set of flowers

"Although Xueman has a cold temper, she has a kind heart. She often prescribes medicine for me. When I get scared at night, she often makes her sleep with me... I don't think that Mingze saw her indecent posture that day..."

She waved her hand and said again: "I can't keep my mouth shut anymore, the more I talk, the more biased I am."

Hua Qianyu said: "Madam is willing to talk about the past with outsiders, which flatters us instead."

"Heh," Wang Yudie laughed again, with shyness on the corners of her mouth, "When you get old, you have a lot of desire to talk. It's not easy to talk to people close to you, but it's comfortable to chat with you who meet by chance. .”

Hua Qianyu nodded, showing goodwill.

Wang Yudie sighed slowly, and continued: "My husband drank a few more glasses that day, and his hands were extremely heavy. I was afraid that he would take my life by mistake, so I ran outside the room. When Mannia heard my call for help, Disregarding my own safety, I ran to protect me. While pushing and shoving with my husband, my husband smelled of alcohol, slipped off the railing, fell downstairs, and knocked off the vase on the flower table at the same time...

"Hey, Mannia went downstairs and tried to save her husband, but blood flowed all over the floor, and my husband lost his breath."

Wang Yudie glanced at the black shadow behind the window that had been standing there for a long time, and said calmly as if telling someone else's story: "I lost my legs and stayed upstairs, but I hid back the moment I saw Mingze. The bedroom... I have found many reasons for that escape, but in the end I can only say honestly - because I am responsible for my husband's death, I feel ashamed in my heart, I am afraid that Mingze will not recognize me as a mother, so I lost The innocent Mannia ran away... and Mingze, who had misunderstood Mannia, thought that Mannia was the murderer of her husband."

Noticing the movement of the figure outside the window, Wang Yudie looked down at the empty teacup on the table, then moved her gaze to the teapot, and then slowly raised her hands, with the index finger and thumb of the left hand hanging on the ear of the pot, and the index finger of the right hand touching the button of the pot , Fill yourself with tea soup.

Before she put down the teapot, she heard Gu Mingze's voice——

"Why didn't you say these things four years ago?"

Wang Yudie looked up at Gu Mingze, who was behind the light at the door, and said indifferently: "Can an argument without evidence clear up Mannia's suspicion?"

Gu Mingze clenched his fists: "At least...he treats you badly, why didn't he let me know?"

"He is your father, I... don't want to destroy the father in your heart."

"He's not qualified to be my father." Gu Mingze was shaking his shoulders with too much force.

"It's all over...he's dead."

"Yes," Gu Mingze turned around, "Dead."

Wang Yudie waited quietly for his figure to disappear from sight.

"Aren't you going to follow?" Hua Qianyu asked.

Wang Yudie smiled bitterly: "He is already an adult."

She changed the subject and returned to the main topic: "I did give the envoy a sum of money and begged him to let Mannia go."

"Is there any evidence?"

Wang Yudie shook his head: "The tattooed silver stored in Gu Fang Shanzhuang's treasury would originally have the words 'Gu Fang Shanzhuang' tattooed on the bottom, but it has been four years now, and it is difficult to obtain evidence even if we go to the Governor's Mansion to search."

"Can there be similar things happening outside?"

"What do you think, son?"

"The matter of repairing the city..."

"Young master's news is really well-informed."

"It was just mentioned by the young master."

"That's what made you blackmail in the name of repairing the city. The state officials couldn't fill their desires and made progress. I didn't want to do what he wanted, so I was hated."

"Has Mrs. Gu been banned from doing business in the city?"

Wang Yudie raised her eyes to meet Shanghua Qianyu's gaze: "Jun Ze said?"

"Yes."

"Hey, if there are no restrictions, Mingze won't have to run around, and he won't have to worry about being a mother all day long... The Gu family is fairly well off, no matter how small the business is, it can be rich for several generations."

Wang Yudie silenced, waiting for Hua Qianyu to speak——

"Commercial tax already accounts for a large proportion of tax revenue. If Zhang Huairuo is really greedy for money, why does he want to drive away this big fish like Gu?"

She opened her eyes wide, as if she had suddenly realized it at this moment.

Her expression gradually returned to normal, and she said: "It seems that Mingze just wants to escape from this house."

The atmosphere was stagnant, no words were heard in the room, and An Mingxi, who had been silent for a long time, opened his mouth: "Madam thought that the villa was robbed that day, but it was related to the envoy?"

Contrary to the expected answer, Wang Yudie said in surprise: "It's unreasonable talk. Although the envoy is greedy for money, how can he hurt people's lives? If you really want to kill, you should have done it long ago. How can you wait until recently for no reason?"

An Mingxi bowed his head and said, "I'm talking nonsense."

……

Back in the courtyard, An Mingxi said, "How?"

"Although he is holding on to the wolf's tail, a few words are not good evidence."

"Yes, there is no evidence to support Madam's words."

"Oh? Brother still has doubts?"

An Mingxi shook his head: "According to the current situation, there is no need for Madam to lie to us. Just in case—in case she gets more involved with Zhang Huai..."

An Mingxi shook his head again, shaking off his confused thoughts: "If you think too deeply, you will suffer from it. Since you have no other evidence, you can only believe it. As for the evidence... try to get it elsewhere!"

Hua Qianyu nodded.Although he still has doubts about Wang Yudie's claim that the matter was pushed to Gu Mingze, it is reasonable for Wang Yudie to lie to them.

Suddenly speechless.

Exposed to the scorching sun, they didn't have the intention to walk leisurely, and before Hua Qianyu could think up what to say, the two stepped into the room one after the other.

"Xi'er." Hua Qianyu raised his head, his eyes fell on An Mingxi's back.

This kind of address was spit out from the mouth of his one-year-old Hua Qianyu, and it was always too sweet. An Mingxi is still uncomfortable, especially in such a situation, in the unreasonable silence, he was called out by this sudden call. They all slapped hard, but turned around pretending to be calm, looked at Hua Qianyu expressionlessly, and asked, "What's the matter?"

"I……"

It was even more difficult for Hua Qianyu to be stared at by him, her rapid heartbeat was stuck in her vocal cords, and her tongue was jerky.

"Is something wrong?"

Seeing Hua Qianyu's rare blunt appearance, An Mingxi was already preparing for what he was going to say next.Although he never thought of how to respond, his heart that could not calm down seemed anxious to hear the words that had not yet been spoken. An Mingxi's accelerated heartbeat made blood rush to his cheeks.

The two teenagers whose cheeks were also flushed froze in place, and neither of them avoided the other's sight because of the shame in their hearts that exploded like fireworks blooming in the night sky after being scooped up by a wooden spoon. They stared at each other, engaged in a contest with no winners or losers in a silent situation.

Hua Qianyu looked at An Mingxi's appearance, obviously based on the other's appearance at the moment, Hua Qianyu was [-]% sure that he and the other party were connected, but he hesitated because of the [-]% uncertainty.He thought of that dream, and thought, if his self-confidence is just a joke, if An Mingxi's embarrassment is just because he is a rare friend, if his intentions fail An Mingxi's friendship...

"Brother..." Hua Qianyu shook his head, "You know what Xi'er said earlier, right?"

But at this moment, An Mingxi frowned subconsciously, making his expression tougher: "What?"

He didn't mean to avoid the topic, he even wanted Hua Qianyu to speak quickly - even though he still didn't think about how he would respond if Hua Qianyu really showed his heart.

It was the first time I realized that even my fingers were at a loss, Hua Qianyu's ten fingers were tangled several times, and finally tightened——

"I to you—"

"My lord!" Ah Jiu, who stepped into the door at some point, interrupted.

An Mingxi ignored Ah Jiu, and continued to attack: "What do you want to say?"

"I..." Hua Qianyu looked at Ah Jiu, then back at An Mingxi, and sighed, "Next time." Then he left the bedroom step by step.

When Hua Qianyu stepped out of the threshold, and put away his last glance, An Mingxi clenched his left hand behind his back.He whispered to himself: "Coward." He was actually angry because Hua Qianyu ran away.

He shook up his shirt and sat down on the wooden bench nearby.

Ah Jiu came and stood behind him, silent.

After a long time, An Mingxi suppressed his anger and asked in a deep voice, "What's the matter?"

"Ah?" Ah Jiu wasn't sure if he was talking to herself, but there were indeed only two of them in the room.

"On weekdays, you don't interrupt for no reason." After interrupting, he fell silent again, obviously it was not urgent.

"I..." Ah Jiu felt that he could no longer hesitate. If this continues, An Mingxi may have paid his attention to Hua Qianyu when he was not watching, "What do you think of the young master, Your Highness?"

An Mingxi did not respond.

"Young master...maybe someone who can make friends, but...if it comes to love, young master must not be a good candidate."

"Why?"

"Young master...Young master used to often go to brothels, didn't you?...Although the young master looks like a good person, isn't he nice to everyone? Not just His Highness... There must be many, many people like him Love him! He's the kind of guy who doesn't refuse—"

An Mingxi interrupted him: "What did he do?"

"what?"

An Mingxi turned around and looked up at Ah Jiu with sharp eyes, which made Ah Jiu flustered. He was worried that An Mingxi would mistakenly think that he was trying to provoke the relationship between the two.

"What did he do to make you think that way."

Ah Jiu unconsciously looked diagonally upwards, and said, "Ah Jiu said, my lord..."

"Or you heard what he said—why can't you tell me?"

Ah Jiu suddenly felt his nose a little sour: "Your Highness..."

"Concealment is also a kind of deception, isn't it?" An Mingxi said suddenly, "Are you going to lie to me?"

"Your Highness," Ah Jiu fell to his knees, putting himself in a lower perspective than An Mingxi, "Ah Jiu heard the young master say—that he just likes His Highness's face, even if it was Li You, he would still like."

An Mingxi was still expressionless when he heard the words.

Ah Jiu gritted his teeth, and continued: "So, Your Highness, please don't be tempted by such a person? The young master is young and has a lot of playfulness..."

An Mingxi didn't listen to what Ah Jiu said, but only remembered Hua Qianyu who had a smile on his face while staring at his face.

So, this face never brings good things.

So, such a face really shouldn't be on him as a man.

so……

Ah Jiu's flustered look brought An Mingxi's attention back to him, he was a little strange, he didn't know what Ah Jiu was panicking about, until Ah Jiu put the handkerchief under his eyes, he subconsciously pressed Ah Jiu's hand, Seeing that Ah Jiu was about to cry, he realized that his vision was changing between blurred and clear, and his face was itchy...

He wiped the itchy half of his face with his other hand, only to realize that it was the tears that were sliding down his cheeks.

Suddenly, the nose and throat became sore, and the tears couldn't stop falling...

Why?Obviously feeling very calm...

Obviously very calm.