How fast your hands and feet are!
When he and the four men in black came from one end of the street, they didn't see her, which meant that she was going in another direction. Chasing now, she is supporting an old man, so there should be still time.
However, Yan Li didn't want to take the four men in black to chase her.
"Let's go!"
The four men in black look at me, I look at you, Yan Li let them live so easily? Or, was he just kidding them
Yan Li lowered his cold gaze: "Why, you don't want to leave? Do you want to die by my sword?"
"No, no, no!" One of the men in black uttered three "no" words like a cannonball, "I am so grateful that you let the two of us go! Life and death are hard to repay!"
"In the next life, I am willing to be an ox and a horse for you!"
"In the next life, I am willing to take you as my father!"
Let's go on, I don't know how nasty it is!
"Get out, or I'll go back on my word, and you won't be able to leave!"
As soon as the four of them heard this, they immediately ran out of the rice shop and disappeared without a trace on the dark street.
Seeing that his father and the proprietress were still shivering, Yan Li took a quilt and covered them.
"Get up, I'm not a villain."
The two thanked Yan Li thousands of times, and Yan Li couldn't listen to such flattering words of thanks, so he threw a piece of silver to them as spiritual compensation for them. After that, he jumped away from the rice shop, rode on a date-colored horse, and chased towards the other end. The sound of the horse's hooves was like a gust of wind, and it blew across the market at once.
After chasing for a while, suddenly there was a gleam of light at the edge of the forest in front of him, rippling golden light.
"It must be a lake that doesn't freeze!" Yan Li said in his heart.
The sound of horseshoes was even tighter than before, and they came to the lake in a short while. In a forest, there was a miserable cry.
"Mother-in-law!"
That was Cher's voice!
what's going on
Yan Li jumped off his horse, sprinted a few steps, and came to a distance of less than ten feet from Rong Chang'an. A woman in gray clothes lay down on the ground, and Rong Changan knelt beside her, screaming miserably.
"Xue'er, what happened to your stepmother?"
Rong Changan said in a crying voice: "She... she went!"
Yan Li was about to ask Xueer's adoptive mother about Xueer's identity, why did she die right after being rescued
"What happened?" Yan Li walked to Rong Changan's side. With the faint light of the stars and the moon, Yan Li could see the old woman lying quietly on the ground without bleeding.
Yan Li knelt down and put his hand in front of the old woman's nose, but he was no longer breathing. He touched the old woman's neck again, her body was still warm, and he thought she had just died.
"The men in black did it?"
After Rong Chang'an rescued the old woman from the rice shop, she galloped all the way here, and when she took the old woman off the horse, the old woman was already dead.
"No." Rong Changan replied in a low voice.
Yan Li frowned: "Then why did she die?"
"Poison, she ate poison."
"Poison?" Yan Li's eyes were even more puzzled, "How could she swallow poison by herself for no reason?"
Eunuch Fan must have told the old woman to do this. As long as someone wants to force her to reveal Rong Changan's identity, the old woman will swallow the poison to keep Rong Changan a secret.
Rong Changan shook his head and murmured: "Why did you do this, why!" As he spoke, tears rolled down Juemei's face.
"What did you say?" Yan Li asked, "What do you mean why do you do this?"
Rong Changan just woke up, Yan Li was squatting beside her, his sharp eyes were hitting her face.
She wiped away her tears: "It's nothing, I just said it in a moment of emotion."
Yan Li didn't think so.
"You haven't told me why she swallowed the poison?"
Rong Changan saw the doubt deep in Yan Li's eyes.
"What else could be the reason? Isn't it that I was persecuted by those bad guys. Poor her and adoptive father adopted me, and treated me like my own daughter, but I didn't want to be murdered like this, it really made me sad."
Yan Li originally wanted to press her further, but thinking that she must be very sad after losing her adoptive mother at this time, she couldn't bear to continue asking her, and comforted her:
"Dead people can't be resurrected, Xue'er, let's be sad!"
Rong Changan: "Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Yan Li stood up and looked around. Apart from the snow-covered mountains, there were also forests deeply sunken in the snow. White is the primary color of this world, and black is just its embellishment.
"What should we do now? Are we going to transport your adoptive mother back to the thatched cottage to be buried with your adoptive father?"
Rong Changan wiped away his tears, stood up and looked around. With such a long distance, it is very difficult to transport a dead person back.
"Your Majesty, why don't we put our adoptive mother here first, and let the guards come over and transport her back to the thatched cottage tomorrow. Otherwise, it's so dark now, how can the two of us transport her back to the thatched cottage?"
In fact, Yan Li also had the same meaning. He was afraid that Rong Changan had deep feelings for his adoptive mother and opposed him doing this. That's why he asked Rong Changan, not wanting Rong Changan's thoughts to coincide with his.
"Are you willing to put her here?"
Rong Chang'an said indifferently: "The foster mother has spent her whole life in the mountains, her body and spirit have been integrated with the whole forest, it doesn't matter where she is placed."
Yan Li suddenly said in a strange tone: "Xue'er, you can really see!"
Rong Changan heard the sarcasm in the words, so she squinted at Yan Li, and she was afraid that she was thinking too much, so she didn't ask Yan Li what he meant by that sentence.
Waiting for the old woman to bury her hastily, she planted a wooden tablet in the snow, and the two of them got on their horses and walked a long way before Rong Changan reined in the horse and looked at Yan Li sharply: "Your Majesty, what you said just now is true." What's the meaning?"
Suddenly Rong Changan asked, Yan Li was at a loss: "Which sentence is Xueer referring to?"
Rong Chang'an: "What do you mean by your last sentence, you said that I really see it?"
Yan Li let out an "oh" in his throat, and pretended to say casually: "There is no special meaning, just passing in the mouth."
Yan Li rode his horse for a certain distance, only to realize that Rong Changan hadn't followed. So, he also reined in, and asked in a cold voice: "Xue'er, why don't you leave?"
Rong Changan: "The emperor is doubting me, isn't he?"
Yan Li smiled: "What do I doubt about you?"
Rong Changan: "You suspect that I personally killed my foster mother, don't you?"
Under the moon and stars, the horses of the two were one in front of the other, and the horses flicked their tails leisurely, but the person on the horses may not be leisurely.
After a while.
"Yes, I think so."
Yan Li's words hurt her heart so much.
"Why does the emperor think so?"
Yan Li finally turned Mahler to look at Rong Changan face to face. Her eyes were full of sadness, and his eyes were full of suspicion.
"Does it need to be said! I asked the owner of the rice shop, when you rescued your adoptive mother, she was alive, but why did she die when I approached you?"
Rong Changan: "I didn't say that, she died by taking poison."
Yan Li: "You forced her to swallow the poison, right?"
Rong Chang'an's heart was broken: "Why should I force her to swallow the poison? She has adopted me for her kindness, and it's too late for me to repay her. How could I harm her?"
Yan Li's face can't be seen clearly at the moment, but his eyes are like two torches, shining brightly.
"Because you will continue to hide your mysterious identity."