Chapter VI: Confrontation
The man had lost all patience with Ji Yueqin, and he lifted Ji Yueqin's neck again with his hand. Seeing this, Xiao Yu wanted to tear the man's hand away from Ji Yueqin's neck. Xiao Yu was in a hurry, so he grabbed the blood marks on the man's hand with his nails, but the man was still indifferent and let Xiao Yu do it.
Here, Ji Yueqin's face has also turned the color of pig liver, and her brain is gradually blurred due to lack of oxygen, but her gaze at the man is still faint and firm, without a trace of fear, even if she is about to face death.
The man looked at Ji Yueqin's gaze and felt a little blocked, he couldn't kill Ji Yueqin, so he wouldn't be able to know the source of the jade pendant. After all, this jade pendant was a token given by the former emperor Nan Ruiyuan to Duan Rou, the daughter of the former Prime Minister's Mansion. He didn't know why this jade pendant appeared in the hands of this little girl, and the hidden stake under his hand had also lost a lot because of the great change in the Seven Kings' Mansion. The last news came that Duan Rou died in order to protect the little county lord and the little prince, but the little county lord and the little prince accidentally fell into the turbulent river.
So he let go, and Ji Yueqin fell to the ground softly and fell unconscious. Xiaoyu shook Ji Yueqin nervously, wanting Ji Yueqin to wake up, but because of the man's excessive force, Ji Yueqin couldn't wake up for a while. When the man saw Ji Yueqin fainting, he asked Xiaoyu to move Ji Yueqin to the inner room. When Xiao Yu laid Ji Yueqin flat on the bed and gently took off her shoes for Ji Yueqin, she saw that Ji Yueqin's socks were already soaked with blood.
The man walked into the house and saw this scene, and he was also stunned. This house is not close to Jubaozhuang, and it also takes time to walk for a cup of tea. Looking at this blood bubble, she must have traveled a lot of miles today, but she still gritted her teeth and persevered. He couldn't help but admire the little girl's tenacity. So out of sympathy, but also with a little admiration, he threw a bottle of ointment to Xiaoyu, who was distressed and looked at Ji Yueqin.
Xiao Yu took the ointment and threw it at the man in a fit of rage, saying, "I don't want your charity!" "The ointment rolled down to the ground, but it didn't pour out because of the good material.
The man sneered and looked at Xiao Yu and said, "Whatever you want, as a woman, her skin is delicate." The body is skinned, and it is received by its parents. If you don't give her the ointment, just wait for her feet to rot, anyway, it's not you who won't be able to marry in the future, it's her. If you don't want her to be like this for the rest of your life, just drug her honestly. With that, the man left the back room.
Xiao Yu watched the man's departure angrily and silently picked up the medicine bottle. Thinking of Ji Yueqin wading through mountains and rivers with her, but she didn't shout hard work and didn't keep asking for rest, she was even more distressed. She knew that Ji Yueqin had never traveled so far like today, because she had been the pearl of the Seven Kings Mansion before. Thinking of the tragic death of Ji Yueqin's parents, he sighed leisurely.
The man didn't know where to get a basin of hot water for Xiaoyu, so he went outside to look at the jade pendant. Xiao Yu saw that the man would not come in again, so he took off Ji Yueqin's coarse linen clothes, and carefully wiped the dirt on Ji Yueqin's body and the blood on his feet. Then Xiao Yu gently tore the blood-soaked skin on Ji Yueqin's feet, and Ji Yueqin, who was unconscious because of the pain, frowned in her sleep. Seeing this, Xiaoyu had to act more carefully to give Ji Yueqin medicine. The ointment was cool and cool, soothing the pain caused by the blood blisters, but Ji Yueqin's brows were still tightly locked, as if she was struggling in a dream.
Ji Yueqin dreamed of that day in her dreams. She witnessed Midori being stabbed to death by the soldiers who broke into her home, and her mother took her and her brother to hide behind the cabinet and stabbed a soldier to death with a hairpin. Then she was too frightened to make a sound, but her brother was so frightened that his mother's hands were full of blood and he cried. Because her brother's crying attracted other soldiers, her mother took her and her brother to jump off the lotus pond and run out of the house. She saw her mother shuttling through the bamboo forest in order to protect her and her brother, and her body was covered with blood. Eventually, she saw her mother tell them to run away and want her and her brother to live well. She saw her mother's death with her own eyes and cried out for her mother.
Xiao Yu saw Ji Yueqin, who had a nightmare, constantly shouting for her mother, and a dense layer of sweat beads had appeared on her head. Seeing that Ji Yueqin finally woke up, Xiao Yu breathed a sigh of relief. The man heard the noise in the back room and went in to see what was going on.
When the man entered the back room, he saw Ji Yueqin sitting on the boat with a pale face, and Xiao Yu looked at Ji Yueqin with a worried face. Ji Yueqin heard that someone had entered the house, so she looked over vigilantly, and then stared at the man with burning eyes. Maybe it was because Ji Yueqin's gaze was too sharp, the man looked at Ji Yueqin's face in a trance, this look was somewhat similar to the face, as if he had seen it somewhere.
Ji Yueqin found that the man had been staring at her face, and couldn't help but sink her face, after all, she was still a maiden in the room, and it was not etiquette for a man to look at her like this. So Ji Yueqin coughed lightly, and the man's thoughts were pulled back to reality by Ji Yueqin's light cough. But looking at Ji Yueqin's face is very similar to Duan Rou's face, especially the tenacity revealed in those inky eyes, which is almost exactly the same as Duan Rou when she was young. The man asked in surprise, "Who are you?" ”
Ji Yueqin was a little confused, glanced at the man with questions, and said lightly: "I'm just a little girl." ”
Seeing that Ji Yueqin answered the question, the man did not have the previous sense of annoyance, but he was not satisfied with Ji Yueqin's answer and asked again: "What is the relationship between you and Miss Duan Rou." ”
When Ji Yueqin heard the man's question, she was shocked and blurted out: "Who are you!" Why do you know your mother's name? When she finished speaking, she knew that she seemed to have said something that she shouldn't have said, and she lowered her head again, thinking about what to do next.
When the man heard Ji Yueqin's reply, he was also stunned, and muttered: "Mother, ......" suddenly came to his senses as if he understood something, and quickly knelt on the ground, "The subordinate shadow greets the county lord of Yueqin!" The subordinate has just ...... Accidentally injured the county lord. Please punish the county lord. ”
Ji Yueqin looked at the man and her heart was full of doubts, thinking that the man could never be the secret guard of the Seven Princes' Mansion, if it was the secret guard of the Seven Princes' Mansion, it would be impossible not to know him, and the man in front of him called his mother Miss Duan Rou instead of the Seventh Princess, which showed that this person had a great relationship with his mother. Moreover, the man brought himself back to the house because of the jade pendant that his mother left for him at the end, and the southern character engraved on it was the surname of the lord of the Great Yu Kingdom. Ji Yueqin's mind was thinking about who the man was, and after finally guessing his origin, he raised his head and looked at the shadow quietly.
The shadow seemed to know what Ji Yueqin wanted to ask, and before Ji Yueqin could ask him, he took the initiative to answer: "The shadow of the dark guard of the lord of the Great Yu Kingdom is also ordered to bring Miss Duan Rou and the little county lord Xiao Shizi back together." It's just that Miss Duan Rou ......." The shadow wanted to speak and stopped, and Ji Yueqin couldn't help but feel sad when she heard the shadow mention her mother and younger brother. The atmosphere was also a little heavy, and the sadness made people want to cry. The little fish on the side was already stunned by this scene, and they didn't understand what was going on.
Ji Yueqin's tears condensed in her eyes, but she tried to keep her tears from falling, "Mother, she...... Passed away. My brother and I are separated," as if he didn't want to say anything more.
After listening to Ji Yueqin's words, the shadow also began to be silent, and sighed in his heart, the woman who was once a generation of grace has also passed away, and he doesn't know what will happen to the lord of the country. Then he sighed, "The county lord of Yueqin has a good rest, and tomorrow I will escort the county lord to destroy Dayu."
What kind of country will it be, and are there still her relatives there? Ji Yueqin's thoughts drifted far away, and her heart gradually cooled down, and her body exuded a thick sadness and desolation. Her hands became cold, but the warmth of the fish's palms pulled her out of the abyss of sorrow. She raised her eyes to look at Xiao Yu, looking at Xiao Yu's dark and clear eyes, her eyes gradually brightened. Xiaoyu patted her hand, smiled and said, "I will always be with you." ”
As there was a knock on the door, the two of them looked at the door. "Come in." Ji Yueqin's cold voice sounded. The door was pushed open by the shadow, and the shadow took another basin of hot water and brought in two men's clothes for Ji Yueqin and Xiaoyu, "County Lord, my subordinates have brought you and this girl two subordinate clothes, and I hope that the county lord will not dislike them." After speaking, he handed the two sets of cleaned and clean men's clothes to Ji Yueqin, and said to the little fish next to him: "This girl, I was offended before, and I ask the girl not to care." The hot water was brought for the girl to freshen up, and the subordinates withdrew. With that, the shadow exited the room.
Ji Yueqin looked at the back of the shadow leaving, nodded and said with a smile: "It's hard work." Thanks a lot. ”
The dark shadow outside the house heard Ji Yueqin's reply, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly. This little county lord was the same as Miss Duan Rou back then, he had never treated him as a subordinate, thinking of Duan Rou, he looked at the candle flame in a little daze, and sighed faintly.
In the room, Ji Yueqin changed into the clothes of the shadow, because the shadow is an adult and Ji Yueqin is only seven or eight years old, the difference in body shape is too big, Xiaoyu looked at Ji Yueqin's thin body but was wearing a wide clothes, and couldn't help but smile. Ji Yueqin looked at Xiaoyu's appearance similar to herself, and also smiled slightly.
At this moment, the moon has climbed the branches, and the autumn cicadas are still screaming outside the window, but there is no sense of heat in the summer night, but there is a gust of autumn wind blowing through the hall that makes people feel bleak. I can finally get a good night's rest.
Just when Ji Yueqin and Xiaoyu were resting peacefully on the collapse, the accident happened again.