Chapter 88 Chapter Ten Girl Huaichun

In the hall on the second floor, everyone in Zhan's house was surrounded by people, even the fifth young lady Zhan Ziming, who captured her and Liang Shaoqing, made an exception to attend, wearing a snow-white face scarf to cover her peerless beauty, dressed in green The long silk-tape dress, with a high bust and slim waist, looks quiet and elegant. The three sons-in-law of the Zhan family sat at the top with their wives. The elder lady Zhan Zifang’s husband, Gu Gongen, was more handsome, with a straight nose and thin lips, and slightly raised eyes. Gu Pan couldn’t hide his demeanor, but maybe it was a bad first impression. , although it's not ugly yet, but I can't like it no matter what.Compared with him, the other two sons-in-law looked much more ordinary, especially the third son-in-law Xue Qian, who seemed to have a very weak personality. He was dressed in a light blue satin plain dress and sat behind the third lady Zhan Ziqing. When Chu Qiao stared at him, her face turned red, and she smiled a little before turning her head away in embarrassment, as if she was not good at greeting strangers.

"Tell me, what's going on?" Gu Gongen said in a deep voice, looking at Chu Qiao coldly with a rather stern face. Chu Qiao smiled indifferently, and said, "It's very simple, if they provoke me, I will beat them up, that's all." "You're talking nonsense!" Chen Shuang yelled: "Master, she was the one who provoked us first. It was so early in the morning before we got up, how could we provoke him?" As soon as the words fell, several other perpetrators echoed in unison.Chu Qiao raised her eyebrows, and turned her head slowly, her eyes were like ice and snow, everyone felt a chill down their spines when they saw it, they choked up and did not dare to speak again.

Gu Gongen turned his head and said in a deep voice, "What do you say?" "What else can I say?" Chu Qiao raised her eyebrows slightly: "The rumors are terrible, three people become tigers, and the eldest son-in-law wholeheartedly protects his subordinates, I have nothing to say." "What a sharp mouth!" Zhan Zifang said coldly: "Let's not say that you have been causing trouble since you came to the mansion, just because of your disrespectful attitude, you should take care of yourself!" Second Miss Zhan Zikui took the opportunity to answer: "I'm really ignorant, this is the first time I've seen such a domineering slave in my life."

Gu Gongen said: "You have nothing to say, I will take it as your lack of words, this time I won't let you go so cheaply." Chu Qiao just wanted to retort, but at worst, she was kicked out of the mansion. She was not at all worried that she would offend the group of powerful people in front of her.But before he could speak, Miss Six, Zhan Ziyun, who was standing beside Zhan Ziyu, suddenly yelled loudly: "How can you convict indiscriminately, and you, how can you not defend yourself?" Chu Qiao froze for a moment, then turned her head, and saw Miss Six of Zhan's Mansion blushing anxiously, tightly clutching the handkerchief in her hand, as if she was about to wring out water.The second lady raised her eyebrows when she heard the words, twitched the corners of her mouth, and said with a sneer: "Sixth sister is really a bodhisattva, and she cares so much for an inferior servant. No wonder Aunt Wanru defected from the house with a luthier. Like a mother, like a daughter."

Miss Six's eyes turned red when she heard the words, she pointed at Zhan Zikui with a trembling voice, and stammered angrily, "You...you spit blood!" "Miss Six, don't be fooled by this little boy." Chen Shuang's nose was swollen, but still unrepentant: "This little boy is vicious. He sneaked up on us while we were sleeping. His methods are despicable." The eldest lady Zhan Zifang frowned, and yelled at Zhan Ziyun in a deep voice: "Ziyun shut up, a lady from a big family flirts with a slave, don't you have no shame?" "Miss protects her shortcomings like this, doesn't she count as flirting with slaves?"

"What did you say?" Chu Qiao sneered coldly, seeing Miss Six with tears in her eye sockets, looking at her with glistening eyes, she unexpectedly felt a sense of justice perverted, stepped forward, and said with a faint smile: "What did I say, The young miss will naturally not know, even if she knows, she will pretend not to know." "I'm just a little slave, and I don't have to speak out about many things, but someone keeps provoking me, uncle, do you know why I fought with Chen Shuang?" Gu Gongen frowned slightly, and said, "Why?" Chu Qiao stepped forward mysteriously, deliberately lowered her voice and said, "Because I know who killed the old housekeeper, Uncle Qing."

As soon as this remark came out, all four were shocked. Gu Gongen said in a deep voice: "Didn't you say on the deck that you read it wrong?" "How dare I talk nonsense about this kind of head loss?" Chu Qiao pretended to be sincere, and said slowly: "Uncle Qing's eyelids are bloody, his eyes are black, his expression is grim, and there are obvious bruises on his wrists. Everyone is ashamed to say that the old man is dying of his injuries, hey, it is hard for him to spend his whole life for the Zhan family, and he ended up with such a bleak end until his death, it is really embarrassing."

Everyone was immediately angry when they heard the words, Gu Gongen suppressed the anger in his heart, and said sharply: "Then why didn't you say it during the day, at this time Uncle Qing has already refined, so you can talk nonsense and slander as you like!" "Is it a slander? The murderer knew it well. I didn't say it at the time, but it was just to blackmail some money from the murderer afterwards. Otherwise, I would have left the house well. There are so many roads, why did the fifth lady bump into it? " As soon as the words fell, everyone was stunned for a moment, Liang Shaoqing's eyes were dazed, her face turned red, and the other servants were also whispering, but she didn't expect her to say such a thing without shame.

Chu Qiao shook her head and said, "In the middle of the night that day, I went out to find something to eat. This brother in the kitchen can testify to me." Gu Gongen asked the man's name, and sent someone to call the man who had left food for Chu Qiao and Liang Shaoqing to the inner cabin.The honest man stammered and confirmed: "That little brother did come out that night, and I gave him the food myself." "On the way back, I heard noises in Uncle Qing's room. I was surprised, so I walked over to have a look. Unexpectedly, before I reached the door, Chen Shuang came out of it. He seemed to be panicked when he saw me , I asked him what he was doing here so late, and he lied to me that Uncle Qing had something to do with him. The chief culprit of Uncle Qing!"

Chu Qiao's voice suddenly became sharper, she pointed at Chen Shuang and said sharply. Chen Shuang was shocked immediately, and hastily argued, "You're spitting blood! The young master, the eldest lady, the second lady, the eldest husband, and even the young ones, even if they have the guts, would never dare to murder Uncle Qing! This kid is full of nonsense, Nonsense, please masters decide for the little one!" Gu Gongen's face was gloomy, and he said in a deep voice: "You said that Chen Shuang killed Uncle Qing, do you have evidence?" Chu Qiao spread her innocent hands: "It was originally there, but it's a pity it's gone now."

"Is it again or not?" "Because I was sure that it was Chen Shuang who killed Uncle Qing, I took a closer look and saw that there was a large piece of bloody skin between Uncle Qing's nails, which proved that Uncle Qing must have scratched the murderer during his struggle before he died. Chen Shuang took off the clothes on his upper body to see if there were any injuries, and he would know if it was the murderer." Chen Shuang panicked immediately when he heard the words, and tore off his sleeves, only to see bloodstains on his arms, which were still bleeding down. The man panicked and shouted: "You just scratched this wound, and it's still bleeding, is it?" New injury! Don't frame me!" "Oh!" Chu Qiao yelled suddenly, "So that's what you came up with. No wonder you asked me to find you in Xiacang this morning when I asked you for money." "Since when did you ask me for money?" "You still don't admit it. I met you on the deck last night and said that as long as you are willing to give me a sum of money, I will leave Zhan's house in three days, and let this matter rot in my stomach and never say it. You were He fully agreed, and asked me to go to Xiacang to withdraw money the next morning, Brother Chen is young, so his memory won’t be so bad.” Chen Shuang snorted coldly, and said angrily: "You are talking nonsense! I asked Qiu Tao to call you to Xiacang just to ambush someone to repair you. It has nothing to do with money. Young master, if you don't believe me, you can ask Qiu Tao!" As soon as these words came out, there was a tidy sound of breathing in the hall, and Gu Gongen's eyes were so dark that ink could almost drip out.Chu Qiao smiled cunningly, and said relaxedly: "Brother Chen, didn't you say that I went to the warehouse by myself and attacked you before you got up? Why, I made up too many lies, so I gave it to you so soon." forget?" Chen Shuang looked around in a daze, seeing that Gu Gongen didn't even look at him anymore, she immediately became desperate, turned her head fiercely, glared at Chu Qiao and shouted: "You little bastard! How dare you lie to me! I'll kill you!" Unexpectedly, before he ran two steps, he was caught by the sturdy guard. "Take him down. After three days, the ship docks and drives him out." Zhan Ziyu's voice was very calm. He sat on the wheelchair, took the warm handkerchief from a child behind him, wiped the handle, then raised his head, and said in a calm tone: "All the servants who have participated in fighting Two months' monthly fine, twenty lashes for slaves, and that's all." "Then he should be punished too." Zhan Zifang stood up suddenly, pointed at Chu Qiao and said loudly: "He is also a slave who participated in trouble!" "Sister, I've heard that someone punished a thief who stole something, but I've never heard of the principle of punishing the owner who lost something. More than 30 people besieged a person, secretly ambush, and waited for a sneak attack, but everyone was punished. Isn't that embarrassing enough?" A soft voice suddenly sounded, Fifth Miss Zhan Ziming stood up slowly, her sleeves were like water, elegant and detached, and said softly. Zhan Zifang dared to refute to Zhan Ziyu, but facing the fifth young lady who didn't talk much, she immediately fell silent and stopped talking embarrassingly. "It should be enough for a morning." Zhan Ziyu waved his hand slightly, and the little boy behind him pushed up his wheelchair: "The Zhan family came from Bian Tang, and they never killed their servants at will. But now they are going to enter Tang Jing, if anyone dares to make trouble at will, don't blame me for not being sympathetic." The door was slowly closed, a breeze blew into the room, everyone stood facing each other, and for a while, no one spoke out to break the deadlock. "You, come out with me." Sixth Miss blushed and pointed at Chu Qiao, and whispered. Chu Qiao also didn't want to stand in the middle of a group of people who were staring at her, so she naturally followed suit, nodded her head in response, turned around and walked out, and by the way, she didn't forget to grab Liang Shaoqing who was standing there stupidly. The sun was shining brightly at noon, and there were boatmen on the bow strenuously raising the sails. There were many green hills on both sides of the strait, the blue sky was clear, the white waves were surging, and the waterfowls were singing.Chu Qiao stood at the bow of the boat. Although she was wearing a servant's clothes, she had a handsome face and sharp eyes. Although she was very petite standing between Yan Xun, Zhuge Yue and the others, she was quite small compared to girls of the same age. Standing half a head taller, Miss Six of the Zhan Mansion stood beside her, reaching only to her ears. Zhan Ziyun raised his head, looked at her with a smile, his cheeks were slightly flushed, and whispered, "Just now, thank you very much." Chu Qiao respectfully replied: "Miss praised me, I'm just a slave, I can't afford this word of thanks, besides, the lady is also defending me, I should thank the lady." "I have never treated you as a slave," Miss Six quickly waved her hand, shaking her head cutely and said, "The first time I saw you, I thought you were a different person from them. You must have encountered something It took a huge change to get to this point.” Chu Qiao smiled slightly, she didn't expect this rich lady to have a pure heart, at this moment a water bird flew by, and some of the sailors bent their bows to shoot the bird, the bird was startled, fluttered its wings, and flew away quickly .The arrow brushed against the bird's wings, and a few white feathers fluttered down, just landing on Zhan Ziyun's hair.Chu Qiao naturally stretched out her hand to pluck the bird feather for her, waved it lightly in front of her eyes, and said with a smile: "Miss is kind-hearted and has outstanding appearance, maybe this is the so-called appearance of sinking fish and falling wild goose." Throwing the feather on the ground, Chu Qiao gave a salute to Zhan Ziyun, and said with a smile, "I still have something to do, I'm going back first, it's windy here, Miss, stand for a while and go back to the cabin." After all, he took two steps back, then turned around and walked away. Zhan Ziyun was just fifteen this year, and her face was as delicate as a hibiscus blooming in water. She stood there and watched Chu Qiao's figure disappear into the cabin, unable to recover for a long while. A gust of wind blew and lifted the hem of her dress. She knelt down slowly, seeing no one was around, she picked up the feather and put it in her arms, then stood up hastily, her face flushed, It's like being a thief. The rice fields on both sides of the bank are already verdant, the breeze is blowing, and the blue waves are heavy. The farmers are bending over and busy in the fields with their trousers on. speak up. Chu Qiao stood in front of the hatch of the rear cabin, looking at the ordinary people, the corners of her mouth were slightly raised, and her eyes were shining brightly like crescent moons. Holding on to the mast, she raised her head slowly, and the breeze blew her hair on the sideburns, and the hair brushed her cheeks mischievously, slightly itchy. Suddenly, she actually liked such a simple life a little bit.