No one had time to care about why the young marquis Feng Qing and Lu Taotao appeared here for no reason. Even the air froze at Lu Anran's words.
Nangong Zhi's face straightened and he raised his right palm, "Qian Xiaowei, please guard the intersection while Prince Yun and I go to check. The others will wait where they are."
The atmosphere suddenly became tense, and the unexperienced students present looked at each other, somewhat uneasy.
Housekeeper Zhou could no longer hold back and stamped his feet on the spot, "Is something really going to happen? Master, Master..."
Really anxious, Butler Zhou already sensed something was wrong. He gritted his teeth and rushed out without waiting for Nangong Zhi to say anything more, heading towards the door.
As Lu Taotao passed by, she said, "The old man's legs and feet are very nimble."
Yun Qi tilted his head and met Lu Anran's eyes. The latter frowned slightly and nodded solemnly.
Sighing, Yun Qi tapped his forehead with the jade bone fan, and thought to himself: Don't be so evil, you will be mourned as soon as you go out.
Several people followed, the door opened wide, and Butler Zhou stood in front of the high threshold in a daze.
Lu Taotao squeezed his head out of the crowd and looked forward, "What? There's no one there."
The mountain wind penetrated from front to back, howling and roaring at the empty gate, rolling up a bunch of residual leaves into the air, and then scattered around.
Nangong Zhi's heart just dropped, "Fortunately, it was a false alarm."
Butler Zhou murmured: "The door opened by itself."
"Is there a ghost?" Lu Taotao's eyes were bright, and he grabbed Butler Zhou and asked, "Old man, have you seen a ghost?"
"No, no..." Housekeeper Zhou didn't know whether to reply to her or to himself, "I didn't touch it, it opened by itself."
Yun Qi chuckled: "There really is a ghost."
They stayed for too long, and the students behind them were extremely curious and gathered around them when they saw that there was nothing special going on.
"Why is there no one there? Where is this family?"
"Maybe he ran away secretly and landed the old housekeeper in the village."
"It's so unethical."
"After all, I'm getting older, so I don't have to have another mouth to feed."
"I think the Zhou family deliberately kept the old housekeeper around to confuse Yaksha and create the illusion that they didn't leave!"
…
One person, one mouth at a time, analyzed it in a formal way.
Feng Qing rubbed the ground with his shoes. He didn't know what was stained on them. It was sticky and disgusting. He couldn't bear to take it off and said with a raised eyebrow, "Don't look, there is no one in this house."
Nangong Zhi thought of something and went to Feng Qing, "Little Marquis, where did you step on it just now?"
Feng Qing and Nangong Zhi had met several times in the capital, so they were friendly and said, "Backyard." He wanted to go to the side yard to look for horses, but there were no ghosts, so he took a walk around the backyard.
Lu Anran asked: "Didn't you enter from the front yard?"
Lu Taotao and Feng Qing said at the same time, "Why do you use the front door to go to the backyard?" Of course, open the back door.
The confident look of these two people instantly silenced the group of people present - do you think this is your own back garden?
Someone pointed at the sole of his shoe and said, "This color looks a bit like blood..."
Feng Qing lowered her head, her body froze instantly, and she kicked off her shoes in a hurry.
Nangong Zhi stepped forward to pick it up and asked everyone, "Can you tell the difference?"
Although I told everyone, everyone knew that the main thing is to ask the students of the Medical Sect, how do other people understand those things.
The disciples of the Medical Sect looked at each other. One was afraid that it was human blood, the other was afraid that it was human blood and thought it was animal blood, and the third was that it was animal blood but thought it was human blood.
To put it bluntly, I don’t have the confidence to distinguish.
Princess Ding'an smiled and said in a strange tone: "Don't we have a great doctor here?"
Lu Anran immediately received all the attention.
She looked back with her brows unmoved, then calmly took the shoes from Nangong Zhi, smelled them first, looked at them, and shook her head: "Black dog blood."
It was a false alarm, and everyone reacted in hindsight, "I just said, it doesn't look like human blood to me."
"Bah bang bang~" Lu Taotao clapped his hands three times and said with an innocent smile, "Wow, the people in Ji Xia Palace are really good at playing chess."
Everyone doesn’t understand, what does this have to do with playing chess?
Lu Taotao tilted his head, blinked his big eyes and said, "He is very good at using horses and cannons."
Everyone: "..."
Baby, don't think you didn't hear that you were mocking me!
Butler Zhou had come to his senses and walked in quickly while calling the master. However, he searched everywhere and found no one at all.
He almost collapsed to the ground and said in a daze: "Did everyone leave?"
Others thought that this old man was pitiful. He had been a loyal servant all his life, and then he asked his master to do something for him.
Princess Ding'an sneered: "Oh, it's just an empty house. Someone just pretended to be a ghost, and it really scared you."
Lu Taotao made a face at her, and almost hit Princess Ding'an's nose with the half-eaten carrot, "Look what I'm doing, you want to eat my carrot, I'll give it to you."
The corners of Princess Ding'an's mouth trembled with anger, and she was afraid of getting angry. She vowed in her heart that she would cut this wild girl into pieces when she came back.
Yunqi stood close to Lu Anran and whispered in each other's ears: "Do you smell it?"
"Yeah." Lu Anran rubbed her nose. She was sensitive to smells. Although there was only a trace, there was no mistaking it. "It's not here..." She raised her head, turned around, and suddenly her eyes were fixed. somewhere.
Yun Qi tapped Butler Zhou on the shoulder with the jade bone fan, "Where is that place?"
"Ah?" Housekeeper Zhou looked in a daze, and then looked at it, and continued to say frustratedly: "It turned out to be an ancestral hall, but something happened to the family later, and the master invited the statue of the Patriarch of Sanqing there, and specially changed it to Sanqing. Residence.”
There is no Buddhist or Taoist palace in the house, so it is called a residence.
While talking, Butler Zhou remembered something, "By the way, after the young lady became confused, the master also sent her there, saying that with the blessing of the Sanqing Patriarch, the young lady could return to normal as soon as possible."
Yunqi's eyes moved slightly and he smiled slightly: "Since there is no one, let's go worship God."
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It is no exaggeration to say that the main residence of the Zhou family occupies half a hilltop.
Starting from the foot of the mountain and winding up, there is a large flat mountainside where the main residence is, and then a large back garden is opened up. The most ingenious thing is that the specially opened yard in the backyard actually introduces hot spring water, so you can soak in it. Watching the moon in hot springs and playing with flowers in your free time are both elegant and fun.
The students who once underestimated the village villagers were stunned and amazed.
Everything else was fine. Yunqi was a little interested in the hot spring water, "I really enjoy it."
Nangong Zhi paid more attention to the courtyard architecture. "The entire mansion is exquisitely designed, with no redundant and prominent parts. It lives close to the mountain and blends in."
The students sighed: Look, this is the huge gap between Shao Fu and the prodigal!
Only Feng Qing said with a arrogant tone, "You two have never seen the world like the little dwarf."
On the way, Butler Zhou introduced to everyone, "The ancestral hall is built on the top of a mountain. I asked a Feng Shui master to calculate it. The land there is high, with good wind and water, which can protect the family's peace and prosperity for the descendants."
Lu Taotao pulled the bent branch loose, and the branch bounced back and hit Housekeeper Zhou on the forehead. She giggled and said: "What Feng Shui master is obviously a liar, isn't this not enough to protect you?"
Yun Qi Zheng'er Bajing said: "Maybe his surname is Zhang."
Others couldn't understand what it meant. Lu Anran and Feng Qing thought of the swindling Zhang Tianshi at the same time. It seemed that he was not the only one who swindled and deceived in the world.
About an hour later, with their legs almost paralyzed, the students finally arrived in front of the Houshan Ancestral Hall.
"I can't, my leg is broken, let me take a breath." Lu Tong sat down on the ground regardless of his appearance.
Most of the students in Jixia Palace are of noble status and have followed etiquette since childhood. Even after entering Jixia Palace, it is a place where rules are followed everywhere, and there is no bad habit of sitting anywhere.
Some people couldn't hold on and sat down, and some held on for dear life. Even if their legs were broken, they would never lose the pride of aristocratic families.
"The ancestral hall is usually closed. Apart from cleaning the house, only at certain times will the Master lead the Zhou family to offer incense and worship." Housekeeper Zhou wiped off a handful of sweat, pointed to the house in front and said, "But the statue of Sanqing has been moved here. After that, the fragrance needs to be released every day, so the outside door is not closed."
The Zhou family's ancestral hall is also different from other homes. It is surrounded by high walls and has a very grand carved door. It is located on the top of the mountain. Standing at the foot of the mountain and looking up, it really looks like the Cloud Palace.
"Young people don't care whether they have the destiny to bear such nobility." Feng Qing ordered one of the guards who carried him up the mountain to lie down. He sat on the person's back and spoke in a tone that didn't deserve a beating.
Others couldn't stand it, and they complained in their hearts. Even Princess Ding'an climbed the mountain by herself. He was so delicate that he was said to have a short life, so why wasn't he dead yet?
Princess Ding'an raised her red lips and said, "No one here is as valuable as the young Marquis."
Feng Qing brushed the hair off her face and said mockingly: "Zi Sangyan, you're not married yet?"
Princess Ding'an immediately heard that he was insinuating that she was pursuing Nangong Zhi, and her expression immediately turned cold, "Feng Qing, shut up."
Feng Qing sneered: "Heh, are you afraid of you?"
Lu Taotao clenched his fists and shouted excitedly: "Let's fight, let's fight..."
Nangong Zhi slapped away Lu Taotao, who didn't mind the matter, and stood between the two of them, "After all, this is in front of someone's ancestral hall, so don't make any noise."
The students nodded, yes, Nangong Shaofu still knows etiquette and justice.
Yun Qi secretly said to Lu Anran, "See, you can win people's hearts."
In the distance, Mo Yan bit a grass root and wondered: "Why do I see the Crown Prince having trouble getting along with Nangong Zhi, and complaining to the man named Lu at every turn? When did the Crown Prince become so childish?"
Guanyue twitched her lips, "This is a kind of fun."
"What?" Mo Yan was so surprised that the grass roots fell out of his mouth, "The prince and Nangong Zhi are having sex?"
Guanyue: "...eat your grass."
Over there, Lu Anran's two words made Butler Zhou and everyone suddenly fall silent.
She said: "Since the gate is not closed on weekdays, why is it closed today?"
Butler Zhou opened his mouth, but before he could say more, Lu Anran said again: "The smell of blood comes from inside."
