I sat on the boulder under the willow tree at the entrance of the alley, curled up and looked towards the gate of Ye Mansion.

After waiting for a long time for the door to open, my brother-in-law came out, and the man in black looked at him coldly with a knife in his hand.

He looked at us from a distance, very calm.Of course, people who walk out of the gate have a different state of mind than those who jump out of the wall.

I turned my head away.

When he came to our side, Ling Yu asked first: "Brother Xiao, are you okay?"

He hummed.

I put my feet on the ground, turned and walked away.

He grabbed me and said, "Wait a minute."

I shook off his hand and said as I walked, "What are you doing out here, the host is so reluctant to part with you, it would be nice for you to stay there."

He took my arm again and said, "Careful, he might still be around."

I looked around, but he took the opportunity to turn in front of me: "You ventured into Ye Mansion just to kill someone with a knife?"

I do not answer.

His hands wrapped around my waist, hugged me, and slowly increased his strength.Night Breeze rubbed his ears, a little itchy. Since he hugged him so seriously, I asked, "What's wrong with you?"

He buried his head on my shoulder, and said in a slightly tired voice, "Thank you."

I said, "Thank me for what?"

"Thank you for taking the risk to help me."

I was disturbed by his sudden emotions, and I could no longer speak the words that questioned him.

All the way back, he didn't say anything, and I didn't say anything. Seeing that we were silent, Lingyu picked a leaf and put it in his mouth to blow.So our silent journey was accompanied by uninterrupted out-of-tone accompaniment.

In the second half of the night, the melody that Lingyu played out of tune kept repeating in my mind. I tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep, sighed, put on my clothes, and pushed open the door.The moonlight in the atrium was very bright, and the leaves of the banana trees planted in the corner were covered with cold dew.I went to the door of my brother-in-law's room and knocked on the door.

He comes to open the door.

I said, "Why aren't you asleep yet?"

This opening is a bit off the mark.

He let me in and asked, "What's wrong?"

I said: "I can't sleep, I want to sit with you."

He poured me a cup of hot tea.

I stroked the rim of the cup, lowered my head and said, "Let's get out of here, I'm tired of staying in Hanyang for so many days, and Yelu Hongji's people are also nearby."

"We'll leave when things are over," he said.

Judging by his appearance, he insisted on participating in this matter. I knew it was useless to persuade him, so I said: "I read a book once, which was about a man traveling westward. Strange people and wonderful things, the scenery is very different from that of Middle Earth, why don't we also go west."

He smiled and said, "Up to you."

I turned the teacup and asked tentatively: "Well, Ye Mengdie, you treat her..."

He rubbed my head and said, "You don't sleep in the middle of the night, are you thinking about these things?"

I said: "No, I couldn't sleep, so I had to... think about something casually."

He said, "I have nothing to do with her."

I'm serious?"

"Well. Still not going to sleep?"

I nodded happily, stood up, sat back down again, took his arm, and said, "Sing me a song, and I'll go to sleep."

He raised his eyebrows.

I said: "When I was in the Xingxiu School, there was a senior brother who was the best friend of mine. He always sang to me before going to bed. He sang very well. The poison was on him... the song he sang was very simple, it started with Qingshuixi in the Yunshan Stream, and he said everyone would know it."

He said, "I won't."

I said: "You will, you look like you, you are obviously deceiving, just sing and sing."

He couldn't help being entangled by me, and seeing no one else on the left and right, he sang: "In the Qingshui stream in Yunshan Mountain, there is a row of small bamboo fences on the stream, and the young man on the fence is coming to pole, see..."

I reminded: "See the girl next door by the stream."

He glanced at me, cleared his throat, and continued to sing: "I saw the girl next door by the stream, her hands in the reeds, and the clouds and the moon came to wash her clothes..."

His voice is very low and gentle, and he sang this piece very well, even better than my senior brother, gently and slowly, I just listened to it, and fell asleep with my pillow on his arm.

The next day, when I passed through the hallway of Fengfu, I saw the accountant who was saved by Lingyu and me.He has regained his energy, hurried past in a well-dressed manner, saw me from a distance, stopped and bowed to me.

This person is cute, it seems that he was taken under the door by Fourth Master Feng.

I came chasing a skylark, and using the gall of a skylark can produce a powerful poison.As soon as the bird emerged from the corner, I quickened my pace to follow.This bird is so clever that I caught it twice but failed.

I followed it all the way to the garden, saw it landed on a steep rock by the river pond, and rushed over, at this moment someone shouted: "Miss Ah Zi..."

The bird was startled, fluttering its wings, and I wanted to run after it, but out of the corner of my eye, I saw Mrs. Feng standing under the tree with her child in her arms, waving to me enthusiastically: "Miss Ah Zi, here..."

Suddenly, the bird flew too high and out of my control.

I stood there full of disappointment, but Mrs. Feng came over with the child in her arms, took off the cloak and handed it to the servants, and said: "I just brought Min'er back from offering incense in the temple, the girl is so excited."

Seeing that I didn't answer, she said again: "The Biyun Temple outside the second gate in the east of the city is full of incense. If you sincerely ask for something, it will surely come true. The scenery in the temple is also good, and the girl can go there."

I gave her a feeble smile back.

She was "surprised" and said, "There are a lot of insects and ants in this garden, but Min'er didn't bring her sachet." As she said that, she stuffed the child in her arms into my hand: "Miss, take care of it first, I'll go back and get it." .”

Before I could react, there was already a fleshy thing in my arms, looking at me with round eyes.I held him far away, thinking, with Mrs. Feng's skill and speed, it would be a pity not to learn martial arts.

Just when my arms were stiff and I was calling for help, three unexpected guests came to Liuxiahua.Seeing me, Zhu Danchen nodded slightly: "Miss Ah Zi, let's find Brother Xiao."

When asking for something from others, everyone will become very polite.

I said: "I'll call him, you... take this." As I spoke, I threw the ball in his hand, turned around and ran away.

Holding the child, he couldn't laugh or cry, looked at my figure leaving like the wind, and said loudly: "Then we will wait here."

Lingyu was practicing sword hard in the yard, and her brother-in-law was basking in the sun on the side porch, probably exhausted after teaching Lingyu martial arts.I said, "That group of people from Dali are here."

When we met in the pavilion, Mrs. Feng had already taken the child away, thanked her repeatedly, and ordered melons, fruits and tea to entertain them, saying that since they are friends of Uncle Xiao, they are also friends of Fengfu, so you don't have to be polite.

After waiting for the bystanders to leave, Zhu Danchen asked: "Brother Xiao went to Ye Mansion last night?"

My brother-in-law said, "Yes."

Zhu Danchen asked: "How about the guards of the Ye Mansion, have you met Shen Jue?"

The brother-in-law said: "They are divided into several shifts to guard all directions of the Ye Mansion. Every two hours, Shen Jue is also there, but we didn't fight." He looked at the three people opposite and said: "If you want to fight inside, impossible."

The three of them looked at each other with some regrets in their eyes, and seeing their slumped looks, they were obviously still struggling with why Ye Mengdie ran to Dali to stir up trouble despite the long journey.

Zhu Danchen said: "According to what one of my subordinates heard, Ye Mengdie goes to live in a courtyard in the suburbs of Hanyang every winter for a few days. That piece is called Zihuang Valley, which is rarely visited by people. They bought them all and built another courtyard.”

Fu Sigui said: "The guards there should be looser than those in Ye's house."

I smiled and said, "Where are you going to start?"

Zhu Danchen said: "Of course we explained the reason to her and asked her to give an explanation, but if she doesn't obey, we can only use force."

The brother-in-law said: "The people under her command are quite powerful, and with Shen Jue here, do you have enough people?"

Zhu Danchen said: "I heard that when she went to Zihuang Yougu, she never brought Shen Jue with her."

I said: "That was in the past, now someone is jumping around under her nose, intending to harm her, will she not be wary?"

Zhu Danchen said: "Anyway, let's send people to Zihuang Yougu to check the situation first, and then we will make a calculation later."

Brother-in-law said: "Brother Zhu, be careful in everything."

Zhu Danchen nodded, said a few words, and left.Before leaving, I said to him, if you meet a man wearing a bamboo hat and holding a sword in the city, don't ask anything, just hack him to death.

After they left, a servant from Fengfu came and presented a note to his brother-in-law, saying that someone at the door asked him to hand it to Uncle Xiao.

This note directs us to the tea house in the east of the city.

When we arrived, there was a storyteller in the lobby on the first floor, and all the guests listened with great interest.The second floor was a little quieter, so we took a seat by the window.

I looked downstairs, and saw a carriage stopped at the door of the teahouse. A man got out of the carriage, wearing a long black coat with cyan snake patterns embroidered on the collar and cuffs, looking up and smiling brightly at us.He went upstairs in a few steps, and his subordinates immediately cleared out all the idlers on this floor.

He clasped his fists to his brother-in-law and said, "Brother Xiao, please stay safe."

The brother-in-law said, "Brother Tan, why did you come here on a special trip?"

Tan Yuan said: "I came here to inform you that Yelu Hongji sent his confidant, Mr. Liuquan, to the south, and he will probably be around here in the past few days."

Brother-in-law said: "We have already seen him."

Tan Yuan said: "Mr. Liuquan also has a younger brother, a gray-clothed swordsman under Zhang Yizhi of Wuxi Villa. The two brothers served Yelu Hongji together. I guess their purpose of this trip is to collect resources from the south and at the same time attract Capable men and strangers from the south are working for Daliao. If these two are together, it may be very difficult to deal with."

The brother-in-law said: "After the Wuxi Villa incident, Song Ting should be very vigilant against the power of Daliao. These two people will not cause serious trouble."

Tan Yuan said: "I'm reminding you that Yelu Hongji hated you very much when you fled from Liao Kingdom. He even spread rumors in the Jianghu, saying that you betrayed Daliao and are a sinister villain."

The brother-in-law didn't take it seriously, and said, "Don't pay attention to such gossip."

Tan Yuan said angrily: "People who spread this kind of gossip, I will beat each one." He also said that Wuxi Villa was burned to ruins, and the government sent people to search for a lot of treasures. And very sorry.

He looked at Yijiang Bise outside the street and said, "Ye Mengdie is a difficult woman, you have to be careful. When I dealt with her back then, I only thought that such a person would be a headache if she became an enemy."

Looking away, he said that he would go to Yizhou to do business next time, so he couldn't sit still, and before leaving, he said: "Brother Xiao, when you have nothing to do, you can sit with me in Yangzhou, and I want to drink with you. "

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