Value peace

Chapter 8 Afternoon Secret Words
Hearing Gu Xiyan's words, Hengyue could no longer contain the joy on her face.

In this way, it is considered that she is the girl's favorite and most trusted girl!
She happily bowed her knees to Gu Xiyan and said "Yes" more respectfully than usual.Then she got up and began to tell: "Xinghong, go and help the girl with the bed, so that the girl can take a rest for lunch; Mo Ju and Ta Lang are divided into two shifts to fan the girl. Although the room is cool, the eyes of the tent are too cold." It's too big, be careful that something stung the girl; when the girl wakes up from her lunch break, Xinghong will play with her; I will secretly look for Aunt Duan, if you haven't come back at dusk, you can go to Talang to bring the meal, Xing Hong and Mo Ju are staying with the girl in the room..." Things were arranged in an orderly manner, and she spoke clearly, Gu Xiyan couldn't help but secretly nodded.

Gu Xiyan woke up naturally after taking a nap, only to hear someone talking next to her ear: "Sister, don't be discouraged, Hengyue will be sixteen this year, and she will be released after two years at most. Besides sister, who else?" Gu Xiyan heard that it was Xinghong who spoke, and she resisted not turning her body, wanting to hear what they had to say.

Mo Ju sighed and said: "Sister Hengyue is a big girl, and I am not against her. I just remember the monthly rule of one or two per month."

Xinghong said softly "Yes", and said: "I know too, otherwise, my sister will use my monthly allowance first. Anyway, I am alone, so I don't need it!"

Mo Ju said: "Why don't you buy a needle and thread brain, how can you use your money, don't worry about this matter, let me think of a way?"

Xinghong came up with an idea: "Why don't you discuss with Sister Hengyue, I think she is also easy to talk to."

Mo Ju smiled and said: "She also has her difficulties. I heard from Talang that her father passed away when she was a child, and the clan uncles saw that her mother had only one daughter, so they adopted a cousin into her father's name. A few years after my brother came to her house, he took his parents to live with him, let them live in a thatched hut, and didn't give them food. Her mother had no choice but to go to Gu's house to work as a washerwoman. You see, Sister Hengyue usually eats Wearing speed...she wants to save money for her mother's old age!"

Xinghong said worriedly: "Then, what should I do?"

Mo Ju was silent for a while, and said: "Your sentence really reminded me, I think, it is better to ask Auntie Duan than to ask Sister Hengyue. The money in the girl's house has always been in charge of her. If you move it temporarily, where is the girl?" know……"

Hearing this, Gu Xiyan couldn't pretend anymore.She turned over, Mo Ju and Xing Hong immediately stopped talking vigilantly.Gu Xiyan sat up pretending to be sleepy, and asked vaguely, "What time is it?"

Mo Ju replied with a tense voice, "It's already three o'clock in the afternoon."

Gu Xiyan noticed that she said "three o'clock in the afternoon", and couldn't help wondering: "How do you know it is three o'clock?"

With a nervous face, Mo Ju took out a pocket watch from her pocket and handed it to Gu Xiyan, saying: "Sister Hengyue left this for me when she left, I just checked the time!"

Gu Xiyan took it over and took a closer look.

The platinum surface is carved with exquisite inscribed patterns, which is precious and magnificent.Open it and see that there is a twelve-hour dial inside, and the numbers used on it are Arabic numerals.

It seems that this world is much more advanced than I imagined!
Gu Xiyan thought to herself mockingly, and returned the watch to Mo Ju.

Mo Ju waved her hands again and again: "This thing is too expensive, let the girl keep it!"

Gu Xiyan smiled and said: "Since Hengyue gave it to you, you have to return it to Hengyue. I just borrowed it to take a look."

Only then did Mo Ju accept the pocket watch, and then waited for Gu Xiyan to wash with Xing Hong.

It may be because there was an inappropriate conversation before Gu Xiyan woke up, Mo Ju was more chattery than usual, she chatted with Gu Xiyan: "Second girl, just now Xinghong came in and told me that we A couple lived in the yard next door, that lady is so beautiful, she looks like a fairy descended to earth..."

In Gu Xiyan's ears, these words sounded like they were trying to cover up.

However, it's not a matter of life and death, something is chasing after someone.

Gu Xiyan said a perfunctory "Yes".

Mo Ju said with a slightly exaggerated tone: "I see that this couple is not on the right track."

Everyone has curiosity, and Gu Xiyan is no exception. She really wants to hear what Mo Ju will say.She said "Oh" again, obviously more interested than before.

Seeing this, Mo Ju seemed to speak more confidently, and said: "I ran out to see, they are very well dressed, and that lady is still wearing a pleated skirt of sky blue silk gauze, a hundred flowers, small clusters of flowers, that is today. Jiangnan weaves the new summer tribute. But they don't have a follower around them, and even the meal is a food box that the young master personally went to pick up."

A little maidservant could tell at a glance that the pleated skirt of azure gauze, white flowers and small balls of flowers was a tribute. Little Gu Xiyan also said that she was living very poorly.

Gu Xiyan couldn't help laughing.

Mo Ju thought that Gu Xiyan was laughing at her, and emphasized: "Really, I didn't lie to the girl, it's really a pleated skirt of azure gauze and a hundred flowers, exactly the same as the one that the empress gave to the second girl."

Gu Xiyan nodded with a smile, with a noncommittal look.

Seeing that Gu Xiyan didn't seem to believe what Gu Xiyan said to Mo Ju, Xinghong hurriedly added: "I saw it too, it's really the same as the girl's clothes."

Gu Xiyan smiled and said: "This doesn't mean that the couple came from a wrong path! They don't bring Suiyi, maybe the couple came out to play and don't want to be disturbed by others?"

Xinghong blinked her big watery eyes, and said in agreement: "Yes, yes, I say the same."

Mo Ju retorted: "If you want to relax, you should use a light-axle, two-wheeled mule cart. Why use a four-wheeled, two-axle van?"

Gu Xiyan didn't understand what she meant.

Mo Ju explained: "The light-axle two-wheel mule cart is small and not fast, but it is stable and not bumpy, and it is the best for short distances; the four-wheel two-axle van is large and fast, so it is the best." They are people who walk on wide post roads and are used to long-distance travel. If the son and wife are only out to relax, why use a double-axle carriage, and it is a double-axle carriage with six horses?"

Xinghong's big eyes rolled around, and she said shortly: "Everyone thinks riding in a four-wheeled carriage is the most important thing, maybe that Mrs. Madam is just to show off?"

Mo Ju clapped her hands and cheered: "Oh, you admitted it yourself, those young masters and wives are just trying to show off, they are not real nobles!"

Xing Hong became angry from embarrassment, and patted Mo Ju on the shoulder.

Mo Ju giggled and hid behind Gu Xiyan.

Xinghong blushed and said: "Second Miss, you can't be partial, help her..."

At this point, there is some joyful atmosphere.

Gu Xiyan looked at them with a smile and said nothing, and was about to speak when she suddenly heard a loud noise.

The three looked at each other.

Gu Xiyan's first reaction was that there was an earthquake. She stood up nervously and asked, "What's the sound?"

Mo Ju and Xing Hong were taken aback by her appearance, Mo Ju immediately reacted, and hurriedly said, "I'll go and have a look."

Gu Xiyan nodded: "Go and have a look."

Just as he was talking, there was another loud noise.

Gu Xiyan couldn't care anymore, pulled Mo Ju and Hong Xing and ran outside: "Let's go out first."

The three of them hurried out the door and heard another loud bang.

Gu Xiyan looked around, the source of the sound seemed to be in the east.

Xinghong said uncertainly: "It seems to be the sound from the Xiangyu Pavilion next door."

Gu Xiyan thought for a while and said, "Let's go and have a look!"

While Mo Ju followed up suddenly, she told Xing Hong: "You stay at home and look after the house!"

Xinghong replied worriedly.

It was talking about the next door, but it was actually about ten meters away from where Gu Xiyan and the others lived.The layout of the two courtyards is similar, both are high walls with white walls and blue tiles, small red-painted doors, and the side rooms lined up behind them form a wall of the courtyard.One door of the courtyards of the two families faces east and the other faces west, so that the rear windows of the wing rooms of the two families face each other.If it weren't for the towering old trees in the middle, everyone would be able to see each other's movements by opening the windows.It may be because of this that Gu Xiyan and the others could only hear the loud noise coming from the opposite side when they were in the room.

They ran all the way, and soon arrived at the Xiangyu Pavilion next door. Mo Ju stepped forward and knocked vigorously a few times, and shouted a few times, but no one came to answer the door.

When Gu Xiyan was thinking about whether to break in the door, there was a sudden "cracking" sound in the room, like the sound of smashing something, and there was a woman's low sobbing in between.

She and Mo Ju exchanged a look, and Mo Ju whispered: "Girl, let's just leave our business alone. Maybe that lady is just a prostitute in a small restaurant..."

It's good that Gu Xiyan didn't listen, but once she heard it, she became more determined to meddle in this business.If it was really a prostitute who was brought here by a client and encountered a pervert, I am afraid that she would not even say a word after being tortured to death.Whether you know it or not, since you know it, why just walk away... Gu Xiyan pulled Mo Ju's hand and headed towards the woods that separated the two courtyards.

There is no path in the woods separating the two courtyards, and wet moss grows under the trees and on the tree trunks.

The two of them approached the wing of the Xiangyu Pavilion cautiously, leaning on the thick ancient tree.

At this moment, a woman's mournful and panicked scream suddenly came from the wing room, like the last sound of a small animal before it died.

Gu Xiyan shuddered, her legs felt weak, and her heart was full of panic.

Mo Ju was not much better than Gu Xiyan, she tremblingly whispered in Gu Xiyan's ear: "Second girl, we, let's call someone!"

Gu Xiyan looked at the green moss on her feet and said, "Then go and call someone, I'll wait for you here."

Mo Ju widened her eyes and said, "How can it be? What if something happens to the second girl..."

Gu Xiyan interrupted her and said: "Go quickly, I'm afraid I'll slip and waste time. You are more agile than me, so go and come back quickly, remember I'm still here waiting for your rescue !"

What Mo Ju heard from Gu Xiyan made sense.

If the second girl is really asked to call for someone, maybe the second girl will run away by herself first.

She told Gu Xiyan a few words like "stay here and don't move", and then ran out of the forest with a light body.

(End of this chapter)