The sky outside was completely dark, and it was snowing. The snow was not heavy, but the cold wind in the winter night was bitingly cold, and the blowing snowflakes hurt the face.
Chun Xing was afraid that Gu Yuqi would be cold. I didn't forget to take a buckskin cloak from the inn to cover Gu Yuqi. There is an open space in the inn, which has been occupied by the tents set up by the servants of various houses.
Chun Xing held Gu Yuqi with one hand, held an umbrella for Gu Yuqi with the other, and told her from time to time that she might fall, while going from tent to tent to ask if they had seen a pair of twin siblings, but unfortunately, everyone who asked them shook their heads.
"By the way, brother likes horses, will he go to the stable behind the inn?" Gu Yuqi asked.
"I've looked for it. The people watching the horses said they've seen them before, but the third lady thinks the smell is not good there, so they went to the front after playing for a while." Chun Xing was so anxious that she almost popped her head in the snow. sweat. She also doesn't like the second young master and the third young lady, but if she really loses them, it's not a matter of conscience. Aunt Liu couldn't explain it either, she didn't know how to make trouble with her wife.
"Don't worry, don't worry." Gu Yuqi was also worried. But now she can only speak to comfort Chun Xing. "Go back and talk to mother first, don't say anything, ask father if he knows where they went and who is with them. If father doesn't know, ask mother to let all the servants who came with them go out and look for them. The town is not big, and although the two of them are naughty, they shouldn't run too far when it snows."
"Yes." Gu Yuqi's well-organized arrangements made Chun Xing's heart slightly settled, and she saluted, "What about Miss?"
"Don't worry, I know the way, I'll go and look for it along this road." Gu Yuqi pointed forward, "If I can't find it, I will come back by myself."
"But miss, although this is a town, who knows what will happen. The second young master and the third young lady have disappeared, if it were you." After she finished speaking, she poohed three times, "Look at the crow's mouth of this slave."
"Just go back to your mother on your own. I promise you won't get lost." Gu Yuqi patted the back of Chun Xing's hand, "Just give me the umbrella, there are lanterns everywhere in this town, so I won't get lost. Oh, stop dawdling. Hurry up."
Chun Xing knew that Gu Yuqi was smart, and also knew that it was important to find the Second Young Master and the Third Miss, so she told Gu Yuqi a few more words, and then walked quickly into the inn.
Holding an umbrella, Gu Yuqi walked towards the road she pointed to. She remembered that there was a Town God's Temple at the end of this road.
Gu Yuqi didn't meet anyone from the town along the way, and every house was closed, but there were quite a few government servants from the county patrolling back and forth to ensure the safety of these nobles from the capital. Gu Yuqi couldn't help but ask them too. Seeing that Gu Yuqi was born beautiful and dressed gorgeously, they all replied respectfully. It's a pity that no one had seen the two brothers and sisters Gu Siyang. Strange! Can this big living person be wiped out for no reason? When I arrived at the inn, I saw Gu Siyang and Gu Siyu arguing. She walked all the way to the end of the road, and the Town God's Temple was still there. It's just different from what she remembered. The Town God's Temple was rebuilt in the previous life. Although it can't be described as magnificent, it can be regarded as a carved beam and painted building. But now the temple is dilapidated in the snow, with a crumbling trend.
"Gu Siyang, Gu Siyu, are you inside?" Gu Yuqi yelled outside the temple, the inside was dark and silent, only the cold night wind blowing through the broken window sills made a slightly sharp whistling sound , can not help but make people have a creepy feeling.
"Don't be naughty, if you are inside, come out quickly!" Gu Yuqi called out again, but still no one answered. Gu Siyang and Gu Siyu should not be so courageous, daring to touch into the dark temple.
Gu Yuqi waited for a while, and just as she was about to leave, she heard a faint humming sound from inside. The sound was so small that it was barely audible in the howling cold wind. If Gu Yuqi hadn't held her breath and listened carefully, I'm afraid I can't hear it.
"Gu Siyang? Is that you?" Gu Yuqi didn't care too much, picked up the hem of her skirt and stepped over the threshold as high as her calf.
The sound seemed to be coming from the courtyard behind the temple.
Gu Yuqi thought that when she came here before, there was a big release pool behind the temple, and there was a rockery outside the release pool, and a big well behind the rockery.
The well was dry. She was curious and researched why there was water in the release pond, but there was no water in the well.
Gu Siyang and Gu Siyu must have fallen into it.
It was very dark inside the temple, and the light from the wind lantern outside could only illuminate the front half of the main hall. Tonight is a snowy night, without moonlight or starlight, and the back half of the temple is really so dark that you can't see your fingers.
Gu Yuqi couldn't see anything, and could only walk based on her previous memories of this place, stumbling, and bumping into some debris scattered in the temple from time to time, which made her knees and legs hurt.
"Gu Siyang, Gu Siyu! Are you in there?" Gu Yuqi managed to discredit her and walked to the backyard of the main hall, and almost tripped over the high threshold. Her short legs really couldn't hurt her. But when I went outside, I could vaguely see the road with the lanterns on the street. Gu Yuqi carefully walked across the small bridge over the release pond and approached the dry well.
Woooooo, it's getting closer now, Gu Yuqi can hear clearly, someone's voice came from the dry well.
Gu Yuqi was also a little fuzzy in her heart, but she still walked over bravely, "Who is in there?" Under the faint light, the entrance of the dry well looked like a monster's mouth that had grown up in the dark.
"Woooooo!" The voice came out again. He heard Gu Yuqi's voice, so he called out a few more times.
"Why don't you talk?" Gu Yuqi cautiously approached the well, wondering if she should poke her head in and take a look. It's dark in this snowy night, if something pops out of the well, wouldn't it be a shame? They were all terrified.
Just when Gu Yuqi was still concentrating on whether she should approach the well and probe down to have a look, she heard a cold voice behind her, "Be careful!"
Gu Yuqi turned her head instinctively. Before she could see clearly, she felt a gust of wind pressing down on her head. Before she could fully react, she was covered in a black cloth bag. Just as Gu Yuqi was about to scream, she was tapped twice with her fingers, her whole body was numb, she couldn't even move, she couldn't even make a sound.
Gu Yuqi struggled desperately, she couldn't see outside, but she could hear it.
"It's really courageous. There are so many officers and soldiers patrolling outside, you dare to take people here." Then there was the sound of hidden weapons piercing through the air, and someone groaned twice, as if they were hit by hidden weapons.
I go! There was a bit of sarcasm in this cold voice, wasn't it Yun Ke
Then Gu Yuqi was slammed to the ground, and she was covered in a black cloth pocket, staring at the fall, but she felt that the pocket was loosened, and she crawled out of the pocket in a hurry.
"Let's go!" In the darkness, seeing that the opportunity had been lost, two dark figures whispered something secretly. The two left Gu Yuqi behind, and jumped over the back wall of the Town God's Temple.
"Stupid!" Yun Ke's voice came through the black cloth bag.
You are stupid! You are all stupid! Gu Yuqi cursed in her stomach, but now she can't move her whole body, she can only hold the corpse in the black cloth bag.
It can be installed! Didn't you say that you will never see each other forever? Yun Ke's skill is relatively deep, so his eyes are better than Gu Yuqi's in the dark.
He first walked to the edge of the well, looked inside, and then threw a stone down. The person in the well was immediately beaten to sleep by him, and the whining stopped abruptly.
"It's really getting better and better!" Yun Ke couldn't help cursing, "Don't you know how to ask someone to accompany you when you enter this kind of place?" He took two steps forward, took out the fire folder, led it, and squatted down Next to the black cloth bag containing Gu Yuqi, the rope tied to the mouth of the black cloth bag was opened.
If he hadn't followed silently just now, wouldn't this stupid woman be taken away by thieves!
The cloth bag was pulled open from the outside, and then Gu Yuqi felt that someone picked up the cloth bag and poured it over, and she was thrown out of the bag like a cargo, and she was in pain from the fall. Yunke! You deliberately! Gu Yuqi couldn't move or speak, she could only feel mad in her heart.
Seeing that Gu Yuqi was poured out, Yun Ke stood up with a half-smile, and kicked Gu Yuqi's calf with her toes, "You're not dead."
You are going to die! Gu Yuqi raised her eyes and looked fiercely at the boy in black standing in front of her.
"Angry?" Yun Ke seemed to be in a good mood, folded his hands on his chest, and looked down at Gu Yuqi, "I saved you again, how do you think you will repay me?"
Repay you big head ghost! How far is it for me to die! Gu Yuqi yelled in her heart, now she can't speak, she can only stare at Yun Ke, at this moment she has been mad with anger, she is so lazy to pretend.
What is another rescue! Where did it come from again!
Yun Ke seemed to see through what Gu Yuqi was thinking, just smiled and leaned down, and whispered in Gu Yuqi's ear, "I saved you twice today. The first time you were at the inn, you were questioned why you were with me I'm alone." He reminded her softly.
No wonder Yun Yi suddenly said that, it turned out to be Yun Ke's request. Naturally, it is more convincing to say this kind of thing from the fifth prince's mouth.
Gu Yuqi stared at Yun Ke, her eyes rolled wildly, and motioned him to untie the acupoints for herself.
In her previous life, Yun Ke's martial arts were unfathomable, that's why she always regarded Gu Yuqi's two strokes as flamboyant fists and embroidered legs.
He deliberately didn't unlock the acupoints for himself, this guy is too hateful!
After he finished speaking, he was not in a hurry to stand up straight, but looked at Gu Yuqi at a close distance. His eyes seemed to be tracing the outline of Gu Yuqi's face, as if he wanted to see every inch of her face clearly. .
Gu Yuqi was so hairy from being watched by him, she wanted to jump up and punch him, but she couldn't move, so she could only let him look at her from head to toe, Gu Yuqi only felt that Yun Ke's gaze was like a poisonous snake's snake The letter also terrified her.
It turns out that this dead woman is really beautiful, although she is still young, but her eyebrows, her face, her lips... the eyes of the little person in front of her are on fire, and in the dancing flames of the fire, they are surprisingly vivid Vivid, it reminded him of her alluring dance in the firelight in the previous life.
His heart seemed to be grabbed by something suddenly, and he shrank tightly, just like when he saw the two men in black covering her with cloth bags and trying to snatch her away. He didn't even think about saving her. If it was someone else, he should quietly follow behind and find out the truth behind it in one fell swoop. As for the life and death of the kidnapped people, it seems that he has nothing to do with him, but these people dare to be rich and powerful in the whole town. It's a little bit of courage to take people under the circumstances, it's worth checking, he's really impulsive!
"You owe me. I'll take it back slowly." Yun Ke suddenly smiled slowly, like the first blooming epiphyllum at night, short but gorgeous, touching and soul-stirring. He raised his finger and tapped gently between Gu Yuqi's eyebrows, "Remember it well."
She owed him a lot, even if nothing else was counted, even if there were only decades of lingering dreams in her previous life, it was enough for her to pay him back for a while.
When he stood up straight, his face had returned to his usual coolness. He heard footsteps from outside the temple. He first used stones to untie the sleeping hole of the man in the well, and then leaped forward, hiding himself in the night. In the darkness, if it weren't for his shallow footprints and fire pockets left by him in the snow on the ground, Gu Yuqi would have felt as if he had never appeared.
Chun Xing's shout came from outside the temple, and Gu Yuqi thought about it, and couldn't help but yell at Yun Ke again, and she didn't know how to help her untie the acupuncture points! This is going to be like that!
She couldn't move, couldn't respond to Chun Xing's voice, and was so anxious that she couldn't even scratch her ears, she couldn't help scolding Yun Ke from head to toe. Every brother Jin Li.
But the person in the well began to cry for help again. Although the sound was small, it still had some effect. Chun Xing obviously heard the sound and came in with a lantern. Liang Huaiyu and two guards brought from Jiangnan.
Seeing Gu Yuqi collapsed by the well, Liang Huaiyu was so frightened that she almost fainted, she rushed to Gu Yuqi's side, helped Gu Yuqi up, checked her up and down, and asked eagerly, "What's wrong with you, nan? "
"It seems that Miss has been tapped." Chun Xing saw it clearly, raised her hand and tapped Gu Yuqi's body twice, and Gu Yuqi let out a sigh of relief, "Mother, I'm fine, find someone to see what's in the well. "
Chun Xing immediately asked the two guards to look into the dry well according to the light, while Liang Shi pulled Gu Yuqi and wanted to scold her, but couldn't bear it, there were more footsteps outside, she wanted to ask why Gu Yuqi fell here , and there was a black cloth bag next to it, and the acupuncture points were tapped. But I'm afraid that people will talk too much, and it's not good to spread some random things, so I can only endure it temporarily. She has checked that Gu Yuqi has no other damage except for a little dirty clothes, and even the clothes are not damaged. She straightened out Gu Yuqi's messy hair as quickly as possible, so that no one else could see any clues.
"Go back to Ma'am, the person in the well is our servant." Chun Xing had already looked into the well, was startled, and asked the two guards to bring him up, and she came over to report.
At this time, Gu Huaizhong also brought some family servants and guards over anxiously, before he came in, he yelled outside the door, "Madam, Chun Xing, have you found Siyang and Siyu?"
Mrs. Liang wanted to go up and give him a slap in the face. At the beginning, he was the one who said brazenly that he wanted to take care of Siyang and Siyu by himself. It was nothing more than Mrs. Liu blowing wind in his ears. He was afraid that he would not be able to take care of those two. children? Let those two children be secretly wronged! Well, if he wants to take it, let him take it, and let him relax, so where did he take the child!
Now that Siyang Siyu is gone, and even Gu Yuqi disappeared for a moment, he was fine, yelling, and didn't ask if Gu Yuqi was found when he came in, but only asked Gu Siyang and Gu Siyu. Could it be that in his eyes, only those two The child was his own, did Gu Yuqi pick it up
Seeing her mother's beautiful eyes full of anger, Gu Yuqi quickly took Liang's hand, "Mother, it's more important to find Gu Siyang and Gu Siyu first."
Now is not the time to be angry with Gu Huaizhong. Mrs. Liang rolled up the black cloth bag and hid it before others came in.
It didn't take a while for Gu Huaizhong to bring people in here. There were so many people and great strength, and he got out the servant at the bottom of the well in a while, but he was tied up with five flowers and his mouth was still stuffed with a cloth towel, so he was at the bottom of the well. Can make a whining sound.
"Where are the second young master and the third young lady?" Gu Huaizhong was really in a hurry, kicking the poor servant to the ground, "This Marquis told you to follow them, how did you follow them!"
That servant was really going to die wronged, he was almost out of breath from being kicked, he still held his chest, and said in a hurry, "Second Young Master and Third Miss came here and insisted on coming in to see, the younger one didn't The only way is to follow them in, but who knows that he was knocked out as soon as he came in, and was tied up and thrown into the well. If the eldest lady hadn't come to find him, the younger one might freeze to death here today. "
"Did you see your brother and sister when you came here?" Gu Huaizhong thought of Gu Yuqi and asked hurriedly.
Gu Yuqi shook her head, "My daughter didn't see it."
"By the way, when the eldest lady came over, the younger one seemed to hear the sound of fighting." The waiter added. "The little one was terrified, so he passed out. When the little one woke up, Sister Chunxing had brought someone to find her, and the little one continued to struggle for help." Yun Ke was dizzy, but Gu Yuqi didn't have the nerve to say it.
"Ah?" Gu Huaizhong was taken aback, "You were also attacked?"
This... Gu Yuqi didn't know how to answer for a while, seeing more and more people coming from outside, she couldn't say in front of so many people that Yun Ke saved her and beat off two masked men in black. She had already been questioned once in the inn as to why she and Yun Ke were alone in the princess courtyard before she was exonerated by Yun Yi. If she told the truth, she would inevitably be suspicious again.
"Father, can we talk about it when we go back?" Gu Yuqi whispered. "You first send people to follow the footprints outside the courtyard wall to see if you find anything. Those two people who wanted to take my daughter away should be injured." Otherwise, they wouldn't give up their plan so easily and slip away in a hurry .
At that time, although Gu Yuqi couldn't see or move, she heard the two men in black say back, with a bit of pain in their voices, it must be that Yun Ke hit them with some hidden weapon.
Liang Shi immediately asked the two guards she brought from Jiangnan to chase them out. She couldn't trust the person Gu Huaizhong brought. Gu Huaizhong also climbed over the wall and chased him out.
"Go back to the inn first." Mrs. Liang was afraid that outsiders would come in and cause trouble, so she said decisively.
When she walked out of the ruined temple with Gu Yuqi and Chun Xing, servants and guards from various prefectures had already started to help Gu Huaizhong find people on the street. The town was boiling and noisy, including Yunyi and Yun The guards brought by Ke were mixed up for a while.
After returning to the inn room, Gu Yuqi told the story again, but she didn't say that the person who rescued her was Yun Ke, she just said that it was someone she didn't know, who beat her kidnapper away and went outside After chasing her out, Mrs. Liang and Chun Xing came to find her.
This... dare to kidnap people at this time, this human trafficker must have eaten the guts of a bear.
"Mother, don't worry." Gu Yuqi thought about it carefully, "My daughter thinks this matter is very strange."
"What kind of strange method?" Liang asked.
"How did they know that brother and third sister would go to that ruined temple? Could it be that they were waiting there specially?" Gu Yuqi kept thinking about this question on the way back to the inn.
Also, the person who arrested him was obviously prepared, and he only waited for the opportunity to strike. It seemed that they were all targeting the three of them, not the young masters and ladies in other houses. So many princes and nobles dare not act in front of them, even if they dare, how can they be so purposeful, how can there be so many coincidences, and the people arrested are all from Dingyuanhoufu
"Has father ever offended anyone?" Gu Yuqi asked.
"You mean it's aimed at our family?" Liang Huaiyu finished speaking with a frown, and thought about it carefully, but there was no clue.
Gu Huaizhong is an upstart in the court, even if he offends other nobles in the court, it will not be so serious that he wants to take away all his children.
If it wasn't for someone in the court, who would it be
Mrs. Liang changed Gu Yuqi's clothes and washed them again while thinking hard. Gu Yuqi was also thinking, so the room became quiet for a while.
Gu Yuqi was frozen outside for a while, her hands and feet were cold, and Liang ordered someone to bring some hot food over.
Gu Huaizhong and the two guards from the mansion climbed over the back wall of the Town God's Temple, and indeed found three rows of footprints on the snow, which was exactly what Gu Yuqi said.
Gu Huaizhong was overjoyed, and led his men to follow the footprints until they reached the foot of the mountain outside the town. Those footprints became a mess, and there seemed to be traces of a fight.
Gu Huaizhong and the others slowed down and carefully distinguished the footprints, and saw that the footprints went all the way into the woods on the side of the mountain.
After they entered the woods, they suddenly saw two masked men in black clothes lying motionless and ragged under a big tree. Gu Huaizhong stepped forward to check, but they were not breathing and were already dead. After taking off their face scarves, seeing the light of the torches handed over by the guards, he couldn't help gasping, "Rouran!" He exclaimed in surprise.