After seeing her brother running away with a red face, Haitang secretly laughed for a while, and went to find her grandmother Ma.

They borrowed a large courtyard in the outer courtyard on Beizhuang to house the guards, and two adjacent courtyards in the inner courtyard, the Hai family occupied one, Xie Wenzai and two old friends took the surviving teenager to live in one, and the servants also followed.

The courtyard of the annex is almost all in the local style of Chang'an, and although it occupies a large area, it is a long, narrow and narrow pattern. Haitang lived with her grandparents in the warm pavilion of the main house, and she didn't see them when she got up in the morning, but she only knew that her grandfather was meeting guests in the front yard, and her grandmother must have arranged for the luggage cart and horses. Everyone is preparing to enter Chang'an City today.

Begonia turned around, but was a little surprised to see Ma in the tea room.

Ma seems to have some symptoms of nasal congestion, and his voice is buzzy and slightly slurred when he speaks. She was talking to two old servants from the Ma family in Beizhuang, asking about the news of her brothers and sisters in recent years. She had a little melancholy on her face, her brows furrowed, and she didn't know what trouble she had heard, but the two old servants persuaded her: "Mrs. sister-in-law, this is a cold, right?" Hurry up and go back to take medicine and rest, otherwise the condition will worsen! ”

Ma Shi waved his hand, saw his granddaughter enter the house, and hurriedly said, "Don't go into the house, go and call the golden flower." ”

Haitang stood in front of the threshold and tilted her head to look at her: "Grandma, are you sick?" If you are sick, take medicine quickly, but don't hide it from your family. ”

Ma Shi waved his hand impatiently: "I know, hurry up!" ”

Haitang turned around to look for Aunt Cui, and explained it like this. Aunt Cui hurriedly went back to the house to get a thick cloak, added charcoal to the hand stove, and went to the tea room with the pills for colds: "Madam! I said earlier that you were too thinly dressed! You said that there was a fire in the tea room, and it was very warm, so it didn't matter. What's going on now? When we enter the city, we still have a lot of things to do! If you fall ill at this time, what will you do if you call this family?! ”

Ma probably knew that he was wrong, and let Aunt Cui put a cloak on him and stuff the stove without refuting a word.

Aunt Cui turned her head again and asked the two old servants: "What's the matter with the aunts?" It had only snowed in the morning, and it was the coldest day. My wife came to talk to you, and you didn't even have a brazier?! Even if you don't care about it, you can't be cold wife?! ”

An old servant woman said in shame: "Jinhua, you can't say that! They are all from the Ma family, and they naturally think about the masters. But you can't be the master yourself......"

Another old servant woman said with a sad face: "Zhuangzi can't make ends meet, and the wife has ordered to reduce expenses, and they have to save their own heating, and the work in the tea room is called the kitchen. I didn't expect that Mrs. Auntie would ask you here......"

Ma took the initiative to say justice for the two of them: "It's not thoughtful, thinking that there are people elsewhere, and the tea room is the quietest and more convenient to speak." It's just a little bit of effort, and it's good to drink hot tea when you get back to the hospital. ”

The supplies in the guest house are set aside separately and are not included in the reduction of expenses by the owners of other villages. The Hai family stayed for one night and didn't feel any inconvenience in life, so Aunt Cui didn't feel any difference, and at this time, after listening to the words of the Ma family and the two old servants, she realized that something was wrong: "What's going on?" Why is this so important? ”

The two old servants looked at each other, and both bowed their heads gloomily.

Ma said: "Let's go back to the house first, and I'll talk about it when I see the eldest sister when I have something." He also instructed the two old servants, "Don't tell anyone else what you told me just now, if it reaches that person's ears, it will be the eldest sister who suffers." ”

The two old servants hurriedly responded.

Ma took Aunt Cui back to the yard, but sent Begonia elsewhere: "When the guests leave, they will set off, if you want to go shopping, hurry up." ”

Begonia raised her eyebrows, pretended to be well-behaved, and turned around and went out.

She's not in a hurry, anyway, there's a way to find out the news later. can make grandmother Ma worry so much, it should be her eldest sister Zhou Ma's husband's side of the problem. But the Zhou family has recently caught up with the emperor's henchman Tao Yue, and the relationship between the Empress Dowager Zhou and the emperor has also eased, and the situation in the court has been greatly improved, so what trouble can there be? When it comes to marrying Zhuangzi to reduce expenses, is it because of financial difficulties? That's the Zhou family's housework. Ma can worry about his sister, but he doesn't need to worry about the Hai family.

Begonia hesitated at the gate of the yard for a moment, raised her foot and turned to the yard next door.

Xie Wenzai, Cao Gengyun and Lu Bainian all went to the front yard to meet the guests, and Cui Xiaodao, who was left to take care of the injured, was boiling medicine in the lower room, and the injured in the room were still asleep.

Haitang lifted the cotton curtain at the door of the wing room, looked in a few times with some curiosity, and saw that the unconscious young man did not move on the kang, so he walked in lightly.

Last night there were many people, and it was dark, and she did not carefully observe the survivor of this murder, only that he was not lightly injured and had a lot of blood on his body. Now that she is free, she can't help but come over to watch.

What is the identity of this teenager? Why did those well-trained killers of unknown origin kill his family?

The young man was lying on the kang with his eyes closed, his eyebrows were tightly locked, his face was pale, and there was a wound on the side of his right eye that had just scabbed, almost hurting his eyes. However, the black of the ointment more and more reflects the whiteness of his complexion, which looks so white and transparent, it seems that he is a weak young master who has not gone out or basked in the sun for many years, but he is very thin and thin, and it does not seem to be pampered at all.

Begonia moved his gaze to his half of his exposed hands, which were thin and long, but the skin was very rough, and there were several places with chilblains. This is even less like a pampered child, I am afraid that Cui Xiaodao, a young servant who has lived in the northwest city for many years, has better maintenance on both hands than him.

His dress last night was obviously good, although it was a little thin and not very fitting, but it was definitely not the dress of a servant. Is he a young master, or a servant's child?

Begonia tilted her head, trying to observe his face, and found ...... He's pretty good-looking.

Although his eyes are closed, his side face is still injured, and his facial features are not real, but judging from the appearance he has revealed so far, he has a fair complexion, a handsome appearance, and a good temperament.

Begonia can be regarded as accustomed to seeing beautiful men, and it is not very rare, so after a few more glances, he looked away.

She looked at the end of the kang, where there was a stack of clothes, which had been taken off from the young man's body—he was covered in blood last night, and his clothes were full of dust, so when they arrived at Beizhuang, Xie Wenzai fed him hot porridge, quickly wiped himself with hot water, changed into clean clothes from the reef, and carefully stuffed them into the quilt. The dirty clothes that were changed, considering that the government might need to investigate clues, were not washed, and were folded and placed at the end of the kang as they were.

Begonia has a deep understanding of clothing and fabrics. She picked up a robe and touched it, and immediately saw that this was a material produced in the Zhili area, which was also coincidental, the production area was very close to the Hai family's hometown Yongping Mansion, and even the embroidery stitches on the top had local characteristics.

She checked the pants again, and found that the pants were quite thick, and the stitches of the underwear were also very fine, but the material was ordinary, it was a relatively coarse cotton cloth, and it was eighty percent new.

As for the previous robes...... It's a little thin, but it's obviously a coat, and it should be paired with a thick padded jacket. Why did this young man only wear a robe and not a padded jacket?

In fact, this robe is more like the color and style that middle-aged men will wear, did the boy temporarily change into his father's clothes?

Begonia habitually flipped through the robe casually, originally just to see the level of the needlework, but his hand suddenly stopped.

Something seems to be hidden inside the inner layer of the outer robe?

(End of chapter)