Chapter Forty-Seven: Ascending to the Heights and Looking Far

After breakfast, Zhong Ziyuan saw that Fu Bo was in full swing with the stable, so he abandoned the carriage and walked out with cardamom. After walking through the streets and alleys for a cup of tea, fine beads of sweat appeared on Zhong Ziyuan's forehead. Fortunately, the medicine she used to dye her yellow skin was waterproof, and it would never have been washed off without her pills, so she could wipe her sweat with her sleeves so unscrupulously.

"Childe, there is Huaishu Hutong in front." Cardamom suddenly pointed ahead and exclaimed.

Zhong Ziyuan nodded slowly: "Yes, there is Huaishu Hutong in front." Perhaps it was her subconscious reluctance to stay away from the warmth of the past, so when she was looking for a house, she was always looking around the west of the city. In fact, there are cheaper and more suitable houses in the south and north of the city, but she automatically ignored them for various reasons.

Their master and servant were looking at the locust tree alley, but they didn't notice that anyone was paying attention to their every move. Prince Rui Zhu Yi was sitting at the window on the second floor of Yipinzhai, looking down boredly, but he accidentally found Cardamom's face, which seemed to be somewhat familiar. After a few careful glances, he suddenly slapped the table and said, "Isn't this Miss Liu's maid!" ”

It's no wonder that cardamom hasn't grown yet, she only needs to change her clothes and hairstyle to play a little girl, and she doesn't need to deliberately dye her skin yellow and wrap her chest tightly like Zhong Ziyuan. As long as it is a familiar person, if you take a closer look, you will be recognized.

Now that he recognized Cardamom, he had to notice Zhong Ziyuan beside her. He frowned and looked at it for a long time, and the more he looked at it, the more surprised he felt, and the more he looked at it, the more interesting he felt.

Zhong Ziyuan was wearing the most ordinary blue straight robe, and a light blue turban was wrapped around his head. Although her skin was stained yellow. The eyebrows were also thickened, which concealed her feminine femininity, but it was a little more heroic. Plus her facial features are three-dimensional. As a woman, it may feel too sharp. But now he is pretending to be a man, but he looks delicate and unparalleled.

Seeing that the master and servant sneakily entered the Huaishu Hutong, Zhu Yi, who was full of curiosity, immediately got up and chased down. When he went downstairs, he happened to bump into a guard carrying a hot oiled paper bag. The guard hurriedly said, "Prince Rui, the snacks have been wrapped. ”

Zhu Yi dropped a sentence from afar: "You send it to Miss Ye first, and say that I have something important." That's it for today. In the blink of an eye, he was gone, leaving the guard standing still scratching his head.

There are more than ten families living in Huaishu Hutong, and Zhongjiafu is located in the innermost one. It's just over half a month. The mahogany gate, which was originally quite imposing, is now covered with cobwebs and mud, and looks dilapidated. There were also two yellow seals stamped with vermilion seals on the door. Zhong Ziyuan stroked the copper ring on the door with some sadness, and had mixed feelings in her heart.

Just as she stood in the doorway with a lot of thoughts. But I felt a sharp gaze locked on me. She looked back. But I only saw a few passers-by passing behind me, and there didn't seem to be anything unusual.

She thought about it for a while, and took Cardamom to the back alley, because most of the residents in the alley blocked the back door for anti-theft considerations, so there are few people walking in this back alley. Zhong Ziyuan turned to the back door of his house, and sure enough, he saw two more seals.

Zhong Ziyuan frowned and said to Cardamom: "Let's think of a way together, how can we climb over here?" ”

"Could it be that this Miss Liu still has a penchant for stealing?" So Zhu Yi, who was hiding in the shadows, saw a very funny scene. I saw that Miss Liu and the maid who pretended to be a little girl. At first, it was like a rabbit, jumping around trying to catch the wall. Who knows that the wall is quite high. No matter how much they jumped, they were always a little bit off.

Zhu Yi stared at Zhong Ziyuan's chest with some evil taste, remembering that the last time I saw her dressed as a girl, her chest was still undulating. Why is it that when you dress up as a man today, you have become flat, and you don't even have that pitiful curve. He couldn't help but cry tears of sympathy for the pair of innocent white rabbits who were bound.

Zhong Ziyuan didn't know that there was an evil gaze looking at him unscrupulously. After jumping dozens of times and finding that it was really out of reach, she changed her strategy again.

The two of them found a lot of stones and built a high platform under the base of the wall, and when she stepped on it tremblingly, she held on to the wall and before she could straighten up, the stones fell down with a clatter. As a result, she sat on the ground and screamed "oops, oops", and she couldn't get up for a long time.

"Oh my God, being a thief is so arrogant, she is afraid that she is the first in the world." Zhu Yi patted his forehead and couldn't bear to look at it directly.

finally got up, and saw her mouth muttering in pieces, wandering vigorously under the wall, looking anxious, but helpless.

The corners of Zhu Yi's mouth twitched, he really couldn't stand it anymore, and instructed the criminal master in the dark: "Find someone to send her a wooden ladder over." Remember, disguise yourself and don't let her see who she is. ”

Countless black lines appeared on the forehead of the prisoner, and he helplessly responded "yes". It's just that he was still a little glad in his heart, fortunately, he didn't have to do this shameful thing himself.

For the first time in her life, Zhong Ziyuan complained about why her walls were built so high? Just when she was about to crush the roots of the wall and break her neck, but still there was nothing she could do, a strong man in a coarse cloth robe, a shabby straw hat, and a wooden ladder on his shoulder walked in.

The strong man did not say a word, threw the wooden ladder to the base of the wall, and turned to leave. Zhong Ziyuan was stunned, and hurriedly asked, "This big brother, please wait a while, don't you want this wooden ladder?" ”

Suddenly hearing someone blocking the road and asking, the strong man was obviously stunned. And to answer the question, this has not been rehearsed beforehand, has it? So he didn't look back, but just said angrily: "Well, don't do it." ”

He raised his leg again and wanted to leave, but Zhong Ziyuan asked again, "Can you borrow it from me?" As soon as the words fell, I don't know where to turn from a "poof" burst of laughter, and then there was no sound again.

Zhong Ziyuan looked around strangely, but saw nothing. The strong man still didn't look back, but replied with two words: "Please." He was afraid that she would ask some strange questions, so he immediately walked away.

"Thank you." Zhong Ziyuan clenched her fists with both hands very politely. Bend down and thank you. When he looked up, he found that the strong man was gone. "How can you go so fast?" She muttered a little strangely.

"Great, Childe. Is this called dozing off and someone will send a pillow. Cardamom happily moved the wooden ladder to the wall, and then said to Zhong Ziyuan, "Childe, hurry up." So the master and servant followed the wooden ladder and finally climbed up the wall of their dreams.

Zhu Yi hid in the dark and secretly sweated for them, it was not easy! It's finally going up.

But these two girls rode on the wall for a long time without moving, and Zhu Yi's heart began to be uncalm again, what are they doing? Could it be that it has been tossed for so long? Is it just to ride on the wall and see the scenery?

Just when Zhu Yi was puzzled, the two girls suddenly covered their faces. Take a deep breath and leap forward with the momentum of a strong man's broken wrist. Immediately after that, there were two "pop" sounds from inside the wall, and then there was a cry of pain.

Zhu Yi said to Xingda a little dazedly: "The wooden ladder has been sent to her, doesn't she know how to pull it over." Can you put it on the opposite side and go down safely? ”

Xingda twitched the corners of his mouth. After racking his brains, he thought about it and replied, "Maybe it's the first time they climbed the wall and panicked, so they just didn't think of it for a while!" ”

"That's not right! Last time, I saw that she was quite smart. Did I really recognize the wrong person? And she left the wooden ladder here, how will she get out later? This question cannot be answered by the University of Punishment. Zhu Yi now began to highly doubt whether the clumsy man in front of him and the smart and cunning woman that night were the same person.

Zhong Ziyuan and Cardamom stood in the backyard that was originally familiar, but now very unfamiliar. He was stunned for a while. I saw that the originally neat backyard was now in a mess, and the beautiful glass house had been smashed to pieces. Broken pots and rotten tiles, dead branches and leaves, thrown all over the yard. They also went around the front yard and found that the situation was not much better. All the gold and silver that could be taken away were soft and soft, and all the antique furniture was swept away. All that was left was devastation and dilapidation.

"So this is a raid." Zhong Ziyuan said a little blankly.

"Childe, don't delay. If someone finds out, we won't be able to finish eating and walk away. Cardamom urged anxiously.

Zhong Ziyuan had no choice but to throw away his sorrow, and together with Cardamom, he searched carefully in the pile of rags. Fortunately, her speculation was not wrong, and the things she needed would only be treated as garbage by others and discarded at will. After a long time, she really got to find something that was not far from ten.

Zhong Ziyuan spent so much effort looking for the set of tools used for surgery. This set of things will only be weird to others, but to her it is a treasure.

This set of tools is still what she painted, and then Zhong Jinchuan personally went out and found someone from the military department to build it. And there is only one set in the world, even if you have money, there is nowhere to buy it.

"Childe, it seems that a scalpel is missing." After Cardamom counted the harvest, she reluctantly reported the results.

"Forget it, we searched back and forth three times and didn't see it, so I guess it was thrown away." Zhong Ziyuan had to give up. There are three scalpels, each of which is a different size, and the smallest one is missing.

After wrapping the instruments they had found in cloth and carrying them on their shoulders, the two of them came to the high wall again. However, this time it was not so difficult to get up to the wall, because they were both good at climbing trees.

When they climbed up the wall along the straight ginkgo tree, and looked down again, they were completely dumbfounded. I saw that the wooden ladder that was originally placed next to the wall was gone, and there were two more people under the wall for some reason.

One of them, dressed in a black guard's uniform and grim-faced, stood far away from the base of the opposite wall. The other was wearing a moon-white narrow-sleeved brocade robe, with embroidered gold threads and auspicious clouds at the cuffs, a vermilion and white jade belt around his waist, and a white jade exquisite waist pendant. It seems to have an elegant temperament and a compelling bearing.

Isn't he Prince Rui Zhu Yi! How can you appear under the wall of your own home, still tilting your head and showing a malicious smile to yourself? In fact, there has never been an intersection between the two, even though Zhong Ziyuan has met Prince Rui countless times on the street or in Fengyue Hutong, he has always been high above and dust-free under his eyes. And she was hidden in the crowd, humble as dust.

Even at the lantern riddle meeting of the Shangyuan Festival, they stood facing each other, and there was an Oiran Ye Meisu in the middle and a cone hat that covered their faces, so Zhong Ziyuan didn't think that this Prince Rui would know him.

He would appear here, and the only reason Zhong Ziyuan could think of was that he wanted to arrest himself and punish him. Thinking of this, Zhong Ziyuan's liver trembled.

Zhu Yi showed a smile that he thought was gentle and charming, and said, "Below, Prince Rui Zhu Yi." ”

Because of fear, Zhong Ziyuan's mind went blank. She rode on the wall and said blankly along his words: "Below, a grass farmer Jia Ming." Regardless, she still had a hint of luck in her heart

Hey! Jia Ming? Isn't it Liu Yuqing? Although countless questions flashed through Prince Rui's mind, he still wisely chose to ignore them for the time being. He said gently: "Brother Jia Xian thinks that the scenery is infinitely good, so he is riding on the wall?" ”

Hey! Doesn't this posture look like a question? The corners of Zhong Ziyuan's mouth twitched, and the careful liver was finally put back in her stomach. She said with a smirk: "The ancients: Walking to the Chrysanthemum Pond, the west of the village is already oblique. The master ascended to the heights, and the chickens and dogs were empty at home. I used to know the owner of this house in the past, but now I see that his door is closed, so I also want to climb high and look far away to find out. ”

"I see, the virtuous brother is really elegant and uninhibited, quite like the Wei and Jin celebrities in the past." Prince Rui also said with a fake compliment.

"Where, where, when it comes to elegance and uninhibitedness, Prince Rui is the one who can not afford it, and the humble status of the small people cannot afford it." Thousands of wears, but sycophants don't wear. When he said this, Zhong Ziyuan himself had goosebumps. She only hoped that this inexplicable Prince Rui, who didn't know where to fight, would be able to disappear from her eyes as much as possible.

Seeing these two people on the wall and at the base of the wall, they were talking nonsense without blinking their eyes. It's so serious, it's like it's true. The torture was about to cramp when he laughed.

After talking nonsense for a long time, seeing that Prince Rui just had no intention of leaving, Zhong Ziyuan finally got impatient and said, "Although this ascent is good, there will always be a time to come down." Please also ask Prince Rui to step back a little, so as not to accidentally injure your body, which will not be good. ”

"It's okay, I'll stand back, you just have to come down." I can take you, of course, he still didn't dare to say the last half of the sentence. He was afraid that when he said it, he would ride on the wall, and the cute little guy would turn around and jump into the yard.

Seeing that Prince Rui really took a few steps back, Zhong Ziyuan closed his eyes and jumped down. Unexpectedly, the expected pain did not come, and she fell into a warm embrace. She snapped her eyes open, just in time for his smiling eyes. (To be continued......)