Before noon, Yan Zheng and his party had arrived at the post station, and after a short rest, they fed the horses enough grain and grass, and then continued to march with enough water and food.

After they left, another group of people came to the post station, and Wang Sima of the post station changed his previous warm and respectful attitude, so he showed a ruthless look, packed the envelope and ordered the people to hurry back to the capital.

Yan Zheng and his party stepped on the scorching sun and walked into a bamboo forest outside Xiaoxi Town, Ruan Mingjiao was comfortable in the carriage, but they finally marched into the bamboo forest with shaded sunlight, and their feet were inexplicably faster.

When the sun went down, they went out of the bamboo forest, down the mountain to Xiaoxi Town, from the wind they took the first step to settle the horses, picked a few ordinary houses, and picked an upper room for Ruan Mingjiao.

When Ruan Mingjiao and Yan Zheng arrived, the sun had completely sunset, and Xiaoxi Town was dyed with a layer of night, and there were still red clouds that had not dispersed on the edge of the hazy sky, as if covered with a mysterious veil.

She was dressed ordinary, and the carriage marched into the inn without causing any stops. Although she is notorious, almost no one has seen her true face except for the people in the imperial city, and she is not afraid of being recognized.

Although the town is small, but after all, it is close to the capital, although the various conditions are not as good as the imperial city, but the facilities are complete, the streets are brightly lit, lively and extraordinary, the street shop stalls are still lit up, and the children are holding the hands of their parents, jumping up and down a prosperous scene of the people living and working in peace and contentment.

Ruan Mingjiao didn't have much heart to join in the fun, and tied her hair in the carriage. Although she can lie down and sit, she is bored and there are books prepared by Yan Zheng in the car to read, but in the end, the bumps and the books are swaying and she can't read them, at the moment she just wants to find a gentle place to take a shower and lie down comfortably.

"Tell me what you need, I'll go tell Xiao Er." Yan Zheng stopped in front of the door with her kettle and handed her the things, asking as she asked.

Congfeng's words bothered Ruan Mingjiao all the way, but the concern for Yan Zheng at the moment always felt wrong, but she was really tired now, she retracted her gaze slightly, lowered her head and said softly: "I want to bathe." ”

She was out last night, and it was inconvenient for her to use water, so she just washed her face and wiped her body with a towel, and today she ran around for another day, and her back had already begun to itch, and she was very uncomfortable with sweat.

Yan Zheng glanced at her, knowing that she was expensive, she had experienced so much in this day and night, it was normal to take a bath, and even responded: "I'll go and ask them to boil hot water, and after you finish bathing, I'll let them bring the food over." ”

"Hmm." Ruan Mingjiao nodded subconsciously, the atmosphere was inexplicably embarrassing, she took a few steps forward and hurriedly closed the door.

Originally, she and Yan Zheng had just met, and they could barely talk, but later they suddenly returned to normal after knowing each other's purpose after a big quarrel, but she was a little uncomfortable.

It's not that she wants to quarrel with Yan Zheng, it's just that she doesn't know how to get along for a while, especially when he does so many things, Ruan Mingjiao can't think of it, with the Yan Zheng she knows, it shouldn't be like that, after thinking about it, she found that she looked at him with a strange gaze, she still grabbed the mistakes before, but forgot that the original owner, that is, she was ruthless to Yan Zheng in the past.

She thought about it, but there was a knock at the door, "Guest, hot water is here." ”

Before she could respond, Yan Zheng, who went outside the door and returned, responded: "I'll come, you go down first." ”

Ruan Mingjiao was stunned, and Yan Zheng outside the door asked, "Ruan Mingjiao, I'm in." ”

In case of accidents, he called her by name in front of people.

"Hey, hey, come in!" Ruan Mingjiao responded and put the things back on the couch.

As soon as it was put away, Yan Zheng came in with two buckets of hot water, and didn't look at her, only lowered his head and poured the hot water into the bath bucket, and then looked up at her standing on the side of the couch, "After washing in a while, I'll let Xiao Er pour water, and rest early after eating, I'm next door, something calls me." ”

After he finished speaking, no matter how Ruan Mingjiao answered, he went out with a bucket, and closed the door by the way, seemingly calm and calm, but the heart of calm was pounding, like a deer hitting a wall, so fast that it couldn't be smoothed for a long time.

When Xiao'er took the barrel from his hand, he was still leaning against the wall next to Ruan Mingjiao, his face was red and spread to the root of his ears, he stepped into the room next to him, although it was not an upper room, it was also a single room, and he asked Xiao Er for a bucket of hot water and a bucket of cold water, and after rinsing, he lay on the couch for a long time, and the restless mood in his heart eased slightly.

Ruan Mingjiao, seeing him go in and out of the busy work, and extremely uncomfortable to say a few words to himself before he was willing to retreat, and he didn't know what kind of emotions he had in his heart, and after bathing with a strange look, he hurriedly ate some dinner and blew the lamp and fell asleep.

As soon as she lay down, her nerves, which had been tired for a day, suddenly cleared, and she was very energetic, obviously sleepy but couldn't toss and turn and fall asleep.

After turning over a few times, she simply didn't sleep, put on shoes and a coat, lit the lamp and walked to the window, opened the window, a cool wind blew, the sky in July was already hot, the wind at night was not cold but blew away the heat on the body, but fell asleep.

She had this expectation, she didn't want anyone to think of it with her, as soon as she opened the window, someone had already opened the window in front of the window next to her, and when she heard the voice, she looked at it hesitantly, and the moment their eyes met, both of them were stunned.

Ruan Mingjiao's eyes trembled slightly, and she looked away.

"Why haven't you slept yet?" The two spoke almost together, and they were stunned again.

Ruan Mingjiao's hand holding the window clenched into a fist, and the embarrassed toes buckled the bottom, but there was no need for such a tacit understanding.

"Can't sleep?" She was hesitating about what to do next, when someone next to her asked.

She glanced at Yan Zheng, his eyes were clear, his face was hidden in the soft moonlight and the dim candle flame, reflecting the flowing light, and she almost subconsciously hummed.

Yan Zheng paused and looked away, "If the bed in the inn is uncomfortable, I will let someone buy a few beds tomorrow, if you are homesick, you can leave late tomorrow, you write a letter and I will send it to the post station to report safety to Shousuke." ”

"Seriously!" Ruan Mingjiao was overjoyed, originally a little wrinkled, and even a little aggrieved little face was dyed with a layer of excitement, and her eyes were shining, which was more dazzling than the galaxy on the side.

"Well, send a letter or something else."

"No, no, just send a letter, I'll write it now, and I'll trouble someone to send it to the post station for me tomorrow." She waved her hand, unusually satisfied, and said that she was about to turn back and write a letter.

"Hey, let's rest too late so as not to hurt my eyes."

Yan Zheng stopped her, but Ruan Mingjiao was still willing to listen to her, closed the window and went back.

He was stunned for a moment, but inadvertently hooked his lips and smiled, shook his head helplessly, and continued to look up at the shining moon, somewhere in his heart was inexplicably soft, and he also closed the window and turned around and entered the house.

Although Ruan Mingjiao's letter is an ordinary letter, it is an official post, and the letter can reach Shoufu after half a month.

At this moment, Fang Qi, the commander of the government and county in Ningcheng, was trembling when he received the order, and let people guard outside the city every day, ready to receive Yan Zheng and his party at any time.

didn't wait for Yan Zheng to come, but this night, a distinguished guest came to Fangfu.

The hour had passed, and the housekeeper of the Fang Mansion had patrolled around with a lantern, yawning and being extremely sleepy, and when he saw that nothing had happened, he had to turn back to the next room to rest.

The wind whistled and blew the hem of his clothes to hunt, and a black shadow flashed above his head, flying in from outside the gate and landing in front of him.

The housekeeper was already old, his eyes were not clear, and he was really sleepy when he just fell asleep, and when he couldn't see clearly, he heard the voice and saw a dark shadow falling in front of him.

He was stunned and squinted at first, then rubbed his eyes and fixed his eyes, only to find that there was a person standing in front of him, with his back to him, wearing a black robe, hidden in the night, inexplicably gloomy.

"Oops!" The housekeeper was so frightened that Jinghu made a sound, the wind lamp in his hand was thrown to the ground, his old face was full of fear, and he couldn't open his mouth as if he was being choked by the throat.

The black-robed man turned around and took off the hat of his cloak, revealing a breezy and moonlit face, as pure and proud as Laneige.

Yi stretched out his hand and held the token in front of the housekeeper, "Your lord?" ”

Fang Qi was knocked on the door in his sleep, and the housekeeper said in a trembling and slightly panicked voice: "Master, the Nine Emperor Princes are here." ”

He was still sleepy-eyed and impatiently answered, but when he heard the nobleman coming to the door, he woke up, and immediately got up in a panic and got dressed, and almost ran to the hall.

The hall that had been lit with lights was lit again, and the room was bright, but the wind blew into the hall at night and brought a chill.

The black-robed man took off his black robe and it was a plain white brocade robe, his body was graceful and luxurious, and the face of a handsome man and Zhou Zheng was quite cold, and the person in front of him was Xiao He, the Ninth Highness of Beili, who sat upright, holding a tea bowl in his hand, and did not raise his eyelashes when he heard him coming.

Fang Qi was stunned for a moment, hurriedly took a few steps forward, and bowed: "Weichen see His Royal Highness the Nine!" ”

"Get up!" Xiao He paused, raised his eyes and glanced at him, and said in a warm voice.

Fang Qi hurriedly got up and sat down, with a sad face but he didn't see Xiao He speak, he couldn't sit still, his heart was anxious, but he didn't dare to show it, "I don't know if His Highness has arrived, and I ask His Highness to forgive me, but I don't know why His Highness visited late at night?" ”

"Yan Zheng was demoted to Ningcheng for a parade, you should have received the news, right? How are you going to respond? Xiao He put down the teacup in his hand, and his voice was still not in a hurry.

"Oh, if you go back to Your Highness, the three princes have already sent a letter asking the lower officials to withdraw and destroy the evidence, and this matter has nothing to do with the three highnesses and the lower officials, and all the people involved in this matter have been resolved." Fang Qi was stunned, he didn't expect him to come to inquire about this, so he hurriedly replied in his heart.

"With Yan Zheng's meticulousness, even if you kill everyone and the evidence is destroyed, he can find clues from the clues, and he can't be taken lightly."

Xiao He frowned slightly, as if he was thinking, Fang Qi hurriedly tested his tone, "What does His Highness mean?" ”

"Send troops to suppress the bandits!"