Chapter 37: The Dust Settles
Jing Chi anxiously wandered around the palace, but he couldn't find Meng Yining's shadow at all. Zhang Jiu grabbed his subordinates and interrogated them sharply, but no one here had heard that there was a Meng girl in the house.
Sweat soaked Jing Chi's forehead, his eyes were bloodshot, and his brows were deeply locked. Gu Zi'an pretended to search the front yard but didn't find it, so he immediately stepped forward and said to Jing Chi: "Presumably near He Miaomiao's room, go and find out if there is a dark room." ”
Jing Chi nodded, but when he looked up, he saw smoke billowing from the backyard of He Miaomiao. The flames climbed up the tall trunk of the tree, like a fiery snake spitting letters, wanting to fly into the sky.
Taking advantage of the chaos, the little insect who escaped from the maid's side saw Gu Zi'an's fluttering figure in white clothes at a glance from the crowd. She remembered that Le Yi found her just now, pointed out the location of her dark room, and asked her to find a way to tell Gu Zi'an or Jing Chi. The little insect wiped two handfuls of ash on his face, and rushed straight up, startling Zhang Jiu's horse.
"What people!" Zhang Jiuliang sword, with a flash of the blade, protected Jing Chi's side, and looked at this ten-year-old girl fiercely.
The little insect was so frightened that he took two steps back, cried again, and knelt down with a grin: "Master Guan... Why don't you save people! There's still someone locked up in the darkroom! How come no one is going to put out the fire! If someone dies, Miss will kill me! She cried out loud, her voice drowned out the whistling wind and the sound of wood breaking in the raging flames.
Jing Chi's heart lit up, I wonder if Meng Yining is not locked up here?
"You lead the way!"
"Yes." The little insect led the group to a courtyard with quick legs and feet. The courtyard was filled with fire and smoke blowing in from outside, choking Zhang Jiu twice.
"In the back! Gotta go through! The little bug's tears swirled in his eyes, and the smoke was like that of a rabbit.
Gu Zi'an looked at the ashes of the bonsai plants and trees floating over, and thought to himself, what should I do if this fire is running rampantly and hurting my own people?
Under the command of the little bug, the guards moved away from the collapsed green pine, and sure enough, they saw a path blocked by the rockery. Seeing that her mission was complete, the little bug slipped out of the yard when everyone's attention was not on her.
Zhang Jiusan walked along the road with a sword in two steps, and saw a guard in front of the house. He Miao Miao had instructed that anyone who approached would be killed, so even if the Crane Mansion caught fire, the guards would not dare to leave their posts without permission. When he was stretching his neck to look, he suddenly saw a majestic team of people on the other side of the road!
As soon as Zhang Jiu saw it, he knew that this place was strange, so he couldn't help but say something, and stepped forward to force him.
"Who?" The guards shouted, but they were already inferior in momentum.
Jing Chi drank in the back: "Open the door!" ”
"What door? There is no door" guarded the instinctive cover-up, but taking advantage of the firelight, the flowing clouds and water pattern gold threads on Jing Chi's body reflected the light and natural proud temperament, making him feel a noble majesty.
"You... Who's coming? One of the guards took two steps back, sword flashed, hand shaking.
"Stop talking nonsense."
The guard was just a family member in the end, and when he saw that the other party was going to be ruthless, he turned around in a panic and pushed open the door of the hidden dark room and hid inside.
Jing Chi followed the door with an arrow step, and there were only a few rows of bookshelves and a wooden table inside, and there was not even a pen and ink smoke. On the bookshelf are small white porcelain vases and several volumes of scripture books.
"What about people?"
At this time, the long wind reversed, the fire changed direction, and a thick smoke choked over.
The guard was just about to run away, but he was pulled over again. Before he could ask him, Gu Zi'an knocked on the wall with his hand, "This place is empty!" ”
Hurry up! Jing Chi put his sword horizontally. The guards saw that there was no hope of escape, so they had to cooperate obediently, lifted the door panel of a lattice on the bookshelf, and felt a metal handle. With a sudden pull, the bookshelf parted, and a small figure in the darkness lay reclining in the corner.
"Yi Ning!" Jing Chi rushed up and hugged his thin little body. After Yi Ning came back from He Miaomiao's room, he slept beautifully in the dark room. I just woke up after hearing the movement outside. Seeing Jing Chi's anxious appearance, he had no choice but to close his eyes again and pretend to faint.
Gu Zi'an stood behind him, and just happened to see Meng Yining's little finger being a little itchy because he had been lying down for too long, and he was quietly changing there.
When did this girl give birth to such a worrying bad eye.
Gu Zi'an stepped forward and said, "Your Highness, put her down first." I'll untie her rope first. Jing Chi saw that Meng Yining was still tied with hemp rope, and he was angry and distressed. Gu Zi'an put Meng Yining away, untied the rope, and quietly pinched her paralyzed little hand to let her relax.
The familiar touch and sound made Meng Yining happy and happy. With her eyes closed, she pretended to be dizzy, but she just pitied the anxious Jingchi next to her.
The firefighting outside the door continued. It's just that Marquis Crane found that there were so many fewer people, and the shouts for firefighting gradually weakened. The housekeeper grabbed a random person and asked, only to hear that people were going to the backyard to get water.
When the Marquis of the Crane heard the sound, his face was blue and white for a while, and he hurriedly hurried over there with a cane.
"Nonsense! Is the backyard a place you can go? "The housekeeper thought to himself, it was originally a forbidden place, but now that people are flocking in, won't the secrets that have been kept for many years be leaked?
He angrily kicked the subordinate who spoke, and the man covered his leg and said aggrievedly: "It was the leader of the officers and soldiers who took it!" ”
As soon as the words fell, the big girl beside He Miaomiao over there ran to Hou Ye and shouted, "Miss was attacked by gangsters!" ”
"Miss what?" The voice was noisy, and before I could hear it for a while, I saw someone rushing to kneel down in a panic and said, "The captain of the officers and soldiers over there asked Hou Ye to go to the backyard." ”
"It's over...!" Lord Crane is also a smart person, and when he saw this situation, he felt bad in his heart, and he didn't have time to care about his daughter. Got up and rushed to the backyard, who would have thought that as soon as he raised his legs, his eyes would be black and he would fall to the ground directly.
Le Yi wore a helmet and stuffed the letter exchanged between He Miao Miao and Yan Rong into the arms of the leader of the officers and soldiers, and said, "Miss He fainted in the alley, when the villain rescued her, she saw that she was holding a package, and when she opened it, it was actually Yan Rong's letter!" ”
The leader of the officers and soldiers was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly opened it to see that in addition to the map of the prosperous neighborhood of Chengping, there was also the layout of King Rui's Mansion and the time schedule of Jingchi and Gu Zi'an in the past, which was detailed and detailed, which made people feel shocked.
When he looked back and wanted to ask something, he found that the man had disappeared. The leader held the package, looked at the silver mountain in the backyard, and prepared to report to the court overnight.
Le Yi saw that Meng Yining had been rescued, and the backyard had also been incidental, everything had been completed, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
The little insect sitting next to him, dripping chicken blood on his head and smearing mud on his face, also came up, and the two looked at each other and smiled.
"You can't go back to Hehou Mansion, follow us back to Beiyang."
"Hmm."