Peach Blossom at the Bottom of the Fan

Chapter 7
"Didn't you say you should take a good rest? Why did you get caught in the rain again? And you suffered so many injuries..." When he said this, Chu Mengsheng unconsciously turned his head to look at the girl lying on the wooden board.

In fact, he had heard about what happened at the gate of Gu's fan shop.For some reason, when he heard it, he remembered the figure he saw at the door.

At that time, I thought it was because he was thinking too much, but now it turned out that it was really this girl.I just don't know why this girl ran to Gu's door to make trouble.

Thinking of the low call that sounded like "Brother Meng Sheng", his heart felt a little tight for no reason.

"I'll put down this gold-chuang medicine, and you can ask some aunt to help you apply the medicine later..." Putting down the porcelain bottle in his hand, Chu Mengsheng turned to the wooden board, looked down at the girl who opened her eyes and looked at him, and her heart trembled down.

Take a closer look, this thin girl is born with delicate features, although now she looks inconspicuous with yellow and muscular complexion, but if she grows up, she should be a beauty, especially her eyes, black and white, although with unspeakable indifference, But it is extremely impressive.

Facing those indifferent eyes with a hint of mockery, Chu Mengsheng's heart tightened a little.After hesitating for a while, he asked in a low voice: "Why did you go to Gu's Fan Shop? You are so disobedient if you don't listen to brother!"

He asked casually, with a smile on his face, but Gu Sixiao was feeling bored and flustered.

Pursing her lips, she forced a smile, and said in a low voice, "The young lady of the Gu family helped me and my brother..."

With just one sentence, Chu Mengsheng's fingers on Gu Sixiao's wrist froze.

After a while, he forced a smile and said, "Really? The little lady of the Gu family has always been gentle and kind..."

"Yes, she has always been very gentle—" Gu Sixiao smiled and stared at Chu Mengsheng, but her voice was a little empty, as if it came from a far away: "She is so kind to people, I really don't understand Why would someone harm her—do you think so, Dr. Chu! Why, those people would talk about her like that? How could she do such a thing? Maybe, she was actually killed by someone? "

Raising his head suddenly, meeting Gu Sixiao's eyes, Chu Mengsheng's face turned red and white, and he said in a low voice after a while: "How could it be? How could someone harm her—you, you think too much..."

Although he tried his best to suppress it, Chu Mengsheng was really shocked at this moment.

What does this little girl know?How could you say such a thing?
Is the painting really...

Before he could think clearly about those words, he heard a low laugh.

Raising his head, the girl in front of him looked at him with a smile, and that smiling face couldn't see the terrible thing she said just now.

"That's right! The young lady of the Gu family is so nice—ah, Doctor Chu, the young lady told me that her nickname is the same as mine! Both are called 'Huaer'—isn't it a coincidence?"

Chu Mengsheng stood up suddenly, completely forgetting to hide the shock in his heart in a hurry.

Turning his face away, he forced a smile, "I, I'm going back first, there's still something to do in the clinic—little brother, the medicine is here, you can fry it as I said..."

Without even asking a few more words, Chu Mengsheng turned away and left in a hurry.

Beggar followed behind him, saw him off, turned back, and couldn't help but blame her: "You scared Dr. Chu..."

"Does this scare him? How timid..." Gu Sixiao smiled, her brows and eyes were curved, but there was no warmth in her eyes.

It's just that Chu Mengsheng can't accept the fact that they have the same name?It's really strange, how could she have thought that as long as she stood in front of him and said that she was Gu Sixiao, he would be ecstatic to believe her and accept her?
However, when she said that maybe the young lady of the Gu family was dead, Chu Mengsheng's expression...

Did Chu Mengsheng also have doubts?He should also think that his eldest brother is not the kind of person who would do evil things like rape and murder, right?

Anyone who is close to Big Brother will be suspicious, right?But it just so happened that no one stood up for the elder brother, and at the critical moment of life and death, he just believed it like that.

As long as he thinks of these, Gu Sixiao's heart hurts like a knife.But no matter how much she thought about it, she couldn't do anything now.

For several days, she was watched by beggars to recuperate in the temple.

Chu Mengsheng's medicine still worked. After taking a few doses, she felt less heavy on her body.She felt that she would be well soon, but the beggar was still worried.

"It's all you, why are you scaring Dr. Chu? Do you know that he is the only doctor who is willing to come to the temple—in fact, Dr. Chu is really a good person..."

"Yeah, he's a good person..." Apart from forgetting his feelings, retreating from the battle, and watching her family suffer with his hands, he is really a good person...

Smiling, Gu Sixiao didn't look at the beggar, but still lowered her head and scratched on the ground with a branch.

"What are you doing?" Beggar squatted beside her, looked around, and suddenly raised his head, "Is——writing?"

Turning her head, seeing the shock on his face and the look of envy or admiration, Gu Sixiao couldn't help raising her eyebrows.

"Want to learn to write? I'll teach you! Well, let's write your name first—you..."

There was a pause in the voice, seeing the beggar lowered his eyelids, with a sad expression, Gu Sixiao was a little embarrassed, but soon laughed: "Why don't I give you a name!"

"Really give me a name?" Beggar's eyes widened, with a twinkle in them.

He was always called beggar, beggar, even he himself took it as his own name.

Nodding and smiling, Gu Sixiao asked with a smile, "What's your last name?"

"Surname?" The beggar touched the corner of his mouth, "I don't have a surname—since I was born, I was begging for a living with an old beggar—I heard that he picked me up..."

Gritting her teeth, Beggar didn't say any more.

Gu Sixiao stared at his clenched fist, didn't ask any more questions, instead she tilted her head, thought for a while and asked with a smile: "How about your surname——Sun? The grandson of the prince and grandson..."

"Young master and grandson?" Beggar raised his eyebrows, watching Gu Sixiao write the word "Sun" on the ground with a branch, although he didn't know it at all, he still laughed, "This is 'Sun'? Young master and grandson, is it?" Doesn’t it mean that you are very rich, um, like those scholars who drink in big restaurants? Ya Nei?”

"This isn't—well, yes, those yamen, even more powerful than the yamen!" Gu Sixiao nodded with a smile, seeing the smile on the beggar's face, and kept chanting, "My surname is Sun, the son of the lord!" Sun", the heart that felt a little blocked at first also felt relieved.

"Tiancang—Sun Tiancang!" Writing these three characters on the ground, Gu Sixiao looked at the beggar with a smile, "Do you think this name is okay?"

"Tiancang? Tiancang Festival on the 25th of the first lunar month?" The beggar laughed: "Are you afraid that I will be hungry?"

"It has something to do with that, but Tiancang—" Gu Sixiao looked at the young man with a bright smile in front of him, his eyes narrowed, "Tiancang is the name of a star among the seven constellations in the West. Western Constellation The white tiger, the master of heaven, cuts down the innocent, kills the guilty..."

The young man who was still smiling happily lost his smile, looked at Gu Sixiao for a long time, and then laughed again, "Well, this name is good, I will be called Sun Tiancang--Sun Tiancang from now on!"

Seeing the bright smile on the young man's face, Gu Sixiao nodded, turned her head away, but raised her hand to wipe away the wetness from the corner of her eyes.

How she wished that there would really be a star descending to earth to clear up the grievances of her Gu family overnight, but it's a pity that it is an extravagant hope...

Loosening the branch in his hand, Gu Sixiao calmed down and wrote the words "Sun Tiancang" stroke by stroke on the ground.

"Niansun, Tian, ​​Cang—well, yes, that's it, I have to fold it here..." Teach the smiling young man how to write his name, Gu Sixiao turned his head, and scratched on the ground again go.

"Sun-Tian-cang... that's great! I also have a name, and I can write it! Girl-Huaer, how do you write that picture?"

Sun Tiancang turned his head and looked at the girl who was writing and scribbling on the ground, as if she didn't hear him, and couldn't help raising his eyebrows.

He knew that the one in front of him was no longer the little sister he had been protecting all along, but looking at that thin yellow face, he couldn't help but care about her.

"What is this writing? I just said, you are not in good health, you can't squat on the ground like this all the time, be careful and catch cold..."

Raising his head, Gu Sixiao was silent for a moment, then whispered: "It's better that you don't know..."

"Say something like that again, didn't you say that I'm your brother?" Sun Tiancang patted his chest boldly. Although he was small and not strong, his heroic spirit made Gu Sixiao smile.

"This, ah, I know—this is Gu, it's written on the old house..."

"It's Gu, the Gu family's Gu, Gu Liubai's Gu..." Gu Sixiao shook her head, put aside the bitterness, and lit the name she just wrote with a twig.

"This is Gu Liubai, this is Zhang Chunhua—well, that is the dead Mrs. Zhang..." After a pause, she continued: "I heard that Mrs. Zhang was also strangled to death. Same—so I thought, the person who strangled me that night must be the murderer——Tian Cang, did you really see nothing that night?"

Sun Tiancang frowned, thought and thought, but still shook his head, "That day, the girl was caught in the rain and had a fever all the time, so I couldn't go back to the ruined temple, so I had to take her to shelter from the rain under the eaves, and then the girl..."

Sniffing, he whispered: "Except for you, I didn't see anyone entering the Gu family's mansion."

Didn't see it?Then how did they get into Gu's house?Did Sun Tiancang fall asleep and miss it, or...

"Let me see! Maybe the murderer is a gangster who flew in."

Jiangyang Bandit?It is said that the strong man in the green forest who can go high and high may really fly in.

but……

Shaking his head, Gu Sixiao said lightly, "It can't be Jiang Yang's bandit."

Even if Jiangyang Bandit could afford the Seven Treasures Fan, her elder brother would rather die than reveal it.Moreover, if it is really Jiang Yang's bandit, how can he get in touch with Mrs. Zhang's family?

"Ms. Zhang is not an ordinary woman. She was a talented woman who was well-known in Beijing when she was young. Although she married into the Taifu's residence, the Taifu never used those principles to restrain her. Even when she was in Beijing, she often participated in poetry Meeting, discussing poetry with men, although she is now a widow and moved to Songjiang Mansion, but there is also a permanent poetry meeting in the mansion to entertain famous talents in Songjiang. My brother has been to her mansion several times..."

For her elder brother, participating in the poetry meeting was to meet friends based on literature, and he never had any half-separation thoughts, but after the incident, these have become evidence of ulterior motives.

Encircling the word "murderer", Gu Sixiao murmured: "This person must have attended Mrs. Zhang's poetry meeting, but who is it?"

She has already listed many famous talents in Songjiang, but no matter how she thinks about it, these people don't have the ability to make her elder brother succumb...

(End of this chapter)