Chapter 68: The Heron Is Missing
The room was silent, and there was no sound at all.
Xue Nuo looked straight at the beam, saw that the person above refused to move, and directly grabbed the teacup on the table and threw it towards the beam.
"Young master, it's me."
"I know it's you."
Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a cup that was smashed just now.
Qiu Changqing saw that Xue Nuo had discovered him, and he no longer hid, grabbed the beam of the house with one hand, and jumped down in a black suit, still holding the cup just now in his hand.
Seeing that Xue Nuo was not surprised at all, he couldn't help but put the cup on the table and asked a little puzzled, "How did the young master know that I was here?" ”
When he came in just now, he hadn't touched anything in the house, and he had been hiding on the beams for a long time, and the Shen family's subordinates had been in and out several times without noticing him.
How did the young master know that there was someone in the house? And know that it's him?
Of course, Xue Nuo wouldn't tell Qiu Changqing that when she gave him a red face, she still mixed something in it, and only she could smell it.
She just said: "In the eyes of outsiders, I am just a beggar picked up by the Shen family, and the only ones who can sneak into the Shen family to find me are those who have a grudge against the Shen family besides you." ”
The three princes are counted as one, Chengguo Gong is counted as one, and Xu Lizhen, the fourth prince.
But no matter who one of these people was, there was no need to risk sending someone to infiltrate the Shen family to deal with such an inconsequential little person as her.
Xue Nuo explained, and he didn't light the lamp, so he walked to the window in the dark, and looked at Qiu Changqing against the moonlight that came through the window lattice: "How long have you been in Beijing?" ”
"When I left Qizhen, my subordinates came to the capital."
"What about the Fourteen Riders?"
Qiu Changqing hesitated.
Seeing this, Xue Nuo raised his eyes coldly: "What, they have already switched to others?" ”
"It's not." Qiu Changqing hurriedly said, "The Fourteen Horsemen are loyal to the Lord, and they have no dissenting intentions, if they didn't want to avenge the Lord, they should have gone with the Lord." ”
"Lu Shu was very surprised to hear that the young master was still alive, and he was willing to meet the young master, but the Gu eagle and the heron were ......."
He whispered,
"The heron broke the news in Shuozhou, and the person I sent to deliver the letter said that he was no longer in Shuozhou, and no one went to pick up the letter for several days.
Xue Nuo's eyebrows furrowed: "You told them my identity?" ”
Qiu Changqing shook his head: "No." ”
Seeing Xue Nuo looking at him with a slight composure, Qiu Changqing said, "Does the young master know what the fourteen horsemen are?" ”
"The Lord selected fourteen people that year, ten for spears and four for shields, and ten of them have been following the Lord to conquer the Quartet for her, knowing each other's identities, and they are also the terrifying black-armored guards on the Lord's face."
"The remaining four people are hidden in the shadows and no one knows, and it is precisely because of this that these four people were able to escape the bloodbath of the princess's mansion back then."
The four people who are shields are the blue bird, the heron, the deer Shu and the Gu eagle.
The blue bird is the spirit, the deer Shu is good, the heron is brave, and the Gu carving is strategic.
"The four of us have their own responsibilities, and we have always been secretly communicating with each other, and we don't know each other's identities, and later it was because Lu Shu helped me escape from the capital in that bloodbath that I accidentally knew who he was, but the Gu Eagle and the Heron have never shown up, and I don't dare to inform the two of them about the identity of the young master without authorization."
It's not that he doesn't trust them, but after seven years, no one knows if anything will happen in the middle, and he doesn't dare to risk the only bloodline left by the Lord until he is sure of their identities.
Xue Nuo's expression was slightly relieved when she heard this, she didn't know much about the matter of Zhaoyun's fourteen horses, she had only heard her mother say that these people were absolutely loyal to her before, and she had also talked about the meaning of the existence of these fourteen people.
At that time, her mother touched her head and said with a smile that when she was older, she would pass these people to her and let them become her arms, but before that day, she ushered in a bloodbath in the palace.
If she hadn't memorized her mother's words over and over again, if she hadn't seen the tattoos on the Black Armor Guard that belonged to Zhaoyun's Fourteen Riders, she wouldn't have recognized Qiu Changqing that night.
Xue Nuo's eyes were slightly cold: "Who is Lu Shu?" ”
"Too hospital judgment, Ning Jingshui."
Xue Nuo's eyes were slightly stunned, too from the hospital?
"When the princess's mansion was washed in blood, it was Ning Jingshui who saved me and helped me escape from the capital," Qiu Changqing said in a low voice: "Ning Jingshui asked me to tell the young master that he wanted to meet the young master, and I don't know when the young master will have time to see him." ”
Xue Nuo said, "Tonight." ”
Qiu Changqing was surprised: "Tonight? ”
"What, no?"
"It's not ......" Qiu Changqing shook his head, "But the Shen family's side?" ”
"Don't worry, no one will come tonight,"
She originally wanted to do something else, since someone wanted to meet, it was nothing to do "private affairs" at another time, and it just so happened that she also had some things about the palace that she wanted to ask Ning Jingshui.
Xue Nuo pushed open the window facing the back and looked at the moonlight outside, "Let's go, go early and return early while it's still early." ”
Qiu Changqing saw that after she finished speaking, she had already jumped out first, not like she was talking about it at all, although she was a little worried that the Shen family would find out, but in the end she still decided to trust Xue Nuo to follow her out.
Xue Nuo had already turned around the Flynn Courtyard in the past few days, and he had followed Shen Changrui and them out of the mansion during the day to pay attention to the patrols along the way.
She led Qiu Changqing to avoid the side of the main courtyard, and after going out directly from the courtyard, she went straight to an unsightly place near the corner gate, and easily walked out of the Shen Mansion.
"There are a lot of people guarding this Shen family's inner house, and there are a few who are very skilled, I'll draw a picture for you later, and the guard patrol icon will come out, and you can avoid it later."
She stayed at the Shen family for the past few days and had nothing to do at night, so she "wandered" around and probably touched the Shen family.
Qiu Changqing opened his mouth: "This kind of thing should be done by subordinates......"
"You're too much trouble."
Xue Nuo didn't think that such a trivial matter would have to let people outside take risks, besides, it was better for her to wander around openly than Qiu Changqing coming in and bumping into people.
She said, "Okay, hurry up and lead the way to see Lushu." ”
Qiu Changqing took her out of the Golden Scale Fang, bypassed the guards patrolling the curfew in Beijing all the way, and took the path to Xiaorong Huafang, and the two of them flipped over two roofs between the moves, and finally landed in a courtyard, and Qiu Changqing directly led her towards the backyard.
Xue Nuo observed Ning Jingshui's residence along the way, and the courtyard of the three entrances and exits was much smaller than that of the Shen family, but it was already extremely good in the capital where every inch of land was valuable.
The surroundings look very elegant, and there are a few lanterns hanging under the porch.
There were a few snow willows planted in the yard, and they were full of small white flowers, which fluttered and fell to the ground when the wind blew.