Rain cats and dogs.

Although it was covered by the branches and leaves of the black tree, the confrontation in the court was only a moment, and the robes of Qiu Jinglan and Qiu Feng were already soaked.

In normal times, they may not be so embarrassed.

But at this moment, both of them know that the other party is their lifelong rival, and the slightest negligence will lead to defeat and death, so they naturally have no time to take shelter from the rain with internal strength.

"Originally, you have been running back and forth for the past two days, and you have spent a lot of effort to rescue the county lord of Ningyi, and Qiu is now looking for you to do it!" Qiu Feng slowly pulled out the long sword behind his back and said word by word, "But now it's not a competition, just to seek revenge...... Come on! ”

"Ding!"

Through the window lattice, Qiu Yulan could also hear the sound of the clash of blades that could not be concealed by the wind and rain, and she could imagine how fierce the battle outside was at this moment.

It's just that although the poison of Ulanxiang is solved, she is still unable to get up at the moment - even if she can get up, she can't intervene in this battle, and there are people guarding the house from doors to windows to prevent further accidents, and it is also forbidden for her to go out to mix.

So she could only bite her lip and pray that Qiu Jinglan would win!

- But Qiu Jinglan, who has lost too much, is not Qiu Feng's opponent after all.

Just a cup of tea, Qiu Jinglan's shoulder, under his ribs, and left arm had already received a sword each, and this was the result of his best efforts to dodge.

Just as the autumn wind was about to stab the long sword into his throat, just like in the inner room just now, in the rain curtain, a black light was silent, and it hit the sword with a "duh", shaking the long sword into two!

Next, without waiting for the angry autumn wind to make another move, in the courtyard that was still empty before, a large number of black-clothed people with bows and crossbows suddenly appeared.

"What a Qiu Jinglan, what a master of the 'end of the world'!" Qiu Feng knew that there was no hope of revenge for his acquaintance, and his eyes were full of disdain and contempt when he looked at Qiu Jinglan, he spat on the ground, turned the broken sword upside down, and wiped it on his neck, "Qiu Mou's life is falling, even if it falls into your calculations, how can you kill this villain?!" ”

"Stop him!" Qiu Jinglan ignored Dong Ran, who hurriedly came up to bandage his wounds, and calmly ordered, "Tie him up and take him to the study!" ”

He also commanded, "Go and tell my sister that I have won and that I am safe, and let her rest assured." ”

Qiu Yulan, who didn't know the actual battle process and didn't know that Qiu Jinglan was injured, breathed a sigh of relief after hearing the news.

"The county lord drink the medicine, and sleep after the end...... At that time, I will be able to return to Beijing. Chun Ran carefully took the medicine, and Qiu Yulan took it and drank it happily.

By the time she woke up again, she was already moving as usual, except for a little loss of strength.

At this time, the sky finally cleared, and Su He, who was guarding the couch, told her: "A guard went to see it this morning, the water has receded, but the ground has not dried yet, I am afraid that the carriage and horses will fall into it, so I want to wait to dry it before leaving." ”

lowered his voice again, "Shizi...... No, my cousin said let's do what we called before, and don't reveal his identity. ”

Qiu Yulan nodded: "This is as it should be, Empress Dowager Gu and Shi Han are still in charge of the government, and the other is officially in charge of the Zhenxi Army." What do our brothers and sisters have now? Now that the identity of his brother has been announced, not only can he not clear his grievances for his grandfather and father, but he will be questioned for his relationship with 'Tianya', so his brother is still safe with the identity of the heir and grandson of the Ruan family! ”

Thinking of this, he asked, "Since Qiu Feng was defeated, what happened to his brother?" ”

Su He's face was strange, and he thought to himself that Iron Horse Qiuxia would be defeated? It's just that we have been overshadowed by our son!

But she didn't dare to divulge the fact that Qiu Jinglan ordered the sealing, so she pinched her head and tailed, and said, "My cousin asked someone to stop his suicide and invited him to the study chief to talk...... Then I let him go. When he left, he said that he might come to his cousin again in the future...... But the maid didn't care at all when he looked at his cousin. ”

Qiu Yulan believed it and sighed: "Although my brother has deceived Qiu Feng for so many years with the matter of the former Zuo Protector, this time the matter was revealed, and even let him know his identity, and he was willing to let him go, which shows that my brother is not unreminiscent of the old love." Qiu Nie and they rebelled, saying that they were unwilling to live under others, which was an excuse for not succeeding in seizing power...... But I hope they don't regret it after they arrive under the Empress Dowager Gu - especially Mei Xue and Swing, then Gu Yan can even do it with his own cousin, let alone them? ”

Su Hegan smiled: "That's what you said." ”

Why does the maid think that the prince seems to have deceived the autumn wind again......

But Qiu Jinglan wanted to maintain her positive image in front of her sister, Su He didn't dare to dismantle this platform, she quickly changed the topic: "In the past two days that you have been asleep, General Jiang Xiao and Princess Chunfu, as well as Miss Zhuang and Miss Liusun of the Xue family, have either sent people or come in person, but they were all blocked back by your cousin, saying that you were infected with the cold. ”

"I actually slept for two days? After returning to the city, please ask Zhuang Man to talk to Xue Langqing. The trouble of her brother here was suppressed for the time being, and Qiu Yulan suddenly remembered her troubles again-thinking that the Jiang family's sisters and brothers were suspicious of themselves, she felt unhappy, especially the cousin who was originally her own brother turned out to be her own brother - she felt more innocent, and her suspicion of Jiang Yashuang and Jiang Qizheng was even more disgusted.

She didn't want to talk about these people and things now, so she asked, "Qiu Nie, those three, are you gone?" What are the specific conditions that my brother agreed to? ”

Su He said: "I left yesterday, and the martial arts of the three people were all abolished by my cousin, and I was poisoned before...... But when they left, the cousin gave them the antidote. The specific conditions, the maid is not very clear, knowing that the cousin gave them 200,000 taels of silver, and they vowed not to divulge the identity of the cousin, and the cousin will not pursue them in the future. ”

"Their vows...... Can you believe it? The corners of Qiu Yulan's mouth twitched, "Didn't my brother say it before, and they didn't swear an oath!" ”

Su He said: "If they don't leak it, my cousin won't be embarrassed by them." If they leak out, the cousin can do it immediately, and the Empress Dowager Gu may not be able to protect them well for the rest of her life...... Speaking of which, the maid doesn't know what to say about these three people, they betrayed their cousin, but they still believe in their cousin's promise! ”

"Losers...... I can't believe it if I don't believe it! Qiu Yulan thought to herself, maybe these three people said they were leaving, God knows where they went? Huangquan Road?

But it turns out that she underestimated Qiu Jinglan's festival - because when she returned to the city the next day, she actually saw Mei Xue dressed up on the side of the road shortly after entering the city - although Mei Xue was the only one, but judging from her demeanor, Qiu Nie and Swing should be fine, and she also saw Qiu Jinglan riding a horse not far in front of the carriage, and saluted him across the crowd.

"Could it be that this Mei Xue has actually been my brother's person all along, going undercover at Qiu Nie Swing?" Qiu Yulan looked at Mei Xue who was intact, and couldn't help muttering in her heart, "Qiu Nie and Qiu Swing were abused so badly, why doesn't she seem to have anything?!" ”

She didn't know that Mei Xue turned around after saluting, and her previous respectful expression immediately turned into resentment, and her nails dug deep into her flesh: "What a vicious Qiu Jinglan!" abolished the martial arts of the three of us, and threw 200,000 taels of silver tickets to us for the sake of the county lord of Ningyi, and he still won't stop! deliberately tortured Brother Nie and Qian'er to death, but he didn't move me a finger, what did he say about me and you, and worked a lot for you...... This is clearly the plan of the two peaches to kill the three soldiers - since you are unkind, don't blame me for being unjust! ”

Mei Xue thought for a moment, and out of the corner of her eye, she caught a glimpse of Qiu Jinglan and her entourage having disappeared on the street corner, beckoned and shouted to the maid Xiaohong to whisper a few words, and the master and servant entered a bookstore not far away.

This shop is elegantly decorated, and it is intimidating to ordinary people when it looks at it, so there are not many customers in the shop.

At this moment, there was also a group of guards in fresh clothes and fast horses in front of the door, all of them with solemn expressions, their eyes like electricity, and they glared away several guests wearing silk ribbons and gold. However, this kind of scene naturally did not frighten Mei Xue, and she entered without even glancing at the guards—when she entered the door, she saw that in addition to their master and servant, there were only two or three servants accompanying a brocade-robed scholar to pick up a book.

The brocade-robed man has broad eyebrows and slightly dark skin, but he has a lot of grace between Gu Pan.

After Mei Xue glanced at him casually, she walked towards a row of ancient books, but this glance had already made her see clearly that there was a mole on the left earlobe of this scholar. She was relieved: "Fortunately, Qiu Jinglan asked me to pay attention to Qingwu's appearance and the time of arrival in Beijing...... Otherwise, I will return to the city two days earlier than their brothers and sisters, and I will have to take care of Brother Nie and Qian'er, and it is really difficult to find out the whereabouts of this prince. ”

After confirming that this brocade-robed scholar was the prince of Zhang Guogong, she didn't go up to greet him, and didn't even look at him again, but took the little red path to the ancient bookshelf and picked it up.

"Miss, why are you buying ancient books again? Isn't Childe already in the Hanlin Academy? When Xiaohong saw her standing still, she began to mumble according to the plan, "These books are so expensive!" It's enough to make a few clothes for you and the third lady! ”

"These are not for the younger brother, but for the county lord of Ningyi." Mei Xue lowered her voice while "engrossed" looking at those expensive classics, "Soon the boudoir school of Xihe Wangfu will be opened, can you not give a gift to Lord Ningyi?" Originally, the identity of the family was noble, and he was so beautiful, and Ruan Hanlin loved his sister's brother so much, and he couldn't get the clothes and jewelry at all, so I thought about it, and it was better to buy a few books and the cost was smaller. ”

Xiao Hong glanced at the bookshelf and said, "But Ruan Hanlin just escorted the county lord of Ningyi back to Beijing, and before we came in, we saw that they seemed to be going back to the Xihe Palace...... Let's go to give gifts now, won't it be too rushed? ”

"Who said it would be given today?" Mei Xue said, "Take advantage of the fact that you go out today to buy things...... Go back and let Qian'er send it herself, she is also older, it's time to learn these favors...... That's all for these two. The last two sentences were to beckon the guys from the bookstore to come over.

…… After they paid the money and left, Guo Qingwu thoughtfully asked the shopkeeper who was entertaining him: "Do you know the two ladies just now?" ”

"That's Qiu Hanlin's eldest sister." Qingwu because of the long journey, only brought the books that he often reads, and now he has to buy the rest of the books in this bookstore, such a big customer, even if he is not the shopkeeper of the prince's identity, he is willing to sell his face, "It is said that in order to let Qiu Hanlin concentrate on studying, she has delayed all the major events of her life, she is used to it inside and out, and it is common for her to show up......

The shopkeeper only said that this world was surprised that since Mei Xue was a daughter of an official family, why did she not cover her appearance when she came out? But he didn't want to squint his eyes, but he thought: "Qiu Han Lin Qiu Nie?" I heard that he is very close to Ruan Qingyan...... Hehe, Ruan Qingyan, I don't know when he will admit that he is Qiu Jinglan? ”

After thinking for a while, he put down the book in his hand and said to the shopkeeper: "Send these to the Zhangguo Mansion, and someone will settle the bill with you there...... If you go back and buy it again. ”

The shopkeeper thanked him for being so studious, and complimented him on being so studious that he must be the champion of Badou High School - Guo Qingwu didn't pay attention to it, and directly led people out of the door, instructing: "Go to the vicinity of Xihe Wangfu!" ”