Looking at the men, women, and children standing in a courtyard, Luo Yan couldn't help but look back at Murong Qian: This is the "few subordinates" he asked for from the Duke of Dongyong County?

Murong smiled innocently: "I didn't expect Uncle Wang to be so polite." ”

A person who looked like a steward came up and gave a salute: "The small one is Laifu, the princess of the county pointed out to the princess one hundred and three servants, and the small one is the steward, this is the roster, please take a look at the princess." Then he put his hands on top and held up a roster.

Luo Yan wanted to laugh when she heard the word "Laifu", and when she heard the number "one hundred and three", she couldn't help but be surprised again, Qingqing took the roster, and asked Luo Yan again: "Do you want a little name?" ”

Luo Yan shook her head and said to Laifu: "Just tell me, how many maids, mothers-in-law, and servants in the outer courtyard are, and what they can do, just show me according to the classification." ”

Laifu nodded, and didn't look at the roster, so he stood up straight and said loudly: "Six people in the gatehouse, six people in the welcoming room, six people in the second door, and ......four people in the hall for tea."

After Laifu finished the roll call, he replied in a low voice: "Princess, more than half of the one hundred and three people here are born in the family, and they are all allocated by the family, and the others have no family and sold the dead sign, so they can do things for the princess with peace of mind." Do you think these people can make it? ”

Luo Yan nodded, and Murong Qian turned his head to the guards and said, "Go and get Feng'er according to the number of people." After a while, the guard took out more than a hundred seals, but the blessing was a single big seal, and everyone came up one by one to receive the reward and kowtow. Murong Qian said: "Everyone is a person valued by the Duke of Dongyong, so I will let you follow the princess." Princess Ping'an is the most noble princess of my Dayan, this time I returned to Beijing to open the mansion, you are the first batch of old people to serve the princess, it is not difficult to imagine what the rules of the princess's mansion are in the future, as long as you work seriously and be loyal to the lord, you will naturally have a good future in the future. ”

Seeing that although it was quiet below, many people showed an eager look in their eyes, and Murong Qian's smile became warmer and warmer: "Naturally, if you want to cheat and play tricks, or have those thoughts that should not be raised, the princess is kind, but I can't tolerate sand in my eyes, and those who want to try the methods of the Dayan Intelligence Bureau, you might as well give it a try, I will definitely not disappoint you." ”

The huge courtyard suddenly fell silent, and even Laifu's calm expression was a little unbearable. Luo Yan looked at Murong Qian's smiling face, shivered secretly, and couldn't help but scold: "Dead fox, it's scary again!" But I couldn't help but admire him for saying this set of coaxing and frightening words beautifully, and I hurriedly wrote them down, and when I thought about it, I was a little depressed: The reason why the second brother's words can scare everyone like this is that the five words "Dayan Intelligence Bureau" are scary, and the effect is probably equivalent to "Daming Jinyiwei" or "German Gestapo" - what can I say? Want to try my "Peace Princess Mansion" means? Doesn't sound like that!

She was happy and sad for a while, and Murong Qian had already begun to arrange for all the servants to get on the boat, and after a while, the courtyard was already clean, and after the blessing also retreated, Luo Yan couldn't help but sigh: "Second brother, if you don't help me, what if I don't know anything?" ”

Murong Qian smiled: "What's so difficult about this? If there is such a thing on the road, naturally I will help you with it, and there are ready-made housekeepers in my house in Shangdu, and I will send two capable ones to help you. Luo Yan suddenly smiled, and said sadly: "Do you want to have dinner together today?" I'm afraid that Uncle Wang will ask me to write poems again, even if I don't write it, he keeps mentioning it, and I won't be happy! ”

Murong Qian saw that she was pouting and embarrassed, but she was still the same as when she was a child, and she couldn't help but soften, what request can't you agree? Then he nodded and said, "I'll let Uncle Wang accompany us to eat in the evening, and the ladies will have a separate banquet?" ”

Luo Yan nodded with a smile, but when she thought of the word "we" in Murong Qian's words, she couldn't help but feel gloomy again.

In the evening, it was Li and Rui'er who came to accompany her to dinner, and there was a table of exquisite noodles in Luo Yan's courtyard, and the three of them laughed once, and Luo Yan tasted two famous dishes of this idle garden: crispy suckling pig, squirrel salmon, and it was really delicious, the squirrel salmon was three points more delicious than Luo Yan had eaten in Suzhou Deyue Tower before.

After the meal was over, Luo Yan left the two of them to drink tea, and they were about to leave after a few sips, only to let Luo Yan rest early, and they would board the ship early tomorrow morning. Before leaving, Li took a diamond-encrusted bracelet and stuffed it into her hand, and said with a smile: "This is a little bit of my own heart." ”

Luo Yan slipped away at a glance, this bracelet was inlaid with soybean-sized diamonds, and a pink diamond in the middle was the size of a little finger, how could she not know that she could buy several Zhuangzi, and she was busy returning it to Li: "How can Luo Yan afford such a heavy gift?" Li smiled: "We may not be able to go to the capital this winter, even if I add makeup to the princess with this bracelet, isn't the princess bad?" ”

Add makeup? Who said she was going to get married? Luo Yan's brain was a little sluggish, but Li Shi had already left with a smile. Luo Yan hurriedly followed them to the door, and when she returned to the house, she was still confused, but when she looked up, she found that Qingqing was not there, and when she asked Tianzhu, she realized that the guards on Murong Qian's side came to her just now, saying that His Highness had something to order alone.

Luo Yan couldn't help but think to herself: Is there something going on on the second brother's side again? Just a little uneasy, the curtain of the door was rolled, Xue Qing strode in, and said with a slight urgency on her face: "Just now, His Royal Highness took the Qingqing girl to the outer courtyard in a hurry, and asked the princess to go over immediately." ”

Luo Yan hurriedly stood up and walked out, Tianzhu chased after her and added a cloak to her, wanting to keep up, Luo Yan thought about it, or waved her hand to let her go back, and followed Xue Qing to the outside of the courtyard.

Luo Yan lived in the idle courtyard for a day, although she was also led to see a few scenes, but she went out to sit in a sedan chair, and then she felt that the idle garden was very big, rockery waterfalls, flower walls and tree corridors, the scenery was pleasant, and it was rare to have candle cages hanging high everywhere, and it became more and more colorful. But the more she walked out, the more the road became, and there was a plum forest in front of her, but Luo Yan felt slightly strange: why is there always a trace of peculiar smell wafting in a good place? Seeing that the forest was dark and swarthy, he couldn't help asking, "How long do you have to go?" ”

Xue Qing's feet slowed down slightly, and he turned around and smiled: "It's here when you get out of this Merlin." She was so slow, the smell was even more obvious, and between the lightning and firelight, Luo Yan suddenly understood what this familiar smell was-fascinated! I felt that my brain was banging, and the pores of my whole body exploded, and some small fragments suddenly became a line in my brain! Seeing that Merlin was in front of her, Luo Yan suddenly stopped and said, "Oops, I forgot!" ”

Xue Qing turned around, the scabbard on her waist shook slightly, and she said with a smile: "What did the princess forget?" ”

Luo Yan stomped her feet and said: "This morning, the second brother gave me a sachet, saying that it was left by my former girl Meizi, let me take a good look, I just found that there were two thin silk cloths in the mezzanine of the sachet before eating, and it was densely written with blood. Qingqing also said that she must show her second brother. ”

Xue Qing looked at her, her eyes flickered, and Luo Yan hurriedly said: "This road is so far, otherwise, Xue Qing, you can help me get it, right?" I put it in ...... Oops, it was Qingqing who helped me put it, I only remember the place, and said to Tianzhu, but she may not be able to find it. Looks like I'll have to go with you to get it! ”

As he spoke, he muttered a few words of complaint, and reluctantly walked back, Xue Qingwei hesitated, and also followed, walking next to Luo Yan, while saying, "What confession?" ”

Luo Yan smiled: "How do I know, I get dizzy when I look at it, why don't you read it to me later?" No, Qingqing said, it is an extremely important thing, and it can only be shown to His Royal Highness. ”

Xue Qing said: "Qingqing is also weird, since a sachet wants His Highness to see, why should he hide it?" How can you say that you can't find it yet?! The voice was slightly sharper.

Luo Yan said: "You don't know this, that sachet, the four girls around me were originally one person, but the colors are different, you can know whose it is at a glance, I am not afraid that the dzi will not be found, but when she looks at it, she must know whose thing it is." They have the best relationship with each other, but this plum is ...... I was seriously ill and was sent away, and if I let the dzi see that we had hidden the plum things, I was afraid that I would think too much, but I had no choice but to go on this trip by myself. As he spoke, he told Xue Qing how the sachet was obtained and what was so peculiar.

Xue Qing was silent, but her breathing seemed to be getting heavier and heavier, Luo Yan's heart became more and more panicked, and she could barely hold back the smile on her face. Just after a turn, suddenly, I saw a familiar figure walking towards me - it was Xue Ming!

Luo Yan couldn't help but feel ecstasy, but when she looked closely, she saw that Xue Ming was actually dressed in regular clothes, her hands were empty, and her heart couldn't help but sink fiercely, and she only remembered Qingqing's sentence "Xue Qing is said to be the number one master in the female guard" and "We are afraid that we are not Xue Ming's opponents when we go into battle", and her heart was suddenly confused. Xue Ming also saw her, smiled faintly, saluted her, and stood on the side of the road, ready to let her pass.

Luo Yan only felt that Xue Qing seemed to be closer behind her, and the pores behind her had exploded involuntarily, and suddenly she remembered the murderous induction that Qingqing said, her heart trembled, and she couldn't help but stop and said to Xue Ming: "I will seriously consider the matter you told me about General Tantai that day." ”

Xue Ming was stunned, glanced at Xue Qing again, lowered his eyes and said indifferently: "Thank you, princess." ”

Luo Yan nodded, and walked past Xue Ming unhurriedly, only to feel that her back was soaked in cold sweat, and when the night wind blew, her hands trembled involuntarily.

Just took a step past Xue Ming, and suddenly felt the sound of the wind behind him, so he heard Xue Ming shout in a low voice, "Run!" Then there was the sound of the sword unsheathed. Luo Yan couldn't care about anything else, and ran away without looking back, shouting loudly: "Someone! There are assassins! He screamed, and his voice became hoarse as if he couldn't exert his strength.

I didn't know the road at the moment, I ran all the way along this path, and I seemed to hear a few muffled sounds behind me, a scream, and there seemed to be footsteps chasing after me, only to feel that my hair was upside down, and my heart was about to jump out of the cavity, and suddenly my eyes were dark, and I was already hugged by people, Luo Yan suddenly screamed, but I heard a familiar voice say: "It's me, Luo Luo!" It's me! Don't be afraid, it's me! "It's the voice of the platform.

Luo Yan stretched out her hand and hugged him tightly, her whole body trembled, she wanted to scream in ecstasy, and she wanted to cry loudly, but suddenly remembered that she was behind her, and hurriedly shouted: "Xue Ming! Xue Ming is still to come! I only heard him say "I know" in a sullen voice, and his body seemed to have been picked up, and he rose and fell a few times, but suddenly he didn't move.

Luo Yan was stunned, and hurriedly turned her head to look, only to see that under the bleak moonlight, Xue Qing fell to the ground with a bloody face, but Xue Ming was half sitting and half leaning on a stone, with a sharp knife deeply inserted in the upper part of her right abdomen, her face was snow-white, but at this moment she looked up and smiled: "It seems that the princess is fine, general, Xue Ming is fortunate not to be dishonored." ”