When Su Xi came out of the forest, his face was pale and his sideburns were loose, and he really looked frightened.

The people outside the forest looked for her for a long time.

Since Lu Jianghuai lost her, he searched for both forks in the road, but he still couldn't find her people, and later went back to sue Su Li and Su Zhen. Su Li and Su Zhen hurriedly transferred people from the other courtyard to search along the back mountain, and almost turned over the entire back mountain in a short period of time, but because Su Xi's location was too remote, they never found her.

Su Li and the others were anxious in their hearts, only worried that if Su Xi could not be found before dark, it would be even more dangerous.

Seeing Su Xi walk out of the forest by himself, they were both surprised and happy, and then breathed a long sigh of relief. Su Li took Su Xi to a safe place and asked, "Youyou, how did you come back?" What about the horse? ”

Su Xi was wrapped in Su Li's dark green bamboo cloak, thinking about the words that Wei Feng taught her, and explained: "I was taken by the horse to a wood, and then it was thrown off, and then I saw that the place was not far from the horse farm, so I walked back along the road by myself. ”

Su Li worried: "Thrown off by a horse? Did you ever get hurt? ”

Su Xi spread out his two hands and raised them in front of Su Li, pointed to his legs again, and said, "My hands are bruised, and my legs can't walk...... Big brother, I want to go home. ”

Su Li saw that there was nothing wrong with her, which was really a blessing in misfortune, so he bowed his head and said, "Okay, let's go home, I'll take you home." ”

Su Xi never wanted to ride a horse anymore, so Su Li ordered someone to prepare the carriage. At this time, the Lu brothers and sisters walked up, and Lu Huishu said guiltily: "Youyou, I shouldn't have been, I said I wanted to teach you to ride a horse, but in the end I didn't take care of you, and let you have such a thing." You just blame me...... Otherwise, I really don't want to go. ”

Su Xi said magnanimously: "Sister Shu doesn't know that the horse will be out of control, how can you blame you for this matter." It's just that I don't seem to have a relationship with horses, and I almost had an accident at Jingxi Racecourse last time, and this time it's like this...... It seems that I will not be able to ride a horse in the future, otherwise I don't know what will happen again. ”

Lu Huishu remembered that the time at Jingxi Racecourse was also because of their brother and sister, although the horse was taken by Wan Pingweng, but these two times were connected, they were all related to his brother and sister, and it was even more guilty when he thought about it.

Su Xi didn't think so, she still liked Lu Huishu in her heart, but there was one thing she couldn't figure out, "Didn't Brother Lu say that the horse was very docile, why did it suddenly get out of control?" ”

She remembered that there was nothing unusual around her at that time, and she saw that the horse was fine for one moment, and the next moment suddenly went crazy, and without any warning, she rushed out coldly. That's why Su Xi didn't prepare at all, and the whole person was directly frightened.

Looking back on it now, I still have lingering palpitations.

Su Xi didn't suspect Lu Jianghuai, although she didn't have much contact with Lu Jianghuai, but from these few times, she knew that he was frank and open, and he would never deliberately harm himself, and he had no reason to harm himself.

It was precisely because of this that Su Xi couldn't figure out what was going on.

Lu Jianghuai stood aside, pondered for a moment, and still told the horse that there was a blood worm behind him at that time. The name of the insect is the blood fly, which feeds on the blood of humans or animals, and once it is bitten, it is difficult to get rid of it. It is precisely because the horse wants to get rid of this creature that it will keep running until it dies of exhaustion.

After hearing this, Su Xi realized that he was afraid: "...... So that's what happened. ”

Lu Jianghuai was silent. He didn't tell Su Xi that the blood fly would only appear in the swamp, Guy didn't want her to think about it too much, he always felt that a clean and simple little girl like Su Xi should be well protected, and the pickled truth behind it would defile her.

After a while, Su Li prepared the carriage, and Su Xi said goodbye to Lu Huishu and Lu Jianghuai, and got into the carriage and returned to the courtyard.

After returning to the courtyard, Tingyan and Tinghe saw that her hair was in a bun and she was wrapped in a man's clothes, and they were so frightened that their heartbeats stopped. Su Xi didn't care to explain to them, because there were so many things that happened today, she was tired and afraid, so she lay on the bed and fell asleep until the early morning of the second day.

*

At this time, Lu Jianghuai came to visit Su Li in the Su family's courtyard early in the morning.

Su Li sat in the rosewood chair, and the hand holding the teacup tightened, "You mean, someone is going to deliberately murder the young?" ”

Lu Jianghuai stood in front of him, his expression solemn, and said, "Otherwise, I can't explain why the blood fly appeared by the stream." Seeing that Su Li was silent in thought, he thought for a while and said, "Does Brother Su know who the ninth girl has had a grudge with?" ”

Su Li pondered for a moment, shook his head, and said, "Young and gentle in nature, he has never had a confrontation with others. If, as you say, the young child was murdered, then why did this man harm her? ”

Lu Jianghuai also couldn't figure this out, since Su Xi had never had a grudge against anyone, who was so cruel to her? He hesitated: "Since it's not a grudge, can it be aimed at the Su family......

It's not impossible. The Su family has been favored by the Holy Grace, and Emperor Zhaoyuan's preference for the Su family is too obvious over the years, after the old lady had a stroke, he has now allowed the old lady to give advice, and specially asked the most important father-in-law around him to come to condole not to mention, but also plan to promote Su Zhi and fill the vacancy of the old lady. In this way, it will inevitably arouse the envy of people in the officialdom.

It's just that Su Xi is a soft and weak boudoir girl, and if she murders her, what good will it do to the other party?

Su Li couldn't let Su Xi be wronged for no reason, so he stood up and said, "Jianghuai, can you find that runaway horse?" I would like to check if there is anything unusual on the horse. ”

Lu Jianghuai said: "Brother Su, don't worry, I have already ordered someone to look for it, and it won't be long before there should be news." ”

An hour later, the people sent out by Lu Jianghuai came back to pray-

The horse rushed all the way to the edge of the cliff and fell off the cliff. When they went to the bottom of the cliff to look for it, the horse had already broken to pieces, and there was no clue on it.

Su Li clenched his fists, and for the first time, he showed that he was out of shape, and said hatefully: "The other party must be a scheming person." ”

Seeing this, Lu Jianghuai comforted: "Brother Lu doesn't have to be like this, maybe I'm thinking too much, the blood fly incident is just an accident, not that someone wants to kill the ninth girl......" But when he said this, even he didn't believe it.

Su Li investigated for a day without any results, worried that Su Xi would have another accident if he lived in another courtyard, so early the next morning, he asked people to go back to the general's mansion to spread the word, and took Su Xi and a few people back to the capital.

On the way back, Su Xi begged Su Li not to tell the Yin family about the matter. She didn't want her mother to worry. The last time she fell from Qingshui Mountain, Yin didn't sleep well for several days and nights, and often woke up from nightmares at night. This time, my father and second brother were far away from the gate, and the Yin family couldn't sleep at night, if they knew that she almost had an accident, they would definitely not be able to stand it.

Su Li thought about it for a while and agreed.

After returning home, Yin asked them why they came back so early, "Didn't you say that you plan to stay in another courtyard for a month or two?" ”

Su Xi sat beside Yin's side and said sweetly: "I miss my mother, so I hurried back." ”

Yin nodded her nose with a smile, with an expression of "I don't know you yet", "Is it uncomfortable to live there, or the dishes in the kitchen are not good?" ”

Su Xijiao snorted "mother", but deliberately did not refute.

For the next few days, Su Xi stayed in the flower open, and no matter how hot it was, she didn't hear her complain. Compared with other hospitals, of course, it is safer at home.

During this period, there was a banquet in the Rongguo Mansion, and Su Xi was frightened and didn't get well, so he refused under the pretext.

Unexpectedly, Fu Shaoyun and Fu Yi came to the General's Mansion to see her on the second day.

A grape trellis is set up in the garden where the flowers are fragrant, so you can enjoy the cool weather and eat fresh grapes in the middle of summer. Su Xi was sitting under the grape trellis fiddling with her baby Lu Qiqin, and she heard that Fu Shaoyun and Fu Yi were coming, and as soon as she stood up, the two had already arrived at the gate of the courtyard.

Hearing that Yan invited the two in, Su Xi smiled politely: "Why did Cousin Shaoyun and Sister Yi come over?" ”

Fu Shaoyun wore a royal blue robe, and smiled handsomely: "I heard that you are not feeling well, so I will come to see you with Sister Yi." What's wrong? But the heat again? ”

Su Xi said: "It's just a little uncomfortable, and I'm bothering Cousin Shaoyun and Sister Yi to run in person." Speaking of this, I remembered the last time Fu Shaoyun helped her buy lotus leaf herbal tea, and said: "It was really troublesome for Cousin Shaoyun last time." ”

Fu Shaoyun said disapprerovingly: "It's just a matter of raising your hands." ”

When Fu Yi came in, she saw Su Xi stroking the qin, smiled slightly, and said, "Is Cousin Xi playing the piano?" Speaking of which, it seems that I have never heard you play any tunes, and I don't know how Sister Xi's piano skills are. As he spoke, his eyes fell on the piano that Su Xi placed on the vermilion lacquer inlaid luodian table, and after seeing the appearance of the piano clearly, his smile froze, and his voice changed a little, "Lu Qiqin? ”

Fu Yi obviously also recognized this qin.

Su Xi bowed her head slightly, not wanting to talk about this with Fu Yi, so she naturally changed the topic: "It's too hot outside, let's go sit in the house, I'll let Tinghe make some crispy mountain sour plum soup and bring it up, just to relieve the heat for Shaoyun's cousin and Sister Yi." ”

Although Su Xi called Fu Shaoyun a cousin, he didn't want him to enter his boudoir, so he entertained them in the flower hall on the side.

After listening to the crane coming in with the sour plum soup, Fu Yi still thought about the green Qiqin she saw just now, and she didn't have the heart to speak. Relieving from Fang Cai's shock, she pondered and asked, "Sister Xi's piano just now, but the green qiqin, one of the four famous pianos?" ”

Su Xi blinked and said, "Sister Yi also knows?" ”

That's what acknowledgment means.

Fu Yi's hand holding the teacup tightened, and he smiled reluctantly: "Naturally...... It's just that I've heard people say that the piano is placed in the pavilion of Long An Mountain, and it is guarded all the year round, but I don't know why it appeared here in Sister Xi? ”

To be honest, Su Xi doesn't know very well, there must be more people in the world who play the piano better than her, she is very self-aware, she knows that she is definitely not the best player, why did the person who kept the piano give her the green qiqin, she still hasn't figured it out. She said: "When I was climbing the mountain with Sister Ming, I happened to pass by the pavilion, and when I saw the green Qiqin in the pavilion, I couldn't help but play a song with itchy hands, and someone sent the piano over the next day." ”

Fu Yi listened and was speechless. She had heard that there was a green piano in Long'an Mountain, and she had to try it almost every year, wanting to be recognized by the people who kept the piano. But after going for two or three years in a row, every time she returned empty-handed, she thought that she played well, at least she should play better than Su Xi, but why did that person give Lu Qiqin to Su Xi alone, instead of giving it to herself?

At this end, Fu Shaoyun was even more sure that the girl who played the piano that day was Su Xi, and he had mixed feelings in his heart for a while.

He never knew that Su Xi could play the piano, let alone that her piano sound was so beautiful.

It turned out that unconsciously, the little fat dumpling with pink and tender, stretching out his arms to make snacks has grown so outstandingly.

The two didn't stay long, and after leaving from the General's Mansion, the smile on Fu Yi's lips finally drooped.