The autumn weather was crisp, and a team of fast horses rushed to the foot of the near south mountain.

In the double-troiked carriage of Qingpeng Ebony sat Rong'er and two maids.

Gu Ensheng and Lang Wenqi each rode a dark red horse and ran ahead.

The carriage was followed by four sabre-saber plainclothes guards.

After Lang Wenqi was roughly familiar with the account in Anping Mansion yesterday, Rong'er discussed with his father in the evening, and today he went to Jinnan County to check the land rent. Ying Qingyuan sent four guards with knives to serve as bodyguards for them.

Rong'er hung a corner curtain, in front of which is Qiaoyun Peak near Nanshan Mountain, the mountain peak is not huge, but it is extremely high and dangerous, and there are often beautiful clouds shrouded in the beautiful mountain peaks in the morning and evening, so it got the name of Qiaoyun Peak.

At this time, it is already noon, Qiaoyun Peak looks sharp and beautiful from afar, and the blue sky reflects each other, which is very beautiful.

"It's a great view." Yuqin and Yuxiang looked happily along her side.

Rong'er smiled, Qiao Yunfeng was between the fields of Huining Mansion and Anping Mansion, and it was jointly owned by the two prefectures.

Grandfather Ying Yeshu and Xia family's grandfather Xia Kailian are good friends. When the An Dynasty was founded, a large number of princes were sealed, Ying Yeshu and Xia Kailian were among them, after appreciating the land, it was found that Qiao Yunfeng was in the middle of the fiefdom of the two families, and the two grandfathers had the rules, Qiao Yunfeng was jointly owned by the two families, and it was not half of the family, who needed to go up the mountain to cut wood and hunt, and anyone could enter with tokens. The two grandfathers also jointly funded the construction of a separate courtyard called Qiaoyunju under Qiaoyun Peak, which has two square courtyards in the north and south, the north is used by Huining Mansion and the south is used by Anping Mansion.

When the two grandfathers were alive, they often came here with their families. Although the next two generations maintained enthusiastic exchanges in the court, there were almost no cases of grandfather's generation traveling together.

The territory of Qiaoyunfeng is not large, but every year there are always some strange things on the mountain, and whoever goes up the mountain to get a strange thing will send half of it to the other family.

When the carriage reached the foot of Qiaoyun Peak, the carriage suddenly stopped.

The site of Huining Mansion here is a short road to Qiaoyunju and Anping Mansion Grange.

Ensheng shouted loudly from the front, "Something happened." ”

Rong'er looked forward, and there were four rough men in cyan short clothes in front of him, and two of them were whipping a man with tattered clothes and dirty clothes on the ground.

"Who are you? I don't know the road, this road can only be used by people from Hoi Nyeong and Anping provinces? "The man at the head was born extremely rough and fierce, and his temperament was also impatient.

"We are from Anping Mansion!" Ensheng showed the sign. The man at the head came up and looked at the sign carefully, and his fierce appearance became gentle, "We are the mountain officials of Huining Mansion." Are you going up the mountain, or are you going to run errands in the village? ”

"What do you care about us? Who are you? Ensheng couldn't get used to their ferocity, knowing that it was a person from Huining Mansion, he pointed at the person who had been knocked unconscious on the ground with a horsewhip, and asked with a light smile, "What did this person do?" Isn't it the people from the Grange in Huiningfu? ”

The rough man shook his head, "This area is inhabited by either Huining Grange or the villagers of Anping Grange. This kid doesn't know where he came from. Early in the morning, we picked a few strange flowers and plants on Qiaoyun Peak on the mountain, and we chased them here from the back of the mountain. We are not born evil. It's only because he can't take out the tokens of Huining Mansion and Anping Mansion that he wants to beat him and steal things from the mountain. ”

The man on the ground fainted just now, but then he slowly woke up, moved, his whole body was in pain, his consciousness was messy and blurred, his brain was not fully awake, and another long whip hit his body, which hurt his eyes.

"Tell you to steal something from Yunfeng. There is no square radius of 100 miles, I don't know that Qiaoyun Peak can't go up casually. Near Nanshan is so big, where are there no flowers and plants to pick? You're here specifically to beg for a fight. "Beating people and scolding at the same time.

"Smack", and the other person fell with another whip.

"Ah...... Ah......" just woke up and was whipped twice, screaming a few times, resounding through the clouds.

Rong'er was shocked when she heard it in the carriage, and her heart was pinched, and she couldn't say how uncomfortable it was. Shouted out the window, "Stop!" ”

Those few people saw a girl's head poking out of the carriage, guessed that it was someone with identity in Anping Mansion, heard her shouting, and stopped to look over.

The man at the head said, "I don't know what the girl in the carriage means?" ”

Ensheng didn't dare to take things casually, so he didn't talk casually.

Lang Wenqi saw that the man was only fifteen or sixteen years old, and he was beaten badly, guessing that it was a civilian who went up the mountain to look for medicine, he felt compassion and sympathy, and rushed out, "That's the person sent by the third lady to collect medicine from the mountain." ”

The man at the head was stunned, "Why doesn't he have a token of Anping Mansion?" ”

Lang Wenqi had already spoken, and said coldly and arrogantly, "You are so barbaric, you must not allow him to speak clearly." He must have lost the token. ”

Because the man has a violent temperament and a good brain, when he heard about the third lady, his heart moved, and he hurriedly asked: "Is it the third lady from Anping Mansion in the car?" ”

He is the head of the mountain official who knows something, and he does not immediately give Lang Wenqi face, seeing that although Lang Wenqi is born with a good face, he is only a servant with status in Anping Mansion in his clothes. If the little girl in the carriage is the third lady, it is different, this is the future Mrs. Huininghou.

"Yuqin. Hand my sign out. Rong'er pressed her uncomfortable heart, and her face turned a little pale.

Yuqin took the sign of the third lady and went down, and angrily walked up to the rough man and held it, "See clearly." This side is Anping Mansion, and this side is the word Rong. ”

The rough man's face changed slightly, and he hurriedly knelt down in front of the carriage from a distance and saluted, "The slave has seen the third lady of Anping Mansion." ”

This is not a salute to the third lady of Anping Mansion, but a salute to the future lady of Huining Marquis Mansion.

Seeing this, his companion knelt down and prostrate.

"Lai'an. The third lady asked you to pick some herbs, why did you accidentally lose the brand? Look at your embarrassment. Seeing that the third lady came to help, Lang Wenqi boldly dismounted, pretending that the person who was beaten had the name of the house, stepped forward to help the person on the ground, and walked away. But the man stretched out his hand to the basket on the side.

"Your back basket." A man hurriedly handed over the back basket.

"I'll help you. I'll send someone to send you some Jinchuang medicine to Qiaoyunju in a while. The rough man at the head knew that he had hit the wrong person, his face was flushed, and he stepped forward to carry the wounded.

"Let me go!" Lang Wenqi glanced at him.

The rough man put the wounded man on his horse, and Lang Wenqi got on the horse to steady him with one hand and pull the reins with the other.

"Carry the basket to me." This time, he followed out to reconcile the account, sat in front with the coachman, and reached out to take the back basket handed by the man behind.

"Please forgive the third lady." The rough man regretted that he had beaten someone without careful questioning, and confessed his mistake to the carriage in shame.

"A misunderstanding. Don't miss us! Eun Sheng said in front.

The four mountain officials stepped aside, respectfully out of the way, and the carriage procession continued on.

At the time of two teas, the team arrived at the gate of the south courtyard of Qiaoyunju. The south and north courtyards are connected by a garden. Each courtyard has a back door that leads to the garden.

There are four subordinates in the south courtyard, two to watch the courtyard, one to cook, and one to sweep the floor.

The origin and arrival of the courtyard heard the sound of a carriage outside, and hurriedly opened the door and came out, saw a team of people and horses stopped outside, recognized the coachman coming and going, and hurriedly stepped forward.

"You send someone to the kitchen and arrange for boiling water to cook." The third lady came out to reconcile the accounts in person this time, and she didn't take a breath from morning to now. We haven't had lunch yet. ”

"The minion will arrange it." He was in his early thirties, saluted the carriage, and hurried into the courtyard.

The guard Tao Ye first stepped forward to hand over the reins of the horse to a gatekeeper who was nearly fifty years old, and then picked up the person on Lang Wenqi's horse and gently put it on the ground, the man was awake at this time, stood up stubbornly, and said in a hoarse voice, "Thank you." As soon as the voice fell, his right foot was painful and unstable, and his body fell on Tao Ye, and Tao Ye supported him, "Xie is Miss Xie San." How are you now? ”