Two days later, Zheng Duoshan entered the palace under Song Nanzhou's arrangement to operate on Concubine Yi.

On this day, Wen Xiang stayed in Xu's Mansion and waited for news.

Although I knew that Zheng Duoshan's medical skills were very skillful, but a caesarean section to retrieve a stillborn baby should not be a big problem, but I thought that in case there was any accident, in case the stone baby and Concubine Yi became one, or accidentally hemorrhaged or something, there were no blood transfusion facilities here, so I could only secretly pray that everything would go well.

Therefore, she waited very unsteadily.

When Xu Shen came over, he saw her biting her fingers and walking around with a sad face, like an ant on a hot pot.

"Today, Song Shizi's uncle has entered the palace, are you worried about this?" Although Wen Xiang didn't talk to Xu Shen about some things, Xu Shen also guessed something from some clues.

Wen Xiang nodded, barely suppressed her anxiety and asked Xu Shen: "Big brother came over at this time, but what's the matter?" ”

Xu Shen looked at her twice, and then smiled faintly: "I know that you are uneasy at this time, afraid that you will stay thinking nonsense, but you will be frightened, so I simply came over to talk to you." ”

Wen Xiang thanked him for his kindness, and didn't know whether to comfort herself or comfort Xu Shen: "It's definitely going to be fine, Uncle Zheng's medical skills are excellent, and there is Princess Qing, if you join forces, you will definitely be fine." ”

"You see, you know in your heart, why do you scare yourself?"

Wen Xiang smiled, "Big brother is reasonable, I just have nothing to do, I can't help but think about it too much - if my eldest brother is busy, don't pay attention to me, I can stay by myself." ”

In the past two days, there have been little maids poking their brains outside the courtyard, except for Xu Shen in this house, it is Mrs. Xu, and it must be Mrs. Xu who ordered someone to peep at her.

Although Xu Shen didn't let her go to see Mrs. Xu this time, and Mrs. Xu calmed down and didn't come to trouble her, such a peeping and defensive attitude was also very revealing - she didn't like Xu Shen to come to see her from time to time.

"Do you want to go out for a walk?" Xu Shen asked her.

Wen Xiang was stunned for a moment, he asked this, could it be that he wanted to take her out for a walk?

But isn't he going to keep his wife's funeral now?

She glanced at his plain clothes, and expressed her doubts clearly with her eyes.

Xu Shen smiled: "It's still okay to go out, as long as you don't go out to spend all day drinking." ”

Wen Xiang relieved her heart, "It's okay to go out for a walk." ”

Otherwise, if she stayed alone like this, she wouldn't be able to wait for news for half a day, and she was afraid that she would scare herself to death.

……

Xu Shen took Wen Xiang to climb a hill on the outskirts of Beijing that the local villagers called Qingcheng Mountain.

Wen Xiang and Xu Shen stood at the foot of the mountain, looking up at this Qingcheng Mountain, and the Qingcheng Mountain that she knew was included in the World Heritage List and had "Qingcheng is secluded in the world...... There is no comparison.

"This is Qingcheng Mountain?" Wen Xiang pointed to the small hill in front of him and asked Xu Shen, his wide mouth could almost stuff an egg.

She's looking forward to it all the way. "Does this look like a mountain?"

Xu Shen saw her disgusted face, and couldn't help laughing: "This mountain is not high, and it is not tiring to climb up." ”

It was based on her physical strength that she chose this small hill, but it was just for her to stretch, and she really wanted to climb the mountain?

Wen Xiang said with disgust: "Forget it, it's better than nothing." ”

Anyway, I'm here, and I'm sorry for Xu Shen's arrangement if I don't climb it.

Because she was going out, she changed into men's clothes - she couldn't wait to temporarily ask the embroidery lady in the house to make clothes according to her size, and finally changed Xu Shen's clothes according to her size, and wore it on her body, and it was quite bookish.

She was the first to walk up the hill, which was small but densely vegetated, and the villagers seemed to be very environmentally conscious.

It's just that the "big park" circled by nature has fewer traces of artificial carving, and more natural and elegant.

The two of them took a few nurses, and just walked slowly all the way to the mountain enjoying the scenery and gossiping. The shade of the trees is shrouded in coolness.

Wen Xiang's heart, which had not been quiet, was also at peace here.

At this time, Wen Xiang was concerned about Xu Shen's love life and asked him what his plans were next. She knew that it was impossible for Xu Shen not to remarry, after all, the family was big, and there was a great filial piety on him, so it was impossible for him to be single for a lifetime.

"Wait for two years, marry a well-connected wife, and have one or two children." When Xu Shen said this, the smile on his face was almost invisible, "In my situation, where are you in a situation?" ”

Wen Xiang heard the loneliness in his tone, he was still a little uncomfortable in his heart, the woman who loved him and the woman he loved were dead, and after two years, he could still marry a wife and have children as if nothing happened, which was a little affectionate.

His tone made her change her mind, the dead were dead, but the living were going on.

"Our men there will probably choose like you." She didn't know what she thought, and suddenly laughed.

Xu Shen looked at her suspiciously, and didn't ask.

Wen Xiang couldn't help laughing, and said to him with a picture: "In our place, many women have awakened, they affirm their own value, and they also create useful value for society like men, and no longer regard men and marriage as heaven or dependence, and the biggest advantage of not relying on them is that women also have the right to choose whether to divorce men." ”

She said, pausing with a wicked look.

Sure enough, I saw Xu Shen raise his eyebrows: "Really? ”

"Of course! There are many women in politics, politics, and business, and many of them are even better than men. If many women are unhappy in their marriage, they can bravely choose to divorce and leave the man. In a word, making oneself happy without touching the law is the idea of most women there in our area. There is a marriage agency that did a survey, in terms of divorced men and women, there were more than 800 men who went to the marriage agency to register that year, and only more than 100 women, what does this mean? ”

Xu Shen was a little clear, but he still hesitated: "Men need women more, not women need men more?" ”

"After many women get divorced, they find that the world is vast, the outside is wonderful, and they live a glorious life, how can they wronged themselves and return to marriage to be a yellow-faced woman who is disliked by their husbands everywhere?"

Xu Shen listened, and actually thought about it seriously, "Actually, what you said is very right, many women are smarter and more powerful than men, but the rules dictate it, and it seems really unfair to them to enclose them in the world of the back house and rely on men to live." ”

"In the general environment, there is no way." Wen Xiang spread her hands, it is impossible for her to engage in any feminist movement here to liberate women, encourage women to have self-esteem, self-respect and self-love, and if she violates the interests of the majority of men here, she will be burned as a demon and a monster.

"So we have a saying there, saying why men in ancient times set so many rules for women, three obedience and four virtues, male superiority and inferiority to women, but they are afraid that women are too powerful, they can't suppress it, and they have to find ways to protect their own interests." Wen Xiang smiled and shook her head, "So you see, the reason why I want to go back is because I don't fit in here - who can tolerate me having this...... What do you think is a rebellious idea? Who would let me be just myself, and not a standard ancient woman with three obedience and four virtues and husbands as the heavens? ”

Xu Shen listened silently, her words and thoughts did subvert the Confucian etiquette he had received for more than 20 years.

"Actually, I say this because it has nothing to do with the question you asked me - most men in our country will still choose the same way you do. Men are very pragmatic in this regard. She joked again: "It's also our men who are unlucky, they don't meet the women of you who take husbands as their heavens." Therefore, many YY, men who travel to ancient times must be hugging left and right, with groups of wives and concubines, so unhappy. ”

As she spoke, she suddenly paused again, smiled, and said, "But there are exceptions." ”

For example, Uncle Zheng, he was not dazzled by this, but like her, he wanted to go back.

Because he was afraid that he would not be able to bring his wife and children when he went back, he didn't even dare to get married, for fear that after he left, he would leave orphans and widows who would not be able to live.

Because of this incident, Wen Xiang looked at him several times, and became more determined that she could not "abandon her husband and children" - then she could only start from the source and pinch out any possibility that she and Song Nanzhou would be together, so naturally there would be no regret and sadness of "abandoning her husband and children".

……

That's when the change happened.

The two talked all the way to the hillside, and suddenly heard a noisy noise behind them, and when they looked back, it was the nurse of the Xu Mansion who had an argument with the people behind them.

Wen Xiang didn't pay attention to it originally, she thought that when the nursing home of Xu Mansion revealed her identity, the people behind her would naturally be jealous. After all, in this Kyoto, there are not many people who can afford to provoke Xu Shen.

It's just that seeing Xu Shen frowning, Wen Xiang glanced at the person twice, and there must not be many people who can make Xu Shen frown.

So, she saw Song Huanting with a hat surrounded by the maid.

She didn't believe that after Xu Shen's unceremonious expulsion, Song Huanting still dared to come to Xu Shen, because she didn't believe it, she couldn't help but rub her eyes.

It was her childish behavior that made Xu Shen's originally disgusted and impatient face show a slight smile, "I'll let people protect you first, and then go to you when I send her away." ”

Wen Xiang didn't want to mix it either, so she nodded and continued to go up.

Who knew that Song Huanting refused to let her go, and took advantage of the entanglement between her nursing home and the maid and the nursing home of the Xu Mansion, and chased after her.

"Stop!" She actually grabbed Wen Xiang's arm.

Wen Xiang had to stop, and deliberately scared her with a rough voice: "Girl, men and women don't kiss, you are like this, but you have a crush on Xiaosheng, and you have the idea of letting Xiaosheng marry you?" That's not good, Xiaosheng already has a beautiful wife in his family......"

Xu Shen couldn't laugh and laugh at her nonsense.

Song Huanting quickly let go of her hand as if she was on fire, and after her eyes swept over her face in disbelief, thinking of the news she had just gotten, she became more and more annoyed at Wen Xiang's actions of fooling her, and reached out and tore off the jade crown on Wen Xiang's head to fix her hair.

Without the jade crown that tied her hair, Wen Xiang's long hair that was as smooth as satin fell down, revealing only a jade-white and delicate little face in the middle.

"Men?" Song Huanting sneered: "When anyone's eyes are blind, can't it?" ”

Wen Xiang obviously didn't expect that Song Huanting not only didn't frighten away, but also started to move, and she was stunned for a moment and didn't react.

Xu Shen stood up first, pulled Wen Xiang behind him, and said coldly: "Is she a man or a woman, what does she have to do with Miss Song?" ”

Song Huanting's beautiful little face turned red with anger, and she stared at Xu Shen: "Why can't she, but I can't?" ”

Xu Shen didn't bother to pay attention to her, turned around and grabbed Wen Xiang's arm, and was about to leave.

"Xu Shen, if you don't make it clear to me today, I will never give up!" Song Huanting shouted behind him: "You made me lose face, and now I don't want that face." But if you don't give me an explanation, I'm not afraid of being entangled with you here! ”

Wen Xiang saw Song Huanting's appearance, if Xu Shen didn't give her a satisfactory statement, she would never give up today. Seeing this, he said: "If not, the eldest brother will have a good talk with her?" Everyone is an adult...... Uh, in your place, Miss Song is also an adult, right? Everyone is an adult, and if there is anything to say, blindly avoiding it is not a solution. ”

Xu Shen didn't want to talk to Song Huanting, he felt that he had nothing to talk about with her - he was not soft on her that day, he just tore his face, to the point that any girl with self-esteem would never appear in front of him again.

I don't know why this Song Huanting can appear in front of him so confidently?

"Yes, you tell me clearly, I won't bother you again in the future!" Seeing this, Song Huanting hurriedly reassured in an accentuated tone.

Xu Shen heard this, hesitated for a moment, and nodded reluctantly for the sake of peace in the future.

Wen Xiang consciously avoided it and left this place to Xu Shen and Song Huanting to "negotiate".

She climbed along the mountain road to the hillside, turned a corner, and couldn't see Xu Shen and Song Huanting.

Behind her, there were seven or eight Xufu guards.

However, it didn't work.

When the group of black-clothed people who came out of nowhere quickly put down the Xu Mansion Courtyard with lightning speed, a hand knife fell on the back of Wen Xiang's neck, and Wen Xiang, who couldn't even scream, was caught off guard and taken away again.

The last thought in Wen Xiang's mind, who was in a coma: Damn, again!

……

When Wen Xiang woke up, she didn't know where she was for a moment. First of all, the bustling voices outside came into my ears, including the shouts of merchants, the shouts of coachmen, the coquettish voices of women in Qinglou, and the sound of chariots passing on stone slabs - there were even the calls of cattle and sheep.

The sharp pain from the back of her neck made her frown unconsciously, and she wanted to reach out and touch it, only to find that her hands couldn't move.

Wen Xiang was startled and suddenly opened her eyes, but it was pitch black in front of her, and she couldn't see it.

The moment he frowned, he felt the strip of cloth covering his face also move.

Is she blindfolded?

What about the mouth?

The mouth is also gagged!

What about the feet?

Wen Xiang quickly figured out the current situation, she should be on an ox cart at this time - she heard the sound of a cow barking in her ears just now, not far away, presumably the cow pulling her.

Her hands and feet were tied, presumably in a large font, tying her hands and feet to the four corners of the plank under her body, so that she could not even struggle.

But she immediately felt that something was wrong, the kidnappers must not tie her up like this, wouldn't this be exposed to people all of a sudden? But she didn't feel anything covering her body.

She tried to open her hand, but couldn't touch anything.

But there was a sound in his ears, like the sound of a dry blade of grass, just above his head. But at this time, Wen Xiang didn't care about what it was, and tried to make a sound from her mouth, only to find that she had dispatched all her strength to her throat, but she couldn't make any sound.

Suddenly, her heart was in shock, could it be that the person who captive her made her mute?

This is really, there is no way to even ask for help.

Suddenly there was a sound of galloping horses' hooves, as if a team of horses was rushing over, and even the ground shook with it. These people thought that they had a great background, and after a panic on the side of the road, they all avoided it, even the ox cart lying under her.

I heard someone asking, "What's going on?" Who are these people? What are you going to do in such a hurry? ”

"It looks like it's going in the direction of the city gate. I just heard that someone ordered the city gates to be closed, and I don't know what happened? ”

"Close the gates? How's that going to work? We still have to go home before the sun sets, the children at home are still waiting for the rice to be cooked, if we can't go back, we will be hungry. ”

"It's not that the city gates are closed, it's just that martial law is lower than on weekdays, and those who enter the city are better, and those who go out of the city are carefully checked. I said it would cost you a lot of money to buy these cattle and sheep, right? ”

"It cost a lot of silver, but our master is not short of silver, and he buys some ploughing cattle to go back, and it is also the master who takes pity on us mud legs. As for these sheep, the masters plan to come to Zhuangzi to live for a few days, maybe they want to taste something different. I won't tell you the truth, I roasted the whole sheep with my hands, but even the master has rewarded him, as long as the master serves them well, the reward is not old or young. ”

At the same time, at the gates of the city, where martial law had begun, there were twice as many guards as usual, and they were all armed with broadswords, standing majestically on both sides.

Song Nanzhou sat on horseback, staring motionlessly at everyone who went out of the city against the scorching sun.

His face was extremely ugly, his thin lips were pursed, his face was solemn, and his eyes seemed to be immersed in a thousand-year-old cold pool, which made people feel cold all over his body.

Next to him was Xu Shen, whose face was also very solemn.

The person was lost in his hands, although he immediately dispatched the people of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division to search the mountain as soon as he found it, but he found nothing. Because of this delay, when the news was sent to Song Nanzhou again, Song Nanzhou's face was very ugly, and he ordered someone to close the city gate immediately!

Xu Shen didn't know that Wen Xiang had been snatched away by the people of the Western Regions and planned to take it to the Western Regions. But Song Nanzhou knew that he almost didn't think about it, so he linked the matter of Wen Xiang's disappearance with the people of the Western Regions.

He remembered that Wen Xiang had said that the man from the Western Regions was a young man with deep eyes and a high nose.

But it is not ruled out that the other party may be disguised, so his eyes are firmly fixed on everyone, but if there is the slightest suspicion, people will be pulled down and locked up.

For a while, the cries for mercy resounded.

The face of the commander of the Five Cities Terracotta Division turned into a bitter melon, "Song Shizi, are you ...... This is not appropriate. So many people, usually these people, we also watch the city and go out of the city, it is impossible for some enemy country to do it, such a trouble, the people's resentment is boiling, and I am not good to explain to Your Majesty here! ”

Saying that, he looked at Xu Shen, whose body was as tense as a sword: "Lord Xu, please persuade Song Shizi quickly, if you continue to make trouble like this, I'm afraid that we will all eat and hang." ”

Xu Shen was as indifferent as Song Nanzhou, "Lord Yun, what happened here, I will talk to Your Majesty in detail, you don't have to worry." ”

In fact, he and Song Nanzhou did not agree with each other, and Song Nanzhou thought that the people who kidnapped her would definitely leave the city. But he felt that people would never leave Kyoto, after all, she had never left Kyoto to go anywhere else since she came here, and she had no chance to make enemies with people - except for Song Huanting, he couldn't think of anyone who would want to be unfavorable to her.

He glanced at Song Nanzhou again, he sat on the back of a horse without moving, and the whole person was fierce and crazy, like a sharp sword that drank blood.

"Official, official, the small one is from the palace of the king of Taichang Temple, and our Zhuangzi is outside the city. You see that these cattle and sheep of mine are all newly bought by our Zhuangzi, so we must rush back to Zhuangzi as soon as possible to settle down, and ask the official to raise his noble hand and let the little ones go out of the city. A middle-aged man who looked like a Zhuangzi steward was groveling and saying good things to the officers and soldiers who were inspecting.

Song Nanzhou looked at him, he did look like a perennial tending to the crops, his skin was dark black from the sun for many years, his hands were rough and wide, his nails were thick and black, and there was no clean dirt between his fingers, and he didn't seem to have any flaws.

After reading this person, Song Nanzhou's eyes fell on the ox cart full of straw. The straw was pressed solidly, and the ox cart looked heavy, and the old cow pulling the cart snorted, and its snort sounded heavy.

Song Nanzhou's eyebrows moved slightly, and he glanced at one of the soldiers, and the little soldier jumped onto the ox cart at once, raised his hand and began to lift the straw, and for a while the straw was scattered everywhere.

"Official, official, you can't help it!" The anxious man turned around, and kept pleading: "Our Zhuangzi is far away from the city, and if we don't have these forages on the way, I'm afraid that the little ones won't be able to bring these beasts back to Zhuangzi." Ask the official to be merciful, and the subordinates will be merciful! ”

Wen Xiang, who listened to all the movements outside, was almost dying, and when she heard the news that the whole city was under martial law and it was difficult to get out of the city, she guessed that this must be the handiwork of Song Nanzhou or Xu Shen. She was racking her brains about how to get the word out or make some noise to get their attention.

didn't expect to arrive at the city gate soon, but she hadn't come up with a way yet, so she could only shout loudly in her heart: Song Nanzhou, I'm here, help!