Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Embroidery Building Revealed
Li Ying stretched out her leg and kicked Yu Ren. "It's only a foot high, are you afraid? What about men? ”
Yu Ren was not ashamed at all. "What's wrong with the man. Men also have a fear of heights. I have a fear of heights. ”
"What? What is the symptom? Li Ying really hadn't heard of this word.
"Fear of heights. As soon as you look down from a high place, you will get dizzy. That's how I am. Yu Ren said, and made a look of dizziness, ready to lean on Li Ying on the side.
Li Ying glanced at him, "Okay, you are reasonable." I'll go down first, and then you'll jump down, and I'll pick you up from below. It's all right! ”
As Li Ying spoke, she jumped down first. Then he stood at the base of the wall and made a gesture to Yu Ren that he could jump. Yu Ren secretly rejoiced in his heart: Everyone is holding beautiful women, but this time I want to try the feeling of beautiful women hugging me. Well! Not bad, not bad! Yu Ren thought shamelessly.
Seeing that Li Ying was ready, Yu Ren really wanted to shout, beauty, I'm coming! However, the conditions did not allow it, so he had to silently make an exaggerated expression of excitement, and then threw himself towards the beautiful woman under the wall.
In fact, this courtyard wall more than three meters high is really not high for Yu Ren, isn't it just a one-story building, he jumped over such a high place when he was naughty with his friends in the countryside when he was young. Not to mention now.
Yu Ren jumped, no, he pounced. At this moment, a word flashed through Yu Ren's mind was: Beauty and the Beast.
Yu Ren saw Li Ying stretch out her hand to him. However, her slender jade hand only gently pushed her body, and then retracted. At this moment, in Li Ying's eyes, Yu Ren clearly saw cunning.
Yu Ren was slammed to the ground. The warm fragrance of nephrite he had been expecting was gone, and there was just a cold and stiff ground.
"Oops!" Yu Ren whispered, pretending to be like he had fallen very hard.
"Let's see if you dare to take advantage of me in the future." Li Ying laughed and scolded quietly.
Yu Ren didn't argue, just whispered.
"What? Does it really hurt? Seeing that he didn't reply, Li Ying hurriedly walked up with concern. Let me see! ”
As she spoke, Li Ying reached out to help Yu Ren up.
"It hurts!" Yu Ren deliberately pretended to be in pain. In fact, this fall really didn't hurt much. It's not that Yu Ren's body is strong, but Li Ying's push, which has cushioned the downward acceleration of his body a lot.
"Well deserved! Who made you want to take advantage of me? Li Ying said, glared at Yu Ren, and saw that he was actually fine, so Li Ying stood up.
Seeing that the treacherous scheme was discovered, Yu Ren hurriedly got up from the ground and said with a grim face. "Then, when we go out in a while, let you take advantage of me. I'll carry you! ”
"Don't" Li Ying whispered, but her voice was not firm, and there was a rare hint of blush on her face. Yu Ren was close to Li Ying at this time, and when he saw Li Ying's rare shyness, he felt as if he had been scratched by a cat.
Yu Ren was about to reach out to grab Li Ying's slender waist, when he suddenly saw a faint light in a small building not far away.
The two were startled, thinking that someone else had discovered their whereabouts, so they quickly hid behind a rockery by the wall and never dared to speak again.
After a while, I saw that there was still nothing unusual in the small building. Only then did the two of them relax their hearts.
"Let's go, go over and have a look!" Li Ying whispered in Yu Ren's ear.
So the two quietly touched the bottom of the small building, where there happened to be a flower bush, and the two hid in the flower bush.
At this time, the lights on the second floor were already on. Two figures seemed to be sitting at the table talking about something. Although the night was quiet, the doors and windows were closed because of the distance. Yu Ren and the others couldn't hear their conversation at all.
Li Ying was about to get up, ready to use her steel claws to climb up to the second floor to eavesdrop. But suddenly I heard a soft "squeak", and the wooden door downstairs suddenly opened.
Two girls came out of the house. One of them seemed to be only twelve or thirteen years old, and the other was a little older, probably fifteen or sixteen.
Neither girl had a lantern. They walked past the flowers where Yu Ren and the two were hiding, and then turned to the east, and as soon as the young girl went out, she held the big girl's arm tightly.
"Look at your point. I don't dare to walk alone when I get to the thatched house, and you want me to accompany you! ”
"People are timid!" The little girl said.
"Cowardly? Then when you suddenly saw Young Master Shi, you weren't surprised at all. But isn't that timid? The big girl whispered.
"What's so surprising about that. It's not the first time Young Master Shi has come. I am used to it when he didn't come like this, and I got used to it. He's our lady's savior, and I'm certainly not afraid of him. The words behind the little girl, the voice became quieter and quieter, and gradually she couldn't hear it.
Li Ying saw that these two girls were talking about Shi Tingzhu. I quickly pricked up my ears and listened. Listening to the meaning of these two girls' words, this Shi Tingzhu seems to have something to do with this young lady of the Zhu family. "A lifesaver?" The life-saving benefactor often uses late and midnight to come to the embroidery building of the young lady? I'm afraid it's a lover! Li Ying thought.
The sudden discovery of Shi Tingzhu's secret really surprised Li Ying, but thinking about Shi Tingzhu's behavior in Daqu Mountain in the past, it was also reasonable. I remember that at that time, Shi Tingzhu seemed to take a leave of absence once a month, for five or six days and two or three days. His reason at that time was that he still had an elderly aunt who lived in Ningbo Mansion, so he had to visit it often.
Li Ying also proposed to let him take his aunt to Daqushan, and said that he could build them a bigger house. Shi Tingzhu said that his aunt had lived in Ningbo Mansion for decades, was used to it, and didn't want to move, so Li Ying didn't force it anymore. The people of their Li family already have a lot of family members who live in the city, and Shi Tingzhu is not an exception. Because their Li family does not have such a safe, stable, and convenient rear for the time being, they can arrange for these people's families to live. So, they had to arrange it themselves.
It turned out that it was not an aunt, but a love sister. Li Ying thought. This mistress seems to be a widow, and Shi Tingzhu is obviously for such a widow, and she has not been married until now. It seems that this Shi Tingzhu is still a seed of infatuation.
Knowing this, Li Ying's impression of Shi Tingzhu changed slightly. It's just that why he listened to Jiang Jiulang's words and came to assassinate Yu Ren has not yet figured out the key issue. Although Jiang Jiulang is his top boss, Li Ying knows that the relationship between the two has never been very good, and it obviously doesn't make sense to say that he is angry with his brother and helps Jiang Jiulang kill Yu Ren.
Moreover, Yu Ren is still her friend, and Shi Tingzhu has no reason to listen to Jiang Jiulang's words to kill Yu Ren in any way.
Among them, the only explanation is that he actually wanted to kill Yu Ren himself. Then why did he kill Yu Ren? The question then comes back to it.
It seems that all this still has to fall on this Miss Zhu. Li Ying thought.
At this time, the two girls had returned. Seeing the shadow of the lights on the second floor, the young lady was still talking with Sister Cui'er. The two girls did not enter the house, but sat down on a large rock by the flowers.
"Sister Zhu'er. You say, will our eldest lady go with Young Master Shi? The little girl asked the big girl softly.
"Probably not! Didn't Young Master Shi mention it before, let Miss go with him! Until now, the young lady still lives at home! Zhu'er said.
"That's different. Before, the young lady didn't leave, and I heard that it was because she was reluctant to let the old lady go. However, now the old lady has been gone for two or three years. Besides, didn't Young Master Shi say that someone might want to harm Miss! If you don't leave, you may be killed! ”
The big girl Zhu'er didn't speak.
After a while, the little girl said again: "Sister Zhu'er, I heard that this Young Master Shi is a hereditary military household, and his father was also a soldier in Datong. It seems to be a big official. Is it true? ”
"Young Master Shi's father once served as the chief soldier of Datong. Later, I heard that it was because he offended a minister in the DPRK and was demoted to our Zhejiang to be a guerrilla. Otherwise, he is a Shanxi person. Our young lady never goes far away, how can I know him. ”
Before the two finished speaking, they saw that the light on the second floor suddenly dimmed, and then they saw a figure standing up, as if they were going downstairs. When the two girls saw it, they quickly stood up. "Sister Cui'er is going downstairs. Let's hurry up and get inside. Otherwise, I will be scolded by her again. ”
As soon as the two girls entered the house, they saw the lights downstairs turn on. After a while, the lights on the second floor went out. Then the lights in the room on the first floor were also turned off.