Chapter 123: Progress

After breakfast, Qiao Qixin moved a small horse and sat in the yard to decoct herself as usual.

The casserole was bubbling and she held her chin and stared at the pot in front of her in a daze.

I've been eating Chinese medicine for a few days, and I'm getting used to the smell.

Now that I smell this herb, I feel that there are a few different flavors.

Qiao Qixin stayed in the small courtyard all morning, lest Li Shangshu, who had not finished his anger last night, suddenly come to the door.

But it's almost afternoon now, not to mention Li Shangshu, who hasn't even passed by a single attendant.

Qiao Qixin took advantage of this free time to reproduce the map of the Li Mansion, she didn't want to delay any longer, and simply fooled around for lunch and then flashed into the grove in the outer courtyard.

The fallen leaves laid a blanket on the ground and creaked when stepped on.

Qiao Qixin walked for a while, and then felt something fall behind her.

When I turned around, it was still the familiar hidden guard.

"The night before, that thief walking on the courtyard wall was you, right?" Qiao Qixin looked at the hidden guard who wrapped herself tightly, "Liu Zhan asked you to do that?" ”

The hidden guard replied, "It is true that Childe asked the lowly to pretend to be a thief in order to sneak to check on the girl's situation. ”

Qiao Qixin tilted her head, "His decision is quite stupid, he didn't dispel Li Shangshu's suspicions, and I was still treated like before." ”

The guard kept his head down, not knowing what to answer.

"Okay, you can tell him later, I already know the location of the study, but there are guards guarding the study, and I can't get in." Qiao Qixin looked at the white wall in the distance, and then handed the map she had drawn earlier to the hidden guard.

"Yes, Miss Joe."

The guard leaves with the map.

Georgette walked alone in the woods.

She stepped on the fallen leaves, listening to the crisp and crackling sound under her feet, and the surroundings were lonely and lively.

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"Does she already know where the study is?" Liu Zhan unfolded the map on his desk.

It's going pretty fast.

Liu Zhan said in his heart.

I thought that after being bled twice, she would need to recuperate for a few days, but I didn't expect that the location of the study had already been found out the next day.

After he asked the hidden guard to retreat, he went to Dali Temple alone with the map.

"Master." Liu Zhan pushed open a wooden door and said respectfully.

"Liu Zhan, are you here now, is there something wrong?" An old man with a white beard put his brush down.

"Master, this is the map of the Li Mansion." Liu Zhan didn't talk much nonsense, and put that map in Dali Siqing - Kunbai.

Kun Bai stroked his beard, leaned over to the map and looked at it carefully, then raised his eyes to look at Liu Zhan, "Really? ”

"Really, it was painted by the person I planted in the Li Mansion." Liu Zhan said firmly.

"Credible?"

"Credible."

Kun Bai stroked his beard and sat back on the chair, then stretched out a finger and pointed to the place marked "study" on the map, "Old man remembers that you said last time that Li Shangshu's embezzlement accounts are stored in this location. ”

"Yes, Master, when are we going to apply to the housekeeper?" Liu Zhan's tone was slightly excited.

Kun Bai glanced at him, "What's the hurry?" The old man remembers that it has been a year since the last time, can you guarantee that Li Shangshu has not changed his position in this year? ”

"Then, let me arrange for the informant in the Li Mansion to search again?" Liu Zhan hesitated.

Qiao Qixin had done enough, and he didn't really want to trouble her anymore.

Kun Bai looked at the map, "Don't worry, you can tell me about your informant first." ”

Liu Zhan was stunned for a moment, and then remembered that he had never told Kun Bai Qiao Qixin.

He said with some hesitation, "It's a girl, her name is Qiao Qixin." ”

"There is Jiao Qixin, Hu Kao Zhining." Kun Bai nodded, "Good name." ”

Liu Zhan continued, "She was met when I was investigating Jia's family in Bian Lingcheng, she was originally a peasant woman, and she was abducted into Jia's house for some reason. ”

"I intercepted her when Jia's family sent her to the capital, and then asked her to enter the Li Mansion to help me check Li Shangshu's accounts......"

Liu Zhan's voice grew smaller and quieter as he saw Kun Bai's gaze staring at him.

"She's a peasant woman, why would she agree to come into the Li Mansion to help you find accounts?" Kun Bai retracted his gaze, calmly and calmly picked up a brush and copied everyone's inscriptions on rice paper.

Liu Zhan felt like there were thousands of thorns piercing his back.

He stood stiffly in front of Kunbai, waiting for the punishment he deserved.

Kun Bai finished the whole stele before putting down the brush again.

At this time, Liu Zhan was already soaked with cold sweat on his back.

"Liu Zhan, do you remember the first meeting with the old man?" Kun Bai's tone was calm.

But Liu Zhan understood that this was a precursor to Kun Bai's madness.

"Remember, remember, I pushed my partner down the hill that day." Liu Zhan said stiffly.

"Partner?" Kun Bai's expression was flat, but there was an irresistible and evasive persecution in his tone.

"Yes, it's the apprentice's brother......"

Liu Zhan had to fall into that annoying memory.

It was his brother who did it to him first that day, and Liu Zhan was on the defensive, so he pushed him down the hill.

As for why the elder brother did it, this is not a child's play, but Liu Zhan's brother's rejection of this foreign brother.

Because Liu Zhan is an orphan that Mrs. Liu picked up on the street, and that brother is Mrs. Liu's parent.

The elder brother thinks that Liu Zhan has divided his mother's love for him, so he often rejects Liu Zhan in words and actions.

As for Liu Zhan, he was a "wild child" on the street before he was picked up by Mrs. Liu, living a barbaric life of three days, one small fight, five days, and a big fight, and also developed his very irritable, impulsive and irritable temper when he was a child.