She couldn't think of a more perfect way, so she could only rely on the old man's favor.

suddenly covered his heart and shouted that he didn't feel tight, and stroked his forehead in front of everyone, as if he was so weak that he couldn't stand up.

Everyone was shocked, and immediately called a servant to take her back to her room.

The old man was even more worried, "Call the doctor, hurry up!" ”

Wang Qing left, and the rest of the people continued to eat and chewed wax, so they each found an excuse and left.

It wasn't until the doctor came back and said that the young lady was fine, that they finally relented, and the old man went out for a walk with the housekeeper.

Walking to the tea room, the faint sunlight of the morning shines through the blinds, and the shadows are shining one after another.

A slender figure squatted on the ground, with long hair scattered over his shoulders, counting the debris on the ground piece by piece.

"You-"

The steward recognized the man and was about to stop him.

The old man beside him pulled him and motioned for him to be silent.

"Twelve, thirteen......" The little girl carefully put away all the pieces, carrying a plastic bag in her hand, obviously preparing to take it away.

As soon as he turned around, he saw two figures standing by the door.

She froze.

"Miss Gu, what are you doing here?" The butler's face was full of doubt.

The old man also happened to see the fragment of the teacup she was holding in her hand, and his frowning brows suddenly eased, "You want to bring it back and put it together?" ”

"Yes."

The girl confessed, her bright eyes raised and she smiled at him, revealing the shallow dimples on either side of her cheeks.

"I'm sorry your teacup was broken, but if I'm not mistaken, I shouldn't have broken it."

"Not you?" The housekeeper smiled, "Miss Gu, last night, you were the only one in the tea room in full view. How can you quibble that it's not you? ”

"The debris is not in the right direction."

Gu Jiaojiao raised her finger and pointed out the window, and she took the initiative to walk back to the position of the chair.

"I came in and stood here, knowing that the tea set was valuable, so I deliberately took a few steps to the side to avoid it. Then I encountered a ghost outside the window. ”

She looked out of the shutter with burning eyes at the moment, "I was so frightened that I didn't stand still and staggered back a few steps, hitting my waist on the table." ”

Compare the position of the waist.

"Here. It should be this posture, the table is forced, and after my hand is waved to the tea set, there is a sound of ping-pong on the ground, and the teacup is broken. ”

"It's strange that one is intact."

There was still one last teacup left on the tea table, standing alone in the corner.

The girl's clear eyes blinked a few times, and she smiled quietly, revealing a little confidence on her raised face, "If I really broke it, why didn't the teacup on the outside fall off." ”

Quiet all around.

The butler's face changed slightly.

"You don't necessarily remember clearly, Miss Gu, it's all your words."

"The person who called me over to the tearoom last night seems to be you, Uncle Butler, do you actually know who the person who broke the teacup is?"

She smiled slyly, "Could it be, it's you?" ”

"Nonsense! It's just a bloody mouth spurting out of order! The housekeeper was so angry that he blew his beard and glared, "I have worked diligently in the Xia family for decades, don't you know that this tea set is the old man's favorite thing?" Last night, it was indeed the young lady who ordered me to invite you over, saying that I had a personal matter to discuss with you, but I had a complicated matter, and I left immediately when I invited someone over, so I didn't have time to care what you were doing inside! ”

"Old man, this is slander! Absolute slander! ”

Seeing the housekeeper's angry and flushed face, Gu Jiaojiao was not angry, but laughed heartlessly.

"Hee-hee."

She didn't really think that the person with the problem was the housekeeper, but she didn't expect him to cooperate like that, and suddenly said frankly in front of the old man that the person behind the scenes was Wang Qing.

So he raised his eyebrows, and his smiling lips fell a little, and he looked straight into the old man's eyes.

Canran said.

"Grandpa Xia, what do you think?"

The old man's old face was as calm as water, and he couldn't see the slightest change.

He slowly walked into the tea room with only a cane, and finally sat down opposite Gu Jiaojiao, as if he mentioned it casually.

"No one has held you accountable, and I have not asked for compensation. Can I ask, Miss Gu, why do you have to get to the bottom of it? ”

"The truth."

She spread her hands and placed the pieces of the teacup she had collected on the table.

"I took pictures of the situation that just shattered on the ground, and the fragments were taken away and put back together, combined with the trajectory of the fall and the shape of the fragments, there should be evidence to prove my innocence."

"No way, no one will make you believe me."

The girl snorted lightly, her seemingly obedient face full of stubbornness.

Her somewhat messy hair fell to her ears in the daylight, and a wisp of wind blew from her petite countenance......

The eyes are slightly covered, the tip of the delicate nose is particularly obvious, plus a small face and lips, and the side face is delicate and small, indescribable charm.

The old man's gaze suddenly froze.

"Xuanxuan."

He muttered a name, but frightened the butler.

"Old man, this is not Miss Xuanxuan! Miss Xuanxuan has been missing for more than 20 years. ”

"yes, she's been missing for so long...... My baby girl, no news at all. ”

Xuanxuan?

Gu Jiaojiao blinked her eyes, only feeling that the name was familiar.

After thinking about it for a while, I immediately understood.

The youngest daughter of the old man, Miss Xia of the Xia family who has been missing for many years.

Is he already confused, how can he watch himself shout indiscriminately.

Before she could think clearly, the old man over there had already let out a long sigh, wiped away the melancholy on his face, and said with a low smile, "Let Miss Gu see the joke, I'm old, and now it's always easy to think of old things." ”

"No, old man, when you were young, you were also a person who missed the old." The girl smiled softly, her eyebrows mild.

The old man was rarely aroused, so he raised his eyes, "What do you say?" ”

The girl pointed to the painting hanging across from the tearoom, an extremely simple spring oil painting, full of golden yellow of rape flowers and an excessively blue sky.

"Whoa."

"What's wrong with this painting?"

Gu Jiaojiao said bluntly, "Although I am not a knowledgeable person, I can still see that every piece of furniture, carpets, ornaments, and even the window in this tea room is worth a lot of money." ”

"But the only decoration on the wall is not from any famous artist, looking at the strokes, and even some of them are like the practice of ordinary people when their style has not yet been formed."

When the words fell, the old man's face, which had been as steady as a mountain, finally changed at this moment.

He pursed his lips and nodded, then sighed.

"Miss Gu has good eyesight. This painting is indeed not from a famous artist, but my daughter Xuanxuan...... One morning, I drew a random picture and sent it to me. ”

Because other than that, there are no other paintings of her left in the huge home. Later, when she disappeared, the painting became the only gift she gave me, which I arranged for someone to frame and hang in the tea room. ”

"You can see how much you love her."

"Of course." Speaking of his daughter, the old man's unsmiling appearance has changed, and at a cursory glance, he is more approachable.

"Xuanxuan is my old daughter and the only daughter in the family, so I feel distressed. If it weren't for the fact that I was busy with official duties and alienated her, she would not have become more and more rebellious and would have run away from home...... He has not returned. ”

A thick layer of sadness suddenly appeared on the old man's body.

Gu Jiaojiao stood in place, not knowing how to comfort her for a while, so she only twisted her fingers and lowered her head silently.

And the opposite.

The old man looked at the girl's clean face, as if he had suddenly thought of something, and said with a smile.

"What kind of person do you think my daughter will be?"

"Miss Xia Wei?"

The little girl knew very well how much this old man of the Xia family cared for Miss Xia, who had been missing for many years, and when she was asked, she could only speak with fear.

"It should be, maybe, probably...... It's a very heroic girl. ”

"Heroic ......"

The old man said, "Actually, what you want to say is deviant." ”

"Haha!"

The two looked at each other and smiled.

Knowing that the old man didn't have those red tape, he had to ask her to obey, so he simply sat down next to him with the courage to smile and groan.

"I vaguely heard people mention her glorious deeds in the past, haha, combined with the bold style of this painting, I feel that I am talking about it."

Fortunately, the old man didn't get angry after hearing this, but grinned and laughed.

"Yes! My family is slight, the most rebellious! ”

"Her brothers weren't as wild as her before! The Great Demon King of the entire Xia family's chaos is her. ”

As he spoke, the old man took out the silver bracelet from his arms, and his rough fingertips slowly crossed the surface, and the uneven texture represented the person he missed very much.

smiled and said, "Even this bracelet is because she doesn't like gold." When you see someone else having one, you have to buy one. I don't know...... With the strength of the Xia family, buying 10,000 is nothing. ”

"Miss Gu, Yan'er is Weiwei's only daughter, no matter what she does, I will not pursue it. So this thing, okay? ”

After saying that, I didn't hear the girl's response for a long time, and the housekeeper was a little out of breath to urge.

But when he raised his head, he found that the girl stared at his hand with round eyes and tightly, as if she had seen something terrible, and her face was extremely white.

Seeing them coming, Gu Jiaojiao's eyes subconsciously fell on the old man, and she quickly covered her mouth.

"Oh my God!"

How could it be!

The bracelet that she thought was very familiar to her before turned out to be something she had seen when she was a child and was stuffed under the bed by her father!