Wu Wei entered the Yanyu Building in a hurry, found Jiang Lili's personal maid Lan Yuan, explained the matter of the token, and urged her to pass it on quickly.

Hearing this, Lan Yuan complained with a face: "Why did you choose to ...... at this time" glanced at the warm pavilion, lowered her voice and complained, "I don't want to see what kind of guests are here today." ”

Wu Wei smiled at her: "I know that the one inside is not easy to serve, but when he entered our Jiang girl's warm pavilion today, didn't he also promote us." ”

Jiang Lili is not the most beautiful girl in this Yanyu Building, nor does she have any outstanding talent, she is mediocre in all aspects, no one expected that the noble man who leaned towards the government and the opposition would let her serve by name.

Lan Yuan scolded him: "Who told you 'ours'." "You wait, I'll take advantage of the opportunity to serve the tea to help you bring it in." ”

After Wu Wei thanked him, he leaned on the trunk outside the warm pavilion and waited for the news.

After about half a cup of tea, Lan Yuan withdrew from the warm pavilion when he was about to fall asleep, and poked him: "The girl asked you to bring people up first and wait." ”

Wu Wei went downstairs and led Song Ran in, and asked her surname and where she lived along the way, and asked all her relatives, and when she reached the second floor, she happened to meet the guest leaving from Jiang Lili's warm pavilion.

He hurriedly stretched out his hand and pulled Song Ran to the side, lowered his head and sent him away, not even daring to breathe.

The man was dressed in a silver-white brocade robe, wearing a crown and hat with gold dark patterns of the same color, even if it was a soft fat powder breath, it was difficult to hide the sharpness of his body. As he passed by, his sharp and cold gaze swept over Wu Wei and Song Ran's bodies, making the soles of Wu Wei's feet inexplicably soft. He couldn't help but peek at him with curiosity, but because of that cold, high-minded demeanor, he shivered all over, and hurriedly lowered his head again.

When he finally left, Wu Wei raised his sleeves to wipe his sweat, and suddenly heard the girl beside him ask, "Who is that?" I seem to have seen him somewhere......"

He replied with a trembling voice: "Ouch, that's a nobleman, but this nobleman, it may not be a good thing for the girl to see him, so I should pray that I will see him less in the future." ”

Without waiting for Song Ran to respond, a lazy voice came from the Warm Pavilion: "Little girl, that master is powerful all over the world, and he is not a good person, but it is all thanks to him that he left in time, otherwise you would have to wait today." Still not coming in yet? ”

At Wu Wei's suggestion, Song Ran stepped into the warm pavilion.

The woman leaned in front of the dresser, facing the bronze mirror to tidy up her appearance. When I got closer, I could roughly distinguish her eyebrows, just like this pavilion, delicate and beautiful. A woman with such a posture can only be regarded as mediocre in this Yanyu Building, and Song Ran only understood at this time why the men in Ling'an City were willing to spend a lot of money in Yanyu Building.

Jiang Lili was wearing a light green Luo skirt, and the belt was half untied, which was very attractive.

"When I went to Yanyu Building, I spent money but didn't stay overnight, probably only the master just now." She lazily drew her eyebrows and glanced at Song Ran through the mirror, "Where did the thing come from?" ”

The sandalwood box placed in her hand had been opened, and inside was a pair of phoenix hairpins inlaid with gold and jade, which were exquisitely carved and ingenious.

"I'm just an errand runner, and if the girl asks, I can't answer it."

Jiang Lili put down the Luo Dai who painted his eyebrows, and raised one of them to look at it: "This is the best of the best, there is no market for it, and there are few people who can afford to buy such things in this Ling'an City." ”

Song Ran handed over the letter: "There is also a letter for the girl." ”

Jiang Lili took the letter slowly and methodically, and swept it through ten lines at a glance, but at the final "Xiao Yan", his gaze stopped for a moment. She glanced at Song Ran: "Little sister, you have caused yourself a lot of trouble." So saying, he took the hairpin and the box into the dressing box, dropped a lock on the outside, and lifted the lampshade at hand, and brought the letter close to the flickering candle.

Song Ran's body trembled slightly, and he unconsciously turned his face away.

Feeling the smell of smoke in the air fade, she opened her eyes again.

In the blurred vision, Jiang Lili was staring at her, her expression was indistinguishable, but there was a slight mockery in her tone: "Are you afraid of fire?" ”

She didn't answer, and asked rhetorically, "Does Miss Jiang have a reply?" ”

Jiang Lili showed a bored expression, pulled up the coat that had faded to his shoulders, and changed his posture to lean on the soft collapse: "Do you know who went out of me just now?" The commander of the Imperial Guard, Lord Shen Hanxi. He came to me today, probably because he found out that I had a personal relationship with a friend of yours. Tell me, can I take such a big risk for the sake of an old acquaintance? Lazy sighed, "What's more, I'm just a woman, and Israel may not be comfortable serving people, so how can I help him?" ”

When Song Ran heard Shen Hanxi's name, his expression paused slightly, but he quickly came back to his senses: "In that case, the girl should return the token to me." ”

I saw her solemnly put away the box, it should be an incomparably precious thing. Sure enough, I saw the corners of her mouth twitch, and she compromised without smiling: "Come and sit down and tell me what his situation is now." ”

Song Ran roughly talked about the situation of him being hunted down by the Ting Wei Division, and the other party sneered after hearing it: "So, why did he bother to enter Beijing to take this trip to troubled waters." If he didn't enter Beijing, with his reputation, he wouldn't have fallen to this point. ”

Song Ran was silent holding the tea, and his emotions were all hidden behind the tea smoke.

Xiao Yan's father died suddenly when his career was in full swing, his mother was originally a concubine, and her personality was gentle, and she was quickly defeated in the later family house dispute and was driven out of Xiao's mansion. The mother and son were separated from each other and had no place to live until Xiao Yan was ten years old, the year his mother died, and he was taken in by his uncle in Yaozhou. In Yaozhou, he had no worries about food and clothing, and by chance, he married the Mo family, and he may be able to inherit a huge family property in the future. But he has lofty ambitions, and he does not hesitate to withdraw from his marriage to become an official in Beijing.

What if he hadn't entered Beijing?

Song Ran was in a daze, and heard the sound of the girl pushing the door inside, and informed Jiang Lili that a guest had unveiled her card.

Jiang Lili responded and said to Song Ran: "You go back and wait first, I will look for you when I have to be free." I haven't asked you yet, what's your name? ”

Song Ran reported her name and listened to her comment: "It looks weird, but the name is so ordinary." ”

Stepping out of the Yanyu Building, as soon as he opened the umbrella, Song Ran suddenly remembered.

Wasn't that the person sitting across from her at the restaurant on Warong Street that day? It turned out that he was the one who everyone in Ling'an City feared and was so dumb that he was left here...... The Great Villain.

Shen Hanxi came in Weifu today, and he didn't bring an entourage, but when he left the door of the building, the sedan chair of the Ting Wei Division had stopped in front of him. As soon as he stepped out of the eaves, an umbrella was already propped up above his head, and he was expressionless, and said to the person who had lifted the sedan curtain: "I'll go back by myself, so that the shadow guard doesn't have to follow." ”

The one with the umbrella said, "My lord, it's raining this day, and it's strangely cold, and it's not good to wet your shoes." You're still ......"

Without saying much, he held out a hand.

The other party had to obediently hand over the umbrella to him and watched him: "My lord, you go slowly." When he was far away, he instructed the shadow guard, "Quickly, follow the adults from a distance, and don't be discovered by the adults." ”

Shen Hanxi walked leisurely, walked along the Huanhua River for a distance, and after crossing the Zhuangyuan Bridge, there was a lifting alley on the right. He paused slightly, then turned and walked down the alley.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the rootless water kept hitting the surface of the umbrella, and then fell along the edge of the umbrella to the bluestone slab at his feet.

The silver-white brocade robe was rolled up by the wind to reveal the moire brocade boots underneath.

He suddenly spoke in the sound of rain, and his voice was cold: "In a quarter of an hour, my shadow guard will rush in." Until then, get your business done. Otherwise, hurry up and run for your life. ”

The man hiding in the shadows shook heavily. When was your deeds exposed?

"You followed me all the way from Yanyu Building to here, weren't you just waiting for this opportunity?"

Shen Hanxi turned around, the umbrella was slightly raised, revealing a thin chin, his eyelids were slightly raised, and he looked in one direction.

The man in the robe slowly emerged from the shadows, his feet stepped on the pit formed by the peeling off of the bluestone slab, and the sound of water splashing quickly disappeared in the wind and rain. He clenched the knife in his hand, and there was irrepressible hatred in his voice: "Shen Hanxi, I will take your life today to avenge my father!" ”

"There are more people looking for me to take revenge, your father's surname?"

The person who spoke stood in the rain, holding a paper umbrella, fluttering in white, with contempt and arrogance, indifferent like a fairy.

"My father is waiting for the edict of the Hanlin Academy, don't you forget, he died in your court guard seven days ago!"

Shen Hanxi searched in his mind and said, "Xu Shiqin? ”

The man's eyes were split: "My father has been an official for more than 20 years, he does not bully the king, he is not arrogant, he is not greedy and does not bend the law, Yu Gong, he is a clean official who stands up to the sky, Yu is private, he is a loving father who licks calves and loves deeply, how can such a person be a bandit?!" It's not because my father is noble and didn't send Jingyin to you as usual, so you made up the crime and killed him! ”

"You ask me how your father can be a bandit?" Shen Hanxi's voice was faint, "How do I know, I just hit the eight canes, and the person died of breath, and I didn't have time to ask." ”

These words were tantamount to adding fuel to the fire, and the man's voice trembled: "You...... Don't you have a shred of humanity! Such a healthy person was killed by you in just a quarter of an hour...... You murderous demon without blinking! He said and rushed up, with a desperate momentum, "I will send you to see my father today and accompany my father for his funeral!" ”

The sharp blade was close in front of him, Shen Hanxi took a step back, neatly retracted the umbrella, and greeted him with the umbrella body, dissolving the power of this knife. The other party was a novice, and he stumbled and slashed at him again, but he only turned around and elbowed him to the side of the neck, moving quickly and accurately. He slammed to the ground, hearing a slight blinking sound overhead, like a sharp weapon unsheathed. His eyes were blurred by the rain, but he could clearly see that there was a bright blade in front of him, embedded in the end of the umbrella. The man holding the umbrella shook his sleeves lightly, staring at him, without a trace of warmth in his eyes.

His fingernails were clamped into the flesh, and the flesh was blurred, and he spoke in hatred and unwillingness: "How many loyal and good people have you persecuted so far, you wicked man, and you have returned my father's life!" ”

"You just said it." Shen Hanxi suddenly spoke, his voice was cold, "Your father is 'licking calves' deeply...... It is known that he had a private house in the south of the city, and when the court guard went there, he found twenty-seven girls there, and the white bones buried in the courtyard were all accompanied by the father who licked the calf deeply......"

With a slight movement of his hand, he retracted the blade of the umbrella tail and propped it up to the top of his head.

The rain was huge, and he looked at the person who fell in the mud without pity, and asked him lightly: "You said Xu Shiqin, should he die?" ”