Near noon, Mama Xu still didn't come back.

Before Xiao Chu left, he brought in a few new guards to guard the house.

Mama Xu didn't come back, but the people guarding the courtyard went out two more.

Unlike Mama Xu, both of them rode directly on horseback.

The feeling of uneasiness in my heart was growing, and I was distracted, and the needle in my hand pierced my finger.

I frowned and looked at the red dot on the pure white handkerchief, and I only felt shocked.

Sitting under the trellis, I silently put away the handkerchief and put it into a box on the stone table.

The people below brought the meal, and by the way, they brought a pot of tea, and the maid walked around the flowers and walked over from afar.

I looked up to observe the person's demeanor, paying particular attention to the expression on her face.

The maid with the tray seemed to have something on her mind, and she was a little absent-minded when she walked on the path, and when she turned the corner, the maid almost tripped over a pebble and stumbled, but fortunately she didn't fall.

She walked up to me and could see that her face was very unpleasant.

I was suspicious and said, "Is there something going on outside?" ”

"No, no," the maid was a little flustered, put down the tray and shook her head, "It's okay." ”

I frowned and whispered, "You go and help me find someone from the nursing home, I want to ask." ”

A moment later, a tall guard came, bowed, and his face was calm.

"When will Mama Xu come back?" I glanced at him and said, "Did you talk about it when you left?" ”

"Nope." He saluted me, and his tone sounded calm. "How many of your people have gone out, don't you know what's going on outside?"

I looked at him with an unkind face, dissatisfied with his perfunctory answer. "Childe explained when he left, so that you can stay here with peace of mind, and you are not allowed to disturb you about things outside."

With a bit of anger, I looked him squarely.

The guard added, "Mama Xu should be back before nightfall at the latest." When the time comes, you'll find out if you ask her. “

After that, he stood there like a wooden man, and said no more.

I think his silent pestle looks very unsightly over there. I know that I can't find out more news, for now. I'll have to wait until Mama Xu comes back. "Go down." I waved my hand helplessly.

The spring sun shines on the small courtyard, and the flowers and trees in the courtyard are plated with a layer of pale gold.

I remembered what Xiao Chu had said to me the night before he left, and the knot between my eyebrows became tighter and tighter.

I had a hunch that something might be wrong on his side, but thinking of the complicated background behind him, I looked up at the palace with a faint view of the wall in the distance.

The best thing to do is to go out and find out the news. It's better than being in the house like I am now, not knowing anything.

If it sounds good, it is protected, but it is difficult to say. It's no different from being under house arrest.

I'll have to give it a try.

I stood up and shouted, and the maid heard the sound, and I glanced at her. Tentatively asked, "I want to go out." “

The expression on the maid's face suddenly became nervous, she lowered her voice and lowered her head: "The slave and maid can't be the master, so I have to wait for Mama Xu to come back." “

"Miss Ye, you better wait a little longer, although the slave doesn't know what is going on outside. But the look on the warden's face is still asking you to wait. She said half-swallowing.

"At this juncture, you just wait, Mama Xu said that she can come back at night."

She repeatedly told me to wait, I glanced at her lightly, one, both of them, clenched my fists, I suppressed the anger that surged in my heart, and my face couldn't help but become more and more cold.

There is no other way to do it, it seems that I can only wait for the news according to the anxiety in my heart.

Time passed very slowly, from noon to dark, I didn't wait for Mama Xu to come back, but unexpectedly the person who guarded the garden came back.

I was sitting at the table with a calm face, and the food on the table was almost cold, but I didn't have the slightest appetite.

Hurried footsteps broke through the silence and knocked open my door from far and near.

The maid sent a message saying that Mama Xu might not be able to come back tonight, and asked me to wait for the news to be delivered tomorrow morning.

When I heard this, I was stunned for a moment, my face changed, and I couldn't speak!

After a while, I finally withdrew my gaze to her and said in a soft voice, "Got it, you can go down." “

Raising my hand to close the door, I walked around the room with trepidation, walking back and forth many times in a row, thinking fiercely about what to do next.

The waiting time was too anxious, and the news of no news also made me panic, unable to grasp any key points, and I fell into deep panic.

The atmosphere is wrong, something is wrong! And it's not trivial!

I ordered someone to withdraw the food and went to bed early, but my heart hung there, and as soon as I closed my eyes, Xiao Chu's face appeared, and my chest was surging with inexplicable love, and I couldn't sleep.

It began to rain in the middle of the night, and the sound of the rain beating on the leaves of the trees in the courtyard made a loud noise, and as the day approached dawn, the rain became heavier and heavier, and the wind that blew suddenly pushed open a wooden window that was not tightly closed, making a creaking sound.

I got up and closed the window, only to hear voices in the courtyard.

went out in clothes, and it was Mama Xu who came back.

I couldn't find an umbrella, so I could only wait at the door with a surprised expression, but fortunately, she just said a few words to the nurse and came to me with an umbrella.

She walked slowly, and seemed to struggle a little. "Miss Ye." Mama Xu lowered her head and called out to me, her voice sounding extremely tired.

I didn't have time to ask her, she had already spoken.

When I saw her look clearly, I was taken aback again.

But I haven't seen her for such a while, but Mama Xu seems to be old, and her whole person is haggard, and she even has dark circles under her eyes.

"What's wrong with you?" I made no secret of my surprise and worried, "What the hell is going on?" ”

Mama Xu looked at me with complicated eyes and said, "Something happened in the house, and it has been dealt with." “

Not the news from Xiao Chu's side?

I almost wanted to ask, but my eyes fell on Mama Xu's lap.

Thinking back to her unnatural appearance when she walked over before, I suppressed the emotion in my heart, looked at her fixedly for a while, and then whispered, "It's good that it's okay since it's okay." I'm going to sleep, and you can rest early. ”

Closing the door, I sat by the window and waited until dawn.

Heavy rain last night. In the morning, it was clear, and the sky was exceptionally clear.

Looking at the person in the bronze mirror, a face with a bad complexion. I took the makeup box and touched it up briefly.

Mama Xu delivered me food as usual and combed my hair.

My eyes went straight to the bronze mirror, but I watched her movements, and soon noticed that her technique was a little different from the past, a few days ago she combed my hair, I had praised her exquisite technique more than once, and bluntly said that this technique is rare.

Reminiscent of her gait last night. I thought about it.

By the time she finished grooming, I finished eating.

"Mama Xu, there's something I want to tell you." After weighing it again and again, I made up my mind. I turned to look at her and said, "I thought about it a few days ago, but I didn't think about how to tell you. ”

"When I was in Daye, I heard that there is a spiritual temple in Yingtian, which is on the curtain mountain more than ten miles away from the city." I tried to make my tone sound yearning.

"Mama Xu, I have followed my mother since I was a child. I believe in this the most, when I was in Daye, I had to go to the nunnery on the mountain every year to live for a while. ”

I said quietly: "It's been so many days since I came to Yingtian, and I've never had a chance to go to the temple." "The weather is nice today, I'm going to go once." If you agree, get out of the carriage for me. I said in a calm tone.

Mama Xu was stunned for a moment, bowed her head and said, "Childe only said that you don't want Miss Ye to go to the lively street, worrying about your safety." “

She looked at my face in the mirror and said with a deep gaze: "It's okay to go to the temple in Makuyama, just let the people who drive the car choose a less crowded road, and bypass the most lively streets in the city." ”

To my surprise, at such a moment, she did not speak out against my plan to get out.

"If you don't object, it should be fine." With a smile on my face, I said in a relaxed tone, "Go out as much as you can, and go back and forth that day." ”

After changing into a pair of clothes, the carriage was quickly ready, and Mama Xu naturally wanted to follow me.

After preparing some simple food, Mama Xu helped me to board the carriage, and the car started all the way through the small alleys to the destination of Mushan.

The driver seemed to be familiar with the road, and he deliberately avoided the most lively streets in Yingtian City and turned onto a relatively secluded road.

The speed of the car is not fast, and the curtain mountain is not too far away, so it is estimated that it will be there soon.

Sitting in the car, I glanced at Mama Xu, who didn't seem to have slept all night, and was napping with her eyes closed.

The carriage was bumpy, and it was supposed to be a drowsy rhythm, but my eyes were wide open, and I couldn't relax at all.

The car turned the next intersection, and we were about to leave the city gate of Yingtian, when suddenly, we heard a commotion at the city gate, and with the exclamation of the crowd, the carriage we were sitting in suddenly stopped.

"What's going on?" I said loudly.

A horse at the gate of the city was frightened and rushed straight in our direction!

It's incredibly fast, it's too dangerous! I'm afraid it's too late to dodge!

It was too late, and a silver light flashed, and the horse fell straight down no more than two paces from us.

"Mama Xu!" I was shocked and said, "You go down and have a look." ”

The frightened horses at the gate of the city almost rammed our car, and if it hadn't been for the generals who defended the city had stopped us with daggers, we would have had an accident!

The carriage started again, and Mama Xu thanked the generals who guarded the city, and the first thing she did when she came back was to take care of the slow speed of the car, so be careful.

When I saw her get into the car, her face was still pale, presumably because she was scared just now.

I leaned against the wall, and then I finally closed my eyes and relaxed.

I leaned there motionless, but I clutched a ball of paper tightly in my palm.