Gu Junruo stretched out his hand to take the teacup, lowered his eyes and looked down, only to see that there were some fine tea foams in the cup, but the glaze of the teacup was excellent, and it could be seen that it was a good tea set.

Gu Junruo lowered his head and took a sip of tea, although the tea was brewed with tea foam, the fragrance was refreshing, and it could be seen that it was a good tea, but there was only this little tea foam left, so that Han Mu, who was standing in the yard and playing with the children, begged for a cup of tea, only a cup of hot water.

It seems that the Zhang family's original family background is indeed good.

Zhao Hanzhang raised his eyes and looked at the Zhang family's hall.

The last time she came, the hall was locked, she didn't come in to see, but the courtyard was broken and broken, which made people feel shabby, but now look at the hall, it is clean, the utensils are neatly placed, and some porcelain looks moist and complete, which shows its family background.

Gu Junruo put down the teacup and looked at Zhang Mengshi who was wiping his tears, "Your family looks good, do you owe a lot of debts outside?" ”

Zhang Mengshi hurriedly said: "I only owe Mr. Chen, twenty taels of silver, and fifty catties of grain." ”

She said: "Outsiders listen to this a lot of money, but for our family, this money is really not worth mentioning, I only study at home when I am fair, but there is good land at home, and there is a small shop, no matter how poor it is, he goes to teach others, and it will be paid back in a year." ”

"We quarreled that day, and he also said that he couldn't return Mr. Chen's grain, because when he borrowed grain in the past, the price of grain was as high as 150 wen and 1 bucket, but now it is only 123 wen and 1 bucket, so he wants to return the borrowed grain to Mr. Chen, and it will be calculated according to the price of grain at that time." Zhang Mengshi couldn't help wiping his tears and said, "He is not willing to take advantage of Mr. Chen, how can he kill Mr. Chen for such a debt?" ”

Zhang Mengshi knelt down at Gu Junruo and said with tears in his eyes: "Madam, my father-in-law is wronged, please, please talk to the county order, and return my father-in-law's innocence." ”

Gu Junruo hurriedly stretched out his hand to help the person up, but Zhang Mengshi insisted on kneeling.

Han Mu, who was playing with the child with a few stones, faced the hall, and saw that Gu Junruo was anxious to help people but couldn't help him, he couldn't help but squint, he threw the stones up and caught them unhappily, and threw the child to Xiaobei after teasing him, "Take him out to buy candy to eat." ”

Xiaobei should get down, and as soon as he carried the child up, he rushed out.

The child laughed excitedly, and did not see his mother kneeling on the ground crying.

Han Mu stepped forward and stood beside Gu Junruo with a frown, "If you have anything to say, do you still want Mrs. to urge you three times and ask for four times?" ”

His tone was not good, but Zhang Mengshi didn't dare to follow him, and quickly stood up.

Gu Junruo exhaled and asked, "Since he has nothing to do with Mr. Chen's murder, why did he run away?" ”

"Yes," Han Mu said: "You said, he went home early because of a quarrel with you on the day he went back to his parents' house with you, and he hasn't come back for more than a month." ”

Zhang Mengshi opened his mouth, and finally blushed and said: "I, I don't know, although he is short-tempered, he never goes to his heart, and quarrels with him, it was quite fierce at the time, but after a while, he will be fine." ”

The more Zhang Mengshi spoke, the more he regretted it, and said with tears: "The reason why I went home by him at that time was to think that tomorrow morning at the latest, he would be angry and would definitely come back to pick us up, who knew that I couldn't wait for a day, and I still couldn't wait for two days, so I also got angry, so I stayed at my mother's house and didn't come back, how do I know ......"

She cried bitterly: "If I had known that such a big thing had happened in the county, I would have said that I would not quarrel with him that day, or I would have come back with him." ”

Han Mu frowned and looked at Gu Junruo.

Gu Junruo also frowned, she didn't think Zhang Mengshi was lying, so if Zhang Yuan really had such a character and thoughts, how could he murder Mr. Chen with Ma Shuifeng?

Xiaobei came back with the child on his shoulder, he was still holding a candy man in his hand, he was very happy, it was the happiest time in more than a month, and he was still outside the yard, he waved happily to his mother through the wall, "A-Niang, A-Niang, I'm back!" ”

Zhang Mengshi saw that his son was sitting on someone's shoulder, so he hurriedly ran out and reprimanded in a low voice: "If you don't come down quickly, how can you sit on the shoulders of your eldest brother?" ”

Xiaobei easily took the child off his shoulder, and said indifferently: "It's okay, this child is not heavy." ”

Gu Junruo and Han Mu looked at them, and at the same time turned their heads to look at the collapsed wall on the right, only then did they realize that the wall on the right seemed to be higher than the front and left.

Gu Junruo stopped Zhang Mengshi, pointed to the wall and asked, "Why is this wall higher than the others?" ”

Zhang Mengshi was stunned for a moment and said: "It was Mr. Chen who added the height, our family and Mr. Chen's family share this wall, and on the other side of him is an alley, because the wall is low, sometimes thieves climb into it from the wall." ”

She said: "I haven't lost anything valuable, but Mr. Chen can't bear it, so he raised the wall and the front, because he is good at building houses and bridges, and pays the most attention to a symmetry, so this side must also be heightened to see it." ”

"Originally, he wanted to help us increase the height of the three walls, just like him, but we were not so particular, and there are often people in my house, and no thieves will come, so I don't bother to raise them."

Gu Junruo pointed to the collapsed wall and said, "This collapsed during the flood?" ”

"Yes," Zhang Mengshi said, "because our two families were good, and we had to save food to eat at that time, we didn't have much strength, so we didn't bother to rebuild, and this wall has been kept like this." ”

Gu Junruo had a strange feeling in his heart, and Han Mu also squinted his eyes and said, "It seems that the problem is not Zhang Yuan, but this Mr. Chen." ”

His voice was so low that no one could hear it clearly except for Gu Junruo, who was standing beside him.

Gu Junruo glanced at Han Mu, but he really couldn't think of a reason, so he decided not to embarrass himself, "Let's go, let's go buy books." ”

As soon as he heard that Gu Junruo and they were going to buy books, Zhang Mengshi hesitated, turned back, and after a while, he came out with a stack of books and said, "Lord and Mrs. like books, so it's better to take these." ”

She said: "These are all borrowed by my husband and copied back from other people's books, he said that they are priceless, of course, to the adults and the lady, these books are not worth mentioning, but they are also my heart." ”

Han Mu had a headache when he saw the book, especially this kind of book that was a favor, and immediately excused himself: "No need, we are going to buy new books, this kind of Four Books and Five Classics is not needed." ”

"There are not only serious books in this, but also some books that are not serious, really, adults can look through them if they don't believe it."

Han Mu quickly glanced at Gu Junruo and said, "It's impossible for me to read a book that isn't serious." ”

The two of them pushed back and forth, and the top book fell to the ground, Gu Junruo looked at them wordlessly on the side, bent down and picked up the book.

She flipped through it and said, "It's "Shangshu", it's copied neatly......

Gu Junruo said this, and squinted his eyes slightly, "This book ......"

She flipped through a dozen pages, looked up at Zhang Mengshi, and asked, "This is Zhang Yuan's own handwriting?" ”

"yes." Zhang Mengshi looked at Gu Junruo worriedly, "What's wrong?" ”

Gu Junruo: "He's left-handed?" ”