The girl's mother stumbled after her, slapped the girl's little face, and said with a pale face: "Xiuxiu! Shut up! ”

Then he fell to the ground and kept kowtowing and begging for mercy: "My lord, Xiuxiu is still young and ignorant, so I'll take her back-"

The girl stopped crying after being beaten, and looked at her mother in disbelief, not knowing what she had done wrong.

Qi Xiao felt a little sorry for this child, Xiuxiu choked up aggrievedly, and some people couldn't look past it, so they persuaded: "I said the daughter-in-law of the Zhao family, Xiuxiu, this child we watched grow up, she was well-behaved and sensible since she was a child, and never lied, I think she really saw it-"

The woman's eyes widened as she stared at the man who spoke, and shouted, "What do you know? You don't know anything, so you just stand here and talk cool things, and we don't have to worry about you. ”

Saying that, he pulled Xiuxiu, touched the red marks on Xiuxiu's cheeks, and said distressedly: "Xiuxiu, you tell a few adults, it's all your nonsense, as long as you say it, my mother will take you home, okay?" ”

Xiuxiu pursed her lips and looked at her mother's pleading face, looking suspicious.

But up to now, everyone has reached a conclusion in their hearts, Guo Ping also looked at Zhao Yancheng with some embarrassment, if he doesn't express his position, even if he is not able to make any conclusions, Zhao Yancheng looked at Jiang Shi with some hesitation, and then said in a deep voice: "This matter, this official will investigate carefully and then make a conclusion, as for Second Mrs. Lan, Peng Yu, you are responsible for taking it down and letting people take care of it, as for Lan Zhili and others, Lord Guo will deal with it." ”

Qi Xiao seemed a little reluctant, after all, he knew Zhao Yancheng's attitude towards this matter in his heart.

When Guo Ping saw Qi Xiao's expression, he stepped forward and said in a low voice: "Qi Xiao, you have to stop in moderation, otherwise, even I can't protect you, do you want your mother to be blind under Jiuquan?" ”

Qi Xiao was stunned, and then stopped talking.

Ning Yi saw everything in his eyes, and couldn't help but be very interested in this Qi Xiao.

The crowd dispersed in twos and threes,* and when they saw a familiar figure in the crowd flash, they secretly and quietly followed.

After bypassing a few alleys, he saw a burly man, who was the one who went to Aunt Qi's house to find him before, he looked left and right and saw that there was no one, so he stepped forward and said, "How is it?" Did you find it? ”

Yuxue went out of the city alone at that time and was surrounded by their people, but she didn't want to meet a mysterious person, so she rescued the person.

They didn't look for it, but to no avail,* and said with some concern, "How can that be?" If we fail this mission, I'm afraid we'll have to—"

The man's face was also very ugly, he hummed, and then said: "But he was seriously injured that day, there are few people within a radius of a few miles, even if there is, there is no medicine for him, the person who saved him that day does not seem to be a rich man, and he will die sooner or later." ”

* Looking at the man a little weirdly, obviously the person's idea was to hide this matter, after all, Yuxue was originally bent on dying because of Aunt Qi's matter, even if she was rescued, would she come to this place again?

* Thinking of what Xiao Tian and Xiao He would do with them if the mission failed, his back was cold, and he trembled and said, "Yes, he will definitely not survive." ”

The man was relieved to see *, and he was also relieved in his heart, patted *'s shoulder and said, "This time when we go back, the master will definitely treat us, and when we go back to Kyoto, I invite you to drink——"

* smiled reluctantly, and suddenly he said in a deep voice: "Tomorrow is the first seven days of Aunt Qi, I want to go to worship and walk." ”

The man's expression was stunned, and the hand on *'s shoulder fell down and said, "What, do you still feel sorry for that old woman in your heart?" ”

* I also think it's strange that he has helped Xiao Tian do things for so many years, and the innocent blood on his hands has not been less, but he doesn't know how, but this time he is always uneasy. When the man saw that he hadn't spoken for a long time, he sneered and said, "It's okay, if you go to worship, by the way, you can apologize to me, and say that I should have been a little more clever and made her happy." ”

* frowned, but the man had already smiled and left.

* Knowing that he was doing this, it was indeed a bit coy, and after thinking about it, maybe Aunt Qi knew about it, and she didn't want to see herself, thinking about it, she looked at the sky, worried that she would be suspicious if she came out for too long, so she quickly left.

However, on the back of a roof, a man leaned over the roof, and when he saw that everyone was leaving, he bowed down quietly like a cat.

At this time, in the post house, Ning Yi looked at the secret letter in the royal city and was silent for a long time.

Everything in the royal city was like a plan, but there was no news in the palace, from the beginning of his departure from Beijing, worried that the Empress Dowager Xi would investigate the people around Ning Hong, so he also evacuated the people around Ning Hong who were responsible for delivering the news, I thought that there would be no mistakes with He Xi and Jiang An in the palace, but I don't know why, Jiang An's side seemed to have broken the clue.

And the secret letter also said that Qin Hao led his troops to quell the border rebellion and was already on his way back to Beijing, but I don't know why, just three days ago, Qin Hao's army began to repair in situ, and only half a day was on the road every day, and it also slowed down.

Someone came in quietly and said to Ning Yi: "Lord Wang, the identity of that child has been found out." ”

Ning Yi sighed, took the secret letter in his arms and asked, "Say it." ”

The man recounted all the things he had investigated, including what he heard in the alley just now, Ning Yi said with some amusement: "No wonder he looks like he has no love, it turns out that it is because of this, but that Qi Xiao is still pitiful, and he doesn't even know how his mother died——"

The man's face did not change and said, "Before Mr. Liang left, let me take care of the child, his injuries are very serious, but it is not incurable, it is better for us to leave the silver and medicine and entrust him to a farmer." ”

Ning Yi's fingers tapped on the table slightly, the rhythm was slow, and suddenly he paused his fingers and said, "You can help me do something tonight-"

The man was stunned, first responded, and then said tentatively: "That kid—"

Ning Yi sighed and said, "Yuxue, right, since Liang Qi entrusted him to you, if life and death are unknown from now on, can you be ready?" ”

The man's face became a little complicated, Liang Qi, although he is silent on weekdays, but he is very serious and serious in doing things, he still really can't think of it, if he investigates it, I am afraid that this matter will not be good, but when he thinks of the situation he will encounter on the way back to Xiliang, he said with some concern: "But Lord Wang, let's go back this time, take him with me, I'm afraid it's inconvenient." ”

Ning Yi suddenly smiled, his eyebrows were slightly raised, like a fox, and said, "This king knows in his heart, you will do today's things well." ”

At night, Qi Xiao was in charge of the patrol of the post house, and it shouldn't have been his shift today, but I don't know why, when he thought of Zhao Yancheng's look at Jiang today, he felt uneasy, so he insisted on transferring to someone else.

There were a few dark clouds floating in the sky, and the moon appeared and disappeared, making the atmosphere seem more and more dull.

Qi Xiao just felt strange, the surroundings were too quiet, so quiet that the sound of the night insect was almost gone, Qi Xiao's hand unconsciously touched the long sword on his waist, and suddenly the moonlight became dimmer and dim, and suddenly a cold light flashed.

Qi Xiao was almost like a harrier, rising in place.

At this time, there were chaotic footsteps from all directions, and the sound of the long sword breaking through the air was remembered above his head, Qi Xiao subconsciously raised his head, only to see a man in black blocking his way, and the long sword that flashed with cold light was almost aimed at the top of his head.

didn't have time to take care of anything else, Qi Xiao simply raised the sword in his hand to greet him, and the blades met only to see a piercing sound, and the two of them suddenly felt numb.

Qi Xiao suddenly felt the air flow surging around him, lowered his eyes, and saw that from the southeast, northwest, and north, a black-clothed person rushed out of the oblique stab, and the sword was pointed directly at Qi Xiao's body, and those people moved very quickly, almost instantly, and they arrived in front of them.

The strength in Qi Xiao's hand suddenly loosened, and the person fell straight to the ground.

The black-clothed man above was unloaded, the sword body was unstable, and when he adjusted his attack posture here, he saw that Qi Xiao had already avoided the attack of the four people, and at the moment when he was about to fall to the ground, Qi Xiao's sword tip stabbed straight to the ground, and at the same time, his left hand was raised, and the scabbard in his hand hit the blades of those people's arrows, and at the same time, he used force under his feet, and the person actually smoothed out.

In an instant, it was out of the attack range of those people.

The men looked at each other, and they all saw appreciation and surprise in each other's seriousness.

Qi Xiao found a wall, leaned his back against it, and asked in a deep voice: "Dare to ask your Excellency, why did you come?" ”

However, those people didn't speak, but rushed towards him in this time, Qi Xiao felt a surge of anger in his heart, and spat viciously: "Then I will meet a few of you-"

He stepped forward like a wild horse, with a thunderous momentum.

One of them wanted to pick up his sword style, but he didn't want to, the moment the blade impacted, his whole person was pushed out by Qi Xiao a few steps away, the tiger's mouth was actually cracked, and his arm was faintly sore, he had to use his other hand to support it, but he found that he was not Qi Xiao's opponent at all.

Seeing this, another man in black who was closest to him stepped forward and waved his sword to pick Qi Xiao's sword, but found that his sword blade was also framed and did not move at all.

Seeing that the situation was not good, several black-clothed people around them stepped forward to help, but they didn't want Qi Xiao to suddenly shout, and with a turn of the sword blade in his hand, he actually picked up the blades of the two and flew towards the two black-clothed people behind him.

Seeing that the sword was sharp and fierce, the man in black shouted loudly: "Be careful! ”

However, it was too late.