The first thing Gu Yuqi did after she recovered was to take a good look around the Dingyuanhou Mansion.
She was wearing a pink jacket with a lotus-colored pleated skirt underneath. Her hair was pulled into double loops and a jade-carved butterfly hairpin was pinned to her side. Although she was only ten years old, she already had a vaguely natural appearance.
Behind her is Rouge, a personal servant girl.
For Rouge, Gu Yuqi is relieved and grateful. In the previous life, she never left her and accompanied her all her life. She has seen her most beautiful appearance and her embarrassment when she was in trouble. Even Gu Yuqi set fire to the palace. Rouge has always been by her side She was burned to death in the palace. Gu Yuqi also thought about whether this Yanzhi was reborn like her. After several times of testing, she found that Yanzhi was a ten-year-old girl, the same as before. Yanzhi was the same age as her, and she was an orphan rescued by Mrs. Liang on the way to Beijing with her. Mrs. Liang saw that this girl was neat and straightforward, and she was the same age as her own daughter, so she let her follow her. Gu Yuqi's side.
Walking to the flower pond in the backyard, Yan Zhi nervously tugged at her lady's sleeve, "Miss, it snowed again yesterday, so let's not go there."
Gu Yuqi saw that Yanzhi looked as if she was facing an enemy, so she patted Yanzhi's hand comfortingly, "What are you afraid of?" she asked.
"The last time Miss came here with her servant, and after the servant walked away for a while, Miss slipped into the pool." Rouge tugged on Gu Yuqi's sleeve and said nothing to let her approach the pool again.
Gu Yuqi turned her eyes to look at the pool that almost drowned her. The water in the pool was very deep, and Gu Yuqi knew it, because several people were drowned here later. The lotus in the summer pond will be in full bloom, but it is winter now, these few days are a bit colder than the day when Gu Yuqi fell into the water, and a thin layer of ice has formed on the water. There are fences around the pool. It has just snowed, and the red fence is covered with a layer of silvery white. The fence has been newly painted, and the red is bright, and it is covered with white snow, making it even more colorful.
fence? Gu Yuqi frowned slightly, and she drew the height of the fence from a distance. She is only ten years old now, and she hasn't grown up yet, and the fence is almost reaching her chest.
A trace of coldness gradually floated into Gu Yuqi's eyes.
In the previous life time travel, she only cared about being happy, but never thought about why the original Gu Yuqi fell into the water. In this life, she lived again, and her mood was quite different from before. She didn't think she would fall into the water from the fence to her chest. So easily slipped into the pool water.
After she fell into the water and woke up, everyone in the mansion said she slipped by herself, the fence is so high, show me if you slipped backwards.
Seeing that Gu Yuqi stopped in her tracks, Yanzhi only thought that her young lady gave up the idea of going to the pool and was still happy, but when she saw Gu Yuqi holding her hand instead, she walked over firmly, Yanzhi was anxious. "Miss, you can't go over."
"What are you afraid of? Just because you fell into the water once, you can't go to the water's edge. According to this reason, don't you stop eating after you get choked while eating?" Gu Yuqi said.
Rouge was sure she couldn't beat Gu Yuqi, and she was pulled over by the lady with a terrified expression. Unable to stop her, she could only cautiously follow the young lady, never leaving her for half a step. Last time she just left the young lady, and the young lady fell into the water and almost died. This time, she will protect the young lady well no matter what she says.
Gu Yuqi carefully inspected the fence. There will be a pillar carved in the shape of a lotus flower every other section above the fence. The pillars are connected by a whole piece of wood. The lacquer is still traced in gold. Even a puppy would not be able to slide in this kind of fence, let alone a person her age.
Gu Yuqi didn't think that a ten-year-old girl in ancient times would be naughty enough to climb over the fence by herself. You must know that she is the eldest daughter of the Hou Mansion. Although she has been living with her mother in Jiangnan before, her mother's family is also from a family in Jiangnan, and the upbringing of the girl will not allow her to do this.
"Rouge, do you still have the clothes I wore when I fell into the water last time?" Gu Yuqi asked.
"Yes, Madam said that the clothes were unlucky, so I asked my servant to throw them away. The servant has been with the young lady every day for the past few days. Before I have time to throw it away, I put it in the servant's room." Yanzhi replied.
"Was there paint on the clothes?" Gu Yuqi asked.
"No." Rouge thought for a while, then shook her head and said.
If she climbed over the fence by herself, there would definitely be traces of paint on her clothes. Gu Yuqi touched the freshly painted fence surface with her little hand. When she was recovering from illness a few days ago, she personally heard a few women come to report to the house with her mother. Repair matters. This fence was newly painted by Gu Yuqi just after she fell into the water a day ago.
What Yan Zhi said confirmed what Yan Zhi was thinking, and her eyes became a little colder.
I really didn't expect that someone in the Hou's mansion wanted her to die.
In the previous life, her thoughts were all spent on how to show off. Mrs. Liang died early, and she was very angry. She didn't pay attention to the twists and turns of the back house, but now she thinks about it carefully. , Could it be related to the people in the mansion that she was in distress a few times before she got married in her previous life? It's just that her luck was extremely good those few times, and she avoided it without any risk.
Later, she asked to be married as a concubine, and the year of marriage was peaceful and quiet, which made her not think about other places.
Gu Yuqi sighed. Although she was a good time-traveling girl, her vision was too high, and she ignored the things around her. Thinking about it this way, there are some reasons for his fate of setting fire to the palace in his previous life.
"Is this where I was rescued?" Gu Yuqi walked along the corridor with rouge, then stopped and asked.
The flowers and branches of the flower garden outside the fence here have traces of being trampled in a mess. It is winter now, and those flowers and plants have withered long ago, so the traces of being trampled are even more obvious, although it has been a few days since Gu Yuqi fell into the water and was rescued. Yes, but the traces are still there.
Rouge nodded. When she rushed back, she found that the young lady was gone. She searched a long way to come here but found a figure floating in the water. She was terrified at that time. The people in the water looked like My own lady, but she hoped not, so she could only call someone first. But the lady was indeed rescued here.
Gu Yuqi nodded. Since she was rescued from here, it means that this place was the closest to her who was in the water at that time. If she was thrown into the water, it might be near here. She is now a half-grown girl. Although she is not heavy, she still has some weight. How far can she be thrown
Gu Yuqi carefully inspected the surrounding railings. The paint on the railings was scuffed and repaired later, leaving no useful clues. Besides, Rouge called someone that day, and the place was in a mess. The servants and the maids all had paint on their bodies, Gu Yuqi felt that it was more difficult to check from the aspect of the paint on the clothes.
"You tell me about the situation that day in detail." Gu Yuqi was silent for a while, and then said to Yan Zhi.
Rouge nodded, she told his wife and Lord Hou about the scene that day after the young lady fell into the water, and now she told Gu Yuqi that it was more organized and detailed than the previous two times. Gu Yuqi didn't find anything unusual after listening.
At that time, Gu Yuqi saw a beautiful puppy in the yard, so she and Yanzhi chased the puppy and ran here. After the puppy ran, she disappeared. She and Yanzhi went to look for it separately. The backyard is very big, the pond is said to be a pond, but it is actually an artificial lake, winding across the backyard of the Hou Mansion, it is already an inaccessible place.
She does have the memory of her and Yanzhi chasing the puppy. When she crossed over, she retained some of the original Gu Yuqi's memory fragments, but not many, just like the photos left in her mind, incoherent. She couldn't remember anything about how she fell into the water.
In her previous life, she was frightened after falling into the water, and she couldn't remember the previous things to fool her. Her original intention at that time was to conceal the fact that she was no longer the original Gu Yuqi. Even she herself didn't think about why she fell into the water.
So later, Lord Hou and his wife felt that she fell into the water because she slipped while chasing the puppy. They didn't investigate further, but just told her not to go to the water alone, it was too dangerous.
Gu Yuqi felt that they had overlooked a very important thing, where did the puppy come from
A puppy would not run out of the Hou Mansion for no reason. She didn't think about it in her previous life, but now she has to think about it.