Chapter 34: The Intrigues
As soon as Yin Luo entered the City Lord's Mansion, the first thing he saw was a white phantom running towards her, and then, Liangliang stood in front of her, looking up at her, she was a little surprised, "Liangliang? β
Yin Luo raised his eyes to look at the main hall behind the ginkgo tree in the City Lord's Mansion, and suddenly met Wen Ting'er's eyes, she walked towards the main hall, Chi Ye followed behind her without hurry, and from time to time lowered his eyes to look at Liangliang.
"Ting'er? How did you? Yin Luo frowned, and suddenly realized when he saw the smile on Lin Fan's face, "Old lady Wen asked you to come to Lin City?" β
Wen Ting'er smiled at her and nodded, "I knew that the third sister was also here, so I walked together, and it saved the third sister from being injured." β
Lin Fanbian understood that Wen Ting'er was ordering her, but she couldn't say a word, who in the rivers and lakes didn't know that Changlin's six sons had deep feelings and were as close as a person...... She only hopes that the girl in red will not hold a grudge.
Yin Luo smiled, "What's the matter?" Mrs. Lin is just protecting the city," this sentence prevaricated, and for a while Lin Fan looked at her with some liking, Yin Luo said: "Just now I went to the city with my friends, I used the method of testing the poison in the heart, and found out that the people in Lin City were not sick, but poisoned, and the cause of the poisoning should be from the incense in the people's homes. β
Wen Ting'er frowned, "What?" β
"I used a gold needle to seal the three veins of the silk village flower girl, but when we were investigating the abnormality in the house, someone in the courtyard pulled out the gold needle, and the flower girl lost her mind, and I am afraid that she will be stupid in the future."
"We think that this poison is caused by someone in Lin Cheng," Chi Ye lowered his eyes, "This person should be very familiar with the medicinal herb refining incense." β
"How so?" Lin Fan stood up, a little incredulous, "The people of Lin City have always been harmonious, and no one will use this dirty!" β
"It doesn't have to be the people." Yin Luo said lightly, "Maybe it's someone from Huatuan Mansion, maybe it's someone who sent medicinal herb raw materials to Lin Cheng." β
"Flower Cluster Mansion?" Wen Ting'er pondered for a moment, "A place for the people to refine incense?" β
"Yes, the young master of Lin Cheng is now leading someone to investigate whether the herbs are poisonous in the Flower Cluster Mansion, why don't you go and see if they are poisonous?" Yin Luo asked Wen Ting'er.
Wen Ting'er nodded, "Third sister, are you going?" She turned her eyes to Chi Ye, "And this son." β
Yin Luo shook his head, "Neither of us understands medicinal materials, so I'm afraid it will be a hindrance to go, so I won't be able to." β
Chiya shook his head as well.
Wen Ting'er asked two more questions about the situation in the city, and then left the mansion with the guards and went to the Flower Cluster Mansion.
Chi Ye and Yin Luo also returned to the guest room in the West Courtyard.
Chi Ye looked at the white wolf in front of him who was wagging his tail like a dog, and said disdainfully: "You raise it as a dog?" β
Yin Luo didn't care much, "It's Wen Ting'er, when I first sent it to Wen's house, it wasn't like this." β
"How did you get to know the Wen family's Gu girl?"
Yin Luo squatted down and touched Liangliang's head, and his memory gradually regressed: "My second brother and I saved her once. β
In the golden autumn four years ago, the red maple was like a boat, floating in Nanshan Lake.
Yin Luo was instructed by Ming Fanlan to send a letter to the owner of Baiqi Mountain Villa in Cuizhou behind Nanshan, inviting him to go to Songshan to participate in the Ying banquet, but the old man Huang Chan, the owner of the village, left the villa because of something, Yin Luo had to send the letter to the young owner Meng Qingyue, and told him not to forget to tell the old man Huang Chan that Meng Qingyue should naturally go down, but the young man was afraid that it would be too late, and Yin Luo, who was only thirteen years old, encountered any danger on the way back, so he proposed to send her back to Suzhou and Hangzhou.
Yin Luo did not refuse.
And just like that, the two hit the road. But when passing by Nanshan Lake, Xiao Yin Luo and Meng Qingyue suddenly heard the girl's screams, the two looked at each other, and used light skills to investigate, this time, they saw a girl younger than Yin Luo was surrounded by a group of people, who were all holding knives high, and shouted in their mouths: "Avenge the fifth brother today!" β
After that, the long knife was about to slash at the girl.
Yin Luo flew up and carried the golden needle that was not very skilled, and for the first time penetrated the chest of the leader, she stood on the red and bright maple tree next to Nanshan Lake, and the water-red clothes on her body seemed to be integrated with the tree, she said unevenly: "What is it that you group of big men beat her a little girl?" β
"Hey? Where did the doll come from? Kill you today! β
"Yes! How dare you stop us from avenging our fifth brother! β
"She also injured her eldest brother!"
"Brothers, kill meβ"
The group of people no longer surrounded Xiao Wenting'er, but drew their knives and attacked Yin Luo, Yin Luo stabbed them with needles, and Meng Qingyue also came to help. He pulled out the silver jiao, danced and forced the assassin back, then pulled Wen Ting'er up, and left with Yin Luo.
Yin Luo was stabbed in the arm, and he didn't have the strength to escape far. Seeing this, Meng Qingyue took the two girls to hide in the cave of Nanshan, moved stones to block the entrance of the cave, and lit torches in the depths of the cave, for fear that the group of people who did not know the sect would chase after them.
Wen Ting'er saw that Yin Luo's arm had been bleeding, and she cried in fright, "Sister, you are injured...... It's all strange for Ting'er......"
Thirteen-year-old Yin Luo's face already had a calmness and strength that her peers did not have, she tore off a piece of cloth from her dress and handed it to Meng Qingyue, asking him to stop the bleeding for herself, Meng Qingyue took it willingly and tied it tightly to her arm.
Yin Luo looked at Wen Ting'er calmly and wiped away her tears, "Don't cry, I'll bring them here in a while." But he said this.
Wen Ting'er sobbed and nodded, but stopped crying.
In this way, the three children spent the whole night in the cliff cave of Nanshan, and they looked at the fire in front of them, and none of them slept.
After a long, long time, Meng Qingyue asked Xiao Wenting'er: "Why did they kill you?" β
Wen Ting'er replied ignorantly: "They said that our Wen family killed their fifth brother. β
"Are you a member of the Wen family? The Wen family in Xiangxi? Yin Luo felt incredible, thinking that the Xiangxi Wen family was thousands of miles away from the south of the Yangtze River, how did the twelve-year-old girl in front of him come here?
Wen Ting'er nodded, "Yes." β
"You came out on your own?" Meng Qingyue said softly, "How did you get to Jiangnan?" β
"I had a quarrel with my family, so I sneaked out and followed the carriage that pulled the goods here, I didn't know this was Jiangnan...... Then the group took me in the wagon. β
Meng Qingyue was a little speechless, he didn't expect the little girl in front of him to be so bold.
Yin Luo looked at the tattoo under the little girl's collarbone, "They may have recognized the unique flower poison pattern of the Wen family in Xiangxi." β
Wen Ting'er nodded again, "Sister also knows?" β
"My aunt has dealt with the Wen family, and I have heard her say it."
And just like that, the night passed.
At dawn the next day, the three children stepped on the morning light and returned to Suzhou and Hangzhou, and the moment Ming Fanlan saw Wen Ting'er, he immediately sent a letter to the Wen family in Xiangxi, saying that he had found the young master of their family, and after two days, Wen Ting'er was taken back to Xiangxi.
Until now.
After listening to her story, Chi Ye couldn't help but mock: "I can't imagine that you were quite righteous when you were a child." β
Yin Luo was speechless and smacked his tongue, "I'm still very righteous now." β
Chi Ye was about to sarcastically say something to her again, when a guard outside the West Courtyard suddenly ran in in a panic, and he gave up: "Miss Yin, there is a girl in pink clothes from outside the house, saying that she is here to find you!" She was still holding a knife...... Check it out! β
Yin Luo got up and said to Chi Ye: "Let's go, go and see." She immediately followed the guards to the outside of the house, she knew a person who liked to wear pink clothes in her memory, but it stands to reason that she couldn't be here......
Seeing her natural behavior, Chi Ye said in his heart that this guy wouldn't really regard him as her left protector, but he still followed, wanting to see who was sacred.
When Yin Luo walked outside the mansion, she first saw Lin Fan who was about to fight, and she hurriedly stopped her: "Old Madam Lin-"
Lin Fanbian looked back at her, "Miss Yin? Do you really know her? β
Yin Luo followed the sound and saw Lin Fan standing opposite...... Eh, Xu Lanyun, who was wearing a tattered pink dress and holding a patterned blade, frowned involuntarily, and the Xu Lanyun in front of her seemed to have crawled out of a pile of beggars, except that her delicate and beautiful face was not stained with mud...... Eh, she can only describe her as a servant in the dust, Xu Lanyun's eyes lit up when he saw Yin Luo, "Ah Luo! You're really here! β
Yin Luo thought, in fact, she and Xu Lanyun didn't know each other, right......
Chi Ye looked at the female beggar in front of him, and also frowned, and only realized when he saw her appearance that this was the Xu family that made Nie Renxi marvel like a hibiscus out of water at that time...... Miss?
"Uh......" Yin Luo looked at Lin Fan with embarrassment, "Old Madam Lin, this is a friend of mine, she may have been in a fight with someone on the road, so she became like this." β
Lin Fan saw that she knew, and he didn't say much.
Yin Luo looked at Xu Lanyun and spit out a word with difficulty: "Ah ......" She realized that Lin Fan, who was not dealing with the royal family, was still here, and her lips moved and changed, "Ah Yun, why are you here?" β
Xu Lanyun is also a smart person, and hurriedly answered: "I heard that you encountered danger in Lin Cheng, so I thought about coming over to take a look." β
Lin Fan saw that he was ordered again, so he didn't want to stay here longer, so he turned around and said to Yin Luo: "Since you are a friend of Miss Yin, please come into the house...... Take a bath and rest. With that, he turned around and went back to the house.
Chi Ye didn't think it was interesting, he didn't like this kind of scene. But thinking that Nie Renxi might like it, he turned around and planned to go back to the courtyard and call Nie Renxi out.
Seeing that there were no outsiders around, Yin Luo frowned and looked at Xu Lanyun and asked, "You are here to investigate the case?" In addition, she couldn't think of any other reason, as soon as Xu Lanyun heard what she said, she knew that it was a scene of fooling people, and Yin Luo knew that her relationship with the Beijing envoy of Dali Temple was not that good.
Xu Lanyun no longer talked nonsense, she nodded seriously, "Yes, we received a report from the people of Lincheng," she walked slowly into the mansion with Yin Luo, and lowered her voice in her ear to state: "I said that the people in Lincheng are suffering from strange diseases, and I hope that the imperial court will send someone to find out what is going on, plus you came to Lincheng to escort the darts, I want to take a look." β
Yin Luo wondered, "What does it have to do with me?" You came on your own? β