It was nearly noon, and on the street in front of the Xie family's mansion, groups of people and horses galloped in all directions, attracting countless curious visits.

"What's going on?"

"I haven't stopped since last night."

"What's wrong?"

Just as he was pointing and pointing at the bustle, a group of men and horses galloped in, and one of the men looked anxious.

It's Xie Wenjun.

But unlike in the past, Xie Wenjun was surrounded by guards from the front and back, and it can also be said that he was escorted into the house.

Cheng Lin turned around in the crowd and rushed away, and when he entered the house, Jiang Ling, who was restless, immediately greeted him, and Shui Ying and An Ge Yu were also busy.

"I can't get any news, the Xie family is still under martial law." Cheng Lin said.

"Did the young lady get caught?" Jiang Ling asked.

Cheng Lin shook his head.

"I don't know, but the fifth master has been arrested." He said.

Brother An raised his feet and was about to go out.

"I'm going to find my dad." He said.

Jiang Ling grabbed him.

"No, Miss said that you are not allowed to leave Yushan, let alone go to Xie's house." She said, "She always said that it was for your good, and she always asked me to marry someone, I like to be alone, and I don't want to be accompanied, I didn't understand it before, but now I understand, if it weren't for what she said, we would have been following her, and now we would definitely be trapped, and not only could not help her, but would let her be restrained." ”

"But my father—" said Ango, clenching his fists.

"If something happens to your father, what if you go?" Cheng Lin said, "It's better to wait and see how it goes." We must not be reckless now. ”

Brother An clenched his fists and did not rush out again.

In the courtyard of the Xie family's house, Xie Wenjun was excited.

"Sister-in-law! Big brother, what are you talking about? I didn't even know about it! He said, "I was talking about business with the Bai family, in order to negotiate with them, I went to the city in the middle of the night to lay bait, and I was about to win him now, and suddenly I heard that something happened at home, you asked me what's going on, and I still have to ask you what's going on?" ”

He stretched out his hand and pointed to the plain white courtyard in front of him. Trembling all over.

"How. Why didn't I see him for a day and a night, the old lady just..."

When he said this, he fell to his knees.

"Fifth uncle, if you really kneel to the old lady. It's better to stop shielding the people who hurt the old lady. Xie Rouhui said. You were the only one out of town last night with someone. Who do you bring? ”

Xie Wenjun stood up and looked at her coldly.

"I have brought two servants, and the men at the gates may testify. The person who took me back can also testify, and if you don't believe me, the person is in the outer court, and you call him in to see and ask him. He said.

"Then there is no need, the fifth uncle must be thoughtful." Xie Rouhui said.

"It's not as thoughtful as Miss Er." Xie Wenjun smiled and said, "When you come back, the eldest aunt is also dead, and the eldest lady has also run away, in the future, this family will be your world, but this place in the house is very small, and the outside is very large, so it is not so easy to be thoughtful." ”

Xie Rouhui looked at him and smiled.

"Thank you Uncle Fifth for your advice." She said.

A steward hurried in, carrying a burden in his hand.

"Big lady." He said, "I found the eldest ......., I found the clothes of the second lady." ”

"What about people?" Xie Rouhui stepped forward and asked.

"No one." The steward said, "The trail is broken by the river." ”

"Idiot, that deliberately confused, she's definitely not in that direction." Xie Rouhui raised her eyebrows and shouted, and looked at Xie Wenjun again, "She has a thousand miles of good horses given by her fifth uncle, and I don't know how far she ran away this night and day." ”

"Isn't that a lot of help? Even brutes know how to help? Xie Wenjun said with a smile.

"Xie Wenjun, who are you scolding!" Xie Rouhui shouted.

"Scold you disrespectful thing!" Xie Wenjun said lightly.

"You!" Xie Rouhui shouted.

"Enough!"

Mrs. Xie, who had been in front of Mrs. Xie's house, turned around.

"Wenjun, go down and listen to your daughter-in-law tell me how we, who are beasts in your eyes, do these things." She said indifferently.

"Mother, why are you talking about yourself like that, you are not wrong." Xie Rouhui choked up and said.

"I don't care what they say about me." Mrs. Xie said.

Xie Wenjun glanced at her and turned to leave.

At noon, the courtyard was deserted, and the already remote place seemed even more deserted.

Xie Wenjun walked into the courtyard, Du Jiaona was sitting under the porch doing needlework, and none of the girls who were originally waiting could be seen.

"I'm back." Seeing him come in, she smiled and said, just like ever.

Xie Wenjun lay down in the rocking chair beside her and let out a comfortable breath, squinting at the warm sun in March.

"If you know that there will be this day, will you still marry me?" He asked.

Joanna threads the needle and threads.

"I didn't know it would be today." She said.

"What do you want to know?" Xie Wenjun asked.

Du Jiaona put down the needle and thread.

"I never think about it that much, I just need to know that I want to do it right now." She said.

Xie Wenjun reached out and took her hand.

"Yes, I am willing to do it at the moment, and I don't regret it." He said, "It's just a pity that the eldest aunt turned out to be... I didn't see the last one, really, brute. ”

I don't know if to scold myself or others.

Du Jiaona squeezed his hand.

The two were silent for a moment.

"You say, are you okay?" Du Jiaona said, her fingers tapping on Xie Wenjun's palm.

"It must be fine." Xie Wenjun said with a firm face, and also knocked on her palm, "You don't know how powerful it is." ”

They seem to be saying their own business, but they actually understand who the other person is talking about.

"Then the eldest aunt is worth it." Du Jiaona said.

Xie Wenjun nodded and looked at the sky above the courtyard.

In March, the rain in the capital was as thin as a cow's hair, and the roads in the palace city were dark and bright under the swagger of lanterns.

At that time, the emperor's monastery hall was already loud.

"The saint does nothing and does what he does not teach. Success without living. ”

With a crisp chime, the sound of preaching in the hall stopped.

Shao Mingqing saluted respectfully on the futon, and the emperor reclined and opened his eyes.

"There's nothing new in your book?" He said.

"Your Majesty, this volume has not yet been read, it is enough to be able to eat it thoroughly, and I dare not talk about new ideas." Shao Mingqing said.

The Emperor sat up with a smile.

"Qingci is so well written, and he says that the scriptures are not thoroughly understood, who is he fooling." "It looks smart and old-fashioned," he said. ”

"陛xià. The great wisdom of the predecessors. The more you eat it, the more awe you become. Shao Mingqing said with a smile.

"Go ahead, go back and tell Xuan Zhenzi that if his illness is not good, his preaching will be replaced by you." The Emperor said.

Shao Mingqing smiled and saluted.

"Your Majesty xià great wisdom. It's the same for everyone. He said.

The Emperor laughed.

Shao Mingqing got up and took the little Taoist priest to clean up the incense burner and other decorations.

An attendant came in and knelt beside the emperor and whispered a few words.

"So Zhou Chengzhen did follow Dongping?" The Emperor asked.

The chamberlain smiled and replied.

"That's what Your Highness said in reply." He said.

"There's him watching. I was relieved. The Emperor said. Let people withdraw. ”

The waiter replied.

"Why is Dongping suddenly going to Xie's house? Is there something going on? The Emperor asked again.

Shao Mingqing, who was putting a jade chime on the rosewood shelf, paused slightly, but immediately took the dust whisk handed by the little Taoist priest, and brushed the utensils on the shelf like a cloud. After collecting the dust, he gently retreated with the little Taoist priests without the slightest stop.

The hall was slowly shielded from them.

Shao Mingqing's steady pace was not until he returned to the Taoist temple and saw Xuan Zhenzi enter his house before he stumbled, and one of his shoes was kicked off.

The Xie family?

The king of Dongping County suddenly rushed to Xie's house, and Zhou Chengzhen also went.

What kind of person is the king of Dongping County, Shao Mingqing knows very well, if it is not really an accident, he will never do this.

Something must have happened to the Xie family, and it must have been Jiajia's accident.

What to do? What to do?

Shao Mingqing turned around and ran towards Xuan Zhenzi's place.

"Dao Chief, please make a good fortune." He knelt down and said.

Xuan Zhenzi looked at him with some surprise.

"Who's?" He asked.

"Xie Roujia." Shao Mingqing said.

Xuan Zhenzi booed him.

"You kid has been pretending for so long, why can't you bear it? Young people, they can't even endure this little bit of lovesickness, but they can't achieve great things. He said with a grin.

Shao Mingqing ignored his jokes.

"Something happened to the Xie family." He said.

"The Xie family is a witch, and you, Miss Roujia, are the bloodline of the descendants of the great witch, and I can't tell her whereabouts of good fortune and misfortune." Xuan Zhenzi said seriously.

"Then how did you divinate that there was a big disaster with the Xie family seven years later?" Shao Mingqing asked.

Xuan Zhenzi looked at him and smiled for a moment.

"Shao Mingqing, actually, you came to the capital more to guard me for her, so that the catastrophe seven years later would not implicate her, right?" He said.

"Dao Chief, it's not good to treat others with your own heart." Shao Mingqing said.

Xuan Zhenzi laughed, raised his hand and threw the three big coins on several cases, and stared at the big money for a moment after a few crisp sounds.

"Fierce." He said.

Shao Mingqing got up and walked out, and Xuan Zhenzi only had time to pull his sleeve.

"Madman, you have won the emperor's attention so easily, do you want to give up all your efforts?" He said, "It's useless for you to go now, it's not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years." ”

"Even if I can take revenge next year, if I don't do anything now, I will be her enemy." Shao Mingqing said.

Gen Mako tugged at his sleeve.

"I'm talking about the Xie family's murderer, not her." He said.

Shao Mingqing looked back at him.

Xuan Zhenzi took out a book from under several cases and handed it over.

"It's useless for you to run around now, after a month's effort, if you can study and comprehend the hexagram of my Shangqing Palace, you can quickly and accurately find her in person." He said with plastic surgery.

Shao Mingqing hesitated for a moment and reached out to catch the book.

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On the field roads crisscrossed by spring ploughing, four or five middle-aged villagers and a fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl were sitting and resting.

The villagers laughed, and the girls drank water from their bowls.

A fat man on horseback wiped his sweat and reined in his horse not far from them.

"Folks." He dismounted and strode over and asked anxiously. "Where's Liuhe?"

The two fellows looked at each other, both a little confused.

"We don't have a Willow River near here." They said.

"The Liuhe River is not a river, it used to be a river, and then it became a river, there was no water, my grandmother's grave was buried there, our family moved to other places for more than 60 years, my father asked me to come back to the grave, I ran back and forth several times, and I couldn't find it." The man said, wiping his sweat.

The fellows immediately asked each other. But I can't tell where it is.

The girl who had been drinking the water put down the bowl.

"From here to the east." She said. Stretching out his finger, "Walk through a grove of trees, less than a mile to the west, and that's it." But the graveyards over there are flat. You'd better find a bone watcher. ”

Even the cemetery is flat. It can be seen that it must be very familiar, and the man is overjoyed and hurriedly thanked him and galloped away.

The girl put down the bowl in her hand and stood up as well.

"Thank you uncles and aunts for the water." She said. "I'm leaving."

The two villagers smiled and said you're welcome, watching the girl walk along the path, and the other villagers looked curious.

"She's not from your village?" One asked.

"How can there be such a good-looking little girl in our village, you can hear her accent differently." The woman who cleaned up the bowl smiled and said, "It's a passer-by, ask for a drink and rest." ”

The villagers came late, and when they arrived, they saw the girl sitting in the field, and thought it was from the neighboring village.

"Huh? She's a passerby, not local? So how did she know where Liu He was? A man said suddenly.

The villagers present were stunned, they saw the little girl answer affirmatively just now, and they didn't know it, so they didn't think much about it, and it was a little strange to think about it at this time.

"Coax the passer-by, right?" A villager said.

"Then that's too inauthentic."

"How can there be such a fast little girl?"

There was a lot of discussion in the field, and when half of the field was finished and rested again, everyone was still talking about the poor passer-by just now, but they heard the sound of horses' hooves.

"Ah, the passer-by is here, he must have come to ask for sin." Someone shouted, looking in the direction of the sound of horses' hooves.

Everyone was busy looking, and sure enough, they saw that it was the right passer-by, and they were just about to explain, but the passer-by smiled and gave up his hand again and again.

"Found it, found it." He smiled happily, "I found Liuhe, I went to ask Master Gu to thank the villagers." ”

When the words fell, the villagers were shocked.

"Really found it?"

"Are you an outsider?"

"How did she find it?"

"We don't know."

The sound of commotion sounded in the fields.

Xie Roujia had already run down the road, raised her hand to whistle, and after a while, the sound of horses' hooves galloped, she turned back and stretched out her hand, and turned over on the horse.

"Yes, you can get rid of them very quickly." She patted her horse's head and laughed.

The little red horse neighed and looked triumphant.

Xie Roujia turned around, the sunset was already hanging in the sky, and the day was about to pass again.

This time she was still alone in a strange place, and night was about to fall, but she didn't tremble like that time after getting lost on the way to the capital.

"If you want to catch me, you can wait slowly." She said, holding her hand to her ear and looking at the side of the road.

Listen to the wind, look at the grass and wave your hands, and there are birds to guide you.

Hurry, hurry, find your way, find your way, have a way, have a way, have a way.

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With a bang, Zhou Chengzhen jumped up from the grass under the tree, and climbed up the tree in two strokes, followed by eight catties and the old mute.

As soon as they climbed up the branches, with a low neigh, several large black dogs pounced into the grass, and without prey, they raised their heads and purred a few threatening words at the people in the trees.

"What kind of dog is this? It's so ugly. Zhou Chengzhen said, looking at the red eyes of these dogs, the corners of their mouths were still hideous, and they were about to smash them while tearing off the branches, "Who are you scaring about?" ”

The old mute hurriedly reached out and grabbed him.

"Shizi, this is a dog that has been cursed by witches." He whispered eagerly.

"Spellcasting?" Zhou Chengzhen frowned.

"Yes, this dog bites, and the bite is not an external injury, but an internal one." The old mute said, with a bit of evasion, "Don't mess with them, the master must be nearby." ”

As soon as his words fell, the sound of horses' hooves could be heard from far and near, and seven or eight men in uniform black clothes came over and called out to several big dogs.

"Hey, how can you let dogs bite people indiscriminately?" Zhou Chengzhen shouted.

The men looked at him, ignored him, and led the dog away.

Zhou Chengzhen sat on the trunk of the tree and smiled as she watched these people.

"I haven't caught it even with witchcraft, my daughter-in-law is really amazing." He said.

Eight pounds came over.

"Lord Shizi, how do you know that the second miss they want to arrest is not the second miss?" He asked curiously.

Zhou Chengzhen sneered.

"She? It's a waste to catch her with a dirt dog. He said.

With the voice falling, he jumped straight down.

"Hey!" He crossed his arms in front of him, crossed his waist and shouted at the guards who were about to leave on horseback, "People from the Xie family, go and tell your master, the prince of Zhenbei has arrived, come and greet him!" (To be continued......)