Huang Mu was only eight or nine years old, and he was very clever, and he was very familiar with the people in the upper and lower parts of the mansion. He got Jia Rong's advice, and took the path that no one walked to lead the two girls to see the remaining silver on the tray.

The things were placed in the study in Jia Zhen's outer courtyard.

Jia Xuan naturally refused to check with Lin Daiyu alone, if the silver disappeared inexplicably, it would be really amazing. Let Huang Mu take a closer look at the account room arranged by Jia Zhen who was guarding next to him.

As soon as the bookkeeper opened the red cloth covered, he didn't need to be fine, and said "oops" and said no: "I see that there is less of it!" ”

"It can't be." Huang Mu hesitated.

The bookkeeper took the money to the scale next to him and measured it.

Huang Mu shouted: "It's so little! That's a few! Hell not? ”

When I sent it just now, there were fifty-three taels, and now there are forty-eight taels. And all that was still lost was broken pieces of silver, but all the whole pieces of ten taels of silver were left intact.

Lin Daiyu's little face turned pale, and she tugged at Jia Xuan's sleeves: "Why is it so weird?" Then he asked the bookkeeper, "Can you keep an eye on it all the time?" ”

"I was just checking the books over there, and I didn't go far." The bookkeeper sighed helplessly and spread out his hand, pointing to a few cases in the corner of the house: "I haven't even gone out of the door." ”

Jia Xuan looked around the room.

The books were in the corner of the front right after entering the room, and the table with the tray was in the middle of the door. When I sat down and looked at the account books after a few cases, I could see the tray when I looked up.

If someone goes in or out, they will know about it.

But if ......

Not people?

Jia Xuan looked at the ten taels of silver that had not been touched, and thought to himself. The most silver that can be "taken" by the thief is only about eight or nine taels. Could it be that when it reaches the number of ten taels, you can't take it if you want to?

She measured it with her small hand, squinted at the silver, and picked it up one by one to look at it carefully.

Sure enough, she found signs of gnawing on the sides of a few taels of silver.

But these marks are not human tooth marks, but by-the-way. It can be seen that the "thief" tried to pick up ten taels of silver, but he did not succeed.

Jia Xuan went out of the house and walked around the courtyard, but he didn't find anything special, but the rune paper posted next to the courtyard door was a little dazzling. This thing couldn't help but remind her of the scene of the Feng family in the court, so she pointed to it and asked casually, "Where did the thing come from?" ”

There was a small servant guarding the courtyard gate who bowed and replied: "Back to the fifth girl, this is posted by Li Xianren." ”

"Li Xianren? Did he just come here? Jia Xuan looked carefully at the sticky marks on the rune paper that had not yet dried, and asked suspiciously, "What does this person do?" ”

The little servant said: "He is an alchemist invited by the master." ”

After a simple sentence, Jia Xuan understood.

Jia Jing, the lord of Ning Guofu, was obsessed with alchemy, and he didn't care about all the affairs at home, and he couldn't extricate himself from indulging in it every day. Mo said that the surname is Li, it is a warlock surnamed Wang surnamed Zhang, and Ning Guofu may be able to find out a few.

At this time, Mr. Bookkeeper and Lin Daiyu also followed out of the house, and Mr. Bookkeeper said beside him: "Li Xianren didn't enter the house just now. The implication is that this man is not a thief.

Jia Xuan felt that the words could not be said so full, and the truth was not certain. So she didn't answer Mr. Bill's words, but continued to ask the little maid: "Then when Immortal Li came over, did he ask about the situation in the house?" Did it take some effort to paste this rune paper? ”

The little guy was a little hesitant.

Huang Mu snorted: "What? You dare not answer Miss Xuan's question? Carefully Uncle Rong smashes your mouth! ”

The little guy hurriedly bowed down and admitted his mistake, and said with a wry smile: "It's not that I don't want to answer, but I said to Li Xianren, 'It's inconvenient to disturb someone in the house checking the accounts', so I went to the toilet, and I wasn't there at the time." ”

Strange that he refused to speak, it turned out that he did not keep his errand and secretly left for a while, afraid that the master would know and blame.

Huang Mu stepped forward and kicked him: "Bastard thing, let Uncle Zhen know, there is your good fruit to eat!" ”

The little guy smiled and touched his head, not daring to fight back.

Jia Xuan was about to ask something more when someone called her from afar. After a while, Xia Ye came panting and ran over, followed by Zijuan: "Girl, lunch is about to be served, Grandma Rong asked you to hurry over." ”

Things have come to this point, if it is usual, Jia Xuan will definitely stay for a while and ask a few more questions. But she saw that Lin Daiyu's face was pale, obviously she couldn't stand running back and forth this morning, so she nodded hurriedly and said, "Let's go over immediately." ”

Along the way, she was afraid that Lin Daiyu would be uncomfortable, so she tried to slow down her steps, so as not to cause Lin Daiyu to pant again if she was in a hurry.

Because it was a begging festival, the luncheon was placed in the hall with various embroideries that had been arranged before. In addition to the various dishes on the table, several kinds of fruit were added.

The girls gathered together with flowers and were very lively.

Qin Keqing was in charge of hospitality, her face was like a peach and she was full of smiles, and she swept away all kinds of discomfort and depression after meeting Jiao Da before, and became jubilant.

Yingchun looked at it strangely, and whispered: "When I met Grandma Rong before, she was still very aggrieved with tears, but now she is very happy to see it." ”

Xichun was also there, and after hearing this, she sneered and said, "Eighty percent of them are made her so happy." ”

Tanchun grabbed a handful of melon seeds and gave them to Lin Daiyu and Jia Xuan, and said, "It seems that Lian's second sister-in-law helped her and trained that skinny minion." It's spread all over the house, saying that our second sister-in-law is amazing. ”

Xichun pursed his lips and was silent.

Jia Xuan asked Chunzhi to take a cup of warm water for Lin Daiyu, and waited for her to drink it slowly before saying, "You go to lie down and rest for a while after dinner, don't be so tired." ”

Lin Daiyu is still thinking about the silver: "I always feel that things are about to fall into place, but there is always something missing, and I can't grasp the most critical point." ”

Jia Xuan secretly said that the helper who stole the child was not a person, so naturally he couldn't catch it. It's just that such a thing is difficult to explain to ordinary people, so he said: "Don't worry, with such a lucky star as me, all the demons and monsters will disperse, and it won't be long before there will be no such strange things." ”

Lin Daiyu tilted her head slightly and looked at her for a while, and smiled: "I'll believe you for the time being." This is to agree to Jia Xuan's proposal, and agree to go to sleep and rest after dinner.

Jia Xuan was a little relieved at this time. I was afraid that she would be too smart and quietly not sleep, so I had to personally send her to the guest room to lie down after dinner, and only tiptoed out after seeing her fall asleep.

Jia Xuan remembered the traces of those gnawings, and when he saw the girls gathered together and laughing, he called Huang Mu who was waiting under the eaves of the porch: "You take me to see Xiangzhu." ”

Xiangzhu is the maid who was called the thief who stole the silver and was beaten and locked up.

After Huang Mu got Jia Rong's orders, he kept waiting by Jia Rong's side and did not leave. At this moment, he was ordered, and he didn't ask much, and took the five girls straight to the place where Xiangzhu was held.