Yun Zhi clutched the front of his shirt and retreated, preventing Shi Qing from getting his hands on it.
"Boom boom boom—"
There was a knock on the wooden door, and Zheng Fulang's anxious voice sounded outside, "Mr. Lang is injured, do you need me to help you apply the medicine?"
He thought that a man's hands are always lighter, and that when I was a child, I was both a woman and a nobleman, so I might not be able to do this.
Yun Zhi instantly stood up from the bed, without hesitation, "Need it!"
He breathed a sigh of relief, got out of bed and opened the door to let Zheng Fulang in.
Shi Qing put down her sleeves regretfully, and she went out after Zheng Fulang came in.
Shi Qing saw Lao Zheng sitting at the door and mending shrimp pots under the bright moonlight, so he moved a bench and sat next to her, and asked about the situation here while chatting.
Similar to what the beggar leader said, County Magistrate Cao is tactful, and on the surface he can't be faulted, but behind the scenes he has another face to the common people.
Although they were not extremely vicious, they did not regard their lives as human lives.
Old Zheng sighed softly, envious of Lin County, "I heard that the county magistrate there is about the same age as you, Mr. Xiao, and he is very accomplished at a young age, and it will take only a year or two to be transferred. Our order If you are suffering, you will not be able to share in such a good official."
Shi Qing asked a few more questions curiously, only to find out that the county magistrate of Lin County was not an outsider, but happened to be Shi Yin, the daughter of her second aunt!
At that time, Yin Zhong became a Jinshi and left Beijing to be an official. He came here unexpectedly.
Because the second aunt's husband was from a low family background, he was the son of a tofu seller on the street, and he was always disliked by the old man, and he never gave him any good looks.
The second aunt took her husband to live in the academy for a long time in a fit of anger, and refused to come back easily. Many times the second child was unwilling to talk about family affairs, and it really became a family of three.
This time, I probably didn't expect that Shi Qing would pick the county magistrate Cao, so he didn't say that Shi Yin was nearby.
Shi Qing chatted with Lao Zheng outside, while Yun Zhi and Zheng Fulang bandaged and applied medicine inside.
"It's not a good ointment, the smell is rather pungent, so just tell me if you're in pain." Zheng Fulang looked at the wound on Yunzhi's arm with a distressed expression, "Why is it hurt so deeply?"
Yun Zhi was originally fair, but a bright red gash was suddenly cut by a sharp knife on his white jade-like arm, which looked extraordinarily abrupt. What's more, after being soaked in water, the periphery of the wound has turned white. Just looking at it makes the scalp numb and the heart tremble.
However, compared with ordinary men, Yun Zhi looks slightly thinner on the outside, but after taking off his clothes, he is thin and not just bones.
Yun Zhi lowered his eyes and said nothing, just pursed his thin lips and let Zheng Fulang apply the medicine to him.
The dark darts of the guards of the Sun residence were already hard to hide, so it was lucky that they only hurt the flesh now.
"Okay." Zheng Fulang heaved a sigh of relief after bandaging him.
A thin layer of sweat broke out on Yunzhi's forehead, so he just kept silent, let alone screaming for pain, and he didn't even move his eyelids.
It was the first time Zheng Fulang saw such a tolerant man like him, as if guessing something, he took a look outside.
The sound insulation effect of the earthen house in the country is just like that, Shi Qing and Lao Zheng can hear what they are talking at the door.
"Are you afraid that she will feel distressed?" Zheng Fulang asked softly.
Yun Zhi, who was motionless like a white jade sculpture just now, suddenly had thick black eyelashes trembling slightly.
He opened his mouth and said in a hoarse voice, "It would have been possible not to be injured."
I don't know if I said it to Zheng Fulang or to myself, but there was repressed self-blame in his tone.
He didn't make up his mind.
He has always longed for the Jianghu, but he has not stepped into it. The martial arts he has learned are actually used to protect people.
In the dream it was Liu Yueming, but in reality it was Shi Qing.
The only good thing tonight is that the person who was hurt was herself, not her.
"Have you changed your medicine?" Shi Qing asked outside.
Zheng Fulang put the blood-stained gauze in the basin, half covered his sleeves and took it out, "It's ready."
When Shi Qing came in, Yun Zhi was sitting cross-legged on the edge of the bed, wearing a gray jacket loosely on his body, his long hair tied in a high ponytail behind his head, only some short hairs that were not long enough were scattered around the temples.
His face was pale, and his lips were bloodless, which made his usually clean and clear eyes extraordinarily dark and bright, like black gemstones.
When Baba looked at her, he was like a big wronged dog.
Yun Zhi glanced at Shi Qing, then slowly lowered his head, "Sleep, go back tomorrow morning."
Shi Qing stood by the bed and looked at him, "Does it hurt, does it hurt deeply?"
Yunzhi has been refusing to let her see the wound, and it may not just be shy.
"It's not deep, it's just the flesh, not the bones." Yun Zhi looked down at his fingertips, "It doesn't hurt either."
Compared with this wound on his body, he was obviously more uncomfortable in his heart.
Shi Qing almost guessed what he was thinking, took half a step forward, stretched out his hands to hold Yun Zhi's face, and looked down at him.
Yun Zhi was forced to raise his head, stunned for a moment, and met her gaze.
Shi Qing lowered his eyes and bent down to kiss Yunzhi's forehead lightly, his peach blossom eyes curled up, and his tone was brisk, "We are so lucky, there is no poison on the dart. I didn't expect to be assassinated this time, so I acted hastily." .”
Yun Zhi may have never been involved in the world, and he has never seen blood on the sword, so it is normal that he can't pass the test in his heart. She couldn't bear to aim at people's hearts when she held a bow and arrow, let alone Yun Zhi.
This time he was not cornered, Yun Zhi thought he could retreat, so he retreated. If there was no such river, he would definitely fight out with a sword.
Shi Qing pinched Yun Zhi's fleshy cheeks, "I was not careful enough to hurt Yun Shaoxia, how about going back and buying you a beautiful sword tassel as compensation?"
She was distracting him with something he liked.
At the same time, he silently comforted him not to blame himself.
Yun Zhi's throat tightened, his heart constricted, he couldn't help but put his hand on the back of Shi Qing's neck, straightened his waist and tilted his head to kiss her lips, imitating her previous posture, deepening the kiss.
"There won't be a next time." He looked at her and said hoarsely.
Yun Zhi looked serious, as if promising her that he would not take such risks again next time.
"It's the group of people who want to kill me that's wrong, not you."
Shi Qing patted Yunzhi's uninjured shoulder, "Now you know how much gang fights are good, Lone Wolf Young Hero."
Yun Zhi is used to doing things by himself, and he will not use a group of people if he can solve it alone, which is a typical chivalrous thinking.
Shi Qing is different, she likes to go to bed with a group of people.
Those who can be beaten to death with random punches are definitely not fighting alone!
I didn't expect it today.
Before going to bed at night, the two began to investigate which faction Shiqing wanted to kill.
"It's really hard to think about it. With my popularity, there are too many people who want to kill me." Shi Qing was speechless.
Yun Zhi twitched the end of his eyes and looked at her sideways, thinking that you are quite self-aware.
"The only strange thing is the guard of the Sun residence."
Sun Qiran and Prime Minister Sun have fallen because of the land enclosure case, and now they are squatting in the prison with her daughter, waiting for Qiu Hou to be executed. The male family members of the Sun family were sent back to their original places, and all the guards in the family were sent to serve in the frontier.
It stands to reason that this bodyguard who knows how to dart should have arrived at the border soon, why is he still in the capital
Who saved her and raised her in the dark to act as a killer
Shi Qing said, "First of all, my mother must be excluded."
If not, use the method of exclusion.
Yun Zhi's eyes lighted up slightly, thinking that she was thinking, but Shi Qing continued to say:
"And then the rest of the others are suspect."
"..."
It's the same as not saying.
Shi Qing smiled, "Take your time, if they don't succeed this time, there will definitely be a next time."
Her eyes fell on Yunzhi's injured arm, and the smile on her face faded.
"If I didn't die, none of them would be able to escape."
The two stayed at Lao Zheng's house for one night, but the county government exploded.
Mihe waited until midnight and didn't wait for the two to come back, and kept thinking about it.
"Little master went out at night before, so it's time to come back."
She walked up and down the room, kept looking out, and muttered, "It's okay, it's okay, it's the little master and the lord, it's definitely okay."
The master has high martial arts skills, so he can run away even if he encounters anything.
Although he was always cheated by the little master, he was only cheated by the little master, not to mention that the little master was with the master this time.
Mihe comforted himself, until he saw Shiqing's unique signal flare to contact the Yulin Army exploded in the night sky outside, and his mind went blank.
Mihe couldn't even sit still, so she went straight to the gate of the county government office and stood there waiting.
The Imperial Forest Army has gone, so it stands to reason that the little master should be able to come back.
but none.
Mihe didn't see anyone until almost early morning.
The Imperial Forest Army listened to Shi Qing's order and was responsible for protecting her safety, and would not interfere with other matters.
Mihe gritted her teeth, turned back to the county government office, and shouted at Magistrate Cao, "You're still sleeping! My little master is lost."
County Magistrate Cao was fast asleep, and when she woke her up, he pulled on his shoes and came out with his clothes on in a daze, "Who lost it?"
"My little master." Mihe said, "She told the master to go to the market at night, but she hasn't come back until now."
"She is an imperial envoy from the middle of the capital. If something happens within your jurisdiction, my lord and the imperial court will not let you go!"
County magistrate Cao lost his drowsiness when he heard this, and he has never been so awake before.
Her eyes widened and she took a deep breath, not knowing if it was because Shi Qing was lost, or because Shi Qing went out at night.
County Magistrate Cao didn't believe that Shi Qing and Yun Zhi were out shopping, maybe by the river.
The county magistrate Cao was guilty and cautious, and hurriedly asked the yamen servant to go straight to the river to find someone.
She put on her clothes, avoiding Mihe's gaze, turned her eyes, lowered her voice and said to her confidant in the yamen, "If it's really by the river..."
Magistrate Cao gritted his teeth, but still didn't dare to make up his mind, so he waved his hands irritably and said, "Let's look for it first, find the person first."
Unlike other imperial envoys who have no roots, standing behind Shi Qing is Shi Ju, the imperial censor of the dynasty.
Cao County Lingchou's brain exploded, and he clenched his fist into the palm of the other hand, "Who knew she could see so carefully."
When returning from the river during the day, Shi Qing didn't show his face at all, talking and laughing with her, but the night passed again.
No wonder the two adults, Sun and Li, told themselves to be more careful.
It was almost dawn, and the county magistrate Cao didn't have the mood to continue sleeping. He walked back and forth in the courtyard of the county government office, thinking of many ways to deal with it.
But there's one thing that's weird.
Even if Shi Qing went out to check on her in the middle of the night, he still hasn't come back. Could it be that something happened to him
Magistrate Cao's eyes flickered, and his heart tightened.
After about an hour or two, Mihe came back with the yamen servant.
It was already broad daylight, County Magistrate Cao carefully looked into the line on tiptoe, but he didn't see Shi Qing.
"Not found?" Magistrate Cao didn't know whether he was happy or worried, "Did you find anything?"
Mihe shook her head, squatting on the steps of the door without saying a word.
The yamen servant led County Magistrate Cao to walk aside, and said in a low voice, "We found traces of a fight by the river, but no one was seen."
County Magistrate Cao's chubby body trembled, and he clenched his hands tightly.
Sure enough, he went to the river.
The yamen servant continued: "We searched down the river, but we didn't find anyone."
"If she was injured and fell into the river, I really don't know where she went. If she was not injured, it's even harder to say where she landed."
Magistrate Cao gritted his teeth and said, "Then we have to keep looking. If something happens to her at my place, I won't even have two heads to lose."
Since there are traces of fighting by the river, it means that Shi Qing brought trouble from the capital.
Someone wants to get rid of her.
The county magistrate Cao sat slumped on a stone bench next to him with his hands on the stone table, his face ashen ashes.
Shi Qing was alive, and she might die when she found the stake.
When Shi Qing died, she, the county magistrate, was even more to blame, and she was also dead.
There is no way out anyway.
County magistrate Cao asked people to find him first, and he wanted to see the dead if he was alive.
In her own heart, she even felt that it would be best if she could find the corpse.
County magistrate Cao was about to get up and go out to look for it by himself, when he saw the yamen servant walking towards her quickly, holding an envelope in his hand.
"My lord, an urgent letter from Beijing and China."