"Miss Zhuo, wake up!"

Zhuo Ruo choked on a mouthful of water, woke up slowly, and opened his eyes to see Xu Jinchen with water droplets on his face, half-kneeling beside her.

"You push me."

Xu Jinchen breathed a sigh of relief: "I didn't push you, you fell by yourself." ”

He took off his soaked night coat and revealed the robe inside, although his hair and clothes were wet, it did not affect his handsomeness.

When the boat docked, the wharf was full of fishing boats and painting boats, Xu Jinchen helped Ruoning ashore and took her to a closed merchant house on the street to change into clean clothes.

"Are you going to hand me over to the county lord of Jiangdu?"

Xu Jinchen was stunned for a moment, and his eyelids stared down at her: "Did you hear everything?" ”

Zhuo Ruoning puffed out his face and glared at him angrily: "It turns out that you are in the same group as them!" ”

The knife in Xu Jinchen's hand was raised, revealing a snow-white blade, and the cold light flashed in the moonlight.

"If you want to live, you have to know what to say and what not to say." His face was horribly cold.

After saying that, he turned around to leave, Zhuo Ruoning chased after him again: "Where are you going?" ”

"You wait downstairs at Fullerhouse, you should see someone you know."

Zhuo Ruo's mind was racing, and a conjecture suddenly popped up.

"The county lord of Jiangdu asked you to stun me and lock me up in Fuller House, so that Geng Kan could see me making a fool of myself?"

Fuller House is a government-run brothel, and it is the largest Fengyue place in Nanjing, and the county lord of Jiangdu wants to use this way to destroy her marriage contract with Geng Kan, which is too limitless.

Xu Jinchen was secretly surprised by the swiftness of her reaction and did not answer.

"You are a subordinate of the Jiangdu County Lord?"

"Why do you follow her orders?"

"Why do you listen to her openly and save me behind your back?"

"Do you think she's gone too far?"

Balabala......

Xu Jinchen suddenly stood on his feet, and Zhuo Ruoning, who was following closely behind, hit his head on his back.

"Can you walk properly?" Xu Jinchen said angrily.

"Oh, why are you ......"

Her voice was soft, lacking in breath, and a series of questions were thrown out, like a clingy little milk cat meowing non-stop.

Xu Jinchen couldn't help her: "Only answer one question." ”

"Are you pursuing the Jiangdu County Lord?"

Xu Jinchen choked: "Change the question." ”

"Do you like the county lord of Jiangdu?"

Xu Jinchen stopped, his cold eyebrows and eyes were dyed with violence, but when he saw Zhuo Ruoning blinking his big eyes and looking harmless to humans and animals, he couldn't get angry, "What do you care about this?" ”

Zhuo Ruoning: "I'm curious. And you said to answer me a question, but instead of answering, you asked me a question. ”

Xu Jinchen had never seen such a difficult little lady as her, and said, "You can't ask this question." ”

Zhuo Ruoning: "Why can't you ask?" The county lord of Jiangdu obviously likes Geng Kan, in order to force me to divorce Geng Kan, he has harmed me many times, you know her intentions, and you still help the abuse, and I don't know what to think. ”

Xu Jinchen walked forward expressionlessly, his voice was sad and joyless: "She is the county lord, I am a guard, what's wrong with following her orders?" ”

Zhuo Ruoning: "So you just do your job, you don't like her, and you don't agree with her approach?" ”

Xu Jinchen: "Whatever you think." ”

Zhuo Ruo was stunned, and his heart was happy.

Xu Jinchen glanced at her: "What are you still doing with me?" ”

Zhuo Ruoning: "You said that I should go to the Fuller House and wait for others." ”

The two happened to be on the same road.

Xu Jinchen met such a strange little lady for the first time in his life, and countless questions made him dizzy, but he didn't seem to hate it, probably because he had never said so much to anyone.

"Why do you want to know about me?"

Zhuo Ruoning lowered her head shyly, covered her mouth and smiled: "This question can't be asked." ”

Xu Jinchen: "......"

"Ask one more question, and if you answer I'll tell you a secret."

"I don't answer the question about the county lord."

"Are there a lot of little girls who like you?"

Xu Jinchen: "......"

Zhuo Ruoning finally saw that the iceberg face, which had not moved for thousands of years, had cracks, and the moonlight like water shone on his delicate side face, and it seemed that there was a red cloud extending from his neck to the top of his head.

You can't ask anymore, and you will get angry if you ask again.

Zhuo Ruoning braked in time and said seriously: "Fuller House receives so many guests every day, and it is located in a downtown area, isn't it afraid that there will be an accident with so much black powder hidden in it?" ”

"Black powder?"

"Didn't you hear the explosion too?"

"That's a thunderbolt, there have been frequent thunderbolt explosion accidents among the people recently, killing and injuring many people, and the emperor is preparing to order a cleanup."

"That's not a thunderbolt, it's explosives." Zhuo Ruo is determined.

If the court collects thunderbolts, it will be difficult for her to get them, and she must correct the name of the thunderbolts.

"Thunderbolt fires are vertical beams that usually have blue or purple flames. The explosion just now was obviously a transverse shock wave, and the smell of sulfur was so strong, it must have been black powder? ”

Xu Jinchen tilted his head to look at her, wanting to determine the reliability of this statement.

Zhuo Ruoning remembered the sweet fragrance in the room, and suddenly realized: "I know, it is the fragrance that masks the smell of saltpeter and sulfur." ”

Xu Jinchen realized that something big was going to happen, and said to her: "I'll go first, you stay away from the Fuller Theater, so as not to get hurt." ”

Zhuo Ruoning agreed, sat on the pier of the main road bridge, and looked at Xu Jinchen's disappearing back in a daze. She was a little hesitant, since she had already come out of Zhuo's Mansion, why not just leave and go all over the country to collect energy fragments? If he continues to be locked up in Zhuo's Mansion, the collection work will be difficult to heaven, and the emperor will add chaos to what kind of marriage, it will be a mess.

But she has no way to lead and no money, how can she pass the layers of checkpoints in the government?

Just as he was thinking, a man galloped across the bridge on horseback, and when he got off the bridge, the man suddenly turned around.

"Niannian, why are you here!" Before the horse stopped, Geng Kan had already turned over and landed, and he nervously rushed to her and pulled her up to check up and down.

"What's wrong with the change of clothes?" Geng Kan was struck by lightning, and his face changed instantly.

"Falling into the river, Xu Jinchen helped me buy clothes."

"Are you alright? No one bullied you, I'll go back to Huaiyufang to pick you up, Boss Song said that you ran away with a seller, we searched all over the gem shop, and some people said that they had seen you in Fuller Paradise......"

Zhuo Ruoning nodded with a wistful expression: "Someone kidnapped me to Fuller House and wanted to arrange a scene for you to see, but fortunately, Xu Jinchen saved me." ”

Geng Kan's face sank, and he gritted his back molars and said, "Let's go back and talk about it." ”

He hugged Zhuo Ruoning on the horse, and sat behind him to protect her, and the horse was not allowed to ride the horse at night during the curfew, and the horse walked very slowly.

"I knew I shouldn't have left you alone in the shop." Geng Kan blamed himself.

"We still have to withdraw the marriage quickly, and tell the world that I have nothing to do with you, only a thousand days to be a thief, how can there be a thousand days to prevent thieves."

"Then I can't go too far, and make too much trouble and affect your reputation."

"I don't care, I'm just afraid of affecting my sisters."

The two exchanged countless plans, which didn't work or that, sighing all the way.

Zhuo Mansion usually has turned off the lights and slept at this time, and the lights in each room are on tonight, but there is no sound in the house at all. After Zhuo Ruoning came back, Lin hugged her and cried heartbreakingly, and Zhuo Li personally went to the old lady's house to inform someone that she had found it.

The three sisters were so red that their eyes were red, and they all breathed a sigh of relief when they received her.

Zhuo Cheng and his wife were frightened for a night and came to see her, so they were relieved.

Zhuo Ruoning briefly said what happened, of course, it was Xu Jinchen who kidnapped her with drugs.

"The county lord of Jiangdu is too much, lord, you must sue her in front of the emperor." Lin said hatefully.

Zhuo Li glared at her: "The little girls are jealous, I stab in front of the emperor, don't want this face?" ”

Lin is like a hen guarding her cubs, full of anger: "Your daughter was almost killed, and she is still shameless, is your face important or is your daughter important?" When a father can't protect his daughter, what's the use of asking for face? ”

The first time Zhuo Li saw that the Lin family dared to quarrel loudly with him, he was still in front of the whole family, and he was so shocked that he forgot what to say.

Zhuo Cheng took advantage of the fact that before his brother could react, he hurriedly sat down and held his arm, and said to the Lin family: "Sister-in-law, calm your anger, Jinyiwei is present in this matter, and the emperor must know about it." ”

"That's right, sister-in-law, if the emperor intends to punish the county lord, let's not say that he will also punish him, if the emperor protects his shortcomings, and the eldest lord goes to sue, won't it make the emperor unable to step down?"

"I don't care so much, my brother didn't keep it, only this one daughter is left, how can she be so wronged? If you can't protect her, I'll take her back to Pujiang to live our pure life. ”

"You dare!" Zhuo Li slapped the table and said angrily: "What do you mean by only one daughter? Eldest sister, Sister Ling, and Sister Liao are not your daughters? The Zhuo family is not a vegetable garden, you can go back if you want, and you can leave if you want? ”

Lin said the wrong thing, knowing that he was at a loss, he insisted and said: "I just took her to the temple to be a sister-in-law and went out to beg for food, and I won't let her stay here!" ”

"If you want to be a sister-in-law, you go, because you are from a scholarly family, and your words and deeds are so thoughtless, no wonder you taught your daughter to be like this. You ask her if she would like to be your sister-in-law, and if she would like to beg for food with you? ”

The Lin family, who had been obedient for half his life, did not flinch in the face of Zhuo Li's anger, and said in the face of his anger: "I taught me and I am responsible, you don't like to see our mother and daughter anyway, no matter how good the teaching is, it will be the same in your eyes!" Nian Nian, would you like to go to the temple with your mother? ”

Zhuo Ruoning's eyes turned around on everyone's faces, and he found that everyone was pretending to be quails with their heads down.

"I think begging seems freer."

Facing his daughter who couldn't understand human words, Zhuo Li was so angry that he sat down on the chair, and Zhuo Ruozhen hurriedly handed him tea and carried it back.

Lin poked her forehead with his hand: "I think about going out all day long, and as soon as I go out, I will be targeted, what do you say you are going out for?" ”

"I made glasses for my grandfather, I applied to you when I went out."

"You still have a reason, didn't you tell you not to leave Geng Kan's side, how can you chase the seller?"

Zhuo Ruoning naturally didn't dare to say anything about collecting thunderbolts, and whispered: "To make glasses, you have to have frames, I want to buy a horn to make frames, who knows that I was deceived." They have a calculus or no intention, and I can't guard against it. ”

"The child is also a filial piety, but fortunately, there is no danger today, and the eldest brother and sister-in-law are all discouraged. Nian Nian wants to find the horns, right, just say it earlier, I have two of them there, and I will take them out for you to use later. Zhuo Cheng smiled and looked for everyone to go down the stairs.

Zhuo Li snorted heavily: "Today's events are all rotten in the stomach, and you are not allowed to mention it again in the future." In this splendid capital, every day there are glorious heroes and heroes annihilated, if you want to be safe, shut up for me, if you find someone talking in private, severely punished. ”

Of course, this is said to a few small people, and adults know that it is powerful.