Ahem......"

Ruan Si's throat was itchy, he coughed heavily, and slowly opened his eyes.

What catches my eye is the night sky, a few lonely stars.

She blinked reluctantly, only to feel as if her eyelids and even her face were sticky, and the slightest movement felt very tight.

The fingers curled up at his side scratched slightly.

There was a slight prickly touch of straw on his fingertips.

"Girl, awake?"

An old voice came from ahead, and it sounded familiar to her.

Then, there were a few more donkey barks.

The donkey cart began to move forward slowly.

Ruan Si felt herself lying flat on the straw pile on the board, and the palm she had just received was still painful.

"Come, put your clothes on."

The old man who drove the car threw a blood-stained coarse linen robe.

She struggled to sit up, only to notice that her clothes were stained with blood on her chest.

The smell of blood had faded a lot, but her throat was sweet, as if she was going to spit blood at any moment.

She dressed in coarse cloth as she was told.

"Lu Bo?"

"Hmm." The old man who was driving the car said without looking back, "From now on, you and I are father and daughter, and we have just come from the countryside. ”

Ruan Si was slightly stunned.

Lu Bodao: "My daughter has tuberculosis, and my father took you into the city for treatment, and I have no money to live in a hotel, so I can only sleep on a donkey cart." ”

Ruan Si knew that he intended to help himself, put down his hair and rubbed it, raised his hand and touched his face.

The skin of the face is rough like tree bark, not as smooth and delicate as before.

Lu Bo seemed to have eyes behind his back, and said in a low voice: "Good boy, lie down, don't be afraid of anything." ”

As soon as he turned around, Ruan Si found that Lu Bo had an unfamiliar face!

"Shh," he smiled kindly, "just a little trick." ”

This should be the disguise technique mentioned by the senior brother.

She had never had the opportunity to see her before, but now she couldn't believe her eyes.

"Hey, the one in front, stop!"

Several men surrounded the donkey cart.

As soon as the reins in Lu Bo's hand were pulled, the donkey made a dissatisfied roar, which shook Ruan Si's eardrums.

"What do you guys do?"

Those men were not fast, they looked like they were not good people, and they stared at Lu Bo murderously.

"The daughter of the little old man's family is sick, and the traveling doctor from the village can't see it well, saying that he asked him to bring it to the city to find a doctor."

Ruan Si's heart clenched tightly.

Her eyes were closed, and she felt the straw around her be pulled around.

"What disease?"

Lu Bo replied cautiously: "I don't know, coughing up blood and coughing up a lot ......"

In the crowd, someone exclaimed, "Tuberculosis? ”

Those two words frightened everyone back.

They saw that Ruan Si's face was sallow, and his chest was stained with a lot of blood, and he did look terminally ill.

The leader covered his mouth and nose and frowned, "Why are you still wandering outside at such a late hour?" ”

Lu Bo said with an uneasy face: "Inns and inns cost money." ”

"And," he said, glancing back at the donkey driveway, "the shopkeeper did not allow our father and daughter to enter, saying that he was afraid that the little girl would be sick and give it to the guests." ”

Ruan Si's throat itched terribly, and he turned his face and coughed violently.

A little blood foamed from the corners of her mouth, which frightened the men.

"Phew!"

The man and his companion looked at each other with disdain.

"That's a shame! Brothers, let's go over there and have a look. ”

Ruan Si breathed a sigh of relief, and heard someone ask, "Little old man, have you seen a young girl?" ”

"Girl?"

Lu Bo was lifted by the neckline, his cheeks turned purple, and he struggled to push the man's arm.

The man lifted him out of the donkey cart and threw him to the ground.

Lu Bo got up, kowtowed like garlic and said, "A few masters, the little old man only looked at my girl, not at other girls." ”

The men took a sip and left.

Ruan Si struggled to sit up, but Lu Bo jumped back on the donkey cart and whispered, "Lie down, you are not lightly injured." ”

The donkey cart babbled towards the Linquan Prison.

Ruan Si fell into a warm embrace half-asleep and half-awake.

She smelled a familiar scent.

Yan Yingzhou hugged the woman in his arms and whispered to Lu Bo, "Thank you." ”

Lu Bo shook his head and said, "Don't talk about this, send her to the dark prison quickly, the people from the official mansion should be almost there." ”

He took off the human skin mask for Ruan Si.

Yan Yingzhou strode into the cell with Ruan Si in his arms.

The jailers in the prison were all dart masters lent to him by Wei Changsheng, and everyone turned a blind eye to this scene.

Ruan Si was put back on the floor of the dark prison.

Yan Yingzhou fed her a pill of wound medicine and put on the gold bracelet he picked up on the ground.

"Jojo, wait for me."

Ruan Si swallowed the medicine and leaned on him in a daze, only to feel that the pain just now had decreased slightly.

Yan Yingzhou hurriedly dropped a kiss on her forehead.

"It won't be long."

He turned and left the dungeon, ordered it to be locked up, and everything was back to its original state.

Lian Yu and the others really rushed to Linquan Prison, saying that Jiang County was afraid of Yan Yingzhou's private wife, so he asked him to come and have a look.

But he saw that Ruan Si was still asleep in prison.

Lian Yu had no choice but to tiptoe away, looking at Yan Yingzhou's frozen face, his heart went up and down.

"Brother Yan, it's all a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding."

Yan Yingzhou did not say a word.

As soon as Lian Yu left, he immediately took the account books and secret letters that had been prepared to meet Su Yaji.

These account books and secret letters were stolen by him from the secret room of Second Master Zhong's house.

It is about the secret transactions of Zhong Erye and Jiang Junshou over the years.

In the past, when he went to Jiang Junshou with secret letters, he did not hand over all these secret letters.

For the rest, he stayed by his side, waiting for an opportunity that would turn Lin Quanjun upside down.

That opportunity was now in front of him.

In the study, Su Yaji hurried to see Yan Yingzhou with his coat and shoes on, and listened to him talk about the purpose of this trip.

"Yan Si Prison," Su Yaji frowned, "You want to sue Jiang County for bending the law for personal gain and corruption?" ”

Yan Yingzhou simply spread out the account books and secret letters.

"Your Excellency, please see, the evidence is here, Jiang Junshou colluded with local tyrants and bandits, and was the one who caused the disaster, please also ask your Excellency to investigate."

"However, if you want to sue the county guard, you should at least sue the governor......

"Lord Su is a noble messenger, traveling on behalf of the Son of Heaven, I will tell Lord Su the case, and I can also go up to heaven to hear it."

Su Yaji's delicate eyes narrowed slightly.

There was a faint hint of imperceptible deep meaning in his eyes.

"This official is only here for disaster relief, and I am afraid it will be difficult to meddle in local affairs."

Yan Yingzhou said lightly: "Master Su, as a servant of the ministry, the purpose of this trip is probably not so simple, right?" ”

Su Yaji was shocked, pulled up his clothes, and looked directly at Yan Yingzhou.

"We might as well make a deal," Yan Yingzhou said, "If you want to dig up the rotten roots, I will dig them for you and return the people to a clean one." ”

Su Yaji's trip was to investigate the corruption of the county guards of Linquan County and Taohua County.

The imperial court received a tip-off and reported several local officials one after another, especially in Linquan County, where the situation was the most serious.

On the surface, he is helping the people, but in fact, he is trying to get rid of this cancer.

But how did Yan Yingzhou see through it?

He looked at the man in black in front of him fixedly, and only felt that Yan Yingzhou was even more dangerous than he looked.

Finally, Su Yaji made up his mind and said, "What do you want?" ”

"My wife is safe."

Yan Yingzhou calmly raised his eyes, and the bottom of his eyes was turbulent, "Purge the remnants of the first traitorous king." ”