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"This servant is the one in charge of incense in the mourning hall. I've come to draw twenty candles."

I couldn't help but frown.

I clearly remember that it was three days ago that the mourning hall took fifty candles out from my hands. Why did they have to light the candles again?

Isn't this way too fast!

Seeing that Lan Lingyun was going to give her the match, I hastily called out: "Wait! Tell me, how come you use candles so fast? How many times a day do you change candles? Why can't I see you all collecting candles and incense? Did you steal the candle and take it home with you? "

That woman was locked up for the night by me and was just released this morning. She was about to serve as a maid when she realized how amazing I am, so she quickly kneeled on the ground and tremblingly replied, "Miss, this servant doesn't dare! The truth was that the candles were stolen a few days ago, leaving behind only five. Because they were about to run out, this servant waited for a few days to collect them. "Regarding the theft, this servant had already reported it to Miss Lan. If you don't believe me, you can ask her. There are still records to check."

Theft?

Candle?

It was as if a light had flashed through my mind!

I pressed on. "The candles were stolen a few days ago?"

That old woman hurriedly replied, "It was the evening two days ago. When I received the food, in the blink of an eye, only five candles were left on the table."

Wasn't the evening two days ago the day when the family was frightened?

I couldn't help but sneer. "That is to say, you usually place candles on the table? There's also this person who did an interesting job as a thief. He stole all of it and left five of them for you guys. His heart is truly merciful! "

The old granny was frightened by my tone and quickly kowtowed: "This servant does not dare to lie, there are indeed only five left! As for the candle, it was placed on the table, because candles were not rare objects, and the servants all felt that even if someone stole the candlestick, no one would take it. And because this candle needs to be switched frequently, for convenience sake, it was casually placed on the table! "

Candle?

A small candle, could it really produce any article?

But I had a hunch that this candle wasn't simple.

However, he could not see the real thing, yet he could not say a single word.

Sitting here thinking, always empty, why not immediately take evidence to investigate.

I immediately ordered, "You just said that there are only five candles left. Then, find someone to bring the rest over!"

That old woman seemed to have not yet recovered from the previous moment. I suspected that she had turned around the corner she had stolen, and while she was kowtowing on the ground, she cried out, "Miss! Miss! What I said was true! It really was lost, Miss! It wasn't us servants who stole it! "

Not long later, his forehead turned completely red.

The last thing I like is a person who can defend himself for no reason at all.

Lan Ling saw the disgust on my face. She quickly stepped forward, grabbed the old woman and reprimanded her. "Miss didn't say that you were stealing. She just told you to bring the remaining candles. Sister-in-law, what are you doing? This is not proper!"

The woman rubbed her bloodshot eyes and muttered, "Did the Lady really not blame me?"

Standing in the crowd of female servants behind her, some of them who had always been on good terms with Lan Li also stepped forward and advised her, "Sister Liu, are you confused? If you think about it carefully, when did Miss ever say anything to blame you? It was clearly because you didn't hear clearly that you were blaming the young mistress! We all heard it! "

After a while, the candles arrived. I got up from the bed and left the building. I left Lan Xin to continue listening to them and brought Lan Xin back to the inner room.

Sitting in the east room, in the chair behind the desk, I began to fiddle with the white wax.

Facing the sunlight, he looked up and down, but he didn't find anything out of the ordinary. Reaching into the scented pouch at my waist, I took out the small silver knife that I always wore at my waist, and chopped the candle into two.

The candle's texture was both soft and hard, but there seemed to be nothing wrong with it.

I told Lan Xin to take a stick of the white wax I had prepared in my yard and cut it in half in the same way.

The feel was the same.

It seems that I was wrong.

I shook my head and sighed to myself.

Maybe this was because someone took advantage of the chaos in the house and took the candle.

Maybe I really want to solve this mystery in front of me.

As it happened, there was an empty candlestick on the side of the book, so I picked up a half-cut candle from the table and inserted it into it. I temporarily put this matter aside.

Lan Li and I were sitting on the brick bed for lunch, listening to her talk about the lamp oil, the need to change the cotton curtains in Aunt Mo's courtyard, the need to make some new clothes in the outer court, and Miss Wen's sister-in-law, the eldest wife of the Fang Family. Lan Lingyun asked me what kind of ceremony I should make, and in a few days, Xue Ning Lin would be my cousin, Xue Ning Chen.

As I ate, I replied, "Send someone to Wen's room to ask around. If the Wen family sends us a twelve-colored box, we will send them a six-colored box. If the Wen family sends us a six-colored box, we will send a four-colored box." When you are ready, you will take Mother Song and personally drive her to Madame Wen. Tell her that I am currently in the middle of a filial duty and cannot walk around, but I have already made a good friend with Miss Wen. For this kind of thing, I can't do it anymore, so I can only mistreat my aunt and send it over indiscriminately. After a hundred days, I will definitely pay my respects and apologize in person. "

When Lan Lingyun saw me put down my chopsticks, she hurriedly took a cup of tea from a tray carried by a servant girl and offered it to me. She smiled and said, "This servant has already made some inquiries. I heard that Lady Wen has prepared a twelve-colored gift box and two pieces of Lu silk. She intends to set out on the 14th.

I nodded in approval before replying, "Then let's prepare the eight-colored gift box! For those of us who are neither family nor friends, it would seem impolite to send these silk satin gifts. "

Lan Ni nodded in agreement, personally serving me. As she helped me with my sleeves, I instructed her, "As for Ning Lin's birthday, of course I want to congratulate her. You can bring the invitation over later and let me see. Even if others were to speak, they would have a good answer. "

Lan Ying nodded. "This servant will take the invitation. This servant will bring it over in a moment!"

While wiping my hands with a handkerchief, I continued to nag, "As for the gifts, just follow the example of our family and the Xue family. The rest will be taken out of my room."

I smiled when I caught a glimpse of the family sitting across the table, also pricking up my ears to listen to my housekeeper.

He had stayed up most of the night, and when he woke up in the morning, he was exhausted after taking another long detour around the garden. After eating lunch, I started yawning non-stop. I instructed the female servants serving the family and went back to rest.

I was only going to rest on the kang for a while and continue to unravel my mysteries in the afternoon, but when I opened my eyes again, the sun had already reached its zenith.

I got up from the kang and saw Lan Li also lying on the kang, one hand under my head, the other at my side, sleeping soundly.

My big clothes and skirt were neatly folded on the smokebox, the big red and gold invitation was on the flowers, and a teacup was simmering on the brazier.

I couldn't help laughing.

Really, he couldn't even compare to a girl!

He even knew that he had done what he needed to do, so he went back to rest.

I'm fine, I didn't do anything serious, so I fell asleep first!

After pulling off the quilt on my body, I was forced to turn my face inward and outward due to being pressed under my elbow by Lan Lingyun. I muddle-headedly wrapped her into a quilt.

After putting on my clothes, I look from afar and can't help but laugh. The point of a bun peeked out from the white mass of white hair. It looked like it had been brought back by some merchants from overseas. It was painted on the head of a fan, showing the face of a fat and chubby Japanese woman.

Calling Lan Xin to help me clean my face, Lan Xin was astonished to see Lan Li and her clothes lying on the kang. She went up to Lan Xin and was about to tell her to stand up, but I stopped her.

I shook my hand at her and whispered, "She's also very tired. Let her rest a bit!"

Lan Xin nodded and smiled before taking her place, closely following behind me. Seeing that I took the invitation and walked to the east a little while, I hurriedly lifted the curtain with one step and lit up the lights inside one by one.

I needed a safe and private environment in order to obtain a quiet feeling and to avoid being overheard by others. So I used this place as a study and planted a bunch of green bamboo in front of it.

It was still dusk outside, but the room was already dark and yellow.

I sat behind the desk and unfurled the invitation under the lamp.

What a lavish banquet!

I smacked my lips as I held the thin piece of paper.

However, the birthday of a child at the age of eight would be a full two days. On the first day, he would invite the Tsui Class and Lian Zhu Class, the two famous Southern Sound Teams in Pingcheng. On the second day, it would be the most authentic drama set in this city … Lan Xi class …

I couldn't help but twitch my mouth.

The people I don't want to see the most right now are Lan Xi class.

Because their class monitor was Jiang Ming.

After careful consideration, I felt that it would be more appropriate to set the time of my visit as the first day, that is, the sixteenth of the next month, as well as the day before Ning Ling's birthday. As for my private gifts, why not choose a new set of jewelry from my collection and bring it along with you? It won't be too expensive and also shows the intent of intimacy.

Just the set he had fought at the beginning of this year was suitable for the Crimson Gold Peony.

The curtain on the door let out a faint "pa" sound. It was Lan Ling, who was hastily packing her clothes with one hand and carrying the huge brass teapot with the other, stepping into the room.

After the ceremony, Lan Ling could not help but complain.

"Seriously! This servant just happened to squint a little. Since you've woken up, why don't you wake me up! "

A sweet fragrance splattered out, permeating the pink peach buns on my desk. It was the boiled and rotten lotus seed of Gui Yuan Lian's Silver Ear Soup.

While stirring the soup with a porcelain spoon, I leisurely watched as Lan Lingyun changed the candles. I said with a smile, "You fell asleep by yourself. I covered you with a blanket out of good intentions. Why did you blame me as well?"

Lan Li was short of breath for a while. She only lowered her head and raised the candle wick, covering the lamp.

When Lan Lingyun arrived at a candle in front of my desk, she held a silver hairpin in her hand and softly exclaimed, "Huh?!"

After being bored to death, I asked with a smile, "Why are you so surprised? Did you get infected in the morning?"

It was referring to the matter of Sister Liu in the morning.

Lan Li flew over and gave me a charming look. She extinguished the candle in front of me, wrapped it in a handkerchief and took it off. Then, she used a silver hairpin to slowly shave it off.

For a moment, his expression changed drastically.

"Miss, look!"

Lan Ling held the candle in her hand and placed it in front of me. She pointed at the candle and said seriously, "Miss, look at this candle. It's different from normal candles!"

I looked down and up and down, but didn't see anything different.

Seeing that I didn't have any reaction, Lan Lingyun suddenly revealed an expression of enlightenment. Her face had a trace of mockery, and she said angrily: "Look at me! "If you don't change the light or the candles, how would you know about this?"

She then pointed to the already burnt end of the candle above her and said, "Normally when a candle burns, it will rise up a little in the middle because of the flame."

Lan Lingyun beckoned to Lan Xin. Lan Xin understood, and brought over a fresh candle.

It was just as Lan Ling had said, there were tears and candles on top of the candle, and the candle wax was at its highest level.

"But look at this one!"

Lan Li purposely stood the candle upright, making it convenient for me to look at it.

Although there were tears, they were all around the candle. As for Candle Heart, not only did he not store any candle wax, he had even made a slight dent.

I reached out to touch it, to make sure it was shorter than it was on the other side.

I suddenly felt enlightened.

"Go, get me a piece of that cool cake!"

Lan Li didn't know what I was going to do, but seeing my expression and knowing how important it was, she hurriedly went to the West Room and brought over a piece of pastry that I had originally used to leave a permit for.

I dipped two fingers in the teacup, soaked them well, pinched a piece of cake, crushed it in my hand, and held the candle between them.

The two maids looked at me in disbelief.

The candle that was still warm from the heat had actually begun to melt. The outer layer of the white cloth gradually became thicker, flowing down the candle, leaving behind a piece of cake fat that looked very similar to a normal candle.

"Go and invite Huang Lang over, let him see what's inside!"

Lan Xin answered and ran out with her skirt.

Lan Lingyun looked at the candle, and her face was still filled with astonishment. As she poured water into the basin, she asked: "What exactly is inside this candle?"

I lowered my head and washed my hands, wondering if, if I guessed correctly, there was some kind of herb in it.