The snow in winter is very heavy, and in the night, the small snow becomes heavy snow, so all encounters and reunions, there is a kind of wind and snow in the night.
But in the midst of the dust, there are some wonderful and beautiful scenes.
The young girl leaned out half of her body, her face condensed in a moment of astonishment, and she looked cute in surprise. And the young man in red smiled and slammed the handle against the window, and looked up unhurriedly, his eyes were full of affection.
It is pure and fragrant, unexpected, and like the arrangement in a drama.
In the silence, the young man broke the silence. He raised the corner of his lips and asked, "Stupid?"
Jiang Li returned to his senses and said, "Why is the Lord of the Country here?"
"Aren't you going to the Guogong Mansion tonight?" Ji Heng smiled and said, "I'll pick you up."
Jiang Li: "..."
The words "I'll pick you up" should be very gentle and infinitely intricate, but when the person in front of them said it, there was a creepy and unnaturalness. Jiang Li said, "Master Guo doesn't have to be so troublesome. In fact, let Zhao Ke come, or I can go by myself."
"Oh." He said: "I have come."
Everyone has come, and he cannot be allowed to leave. Jiang Li sighed, stood up, Ji Heng stretched out her hand, put her arm on, and said, "Jump down."
Jiang Li stepped on the stool, stepped on the table, supported Ji Heng's arm, and jumped down from the window. The window was not high, but it was still a little shaky when she jumped down, and she subconsciously grasped the corner of Ji Heng's robe.
He didn't react until Jiang Li stood firm, huh? Why did she jump out of the window, she could open the door and go out, right
He glanced at Ji Heng again, sighed silently in his heart, and was taken away again.
Ji Heng looked at Jiang Li with interest, and said, "You are a very suitable body."
Because she had to travel at night, Jiang Li couldn't wear too complicated. The woman's skirt was too long. She didn't even wear a cloak. She only wore a plain white cotton jacket prepared by Bai Xue, her lower body was gray pants, and her feet Wearing black boots, his long hair is all tied high behind his head, dressed like a man.
But even though he was dressed as a man, in the snow, under the light of lanterns, his facial features became more gentle and beautiful, and there was a kind of unspeakable refreshment.
"Thank you for the compliment." Jiang Li replied, and she asked, "How do we get out?"
"Go through the back door." Ji Heng replied.
"Back door?" Jiang Li was startled: "What back door?"
Facts have proved that Ji Heng is much more familiar with the inside of Jiang Mansion than her second Miss Jiang. Going around a few gardens that are not common on weekdays, there is actually a back door. I didn’t meet anyone along the way. Although I knew that Ji Heng would definitely let people dismiss all possible subordinates in advance, it was too simple and would give Jiang Li an illusion, as if the whole Jiang Mansion was paperless. Generally, anyone can come in. If Jiang Mansion was looted at night, Jiang Li might not be too surprised.
After all, there are no guards guarding the door at night!
Ji Heng took Jiang Li and walked out the back door almost openly.
In the snow outside the back door, there was a black soft sedan parked unexpectedly. In front of the soft sedan, Zhao Ke was standing with four coachmen. Seeing Jiang Li and two of them coming out, he walked over and lifted the sedan curtain.
Jiang Li hesitated. The sedan chair is different from the carriage. The man and woman ride in the same sedan chair, which is a little ambiguous.
She was still hesitating here, but Ji Heng got on the sedan chair calmly. After waiting for a long time, seeing Jiang Li not moving, he asked, "Aren't you coming up?"
What the man said was light and light, as if she had thought about everything, Jiang Li couldn’t help wondering if she was making a fuss too much, but the journey was still far, so she didn’t take the sedan chair and walked down the street, in case she was caught by Princess Yongning. People recognized it, fearing that it would cause trouble, so they could only grit their teeth and went up immediately.
Zhao Ke ordered the sedan chair to lift the sedan chair.
The sedan chair is as gorgeous and exquisite as its owner, and there are even hot tea and snacks in it, which is hard to enjoy in winter. But in any case, this is a sedan chair made by one person, so even if it is wide, the distance between Jiang Li and Ji Heng can't be widened.
It can almost be said to be very close.
Ji Heng handed Jiang Li a cup of tea, the tea was still gentle, Jiang Li took a sip, and the chill dissipated a lot. She looked at the dim sum on the little table, and suddenly said, "Is this made by the grandfather of the country?"
At that moment, Jiang Li could be sure, Ji Heng's movements paused, and the tea in his hand spilled out.
The people who carried the sedan chair outside walked very steadily. The sedan chairmen in the Guogong Mansion were probably carefully selected, and no bumps were felt at all. Therefore, it is impossible for the tea to be spilled because of the bumps of the sedan chair, because of her words.
Ji Heng put down the tea cup, took out the snow-white silk silk, and slowly wiped the tea from his hands. At the end, he looked at Jiang Li, "No."
Jiang Li: "..."
No, no, Ji Heng is the only one who can make it so murderous. Jiang Li suddenly understood why outsiders wanted to rumors that Ji Heng was moody, he was already moody.
"Who is Haitang?" Ji Heng asked suddenly.
Jiang Li didn’t react for a while. He just listened to Ji Heng saying: "You are so nervous to search for her traces. You don’t hesitate to ask me for help. I’m not afraid that I will see your secrets. It seems to be very important to you. Up."
"It's really important." Jiang Li smiled: "Also, I never thought of concealing the grandfather of the country."
"Don't say it nicely, you are the most cunning." Ji Heng smiled indifferently, and said: "You know this woman named Haitang, just like you have known Qiongzhi of Xihualou, and Xue of Tongxiang. Huaiyuan."
"I know." Jiang Li said: "She is the one who can help me bring down Princess Yongning."
"What I have never understood is," Ji Heng whispered: "Why do you want to put Yongning to death?"
"Duke Guo only saw that I was about to put Princess Yongning to death, but he couldn't see Princess Yongning repeatedly betraying me." Jiang Li smiled lightly, "Only the state officials are allowed to set fires and the people are not allowed to light the lights. This is not fair."
When she said the three words "unfair", although she could suppress her emotions, she could still hear a little bit of resentment. She really feels unfair.
Ji Heng propped his head, looked at her, and said, "You are the first daughter, not the common people."
"Does the first assistant daughter have privileges?" Jiang Li asked back, "but in my opinion, maybe it is worthless to Shang Yongning or someone higher."
Yongning saw that she was the daughter of a small official, and could bully Xue family at will. But at the beginning, she was the more senior daughter of an official, as long as she blocked Yongning's way, but her status was not as high as Yongning, Yongning could still do whatever she wanted. This is the truth of this world today. The people are oppressed by small officials, small officials are oppressed by high officials, high officials are afraid of kings and sun nobles, and kings and suns nobles bow their heads to the emperor.
Every layer is exploitation, and the bottom is blood and tears. The daughter of the first assistant does not eat the sufferings of the world and can't experience it. As a common people, Xue Fangfei has personally learned how it feels to be bullied by a powerful power.
"You seem to be very angry." There was a smiling voice in his ears, and Jiang Li realized that before she knew it, Ji Heng had already sat upright, so Ji Heng was very far away from her in the not so big sedan chair. Exhausted. She seemed to be able to feel the warm breath exhaled by Ji Heng in her ears.
Itchy, with inexplicable enthusiasm, let the moment of hostility in her heart dissipate a lot.
Jiang Li deliberately stepped back a bit, never thinking that he had reached the edge, and almost knocked his head on the sedan beam. Thanks to Ji Heng's quick eyes and hands, he stretched out his hand to pad behind her head, so Jiang Li's back of the head touched Ji Heng's palm.
His hands are cold all year round, his red clothes are like fire, but they are as cold as ice.
Jiang Li was startled and thanked softly.
Ji Heng retracted his hand and said lazily: "You don't have to hate the officials so much. Jiang Yuanbai is the first assistant. What you said has put you on the opposite side of the officials. Little guy," he reminded me whether it was kind or malicious. , "It will be exposed."
It will be exposed.
What will be exposed? Jiang Li became a little nervous for a moment, would it reveal that she is not Miss Jiang Er's identity? Although there are many mysteries in her body, and in the eyes of others, there are many incredible, but as long as she does not say it, no one would think that Jiang Li's shell hides another soul.
But that is for ordinary people, if it is for Ji Heng... Jiang Li raised his eyes to look at him.
The young man's eyes were deep and smiling. His phoenix eyes were narrow and raised, and the color was slightly heavier, so he was more and more able to outline a beautiful shape, with a tall nose and blushing lips, like a glass of poisonous wine with a mystery. You can't see his heart, but you feel that you are caught by his eyes, and there is no secret in your heart.
He is too dangerous, too sober, too sensible, and too easy to sink.
He is not an ordinary person, if it were him, maybe he would discover the secret in her. Jiang Li thought for no reason.
Jiang Li was silent. She didn't know what to say. Every word she said could be a clue to Ji Heng.
However, Ji Heng did not continue to question her, as if a little tired, he put his head on his hand, leaned on the side of the sedan chair, and closed his eyes.
In the small sedan chair, the two were close together, and they were silent by appointment. You could hear the wind whistling outside the sedan chair, and the bearer’s boots stepped on the snow, making a rustling sound, making it cold and quiet. In the night, it was a bit more vivid.
With their own minds, I don't know how long it took, the sedan chair stopped, and Zhao Ke's voice sounded outside: "Duke Guo, here it is."
Ji Heng opened his eyes, opened the car curtain, went down first, and waited for Jiang Li to come down.
The Guogong Mansion at night is not as gorgeous as it looks in daylight, and under the dimly lit lights, it looks a little unreal. It seems that a person who has been trekking in the mountains for a long time saw a fairy palace, and then looked at the handsome young man who did not look like a mortal, and suddenly thought that he had reached the lair of the strange.
Jiang Li walked down, the gate of the Guogong Mansion opened, and she walked in with Ji Heng.
Old General Ji had probably fallen asleep, because he hadn't seen his shadow. If General Ji was there, he would definitely not be so quiet. He would definitely grab Jiang Li and ask her why she came here all night. What is the relationship between Heng.
Walking all the way to the innermost courtyard of the Guogong Mansion, there was a room. Outside the room, Wen Ji was waiting. Seeing a few of them, he said, "My lord."
"People are inside." Ji Heng looked at her: "Are you going in now to see?"
Jiang Li nodded and was about to walk in. Wen Ji said, "Ms. Jiang Er, this girl named Haitang distrusts her very much. If you go in alone, I'm afraid she will hurt you. Let the guard..."
"No need." Jiang Li smiled and rejected his kindness, and said: "I will go in and negotiate with her, she will not hurt me."
Wen Ji looked at Ji Heng, and saw that Ji Heng did not show any disapproval, so he opened his body so that Jiang Li could push the door in.
Jiang Li hesitated, turned to Ji Heng, and just about to speak, Ji Heng smiled and said, "I know, I'm waiting at the gate of the yard, I won't overhear your'secret'." He said, "Secret." "The word bite is slightly heavier.
Jiang Li smiled and said, "Thank you, Grandpa Guo, for your understanding."
Ji Heng and his guards all retreated into the yard. Jiang Li took a deep breath and gathered courage before pushing the door open.
Closing the door, Jiang Li looked into the room, a lamp was lit on the table in the room, and there was a person sitting at the table. She leaned her back against the wall, as if it would make her feel a little more at ease. The back of Gao Xin is long and thin. When he saw this back, Jiang Li almost broke down in tears. This figure made her familiar, and she had mixed feelings. It was impossible for her to recognize it. This was Haitang.
Hearing someone coming, Haitang turned around quickly, staring at Jiang Li warily. There was a veil on her face, only a pair of eyes were exposed, but the look in the eyes was strange. Begonia used to be gentle and calm. She was always on the sidelines in everything. She was the most considerate and safe. But now Begonia can’t see the gentleness of the past anymore. She is like an animal that has been injured, staring guardingly. people.
This look broke Jiang Li's heart.
But Jiang Li just raised a gentle smile and sat down opposite Haitang. When she was doing these actions, Haitang avoided her and pressed close to the wall without saying a word.
"You are Begonia." Jiang Li smiled and said: "It was I who asked people to inquire about your news and brought you back from Zaohua Village."
Haitang still looked at her with the eyes of a stranger. In fact, Jiang Li is indeed just an unmasked stranger to Haitang, and she still doesn't know the details. Haitang spoke, and she said, "What is your purpose?"
Hearing this, Jiang Li was stunned for a moment, and the color of astonishment floated on his face.
Haitang’s voice is soft and soft, and it’s very nice. Back then, people joked and said that Haitang had been following her master for a long time, and her tone and voice were similar to Jiang Li. But now her voice seemed to have been scorched by fire, hoarse and terrible.
"Your voice... What's wrong?" Jiang Li asked.
Haitang stared at her without speaking.
For Haitang, it is not normal for a stranger to ask her voice, still such a caring attitude.
"Your purpose." Haitang asked again.
"I'm Jiang Li, the second lady of the Jiang family, the daughter of Jiang Yuanbai, the current first assistant." Jiang Li tried to put down her voice and make her expression softer and kinder. She said, "I am entrusted to check Miss Xue’s case, Xue Fangfei."
"Miss..." Haitang was taken aback, then excited, she asked: "What's wrong with Miss?!"
Jiang Li frowned: "You don't know?"
"I don't know!" Haitang asked eagerly, "what happened to her?"
When Haitang and Dujuan left Shen's mansion, Xue Fangfei was still alive, but was placed under house arrest because of the scandal of fornicating with others. And Xue Fangfei drove her and Dujuan away because one day Xue Fangfei suspected that the two maids had stolen property, expelled them from the house and prevented them from returning to Beijing forever.
At that time, Haitang and Du Juan felt aggrieved, but Xue Fangfei had never been so harsh. For many years, the friendship between master and servant was destroyed, and Haitang was also sad. But after they left Yanjing City, after a long time, Haitang gradually calmed down, and she also wanted to understand that Xue Fangfei back then was to protect them. If she and Dujuan stay in Shen's residence, sooner or later they will be attacked by Shen's mother.
Since my lady wants them to live well, Haitang and Dujuan can only endure grief and linger. Now that Jiang Li suddenly talked about Xue Fangfei, Haitang suddenly had an ominous premonition in her heart.
Jiang Li looked at her and said, "She is dead."
Haitang was startled, almost unsteady, and fell to the ground. Jiang Li stretched out her hand to help her, Haitang looked at her, but her expression was still hazy, she asked: "Why... will it? When I left, she was still..."
"After Xue Fangfei discovered that she had an affair with someone, she had no face. Soon she became seriously ill, and finally died of her illness. She went." After a pause, Jiang Li said, "It looks like this on the surface."
"What do you mean?" Haitang immediately grasped the meaning of Jiang Li's words.
"It means that Xue Fangfei's death was not an accident, nor was she dying of a serious illness. She died because she was killed. Just like she was framed when she had an affair with others."
Haitang looked at Jiang Li, her expression gradually changed, like being wary and agitated, she asked, "How do you know that she was framed for liaison with others?"
"It doesn't matter how I know, but you should know that you are Xue Fangfei's close maid. You know the best if Xue Fangfei had an affair back then." Jiang Li said.
Haitang clutched the teacup on the table tightly: "She didn't have an affair with anyone."
Jiang Li looked at her: "I know."
"Why are you coming to me," Haitang asked, "Why are you telling me these things? What good is it for you? If you want my life, just take it, I don't care, if you want to use you I have come to achieve the ulterior goal. I advise you to dispel this idea as soon as possible. I will do nothing."
Jiang Li didn't answer, just looked at Haitang and smiled.
After a while, Haitang asked nervously, "What are you doing?"
Jiang Li shook his head: "I just sigh. Xue Fangfei is really nice to have you as a maid. No wonder she tried so hard to send you and Cuckoo out."
Haitang was taken aback: "You know?" Her voice suddenly trembled: "Back then... She deliberately expelled us from the house, right? She never wronged us, right?"
Although Haitang later guessed that this was a possibility, she couldn't let it go. Now that Xue Fangfei is dead, there will never be an answer to this question, but from Jiang Li's mouth, she suddenly has a glimmer of hope, as if only in this way can she be consummated.
"Yes." Jiang Li looked at her calmly, "She knows that she will face ubiquitous dangers in Shen's house, and it is more likely that you will not be able to save the lives of both of you. Only if you are driven out of the house, can she Get a ray of life. If you tell the truth to you, you will not leave, and you must live and die with her. It is better to be ruthless, so that you can give up and leave the city of Yanjing completely and save your lives."
Haitang listened in a daze. Not long after, tears suddenly fell from a group of people. She murmured: "I know... I always know."
"But," Jiang Li asked the question she wanted to ask, "What I know is that you were not a maid at the time, but there was also a cuckoo named Dujuan. Why are you alone now, did you split your way halfway? Or have other plans? ?"
Haitang lowered his head and said, "Dead."
Jiang Li's heart shrank tightly, as if he was grabbed by someone's hand, only feeling out of breath. Although I had thought of this possibility a long time ago, when I heard Haitang say it, I still couldn't accept it.
The excitement that accompanied her left one by one, as if nothing was left behind.
"She... How did she die?" Jiang Li's voice was a little bit unconcealable choked.
But because Haitang was so sad at this moment, she didn't notice her strangeness. She was just very tired, as if she had exhausted all her strength and said: "Not long after we escaped from Yanjing City, we suddenly found that the government was posting our announcements everywhere, saying that we had stolen the owner's money and wanted to arrest us. The cuckoo was arrested. I caught it. I wanted to go and ask the official to tell them that the cuckoo is innocent, but that night... when I found the cuckoo, she had been strangled to death and was thrown on the mass grave."
Jiang Li's heart was unstoppable.
"I don't know if it is a member of the government. Since it was arrested by the government, why the case was directly sentenced without trial. That is the sentence, why not announce it to the world. If it is not a member of the government, why are there government officials everywhere? Wanted. I don’t understand, but I also know that there’s no way to avoid all this. I saw them even lying in ambush near the mass graves, waiting for me to throw myself into the trap to collect the body of the cuckoo and arrest me. , So I did not collect the corpse for the cuckoo." When talking about this, Haitang's hands trembled. It is about the present time that I can't forgive what he did at that time.
"I ruined my face, escaped the government's search, and fled back to my hometown." Haitang said.
"your face… "
Haitang asked, "Do you want to see it?"
Jiang Li nodded.
Haitang laughed sorrowfully, and lifted the veil with her hand.
Jiang Li's breathing almost stopped for an instant, but seeing the original white and pretty face, there are two deep knife marks, from the eyes to the chin, hideous and terrible, the wound is scarred, but it is not only unpleasant. Feeling better, but even more shocking.
What can make a beautiful woman willing to destroy herself to such a degree? From then on, he could only cover his face with a veil and walk in the world.
Haitang kept staring at Jiang Li's eyes. With her face, wherever she went, she saw nothing but disgust and fear. She had long been used to it. Even the people in black who came to pick her up were quite unnatural when they saw her face. She thought Jiang Li was the same as those people.
But Jiang Li did not.
Jiang Li just looked at Haitang deeply, her eyes were full of sadness and guilt, distress and regret, but the only thing she didn't had was fear and avoidance. She even reached out her hand, trying to touch the scar.
Haitang took a step back suddenly, put the veil back on, and was silent for a while before she said, "You see it."
Jiang Li was also silent. Seeing an old friend at first glance, it was not a delightful reunion. Both had rough experiences and made people lament the absurdity of fate.
"I want to ask, you don't hesitate to destroy your appearance, what is it for you to do this in order to survive?" Jiang Li asked.
"I don't know." Haitang's eyes were blank for a moment. "At first I thought the official wanted order was issued by the young lady. But I didn't think so. I hope I can live and see the young lady one day and ask this clearly. What's the matter, why do we say that we steal property, maybe the lady is to save our lives, then we shouldn't give up our lives casually, but try to live."
She said: "We have known since we were young that we live for the young lady."
Jiang Li closed her eyes.
In fact, Xue Huaiyuan has never hoped that the subordinates of the Xue family should devote everything to the master and should have a life of their own. Jiang Li is also commensurate with Begonia Cuckoo and the others as sisters, but there is probably such a loyal servant in the world, and her life is tied to another person.
Very heavy, very heavy.
"I don't know Miss is dead..." Haitang murmured: "I still think, maybe I can see Miss again..."
"Xue Fangfei can't come back to life," Jiang Li refocused and looked at her again, "not only that, Xue Zhao is also dead, and Xue Huaiyuan is crazy. There is nothing left in the entire Xue family."
Haitang looked at her blankly and shook his head: "No..."
"Listen, Haitang, this is not an accident, nor is it a karma. This is a conspiracy, a living conspiracy. Someone killed the Xue family. I am Miss Jiang Er. I am entrusted to help the Xue family vindicate. Clean up the unnecessary stigma for Xue Fangfei and find evidence that she was killed." Jiang Li stared at Haitang’s eyes, "This is not only because of Xue Fangfei, but also for you, why Dujuan, for all the innocents in this conspiracy. People who died tragically. Do you want to watch the murderer get away with it?"
"Why should I believe you?" Haitang asked. She is a smart girl who is determined and decisive. She is hit by the truth at this moment, and she can hold on to her own reason.
"If I wanted to kill you, I wouldn't do everything possible to bring you to Yanjing City. You can also go and see the crazy Xue Huaiyuan, and you will know if what I said is false." Jiang Li said, "You belong to Xue Fangfei." Personal maid, staying with her every day, you at least know who you should suspect. When Xue Fangfei had an affair with someone, was framed, who was the most suspicious, and what suspicious things had he done?"
Haitang stared at Jiang Li. After a while, her eyes sank and she uttered a few words.
"Xiao Deyin."
"Also, everyone in the Shen family."