"Still staying at the inn."

"Okay, you can take us now. If it's really Shi Tingzhu, I'll definitely reward you heavily when I turn around. ”

Shi Qingsheng hurriedly lowered his hands and stood up, "Do things for the eldest lady, don't dare to ask for a reward." ”

Under the leadership of Shi Qingsheng, several people came to the door of the inn, in order not to arouse Shi Tingzhu's vigilance, after discussion, several people decided to let Shi Qingsheng pretend to be a guest of the store to lure Shi Tingzhu out. Let Yu Ren, who is hiding in the shadows, see if it is Shi Tingzhu himself first.

Shi Qingsheng went back to change his clothes and came to the inn again. As soon as he entered the door, Shi Qingsheng shouted at the counter with a loud voice, "Shopkeeper, I have chartered your inn." Our young master will be here tomorrow.

Our young master loves tranquility the most, so you can quickly clean up all the idle people in the inn for me now. As he spoke, he took out a silver ingot of ten taels from his bosom and slapped it heavily on the counter.

The shopkeeper was napping. Because the location of their inn is not very good, business has always been relatively poor, but I didn't expect to encounter such a good thing today. The shopkeeper immediately stood up and took the money first with a smile on his face.

"Guest, you really have a vision. Our inn, I dare not say anything else, it is absolute. In Ningbo, you will never find a quieter and better inn than our home. The shopkeeper said, and he instructed Xiao Er, who was still rubbing his eyes, "Quick, take the guest to see the room." ”

Shi Qingsheng was secretly funny, and said in his heart, your inn business is so weak that you can't even see a bird, so it is naturally quiet.

Xiao Er got up from the bench with some reluctance, and walked forward with his eyes half-closed.

Shi Qingsheng looked the inn up and down. The inn is not big, but the grade is not very low, and all aspects of furniture decoration are also in place. So there is no business, probably mainly because of his bad position. Because there is no second floor, the inn only has one backyard, which adds up to less than ten rooms.

Xiao Er walked a few steps and asked Shi Qingsheng, "Which one does the guest officer want to live in?" ”

Shi Qingsheng shouted in a loud voice, "Hey, you're deaf!" I just said I'd take over your inn. You still ask me where I stay? Naturally, I opened the door to every room, and I wanted to check them one by one. ”

Xiao Er came to his senses, it turned out that he met a big customer today, so he had to be careful, if he messed up, it would be strange if the shopkeeper didn't peel his skin. He hurriedly bowed to Shi Qingsheng. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry you're old. The little one didn't hear it clearly, so the little one will open the door for you. ”

So, Xiao Er led Shi Qingsheng to inspect one room at a time. Shi Qingsheng deliberately pretended to be very serious, and looked at it carefully. When he arrived at a room in the backyard, Xiao Er suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong? Why don't you open the door? Of course Shi Qingsheng knew that this must be the house where Shi Tingzhu lived, but he pretended not to know.

Xiao Er hurriedly said with a smile, "Ah! I'm so sorry. I forgot the little one, we still have a master living here! You wait, Rong Xiao will go and discuss with him first. ”

Shi Qingsheng was not angry. "Alright! But you have to hurry. I don't have that much time to wait for you. ”

Xiao Er agreed, and hurriedly stepped forward and knocked on the door. "Shi Ye, Shi Ye!"

The door opened, and out came a young man of twenty-seven or eighteen. This person has an ordinary appearance, and his figure is not very burly, and he is wearing an ordinary, half-worn cyan robe. The man opened the door and yawned. There was a hint of tiredness in his eyes.

Shi Qingsheng glanced at this person, and it was the same as the characteristics mentioned in the eldest lady's letter. The bridge of the nose is slightly higher, and there is a black mole the size of a sesame seed under the left eye. There is a finger-long scar on the lower side of the right side of the face. Despite this, Shi Qingsheng was not sure that he was Shi Tingzhu.

This person opened the door and saw that it was Xiao Er, so he asked, "What is the matter with the little second brother calling the door?" Isn't it dinner time? As he spoke, he looked up at the sky.

"Dinner is still half an hour away. The little one is called Shi Ye because there is something to discuss with you. ”

"What's the matter?" Shi Tingzhu said as he glanced at Shi Qingsheng behind Xiao Er.

Xiao Er hurriedly confessed to Shi Tingzhu first, and then said, "That's the case." This young master of the master's family is coming tomorrow, and our small shop has been contracted by this master. Can you please excuse yourself and change to an inn. If you always feel inconvenient, the shop will arrange another inn for you, and the shop will arrange everything for you. As long as you can rest assured, the small ones will also be responsible for sending them to you.

Do you look good? ”

Shi Tingzhu didn't speak, and a glimmer of light suddenly flashed in his originally cloudy eyes. But it was only for a moment, and it was back to the way it was.

Shi Tingzhu looked a little depressed and sighed, "Okay then! Alas, a good dream has disturbed you. As he spoke, he walked outward.

Xiao Er continued to lead Shi Qingsheng to see this room.

Shi Tingzhu, who walked to the front yard, was already greeted by the shopkeeper and led him to another inn on the street next to him.

It wasn't until Shi Tingzhu walked out of the street that the three people who pretended to be drinking tea in the teahouse opposite started talking in a whisper.

"Is that him?" Li Ying asked Yu Ren on the side. Since he didn't have much contact with Shi Tingzhu, and from such a distance, Li Ying couldn't be sure.

"It has to be him, you can't be wrong. Maybe he can hide it in other aspects, but the murderous aura exuded by him will not change. The moment he went out, I suddenly felt this murderous aura. This is exactly the same feeling I felt when I was on Chenqian Island that day, and I can't be wrong! Yu Ren whispered.

"What is he doing here? He should know how close Ningbo Mansion is to Daqu Mountain, even if he doesn't know that I have eyeliner in Ningbo Mansion, he should be able to feel the danger!

Looking at him like this, it doesn't seem that he has the intention of leaving immediately. Apparently he was going to meet some important person here, and this important person, he must not have seen it yet. That's just right, let's keep an eye on him and see who he's connected with. ”

Speaking of this, Li Ying asked Shi Huzi, who was standing behind them, pretending to be Xiao Si, "Huzi, what kind of people are there around here?" ”

"If you want to say that there are really no people living in this neighborhood. In addition to the Sun family, which opened a book store, it is the Zhu family. It is said that their family is the descendant of Zhu Xi, a great Confucian in the Song Dynasty, and someone in the ancestors had been a secretary in this dynasty. And now Master Zhu has been lifted again, but later, for some reason, he no longer participated in the examination.

Although the Zhu family's industry in Ningbo Mansion is not large, it has always been a family heirloom with poetry. Master Zhu also has some friends in officialdom, and he has always been very strict with his children's upbringing. Therefore, although the Zhu family is not the richest man in Ningbo, it can definitely be regarded as the top squire in Ningbo Mansion, and it still has some prestige in Ningbo Mansion. ”

Although Shi Huzi is only fifteen or sixteen years old, and it has been less than a year since he was sent to Ningbo Mansion, he has a very clear understanding of the situation here, and he is worthy of the Li family's eyeliner.

"Oh! Are you saying that this Master Zhu has colluded with the government? Do you know who he is close to? When Li Ying heard this, her eyes suddenly lit up. Could it be that this Master Zhu was secretly instructed by some important person to let Shi Tingzhu blend into their Li family? Thinking of this possibility, Li Ying immediately came to her senses.

"Well, it's hard to say. It seems that this Master Zhu has a good mix with the previous prefects. The previous prefect, Lord Zhao, heard that it was the same year as Master Zhu. But if you want to say that there is no one who is particularly close. Even with this Lord Zhao, Master Zhu can't be said to be very close.

I heard that this old man Zhu has a strange temper. Over the years, people have talked about Wang Xue, and there are many scholars who have divided into Donglin Party and Zhejiang Party. But this old man is very stubborn, he doesn't care about any party, he just studies behind closed doors.

And he is not only pedantic himself, but also pedantic with his children. Take his daughter, for example! A twenty-one or twelve-year-old woman was repaired from her in-law's house. Master Zhu didn't let her remarry. I heard that when Miss Zhu was repaired home at first, there were three or four families who asked matchmakers to come to the door to say goodbye, all of which were well-known families in Ningbo Mansion.

However, Master Zhu knocked out all these matchmakers. What do you say, 'A good woman doesn't marry a second husband', their Zhu family has no daughter to remarry.

What age do you say this is, this old man Zhu is still sticking to this set of dead rules, it's really ridiculous! ”