Liang Xifan ran out of the west courtyard with a panic all the way. After passing by several flower gardens, a peach forest, a few roses, and a water pavilion piled with Taihu stone rockery, he found a place in the camphor wood forest not far from the kitchen to hide the scrolls, and hurried back to the kitchen's ear room.

There were a few young men in the ear room fighting crickets, shouting each other to bet quickly.

As soon as Liang Xifan entered the door, everyone looked up at him and complained: "Where did you go? Did you fall into the cottage? Why did you take so long? We have been playing for several laps!"

"A Fan, have you been beaten in the prison of Qiantang County?" A thin young man with sharp mouth and monkey cheeks pointed at his head maliciously, "Why is it a bit unusual today?"

Liang Xifan glanced at him: "Get out of you! Pick up things! Your mind is broken!" As he said that, he took out a handful of money from his arms, "If you have money, get off, if you don't have money, get off, talk so much!"

When everyone saw Liang Xifan paying for money, they couldn't help but shouted louder and louder: "No wonder I've been there for the past half day, it turns out that I've gone to get the money!"

"We Afan is so happy! Come on, bet! Be quicker, or later, Madam Fan will ask us to work again!"

There was a night banquet today, and the mansion was busy, and they were playing here for a while.

Liang Xifan stepped on the stool with a smile, his face full of cheerfulness and courage to hide his worries and panic.

The day before yesterday, he was arrested in Qiantang County because he was involved in Gu Hui's case, and he was also scared by an ugly boy.

Later, his mother hurriedly asked Butler Liu in Pingzhang Mansion and gave him dozens of taels of silver to fish him out of the county jail.

In fact, he also had a suspected fraud charge on his head, but after all, Pingzhang Mansion has a great reputation and does not involve murders and murder cases. Besides, he is not the main culprit. Some people in Qiantang County Bureau turned a blind eye and took the property and released him.

To him, the kitchen of Pingzhang Mansion was like his own. As soon as he entered the kitchen this morning, someone secretly looked for him and asked him to go to Xianglou to get something out.

He thought it was just stealing something, and he did a lot of stealing things on weekdays, so he naturally agreed without any problem, not to mention a heavy wallet of silver.

Unexpectedly, he met a maid on the way and actually grabbed him and pulled his face towel. He was panicked and smashed the other party with a stone. He didn't even dare to take anything he wanted, so he could only pick up the scroll that the other party fell and escape.

He naturally knew that the Lanxiang Tower was full of rare things. At least he picked up a picture of calligraphy and paintings and returned the money to the other party, and said that he could not do the job. He would go to the dictionary and sell the painting himself, which would not be a waste of worry.

He comforted himself so secretly.

It’s a pity that he thought too simple!

After about two more incense sticks, the lunch break was over, and the servants were shouted to go to work.

Liang Xifan relied on his mother to have a meal and didn't have to work hard. He left him alone in the ear room and tinkered with the cricket for a while. He soon felt bored. He saw that the time to meet the entrusted person was about to come, so he packed up and went out.

There is a purple bamboo forest in the northeast corner of the East Courtyard, and behind it is a small firewood building piled with firewood and charcoal in West Lake. On weekdays, few people visit except for the kitchen fireworks. The firewood and charcoal are piled neatly, and the charcoal is piled up half a wall high.

Liang Xifan retrieved the scroll, avoided the eyes and came here quietly.

He sat on a pile of firewood and had nothing to do, so he opened the scroll and took a look. Seeing it, it was a beautifully-bounded picture of a lady. He thought that this would probably be worth a few dollars, so he happily packed it up.

Liang Xifan didn't understand why the other party asked him to steal the screen, but since the matter was not done, he also had his "professional ethics". It was hard to blame him for paying back the money to the other party. After all, they were all from the mansion and the future was long.

However, what he was most worried about was the maid who was smashed. He didn't know whether it was dead or alive. Seeing that there was no movement for a while, I thought it would be fine or no one noticed it.

Anyway, he made up his mind to refuse, and said he didn't know. Without evidence, no one could do anything to him!

He was thinking about it all, and suddenly he felt a numbness on the right shoulder of the wooden window. He suddenly realized that half of his body seemed to be unable to move. He was so scared that he couldn't jump up even if he wanted to-

Then a thin human figure that emerged from nowhere flashed into his eyes like a ghost. He fell to the left in fear, causing a pile of firewood to roll down from the pile, smashing him all over his face.

"Liang Xifan, we meet again!" A faint and mellow voice came into Liang Xifan's ears.

Liang Xifan was trying hard to save himself from the firewood. When he heard this, his heart skipped a beat. Then he felt a little familiar. When he got out of the firewood pile and saw clearly, he couldn't help but take a breath.

"You, you-" he stuttered and couldn't speak, his tongue finally turned and trembled, "Are you a ghost?"

What stood in front of him was the ugly guy from Qiantang County Bureau who taught him that he couldn't speak for a moment and scared him to cut off his tongue!

Zhao Chonghuan sneered, and when he raised his sleeves and used some magic, Liang Xifan felt that he stood up uncontrollably.

Liang Xifan looked around in shock and shock, but the feeling of paralysis of his left half of his body soon disappeared.

"Tell me, why are you going to Lanxianglou to steal the screen?" Zhao Chonghuan didn't talk to him and said straight to the point, "You know my methods, don't talk nonsense!"

Liang Xifan didn't dare to make up randomly. He stood up tremblingly and said hurriedly: "It was a little lady in this mansion who asked me to steal it! She gave me ten taels of silver! All I told the truth, if I don't believe it, the silver is still in my pocket."

"Do you know her?" Zhao Chonghuan did not move.

"It's Miss Qu'er from the West Courtyard!"

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Junan: After completing this chapter, I have to work for a while and then update it in the evening!
Chapter completed!