Maotou quietly walked to the bed. The height of the bed was just right. He put his chin on the bed and stared at his owner with his two dark eyes.
It doesn't seem to understand why its owner hasn't gotten up yet. Normally it would be full at this time.
Maotou licked his nose with his big tongue and flicked his big fluffy tail, trying to attract the owner's attention.
Too bad its owner was completely out of sorts.
Looking at Qi Ao walking towards him, Zhu Yuanyu's heartbeat began to accelerate uncontrollably. He looked away uncomfortably and stretched out his hand to rub Mao Tou's fluffy head as if to cover up.
Mao Tou wagged his tail happily.
"Master, how did you sleep last night?"
Qi Ao put the teapot in his hand on the table, held a teacup in his other hand, poured a cup of tea and brought it over.
Zhu Yuanyu took the tea cup, which was warm, and brought it to his lips to take a small sip.
Just when the two of them were speechless, Cui'er walked in, breaking the awkward atmosphere.
"Master, my servant has brought you water." Cui'er held a wooden basin in both hands and said with a gossipy face: "I don't know what's going on in this inn. There are people gathered around downstairs, making a lot of noise. It’s so noisy, they’re all clamoring to sue the authorities!”
Putting down the tub, she twisted the face towel, walked over and handed it to Zhu Yuanyu.
Zhu Yuanyu took it, wiped his face and hands, returned it to her, moved his feet under the bed, and paused.
Seeing this, Mao Tou moved his butt obediently, revealing the flattened shoes underneath.
"oops!"
With sharp eyes, Cui Er threw down her scarf and walked over quickly. She knelt down, picked up her shoes and adjusted them. She was relieved when the shoes returned to their original shape.
"Master, please help me put on my shoes." She raised her head and said.
Who knew that a thick hand suddenly stretched out from the side.
"Let me do it."
Qi Ao said quickly, and then without leaving a chance for her to object, he roughly grabbed Zhu Yuanyu's ankle and inserted it. After finishing it, I realized that my actions were a bit offensive, and I secretly regretted it.
But Zhu Yuanyu didn't say anything. After putting on his shoes, he stood up and said, "Tui'er, where did you put the dried meat?"
Listening to the sound above his head, Qi Ao felt relieved, but he was also inexplicably unhappy.
"Are Maotou hungry? I'll go get it now. The bag containing the dried meat is in my room!"
Cui'er said as she went out again holding the wooden basin.
At the same time, there was a luxurious mansion somewhere in Youxi City.
"O-Master, Master, he, he is missing!"
The servant ran in in a panic, knelt down and said. He didn't dare to look up at the person in front of him, and beads of sweat kept rolling down his forehead.
After waiting for a long time, the voice of the man above him sounded, and he said gloomily: "Why don't you go find it quickly-"
The servant wiped his sweat and nodded repeatedly, "Yes, yes! I'll go right now!" When he stood up and walked back out, he accidentally caught a glimpse of a corner with his peripheral vision, and he suddenly got goosebumps.
The servants did not dare to look any further and quickly withdrew.
When they arrived at the verandah outside, several men dressed as servants immediately gathered around them. Their clothes were only one level worse than his. Several people asked: "How is it? Is the master angry?"
The servant shook his head and continued to wipe his sweat.
"Hurry up and find him! If there is something wrong with the young master, you and I will not be able to escape... Even if he comes back, he may still have to suffer a physical torture."
One of the younger ones said strangely: "Maybe the young master went somewhere to have fun. Why are you so nervous, boss? I think he is quite kind, and he doesn't seem like an unreasonable person."
The servant sighed, "You haven't been here long, so of course you don't know..."
The young servant saw that the others looked informed, and his curiosity was aroused, so he asked more questions.
"What's wrong? What's wrong? Is there something I don't know? Tell me quickly!"
The others looked at each other, and the same servant from before said: "It's a long story, and I'll tell you slowly while we go find the young master. But it's agreed, you can just listen to what I have to say. , do you know that it is not allowed to be spread outside? In fact, these are just some rumors in the house, and they should not be taken as true..."
This luxurious mansion belongs to a wealthy businessman. The owner's surname is Tao, and everyone calls him Mr. Tao.
Mr. Tao has a wife and a son. The couple respect each other as guests and dote on their only son.
A few months ago, Mrs. Tao died of illness. Not long after, Mr. Tao married a house-filler who was thirty years younger than him.
She was truly a beautiful lady. Although she was only thirteen years old, she was very capable. She captured Master Tao's heart tightly and made the concubines in the backyard gnash their teeth with hatred.
It's just that this house filler is very precious to Mr. Tao. Almost no one has seen her true face, and she is very mysterious.
As for why she is said to be a beautiful lady, it is because if she were not beautiful, how could a man like Mr. Tao, who has met countless different types of women, become obsessed with her like this?
It's strange to say that usually the son of the original wife will keep a proper distance if he is not hostile to house filling, but the son born to Mr. Tao and his first wife gets along very well with this beautiful lady, if it weren't for the fact that the beautiful lady is younger than him How old are they? People who don’t know think they are mother and son.
Master Tao used to have a very gentle attitude towards his servants, but since he married Mei Jiao Niang, his temper has grown day by day and he will always punish the servants who have made mistakes. Therefore, the experienced servants in the mansion need to ask for help every time. When reporting, I will carefully choose my tone.
Like this big incident of "the young master is suspected to be missing", the servants who reported it all went there with trepidation. If something went wrong, their lives might be lost.
But he didn't expect that Mr. Tao didn't punish him. Maybe it was because Mei Jiao Niang was nearby.
"So boss, you have met the new wife?"
The young servant's face was filled with excitement, and he held the arm of the boss he was talking about tightly with both hands and asked.
The servant's face changed, as if he remembered something bad, he shook his head and said nothing.
"Old Ta, did you see something? Tell us! How beautiful is Meijiao? Could it be that she is a fairy?" Someone beside her laughed.
Seeing the obscene look on the other person's face, Lao Ta didn't know what he was thinking. He laughed and cursed: "Get out of here! If the master hears it, you will suffer the consequences!"
What he said was true. There was an ignorant young man who secretly said dirty things to Master Tao and several other accomplices before. I don’t know how Master Tao found out about it, and then he became very angry. , and finally those few servants were no longer in the house.
Everyone said that those boys were kicked out of the house, but Lao Ta didn't think so.
In Tao's house, Mr. Tao's study is a forbidden place.
Lao Ta was lucky enough to go in once, and it was that time that gave him a new understanding of the dangers of this pottery house.
He saw the young boys being escorted into the study with his own eyes, and then he didn't see anyone coming out. Those young boys seemed to disappear out of thin air, and then there were reports in the house that those young boys were being imprisoned. Rumors about being kicked out of the house.
At first, Lao Ta didn't feel scared. He was not in charge of the study area. Maybe some of the servants left when he didn't notice?
But later, the scene he saw with his own eyes completely dispelled his optimistic thoughts.
That time he went into the study and came out with a package.
Master Tao didn't tell him what was in the package, but he vaguely felt that the contents of the package felt like bones and were heavy.
Master Tao asked him to find a secret place to bury it, and he was not allowed to open it to peek.
Lao Ta did as he was told, but at the last moment he couldn't control his curiosity and opened the package.
Inside were snow-white skulls, trunk bones, and limb bones. The two black holes in the skull stared at him eerily.
Lao Ta was shocked at that time. He didn't know what he was thinking, but he actually counted.
Four skulls.
There happened to be four of those boys.
Lao Ta didn't dare to think any more and covered the dirt with trembling hands.
He didn't tell anyone about this, not even his own mother-in-law, for fear of causing trouble to himself and his family.
After burying the package, Lao Ta returned to the study. It was night, and Master Tao, who was supposed to rest in the dormitory, stayed in the study with his beautiful lady.
Lao Ta did not dare to leave without receiving orders, so he kept vigil outside the study door.
Mr. Tao is in his prime, like a dragon and a tiger, and his movements are a bit big.
Lao Ta was flustered and thirsty when he heard it outside the door. He didn't know why, so he walked to the window in a daze and poked a hole to peek.
He was the only one keeping vigil outside the door at that time, so he wasn't worried about anyone finding out.
He looked into the hole and suddenly his eyes widened, his heartbeat accelerated, and his lower body felt a little painful.
It turned out that Mr. Tao was sitting on the desk with Mei Jiao Niang working hard. The papers, inks, pens and inkstones on the desk were scattered, and some of them had fallen to the ground.
Because the study room was lit, half of Mr. Tao's butt could be clearly seen from the perspective of the old tower. Mr. Tao did not take off his clothes, except for his pants. The two beautiful white and slender legs of the beautiful girl were raised high on the On Master Tao's shoulders, two beautiful legs trembled and swayed with Master Tao's hard movements.
Just as her blood boiled with excitement, Mei Jiao Niang's beautiful eyes swept over her vaguely.
Found!
Lao Ta was startled and suddenly woke up.
But Mei Jiao Niang's eyes were so dark that it was impossible to see through them. Lao Ta was horrified to find that he couldn't move and could only watch Mei Jiao Niang smile strangely at him.
Then something happened that scared him to the core.
A swarm of flies flew from nowhere and filled the entire study. Master Tao moved unconsciously, causing the flies to lay squirming maggots on his hair, neck, and shoulders.
Lao Ta felt nauseated, and immediately found that he could move, and immediately left the window.
After all, he was a loyal servant. When Lao Ta got mad, he risked his life and rushed in, only to find that the study was empty, with only a lit candlestick sitting alone on the desk.
Lao Ta was completely confused, but he didn't dare to think too much and quickly exited the study.
He didn't notice at the time that two or three tiny maggots were lodged in his ear.
"I didn't see Madam. At that time, I was only focused on reporting back to the young master. I almost died. How could I have the time to look around to see if anyone else was there? Okay, okay! Go to work quickly and let everyone go! I'm still here I’m going to find the young master!”
Lao Ta drove everyone away angrily, but his mind kept thinking of the scene he had accidentally glimpsed just now.
Mr. Tao was sitting in the hall, and the beautiful girl next to him was wearing a black veil, and her pair of deep eyes were looking ahead blankly, like a lifelike and exquisite puppet, lifeless, which gave the old tower a very weird feeling. .
He shook his head uncomfortably, tried hard to put aside the scene he had just seen, and went to gather people to find the young master.
…
Yuelai Inn.
Zhu Yuanyu looked at the embarrassed little scholar with a smile and said, "Do you need to be responsible?"
"W-What?!" The little scholar blushed, "It's not necessary! Don't talk nonsense!"
When he woke up this morning, the little scholar found himself lying in Li Zhuangzhuang's arms. His clothes were a little disheveled. He thought he had suffered something indescribable, so he grabbed the confused Li Zhuangzhuang and asked for an explanation.
Just when Zhu Yuanyu came in, the little scholar shook his body and left Li Zhuangzhuang immediately, but it was still too late. Zhu Yuanyu had already heard and seen it.
Hence the above conversation.
Zhu Yuanyu was just joking. Seeing the nervous look on the little scholar's face, he couldn't help teasing him.
"Okay, I just came here to invite you to have breakfast together. You don't have to be like this-" Zhu Yuanyu looked up and down, "as if you are facing a formidable enemy."
The little scholar breathed a sigh of relief, and then couldn't help but feel troubled by his behavior.
Zhu Yuanyu didn't care about him so much. When the notice came, he left and followed him in a hurry. Before going out, he didn't forget to look back at the little scholar with an unpredictable look.
The little scholar felt as if he had received a huge blow, and his whole body suddenly fell into a depressed state.
He, he shouldn't have talked to his savior like this.
The little scholar grimaced and walked to the bed dejectedly. He had to take care of his classmates and couldn't leave at will to have breakfast——
Gululu...
But he was so hungry. The wontons he ate last night had been completely digested after a night. He rubbed his belly and wrinkled his nose.
Zhu Yuanyu went downstairs and saw that the shopkeeper of Yuelai Inn was surrounded by a group of people. Facing the menacing crowd, his face still looked calm and gloomy.
As if aware of Zhu Yuanyu's gaze, he slowly turned his head and glanced.
Zhu Yuanyu smiled at him, walked through the crowd and walked out of Yuelai Inn.
The feeble voice of the shopkeeper came from behind——
"This store will give you an explanation about the maggots... But if someone wants to use this to cause trouble, then don't blame me for being unkind... You are all regular customers, and you should know that the Tao family behind our store is not someone to be trifled with. ...I advise you to go back and think about it first, and weigh your own weight..."
Zhu Yuanyu raised his eyebrows and walked away without stopping.
The shopkeeper of Yuelai Inn glanced outside the door expressionlessly, then withdrew his eyes and picked up the tea cup and took a sip of tea.
