Chapter 52 Return to the Eastern Li Kingdom
Although he did not get instructions from Liyang, Fang Jinyi still insisted on returning to Dongli Kingdom, and Xiao Tao, as a monitor, could not stop it, so he could only accompany him back.
Before leaving the former southern country, Fang Jinyi wrote a letter by hand and asked Sheng Sheng to send it to the palace and hand it over to Yan Yumo in person. Xiao Tao knew the contents of the letter, and she was standing next to Fang Jinyi when she wrote the letter.
But the letter is not the point, it's just a pretense, what Fang Jinyi wants to tell Yan Yumo was dictated by Sheng Sheng, and she did it just to hide it from Xiao Tao.
Yan Yumo knew Fang Jinyi's good intentions, and he wanted to send someone to accompany Fang Jinyi to Dongli Kingdom, but Sheng Sheng said that they had other things to do when they went back this time, and it was inconvenient to make a big splash, so Yan Yumo had to give up the matter.
When Sheng Sheng returned to the courtyard, Fang Jinyi and Xiao Tao had already packed their things, Sheng Sheng conveyed Yan Yumo's words to Fang Jinyi, and then the three of them set off.
Not only Fang Jin's clothes are messed up, but the same is true of Dongli Kingdom, the originally peaceful Dongli Kingdom is panicking because of the news that Liyang is about to ascend the throne.
Everyone knows that Liyang is indeed the most suitable heir for the next generation of Dongli Kingdom, but now is obviously not the time. Those who can ascend to the throne of Dongli are all ruthless people, and there will definitely be a bloody storm of big or small when the successive dynasties change the throne.
But this time the change of position, it is as if it is a matter of course, if it is another country, it will be forgotten, which has never been done in Dongli country.
Although Liyang has a good reputation in the Dongli Kingdom, this does not mean that he can be safe and sound, and he can ascend to the throne without any trouble.
As soon as the three of them set off, Fang Jinyi found that he was being followed, because all the difficulties that could be encountered along the way were cleared up one by one in advance. Thinking about it, Fang Jinyi could only guess that it was Su Muqiu, because at this moment, he was the only one who would be so unscrupulous, and he didn't care about it at all.
But fortunately, Su Muqiu didn't protect her openly, and she knew how to hide in the shadows and hide herself.
So Fang Jinyi asked Sheng Sheng to cooperate in a play and lured out the people hiding in the shadows, but what she didn't expect was that Su Muqiu was not inside, but Ziyi appeared.
Around the bonfire, four women sat together, Fang Jinyi poked the ground with a wooden stick, Sheng Sheng and Xiao Tao were roasted food, and Ziyi looked at the fire silently.
In fact, Ziyi didn't want to hide it for long, anyway, as long as she entered the Dongli Kingdom, she would definitely be discovered, and if she stood up now, maybe it would be a good thing.
"He asked you to come?"
Fang Jinyi didn't look at Ziyi, she still lowered her head and poked the ground, although she already knew it in her heart, she still wanted to hear what the answer was?
Ziyi turned her head to look at her, was silent for a while, and said, "The owner of the village said that Mrs. still has injuries on her body and is not suitable for traveling far, and I am worried that Mrs. will make a mistake." ”
"Where are you going to send it?"
Fang asked again, and Xiao Tao, who was sitting across from her, glanced sideways at her, and then continued to prepare food.
"Wherever the lady goes, the slave and maid will accompany her." Ziyi replied truthfully.
When Fang Jinyi and Sheng Sheng acted to lure them out, Ziyi immediately saw through the purpose of the two and knew that her whereabouts were exposed, but for the sake of secrecy, Ziyi chose to appear alone, and the other three were still hidden.
"You go back." Fang Jinyi looked up at Ziyi and said, "I'm going back to Dongli Country, which is my hometown, and there won't be any danger." ”
Ziyi got up and saluted Fang Jinyi with a fist, and said in a resolute tone: "The instructions given by the slave maid are to escort the lady to the destination safely. ”
Fang Jinyi watched her and didn't speak again, was silent for a while, lowered her head and continued to poke at the small stones on the ground.
"Miss, you can eat."
Sheng Sheng handed the food to Fang Jinyi, and then brought another one to Ziyi, she and Ziyi also got along for half a year, no matter how Ziyi deliberately hid her martial arts, she felt that Ziyi was really like her sister.
"Thank you."
Ziyi thanked politely, then took the food, and separated from Fang Jinyi for a year, and when she said goodbye, Ziyi found that Fang Jinyi and before were really like two people.
In the past, Fang Jinyi didn't like to talk and was kind to people, but it made people feel alienated. At this moment, Fang Jinyi still doesn't like to talk, but his whole body reveals coldness, and a breath that no one is close to.
After eating, a few people casually cleaned up and rested, and Ziyi proposed that she keep vigil. Fang Jinyi didn't say anything about this, but Xiao Tao said that she could guard with Ziyi, and the two discussed, with Xiao Tao guarding the first half of the night and Ziyi guarding the second half of the night.
Fang Jinyi looked at the two people who had already talked, frowned, did not agree, but did not object, turned over and fell asleep.
In the second half of the night, Fang Jinyi suddenly woke up, she looked at Ziyi sitting by the fire, hesitated for a while, and finally spoke to her.
"What's going on with Ziyu?"
The stick in her hand stopped in mid-air, Ziyi looked back, and saw that Fang Jinyi was looking at her, so she turned her head again.
"She wouldn't want to go with me."
Ziyi's tone was calm, but if Fang Jinyi saw her face, she could see that there was a deep loss on her face.
Looking at Ziyi's back, Fang Jinyi thought about it, turned his head to look to the side, and found that Sheng Sheng had also woken up, only Xiao Tao was sleeping deeply.
As if sensing Fang Jinyi's movements, Ziyi said while fiddling with the fire: "She was drugged by me, and she won't wake up until tomorrow morning." ”
Sheng Sheng and Fang Jinyi glanced at each other, although Xiao Tao has not shown her martial arts skills so far, but with Liyang's style of doing things, she will not put an ordinary person by their side, so Xiao Tao is definitely a master.
The two got up and walked to the fire and sat down, and Fang Jinyi saw that Shengsheng was wearing thin, so he pulled over a blanket next to him and handed it to her.
Ziyi threw the stick in her hand, took out a small bag in her arms and opened it, and inside was a pair of hairpins, which were the pair that Fang Jinyi gave her before.
"Back then, she was deceived into breaking into the mountains behind Twilight Rain Villa, and tried to enter the forbidden land. Since it is a forbidden land, how can it be spared, but the owner of the village is kind-hearted, and seeing that she is young and deceived, he just abolished her martial arts and expelled her from the villa. ”
"I wasn't in the villa at the time, but when I came back and heard about it, I first asked the owner of the village for guilt, and then I asked around where she was after she came down the mountain, but there was no news for several years."
"Later, the owner of the village discovered Iwazhe's conspiracy, so he began to implement the plan, and then found the general's mansion."
"This matter is related to the success or failure of the plan, so the owner of the village sent a henchman, that is, Lin Lang, to let him always pay attention to every move of the General's Mansion. Later, he accidentally found Ziyu, and he told the owner about it, and the owner told me about it. Because when Lin Lang was monitoring the General's Mansion, he found that not only us, but also two groups of people were monitoring at the same time, so I didn't go to Ziyu. ”
"It wasn't until I accompanied my wife back to the door and met Ziyu that she pretended not to know me at the time, I thought she had something unspeakable, so I also hid my relationship with her."
After Fang Jinyi listened to what Ziyi said, she realized that Ziyu was not the eyeliner that Su Muqiu had planted in the General's Mansion, but according to Ziyu's usual attitude and what Ziyi said, she was definitely not entering the General's Mansion for no reason, and someone must be instructing her behind her.
Ziyi was silent for a moment, and then continued to narrate: "After that, I found her to apologize to her, but she said that she never blamed me, and what happened after 山️ she broke in was not deceived by others, but she volunteered. ”
"Who the hell are you?"
Fang Jinyi always felt that Ziyi's identity would not be so simple, and the first time they met, Fang Jinyi saw from her gestures that she was not an ordinary maid. After observing for a while, I felt that she was like the daughter of a prince and nobleman.
"My father was a second-class official in the previous dynasty."
Now, there is no need for Ziyi to continue to hide it, so she told Fang Jinyi everything about the matter.
It turned out that Yan Zhe framed Su Wei in an attempt to take the throne from the former emperor, but several of the officials in the court believed in Su Wei and also helped find evidence of being framed, and Ziyi's father was one of them.
Later, Su Zhe's conspiracy succeeded, not only ruining Su Wei's reputation, but also branding all the people who helped him with various trumped-up charges and beheading them all over the house. It's really hard to start, so let the secret guard take action, find a dark and windy night, and burn the whole family to death with a fire.
Su Wei had already been rescued at that time, and naturally he couldn't forget the people who had helped him, and this was how the Ziyi sisters were rescued.
Fang Jinyi really didn't expect that Yan Zhe had so many lives on his hands, and there were at least a dozen officials in the family at that time, and he killed so many courtiers, and I don't know if he would have nightmares when he slept at night.
"Since it was Su Muqiu's father who saved you, then Ziyu shouldn't betray Dusk Rain Villa, is there any misunderstanding in the middle?" Fang Jinyi frowned and said, she couldn't figure out why Ziyu would attack her benefactor?
Ziyi shook her head and said, "I don't know. After being rescued, Ziyu and I didn't know who was the person who rescued us, and the man sent us to the countryside until we grew up before we were taken to Twilight Rain Villa. ”
"With the strength of Twilight Rain Villa, can't you find a little clue?" Sheng Sheng asked, the power of Dusk Rain Villa is all over the rivers and lakes, and it is impossible not to find anything.
Ziyi still shook her head, Fang Jinyi looked at her, and suddenly asked, "Is it really impossible to find it, or don't you want to check it?" ”
As soon as the words fell, Ziyi's face changed, but she didn't say anything, Fang Jinyi caught her slightly changed expression, and her heart was clear.
"Okay, go to bed early, it's safe in the mountains, there's no need to keep vigil."
Fang Jinyi walked back to her bed, lay down to sleep, and Sheng Sheng also stood up, and when she passed by Ziyi's side, she reached out and patted her shoulder.