"A... Zhao?" Jiang Li said.
Ji Heng's eyes moved slightly, before he had time to speak, he saw Jiang Li walking quickly to the person. She walked extremely fast, and at the end, she almost started to trot, coming to the person before Zhao Ke. Zhao Ke didn't expect Jiang Li to catch up suddenly, and looked at Jiang Li in surprise without speaking.
The boy in the chair turned his head and was also startled to see Jiang Li. Under the moonlight, his shadow gradually became clear from blurry, still familiar eyebrows, but a bit less immature, and a bit more determined. There are still some faint scars on his face, but his eyes are still as clear as before, just looking at Jiang Li with doubts, he even wants to smile at Jiang Li.
Jiang Li's brain buzzed, her hands touched the boy's face uncontrollably, as if trying to distinguish whether this was a dream or reality, she murmured: "Azhao..."
The teenager asked in doubt: "This girl...Does you know me?"
His voice was still as cool as before, and it blew into Jiang Li's ears, and Jiang Li's body was shaken, a jealous spirit recovered and looked at him blankly.
It's not fake, A Zhao is talking, it is A Zhao's voice, not a dream, Zhao Ke and Ji Heng are also here, this is not A Zhao's ghost either.
In an instant, her heart was filled with immense joy and sorrow at the same time, she hugged Ah Zhao and burst into tears.
The girl sobbed and choked, the crying reverberating clearly in the courtyard, Zhao Ke opened his mouth wide, and subconsciously looked at Ji Heng. The second young lady of the Jiang family actually hugged this kid named A Zhao. Could it be that they had known each other a long time ago? Ms. Jiang Er and Ah Zhao are so close, shouldn't they have had an affair before, if they are really such an adult, how can they bear the affection? A good person is no better than a kid of unknown origin. The second lady of the Jiang family was holding hands with an adult before, and now she has already hugged others in front of the adult. This is really...
Ah Zhao was held by Jiang Li like this, and for a while, he felt a little at a loss. The boy's face flushed red. Suddenly when he was held so by a strange girl, Ah Zhao instinctively wanted to push away, but the girl was so heartbroken that she was so sad. , Inexplicably made him sore his nose, and couldn't bear to push her away for a while, letting her lean on her shoulders, crying.
Because it was night, Jiang Li's cries quickly alarmed others. Xiao Hong in the cage kept flopping, staring at Jiang Li and shouting "Fang Fei", but was drowned in Jiang Li's cry. Old General Ji seemed to have been awakened, and roared in the yard next door full of breath to make Ji Heng calm down.
Ji Heng came over, grabbed Jiang Li's arm, and pulled her up from A Zhao. Zhao Ke paid attention to his master's face, and found that Ji Heng didn't even mean to be angry, and he was even more surprised for a while. Ms. Jiang Er has done this kind of thing, and the adults are so tolerant. No wonder people always say that "the beauty of beauty is a disaster".
Ji Heng said: "Go into the house and say."
Wiping her tears, Jiang Li pushed A Zhao's wheelchair into the house, Ji Heng also followed, leaving Zhao Ke guarding outside the house.
Ah Zhao usually lives in the hut next to the Situ Lian Pharmacy. The hut is also simple. Ji Heng sits by the bed, La Jiangli sits down, and Ah Zhao lights the oil lamp and looks at Jiangli, still a little uncomfortable. When I was about to talk, I heard Jiang Li speak. Jiang Li asked, "What happened to your legs?"
Ah Zhao opened her mouth, such a baffling woman asked herself inexplicably and asked herself so familiarly, as if she should have told her everything. However, A Zhao, who was messed up by the ghost, answered honestly: "Doctor Situ said that my legs were broken and it would be impossible to stand up in the future. I always wondered if I could try again, so I stood on the windowsill for a while at night. It won’t last long. I was afraid that Dr. Situ would be angry when he saw it, so I did it at night. I didn’t expect to be seen by the adults and the girl."
"Broken?" Jiang Li asked softly. After saying this, her tears flowed down again. She really couldn't think of what the scene would be if, as a quack boy like Ah Zhao, he couldn't stand up again from now on. You must know that when he was a teenager, his ambition was not to be an official or to make a fortune, but to travel around to punish evil and promote good. It was very similar to Ye Mingyu, except that Ye Mingyu did it, but Ah Zhao could never do it again.
Her tears were falling down, as if she was sad to the extreme. Ji Heng looked at it, sighed slightly, took out a handkerchief, and wiped her tears. I used to think that no matter what kind of situation a little girl encounters, she is always calm, no matter how bad people she meets, she can laugh. It seems that the only few times she cried were related to her relatives. As long as she met her relatives, she couldn't stop or stop tears, and the hearts of those crying were softened.
Ah Zhao also looked at Jiang Li at a loss. The girl cried like this when he heard his broken leg. He could also see that the girl was really sad for him. But because of this, Ah Zhao is even more puzzled. He has indeed never seen this strange girl, but why does she feel so sorry for herself? He had to hurriedly comforted: "Girls don’t have to feel that I’m poor. Although I can’t stand up, I’m still alive and I have a life left. I can do whatever I want in the future. There are countless more poor people in the world, and some of them haven’t even Compared to being alive, I am already very good."
Hearing this, Jiang Li was stunned, and she said, "Alive? By the way... Why are you here... Are you dead?"
A Zhao was taken aback and looked at Ji Heng.
Ji Hengwen said: "Do you still remember that that day you told me to go to Princess Yongning's private cell to find Jiang Youyao."
Jiang Li nodded.
"When I was in the private cell, I saw him, and he asked me for help, so I brought him back." Ji Heng replied.
Hearing this, a faint flash suddenly flashed across the boy's face and said, "Are you... Miss Jiang Er?"
Zhao Ke still remembered that Zhao Ke said that that day, Miss Jiang Er asked Ji Heng to find someone in the private cell, but accidentally bumped into him. After all, Ji Heng was his lifesaver, and Jiang Li was also considered to have saved his life. If Miss Jiang Er hadn't let Ji Heng go to the private prison of the princess mansion, he would not have been discovered.
He said: "It turns out that the girl is the second lady of the Jiang family."
Jiang Li looked at him, his eyes filled with gratitude for himself. For Xue Zhao, Jiang Li was just an accidental lifesaver.
"I am not Miss Jiang Er," she said, "I am my sister, A Zhao."
Xue Zhao was stunned.
He didn't understand Jiang Li's words. Jiang Li seemed to be younger than himself in the next year. Why did he say that she was her sister, and asked herself to call her sister when she first met, which is too familiar.
When Jiang Li saw that he was still puzzled, she knew that Xue Zhao didn't understand her at all, and she said again: "A Zhao, I am Xue Fangfei, your sister."
Her voice couldn't help trembling, and Ji Heng reached out and held his hand, Jiang Li felt a little relieved. But Ah Zhao was struck by lightning, staring at Jiang Li, and then said for a long while: "You...what are you talking about..."
The girl in front of him was a strange girl. Xue Zhao had never seen this young lady, and his sister, as long as Xue Zhao remembered it, she felt heartbroken. When he was in private prison, Xue Zhao already knew about Xue Fangfei's death, and pity his sister, who was victimized by the adulterer and the adulterer, and was also burdened with unreasonable charges.
"You don't believe me, do you?" Jiang Li asked softly.
"I don't know you... My sister is dead." Xue Zhao looked at her and replied blankly.
"You have a round birthmark." Jiang Li said.
Xue Zhao was stunned. He did have a birthmark. The birthmark was on his inner thigh. It has been there since he was a child. Other than his family, no one else should know it. But this is nothing. After he was sent to the National Palace, he might be seen when he was healed.
"When you were five years old, you went to the woods with me and fell into a swamp. I rescued you. At that time, we both thought we couldn't survive, but we were lucky enough to lose our lives. Father wouldn't let us go to the woods. Playing, so when we went back, none of us told my father about it. This is the secret of you and me, and no third person will know it."
Xue Zhao slowly opened his eyes. He knew that what Jiang Li said was true, and indeed no third person knew about that. But because life and death are at stake, he remembers it clearly in his mind, and he still can't forget it.
"You like to eat sweet-scented osmanthus cake and drink green bamboo wine. You like to go to Uncle Zhang’s tavern in Tongxiang. You always take a bunch of copper plates and an ingot of silver when you go out. That silver is the prize you won from the gambling house. I never used it, saying that I had saved fifty taels of silver, so I went to buy a sword. You like the boots I made for you, and you don’t like the pen and ink that Dad bought. You have kissed me since you were a kid..."
She talked for a long time eloquently, without even stopping in the middle, those things seemed to be deeply engraved in her heart without forgetting for a moment. As she talked more, the few people in the room seemed to see Xue Zhao's appearance from childhood to adulthood, from a young boy to an energetic young man.
Ah Zhao's eyes were red unknowingly, and his body trembled, staring at Jiang Li, as if strongly suppressing his excitement.
Until Jiang Li saw a tear in his eyes, she stopped talking and asked, "Do you believe it now? A Zhao?"
A Zhao looked at her as if crying and smiling. After a while, he suddenly said, "... Sister!"
letter! Why don't you believe it? The things she said had really happened to him. Including his habits, if others want to check him, they can't find out what he thinks. In those years, his brother and sister had a heart-to-heart conversation, and now Jiang Li can say it without a word. He knows his sister, but never forgets!
And the manner in which she speaks is really too similar to Xue Fangfei. If Jiang Li didn't say it, Xue Zhao would only think it was a coincidence, but when Jiang Li explained his identity, looking at the clues, it became indisputable evidence. They were clearly unfamiliar eyebrows, but Xue Zhao only felt in a daze that his sister had come back to life. She gently tolerated her naughty and told him how to be an upright man.
"Sister!" Xue Zhao shouted.
"Azhao..." Jiang Li cried.
"Sister! You really are your sister!" Xue Zhao said, "People outside said you were dead, and I thought you were dead. Why are you still alive? How did you become like this?" He suddenly said: " Have you ever been disgusted, but how did you become the second lady of the Jiang family? How are you these days? Did Shen Yurong and Princess Yongning kill you? And father, father, have you seen it? Does he know about us? Thing?"
He has too many questions, and it can be seen that he really has a lot of puzzles and want to ask himself clearly. Jiang Li smiled with tears, and only said: "It's okay, I will tell you one by one."
"Azhao, I am not Xue Fangfei anymore. I am Jiang Yuanbo’s daughter Jiang Li. At that time, Shen Yurong and Princess Yongning calculated me and lost my reputation, so I had to stay in the mansion. Princess Yongning wanted to give me medicine to make me feel better. When the lamp was dead, I found out that it didn't work, and strangled me to death."
It was already the second time to hear this kind of thing, Ji Heng still couldn't help but stared slightly, holding Jiang Li's hands together slightly. Xue Zhao was even more furious, gritted his teeth and said: "Asshole!"
"I don't know what happened. I thought I was dead at the time. When I woke up, I had become the second lady of the Jiang family. At that time, the second lady of Jiang lived in Qingcheng Mountain, so I tried to return to Beijing. The purpose is to return to Yanjing City and find a chance to take revenge."
Xue Zhao asked: "So, Princess Yongning and Shen Yurong are now being sued and executed. Did you do it?"
"Yes. But I'm in the dark, it's the paper from Dad."
"Father?" Xue Zhao understood that Jiang Li was talking about Xue Huaiyuan, and he asked in surprise, "Father is also in Yanjing?"
Jiang Li sighed, Xue Zhao had been locked up by Princess Yongning for too long, and he had no idea what was happening outside. Princess Yongning never told him, so Xue Zhao didn't know how much Xue Huaiyuan suffered in Tongxiang.
"After I died, Princess Yongning was sent to Tongxiang to slander my father and go to jail. My father was tortured and unconscious in prison. After I became Jiang Li, because Jiang Li's grandfather was in Xiangyang, I decided to go there. After a trip to Xiangyang, I learned about my father's situation, and in order to vindicate him, he took the people of Tongxiang and his father to Yanjing City to sue the imperial court. Later, Dad stayed in Yanjing City, and the girl in September also cured his father."
Jiang Li told Xue Zhao how she had avenged her revenge with Princess Yongning and Shen Yurong step by step. Xue Zhao was surprised and angry after hearing this, and said, "They are really vicious, sister. … You suffered a lot at Jiang’s family, right?"
Although Jiang Li said it was an understatement, Xue Zhao knew that it was not easy to get a foothold in a strange place. Especially the big families have many rules. My sister has always been unrestrained. Now that she steps into the high door, she naturally has to endure many rules, afraid that someone will try to harm her in the middle.
"I'm nothing, Jiang's family is pretty good." Jiang Li didn't want Xue Zhao to know the bad things, and just asked: "It's you, I only knew that you were killed by bandits that day, and you were buried in Yanyulou. Until now. Before I died, Princess Yongning was telling me that it was Jing Zhaoyin who told her your whereabouts and she killed you."
Obviously, it was the first time Xue Zhao knew about this. He was taken aback and said: "That day, I was indeed looking for Jing Zhaoyin. I was knocked out, and when I woke up, I was already in the private prison of the princess mansion. I later learned that Princess Yongning did a good thing, and I wished to kill her to avenge you, but unfortunately I can’t do it. I think she might be irritating You let my sister die with hatred and unwillingness to say so deliberately."
Jiang Li nodded, and the corpse like Xue Zhao seemed to have taken the initiative of Yongning.
She looked at Xue Zhao, and her heart was filled with great grief, "If I had known that you were in the private prison of the princess mansion, I would definitely rescue you better than I could. I wouldn't let you eat so much in it for nothing. Suffering, even..." She looked at Xue Zhao's legs and couldn't even stand up.
Xue Zhao smiled at her, and said, "Sister, I have said that I still have a life. In my opinion, God has already taken care of me. I thought I would die like this without anyone knowing. In the private prison of the princess mansion, just like other people in the private prison, I didn’t expect to be saved by others, and I didn’t even expect to meet my sister now. Dad is also in Yanjing city. We still left a way out for our Xue family, and did not rush to kill them. Everyone said that the sufferings will come with good will, and we have suffered, and the rest of the day will surely be a good life!"
He is accustomed to being open-minded and unrestrained, and he can even say such things with a smile. The more he was like this, the more sad Jiang Li was.
"Sister, do you know who you are?" Xue Zhao asked.
Jiang Li had a meal and shook his head lightly: "I don't know how to tell him, but in these few days, I plan to be honest with my father."
"Sister, Dad will believe you what you say. Although you have become Miss Jiang's family now, it is a little difficult to handle, but at least our family is still in Yanjing. I also want to see Dad, can I go? See dad?"
Xue Huaiyuan would definitely feel sad when he saw him like this, but compared to the news of Xue Zhao's death, Xue Huaiyuan knew that Xue Zhao was still alive, so he was more than happy. Jiang Li looked at Ji Heng and asked, "Can A Zhao go to Ye Mansion?"
Ji Heng said: "Yes, I will let Wenji protect him."
Xue Zhao looked at Jiang Li and then at Ji Heng. Just when he saw Jiang Li, he knew that his sister was still alive. She was immersed in ecstasy and excitement. He even ignored all the words of Cai. Jiang Li was in front of Ji. What Heng's face said, there is no concealment.
Xue Zhao asked: "The adults already knew the identity of my sister?"
Jiang Li nodded: "He knows that he also helped a lot in revenge."
Xue Zhaogang wanted to say something, his eyes fell on the hands held by Jiang Li and Ji Heng, his eyes flashed with confusion, but he didn't say anything. He actually wanted to ask what is the relationship between Jiang Li and Ji Heng. It seems that the two of them have a very close relationship. Xue Zhao had only seen Ji Heng once in the Guogong Mansion for such a long time. The indifference of that time was completely different from the gentleness of this time.
Is it because of your sister
What about sister? How she thinks.
But when Ji Heng was in front of him, Xue Zhao couldn't ask. Jiang Li looked at Xue Zhao's legs and said, "Azhao...your legs..."
"It's okay if you can't stand up," Xue Zhao said: "I always wanted to stand up one day, even hiding from Doctor Situ during the night, but it was because I thought that from now on, only Dad and me would be the only ones. If I can't stand up , Whoever takes care of my dad can’t let my dad take care of me. But my sister is still alive, and I suddenly felt that none of this matters. As long as our family is still alive, it’s fine."
He showed contentment sincerely.
Jiang Li actually wanted to talk to Xue Zhaoduo for a while. She really had too much to say to this younger brother, but Ji Heng interrupted him, and Ji Heng said, "It's getting late, you should leave. ."
Jiang Li looked at the sky. She stayed at the Guogong Mansion for a long time today. If she stays any longer, when she returns to the mansion, it might be bright. It's bad.
Xue Zhao also understood it, and said, "Sister, go away. Now you are the young lady of the Jiang family. If the Jiang family knows that you travel at night, it is not a trivial matter."
In fact, he was also puzzled. Although his sister was not the kind of well-behaved ladies in the past, she would occasionally mess around with him, but she would not go to the strange man's house to talk in the middle of the night. But even so, Xue Zhao still believed that Jiang Li and Ji Heng would not do anything extraordinary, not because he believed that Ji Heng was a gentleman, but because he believed that Xue Fangfei was not such a person.
"Okay." Jiang Li knew what they said was reasonable, so she stood up and said, "Azhao, I will see you another day. On the day you go to see your father, let people tell me in advance that I will go with you. You By my side, I can explain my identity to my father."
Xue Zhao smiled: "Don't worry, sister."
Jiang Li again told Xue Zhao what he should pay attention to. When she asked, she was as good as Xue Fangfei in Xue Zhao's memory. Xue Zhao responded with a smile and Jiang Li walked out of the house with Ji Heng.
Zhao Ke squatted at the door for a long time, and when he saw Jiang Li coming out, he hurriedly stepped aside. Jiang Li's eyes were slightly swollen, as if he had cried, but Ji Heng couldn't see any expression. Zhao Ke thought wildly, could it be that his adult saw that Miss Jiang Er and Ah Zhao were close, and threatened Miss Jiang Er, or killed Ah Zhao. Adults are cruel, this kind of thing is done. It just seems that Miss Jiang Er eats soft or hard, so hard, I'm afraid Miss Jiang Er will be angry.
He followed Ji Heng and Jiang Li from a distance.
"Thank you, Ji Heng." Jiang Li's voice was a little dull because of crying. It was not as clear as before, "You saved A Zhao."
"It's just a small effort." Ji Heng said: "Besides, I didn't know he was your brother at the time."
He did not think that this man was Jiang Li's younger brother, and even when Xue Zhao stayed in the house for a long time, he didn't pay attention to Xue Zhao's name. If it weren't for Zhao Ke to call out "A Zhao" tonight, like that I don't know when the misunderstanding will be resolved. But the two brothers and sisters of the Xue family seemed to have a very good relationship, and he was also very grateful for his effort at that time.
Although he is used to not watching scenes with happy endings, he always finds it too fake and ridiculous, but if it is Jiang Li, he feels that it is best to keep those tragedies away from her, and everything is happy.
"You and Doctor Situ are the benefactors of our Xue family." Jiang Li whispered: "You rescued them, and the girl in September healed them. A Zhao can recover so quickly, and the girl in September has contributed a lot. ."
"I didn't let her treat a stranger so seriously. She did it herself." Ji Heng raised her eyebrows, "Your brother, it's not easy."
"Of course he is not simple." Jiang Li smiled when he talked about Xue Zhao. "As you said, even in private prison, he didn't give up, right? A Zhao is such a person. But I think about it now, I’m still a little scared. If that day I didn’t let you go to the private cell to find Jiang Youyao, if you didn’t see Ah Zhao, if you saw Ah Zhao and didn’t rescue him... My brother, I’m still alive but I don’t know. He was tortured all his life. As long as I think about it, I feel scared."
Even in the middle of the summer night, she would feel cold. She held her shoulders, shivering and looking very pitiful. As if thinking of terrible things, even the color of his lips became pale.
Ji Heng frowned and knocked her forehead.
Jiang Li covered her head and looked at him: "What are you doing?"
"How can there be any if." He said naturally, "There is no if, so I will meet him, save him, and he will live. If you say if, if I didn't meet you in Qingcheng Mountain at the beginning, There won't be so many things."
Jiang Li was stunned, smiled, and said, "Yes."
After walking for a while, when he was about to reach the door, Jiang Li asked again: "But Ji Heng, there is one thing I still don’t understand. At that time, how could you save A Zhao? Even if A Zhao asks you for help, why are you so easy? I agreed?"
Ji Heng was never a kind-hearted guy. When others asked for help, most of the time he watched from the sidelines, but this time, in his private cell, A Zhao held his boots, and he agreed.
Ji Heng smiled.
why? Why are there so many in the world? A person in the dark will always be attracted to the light unconsciously, just as he will be weird and like a woman like Jiang Li. Her extra gentleness and kindness were originally what he hated the most, but it was strange that he fell in love with her again because of the qualities that he hated.
Xue Zhao is the same. In the dark cage, he saw the dying boy. The boy crawled hard on the ground, his legs dragged long blood stains, holding him as if grabbing a beam of sky, the boy's eyes were clear. , With hope, suddenly made Ji Heng think of who he was before.
He crawled in the dark, he sold his soul to the evil spirits, he spurned all soft emotions, no weaknesses. But when he saw this boy, he suddenly felt a hint of pity.
So he pulled him out of the darkness with one hand.
There is no reason, he just doesn't want to see himself at the beginning and repeat the course of the past again.
But by accident, Jiang Li's brother was saved.
Ji Heng stopped and looked down at Jiang Li.
Jiang Li looked up at him. The girl's gaze was exactly the same as her brother's, but with a hint of firmness and magnanimity than the boy's recklessness and open-mindedness.
"I don't know." He said.
Why do you want to save him
I have no idea.
"Maybe," he sighed with a smile, "this is the direction of fate, and I can't refuse it."