Cao Xiwan kindly asked her daughter to go to bed early, and she reluctantly left Baihua Hall.
There was a thick shadow of the locust trees in the back hall, so she crept past Granny Song without noticing her.
She went to find her biological mother.
She squatted in the grass near the second gate, with the shadow of the rockery reflected in the desolate moonlight. She waited until Mrs. Wu was on patrol before she quietly emerged from the grass.
"Mom." She whispered.
As expected, her mother was bullied again and was on patrol alone.
Originally there were three women in a class.
"Mom." She whispered.
"Xiao...Xiao Wan?" Aunt Wu was startled. She hesitated and looked around, "Is it Xiao Wan?"
"It's me." She jumped forward, pulled her mother, and ran to the rockery cave next to the second door. The mother and daughter squeezed together, "Mom, has Yuci come to see you recently?"
Her mother was extremely happy to see that her daughter seemed to be alive and kicking. Even though she was too sneaky and looked like a bad house slave who committed a thief in the middle of the night, Aunt Wu felt relieved. When her daughter asked this question, her mother shook her head in astonishment: "Jade Ci
?No."
"Did the Marquis find you?"
She also shook her head.
Cao Xiwan actually had doubts about whether the reason why the Marquis held the whole family was because of his parents.
For example, her father.
If she were the Marquis, she would have broken her father Cao Xueyu's legs with a wooden board and thrown her into the street to vent her anger, making him cry every day.
There can't be anything wrong with her mother.
She looked at her mother carefully. Aunt Wu looked a lot like her, but her mother was too honest.
"Why are you alone?"
"They were fine after drinking. I just bumped into the steward, Mrs. Su, and she asked. I said they had just gone to the toilet."
"..." Aunt Su also knows that you always say it's okay, it's okay every day. If anything happens, it's all your fault!
Her mother is still such an honest lady.
Cao Xiwan could only give her mother a lot of words, and repeatedly checked the Biying Shuangtian she carried with her to make sure that all the hidden weapons were working properly. She could kill several people at any time.
Aunt Wu saw that her daughter was in good health, unlike when she was in a coma during the day. Aunt Wu was already thankful to God. She quickly agreed to them one by one, wiping her tears again: "Let's leave the Hou Mansion early. Go out and do it.
A little business. I can make money to support you. You don't have to suffer such injuries again."
"Hmm. Mom, do you keep our family's registration change documents with you?"
"Here, you told me to keep it, and I sewed it into the back of the skirt."
"Okay, mother -" she thought for a while, "we will leave the Marquis Mansion and not live in Jinling in the future. We will find another place to do business. Will you be sad if you can't see your uncles in the future?"
Aunt Wu cried: "If you beat them less and ignore them, I won't worry about them anymore."
"oh."
Her mother is really.
Fortunately, her mother at least did not feel that her uncles would starve to death if her sister no longer sent large and small packages to her parents' home.
"Xiao Wan, should we leave? Or -" her mother held back, looking at her daughter's face, Cao Xiwan knew that her mother was probably trying to give her uncles some of the valuables at home that she couldn't take away.
Walk.
Cao Xiwan thought, if I want to give it, give it all to Ting Niang, Liu Ying and the others. Why should I give it to those uncles who are eating and taking everything?
She touched the golden beaded handkerchief that Mother Chen had given her in her waist pocket, but still felt uneasy about handing it over to her mother to keep.
If her mother turned away and gave it to relatives, that would be the end of it.
Although she had made other preparations, this money could be used for emergencies. Besides, if she left Jinling City and went to the countryside to find a job in a government office, she would not be able to save this money.
Cao Xiwan sighed and watched her mother leave.
On a warm spring night, Aunt Wu was holding a lantern and banging a wooden clapper under the starry sky. She felt relieved when she thought of her daughter, and followed her daughter's instructions. After walking around, she became energetic and shouted: "Be careful of the lights——"
She thought that her mother was just an ordinary night watch lady in the Hou Mansion.
The only suspicious person is my father.
Wutong Courtyard of Hou Mansion.
It was empty and deserted.
She sneaked into the house where her father lived. She knocked on the window but received no response. She lowered her head and took a closer look. The door was unlocked.
"father?"
She pushed the door, it creaked slightly, and the door opened. It was dark inside, but no one responded.
This person is actually not here.
She immediately sneaked in and searched his house inside and outside. Sure enough, she found out that he had stolen a few pieces of red palace brocade from the house at home last time and Liu Ruhai had seen it. Who was his father giving random things to?
Already.
His father still had an accounting book.
She covered the ebony lattice window with a dark blue men's coat and lit a lamp.
It was recorded in the book that several pieces of red palace brocade were actually given to the shopkeeper of Siwei Hall of the drug store. She was so angry that she died.
The shopkeeper of Siwei Hall used to work under her, and she was the one who arranged this job. If anything happens, she can just say hello. What kind of gift can I give, but it is still such an expensive gift.
She can figure it out with her feet. Her father wants to be a sitting doctor and part-time job.
Ever since her father almost prescribed the wrong prescription and was persuaded by Liu Ruhai to go home from Liuji, he still refused to give up because he just wanted to satisfy his desire to become a doctor. But he was so stubborn, why didn't he go find a master and learn from it?
study?
But his father insisted on causing harm to others, and she had already prepared for this. She rubbed her eyes and saw several other records in the book in disbelief:
Her father wrote down which days he would follow Qin Meng, which days he would follow Manager Lian Er, and which days he would follow Mr. Hou.
How many days did her father follow the fifth master and the sixth master...
So and so.
Her father is more like a fanzi than her, an old fanzi in Jinyi.
She was stunned.
But she was suddenly startled. Under the dim light, she seemed to see a few words in the records that she had never expected. Her father seemed to have seen something he shouldn't have seen.
She jumped up and wanted to go out to find her father. Could it be that she was silenced?
As soon as she went to open the door, her father came back. He hit his head and was startled by his daughter: "Xiaowan, are you okay?"
When she saw that he was still alive, she breathed a sigh of relief.
"Dad, where have you been?"
"Just take a walk around the house."
"..." He lied. He should have gone near the study room. He was staring at the Marquis.
Cao Xiwan understood that the second manager Lian must have discovered it. Qin Meng must also have discovered it.
She wanted to cry but had no tears. Her father was like this and would have died many times according to the rules of Jinyi Yamen. Could he be more reliable?
But Cao Xiwan knew very well that her father could not be a spy.
Not such a stupid spy.
When Liu Ruhai returned to Luoyuan, she also had a headache.
He bumped into Mr. Cao.
This father squatted in the corridor near the outer study room, which frightened him greatly. He knocked him unconscious at that time, dragged him back and placed him in the ditch behind the Wutong Courtyard.
Father Cao didn't see him, but as soon as he tried to sneak away from Father Cao, he saw several night watchmen passing by the Langgou area.
If he hadn't knocked him out just now, he would have been discovered!
Liu Ruhai also sighed. Father Cao has not revealed anything in the Hou Mansion so far. How many people has she taken care of secretly?
Especially the company manager, he must have been stuffed with enough money by her.
Wutong Courtyard.
In the room, his father sat down and shouted proudly: "I prescribed the tonic for you. Have you taken it?"
She was speechless, but she sharply saw the traces of dust marks on her father's body.
Something is wrong. Her father just fell into a ditch?
Her heart sank, he had been discovered.
She got up, poured water for her father, and patted the ash on his body. She found it was dry. She took a long breath, it was the ditch in Wutong Courtyard. There was no one in the yard, so the ditch was dry.
"Dad, where were you just now?"
"Isn't it in the house? Tell me quickly, is it the prescription I gave you that cured you?"
She remained calm and told her father truthfully that the reason why the Marquis brought her in was that her father had prescribed several medicines for her at home overnight and planned to prepare them for his daughter every day.
When the Marquis heard the news, he felt that if he didn't take her in, her injuries would get worse.
"I didn't eat." She said honestly.
Father Cao was a little sad at first, but seeing that his daughter seemed to be in good spirits, he quickly said: "You are my daughter, now who wouldn't praise you for looking like me?"
"?" she pondered. Even when she was six years old, she could follow Liu Ruhai on the street more efficiently than her father, right?
"Even the old lady in the house knows that my daughter can master this medical skill as soon as she learns it. She can also treat my aunt and grandma. What's more, I am your father? Don't you look like me? - Xiaowan, let me discuss something with you.
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After her father flattered her, he immediately got down to business without any ambiguity. She looked at her father sideways.
Mr. Cao is not tactful at all. He still wants to return to Liuji's shop and become a doctor: "From now on, I will only treat minor illnesses, okay?"
"No." She felt this was unbelievable. She sternly refused.
Father Cao felt that the stewards of Siwei Hall did not dare to accept him, and now that his daughter was like this, his only wish in life was shattered. The father and daughter had a big quarrel.
"I'm your dad!"
"I live in the Hou Mansion, and our house is the house of the Hou Mansion."
"I want to sever the father-daughter relationship with you!"
"Break it off!" She was also angry and shouted with her hands on her hips, "I have long disliked you! You should thank my mother. Without my mother, you would not be my father!"
If he wasn't her biological father, she would have beaten him long ago and let him spend a few nights in jail like her second uncle before he became an honest man.
Liu Ruhai stood outside the window, wearing a high crown and a crane, silently listening to the quarrel between father and daughter. He had no intention of going in to break up the fight.
He was originally afraid that Father Cao would fall down again in the yard, so he turned around to take a look. Unexpectedly, he met Cao Xiwan hiding here and quarreling with his father.
She was so free. He sighed and smiled again. She must have known that there was something wrong with the medicine the Marquis gave her?
He knew it, and Qin Meng also noticed it.
Qin Meng went outside to find his fellow martial uncle, a military medical officer in Wuyang Wei, to prescribe a new prescription.
"I am your biological father, how dare you look down upon me——?" Her father started to cry, "My uncle is dead, and you all bully me."
"..." She was worried to death.
She was sick with anger. She dragged her sick body back to Dongshou Room. She lay on the kang and felt that her life was in danger.
She saw that there were a few grass roots on her father's body, which must have been on the corridor of the study outside. She could not let him stay in the mansion. But she was also afraid that his father would leave the Hou Mansion, leave the old lady and Wutong Courtyard.
, there is no way to live.
Leave him alone?
The Marquis will kill him.
Liu Ruhai didn't follow her either. He was like a phantom, standing high on the crescent treetops. Watching her rush out of the Wutong Courtyard, he knew that she was angry.
But now the person who prescribed her prescription was neither him nor Gu Yuanpan, but a master under the Marquis.
Master Yan.
This man is an official in the Experience Department of Jinyi Yamen. He should be an old man who has been with the Marquis for more than 20 years.
However, Liu Ruhai was not worried. He slipped through the plum trees and looked at the window of the outer study.
It was dark inside the window, but someone was guarding the outer study.
Qin Meng.
The chief disciple of Enguangji Temple.
If Song Chengming dared to poison Cao Xiwan directly, Qin Meng might not be able to make this known to the public for the sake of his master, and he would not avenge her. After all, he had many mentors and friends among the Twelve Guards, so he had to think about the consequences.
.But Liu Ruhai felt that with Qin Meng’s personality, he would leave Jin Yiwei directly.
When he entered the Jinyi Guard Security Department, Cao Xiwan personally selected and promoted him. I heard that Cao Xiwan secretly attacked him twelve times before he wrote a letter of recommendation and guarantee to Jinyi Yamen.
Qin Meng is on duty tonight.
He heard her return from the beam, and also heard her tossing and turning on the kang.
He had no choice but to sit on the roof of the west end of the beam. He knew that she would visit her parents in the middle of the night. He originally wanted to tell Mrs. Qing that Cao's father was wandering around the study outside.
He noticed that the Marquis had a few old friends around him. He had to be careful.
Julien, the second steward, also quietly passed a message to him, asking him to remind Madam Qing to take care of her father. Julien, the second steward, had lost the benefits of his old friendship with her, so the most he could do was to remind her.
There's no next time.
She thought that maybe she could only knock her father out and send him outside. Suddenly, she heard a noise, like the secret door in the main room of the study being opened and the creaking mechanism turning.
She immediately pretended to sleep.
Have the assassins from Prince Qin's palace come? She originally thought they would come a few days later.
Or has the hidden secret in the house come out?
Qin Meng pressed the knife and ducked along the beam to the west window. He went up to the roof of the main house, lifted the tiles, and looked down.
The secret door of the rosewood bookshelf actually opened.