Lin Chonghan was in a hurry to leave that night, in addition to being unbearable to Rong, she also thought that there was no curfew in Suzhou City, and they could find an inn to stay in.

Lin Shijing's illness is much better than before, although he pretended to be weak before, but in essence, there is no big problem, if it weren't for this, Lin Chonghan would not insist on leaving.

In the carriage, Lin Chonghan just asked the coachman to drive to the inn, but Gu Qingzhang next to him said, "If you don't go to the inn, it's better to go to me." ”

"You?" Lin Chonghan asked him with some confusion, "I remember that you seem to be a native of the capital and have never been to Jiangnan. ”

Gu Qingzhang touched his nose embarrassedly: "I led my troops to the south to quell the chaos five years ago, and I passed through Suzhou halfway, I know that your hometown is in Suzhou, and you will definitely come here to live in the future, so I-I asked people to buy a mansion at that time." ”

Lin Chonghan didn't understand his thoughts, but Lin Chonghan was shocked.

She asked incredulously: "I remember, at that time, we didn't seem to have reached the step of talking about marriage. ”

"It's just that you didn't go that far," Lin Shijing, who was leaning on the carriage, said, "I didn't even know at the time that the two of you actually admired each other. ”

"Gu Houye, you are really good at hiding from the world and the sea, and you have hidden everything from me."

Gu Qingzhang looked embarrassed, the secrecy work was too good, and it didn't seem to be a good thing now.

As they spoke, they also quickly arrived at the mansion purchased by Gu Qingzhang in Suzhou, Lin Shijing was helped out of the car by the servants, and after looking up and down, he said meaninglessly: "Master Hou, you are really rich and rival the country." ”

Without him, what Gu Qingzhang bought was not a courtyard with a few entrances and exits, but a large mansion covering an extremely wide area, Lin Shijing came all the way and found that he was the only one mansion on this street.

"Too much reputation," Gu Qingzhang hurriedly excused himself, he took out a bunch of keys from his cuffs, "If a man doesn't have some family business, he can't wronged his wife in the future." ”

Lin Shijing turned a deaf ear to the hints in his words.

Lin Chonghan followed Gu Qingzhang around the shadow wall and asked, "You haven't been here for five years, there must have been dust in it for a long time, maybe there are still many snakes, rats, ants and insects, let's go to the inn tonight first." ”

"No," Gu Qingzhang shook his head, "Not long after I arrived in Suzhou, I found someone to make a simple correction to the house and create a courtyard where you and I can live." ”

Several people followed his footsteps through the hall in the front yard to a small two-story building in the backyard, in front of which was a lake, apparently connected to the living water outside, and it had not dried up in the five years since its owner's life.

Gu Qingzhang took out a few lanterns from the carriage and lit them, he led everyone upstairs and said, "I have asked people to clean up this building, you can sleep here first." ”

There were three adjacent rooms on the second floor, and Lin Shijing and Gu Qingzhang both tacitly chose to give up the middle room to Lin Chonghan.

It was indeed late now, Lin Chonghan pushed open the door and found that the mattress inside was neat and spotless, and there was even an incense burner in the house, which was burned out of incense ash.

When she lay down on the bed, the strings that had been tight were finally released, and before she knew it, she was asleep.

*

The three of them slept until noon the next day, and Lin Chonghan was directly awakened by the hunger in her abdomen, and when she opened her eyes, she suddenly found herself in Gu Qingzhang's mansion.

After dressing, Lin Chonghan pushed open the door, and she saw the lake last night at a glance on the second floor.

Because it was too dark yesterday, Lin Chonghan couldn't see it completely, but now that the sun is rising, she can also take in the scenery of the entire lake.

After reading it, her first reaction was: what an exquisite garden.

The sparkling lake is surrounded by ingenious rockeries, and a low wooden bridge is erected over the lake for pedestrians to cross, with cobblestones on either side leading to their small two-story building on one side and the front yard on the other.

When she was looking around, Leng Buding met her eyes with Gu Qingzhang who was sitting on the stone pier.

Looking at Gu Qingzhang, who was still holding a skewer of grilled fish in his hand, Lin Chonghan: ......

Lin Shijing was also wrapped in clothes and sat crookedly next to Gu Qingzhang, but although he looked half-dead, the movement of eating grilled fish in his hands did not pause or slow down at all.

He also greeted his sister who had just woken up by the way: "Heavy cold, come down quickly, the fish in this pond is very delicious." ”

Lin Chonghan went downstairs and walked to the pool, and found that they had found stones of different sizes to surround a pile, and there was a fire in it, and now there was a string of grilled fish being grilled on the fire, apparently prepared for her.

"Brother, we live in a private mansion," Lin Chonghan sat down next to him in a trance, "It's not a struggle to survive in the wild. ”

Before the words fell, Gu Qingzhang stuffed a string of grilled fish into her hand at lightning speed, and he warmly beckoned his future lady to taste: "Heavy cold, taste it, this fish is fresh." ”

Lin Chonghan subconsciously took a bite and found that the taste of the fish was indeed very fresh.

She took a bite and asked, "Where did the fish come from?" ”

"I caught it in the lake," Gu Qingzhang pointed to the lake and explained, "I didn't pay attention when I bought it, but I found out this morning that this lake is still a living lake, so I went down and fished a few fish." ”

Lin Chonghan followed his gesture to look, and sure enough, she found the key to it, and she couldn't help but admire: "Brother Qingzhang, your house is really cost-effective, but I don't know how it is designed to lead to the living water outside." ”

Curious, she couldn't help but bend down to take a closer look, and just as she was about to get into her mind, she couldn't help but meet a pair of black and white eyes.

Looking down further, the face where the eyes were located was glowing with blue and gray, obviously out of life.

Lin Chonghan couldn't hold back a shake, and the grilled fish in his hand also fell to the ground.

"Brother, Hou Ye," she forced herself to compose, "it seems that there may be a dead man here." ”

Gu Qingzhang, who was thinking about going down to the river to catch a fish and grill it: ?

Lin Shijing, who was eating grilled fish with relish, almost choked to death when he heard this: ......

He looked at the grilled fish in his hand and felt a pang of indescribable pain and nausea.

He spoke calmly: "I see that the feng shui in Suzhou seems to be against me, or let's stop staying here and go directly to Qiantang Mansion to find Lin Yizhou." ”

Gu Qingzhang on the other side reacted, and quickly stepped forward a few steps in front of Lin Chonghan.

He looked down, and gasped after a moment: "Chonghan is right, there is indeed a dead man here." ”

"It should have been not long after he died," Gu Qingzhang described the situation while observing in detail, "I see that the body is not yet decomposed." It may have drifted all the way along the river, but it was stuck by the exit here. ”

As he spoke, he rolled up his sleeves: "I'll go down and get him up first, and see what's going on." ”