Volume 1: The Smoke Festival Chapter 31 Darkness
Zi Qiao's whole body trembled violently, and Xie Wuyi had a sneering smile on the corner of his lips, and a chill splashed in his eyes.
Ziqiao with heavy makeup in front of her is Fan Lanshu, the daughter of Fan Keyu and the sister of Ah Nian, Xie Wuyi became suspicious at the hexagram stall.
"What did the princess say?" Ziqiao struggled to support it, but her voice was already shaking like a waterfall.
"I said, you are the sister Fan I have always wanted to find."
Xie Wuyi squatted in front of Zi Qiao, and said softly: "Li Shanren hurriedly saw you, although you are full of fat powder, your posture and demeanor are a full lady, which means that you are not a poor girl who was sold into Fengyue Field; You were shocked when you saw me at the hexagram stall, your expression was too stiff, and you refused to look at me again, only daring to peek, but you paid too much attention to me. Do you know me, or are you afraid of me? ”
Zi Qiao buried her head and bit her lip, eager to shrink under the table.
"Actually, none of this is important, the reason why I want to believe that you are willing to come to see you alone is your vague words in Jingzhao Yin Mansion." Xie Wuyi came closer, "You know me and guessed my purpose, so you don't want to prove that I killed someone, right?" ”
Ziqiao was still silent, she twisted her dress with both hands, almost tearing the light gauze satin.
"You like to comb your fallen bun that hasn't been popular for years, and this hairstyle can block your left eyebrow, and it can also cover the obvious red mole at the end of your left eyebrow."
Xie Wuyi raised his hand to brush away his purple hair, and wiped off the thick fat powder with a handkerchief, "Sister Fan, but you can't hide it from me, is it worth entrusting yourself to a person who is kind?" ”
The lead faded, and a beautiful face was rediscovered.
She was born very beautiful, with slightly raised eyes, long eyebrows and sideburns, a pair of eyes that are watery, and similar facial features are too feminine on Ah Nian's face, but it is just right for her.
Listening to Xie Wuyi's sentence "Sister Fan", Fan Lanshu couldn't hold it anymore. The daughter of the official family suddenly fell into the dust, and the pain and humiliation of the past two years turned into two lines of surging tears, which slid silently to the ground.
While she was crying, Xie Wuyi wiped her tears for her.
After a long time, Fan Lanshu opened Xie Wuyi's hand and shrank back, "I don't have as good luck as you, my daughter who is the main criminal was able to escape from under the nose of the imperial court, and she turned into a noble princess Yan, there are so many people to support you......"
She hated, hated Xie Wuyi, the only one who escaped the catastrophe. Why is it that she and her mother are ravaged every day, life is worse than death, but Xie Wuyi is at large?
The world is not fair!
Seeing that Fan Lanshu really knew her identity. Xie Wuyi raised his chin and sneered: "Yes, I am on the run, and I am not as suffering as you, that is my own ability." If you say that I have borrowed the power of King Yan now, I will not defend it, but I have never forgotten who I am one day. ”
Since ancient times, she has become a king and defeated a king, she is a profiteer, of course, you can say anything!
Fan Lanshu grinned self-deprecatingly, and she stood up sharply and doused the pungent incense in the room with the tea in her cup. Fan Lanshu gasped heavily, using all her strength to stabilize her figure.
In addition to the strong smell of fat powder on her body, there is a rotten smell. Xie Wuyi knew that it was a mark that would only be left after lingering in the dark place. She had seen such people, and no matter how carefully they dressed, they could not hide the smell of rotten wood that lingered like a nightmare.
"Sister Fan, I came back today to clear my father's grievances and clear the way for your father. If I have a trace of cowardice, I would have found a place to hide a long time ago, so why do I have to stick my foot in the quagmire of Zeyang? Xie Wuyi looked at Fan Lanshu coldly, "Do you think you can live well now with Chu Han?" On that day, the Chu family wanted to marry me, but Chu Han was half embarrassed? While forcibly occupying your body, he is thinking about marrying the daughter of the household servant's family, such a person are still willing to die with him? ”
Fan Lanshu seemed to be poked in the sore spot all of a sudden, and immediately asked, "Do I have any other way?" ”
Xie Wuyi narrowed her eyes, Chu Han was really her weakness. She pinched Fan Lanshu's wrist and approached her.
"I know that you have been imprisoned by Chu Han for a few months, and there are many people there who are in the same miserable situation as you," Xie Wuyi pressed into Fan Lanshu's face, "but I believe that not everyone is as confused as you. ”
Fan Lanshu's expression changed and changed, and her lips trembled violently.
"You...... How do you know? ”
A scornful smile appeared at the corner of Xie Wuyi's mouth, how did he know? If she knew, she wouldn't have come here, it was just a fraud, but she didn't expect it to be really rewarding.
The old and new wounds on Fan Lanshu's body were superimposed, and the earliest ones were obviously committed by torture instruments. After Fan Keyu was convicted, these relatives should have been betrayed and would not be arrested and tortured, and it is very likely that the Chu family did it privately. Since it is inconvenient on the surface, it is likely to be in an unknown place.
"So there's a place where you've been caught."
"You-"
Fan Lanshu's eyes widened helplessly, and her face was bloodless. She finally woke up to the fact that in front of Xie Wuyi, any resistance she had had would be to no avail.
Xie Wuyi let go of Fan Lanshu, "It's been two years, Sister Fan, can't you wake up from the nightmare or don't want to wake up at all?" ”
The heart defense was defeated, and Fan Lanshu hugged her head and screamed.
The room was full of incense, and the candlelight was flickering, but she only felt that the world that she had finally not been able to distinguish the cracks had been torn apart again.
"I, I'm really ...... Those whips hurt so much...... I was either beaten or ...... by them every day."
Fan Lanshu choked with difficulty, and regained the painful memory of the past, "Chu Lang said that if I don't agree to him, he will kill my father and brother, and he will make my affairs with him public, completely destroying my innocence...... What should I do? My father and brother are missing, and my mother can't bear the punishment and dies, what else can I gamble with? ”
Xie Wuyi sighed, after all, not everyone was like her. Thinking about it from another perspective, if she had never left Qiao Chun and never wandered the rivers and lakes, she might not have lived better than Fan Lanshu after her family was ruined two years ago.
But she still hates that iron can't become steel!
Ah Nian's situation is not stronger than Fan Lanshu, and his temperament is also warm and entangled, but at least he is willing to take a step to try, but Fan Lanshu doesn't even have the courage to try. Even now, she still calls Chu Han "Chu Lang".
It is a joke to pin one's honor and disgrace on a selfish and vicious man.
"Those who despise themselves will be light, and if Uncle Fan is here, he will not tolerate his daughter doing this to herself."
Hearing Xie Wuyi mention Fan Keyu, Fan Lanshu's crying suddenly stopped. She stared at Xie Wuyi in confusion, her mind blank, and she almost didn't know where she was.
"It's me...... Confused......"
"Yes." Xie Wuyi said bluntly, "But it's not too late, Sister Fan, tell me everything you know, and I will try to save you from Wanchun Tower and completely get rid of Chu Han's clutches." ”
"But, but I don't know anything...... Fan Lanshu trembled and clenched her arms, looking at Xie Wuyi with teary eyes, "I only know that it is a dark room, a black hole, very large, at least the size of ten Wanchun Towers, there are all kinds of torture instruments in it, and there are many people...... My mother has lived in Zeyang for generations, and she has never heard of such a large dark room in Zeyang......"
Xie Wuyi didn't urge. Although she knew that the time was tight for coming out this time, she was still willing to give Fan Lanshu one more chance, waiting for her to recall the details.
"At first, Chu Lang never came, and there was a leader in the dark room who never spoke...... Some people call him Brother Little Ear. The more Fan Lanshu spoke, the quieter her voice became, and by the end she was almost muttering, "There is really nothing else, after my mother died, I had no choice but to follow Chu Lang ......"
Xie Wuyi thought about it for a while, and felt that with Fan Lanshu's insight and the fright he had just received, it was not easy to remember this. Chu Han was probably angry because Fan Lanshu did not commit perjury in court, so he took revenge day after day, and wanted to use her hand to kill people. Xie Wuyi lowered his eyes and asked again:
"Then what did Chu Han ask you to do just now? Kill King Yan or kill me? ”
Fan Lanshu was silent for a moment, "Who will kill whom...... she raised her head, looked at the short candle, her eyes flickered, "Moreover, you don't have time." ”
Just as Fan Lanshu's words were confirmed, there was a sudden uproar outside Wanchun Building. Xie Wuyi listened attentively, and it seemed that someone was coming in the direction of her location on the second floor in the name of catching a thief.
Oh, Chu Han is waiting for her here.
Xie Wuyi glanced from the window and found that the people from Jingzhao Yin's Mansion were surrounded by the three inner and outer three floors of the street, and now he was afraid that it would be too late to go out through the window.
Just as he was about to break through from the roof, Xie Wuyi's arm was grabbed by Fan Lanshu. I saw Fan Lanshu open a few wooden boards under the table and release a pitch-black hole.
"I've told you everything I know, so get out of here." Fan Lanshu lowered her head and quickly explained, "At the end of the dark passage is the pond, and swimming to the open is the abandoned viewing pavilion in the city, where I left a gray carriage. ”
This secret passage is extremely well hidden, Xie Wuyi has been in the house for so long, and he has not found that there is an entrance hidden in the most obvious place.
Since she didn't find out, others couldn't find out.
However, Xie Wuyi didn't move, "You didn't plan to kill us?" ”
Fan Lanshu pursed her lips and didn't answer directly, "Chu Lang should be watching nearby, you can go quickly, if you ......" Her breath became short, "If you can find my father and brother, please ...... Take care of them for me. ”
The chaotic footsteps were getting closer and closer, and Xie Wuyi gently touched Fan Lanshu's hair, "You can go by yourself." ”
Fan Lanshu was puzzled, and suddenly her eyes went black, and the whole person collapsed in Xie Wuyi's arms.
Where do you need Cangyan to deal with her, Xie Wuyi has long known that Fan Lanshu has drugged the tea. She had tea on her hands, so she used the medicine back while she was rubbing Fan Lanshu's hair with fat powder. In a hurry today, Fan Lanshu was unstable, and the left and right were all for the purpose of investigating Chu Han, and it was better to take her back to the palace to investigate carefully.
Xie Wuyi picked up Fan Lanshu and jumped down the secret passage, carefully sealing the entrance. This dark passage should have been dug along the stone pillar of the pavilion, Xie Wuyi walked down for a while, and then walked forward. Counting the direction, this should be the backyard of Wanchun Building.
Until he reached the end, there was silence all around, Xie Wuyi looked left and right, and found that there was indeed only one pond here. Maybe he was walking too quickly in the cramped passage, Xie Wuyi was a little flustered. She looked across the pond and identified a small gray dot in the distance, and it seemed that what Fan Lanshu said just now was true.
She carefully checked her surroundings again, and was thinking about how to sneak over the unconscious Fan Lanshu, when the wound on her right shoulder that had not yet healed suddenly came from a sharp pain.
Xie Wuyi looked back in astonishment, Fan Lanshu on her back was holding a golden hairpin, and one end of the hairpin had been deeply pierced into her shoulder.
After stirring the veins vigorously, Fan Lanshu pulled out the golden hairpin and stuffed it into Xie Wuyi's arms. Xie Wuyi's heart contracted suddenly, and the strangeness at his fingertips became more and more obvious. Fan Lanshu rolled over and climbed down and pushed her into the water.
"That's all I can do. The matter in Hezhou is so big, Chu Lang will not let you leave alive. ”
Fan Lanshusen's cold words fell into his ears, and immediately after, Xie Wuyi could only hear the sound of "cooing".
Drug.
She should have thought of it a long time ago.
Xie Wuyi is a master of poisoning, and it is inevitable that he sometimes ignores the most primitive and simple medicines.
Then, using her concern for the bereaved family of the reverse case, she applied it to the golden hairpin and mixed it in the fat powder, in short, it could be any place she might come across.
Is it because you are too underestimated?
The sky was spinning, Xie Wuyi watched as he was submerged in the water, his shoulders jumped and jumped, his chest seemed to be pressed against a heavy boulder, and her soreness and numb limbs made her lose the strength to struggle.
Xie Wuyi has a good water nature, but in fact, she is afraid of water to death. If it weren't for the sake of roaming the rivers and lakes and leaving as little weakness as possible, she wouldn't have taken the plunge to learn to swim.
The pond was very deep, like a never-ending whirlpool, binding Xie Wuyi's body, sinking, and sinking.
until they drown in the salty darkness.