I am born with insufficiency

Chapter 104
Gu Buquan tiptoed to look into Xichen Tea House, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't see Chen Chuzhi.

The woman playing the piano is still playing the high mountains and flowing waters diligently, and sometimes she turns her head and smiles at Gu Buquan, Gu Buquan can only smile back in embarrassment.

When the sun went down, the lady who played the piano took the piano and went in. The scholars who had entered the tea house before all went out one after another, and Chen Chuzhi didn't come out after everyone dispersed.

Is this Master Shen leaving him alone for dinner?
Cha Xiaoer came out to close the door.

"Little brother, may I ask if the private discussion between Master Shen and Young Master Chen is not over yet?" Gu Buquan stepped forward and asked.

Cha Xiaoer was surprised.

"The talk is over long ago, everyone has dispersed, and the owner has already left."

"Break up? But I didn't see him go out." Gu Buquan became anxious, and asked again, "Does Master Shen keep him for board and lodging?"

Cha Xiaoer said with a smile: "I don't know about that. I'm just outside serving tea and water to do odd jobs. The owner of the estate didn't leave anyone behind, so the waiters in the inner room will know. But today, there seems to be no movement of anyone staying. I think Mr. Chen probably left the small gate together with the owner of the villa."

Gu Buquan froze at the moment.

Leave without saying hello?

Earlier I said to let her wait here, hum!
Cha Xiaoer said enthusiastically again: "Miss, why don't you go back to your residence and have a look, maybe Mr. Chen is waiting there."

"Thank you, little brother."

Gu Buquan hurried back to the inn where Chen Chuzhi lived, but there was no sign of Chen Chuzhi at all.

The shopkeeper said that he hadn't seen him back since he left early in the morning, and that he had been in arrears for the rent for two days, and was thinking about throwing his things out, even reaching out to ask for money.

Gu Buquan took a look, but it was just a few torn books and a few changes of clothes.

The only valuable thing Chen Chuzhi had was his ancestral jade pen, which he carried with him, and the rest were belongings outside his body.

"I don't have any money. If you want to throw something, first think about my big brother Chen coming to Ri Kechang High School, and see how he will deal with you?"

Gu Buquan said coldly, then turned around and left the inn.

The shopkeeper rubbed the back of his head, looked at the rags left by Chen Chuzhi, and couldn't make up his mind, whether to throw them away or not?

After running back and forth between the inn and Xichen Tea House several times, there was still no news from Chen Chuzhi, and Gu Buquan's heart was getting tighter and tighter.

She inquired that the scholars who were favored by Master Shen to stay in the tea house would say goodbye to other friends, drink and celebrate, then pack up their luggage and books, and then move into the backyard of the tea house after a few days of delay.

There has never been anyone as silent as Chen Chuzhi.

That means, he was not chosen by the owner?

Gu Buquan was puzzled, even if he was not selected, he still had to go back to the inn, right?But it's like a mud cow entering the sea, which makes people have to have doubts about Xichen Tea House.

……

The moonlight shone on the bed through the window lattice, and Sun Xiaokong was already asleep with Gui Xiaobao in his arms.

Gu Buquan tossed and turned unable to fall asleep.

So she put on her clothes and went out, standing in front of the medicine garden.

The Shang Shu Tang was sealed off, Da Tou Chen and the others had scattered to find other ways to make a living, the medicine garden was becoming more and more deserted, and the flower house had been smashed to pieces. It was a pity that those few plants of cardinal coral were uprooted and the red flowers fell to pieces.

Gu Buquan can't help but feel that things are right and people are wrong.

By moonlight, she replanted the cardinal coral into the soil.

Behind her, a dark figure approached her little by little.

"Are you always like this, are you used to hiding in the dark and spying on the world?" She didn't stop, she didn't even look back.

The visitor stopped.

"Are you always like this, seeing everything about me without looking back?" He asked, "Your sense of smell and hearing are always so sensitive."

She smiled.

"Maybe my sense of smell and hearing are better than ordinary people, but for you, I never rely on these, but the feeling of my heart. Wherever you are, that feeling is like a shadow. Where I stand, the shadow is there."

Under the moonlight, he looked puzzled.

"You don't understand, and you don't need to understand," she said. "You are not a fool, and you don't need to understand."

Ever since he forgot everything about him and her, she never called him an idiot again. Now, how does this person beside her understand the tacit understanding between her and the idiot?

"I don't understand, so I'll listen to you," he said.

"What do you want to hear?" she asked.

"Maple Leaf Town, and everything after that."

Gu Buquan raised his head to look at him, and said with a smile, "Didn't Hua Yingling tell you everything?"

He shook his head, "I want to know the difference."

"She said that I was rescued at the seaside when I was lifeless, but she didn't know how to probe, pinch and listen. She said that she would join hands with me to solve the case of Liming Qianzhuang, but she couldn't explain how to make that Zhang Dashan show his true form. Yes. She said that she worked with me to solve the Qingzhou prefecture’s face-changing case and saved you, who was ignorant and changed your face, but I couldn’t see it. You are a girl who is willing to spend 5000 taels of silver to change your face. She said that you will do it for me Luoyanpo, but the person with the knee injury is obviously you. I can't feel the truth of everything she said."

He looked at her face by the moonlight, and continued, "So, I want to know, what kind of position do you occupy in my blank space? What kind of person is the fool you keep talking about?" ?”

Gu Buquan said: "Since it is blank, there is no need to remember it. I can only tell you that it was Hua Rattle who gave you a bowl of rice in Maple Leaf Town, and it was Hua Rattle who gave her life to save you in Luoyanpo. This is Really, she didn't lie to you."

"As for the idiot," she laughed, "he is a special person who talks less but does a lot. He is tired of talking but not tired of working."

"Special person?" He was stunned for a moment, and asked in a low voice, "Is it the special person in your heart? Does he treat you the same?"

Gu Buquan's hands trembled suddenly, and a puddle of dirt scattered in all directions.

Ling An was still asking: "You left because I wasn't the idiot you liked, right?"

He didn't wait for a long time for an answer, so he had to talk about him from left to right.

"The cardinal coral is originally a Western species, and it is not easy to grow in the Central Plains, not to mention that these corals have long been scattered."

She finally regained her senses and replied: "It is true that cardinal coral is not easy to survive, but as long as it is rooted in the soil, there is a glimmer of life. It is better than floating in the world to have a glimmer of hope. Just like people, there is hope." , there is a way out."

"Yeah. I understand." He smiled, and knelt down to help her compact the cardinal coral. It seems that he is still a good hand at work.

"By the way, I have something for you."

She took the silver medal and handed it to Ling An.

"This is what you left behind when you first arrived in Maple Leaf Town. I have no intention of keeping it, just because it is real silver." She said honestly.

"I don't know whether I should call you General Ling, or what happened between you and Jingzhao Shenhunsi, but I should return what belongs to you."

He stared at the word "Ling An" on the silver medal for a long time, but he didn't take the silver medal.

"I want to ask, those three hundred coffins..."

She immediately interrupted him, "As I said, three hundred coffins will be spared. The idiot is a good coffin-beater, but you are not."

She thought for a while, and then said, "You can pay me back the silver. After all, for General Ling, it shouldn't be difficult to get out a few hundred taels of silver. Two hundred, no, three hundred taels of silver would do. This number."

Hmm, why is it a bit like taking the opportunity to blackmail?

After a long time, when she turned around, he had quietly left.

Eh!
She sighed, what a General Ling, who came to talk nonsense in the middle of the night, and when it came to repaying the money, he slipped on the soles of his feet faster than a rabbit, which made people angry.

After sighing, he realized that the silver medal was still in his hand. Did he plan to take it?

After tossing and tossing for half a night, sleepiness hit me, and I was going back to the house to sleep, but saw another black shadow looming in front of the window.

"I thought this Shangshutang should be quiet after being sealed, but I don't want to let people go to sleep well?"

Gu Buquan got up slowly, and said to the window, "Hua Jingling, what's your business if you visit late at night?"

Hua Rattle was not polite either, she directly put a hand in from the window and said, "I want that piece of cloth."

The piece of cloth that was torn from Ling An's body earlier was discarded like a shoe with a rattle bell, but unexpectedly, it has become a sweet pastry today, and he even went to the deserted Shangshutang at night to ask for it.

"Good to say."

Gu Buquan didn't say anything else, he threw the piece of cloth to the flower rattle, turned around and picked up the sleeping Sun Xiaokong from the bed and loudly reprimanded him.

"Sun Xiaokong, I tell you to lock the door, but you don't listen, any cat or dog can come in!"

Anyone can come in, and the government will find out soon, and she will be kicked out to sleep on the street.

Sun Xiaokong squeaked, as if to justify himself, ran out and pushed the flower rattle out of the door, closed the door with a bang and locked it tightly, and then scratched his head and limbs in favor of Gu Buquan.

Hua Yaoling stood outside the door with her hips on her hips and scolded the street, because she was afraid of attracting onlookers, Gu Buquan didn't dare to scold her, so she sighed to herself.

In the past, she could kick a fool a few times, but now she can only vent her anger on Sun Xiaokong.

When I left Maple Leaf Town, I never thought that I would end up in such a field, I was so aggrieved.

"Master, where are you?"

Looking at the cold moon above her head, her thoughts began to flood.

Little did they know, it wasn't just the moon that looked down on her, but also the shadowy man in black.

(End of this chapter)