Marriage of the Di Daughter

The little servant girl went back and forth, but she brought back Guqin. There was no news of others next to her.

Everyone was in an uproar. When Guan last month was finished, the person who played the piano disappeared and did not know who it was. This seemed to be a very charming mystery. There is Humanitarianism: "it's impossible to say who the masters are. They love to write in dramas on weekdays. These masters have their own habits and are not willing to let people discover their true colors."

"So so, elegant!"

People say like this, Xiao Deyin's palm sweat, but more.

The man is missing? How? It's just a top scholar's mansion. Where can I hide in such a small place? Since I didn't plan to meet at the beginning, why did I play. Xiao Deyin faintly felt that the sound of the piano was clearly played for herself. Except for her, no one could hear the familiar sound of the piano. Of course, except for her, no one has heard Xue Fangfei's "Guan Shanyue".

Is it not the ghost of Xue Fangfei who came out to warn her? Xiao Deyin felt a little dizzy. In fact, since xuefangfei's accident, she has never set foot in the Shen family. Today is her first time. After such a long time, Xiao Deyin thought that he had already forgotten this matter, and everything could be regarded as having never happened.

But she didn't expect that everything had not passed, and even tortured her even more.

Her face was extremely pale. The young lady beside her saw it and asked, "what happened to Mr. Xiao? Why did he sweat so much?"

"Nothing." Xiao Deyin reluctantly waved his hand, "just a little dizzy."

"Is it not the wind?" A warm-hearted lady hurriedly pulled her to sit in, "don't be outside, save yourself from the cold."

In front of the warm stove, surrounded by lively voices, this inexplicably appeared and disappeared piano sound, was soon forgotten by the crowd, but it was a small matter.

For Xiao Deyin, it is not just a small matter.

……

Jiang Li had already left that room.

When the emperor had just given this mansion, the Shen family lived in it with infinite joy. She was the same. At that time, her happiness was always simple. Sometimes she walked through every corner of the house, and every minute was full of pride. She only felt that her husband was so capable and proud.

Now, it seems to have become a joke. But the understanding of this mansion has never changed. She knows how to go every way and where there are no servants.

Before catkins came back, Jiang Li went to the edge of the garden and waited for her. The Shen family's garden is not as lively as the national government's garden. It seems that since Xue Fangfei's death, the people in the house have no intention to care about these flowers and plants. For Shen's mother and Shen Ruyun, it's better to watch more jewelry than gardening, and Shen Yurong has no free time to do these things. Therefore, in winter, the flower beds are depressed and very deserted.

At this time, someone suddenly shouted "Fangfei"!

Jiang Li was startled. The voice was strange and familiar, leaving her to the end. She was sure that the man must be calling her. Jiang Li hurriedly turned around, but there was no one within her sight.

The flower bed is empty, and there is not even a servant. How can someone call her name?

Jiang Li calmed down. Although it was strange enough for her to become Miss Jiang Er, she didn't believe in ghosts and gods for some reason. Therefore, I don't believe this is the result of strange forces and gods. I just think someone wants to test her. Just stand still, the voice rang again: "Fangfei Fangfei!" This time, it became clearer and mixed with some fluttering sounds.

She heard it clearly. The voice came from the side of the column under the eaves. Jiang Li paused, didn't think about anything, and walked to the other end.

When I could get in, I saw a copper birdcage, in which the starling, who had been completely dark, tilted his head and looked at her. Suddenly, black bean like eyes blinked and shouted, "Fangfei Fangfei!"

"You!" Jiang Li could hardly speak.

On the winter day of the year when she first arrived in Yanjing City, she got up one morning and found that there was a Starling lying in front of her window. It seems that the family that should have raised it didn't close the cage and ran out. It's cold in winter in Yanjing, and it's freezing when I fly here.

She found someone to pick up the starling and put it in the box with a handkerchief, and then put it by the stove. It was warm. The Starling unexpectedly woke up. Later, Shen Yurong came back and simply found a copper bird cage for her and raised the starling.

Starling stayed in Shen mansion for several years, from a small broken house to the imperial mansion. For a few years, he also learned a few words, which was very psychic. Every time I see Xue Fangfei, I will call it "Fangfei Fangfei", but when others approach, it won't call it that way. Shenyurong once joked that the Starling also knows people.

Now in such a situation, Starling suddenly came up with such a sentence, startled Jiang Li, and found that it was a false alarm. She was angry and funny and said, "stop shouting!"

Starling still tilted his head and looked at her. Suddenly, he flew to the side next to Jiang Li. His two claws tightly grasped the cage door and shouted "Fangfei Fangfei"!

This is amazing, Jiang Li looked at it in surprise. It is reasonable to say that she has changed her face now, that is, standing in front of Shen Yurong and Xue Huaiyuan, no one will recognize her as Xue Fangfei. How can this starling recognize and call her "Fangfei" repeatedly? Can animals recognize people better than people? Or is it that her appearance has changed and her breath has not changed, so the Starling can recognize her?

In any case, she can't stay here long. If someone else sees her standing here, and this myna keeps calling "Fangfei" at her, although it is a little incredible, it inevitably makes people think more. If shenyurong knew, he might not find anything.

Jiang Li will never underestimate Shen Yurong.

Just when she wanted to lift her feet and leave, a voice suddenly sounded behind her, saying, "when you meet this kind of thing, of course, it's killing people. What are you waiting for?"

Jiang Li looked back and saw a few steps away. Ji Xuan was dressed in red and looked at her with a faint smile.

"Lord of the kingdom?" She asked, "Why are you here?"

"I passed by and saw the excitement here, so I came in to have a look." He said happily, "the Shen family is very welcome."

This is similar to what Princess Yongning said when she came in. Jiang Li didn't know what to say for a moment.

"This bird seems to know a lot." He said lightly.

Jiang Li jumped in her heart, but smiled on her face and said, "I don't know, it suddenly called Fangfei. I heard that the first lady was named Fangfei, maybe she missed her master." She was explaining, but the explanation seemed a little reluctant in front of Ji Heng.

Ji Xuan also laughed, walked to the cage and stretched out a finger to tease myna. Myna pecked his fingers, but Ji Hu avoided it and clicked its head.

"Anyway... It misses its master at you, which will lead to misunderstanding." Ji Xuan raised her eyebrows. "I didn't teach you to stay alive."

Jiang Li: "...."

Of course she knows, but it's just a bird. There's another way. Just avoid it. Why do you have to take its life. Ji Xuan's fingers scratched the Starling's feathers. The Starling seemed very comfortable and didn't avoid. He slightly tilted his head to look at him. He didn't know whether he was fascinated by the bewitching beauty and was very clever.

But Jiang Li knew that that beautiful finger could kill the bird at any time.

Sure enough, Ji Heng opened the cage with a smile and caught the Starling in his own hands.

Starling has been raised in Shen mansion for several years, and has long been close to people. Ji Chen suddenly took it out and didn't move much. He lay in Ji Chen's palm and became quiet.

Jiang Li watched Ji Xuan slowly clench her palm.

Her heart tightened and she couldn't help saying, "no!"

Ji Xuan looked up at her and said slowly, "why not?"

Jiang Li was speechless. At least she had raised the Starling for three years. She picked it up at that time. After her death, everything in Shen Fu had nothing to do with her, and there was no one who really treated him. Starling is just a bird, but it may be the only thing left in Shen Fu that has no intention of her.

Even if it's just a bird.

Ji Heng still smiled, but his eyes showed a chill.

Jiang Li slowed down and said, "maybe there's dumb medicine for the girl in September."

"Poison a bird, Jiang Li," he rarely called her name by name. When he called it, there was a funny indifference. He said, "are you all right?"

Jiang Li also knows that this idea is too much. For a "moody" person like Ji Heng, is it such a worry for a bird? How is it possible that he doesn't have such patience with people. He kills people, kills people, and talks nonsense.

Jiang Li didn't have time to speak, but he saw Ji Xuan's palm quickly close, and the Starling disappeared from his palm.

He glanced at Jiang Li and said, "don't be silly."

Jiang Li sighed silently in her heart, looked at the empty cage, and silently didn't speak anymore.

Ji Heng walked with her for two steps and left the empty bird cage. Jiang Li said, "Grandpa, I'm going to wait for my friend Liu Xu here. I'm afraid I can't walk with you. Besides..." besides, walking with Ji Heng in the Shen family, I'm afraid it will cause surprised eyes of others.

Ji Xuan looked at her. His eyes seemed to see through Jiang Li, and suddenly said, "how are you going to deal with Xiao Deyin?"

Jiang Li was stunned, and Ji Peng said, "just now you played the Song Guan Shanyue, which made Xiao Deyin in a mess. Although I don't know why," he rubbed the handle of the folding fan, "you play at her."

He even knows this. When did he come here? Jiang Li looked at his exploratory eyes, thought for a while, and said, "it's a long story. That song is really played for Xiao Deyin. Next, what I want to do is very simple. I want Princess Yongning to feel that Xiao Deyin's existence is a hidden danger, and she has to kill Xiao Deyin."

"You can't stop Yongning from killing Xiao Deyin." Ji Heng was right, "she won't give you a chance to save Xiao Deyin. And you have no reason to save her."

Ji Heng can always see the problem at a glance. Jiang Li smiled and said, "so I don't intend to really let Princess Yongning shut up, because if Xiao Deyin really dies, there will be a witness missing in Xue Fangfei's case. I won't let that happen." She said, "I just want Xiao Deyin to think that the person who killed her was sent by Princess Yongning."

"Do you want to sow discord?" Ji Heng's lips were raised, as if he praised that his pet had finally learned to bite, "smart girl."

"It's true. I have to let Xiao Deyin think that Yongning will do something to her. And let Yongning think that Xiao Deyin is unreliable. Of course, I'll find a way to make Xiao Deyin survive. She should be punished alive, rather than causing trouble when she dies."

She rarely has such indifferent moments. Most of the time, she always wears a gentle smile, as if she can accept all suffering and injustice. But at this moment, the fleeting hatred in the bottom of her eyes was captured by Ji Heng.

He looked at Jiang Li thoughtfully for a moment and said, "since you have a plan in mind, who are you going to let do this?"

"Does the Lord of the country mean the people who pretend to shut up?" Jiang Li smiled, "I don't have to hide it from you. My uncle is a Jianghu person. It's not difficult to make friends and invite someone to play with some money."

"Are you going to fight Yongning and Lord Shen now?" Ji asked.

"It's time."

"Then, I don't care about you." Ji Heng looked at her with a negative hand, "good luck." With these words, he turned around and left without any nostalgia. Jiang Li was also stunned. She thought Ji Xuan would say more. But thinking about it, I was relieved that Princess Yongning had nothing to do with Ji Heng. He used to be a theatre goer, so he never took the initiative to enter the theatre. I pulled him down step by step, but it doesn't mean it's a matter of course.

Since he can hide far away, then hide far away. After all, this is her fight alone.

After a while, catkins came out. Seeing her, they came over and said, "why did you come here? I just came out and saw you not in the corridor. I found you for a long time and thought you were back. Eh," she looked at the empty bird cage hanging by the column under the eaves and said, "why is there an empty bird cage here? Is there no bird in it?"

Jiang Li looked at the empty cage and shook her head, "I don't know." In her heart, she sighed secretly that the last Shen family thing related to her past was finally lost.

Is there a trace of disappointment.

It has been a long time since I arrived at the langting. Many young ladies who have visited the garden have returned. Jiang Li noticed that Xiao Deyin was gone. She went to Lu's side and asked, "why isn't Mr. Xiao here?"

"I'm not feeling well. I may have suffered from the wind and cold. Seeing that my face is as white as paper, I've gone back." Lu Shi thought Jiang Li was concerned about the teacher in the school, so he explained.

Jiang Li thought that since Xiao Deyin could collude with Princess Yongning to murder Xue Fangfei, he should be a bold man. At present, he was as timid as a mouse. Even if he was so scared, it was not difficult to use her to deal with Princess Yongning.

She also noticed that Princess Yongning was not in the crowd. However, no one here dares to inquire about the whereabouts of Yongning, and as for where she goes, it's even more out of control. Jiang Li knew that Princess Yongning was about to be with Shen Yurong at the moment. It's easy to find such an opportunity. Naturally, you have to talk about your feelings. Just based on Jiang Li's understanding of Shen Yurong, I'm afraid that seeing Princess Yongning, I'm more angry than happy, and more disgusted than happy.

Speaking of it, Ji Heng and Shen Yurong are two very different people, one likes watching plays and the other is good at acting. It seems that the former is too cool and the latter is too affectionate, but Jiang Li believes that she would rather stay out of the audience than be the object of deception by actors.

Joys and sorrows are involuntarily, but also become a joke to others.

It's sad to think so.

Willow catkins beside him pushed her, frowned and said, "why does Shen Ruyun always look at you?"

Jiang Li was stunned and looked at Shen Ruyun. She happened to see Shen Ruyun's disgusting eyes that he didn't have time to put away. She knew it clearly in her heart and said, "it's probably because of five younger sisters."

Shen Ruyun is about to marry Zhou Yanbang, but before this, Jiang yu'e has entered the door of the Zhou family. With Shen Ruyun's habit of not allowing sand in his eyes, he must want to do a good job of rectifying Jiang yu'e. Seeing Jiang Li, thinking that Jiang Li was also the miss of the Jiang family, even Jiang Li hated her together. Of course, maybe it's also because Jiang Li had an engagement with Zhou Yanbang before.

"What a madman," Liu Xu said. "What's the matter with Jiang yu'e? Everyone in Mingyi hall knows that Jiang yu'e is not with you. She can really climb the relationship at random."

"Nothing, I don't care, just ignore it." Jiang Li comforts catkins. In fact, she is not optimistic about the days after Shen Ruyun married to the Zhou family. Although it seems that Shen Ruyun got his wish and married his sweetheart, the Zhou family will treat her well because of Shen Yurong's relationship. At least on the surface, they are very kind to Shen Ruyun. However, Jiang Li can see who Zhou Yanbang is now. Zhou Yanbang is a villain at all, and he doesn't really love Shen Yurong, and Jiang yu'e is not a fuel-efficient lamp. When these three people are together, it's a headache to think about it every day.

Leave the headache to others. She won't worry about it. Although she came to the Shen family today, she didn't find any remaining evidence. This is because Shen Yurong has cleaned everything, and there is almost no evidence of her existence in the whole Shen family. But she knew what to do next.

This is also a great harvest.

In the evening of this day, the banquet of the Shen family was finally over. On the way back to the mansion, old lady Jiang closed her eyes tired and refreshed herself. Lu Shi didn't dare to speak and disturbed her. She also sat quietly. Jiang Li rarely had a chance to be pure and sit thinking about her own affairs.

When they returned to Jiang mansion and Fangfei garden, tong'er and Bai Xue saw her coming back, so they fetched hot water and sent hot tea. Tong'er told everything that happened in the mansion in the daytime and picked up what was useful. Jiang Youyao still hasn't disappeared. Now the whole city is almost turned upside down. Now the government suspects that Jiang Youyao secretly sneaked out of the city in some way, but Jiang Yuanbai doesn't believe it. Jiang Youyao has never been out of Yanjing city and doesn't have such courage. She must still be in Yanjing City, but she doesn't know where it is.

So we have to continue the search.

Tong'er asked, "how do you feel about going to Shen's house today? Shen's house is not big. It's said that it's a house given by the emperor. Is it more beautiful than our house? It's a pity that the maid didn't go, otherwise she should have a long experience."

"Snow white, go and close the door." Jiang Li interrupted tong'er's words. Snow White closes the door and walks to Jiang Li with tong'er. She knows that Jiang Li has something to say.

Jiang Li took a box from under the table, opened it, and there was a neat stack of silver notes in it. She is not short of silver now. In order to compensate her, the yuan family has more than doubled the monthly silver. And when she came back from Xiangyang, old lady Ye secretly stuffed a big purse into her bag, roll by roll of silver tickets. On weekdays, it's of no great use. At this meeting, Jiang Li counted five pieces.

"I'll give you five hundred taels of silver to do one thing." She put the silver ticket in tong'er's hand.

Tong'er held the silver ticket and looked at Jiang Li's face. She became nervous for no reason and said, "the maid must do what the girl ordered. What's the matter?"

Jiang Li let her come to her ear and said a few words in her ear. Tong'er smelled the words and looked puzzled, but he still said, "don't worry, girl. I'll do it later."

"This matter must be concealed." Jiang Li said, "don't be known."

"Save the slaves." Tong'er nodded firmly.

"Snow white, I also have one thing for you to do." She whispered a few words in Bai Xue's ear. Bai Xue smelled the words, but also showed a surprised look like tong'er, nodded and said, "I know."

"It's up to you." Jiang Li sighed, "only you can really trust me."

Ji Chen's people are easy to use, but they are embarrassed to use it again and again. Jiang Li thinks she owes Ji Hongliang a lot. Therefore, if she can do it by herself, try not to involve him. He is different from Shen Yurong. He doesn't owe himself anything at all, so there is no need to pay.

The chirp of birds came faintly from the branches outside the window, but this season, where birds came from, the yuan family did not deliberately raise birds, which was probably their own illusion.

Unable to help it, Jiang Li thought of the Starling who was buried in Ji Ji's hand, and her eyes darkened.

What a pity.

……

In the government house, lights were burning in the study.

Lu Ji had been waiting in the room for a long time. When Ji Heng came in, he immediately stood up and said, "Sir, there is news from King Cheng. A large number of troops and horses in Yuzhou are gathering, I'm afraid..."

"At least it's the new year." Ji Heng doesn't worry, don't slow down. He took something out of his sleeve and put it in the palm of his hand. Lu Ji was stunned and saw a hairy black mass lying in the palm of Ji Heng.

Suddenly he was free, and the black regiment flapped and flew to the hilt of the long sword hanging on the wall, looking askew at them.

Lu jiduan looked at it for a long time and said, "is this a crow?"

As soon as the words fell, the blackbird shouted at Ji Heng, "beauty! Beauty!"

Lu Ji: "...." it's over, this bird is over, unexpectedly flirting with Ji Heng face to face, and I don't know who taught it.

But to his surprise, Ji Heng was not angry, but seemed to be amused. He said, "my mouth is sweet."

There was not a trace of reluctance.

Lu Ji wondered in his heart, did Ji Heng want to raise this starling who looks like a crow? There are no birds in the government house. Old general Ji used to be a bird lover and raised many interesting birds, but his birds are cheap. When he doesn't stay in the cage, he will peck the flowers in the flower bed. Are the flowers in the government house ordinary flowers? People will die on the spot if they taste any of them, not to mention birds? So all the old general's birds were poisoned by the flowers in the flower bed. The old general suffered so much that he couldn't uproot all the flowers, so he simply stopped raising birds from now on. In fact, except for people, there is no animal in the government. You know, it is also a sin to have such a big poison in the mansion and lose one's life carelessly.

Of course, Ji Chen himself has no love and patience to take care of an animal.

But at present, it seems that he is quite good to this starling.

"Do adults want to raise birds?" Lu Ji said, "you have to put it in a cage and don't let it fly around."

"Raise?" Ji Xuan looked sideways at starling. Starling looked at him for a moment, and her mouth opened: "beauty, beauty!"

Lu Ji thought to himself, why is this bird like a disciple. Seeing Ji Heng laughing, he asked starling, "what's your name?"

Although the Starling looks smart, he can't answer all questions, so he just keeps shouting about beauty and can't say anything.

Ji Heng said, "since you don't have a name, your name is Xiaohong."

Lu Ji: "... Sir, is this starling black?"

"Well," Ji Heng said, "but it's called Xiaohong."

Lu Ji couldn't speak. On second thought, this is not his bird. What's the matter with this heart. He put aside myna, said his purpose of coming today, and discussed the next plan with Ji Heng for a while, and then left.

Before leaving, I took a look at Xiao Hong, who seemed very inexplicable before I left the door.

After Lu Ji left, Ji Chen went to the long sword that Xiaohong was standing next to and grabbed it. Xiao Hong looked at him sideways and grunted. Ji Hong put it on the table, took out a handkerchief from her sleeve and put it on the table. When Xiao Hong stood up, he picked up his handkerchief, wrapped the bird tightly and put it on the small table beside the heater.

It's freezing. It's always warmer inside than outside, and Xiao Hong won't freeze to death.

Got this warm world, this black bird seemed very comfortable, and soon narrowed his eyes, as if he was going to sleep. Ji Heng looked at it for a while, shook his head and walked to the other end.

This bird shouldn't have been alive, but he really couldn't do it. As Jiang Li said, he deliberately fed dumb medicine to a bird, so he might as well bring it back. Shen Fu just lost a starling. It seems that this starling is so noisy and unpopular.

Inexplicably, there is an illusion of being charming in a golden house.

……

On the first few days of the new year, every day is very lively. The streets can be seen everywhere playing children, wearing new clothes, shoes and hats, holding candied haws in their hands, noisy is happy.

In the new year of Mingyi hall, students do not have to go to school, so the door is closed. Gentlemen rarely have leisure time, or a few friends get together, or have time to do their own things, it is always very leisure.

Xiao Deyin is not.

She lives alone in a mansion and does not live with her family. People say it's because she has a tenacity that is not inferior to men. She doesn't plan to marry in this life. Although she is gentle and beautiful, and there are not a few official children who like her, she aims to be a zither player and serve the ancient zither all her life. The Xiao family advised before, but later, they stopped.

People did not understand her at the beginning, and gradually began to admire her. After all, a beautiful woman doesn't want fame and wealth, nor does she want her family. She just wants to be a good zither player, but it's not something ordinary people can do. People respect her, students respect her, and she is not strict as a teacher. Her reputation in Yanjing city is excellent.

Although Jinghong fairy is also outstanding in piano skills, she used to be in the brothel in the past, no more innocent than Xiao Deyin. Besides, now Jinghong fairy has married, and the first zither player of Beiyan deserves to fall on Xiao Deyin.

If it were the past new year, Xiao Deyin had already visited Qin friends everywhere, and everyone would play the piano and compose poems together. But this year's new year, xiaodeyin politely declined all the posts, saying only that she was suffering from the cold and should not go out.

To be exact, it was after the Shen family banquet that Xiao Deyin suffered from the "cold".

In the yard, the servant girl asked Xiao Deyin, "don't you go out today, sir?"

Xiao Deyin looked at the weather. It was rarely a good weather. Instead of snow, it was sunny. The sun was warm, like it was going to be exposed to the bone, and it also seemed to have exposed her haze for days.

She hesitated for a moment and said, "in that case, I'd better go out and have a look."

It's hard to avoid being suspicious to stay in the house without meeting people. In that case, it's better to go out for a walk as long as you come back early.

Thinking like this, Xiao Deyin asked the servant girl to comb her hair, put some makeup on it, and picked a dress that looked better on her body.

At the gate of the mansion, there are many children setting off firecrackers here, leaving remnants that are also very lively. In order to be clean, Xiao Deyin also lives in an alley in Fuyuan. The people who used to come and go in the alley on weekdays were rare, so it was particularly quiet. Xiao Deyin was about to go out for a walk when he suddenly heard a burst of familiar piano music coming from afar.

It's Guan Shanyue!

She shook her hand and shivered in her heart. She grabbed the servant girl beside her and asked, "can you hear me?"

The servant girl was startled and asked, "what did you say?"

"Piano sound! It's piano sound! Guan Shanyue!"

The servant girl suddenly said, "there is indeed the sound of the piano, which is not far away."

Xiao Deyin was relieved. She didn't hear it alone, so she didn't hit a ghost. And listen carefully again. The sound of the piano is not like that played by Xue Fangfei, but much more ordinary.

Before he could breathe a sigh of relief, two passers-by came to the alley. Hearing what she said, he turned his head and said, "this girl also knows" Guan Shanyue ". Today, a mysterious zither player came out of Yanjing city. A song" Guan Shanyue "played wonderfully. People who have heard of it have followed suit. These days, it is everywhere."

One of them even laughed and said, "speaking of it, some people say that the mysterious man's zither technique is much better than that of Xiao Deyin, the first zither player of Beiyan, and I don't know whether it is true or not."

Xiao Deyin's eyes darkened.

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The Duke of the country inherited his mother (that is, me), and he is a nameless loser