Chapter 46
After seeing off Ting'an, Hua Rujin led Hua Youen back to the shed to count the money that the county government compensated, five taels a piece of ingot, no more and no less exactly ten ingots.

Looking at the white silver on the table, Hua Youen suddenly leaned into her ear and whispered: "Sister, let me tell you a secret, can you take me to Huangliu Lane to buy pear cake?"

"Do you want to eat pear cake again?"

Hua Rujin looked at Xiao Douding with a smile: "Then sister has to see if the secret you mentioned is worth a bag of pear cake."

"Definitely worth it."

Hua Youen pointed to the corner on the left with firm eyes: "On the few days when sister went out, I saw a very big white snake crawling in from that dry well."

"White snake?"

Hua Rujin looked at the dry well not far behind with a look of astonishment: "Are you talking about the white lady?"

"Who is the white lady?"

Xiao Douding pinched her little lips in puzzlement.

"The White Snake is a woman who is as good-looking as your elder sister."

Hua Rujin suddenly fell into deep thought.

Why does this little guy say he saw a girl in red for a while, and then he said he saw a huge white snake for a while.

However, Hua Junnian, Cai Baiwei and his wife, and even Hua Muyang, have never encountered these things.

For a moment, she couldn't help but believe that the old lady of the Hua family said that Xiao Douding was the family's nemesis.

"Sister, don't you believe me?"

Hua Youen looked at her with some frustration.

"Believe, of course."

Hua Rujin got up and dragged Xiao Douding to the dry well: "Let's go see where the big white snake is hiding, and then go to Huangliu Lane to buy pastries."

Hearing this, Hua Youen reluctantly became happy.

The two walked to the dry well and looked at the bottom of the well. It was pitch black and bottomless, and they couldn't see anything.

Just as she was about to turn around and leave, she suddenly saw many marks of flowers and plants around the dry well that had been severely crushed, and gradually realized that Xiaodouding was not lying.

She carefully checked around the traces of the collapse, and continued to search deep into the corner of the dry well, and gradually found some degraded snake skin.

Thinking back to the twinkling eyes she saw when she first entered this mansion and the girl in red that Xiao Douding mentioned, she began to believe what the old beggar said.

This house is really tricky.

There were actually two wells opened in a small courtyard, so she didn't know what was hidden in this dry well for the time being.

It's just that the bottom of the well is too deep, and she can't go down to explore it.

Moving a stone, she threw it into the dry well, but after a long time, she could still hear a loud "dong dong" coming from the well.

"Sister."

Hua Youen looked bewildered.

"fine."

Hua Rujin led Xiao Douding to put away the money on the table, thinking about the long hair she found a few days ago, and went straight to the west wing.

She took out the exquisite dagger that Ye Chengwei gave her and tapped it meticulously in the room, but after exploring for a long time, she didn't find anything unusual.

Is there no way down here?
Or is the structure of the tunnel here different from that of the Dou family?
With a mind full of doubts, Hua Rujin led Xiao Douding out of the West Wing.

Since these weird things have appeared in the yard, it's better to sit on the sidelines and wait for rabbits.

After taking the door lock and locking the courtyard door, the two sisters first went to Huangliu Lane, where they bought two packs of pear flower cakes for twenty renminbi to accompany Xiao Douding to think about some problems while eating.

If there is really a girl in red, why would she appear in this house mysteriously, without any plans for the family for so many days.

It's just that the members of the Hua family can't be frightened.

Thinking of this, she looked in the direction of the county government in the north, then squatted down and said to Xiao Douding: "You En, do you like the new county magistrate?"

"Sister, are you talking about brother-in-law?"

Hua Youen blinked her watery eyes.

"You can't call him brother-in-law."

Hua Rujin frowned: "If you agree to sister, sister will send you to see him, but you must be obedient."

Xiaodouding thought for a while: "Okay."

So the two sisters went straight to the direction of the county government.

After turning a few intersections, as soon as I got to the edge of the county government office, I saw a sedan chair going west.

"Brother-in-law, brother-in-law."

With sharp eyes, Hua Youen noticed Ye Chengwei's book boy Ting'an was following the sedan chair, and ran over bouncingly.

Hua Rujin's phoenix eyes paused for a moment, and then a bitter expression appeared on her face:
What about trust?

While hesitating, he saw Ting An walking towards this side.

Hua Rujin had no choice but to follow.

"My son doesn't sit in a sedan chair."

Holding Xiao Douding in his arms, Ting An secretly glanced at the parked sedan chair, and said in a low voice, "The county magistrate is inside."

"Oh, what are you guys?"

Hua Rujin glanced at the red box he was holding in his hand, then at the box tied with red silk carried by the guards behind the sedan chair, and roughly understood everything.

"Today is the old lady of the Shu family's birthday. The young master is busy with official business, so he asked the county magistrate to send a congratulatory gift on behalf of the county."

Ting An lowered his eyebrows and glanced at the box he was holding in his hand, and smiled mischievously: "I also happened to send a gift to the door alone for the young master."

"I see."

Hua Rujin thought about it and nodded: "Then I won't bother you, go get busy."

The Shu family was originally a medical family, and they were quite famous in the entire Jingzhou government. Now that Shu Yuchen has entered the palace again, the governments at all levels will naturally respect him even more.

Ye Chengwei is also a man of the world.

Ting An didn't dare to delay, turned his head and glanced at the guard on duty at the gate of the yamen, and hurriedly shouted: "This lady is a friend of my lord, you should report it quickly."

After explaining, he followed the sedan chair and left.

The guard at the door knew that the person who came was the county magistrate and his friends dared not be negligent, so they hurried inside to report, and after a while, someone came out to lead the two sisters inside.

Before entering the door, Hua Rujin glared at Xiao Douding resentfully, and said again: "You En, you are not allowed to call the county magistrate brother-in-law again, otherwise sister-in-law won't bring you here in the future."

"Got it, got it, sister."

Hua Youen walked into the inner hall happily, and when she saw Ye Chengwei sitting upright in the hall, she immediately greeted her: "Brother-in-law, my sister-in-law is here to see you."

Both of them were taken aback.

Ye Chengwei pinched Hua Youen's playful little face, pretended to be calm and looked at Hua Rujin who was ushered in by the guards, and asked with a smile, "Miss Hua found something in the house?"

"Not at all."

Hua Rujin knew that he was referring to the genuine matter Ting An explained.

It's just that there is no clue about this matter, so it's not easy to discuss it with him in detail, lest the county government make a big move and end up with an oolong.

After thinking for a while, she then said to Ye Chengwei: "The girl has something urgent to do. She wants to entrust her sister to the county government for a day, and come to pick her up tomorrow."

In this way, even if there is no harvest tonight, you can find a reason to prevaricate it.

Although Ye Chengwei had many doubts, she didn't want to elaborate, and she didn't want to ask too much, so she smiled lightly: "Okay."

"Thank you."

"You're welcome, you're welcome."

(End of this chapter)

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