"I've always slept here, and I guess Steward Jiao has already told that lady. Now that no one has come to look for it, presumably the county lord has no intention of cave the house. ”

"......" Chi Tao saw that behind the last shelf, the foot of the bed was faintly exposed.

She walked over, and behind her lay an ordinary four-cornered wooden bed, with no curtains, and an indigo futon bedding.

There was a low cabinet at the head of the bed, and some cups and bowls rested on it.

She couldn't help but be angry: "How can you say that he is also the marquis of the imperial court, the official level of Zhengyipin, and he is enough to support this family, why are people so sloppy?" Aren't you afraid of the concubine's anger? ”

Murong Ling didn't raise his head: "What kind of family am I?" Don't talk about them, even in the eyes of outsiders, I just rely on selling my relatives to beg for a living. The tone was light, but it made people feel that although he was not more than twenty years old, he was already like a dead tree.

Xiao Suo in his words made Chi Tao's heart sour inexplicably.

She tilted her head slightly, suppressed the sourness in her heart, and felt speechless, so she wanted to withdraw silently.

"Wait a minute." Murong Ling blew away the floating debris on the wood carved round pipe and handed it to Chi Tao.

"For me?" Chi Tao was puzzled.

"It's a blowpipe." Murong Ling stood up and patiently explained, "You put a flying needle inside, which can be used as a hidden weapon." As a woman, you are young and weak, and you are afraid of suffering a loss when facing the enemy head-on, so you can hold this in your mouth and take it by surprise. He gave her a small bamboo jar, "This is a flying needle, you put it away, and you can quench some poison on it yourself." ”

Chi Tao saw that the blowpipe seemed to be made of sandalwood, the wood was delicate, although it was small, it was polished smooth and round, and knew that this must have been specially made by Murong Ling, and couldn't help but be a little moved: "Thank you, Master Hou." ”

"Thanks for what." Murong Ling regained his demeanor of rejecting people, sat back at the table, and no longer looked at Chi Tao, "I'm a waste, I can only do these things." You wouldn't have had to wade into this troubled water, if you were injured or killed...... I tried a little bit to feel less guilty. ”

Chi Tao couldn't cry or laugh, and the emotion in his heart was also washed away: "Then you should rest earlier." ”

Chi Tao returned to the back room that Steward Jiao pointed out to her, but fortunately, because she was assigned by the concubine, she occupied a single room. Although I still live in a row with the maids, it is much more convenient.

She brought water to wash herself, and then blew the lamp and went to bed.

Murong Ling is not a threat, he will not be their target, it is just their means, and he does not have to worry about his safety.

Sleeping until ugly, Chi Tao woke up without warning.

The strange illness of her previous life, if she woke up at night, she would not be able to sleep again. She tossed and turned on the bed for a while, and it was really sad to stare at the top of the tent with her eyes open, and felt that the tent was getting hotter and hotter, so she simply lifted the tent and got out of bed to pour a glass of water to drink.

It was late at night, and everything was silent, and Chi Tao was afraid that the walls of the house where the next person lived would be thin, so he would make a noise to make noise to the few sleeping next door, so he didn't even light the candles, and tiptoed to the table in the dark.

I was slowly drinking the cold water in the cup, and suddenly I heard a soft "cluck" above my head.

Chi Tao was startled, held her breath, and didn't dare to move, only to see the black shadow on the window flash and disappear.

The shadow was extremely fast, like a few bamboo poles outside the window being blown by the wind.

It's better to miss it.

Chi Tao hesitated slightly, then opened the door gently, and looked out, the courtyard was empty.

If there are night walkers, they must have come for the false lord. Chi Tao covered the door, hid her figure through the flowers and trees in the courtyard, and sneaked to the door of the main house.

Sure enough, the door to the main room was not closed.

Chi Tao pushed it tentatively, but fortunately, at today's wedding ceremony, the door must have just been oiled, and there was no sound. She crept through the crack in the door, and felt like an eel against the furniture to the door of the inner room.

A glimmer of light leaked through the crack in the door of the inner chamber, and a low voice could be heard from within.

"How can the Lord himself come here and act so risky?" It's Qiyun's voice.

"I'm afraid I can't do it."

"Why?"

"I don't know why, there are a lot of guards in the mound, I'm afraid he has already taken precautions, and it will be bad for us if it makes a big fuss."

"This ......," Qiyun pondered for a moment, "could it be that he noticed something?" ”

"Probably not, I haven't heard anything. Fortunately, we still have a backhand, in short, your side will hold on to the ground first, wait and see what happens, and don't startle the snake. ”

"Yes."

Hearing the sound of someone getting up from the chair, Chi Tao quickly shrunk her body into a small few clicks, and covered her figure with a long tasseled tablecloth.

Footsteps passed past Chi Momo, and the people in the house closed the door again and returned to the inner room.

I only heard the voice of the fake county lord in the room, full of anxiety: "My father has not accomplished a big thing, I am afraid of ......"

Qiyun reassured: "What are you afraid of?" Your identity is the upright Huayin county lord, whether it is recognized by the lord or the palace, you just have to be a good county lord, and you don't have to worry about other things. ”

Chi Tao knew that Qiyun's skills were extraordinary, and in such a quiet night, as long as she made a little noise outside, she was afraid that she would be discovered, so she didn't dare to move when the light in the inner room went out for a long time.

After staying for an hour or two in a few times, the two "master and servant" inside got up in the morning, Qiyun pulled his hair and opened the door to go out to call for water, and Chi Tao crawled out of the small few times, looked at no one around, and ran back to his house with a smoke.

The next two days were unexpectedly calm.

Murong Ling is still a divine dragon, and he never appears in the same frame as the fake county lord. The fake county lord didn't look for him, and lived his own life leisurely behind closed doors.

On the third day, Rokuro came to find Ikemo.

"Childe said that the emperor has returned to the palace, and it is okay to think about it, let you go back."

"Then what about Marquis Murong's side?"

"It's okay, they won't attack Hou Ye. Besides, Wu Niang has rushed back, and she will arrive tonight, so she just said that she was Murong Ling's old servant when she was in Xiyan. ”

Although the reason is clumsy, the ambition of the fake county lord is not to take care of the backyard of the Hou Mansion, but it can also be perfunctory.

That night, Chi Tao smashed a Duan inkstone in Murong Ling's study, and after begging for a long time, Murong Ling sent her out of the Hou Mansion on the grounds of "clumsy hands and feet, which is useless", saying that she would "return to the palace".

Chi Tao cried and grabbed his burden into the carriage, just turned a street corner and jumped down lightly, looked at the carriage that was far away, shrugged his nose, and ran back to Zhuzhi Alley.

Shao Cheng opened the door with surprise and joy, and hit her with his shoulder: "You're back, I've worried my younger brothers and sisters these days, and I see that my tears are going to flow." ”

Chi Tao jumped backwards to avoid Shao Cheng, and said with a smile: "The family is thanks to Brother Shao for taking care of it." ”

Chi Xing was cleaning up in the stove room, and when she heard the voice, she hurried to the front, as if she had a phoenix, she grabbed Chi Tao's hand and kept looking up and down: "But nothing happened, right?" ”

"What can it be?" Chi Tao pulled Chi Xing back, "I'm fine." How are you doing these days? The business in the store has not been delayed, has it? ”

"Not only did it not delay, but it was much better." Chi Xing couldn't help but look at her as if she couldn't see enough, "Brother Shao has thought of a lot of new products, because I want to wait for you to come back and see if I want to go on it, I look forward to you every day." ”

"Oh?" Chi Tao was interested, "What new product?" ”

"What a peach drink, a snow mountain drink, a honey bean iceberg. He said that we have been doing business for more than two months, and if we don't keep it, some people will imitate it, and our family will not be the only one, and we must keep coming out of something that other families don't have, so that people can't catch up. I didn't ask him in detail, can you go back and see if you have time with him? ”

Chi Tao was a little surprised, she also planned to do the same, but after the store got up, she had been busy with Achu's affairs, and she had never freed up her hands to pour out new products, but she didn't expect Shao Cheng to have some business acumen and not rest on his laurels.

"Brother Shao is really ...... He is diligent and willing to do, and his mind is also flexible. Chi Tao looked at Chi Xing with a smile, "Sister, I created such a good opportunity for you to be alone, are you not tempted?" ”

Chi Xing blushed and slapped her sister: "Dead Ni is talking nonsense again." I didn't tell you, I'm like this...... I've been married, how can I mess with someone else? Brother Shao is just the right age, his appearance is not bad, and he is capable, how much money he has saved, what kind of girl do you want to marry? ”

Chi Tao was about to persuade a few words, and Achu flew out of the house: "You're back!" ”

Chi Tao touched her head with a smile: "I haven't seen you for a few days, why does Achu seem to have grown taller?" ”

Achu pouted: "Not only is it tall, but it's also fat!" I said that Sister Xing shouldn't make me a supper, or make it every day. ”

Chi Xing couldn't help but laugh: "You help work so hard in the store every day, you eat early for dinner, and you cry out for hunger in less than an hour or two, how can I see you sleeping hungry?" ”

Ah Chu pounded the tree in annoyance: "I'm fat and a pig, Brother Murong won't like me anymore!" ”

Chi Tao's heart sank, how could Ah Chu still think about Murong Ling: "Ah Chu, he is already married......

Ah Chu glared: "I know, he married the 'Huayin County Lord', isn't that me?" Xie Yao said that he had sent someone to send a letter to my father for eight hundred miles, so that I could wait, but my father will definitely come to the capital in ten days, and when the time comes, it will be whose or whose it is, naturally I will marry Murong Ling! ”

"......." Chi Tao had a headache.

Xie Yao quietly told himself that he had sent people to Yunnan to deliver a letter, but the mountains in Yunnan were high and the roads were far away, and there were many small mountain bandits in the Yunnan-Guizhou area to disturb the people, so they were unsuccessful twice. The storm in Beijing is coming, and there are not enough people to do it.

The next night, Xie Yao came to Chi's house alone.

Different from the original solemn face, Xie Yao looked much more relaxed today: "Don't cook, take some snacks and I'll eat them quickly, and take you to a place." ”

Xie Yao used two pine nut rolls for a bowl of sugar steamed cheese, and then stood up: "Let's go." ”

Xie Yao took Chi Tao all the way out of the city on horseback and arrived at the foot of a mountain outside the city.

The mountain was not high, so the two tied their horses to the bottom of the mountain and found steps to climb the steps.