Relief

Leaving Dongshi and walking along the main street, there are vendors selling curiosities of calligraphy and painting, silk and satin, and perfume and hairpin rings along the roadside.

After walking more than a hundred steps, I arrived at the alley where honey fried fruits were sold. In front of the sweet and fragrant booth, two acquaintances were picking honey fruits. They were Wuli and Yueguanshan.

Xie Zhixu approached and heard them chatting with the stall owner.

"Zaozhong Alley? Why is it called such a weird name?"

"The two of you are from out of town, so you don't know about it. There used to be only one seller in the city, and it was in this alley. Later, for some reason, it was destroyed overnight, and the neighbors didn't move at all. I didn’t hear it, so I thought the whole family had gone to another place. When the body was found, the unprocessed fruits of his family had taken root and sprouted. Look in the alley, the jujube tree with a lush crown came from His parents came from here. That’s why everyone says this is Zaozhong.”

Yue Guanshan held the oiled paper rolled into a tube, and stood beside Wu Li like a follower, and was responsible for picking up the honey fried fruits that Wu Li had picked out.

"Follow me," Wu Li was dissatisfied, "I've picked this way and you still stand there."

"Okay." Yue Guanshan responded positively, he was still holding a few bulging oiled paper bags in his arms, and his glossy black fur was crumpled up.

It looks like he came here for a stroll.It's really embarrassing to wash your nails and go shopping with the fourth child just to compete with the fourth child.

Xie Zhixu walked over: "Is your arrangement today just to go shopping?"

Wu Li turned his head and saw him: "Yo, it's Xiao Wu."

"Thank you brother!" Yue Guanshan handed over the greased paper tube, "Do you want to eat fruit?"

Xie Zhixu waved his hand numbly: "No need, thank you."

Yue Guanshan said: "Hey, actually, I planned to visit Liangjiazhuang today, but I heard from Brother Wuli that Liang Ting seems to be not very good, and now I might be kicked out if I go to Liang's to find something, so I have to wait for a while." .”

Wu Li said: "I advise you to give up. It is estimated that Liang Ting's situation will not get better in a while. You have to wait until when."

Xie Zhi humbly said, don't you understand that people have been shopping with you, this kid has a lot of patience.

Yue Guanshan didn't care: "Don't you say it's an emergency? No matter whether he went out standing up or laying the funeral sideways, we will know in a few days."

The stall owner: "..."

Xie Zhixu: "..."

Wu Li lowered his chin and signaled Yueguanshan to look at a group of Liang Mansion guards passing by on the street: "Speak louder, and I guarantee that your wish to visit Liang Mansion will be fulfilled immediately."

Yueguanshan was not a fool either, seeing that they were very concerned about the Liang family's affairs, he asked Xie Zhixu: "Why did you come to Suzhou? The things you asked me to bring out from the Liang family last time, and this matter Is it relevant?"

Wu Li said: "Do you know why Zhang San doesn't want to go home every time he finishes playing cards?"

Yue Guanshan held the honey fried fruit to his hand: "How do you know that the first rule of my Yue family's family rule is that you are not allowed to ask about your luck in playing cards?"

Wu Li rolled his eyes and asked Xie Zhixu, "Where did you get the sugar painting?"

The brown-red lotus flower in Xie Zhixu's hand was solidified and translucent, exuding a faintly sweet breath.He glanced at Wu Liwu's free hands, and inserted the sugar painting into the oil paper bag in Yueguanshan's arm: "Here it is for you. I wish you good food, drink and fun."

"Hey, why are you going?"

"Work."

When they arrived at Liang's house, it was just in time for Tang Haifeng to lead the guards to return triumphantly with something they found in Dongshi.

Xie Zhixu avoided the team and made a detour by the lake.Chusi and a few maids do their laundry by the water every day.

Seeing Xie Zhixu coming again, the maids smiled knowingly, and left with washbasins one after another, making Chusi feel ashamed and annoyed.

However, when there were only the two of them left by the lake, Chusi frowned immediately: "Why are you here again?"

"I want to ask you a few questions," Xie Zhixu told her the names of the cook, the coachman and the old lady, without being too polite, "Do you know these people?"

Chusi's expression changed obviously: "Is it related to Haitang's death?"

"You won't know if it matters until you say it."

Chusi struggled for a moment, then let out a sigh of relief: "Well, it's an exception anyway. You must remember not to tell anyone." She said and glanced at Xie Zhixu, "Look at the sealed official document Come on... I don't know the cook and the coachman, but that nanny used to be with the eldest son, and I and Chusi were under her jurisdiction, um... Then one day she suddenly disappeared."

"Which day?"

"...Before the young master was kidnapped. The eldest lady wanted to ask her for accountability, only to find that he had disappeared. They all said in private that the eldest young master was kidnapped and had something to do with the nanny, and she absconded in fear of crime."

"Did the Liang family not find her?"

"No, and there is no evidence. Until now, no one knows how the young master was kidnapped. Haitang was also because of this incident. The eldest lady accused her of negligence and expelled her. After the young master was rescued, everyone around him They were all cleaned up, and my sisters and I were transferred to work with Madam, and we were restrained by the maid brought by Madam from her natal family, and lived in a very rigid manner. We all said that this is what Madam wants us to suffer for the son.”

"Can you retell what happened before and after Mr. Liang was kidnapped?"

Chusi said: "You have so many questions. What time is it?"

Xie Zhixu looked at the sky, the sunlight did not reach the top of his head.Another group of people came out in front of the gate of the Liang Mansion, and Manager Fu stuffed a package into the leader's arms: "Hurry up and send the things to Doctor Zhang of Miaoshoutang!"

The team galloped away, and smoke and dust were everywhere.

Xie Zhixu replied: "Si time has passed, but noon has not yet arrived."

Sitting by the willow embankment, with her skirt spread out on the grass, she patted her side to signal Xie Zhixu to sit down too: "This is a long story, I will try to keep it short, there is still a lot of work to do when I get back."

The abduction happened when Liang Ting was nine years old, during his childhood when his family ignored him because of his mutilated voice.Liang Ting disappeared from the mansion for a month, and the parents who never set foot in their son's courtyard didn't realize it at all. Liang Ting had a withdrawn personality when he was a child, and often found a place to hide by himself without seeing anyone. What a fuss.

But no one noticed for a whole month, more or less thanks to the grandmother who was in charge at the time and then disappeared suddenly.

One month later, the gangster's letter was finally delivered to the head of the Liang family and his wife. At this time, they had taken the young master out of the territory of Pingjiang Mansion, and sent the letter to the Liang family purely for the purpose of torturing the family.At the same time in the letter, he reported his family name, which turned out to be the eldest lady's natal family - Hu Zhongdao's enemy in the rivers and lakes.

More than 30 days was enough time for the gangsters to erase any clues that could trace them. They asked the Liang family to spend all their money but they could only find the body of the young master who died tragically after being tortured.

Thirteen years ago, the Pingjiang Mansion was full of turmoil. The appeasement envoy and Zhizhou dispatched thousands of officers and soldiers to assist the Liang family in a sweeping search of the outer suburbs and mountains.The government soldiers supported by the Liang family were also present at that time, and they were dispatched in full force.

After all, he is the only descendant. Even if he lacks love due to temporary prejudice, the Liang family will never allow him to be lost in the hands of the enemies.

When Liang Ting was found, she was so skinny that she was only skinny and boned. She depended on a mouthful of ginseng soup to hang her life every day. It took more than a year for her to recover her human form. From then on, she harbored an understandable hostility towards her relatives. , the bones of the whole body have been adjusted, and everything must be contradictory.

Even when he later became a rap artist, he couldn't tell whether it was his own wish or simply resisting his family.

What is strange is that Mrs. Liang actually likes this thorn-covered grandson very much, and has become Liang Ting's biggest backer and reliance.The head of the Liang family and his wife also had lingering fears due to the kidnapping incident, so they sent the most powerful cronies around them to protect their son.After that, Liang Ting became a veritable nobleman.

"But Madam Liang doesn't seem to like this son very much, does she?" Xie Zhixu asked.

Just as Chusi was about to answer, she suddenly saw something, pulled Xie Zhixu by the waist and hid behind the tree trunk.

The lake water dug a small canal and meandered into the backyard of the Liang Mansion. After walking out of the back door for more than ten steps, near the shore of the lake, under a light yellow and tender green weeping willow, the dense and lush canopy vaguely blocked two figures.

Before Xie Zhixu could recognize her, Chui Si stood up in a panic: "Oh my God, why is Da Furen here? I have to go back quickly, Mr. Xie, and you must not be discovered by her, otherwise Da Furen will definitely not Let me go!"

Xie Zhixu didn't have time to hold her back, and Chusi had already slipped away with the washbasin on her waist.

The two figures under the hanging branches are both wearing floor-length skirts, graceful and graceful, with a tight waist, they seem to be two beauties.

According to Cui Si, one is the eldest lady, and the other Xie Zhixu has no clue at all.

He restrained his breath as much as possible, and approached quietly behind the tree trunk.

Fortunately, these two women didn't seem to be proficient in martial arts. With his half-time skills, he even kicked over a stone once and stepped on a branch twice in the middle without disturbing them.Otherwise a cat or a dog may be needed here.

Seeing the eldest lady again gave Xie Zhixu a strange feeling, the light-colored facial features and the coolness of the sun and the sun also revealed a trace of coolness, as if he had seen it before somewhere familiar.

The eyebrows and eyes of the other woman are somewhat similar to the Da Furen's, but with a little girlish demeanor, like Miss Jiao who has not left the court.

"I heard...that Ting'er is sick...what's the matter? Please let me see him!..."

Da Furen's voice sounded very angry: "How dare you appear here!... If I hadn't been discovered, would you be planning to rush in front of everyone!..."

"Sister...please forgive me...at least tell me about him!"

"...There is no next time! Otherwise, I will let my father ground you on the island in the lake, and you will never come out for the rest of your life!"

Both fell silent.

Xie Zhixu took a step back, stepped on a dead branch again, and no one noticed, he turned and left quietly.

The calligraphy and painting hairpins in the market have been removed, and when it's meal time, there are belly lungs, kidneys, quail rabbits, pigeons and the like eating everywhere, and the streets are full of fragrance.

Xie Zhixu walked through the restaurant, while thinking about the information he got today, he always felt that there was an idea in his mind that was ready to come out, but he still lacked an inspiration to connect everything together.

Back at Fuyunju, Wu Li was not there, and there was only the oiled paper bag he bought in the morning on the table.

In the past in Qiongshan, the tasks for Wuli to play with were the fourth one. Although he has no brains, he has brute force. Now there is Yueguanshan who has both brains and strength. Will not be boring.

However, the mind of the fourth child may not be able to understand the complex emotions of boredom.

When Xie Zhixu first arrived in Qiongshan, he hoped to establish a friendly relationship with everyone, so he wasted time on the fourth child. In order to please the fourth child, Xie Zhixu washed his nails for a month. Unfortunately, the fourth child It's not that he lacks brains, he really has no brains, and all feedback from the outside world is blocked.

Even Mister couldn't communicate with the fourth disciple he took in.Only martial arts can.

The fourth child was originally mentally handicapped, but because of being rejected and treated maliciously, he became closed.According to Mr., only true kindness can pass through the barrier and enter the consciousness of the fourth child.

Xie Zhixu went to the corridor on the second floor, leaned over and looked towards the backyard.

The fourth child was sitting outside the hut basking in the sun... probably basking in the sun, no valuable information could be discerned from his unshaven, rock-hard face.

There was a bucket next to Lao Si's feet, and in the bucket was the same brush as the horse hair brush used for the last pass.It is estimated that the guy put it there and waited for a while to wash the nails of the fourth child.

However, after waiting for a while, there was no sign of the waiter, and the sound of wooden wheels turning came from the corridor.

"?!!"

Xie Zhixu leaned over the railing and leaned out, and saw a familiar hair crown, and then the back of a familiar wheelchair.

Feng Zhi often pushed the wheel to the side of the bucket.The fourth child, who was as stiff as a statue, turned his head, and the figure of the wheelchair youth was reflected on the surface of the mirror-like eyeballs.