At the entrance of Dongli Cottage.

Concubine Zhao Ling had one foot inside the door and one foot outside, and turned to look at the closed door of the north room.

Jia Tengying and Fan Yushu were blocked outside the door by her, unable to go forward or retreat.

Very embarrassing.

The two looked at each other, feeling a sense of fate that they had messed up.

It’s so thrilling every time, Tzuyu, if you don’t suffer, then who will?

It happened so fast that in an instant, they had already accepted their fate and thought about how to confess and get leniency, subconsciously trying to restore the impression that Fairy Zhao might have changed her mind...

The next second, Concubine Zhao Lingfei lifted her other jade foot that had paused outside the door, stepped into the door, and then suddenly looked back.

"Yushu, Tengying, have you helped me put it away?"

Concubine Zhao Ling's tone was half doubtful and half relieved.

Jia Tengying and Fan Yushu were both stunned.

The former was originally dull and sullen, and it was hard to tell the difference between the before and after.

The latter was stunned for only a moment, then quickly reacted.

As soon as Fan Yushu thought of this, he blurted out subconsciously:

"Ah? Uh-huh, since you didn't come, I helped to collect the things yesterday evening."

"Thank you." Zhao Lingfei looked into his eyes and said seriously.

"It's okay, it's just a small favor. My sister-in-law is being too polite."

Fan Yushu responded quickly, stabilized his position, and took the initiative to attack.

"But," he sighed, "Next time, my sister-in-law should remember to collect the quilts before the sun goes down. Unlike clothes on weekdays, quilts cannot be hung out to dry overnight. Otherwise, there will be too many fireflies and dew in the early morning, making them damp and dirty, and then it will be a waste of time to wash them."

It seemed like she almost made a mistake... Concubine Zhao Ling subconsciously wanted to stick out her tongue, but stopped herself in time. The person in front of her was her husband's good friend, so she had to be dignified and virtuous, and behave properly. It was not like she could be as playful as she wanted in front of her husband and Qian'er.

But at the moment, Concubine Zhao Ling felt that her image as a dignified lady seemed to have been challenged, and she was a little overwhelmed. The details of drying the quilt revealed that she was also a little confused about household chores...

The woman with autumn eyes looked away a little embarrassedly, not wanting to look at Fan Yushu's helpless smile, but the next moment, her peripheral vision happened to catch a glimpse of something.

"Hey, this dress."

Concubine Zhao Ling's attention suddenly shifted. She walked to the clothes drying rack with lotus steps and pointed at the pink clothes of a little fox demon and said, "Whose clothes are these and why are they hung here?"

Fan Yushu just gave him a thumbs up for his wit, but the smile that had just appeared on his face froze immediately.

He gritted his teeth and said with a smile: "My... mine, haha, sister-in-law, my yard is near the foot of the mountain and in the shade. I'll bring it to your yard to dry in the sun. You probably won't mind, hahaha."

But Fan Yushu suddenly became embarrassed while laughing, because the goddess-like woman with autumn eyes in front of him was looking at him with slightly narrowed eyes, with a look of scrutiny.

His heart skipped a beat.

It’s over, this is not going to work... Fan Yushu was secretly anxious.

The atmosphere between the three people suddenly became quiet and no one spoke for a while. Fan Yushu and Jia Tengying were both looking at the expression on Concubine Zhao Lingfei's face carefully.

"Oh, really?" At this time, Zhao Lingfei looked at Fan Yushu's powdered face, smelled a little bit of spices on him, and nodded gently, "Yushu still likes to wear pink clothes..."

She paused in her crisp voice, turned her head and looked at the pink men's suit in front of her, thinking: "It's rare. Yushu's taste... is quite unique."

"..."Fan Yushu.

Someone feels that the world is full of malice.

Hey, hey, hey, can you stop looking at me like that? What's wrong with boys caring about their image, putting on makeup and dressing up? Who says it's only for girls? Who says it's sissy... He was so angry about this worldly prejudice that he was shaking with anger.

But Fan Yushu thought about it again. Fortunately, the sister-in-law Su who suddenly appeared was wearing pink men's clothes. Men wearing pink... It's coquettish. Thank God, sister-in-law Su didn't hang out her daughter's clothes or some special small clothes - after all, there were other men in the yard - otherwise Fan Yushu would be dead at this time. No, he would never stand up to take the blame even if he died. Who cares? A certain scumbag is here, who cares about him...

At this time, Fan Yushu, who had a strange habit, forced a smile and said, "Excuse me, sister-in-law."

Concubine Zhao Ling smiled gently, turned and walked towards the courtyard gate, getting farther and farther away from the closed room.

Fan Yushu and Jia Tengying couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief and looked at each other.

Concubine Zhao Ling turned around in an instant and calmly glanced at the expressions of the two people who were looking at each other with relief.

They turned around quickly in fear. Fan Yushu smiled at Concubine Zhao Lingfei and said, "Sister-in-law, what's wrong?"

Concubine Zhao Ling did not say anything. Her eyes were clear, like a pool of clear water, reflecting the faces of her husband's two good friends. She didn't know how deep the water was.

She turned her head and looked at the pink men's suit hanging there. It had a slim waist and seemed suitable for a petite figure, such as... Qian'er's?

Without saying a word, Concubine Zhao Ling turned around and walked towards the north room.

Fan Yushu and Jia Tengying were startled, but it was too late. In their sight, Fairy Zhao had already walked to the door without turning her head and stretched out her hand to push it slightly.

Squeak——!

The familiar sound of the north room's door opening echoed throughout the yard.

Door, unlocked.

She pushed the door open.

Zhao Lingfei stood in the middle of the empty but clean room, her eyes swept across the lightly closed west window, the clean bookshelf, the bed that seemed to have been made by Fan Yushu and Jia Tengying, and the four chairs quietly placed under the eight-immortal table...

Everything seemed the same as before, except that the bedding she had hung out to dry yesterday had been taken away by someone else.

In addition, there seems to be a faint fragrance in the air, somewhat like... the spices on Fan Yushu's body?

The woman with teardrop mole narrowed her eyes, glanced around, sniffed with her delicate nose, and frowned slightly.

At this moment, two heads popped in from the threshold behind her, scanning the room with slightly complicated eyes, as if they were searching for something.

Fan Yushu said with a serious face, "Well, sister-in-law, is there anything I can help you with? We have already made the bed and quilt for you. Are you satisfied?"

He suddenly added with a look of realization, "Oh, by the way, yesterday evening, Senior Yu and her maid were there too. When we came to make up Tzuyu's bed, they followed her into the room, and some things might have been moved. Sister-in-law, speaking of which...there shouldn't be anything missing from Tzuyu's room. Senior Yu and her maid don't seem like that kind of people. But they might have taken a piece of calligraphy to give to Mr. Zhu, haha."

"That Senior Yu... and her maid..." Concubine Zhao Ling spoke silently, her brows gradually relaxed, and she shook her head and said, "It's all right. Thank you Yushu and Tengying for your help."

Afterwards, Concubine Zhao Ling looked around the house a few more times, and left the north room with Fan Yushu and Jia Tengying. This time, she took out a small key.

While locking the door, Concubine Zhao Ling lowered her head and said, "Teng Ying, you should have a key to the north room, right?"

Jia Tengying nodded, "Yeah, Tzuyu let me keep one."

Concubine Zhao Ling was quiet for a while, and after locking the door of the north room that belonged only to her and Rong Erge, she turned her tall body lightly, and the red lips on her beautiful face were slightly curved at the corners, which looked very beautiful under the morning sun, but her words were quite cold and polite.

"If there is nothing urgent, don't open the door and bring other people in. My husband... doesn't like others to look through his things. But this time it was Lingfei's fault. I won't do it next time. Thank you Tengying and Yushu."

She addressed the two of them in a rather affectionate manner, not because they were close, in fact they had only met each other a few times, but because she had to address her husband's friends using the same terms as her husband.

Upon hearing this, Fan Yushu and Jia Tengying did not think there was anything wrong with the sense of distance in the words. The first impression of the Fairy Zhao in front of them was that she was beautiful and could be admired from afar but not touched, and she was a natural person who kept strangers away. The fact that she could smile softly at them was also because of someone's factors, so it was normal for her to be polite in her words.

So at this moment, the two of them felt a little guilty because a little fox demon had gone somewhere unknown...

"Sure! Sister-in-law."

They nodded rapidly.

Concubine Zhao Ling nodded slightly, glanced at the white clouds in the sky, then turned and left.

…

In the yard.

Although they were standing under the bright autumn sun, Jia Tengying and Fan Yushu looked worried, and the atmosphere between them fell into silence.

Jia Tengying frowned, scratched his head, and said in a serious tone: "If this continues, something bad will definitely happen."

Fan Yushu nodded in agreement, "Tzuyu, oh Ziyu, it will be over sooner or later. But... after the incident, my sister-in-law will definitely realize that something is wrong with us after just a moment's thought. How will we face her then? I guess she won't trust us anymore."

He sighed again.

Jia Tengying shook his head and said nothing.

Fan Yushu glanced at the locked door and asked curiously, "Where is Sister-in-law Su? She's not here. I thought she was going to be caught in bed by Sister-in-law Zhao."

"I don't know." Jia Tengying thought for a while, "Maybe she got up earlier than me and went out; or she went out halfway when we went to the Confucian Temple."

Fan Yushu sighed, "Forget it, I won't care about this anymore. Every time I cover up, I have to use countless covers to make up for it. It's endless... I'm going back to my yard to study these few days. I won't stay here anymore. I suddenly found that reading is quite interesting."

Are you slacking off somewhere else? Jia Tengying looked at his classmate in front of him speechlessly, feeling that he equated studying with slacking off.

"Wait for me, I'm going too." However, the honest man Jia Tengying also decided to run away.

This Dongli cottage could become a 'crime scene' at any time. It is too dangerous to stay here. You may become an accomplice of the scumbag at any time and your reputation will be ruined.

As for those two younger brothers and sisters, Ziyu had not met them yet. However, if things continued like this, even if she was very lucky, she would still suffer. Especially Fairy Zhao, she was no fool. The scrutinizing look she had just given her made the two of them feel a little numb when they recalled it.

They are still wondering whether Concubine Zhao Ling said she was leaving but was actually lying in ambush at the gate of the yard... Well, it is very likely.

The two students felt a chill on the back of their necks and turned back to look at the gate at the same time. At this moment, the gate was suddenly pushed open by someone from the outside.

The two men screamed in fright and leaned back.

I saw a petite and rosy figure jumping in from outside the door.

A pair of big fox eyes, smart and cute, today she is wearing red clothes.

"Why are you looking at me like that?" Su Xiaoxiao tilted her head and looked at Fan Yushu and Jia Tengying.

The two of them widened their eyes and stood on tiptoe to look behind her at the empty alley outside the door.

"No... nothing." Fan Yushu coughed twice, and couldn't help but stepped forward and asked, "Sister-in-law Su, where have you been?"

Su Xiaoxiao said with a smile: "I went to that senior's place, had breakfast, and chatted with him. I thought it was almost time, so I came back."

She put her hands behind her back and spoke as she walked past the two of them and came to the door of the north room. "Hey, why is the door locked? I haven't left yet." The little fox demon blinked her big eyes and looked at them.

Fan Yushu and Jia Tengying looked at each other.

The former sighed softly, and the latter walked forward with his head down, took out the key and opened the door. After thinking for a while, he handed the key directly to Su Xiaoxiao very solemnly.

Very good, now both brothers and sisters have a key to Tzuyu’s room…Fan Yushu complained silently.

The fox-eyed girl in red clothes thanked him happily and jumped into her lover's room.

Fan Yushu and Jia Tengying turned around and left, very tacitly, to go to other small buildings to avoid the limelight...

Before leaving, Fan Yushu righteously said something.

"Sister Su, take care."

"Ah? Uh-huh..." Not long after they left, Su Xiaoxiao came out holding a bunch of bed sheets and blankets. The bed sheets and blankets were so high that they covered her head. The little fox demon tilted her head and looked at the empty yard in a daze, "Uh-huh, why is there no one here?"

She didn't care, shook her head, and hummed habitually:

"It's three quarters past noon, let's dry the quilt first!"

Just like Su Xiaoxiao who ran out to dry the quilts at a fixed time every day at her residence in Taiqing Mansion, she carried Zhao Rong's bedding to the clothesline in the east corner of the yard. She was a little short, so she jumped around and put the quilt that someone had dried yesterday on the clothesline again.

She clapped her hands, looked up at her masterpiece with satisfaction... Xiaoxiao is so virtuous~

Then the little fox demon ran back to the north room quickly.

Su Xiaoxiao stuck her head out of the door, glanced at the empty yard, and then quietly closed the door like a thief.

She came to the desk and bookshelf, stood on tiptoe, lightly touched her pink lips with her index finger, and curiously glanced at Zhao Lang's bookshelf.

Then the fox's eyes curved up and it began to explore happily.

The little fox demon, who loves to read all kinds of story books except serious books, is particularly interested in the serious books that fill Zhao Lang's bookshelf.

Because these books were full of his annotations and were the objects that accompanied him every moment of his life. She explored them carefully and found the familiar scent of Zhao Lang on them.

Every time Su Xiaoxiao finished reading a book, she would close it intact and put it back without leaving any trace. She did the same when she secretly looked through Zhao Lang's desk before.

Well, she couldn't let Zhao Lang find out that she was peeking. Although the two of them were inseparable, the bad guy would eventually find an excuse to bully her. In this regard, Su Xiaoxiao was very experienced. She was on guard against bad guys so skillfully that it made people feel distressed.

The morning time passed quietly as the little fox demon occasionally giggled.

Just at a certain moment, she was flipping through a book, and suddenly a letter with a faint fragrance slipped out from it.

Su Xiaoxiao's face suddenly turned pale.

…

A certain autumn-eyed woman was on her way back to Taiqing Mansion.

The autumn breeze in the morning brings the autumn sun, and it feels warm when it falls on people.

It is a rare warmth in late autumn.

But she didn't seem to care about these, but walked straight in the shade, with her eyes lowered, not looking at the road.

Just a moment.

The quiet woman with autumn eyes suddenly stopped.

The next moment, she turned around and returned the same way...