After school in the afternoon. Lu Zhi waited outside the gate of the academy for a quarter of an hour and didn't see the figure of Yu Yu, so he went into the courtyard to look for someone, and after seeing the empty Bingchen Sect House, he felt bad.

After walking back and forth in the teaching house, he found the low case of the relict jade, although it was neatly furnished, but the paper and pen on the case and the cushion on the mat were nowhere to be seen.

Entering the Ganwei Residence, Lu Zhi swept around among the students who were eating, and looked for a few familiar students in ink and gray regular clothes, and walked towards the table, behind the table, a long-faced young man who was picking vegetables saw Lu Zhi walking towards him, and after a little hesitation, he stood up, and the two people next to him turned their heads along his line of sight, saw Lu Zhi, and stood up.

"Brother Lu."

Lu Zhi nodded, "Three, have you ever seen your sister after school?" ”

The three of them thought for a moment, and the young man on the left hesitated a little: "It seems that I saw a male student taking her to the backyard." ”

Backyard? Lu Zhi frowned slightly. "But do you know who took her away?"

The young man shook his head slightly, "I don't know, although I am also a student of the Academy, my eyes are tight." ”

Lu Zhi bowed to the three of them, "Thank you." ”

With that, he quickly left Ganweiju, leaving the three teenagers at the table looking at each other, and the long-faced teenager asked the other two with a little confusion, "Is this anyone?" ”

"Who knows, a good living person, can he still lose it?"

"That's not necessarily, I heard that Miss Na Lu got a grade A in the school entrance examination at the end of last month, and it seems that she was asked by Princess Chengyang in the morning......"

***

Du Ruojin didn't have classes this afternoon, but he was still painting in the backyard of Tai Academy as usual, and it had been a while since he got out of school, sitting at his desk, he gently rolled up the fourth moonlit night picture drawn on the table in recent days, shook his head and sighed softly, Junxiu's face showed a trace of helplessness, and muttered to himself:

"I don't know who picked up the picture scroll that day, it's a pity, it's a pity."

After putting the pen and ink back in place, he went out of the rest room and prepared to go back to his house, and walked to the gate of the Tai Academy alone, and suddenly saw a figure running by in front of him, and after being stunned, he shouted:

"Mr. Lu."

Lu Zhi, who got the news in Ganweiju and ran all the way towards the academy, suddenly heard someone shouting behind him, and immediately stopped. Look back.

"Why are you in such a hurry, but what's wrong?"

Lu Zhi was anxious, but he still replied politely: "Mr. Du, my sister has disappeared since she got out of school, and I am looking for her." ”

Du Ruojin just paused for a moment, and then said, "Let's go, I'll look for it with you." "There are a lot of twists and turns in this country, he has been here for more than three years, but he has never known a little bit about the things he should know, and a few students will disappear inexplicably every year in this school, and then they will either find the carrion in the Yinghu Lake, that is, they will dig up the bones in the garden.

Lu Zhi didn't refuse, Yi Yu is not a person who doesn't know the importance of it, and he disappeared inexplicably at this time, at best he was taken away, and at worst he said - it's better to find someone quickly!

Du Ruojin followed Lu Zhi's pace in a few steps, and the two quickly ran to the backyard of the academy, and divided into two ends to look for people in the backyard.

However, they searched all the rooms in the backyard and could not see half a figure, and when they converged on both sides, their faces were very unsightly.

After a moment of silence, Lu Zhi said to Du Ruojin in a deep voice: "Mr. Du." I'm sorry for you to go to Kunyuan to see if Xiaoyu has gone back, I'll look for it around here, if you are looking for someone, let's meet in front of Ganweiju. ”

Du Ruojin turned around and walked away quickly, while Lu Zhi went around to the small door in the backyard of the academy, pushed open the unlocked door, and entered the path leading to the forest behind the academy.

His steps were not fast, and he looked down from time to time to pay attention to his feet, and suddenly saw something falling on the grass not far away, and hurriedly ran over to pick it up, but it was a cushion, which was stuffed in the bag by the Lu family before the brother and sister left home, one for each person, his one was bigger, and the one with the jade was smaller.

Thinking of the scene he saw on the jade seat in the Bingchen Sect House earlier, Lu Zhi's big hand holding the cushion suddenly tightened, and his eyes flashed fiercely, he looked around the ground nearby, and didn't find anything again, before continuing to look for it all the way in the direction where the cushion fell.

***

Du Ruojin hurried to the Kun Courtyard, his face was flushed abnormally with a trace of abnormal flush after rarely exercising so vigorously, and he endured the stuffy pain in his chest, and asked the two servants who were guarding outside the courtyard.

"Miss Lu from the Academy of Books is back?"

"I haven't seen it."

"Go in and find her, and if she's here, ask her to come out."

The two servant women glanced at each other, and one of them entered the courtyard, and after a while, he walked out with Chen Qu, the maid who had left the jade.

This afternoon, when Yi Yu went out to class, he told Chen Qu that dinner should be eaten in the room, and Chen Qu watched the hour to get dinner and came back, but unfortunately it was a long time after class. I didn't see my own lady come back.

Du Ruojin looked at Chen Qu alone and knew that something was wrong, but still asked, "Where is your young lady?" ”

"Miss didn't come back, Mr. Du, what's wrong?"

Du Ruojin's face changed again, she only felt a tightness in her chest, and she didn't care about answering Chen Qu, she turned around and covered her lips with a violent cough, Chen Qu and the servants saw it, and hurriedly stepped forward, "Mr. Du, what's wrong with you?" ”

"Ahem, you go to the front of the sweet taste... Ahem, find Lu Zhi and tell him that your young lady has not come back, ahem, go quickly! ”

After barely finishing this sentence, he coughed violently again, although Chen Qu was worried, he still responded obediently, and ran towards the distance with his legs, while the two servants carefully supported Du Ruojin to sit down on a small stool outside the courtyard gate.

After resting for a while, Du Ruojin felt a little better in her chest, and ignored the two servants to stop her. Got up and hurried in the direction of the academy again.

***

As the sky gradually darkened, lanterns were lit everywhere in the country, but several utility rooms in the small forest on the east side of Ganweiju gradually enveloped in darkness.

The situation of the two little girls who were locked up together was very bad at the moment, Yang Xiaozhao had not eaten since the morning, and he was already dizzy from hunger at this time, and Yi Yu stayed in this room with poor air circulation for more than an hour, and the side effects of the incense that he had received before appeared.

"Xiaoyu, you... Why are you shaking so much? The two little girls were chatting without a word before, at first Yi Yu trembled, Yang Xiaozhao was a little scared as she was herself, but at this moment she noticed that something was wrong.

"Xiao, Xiaozhao. I feel so cold. After finishing speaking word by word, Yi Yu shuddered a few more times, and wrapped the outer gauze again with shaking hands.

"Cold," Xiao Zhao was stunned for a moment, pulled the clothes on his body, it was a little cold, and he raised his strength and reached out to probe Yi Yu's body, and suddenly shouted in a dry voice: "Xiao Yu, you are feverish!" ”

After Yi Yu's eyes were in a trance for a while, he didn't answer, but gritted his teeth and stood up against the wall, walked towards the window with faint moonlight on the opposite side, ignored Yang Xiaozhao's inquiry behind him, took out the textbook from the bookbag on his shoulder, shook his hand and opened it, "teared" and ripped off a piece of paper that was crumpled into a ball of paper, and threw it towards the window, but unfortunately it bounced back on the window railing.

"Xiao Zhao, come, come and help me..."

Yang Xiaozhao was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly stumbled to her side, and the two tore the pages of the book page by page, crumpled them into paper balls, and threw them out of the window.

Yi Yu's idea is very simple, the two of them are not in a good condition now, the sound is not much louder than a cat's meow, one is hungry and has no strength, the other has a headache and chills, and the temperature here will be lower in the middle of the night, maybe the two of them will pass out at night and will never wake up again.

Lu Zhi found that she was gone, he would definitely look for her, although the prison of this country was big, but they were not in some deep cave and cellar, they would always find this place, even if they passed out, as long as someone saw those paper balls. You won't miss it.

After throwing the paper balls, they helped each other back to sit down under the wall opposite the window, and sat down next to each other, quietly waiting for time to pass.

***

Wei Wangfu Combing Pavilion

Under the light of the six Heteng Palace lamps in the hall, Li Tai, who was wearing a robe, leaned on a rattan chair, flipped through the scroll in his hand at will, the long hair scattered on the back of the chair was still a little wet, and he suddenly heard a faint movement in his ears, and his eyes did not leave the book, but asked in a low voice:

"What's the matter?"

A dark shadow passed in the room, and a black-clothed swordsman was seen standing five steps in front of the rattan chair, and the person who came moved his lips inaudibly, but Li Tai, who was about to turn the page, paused.

After a while, the figure on the rattan chair moved, and after two strokes, he put on the robe draped over his shoulders, took the jewel belt on the back of the rattan chair and buckled it around his waist, and called out slightly:

"Ah Sheng, prepare the horse."

***

At this moment, when it was approaching, Lu Zhi went to Ganweiju to find Chen Qu who came to report the news, and immediately turned back to Kunyuan, and called many good classmates to look around in the Guozi Prison together.

The thicker the night, the more gloomy Lu Zhi's mood became, and he found out from the people around Chengyang that the princess had no intention of finding trouble with the jade, and the guards at the front and back of the Guozijian had never seen the jade go out.

At the same time, at the gate of Guozijian that crosses the Zhiming Road that crosses Hongwen Road, eight guards have just closed the gate, and are waiting to change shifts, when they suddenly hear a rapid sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and the top of their heads is whistling, and they see a snow-white fierce bird in the night sky rushing towards them, several guards suddenly panicked, and were about to draw their swords, but the fierce bird could miss them, the wind with huge wings still echoing in the ears, and the sound of horses' hooves stopped on the other side of the door.

"Open the door!" A loud shout rang out, "His Royal Highness King Wei is here, don't open the door quickly!" ”

Only then did the guards calm down and hurriedly pulled the three-person high gate open, and with the muffled turning sound of the door shaft, the guards raised their eyes to identify the person outside the door.

Under the backdrop of the four fiery red lanterns at the door, five horses kicked their feet, and the first horse with a dark mane was the first to rush into the door, followed by four riders, and the guards turned around only to see the long hair of the figure on the black horse. (！ )