"After getting the order from Mr., I was going to go immediately. But when I was about to go, I heard the people going back and forth. Zhou Yinzhi went to Her Royal Highness the eldest princess and talked for a while, as if he gave something back." Daoqin Kneeling and kneeling, he buried his head under the steps, his fingers on the handle of the knife clenched tightly, as if trying to endure something, but his eyes were still red, and he said hoarsely, "After telling them to continue to pay attention, Fang went to find Zhou Yinzhi. But when I go, when I go…”
When he left, Zhou Yinzhi was already in You Fangyin's house, holding people hostage with a knife.
How important is You Fangyin, how could he not know
Zhou Yinzhi is invincible when he has a hostage in his hand. Although Daoqin is good at martial arts, he wants to do it again and again, but because You Fangyin is in the opponent's hands, he has repeatedly escaped danger, only to hurt people.
Those who throw the rat taboo are bound to tie their hands and feet.
The other party can climb to the position of Jin Yiwei's deputy commander all the way, and this is not mediocre. In a flash of lightning, Daoqin almost cut off his head with a knife, but fortunately, he retreated in time and only scratched his face.
However, it was this retreat that gave Zhou Yinzhi a chance.
At that moment, this man's viciousness and unscrupulousness were vividly reflected—
He mercilessly stabbed You Fangyin from the back of the heart.
The blood-stained Xiuchun blade pierced through her body sharply.
Daoqin was icy cold at the time, all she could do was rush over to catch You Fangyin, hurriedly hold her wound, and try to call the doctor to save her. Zhou Yinzhi, on the other hand, took this opportunity to escape, and climbed out along the backyard wall, without a shadow.
The scars on Xie Wei's waist and abdomen have not yet fully healed. He should have been resting in the house, but now he is standing in the kitchen, slowly putting a small plate of freshly made peach cake into the food box.
It was noon outside the door.
The sun shone lazily, but it didn't feel the slightest warmth.
Jiang Xuening has been alone in the house for a whole day without coming out.
On the night of You Fangyin's accident, she hugged her body that was getting cold and stiff and didn't let go. No one could persuade her to pull her away. In the end, Yan Lin came back and knocked the person unconscious before sending him back to the room.
The entire mansion was in chaos.
The most embarrassing thing is that after the order was immediately ordered to seal the city, there was no trace of Zhou Yinzhi. It was not until midnight that he checked the soldiers who were on duty at the city gates before, and found out that Zhou Yinzhi had drawn in and bribed them. It turned out that after leaving the General's Mansion, Zhou Yinzhi did not delay for a moment, and went straight out of the city to flee for his life.
People are dead.
The murderer was not caught.
The next day, the news of Shuzhong and Jiangnan finally came too late. It was reported that as early as half a month ago, Ren's Salt Works and the relevant chambers of commerce in Jiangnan were first imprisoned for participating in the crime of conspiracy. Be exemplary. It's just that one of the opponent's actions was too fast and too ruthless, and there were not many people left who dared to communicate news; the other was Zhou Yinzhi ordered the siege of the city to be vigilant, strictly guarded against it, choked the official road, and almost cut off the news to the northwest; The third is that the journey is a long way, and if it is not sent through the imperial post house in an expedited manner, the usual news will go to Xinzhou, at least a month.
And Zhou Yinzhi also knew all of this.
The investigation was left to Jin Yiwei and the government, while he came to the capital by himself, and played a good show of falsehood and conspiracy. Millions of wealth.
With such a thunderous means, Zhou Yinzhi is on the bright side, but there must be the support of the emperor behind him.
But Jiang Xuening woke up, and after hearing the report, he just said dumbly, "I see."
She threw everyone else out, only closed the door, and didn't want to see anyone or hear any news. Even the food delivered outside the room had already cooled down, but she had never seen her come out once, and she had never touched half of her chopsticks.
Xie Wei didn't raise his head to look at Daoqin, but just closed his eyes and said, "Zhou Yinzhi knew before he started, that between chasing him and saving You Fangyin, you would definitely give up the former and choose the latter. It is not surprising that he is more vicious than you."
Daoqin didn't think so.
The stab wound on his cheek was still fresh, and he could hardly hold back the reddening of his eyes: "If she had been in the family sooner or later, Miss You might not have been poisoned by him. girl…”
Although Daoqin has been with Xie Wei for a long time, he has seen a lot of things, but he rarely feels sorry for anyone in his life, let alone such a girl's family
He was still a little boyish.
Anger and guilt rushed over him so much that he couldn't hold his head up, and even burst into tears. Regardless of how hard he wiped it, there was only a suppressed ferocity in his movements, and he looked extraordinarily embarrassed.
Xie Wei raised his eyes and glanced at him, sighed softly, but said, "You are not wrong, don't kneel."
The sword book next to him was not used to such a rare coward.
He stepped forward and tried to pull him up, frowning and training him: "What's there to cry? Can crying save someone?!"
Xie Wei only said: "The only way to make amends is to catch the murderer and sacrifice to the dead."
Daoqin refused to get up, only gritted his teeth and said, "Daoqin is willing to die for the sake of it!"
Xie Wei closed the lid of the food box, and regardless of how the two of them tossed, he took the food box and walked slowly past him.
However, after taking two steps out, the footsteps couldn't help but stop.
He turned around and asked, "How has Lu Xian been recently?"
Jian Shu was stunned for a moment, and after a while he said in a low voice, "Looking at what he looks like, he is buried in the room all day to manage military accounts. Yesterday, there was an accountant below who said that he made several mistakes."
Xie Wei was silent and did not ask any more questions.
He carried the food box and walked to Jiang Xuening's yard.
The injury has not recovered, and the pace is not too fast.
When they reached the corridor outside the courtyard, they happened to see Shen Zhiyi.
Although this princess was rescued, but temporarily unable to return to the capital, Her Royal Highness, wearing a light-colored plain clothes, quietly stood under the flower stand that had just sprouted. Some misty rain-like confusion.
Xie Wei stopped in his footsteps.
He also glanced at the courtyard before saying, "Won't your Highness go and have a look?"
Seeing him, Shen Zhiyi was silent for a while, and said, "Don't dare."
Xie Wei said: "Ning Er came to the border to save the princess, and You Fangyin came after Ning Er, but now the people are gone because of this, His Highness is not feeling well, so you dare not see him?"
Shen Zhiyi actually heard a thorn in those words.
She stared at Xie Wei.
Xie Wei was very calm, and he didn't seem to care about life and death. He just said: "If Xie is Your Highness, he will toss and turn and can't sleep. It's just that standing here can't change anything. It's cold in the spring, so don't stand here and let the wind blow, so as not to hurt your body."
He went down the steps.
Shen Zhiyi looked at his back, not knowing whether the trace of hostility was her illusion, but at this time, she didn't want to care about Xie Wei's identity.
So he asked very bluntly, "Is Mr. Xie jealous of me?"
Xie Wei didn't laugh or answer, he kept his eyes open and went forward.
The maids all waited outside with trepidation, in case Jiang Xuening was summoned suddenly inside.
The food on the table had already cooled down.
The door was still tightly closed, and there was no sign of opening it, and it was extremely quiet inside.
In fact, the door was not locked, nor was it fastened from the inside.
But no one dared to disturb her.
Xie Weilai didn't even need to look at those maids to know what was going on. He walked forward with the food box and slowly opened the door.
During the day, the room was very dark.
A dazzling light gradually expanded with the creaking sound of the door, and fell on the icy ground.
A cold voice came from a dark corner: "Get out."
Xie Wei heard this and was not angry, but after walking in, he turned around and closed the door again.
Carrying the food box, he traced the source of the voice to find her.
Jiang Xuening leaned against a wall and sat on the ground in the dark corner, half-holding his bent knees with his arms. When she heard the approaching footsteps, her expressionless face suddenly flashed a deep anger, and when she raised her eyes, she was about to attack.
However, it was Xie Wei's figure that caught his eye.
Her cheeks were so pale that it was almost transparent, and her body was as thin as if it could be blown away by a blow. Her bloodless lips looked fragile, but her eyes were astonishingly dark due to the thinness of her cheeks, like the light of a knife in the night. Get into people's hearts.
Jiang Xuening looked at him: "What are you doing here?"
Xie Wei put down the food box on the table, took the plate of peach slices and put it in front of her, and said, "Let's have something to eat."
He had wanted to sit in front of her.
But the wound between his waist and abdomen had not healed, so he couldn't sit still, so he gently stretched out his hand, pulled a chair from the side, sat down beside her, and said to her: "Zhou Yinzhi ran away, I'm afraid I'll catch it in a while. Hold on, if you starve to death first, it will be a joke."
Jiang Xuening noticed that his movements were a little more sluggish than usual, and calmly said, "You're going to die."
Xie Wei said, "Ning Er, sometimes it's not people who have to stand on the top of the mountain and climb the cliff. It's only when they come to the end that they know it's a cliff. The world's affairs are the wind that flies sand and rocks behind you and destroys the dead. Either stand in place. , let it devour you; or be forced, close your eyes, and jump into the abyss ahead. Even if you want to, there is no other choice."
Jiang Xuening blinked: "Why should it be me, why should it be her?"
Xie Wei raised his hand, touched her cheek with his fingertips, and pushed a stray strand of hair down behind her snow-white auricle.
The sound is like the mountains after the rain, there is a quiet silence with misty water.
He said: "A person's life is to keep losing. It's not like this, there is that. You can't hold on to what has been lost, it will make you lose what you have now."
Jiang Xuening at this moment is so fragile.
As if it fell to the ground and shattered.
His movements were so careful that the sleeve robes he passed by didn't even disturb the dust floating in the air.
She felt like a porcelain vase full of hatred and anger, unwillingness and grief. The inside was clearly colliding, but the outside looked as cold as a layer of dead ashes.
There are so many things in the world that are confusing.
She stared at Xie Ju'an, but remembered the past events out of time, and then asked, "I said that day that you killed me, why didn't you ask me what happened?"
Xie Wei glanced at her and said slowly, "I don't want to know."
Jiang Xuening smiled faintly: "You are so smart."
In fact, that sentence is not fair to Xie Wei in this life. She knew it, but it was out of her control. Because she is Jiang Xuening who has experienced two lives, what happened in the past can be wiped out in other people's hearts, but it can't remove the scars in her heart.
Xie Ju'an is always a keen person.
A lot of things are aware of clues, and you can make a guess, but you don’t necessarily have to break it down and ask to the end.
As the saying goes, it is rare to be confused.
He is different from Zhang Zhe. Zhang Zhe feels that if two people want to be together, if there is a secret, it will not last long; but Xie Wei is too smart, so he is willing to be confused. There is no obstacle for him to have a secret, and it is even a trivial matter.
He only asked her softly, "Do you want to say something?"
Jiang Xuening said, "I don't want to say it."
She leaned back slowly, leaning against the cold wall behind her head, and blinked her eyes, but suddenly remembered what happened a long time ago, and quietly said to him: "Actually, since I was young, the first time I saw you, I hated it. You. You are wearing white clothes, holding a piano, and you look like a sick tuber. You look down on people, but you are not at all similar to those people, and even more different from me. You are the most famous in life. I hate those eyes. It seems that I know everything, I know everything, and I even feel that you pity me. You let me know how different people are, and put me on this side of the gap. I It's nothing. The closer I get to the capital, the more I fear and hate you. Later, I really thought, if you give me another chance and let me go back to that time, I will take your knife and drop it. Your qin, throw you in the wilderness, and let the jackals in the mountains eat you."
A tear rolled from the corner of her eye.
Xie Wei slowly stretched out his hand, hugged her, let her lean on his lap, and said in a low voice, "You should have done that."
Her tense body finally trembled slightly.
Jiang Xuening still showed all his weakness in front of him, but only stared at a certain fixed point in the void and said, "You are a very bad, very bad person."
Xie Wei said, "I am."
Jiang Xuening cried for a long time.
Xie Wei also listened to it for a long time, and then slowly said: "Sometimes you can't be a good person, and you can be a bad person. to become a different person. Break the barriers that the road has set for yourself, believe first, then do it. Either get overwhelmed or come over. Luck always belongs to a few people, and God will not be so kind to us. Ning Er, hatred is sometimes a good thing."
Like he wished she could believe they could be together.
to break down that barrier.
Jiang Xuening raised his eyes to look at him, and when he curved his lips, there was not no ridicule, but after that, there was only a deep sadness and floating sadness, and asked, "Xie Ju'an, is this how you came here in your life?"
Xie Wei nodded lightly: "Yes."
He lowered his eyes and thought, this is how he came here before.