Chapter 648: Danger
Chu Lanqiu paused, was silent for a moment, then turned to Aunt Fan and said, "I'll take care of it, don't worry." β
Aunt Fan glanced at him with a smile, closed her eyes again, and left him alone.
Chu Lanqiu gently patted Lan Ding's shoulder, who was secretly on guard, and asked him to get out of the way, and jumped out of the carriage by himself.
"Lan Qiu-" The Lord of Hui'an County was overjoyed, and took another step forward, but was blocked by Lan Ding.
Chu Lanqiu said to Lan Ding, "Let me have a few words with her." β
Lan Ding frowned, and was about to persuade, but Lan Ping on the side pulled his sleeve and shook his head at him.
Lan Ding glanced at the carriage, pressed it down, and retreated to the side, but still didn't forget to remind in a whisper: "Childe, if it is...... You just call. "He'll take this girl's life.
Chu Lanqiu didn't respond, only glanced at the county lord of Hui'an, and when he walked some distance forward, the county lord of Hui'an immediately followed.
It wasn't until the people behind couldn't hear their words that Chu Lanqiu said coldly, "County Lord, how are you doing?" β
The county lord of Hui'an looked at Chu Lanqiu's beautiful face in a daze, as if he was stupid.
Chu Lanqiu frowned, and his face was a little impatient: "If there is nothing to do, the county lord will please go back." I'm going out to visit friends, and if you stop me, you'll miss my trip. β
Hui An said suddenly: "Then you can't come back?" β
There was an indescribable sadness in her eyes, which made her look very different from the high-flying county lord in her usual days.
Chu Lanqiu didn't know why, he couldn't make eye contact with her, he turned his head slightly. Looking at the dimly lit street ahead, his voice was as cold as ever: "What are you doing?" β
When Hui An heard this, her heart seemed to be shot into a sieve by a row of dense needles, and she couldn't breathe in pain. She suddenly laughed, her smile bitter and suppressed: "You actually said that you wouldn't do anything about me?" If you never come back, I will never see you again. β
She looked at his face, which was not as beautiful as a mortal. Tears almost fell.
Didn't he know what he meant to her? If she can't see him again, what is the meaning of her life?
Chu Lanqiu frowned and looked at the county lord of Hui'an, and the words he said were indifferent and ruthless: "If you can't see it, you can't see it, so what's the matter?" β
The county lord of Hui'an looked at him desperately, but she couldn't say a word anymore.
Chu Lanqiu looked at her for a while and saw that she had nothing to say. He nodded: "So, take care." β
"Did you escape?" The county lord of Hui'an said suddenly.
Chu Lanqiu paused, turned around, and looked at the county lord of Huilan's gaze calmly: "What does the county lord mean by this?" β
The county lord of Hui'an shook his head: "Don't worry, I have no malicious intent. I just wanted to say. My father has sent people to seal off all the roads outside the city, and not a single carriage leaving the capital has to be strictly checked. If you go out of Beijing so rashly, it will make people suspicious. β
Chu Lanqiu looked at the county lord of Hui'an quietly and said, "What do you know? β
The county lord of Hui'an took a step closer and raised his eyes to look at him, and the two could almost breathe and smell each other: "I know what I should know and what I shouldn't know." β
Chu Lanqiu's face was cold.
The county lord of Hui'an was unmoved, looked at him and muttered: "I like you so much, naturally I want to know all your things." I know that you love drama like life, I know that you have never had a woman around you for so many years, and I also know that you secretly like to wear a wide robe made of white Songjiang cloth. Knowing that you don't eat meat and only eat vegetarian food, knowing that you don't like incense, you love cleanliness, changing clothes twice a day and bedding every three days, knowing that you ......" she paused and continued. "Know there's a secret behind you."
Chu Lanqiu's dark eyes were incomprehensible emotions, and after being silent for a while, he said lightly: "How do you know?" β
The county lord of Hui'an stretched out his hand to touch his face, but he grabbed his hand, and the county lord of Hui'an let him hold it like this, and his heart was a little satisfied, wishing he would keep holding it like this, and never let go: "One night you lived in Prince Zhuang's mansion, I once went to your bedroom, and I didn't want to meet you back, so I hid behind the screen." I saw you having people bring water in and bathe. β
At that time, she still hated this man who was said to be her father's good friend, and she was a little curious about him, so she secretly entered his guest room in the palace.
Chu Lanqiu looked stunned when he heard this, but Hui An's face was as usual, as if he didn't think that it was a big deal for him to peek at the man taking a bath.
"Later, I inadvertently learned something about Southern Xinjiang from the Qingke of the palace...... "Speaking of this, the county lord of Hui'an paused, "so I know that if you leave, you may not come back." β
"How are you staying? Do you want to send a message to the government to stop me? Chu Lanqiu said coldly.
The county lord of Hui'an immediately shook his head: "If I want to do this, why would I wait until today?" I...... It won't hurt you...... When hell freezes over. β
Chu Lanqiu looked at her for a while and nodded: "Thank you for the county lord." As he spoke, he turned around.
"If you could...... Can you take me away? "The county lord of Hui'an is not giving up.
Chu Lanqiu was stunned: "What did you say?" β
The county lord of Hui'an looked at him and smiled self-deprecatingly: "It's nothing, I'...... I know I'm going to hurt you if I go with you. I'm just asking. β
Chu Lanqiu opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end, she turned around and left without saying anything.
The county lord of Hui'an looked at his back in a daze, and tears burst into tears.
Lan Ding and Lan Ping breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Chu Lanqiu coming back.
"Master, let your subordinates deal with it, right?" Lan Ding looked at the county lord of Hui'an in the distance, and a cold light flashed in his eyes.
Chu Lanqiu, who was about to get into the car, paused, and then said lightly: "Let's go." β
Lan Ding frowned: "But she knows our whereabouts, in case it leaks out......"
Chu Lanqiu got into the carriage without looking back: "Let's go." The tone was indifferent and unquestionable.
Lan Ding didn't dare to disobey, bowed his head and answered, and drove the carriage.
The county lord of Hui'an watched the carriage pass in front of him, and felt that his heart suddenly fell empty, as if he could not make it back.
She walked to her horse in despair. got on the horse and followed the carriage far behind.
On the carriage, Aunt Fan looked at Chu Lanqiu for a long time and smiled: "What? Reluctant? β
Chu Lanqiu looked at Aunt Fan. Shaking his head, he didn't want to say much, but he said for some reason: "I'm just a little inexplicable." She was disgusted with me at first. β
Aunt Fan smiled slightly: "How can the affairs of men and women be so easy to explain?" β
Chu Lanqiu fell silent.
In his life, he has never cared about anything except drama.
The carriage drove for a while, and suddenly the people in the carriage felt the sound of horses' hooves outside, and there was more than one horse.
Aunt Fan and Chu Lanqiu glanced at each other, and the two frowned. Then he let go again, and his eyes were indifferent. It's surprisingly similar.
"Sit's tight, sir." Outside, Lan Ding reminded him, and let him flick the whip fiercely, and the speed of the carriage immediately more than doubled.
The men and horses behind saw that they were getting closer and closer. But suddenly an arrow came from behind, and the arrow passed through several pursuers and finally entered the hind of a horse, and the horse went crazy with pain, and the team was in confusion and slowed down.
Then another arrow was fired.
The leading guard was very annoyed and immediately turned his horse's head, but when he saw the fiery figure that caught up, the guard's arrogance immediately weakened.
"County Lord."
The county lord of Hui'an glanced coldly at the guards of the palace: "Go back!" β
Guard Li, who was about to secretly let his subordinates catch up first, was full of embarrassment: "County Lord, it was the prince who sent his subordinates out to chase a few suspicious remnants of Southern Xinjiang. β
The county lord of Hui'an looked at him condescendingly: "This county lord orders you to go home!" All the consequences are borne by the lord of the county. But if you disobey the orders of the Dumb Lord. I'm about to step over my corpse. β
Her voice is cold, but it is unquestionable, and people can't help but believe that she can do what she says.
The carriage shook off the pursuers behind and went around in a circle, and when Lan Ding was really about to breathe a sigh of relief, he found that the road ahead was blocked by ten horsemen.
Lan Ding and Lan Ping's faces were cold.
In the carriage, Aunt Fan said lightly: "Or was she stopped?" If you can't rush out, just grab it. There is no need to rebel senselessly. β
Lan Ding moved his hands. Eight slender hidden weapons appeared between the ten fingers, each of which glowed with blue light.
"You escort the masters first." Lan Ding said to Lan Ping.
Although the dozen or so horsemen blocked their way, they stood still and did not move. Until one of them stepped out of the crowd and approached the carriage.
Lan Ding's eyes were cold, and she was about to jump out of the carriage, but Aunt Fan in the car seemed to suddenly sense something, and hurriedly said, "Lan Ding, stop-"
As she spoke, she had already lifted the carriage and got out.
Four or five paces away from their carriage stood a man and a horse, and the man on the horse was handsome and cold, and looked like a god in the sky under the moon.
"Auntie, my mother asked me to come and look for you." His voice was unhurried, cold as ever.
Aunt Fan waved away the blue ding, got out of the car and walked to the man's horse, looked up at him for a while, and smiled warmly: "Shao'er." β
Xuan Shao got off the horse, glanced at Lan Ding, who was staring at him, and didn't take it to heart: "Auntie, go back." β
Aunt Fan reached out and stroked Xuan Shao's face, but Xuan Shao did not avoid it.
"I'm not going back, and I can't go back. I can go with you, though. β
She didn't go back to Prince Zhuang's mansion, but she was willing to be arrested.
Xuan Shao raised his hand and held Aunt Fan's hand: "If you leave, you will be sad for a while." β
Aunt Fan blinked slyly: "When Aunt left she prepared a lot of clothes for him, enough for him to change his clothes for a while, and when he finishes wearing, he won't remember me." β
"He has a good memory, he doesn't fail to remember."
Aunt Fan remembered Xuan Xiaoyi's intimate appearance, and couldn't help laughing, but her eyes were red.
She withdrew her hand, glanced back at the carriage, and smiled lightly: "My aunt has been selfish for so many years, but my aunt is still a member of the He family after all, and she doesn't want to see her ancestors without face after death." Even if the aunt can't keep the last bloodline of the He family, she must stand with him at the end. β
Xuan Shao looked at Aunt Fan for a long time, but Aunt Fan smiled and said, "Where your responsibility lies, don't be too entangled." In fact, it doesn't matter where I go, not to mention that even if I leave, the world is so big that I can't escape the pursuit of the imperial court, so it's better to toss less. β
"You go to Tianjin Wei. Find the shopkeeper of Tan Ji Rice Shop in Dagukou, he can arrange for you to go to the East. You have nowhere to go except to the sea. Xuan Shao said softly.
Aunt Fan was stunned, and then shook her head: "Shao'er." You ......"
"Come back when you've arranged for them, the little one likes to wear the clothes you make, and if you leave for too long, you'll miss watching him grow up." Xuan Shao shortened her words.
Aunt Fan opened her mouth. What else did he want to say, Xuan Shao had already turned around and got on the horse.
"Shao'er." Aunt Fan took a step forward and suddenly remembered something, "That curse that made the royal family cut off their children and grandchildren is nonsense at all, our southern Xinjiang is poisonous and Gu, but these are all with the help of introduction." β
Aunt Fan kept watching Xuan Shao's tall back disappear from view.
"My lord, it's time to go." The blue screen came over and whispered.
Aunt Fan came back to her senses. Smiled at the blue screen: "That's my child." β
The tone was swaggering with pride.
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After Xuan Shao returned to Prince Zhuang's mansion, he told Sanniang about Aunt Fan's departure.
Sanniang was not surprised that Xuan Shao would let Aunt Fan leave, she knew that Xuan Shao must be a little sad at this time, so she deliberately adjusted the atmosphere and stepped forward to hug his arm, raised her head and asked with a smile: "Then you saw the real saint?" How does it look? β
Xuan Shao's face was a little strange when he heard this.
Sanniang was surprised: "What? Isn't it ugly? "Saints are usually beautiful, aren't they? That's how it's set up.
Xuan Shao shook his head and was secretive: "It's not ugly." You...... I think I've seen it. β
Sanniang is interested. I filtered the beauties I had seen one by one in my mind, and picked out a few possible names to ask Xuan Shao.
Xuan Shaodu shook his head in denial.
Sanniang was really interested: "Aren't they?" But there are only a few women I recognize who are outstanding in appearance and may be saints. "Could it be a difference in aesthetics?
Xuan Shao was silent for a while, and suddenly spit out a sentence: "Who said that a saint has to be a woman?" β
Sanniang was stunned, dumbfounded, and stammered: "Xianggong, you mean the holy woman ......"
"Chu Lanqiu." Xuan Shao raised his eyebrows, highlighting three words.
"How could it be him?" Sanniang exclaimed.
"The 'Holy Maiden' is just a hereditary position in the southern Xinjiang regime, so what does it matter if it is male or female?"
Sanniang looked at Xuan Shao's natural appearance, and felt that her worldview collapsed in an instant.
Two months after Aunt Fan left. It has always been calm in the capital.
In addition to the news that the princess of Hui'an was grounded, there was also news that the emperor intended to let the county lord of Hui'an and pro-Dongyang.
Sanniang doesn't care much about these things.
What she is most interested in now is talking to Xuan Xiaoyi.
Xuan Xiaoyi is very smart, basically he can understand whatever you say, but he doesn't like to talk, and he only "babbles" on weekdays. Until a few days ago in the morning, when the nurse was dressing him. He pointed to the willow green gown that had been put aside by the nurse: "Wear, clothesβ"
I couldn't surprise the nurse, so I immediately hugged Sanniang and reported it.
Sanniang teased her son with great interest, but unfortunately Xuan Xiaoyi looked at his mother and smirked and refused to open her mouth again.
So Sanniang was angry in her heart, and immediately stripped her son and threw her clothes aside.
Xuan Xiaoyi looked at his mother's rogue behavior in a daze, and said aggrievedly: "Niangniang, the clothes are ......"
Sanniang immediately hugged her son with a smile and kissed her twice.
So the disaster of Xuan Xiaoyi came......
By the time Sanniang's enthusiasm passed, it was the end of autumn.
On this day, someone suddenly came to the palace, and Sanniang was recruited to Shouhuitang by the old princess.
The person who came turned out to be a palace maid in Wei Yue'e Palace, and when the palace maid saw Sanniang, she hurriedly saluted and said, "Madam, I also bother you to go into the palace with the slave maid." β
Sanniang smiled and asked, "What's wrong?" Take your time. β
The palace maid couldn't hide her panic: "Concubine Li, Niangniang is seriously ill!" β
Sanniang was startled and looked at the old princess, who nodded at her, proving that what the palace maid said was true.
"Wasn't it okay a while ago? Why did you suddenly get seriously ill? Sanniang frowned.
The palace maid shook her head: "Niangniang's body has not been completely good since she gave birth to the fourth highness, but she is just ...... It's just that she was afraid that the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother would worry about her, so she kept holding on. Madam, the mother wants to see you, you should hurry up and go to the palace with the slave maid. β
Wei Yue'e was seriously ill, and she specially sent someone to invite her, so naturally she couldn't shirk it, so she responded happily, and immediately followed the palace maid into the palace.
On the way, Sanniang asked about Wei Yue'e. was shocked to learn that the palace maid was seriously ill and not alarmist. Wei Yue'e has reached the point where she can't get out of bed. She hadn't been in the palace since Princess Fu'an fell into the water last time, and she didn't know that Wei Yue'e would be so sick.
"The doctor said that the bottom of our mother's body has been destroyed, and it is difficult to cure it."
"Where are the four princes now?" Sanniang asked.
There was some helplessness in the eyes of the palace maid: "Niangniang didn't worry about handing over the Four Highnesses to others to take care of, so the Queen Mother asked Zhen Guiren to temporarily move back to Yichun Palace to take care of the Four Princes nearby." However, in the past few days, some people outside have said that Zhen Guiren was born humbly and is not suitable for taking care of the prince, and some people propose to let the four princes move to the Fengxu Palace of the queen mother, and let the queen mother take care of it herself. β
Sanniang sighed, there is no time for the harem to be stable.
When she saw Wei Yue'e again, Sanniang could hardly believe her eyes.
It had only been a few months since she last saw Wei Yue'e, but Wei Yue'e had changed a lot.
Her skin is sallow and dull, her dark circles are extremely heavy, her lips are pale in color, and most of her originally black and shiny hair has fallen out. At first glance, it looks like a middle-aged woman who is already terminally ill.
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