Chapter 46 second quarter

When Wan Zhang came to see me, I was in a panic and couldn't sleep well for several days.This thing goes back half a month ago. One day, I searched through my father's belongings and found several bamboo slips. I am very curious, because this series of bamboo slips is kept in a closet, very secretively, if the house is not carefully cleaned, it will not be found at all. What made my father keep this series of bamboo slips so carefully and so secretly?After reading the content of the brief book, I couldn't help but turn pale with shock. The bamboo slips are full of my father's diary for the last year, which are neatly drawn into small boxes according to the heavenly stems and earthly branches, and each box records the events of the day.

A person's name often appears in the bamboo slips, called "Chibi".This bridle seems to be a woman, and she has a very close relationship with her father. The first branch of the brief book reads: Tonight, the moon is full, and I come here with a bridle, and I look very beautiful. I will die within a year, and I am quite self-inflicted.Holding the bridle and comforting Yu, he said: "Your Majesty, how can you be hurt? It's a blessing to see the life of my concubine. If you want to achieve what you want, you can also help me." Yu replied: "No need for this, wait for a son, How can we treat each other more favorably than others?"

In all the bamboo slips since then, this person named Chibi has been recorded many times, but basically there are only three characters of "Chibilai" and no more detailed content.I was a little surprised, so I closed the brief book and called out, "Come here!" The servants immediately agreed outside: "Master, the villain is waiting here, please tell me something." I called an old servant in and asked him: "When Xianjun was in poor health, I worked in other counties and couldn't come back to serve him from time to time. Let me ask you, is the personal servant who served him the year before his death called a maid?" Hold the bridle, where is she now?"

The old servant showed a puzzled expression: "Hold the bridle? This villain has never heard of this name." I said "Oh" and said: "You may not know, call Mr. Chang Nian." But when I asked Chang Nian, he was also very puzzled: "Chibi, there has never been a servant with this name in the mansion." I was even more amazed, and handed my father's diary to him: "Mr. Changnian, this is the book left by my father. It really records a person named Chibi. My father trusts her very much, and he almost always spends time with her at night." Together."

After receiving the brief book for many years, he looked through it carefully, showing a strange expression while flipping through it, and said: "Well, this seems to be really Jiehou's Teze, but the old minister has never seen this man named Chibi Maid, I will check again and report to the Lord immediately if I have any news." I said helplessly, "Okay." Chang Nian answered and went out.I spread out the bamboo slips and reread them again, thinking about the origin of this bridle holder. Judging from the records in the first slip, her fate seems to be not very good.I flipped through the brief book several times from beginning to end, and suddenly felt a chill run down my back, as if my blood was about to freeze.I found that whenever "holding the bridle" is recorded in the bamboo slips, the words "monthly surplus" or "monthly gap surplus" are almost always added, without exception.Why is this so, does it mean that a servant must come on a night when the moon is full?And the identity of this servant has not even been known for many years.As I was reading, I felt a faint uneasiness in my heart. I remembered the rumors in my family that my father was a little out of his mind a year before his death, as if he was bewitched by something. I couldn’t help but look up and look around the room. I saw the closet where I just found this brief book. It was dark. I opened my mouth wide open, the room was very quiet, every sound made my heart skip a beat, I finally couldn't help it, quickly closed the brief book, and ran out the door.The servants were kneeling in the hall, and when they saw me running out of the room suddenly, they all looked at me in bewilderment.I didn't care so much, I ran all the way to the courtyard, looked up and saw the bright sun, then bent down, put my hands on my knees, and let out a long breath.

I couldn’t sleep well for the next few days, and the reports I’ve been giving me over the years still say that I haven’t found any maid named Chibi.I started to really fear in my heart, and ordered that my father's room be sealed up, and I moved to another room to sleep. When Wan Zhang came, it happened to be a few days when I was in a particularly bad mood.He came to intercede for Chen Tang, but there is no need for him to intercede. I have long been thinking about how to excuse Chen Tang.This is not because I have any friendship with Chen Tang, but because Fuping Hou Zhang Bo also entrusted Chen Tang's affairs to me before his death, and I agreed before his sick bed.I don't know why Zhang Bo entrusted the matter to Wan Zhang at the same time. Could it be that he can't trust me?Could it be that Wan Zhang, a knight-errant with some money, is more capable than my upright Han Tingwei?If it weren't for Zhang Bo's death, I might really not care about it.But it's best not to break promises to the dead. I'm really a bit timid, and if the ghosts who are full of anger come to question me, it will be no fun at all.

But one principle must be confirmed, saving Chen Tang is my business and has nothing to do with Wan Zhang.Therefore, in front of Wan Zhang, I refused politely.