Qingxi Niang and his current houses were located on the street behind the Xu family. After leaving the door, they walked forward along the path made of bluestone and then passed a stone bridge.

The morning light shone on the river surface, and the gurgling water was like yesterday. Qingxi looked at the river and slowed down unknowingly. Gu Mingyan could not understand her mood. Yuxi was still young. For her, moving to Hangzhou City was a very new thing. If her father hadn't died, the little girl would have been very happy to move.

But Qingxi couldn't bear to leave this bluestone road, this river, and the fifteen years she spent with her family in Xiucheng.

"My father will ask someone to rebuild the house. If you miss home, you can come back to stay for a few days at any time." Gu Mingyan walked to Qingxi and whispered.

Qingxi shook her head and looked at the home that was beyond recognition across the river. The nostalgia in her eyes gradually turned into firmness: "I appreciate Uncle Gu's kindness, but the ancestral home of the Xu family, I want to repair it myself." I paid for it myself and hired a worker to build a house. That was my own home. Rebuild it with the money of the Gu family. What is the difference between the new house and other houses of the Gu family?

"Please say something to Uncle Gu." Since leaving, Qingxi looked at Gu Mingyan for the first time, and his voice was a little softer than when he just refused him. Her intention to break off the engagement remained unchanged, but the Gu family and his son helped them a lot. Even if they were not husband and wife, out of courtesy and gratitude, Qingxi was willing to be friends with Gu Mingyan. Of course, the premise is that after she made it clear, Gu Mingyan still wanted to make friends with her.

Brother Gu is not as nice as Brother Mingyan, but his fiancée no longer calls him Young Master. Gu Mingyan was content and said warmly: "Okay, I will listen to you."

Qingxi continues to walk forward.

Gu Mingyan looked at her pale side face, and a hint of doting appeared in his eyes. The little girl was too polite and refused to spend money on her fiancé's family, but where did she find money to renovate the old house? After getting married, she would be more at ease to ask him for it? Gu Mingyan never stings with women. She used to play casually, and it was her serious wife's turn. Gu Mingyan only looked forward to the day when Qingxi acted coquettishly and asked for money with him. Soon.

A few minutes later, Qingxi stopped in front of his back door.

Because the back street of Xujia was close to the river, the fire in the back of the courtyard was extinguished first, the walls were burned black, and the frame of the house was still there. Unfortunately, the several rooms in the back of the house were either living for the servants or piled up debris, and there was nothing valuable.

Qingxi walked forward step by step, passed through the back room, and arrived at grandmother's yard. Then, from here, the yard of their sisters, parents' yard, the first entrance to the living room and the restaurant on the street, all collapsed in the fire, leaving only ruins. The autumn wind blew, taking away a few pieces of black and gray.

Qingxi has been crying for many days. Today, she didn't want to cry. She stood in the main room of her parents. She looked at her second sister who was wiping her eyes a few steps away and whispered to Gu Mingyan: "Brother Gu, who do you think the murderer is more likely to be?"

She was too calm, making Gu Mingyan feel that if he answered perfunctorily at this time, his little fiancée might have called him Young Master again.

So, Gu Mingyan looked around and then faced the wreckage of the restaurant facing the street and said: "Often robbers would want to rob the most property and make the least noise. According to what my aunt said at the time, the bandits tied up everyone in your family. If they did not set fire, the time for the neighbors to find something strange and call the police would be delayed for a long time, which would help the bandits escape. If they set fire, they would greatly shorten the escape time and were easily caught up by the police."

Qingxi also thought so. Once he had doubts, the clues he had originally ignored immediately became obvious.

The bandits set fire and ran away. The police immediately chased after the news. Why didn't anyone be found?

The easiest conclusion to draw is that the bandits run too fast, but from another perspective, if those people are not bandits at all, if they set fire to a restaurant in the city, the police would be destined to be unable to catch people if they dig three feet out of the city.

It was just a thought, and the regretful faces of the restaurant shopkeepers who paid their condolences became abominable.

My stomach rolled and Qingxi's face turned whiter.

Gu Mingyan held her shoulders and lowered his head to assure his thin and delicate fiancée: "My father has sent someone to stare. Once evidence is found, no matter how gangsters and white they are, we will avenge our uncle."

"Thank you." Qingxi lowered her eyes and took a step back. Gu Mingyan's hand fell blank. Without looking at Gu Mingyan anymore, Qingxi pointed to the location of the main hall and asked Yuxi to search. She put the basket on the ground, then held a long wooden stick in her hand and stepped into the ruins of the west room in a trembling manner. She bent down and pushed away the burned debris and searched carefully.

When her father was mourning, she wore a white dress and flipped through the ruins. The dress was quickly dyed a layer of gray, and her hair on her face was not spared. Gu Mingyan didn't understand what his fiancée was looking for, so he asked Yuxi quietly. When he learned that the two sisters were going to retrieve the knife that Xu Wangshan used, Gu Mingyan rolled up the long sleeves of the suit, picked up a stick, and helped.

Outside the collapsed Xu Qingtang, a group of people gradually surrounded him, including the shopkeepers of the restaurant who received the news to come to see the lively restaurant.

After turning over for half an hour, Qingxi came out again, holding a basket of kitchen knives of various sizes in his hand. Some of the knives were burnt and only bare blades were left, while others only burned the edges black. They could continue to use after being wiped clean.

"Big girl, are you?" Old Luo asked in confusion, with an elder's tone.

Qingxi handed the basket to Gu Mingyan. She took out a kitchen knife with a handful of hands from it, walked to Mr. Luo, and asked calmly: "Grandpa Luo, do you recognize this knife?"

Mr. Luo looked solemn. He took the thick black blade with the handle, looked over and over again, sighed: "This is the sword of the Wangshan brothers. Last year's chef god competition, the eight immortals carved by Wangshan brothers were vivid in the sea, and the ice fog surging like a fairyland... Unfortunately, the Wangshan brothers died young by the poisonous hand. The Xu family's sword technique was lost, which is a great regret in the history of Nancai."

While shaking his head, Old General Luo solemnly put the kitchen knife in Qingxi's hands, and the other shopkeepers also sighed.

Qingxi looked at everyone one by one, but smiled. In the shocked gaze of Mr. Luo, Qingxi calmly said: "Grandpa Luo, don't worry, my father had taught me all the sword techniques during his lifetime. The Xu family's sword will not be lost, and Xu Qingtang will never disappear."

After saying that, Qingxi retreated to the dark plaque of Xu Qingtang, knelt down in front of all the people of Xiucheng, held up his father's sword and sweared loudly: "The ancestors of the Xu family are above, and Qingxi, the eldest daughter of Xu Wangshan, the 19th-generation manager of Xu Qingtang, swore to the sky today that Qingxi will carry forward Xu Qingtang in his lifetime. If he violated this oath, Qingxi will be the widow for a lifetime and will not die well."

As soon as this said, there was a sudden silence around him.

Among the crowd, the fifteen-year-old girl knelt there, her dress was black, but her spine was straight and her face was dirty, but her almond eyes were bright and bright.

Gu Mingyan stood on one side and witnessed such a fiancée with his own eyes. He couldn't help but hold the basket in his hand tightly. His heart was turbulent and he couldn't calm down for a long time. When the tide fell, endless pride and pride surged up. Gu Mingyan suddenly felt particularly glad that his father had made for him. If he had no father, he might not have had the chance to know a woman named Qingxi in his life. She had the most delicate and gentle beauty and the most indestructible heart.

Helping Qingxi up, Gu Mingyan's eyes swept over the shopkeepers of Xiucheng Restaurant who were watching in turn, and finally settled on the face of Old Luo in black robe.

Old Luo's eyes twitched in a difficult way.

Qingxi and the other two had just stepped into the gate of the house where they were temporarily living. Old Mrs. Xu, Lin Wanyin, and Gu Shiqin had already rushed to the yard after hearing the news.

"Qingxi, are you bullied?" The eldest granddaughter was dirty and Old Mrs. Xu was so angry that she was worried that her granddaughter would be disliked by the Gu family and father.

Gu Mingyan wanted to explain to his fiancée, but Qingxi suddenly took the basket and knelt forward straight to the old lady Xu. Gu Shiqin said in a firm voice: "Grandmother, Uncle Gu, my father died unjustly. I can't find evidence to avenge him. The only thing I can do is to practice cooking skills and revitalize Xu Qingtang in the future to comfort my father's spirit in heaven. Uncle Gu, I know you like me very much, but I vowed in public today to take over Xu Qingtang, so I am not suitable to be the daughter-in-law of the Gu family, so I beg Uncle Gu to cancel my marriage with Brother Gu..."

"Clean stream!"

Two voices sounded at the same time, one from Mrs. Xu and the other from Gu Mingyan's mouth.

"Father, don't listen to Qingxi's nonsense. She is emotionally unstable now and doesn't know what she is doing." Gu Mingyan pulled Qingxi up and looked at her with black eyes unhappy, as if warning.

Qingxi wanted to break free from his hand, but Gu Mingyan refused to let go. The engaged couple pulled and pulled. Gu Shiqin frowned and said in a deep voice: "Okay, what's going on?"

Gu Mingyan stood in front of Qingxi and tried his best to describe everything that had just happened.

Old Mrs. Xu was the first to explode and scolded her granddaughter: "What are you, a girl, making a fool? What did your father teach you all the sword skills? You have never touched a knife since you were a child, so how can you inherit Xu Qingtang?"

Qingxi calmly retorted: "My father's knife skills, the steps he made for each dish, the more seasonings, the more heat they should be, the more small it should be. From selecting materials to the time they should be released, I remember that as long as I give me time, I..."

"Shut up!" Old Mrs. Xu interrupted her granddaughter mercilessly, "Don't say you talk about war on paper. Even if you really know how to cook, there is no reason why women show up in the world! I would rather the Xu family's sword skills be lost, rather Xu Qingtang disappear from now on, than you have to be a hero. Forget that oath as soon as possible, stay at home and wait for marriage with peace of mind!"

Qingxi's eyes turned red when he was scolded by his grandmother. He raised his neck and challenged Old Mrs. Xu: "Your surname is Zhang, my surname is Xu. Xu Qingtang is life or death, and the Xu family will decide!"

This was too cruel. Old Mrs. Xu was so choked that she almost breathed. Then she wanted to catch her granddaughter's lesson. Lin Wanyin, Yuxi protected Qingxi together and did not ask Old Mrs. Xu to beat her. Gu Shiqin was unable to stop her due to her identity. However, Gu Mingyan was not afraid of Old Mrs. Xu and directly blocked her in front of the three mothers of Qingxi, looking at Old Mrs. Xu coldly: "Qingxi is my fiancée. I think who dares to touch her."

Old Mrs. Xu put her hand down, angry and happy. Judging from Gu Mingyan's attitude, it seemed that she had to marry a granddaughter.

"Forget it, I don't care about your young people, I can't care about it either. If you want to retreat, just retreat. Wangshan is dead, Qingxi doesn't even take her father's words seriously. What's the point of me, an old woman?" Wiggling his eyes, Old Mrs. Xu smiled bitterly and said to Gu Shiqin: "It's better to retreat. Anyway, our Xu family has been a high-ranking player in the morning. Please find Mingyan a good match."

Gu Mingyan pursed his lips. If he hadn't liked Qingxi, he really wanted to break off the engagement and see what to do if Old Mrs. Xu, who was playing hard to get.

Gu Shiqin was older and better than his son. He supported Mrs. Xu and said sincerely: "A gentleman respected his promise. Wangshan saved my life back then, and the two families made a marriage because of this. Now Wangshan is killed. If I betray my faith, what kind of face will I have to do with my life? The old lady must not make any more resignations. Qingxi is young and ignorant. You go and rest first, I will persuade her."

That's what Mrs. Xu wanted, and went to the backyard with satisfaction.
Chapter completed!