Chapter 2: The Burning of the Westview Pavilion
The seven days passed quickly, and Wang Dun pressed the matter very tightly, and he couldn't find any clues at all.
The emperor ordered my father to go to the early court, and before leaving, he summoned me to his side and said to me gently, "Jin'er, you are also old, you must take good care of yourself." ”
I knew it wasn't easy, but I didn't expect it to come so quickly. "Daddy......" I said with a forced smile, "don't worry, I'll definitely take care of myself, you don't have to worry."
Daddy nodded, reluctantly glanced at me, and then got into the carriage in the palace and drove away, the carriage gradually faded out of my field of vision, and I felt very uncomfortable.
Ji Weixuan, who was beside him, opened his mouth and said, "Miss, let's go back."
I was worried about it in the house for a day but I didn't want to see my father, so I said to Ji Weixuan: "Daddy should be fine, why haven't you come back?"
He looked at me and tried to say something, but didn't make a sound.
At that time, the shouts of the servants suddenly came from outside: "Oh no, it's on fire, come and put out the fire." I opened the door in a panic, and the Westview Pavilion to the west was blazing, the flames shining golden in the night.
Ji Weixuan hurriedly ran over to me and said, "Miss, I'm ready for everything, get out of here with me." I didn't react for a moment: "Leave? Where to go, it's just on fire......"
"It's too late to explain, let's go, miss." Looking at Ji Weixuan's nervous expression, I suddenly remembered the little brother who used to play with me on the street when I was young, and I stared at the West View Pavilion that was on fire and nodded.
Ji Weixuan trotted all the way from the backyard path, and I followed closely behind, passing through the dense trees on both sides, and stopping behind the rockery not far away.
He fumbled for a moment and pressed it, and the rockery opened, and it turned out to be a mechanism. A narrow path came into view, and he walked in and looked at me, motioning for me to follow, and after walking for an unknown amount of time, we ran out of the alley on the side of the street and got into the carriage that had been prepared.
I panted slightly with my baggage, I hadn't run like this for a long time, I wasn't used to it for a while, I looked at Ji Weixuan opposite, he straightened up, pursed his mouth, and seemed to quickly adjust from the escape just now.
Isn't that right, run away? Escape from what? I stared at him, and he tilted his head slightly, as if thinking about something, but he didn't look at me.
"Hey, why are we leaving the Xiao Mansion?"
"Because the Xiao Mansion is not safe now." He turned his head to look at me with determination in his eyes.
At this time, I was confused, he continued: "I set the fire in Xijing Pavilion, and the servants all went to put out the fire, so naturally they won't know about our departure, plus there are so many eyeliners outside Xiao Mansion, put a fire, maybe the attention is in Xijing Pavilion."
"What?"
"That's what Lord Xiao meant."
"My dad? , what about him now. ”
"I don't know."
"So where are we going now?"
"Yuqiong Mountain."
The carriage was swaying forward, and my heart was slowly settled.
In the blink of an eye, it was dawn. In the early morning, the whole world was clear and bright, and the sun was gently spraying beside the car window through the faint fresh mist, I stretched my waist, opened the curtain, and found that the person driving was Ji Weixuan.
"Hey, where's the coachman?"
"I passed by a village before, which was his home, so I asked him to go back."
I brushed the dust off the plank next to him, and sat down, knowing that this place was so small, and I accidentally got next to him. He looked at me, and I squeezed out a big smile at him and said, "The air outside is so good!"
In fact, my heart was pounding with the fawn, and his beautiful face and body exuded a faint fragrance, just like the smell when I first saw him.
"When will I be able to get to that Yuqiong Mountain?"
"It's still early."
I glanced at him dissatisfied, for yesterday I had been a carefree young lady, but now I was reduced to wandering in the carriage, not sleeping well and not eating enough, and sighed sadly at the thought of it, and at the same time my stomach cried out in anger.
Ji Weixuan glanced at me again, and I was angry, "What are you looking at, didn't you hear that I'm hungry?" He tugged at the corners of his mouth, smiling rather than smiling, and quickened his pace.
Passing through a small town, we found a popular restaurant to settle down here.
"Little Er, order food." I said hello, and Xiao Er came over when he heard the voice, "May I ask what the two guest officers have to eat?" ”
"Let's take your restaurant's signature dish, by the way, give my brother across from me a Gu wine." After speaking, I smiled and held my cheeks to see how he reacted, he frowned when he heard the word "brother", and immediately raised his hand to me: "Miss, my subordinates don't dare."
"Ouch, alright, now we're grasshoppers on the same boat, what's polite to me?"
After speaking, he suddenly grinned, "Miss, it's a grasshopper on a thread." ”
Only then did I realize that I had said the wrong thing, "Ahem, it's all the same." "It's the first time I've seen Ji Weixuan smile, and it's quite good-looking when he laughs.
After we had eaten and drunk enough, we continued on our way, and since the incident that night, we have been worried about the safety of my father and second brother.
"Ji Weixuan, you really don't know what happened to my father?"
He shook his head, "My lord, I only asked me to take you out of the Xiao Mansion and go to the Moon Spirit Temple on Yuqiong Mountain to find a person named Ling Yujiu. ”
Moon Spirit View, Ling Yujiu...... My head was already in a mess, why didn't my father explain it to me earlier?
In the past, I didn't know anything about the world, I just wanted to sneak out to play, and my father was not as strict with me as my brother, and I read poetry and books hard, only letting me be a carefree, optimistic and cheerful young lady.
I looked out the window, the sun was fading in the sky, and dusk was finally coming.
It's been three days of driving, and I haven't even looked at the shadow of half a mountain, and I'm almost stupid in the carriage.
"How long will it take?"
"Miss, you've just asked." Ji Weixuan said helplessly.
"I knew it would take so long, I shouldn't have listened to you, got into the thief car, and now my mother's ass is almost numb."
Fortunately, the carriage was big enough, and I was the only one in the carriage, so I simply lay on the seat regardless of the image, "Trouble the coachman to hurry up, work harder." I quipped.
I don't know how long later, just as I was about to fall asleep in the car, the horse suddenly stopped with a "whoop," and almost knocked me over.
"What's going on?" I angrily lifted the curtain, and was about to question Ji Weixuan when I saw a group of masked men wearing black clothes and black scarves not far away.
When the leader saw me, he shouted, "That woman caught us, and our boss has a big reward!" Before I could react, I rushed over with a knife and black pressure.
"Miss, stay in the car, don't come out, I'll solve it", said that, he got up in the air and flew over, "Hey, be careful!" ”
I kept my original posture motionless, this is the first time I've seen this situation, and I blatantly robbed people in broad daylight, and the key is still coming at me?
Although Ji Weixuan's martial arts are more than enough to deal with them, it can also be seen that they are by no means idle people and still have a hand.
At this time, I saw a man in black flashing a dagger from his sleeve and preparing to stab Ji Weixuan, I panicked, "Watch the back!" ”
He turned around with agility and kicked the man to the ground with his kick in the chest, blocking the knife with his forehand and subduing him with a side flip, and I heard the bone "click" and the man fell to the ground in pain.
Good guy, the Commission for Discipline Inspection is too fierce.
He held his sword against the neck of the leader and asked, "Who instructed you to come?" I was glued to the black's mouth and muttering something.
Suddenly, a huge force pulled me back, my mouth was covered, I couldn't make a sound, I tried to struggle but was strangled tightly, and gradually I lost consciousness.