During the Jade Rabbit Festival in Dingjing, countless girls are abducted by kidnappers every year. If it is a boy, it will be better, probably sold to those remote places who can't have children, and become a son. If it is a girl or a young girl, it will be miserable. If there is no beauty, it will be tossed around for a few times and sold to a big family as a low-level maid. If it is good-looking, it is not as good as those with ordinary appearance, and may be sold. When you go to the theater, you may be sold to a brothel, or you may simply become a thin horse in Yangzhou, and you will be trained for a few years and turned into a pet for the nobles to play.
Among these women, there are many from big families, but there has always been a kidnapper, and there is no background. No matter whether you are a lady from a big family or a commoner, once you are in the hands of a kidnapper, everyone is the same.
"Miss Shen was kidnapped?" In the room, Ji Yushu suddenly stood up and took two steps back and forth, showing a bit of concern: "Miss Shen has a good life, and her bearing is outstanding, I'm afraid she will fall into In the hands of the kidnappers, they will definitely be sold. Although I also like Miss Shaoyao, I don't want Miss Shen to become any kind of girl. Brother Xie, shall we go and save her?"
Gao Yang sneered at Ji Yushu's words: "Are you alright, with Shen Miao's methods, how could you be kidnapped by kidnappers. Besides, kidnappers will only pick on single girls or lost children, Shen Qiu and Shen Xin are far away from Shen Qiu. Wonderful and not far away, those kidnappers are not fools, how could they choose such a big thorn, Shen Miao’s beauty is not a national beauty, it is not worth it at all.”
This is true. Kidnappers kidnap people when people are not paying attention. Even if it's a kidnapping and selling a lady from the official family, you have to pick a time when there's no one around that lady. But those who heard the investigation news said that Shen Miao was at the edge of Wanli Lake at that time, the crowd was surging and kidnappers were among them, although it was easy, but if they were accidentally discovered, so many people could not escape. . Such a risky thing, if it is for a beautiful country, then Shen Miao is just a little girl now, even though she was born well, it is not time for people to lose their minds.
The most important thing is that Shen Qiu and Shen Xin were not far away at that time. Since ancient times, bullying and fearing hardship has always been the rule for bad people. Knowing that Shen Xin's family is not easy to provoke, how could a kidnapper be asking for trouble. This is a risky and uneconomical transaction, unless the kidnapper is also a bad brain.
Ji Yushu suddenly said: "So, it wasn't the kidnappers who did it? Who could it be? This is clearly aimed at Miss Shen, could it be the rest of the Prince Yu's mansion?" He shook his head again, "Yu The Prince’s people also do not know that the annihilation of the family is related to Shen Miao, could it be from the Shen family? Hearing that their Shen family is not on good terms, could they be from the other houses?”
Xie Jing Xing who had been sitting on the side silently stood up: "It's 'they'."
“They?” Gao Yang suddenly became nervous and looked at Xie Jing Xing, “Have they discovered it?”
“It shouldn’t be.” Xie Jing Xing shook his head, “I waited for them to do something, but they didn’t move. Now I understand, they may know about the secret room, and they don’t know what means to use to know that Shen Miao was present that day. Our identities have not been revealed, they I intend to find an exit from Shen Miao’s mouth.”
"They came from you?" Ji Yushu was stunned for a moment, then had a headache: "Damn, with those people's means, if Miss Shen falls into their hands, it won't feel good."
“Let the people from the Mo Yu Army’s dark side come out to find someone, and look around the Wanli Lake, there are many people, they should not go far.” Xie Jing Xing said solemnly. The casual look on his face has been completely put away, and his awe-inspiring appearance does not look like a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy, but has an unfathomable chill.
"It's not very good for the Mo Yu Army to be dispatched now." Gao Yang frowned and said, "There are too many people staring at you in the Ding capital now. If you are disturbed, I'm afraid it will be a lot of trouble. It's better to have someone guard the city gate and send you guys early tomorrow morning. The people in the house quietly search the city, and they can always find it, but now it's not good to start a snake."
“Wait for another night?” Ji Yushu jumped up, “Wait for one night, Miss Shen will be dead!” Ji Yushu was young and energetic and he appreciated Shen Miao quite a bit, unlike Gao Yang who already had the cruelty and harmony of politicians. Ruthless, in some respects, Ji Yushu still retains the precious sincerity and innocence of youth.
Gao Yang was annoyed: "What time is it, you are still thinking of Shen Miao. If we are not careful, our identities will be exposed!"
“Now send people from Anbu to look for it.” Xie Jing Xing said coldly, “I don’t want to say it a second time.”
"Thank San!" Gao Yang looked at him: "Are you going to ruin your plan for a girl? Don't forget what you said."
“Gao Yang, pay attention to your identity.” Xie Jing Xing suddenly sternly said, his brows were slightly wrinkled, the peach blossom eyes surging with ink, darker than the night in Ding capital, the anger that suddenly radiated made Gao Yang couldn’t help but tremble. .
Seeing this, Ji Yushu hurriedly said, "No one expected it to happen suddenly today, but the situation may not be so bad, think about what happened first."
Xie Jing Xing was silent for a while before he said, "It's not for anyone, it's really uncomfortable to play this game in my field. Since they have the guts to come, let them taste it tonight, what does it mean to have no return!"
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The crowds were surging along the shores of Wanli Lake, and the cheers and laughter drowned out all other voices. The disappearance of an official lady didn't seem to cause much disturbance. Of course, this was because the Shen family had no rumors, but even if it did, people would only be busy appreciating the grand occasion.
Fairy Jade Rabbit has finished her dance, the men are all crazy, and the women are secretly swearing at the fox spirit. The huge Jade Rabbit Lamp is made of snow-white silk cloth, smeared with thick grease, and painted with the pattern of Jade Rabbit making a happy scene. The candles are dotted with bright and dark candles, floating slowly on the lake of Wanli Lake.
People cheered and ran to the lake, and put down the lanterns they made by themselves. The lanterns have written their wishes for the coming year, rolled them into small strips of paper and put them in, and then gently pushed them into the water.
There was light snow falling in the sky, but the lights on Wanli Lake were bright, and the fireworks in the sky were bright. For a time, people could not tell whether it was in the sky or underwater. Such brightly lit beauty was rare even in previous years' Jade Rabbit Festival. In the center of the lake floated a few exquisitely carved painting boats. On weekdays, the nobles would pack the painting boats to drink and have fun. Today’s few painting boats do not know who is inside, just because there are densely packed lanterns on the lake. On the contrary, the painting boat seemed unremarkable.
An unlit painting boat drifted downstream along the surface of Wanli Lake, and there were fewer people downstream, but the lanterns drifted to the other side along the water waves. From a distance, the painting boat seems to be surrounded by those lanterns, but the further down the river and the farther it is from the city, the fewer people there are. In the end, almost no one is there.
Shen Miao sat in the innermost room of this painting boat and looked at the two in front of her with cold eyes.
In the dim painting boat, a small oil lamp was lit, a piece of rag was stuck in Shen Miao’s mouth, her hands and feet were tied honestly and she could not break free.
Both of them on the boat were dressed in sackcloth and looked unfamiliar and tight. One tall and thin man stood at the bow of the boat and looked at it, then walked into the cabin, and nodded to the other, who was shorter, and said, "Okay, there is no one here. ."
The short man smiled “hehe” and stretched out his hand to pull out the rag from Shen Miao’s mouth and said, “Miss Shen, there is no one here, so don’t shout, if you shout, kill you and then run away. We still have some kung fu."
Shen Miao's eyes moved slightly and she did not speak.
These people did the opposite, and the painting boat floated downstream in front of the public. Shen Xin would only look for their whereabouts on the shore, but they would not think that she was in the center of Wanli Lake in full view of the lake. .
Just when she was standing on the stone platform waiting for Shen Qiu to come back, she was dragged from behind by someone covering her mouth and nose. The two moved too fast and she didn't even have time to react, and then she was tied up and thrown onto the ground. ferry.
Seeing that Shen Miao did not speak, the short man also seemed quite satisfied, the tall and thin man walked over and sat down opposite her with a gloomy look, “Miss Shen, Mingren do not speak secretly, we came to you because we wanted to I'm asking you something." The tall and thin man exuded a very unique temperament, and this temperament did not look like an ordinary gangster.
He said, "You have already been to the secret room of Prince Yu's mansion that day."
Shen Miao's eyes flashed, when she was kidnapped, she thought about many possibilities, maybe it was someone from the second or third room, maybe Shen Yuan, or the old subordinate of Prince Yu, even Fu Xiu Yi, but she thought about it. Unexpectedly, what the visitor did was actually the secret room. Thinking about the secret of the secret room, now no one knows about it except Xie Jing Xing and Gao Yang, could it be that Fu Xiu Yi knew it a few years in advance
But since the other party had come prepared, it was obvious that she had figured out her details clearly, Shen Miao did not hide it and replied, “Yes. That day eldest brother was handling matters in Prince Yu’s mansion and I was waiting in the tea room, and found out by accident. That secret room, I was curious and went to have a look."
The two of them looked at each other, and the short man said, "Then you should have met someone else in the secret room. Who is that person?"
Shen Miao's fingers shrank slightly.
Not for the secrets of the back room, not for the things in the back room, but for the people inside. Xie Jing Xing and Gao Yang? Are these people here for Xie Jing Xing and Gao Yang? Shen Miao’s thoughts turned quickly, these people wanted to come here only to know that there was someone else in the secret room that day, but they did not know who that person was. Maybe Xie Jing Xing and Gao Yang were hiding something, if she told it, the secret that Xie Jing Xing and Gao Yang were hiding will be exposed.
She looked at each other suspiciously: "Others?"
The tall and thin man looked at him viciously: "Miss Shen, don't play tricks in front of us. We believe it was a coincidence that you entered the secret room that day, but the things in the secret room have been taken away, who have you met in the secret room? Say it, and I'll spare your life."
Shen Miao stared at him, but she was thinking quickly in her heart. It was because of her previous life that she knew about the secret room of Prince Yu's Mansion, so in the eyes of these people, she could only "accidentally" discover the secret room. These people may be investigating something, but they do not know who the specific person is, Xie Jing Xing and Gao Yang are the people these people are looking for.
She shook her head: "I went into the secret room that day, and there was no one else in it. As for what you said, I didn't see it either. Maybe the people you mentioned had already left before I entered."
"Impossible!" The tall and thin man looked at her and suddenly showed a cruel smile: "Miss Shen, since you don't say it, you will have to suffer a little..."
As soon as he finished speaking, the short man's eyes lit up and he touched Shen Miao's face with one hand, showing a lewd look on his face, he said, "The little beauty has smooth and smooth skin, why don't you wait and wait for you? Brother, I might be able to remember." After speaking, he went to unbutton Shen Miao's clothes.
“If you touch me, I will bite my tongue and kill myself, you will not be able to find out anything.” Shen Miao said lightly, “I have lost my innocence and my heart must be ashes, in desperation, you think that you will still have a chance to cheat on me. words?"
As soon as these words came out, the short man's hand stopped immediately, he turned his head to look at the tall and thin man, the tall and thin man stared at Shen Miao and asked, "Do you know who it is?"
Shen Miao smiled slightly, "Maybe I can still remember it."
The short man was a little dumbfounded, while the taller man's eyes were gloomy. Maybe it was Shen Miao's too calm and calm attitude that caught them off guard, or maybe it was that Shen Miao could even threaten the other party in such a situation to surprise them. There is no woman who does not care about her innocence, but Shen Miao looks like a rogue on the street. That’s right, if Shen Miao really knew who the people in the secret room were, once she touched her, Shen Miao who was full of hatred towards them would not reveal the truth for about a lifetime.
Shen Miao's eyes were cold, everyone has their own weaknesses. The two on the opposite side seem to have to know who the person in the secret room is, and now she may be the only person in the world who knows the whereabouts. If she was a delicate and delicate official lady, she might tell the truth when she was frightened, but unfortunately, she was Empress Shen who had been crawling around in the harem.
"What do you want?" The short man stopped touching her with his hand, and put on a friendly expression: "Tell me who that person is, and we will all promise you." His tone was like coaxing a child.
Shen Miao said without blinking, "Who are you?"
The two were stunned for a moment, and a tall and thin sneered: "What good is it for you to know who the two of us are?"
“Maybe I can remember who that person is.” Shen Miao looked at him with a smile.
"You're stalling for time."
Shen Miao was noncommittal.
The short “Huo” stood up abruptly and slapped Shen Miao without thinking, and seemed to have finally exhausted her patience and said, “Stinky bitch, don’t eat or drink for toast! Stop talking nonsense with her. , Shen Xin's soldiers are holding hands from outside, we can't go out, take her back first, and when she goes back..." His smile was a little distorted: "Naturally there are means to make her tell the truth!"
He leaned down and rubbed Shen Miao's face with his disgusting hand: "Little girl, Grandpa just treated you kindly to save trouble, since you don't want to live, don't blame others!"
Shen Miao's eyes turned cold and suddenly raised her hand to stab the opponent's face with the knife in her hand, the short man was caught off guard and was slashed on the face by Shen Miao and blood flowed immediately. Behind Shen Miao, the rope that tied her hands and feet had been frayed at some point. She was used to hiding a dagger in her sleeve, and now the dagger was pulled out by surprise. After rowing, she ran outside the boat, shouting "help". Fang ran to the hatch of the boat, and was dragged in by someone violently grabbing her hand and thrown to the ground. Her entire back suddenly hit the wooden table on the boat, and she gasped in pain, and the boat shook several times. Down. She also responded quickly, without saying a word, she immediately stood up and ran out again, the tall and thin man sneered, and kicked her kneecap with an almost piercing pain. Shen Miao came back to her senses, raised the dagger in her hand and stabbed the man in the eyes, the tall and thin one jumped in surprise and dodged to the side, avoiding the tip of her dagger, scolding a "poisonous woman", He took the dagger from her hand. Shen Miao endured the pain in her legs and climbed onto the window of the cabin with both hands and jumped down without blinking an eye.
“Want to run?” The tall and thin man sneered, but without any hesitation he threw the dagger in his hand over there and sunk straight into Shen Miao’s calf. It quickly rose up on the lake.
Shen Miao knew how to swim, but in this cold winter and twelfth lunar month, the water in Wanli Lake was bone-chillingly cold, once one immersed in it, one would only feel that the whole person was a block of ice, and after a few strokes, one would feel that his whole body could no longer move.
The tall and thin man was about to jump into the water to fish Shen Miao out, after all Shen Miao was in control of the whereabouts of the people in the secret room, but before she could do anything, she heard an inexplicable sound of firecrackers coming from the sky, she looked up and saw that the west was A firework lit up.
"The situation has changed!" The short man wiped the blood on his face and said, "Withdraw!"
"Let's go first." The tall and thin man scolded, and was about to jump into the lake, but who knew that the hull of the boat was abruptly bumped, and I saw two men in black standing on the bow of the boat. The shoulders of the two men in black have eagle-like patterns embroidered with gold thread. The short man lost his voice: "Black Feather Army! How can there be Black Feather Army here?"
Before the two of them could regain their senses, the two men in black had already swept in front of them, and a silver edge flashed across them. The frightened expressions of the two of them stopped at this moment, and they slowly fell down.
In the lake, Shen Miao was still violently tumbling, the short man and the tall and thin man were not alone in their words, it seemed that there were other forces behind them, which sounded to be quite powerful. Shen Miao has an unimaginable intuition about this kind of thing, in the hands of these two, she can naturally find a way to escape, but if she falls into that kind of force, I am afraid that even if she dies outside, the Shen family will never be able to find out. murderer.
But I didn't expect that this sudden jump would actually trap myself in a dead end. The two of them didn't see each other for a long time and came down to save her. The lake was cold, so could it be that they died here
Her head started to feel heavy, and there was no sound buzzing in her ears, as if she had fallen into an ice cellar. It was clear that the sky above the water was in front of her, and she could still see the bright lights of the lanterns flowing down the river, but it was Can't catch, can't see.
Just when her eyes were about to lose sight, she suddenly saw a figure swimming towards her from far and near. The man was strong and strong, and in the brightly lit lake water, like a god descended from the sky, he swam towards her with brightness.
That person swam in front of Shen Miao, hugged her by the waist and swam to the surface of the water, in such a icy world, the lake water was freezing cold, it was difficult to swim alone, but he took a person to swim easily. When he swam to the painting boat, he lifted Shen Miao and threw it on the Chuan, and turned over himself.
Shen Miao choked several sips of water and did not turn over after getting on the boat, she just kept pinching her throat and coughed a few times. But before the meeting, the figure turned around, and when he looked up, the man was soaked all over his body, his face lost the playful expression he used to have, and he frowned at her.
It was Xie Jing Xing.
Seeing Xie Jing Xing at this time, Shen Miao even forgot to be surprised. Those two people originally came for Xie Jing Xing, and Xie Jing Xing himself knew the news, so they rushed over.
She struggled to prop up her body, Fang saw that there were actually two corpses in the cabin, it was the tall and thin man just now, two men in black walked out from the depths of the cabin, one of them walked to Xie Jing Xing and whispered. After saying something, Xie Jing Xing waved his hand and the two of them left with the two corpses. Before leaving, they wiped away all the blood in the cabin.
Shen Miao didn't bother to think about who these two were, even a fool could think of Xie Jing Xing's person, she moved her body and felt pain all over her body. She shivered. She was thrown several times by a tall and thin man before, and her back also hurt. The most painful area was probably her calf. She looked down at her skirt. It was a blood flower, which was mixed with the red embroidery on the skirt, and it was not very clear. It was wounded by a tall and thin man with a dagger before.
She was so cold and sore that she couldn't say a word. But it was Xie Jing who walked into the cabin. There were some spare stoves and clothes in these exquisite painting boats. He took out a stove from the wooden box, lit it with a fire stick, and added a little charcoal to it.
The stove was burning warmly and the boat was swaying in the lake, Xie Jing Xing glanced at Shen Miao and suddenly smiled, "I want to change, do you want to keep your eyes open?"
Shen Miao closed her eyes abruptly, her mind was still a little confused at the moment, it was hard for Xie Jing Xing to still have the mind to make fun of it, she could only hear a chuckle, followed by the rustling voice of wearing clothes, after a while, Xie Jing Xing's voice sounded: "All right."
Shen Miao opened her eyes, Xie Jing Xing was buttoning the last button, he changed into a dark blue brocade robe and wore a white fox fur, which made his whole person feel cold and solemn. A pair of dark peach blossom eyes stared at Shen Miao with a smile that was not a smile, "Do you want to change it as well?"
It is easy to catch cold when you wear cold and wet clothes close to your body. Even if you are sitting on the edge of the fireplace, it will take a lot of time to completely dry it. I'm afraid that by that time, she will also suffer from the cold. She has always cherished her body. In addition, her whole body was feeling very uncomfortable at the moment, she looked at Xie Jing Xing and said calmly, "Any other clothes?"
Xie Jing Xing got up, took out a set of clothes from a cloth bag on the wooden table, sat against the wall and said, "My subordinates are delivering the clothes for me, the situation is a little troublesome, there is no way to find you a woman's clothes, you want Change, only mine."
A woman who hasn't left the cabinet puts on the clothes of a strange man, and when she talks about it, it brings a bit of fragrance. Shen Miao raised her eyes to look at Xie Jing Xing, the smile on the corner of his lips was slightly nasty, and he did not know whether it was forced by the real situation or intentional.
Shen Miao discovered that Xie Jing Xing really had a special magic power, since her rebirth, she faced everyone with the "Queen Shen" feeling. Even facing Shen Qiu, he could not regard Shen Qiu as his eldest brother, and sometimes he even felt like he was taking care of Shen Qiu. But every time she encounters Xie Jing Xing, his vileness always makes Shen Miao in a trance, she is not the Empress Shen who has experienced ups and downs, but just a naive fifth young lady of the Shen family who does not know the dangers in the world.
Taking a deep breath in her heart, Shen Miao said, "Give it to me."
Xie Jing Xing was a little surprised by her answer, looked at her suspiciously and said, "You want to wear my clothes?"
“Is there any other clothes here?” Shen Miao asked.
Xie Jing Xing smiled and threw the clothes in her hand to her, Shen Miao took the clothes and endured it, but still said to Xie Jing Xing, “Please also ask the little Marquis to turn around.”
When Xie Jing Xing heard the words, he looked at her up and down meaningfully, Shen Miao's clothes were tightly attached to her body, she was petite and the figure of a young girl was almost revealed, and her somewhat embarrassed appearance appeared to be a bit not in normal times. Chu Chu posture. Xie Jing Xing said with great interest, “Young stinky little girl will be shy too? Don’t worry,” his eyes were critical and disgusted, “There is nothing, and there is nothing to look at.” After saying that, he turned his head in a dashing manner, but it was not at all. Do not look at Shen Miao.
Shen Miao felt slightly relieved and picked up Xie Jing Xing's clothes, it was a slate-blue thin cotton robe, the cuffs were ironed, the material and embroidery were of high quality, Shen Miao touched it subconsciously, this kind of workmanship was in a previous life Probably only in the palace can have such enjoyment, rumors that Lin'an Hou Fu Fu can rival the country, it is not false.
She slowly took off her soaked outer and middle clothes and used the wet clothes to bake on the stove to wipe off the water droplets from her body before picking up Xie Jing Xing's robe. Who knew that Xie Jing Xing’s robe was complicated and she didn’t wear it properly, not only that, but the belt also wrapped around the calf of her left leg. The calf was injured by the dagger just now. I thought it was not serious before. Her appearance was a bit terrifying, the belt was worn on the wound, Shen Miao gasped in pain, she did not sit still, fell to the ground with a bang, and knocked over the teapot on the table.
When Xie Jing Xing heard the movement, he immediately turned his head and saw Shen Miao falling to the ground, he stepped forward to help her up. It was too late for Shen Miao to stop her, her whole body was leaning on his arms, her clothes were not properly dressed, they were loosely wrapped around her body, her fragrant shoulders were slightly exposed, her hair was not dry, and she looked quite charming. Rao is no matter how calm she is, she is also panicked and at a loss for a moment.
On the contrary, Xie Jing Xing frowned and held her calf, staring at the wound and said solemnly, "What's going on?"