Yunqi didn't know how to find a four-wheeled chair.
Qiu Chan happily pushed Lu Anran to the front yard and living room. Once inside, there were two girls.
Besides He He, the other person had a darker complexion, a strong frame and a strong figure, with innocent eyes and a bit of timidity.
"Miss Lu, are your injuries feeling better?" He He's eyes showed worry and his expression looked sincere.
Lu Anran nodded to her and said, "Thank you for your concern. It's okay."
Qiu Chan was not very good at controlling the four-wheeled chair. When moving forward, it accidentally got stuck in a gap in the floor, and the inertia threw Lu Anran forward.
Yun Qi picked it up easily and smiled: "So enthusiastic, do you throw yourself into your arms as soon as you come up?"
Qiu Chan opened her eyes wide and screamed in her heart, and quickly helped Lu Anran sit down on the chair next to her, complaining: "Your Majesty, this thing is not very useful."
Yunqi wrote lightly: "Make it again."
Lu Anran smoothed the hem of her skirt and quickly stopped her: "As long as it works, it's not necessary."
"That's right, being prepared is bad luck." Qiu Chan pushed the empty chair out and went to the kitchen to make new tea.
In the hall, a strange little girl held He He's arm tightly and secretly glanced at Yun Qi and Lu Anran from time to time, looking curious and nervous.
He He patted her comfortingly and saluted: "Mr. Yun and Miss Lu, please forgive me. Xiu Fang rarely goes out to meet people and has a somewhat introverted personality."
Hearing this, Lu Anran raised his eyes to take a closer look at Xiufang, "That girl who was lost in the forest that day?"
"Yes." He He's attention turned back and forth between Yun Qi and Lu Anran. Yun Qi's distant and indifferent eyebrows in the past few days were still in front of his eyes. See you again today, it is a handsome, lazy and casual noble man. , I guess it’s not that he is naturally easy-going, it depends on who he is in front of.
Yun Qi knocked on the table with his jade bone fan, and said lazily and uninhibitedly, "You can talk now."
Hehe brought his embroidery workshop to Yunfu Courtyard today mainly for one thing, "Xiufang saw Miss Zhou last night."
"Which Miss Zhou?"
"Miss Zhou Pei of the Zhou family, the richest man in Diqiu." When Hehe said that name, Xiufang trembled visibly and her face turned pale.
Yun Qi supported his head with two fingers, raised his gaze slantingly upward, and said with a soft smile: "It turned out to be a ghost."
As we all know, the Zhou family was wiped out. One hundred and forty-nine members of the family, including Zhou Pei, were not spared. The only one who survived, Butler Zhou, has now become a major suspect here in Yunqi.
Xiu Fang was born strong and courageous. She bit her lip and said with a sad face: "It's true. I was late selling embroidery in the city yesterday. Who would have thought that I saw a figure on the way. When I looked at him, it turned out to be Zhou." Miss." She was so frightened that her legs went weak on the spot and she almost fainted.
Lu Anran asked: "Did you see clearly?"
"It was a bit dark, but the moonlight shone brightly on her face, which made her look so pale." Xiu Fang was shaking like chaff, her teeth chattering, "It was white with a hint of green, as if she had stepped out of the underworld."
She knew she shouldn't be thinking wildly at this moment, but when she suddenly heard the word "moonlight", Lu Anran's mind instantly flashed to Yun Qi's charming and handsome profile under the moonlight last night, speaking in an almost coaxing tone that disturbed her mind. Discourse.
Lu Anran did not give an answer because she could not confirm his and her true intentions for a while.
A slender white hand with sharp joints waved in front of her, accompanied by Yun Qi's low-smiling voice: "Are you scared?"
Lu Anran shook his head, his eyes returned to clarity, and he raised his eyes and said, "How can I be sure it's Miss Zhou? Maybe it's someone with a similar appearance."
Xiufang pursed her lips for a while and affirmed: "I gave Miss Zhou an embroidery sample. She has a small mole under her mouth. It's impossible to admit her mistake."
"The Miss Zhou you saw went out of town like you?"
"No, she seems to be entering the city." Xiu Fang frowned, with some doubts in her expression, "But the city gate will be closed at that time..." Her shoulders shrank, so it must be a ghost.
Yunqi's index finger traced across his brow bone and raised the corner of his lips, "You were shocked when you saw her. How did that Miss Zhou behave?"
Xiu Fang thought to herself that I was scared to death, how could I care so much. After thinking hard for a long time, she said with sincerity and fear: "The ghost will not make a sound."
Yun Qi and Lu Anran looked at each other and fell into silence at the same time. Are they really ghosts?
He He sighed and said: "Originally, this matter was too unbelievable, and Xiu Fang felt that no one would believe it if she told it, but I thought that Mr. Yun was investigating the Yaksha murder case for the Zhou family, so I thought it might be of some help to you. "
"The dead will not be resurrected." Lu Anran said.
He He's eyes flashed and he said firmly: "Xiu Fang will not lie."
Lu Anran raised his eyes slightly, knowing that Hehe had misunderstood her words, but he did not spend any extra words to explain.
Yun raised his eyebrows, turned his face towards the person, and a smile of unknown meaning passed across his red lips, "Do you think someone is pretending to be a ghost? Otherwise, it will really be a ghost."
He He was stunned for a moment, but he reacted later. Yun Qi answered Lu Anran's words, and was immediately shocked by the tacit understanding between the two.
Holding the jade bone fan in his backhand, he stood up and said, "Regardless of whether she is real or fake, Miss Zhou, as long as someone shows up, at least it's not a bad thing."
Lu Anran nodded: "If there is anyone in the world who knows Miss Zhou best..."
Yun Qi chuckled, his peach-blossom eyes slightly raised his eyebrows, and his eyes moved as he said: "Catch a 'real ghost' and let Butler Zhou recognize him as a relative."
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Housekeeper Zhou found that several of the offerings placed on the incense table in the past two days kept disappearing from time to time. For example, a plate of fresh peaches was put on the table in the morning, but one was missing for no reason.
He took the plate out and turned it around, and saw a clear row of tooth marks on the other peach.
"Master Ma, what's going on?"
Ma Dan opened his eyes, saw the tooth mark and his eyelids twitched invisibly, he forced his face to look serious and said: "This is a good thing, it means that the god has come here, listened to the Dharma ceremony, and accepted your incense offerings. Your wish will be fulfilled."
Housekeeper Zhou didn't suspect that Ma Dan and Xun Qing were stealing the food, after all, they couldn't get along with each other.
With doubts in mind, Butler Zhou had to change the fruit plate and returned to the inner room, his face so gloomy that it could drip.
Above the beam, Lu Taotao covered her mouth and snickered. She flicked her index finger and flicked the peach core out of the window.
Butler Zhou sat with his head bowed for a moment and suddenly stood up. Lu Taotao hung half of his body down and immediately retracted, almost coming face to face.
After leaving the room, Butler Zhou returned to his usual expression and waved to Xunqing, "Little Master, do you still want to eat the pastry from last time?"
Xun Xun made a fool of himself with his hands and puffed up his cheeks, feeling a little annoyed. He was not a child, how could he be tempted by this little appetite every time.
His little face tightened, and he said seriously like an adult: "Thank you very much, donor, but Master once said that there is no need to have too much desire for food and drink, and you should not be greedy."
Butler Zhou's face twitched, and he laughed dryly and said, "You are indeed a man of enlightenment."
"Does the donor have something to ask me?"
Butler Zhou's eyes darkened, and he said with a smile: "I heard that the maid from Master Yun's house came again today, but unfortunately I didn't meet him. Last time, the young master said that traces of Yaksha were found in the forest, and I wanted to ask him a favor. What happened? I have an idea."
Lu Taotao used the tip of his tongue to try hard to hook the peach flesh stuck in the deepest part of his teeth, and sneered at Butler Zhou's words. He didn't encounter anything, even though he was hiding in the room and stretching his neck to see it.
"Tsk, I just think children are easy to deceive."
Xunqing tilted his head and thought for a long time, then suddenly clapped his hands, "Oh, by the way, Sister Qiuchan said that the government wanted to search the mountain."
Butler Zhou laughed, "The Diqiu Mountains are densely packed. It's not easy to search. It won't take a year and a half to complete the search."
"Of course there is a target." Xunqing knitted his delicate brows and said, "Last time we were hunting, the guards discovered caves where people had lived, and there were many traces in the forest. They must be very confident."
Afterwards, he comforted Butler Zhou and said, "Don't worry, we'll catch him soon."
Butler Zhou stood still, not even knowing when Xunqing left.
Lu Taotao applauded secretly, the little Taoist priest was quite good at fooling people, and conveyed everything she said clearly.
In fact, Qiu Chan simply cared for Xun Qing as a child and would give him things to visit from time to time. These words were all told to Lu Taotao by Yun Qi that day, and Lu Taotao found an opportunity to reveal them to Xun Qing privately.
Xunqing bowed to the Patriarch of the Sanqing Dynasty and said silently in his heart: "Buddha Amitayus, I didn't lie."
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It's summer, the temperature is getting higher day by day, and the heat and sun are faintly visible.
Lu Anran had lunch and sat under the big locust tree to enjoy the cool air. The "Qianjin Pharmacopoeia" in his hand was almost turned to the end, and there were more and more annotations recorded in another booklet.
While he was thinking hard about an acupuncture picture of the human body, a dark shadow came down from his hood.
"How can a man with an ominous face take the body of a man so seriously?" Yun Qi casually lifted up his robe and sat down, sneering lightly.
Lu Anran looked away from the acupuncture points, looked at the outline of the human body outlined by simple lines, and looked sideways, "Why does everything change from the prince's mouth?"
"You want to say that this prince is not serious."
A slight smile appeared at the corner of Lu Anran's mouth, but quickly stopped, "This is a map of acupuncture points."
Yun Qi glanced over faintly, "Do you use the four Shu points on your back to treat internal injuries? Your heart as a doctor has not been extinguished yet."
"Just take a look." Lu Anran put down the last stroke and placed the pen on the pen holder.
"Oh?" Yun Qi picked up the pendant of the jade bone fan with his index finger and pretended to be confused: "Who has suffered internal injuries recently? It seems... only the prince."
"The prince may not necessarily think that I have regained my medical skills for the sake of the prince."
"Isn't it?"
"You overestimate me." Lu Anran pressed the corner of the book and said, "Your Majesty, come here and want to discuss medical skills with me?"
Yun Qi leaned forward with his hands on the table, raised an arc at the corner of his mouth, and narrowed his eyes, "Otherwise... fall in love?"
Lu Anran's fingers were messed up, and the summer wind blew open the pages of the book with a rustling sound.
Guanyue regretted jumping down. Couldn't he have ruined the prince's good deeds?
Yun Qi and Lu Anran looked over together, and Guan Yue took a few steps back with a stupefied expression, "Subordinate, will you come back later?"
"Come back." Yun Qi said angrily.
Guan Yue lowered his head and reported, "Lu Taotao said that Butler Zhou has rarely gone out of his room in the past two days except for going to the incense shop and bringing back a box of pastries from Chongshanfang."
Yun Qi raised his eyebrows, "It's just that it costs a lot of incense and candles to do the work. Why do gods still care about human cakes?"
Lu Anran said: "The pastries at Chongshanfang are extraordinary."
"Who else has a special liking for Chongshanfang's pastries?"
The two looked at each other and almost said in unison: "Miss Zhou!"
Yun Qi waved away the jade bone fan and said in a low voice: "Keep an eye on Butler Zhou."
