Chapter Twenty-Four: Confusion
Mo Shuoyue looked around for a moment and lowered her voice, "I'm really ashamed, such a shameful thing, I hope that Madame will never tell Gongzi ......"
Jia Lin pursed his lips and smiled, rarely with a hint of real smile, "Little Mo girl is such an interesting person, no wonder Gongzi wants to take you." Childe has always been lenient with others, and even if he knows about it, it doesn't matter. ”
"Where is he forgiving! It's just ......" Mo Shuoyue realized that she was almost going to be speechless again, and hurriedly stopped it.
"Huh? Have you known our son-in-law for a long time? ”
Jia Lin was stunned for a moment, as if he realized that he had talked too much, and two light crimson flowers quietly climbed on his cheeks, and explained slowly: "The son has a noble identity and a good heart, and he once saved me from danger, and I feel five guilt...... I admire and admire the son very much. It's just that I am the daughter of a businessman, and the identity of the son is very different, if you want to say that you are acquainted, but it is to pollute the son, I hope that the little Mo girl will be cautious. ”
"Ah, my mouth," Mo Shuoyue smiled embarrassedly, "Gaffe, please Mrs. Haihan." ”
Jia Lin smiled lightly, indicating that it was okay. Took Mo Shuoyue through a moon gate and walked up to the nine-song corridor.
The two walked all the way, chatting a few words without a ride, mostly inconsequential digressions.
The closer he got to the attic, the more solemn Jia Lin's expression became, and in this case, it was not appropriate to pretend that he had no eyesight.
Therefore, Mo Shuoyue felt that she could shut up at the right time, without making a sound, just quietly following aside.
Dark clouds covered the night sky, and the stars and moon were dull. Like the wide shadow of the Acre, the heavy pressure was pressed down, making everyone present seem small and shrunk.
This is an attic built on the mountain, which still maintains the overall style of the courtyard of Jiafu, carefully designed, elegant but not deliberate.
For example, the Accord is layered up the mountain, about three or four stories high, and in the thick night, the appearance of simplicity and elegance is faintly recognizable.
Entering the pavilion, the lights were bright, like daylight, which was completely different from the inexplicable sense of oppression of Fang Cai.
Mo Shuoyue followed Jia Lin's steps up, like an accord, the scenery inside is as its name suggests, full of elegance, and the corners of each floor are equipped with exquisite landscapes.
Because it was the first time she came, Mo Shuoyue was not familiar with the layout of the Accord, and when she was about to bypass Xiaojing, she accidentally brought a small bonsai with pine branches on her cuffs.
The maid was quick with her hand, and quickly supported her, and caught the bonsai with her backhand with the other hand.
Mo Shuoyue was surprised, and thanked with a smile: "Thank you girl for rescuing, I didn't expect the girl's skills to be so good, thanks to you for catching this bonsai, otherwise, I really can't afford to lose." ”
The maid listened to such half-serious and half-joking words, smiled and saluted, but her smile was slightly stiff, "Little Mo girl has tormented the green forest, how can this be regarded as a good skill, that is, if you do too much rough work, you will be exercised." ”
"Is Little Mo girl injured?" Jia Lin's face was apologetic, and his voice was softly concerned.
Mo Shuoyue looked at her face, and somehow, she was embarrassed to ask again, waved her hand and said, "It's okay, Mrs. Lao is worried." ”
Jia Lin smiled weakly and walked up the stairs with her.
The tea room is located on the top floor, and at the entrance of the Xuan Hall, there are six consecutive fan screens painted with clouds and mist surrounding the landscape, walking egrets, quiet mountain streams, and pine and cypress.
In front of the screen, there is a rosewood bracket embedded with luodian, on which there are delicate small pots, stacked with several snow-white mountain stones of different sizes, and planted with large short pines, revealing a kind of elaborate poetry.
On the walls on the left and right sides of the bonsai, hang two lines of Wang Wei's poems. One sentence is: "Flying egrets in desert paddy fields, yellow orioles in the yin summer wood." One sentence is: "Xi in the mountains quietly contemplates the hibiscus, and Panasonic Qingzhai folds the sunflower." ”
Mo Shuoyue sighed secretly in her heart, this is really a bit of the poetry of Maha.
"I didn't expect this place to be even more unique. This attic, your mansion has invited a famous artist to design and build? ”
Jia Lin shook his head, "From the construction to the set here, the first husband ordered someone to do it, and it was only completed last month, but I didn't expect it to be a month away, and he ......."
As he spoke, Jia Lin hid his face and choked again.
Seeing her maidservant Green Forest comforting her, Mo Shuoyue felt that it was useless to dry the pestle, so she simply walked through the screen and entered the Xuan Hall.
Perhaps it is about to enter summer, and the original glass windows on all sides have been removed and bamboo curtains have been hung.
A clear spring is drawn from the window, and two small bamboo pipes are used as a drain. The intersection of the bamboo pipes is blocked by bamboo slices, and when the bamboo slices are picked up, the spring water slowly flows into the bamboo water bladder, and then seeps into the copper kettle on the wind stove.
When the bamboo slices are placed again, the spring water flows slowly into the water from another bamboo pipe.
It's just that, because of the murder, the place where the copper kettle was placed on the red clay wind stove is now empty. Even the place where the tea set was originally placed on the low table was only marked by the circle line, which was taken away by the officials in the Jingzhao Mansion.
"Former husband...... On weekdays, I just sit there and drink tea. Jia Lin took a few steps forward and pointed to a futon next to the low table, "Actually, this is specially built for me by him, and we usually come together." I was incense at Huguo Temple that day, and I thought he wouldn't come here alone, who knows...... But in just half a day, such a thing happened...... He was, he just left, leaving me alone......"
Mo Shuoyue listened silently, full of questions, but seeing that Jia Lin's mood was unstable, she still couldn't bear to ask.
Because it was only three days before the case was discovered, and the case had not yet been concluded, the marks left by the Jingzhao Mansion during the investigation were still there, and Mo Shuoyue put on special fishskin gloves and carefully avoided them.
In the past, she had only seen a one-way diversion of clear springs, but now when she saw such a two-way bamboo pipe drainage, she couldn't help but admire it and observed it carefully.
I don't know if it's because after the incident, no one cooked tea, the small bamboo pipe that led the spring into the copper kettle no longer diverted water, and it looked much drier, and it looked greener than the other bamboo pipe, as if it had just been cut from the new bamboo.
Mo Shuoyue picked it up and looked at it for a while, and suddenly a thought flashed in her heart, taking advantage of the fact that others were not paying attention, she quietly hid it in her sleeve through a special thick handkerchief, and walked out of the Xuan Hall quietly.
"I have been bothering Mrs. for so long in the middle of the night, I am very sorry not to go, and I hope that Mrs. will rest well tonight, take care of her body, and I will come back tomorrow."
Jia Lin nodded, and insisted on bidding her farewell.
It's a pity that the journey is not even halfway through, and in the end, she is too weak to send her out in person.
I can only repeatedly tell the housekeeper Haosheng to arrange the carriage and horses, and be sure to send her back to the Gongjing Mansion safely.
A new and luxurious carriage stopped in front of the gate of Jiafu, and the word "Jiafu" was engraved on the glass lanterns hanging on both sides of the car.
The glass lamp is used in the car, which is not very common, which is enough to prove the good financial resources of the owner's family.