the handkerchief, but now no one has been able to see it, and everyone is still playing dumb riddles with him, and he can't help but be angry.

"Can't you tell me?" Gongsun Shengqiu's face also began to change, and his frozen smile gradually became sinister. He got up and walked past Zhou Xue, closed the door with both hands, and then dropped the latch viciously.

"I'm really in a hurry to find him, Brother Shengqiu, can you tell me where he is?" Zhou Xue didn't feel the danger coming, but felt that her tone was a little too much just now, so she softened her tone and asked again.

Gongsun Shengqiu leaned against the door, approached Zhou Xue, stared at her face with a gloomy face, and said again about Gongsun Guangxiao's death and Gongsun Shengyan's escape, and emphasized that there are also people outside looking for Gongsun Shengyan now, some are the family members sent out by Gongsun's family, and some are Gongsun Shengyan's comrades.

After hearing this, Zhou Xue's face was pale, and she only felt that her legs were weak and her muscles were crisp, and she couldn't stand on the table with her hands, so she had to sit on the chair. Gongsun Shengyan is a murderer, and it is Gongsun Guangxiao who cares for him very much? She doesn't believe it, she has never liked Gongsun Shengqiu, she doesn't know what kind of things are hidden in her intestines, but she always has a smile on her face. But the performance of the people of the Gongsun family didn't seem to be fake, and when they heard themselves mention Gongsun Shengyan, it was as if they had seen a ghost. Her mind has turned into a piece of mush, if Gongsun Shengyan didn't kill anyone, why did she run?

"Sister Xue, now you have something to say, can you tell me?" Gongsun Shengqiu took a few more steps forward, stood next to the chair, and pressed Zhou Xue's fragrant shoulders with both hands.

Zhou Xue trembled, as if she had been electrocuted, she looked at Gongsun Shengqiu, the hippie smile on her eyebrows, and her stomach couldn't help but churn, as if she had swallowed a big cockroach alive. Gongsun Shengqiu actually acted on himself, completely ignoring the identities of the two and the friendship between the two families, he was a real disciple.

"I see, I'm leaving. Zhou Xue clasped her hands in front of her chest, said a hasty word and walked to the door.

"Don't go, Sister Snow. Gongsun Shengqiu shamelessly stood in front of Zhou Xue, shook his head and said, "What Gongsun Shengyan can know, can't my Gongsun Shengqiu know?"

"You get out of the way. Zhou Xue's voice was filled with fear, and she took a small step back.

Gongsun Shengqiu's expression became hideous in an instant, he looked at Zhou Xue with gritted teeth, and said fiercely: "Gongsun Shengyan Gongsun Shengyan, if you open your mouth, it is him who closes your mouth." What's so good about Gongsun Shengyan, an idiot, a murderer, and a filthy rat who has absconded. My grandson Shengqiu is now the head of the family, and you don't know what to do, and you call me around. ”

"I was wrong, Brother Shengqiu......" Zhou Xue was so frightened by his appearance that she cried, her whole body kept shaking, she had no place to escape or hide at all, Gongsun Shengqiu blocked the only way.

Gongsun Shengqiu suddenly pounced and hugged Zhou Xue tightly, Zhou Xue was so frightened that he screamed, and then kept raising his legs and kicking him, and kept beating him with his two arms. Gongsun Shengqiu didn't care, and dragged Zhou Xue's body to the edge of the bed. Pity her a weak woman, where can she beat the burly and young Gongsun Shengqiu, after several useless struggles, she was thrown onto the bed by Gongsun Shengqiu, her eyes were blurred, and her hands and feet were paralyzed and unable to move because of fear. Gongsun Shengqiu stepped forward and grabbed Zhou Xue's clothes, and tore them both sides, and with the sound of his clothes being torn, Zhou Xue's scarlet belly pocket and snow-white skin were exposed in front of Gongsun Shengqiu unguardedly.

"Brother Shengqiu......" Zhou Xue was left with weak pleading and crying.

Gongsun Shengqiu ignored it, like a mad beast, he tore off Zhou Xue's belly pocket again and threw it aside without looking. The handkerchief that Zhou Xue embroidered for Gongsun Shengyan spun weakly a few times in the air like a dead leaf in the autumn wind as the belly pocket that was torn off and thrown away, and fell to the ragged floor.

"I see how Gongsun Shengyan wants you in the future. Gongsun Shengqiu gasped, quickly took off his shirt, stared at a pair of white doves on Zhou Xue's chest that were desperately jumping in panic, and said with a cruel smile.

Zhou Xue was scared and anxious, lying naked on Gongsun Shengqiu's bed, and with a burst of heart-piercing pain, she passed out.

The death of Gongsun Guangxiao, Mr. Zhou heard the whole story, after all, the Zhou family and the Gongsun family have been woven together like a net for so many years. But he didn't believe that Gongsun Shengyan would do such a vicious thing for any reason. But since it has happened, and the Gongsun family has decided to deal with this matter privately for the sake of fame, and will not report it to the official, he will not say more and ask more.

It was almost dusk, and Mr. Zhou was busy in the room, when the subordinate outside the door knocked respectfully on the door, saying that Bingliang had come to find him something. Mr. Zhou put down the work in his hand and let Bingliang enter the door. Bingliang is a helper that Mr. Zhou particularly trusts, he was an outcast since he was a child, adopted by Mr. Zhou, and the Zhou family together for food and housing, there is no difference, a little grown into Mr. Zhou sent Bingliang to a private school, learning literacy and hyphenation, but unfortunately Bingliang has no interest in making a fuss, and was taken out by Mr. Private School to play the board in three days. Seeing this, Mr. Zhou let him drop out of school and have been learning to do business by his side. The east is not bright and the west is bright, Bingliang is very interested in the medicinal material business, and within a few years, he learned what Mr. Zhou taught, and he is very business-minded, and gradually became his right-hand man.

Bingliang gave Mr. Zhou a salute, and then looked at Mr. Zhou with an embarrassed face, and explained the reason for the origin of the beans poured from the bamboo tube. It turned out that Bingliang went out of the city to buy medicinal materials according to the plan yesterday, he has been doing this business for many years, and the medicine farmers have already known each other, Bingliang was born as an orphan, but fortunately he was adopted by Mr. Zhou, so he treated people and things more generously, and the medicine farmers especially respected him. Fifty miles away from the city is the big mountain ravine, there is a family of medicine farmers called Cheng Laoer, Cheng Laoer was born like a monkey, although he is not tall, but his hands are spread out and much longer than his body. With this pair of unusually long arms, the peak that other medicine farmers can't go up to, he can easily go up with a few steps, and the mountain stream that others can't go down, he can sway and fall safely by climbing a few vines. A few days ago, when the second child was collecting medicine in Luoma Mountain, he accidentally found a gorgeously dressed young man fainting beside a waterhole not far from a high cliff, this young man looked like he was in his twenties, and he could no longer find anything to prove his identity except for a few silver tickets that had been soaked in shape. Cheng Lao Er is also a bodhisattva, and when he saw that someone had lost his life and fed the beasts like this in the wilderness, he carried the young man back and put him at home to take care of it, but the young man did not have much external injury, but he was always unconscious. happened to meet Bingliang to collect medicine, Cheng Lao Er also knew such a city person, so he told Bingliang about finding a family for the young man, Bingliang followed him back to his home in the ravine and saw that it was Gongsun Shengyan of the Gongsun family.

Mr. Zhou was shocked after hearing this, this Gongsun Shengyan seemed to have suffered an accident on the way to escape for his life and rolled down from Luoma Mountain. Do you want to tell the Gongsun family? He paced back and forth and pondered, if he did, Gongsun Shengyan would definitely not be able to escape death, and almost all the people in the Gongsun family believed that he was a murderer, if not...... He couldn't think of a perfect plan, so he simply followed Bingliang out of the door, planning to go to see the situation first. As soon as he walked to the door, Mr. Zhou saw Zhou Xue's sedan chair stop, and Zhou Xue, who came out of the sedan chair, lowered her head and covered her chest, crying like pear blossoms and rain. Mr. Zhou was worried about Gongsun Shengyan in his heart, and stopped Zhou Xue to ask what it was, but she just didn't say it, and finally said the words "Gongsun Shengyan" when she was forced to be in a hurry. Mr. Zhou didn't think about it, thinking that his daughter went to Gongsun's house and heard about Gongsun Shengyan's murder and absconding, and couldn't accept it for a while, so he told her not to run to Gongsun's house if there was nothing to do these days.