Walking out of the teahouse, Song Ran's expression was much slower than Fang Cai, looking at Xia Xiaoqiu's back, and said sincerely: "Thank you Xia Ye for breaking the siege." Seeing that he kept walking in the opposite direction to the Song Mansion, he couldn't help but ask him, "Where does Xia Ye want to take us?" ”

Xia Xiaoqiu walked to Su Ji's carriage and said, "Wait here." Then he swaggered in, and after a while he rented a car and came out.

"Get in the car."

The dumb man protected Song Ran behind him, and his face was not very good: "Where are you going?" ”

Xia Xiaoqiu said: "You'll know when you arrive." He raised his eyebrows again, "Miss Song, I treat you as a friend, are you still afraid that I will sell you, but suddenly there is a favor, please be sure to help." ”

The dumb man still wanted to speak, but was interrupted by Song Ran with his eyes, today Xia Xiaoqiu helped them get rid of the second master Zhu, they should give him this face. Dumb people still act in the style of rivers and lakes, but if you want to survive in this Ling'an City, no one can be offended.

She said: "If there is anything difficult about Xia Ye, within the range, I will naturally do my best." ”

Xia Xiaoqiu nodded with satisfaction and said, "It's not a difficult thing, you get in the car first, and I'll tell you slowly." ”

Song Ran saw that he didn't say it directly, and she had a little bottom in her heart, this matter was probably within her range, but it would make her a little resistant. Still, she lifted the curtain and sat down in the carriage. When the dumb man saw this, he had no choice but to go up.

Xia Xiaoqiu whispered to the coachman to explain the destination, and he also boarded the carriage.

As soon as he went up, two pairs of eyes were staring at him, he felt pressured, rolled his eyes, and adopted a roundabout strategy: "Miss Song, did you say today that there is no prejudice against our court guard?" ”

Song Ran was stunned, did she say it?

"That's what it means." Xia Xiaoqiu noticed the dumb gaze, and before getting into the main topic, he expressed his dissatisfaction with him, "The surname is Feng, what do you have to say about me?" ”

The mute looked calm and ignored him.

Xia Xiaoqiu was unhappy: "The incident that chased and killed you last time has already turned the page, you almost kicked off one of Lao Tzu's legs, Lao Tzu didn't hold a grudge against you, and he looked down on you extraordinarily, what kind of score do you put for Lao Tzu on weekdays?" ”

The mute was stopped by his questioning, lowered his eyes, and did not speak. After a while, he raised his eyes to look at him: "It's not playing with you." I just don't know how to face you. I've been thinking about how to make up for you these days. ”

Xia Xiaoqiu trembled when he said this: "What do you say, make up for it?" He slapped one hand on the table in the car, "You mean that Lao Tzu can't beat you, but instead stalks you for compensation, right, look down on people, you?" ”

Seeing that what he understood and what he expressed were completely different realms, the dumb man couldn't help but sigh in his heart and said, "That's not what I mean. ”

He turned his head, but met Song Ran's gaze.

Those eyes were so delicate and clear that they seemed to have seen through his whole being.

He suddenly remembered that many years ago, his parents died of famine, he took his sister to flee south, halfway, his sister was seriously ill, he struggled for a long time, and finally sneaked into a house and stole two coins of silver.

It was the first theft in his life.

When he went to the doctor on his sister's back and took out the two coins, her sister looked at him with such eyes, as if she already knew that the two coins were ill-gotten gains. Back then, her eyes pierced his heart deeply.

After a few days, he finally could not stand the torture of his conscience, and returned to the house where he had committed the theft, only to be frozen in the same place as he was in sight.

The poor family could not afford to buy a coffin, so the body was placed on a straw mat, and the boy who had chased him for a few streets for the two coins that day was kneeling in front of the corpse, shouting "Daddy" in tears......

He finally lifted his foot and fled.

When he returned to the ruined temple where he lived, his sister was nowhere to be seen, and only the Bodhisattva with peeling gold paint looked down at him, as if to tell him what the present world newspaper was.

During the famine that year, he and his sister fled to Ling'an, but they were separated halfway.

Since then, he has traveled all over Dajing, looking for his sister's whereabouts, but he can't find it.

His sister was born beautifully, and it was likely that she was abducted by human traffickers, or sold to Qinglou, or sold to large families, and everywhere he went, he had to climb over the wall to find clues, and in order not to ruin the girl's reputation, he had to steal some property.

If you do more, your reputation in the rivers and lakes will be established.

Communicating with the Relief Pavilion is also to use the Relief Pavilion to find out the news of his sister. A few months ago, someone found half a jade pendant in a pawnshop in Yaozhou and handed it to him through the Relief Pavilion.

He naturally recognized the jade pendant, which was a relic left by his father. Probably when her sister was extremely poor, she took the jade pendant out, but she was reluctant to take it all, so she only took half of it, or perhaps, she deliberately left this clue to him, although it was slim, but she hoped that one day her only relative in the world could follow this half of the jade pendant and find her whereabouts.

Later, he really followed this jade pendant and found Ling'an from Yaozhou......

Unexpectedly, in Ling'an, he not only found his sister, but also found the boy who was kneeling in front of his father's corpse and crying. - It turned out that it was his own thought that caused an innocent teenager to have no last support.

Fate tugged him in a circle and brought him back to where he was.

Xia Xiaoqiu didn't know that his enemy was sitting in the same carriage with him at this time.

He thought about his main purpose, endured his anger towards the mute, and when he looked at Song Ran, he put on a smiling face: "Miss Song, you also know the temper of my family, only he oppresses others, no one else oppresses him, and the grievances he received today will definitely be brought back in the future." It's not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, just wait, my family will definitely return an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. ”

As long as he talked about Shen Hanxi, he had an admiring tone, but Song Ran really didn't think that this was anything to admire.

Is it a good thing?

"The saint can't bear the pressure, so he suspended my family, and when this limelight passes, you can see who can have the last laugh. But......" he said, "Who doesn't have a low point, isn't there an emperor Lao Tzu who has been lying down and tasted gall when he was down." The adults in my family were calculated by the villain this time, and the mood was inevitably unhappy. There is no one in the house to speak, I am afraid that the adults will get sick. So, Miss Song, can you go over and talk to my family and help unravel. ”

Hearing this, she hurriedly lifted the curtain of the carriage, and saw that the carriage had come to West Street, and there were already high walls and green tiles on all sides, all of which were magnificent mansions, and the mansion of the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Health Division should not be far away......

She was faintly worried: "Is Lord Shen really willing to see the people's daughter?" ”

Xia Xiaoqiu said again and again: "How can you not be willing, you must be very welcome." ”

In the end, Shen Hanxi was suspended pending trial, and at this moment, there was a column of forbidden troops strictly guarding the gate of the Shen Mansion, but it was a matter of concern. However, the side gate on the west side of the gate is unguarded, and the people in the house still come and go freely.

Think about it carefully, the garrison in the capital, except for the Lingbei battalion, which is the men and horses of King Chengwu, more than half of the forbidden army and the guards of the imperial city are dispatched by Shen Hanxi, he is so powerful, even if there is an order from the saint, who really dares to imprison him in the mansion? What's more, the holy will is unpredictable, and no one can figure out what the attitude of the Long Live Lord towards Shen Hanxi is now. Maybe after two days, the weather will go down and the wind will change again.

Xia Xiaoqiu diligently helped Song Ran to the ground, he should be a frequent visitor to the Shen Mansion, and brought outsiders in, but no one stopped him.

Finally came to the inner courtyard, Xia Xiaoqiu grabbed a subordinate, pulled him aside, and asked in a low voice, "Is the one from the palace still there?" ”

Seeing his subordinates nodding, his expression immediately sank: "Haven't left yet?" "Disgusted, drive him away," Get out. ”

Early this morning, he was informed that the woman he had never been accustomed to had come, and it seemed to him that this woman must have known that his adult was in trouble, and had come to comfort him with a false pity.

He suddenly remembered to move Song Ran over, just to let the woman see: "My family has other women to choose from besides you." ”

Of course, Song Ran didn't know anything about his thoughts.

He also felt a little guilty about this girl who had been kept in the dark by himself, so he treated her more attentively.

"Miss Song, you wait here for a while, I'll go tell the adults."

After Xia Xiaoqiu left, Song Ran stretched out his hand boredly and stroked the banana leaves beside him.

The dumb couldn't help but remind her: "It's best not to get too close to Shen Hanxi." ”

She turned around and asked him, "Dumb, you were in the palace that day...... But what indecent scenes did you see? ”

His eyes flickered, and he was noncommittal, but said: "You just need to remember what I said at all times, and stay away from him for your own good." ”

She laughed at his misdemeanor: "Don't you think that when I receive a little favor from him, and when I see his huge family business, I will forget who he is? Mute, I was also a caged bird, how can I appreciate a person who is also trapped in a cage? ”

Although she felt that he did not seem to be an out-and-out courtier as she had thought he was, she still had some resistance to dealing with him. A person who regards human life as a mustard, even if he has his bitterness, violates the norms in her heart. To put it bluntly, they are not all the way.

The dumb man listened to her words and put his mind at ease: "That's good." But when I think of my sister, I feel worried. The girl in front of her has her own ideas, but his sister has always liked to be led by others, if she is really involved with Shen Hanxi...... I'm afraid she's the only one who suffers.

Song Ran saw that his expression was tense, knowing who he was worried about, he raised his hand and patted him on the shoulder, which was considered comfort.

Birds flew overhead, lead-gray clouds hung low, and there was a faint sign of rain.

In the side hall of the Shen Mansion, the woman was dressed as a palace maid and asked Shen Hanxi: "What do you have to do about these things recently?" ”

Shen Hanxi didn't hide it from her, threw the jade talisman engraved with the word "ink" on the table, and said, "The gang that robbed Liu Mingxian and left this." I suspect that it was the same force that robbed Xiao Yan that day. ”

The woman took the jade talisman in her hand, looked at it over and over, and her eyebrows tightened slightly: "Mo Clan? He shook his head again and said, "It won't be the Mo family, the Mo family has not been involved in politics for nearly 20 years, and when Dingyuan was waiting to marry the eldest princess, he also swore that in his lifetime, the Mo family would never intervene in political struggles." ”

As she spoke, she returned the jade talisman to him.

"However, what if the next head of the Mo family has other ideas about this family rule?"

Su Long was stunned and muttered: "I heard that Dingyuan Hou has a son and a daughter, it stands to reason that the next head of the family should be inherited by his son-in-law, but the Mo family wants to recruit a son-in-law, and would rather pass on a person with a foreign surname than the second son of Mo." Since Xiao Yan retired from marriage, now, who will be the next head of the Mo family, but it is still hanging. ”

Shen Hanxi didn't know what he was thinking, he just rubbed the object in his hand and didn't say a word.

Su Long said lightly: "For the power of the Mo family, this Mo girl will be the object of all the families trying to win over. ”

There was a faint emotion in Shen Hanxi's eyes, and after a long time, he gently opened his lips: "Yes, it will also be the future East Palace, the woman to fight for." ”