The next morning, before midnight, a few stars in the night sky were still twinkling.

Han Xinwang opened his eyes and adjusted to the darkness in the room before slowly sitting up.

The room was dark, and two plates of leftovers and two empty bowls could be faintly seen on the table.

Han Xinwang stood up and walked to the table, glanced at the burned candlestick, he replaced a candle on the table, took out the fire fold from his waist and lit it, took the candlestick and turned into the inner room, stood in front of the big bed, and looked at the girl on the bed.

Ruo fell asleep with his red face facing outward, covered with a green satin-faced quilt, and a beautiful little face was exposed, and his eyes were slightly closed, quiet and beautiful.

The little girl's sleeping face is very cute.

Han Xinwang actually stood there and watched for a while before reaching out and pushing Ruohong, "Wake up, it's time to get up." He said.

"What time is it?"

Ruohong opened her eyes slowly, and saw a man standing in front of her in a daze, she was stunned for a moment, the light of the candle flame flickered, so that she couldn't see the man's face clearly, she raised her hand and rubbed her eyes, and said, "Are you going to leave so early?" There was a little girl's softness in her tone.

Han Xinwang paused slightly before saying, "Do you want to stay?" ”

Ruohong looked at the tall man in front of her, and didn't understand what he meant for a while, "Can you stay?" ”

Han Xinwang didn't answer her words, just now, for a moment, he wanted to let go of this girl, he asked in a deep voice, "What time is it?" ”

Ruohong sat up with the quilt, blinked a few times, and said, "What time is it?" At night, she slept in her clothes, and holding the quilt was just a subconscious action, a sense of self-protection.

"What time is it?"

Han Xinwang muttered these three words twice, but he didn't understand what these three words had to do with the hour, "Get up, let's go." ”

"Oh!"

Ruohong lifted the quilt and got out of bed, found shoes under the bed and put them on, and said, "Okay, let's go." ”

Han Xinwang walked to the table and put down the candlestick in his hand, lifted the teapot and drank two sips of cold tea, put down the teapot and opened the door and walked out.

There are no candles in the corridor, and there are no windows to transmit light, it is very dark, and the light of a candle flame at the door opening is reflected on the wall of the corridor, leaving a rectangular light and shadow.

Han Xinwang stood outside the door, turned his head to look at the two doors on the left, and not far from him, there was a person sitting on the ground, stretching out his legs, and leaning his head against the wall to sleep.

As soon as the man sat down here, he blocked the way in, and if he wanted to go in, he would be alarmed.

This eldest lady of the Mei family was so vigilant that she actually left someone to guard the door.

Ruohong walked out, Han Xinwang turned sideways to block the people on the ground, and raised his hand to signal Ruohong to go to the right.

Ruohong raised her feet and walked forward, and out of the corner of her eye, she saw something on the ground, and when she was about to see what it was, Han Xinwang took two steps to the left, blocking her vision.

Ruohong had to step downstairs, and Han Xinwang followed behind and also went downstairs.

There is a dim oil lamp lit in the lobby downstairs, and the lights are flickering, making the lobby alternate between light and dark, and people who watch it feel a chill in their hearts.

Han Xinwang woke up the guy on duty and asked him to go and quickly set up the carriage and rush to the street, they were leaving.

The guy hurriedly called the shopkeeper to come out to settle the bill, and then went to the backyard to lead the horse and cart.

Shopkeeper Li came out of the back room and looked at the two of them, he replied to Ruoxue last night, but he didn't see the two residents, and only saw them today, "Are you two leaving?" It's still early, so it's not too late to have breakfast and leave! He said.

"That's how to rush, it's too early or too late!" Han Xinwang said.

Shopkeeper Li turned around and went behind the counter, took the account book out, flipped through it, and said, "That's such a reason, where are you taking the child to?" ”

When he saw Han Xinwang's man in his thirties, followed by a teenage girl, he took it for granted that the two of them were father and daughter.

Han Xinwang looked at Ruohong who was following him, and said without hesitation: "This is not a child, her grandfather is sick, I will take her to see the old man, and I will do my filial piety for her aunt." ”

Ruohong pouted to herself, your grandfather was sick! Your family's maternal grandfather is sick, and he is terminally ill and there is no cure for him.

Shopkeeper Li glanced at Ruohong again, thinking that her aunt didn't go back with them to visit the patient, most of them were gone, so it was the father and daughter who walked together, "That's it!" ”

He looked at Han Xinwang and said, "You live in a first-class room, with twenty taels of silver, and last night's meal was two hundred and twenty copper coins." He said.

Han Xinwang took out a silver ticket of fifty taels from his waist, handed it to Shopkeeper Li, and said, "Please break it." ”

The shopkeeper Li saw that it was a silver ticket, so he asked him to wait, and he turned around and went back to his house, took the silver ingot and some loose silver, and came out to calculate it for him.

The man came in and said the carriage was set.

Han Xinwang put away the money and walked outside, and Ruohong followed him and walked outside.

Han Xinwang glanced back at her and said, "Why don't you run?" ”

Ruohong looked back at the lobby behind her, could she run? Wouldn't she have been killed if she ran now? After thinking about it for a while, she followed the person in front of her and said, "I think it's safer to follow you, after all, there are too many bad people in this world, it's too unsafe." ”

Han Xinwang smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth, didn't say anything, sat down in the coachman's position, took the horsewhip next to him and shook it.

Ruohong quickly climbed into the carriage, sat down in the carriage, and said, "Let's go." ”

Han Xinwang raised his horse whip and slapped the horse, and the horse neighed and ran forward.

Shopkeeper Li sent it out, stood under the eaves and said loudly: "Have a good trip!" ”

Upstairs, when Gong Yue and Dan Tang heard the movement and came out to look, the carriage was already out of sight.

Dan Tang asked a lot, and when she went downstairs, she saw that the room that was not closed was still burning with candles, and she thought that there were two people there last night, and she didn't know what kind of people they were, so she asked.

Shopkeeper Li said seriously: "It's a very tall man, with a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl, looking at them like that, they don't look like father and daughter,......"

Before he could finish speaking, Gong Yue had already flown out, and her voice came in, "Go and tell the eldest lady." ”

Dan Tachibana hurriedly turned around and ran upstairs, shouting "Miss" in his mouth.

The carriage soon arrived at the east city gate, and the soldiers at the city gate checked the carriage, and there was nothing abnormal, so they let Han Xinwang go out of the city.

The carriage staggered for a while, and Han Xinwang suddenly said loudly: "Girl, guess who lived next door to us last night?" ”

Ruohong said without thinking: "I don't guess, it's definitely not my sister." ”

Han Xinwang smiled and said unkindly: "It may be your sister who lives next door, because I saw your maid come out of the next door." ”

Ruohong's body subconsciously rushed forward, raised her hand to lift the curtain, and opened her mouth a few times before saying, "Really? ”

There was already a choked voice in his voice, and tears flowed down his face.

She knew that they were here to find her, she was not alone and helpless, at this moment she felt good to have relatives, how lucky it was to have so many people who cared about her in this world!

Han Xinwang heard the movement behind him, and when he turned around and saw Ruohong crying, he was stunned for a moment, "Really." ”