In the next few days, Zhou Xiaodu began to follow Tu Yuanxiang, the gardener's wife.

Mrs. Tu's home lives in a small alley in the city, and is no different from other homes around it. If I have to say something strange, it is that there are no flowers or plants planted in the home, but I think it may be because I have seen too much in Sheng Mansion.

Take care of your mood at home.

Mrs. Tu lives alone. One of the two rooms in the house is empty, probably for her son Tu Zilu. Tu Zilu is now favored by Sheng Yuchi and lives directly in the Sheng Mansion, with a separate room.

After finishing work, everything was normal for Mrs. Tu. She returned home, washed her hands, changed out of her clothes, and started cooking. After dinner, she scrubbed herself, then turned off the lights and went to bed.

Nothing unusual.

Zhou Xiaodu was very patient and stayed on the wall of her house motionless all night.

There was no strange sound that night, only Madam Tu's snoring and the chirping of cicadas. When it was almost dawn, Madam Tu got up, washed herself, had breakfast, took a small bamboo basket filled with things, and went out.

Zhou Xiaodu looked at her chubby back, lightly falling from the hiding place, and thought to himself: If you go out so early, you obviously don't want to go to the Sheng family.

She followed Mrs. Tu all the way to a hill in the wild. There were guards guarding the foot of the mountain. Those guards were not wearing official clothes and should be private guards.

Tu Niangzi and the two guards at the entrance were obviously familiar with each other. When they saw Tu Niangzi's face, they just nodded and let Tu Niangzi in without saying anything else.

Zhou Xiaodu took a look at the sky at the moment. It was just dawning and the morning fog had not yet dispersed. When Lady Tu came down from the mountain and walked out of the mountain gate, she made a rough estimate: Lady Tu had stayed on the mountain for about a month.

Many hours.

Mrs. Tu said goodbye to the two guards and walked towards the Sheng's house with a small bamboo basket on her back. Calculating the distance, when she reached the Sheng's house, it was the time for her to start work.

Zhou Xiaodu quietly followed her back to Sheng's house. When she returned to her private room, she happened to meet Sheng Fengxiu and Magpie waiting outside the door.

Miss Shanda glanced at her dissatisfiedly and asked, "Master, where are you going? Let the students wait."

"I'm sorry, I felt a little unwell earlier, and I was afraid of troublesome people in your house, so I went out to seek medical treatment alone. Please wait for a long time." Zhou Xiaodu made an excuse casually.

Sheng Fengxiu could no longer complain now, "No need to worry about it. They are getting monthly money. Just send them a favor."

Zhou Xiaodu opened the door and invited them in, saying softly: "I'm not in good health and can't sleep well, so I don't want to disturb other people's dreams. Don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you."

While she was washing her hands and face, Sheng Fengxiu lowered her hands on the other side and said, "You have good intentions." Although these words came from the sincerity, there was a unique yin and yang aura when they came out of Miss Shanda's mouth.

Zhou Xiaodu didn't pay attention. He changed his clothes and came out to give her a lecture. He stayed up all night and stared at people. Although he was not in a bad mood at the moment, he still felt like staring at the dense ink characters and reading the boring principles.

It is inevitable to show a bit of laziness.

Not to mention that Sheng Fengxiu didn't like to hear it. If she was taught to get up early every day to listen to these bullshit principles about the three obediences and four virtues and being cautious in words and deeds, she probably wouldn't be able to bear it. Zhou Xiaodu thought.

She propped up her cheek, lazily raised her eyes, and glanced at Sheng Fengxiu.

The girl was reading a book with her head lowered, revealing two small knots tied on the top of her head. She was wearing an orange chest-length pleated skirt today. When she sat on the chair, the pleated skirt was pushed up a little, so that she looked like a

A chubby orange cat.

Zhou Xiaodu looked at the other party in surprise, "Why are you so good today?" Have you changed your gender?

Sheng Fengxiu raised his face in confusion, and when he realized what he was doing, he blushed, "I'm usually very serious, okay?!" She just insisted on going to class when her husband was feeling unwell today, and didn't want to bother her.

Just be extra serious.

Zhou Xiaodu flipped through the book in his hand and said coolly: "Then I will randomly check a passage. You should be able to answer it, right?"

Sheng Fengxiu: "..."

Seeing her deflated, Zhou Xiaodu laughed and said, "Forget it, I'm just teasing you, we'll stop here today, you can go back."

"Really?" Sheng Fengxiu couldn't believe it, "It ended so early?"

"Looking at how cute you are today, let me let you go out to play. What? Not happy? Why don't you stay and copy books?" the woman said slowly.

"No, no," Sheng Fengxiu shook his head like a rattle, "I'm going back, Master, have a good rest and don't worry about my affairs!" He hugged the book without stopping and left.

The magpie packed up the other papers and pens and followed the little orange cat.

Zhou Xiaodu shook his head and threw away the book in his hand. If Sheng Fengxiu didn't like learning, would she like teaching again? If the Sheng family hadn't been short of martial arts masters, she wouldn't have become a teacher and made it difficult for herself.

The other party usually listened to her and ignored her, but today she suddenly became interested in being a good student, which made her feel uncomfortable and simply stopped teaching. It would be more comfortable to spend some time catching up on sleep.

On the other side, Sheng Fengxiu walked all the way out, and then he realized belatedly, "Hey, magpie, did Master just praise me for being cute?"

The magpie nodded and complimented: "Yes, miss. Miss, she is indeed dressed cutely and cutely today. She is very lovable."

Sheng Fengxiu straightened the pleats of her skirt and shook her head happily, her tail almost raised to the sky. "She has a good eye for it. I am a naturally beautiful lady. She is loved by everyone and blooms as soon as she sees her..."

Zhou Xiaodu took a nap for a while. After getting up, he took out the tools and materials to disguise himself, and disguised himself as Tu Yuanxiang. Then he put on a costume similar to Tu Yuanxiang's.

It was really difficult to find the same clothes as Mrs. Tu was wearing today. Fortunately, Mrs. Tu and the guards only met in a hurry, and the guards probably couldn't remember the details.

Tu Niangzi is relatively fat, so Zhou Xiaodu needs to wrap a lot of cotton on his body and put some flesh-colored clay on his face to disguise himself as her. The weather is still quite hot now, so doing this is quite tiring.

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She dressed up as Mrs. Tu and came to the foot of the hill she had visited in the early morning. When the guards saw her, they were a little surprised, "Ms. Tu, why are you back again?"

Zhou Xiaodu made an embarrassed expression and said, "I blame my carelessness for leaving something on the mountain. I still need it today, so I took advantage of my lunch break and rushed back to get it."

The guard did not doubt that he was there and let him go, "Then go quickly, don't delay your work."

"Okay." Zhou Xiaodu nodded and walked quickly towards the mountain.

This mountain is very quiet, seemingly deserted, and the footprints on the ground are very simple, only the mark of Mrs. Tu.

Zhou Xiaodu followed Lady Tu's footprints and came to a flat area, where he saw a large area of ​​red.

She raised her head slightly and squinted her eyes in the sunlight, feeling a little surprised - is this, Yi Zhang Hong?

This place is covered with hollyhocks. This kind of flower grows upright and can grow up to ten feet tall. And because the flowers are mostly red, it is also called "Yizhanghong". It just so happens that the hollyhocks are blooming now.

season.

She thought it was something weird, but it turned out to be an ordinary-looking hollyhock, and she couldn't help but be surprised.

This hollyhock is an edible and medicinal plant. In addition to its beautiful appearance, it is planted in many places for viewing. It is not uncommon and is not poisonous.

Although it seemed harmless, Zhou Xiaodu did not dare to reach out and touch it directly just in case. After putting on his gloves, he pulled out a hollyhock.

She wanted to take one back and show Jiang Sibai what was wrong. There were so many Yizhanghong here, and one or two missing ones, they shouldn't be discovered, right?

Zhou Xiaodu lowered his body and prepared to remove the soil from the roots of the hollyhock, but his movements failed again.

The roots of this hollyhock are actually a strange dark red color, as if they are full of blood. The roots of marshmallows are a kind of good medicine. They are very common and look like ordinary rhizomes. But why are the roots of the hollyhocks here turned red?

Zhou Xiaodu didn't think too much and stuffed this one-foot-tall red hollyhock into his clothes. At this time, Lady Tu's figure showed its advantages. She stuffed such a tall hollyhock into her clothes.

You can't even see it through the clothes.


Chapter completed!