Chapter 196: Xujia

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The first day I got Xiao Jue's verbal guarantee. After agreeing, the palace banquet took He Yan with him. He Yan scored a sweet night's sleep. On the morning of the second day, when she woke up, she did not see Xiao Jue as usual, and only one ginkgo was sitting in the yard, waiting for her to get up and eat like usual yesterday.
He Yan used to get up early in his life, and suddenly fell asleep three times a day, making a little girl waiting for herself feels embarrassed. She asked Bai Guo, "Bing Guo, did your second young master say where to go?"
Bai Guo shook his head, "Is He Hezi looking for the second young master?
He Yan smiled and said, "Just ask casually." My heart was a little strange. After returning to Beijing, Xiao Jue looked like he was very busy. What the were he doing?
But she didn't think much about it. There is something else to do today.
He Yan and Bai Guo greeted each other, and they changed clothes and went out. She did not call the carriage, wore a veil, and walked on the street herself. The Xu family's house, she could walk past with her eyes closed, and not long before, she stopped in front of Zhu Se's door.
He Yan stood at the door and looked at the mansion in front of him.
Looking out from the outside, the house looked narrower, narrow as if it could not hold people's ambitions, narrow as a coffin, and buried her in it.
He Yan thought that after such a long time, she was already very calm. But when truly standing here, her mood is difficult to calm. It was here that she was pressed by He Wanru into a pool of cold water, and she never saw the sun the next day.
The little man at the door is sweeping the floor. Xu Zhiheng is a man of great care. The house must be clean at any time and anywhere. He didn't like blemishes, just like the scars on women's skin.
He Yan stepped forward and said, "Brother, I ask you to inquire personally."
The sweeping little guy stopped and looked at He Yan, asking, "You are..."
"I am entrusted by someone to inquire about the individual," He Yan whispered, "Is there an aunt named He Wanru in your government?"
As soon as this word came out, Xiao Zui's face changed greatly, "You...
The next moment, he felt that he had a heavy thing in his hand, and looked down, it was a piece of silver. Xiao Zuo swallowed, subconsciously pushed the silver into his sleeve, looked around for no one, and then whispered: "Son, you are waiting for me under the locust tree in the alley in front. local."
He Yan nodded, "Understand, the younger brother must come, if I can inquire about this person for me..." She smiled slightly, "The benefits of the younger brother are indispensable."
Xiao Xiu's face was bright, "Nature, nature!"
He Yan didn't say much to him, as this little man was worried, this is really not the place to speak. Moreover, there is such a relationship between Xu Zhiheng and He Rufei, it is inevitable that those who walk outside do not have He Rufei. She lowered her hood and waited under the locust tree in the alley.
He Yan is not afraid that the little servant just took the money and refused to accept it. Although the Xu family is also an official family, it is not easy to treat people. Probably because Xu Zhiheng was originally a Hanlin bachelor. After learning the literati, he was more willing to spend the silver on the decoration, such as the house tiles. And Mrs. Xu is used to saying one thing: if it is too good for the next person, it is not good to let them have strange hearts. You need to know that Sheng Mi En Dou Mi Qiu, the servant and the master, can't go too close.
Because she spent many years in the military barracks, she didn't have much opinion about the "down" and the "master". She always felt that people are people, and the high and low are just the accessories brought by the reincarnation. How can it really be Should this be relied upon? Therefore, when she just married Xu's family, she was extremely generous when she was still blind. At that time, the people of the Xu family were also happy to be sent by her. Because of this incident, He Yan was sued by Xu Wanheng secretly with Xu Zhiheng many times.
What kind of master there is, of course, what kind of servants are brought up. Xu Zhiheng is a man who can conspire with outsiders to kill his wife for the benefit of the people, so the servants in his house must be profit-seeking.
Sure enough, after two incense sticks, someone sneaked into the yard, it was just the little man of Fang Cai.
He Yan said: "Brother, there is a teahouse near here, let's go in and say."
Xiao Xiao nodded.
He Yan went to the teahouse, called a pot of good tea, and called a few plates of exquisite dim sum. The shot was extremely generous. The little servant in front of him couldn't help thinking secretly, which is the young master of this family, so rich.
"How do you call him?" He Yan pushed the tea cup in front of him.
"It's good if the son calls Xiao Fuwang."
He Yan didn't take off the veil, his voice was soft, "So Fuwang, what I just said, is that aunt named He Wanru, now in the house?"
Fu Wang's face was awkward, "Son, don't hide from you, we do have an auntie He in our house, but Auntie He was stolen by his wife because he stole his wife's property and sold it outside the house. And later became seriously ill and died."
He Yan: "It turns out so."
She was not surprised. He Wanru was dealt with by Xu Zhiheng a year ago, shortly after her death. In fact, she has reminded He Wanru that since Xu Zhiheng can kill herself in order to keep secrets, she can also kill her.
"The young man is looking for Aunt He..." Xiao Xiao looked at He Yan, but the curtains covered her face. She couldn't see exactly what this person looked like, but she felt very young.
"I was Aunt He's childhood companion, but in the past she was not in Shuojing," He Yan sighed. "I haven't seen it in years. I wanted to see her, but I didn't expect..."
Fu Wang suddenly realized in his heart, what kind of playmate did he say when he was young? After all, although he hadn’t seen it before, he also heard that the auntie He was so charming and charming that she had lost her young master even for a long time.
"The concubine who made the mistake should not be buried in the family tomb of the Xu family," He Yan said. "Where is she buried? If I can, I want to take her away."
"Son, Auntie He was sick and died at that time, she was swept into a mat and thrown to the mass grave." Fu Wang was guilty. "Now, I'm afraid I can't find the bone."
He Yan sneered in his heart, Xu Zhiheng was very tender and affectionate towards He Wanru, she had enviously envied it, and now it seems that this man is extremely cold-hearted and ruthless, treats himself, and still can say that he does not love so he can go here Ruthless. But to He Wanru, the woman he really loved was nothing more than that.
Seeing the man in front of him, Fu Wang was silent, and his heart was really a love affair.
He Yan raised his head and asked him again: "What about Aunt He's personal maid? If I'm still there, I want to take them out of here. I have missed a lot of things in recent years, maybe they can tell me."
"Son, Aunt He's personal maid, after she passed away, left the house and left." Fu Wang said.
He Yan smiled slightly, "What about the other servants in the courtyard?"
Fu Wang was shocked.
He was the only man who entered the house early this year. When he entered the house, the Xu family recruited a large number of little girls. At that time, the children they were traveling with were still surprised. Generally speaking, the original maidservant of this kind of big family was no longer lacking. Suddenly recruited so many people. Either they wanted to hire a bride in the house, or they were in the house. What happened, the original person is gone.
Uncle Xu did marry a bride, but he married the cousin of General Feihong. The grandmother entered the door and brought enough servants. These servants did not go to the yard of the grandmother to serve.
Then... it just happened, so the original person was gone. The so-called absence is actually death?
Fuwang is not stupid. On the contrary, he is the most clever among the group of little men, but he can only keep the gate, so he often complains about his unfair fate. However, at this moment, from the mouth of this strange man, a glimpse of an iceberg was seen.
Secrets like this, the more you know, the easier it is to die, but the same, it is easy to change fate. Wealth and wealth are sought, there is no risk, where is the sky-rich wealth?
He Yan saw the light of longing in the eyes of this little servant, and then touched a light stroke, "Fuwang, I see you very clever, how does your uncle treat you?"
For a moment, Fuwang said, "Uncle... I don't remember being small."
"That's really a pity," He Yan smiled. "If you are a person like me, it will definitely be reused."
Fuwang was excited.
Some words are on the end, no need to say more, He Yan drew a piece of silver from his sleeve and put it on the table, "I also know a lot of news today, thank you. But... if you can help me again Ask a little more, such as Aunt He’s maids, or the servants who were still there, you can get much more than that. And, she said again,
Do these things, be careful, then Many people have left the house, and the Xu family master seems very harsh. If you are not careful, if Fuwang you leave the house, it is a pity."
Fu Wang looked at the son in front of him and was both upset and excited. He asked anxiously, "But, where should the younger one look for a son?"
The fish is hooked.
He Yan smiled slightly, "I'm free, and I will come here to sit down. If you want to find me, Fuwang, you can come here and find out, when I'm not sure, I will come."
After saying this, she got up and left the tea room, leaving the little fellow sitting at the table alone, her expression unpredictable.
As soon as he went out, He Yan's smile faded.
Before going to deal with Fuwang, He Yan observed some of the servants who had moved out of the Xu family door and found that most of them were faceless. When she first married the Xu family, the group of people had almost disappeared.
This is natural. Xu Zhiheng wants to cut the grass and eradicate the roots. He Yan didn't actually think about what he could really find. The witnesses were afraid that they had all been destroyed by Xu Zhiheng. But she needs a small man like Fuwang to do things for her inside the Xu family.
There is always evidence to follow what the paper does, and it is not a witness. But as long as some physical evidence, such as something left by He Wanru, may become a physical evidence in the future. No one found that Fuwang could collect intelligence for her, and was found... Xu Zhiheng would be nervous, a nervous person doing things, always full of loopholes.
People with ghosts in their hearts, walking in the sun, will suspect that the shadow is the evil spirit who came to retaliate.
Fuwang is smart and ambitious, which is enough.
Just as He Rufei sent Ding to injure himself, Xu Zhiheng watched with cold eyes as a person beside him. How did they use the people around them to deal with their own?
The nightmare of Xu Zhiheng and He Rufei has just begun.
...
When He Yan returned to Xiao's house, it was nearly evening.
As soon as I walked into the courtyard, I heard Bai Rongwei and Xiao Jing talking. Xiao Jing said: "You don't have to do so much, it's enough to do Huai Jin."
Bai Rongwei replied a little bit weirdly, "How can you be like this? Besides, these sachets are embroidered by maidservants. I just stuffed some vanilla in it without effort."
He Yan stopped and saluted them, "Young Master Xiao, Mrs. Young."
"He Gongzi," Bai Rong said with a smile. "You just came. I just wanted someone to give you sachets." She took two sachets from her maid and handed them to He Yan, " One is just yours, one is Huai Jin."
He Yan took a look, the sachet was very small, one was embroidered with silver python on black background, the pattern was gorgeous, and the other was an ordinary auspicious cloud pattern, which should be for her.
"It's almost Mid-Autumn Festival, and I asked the maidservant to make some sachets with the vanilla and peace symbols inside. You and Huai Jin often walk outside and put them on the body." She smiled. Disgusted."
He Yan didn't expect that she could have another one. She was very surprised for a while. "I won't dislike it. I really appreciate Mrs. Young."
"You are Huai Jin's friend, you don't have to be so polite." Xiao Jing said with a warm voice.
He Yan nodded her head, and she was always at a loss for the goodwill that the Xiaos and his wife were about to overflow.
"By the way, three days later, there will be a banquet in the house," Bai Rongwei seemed a little embarrassed, "I said to He Gongzi before, the banquet was hosted in my name, there will be many ladies and ladies... If there is nothing on that day, if it's okay, you can stay in the house."
He Yan: "..."
This is the wife room for Xiao Jue. Why did she choose her? He Yan hurriedly said it again, and fled.
Looking at the back of He Yan hurriedly leaving, Bai Rong slightly wondered: "When this young boy He heard the girl, how could he be so afraid? Although he is still young, he is not ineligible. It wouldn't be long with Huai Jin Are you planning to live alone for a lifetime?"
Xiao Jing smiled: "Huai Jin treats him very well."
"That's true." Bai Rong nodded slightly. After she entered the door, although she knew that Xiao Jue was not bad, she was not really a person who liked to show her emotions. But for this young He Gongzi, it can be said that it is very direct to protect shortcomings.
"It's a good thing to have friends." Xiao Jing's eyes were relieved. "At least, he can discuss things with others."
...
Under the oil lamp, He Yan lay on the table, looking at the sachet wrapped around her finger.
Bai Rongwei gave her two and asked her to give the other to Xiao Jue. Xiao Jue's sachet is very beautiful. He Yan wrapped the red string around her finger and sighed in her heart. Even Xiao Xiao's maid and daughter red did so well, really ashamed.
Of course, He Yan will not be a woman. Therefore, when he just married Xu's family, He Wanru made Xu Zhiheng's shoes and clothes every three weeks. He Yan stayed up for several nights before he held a handkerchief. Xu Zhiheng stared at the handkerchief for a long time before embarking on a mandarin duck, before asking: "Is this... a duck?"
He Yan was hit hard and Xu Zhiheng laughed, but although he accepted the Fangpa, he never used it. He Yan is not incomprehensible. He is an official at any time. If he takes out a handkerchief embroidered with ducks, he should be laughed at by his colleagues. However, when I found the crumpled and yellowish veil at the bottom of Xu Zhiheng's drawer, I still felt aggrieved when I thought that I had boiled my hands full of pinholes.
She has always learned what men have to learn. Qin chess, calligraphy, painting, and female red embroidery are totally impossible. When she wants to do things as an ordinary woman, she feels at a loss.
There is also a small wooden basket on the table with some needles and silver scissors, which should be used by the people. He Yan picked up the pair of silver scissors. The scissors were very delicate. Her hands were used to long swords and double knives, sticks and spears, but a pair of scissors felt extremely heavy.
In fact, He Yan is not totally unable to do these needlework. After all, in those years when I joined the army in the military camp, there were only two pieces of clothes. As soon as it broke, the brothers went to find a piece of cloth or something, and filled the hole. It's just that men's craftsmanship is not as meticulous as girls'. Sometimes there are too many patches on a piece of clothing.
He Yan also picked up the light to sew it, but it was already a matter of his last life.
Two sachets were lined up in front of her. Xiao Jue's one was more gorgeous, and He Yan's one was more ordinary. She reached out and squeezed it. The inside was flat, and she could touch a triangle-shaped piece of paper and some furry. Herbs. He Yan thought about it and took out the needle in the wooden basket.
The oil in the oil lamp was almost burned out, and He Yan stretched out and stood up.
Half a night later, she wiped the blood bead from her finger and sighed softly.
It seems that Miss He's needlework is not very good. In the past and present life, she really has no talent for female red. He Yan smiled and turned off the lights. The moonlight outside the window was faint, faintly illuminating a corner of the front table.
On the table, two sachets lay side by side, and it looked just like it was.
...
In the Shenfu capital of the capital, Shen Muxue's house, the lantern was still on at the moment.
The people in the courtyard had already fallen asleep, but Shen Muxue was sleepless, lying flat on the floor, looking at the sachets hanging at the four corners of the tent.
It has been several days since I returned to Shuojing, and Xiao Jue should have known it. This time she didn't go to Xiao Mansion, but Xiao Jue didn't say anything. But the young lady Mrs. Bai Rong came to the house and asked her once.
Shen Muxue turned a little irritably.
Even Shen Yushi saw that something was wrong and asked if she had quarreled with Xiao Jue. Shen Muxue shook his head, perfunctory, but his heart was a little nervous for no reason.
She originally wanted Xiao Jue to know that she was uncomfortable. But after a few days of stalemate, it was she who had no idea. Xiao Jue may not know that he was originally a person who did not care about these things, but if he knew... he did it on purpose?
There was a fire in Shen Muxue's heart.
When she left Liangzhou Wei, she found a face-painted person and a piece of wood in the box. She couldn't think too much. The person who met was just a woman. Does Xiao Jue have someone she likes? If it were only this point, she would not be so alarmed, but only the person engraved on the wood painting was a female general.
And the eyebrows and He Yan are very similar.
In an instant, all the doubtful things in the past turned into evidence before the eyes. Xiao Jue's excessive closeness and care for He Yan, and He Yan sometimes showed her uncomfortable feeling. In Juyang, Xiao Jue also brought He Yan together. His black jade, which never left, was held in the hands of He Yan. Xiao Jue specially emphasized that the ointment that could not be taken away appeared in the hands of He Yan the next day.
It would be too shocking to say that it was a broken sleeve, but... what if He Yan is a woman?
Shen Muxue closed his eyes.
When the young girl was dressed as a teenager, she was particularly heroic and bright, and her eyebrows were beautiful and attractive. If she changed to a woman's dress, Shen Muxue's sour thinking would easily catch people's eyes.
In the past years, although she has never received Xiao Jue, she does not feel much crisis. This young man was exceptionally outstanding and lazy in temperament. Later, when his family changed greatly, he became more indifferent and restrained. Although his temperament was so talented and graceful, the girl who liked him still went forward and threw himself on him, but he had never seen Xiao. Who does Jue favor?
He is not emotional, so Shen Muxue believes that the women in the world can only accompany him on the battlefield and support each other with him. As long as the time is long, everything is a matter of course.
Her determination comes from her arrogance. But now, her arrogance has all been broken.
There is such a woman who can do more than her, not only accompany Xiao Jue on the battlefield, but also fight alongside him. What she can't do, He Yan can do it. As for the family background... Xiao Jing can marry Bai Rongwei who is a girl, and the Xiao family does not care about this at all.
Shen Muxue tightened.
She couldn't get Xiao Jue's preference, but she didn't want to watch He Yanjie go first, obviously she came first, and she was the longest person to accompany Xiao Jue...
In the night, Shen Muxue sat up violently.
She put on the outer skirt, walked to the table and lit the oil lamp. Find out the pen and ink and sit at the table by yourself.
The light of the oil lamp shook her eyes, and her hands shook slightly. After a while, Shen Muxue seemed to make up her mind and raised her pen.
After spending so much time and energy, but did not get a happy ending, no one would be reconciled. She does not accept such an ending. If Xiao Jue is destined not to stand on her side and think about her, then... she can only start from He Yan's side.
Shen Muxue wrote faster and faster, faster and faster. Suddenly, the pen tip was wrong, and he was too strong, and he cut the paper into a crack. She stared blankly at the thin paper in front of her, and raised her hand violently, throwing the paper into a ball and throwing it on the ground.
After a while, she covered her face with her hands and cried in a low voice.