Value peace

Chapter 28

Deacon Ding looked in the direction of Master Gu's finger, and there was a dark shadow in the corner of the dimly lit room, from where the liquid slowly flowed out and condensed into a black patch.

Deacon Ding's pupils shrank involuntarily.

Tree fragrance, it turned out to be tree fragrance!

His body was distorted abnormally, and his once flushed face was ashen. He didn't need to step forward to test his breath to know that this person was out of breath.

Such a docile person, Shu Xiang who only knows how to cry when being bullied.

He forced himself to cheer up and said with a smile, "Master..."

"Don't say anything!" Master Gu pointed to Shuxiang's body again: "Guild Gui and Baibai are gone!"

Gui Guan, that young man who always has a bright smile on his face, draws red very seriously every day, and looks at the sky with longing eyes... Did he run away?Finally waited for a chance to escape?With Centennial?That guy who is more beautiful and delicate than a girl?How courageous!I don't know if these two guys have been trained too much by Master Gu, and they have an affair with each other...

Deacon Ding's head was spinning wildly, but he asked, "Did you lose something at home?"

Master Gu frowned suspiciously: "I checked carefully, nothing was lost?"

"You didn't lose anything?" Deacon Ding was dumbfounded.

Then why run out.One has no money, and the other has no household registration.Deacon Ding's words came to his lips, and he pressed them back abruptly.

Master Gu had a sullen face: "Someone in the family must know what's going on, so they didn't make a sound... Let me check it out!"

Deacon Ding replied suspiciously: "Yes, please don't worry, master! I will definitely catch these two little bastards back." Then, he walked up to Master Gu, pointed at Shuxiang's body In a negotiating tone, he said, "Master, look at this..."

Master Gu glanced at Shuxiang's corpse with an uncertain expression, and said fiercely, "Throw it out and feed it to the dogs!"

Deacon Ding responded, then turned around and called Xi Tian, ​​who was close to him, to give some instructions. Xi Tian turned around and brought in a mat. Deacon Ding and Xi Tian moved Shuxiang's body to the mat.

Shuxiang's body softened into several sections, Xitian couldn't bear to turn his face away.

They carried Shuxiang's body to the center of the yard, and a boy next to him immediately stepped forward to help.

Deacon Ding took out a few taels of silver from his pocket and handed it to the boy, and said in a low voice, "Buy a thin coffin..."

Xiaotong looked at Deacon Ding gratefully and nodded.

Deacon Ding and Xi Tian found some incense ash and sprinkled it on the blood-stained place, leaving a thin layer of ash on the clean bluestone floor tiles.

After finishing these things, Deacon Ding was sweating on his back, he waved Xi Tian out, then refilled a cup of tea for Master Gu, and said in a low voice: "Master, please be at ease, luckily you didn't lose anything. It’s better to keep this matter secret, it’s always disgraceful if it gets out…” Before he finished speaking, Yan Xiang’s trembling voice came from outside: “Master, it’s Mother Zhao who is on duty in the inner courtyard, and she said something urgent Sue."

Master Gu narrowed his eyes and glanced at Deacon Ding.

Deacon Ding stepped forward and opened half the door, and asked through the crack, "What's the matter?"

Zhao Mama was sweating profusely, and said in a panic, "Second Miss, Second Miss is gone!"

With a bang, the sound of porcelain falling to the ground came from behind Deacon Ding.

Deacon Ding moaned in his heart: It's over, it's over, 400 taels, it's just gone...

Deacon Ding stepped out of the high threshold of the Gu Mansion wearily, and Xi Tian, ​​the close servant behind him, whispered, "Deacon Ding, where can I find this?"

Deacon Ding put his hands on his back and smiled, his small eyes narrowed into a slit: "Where can I find it, please take your time?"

Xi Tian was taken aback.

Deacon Ding smiled and said: "This Guiguan, I really can't see it. At the critical moment, he actually acted like this, abducted the second girl and ran away... Tsk tsk tsk, who would believe it if it was told! I don't know the two Miss, do you know what Guan Gui does..."

Hearing these words, Xi Tian felt that Deacon Ding was gloating!

"How should I put it, people who have studied are different." Deacon Ding continued to admire, "I transferred the nanny and girl next to the second girl to accompany my wife to Qixia Temple, and falsely passed on the master's intention to lead him from the stable. He bought two horses with the best legs, and then he invited the lady in charge of the corner gate to drink, and while the master was not at home, he kidnapped the second girl and ran away... Tsk tsk tsk, what a smart guy!"

After hearing this, Xi Tian rubbed his head, and said naively: "How can the deacon say that Gui Guan kidnapped the second girl and ran away? It's been a hundred years since she disappeared! Maybe Gui Guan ran away with a hundred years?"

"If Guan Gui didn't want to abduct the second girl, why would he invite Mrs. Wang to drink?" Deacon Ding pondered, "However, what you said is also reasonable. Maybe the three of them ran away together. But it doesn't make sense, Gui Everything in the house of the officer and the second girl was cleaned up, and there were no clues left, but everything of value was gone, but the century-old house was in a mess, and the bedding was not cleaned up... "

The two of them walked out of the house slowly while talking.

A girl was squatting on the east corner gate of Gu's residence.

It was already spring, and the girl was still wearing a sky-blue jacket, but her pair of black mill-soled shoes were spotless.Xi Tian disliked sloppy girls the most, and he immediately fell in love with those shoes, and stepped forward and asked, "Who are you looking for?"

The girl lowered her head, and her voice was like a mosquito: "I, I'm looking for, I'm looking for Aunt Qin, and she said it's here..." The voice was sweet and waxy, with a charming ending.

Deacon Ding's heart moved, he walked up and asked, "Who do you think you are looking for?"

The girl continued to lower her head and whispered, "Look, look for Aunt Qin!"

Deacon Ding couldn't see the little girl's face, so he was suspicious. He bent down to look at the girl's face. Who knew that the girl was looking up at her secretly, and their eyes met in the air.

The little girl lowered her distressed eyes like a frightened deer.

But Deacon Ding sighed inwardly.

What a beautiful little girl, but unfortunately her complexion is sallow due to malnutrition, and there is a large purple-red birthmark from her temples to the bridge of her nose. No wonder she always keeps her head down and covers her face with half of her black hair stand up……

Xi Tian also saw the half of the girl's face that was intentionally covered by her hair, felt pity, and kindly pointed to the east side alley and said: "You go in from here, there is a small red-painted door there, that's where Aunt Qin lives. "

The little girl thanked her again like a mosquito, and ran away in a hurry.

Disturbed by this, the two stopped in the alley instead.

Deacon Ding looked at the little girl's slightly bloated body, and asked Xi Tian, ​​"If you were Guiguan, where would you go?"

Xi Tian thought for a while: "Of course I'm going home!"

Deacon Ding waved his hand: "Let's go, go to the brothel where Guan Guiguan came back and ask where he is from."

Xi Tian said: "Deacon, didn't you say, look slowly?"

Deacon Ding waved his hand, and this time he slapped Xi Tian on the forehead: "Look more, listen more and talk less, especially don't spread the word, otherwise, Shuxiang will be your fate."

Xi Tian grinned and rubbed his head: "Deacon, I'm not as pretty as them. Do you want to buy a few sticks of incense to put on it tonight..."

The two talked and walked, and their voices gradually faded away.

In the alley of Gu's mansion, a little girl in a sky-blue jacket was knocking on the door.

"Come, come!" A seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl answered the door, "Who are you looking for?"

The little girl raised her head, her black hair covered half of her face: "I'm looking for Aunt Qin."

The girl who answered the door was taken aback, but with such beautiful facial features... she tried her best to maintain a normal expression: "Which girl is it?"

The little girl's eyes were soft and gentle: "My name is Qin Yu, and I am Aunt Qin's niece. Please tell me, sister."

The girl who answered the door looked at the little girl's clean cloth shoes, and knew that the visitor was from a good family background, so she politely turned her side to let her in, and said, "Please wait a moment, girl."

After a while, Aunt Qin came out to greet her in person. When she saw the little girl, she felt familiar, but she really couldn't remember where she had seen her before.

The little girl said aggrievedly, "Auntie, doesn't Auntie recognize me? I'm Qin Yu!"

Aunt Qin was sold into an opera troupe since she was a child, and she went back ten years ago. I really can't remember who is in the family.Hearing the little girl's plaintive words, he had no choice but to answer vaguely, took the little girl to the main room, served tea, and asked kindly: "What do you want from me?"

The little girl lowered her head and hesitated for a long time, but she didn't say anything.

Aunt Qin had traveled all over the country with the troupe at a young age, seeing her like this, she smiled and said, "Are you here to borrow money?"

The little girl blushed and shook her head: "No, it's not."

"That's it?" Aunt Qin asked puzzled.

The little girl raised her head and said as if mustering up her courage, "I've come to seek refuge with my aunt."

Aunt Qin thought of being expelled from the clan when she sang in an opera troupe, and looked at the purple-red birthmark on the little girl's face, and said, "I am an opera troupe here..."

As if afraid that Aunt Qin would not agree, the little girl hurriedly said, "I know. I will wash and cook for Auntie, and I only ask for three meals..."

Aunt Qin looked at the little girl's apprehensive eyes like elk, felt soft and nodded.

The Gu mansion over there was quiet, everyone knew that the master was in a bad mood and killed Shu Xiang.Although this is not the first time, anyone who wants to go out here will try to walk on tiptoe.

Mr. Gu sat cross-legged on the eight-step bed. A melon-shaped glass lamp was placed on the warm pineapple wood table. The wax and tears inside the lamp were clumped together, and the orange flame danced happily in the lampshade, imprinting brightly and secretly. On Master Gu's clear and elegant face, rays of light and shadows formed.

He jumped up from the bed as if remembering something, hurried to the big painting table next to the bed, moved a chair and stepped on it, looking anxiously at the Duobaoge cabinet in front of the painting table top.

Some painting scrolls were scattered on the top of the Duobaoge cabinet, as if they had not been touched for many years. They were covered with dust and a few cobwebs formed.

Master Gu shivered and pushed away those scrolls, and saw the innermost thing.

He hesitated for a moment, then reached out and took it out.

The small box of purple purlin incense is dull in color and quite heavy to buy.

Master Gu held the box in both hands, carefully placed it on the painting table and opened it.

The silver-red gold velvet inner wrap is empty.

Master Gu let out a low muffled groan, covered his chest, and fell obliquely on the painting table.

The wax fire on the small table was burning happily, making crackling noises.

(End of this chapter)