Zhu Yi stood by the threshold and saw Wei Changying and Duanmu Xinmiao jointly turn out of the screen and take their seats in the hall, nodding slightly, before ordering outside: "Young Lady and Eighth Miss have arrived, have someone come in!"

A few moments later, Zhu Yin guided the three of them to carefully step over the threshold and enter.

Wei Changying and Duanmu Xinmiao, who were at the top of the table, were shocked when they shot a glance - Duanmu Xinmiao, who was hung up on her master, had already called out, "Why did you even lead a small child here?!"

The two of them were high above, looking down very clearly: although the person immediately behind Zhu Yin tried his best to look respectful, it was obviously the first time he had stepped into such a great place as Ming Pei Tang, and he could not hold back his curiosity as he secretly looked around - this was a woman in her mid-twenties.

There are three thousand people of the Cao Family Fort, but get a woman family to talk back is also just, the key is that this woman also followed a four or five years old look like a small girl ...... this ...... this has a serious over to explain the look of the reply!

Although Wei Changying didn't raise his voice to question, his face didn't look good either ......

It's good that Shen Lun, who also followed Zhu Yin in and helped Wei Chang Ying recognize the truth of Cao's words on behalf of the court, spoke up in time to explain on his behalf: "Young Lady, Miss 8, this wooden lady is the current master of Cao's castle. This little girl is her only flesh and blood, Cao Ya. In order to show sincerity, the Cao Family Castle has come together with the Castle Master and the Young Castle Master to answer the question!"

"Cao Family Fort's Fort Master?!" Wei Changying and Duanmu Xinmiao exclaimed out in unison, their suspicious gazes landing on the woman in an instant-

How to see, this woman is only twenty years of age, look at the silhouette is also counted on the eyebrows, quite a bit of beauty. But a closer look, you can find that her skin is rough, the corners of her eyes have a few fine lines at a young age. Although it is said that the western cool bitter cold, here the woman, even if such as Huo old lady has the conditions of careful maintenance, because of the soil and water is also greatly inferior to the imperial capital of the noblewomen. But this woman is also too old, coupled with the origin of the Cao Family Fort is built by the displaced people, no one can not suspect that she is overworked because of the cause of this old.

Her face was old and her attire was plain. This woman is wearing an indigo blue cloth dress, head of a sharp bun, inserted two silver hairpins of dull color. Behind the ear, is a pair of jade beads pendant, jade color is muddy very, roughly see also when it is stone ...... even the Wei Chang Ying courtyard waiting for the rough ambassadors may not be able to look on.

And then look at the little girl followed her, is almost a light blue dress, chest hung a red gold celluloid circle, color workmanship looks good, single this one than her mother's whole body hairpin ring are worth money. I think it is because of the favor of the reason, the blue woman would rather wear their own worse, but also refused to condescend to the daughter.

But this celluloid ring looks not bad, not like unusual rich households can get their hands on ...... can not be the Cao family Fort privately to avoid the eyes of the Shen family to do what a no-budget deal, the situation left their own children with?

Wei Changying looked at the little girl and saw that she looked very much like her mother. Because she was so young and had not yet been exposed to the wind and dust, her face was still white and lovely. Her mother could not restrain her mind from being attracted by all the precious artifacts around her, but she still knew that she had to be respectful, and kept her head down, not daring to look around, while the little girl did not have such scruples.

She opened a pair of big black and white eyes, biting one of her fingers, innocently and curiously looking up at the strands of coral beads on Wei Changying's temples - with Wei Changying's status, she didn't need to put Cao's house in her eyes, so she didn't dress up specially. In Wei Changying's position, she didn't need to take the Cao family's castle seriously, so she didn't dress up especially. However, if you don't dress up especially, you should have a few hairpins and rings.

This a luan bird with beads step rock, red gold silk hollow weaving as luan bird shape, obsidian for the eyes, cui bird feathers for the plume, the title is a string of brightly colored like fire coral beads. Jade feathers and red coral red and green reflect extremely eye-catching, no wonder it will attract the attention of children.

But ......

Given the gap between the Cao family's castle and Wei Chang Ying, even if we must bring a child to the hall, we should still be instructed on the rules, shouldn't we?

Wei Changying's mind was spinning, and he didn't make a sound after he exclaimed in shock.

On the contrary, it was the blue-clothed woman, who respectfully made another salute and introduced herself, "Little woman Mu Chunmian, as Cao Family Fort's Fort Master, I heard that the Young Lady and Miss Duanmu Bajie had something to inquire about our Fort, and was coming before."

She was respectful but not fawning, but somewhat unassuming.

Duanmu Xinmiao was anxious to speak, but Wei Changying stepped on her skirt - Wei Changying faintly said, "How come the Cao family's fortress master is named Mu? And a woman? The next head of the fort is also a woman. Is your fort run by a woman? What a rarity, I've never heard of that."

Shen Lun was about to reply, but after being glanced at by Mu Chunmian, he immediately picked up his tea bowl. This caused Wei Changying to frown slightly, somewhat suspicious of Shen Lun.

"Back to the young lady." Although no one has introduced the identity of the two to Mu Chunmian, but Wei Changying is a woman's attire, Duanmu Xinmiao has not yet married, but it is not difficult to distinguish, Mu Chunmian will not be mistaken, she stopped Shen Lun, smiled and said, "The husband's family of the little woman, is precisely surnamed Cao. Only because my husband died early, the little woman had to come out to support the family business."

This is something that Wei Chang Ying naturally cannot believe. It is common sense for a widow to be forced to support her family on her own, but it also depends on what kind of family business it is. In the eyes of the Shen family, the Cao Family Fort is not worth mentioning when you pinch its vitals. But it's still a fortress of 3,000 people! Even if most of them are women and children, there are still nearly a thousand men, how can a woman be the head of the fort?

Wei Changying would not ignore Shen Lun's remark that "this little girl is his only flesh and blood, Cao Ya", so it was unlikely that Mu Chunmian would be able to control the Cao family castle by holding her youngest son hostage - Wei Changying's thoughts turned to the other side of this sentence: Wooden Chunmian had only given birth to Cao Ya's daughter, but did her husband only have Cao Ya's daughter?

Could it be that the Cao Family Fort is also within the fight, Wood Chunmian failed to fight, was set up a vain identity of the fortress owner, with his daughter Cao Ya sent over to perfume himself? Or is this wood spring sleep extraordinary wrist, to a woman of the generation, after the death of her husband, to the Cao family daughter-in-law identity, firmly in control of the Cao Family Fort, not to mention, more let is still young daughter to become a young fortress master?

While she was musing on her side, Duanmu Xinmiao couldn't help herself and raised her voice to ask, "No matter who you're here for, just give me a clear account of the life and death of that uncle of mine!"

Seeing that Duanmu Xinmiao had already opened the door, Wei Changying no longer pursued Mu Chunmian's status within the Cao Family Fort, and faintly said, "That's right, we don't care much about who your Cao Family Fort's fortmaster is, but we have asked you to come over here for the matter of Ji Gu. You and tell us the truth!"

Wood Chunmian quickly said, "Previously, your family went to the Cao Family Fort people have said this, small women, although young, the two you said people into the Cao Family Fort, small women have not yet been born, however, in order to talk back, to come before also asked in detail in the Fort old man."

As soon as she said that, Wei Changying and Duanmu Xinmiao coincidentally frowned: there was no other reason, if Ji Ku was still alive, or if Mu Chunmian would have admitted that Ji Ku was still alive, she wouldn't have needed to ask the old man, she would have just said it directly. Now she mentioned the old man, obviously either Ji Ku is indeed dead, or she will continue to bite the Ji Ku is dead.

Sure enough, Mu Chunmian said, ''Cao Family Castle has taken in the person the two of you are talking about, and the eons aren't very long. So I don't know that senior very well. At first, your family sent someone to Cao Family Castle to confirm his life and death, but also the entire Cao Family Castle people were gathered and confirmed against the portrait. Later on, they also went to open the coffin and brought people who knew that senior very well to see it, which confirmed that it was that senior. Little woman doesn't understand, why is my fort being asked to give any explanation now?"

Wei Changying said lightly, "It is said that Cao's fort has a very good terrain, which is a rare place where one man can pass by ten thousand men. Even if we can't hide Ji Gu inside the fort, there's still the outside. In the wilderness, what's so difficult to hide a person temporarily? After all, the person who searched in the past can't live in Cao's fort all the time, right? As for the open coffin, if we didn't have the evidence, we wouldn't have called you here. Why do you think we are idle?" Although she does not have evidence, but now since it is questioning wood spring sleep, since can not be degraded from their own momentum - horizontal and vertical to her identity, the evidence she said that there is that is there, there is no need to take it out to wood spring sleep to see.

Sure enough, Mu Chunmian busily said, "Little woman wouldn't dare."

"If it's true that you don't dare, then tell the truth." Wei Chang Ying coldly said.

Mu Chunmian narrowed her eyes and said, "It is true that the little woman has only seen the graves of those whom the two of you have spoken of, and there is absolutely no such person as Ji Gu within the fort today!"

Wei Changying lightly swept a glance at her and said, "You asked me to come here with sister Xinmiao just to listen to such nonsense?" She these days, soft and hard to control the Ming Pei Tang, temperament is very different from before, at the moment the pink face slightly sunken, own a kind of majesty deterrent, wood spring sleep was stunned for a moment, before saying: "Although there is no Ji Ku this person, but ...... little woman heard the old man said, he left some things, once entrusted people to transfer Handed over to his nephew who was living in the imperial capital. The little woman heard ...... as if he was called Ji to be sick?"

"Ah, that's for my benefactor!" Duanmu Xinmiao said offhandedly, "What is it?"

"Although I am in the middle of nowhere, I have heard of the great name of the first famous doctor in the sea. This time, since I left the castle, I have tasted and heard that its senior Little Divine Doctor Miss Duanmu is in Xiliang for charity." Mu Chunmian looked at her, smiled slightly, and said, "According to the fact that Miss Duanmu is the disciple of Divine Doctor Ji, it's fine for these things to be given to Miss Duanmu. Only ......"

Duanmu Xinmiao said unhappily, "What?"

"It's just that the person the two of you are talking about had words left behind back then." Mu Chunmian obviously struggled very much about whether or not to say these words, and hesitated for a long time before he made up his mind, looking up and saying, "That person said that those things could be handed over to the Ji Divine Doctor or not, or to other people in the Ji family, or to the heir to the Ji family like Miss Duanmu ...... but no matter who comes to take them, they must pay ...... a small price!"

So it's about money?

Wei Changying and Duanmu Xinmiao were both a bit surprised, and Wei Changying asked, "How much do you want?" She thought that since Mu Chunmian said it was a small price, it would not be much. She thought that since Mu Chunmian said that it was a small price, she didn't think it was a lot, so she just did the right thing and asked for the amount, and then Duanmu Xinmiao paid for it, and thanked her for traveling all the way to Xiliang to treat Shen Zangfeng.

Mu Chunmian was also very quick: "Three thousand taels of gold, not a penny less!"

"What?!" Not only Wei Changying and Duanmu Xinmiao were stunned by this big offer, but Shen Lun, who was sitting with him at the bottom of the table, almost tipped his tea on his body - three thousand taels of gold! This is treating gold as mud!

Ji Ku was a fugitive when he escaped, even if he had hidden something good in his private life, it was very limited. He can leave what is worth three thousand taels of gold things? He really want to have such a value of things, may have bribed the police, has long been able to let the whole family quietly "fake death" to get away, to the side of the free to go!

...... Uh, of course, it's possible to show your wealth and be murdered for it.

When Wei Changying said, "Sister Xinmiao, I'll pay for it for you", she immediately got stuck. ...... Even Duanmu Xinmiao, who had previously treated the jadeite as a weed for the sake of making medicine jewelry, thought that the price of 3,000 taels of gold was a bit outrageous. --Even if you want to repay the Cao Family Fort for saving your life, according to today's market to give a thousand taels of silver is also a very generous repayment!

Especially wood spring sleep means ...... that Ji Ku is indeed dead! If Ji Gu was alive, he would have asked Duanmu Xinmiao to give Cao Jia Fort three thousand taels of gold, and Duanmu Xinmiao would have said nothing! If she didn't have enough money, Wei Changying wouldn't have stood by and watched. The problem is that if Ji Ku is no longer alive, asking for 3,000 taels of gold for not being able to save his life, plus the favor of preserving his relics over the years, is a bit too black-hearted!

Because the Cao Family Fort, which has already stopped accepting outsiders, will make an exception to accept Ji Gu, in the end, it is also because of his medical skills, not simply to save people's lives. Even according to the Cao family castle, Ji Gu was killed by wolves not long after he was in the Cao family castle. Jigu certainly can't rest in the middle of things, must also be for the people in the fort diagnosis and treatment, this life-saving grace, he himself more or less also returned a little bit.

In this situation, how to think about it, Mu Chunmian looked like he was telling a joke.

However, in the end, Duanmu Xinmiao is Ji Zhaodian's disciple, to their own division, but there is some understanding, she was surprised, but did not immediately speak out to rebuke the wood Chunmian delusional, a moment of contemplation, but asked: "Do you know, I this uncle, left behind are what?"

Wood spring sleep is also dry, said: "I heard that Miss Duanmu is the disciple of the Ji Divine Doctor, the little woman specially with the old man to ask for some of the things of the year brought over. Good to give Miss Duanmu over ...... Of course, what the little woman brought, is only part of it."

Now even Wei Changying has become interested - could it be that before Ji Ying's conviction, the Ji family really had a treasure worth 3,000 taels of gold that was so light and easy to hide that Ji Gu had kept it and left it to the Cao Family Castle?

The eyes of all the people in the back hall were drawn to Mu Chunmian, yet Mu Chunmian inclined her head to Cao Ya and said, "Maiden, quickly bring out the things for the nobles to see!"

Cao Ya, who had been staring at Wei Chang Ying's rifle and biting her finger while staring, let out a cry, put down her finger, and reached into her arms to fumble around - the girl looked to be only four or five years old, and was still relatively thin and weak. The things that could be hidden in her arms were obviously not too big.

The crowd was even more curious.

...... That thing seems to be even smaller than the crowd thought, Cao Ya touched to touch a good half day, before finally pulled out - a total than her palm is not much bigger than a small oil paper bag. From the oil paper to see, through the years obviously quite some of the ......

In here, what could it be?