Peach Blossom at the Bottom of the Fan

Chapter 118 Chess Pieces
Gu Sixiao didn't really like listening to operas, but when the gongs and drums sounded on the stage, she sat up straight. For the first time, she stared at every actor on stage so seriously.

That, the one who sings the face, naturally can't be, is that the samurai?He was born with a handsome appearance, and he can be seen to be heroic even when painted with oil paint. Could it be him? !
Hearing the elongated singing voice, Gu Sixiao glanced at it, lowered his head, took a sip of tea, then raised his head suddenly, within a glance, he suddenly choked, and coughed violently while holding the teacup.

At this time, it was a Wudan who appeared on the stage, with thick colors and heavy ink, outlined a good face, almond eyes, eyebrows, plump lips, no matter how you look at it, she is a charming little lady, but Gu Sixiao is looking at the second He recognized it as a man immediately.Moreover, it was a man she knew.

Samui? !If she read correctly, it was Su Mei.Although he didn't have much contact with Su Mei on the way from Songjiang Mansion to Jinan, he never misunderstood someone.

The three attendants around Su Jingchun, Song Zhumei, refer to the three friends of Suihan. Su Zhu often follows Su Jingchun, doing personal errands. Su is in charge of chores, more like managing affairs, but this Su Mei is the most mysterious. She has never known what he is in charge of, and he is not often seen.

"Sister Gu, are you okay?" He Yue turned her head, looked at Gu Sixiao, very close, and reached out to shake her hand.

Gu Sixiao hesitated for a while, but didn't hold back her hand, and let her hold it like that, "This Wudan sings well, but I don't know which famous actor it is."

Tilting her head, He Yue thought about it, but before she could speak, Lin Mo Niang said calmly: "This is not considered a role, I have never heard of the name of Wu Dan before, just now I heard from the troupe owner that this is his elder brother His disciple came to Jinan from other places. His name is An Yuting."

"An Yuting?!" It wasn't Su Mei, but she would never be wrong about those eyebrows.

Suppressing her suspicions, Gu Sixiao just smiled.In fact, she didn't listen to what was being sung on the stage at all, but was only thinking about what Su Mei would do.

As she was thinking to herself, she suddenly felt that her sleeves were pulled down. She turned her head and met Lin Mo Niang's eyes. She nodded knowingly, and after Lin Mo Niang got up, she got up and followed out.

Signaling that the girl who came to wait on her does not need to follow, Lin Mo Niang dragged Gu Sixiao to the empty waterside pavilion, but just sat there and did not speak for a long time.

Gu Sixiao didn't ask too many questions, but just sat with her. From a distance, she could hear the music, and it seemed that the waterside pavilion was extremely quiet.

"Hua'er." Turning her head, looking at Gu Sixiao, Lin Mo Niang's gaze was like autumn water, "If I beg you to help me, will you help me?"

"Help for what?" Gu Sixiao frowned, feeling uneasy, "Sister Mo Niang, the little girl is soft-spoken, and she has just arrived in Jinan, so I don't know how I can help my sister."

Hearing what she said, Lin Mo Niang looked sad, "My sister won't help me either, I—probably really have no way out..."

"What is this talking about? If my sister has any difficulties, just tell me, how can Mrs. Lin not help you?"

"I can't let my mother know about this. If it gets out, I'm afraid I'll lose face."

As soon as Lin Mo Niang finished speaking, Gu Sixiao became even more suspicious. After a moment of hesitation, she almost tried to persuade Lin Mo Niang not to do stupid things.

Since ancient times, runners have been hired as concubines as wives. If Lin Moniang had an affair with someone and eloped because she didn't want to marry into the Hou's mansion, her life would really be ruined!

But before she made a sound, Lin Mo Niang had already held her hand, and said in a deep voice: "To be honest, I heard a message from a handkerchief friend in Beijing, saying that it was that person... who will come to Jinan in a few days , I was wondering if you could find a chance to help me see what kind of person he is."

"That person?" Gu Sixiao was slightly startled at first, but immediately realized it.

Looking at Lin Mo Niang, she laughed and joked, "Sister, I don't understand, who is that person? And who is he?"

Lin Mo Niang was thin-skinned, she immediately blushed when she asked her, turned around, and said, "I, I just want to know if he is good or bad..."

It's not easy to tease her too much, Gu Sixiao smiled and hugged her shoulders, "Okay, I won't tease you anymore, since my sister begged me, then I will definitely help my sister when the time comes, but, that one If you come from a wealthy family, how could you easily let someone get close to you if you come to Jinan?"

Hearing Gu Sixiao's promise, Lin Mo Niang also smiled, "Don't worry about this, when the time comes, you just say that you are a girl from my house, and you are ordered by the mistress to deliver things..."

The voice paused, and she pulled Gu Sixiao's hand apologetically, "I'm going to make my sister feel wronged, but I can't go to see people with my own eyes. I can ask my sister to take a look at him, if he is a good one, I feel at ease..."

Gu Sixiao nodded, "Sister, don't think so much—ah, it's better not to worry about these things, I'd better go back to the official's house for a drink, I really don't know what the magistrate's house looks like!"

"Didn't you say you sent Sister Yue back last time?"

"What's the same? The one who came back in a dark place was only in a hurry to send Yue'er home, and didn't even bother to look at it. Besides, Mrs. He was still there at that time. How dare I look around!"

"Actually, it's just a back house. This one is different from the front mansion..." Lin Mo Niang laughed and joked, but she still turned around and called the girl to invite He Yue over.

With the little master leading the way, it's a breeze to visit the mansion's back house.

In terms of area, the back house of this mansion is not as good as Lin's mansion. Although there is a garden with lush leaves and blooming flowers, Gu Sixiao didn't have the heart to look at it carefully.

First sat in He Yue's room and talked for a while, then went to the main courtyard with an excuse.

"I heard you said last time that Madam also has an excellent portrait. I don't know if I can still see it now? I just don't know if it's the beautiful moon that I painted, or Madam He's beauty..."

Gu Sixiao asked casually. Seeing that He Yue was aroused, she covered her lips and smiled: "Look at what I said, no matter if it's Madam or Yue'er, they are naturally the most beautiful. But, which one is the painter or me?" Painters are better."

"This painter——I think my sister is better at painting!" He Yue turned her head, "I don't remember who painted it, but no matter who it is, it must be inferior to my sister."

"It's hard to say..."

"I'm not wrong, otherwise, my sister will look at the painting by herself - I will find it now and show it to my sisters..."

He Yue straightened her chest and led the two of them directly to the main courtyard.

Before the servant girl could stop her, Lin Mo Niang was already in a hurry, "Sister Yue..."

"Sister, I'm really curious! Isn't my sister curious? That—the painter, how is the painting?"

Gu Sixiao smiled and held Lin Moniang's hand. Although her tone was the same as usual, she deliberately bit down on the word "that".

Raising her head and meeting Gu Sixiao's smiling face, Lin Mo Niang suddenly disappeared.

She wanted to ask Gu Sixiao, even if she felt that it was inappropriate, she couldn't stop her.

In the main courtyard, only a little girl was left looking at the courtyard, and when she saw He Yue bringing someone over, she didn't dare to stop her, but said timidly: "Little lady, what are you going to do? The lady doesn't like other people entering her The room's..."

"Yue'er, forget it, don't get you punished."

Seeing He Yue's hesitation, Gu Sixiao turned around and was about to leave.

However, He Yue got angry, grabbed her, and stared at the girl away, "I'm going into my mother's room, when will I be stopped by you?"

Pulling Gu Sixiao into the room, she turned to greet Lin Mo Niang again.

Lin Mo Niang hesitated, but finally smiled and shook her hand, and didn't enter the house.

Gu Sixiao didn't bother to call her, and watched He Yue rummaging through the box to find the painting that was said to be put away, but she turned her eyes around to look around.

Mrs. He's room is nothing special, it's just an ordinary woman's room.It's just that there are two landscape paintings hanging in the hall, and two jade carvings are placed on Duobaoge, which is quite elegant.

Open the bead curtain, there is nothing special in the room, but there is a golden face on the dressing table, it is Xue Ji's new one, and I know it should be Xue Ji's filial piety.

Hanging down the curtain, Gu Sixiao turned her head and said: "Yue'er, maybe that painting is not here, let's go out! I think, this Dafan painting and calligraphy is still in the study..."

"Ah, I see!" He Yue slapped her hands, pulled Gu Sixiao up, and rushed out.

Lin Mo Niang yelled and ran after her, but she was already behind.

I don't know if he ran too fast or was panicked, but Gu Sixiao's heart was beating very fast, until he was pulled into the study, it was still beating wildly.

This is the back study of He Zhifu, right?From the furnishings, one could tell that it was a man's study room. On the bookshelf beside it, there were not only books but also classics and documents. It was obvious that the prefect He had brought the documents back to the back house.

He Yue grabbed the bottles and cans in the corner, and took out a picture to look at, but Gu Sixiao groped to the desk in a hurry.

With a glance, the first thing he saw was that there were words on the paper placed on the desk, and when he looked closely, there was an erotic poem recorded on the paper, which was extremely explicit and extremely evocative.

Unexpectedly, the sanctimonious He Zhifu was actually a lustful and hungry ghost who pretended to be romantic.

Gu Sixiao frowned, flipped through it a few times, but didn't see any other writing paper, and went to flip through the classics and documents on the shelf again, but suddenly heard footsteps coming from outside.

Panicked, she touched a few books on the table and brushed them on the ground.

At this time, the person who came had already entered the study room, and when he entered the study room, he saw the mess all over the place and shouted: "Yue'er, what are you doing?"

"Daddy, I'm looking for a painting! I want to show that painting to Sister Gu!" He Yue didn't panic, and jumped up to pull He Zhifu.

Gu Sixiao also took advantage of the situation and leaned down, "My lord, it's not good to be a commoner girl..."

Tilting his head, he had already recognized Gu Sixiao. Although he was unhappy, Zhifu He still smiled and said: "What does it have to do with the little lady? It's because Yue'er is too nonsense——Yue'er, Miss Gu is your benefactor, you It's not good to entertain her, and drag her around like this, how decent, why don't you bring Miss Gu back to the garden to play."

While talking, he turned around to ask someone to clean up the study, but Gu Sixiao had already squatted down, "Minister, come and clean up..."

"How can this make..." Zhifu He stopped, but he couldn't really reach out to stop him, so he could only wink at He Yue, signaling that she would help too.

He Yue was spoiled and raised, so she didn't react at all at this moment.

When the two father and daughter were arguing about their eyebrows and eyes, Gu Sixiao had already cleaned up the scattered calligraphy and paintings, and even put the stack of books on the bookshelf.

"My lord, the girl is resigning..." She saluted with a smile, Gu Sixiao took He Yue's arm and turned to go out, walking far away, still talking and laughing in a low voice.

He Zhifu brushed his beard and shook his head, "Really, she is indeed a merchant woman who has never seen the big world..."

While talking, his complexion suddenly changed, and he walked around to the desk, seeing that the piece of paper on which the pornographic poems were recorded was still put away, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"Shouldn't you have seen it? Really, well, why did you come to the study to play..."

(End of this chapter)