Now that the height of summer has passed, the weather is still hot and humid.

As soon as noon arrived, I saw a strong wind rise, and black clouds filled the sky.

The sky and the earth were dark, and the rumbling thunder rolled over the capital, and suddenly, a snow-bright lightning bolt crossed the sky and was imprinted in Qingluan's black pupils.

There was a loud click, and the thunder seemed to explode overhead, and the embroidery floor trembled.

Bean-sized raindrops hit the ground and sent a puff of dust and smoke.

"County Lord, don't stand by the window." Yuzhu hurriedly came over and grabbed Qingluan and dragged her away from the open window.

"Look, my dress is wet from the rain." Yuzhu was disgusted, and hurriedly helped Qingluan untie Luo's skirt, and picked up a set of plain gauze robes prepared for her to change into.

Two little girls ran in and closed the windows to keep the wind and rain out.

Qingluan was stunned to look at the light gauze curtain that was still floating in the wind, and his mind did not ease up for a while.

Just now, she seemed to see herself in her previous life, running in the rainstorm, her whole body and skirt were soaked by the rain, wrapped around her body, her hair was loose in a bun, her hair was sticking to her cheeks, crying and banging on the door of Xiao Boyan's study.

"Xiao Boyan! Please, let me go home, let me go home......"

The heavy oak door of the study was closed and never opened, but the light of the candle flame came through the tiny cracks in the doors and windows.

She knew that he was back, and he was inside.

Several guards rushed over, grabbed her arm, and dragged her all the way back to the cage-like yard, despite her desperate struggle.

"Madame, don't embarrass your subordinates, run out in the future, we have to lock you in chains."

The young leader of the guard said, a hint of pity flashing in his eyes.

……

Qingluan closed her eyes, and her fingers holding the tea cup trembled.

"County Lord, but it's freezing?" Yuzhu saw that Jianing's face was pale, and couldn't help but hold her hand to try the temperature.

Qingluan was indeed cold, and that chill had seeped into his bones.

She remembers that after that rain, she fell seriously ill and almost died.

In those days of illness, she curled up in the bed and was groggy, and her whole body was cold to the bone.

There was no one from the princess's mansion around her, and the people who served her were two dumb girls without tongues in the Xiao Mansion.

Sick and confused, she woke up a little from her sleep, only to feel that there was a warm man's body lying beside her, and she was curled up in the man's solid arms.

She didn't dare to open her eyes, let alone move, for fear that when she opened her eyes, that person was not Xiao Boyan.

Fear, despair, and shame spread in her heart, and she knew that even if she saw a strange man lying next to her, she was powerless to resist at this time, and she didn't even have the strength to commit suicide.

On the nights when she was sick, the man would lie beside her after she fell asleep, doing nothing but quietly hugging her and warming her with his chest.

Qingluan still doesn't know whether that person is Xiao Boyan or not, after all, although she and Xiao Boyan are husband and wife, they are not too familiar with each other, and even, because they haven't seen him for too long, they don't even remember the smell of him.

"County Lord, drink some ginger tea." Yuzhu came in with a thin white porcelain bowl and scooped it with a spoon to make the soup cool faster.

Qingluan took the porcelain bowl and drank ginger tea in a big gulp.

She has to live well now, for a long time.

In the evening, when the storm ceased, the golden sunset shone obliquely through the clouds on the rain-washed eaves beast, giving it a golden layer; The copper bells at the corners of the eaves drip water droplets and fall on the stone steps downstairs.

Yuzhu brought Wei Bao to see the county lord.

After Yuzhu retreated, Qingluan motioned for Wei Bao to sit down.

"County Lord, the villain has already bought a few houses in several counties in the south, all of which are extremely hidden, and recruited more than a dozen young people with good skills, all of whom have no parents to care about, and they are all sent to a deep mountain house eighty miles away from the capital to practice martial arts. You can take a look at it when you have time. ”

"Good." Qingluan smiled at him, poured a cup of tea and handed it to him: "Wei Bao, hard work, I want to thank you for this." ”

Wei Bao's face was slightly red, and he got up and took the teacup with both hands, "This is the villain's business, it can be used by the county lord, it's too late for the villain to rejoice, what's the hard work." ”

As he spoke, he put down the teacup, took out a box from the package beside him, and handed it to Qingluan, "County Lord, here are all the house deeds and the deeds of those servants, please take a look." ”

Qingluan took it and opened it to take a look, remembering the location of those houses, and then sorted out the paper deeds and a few parchment deeds, put them back in the box, and pushed them back to Wei Bao, "It's better for you to find a safe place to keep it." ”

It's not convenient to stay with her, this thing doesn't belong to the Eldest Princess's Mansion in the first place.

Qingluan took out another stack of silver tickets and pushed them to Wei Bao, "This is five thousand taels of silver tickets, you take them for turnover, those teenagers want to use medicine to improve their physique, you buy some and send them over; Put some fields near the mountainous area, the more hidden the better, and the title deed is still written Zhao Bai. ”

The name Zhao Bai was used by her in her previous life when she escaped from Binzhou Xiao Mansion.

In this life, she quietly found someone to get a household registration in the suburbs, so that Wei Bao could take it to buy a house and land in other places.

In other words, Wei Bao's current name to the outside world is Zhao Bai, after all, Wei Bao's name is still in Wei Dehou's mansion, and he is a guard in the mansion.

Qingluan: "You don't need much land, as long as you can block the detection of outsiders in the future, after doing this, you can go and teach those young martial arts with peace of mind." ”

Wei Bao clenched his fists: "Oh! The villain will do it. ”

With Wei Bao's current identity, he can't hire a top-notch martial arts master at all, so it's better to teach it himself.

Half of Wei Bao's skills were taught by the martial arts master invited by Jianing, and half of them seemed to be taught by him before.

Wei Bao never said anything before he was rescued, and Qingluan didn't ask carefully.

But none of this prevents her from believing in him and being willing to reuse him.

I have to say that Wei Bao's martial arts are so high that the guards in the princess's mansion can't compare with them at present. The reason why Qingluan asked him to do things was because he liked him, and of course, more importantly, Wei Bao was loyal to her in his previous life.

If he hadn't been killed later, how could she have been trapped in the mansion by Xiao Boyan for nearly two years.

Qingluan thought of the martial master who taught her martial arts and swordsmanship.

She didn't know if this person was from the Xiao family before, but it must be related to the Xiao family.

Some time ago, she gave Master Wu a large sum of silver, gave him a long vacation, and let him return home. As for whether he has a home or not, and if he can't go back, it's not up to her.

Anyway, she didn't want to leave any more people suspected of the Xiao family to wander around the princess's mansion.

After the rainstorm, it seems that autumn has really begun, and the weather is no longer hot.

It was a few days in a flash, and on this day, the daughter of the virtuous king Li Xian, the county lord of Chaoyang, sent an invitation card to invite the county lord of Jianing to attend her banquet.

This virtuous king, the cousin of the emperor's uncle, is an idle prince in Beijing, the only king who does not need to go to the fief, only likes to eat, drink and have fun on weekdays, is a complete drunkard, and is a big fat man with 200 pounds.

He now has only one son and two daughters, his sister-in-law Li Liu, eighteen years old, has been named the son, the daughter has married out of the capital a few years ago, and now the Chaoyang county lord Li Pei is the youngest daughter of King Xian, who is his concubine Qian.