The carriage went out of the city and drove down the country road. There are pedestrians on the road, there are thorn clothes and cloth shirts, and there are also people in crown and silk clothes, most of them are taking the route back to the city. The car was driving on the road, which slowed down a lot.

Lu Jiu'er looked at the sun at noon, and her heart was clear. Presumably, the poetry flower club has dispersed.

The wheel drove to the fork, abandoned the crowded side, and walked on the lonely muddy path, barely enough for one to ride and one car to drive side by side.

Aji laughed and said, "No matter how many people there are here, I'm not afraid!" This shortcut has fewer people and fewer horses! ”

"What if there is a car on the other side?" Lu Jiu'er looked at the bends and turns of the mountain road ahead, and couldn't help but feel a little apprehensive.

"No, it won't." Aji's mouth cracked, and he whispered mysteriously, "Not many people know about this shortcut. ”

After a few more mountain bends, Lu Jiuer's heart seemed to suddenly open up. Everything has a reason, and the reason why there are few shortcuts is that in addition to the narrow road and lush weeds, there are dead trees blocking the road!

The horses were pulled to a halt by the thick trunk of a tree that blocked the way, panting and stomping on the ground.

The stone poked out in surprise to take a look, just when he saw Aji jumping out of the car and landing on the ground, rolling up his sleeves and clothes to do a big job, he scratched his head and persuaded: "This big brother, let's go back and go the same way." ”

"That's not true." Aji shook his head, "Let's not say that this road is narrow, and the carriage can't turn around." The broken wood in front of me is only waist thick, and with the strength of you and me, we can definitely move it away. ”

When the stone heard this, he looked ahead and felt that it made sense, so he also got out of the car and rolled up his sleeves.

Aji glanced at me and said, "Jiu'er, come, do you see the broken branches on the road?" Would you like to do me a favor and move over there? ”

Lu Jiu'er replied compliantly. Just as Wumei came out, she saw her slender waist and short hands, smiled, and said, "What can you move?" Come in and accompany the Seventh Young Master, I'll just go. ”

Lu Jiuer didn't notice that Aji wanted to speak and stopped, so she obediently complied and went into the carriage to play with Qi Bowen with wide eyes and staring at her.

Ume picked up a few dead branches and a few pieces of gravel, and then felt that there was nothing to help, and stood by and watched. The rampant trunk wasn't actually heavy, and the stone and Aggie could be easily lifted on one side. As soon as they cleared the way, the horses neighed with their heads up, and their chirpings were shrill and piercing. Before anyone could react, the horses unexpectedly scattered their hooves forward, dragging the carriage towards the bend in the mountain road.

"Young Master—"

The stone was about to crack, and the deafening roar woke up Ume's panicked soul.

The heart was pounding, and it was agitated again and again. As if like the stumbling hooves of the horse, he trampled on the dirt fiercely, crying and crying, sharp, and fierce.

Ume ran after Stone and Aji in a panic. The soles of the cloth shoes were thin, and the feet kicked into the stone mud of different sizes, and they stumbled and stumbled.

Aggie was shouting, "Hurry! Grab the reins—"

However, it was too late...... Can't make it......

After that bend, there is a mountain path near a steep cliff. The frightened horses only blindly moved along the road, and the wheels behind them could not withstand the momentum of the sharp turns, and were thrown off the mud of the road, and most of the carriage floated in the air under the terrible screams of Wumei, and the force of the fall strangled the horses into a long neigh. In the blink of an eye, a horse and a cart disappeared on the edge of the steep cliff, and the mournful cry that seemed to tear people's hearts fell with the wind, accompanied by the rolling noise and smashed away, and finally, the silence was silenced......

"Seventh Young Master—"

One man fell down the cliff, hoarse. The other knelt on the edge of the cliff with a sad expression.

Wumei was stunned and slowly retracted her footsteps, stopped ten steps away, opened her eyes and looked ahead, only to feel that her whole body was trembling, and she could no longer move half a step away.

It happened so unexpectedly that it was like a dream. The people in front of him seem to have condensed into a light ink painting.

If not, if it weren't for the mournful screams still lingering in my ears from memory, the resounding would not subside many times......

Who would dare to believe that things are happening right now?!

The stone came to his senses as soon as possible, gritted his teeth and rose to the ground, and instructed Aji: "You go back to the house quickly to report, and take someone directly to the foot of the mountain to search and rescue." Before he finished speaking, he jumped down to the edge of the cliff without looking back.

Seeing this, Wumei gasped and hurried over, only to see that although the cliff slope was not steep and rugged, it also had a certain steep slope, and the sharp rocks were full of trees.

Aji didn't dare to stay long, and led Wumei back to the fork in the road, and looked at the passers-by several times, but did not see anyone who was familiar with him. He turned his heart sideways, bowed his head and said, "You stay in the shade and wait." ”

Ume nodded vigorously.

A group of young people came this way, and there were three or four Confucian scholars who were riding slowly, beside a gorgeous carriage, laughing and scolding for being so unromantic. Aggie spotted a horse led by his attendant, and it seemed that his master was arguing with people in the carriage, and did not need to ride for the time being.

Before they could get closer, Aggie pounced on him, and before everyone could react, he quickly kicked his feet and got on his horse. Where did the entourage who led the horse know that someone would rob the horse, and only subconsciously wanted to force the reins of the horse, but was almost stepped on by the horse, and suddenly let go of his hand and sat on the ground.

Seeing the opportunity, Aji pinched his legs ruthlessly, and while pulling his throat and shouting, he rode his horse and galloped away: "There is an urgent matter of life today, so I will borrow a horse for the time being, and the Qi Mansion will be grateful in the future!" ”

When everyone saw this, they all scolded this rude forcible borrowing. The little servant of the Qin family, who had been robbed of his horse, rushed to the front of the car with a sad face, and was slapped fiercely by the angry master. However, another merry boy in the car groaned slightly and asked, "Which Qi Mansion?" ”

Qin Pan sneered: "Brother Qi, your days in the city are still shallow, but you must know that this Qi Mansion who dares to call the Mansion is only one household in your mansion, with you here, Young Master Ben is not afraid that he will not find someone to settle the account!" ”

The son of the Qi family shook the scholar fan very interestingly, and asked, "Listening to this words, is it possible that Brother Qin has a dislike for my Qi family?" ”

Qin Pan pursed his lips and snorted: "That's not ......."

The sons who rode horses on the side laughed when they heard this: "Where is your surname Qi annoying, it's just that the younger brothers of those aunts are always making trouble everywhere with rich hats."

The son of the Qi family shook his fan and thought about it, raised his hand and called the servant Youfu to ask the servant who was with the horse snatcher.

The maidservant whimpered: "The horses pulling the cart suddenly went crazy, and my young master was dragged and fell down the cliff...... If not, if it weren't for Jiu'er replacing me, I'm afraid I'm ...... Woo......"

"Jiu'er? Is it the only daughter of Grange Lu's director? Hearing this, Youfu felt a sudden shock in his heart, "Is the one you are talking about the seventh young master of the Qi family?" ”

"Yes......" Ume was startled, "do you recognize?" ”

The son of the Qi family is Qi Jiasheng, his face suddenly sank when he heard this, and after thinking for a while, he turned to his peers and said: "I didn't expect that this time my brother was killed, and now the sun is already slanting westward, and the mountains are in danger and firefighting." In the next smell, dare to ask if you can lend your servants and follow Qi to the bottom of the cliff to search and rescue? If you are helped today, you will be rewarded in the future! ”

The sons of all the families only want to go out to play, and they all travel lightly, so where will they bring more people in and out? In the end, five servants with different surnames were gathered, and Qi Jiasheng rushed to the foot of the cliff at the bottom of the mountain.

The mountain was so deep that before we could find the place where the carriage could land, it was already dark. The members of the search and rescue spontaneously used local materials and made bundles of torches out of improvised dead branches and dry vines.

Suddenly, there was a scream from behind, which made the Qi family, who was walking in front first, suddenly miss a beat, and hurriedly rushed back to find out.

"What's going on?"

I saw a thin and thick servant sitting on the ground, looking at the grass in horror. "Corpse corpse...... Corpse ......"

The bold ones brushed away the weeds with long branches, and discerned them for a moment by the light of the fire. "It looks like a bobcat, the flesh has been gnawed away, and only the skeleton and some fur remain."

The others looked at each other when they heard this. "Is there a ferocious carnivorous beast in this mountain?"

"Young Master......" blessedly pulled the master's sleeve.

Qi Jiasheng's eyes were dark, and he shouted in a deep voice: "Although this place is a deep suburban forest, there are still many people in the mountains and wilderness on weekdays. Don't think about it anymore, my Qi Jiasheng is here to say, whoever first searches and rescues the person who falls off the cliff will be given 50 taels of silver! ”

When everyone heard this, their spirits trembled, and they all responded in unison.

Compared with the seventh brother who didn't plan to meet him, what he was inexplicably worried about was that smart little face.

Ziqian once said with a smile, Ah Jiu doesn't cry easily, even if he deliberately provokes her sometimes, he has never cried.

And he did not believe evil. Once deliberately made up an excuse to trick Ah Jiu to the tree, but she accidentally fell down with the wrong foot, and a bloody hole was broken in her knee, which made her gasp in pain, although the tears couldn't stop flowing, but she gritted her teeth and didn't let him hear the slightest sobbing and crying......

Qi Jiasheng raised his eyes and looked ahead, the dense green forest that seemed to spread endlessly, as if it had turned into a huge rock, and his heart sank.