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Jiang Rao opened her eyes, blinked sourly twice, and stared blankly at the person on the horse holding her.
The heavy impact of her fall startled the horse. The young man on the horse, dressed in dark black, was frowning, tightening the reins to control the horse that was about to gallop. Jiang Rao walked along the moonlight, along his jawline. Sweeping over to see his face clearly, his voice trembled, "Rong Ting."
Jiang Jinxing's noisy voice came from the wall, and he was so proud that he yelled at Jiang Rao, "I told you it's fine, but you still don't believe me! You shed tears for nothing!"
He rode on the wall and yelled, one fell off the wall without paying attention, one step later than Jiang Rao, and fell into the firewood pile with his small body, but it didn't hurt, but Jiang Jinxing compared it with his sister and someone picked it up, he didn't , The little mouth curled up, a little unhappy, rubbing his buttocks and sitting up.
A man in black came a step behind, his hand was still hanging in the air to pick him up, he went to Jiang Jinxing and asked him with concern, "Is Xiao Shizi alright?"
"This wall is so small, it's nothing." Jiang Jinxing boasted, glanced at the man in black, and narrowed his eyes vigilantly.
He remembered the flickering black shadow he had seen.
"This is my dark guard."
Immediately, Rong Ting made a sound.
After taming the slightly frightened horse, Rong Ting pulled the rein and turned the horse's head in one direction, his charming face was illuminated by the flames, it was dark and bright at times, moods and anger could not be changed, veins appeared on the back of the hand pulling the rein , seems to hold back something.
Jiang Rao noticed that he had changed direction, and hurriedly grabbed the front of his shirt, "There are still people inside, put out the fire first."
Rong Ting frowned slightly, and jumped off the horse with Jiang Rao in his arms.
Naturally, he knew that there were people inside, and he also saw the blazing flames, but he just didn't care that much about some irrelevant people.
"Put out the fire first." He said to the hidden guard beside him.
The location of this inn is a bit remote, and it is far away from the Tijiang River. It took some effort to bring water in, but fortunately, the fire was discovered in time, and the fire was extinguished within half an hour.
Even if it was extinguished in time, the fire was so fierce that the purlins and beams of several houses had been burned, which looked shocking.
Sure enough, someone deliberately set the fire on fire. The places where the fire started were the kitchen on the first floor and the four piles of firewood that had been piled up in advance and splashed oil in the corridor on the second floor. Every door and window was locked. The drug in the meal, if she and her younger brother were not sober, they would have been burned alive here.
On the second floor, there were two piles of firewood piled up in front of her. It seemed that the fire was aimed at her.
The people from the official yamen came late and helped the siblings to carry everyone in each room to the courtyard. No one was injured. Jiang Jinxing went to wake up the doctor in the town and invited him to come over and dispense the medicine. The people who passed out were given refreshing soup, and when they woke up, they found a new inn to live in. After the matter was almost settled, he began to want to find the person whom he scolded all eighteen generations of ancestors. The innkeeper and waiter.
The two of them didn't show up from the beginning to the end. It was obvious that the fire had something to do with them. Jiang Jinxing was afraid that they would run away by boat overnight and would not sleep. He would go to the dock to check on people in the middle of the night.
Jiang Rao called him to stop, "It's not just this inn that has a problem, it doesn't make sense that we just got into a den of thieves, the previous ones told us that the inn was full and we couldn't stay, maybe there is something wrong with it, if you want to find someone, Let’s find those families as well.”
She hid her thoughts and didn't mention it, the people from the government office came too late, no matter how remote the inn is, and it's not a wilderness, there will always be night watchmen in the city at night, such a big fire, why can't they be alarmed
But right now the people from the government office are helping them move the suitcases to the new inn, and Jiang Rao is not suspicious, so she didn't say anything.
After listening to Jiang Rao's words, Jiang Jinxing nodded. Just now, his face was covered with ashes when he put out the fire, and he didn't even wipe it off. night.
Jiang Jinxing went out in a state of ashes, and Jiang Rao was not much better. She dressed neatly in the shortest time, and she still looked decent, but without Ming Shao to help her style her hair, the bun she tied would always loosen. Wearing a conical hat and draped hair, you can't see it yourself, so you should think it's tied up.
On the black brim of the conical hat and on her shoulders, there were white and ash of charred sawdust.
Jiang Rao watched his younger brother's back disappear into the night, subconsciously feeling a little worried.
But her younger brother is naturally reckless, so if he doesn't find something to sharpen, he may not be able to calm down.
When Jiang Jinxing's figure disappeared, she herself was still standing under the eaves on the second floor of the new inn, without turning around.
She was fantasizing about finding Rong Ting.
But what she thought in her heart was that she had to drive a long way to Huaizhou first, and then go to the deep mountains and old forests, drill caves, cross rivers, and search inch by inch. As a result, he suddenly appeared directly in front of her, with There is also a living temperature and smell...
It's like climbing a mountain before you take two steps, and you find that the top of the mountain is under your feet.
I got what I wanted, but the feeling in my heart was like stepping on a cloud.
Unreal, like a dream.
She took a deep breath and turned to open the door.
This is her room in the new inn.
When the door was pushed open, the person standing in front of the table turned his head when he heard the movement.
On the table was the parchment map that Jiang Rao had looked at earlier.
Seeing her coming, Rong Ting put the parchment map back, and his palms were slightly sweaty for a moment.
He looked at Jiang Rao's expressionless face and was worried for a moment that she was angry. He didn't know how to explain the feigned death to her, and he didn't know what expression to put on his face. He was having a headache, and the little girl walked towards him aggressively. Come over, grab his collar and force him to bow his head towards her.
Rong Ting bent down, thinking that he might be beaten, when his face stretched out, his jaw hurt.
Jiang Rao's experience in kissing is pitifully meager. With no one to guide her and the height difference, she couldn't even find the position of his lips. She accidentally bumped into her by accident, and her teeth were knocked down by his chin. There was some pain, she fell back to her heels to the ground in pain, her lips were puckered, and her little hand stretched out to pull Rong Ting's face again, as if to confirm whether he was real, the force of her hand was not small, and the pinna of his ear was slightly pulled Red let go.
She put on the cone hat in her hand to cover her face, sat down on the armchair, lowered her head, stared at the toe of her embroidered shoes, determined not to look at his confusing face, "Explain."
Rong Ting touched her slightly sore chin, unable to tell whether she was going to kiss or bite just now, and slowly rubbed against her, speaking in a slow voice, "Royal father, the Xu family has already complained. suspicion."
"Before I leave for Huaizhou."
Although Emperor Zhaowu was relieved to hand over the six palaces to Empress Jiahe, he could only allow Empress Jiahe's means to be confined to the palace walls. If he interfered with the government affairs of the court, no matter how decent Empress Jiahe behaved outside, he would be in charge of Fengyin How competent she is, once Emperor Zhaowu is aware of her ambition, she becomes someone who must be eradicated in Emperor Zhaowu's eyes.
"Father didn't intend to let me go to Huaizhou. Later, Xi Zimo wrote a letter to force me to go forward. Father followed suit and allowed me to go there. He just wanted to see what kind of medicine Xi Zimo sold in his gourd."
"Xi Zimo is a cautious person, and he rarely shows his feet. He was entrusted by the queen and the father-in-law to take my life. The incident of falling off the cliff was not a fake."
He didn't want Jiang Rao to know that the feigned death was his idea, so he pushed all the means and scheming on Emperor Zhaowu, "Three days after I fell off the cliff, the people sent by my father found me. If I return to the court, The military power in Lingnan is a matter of course, and it should be handed over to me. The father was afraid of scaring the snake, and he wanted to test the king's side to the end. The position of soldier is vacant, let’s see if Xu Guozhang will rush to recommend someone from him.”
Jiang Rao suddenly thought of the luncheon in the palace.
When the high-ranking emperor peeled the lychees for his queen, his eyes were full of tenderness and connivance.
Even though he pointed out the empress' faults in public, he didn't punish the empress in the end. When he came and left, he walked hand in hand with the empress.
At that time, she looked at it, and even though she thought it was weird, she had to say that the two of them acted like a couple of gods and gods. Thinking about it today, her whole body turned cold.
None of those connivance and tenderness are sincere.
It's just killing.
No wonder I have to care about how much love I get, my aunt never thought about putting her heart on this man for a moment, not for a moment, luckily she didn't.
"General Xi is really dead?"
"Yeah." Rong Ting nodded, with downcast eyes and a docile and obedient look, not at all like a person who just walked out of the battlefield, and there is no killing smell on his body.
He hid the fact that he killed Xi Zimo without mentioning a word, and even mentioned Xi Zimo in a sad tone for him, "He fell off the cliff with me, his fate was unlucky, and he met a wild beast. I have a big life, and I happened to get caught by a tree branch, so I got my life back."
It was he who actually encountered the beast.
Things that are not popular are always easier to deal with than those that are popular.
That scene was too bloody for her to want to know.
He grabbed Jiang Rao's hand, stroking the back of her hand with his slender fingertips one after another, like a silent temptation, Jiang Rao pulled his hand back, but he couldn't pull it back, so he could only let it go. He pulled, listening to what he had to say.
"Father won't let me go back to Beijing, and won't let me reveal to anyone that I'm still alive. I have to listen to what he says, or he'll chop off my head."
"I have to save my head and come back to see you."
Rong Ting's fingers lightly stroked Jiang Rao's hand for the last few times, his head was raised slightly, suddenly feeling dissatisfied, he stretched out his hand and took off the cone hat she was wearing.
After dropping his hands, he rested his palms on the armrests of the armchair. His tall figure covered her sitting in the chair. He leaned close to her face and looked at her. His face was pale by the black clothes. Bian's hair was blown messy and fluffy by the night wind, his demeanor and actions were pure and innocent, and the words he said were simple and direct, showing no scheming at all.
Jiang Rao's conical hat was taken off, her eyelids drooped, and she didn't look at his face.
With slight displeasure in Rong Ting's eyes, he grabbed Jiang Rao's hand and pressed it to his chest, "Niannian, I fell off the cliff at that time, and it hurt so much."
"I was in a coma for a few days before waking up."
Jiang Rao raised his eyelids to look at him, and his eyes fell on him. Finally, Rong Ting was satisfied, smiled, and tilted his head to rest on Jiang Rao's shoulder, "It's healed now, no more pain."
He let go of the hand that was pressing on his heart, and slowly lifted it up to rest on Jiang Rao's cheek, holding Jiang Rao's face, his slender fingers, his movements were gentle, actually blocking her chance to turn her face away, tough, Firmly fixed her eyes on his face, her eyes were tender and compassionate, "Brother Jin said, are you crying? And the map on the table..."
"Are you going to Huaizhou to find me?"
His eyes shone slightly, and Jiang Rao couldn't take her gaze away from his beautiful, monster-like face. She felt that she should be angry. She was kept in the dark like this, but it seemed that she shouldn't be. He was angry, although he was still pouted in a tangled manner, but his face was no longer as cold as when he just walked in.
"Collect the corpse." She was still angry. She wanted to run to Huaizhou twice, but both times she gave up halfway. It made her somewhat doubt whether she had an affair with Huaizhou. She had a little temper, let alone The last time he stunned her and sent her back to Jinling before he settled the account, his tone didn't soften, and he couldn't turn his eyes away when he held his face, so he simply closed his eyes angrily.
Rong Ting laughed, and said calmly, "It's also good to collect the corpse."
"Anyway, you have already agreed, even if it is a ghost marriage, you can only marry me."
His fingers tightened gently, his eyes tightly held her, and his tone was surprisingly possessive.
Jiang Rao opened his eyes. She was confused for a moment. Hearing what he said, since Emperor Zhaowu had become suspicious of Empress Jiahe to the point of forcing the Xu family to show a fox tail, he would soon be able to escape the shackles of the empress, so why was he so stubborn about marriage? .
She was about to ask, but her voice was interrupted by a knock on the door, and someone outside reported: "Something happened at the ferry."
Rong Ting put the cone hat back on Jiang Rao's head before getting up to open the door.
The entourage who came to report said: "Both the waiter and the innkeeper were arrested and brought back, but when the innkeeper was caught by the people from the government office, he jumped into the river to escape... the water quality was not good, and he drowned in the water."
"Where's the waiter?"
"The shop boy was caught by Xiao Shizi, and he is alive."
Rong Ting smiled, and twitched the corners of his lips, "The people in the yamen are not clean, so hurry up, catch people before they do."
The respondent left again, Jiang Rao saw that Rong Ting was about to close the door, she walked to the door, put her fingers on his arm, "Don't close the door."
She heard them talking about Jiang Jinxing, "I want to go see Brother Jin."
Although she knew someone was protecting Jiang Jinxing, but this kid had caused too many troubles before, and she still had inexplicable worries in her heart.
"good."
Jiang Rao was about to go out, but found that the man said yes, but did not actually open the door. Instead, he closed the door forcefully, blocking her against the door panel, "I will teach you something first."
He pressed her cone hat with his fingertips, pushed it up, and tilted the cone hat to reveal her face. He lowered his face and kissed her, and asked unhurriedly, "I just wanted to kiss me." ,right?"
He watched with satisfaction that her mind was withdrawn from her younger brother, his thin lips curled up, and he smiled faintly, let go of her, and opened the door, "Dear relatives should kiss like this."
Jiang Rao: "..."
If he could lend her an inch of his size, she wouldn't be knocked on his chin, and she wouldn't be so humiliated at this moment.
"No." She blushed and denied behind him.
Rong Ting ignored her words, walked back, and interlocked his five fingers to pull her out. Seeing that Jiang Rao wanted to break away, he was serious, "No one here knows us, and the folk customs are more civilized than Jinling, and no one would joke about holding hands on the street. husband and wife. If someone really asks, just say that we are already married."
Is it necessary
Jiang Rao Quejue's head was numb, and he couldn't figure it out.
She was concerned about more important matters, she took the cone hat in her hand, and wanted to put it on his head, her tone was even a little anxious, "Can you show your face?"
Rong Ting grabbed her wrist and stopped her hand from putting the cone hat on his head, "Now the commotion in Xu Guozhang's side is enough for the father to know his thoughts, even if the queen knows that I am not dead, it is already It's okay."
I'm afraid Empress Jiahe still thought that Emperor Zhaowu had changed his mind, and his heart fell back on her.
Jiang Rao suddenly regained consciousness, blinking slowly and looking at him.
She asked, "You have been following me?"
Then he didn't tell her that he wasn't dead
Just as Rong Ting was about to nod, he suddenly realized something, smiled compensatingly, turned the topic away, and lied: "Qiliu Town is an important town where water and land meet, I happened to be waiting here, and saw your carriage during the day, I'm afraid you're afraid and dare not recognize each other."
His tone couldn't be more normal, and his face was as usual. Jiang Rao believed his words without much doubt. When the two found Jiang Jinxing, Jiang Jinxing was tying up those who opened the inn, ready to beat them to tell the truth and ask them out. Who the hell is going to burn them.
Jiang Rao still felt that Jiang Jinxing's temper was too reckless, so he frowned.
Seeing her frowning, Rong Ting let go of her hand, and went over to say a few words to Jiang Jinxing.
Jiang Rao watched Jiang Jinxing stop thinking about beating people immediately after listening to Rong Ting's words, and ran back to the inn obediently to sleep, amazed in his heart, "He never listens to persuasion, you told him what?"
Rong Ting hooked her hand again.
Naturally, he wouldn't tell Jiang Rao the words "It's more useful to raise your spirits and hit people with your fists." He coughed twice and said, "Teach him not to hit people if he can do it."
Jiang Rao also felt the same reason, and nodded in agreement.
She glanced at those who were caught, and glanced around. She was not good at this kind of interrogation, and she was a little helpless. She remembered what Rong Ting said to the entourage, "There are unclean people in the yamen. ", suddenly cheered up, and asked Rong Ting, "Is there really someone in the yamen colluding with the thieves, and the inside should cooperate with the outside?"
At first she saw that there were no night watchmen here, and she felt a little strange in her heart, but she didn't think about it too much, Rong Ting also felt the same way, and she began to take the strange feeling in her heart seriously.
Rong Ting nodded slightly. He glanced indifferently at the caught waiter and other innkeepers, and said in a deep voice, "These are nothing but idiots. They use money to do things, so they may not know who the real mastermind is."
"Only by finding the ghost in the yamen can we know who the murderer is."
Jiang Rao said, "Let's go to the dock."
She clenched her fingers slightly, "I want to go to the shopkeeper, Drowning."
Rong Ting looked at her, "Are you really going?"
The places where people have died have always been shunned by people.
Jiang Rao bit her lip, she was indeed a little apprehensive, but she wanted to know who was the one who hurt her.
The Ning'anbo mansion has built its foundation in Jinling for a hundred years. Even if the family lives in the world again, it will not be without enemies. Those who live in the world are friends, and those who have conflicts of interest are enemies. The Ning'anbo mansion has a good momentum. It will definitely get in the way of some people, and will naturally make enemies.
But she really couldn't think of anyone who could extend from Jinling to Qiliu Town.
"Go and see." Although her tone was not high, she was firm, "Otherwise I won't be able to sleep."
The people she brought were almost killed by her involvement.
Having said that, her upper and lower eyelids have begun to be inseparable, and she looks very tired.
She wanted to look at the dock, and Rong Ting confirmed that she really wanted to go, so he didn't say anything more, and took her there.
When he arrived at the dock, the river wind blew, his hair was messed up, and Jiang Rao was sobered up a lot.
The time when the innkeeper drowned was in the middle of the night, and there were no crabbers who came out to catch crabs at night in this season. No one saw how he fell into the river, and no one saw how the yamen caught people.
Rong Ting took her to see it for himself, but Jiang Rao couldn't find anyone who could inquire about it, so she finally gave up.
Rong Ting said: "This method is useless, you go back to the inn to sleep first, recharge your energy, and think of a solution tomorrow."
Jiang Rao nodded, willing to go back to the inn to sleep.
This night, she was sleepy and awake for a while, her strength was completely gone, her feet were weak, her pace was very slow, she looked languid, as if she had lost two souls, looking at the distance between the horse and her, she couldn't help but feel a little worried .
The person who had been holding her hand stopped and knelt down in front of her, "Come up."
Jiang Rao froze for a moment, rubbed her heavy eyelids and looked at the figure squatting down in front of her, and was about to say "no", when his hands had already wrapped her legs around her and lifted her up.
Jiang Rao's heart was pounding, and he had already firmly carried her on his back.
The shadow on the road was long by the moonlight.
Jiang Rao suddenly felt safe lying on his back.
In fact, when he appeared, she couldn't hold it anymore.
I don't want to hold on anymore, pretending that I am very energetic.
With someone she could rely on, she lay on his back with a tired face, her little hands hooked around his neck, her flesh clinging to her, afraid that he would sweat and not say anything when he was tired.
If he really sweated, she wouldn't let him carry it.
Fortunately not.
She once thought that his body would be fine when he recovered, but she never thought that he was tougher and stronger than she could imagine.
She looked at the shadows of the two of them on the ground, watching quietly.
It's strange, he still looks thin and tall, if he is still sick, she will believe it without any doubt, where is his strength hidden
Being carried by him, the stability made her sleepy, and her head became heavier and heavier.
Once a person is sleepy, his bad temper can be somewhat irresistible.
What's more, Jiang Rao kept holding back his breath.
The feeling that she was ready to suffer, but she didn't take two steps and reached the top of the mountain directly, besides being unreal, also made her slightly annoyed.
Annoyed that all the hard work was in vain.
But this annoyance has nowhere to go, she knows that he has his own considerations, and there is no other way to vent it except scolding the dog emperor twice for placing his own son in Huaizhou as a pawn.
It's so congested, it's so congested.
Her temperament prevented her from making unreasonable troubles, and her anger was limited to pouring bitterness on those who were behind her back.
"sleepy."
"I haven't had a good night's sleep in days."
Seeing that he hadn't made a sound, she was annoyed. Although her tone was negotiable, her words were quite domineering, "Can you make it up to me?"
Rong Ting laughed.
He just wanted to pamper and indulge her rare little temper, only in front of him.
"What do you pay for?" His deep, smiling voice seemed like he could move gold and silver.
The little girl behind him was silent for a while, as if falling asleep, he turned his head and glanced back.
After tossing all night, the sky is about to dawn.
The round moon in the sky faded and hid behind the clouds, and the light came out slightly from the clouds, illuminating her clean and white face, which was very close to his back, her eyes were tightly closed, and her eyelashes were like lashes. small brushes.
He stopped in his footsteps, moved his hands back, her eyelashes didn't move, she didn't seem to wake up yet, he was about to turn his head, when she opened her eyes with a "huh", her eyes were still Ching Ming.
It turned out that he was not asleep.
He looked at her, neither the moonlight nor the sunlight could warm his eyes, but she could be reflected in his pupils.
"Compensation for what?"
he asked again.
This time she was still silent and didn't speak, Rong Ting only thought that she was thinking about what she wanted most.
"Whatever you want, I will find it for you."
He carried her on his back and continued to walk steadily forward.
"I want a snowman."
The little girl behind him finally spoke out, and Rong Ting stopped walking.
She thought he didn't hear, her voice was very clear, and she said in his ear: "I want you to make a snowman."
She had been looking forward to his return all winter.
Rong Ting reminded softly, "Every year, it's already spring."
In spring, here, how can he find snow immediately.
"I know." She was so sleepy that she was talking nonsense, and she couldn't even bite the words clearly, "I know wow."
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At first she thought he was weak, so weak that even a little girl like her with soft hands could not compare to her. She was born so beautiful, but she was sick and pitiful, but she had a gloomy temperament and a bad temper that made people dare not approach him even if they wanted to help him. .
She didn't think about being entangled with him for too long, at first she thought about running away after atoning for her brother's recklessness, then bumped into him, and then wanted to wait until his leg was healed before slipping away, dragging, stumbling It got deeper and deeper, and once his bad temper changed, she couldn't help but want to help him even if there were no such things in the dream, but she didn't expect to help him, and the marriage was settled in a daze.
She originally thought that she would leave after he became famous and the marriage was useless, but now she didn't want to.
When he came back, she felt a lot of convenience in her heart.
She is not used to the days without him, and she wants to hold on to this man firmly.
"So, this time." Even though her mind was dizzy, the thought did not change, she closed her eyes, and her voice softly approached his ear, "You want to stay with me until winter."