Leng Yi pondered for a moment and said, "I'll go to the house with you to have a look." ”

Li Yu didn't dare to invite Leng Yi directly, because he was worried that Leng Yi would not be willing to wade into this troubled water and provoke fire. Now Leng Yi took the initiative to say it, and he was very happy and very grateful. Quickly got up and thanked him.

Leng Yi told Zhuo Qiaoniang that he had something to do with the Longxi Gongfu, and then took a sedan chair with the guards to follow Li Yu to the Longxi Gongfu.

It was still snowing heavily, and the servants were hiding in their houses to roast the fire, and the cold and deserted figure in the Longxi Mansion could not be seen.

Leng Yi followed Li Yu into the lobby, Xiao Zhouhou stood at the door of the bedroom in the lobby, his hair was scattered on his back, he didn't wash it, he was even more coquettish, but his expression was a little trance, his cheeks were flushed, and when he saw Leng Yi, he owed a blessing.

Leng Yi returned the salute, glanced at her, and said, "You are not in good spirits, go back to the house to warm up first, and I will have something to tell you later." ”

When Xiao Zhouhou heard that Leng Yi was going to talk to her alone, she couldn't help but feel her heart hanging again, not knowing what would happen. Since Leng Yi didn't say it now, she didn't want to ask, so she quickly nodded, turned around and went into the house.

Li Yu's heart also became nervous, estimating that what Leng Yi was going to say to his wife was likely to be related to officials, and he didn't dare to ask more, nor did he want to know more, since he couldn't change it, he could avoid what he didn't know, and he felt a little better.

After Xiao Zhou returned to the bedroom, Leng Yi walked under the beam and took a closer look at the white silk.

This is the Duke's Palace, the buildings are very grand, this hall is like this, the beam is two zhang high, and it is in the middle of the lobby, if you want to hang a soft white silk on it, it is indeed not easy for ordinary people. If someone wants to hang themselves, this place is indeed not the best choice, because the door frame of the gate, the window lattice, and the short beam of the outside corridor, the tree in the yard, there are too many places for the hanging beam to commit suicide. There's really no need to hang the white silk so high. Moreover, the white silk hangs down at both ends in this way, without knots. I didn't make a looper or anything. It doesn't look like he's going to hang himself.

From this point of view, this white silk should not be hung up by the people in the house who want to commit suicide, so what does the person who hangs the white silk want to do?

Leng Yi said: "Is there a ladder?" ”

Li Yu hurriedly said: "Yes! "Hurry out, and call the servant to bring a long wooden ladder from the kitchen, and put it on the beam. Leng Yi lifted up his robe and tied it around his waist. Climbed up with his help and checked the white silk little by little. White silk is a fine silk, not something that ordinary people can have. It's brand new, but it's got some dirt on it.

Leng Yi didn't touch the white silk, he just looked at it like this, and then stopped step by step and went up to the beam. He examined the beams and found that the dust on them was very messy, as if someone had touched it, but found no obvious handprints or footprints.

He looked up again and carefully examined the roof tiles, but found no signs of turning. So, he took the white silk down and threw it down. Then slowly descend. Clapped his hands.

Li Yu was about to step forward to ask, but seeing that Leng Yi had no intention of stopping to speak, he stood again.

Leng Yi put his hands behind his back and checked the entire lobby.

There are three main rooms, and the lobby is in the middle. On either side is the master bedroom and on the other side is the study. The doors to the master bedroom and study both lead to the lobby, and there are no other doors. The lobby has two doors, one is the main entrance to the front yard and the other is the back door.

After Leng Yi inspected the doors and windows, he found that the back door was bolted from the inside. And there was a window at the back that was hidden, and near the latch, there was a small hole that could be reached into a hand. Moreover, the latch is also pulled up.

Leng Yi called Li Yu over and asked, "When you got up, were the doors and windows open?" ”

Li Yu said: "When I came out, the front door and the back door were closed and tied from the inside. - Because some of the maids in my house are not self-respecting and like to enter our bedrooms, we close the front and back doors of the lobby from the inside when we sleep. The windows were also closed. ”

"Don't you have a valet maid?"

"Originally, I was, but then I was sent away. No new ones were arranged. So there were only two of us in the main house. ”

Leng Yi pointed to the hidden window and said, "Who opened this?" ”

Li Yu noticed this window and was taken aback. Shaking his head, he said: "It's definitely not us, when I go to bed at night, I check the latches of every window." Front and rear doors are included. When he walked by, he looked carefully, and said with a pale face: "Someone must have reached in and opened the window, then turned in, hung up the white silk, and then went out through the window!" ――Did the government send someone to kill myself? ”

Leng Yi shook his head and said in a low voice: "It shouldn't be." ”

"Why?" Li Yu asked.

"It's very simple, even if it is inconvenient for the official family to publicly kill you, but choose to send someone secretly, then wouldn't it be okay to kill you directly and then disguise it as suicide? Why do you have to go to such great lengths to hang a white silk to remind you of your suicide? ”

"What you say makes sense, but maybe the official family doesn't really want me to die, so why just warn me like this? Because, because I copied your song "Poppy Beauty", it made the official family very unhappy. ”

"It's possible! -- Since the grandfather already knows that the official family is very unhappy that the grandfather writes poems that are nostalgic for the homeland, then the grandfather should stop writing such poems to anger the official family. ”

Li Yu nodded frequently and said with a forced smile: "Where do I still have that guts." ”

Leng Yi took the white silk, looked at it repeatedly, and said: "This white silk is a high-quality product, and it can only be found in the palace or the family of the prince and general." ”

Li Yu's face was like earth.

Leng Yi said with relief: "It's hard to say what happened now, it's probably a warning." However, I don't think there is a need for a large-scale investigation of this matter, this matter is still like this, just pretend not to know, otherwise the investigation everywhere, if it is really the official family who warns you, it will cause the displeasure of the official family, thinking that you are deliberately against the government and do not listen to the greeting. ”

Li Yu nodded with a pale face.

Leng Yi said: "If you have something to say to Mrs. Zun, okay?" ”

Li Yu hurriedly bowed down and said: "Why not, adults are not afraid of being involved, and they are dedicated to helping my husband and wife, we are grateful." ”

"You're welcome!"

Li Yu said: "I'll go to the study and wait for the adults." With that, he turned and went into the study.

Leng Yi pushed open the bedroom door, and saw Xiao Zhouhou sitting on the edge of the bed in despair, and saw Leng Yi coming in, so he hurriedly got up to give a blessing.

Leng Yi returned the salute, closed the bedroom door, and sat down on the chair next to him. said: "The matter of hanging white silk may indeed be related to the official family. After the official family saw my grandfather's transcription of my poem, he was very angry, and it is possible to warn him. Coupled with the texture of the white silk, it is indeed possible for the prince and the general to have it. It's also more revealing. So, I've already suggested to my grandfather not to investigate this matter. lest the official family know and be angry. ”

Xiao Zhouhou nodded apprehensively: "Thank you for reminding me." ”

Leng Yi looked at her haggard expression and said in a low voice: "Madame went into the palace yesterday to accept the queen's reward, right?" ”

Xiao Zhouhou heard him suddenly mention this matter, and couldn't help but be ashamed, embarrassed and sad. He nodded slightly, but did not speak.

Leng Yi stood up, walked over, and sat down on the edge of the bed beside Xiao Zhouhou.

Xiao Zhouhou didn't know what Leng Yi was going to do, he looked at him a little flustered, wanting to move away a little, but he was afraid that Leng Yi would be too distracted, so he lowered his head, but his pretty face was blushing.

Leng Yi put his head on the side of Xiao Zhouhou's cheeks, Xiao Zhouhou's heart was pounding, if he was so light on himself, what should he do? Revolt? Call? Escape? Still is...... Submissive?

Xiao Zhouhou's heart was in turmoil, and she didn't know what to do, when she heard Leng Yi whispering in her ear: "Yesterday, the official family said that he was in the grove in the northeast corner of the palace and heard the roar of a tiger, and he was half scared to death. Let the lowly come and ask the lady quietly, did you hear? Were you scared? ”

Xiao Zhou was stunned for a moment, and then realized that Leng Yi sat next to him just to tell him about this confidential matter, not to deliberately despise himself. I breathed a sigh of relief, but somehow, but I was slightly disappointed.

Xiao Zhou later heard the cry of a tiger. However, at that time, she was crying for help, and the crying covered up part of the tiger's roar, and then Zhao Guangyi suddenly fled, which made her surprised, happy and panicked, and quickly sorted out her dress and escaped from the palace. Later, on the way, she wondered what the sound was, and at that time she was not sure that it was the roar of a tiger, because she did not know that there were tigers in the palace. Now that I heard Leng Yi say this, I realized that it was the roar of a tiger.

Xiao Zhouhou nodded understandingly, and turned his face to look at him: "It seems to be the cry of a tiger, it is very scary......

Leng Yi said: "I see, the officials themselves are scared enough, let alone a delicate woman like Madame." Moreover, it was freezing yesterday, the official family wore little clothes, and he was frozen with cold, and he was lying in bed taking medicine. When I came to my humble position, I thought that my wife must have suffered from the wind and cold yesterday, and the tiger was frightened, so I was afraid that she would not be able to get up from the bed now. Now it seems that the lady's complexion is very bad, and it is really the same as the humble expectation. ”

Xiao Zhouhou was so smart that he immediately knew what Leng Yi meant by this. Qiang smiled: "My lord is right, the concubine was frightened by the wind and cold yesterday, and she couldn't get out of bed, but this incident happened, so I forced myself to get up and take a look." ”

Leng Yi got up: "Since Mrs. Gui is not in good health, then rest early, and before you get well, it's better not to move around at will." Humble resignation. ”

After hearing this, Xiao Zhouhou understood the meaning of Leng Yi's words better, and hurriedly got up and said, "Thank you for your care!" ”

After sending Leng Yi away, Li Yu returned to the bedroom, and Xiao Zhouhou was already lying on the bed with his clothes closed, his eyes closed, and his expression was very tired. Busy possessing asked, "What's wrong?" Uncomfortable? ”

Xiao Zhou nodded slightly.

"I'm sending someone to get the Imperial Doctor?"

"Not yet." Xiao Zhou said: "I'll sleep for a while, maybe it's fine." ”

Li Yu nodded, thought for a while, and said, "Then you can sleep, I'll go to Wenhua (Zhao Tingmei's character) to sit there, and ask him to help find out the news from the official family." If you have the bottom in your heart, you can rest assured. ”

Xiao Zhou snorted and didn't open his eyes.

After Li Yu left, Xiao Zhou opened her eyes, she got out of bed and walked to the bedroom door, tied the door, then turned around and walked back to the bed, and began to take off her dress.

Soon, she was stripped naked. Looking down at the bruises and blood marks on his thighs and arms, they were the result of being brutalized by Zhao Guangyi yesterday.

Xiao Zhouhou slowly walked to the back window naked, she pulled out the latch and pushed the window open.

A biting cold wind blew in, Xiao Zhouhou shivered, and subconsciously wanted to hold her hands on her chest to keep warm, but she immediately stopped, and instead spread her arms and looked out the window with a sad smile in the face of the biting cold wind.

There was no one outside the window, only a small pond, already full of ice, and a few withered yellow lotus leaves in the center, which were frozen there. The edge of the pond is covered with fluffy snow. The high wall blocks all the sight, making it impossible for people to appreciate the peerless beauty of Xiao Zhou Hou in the ice and snow.

In addition to the biting cold wind, they can ragefully wrap and caress on Xiao Zhouhou's **, invading her delicate body that is rapidly freezing from all over her mouth and nose.

Xiao Zhou began to tremble and tremble uncontrollably, but she turned around, walked to the table, picked up a pot of water that was already cold, and drank half a pot of water.

The water in the kettle was almost frozen, and when you drank it, your whole body became like an ice sculpture. She felt the breath she exhaled, all cold.

She took the half pot of ice water she had drunk, walked back to the window, slowly lifted it, and poured the water on her convex and delicate body.

In an instant, the cold grew rapidly, and she could barely insist on walking back to the table and putting down the kettle. But she did, and went back to the window, looking out at the pond with open arms. She had to distract herself to survive the icy wind longer.

Whenever she needs to be distracted, the first thing she can think of is her husband Li Yu's poems. It is with these poems that she has survived Zhao Guangyi's many humiliations, and now, she wants to use her husband's poems to help herself survive this ordeal.

The wind returns to the small courtyard and the courtyard is green, and the willow eyes continue in spring.

With half a voice, the bamboo sound is still like the crescent moon of the year.

The sheng song is not dispersed, and the ice on the pond surface is first solved.

The candle incense is darkly painted in the building, and the temples are full of frost and residual snow.

The first thing that rose in Xiao Zhouhou's heart was her husband Li Yu's "Poppy Beauty". - "The Ice on the Pond Surface", yes, isn't this the pond outside the window? "Full of frost and snow", although the green silk is not white, I am only afraid that I will suffer in the cold wind until now, and the frost and snow have been full.

Could it be that this poem by her husband was written for her current self? That's okay, if you can make yourself and your husband have more "bamboo crescents" like back then, and rely on each other, it will be worth it.

Xiao Zhou later began to sneeze and cough non-stop, and the snot also flowed down, but she didn't care. Still persistent.

(To be continued)