I'm a detective for Dongchang

Chapter 2 Something Happened

The scorching sun and the flooding heat waves in summer always make people sleepy, hot and stuffy.

In the yard, only flower farmer Chen Bo and his son named Er Pang were playing with the bushes a little far away.The two kept wiping their foreheads, waved the flower scissors lazily, and looked at the masters here from time to time.The maids and wives were all waiting in the corridor or at the gate of the courtyard, they didn't know what they were talking about, and they carefully explored the hall, for fear that if they were not focused, they would miss important parts.

Lu Xizhi was sleepy, tossing and turning last night had trouble falling asleep, barely squinted at five o'clock, and stayed on the bed for breakfast, unwilling to get up.

At this moment, tiny beads of sweat had accumulated on her smooth and snowy forehead, and she silently counted the clothes and accessories on her body, plus the hair accessories on her head, which made her even more restless, fantasizing about letting Chunxiang fan her to loosen her hair. To dissipate the heat, she wanted the father who was admonishing others to shut up and go out quickly, and then took Chunxiang with them, and the two of them went to the cave in the back mountain to enjoy the cool and escape the heat.

"You're getting bolder, and now you don't even listen to what your father says." This coquettish reprimand finally made Lu Xizhi slightly raise her head to look at her concubine sister Lu Xiruo who was sitting opposite.

In fact, Lu Xizhi has a good impression of this sister. This kind of affection comes from the fact that Lu Xiruo is very similar to her modern friend Zhang Ruo. They both have a soft and waxy female voice like Huang Ying, a woman from the south of the Yangtze River. Even when they are angry, they seem to be acting like a baby.Lu Xizhi couldn't help teasing her, and then watched her blushing and then get angry.

"What are you staring at me for? Don't you still want to take medicine to fascinate me too?" Lu Xiruo's bewildered eyes looked sideways at this moment.

Yo, angry.

"Sister, you can't wrong my sister like this. I obediently embroidered women's red at home yesterday, and I didn't go out of the gate of the Zhaixing Building. If you don't believe me, you can ask Mother Chen. She is an old man in the family, so you can't lie to me." " Lu Xizhi straightened his back and straightened his face again, and replied calmly.

Outside the hall, Chen's mother suddenly became excited and sighed. The more the third lady talked nonsense, the more serious she became. Is this good or not?

"Hmph! I think you are going to rebel." A man in his 40s slapped the tea table hard, and almost everyone was shocked, and looked at the head of the family - Lu Zhonglian, a member of the household department. .

"This home belongs to you, and you can't worry about it since you were a child. I didn't expect you to have any strengths. I thought you were just young and playful. If you don't study well, I won't force you to go. Let you embroider girls at home." The red general is not an idiot when he comes to his in-law's house, you are good, come here, come and tell me, what is this thing?" Lu Zhonglian seemed to be furious, and he took out a piece of cloth from behind and shook it twice vigorously.

Someone got up, Lu Xiruo took two quick steps, took the wrinkled-looking cloth from his father, frowned, looked at Lu Xizhi suspiciously, and showed the cloth to everyone.

Aunt Wang, who was fanning all the time and kept silent, rolled her eyes, looked at Lu Xizhi uncertainly in Wu Nong's soft language like Lu Xiruo, and said, "Is it a cat?"

"Auntie, this looks like a rabbit without ears, its eyes are so big." Lu Xiruo looked back at his biological mother, Auntie Wang.

At this time, a woman in a fiery red shirt at the far end came over, took the fabric from Lu Xiruo's hand, and took a closer look: "Zhi Zhi, you belong to the tiger, isn't this a tiger? Why is it embroidered in blue?" "The one who spoke was Aunt Zheng, Lu Xizhi's biological mother.

Lu Xizhi shook his head, then turned his head to look at the mistress sitting in the seat, Lu Zhonglian's first wife, Li Wenjun, the daughter of the official servant, and asked her with his eyes: "Do you want to see it?"

Li Wenjun somewhat hated that iron could not be made into steel. Seeing Lu Xizhi frowning, he was about to explode after a few breaths, when the young man standing beside him lightly pressed his mother's shoulder: "Mother, don't be impatient, listen to Xizhi. Say it yourself."

It's still this gentle elder brother who speaks like a spring breeze, like a clear spring in the scorching summer, refreshing the heart.

Lu Xizhi said happily to the elder brother, "Brother, this is a robot cat."

Everyone hesitated for a moment, only Aunt Wang relaxed her shoulders: "Look, I'll just say it's a cat."

"What kind of cat is the doraemon? Why is it blue?" Aunt Zheng asked.

"The blue is its outer shell, and the round one on its stomach is a pocket, a magical pocket, which contains all kinds of things you want. It's a treasure bag." Lu Xizhi pointed to them, and smiled at everyone. explain.

As soon as he finished speaking, he felt a murderous aura coming towards him, and before Lu Xizhi could react, he heard a roar: "You bastard, you have learned to talk nonsense now, see if I don't punish you today, I, I, I will It's not Lu!" Lu Zhonglian quickly picked up a feather duster beside the screen.

A maid named Bai Lu outside the door thought inwardly that it was a duster that I just tied up this morning, and it was strong!
Lu Zhonglian raised the duster and was about to sweep Lu Xizhi's body, Aunt Wang and Aunt Zheng immediately grabbed Lu Zhonglian's hand one by one after recovering, while Lu Xiruo knelt down and pulled her father's leg, the pink skirt instantly rubbed off Ashes, the headdresses of the two aunts were rattled, Aunt Zheng's flower hairpin fell to the ground, Aunt Wang's lip balm was rubbed against Lu Zhonglian's cuff, and the corners of his own mouth were scratched.As the eldest brother, Lu Ziyi had stood in front of Lu Xizhi when his father was holding the duster, with his arms spread out like an eagle guarding a chick, ready to fly at any time.

As for the person involved, Lu Xizhi looked at her father with big eyes and bright eyes, "Father, it's true!"

"Don't stop me, let me beat her to death!!" Lu Zhonglian pushed forward even harder, and the aunts on both sides couldn't stop her. When the eldest son thought that he would be unfilial and confront his father today, the mistress Li Wenjun lifted Lu Xizhi's collar She flicked it out: "I'll settle the score with you another day. The matter of discussing marriage with the Liao family is a firm deal, and no tricks will work." After finishing speaking, she asked the nanny to forcefully close the hall door.

Lu Xizhi staggered a few times, but thanks to Chunxiang's sharp eyes and hands, she quickly supported her lower back and didn't hit the ground.

"Mother is really strong, she deserves to be Lao Shangshu's niece." Lu Xizhi did not forget to flatter the door.

"Get lost!" Li Wenjun was no longer polite.

"Girl, let's go, this door won't last long." Chunxiang was so anxious that she dragged her young lady to run.

"Father, Doraemon has a younger sister named Doraemon, and that treasure bag is even better than her brother's!!!" Lu Xizhi yelled again fearlessly while withdrawing.

As soon as the words fell, I heard a click from behind. This is, the door~ cracked.

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The two snorted and evaded the servants, rushed out of the house and ran to the Weixiang Building two blocks away before stopping panting heavily.

"Chunxiang, how much money do you have?" Lu Xizhi asked out of breath while leaning on the wall.

"Miss, I only have one or two taels of silver left, you can't do that anymore." Chunxiang put her hands on her waist, fearing that she would be coaxed away by the girl in front of her again.

"Look at how stingy you are, my miss, am I such a spoiled person, can I still reach out and snatch it?" He said so, but he looked at the small pouch on Chunxiang's waist with a good look.

The poor little girl took a step back, Lu Xizhi clicked her tongue, Wei Xianglou only cost more than one tael of silver for a drunk goose, if she went like this, she would really be kicked out, that's all.

"Let's not visit Weixiang Building today, but go find Yu Niang." Lu Xizhi walked forward after finishing speaking.

Yu Niang is the proprietress of the clothing store "Xiansilou", and she is also the first good friend she made here. She is a good girlfriend in modern times. They have a common hobby, which is eating!A delicious meal at Weixianglou will make the two of them "know each other without fighting", and they will find that they smell like each other, especially after learning about Yu Niang's identity, Lu Xizhi also helped her out with some fashionable clothes, earning her a lot of money .

Walking through two streets, you will arrive at Yanzi Lane. The two-story building with exquisite decoration is in front of you. There are two pots of camellias in beautiful colors at the entrance of the store. These are gifts from Lu Xizhi to Yu Niang. Greeting ceremony.

"Yu Niang, Yu Niang..." Lu Xizhi greeted the two little maids in the store, and started the mode of finding people all over the room.

"Oh, it's always so hot, and I'm not your little lover. I can't stand being so affectionate every time." Yu Niang's slightly narrowed voice came from the kitchen.

Lu Xizhi trotted to the kitchen and lifted the curtain: "Listen quickly, what kind of tiger and wolf words are these, for lovers and lovers, so shameless..."

"As soon as I got out of the kitchen, your dog's nose smelled it?"

"That's right, it smells so good!"

"Okay, you little mouth. I'm also planning to let the golden thread come to you, go out and sit." Yu Niang said with a smile, she could see that she was in a good mood.

Lu Xizhi hurriedly asked Chunxiang to clean up the dining table, holding her little face with her hands and looking forward to it.

"Miss, do you really want to spend time like this with the master? We can't run away every time. I heard from Nanny Chen that the Liao family has sent people to the mansion many times."

"I haven't even seen what that Liao looks like, what are you talking about, what are you kissing."

Chunxiang is not surprised to see her attitude now. The young lady seems to have changed her temperament since she suffered a serious illness a few months ago. It turns out that the young lady is just playful, but she never contradicts the master and wife in major matters, and her marriage with the Liao family He also knew it well, so he waited until this year and Jiji to get engaged.But after the young lady recovered from her illness, she refused to live or die, and even used a hunger strike to resist.Yesterday, in order to avoid the matchmaker who came to discuss the marriage, I didn't know what to do, and ran out without anyone noticing.The old man was so angry that today he really wanted to hold her at home and wait for the matchmaker to come, but there was such a commotion.

"Hmm~ It smells so good."

The golden thread and the silver thread were also overjoyed to see Lu Xizhi's eager little face. This third lady from Yuanwailang's family was cute and charming, which was very different from the official ladies nowadays.

"I knew you would like it, gold thread and silver thread, go and bring out the fried dough sticks and pancakes."

Lu Xizhi took the soy milk that Yu Niang handed over, and couldn't wait to take a big sip. It really had a very strong soy flavor, and it lingered on the lips and teeth. Coupled with the golden fried dough sticks, this meal greatly satisfied the whole body.

At the same time, in the alley behind Xiansi Building, a ragged old woman with a stooped back was rummaging through the garbage dumps, trying to find some scraps to fill her stomach. When she reached the end of the alley, she planned to turn back, but was An oil-paper umbrella attracted them.

I looked around and found that there was no one there. I muttered "Finally not empty-handed", just picked up the paper umbrella, and glanced at it.

"Ah!!! Dead!"

　The first story is of course lighter in taste.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)