Chapter 20: Danger Arises
As the gathering place of the Wang family, Wangjia Lane is naturally different from the common people's deep alleys. Stretching along a stone path, there are two rows of weeping willows planted on both sides of the stone path, and the willow branches that have just sprouted new shoots appear a little weak, and a slight breeze will move with it. At the end of the stone road is a stone arch bridge, under which is a clear and fine river, where the Wang family lives and draws water. From a distance, you can still see three or five women in raccoon clothes beating their clothes on the riverside, and the laughter like silver bells comes from time to time along the majestic wind.
After crossing the arch bridge, you can see one after another, there are more than a dozen courtyards one after another, all of which are green tiles and white walls, and the courtyard is leisurely, except for a carriage that walks by from time to time in the alley, and the shouting of the groom, there are hardly many pedestrians in the alley, far away from the noisy Puchang street. This is also the tradition of the Wang family, the Wang family is mostly literati, although they are famous and noble, but they are introverted and elegant, content with leisure, and do not seek luxury.
"Yo, Miss Ziyan is back!" said the groom, smiling at the oncoming man and woman as he put down his long whip to catch the car.
The woman sitting on horseback smiled slightly: "Yes, where is Uncle Zhang?"
The groom smiled: "When the time comes, I will pick up the adults and go home." After speaking, he took out a dry cigarette from his waist, wiped it on the sackcloth, put it in his mouth and took two puffs, smacked his lips, and then looked at the young man leading the horse, dressed in military uniform, and nodded slightly.
The young man was Lu Ji, and he bowed his head slightly to show his salute in return.
Uncle Chamber, the groom, said nothing, leaned back on the carriage, waved his whip, and walked away.
"This is it. The two stopped in front of a not imposing mansion, and Lu Ji stepped forward and knocked on the door. Seeing that the mansion is symmetrical in the center, the eaves tiles are raised left and right, such as a blue bird spreading its wings, the green tile white wall, in front of the gate made of golden silk nanmu, there are only two pots of celadon bamboo, and several layers of stone steps are built, but the atmosphere of wealth is difficult to see.
Lu Ji patted his ponytail and said with a smile: "Miss Wang, you can go in by yourself, it's inconvenient to enter." ”
Wang Ziji's face was full of doubts, and he asked, "Does the prince have any feelings for my family?"
Lu Ji shook his head and smiled slightly.
Wang Ziji nodded and said with a smile: "Understood, thank you for taking care of Gongzi, what about your horse?"
Lu Ji said with a smile: "This horse will be temporarily placed here by you, girl, and I will come to pick it up after tomorrow." After speaking, he hugged his fist at Wang Ziji, and then turned to leave.
Wang Ziji looked at Lu Ji's departing back, and didn't know whether she was happy or worried. Qinglongju twisted his head and snorted twice, but it was in the direction of Lu Ji's departure. Wang Ziji gently stroked the horse's mane with both hands, and asked with a smile: "I can't bear your master?" Looking at the Qinglong Ju, his eyes were full of love.
"Squeak-" The door opened, and the housekeeper saw that it was Wang Ziji, and hurriedly called a few maidservants to help Wang Ziji get off the horse. The prince dismounted, handed the horse to the butler, and instructed, "Uncle Wang, you feed the Qinglong Ju some grass first, and I will go to see it later." ”
Mending took the horse, nodded again and again, and said with a smile: "I want it." ”
"Rubbish!" Ning Yu was in the room, with his back to everyone, flicked his sleeves heavily, and scolded in a low voice.
There were more than a dozen black-clothed people kneeling behind him, and the leader clasped his fists and said: "We were about to kill Lu Ji, who knows, his green dragon horse suddenly ran up, and we didn't react for a while......"
"Don't say it! If you don't kill it, you don't kill it, what's the use of saying so much?" Ning Yu immediately interrupted him and continued, "If the tiger is released and returns to the mountain, Lu Ji will definitely attack me!"
At this moment, a man dressed in a white linen coat and wrapped in a turban entered. I saw that his face was dark, thin as a knife, with a long beard, and his posture was vigorous and powerful.
Seeing him come in, Ning Yu's face eased and said, "Yuan Qin, you are here, sit down." ”
The man nodded and said, "Big brother, I just saw Steward Wang lead a horse to the backyard. ”
Ning Yu said disdainfully: "What's so strange about a horse, every time she meets a good horse, she collects it all into her family." ”
The man replied, "At first, I thought the same, but when I looked closer, I was suspicious of the horse's steady hooves and wounded by arrows, and then the old butler told me that the horse's name was the Green Dragon Horse!"
When Ning Yu heard this, he was surprised and delighted, and asked, "Qinglongju, what you said is true? Qinglongju is Lu Ji's war horse, if he is here, Lu Ji will be there!"
Let's say that the housekeeper was holding the Qinglong Horse, humming a little song, passing by Ning Yu's library. Suddenly I heard a strange sound from the room, and I was puzzled, so I dipped some saliva, pierced the paste, and peeked inside, but found that the room was dark, and became more and more suspicious, and I carefully scanned the room, but I still couldn't see anything.
He was about to give up, but when he turned his head, he exclaimed.
Ning Yu looked at him with a smile and asked, "Uncle Wang, what are you looking at?"
The housekeeper breathed a sigh of relief, patted his chest, and said with a smile: "Young Master Cousin, it turned out to be you, but you were scared to death!"
Ning Yu looked at the horse behind him and asked with a smile: "Uncle Wang, I haven't seen this horse, is it a guest from the mansion?"
The housekeeper replied with a smile: "But there are no guests, I only saw the young lady riding back alone." ”
Ning Yu nodded and said with a smile: "I'm afraid that Ziji bought it from someone else, when did Ziji come back?"
The housekeeper replied, "I just came back, do you want to go and see the young lady?" ”
Ning Yu said with a smile: "Yes, Uncle Wang, you are busy with yours, I won't bother, you have to serve this horse well, don't hurt it." ”
The butler said "hey", led the horse, continued to hum the song and left.
Looking at the back of the housekeeper gradually leaving, Ning Yu restrained his smile, his face changed suddenly, and said to Yuan Qin beside him: "You immediately lead someone to intercept Lu Ji, he has no horse, he is not walking fast, once you find him, immediately wipe him, understand?"
Yuan Qin nodded, his eyes were cold, and he left immediately.
After Yuan Qin left, Ning Yu looked sideways at the darkness in the room, sneered twice, and left.
In the bookstore, it was still dark and troubled Kang Chao and others.
Kang Chao closed his eyes, his hair was scattered, his chin and cheeks were full of scum, his back was against the wall, but he didn't say a word, his face was depressed, and the young man who followed him hurriedly said: "General, you quickly think of a way, they want to kill Your Majesty!"
Kang Chao sighed and said, "Sixth son, why don't I want to save Your Majesty, but now we are still trapped in the fetters, how can we save Your Majesty?"
Liuzi also sighed heavily and sat on the ground.
After a while, he suddenly sat up and said to Kang Chao: "General, we still have more than a dozen people here, we can take a human ladder to send you up!"
When Kang Chao heard this, his eyes lit up, he patted Liuzi's shoulder, and said with a smile: "It's still that you kid has a lot of ideas! I went out to save Your Majesty, you are the first gong!"
The originally decadent group of people cheered up as if they had been beaten with chicken blood, stood up one after another, and set up the human ladder one after another, Kang Chao followed the human ladder, jumped up, and jumped out of the hole.
Kang Chao jumped out of the hole, looked back at the people in the hole, and said to them: "When I save Your Majesty, I will bring someone to save your brothers!"
The sixth son nodded and replied: "General, it is important to save Your Majesty, we are all reckless savages, it is a great luck to be able to follow the general, and the general does not have to worry!"
Kang Chao hugged his fists at everyone, jumped out of the back window, and went straight to Puchang Street.
As it approached evening, the originally lively streets of Puchang gradually dispersed, and the smoke of dinner slowly rose. Pedestrians come and go, either shoulder-to-shoulder or driving, full of goods, after a busy day's work, like arrows, from time to time to meet acquaintances, will also stop to chat, street vendors are also packing up goods, ready to migrate to the night market.
Lu Ji walked alone on the street, facing a gust of evening breeze, which made him feel comfortable all around. Recalling the scenes of the day, recalling Miss Wang's smile and smile, he felt unprecedented contentment, if she was willing, he was willing to give up all his fame and return to the field with him.
However, she seemed to have her cousin Ning Yu in her heart, and she might not be as good as one ten-millionth of what she did to him, Lu Ji couldn't help but shiver, the originally refreshing evening breeze blew, but he felt that the weather seemed to be getting colder. What's more, what should Luo Chuan do, she is good to herself, it seems that she is willing to accept it from the bottom of her heart, ask yourself, he still likes her very much, for a while he felt confused, and the original happiness was like a flash in the pan, returning to dust.
He didn't want to think about it anymore, everything was left to fate, maybe it was best to leave it to God to decide. Looking at the gradually deserted streets, it was indeed late, and he couldn't help but speed up the pace of going to Chengtianmen.
Suddenly, a figure flashed around him, and he felt a murderous aura.
"Good boy, I can be regarded as catching you!" There was a rough laugh from behind, Lu Ji turned around and saw that a black-clothed man with a dark complexion and thin as a knife was holding a knife in his hand, spitting a mouthful of spit, and sneering on his face. He glanced around again, and there were more than a dozen men in black surrounding him.
Lu Ji smiled and said, "Who is under your feet, why do you want to kill me?"
The man laughed and said, "When I die, I want you to die to understand, I am Yuan Qin, the son of the prime minister of the Jin Kingdom, the enemy of killing the king, and I don't share the sky, I am going to use your head to sacrifice the head of the first emperor, the dog emperor!" After speaking, he waved his knife and was about to cut it.
"Slow-" Lu Ji stretched out his hand to stop it, and said, "You are a Jin person who killed people in Kyoto in my Great Qing Dynasty, do you think that even if you kill me, you will still be able to get out alive? You will be punished by a thousand knives!"
Yuan Qin sneered a few times, and said loudly: "Use the blood of my Yuan Qin to repay the revenge of my tens of millions of Jin people, it's worth it!" After speaking, he raised his sword and rushed towards Lu Ji.
Seeing that the knife was about to slash at Lu Ji's head, Yuan Qin only felt that his hands were clamped and he couldn't move, and he felt that he had suffered a heavy blow to his abdomen, and he couldn't help but take a few steps backwards after eating this pain.
Yuan Qin looked at it again, and Kang Chao was already in front of Lu Ji.
Yuan Qin looked surprised, looked at Kang Chao, and asked, "Aren't you supposed to be in ......?"
Kang Chao sneered: "Just with you, you can lock up your grandfather!" After speaking, an arrow stepped forward, kicked at the door, and hit Yuan Qin's chest, Yuan Qin passed his foot, fell to the ground, and spat blood.
Kang Chao moved his muscles and bones, and said with a smile: "So unbeaten?"
Yuan Qin struggled to stand up, raised his arms, and shouted: "Give it to me, kill him!"
The man in black responded, rushed up, raised his knife and slashed at Kang Chao, Kang Chao dodged the Pu knife of a man in black sideways, clamped the arm of the man in black with one hand, and hit his back with the other hand, and the man in black fell to the ground as if he was paralyzed. Seeing this, the two more men in black raised their knives together and slashed at them, Kang Chao snatched the Pu knife on the ground, and immediately parried the knives of the two men in black. And the two men in black felt a shock in their hands, and the knife fell to the ground. Kang Chao immediately had a quick eye and slashed at the man in black.