Chapter 12 The New Calf
The last gentleness on Cheng Muyou's face disappeared with Hua Gu's words. He looked at her coldly, but his tone was as calm as deep as water. "Do you know that Qing Po has dozens of lives on his hands, and it's not a loss to exchange her life for her, right?"
Huagu leaned against the back of the chair, with no fear on her face, but there was a hint of mockery, "Everyone is dead, so of course it's okay to say whatever he wants, but what I saw with my eyes was someone sneaking into my Qifeng Tower in Xin'an Mansion, and then my people disappeared. Where can I make me reason with it?"
Cheng Muyou's face darkened. He knew that the evidence in his hand had long disappeared with the death of Qingpo and Yunying. In addition, Hua Gu's connections in the capital were easy to say that the white ones were black. He lowered his voice, "What do you want?"
A smile bloomed on Huagu's face. She turned her eyes and put her face to Cheng Muyou's ears, "I want to go."
"land?"
"Sir, why bother pretending to be confused? My people have come to Xin'an Mansion several times, but I can't find them every time. The owner of the Pear Garden has signed a contract with me, but the government has never approved it. My 100 girls from the outside world are still waiting to enter the city."
Of course, Cheng Muyou knew what she was talking about. Half a year ago, Hua Gu fell in love with a piece of land next to Qifenglou, and then used some dirty means to force the owner of the land to agree to transfer the land to her. According to the laws of the Song Dynasty, the transfer of land rights required to go to the government to file a record. However, although Cheng Muyou had just taken office, he had heard of Hua Gu's behavior. He avoided the people she sent again and again, so that the land was still idle and could not start building a building.
Cheng Muyou pondered for a moment, "I'll think about this..."
"Sir, this is your big stroke. What else should I consider," Huagu said as he took out a contract and put it in front of Cheng Muyou. "I have brought all the land deeds, so I'll have to worry about it."
Cheng Muyou stared at the land deed and his figure seemed to be fixed. After a long time, Hua Gu finally showed an impatient look on her face. She pushed the land deed again at Cheng Muyou and called out softly: "Mr. Cheng, it's still late. The son-in-law of the Censor Zhang, is still waiting for me to go to have a drink."
Cheng Muyou finally raised his head and a smile appeared on his face, "Since Hua Gu has something to do, then you can leave first."
"Then...then this deed..."
"I won't criticize." His voice was simple, like a jade bead fell to the ground.
"You have already written a note on buying and selling a house. How can you..."
"Huagu is old and has his ears not working well? I said I won't approve it." Cheng Muyou looked at the dumbfounded woman opposite, got up and dusted her sleeves, and then looked out the door, "It's getting late, so Huagu should go back as soon as possible, so you can save yourself from eating wine by mistake."
Hua Gu sneered a few times, stood up from the chair, grabbed the deed in her hand and walked towards the door. However, she had just taken a few steps, but she turned around unwillingly. She stared at Cheng Muyou fiercely like an eagle foraging, "A new calf, unfortunately it's not your turn to Xin'an City to make decisions now. Let's settle the accounts slowly." After saying that, she walked forward step by step, startled the servant running towards her and hurriedly hid aside.
Cheng Muyou ignored her ill words. He looked at Hua Gu's back coldly, then turned his gaze to the servant who was running towards him, "What's so anxious?"
"Little young master... the young master didn't eat dinner and cried in the room so hard that he almost cried." The servant said that he was almost crying.
"If you don't eat, you'll be hungry. You've already entered school. How could you still be so spoiled?" Cheng Muyou couldn't regard Xun'er as soft as a little girl, so he never compromised with him on trivial matters.
"Sir, the young master is not showing off his temper. He kept saying that something happened to Miss Jiang, so he was so anxious that he couldn't even eat."
When Cheng Muyou walked into the house, Xun'er was lying on the bed and crying so hard that she wet her pillow. Seeing Cheng Muyou come in, he hurriedly ran up and hugged his thighs, "Dad, save Sister Xi, she's almost dead."
Cheng Muyou held him into his arms, frowned and asked, "Why do you say that?"
"I just had a dream, dreaming that Sister Xixi's face was covered in blood and was lying in a dark room. Her face was so white, and her eyes were slightly open. I don't know if it was alive or already..." After that, he hugged Cheng Muyou's neck and started crying, and kept saying, "Dad, go and save her, don't, go and save her."
Cheng Muyou handed Xun'er over to the wet nurse, then walked out of the room quickly and rushed to the door of Shi Fei and Shi Jin and the two brothers shouted "Prepare horses".
"Sir, let's go both of us. Xun'er just had a dream. Do you want to go and find Miss Jiang in person?"
"Xun'er's dream was definitely not something he thought about. The last time Xiaozhe's incident confirmed this. Besides, three days have passed, and Xixi still has no news. She has never been like this before," Cheng Muyou clenched his fists, "I have to go to Yuquan Town in person to be at ease." He glanced at the two brothers behind him, and then said, "I told Xixi not to reveal her identity, so you must not let it go when you arrive at the Jing family. Do you remember?"
Shi Fei and Shi Jin nodded desperately, and the three of them left Xin'an City in the dark and rushed towards Yuquan Town. It was late at night when they arrived. A heavy rain fell from the sky without warning, soaking the three of them all. The Shi brothers protected Cheng Muyou and hid under an abandoned ancestral hall, staring at the moss-covered blue bricks inside in a daze.
"The rain is not urgent, but it is getting heavier and heavier. Sir, let's stay here for the night. Let's go to Jingfu tomorrow morning to check." Shi Fei took off his clothes and twisted them again and again, and looked around, "But this ancestral hall is too broken, and there is not even a place where fire can be made."
"Although it is broken, you can see that this place was once very prosperous. Look at the pink walls, black tiles, high ridges, flying eaves, and archways are all grand and gorgeous and elegant," he said, as he untied the cloak on his body and walked two steps inside. "Its foundation stone is six feet high, the gate is wide and spacious, there are three yards inside, dozens of houses, and pine and cypress, and the screen wall..." He suddenly stopped and looked at the graceful figure under the pink and white screen wall in front of him with a look of surprise. "Miss Yan? Why are you here?"
The woman in front of the screen wall turned around and her eyes were gathered on Cheng Muyou, distant and deep, "Mr. Cheng, what a coincidence."
Chapter completed!