Value peace

Chapter 128 Returning to the mountains and turning to the sea ([-])

Mrs. Xu and Qi Yuzhi sat for a while and left, while Gu Xiyan and Liu Meier stayed until dusk.

When they left the Xianji courtyard, they saw a group of people in red and green walking in the verandah opposite from a distance.Everyone was hugging a girl in white fur coat, and the girl was holding a child in her arms, but the child's face was hidden in the woman's white coat, so I couldn't see clearly.The girl walked forward with the child in her arms, and a nun-like person beside her seemed to sense the gazes of Gu Xiyan and Liu Meier, and gave them a cold look with a haughty expression.

The maid who sent Gu Xiyan and Duan Ying out explained in a low voice: "That's Zhenniang and the others, and they brought the third girl to pay their respects to Madam."

Qi Hongluan?
Gu Xiyan couldn't help but take another look.

Zhenniang was holding Qi Hongluan around the corner, and her eyes met with Gu Xiyan's.

Gu Xiyan was slightly taken aback.

Zhenniang's eyes are very dark and bright, and when they turn slightly, they are smart and charming, as if they can talk.

The other party was also slightly startled.

Across the tangled plum tree in the atrium, a beautiful girl with an unfamiliar face glanced past her.

She is of medium height, wearing a dark green cloak embroidered with pink hibiscus flowers, against which her skin is as fair and delicate as snow snow, her eyes are shining brightly like jewels, her expression is very quiet, giving people A sweet feeling.

In a split second, the girl turned her head and left side by side with her companions.

Zhenniang also turned the corner and stepped onto another corridor.

The New Year's Eve is the time when the female relatives of the Qi Mansion come and go most intensively. For some reason, Zhenniang remembers that girl.

After inviting Mrs. Xu to go back to Qiaoyuan, Qi Hongluan was put to rest, and she called Jin Nanny who was always walking around the inner courtyard frequently: "I saw a girl on the corridor of Yingxiang Pavilion today. The little girl has a strange face, she looks like fifteen or sixteen years old, her skin is very fair, her eyes are very bright, she is very beautiful...I don’t know which relative she is from!”

Nanny Jin laughed and said, "I heard from Nanny Yu from Yingxiang Pavilion that the two girls from Huaiyuan visited Miss Wei this afternoon, and they stayed in Yingxiang Pavilion all afternoon. It was when you took the third girl to greet Mrs. Xu, you probably met the two of them. Miss Liu is older, she is eighteen this year, and the one you mentioned is only fifteen or six years old , it must be Miss Gu!"

"Miss Gu?" Zhenniang was pondering, her nimble eyes shining a little dazzlingly, "Is it for Miss Wei, the Miss Gu who knelt in Huai Garden all night at New Year's Eve?"

Nanny Jin smiled and nodded: "That's her. It's Mrs. Wei's cousin and niece. She said that her parents and uncle are gone, so she had to come to seek refuge with Mrs. Wei. I heard that people are very well-behaved, and they don't usually walk around casually." , not much to say..."

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Gu Xiyan and Liu Meier left the Xianji courtyard, walked side by side silently along the long Qingshi alley towards the south, and entered the gate of Gongshun courtyard, a little girl aged eleven or twelve suddenly jumped from behind the wall shadow out.

"Which one is Miss Gu?"

Gu Xiyan said in surprise: "I am Miss Gu, which courtyard does the little girl belong to? What can I do for you?"

The child smiled shyly, and said: "I am Lian'er who is waiting by Madam Wang's side. Madam Wang asked me to wait for the girl here and pass a message to her!"

Doubt flashed in Gu Xiyan's eyes.

When did Wang Momo take the maid by her side?What else do you need to find her?

But Lian'er seemed to know what she was thinking, and said: "I used to pick vegetables in Juzhengshang. Madam Wang went here this time, and saw that I was smart, so she wanted to come here. I only arrived in Huaiyuan in the second year of junior high school." ... She said that today, when the nuns gather for dinner, each of them will show off their skills, so let the girl go there no matter what time she has, and join in the fun!"

Gu Xiyan asked Duan Yingluo with her eyes.

Duan Yingluo said: "Nurse Wang is still in Shangzheng Bureau. She said she won't come back to Huaiyuan until after the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month..."

Gu Xiyan was still hesitating whether to go or not, but Liu Meier hurriedly took Gu Xiyan's hand like a frightened bird: "I'll go with you."

Although Gu Xiyan felt that she was making a fuss out of a molehill, when she thought about what happened in Dexin Courtyard, she was afraid that there was something strange about it, which would bring her down.Moreover, when Nanny Wang suddenly invited her at such a sensitive time, Gu Xiyan also became wary in her heart.She thought for a while, and said to Lian'er: "I want to go too, but it's only right to report this matter to Mrs. Wei!"

That little girl might be someone who didn't know anything about it, maybe Gu Xiyan was overwhelmed by this matter, Lian Er said: "If that's the case, then I'll wait for the girl here!"

Gu Xiyan and Liu Meier didn't hesitate, and went to ask Mrs. Wei for instructions. Mrs. Wei looked at Gu Xiyan, with a half-smile flashing across her face, and said, "Go, don't come back in a hurry, it's good to be there." Fun meeting!"

Gu Xiyan didn't expect that she would agree, and she agreed so readily, she was a little surprised.

Liu Meier said from the side: "Auntie, I will go with Sister Gu!"

Mrs. Wei said: "Today the Mrs. Tai of Cui Mansion of Jiufeng will come to pay my New Year's greetings. Don't you have a few drinks? Come with me to accompany the guests and have a few drinks with Mrs. Cui."

That's the point of the story, whether it's a tiger's den or a wolf's den, it's always going to be there.

Gu Xiyan took Duan Yingluo out the door.

The two followed Lian Er out of Gongshun Yuan, but Lian Er led them into Xianji Yuan.

Gu Xiyan couldn't help being surprised: "Where is this going?"

After Mrs. Wei's incident, Duan Yingluo no longer had the arrogance of holding skills in the past. Hearing Gu Xiyan's words, she quietly touched her waist, and her scarlet scarf wrapped around her. over there.

Lian'er has pretty features and innocent smile: "The nuns serve wine in the small kitchen in the outer courtyard, this is a shortcut."

Gu Xiyan and Duan Yingluo exchanged careful glances, and then followed Lian Er uneasily forward.

Lian Er led them into the Hanging Flower Gate of Xianji Courtyard.

Maybe it was because at dusk, when it was time to eat, there was no one in the small space formed by the hanging flower door and the wall shadow. Lian Er looked around, took a bunch of keys from her belt, and opened a corner door.

Gu Xiyan was slightly taken aback.

The corner door was so ingeniously made that if you didn't look carefully, you might think it was a decorative wall panel.

Behind the corner gate is a straight alley facing south. The alley is less than one meter wide and tens of meters long. There are high powder walls on both sides, and the soles of the feet are slippery bluestone slabs, making it cramped and stuffy.

Gu Xiyan couldn't help stretching out her hand to pull Duan Yingluo.

Duan Yingluo also grabbed Gu Xiyan back.

Lian'er turned sideways to let them in, then closed the door, and led the way forward.

The two held hands one after the other and followed Lian Er cautiously as they walked forward.

At the end of the alley, there was another small corner door. Lian'er opened the corner door with a key, turned sideways to let Gu and Duan in, and then closed the corner door.

Behind the corner door is another door with hanging flowers.The main door of this hanging flower door is tightly closed, and the corner door also looks like a decorative wall panel.Lian'er used the key again to open a small corner door directly opposite them, and inside was a long alley, this time, the end of the alley was a high wall.

Lian'er led them for more than half the distance, and a corner door was opened beside the alley, Lian'er opened the corner door with a key, and led them in.

Behind the corner door, there is another corner door, and a second corner door is opened, leading to an open corridor.

As soon as the three of them boarded Youlang, Siping's eagerly awaited figure appeared on the front eaves of Changsha.

As soon as he saw Gu Xiyan, he ran over immediately, and said anxiously: "Oh, my girl, why are you here at this time, quick, quick, quick, come with me!"

Siping, waiting for her!

Could it be...Maosheng...

Gu Xiyan's heart was beating wildly, her face was flushed, she coughed and said: "What, what is it, what are you waiting for me?"

Siping circled her, looking like he wanted to pull her but didn't dare to pull her, and said anxiously: "Grandma, I've been waiting for you all afternoon!"

"Qi Maosheng, Qi Maosheng is back!" Gu Xiyan's eyes lit up.

She had a faint hope in her heart, but now that it was confirmed, she couldn't believe it.

Siping nodded hastily, and hurriedly led the way: "Miss Gu, come with me quickly."

Gu Xiyan only felt that her legs were weak, and she gathered herself together before walking inwards with Siping.

Behind the open mansion is a rather large courtyard, with thick towering trees on one side and a fish tank on a flower shelf on the other. The corridor paved with white jade leads directly to five double-eaved houses, like all northern buildings, with red pillars and red pillars. The windows are blue bricks and gray bricks. You can only feel the fineness of this house when you walk past it.

The room in the Ming room is the living room, but in front of the front wall stands an eight-leaf pear-blossom wood screw four-season screen. In front of the screen is a mountain-shaped Arhat bed. There are sixteen pear wood grand master chairs symmetrically placed in a row, and a tea table is placed between the chairs.

Siping took her directly into the dark room in the east.

That's a bedroom.The falling flower cover of Deng Que Deng Mei divides it into two parts, the front facing the window is the Kang, the front of the Kang is a corner door, beside the corner door is a multi-bag grid, next to the falling flower cover is a blue woolen curtain, and in the middle of the curtain is an embroidered The gauze screen with the juvenile chicken peonies, through the blank space of the screen, the eight-step bed facing the wall behind it can be faintly seen, and a figure in white satin is lying on the silver-red quilt.

There is no charcoal in the house, but it feels warm like spring.

The temperature difference between inside and outside was too big, Gu Xiyan felt that it was a little difficult to breathe as soon as she entered, so she hurriedly took off her coat.

Duan Yingluo took the lead for her, and Siping explained in a low voice: "Girl, I usually don't use firewalls, because I am afraid that the girl will freeze, so I specially ordered to light it up. If the girl feels hot... ..."

"No need," Gu Xiyan said in a low voice.This kind of private meeting is better to be hidden.Eating, drinking, and messing around is inseparable from the servants, and it is generally difficult to escape the eyes of human beings, just like things in the company rarely escape the eyes of the cleaning staff. Reasons to start with the kitchen.

Qi Maosheng must have made a lot of arrangements for this meeting, why bother to cause any trouble because of a firewall.

After hearing this, Siping gave Duan Yingluo a wink, Duan Yingluo smiled and walked out with him lightly.

Gu Xiyan hesitated for a while before tiptoeing around the screen.

It was really Qi Maosheng.

It may be that the temperature in the room was too high, he was only wearing a moon-white thin satin dress, and fell asleep lying on his side with his arms pillowed and bent over, with a book with messy title pages beside him.

I think it was too boring while waiting for her, I fell asleep after reading a book!
(End of this chapter)