At dawn, Lu Yuan finally arrived!
The guards of the Lu family already knew that he was coming, and they had already stood by the official road and waited for him.
Seeing him, the guards knelt down in unison, their hearts were in suspense, especially those two who were in charge of guarding Mrs. Ning, but watched her fall off the cliff, were waiting with the determination to die. here.
"See the general!"
Lu Yuan's face was dark, and he said in a cold voice: "How? Are there any clues?"
"Back to the general." The chief guard held his fists and lowered his voice, "Not...not..."
Lu Yuan tightened his grip on the whip, "Then, what's the situation now?"
"The subordinates are already doing their best to search for the place where my wife fell off the cliff, and the Fengyang government and Qingzhou government have also sent people to help find it." The chief guard reported truthfully.
After Mrs. Ning's accident, they immediately launched a blanket search, but there were too few of them, the terrain here was steep, and there were bandits harassing them, so they sent two people to Fengyang County and Qingzhou Mansion respectively to seek the government's help. assistance.
The governor of Qingzhou and the county magistrate of Fengyang heard that something had happened to Mrs. Ru of General Lu, and immediately sent hundreds of officers and soldiers to the mountain to suppress bandits and search. In the past two days, officers and soldiers of Fengyang County and Qingzhou City The officers and soldiers of the Lu family were fighting the bandits in the mountains while helping the guards of the Lu family to search.
"Take my post and go again, and tell them to use all their troops in the city to suppress bandits and search the mountains, and they must not hide anything." Lu Yuan ordered in a deep voice, and as he spoke, he took out his seal from his bosom and told them to Stamp your own seal before moving troops.
It is conceivable that the governor of Qingzhou and the county magistrate of Fengyang must be because Ning'er is just a wife, not the official wife of the Lu family, so although she helps, she will not do her best to help, just pretending , but if you take Lu Yuan's greeting card and stamp his seal, the situation will be quite different.
The most popular person around King Lu Yuanzhan, who in the entire Chu Kingdom can't give him some face? He rushed here from Jizhou only five days after Mrs. Ru's accident, and came to them with his invitation card, which shows how much he cares about Mrs. Ru, so these two adults will definitely meet each other. Those who do their best to help may even come forward in person.
As long as the troops from Qingzhou and Fengyang are gathered to attack this bandit stronghold, they will definitely be able to take it down in one fell swoop, and you're done.
And if so many people search the mountain, the effect is better than that of them, so as long as the general posts a post, it will get twice the result with half the effort!
Lu Yuan asked someone to take him to the place where Ning'er fell off the cliff. The guards didn't dare to slack off, and rushed ahead, leading Lu Yuan to the place where Ning'er fell off the cliff.
"General, Madam Ning fell from here..."
The two guards who were in charge of protecting Ning'er pointed to the bottomless mountain stream and knelt down in grief, unable to lift their heads.
Lu Yuan looked down at the bottomless cliff, thinking that the car that was said in the letter was smashed, and the horse fell to death at that time, and his heart suddenly felt a sharp pain, as if he had been stabbed.
The guard on the side saw Lu Yuan's face suddenly pale, and said worriedly, General, are you all right
Lu Yuan waved his hand to signal him not to speak, and he slowed down for a while before recovering.
He said, take me down to have a look.
Although he knew that it would be impossible to find her even if he went down, he still wanted to visit the scene, maybe he could find some clues.
So, the guards took him down the mountain again. The road down the mountain was difficult, and it was almost noon before he reached the place where the carriage broke.
Seeing the fragments of the broken carriage, Lu Yuan's heart ached even more intensely, and he couldn't help but imagined many ominous images, which made him so uncomfortable that he couldn't speak.
He has already determined his heart. To him, Ning'er is definitely not an ordinary existence. In her previous life and this life, she must be the most important woman in his life.
"General, General..."
The chief guard saw that Lu Yuan's already pale face was even paler, and he was slowly falling to the ground, so frightened, he hurried forward to support him, calling loudly while supporting him.
Lu Yuan has been running around on the road day and night for several days. He almost never eats or drinks these days. The scene where Ning'er fell off the cliff, imagine her tragic state after falling off the cliff, Lu Yuan finally broke down and passed out...
When the chief guard saw him, he hurriedly called everyone forward, hurriedly lifted Lu Yuan, put him on the horse, and took him to Qingzhou City, dozens of miles away, to find a doctor.
During this period of time, to be precise, since Lu Yuan arrived at Qipan Temple, he has not been able to sleep well, and he can always dream of some strange things. I slept well, I didn't even have a sound sleep, so I didn't dream about anything again, and now I passed out, and I was finally able to sleep peacefully, so the strange dream came unexpectedly again.
This time, it was Ning'er who dreamed.
It's just that it's not her on the way to distribution, nor is she dying and haggard, but the way she was when she first arrived at Lu's house ten years ago.
The eight or nine-year-old girl, with the unfading baby fat on her face, appeared at home for the first time surrounded by a group of maids and women.
He saw her holding her handkerchief awkwardly, looking cautious and anxious, and she lowered her eyebrows and looked nervous when she was talking to anyone.
Only when talking to that young man whose face was like the moon of Mid-Autumn Festival and whose color was like the flowers of spring dawn, her eyes were lifted a little, and her face was still slightly flushed, like the sunset glow in the sky.
He remembered that that boy was exactly him ten years ago, and at this time, it was also the scene when he saw Ning'er for the first time.
At that time, he really only regarded Ning'er as his younger sister. He generously asked her what she liked to eat, what she played, whether she had read books, and asked her what her name was. See answer one by one.
Then, the scene changed to a scene of two people together. They were young at that time and didn't know how to avoid taboos. They ate and lived together, often played together, and had a lot of fun.
It's just that he is a man, he has to go to the Royal Academy to study, he has to go to the school training ground to practice, he has to go out with his father, learn to socialize, and can accompany her, so he doesn't spend much time with her.
He saw his young self walking out of the house in high spirits, and saw Ning'er standing quietly under the flowers, pretending to look at the flowers, but actually her eyes sneaked away from him, watching her leave.
As soon as he left, she returned to the room and began to make him purses, fan bags, wreaths and fan pendants for him. All activities revolved around him.
When he was not at home, she would quietly make things for him, or go to her mother's place to talk with her mother. The mother liked her very much, and loved him as much as her own daughter...
One day later, when he was a teenager, he returned home happily, and excitedly told his mother and her about meeting sister An An in the palace today.
He expressed his affection for An An to his mother and her without any concealment, praised An An's beauty and temperament, and repeatedly stated that An An was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen in his life, and there would never be another girl in this world. There are more beautiful women than her.
He saw that Ning'er's eyes dimmed, and the smile on her face disappeared. She lowered her head in frustration, picking at her fingers, and the circles of her eyes were slightly red.
In the days that followed, he was busy with how to meet An An and how to please An An, so he didn't play with her much.
He saw the little girl wiping her tears in a place where no one was lost, and also saw her deliberately meeting him at home, and even waiting for him on his way back to his yard.
However, he had too many things to do, and he didn't have time to play with this little sister, so he had to perfuse her with words. The purse fan pendant she made for him was not as good as the one made by the Brocade Bureau in the Palace, and he didn't Put it in your eyes, and reward it to the servants and servants...
Slowly, the two grew up.
He has changed from that ignorant boy to a handsome young man, and she has also grown from a baby girl to a slim girl. Everyone says they are a match made in heaven, even their mother is like this Said.
Every time he heard this kind of rhetoric, he always sternly denied it, and repeatedly stated that they were just brothers and sisters.
But she never denied that whenever someone talked about it, she always looked happy and shy.
Because of this, his favorability towards her has dropped a lot, and he no longer cares about her as much as sister Ning'er did in the past.
Ning'er felt the change in him, but still silently insisted on her own thoughts.
No matter how indifferent he treats her, she treats him consistently. He secretly made shoes and clothes for him, fearing that he would not want it, and asked his wet nurse, who pretended that it was made by the Brocade Bureau, and let him wear it.
He never knew that since he was sixteen years old, every piece of clothing on his body and every pair of shoes under his feet was made by Ning Er. My own embroidery skills have been practiced to be on par with the master craftsmen of the Brocade Bureau.
Except for clothes, she has been silently concerned about his food and daily life, but she dare not let him know that's all.
Later, An An entered the palace and became the emperor's concubine. Disappointed, he married Ning'er, but before marrying her, he had already told her: he only regarded her as his younger sister, and could not treat her as his wife. If she insisted on marrying him, she would have to plan to be a widow for the rest of her life.
When he heard his words, he saw her burst into tears, but he still said without hesitation, "I am willing!"
So, they became husband and wife.
He didn't want to marry her. His mother forced him to marry her, so he didn't even touch her on the wedding night. If it wasn't for fear of his mother's disobedience, he wouldn't have spent his wedding night in her room...