A Lady’s Tranquility

Chapter 16: Attacked (Revised)

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In the last life, it was the mansion of Yongyi Hou, who was "checked" by Zhou Yinzhi.

Later, Shen Jie ascended the throne and was rehabilitated by Yongyi Houfu.

Later, Zhou Yinzhi was shot to death by Xie Wei's arrows, and his head was nailed to the palace gate.

As you can see, he didn't do anything good.

This person is obsessed with power and high positions, and always uses any means to achieve his goals, but he is careful and cautious in his work, and it is difficult to be caught by others.

This is the reason why Jiang Xuening used him easily in the last life.

It's just that she doesn't even want to enter the palace in this life, and having a deep relationship with this person is tantamount to seeking skin from a tiger. But at the moment, the other party is the only channel for her to know the situation of Yongyi Hou's mansion involving the old case of King Pingnan, and there is also a Xie Wei who doesn't know when to pick her head, even if he doesn't want to contact him, he has to contact him.

I hope that in this life, I can get rid of vulgarity and get the kind of "freedom" that You Fangyin said.

She sighed in her heart, got back on the carriage, and said, "Go to the Xiaolou."

At this time it was getting dark.

In the late autumn, there are traces of geese.

There are not many people left drinking at the top of the floor.

Chen Ying, who was promoted to the minister of punishment half a year ago, played with the wine cup filled with fine wine, and said, "Jinyiwei has always only listened to the orders of the sage, and I am afraid that it is the intention of the sage to investigate Yongyi Hou's mansion. Yu Nie, I have been in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment for several days. They can't find out anything. Today, I specially asked me to go out and toss it out to see if I can pry something out of their mouths. Young Master, You are always by your side, can you point out the officials, the sage wants to know something from their mouths?"

Chen Ying is a well-known torturer in recent years, and the means of torturing prisoners are very cruel, even inhumane. But because of this, he has broken several big cases, and his local political achievements are very good.

This even includes the big event of taking away the Tianjiao believers in Jiangsu.

It's just that he also loves to figure out the thoughts of the people above.

Working under the eyes of the emperor, sometimes it doesn't matter what the truth is, what matters is what the emperor wants to hear.

The man sitting across from him had neither the feast day nor the palace today, so he only wore a simple white robe with large sleeves, and was not worthy of any extra ornaments. Ebony hairpins of any form are tied up.

He didn't look up at Chen Ying at this moment.

There is a newly made qin on the table, after the eleven previous steps, the lacquer is like a mirror, and the geese's feet are full, and he lowered his eyes, pulled the strings, carefully one by one. Wear it up.

Chen Ying's eyes flickered, and he said again: "Our sage looks kind and generous, but Chen must feel that the sage is too suspicious."

Xie Wei put on the first string, and then wrapped it around the goose's foot on the right side of the back of the piano.

Chen Ying couldn't help but look at his expression: "Like Master Young Master, how can you say that you are also the hero who assisted the saint to ascend to the throne? But now you are just a 'young master' who has no real job, and you are not a 'grand master', if true To care about, there is an emperor's teacher, but there is no emperor's name. But the monk Yuanji who has never done anything, the sage not only made him the national teacher, but also made him in charge of the Ministry of Rites, the official to the Shangshu. Chen If you have one or two of your skills, you can't bear this kind of thing. Is there really no injustice, Master Young Master?"

Xie Wei's fingers were born to play the piano.

The nail caps are clean and transparent, showing a warm and moisturizing effect.

He didn't stop piercing the strings, he just said: "Chen Shilang speaks carefully. The Holy One is the honorable man of the Ninety-five Five, how can the emperor's mind be arrogant? When the sage went to the residence, he sat in danger and discussed the Tao, and his Buddhist attainments were by no means a vain reputation. The sage named him as the national teacher, and he had his own reason.

Chen Ying laughed and seemed to disagree: "Is it fair or not? You have to give pointers. How should this person be judged by the lower officials?"

Xie Wei said, "You can judge how you want to be judged."

Chen Ying frowned: "Why don't you get it out?"

Xie Wei said: "Master Chen can't be tried, and he thinks he can try to replace him."

Chen Ying's heart suddenly froze, and he was already worried, so he put down the wine cup and bowed his body: "Mr. Xie's advice."

Xie Wei continued to wear the strings with his head buried in it, occasionally plucking it slightly, and slightly auditioning the sound.

The sound from upstairs was intermittent.

The setting sun of Xizui covered him with a soft glow, but he couldn't change his color, only stretched his figure behind him.

Chen Ying knew that he had made this violin for three years, and he cherished it very much. Now that it was time to put on the violin, it was a good thing to be able to answer him in a few words. Naturally, he saved a lot of money, so he didn't stay any longer. He bowed and said goodbye. , go downstairs.

After Chen Ying left, Jianshu, who had been holding his sword and stood beside him, frowned, his youthful face was not impulsive, he really thought about it, and then hesitantly said: "Sir, let them investigate like this. ?"

Xie Wei said: "It's not Chen Ying, there will be others."

Jianshu was silent.

After a while, a junior came up downstairs with a lacquer plate full of wine and vegetables: "Master, your order has arrived."

Jian Shu said: "Have our husband ordered anything?"

The little second looked surprised: "Didn't the lord who just came down helped me?"

This little boy looks like an ordinary person, but he looks very face, and when he speaks, he speaks with a little Wu Yue accent.

When did the Xiaolou have such a second child

Jian Shu suddenly felt something was wrong, raised his eyebrows abruptly, drew his sword out of the scabbard, and shouted loudly, "Be careful, sir!"

"Whoa!"

When Jianshu made a sound, this "little Er" knew that he had already been exposed, and the innocent and ingratiating face he pretended to be before immediately turned into a ferocious and fierce, and he pushed the lacquered plate of wine and vegetables directly to Jianshu, from the chessboard. At the bottom, he pulled out a short knife that was one and a half feet long and attacked Xie Wei!

"Death!"

Xie Weifang got up with his qin in his arms. The man's dagger had already arrived, and the four strings he had just put on were smashed by the tip of the dagger!

There is also a knife mark on the piano!

His calm and warm expression just now turned cold.

Xiejie Hutong is not too far from the building. Jiang Xuening felt that Yan Lin should have arrived, so he just parked the car on the side of the road diagonally opposite this building, and told the driver to go to the building to invite someone.

But she never expected that a dark shadow came from outside before the driver left for a moment!

I saw a flash of sharp knife light, and the short knife had been pressed against her neck. Before Tang'er who was in the car could scream, she was slapped on the back of the neck by the man, lost consciousness, and fell to Jiang Xuening's feet!

At this moment, feeling the coldness from his neck, only one thought popped into Jiang Xuening's mind—

Get a thousand knives!

The surnamed Xie really wanted to kill Ben Gong to silence him!

However, she soon realized that the situation was not right: there seemed to be a sound of shouting and shouting from the building opposite, someone was shouting to search the inside and outside, followed by a messy footsteps.

Someone reported back that they were missing.

Jiang Xuening couldn't see what the man who held him looked like. He could only feel that the man's hand holding the knife trembled slightly.

Soon, footsteps approached the carriage.

One person stopped in front of the car.

Jiang Xuening heard the voice and said, "Is Ning Er girl in the car?"

Only Xie Wei would call her "Miss Ning", and even if she didn't recognize the voice, she could still tell who was speaking!

A sudden heartbeat.

Most of the people with the knife on her neck are assassins;

Xie Wei wanted to arrest this person;

The other party didn't do it, presumably from her driving, she judged that the identity of the person in the car was at least not ordinary, and wanted to take her as a hostage;

Ostensibly her life is threatened by the knife-wielding man, but...

Outside the car is a more terrifying devil!

This kind of situation is much more terrifying than simply encountering Xie Wei and trying to kill her!

Because Xie Wei could have killed her in the name of killing the assassin or the chaotic party, and then pushed her to the chaotic party afterwards; or let the other party take her hostage without meeting any of the assassin's conditions, and deliberately waited for the assassin to kill her !

So even cover and explanation are saved.

There is no more worry-free and more worry-free way of dying in the world, which can completely separate Xie Wei from her death.

Jiang Xuening only had to think about it, her scalp was numb, and she didn't dare to look back at the assassin with the knife. After the other side pushed her, she immediately said with a vibrato: "It's me."

Xie Wei outside said again: "You are the only one?"

Jiang Xuening couldn't figure out what the assassin was thinking, so he didn't dare to answer.

The assassin smiled gloomily: "Of course she's not the only one."

Just now, the servant next to Xie Wei reacted so fast that he failed to assassinate him. Immediately, people around him rushed to arrest him. When he wanted to come out, there were many people protecting him.

Had no choice but to flee, only this carriage was the hiding place.

Since Xie Wei was able to assist the Wude Dog Emperor to ascend to the throne, he had some insight. It was not unusual for him to guess that he was in the car, so he didn't need to cover up. On the contrary, he vaguely heard that Xie Wei knew the girl in the car.

So, there is something to talk about.

Touching Jiang Xuening's neck with the knife, he asked her, "Do you know Xie?"

Compared to the one outside, this assassin is actually not the most dangerous.

Jiang Xuening had already revealed a flaw in front of Xie Wei. He was afraid that this time he would see something and take the opportunity to kill himself. In addition, he was afraid, so he trembled: "Recognize, recognize. Four years ago, I rescued Xie. Your life, sir. Although I don’t know how sacred a hero is, but there is something to say, please don’t be impulsive…”

This is not only said to the assassin, but also to Xie Wei.

Thinking that at the end of her life, in order to protect Zhang Zhe and return his reputation, she only used the favor from many years ago; it has only been a few days since she was reborn? He knows more than the previous life, and he does it smarter than the previous life...

But I didn't expect to take out the favor so early to save my life!

Xie Wei stood outside the car, separated only by a hanging curtain from the people inside.

He was not surprised to hear the assassin's voice.

On the other hand, Jiang Xuening's remarks made his eyebrows move slightly, and he felt something interesting.

There were no pedestrians around, and the streets were chilling.

Jian Shu looked at the car with a cold face.

Xie Wei glanced at the other young man next to him, who was wearing a strong suit with sleeves and an arrow on his back, and waved his hand slightly to signal him to go, and then he was facing the inside of the car and said, "That's right. Second Miss Ning Yu Wei has the grace to save his life, and her father is on good terms with Wei. The strong man's dissatisfaction with the imperial court can be regarded as a public affair that concerns the world; now holding a girl who is ignorant of the world, it is too much to hurt innocent people. To save the benefactor, choose the latter. If you want to come here, you don’t want to die here. If you are willing to release the second girl, you can order someone to fetch a letter so that you can open the city gate for you and send you out of the capital safely.”

Nonsense!

Jiang Xuening didn't believe a word.

It's just that she is controlled by others and cannot speak rashly. And in front of Xie Wei, he didn't dare to open his mouth.

But the assassin didn't expect his luck to be so good. He casually broke into the carriage and grabbed Xie Wei's former savior, so he laughed loudly: "It seems that God has favored me and will let me live. I only heard that Master Xie Devoted to Taoism, not close to women, I didn't expect that there would be times when you would love Xiangxiyu. Since you said that this is your savior, it is easy to want her to be safe. Why don't you replace her! Wouldn't it be better for me to take you out of the city? ? Otherwise…”

His voice paused, but it was suddenly extremely cruel.

"I'm killing this bitch now with one knife!"

Cold sweat broke out from Jiang Xuening's back, and he scolded the assassin in his heart for being an idiot! Not to mention that in the last life, whether it was King Pingnan who rebelled against the Party or the rebellion of the Heavenly Sect, it all fell into the hands of Xie Wei, this pig's brain is too far behind!

Can you believe what Xie Wei said

He also expects to use her to threaten and let Xie Wei replace her!

Xie Wei wants to be willing, she can take off her head and carry it in her hands to walk!

There was silence outside.

The assassin was impatient: "I'll say dozens of times, if you haven't thought about it—"

"No need to count."

Xie Wei's quiet voice interrupted him.

Jiang Xuening's heart rose to his throat.

Then I heard him say: "Please send Ning Er girl out, I can take your place."

Jiang Xuening: "..."

No matter what she thought, the assassin was overjoyed, only that when the legendary emperor Xie Wei was confused, he negotiated conditions with him just thinking that everyone wanted to live.

As everyone knows, since he moved his hand, he didn't want to go back alive today.

Letting Xie Wei come to replace this woman is just a pretense, and taking the opportunity to kill when the exchange is approaching is his real purpose!

"You, open the curtain."

He ordered Jiang Xuening in a vicious voice, but the knife holder didn't move from her neck.

Jiang Xuening then moved slowly, leaned forward, stretched out his hand, and slowly opened the car curtain.

The reddish sky light suddenly poured in.

So I saw that Xie Wei was standing three feet away in front of her car, with indifferent eyebrows, deep eyes, and a wide robe and long sleeves, which was not dirty. The facial features are extremely good-looking, but at first glance, everyone will always notice the restrained bearing of this body. It reminds people of the high mountains, the sea, the saints who chanted in ancient times, or the hermits who harvested the flowers in the mountains.

His gaze fell on her across the void, peaceful and far-reaching.

Jiang Xuening shuddered.

She thought about it for a moment: In addition to a sword book and a good sword beside Xie Wei, there is another sword and piano who doesn't like to talk, who is better than bow and arrow.

I glanced at it again, and there was a high-rise building outside...

I am afraid that when the assassin leaves the car and appears in the sight of others, it is the time when he is dead!

I just don't know if Xie Wei will deal with her very "by the way"...

The assassin behind her also glanced at it, and only said to Xie Wei: "Everyone who asked you to retreat to thirty feet away!"

All those with knives and swords looked at Xie Wei.

Xie Wei waved his hands to them, then looked directly at the assassin and said, "Please rest assured, Your Excellency, Danger does not dare to put the lives of his benefactor and his friend's beloved daughter at risk, a gentleman promises, if Your Excellency is willing to let him go, he will never let him go. hurt your life."

Everyone retreated, leaving only Xie Wei in place.

The assassin said: "You come forward."

Xie Wei stepped forward.

When he was only six feet away from the car, the assassin asked him to stop, and then shoved Jiang Xuening who was restrained by him. Jiang Xuening really didn't want to go down. God knows if an arrow will go through her head after going down.

But the knife is on the neck, and it has to be taken down.

At this point I had to go.

The assassin held her all the way, and then slowly approached Xie Wei.

Jiang Xuening was shaking all over.

She felt that Lord Yama was already standing outside knocking on the door.

Unexpectedly, when he finally got close to Xie Wei, the assassin pushed her without warning and directly raised his knife to cut Xie Wei!

Xie Wei's face didn't change.

In the blink of an eye, Jiang Xuening felt that this was an opportunity, and immediately rushed to Xie Wei without hesitation - she didn't believe it, there was a Xie Wei on the back, who dared to aim at her with a bow upstairs!

A sweet and cold fragrance rushed to his face, Xie Wei could count the assassin's actions, but he did not count that Jiang Xuening would "fall" over, and the corners of his eyes twitched slightly. Before, he stretched out his hand and hugged her, separating the two of them by a sharp distance!

At the same time, there was a sharp whistle in the air, and the quiet and dangerous air seemed to have the sound of a bowstring echoing leisurely!

There are arrows rushing from above the tall building!

At this moment, Jiang Xuening's pupils shrank sharply, thinking that he was going to die.

However, in the next moment, there was a snow-white block in front of her eyes.

It was Xie Wei who frowned, raised his hand flatly, and raised his wide sleeve robe to block her.

Jiang Xuening was startled, unable to see the front.

In my ears, I could hear the sound of an arrow piercing through a human skull, like passing through a crispy watermelon. Then I saw a few bloody red shadows sputtering out and landed on this clean sleeve robe.

shocking!

The assassin's knife was no more than two or three inches away from Xie Wei at this time, and his face had not retreated. A feather arrow was inserted between his eyebrows, the whole root penetrated into the skull, and the arrow pierced from the back of his head!

It can be seen how terrifying the archers use!

He was dragged down by the arrow, and when he took his last breath, there was still a bit of disbelief in his eyes.

Xie Wei's face was indifferent, he only glanced at it, and then let go of the hand holding Jiang Xuening's arm, and lowered the hand that raised his sleeve robe.

Jiang Xuening stood up on his own, without the cover of his sleeves, only then did he see that the assassin was indeed killed by the arrow. Looking up at the next level, a blue-clothed youth with a quiver on his back had put away his bow by the railing and retreated back into the shadows.

Red and white splashed on the ground, blood and brains.

If it wasn't for Xie Wei raising her sleeves, these must have covered her body.

Jiang Xuening stood aside, just smelling the bloody smell, he felt nauseated and his face was pale, so he looked away and didn't dare to look again.

All the guards who had retreated earlier rushed back at this time.

Someone went to check on the assassin.

Jian Shu walked directly to Xie Wei's side.

Xie Wei's left sleeve robe was already stained with blood, and even the slender hand like a clear bamboo was stained a lot.

When he saw it, he took out a clean jinpa from his sleeve and offered it with both hands: "Sir."

Xie Wei took it, but turned his eyes, and his eyes fell on Jiang Xuening's ear.

He watched for a moment, and only handed out this Fang Jinpa.

Jiang Xuening was stunned for a moment.

After realizing it, she raised her hand, and her fingertips touched a little sticky. When she put her hand down, it was a few bloodstains that splashed on her earlobe.

Creepy momentarily.

She was terrified of Xie Wei. But just now she failed to pounce on him, and no arrows landed on her. At this moment, when she saw him handing out the golden handkerchief again, she was more frightened than secretly shocked.

After hesitating for a long time, her long eyelashes trembled, and she reached out her hand carefully, took the jinpa from the hand handed out by Xie Wei, and said in a low voice, "Thank you sir."

Just now it was forced by the situation.

But now...

She was very cautious because she was embarrassed by him saying "self-respect" in the previous life.

He only took Jinpa, but his fingers did not dare to touch his palm.

However, the jinpa was snow-white and soft, made of high-quality silk. When she took it away, a corner fell down, but it was in Xie Wei's palm, and it seemed to be scratched.

Xie Wei's long fingers curled slightly like a spasm, and at the same time, he saw the shallow scar on her wrist when she stretched out her hand, and faintly felt the bloody taste in her mouth from a year of desperation.

He withdrew his hand, put it behind him, and held it.

At this time, he looked at her and said, "Miss Ning Er was startled."

Jiang Xuening wiped the blood on his ears.

The jinpa was stained with blood.

She lowered her eyes: "Fortunately, I met an adult, and I know that you must have a way to save it, so it's okay."

"Really?" Seeing that she wiped the blood and held the jinpa in her hand, Xie Wei stretched out his hand to her, but said lightly, "But just now I heard the second lady Ning mentioning the old kindness for saving lives in the car. , it's more like being afraid of danger and doing nothing to save it, it seems that danger is too much."

Jiang Xuening almost lost half of her soul when she heard this, and forced herself to calm down: "The assassin asked me, I dare not answer, I lost my mind for a while, and I was afraid that he would kill me at will if he thought I was ordinary, yes, it is wrong. ?"

After she finished speaking, she saw him stretch out his hand, so she hurriedly handed the Jinpa back.

Xie Wei took Jinpa back from her hand, and used the white silk that had been stained with blood on this side to slowly and carefully wipe his left hand that had just been splattered with blood. He lowered his eyebrows and stopped talking.

The silence made Jiang Xuening heart beat.

Jianshu on the side saw this, glanced at Xie Wei, and silently put away the other party Jinpa that was about to be handed out.

After a while, someone came to report: "Master Young Master, Yan Shizi is outside the street and wants to come in."

Xie Wei wiped the action for a while, looked up at Jiang Xuening, and said, "Jianshu, send Ning Er girl over there."

Jianshu responded, "Yes."

Jiang Xuening held her breath and bowed to Xie Weiyi. She didn't dare to ask what the situation of the maid in the car was. She just followed Jianshu across the long street and went to Yanlin's side.

After the two left, Daoqin came downstairs.

He held a piano in his arms.

Xie Wei took it, raised his hand and stroked the broken strings, as well as the knife mark that went deep into the belly of the piano, his face lost expression, and after a long time he said: "Send the body to the Ministry of Punishment and ask Chen Ying to come and see you. I."