Lan Yue waited for me at the door of the fourth master, helped me down from the carriage, and said to me, "Master, the fourth master is waiting for you in the study." ”

I nodded and said to her, "Lan Qi is in the carriage, you can take her back first." Pack up the house, I'll go back later. ”

"Then the master should be careful." After I nodded, Lan Yue watched me enter the Fourth Master's Mansion, turned around and drove back.

Dai Duo was still guarding the door of the study, and saw me hurriedly walking over to say goodbye: "Gege auspicious! Gege, you're finally good! I smiled and said, "Let Mr. Fox worry, it's Yubing!" What about the fourth brother? ”

Dai Duo was stunned for a moment, and said as he opened the door for me, "I'm waiting for you inside!" ”

I walked into the room and looked at the study where everything was the same, the fourth master was still sitting on the chair he used to sit on, and Mr. Wu was still sitting behind the piano table and looked at me with a slight smile on the corner of his mouth. The fourth master walked over quickly, looked at me and asked, "Are you injured?" What do you think? Is it serious? Has the Imperial Doctor seen it? ”

"I'm fine, fourth brother......"

The fourth master was stunned for a moment, stroked my hair, eyebrows, eyes, nose, cheeks, and corners of his mouth with both hands, and said tremblingly: "Finally back, you are finally back." ”

I looked at him, joy and warmth in those eyes that were forever restrained from emotion, and that cold face was so gentle, I choked up and said to him, "I'm back!" ”

Mr. Wu said: "It's great that Gege can get better. ”

The fourth master took my hand and walked to the table and sat down, poured me a cup of tea with his own hands, and shouted outside the door: "Dai Duo, go and get some clothes for Gege." ”

I took the teacup, took a sip and put it down. said to the fourth master: "Fourth brother, fifth brother Zhang, they ......"

"I'll settle down, don't worry."

"I'll ask someone to prepare some silver taels tomorrow, and trouble the fourth brother to help me give them to their family. They died tragically trying to protect me, at least let me do my best. "I can't help but wonder if I had let the Dark Guards do it sooner, wouldn't they have died? But if I had to do it all over again, I'd still make that choice. Since when did I become so cruel?

Mr. Wu plucked the strings and said to me, "Gege is relieved, this is their life." You have your destiny, and they have theirs. You should be firm. ”

I suddenly remembered something, took out a small box and a prescription from my bosom, walked to the piano table, handed it to Mr. Wu, and said, "Sir, this is the medicine and prescription that Yu Bing asked from a master in the temple to treat your legs." It won't get you back to normal, but it should be a little less. lest Mr. always be in pain when the day changes. ”

Mr. Wu was a little surprised, a trace of waves flashed in his calm eyes, and he took it with a smile: "I'm tired of worrying about Wu." ”

"Mr. teaches Yu Bing the art of the piano, that is, Yu Bing's master. Isn't it right for students to care about their teachers? ”

The fourth master said on the side: "You are thinking about bringing medicine to Mr., don't you have anything to bring to me?" ”

I turned to him and said, "I thought I was back and you didn't need any gifts." ”

The fourth master didn't answer, but Mr. Wu said: "Gege is telling the truth, Gege is back, and the fourth master will be satisfied." After speaking, he ignored the fourth master and went to play the piano by himself.

I had dinner in the fourth master's mansion before returning home, and after entering the mansion, Zhang Lao inevitably poured out tears again. Back in the room and sat down, Lan Yue poured tea for me and was busy preparing hot water for me to bathe.

Soaking in the bathtub, I asked Lan Yue, "How is Lan Qi?" ”

"Back to the master, wake up, but it's ......"

"If you have something to say, say it."

Lan Yue hesitated for a moment and replied, "She had a miscarriage." ”

I turned my head abruptly and looked at Lan Yue, who was helping me wipe my back: "What did you say?" Miscarriage? A doctor from outside? ”

"It's the fourth master's person, you can rest assured. My tone was tight, and I told me not to say it to anyone. ”

I nodded, thought for a moment and asked, "Do you know, whose child is it?" ”

Lan Yue shook her head and said, "For more than a year, she has often disappeared suddenly, and she doesn't know where she went. ”

I thought to myself, the left is just the fifth master's. After thinking about it, he still said to Lan Yue: "Did you prescribe her medicine to condition her body?" ”

"The medicine was prescribed, and the decoction was done by the slaves and maids themselves, and no one else interfered."

Lan Yue is a very safe child, so I can rest assured. After taking a shower and changing into a new underwear, I saw that there were large patches of blood and tears on the clothes I had changed, I looked at the blood stains on the clothes that I didn't know who it was, and said to Lan Yue: "Take it and burn it." Also, in the future, everything around me will be up to you. You can pick another suitable person from the mansion to help you in the main courtyard. Go ahead, you're tired today, rest early. ”

"Yes!" Lan Yue retreated in response.

I sat in front of the dressing table and slowly grated my hair with the white jade carved grate that Brother Thirteen gave me, Lan Yue had already helped me wipe my hair almost dry, and I was thinking about what was going on with the assassin all the way this time. Brother Thirteen and I decided to leave on a temporary basis, and did not deliver the news to the palace, and the assassin on the first night did not look like someone sent by Kangxi. But who else would know that I woke up and was going back to Beijing, and wanted to kill me? Just as I couldn't figure it out, Butterfly Seventeen suddenly appeared and said to me, "Master, the four dark leaders are waiting for you." ”

I nodded, put down the grate, blew out the candles, summoned the willow smoke to lie on the bed in my place, and I put on my clothes and went into the secret passage. The four of them sat solemnly in the secret room, and when they saw me, they knelt down collectively and said, "My subordinates are derelict in their duties, please punish the master." I sat down and said, "Get up, I'm fine." Why are you in such a hurry for Seventeen to call me? ”

The four of them looked at each other, and finally Kazekage spoke, "Master, it's for your attacks in the past few days. ”

"I also have some questions for you, who sent these assassins? Neither the Thirteenth Master nor I sent the news to the capital that I was going back, and even the emperor didn't know when we would leave. How did the Assassins lay the ambush in advance? Who leaked the news? Is it someone in the guard? Or a monk in the temple? ”

"Back to the master, the person on the first night was sent by the prince. The men of the second day were of the Babel faction. Today's ......" The Wind Shadow was silent for a moment and finally spoke: "The one who assassinated Gege and the Thirteenth Master today was sent by the emperor. They killed the rest of the killers sent by the prince and Babel. It was the emperor's cronies who attacked. Their waist card Yun San has been sent back to the headquarters, what does the master think should do with these things? "Kazekage's question really stopped me.

"Let me think about it for now, you go on."

"Yes, master. The news was not leaked by the guards or the monks. The monks in that temple were all secret guards. The people sent by the prince went to the bottom of the mountain together when the emperor was fortunate to Wutai Mountain, and they have been staying there, as long as the master sets off. We know this, but we also know that the guards around the master are no problem, so we didn't send more people. The Eighth Master's people were sent a few days before you woke up. The one who revealed the news was your maid, Lan Qi. The child in her belly is also the eighth master's. Over the past year or so, she has rummaged through Gege's room many times, but has taken nothing. "The last sentence of the Wind Shadow made me stunned. Lan Qi betrayed me, and the child in her belly belonged to the eighth master?

"What is this? Eight masters'? Didn't she get along with the fifth master? What's going on? ”