set of flowers

"Son..."

"Shh-"

Just as Long Huo and Liu Huo were about to stand up and salute, Hua Qianyu gestured for silence, signaling them to look at An Mingxi.An Mingxi was concentrating on opera, and never paid attention to the movements of the people around him.

Hua Qianyu took his seat, then stared at An Mingxi intently, but said something irrelevant calmly: "I have a task for you."

"Yes!"

"Shh - don't react too much, listen to me carefully.

Hua Qianyu covered half of his face with a fan, and asked: "Have you ever noticed someone following you?" Her peach-like eyes were only slightly narrowed, and it seemed to be smiling.

They looked at each other in silence.

"It's just a suspicion, but this suspicion is not without reason...so I hope you can pay more attention."

"Yes."

"I will go to Mingxi's place later, and you continue to act like you are looking after us. After a while, when you are sure that you will not be noticed, leave here, disguise yourself, and try your best to search Zhang Huai for me. Evidence—can it be done?"

"Yes."

"Don't get caught, stay safe."

"Yes."

"very good."

Hua Qianyu put away her folding fan, got up and walked towards An Mingxi...

"Son!"

Le Yang's suddenly raised volume brought Ah Jiu, who was blocked by the threshold, back to his senses, and then he heard Hua Qianyu tease: "Reluctance?"

"I!...I knew that Young Master wanted to mention Liyou for no reason in the prison yesterday..."

"This... so you know? Li You is to you..."

Unintentionally listening to their words, Ah Jiu backed away slowly.

He originally thought that the young master was a kind person who deserved His Highness's deep friendship, but he didn't expect that the young master would be so slutty...not only harboring ill-will towards His Highness, but also a lustful person towards Qin Muchu!

Ah Jiu's anger and disappointment are beyond words. He originally wanted to tell His Highness what he had heard, so that His Highness should be more careful about the little prince, and he didn't want to be unable to speak to His Highness at all...

How does His Highness accept the fact that his best friend is so ugly by nature?

Sigh, what if His Highness becomes afraid of people because of this?But he can't just watch His Highness fall into it, and end up being abandoned when he gets tired of playing...

He had originally planned to destroy the relationship between the two as much as possible, but the next morning, he saw the two of them waking up in the same bed again, and Ah Jiu was so startled that he almost dropped the tub.

Hua Qianyu, who didn't care about Ah Jiu's appearance, still hugged An Mingxi's waist tightly, buried her face in An Mingxi's chest, unwilling to be pushed away as if she was playing tricks.

An Mingxi said in a flat tone: "Get up, otherwise there will be no next time."

Hearing this, Hua Qianyu hurriedly sat up, and asked with a smile, "Is this a promise?"

An Mingxi nodded, and said again: "But, can you help me watch the night? Even if you and I sleep together, isn't it dangerous?"

Hua Qianyu was afraid that he would think too much, so he didn't tell him what was in his mind, so he just sighed and said, "Brother is with me, so I can feel at ease."

Ah Jiu slandered in her heart: His Highness is with you, the least reassuring thing.

"Young master, wash up."

Ah Jiu made a sound to break the gaze between the two, and it happened that Le Yang also appeared at this time, beckoning Hua Qianyu to go back to the room.

……

If she wanted to cut off her sleeves, Ah Jiu would rather His Highness be with Young Master Gu, at least Young Master Gu looked very sincere.

Ah Jiu doesn't care if His Royal Highness likes men and women, he just hopes that His Highness can reap happiness... Although he didn't think that the young man would have such a meaning for His Highness.

Ah Jiu stared at Hua Qianyu who was not far away, and almost burned two holes in the back of Hua Qianyu's head - even the contact that was considered ordinary before, now Ah Jiu seems to have ulterior motives.But since Hua Qianyu was teaching An Mingxi self-defense skills, Ah Jiu couldn't bother.

He was a little anxious, he felt that Hua Qianyu and An Mingxi could not be allowed to be together all the time, but Hua Qianyu stuck to him like a dog's skin plaster, and even though An Mingxi was not happy on the face, he obviously did not reject it... Thinking this way, in the future With His Highness's temperament, it may be a matter of time before he falls.

Ah Jiu felt that she should take action.Since I, as a servant, have no room to comment, I asked Gu Junze to "excuse me" on his behalf.

Thinking about it, Ah Jiu trotted out of the other courtyard while the two were not paying attention.He asked someone about Gu Junze's whereabouts, only to find out that Gu Junze was locked up in the bedroom by the owner, no wonder he never disappeared.

Although "visiting the prisoner" didn't seem to be something he should do as an outsider, Ah Jiu wanted to go and see the situation.

As an outsider, he didn't dare to wander around on weekdays, and the villa was also unfamiliar to him.He wandered around the huge villa along the route he asked, and walked to the courtyard, almost interrupting the conversation between the owner and the eldest lady.

Ah Jiu clearly wasn't a thief, so he couldn't help but hide behind the wall with a guilty conscience. Just as he was about to leave, he heard Gu Mingze's roar——

"She is my father-killing enemy!"

This roar made Ah Jiu unable to move.

Wang Yudie responded indifferently: "She saved you and risked her life to save you - she is also the mother who raised you."

Gu Mingze said coldly: "She's not. Even if she died for me, I wouldn't shed a single tear for her." No matter what Wu Xueman did, he just felt hypocritical.

Ah Jiu suddenly thought, has he heard too many secrets recently? Will he be silenced because he knows too much?

Thinking of this, he still sneaked to the flower window, peeped at the two people who were talking through the leaky part of the window—Young Master and the others talked about visiting Mrs. Gu, isn't this just an opportunity?

The two behind the flower window are sitting on a stone bench under the shade of a tree, with a stone table between them.There is a finely carved stone tea tray in the center of the stone table. The tea tray and the stone table overlap seamlessly as if they were one.The tea sets were placed on the plate, among which there were three teacups, and the three cups were filled with tea, but they were arranged in a neat row like a decoration, and no one raised a cup to drink it.

Seeing Wang Yudie staring at the tea tray without saying a word, Gu Mingze continued, "If she wasn't Junze's mother, she would have been expelled from the house; if Zhang Huai hadn't done anything, she would have died that autumn!"

Nothing? ——Ah Jiu wrote down this sentence.

Wang Yudie raised his eyes and met his gaze: "How about beheading me too?"

"you--"

Gu Mingze suddenly raised his head and laughed, and then said to Wang Yudie with a pair of tearless but crying eyes: "You protect her, she killed your husband, my father...but you protect her... ...Heh, it's really fornication..."

In his memory, his mother has always been the gentlest and kindest person.She treats everyone considerately, and she will shed tears because of other people's misfortune—that woman who is unwilling to hurt even a bug has become what she is today, since when...

He thought that everything had changed since he saw her and Wu Xueman embracing naked on the same bed when he was young.

He murmured: "It was she who made you like this, how can I forgive..." Both eyes lost their spirits.

"She didn't kill Gu He."

Gu Mingze couldn't help frowning when he called Xiankao by his name too harshly, resisting the urge to slap the table.

"I've said it many times, why you still don't believe this thing alone?" Wang Yudie sighed, stood up, and took off her coat——do not look at evil!Ah Jiu hurriedly covered his eyes, and then heard a voice in the darkness: "Did you see the mark he left?"

A moment of silence.

Curious, Ah Jiu opened her fingers and peeked through them.Surprised, he blinked hard, poked his head closer, his eyes were too wide open, almost fell out——

On Wang Yudie's exposed upper arm to the back of the shoulder, there are old scars engraved one after another. The scars are thin and neat, long or short, deep or shallow, obviously scratched with a sharp weapon... It's just that they are not covered by clothes and the exposed part.

It looked so painful, Ah Jiu shivered.

"Bequeathed to me by your revered father."

The shocked Gu Mingze could hardly speak.

"That day, Xueman had a conflict with Gu He in order to protect me. Gu He slipped and fell downstairs and knocked over the vase..." Wang Yudie lowered her eyes, even though the corners of her mouth were still slightly raised, tears still flowed from the corners of her eyes .

Four years have passed, and Gu Mingze is unable to confirm whether Wang Yudie's words are true or not. He only remembers the blood on the ground, the debris on the ground... and Gu He, who has lost his breath.

He clenched his fists and pursed his lips tightly, and it took him a while to speak: "Since when...he is like this, since when..."

"Since I got married, it's just that he treats me more and more..."

Wang Yudie couldn't speak any more, so she stopped and put on her coat again.

Gu Mingze got up, Ah Jiu didn't know what he was going to do, so he ran away in fright.

It's strange to say that he has been eavesdropping for so long, yet no one found him... There are no servants around the courtyard...

Also, if you say something like this, of course you have to send the servants away.

...Although it is a very serious matter, it does not seem to be considered useful information——If Mr. Zhang does nothing, does it matter?

Ah Jiu suddenly felt a little guilty because of her eavesdropping, and for a moment forgot what to do next.After wandering around aimlessly for a while, I thought that Nuoda's villa was really loose inside except for the guards on the outside. I thought that although the owner of the villa had a cold face, he should not be a strict person.

Recalling the purpose of this trip, Ah Jiu thought that the trip could not be done in vain, so she patted her cheek and went to find Gu Junze.Although Gu Junze seems to be still locked up, and he doesn't know if he can come out, but because of Hua Qianyu's nature as a disciple, he feels that he can feel at ease only when he sees the innocent and innocent Gu Junze—but he was stopped by the guards as it should be. at the door.

Gu Junze who was inside the door heard the voices outside, opened the door suddenly, saw that it was Ah Jiu, overjoyed, and asked: "Did Mingxi miss me?"

"Yes!" Ah Jiu subconsciously replied before realizing that she had lied.

Seeing Gu Junze's uncontrollable joy, Ah Jiu couldn't help but feel relieved, so he asked, "Has Mr. Gu been grounded?" The answer is obvious, he just used it as a greeting.

He felt it was time for him to go.

"no!"

Gu Junze's answer surprised him.

"Master."

Just as Gu Junze was about to step out of the room, he was stopped by the servant.

Gu Junze pressed their hands with a smile, and said, "Don't worry about it, brother, he won't be angry—I've been obediently staying in the room all night."

He was grounded simply because he went out and disappeared yesterday, causing his elder brother and mother-in-law to worry. In fact, he did nothing wrong—maybe he would have died if he stayed in the villa yesterday.

Seeing how worried they looked, Gu Junze obediently cooperated with his elder brother's temper, but it's been a whole night, so it should be fine anyway, his elder brother can't be so stingy.

All the family members knew about Gu Mingze's connivance with Gu Junze, and they half pushed and half let Gu Junze go, which made Ah Jiu's jaw drop in shock.

It seems that Gu Mingze is really easy to talk to.

……

Hua Qianyu accompanied An Mingxi on horseback, and said: "Brother Mo once warned me that there are too many coincidences, and someone must have deliberately done them."

An Mingxi said, "So how many things are you hiding from me?"

"Hahaha..." Hua Qianyu smiled bluntly.

"Everything is detailed, repeat it to me, so maybe you can catch new clues."

In terms of memory alone, Hua Qianyu has enough confidence.He said eloquently: "That day, I went to the brothel."

He intentionally paused here, but he didn't see any reaction from An Mingxi—he didn't want An Mingxi to misunderstand, but at the same time, he contradictoryly hoped that he could misunderstand.

However, An Mingxi only asked: "And then?"

The expected reply.

"I ordered the oiran to meet, but the oiran was picking up guests, so I asked for other girls, but it was the oiran who finally met."

"why?"

"Just finished receiving the guests..."

No——Hua Qianyu felt strange.

In this way, the coincidence should start with Qingqing's appearance.

"Then?"

An Mingxi was a little impatient: Do I have to urge me to continue every time I say a word?

"Then I asked for information about the governor, but she only said that the governor is a good official."

"But I asked her what good things the governor did?"

"No, I asked about building the wall. She said that the cost of building the wall is excluding public funds and only donated by righteous men."

"If you ask, you can confirm it one by one."

"That said... I didn't suspect that she was lying."

Even though it was the first time I met someone, I completely believed it, "Come again."

"Ask about the Gu family again. The woman said that it was rumored that the former owner died at the hands of the second lady, but the matter was left alone."

"It's just a rumor." As outsiders, they have nothing to do with the affairs of the villa.

"After a walk, I heard someone talking about the governor, but it was even more unfounded than what I heard before."

This was another coincidence, since similar encounters had occurred before.

Hua Qianyu wanted to talk about the two strings of candied haws that could not be sent out, and took this as "credit", but remembered that An Mingxi said that he didn't like candied haws, so he skipped this useless paragraph, and continued: "Then we are going to When I left the city, I was caught straight away."

The third coincidence.

Logically, they were new faces, even if they really committed a crime, they shouldn't be arrested so quickly, not to mention that there was no identified person at the scene - he had patrolled the surroundings and had not seen faces in the brothel.The arrest this time also brought out another coincidence: Qingqing's death.

"The police put us in jail on the grounds that we were suspected of killing the oiran. After one night, the governor came in person the next day and told him that he suddenly found out that the oiran died after we left and released us. Room hospitality."

The fifth coincidence, the new testimonies came too late and too soon, as late as after being imprisoned, and as soon as the second day of being imprisoned.

An Mingxi suddenly said: "If there is something wrong with Zhang Huai, there must be many prisoners in the prison complaining about their grievances. Do you have any clues?" His arms were tired and trembled a little.

Hua Qianyu suddenly realized when he heard the words—they were the only pair of prisoners in the prison!They only cared about their own discomfort that day, and didn't notice the unpopular prison—according to Zhang Huai, since he even dealt with civilian crimes, how could they be the only ones in the prison?What's more, the smell in the prison is obviously saying that there have been people, many people—why did the prisoners move temporarily?Why leave them alone?

Zhang Huai really had a problem.

The long-standing suspicion suddenly had a basis at this moment, and Hua Qianyu, who was suddenly enlightened, couldn't help but excitedly hugged An Mingxi who was beside him by the waist, and turned around twice.

An Mingxi felt baffled, and when his legs landed on the ground again, Hua Qianyu gave him another big hug, and pressed his face tightly against him——

"Tell me more, my dear brother."

say what?

An Mingxi was stunned for a while, until Gu Junze's shout pierced his ears: "Let him go! Your hands and feet are not clean!"

Hua Qianyu laughed, and even hugged her even tighter.

Dirty hands and feet?Did he steal something?

If possible, I really want to steal the heart of the person in my arms.

The author has something to say:

My mother said that if you want to do anything, you can't do anything well.

I said, just be happy.

But now I deeply understand that not being able to do anything well does not make me happy, but makes me decadent.

The writing is also poor.I can sit in a coffee shop for six hours and not write a chapter.

I was extremely depressed yesterday, and I stopped cooking early, so I am a day late, sorry.

I have to adjust my mentality.

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Almost didn't notice - thanks Li Ge.Alone's watering!