Chapter 14: Cousin
Mrs. Bai and the British Duchess Li, as the daughters of the Princess, had already set off this morning to attend the reception banquet of Princess Jinyang at the prefect's mansion.
The powerful servants were all taken away by the old lady Bai, and the entire Shou'an Hall became empty.
In this quiet space, the sudden knock on the door of "Dangdangdang" was very abrupt.
"Sister, sister, I'm here to save you!" An eager female voice sounded outside.
Zhu Luan sat on the chair for a long time, staring at the door, and did not get up.
Yu Ying, who was lying on the table with weak energy, got up with a carp and looked at Zhu Luan excitedly, "Miss, someone has come to save us!" ”
Oh hehe.
Miss Zhu Jiu was burned alive in the room and no one came to save her, why was someone stepping on the seven-colored auspicious clouds to save her when she was locked up in a confinement?
"Sister, sister, are you okay?" The shouts outside became more and more earnest, and the girl's voice was delicate and about to drip water, so sincere that it made the listener sad and the listener wept.
It's a pity that Zhu Luan is a hard-hearted person, his butt is firmly rooted in the chair, and he strives to gather a little bit of energy that has finally gathered in the dantian, and he doesn't want to pay attention to the "sister" who has a lot of drama outside.
However, the little girl Yuying was born to not look at her face, rushed to the closed door, put her round face on the door frame, and shouted outside: "Is it Miss Seven?" Our young lady was grounded by the old lady! ”
Miss Seven? Oh hehe, the eldest daughter of the current British couple. It turned out to be her.
I only heard a click outside, the big lock at the door was opened, and the door opened with a creak, and the figure of a young girl appeared in front of Zhu Luan's master and servant.
The little girl who stepped into the house was about sixteen or seventeen years old, her posture was as delicate as a weak willow supporting the wind, and her appearance was not stunning, but her big misty eyes were filled with shallow tears, and she had a pitiful aura.
"Ninth sister!" Zhu Mei, the seventh lady of the Zhu family, saw Zhu Luan's eyes in the middle of the house, and her sister shouted sadly, and walked quickly to Zhu Luan's side and held her hand tightly.
"Princess Jinyang and Duan Erlang have just entered the city! I couldn't find my sister everywhere, only to know that my grandmother was so ruthless! Locked up my sister! Miss Zhu Qi chattered, "I know that my sister must be anxious at the moment, my grandmother dares to lock up the master when she is not in these slaves!" Let's go, I'm here to get you out! ”
"Where did you get the key?" Zhu Luan asked hesitantly.
"Huh?" Zhu Mei blinked, as if she didn't expect to be asked like this, shouldn't this stupid cousin be grateful to her and immediately rush out to make a big fuss about the reception?
"The mother-in-law at the door gave it to me, after all, I am the daughter of the princess, and these slaves dare not make a mistake." Zhu Mei replied with some stumbling.
"Oh." It seems that Shou'an Hall is not monolithic, and the Li family has also placed people in it, Zhu Luan thought to himself.
"But there are still many mothers-in-law and guards on the way out of the house!" Zhu Luan asked with a sincere face.
As soon as the words fell, Miss Zhu Qi, who was about to fall down with a gust of wind, seemed to suddenly come to her senses, took out a dagger from her arms, and handed it to Zhu Luan.
"It's okay, I've got you figured it out." Zhu Mei said confidently, "You take this dagger and take me out, I am the princess of the country, they don't dare not let me go!" ”
Zhu Luan was a little surprised and took out the dagger, and found that this dagger had no blade, but it looked cold and shiny on the outside, and it was a good prop for making a scary show.
Really well prepared.
"This ...... It's not good......" Zhu Luan had a look of hesitation on his face.
Zhu Mei was a little irritable in her heart, and she intuitively felt that today's cousin was not as foolish as she used to be.
Zhu Mei was silent for a moment, the mist in her big eyes became thicker and thicker, and she looked at Zhu Luan with great sincerity, "It's okay sister, you are trapped here now and can't see your beloved, my sister sees pain in her eyes, as long as I can help my sister see her lover, my sister is willing to do anything." ”
She smiled softly, and even the afterglow of her voice seemed to glow with warmth.
This is the power of Zhu Mei.
No matter how fleshy the words are, with her image and temperament, there is an unexpected effect of touching people's hearts. In Miss Zhu Jiu's memory, until she heard that her uncle and aunt wanted to change her marriage contract to Zhu Mei before she died, she always thought that this cousin was a gentle and loving woman.
Speaking of which, Zhu Luan showed the same smile and said to Zhu Mei with a sincere face, "In that case, thank you so much, cousin." ”
She pulled out the dagger with a snort, flipped her wrist, the tip of the dagger drew a graceful arc in the air, and her figure flashed behind Zhu Mei, and the blade rested accurately on Zhu Mei's white and tender neck.
Zhu Mei only felt that her neck was cold, and her scalp was numb in an instant, and she even had the illusion that her neck had been cut by a knife, and her head was shaking on her neck.
A cold air flooded from head to toe.
But when she turned her head tremblingly, the cousin just clumsily grabbed the dagger and smiled at her, and touched her neck, but there was no hole in it.
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Next, as if it was designed, Zhu Luan, who was holding Miss Seven, went all the way unimpeded, and the carriage prepared by Zhu Mei was parked at the door, Zhu Luan and Zhu Mei got into the carriage, Yuying also climbed up, the coachman flicked his whip, and the carriage drove towards the prefect's mansion.
Cousin Zhu Mei was a one-stop service in arranging the escape, and it didn't take long for the carriage to come to the mansion of Song Mingxuan, the prefect of Huizhou.
Every guest entering the door must carefully check the invitation card before being released.
Seeing such a scene, Zhu Mei's heart suddenly became empty.
Although all other arrangements are made, only this invitation cannot be forged, and she only has one of her own invitations, which is not easy to get from her mother.
Zhu Mei and Zhu Luan got out of the car and came to the front of the gate, Zhu Mei showed her invitation to the guards, and pulled Zhu Luan to go in, but she didn't expect the guards at the door to unceremoniously stop the two of them from the door.
Zhu Mei's big clear eyes were about to shed tears, "What's the matter, I'm Zhu Mei, the British princess, this is my cousin Zhu Ying, you dare to stop us?" ”
The guards were invulnerable, and said stiffly: "An invitation can only enter one person." ”
Zhu Mei stomped her feet angrily, she was just a little girl in the end, no matter what the occasion in Huizhou, as long as she raised her identity, she would be unimpeded, but she didn't expect that there was a sky outside the sky, and these guards who protected the royal family did not take other nobles in their eyes at all.
But if she didn't bring Miss Zhu Jiu in, all the hard work she had done before would be in vain.
Zhu Luan also frowned secretly, she thought that this cousin had carefully arranged that she would definitely be able to bring her to Princess Jinyang in order to achieve her goal, and at least she could help her enter the Song Mansion, but she didn't expect it to be so useless.
It seems that it is difficult to meet Princess Jinyang through normal channels.
But Princess Jinyang is currently the only royal family who appears in front of her, and in order to investigate the cause of Niangniang's death that year, she must see her at any cost.
"Cousin, where will Princess Jinyang go after the reception banquet?" Zhu Luan grabbed her cousin, who was hazy in teary eyes and tried to impress the guard, and asked as she walked out.
"Princess Jinyang will next go to the Lingyan Temple on Jiuhua Mountain, accompanied by the wives." Zhu Mei replied.
Up the mountain, the mountain road is rugged, and you may be able to find an opportunity on the road.
Zhu Luan secretly made up her mind, but looked at Zhu Mei, who was inseparable from her, and had a headache.
"Cousin, I have something to say to you" Zhu Luan pulled Zhu Mei to the alley on the side of the road, in order not to disturb the two little sisters talking, Zhu Mei's maid-in-law was just far away, one of the little maids rubbed her eyes, and suddenly found that the two people who were originally walking on the road were gone!
"Huh?" Zhu Mei was pulled into a small alley by Zhu Luan, she was puzzled, and she was about to ask, but as soon as she looked up, there was no one around her!
Entering the alley from the entrance of the alley, it was only seven or eight steps to say more, and in the blink of an eye, the girl who was still by her side just now disappeared out of thin air!
For a while, there was only a faint sound of wind and the sound of silk and bamboo in the Song Mansion in the distance, whimpering in the distance.
Zhu Mei's heartbeat suddenly accelerated, only to feel an unnatural wind coming from behind her, she turned around suddenly, but there was nothing behind her!
A layer of cold sweat broke out on Zhu Mei's back bone.
Suddenly, an indescribable shiver struck, and a black cloth bag came up!
Her eyes went dark.