Chapter 16 - Deep in the late night

　　There was a very large elm tree in the backyard of Uncle Wynn's mansion. The branches of the tree were strong, winding and stretching, and the oval leaves were layered on top of each other, densely covering the sky as well as the people sitting on it. 　　Shao Jin was now sitting on the branches of this tree looking down at the people underneath. 　　Jiang's only son seemed to take a large group of followers with him wherever he went, at the Da Ci Temple and also at this time. 　　It couldn't be that he was afraid that he was going to be hammered at some point when he was walking alone! He thought without malice when he heard the laughter of the group underneath rushing far up the branch: 　　"Come down quickly! Come down quickly! Play riding bamboo horses and fighting!" 　　After this group of people finished this sentence, Shao Fang shouted at Shao Jin alone again, "Shao Jin you come down and ride for me as a horse once and I'll give you all the things I've brought to eat!" 　　As the words fell, the group of people brought by Shao Fang underneath laughed and laughed again. 　　The maidservants and boys in the courtyard were still standing on the side, each doing their own thing, just as if they hadn't heard anything. 　　Shao Jin also as if he did not hear anything, he squatted on a branch thin branches, through the body of the cover, can not stop using the hands of the stone chip to cut the branch and the trunk of the connection. 　　Any ridicule, molestation, insults, and the same game, always have to have a back and forth to be interesting, now no matter what kind of words Shao Fang and his entourage uttered, ran to the tree Shao Jin just did not respond, that group of people gradually lost interest, and finally Shao Fang first skimmed his lips, and went out first: "Forget it, specially brought something to him, he does not eat, really do not know good! He really doesn't know what's good for him, just as mother said, he's a natural bitch." 　　"Young master is right, young master is right!" The followers next to him chimed in, and the smartest one, in order to flatter Shao Fang, took a look around, ran to the corner of the courtyard and picked up a fist-sized stone, saying to his master, "Young master, look!" With that, he swung his arm up and smashed it with all his strength at the branch where Shao Jin was crouching. 　　Shao Fang and the others, who were about to leave, looked towards the flying stone, and of course Shao Jin also heard and saw it. 　　However, when he only raised his eyes, he cursed in his heart that he was a fool! 　　This accuracy still run out to show off, big living people standing let throw may not be able to throw in, but also dare to smash the tree branch, simply horse do not know face long! 　　But think so to think so, this flying stone is just right to help Shao Jin a favor, Shao Jin will be in the hands of the piece of cut branch stone in the trunk of the depression to put good, he let go of the trunk of the tree hooked to an arm, and from sitting into a squatting, not bad eye staring at the flying stone, in the heart of the dark calculation, wait for almost the time, the right foot heavily chopped the branch, had been cut to half of the branch suddenly broke, and even stood! Shao Jin, who was standing on top, and the stones further down, fell to the ground in a flash! 　　This is just a flash of lightning, in the surrounding people look as if the stone hit the branch, so the person standing on the top of a big jump, break the branch and fall down again. 　　As things unfolded like this, while the people on Shao Fang's side were smiling and laughing, and whistles flew like birds, those servants who stood in the corners as if they hadn't heard a thing also reacted immediately. 　　They were all specially allocated to this courtyard by Jiang's in order to keep an eye on Shao Jin, and the scope of such an eye on Shao Jin was very large, including the fact that Shao Jin couldn't find food and couldn't get out of the house, as well as the fact that there were no wounds left by other people or by Shao Jin himself. 　　Only to see that the group of people in the most robust several together to the courtyard entrance, mouth said soft words, but his hands do not relax, a little push back will Shao Fang and others out of the courtyard, and the rest of the maidservant had wanted to go to help Shao Jin fell to the ground, I did not expect to look like a pretty bad fall of the people fell to run faster than a rabbit, a smoke from the ground to get up, ran into the room and bang the door closed. 　　This is good, the little master of Wyvern House is gone, Shao Jin also ran into the house, the servants guarding the courtyard have nothing to do, back to the corner where they just stayed, sitting at the stone table, as usual, drinking and eating meat and gossiping about the mountains. 　　And after the closed door panel, ran in Shao Jin stood behind the door and closed his eyes to listen for a while, after listening to those people have already started chatting again, it is unlikely that they will follow them in, only then shook his hand, will be hidden in the sleeve of a few elm tree branches shaking into the palm. 　　These about three or five branches are long and short, the longest is longer than the small arm, there is a fork and leaves on it, itself has a slight curve; and the shortest is only palm long, but the middle part has a fork, is the "yah" type of pattern. 　　Shao Jin took these things and sat in front of the table, pulled off all the leaves and small branches, and compared them with each other, and chose the smallest "yaya" and a slightly shorter one, but the curvature was quite obvious, and left the others with the leaves put down as a pile. 　　Then he turned back and stepped on the bed, gently jumped up at the same time reached out to the bed beams, and touched the eight strands of thread he had wrapped around the soles of his shoes and a piece of deerskin removed from the shoes. 　　And then the deer skin through the center of the line, the two ends of the line were wrapped on the "Ya" word fork of the two ends of the lock, with a finger tugging to try the force, feel almost after the first will be on the table to pick up the three teacups, scattered in the east corner of the house, he turned out of the small stones that had long ago been ready to back to the furthest place in the house, do not even look at it. Raise your hand and pop! 　　"Boom Boom Boom!" 　　A series of three explosions at the same time, Shao Jin immediately kicked over the small incense table beside him, using the sound of the vase on the incense table smashing to cover the sound of the slingshot hitting the target, followed by him leaping to the door, listening to the sound of the outside world behind the door for a long time, only to hear someone shouting: 　　"Young Master Jin, what happened?" 　　Shao Jin, of course, did not make a sound. 　　The man waited for a while and repeated the question; this time, it didn't take long for a voice outside to come up again: 　　"Nothing much, never mind." 　　"Never mind, never mind; eat." 　　"Alas, to say the least, the one inside is a little pitiful ......" 　　"Drinking too much wine! Blindly talk about what!" 　　There is no more sound coming in from outside, Shao Jin did not listen any more, only left the door and walked to the place where the cups were put, squatted down to check. 　　He saw that two of the three white porcelain cups had been hit in the middle and broken into pieces; the remaining one was only broken on the left side, which was obviously the result of him losing his aim when he played the stone. 　　Shao Jin picked up the last cup, tossing and turning to look at a good half day, thinking about the last life of these are all the rest of their own tricks, is to close their eyes and blindly hit five or six as a game as ...... "Forget it." He muttered, "In my last life, I also pay attention to nutritional balance every year to find a professional nutritionist to come over according to the body of the list of menus, which is like now mixed so miserable, empty hands results in not enough to eat, bones brittle estimate and people will have to be cracked to hit ...... This family is simply all psychopaths, the common people are not people. The son of a concubine is not a human being ah? You have the balls to control your own penis, have the balls to take good care of their own grown sperm ah! ......" 　　After all was said and done, in the end, the more he thought, the more despondent, can only hate to squeeze the hand of the homemade slingshot, pondering those possible opportunities. 　　As a result, he did not think about it for two seconds, and then heard a "croak" sound, followed by a weight on his head. 　　Shao Jin didn't need to raise his eyes to know what had happened, and he was so angry that he waved his hand with the slingshot at his head and scolded, "Dead frog, jumping on my head again will make you skin and bones sooner or later!" 　　Frog: "Croak!" 　　The moon hanging in the west had risen to the center at some point. 　　Xu Shanqiao had been crying for half a quarter of an hour at Third Mistress's place. 　　Third Mistress recently only feel that they do what what not good, just before almost beaten by their own master, today saw his daughter crying liver, she coaxed for a long time, but also feel physically and mentally exhausted, can not help but say: "Who give you aggrieved, which subordinate disobedient, you at least say a couple of words ...... you what? Do not say, mother how to know how to help you?" 　　Xu Shanqiao cried again for a long time, before stifling a sentence from her mouth: "Grandmother is biased!" 　　Zhao's entire mind in the past two days has gone to speculate on her husband's thoughts, a time completely unable to care about things in the house, heard this sentence is a stunned, asked: "How your grandmother biased?" 　　Xu Shanqiao was again just crying without saying anything. 　　Zhao had no choice but to look at her niece to the side, hoping to get an answer out of it. 　　Zhao Yunju didn't come in with Xu Shanqiao just now, she was originally sitting here with Zhao to talk, but as soon as Xu Shanqiao came in, she jumped into Zhao's arms and cried, not only confusing Zhao, but also interrupting all the words she was about to say. 　　Now hear Zhao's inquiry, she slightly embarrassed, said vaguely: "Roughly because of the fifth sister's matter ......" 　　"Xu Shanran?" Zhao's thin willow eyebrows couldn't help but raise, "What's going on?" 　　Zhao Yun Cui roughly described the matter of Xu Shanran assisting Dou in managing the affairs of the residence, and added, "Other than the fifth sister, none of the other sisters have received any news ......" 　　Zhao's lips couldn't help but tremble, shaking for a long time before she let out a breath, patting her daughter's shoulder and saying, "Good child, this matter ...... this matter you don't care first, the housekeeper is tiring and tiresome it, if you want to try it out, your yard, my mother's yard can all be ......" 　　"Not this, mother!" Xu Shanqiao was really unspeakably sad, "It was and still is, why can't I always compare to Xu Shanran? She and I both ranked in the Shan Zi generation, and Xu Shanran is still younger than me! As a result, everyone in the family calls her Sister Goodness, is it possible that I don't have a good word in my name? And then this time, Danxia Danchen's two sisters don't have one, I don't have one, Danqing doesn't have one, just her, Xu Shanran-" 　　"If you want to compare yourself to your fifth sister in everything, why don't you simply go to your fourth brother and fourth sister and become their third daughter?" A middle-aged male voice suddenly inserted itself between Xu Shanqiao's words. 　　Everyone in the room was startled, turning their heads to look, only to see Xu Huanzhang with anger in his eyes, striding from outside! 　　"Master, you're back ......" This was the first time Zhao had seen Xu Hanzhang since that night, and she was busy welcoming him forward, her heart still apprehensive. 　　"You two take the girl down first." Xu Hanzhang nodded to Zhao and said to the maids waiting in the room. 　　Xu Shanqiao after just a scare also some dare not speak, the maid up to help her, she also did not struggle, get up and follow them out. His aunt and uncle's daughters are gone, Zhao Yun Cui of course even more unlikely to stay, early bowed and avoided going out. 　　For a while, only Zhao and Xu Hanzhang remained in the room. 　　The dimly lit lamplight swayed in the hood, Zhao carried a handkerchief, keeping a smile on her face, but the smile was always a bit stiff: "Does the master ...... want to sit down first?" 　　Xu Hanzhang looked at his wife close at hand, thinking about the grievances that his daughter had just complained about, all sorts of thoughts went round and round in the end, and only turned into a sigh: "Madam, I was wrong!" 　　Zhao's tears fell with a brush. 　　The conversations in the house were wrapped in lights, blocked by the door panels, and the ones that were still left dissolved into the quiet night. 　　Tang Xin laboriously poured the last bucket of water into the large wooden bucket, and then whirled around and leaned against the bucket to catch her breath for half a day before she finally slowed down and set the empty bucket aside while she herself walked towards the outside. 　　When the mother in the Third Master's courtyard saw her come out of the house, she laughed and said: ''Aiya, are you done? This is really troubling you!" 　　"It's fine, it's just by the way, next time there's something mom will call me again it's fine." Tong Xin raised a smile and sweetly gossiped with that mom for a while before dragging her steps out of the Third Master's courtyard. 　　She went to the back room of the subordinates, those sitting in the corner guarding the door will always gossip when they have nothing to do, the master's room of that matter in their mouth simply have to be chewed over and over again until there is no more taste before they are willing to spit it out. 　　In recent times, in addition to Tang Xin busy with their own cleaning outside, always in the House of various places to help, help to help, heard a lot of side news. 　　Since the last time she walked out of Xu Shanran's courtyard, Tang Xin had been thinking about her conversation with the girl. 　　"I can save you." 　　"But what can you give me?" 　　What could I give the girl? 　　What did the girl need? 　　Every day, every day, Tong Xin asked herself this. 　　My loyalty? My life? But every maid has to be loyal to the master, my life has been sold to that thin piece of paper ...... She assumed one by one, and denied one by one, until two days ago, when she was sweeping the yard suddenly heard Xu Shanran help Dou's management of things in the house of the news, and suddenly it was like an enlightenment of everything figured out. 　　The girl knew about her predicament from the day she returned. 　　The girl has been doing something since the day she came back. 　　She needs a useful girl who can help her. 　　--And I can be useful, I can be very useful.