Xu Qian didn't expect that she would lose control to such an extent, so she calmed down and left quickly with a handkerchief, without even looking at the tea cup and vase that she smashed to pieces. .
Xu Qian walked out, promising to follow behind, and winked at Qi Qi, who was standing not far away.
Qi Qiyue originally had a serious face and stood far away from the house. After seeing the promise, she blinked with joy in her eyes.
Xu Nuo seizes the time to anger Xu Qian, and follows her instructions in July to hint Chuntang to go to Yingcheng Courtyard to deliver a message. In this way, when Lu comes over, she happens to meet Xu Gucheng who has just returned home.
Sure enough, Xu Qian ran into Xu Gucheng and Lu as she ran away in a panic, and stopped two steps in front of them.
"Father! Mother!"
Xu Qian was surprised. This was indeed the time for her father to come back, but his father always went to Yingcheng Courtyard as soon as he returned home. Why did he come to Mingjin Pavilion today?
She looked back, saw Chuntang, and understood what was going on.
"Si Niang, how can you be so flustered?" Xu Gucheng listened to Chuntang's description on the way here, and his tone couldn't help but be a little more serious when he spoke.
Xu Qian always gave people the impression of being elegant, gentle, courteous and talented, and she was rarely as flustered as she was at this moment.
"Father, my daughter accidentally kicked over Siniang's vase just now." Xu Qian bowed low and lowered her eyes, not looking at Xu Gucheng.
Xu Gucheng felt relieved when he heard her admitting what she had just done. If she could admit her mistake, it wouldn't be so bad.
"My daughter knew she was at fault, and she promised to pay Liu Niang back. She never thought that Liu Niang would be so angry that she swept all the tea sets on the tea table to the ground, insisting that it was her daughter who dropped them, and asked the maid next to her to go to her mother to seek justice. ." Xu Qian's eyes were filled with tears as she spoke. But he resists not falling down, which easily makes people feel pity for the flowers and cherish the jade.
Xu Nuo heard these words not far away, cursed and disgusted in his heart, and walked over calmly.
"Dad, the fourth sister wronged me. It's just a vase. There's no need for a child to lie like this." Xu Nuo bowed and bowed a foot away from Xu Qian. His words were neither humble nor overbearing, and his clear eyes met Xu Gucheng's.
She had gone to great lengths to exchange Xu Qian's letter not to stop Xu Qian from speaking, but to use her own means to make Xu Qian realize the gap and frustrate Xu Qian. Let her know that Xu Mansion is not a place where she can turn her hands into clouds and rain, and let her know that she can be manipulated at will.
"Father, Liu Niang's words are not credible. She has no amnesia at all. She was just pretending everything in the past!" Xu Qian tried her best to restrain her voice. Desperately, she said what she had been wanting to say for the past few days.
Xu Gucheng had been expressionless since he stepped into Mingjin Pavilion, but now he frowned slightly.
He looked at the two daughters in front of him, then glanced at Lu from the corner of his eye, and found that she was standing very calmly, with her face as usual, not the heartache or sadness he imagined he would see.
The late wife is indeed back.
Xu Nuo also secretly watched Lu's reaction, and was overjoyed to see that her eyes were not panicked. In this way, there is no need to worry that the situation Xu Qian will face in the next two days will make Lu Shi sad.
Xu Gucheng waited for a while but saw no rebuttal from Xu Nuo, and said: "Siniang, there are some things you should not say nonsense. Aunt Li, take everyone out."
When Xu Qian said such words, naturally the maidservant Nanny could not stay any longer, so Nanny Li hurriedly left with everyone.
Xu Gucheng strode towards the house without even looking at the broken porcelain pieces on the ground.
"Father, my daughter won't say unfounded words, and I don't want to say it. It's just that Liu Niang deceives her mother like this, and my daughter really can't stand it." Xu Qian knew very well that Xu Gucheng's weakness was Lu. Therefore it is said.
Ms. Lu sat next to Xu Gucheng, and her eyes stayed on Xu Qian for a moment following Xu Qian's words. Then he turned it to the broken tea cup on the ground. In February, she gave Liu Niang this set of jian kiln rabbit hair lamps, and Liu Niang agreed to go to the teahouse to learn the piano.
The tea cups from Jian Kiln are so thick that they would not fall like this if they were dropped from the tea table. They must have been picked up one by one and dropped to the ground with great force.
How much resentment does it take to break all the tea cups like this?
Xu Nuo remained silent, waiting for Xu Qian to finish what she wanted to say.
Xu Qian didn't expect Xu Nuo to be so calm, so she lowered her voice and said, "By chance, my daughter heard someone say that on the day Erlang's accident, someone saw Liu Niang riding a horse on the street. My daughter remembered that her father forbade people to talk nonsense about Liu Niang. How could outsiders talk about the horse riding that day? Worried, I sent someone to inquire. It turned out that it was the big croupier from Tiansheng Casino on West Street who saw Liu Niang and recognized her. My daughter was puzzled. How could he, a gangster from the market, recognize Liu Niang? Unexpectedly, he said that Liu Niang had worked as a croupier at Tiansheng Gambling House for a year and then suddenly disappeared last year."
Xu Gucheng's expression remained unchanged, his index finger gently touched the table, waiting for Xu Qian to finish.
The more Xu Qian spoke, the calmer she became. She originally wanted to wait until Tang Qi told her father about this before saying it, but now she said it first and then asked her father to confront Tang Qi, which would have the same effect.
"My daughter was shocked and hurriedly sent someone to ask. In order not to make her mother sad, she kept it secret." Xu Qian's face was full of guilt and regret, and her expression was so good that people had to believe that she was telling the truth.
Xu Gucheng didn't interrupt. Xu Qian paused for a moment and continued: "My daughter wouldn't believe what the dealer said, but last year she accidentally discovered that Liu Niang was not taciturn, but the same as she is now, so she wanted to find out."
"Liu Niang, do you have anything to say?" Xu Gucheng asked Xu Nuo.
Xu Nuo had been lowering his eyes, but now he raised them with clear eyes and said softly: "I don't know what the fourth sister said, but I don't know Tang Qi, and I have never heard of Tiansheng Gambling House."
"Father, it's better to find Tang Qi to confront him." Xu Qian said before Xu Gucheng came to a conclusion. She was worried that Xu Gucheng would choose to believe in the promise.
Xu Gucheng was silent for a moment, nodded and said, "Okay, but it's already late today. I'll find someone at noon tomorrow."
It was not easy for the men outside to enter the inner courtyard at this hour, so Xu Gucheng naturally chose the next day, which was consistent with Xu Nuo's expectation.
After Xu Gucheng and Mrs. Lu returned to Yingcheng Courtyard, Mrs. Lu took off his official robe for him and asked puzzledly: "Master, why did you find someone from the gambling house to confront you? I believe Liu Niang. As for Siniang, she If so, I..."
Xu Gucheng took his own clothes from Mrs. Lu, put them on the hangers, and held her hand: "I also believe in Liu Niang, but I am indeed a little curious about Liu Niang's past. When you found her, there was nothing more than joy. Because I wanted to know what Liu Niang had encountered in these years, I tried to find out her traces in the past years, and sent Suye to investigate, but to no avail. Now Si Niang said, I want to see who dares to make up Liu Niang. Mother’s origin.”
"Master." Mrs. Lu snuggled into Xu Gucheng's arms. At that time, she was really only happy to see her daughter. How could she do such a thing with the master's care.
After the group left, Chuntang Qiyue hurriedly came in and cleaned up the debris in the house. As soon as the two of them went out, Xu Nuo closed the door and immediately changed into men's clothes, inserted the dagger given by Hu Ling into his boots, and wrapped all the jiaozi and hair accessories in the box into a package.
As soon as it gets dark, he immediately climbs out of the window.
After leaving Xu Mansion, Xu Nuo chose a small alley with few people and walked quickly towards Tiansheng Gambling House.
He found the small door that led directly to Zhu Shang's bedroom on the second floor, took out a silver hairpin, pried it open, and immediately stepped in.
Zhu Shang was sitting on the floor, ordering tea under the dim lamp. He didn't want to hear the noise below, so he stood up immediately.
He opened his usually squinted eyes a little, carefully pointed the soup bottle at the board covering the stairs, and narrowed his eyes again when he saw the thick lock on the board.
Xu Nuo went up the narrow stairs while listening to the movement above. When he opened the board, he whispered: "Shopkeeper Zhu, please make it easier for me."
When Zhu Shang heard that it was a promise, he felt relieved and sat back to order tea again.
Xu Nuo waited for a long time but did not see Zhu Shang open the board. In desperation, he inserted a dagger into it and broke the board.
Zhu Shang heard that she was making too much noise, so he came over to unlock the door and said casually: "Just come in through the front door, take some trail."
"Since you have opened this road, you can let people go." Xunuo threw the package into Zhu Shang's arms and said, "Hu Sanniang gave it to you and asked you to give it to his senior brother."
Zhu Shang's tea had just been brewed, and Xu Nuo drank the whole cup. Sure enough, it is the best Mingqian Longjing for rich people.
"I can't have these things, please give them back to her." Zhu Shang opened them, took a look at them, appraised them, tied them up and put them in front of Xu Nuo.
"This matter has nothing to do with me. That Tang Qi you have here..."
Before the promise could continue, Zhu Shang said: "That guy has been busy with your fourth sister recently."
"You know?" Xu Nuo squinted at Zhu Shang's face with the four characters "profit-seeking" written on it, and his expression suddenly turned bad.
Zhu Shang still smiled and said relaxedly: "No matter what anyone does in Suzhou City, they can't escape my eyes."
Xu Nuo took out the jade pendant from his arms and handed it to Zhu Shang: "I used the opportunity last time to ask you to lend me the carriage. Now I have the second opportunity to make the dealer Xu Liu unknown to everyone in Tiansheng Casino and even Suzhou City. The existence of the third chance will prepare a table of food for me."
Xu Nuo didn't eat lunch, and was interrupted by Xu Qian while having dinner. Now she was already hungry and her chest was pressed against her back, even though she had no breasts at the age of twelve.
Zhu Shang was happy and ordered a table of food. He didn't shy away from it and looked at Xu Nuo with a lingering cloud.
"Tang Qi, don't you need me to silence you?"
Xu Nuo put down his chopsticks and said without wiping his mouth, "I'll go there by myself later."
Zhu Shang nodded and patted the non-existent dust on his sleeves: "Tomorrow, no one who has seen Xu Liu will be in Suzhou City."
Xunuo didn't expect Zhu Shang to do it so cleanly, so he nodded with satisfaction: "Okay." He stood up and left.
Tang Qi was having fun on the first floor, using his Sic Bo skills to make gamblers lose money at a gambling table.
When his hands were sore, he asked someone else to take his place so that he could go out for his own convenience. As soon as he pulled up his trousers, he felt a cold feeling on his neck.
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No bugs were caught, so they were sent up first, and the power in the dormitory was immediately cut off. (To be continued)
