Without distractions, he clung to the direction in which the black shadow had gone. 【Book by】

I chased too hard and too much until I was outside the door of the house where Ji Jiu lived.

Without the slightest hesitation, I rushed in.

I didn't think about how I should deal with such a clever person next, but I just thought that my current identity is under Ji Jiu of Zhuyuan in the East Courtyard.

He treats me well, so I have to do my best to protect him.

The sound of water in my ears, the moment I slammed the door open, I felt like I was petrified to the ground.

He was even more shocked than I was.

A second, two seconds, three seconds later, I said, "Misunderstanding, misunderstanding." ”

Calmly closing the door, I carefully searched the entire courtyard to make sure that there was nothing abnormal, and then I breathed a sigh of relief and sat down by the bamboo forest.

Thinking back to the embarrassing scene just now, the man in black who cursed the ghostly figure in his heart would really pick the time.

I'm sure I'm not mistaken, of course, but how can I explain that he's gone.

After sitting by the bamboo forest for a moment, his head turned to the room with the lights on, and did not hear the next movement.

I still seem to owe the bitter lord an explanation, no matter how I say it, I have to comfort him, don't I?

But at this hour, it is too inappropriate to go to him again, and it would be better to talk to him again tomorrow morning, and the thought flashed through me, and I got up and prepared to go back to my own place.

The door creaked open, Ji Jiu changed into a light cyan shirt, beckoned to me under the eaves, and said, "Xiaolin, come here, I have something to ask you." ”

I bowed my head into the room, my eyes fixed on my toes, and heard him ask, "What are you looking for me?" I looked up at him.

"Here's the thing," I said looking at the roof for a few seconds, trying to say how I could speak, "I heard movement in the bamboo garden in the room, and I felt it more keenly as I told you last time. ”

I stared at him without squinting, "I suspect someone has sneaked in." I'm worried that it will be bad for you, so I tracked it down and found out. ”

Ji Jiu stared at me with wide eyes for a moment, lowered his head and did not speak. "I didn't mean to bother you to say something like this. I'm more embarrassed than you. “

He nodded, looked at me with a somewhat complicated look in his eyes and said, "Tonight's incident is purely an accident, I won't blame you, you can go back now." “

When I walked to the door, Ji Jiu called me again and said, "Xiaolin, I forgot to tell you something." ”

"Ah," I turned to look at him, "what's the matter?" ”

"Tomorrow, I'll have to tell you some rules of etiquette. After all, soon she was coming. ”

"I understand, nothing else, I'm gone."

I hurried out of the yard and walked to where I lived, and this time I closed the doors and windows tightly. I plan not to go out again no matter what I hear.

That kind of oolong can make trouble once, but there may be a next time!

Under the lamp, the herbs are spread out again, and those parts that are used are examined, and from tomorrow onwards, we will have to test the disfigured medicine as soon as possible

Almost at the same time as the thin figure went out, the dark shadow on the beam fell on the floor in the room. "Be careful when you move around." Ji Jiu glanced at him expressionlessly. "I reminded you last time." "It's strange that her kung fu is only general, how can her hearing and insight be much better than ordinary people." "This is the wonderful thing about her, it's not something that makes him fall in love for no reason," Ji Jiu said in amazement.

Thinking back to the scene just now, he glanced at the man in black: "Don't show up in the last few days, I don't want to make trouble." The Empress Sealand is coming, so be safe. “

The man in black saluted and disappeared out of the window in an instant.

Ji Jiu leaned against the table, lowered his head and played with the chess pieces on the table again

The accident at night almost overslept me. When I woke up in the morning, the sun had risen, I was startled, quickly washed and tidied up, and ran all the way to Zhuyuan to find Ji Jiu.

But before I reached the door of his house, I heard a sound from outside the bamboo forest, and I was stunned, knowing that this was not the right-hand man under Ji Jiu of the East Courtyard, but someone else walking in the East Courtyard.

Because Ji Jiu is a special store in the east courtyard, only me and the steward who took me to the big kitchen to inspect the goods can come to this courtyard, and the rest of the people are waiting outside the bamboo forest even if they are in a hurry.

The signal that was answered was the voice ringing in my ears right now.

It was expedient, I changed the route to go to Ji Jiu first, and someone outside the bamboo forest came to look for it, of course I had to go over and have a look first

Outside the bamboo forest, there was a nursing home about seventeen or eighteen years old, dressed in clean blue cloth, looking in the direction I had passed.

When he saw me approaching, he saluted me. "When did you have it?" Faced with this nursing home for the first time, I looked at him for a while before asking. "It's a letter from outside," he said, pulling a letter out of his bosom and handing it to me with both hands.

I didn't pick it up right away, looked at him cautiously and said, "Why didn't the steward of the Ninth Master of Zhuyuan who was walking in the East Courtyard come?" ”

"I see you're very raw."

Since he can walk in the East Courtyard, he will naturally have the ability to observe words and colors when dealing with all kinds of people, and he said with humility: "The big warehouse has received a new batch of rewards, and he can't leave." ”

This Sealand empress hasn't arrived yet, and things have been sent several times, and it seems that she is really interested in the bamboo garden.

I suddenly became curious and couldn't help but ask, "Has it always been like this?" ”

"I wonder what you're asking?" He looked up at me in confusion, I was stunned, he almost didn't meet my eyes, I saw his eyes now, I felt a sigh in my heart.

"Believe me." I returned to the topic, quietly reached out and took it from his hand and whispered, "I'll deliver it right away, you can go." ”

As I watched him walk out of the courtyard wall, I clenched the envelope tightly.

It's just a nursing home, only seventeen or eighteen years old, but I have only seen that kind of look on the people of the Martyrdom Jade Pavilion.

In this eastern courtyard, I'm afraid it's not simple

When I entered the room, I was surprised to see that Ji Jiu was not sitting at the eternal table, and even the chessboard on the table was put away, and the empty table was still a little unaccustomed to falling under my eyes.

After glancing at the table, Ji Jiu came out of the secret room and saw that I was holding a letter in my hand, and he approached me to take it.

The man was standing less than half a meter away from me, he looked down and pulled out the letter paper and looked at the words written on it, I saw him frown, and couldn't help asking, "Is there something wrong?" ”

I could see that he didn't seem very happy to receive the letter.

This letter must have been sent by the one who sent it, but it was only the contents of the letter

He reached out and handed me the letter and said, "See for yourself." "This, is it appropriate?" I blushed and whispered, "The empress's personal letter to you, I'm an outsider"

I'm afraid that there will be something up there "after saying goodbye to you, thinking about it, I don't see you for a day, such as every three autumns" and the like, which is not bad, but I am most afraid that there is something very fleshy content.

He was so embarrassed to show me, but I didn't want to read it, so as not to be sentimental and think of someone.

Ji Jiu couldn't help but stuff the letter to me and said, "It's a change in itinerary." “

The place where we are is located is in the southeastern corner of Sealand, which is not too far from the national capital.

The Empress arrived here from the capital of Sealand, and even if she hurried up, it would take a lot of time, but strangely enough, she wrote in the letter that she would postpone the schedule of the meeting.

The reason she said was that she wanted to go to the north of the national capital to visit an important minister who had long since returned to his hometown, and had served the kings of the two dynasties.

The other party is already in his last years, and he is seriously ill, and I am afraid that he will be soon

This reason seems very reasonable, I don't know why Ji Jiu's face changed when he received the letter.

"There's nothing wrong with that." I thought for a moment and whispered, "Although it is rare to meet, her itinerary is also important, as a monarch, sympathy for courtiers is also a compulsory lesson, besides, it is not under her mother's hands that she has been conscientious and loyal." ”

I folded the letter again and carefully placed it in the envelope: "It's human nature to meet her once before you leave. ”

"The other party may still have watched her grow up" "Xiaolin," Ji Jiu suddenly interrupted me, he took a step closer to me, just stood in front of me and leaned over to look at me and said, "You came to Xilan, and you passed through a lot of places on the way. "Last time, you told me about the rumors about the empress outside, but there was nothing else?" "Ah," I looked up to make eye contact with him, and when I saw his inquiring eyes, my gaze paused on his face for a few moments before I whispered, "Yes." "I heard it by chance, and said yes, that the Empress of Sealand had a younger sister, and she seemed to be on bad terms with her sister." "I heard that this is the secret of the Sealand Kingdom, and to the outside world, the empress also hides a lot of things, and she is not willing to reveal too much." "Moreover, the person who told me also took care of it, saying that it is not allowed to mention this matter lightly to people in Sealand, otherwise it may get into trouble."

Ji Jiu looked at me with a clear expression and said in a soft tone: "I guess you will know something, it is." “

What he said next was exactly what the innkeeper had told him on the road.

"The seat of the Empress of Sealand is not so peaceful."

Ji Jiu said with a wistful expression: "Her sister left the palace a few years ago and occupied a corner in Sealand and has her own power. ”

"This is the secret of Sealand, and it is only her sealed territory to the outside world." "The so-called terminally ill old minister who has returned to his hometown is in that area."

I listened intently to what he was saying, and for a while, the room was quiet and I could only hear the wind outside the window.

I hesitantly raised my head and asked, "Are you saying that the reason for her postponement of the meeting is called a visit, but in fact it is just an excuse, and the fact is that she is confronting her sister who has always been in the same situation?" “