The sun has risen high, and under the bright spring light in early April, in the small garden of the Xu family, the willow trees are fluttering with tender yellow branches and buds, and the begonia flowers are blooming in clusters, like the pink cheeks of a charming boudoir girl.

Lingfu followed Lingjiao to the edge of the garden pond, and watched the koi fish among the lotus leaves of the pond show their heads one after another, and went to grab the bait thrown by Lingjiao.

Xu Lingfu remembered that before leaving, he heard his mother Qu and Tian's mother say privately that the price of grain outside is extremely high now, and the price of dou rice has risen to 1,200 Wen.

At this time of scarcity, many Tian families had to sell their fields at a low price, exchange rice for a living, and even sell their sons and daughters, and even had nothing to sell, and died in this spring.

Lingjiao turned her head sideways and saw Lingfu distracted, so she smiled and said, "What does my sister think?" But how interesting is it to watch this fish? ”

She raised her eyes to look at the sun, and pretended to glance at the front yard casually, and sure enough, she saw a beautiful kite floating on the courtyard wall, and knew that it was the "honored guest" that her mother said had arrived.

Lingjiao put her arm on Lingfu: "It's only April, why do I feel a little sunburned, let's go to the pavilion to rest." As he spoke, he pulled the Lingfu towards the pavilion, and just after taking a few steps, his feet suddenly slipped-

Lingfu hurriedly grabbed her, and the maidservants who followed them also rushed over to help.

"It's okay, it's okay, I slipped a foot, but I stained the corners of my skirt." Lingjiao pointed to the gazebo, "Sister go to the gazebo first and wait for me for a while, I'll go and change my skirt and come back, don't go away!" I have something to say to you. ”

She nudged the Spirit Mansion in the direction of the gazebo, still with a kind smile on her lips: "Wait for me!" ”

Lingjiao helped the maid to leave, and Lingfu looked at her back, and her heart was full of hesitation.

The uncle's family has a completely different attitude towards Lingjiao and Lingyan, and the uncle's family is beyond the ordinary...... and the deliberateness that is not difficult to detect under Lingjiao's more kind smile today.

What does it mean to stay here? Lingfu has sharp eyes, just now I saw that the corners of Lingjiao's skirt were not dirty at all!

So what kind of skirt do you change?

She looked around and revisited the small garden enclosed in the courtyard wall. There was no one here at the moment, except for the occasional bubbling koi in the pond and the warbler in the willow trees, everything was so quiet.

Lingfu once again observed the entire terrain: there was a moon gate in the northeast direction, and a corner gate was opened in the southwest corner connected to the corridor, and Xu Lingjiao left from there just now.

Xu Lingfu quickly calculated the time, did not hesitate any longer, and decisively left the small garden along the path Xu Lingjiao took.

Almost as soon as she left the corner gate, she heard footsteps from the northeast, and her heart jumped a few times inexplicably.

The Lingfu leaned against the courtyard wall, quietly looking at the small garden through the hollow flower window.

In the corridor supported by flowers and trees, a pair of men's silk Liuhe boots were exposed, and along the Liuhe boots, a lean man wearing dark silk pants and Fang Wen's silk robe was slowly walking towards the gazebo.

The man looked nearly sixty years old, with slightly white temples and a goatee on his chin, and the strangest thing was that he did not seem to be visiting the garden or passing through here, but went straight to the gazebo with a clear purpose, as if he was looking for someone.

……

If she listened to Xu Lingjiao's words and stayed in the pavilion, then she would bump into this old man at this moment!

Could this be Xu Lingjiao's purpose?

Lingfu retracted his breath and observed silently. The old man seemed stunned for a moment when he saw that the pavilion was empty, and then his eyes wandered around the whole small garden.

After a while, the old man was nowhere to be found, frowned, and walked along the crossroads towards the southwest corner with a displeased expression!

Xu Lingfu shrank down and wanted to leave, but who knew that a woman's voice suddenly came from the road ahead, and it seemed that it was the Wei family who took the mother-in-law to this side!

There are people in front and behind, and if you are not careful, you will be stuck here!

Xu Lingjiao must have been arranged to do this, if Wei saw her here...... Xu Lingfu was anxious, and quickly went to the small garden through the flower window to see where the old man went.

Unexpectedly, he saw that the old man suddenly turned around, and walked towards the moon gate in the northeast corner with his hands behind his back.

Xu Lingfu's heart moved, tiptoed back into the corner gate, through the flowers and trees, pinching the time accurately, just when the old man walked out of the moon gate and Wei had not yet entered the corner gate, he submerged his whole body into the garden pond with a blow.

At the beginning of April, although the lotus flower has not bloomed, the lotus leaves have been counted as "Tiantian". Xu Lingfu hid himself in the water with the help of pond water and lotus leaves.

This act of crisis can be regarded as her instinct, after all, before the crossing she was a trainer of an aquarium, spending her days with dolphins, beluga whales, and her second home in the water.

Wei took his mother-in-law into the garden, but he didn't see the expected scene, and he was shocked.

"Where have the people gone?" Wei asked as he glared at his mother-in-law.

"Neither of them is here, isn't it that Steward Cao from the Assassin's Mansion is too anxious and dragged the little lady Xu to go elsewhere?" The mother-in-law guessed.

When Wei heard this, he made a little determination in his heart: "Then let's go to the north to have a look, if this is the case, we will see the opportunity to act." ”

The master and servant hurriedly left, and the underwater spirit house already understood what was going on today. She quietly surfaced and took a breath of change.

The water in the pond was cold in April, but she was even more frightened!

In the course of her twenty-three-year-old life, she had never experienced such a sinister and critical situation!

No wonder the eldest uncle politely picked herself up, no wonder Lingjiao repeatedly told herself to wait in the gazebo, it turned out that she wanted to show the old man herself!

She is an orphan girl, and now she is trapped here, and after a while, Wei and the others will inevitably search for her throughout the Xu family's mansion. Will she be able to escape?

Wei came to the front yard, and before he entered the main hall, he saw her husband Xu Baixing hurriedly come out, and when he saw her, he asked, "Where is the Lingfu!" ”

Wei Shi caught a glimpse of her husband's impatient face and sensed bad signs: "I came from the garden and didn't see the Lingfu...... I didn't see Cao Ye either......"

Xu Baixing glared at her fiercely: "Cao Ye is in the main hall at the moment, he didn't see anyone at all just now!" ”

"I'll send someone to find it, Lingfu may have gone elsewhere for fun, after all, it's in my own house." Wei said busily.

Xu Baixing waved his hand impatiently: "Go quickly!" ”

Since Xu Da started a few years ago, he has really added a few servants to his family. At this moment, these servants were all scattered to all parts of the Xu family under Wei's arrangement, and even the Xu Lingjiao sisters were leading people to look for them in the backyard boudoir at the moment.

Xu Lingyan, who didn't know the truth, looked at her sister busy and pouted with disdain: "Sister, what are you looking for her?" It's such a big person, can you still lose it at home? ”

Xu Lingjiao glared at her fiercely: "You can shut up!" What do you know? There is naturally an arrangement for the family to pick her up, you hurry up and help me find it, otherwise our family is afraid that we will not be able to pass this pass! ”

Xu Lingjiao glared: "What do you mean you can't pass this level?" What ...... does she have with us?"

Xu Lingjiao couldn't bear it anymore, pulled her sister to her ear, and hurriedly said something and then ordered: "Now, hurry up and find it!" ”

Xu Lingyan blinked, and finally understood. She stood stunned for a while, and followed her sister everywhere to look for her.

In the middle of the day, the Xu family, who had been found all over the world, gathered in the main hall. Xu Baixing's face was even more gloomy, and this time his feelings were all due to the fact that he wanted to stammer with the butler of the Thorn History Mansion.

In the past few years, he was an ordinary errand officer of the county government who hugged the thigh of Jiang Tongfan, the county Cheng, and became the Sihu Zuo who was directly in charge of money, grain, household registration and cultivated land in Chuyi County, and only then did he make a fortune through "various means".

But Xu Baixing knew that he only relied on Jiang Xiancheng alone, after all, his foundation was not enough, and if he wanted to take a step closer, he had to have thicker thighs.

He didn't know how long he had been waiting for the plan before he had this opportunity to tie up with Steward Cao, the arrangement was simple and clear, but now it's all over!

Thinking of Steward Cao's face when he left, he was anxious and frightened, and slammed the tea bowl in his hand to the ground, and the Xu sisters trembled in fright, and looked at their mother Wei helplessly.