Wen Yantong was a little terrified for a moment, but then he comforted himself, maybe that girl didn't participate in it in the first place, or some accident delayed it.
But the more he thought about it, the more Wen Yantong felt something was wrong, so he whispered to Chi Jingxi next to him, "Young Lord, there is one missing here."
Chi Jingxi froze for a moment, "What do you mean?"
She explained, "Just now I saw these girls rehearsing in the open space of the side hall. At that time, there were seventeen of them, but now there are only sixteen."
When Chi Jingxi heard this, he looked up and looked at the girl from left to right, and found that there was indeed someone missing, so he immediately raised his hand, and the servants behind him stepped forward to stop the sound of the pipa.
All the girls stopped, not knowing what they had done, showing timid expressions, and stood crowded in the middle.
Mu Yang also stopped joking and asked, "Brother Xi, what are you doing?"
Chi Jingxi didn't answer immediately, but nodded to the girl standing at the front and asked her to come over.
Although the girl was afraid, she didn't dare to disobey, she came with small steps, and first saluted respectfully, "I don't know what's the matter with the young master?"
Chi Jingxi's eyes were flat, and when he was not smiling, his expression was a little cold, which made people feel scared.
He said, "How many girls did you come this time?"
The girl answered tremblingly, "Seventeen."
"Then why are there only sixteen in this temple? Where did the other one go?" Chi Jingxi's voice was slightly cold, with a seriousness that could not be laughed at.
The girl trembled in shock, turned her head suddenly, and saw the girls counting each other, you look at me and I look at you, the last count is really sixteen.
The hall fell silent for a while, and after Mu Yang understood what was going on, he raised his eyebrows immediately, "What do you eat, you don't even know if there is one less person?"
The girl hurriedly said, "We were actually selected from the four buildings, and we didn't know each other, so we didn't notice that there was a missing person for a while."
Cheng Xin said in a deep voice, "This person has disappeared inexplicably and behaved suspiciously. It's better to find her as soon as possible."
As soon as he gave an order, the guards immediately searched everywhere, and brought him up in a short while.
The girl was tall and her long hair was a little messy. When she was brought up, she seemed to be very scared, her body was shaking constantly, and she didn't dare to look up.
She knelt down in front of a few seats, and before anyone could ask, she begged for mercy, "I just came here and suddenly felt cramps in my stomach, and I couldn't bear it for a while, so I left without saying goodbye, please don't let me go!" Blame it!"
Mu Yang said, "You have a stomachache, you can tell others about it, why are you secretly absent?"
The girl lowered her head and said, "I thought I would come back before the dance, so I didn't tell anyone when I left."
Chi Jingxi asked the guard, "Where did you find her?"
The guard replied, "Go back to the young master, next to the toilet in the side hall."
After hearing this, Mu Yang sighed, "So it was a misunderstanding, then stop kneeling, get up and dance."
The others didn't say anything, even Fu Zixian frowned slightly, staring at the girl. Seeing that the others didn't speak, Mu Yang thought that they didn't want to forgive the girl easily, so he said, "After all, this girl was sent by my father. Even if I don't mean to ask for it, I don't want to embarrass her."
Fu Zixian shook his head slightly, but said nothing.
Cheng Xin smiled and said, "Then let them continue dancing, it's not something worth worrying about after all."
Chi Jingxi closed her eyes, acquiescing.
Then the girl quickly got up and blended into the group of girls, and then the sound of the pipa sounded again, and the melodious melody surrounded the hall, seventeen girls twisted their graceful figures and danced lightly.
Wen Yantong peeled the grapes while looking at them, his eyes flicked back and forth on several girls, but he paid the most attention to the girl who disappeared inexplicably before.
First of all, her stature is really outstanding, she is very conspicuous among a group of girls, and she can be seen at a glance. Secondly, her movements are very stiff, compared with other girls, she looks very amateurish, and her twisted movements are not aesthetically pleasing.
Wen Yantong was watching intently, when he suddenly felt a slight pain in his fingertips, and he lowered his eyes to see that it was Chi Jingxi leaning over to eat the grapes she had just peeled.
Wen Yantong was afraid of being seen, so he hurriedly pushed Chi Jingxi, who knew that this push was a little bit harder, Chi Jingxi almost turned over, and hit the table with a loud noise.
All of a sudden, it attracted the attention of several others.
Immediately afterwards, there was a sudden exclamation from the group of girls, and then there was a plop, and a girl fell down. One of the girls who was hit was still holding the pipa and fell to the ground with an ear-piercing sound.
Several people in the hall were shocked at the same time, and saw that the girls were forced to stop and stood at a loss, and the three girls who fell quickly got up and knelt on the ground, not daring to speak.
Mu Yang patted the table irritably, "Who are you guys? You can still fall while dancing? Didn't you practice on weekdays!"
One of the girls who fell down immediately pointed to the person beside her and shouted, "Naturally, I have practiced! This person tripped me just now because of his erratic steps, that's why I fell down!"
This finger pointed at the tall girl, she hastily denied it, "No no no!"
Another girl chimed in, "It's clear, I don't think you didn't dare to come before because of stomach pain, but because you are not familiar with the dance steps at all, so you didn't dare to come!"
The tall girl said anxiously, "I'm really practicing on weekdays!"
Seeing that the girls were about to quarrel, Chi Jingxi frowned impatiently.
"Let's all go out," Cheng Xin said suddenly, pointing at the tall girl, "She stays."
All the girls were both happy and disappointed, and immediately lined up and exited the main hall with their things in their arms, leaving only the tall girl kneeling on the spot and trembling.
She was really scared, Wen Yantong could tell.
But she couldn't understand why the girl was so scared. None of the young masters present had any rumors of violence. Although Chi Jingxi had rumors of beating people, he had never touched a woman. Secondly, just now Mu Yang also made it clear that he would not embarrass these people, but the girl was so scared that she never stopped trembling.
The few people in the hall didn't speak, they only heard Cheng Xin say, "Come forward."
When the girl heard Cheng Xin's words, she shook her body suddenly, knelt forward a few times, and said, "Your Highness Fifth, I am willing to accept the punishment for my family's mistakes and misbehavior."
As he spoke, he bent down, buried his head deeply on the ground, and made a very humble gesture.
But Cheng Xin said, "You straighten your back and lift your head up."
The girl paused, but did not follow her words.
Wen Yantong also realized that this was the time since the woman entered the hall, she kept her head lowered. At first she thought it was because the woman was afraid and made a humble appearance on purpose, but now it seems that there was something deliberately hidden. face of suspicion.
She suddenly became interested and stared at the woman's face.
The girl didn't move, Cheng Xin got up suddenly and walked to the girl slowly.
He supported the girl's chin behind him. At this moment, the girl suddenly struggled and held Cheng Xin's hand, as if she didn't want him to raise her face.
But in terms of strength, Cheng Xin didn't seem to win, and his face was lifted up all of a sudden.
It was a very beautiful face, with black eyebrows and red lips, slightly red cheeks, and crimson rouge at the corners of the eyes. But at the second glance, you can see a little familiarity.
Wen Yantong was already there, and when she looked carefully, she saw that the girl's Adam's apple was exposed on her raised and straight neck, she was very surprised, "It turned out to be a man!"
Mu Yang, however, had sharper eyes than her, and immediately shouted, "Jiang Lin! You are such a brave dog!"
Wen Yantong was shocked at the moment, and at a glance, she found that it was really Jiang Ling, whom she hadn't seen for a long time. If Mu Yang hadn't called out, she really wouldn't have recognized him.
Jiang's family was raided on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. According to Jiang Ling's age, he should have been beheaded together with his father and elder brother, but he didn't expect that he survived and disguised himself as a woman!
I don't know what this arrogant young master has experienced in the past few months, his spine was completely softened, and he shed tears immediately, choked up and said, "No, I'm not Jiang Ling, you admit it wrong!"
Cheng Xin let go, and he fell to the side, hastily lowered his head, was afraid but refused to admit it, "I'm not, I'm not..."
Seeing his distressed appearance, Wen Yantong recalled the scene when he brought people to stop him and made himself a target, so he couldn't help laughing out loud.
Chi Jingxi couldn't help but look sideways, "Think of something funny?"
Wen Yantong said loudly, "It's been 30 years in Hedong, 30 years in Hexi, I didn't expect that Young Master Jiang would be reduced to such a status. Thinking about it, he looked down on us common people very much a few years ago."
Although her words were a little bit of insulting, but thinking about Jiang Ling's previous bad behavior, she felt bad for herself.
She thought very simply, and didn't think about why Jiang Ling appeared here. Jiang's family ransacked and beheaded, and whether he was the only one who survived.
However, Cheng Xin and Chi Jingxi naturally had to consider these issues.
Moreover, Jiang's family was accused of rebellion, if the emperor knew about Jiang Ling's life, he would not escape death. Chi Jingxi was thinking about how to deal with this son of a traitor.
Mu Yang acted more directly, "I think this person was saved by Jiang's family, otherwise we'll lock him up first and hand him over to the Ministry of Criminal Justice."
When Jiang Ling heard this, he was almost scared to death, and looked at Mu Yang in horror, "I, I just want to live, I don't want to do anything, why do you force me to die?"
Mu Yang slapped the table and pointed, "See, you have admitted that you belong to the Jiang family, and you are still talking against me."
Wen Yantong couldn't help but said, "It's totally pointless for you to be entangled with this."
Fu Zixian said quietly at this time, "If we do not report what we know, it will be considered a crime of deceiving the emperor."
Mu Yang nodded, "That's right, otherwise I'd send someone to send him to the government to forget it."
Cheng Xin disagreed. He looked down at Jiang Ling who was still trembling, and pondered for a moment, "Send someone to arrest him first, and I will discuss it with Shan Li before making a decision."
Wen Yantong was a little stunned, hearing Cheng Xin's meaning, maybe he wanted to keep Jiang Ling
Mu Yang didn't think much about it, he nodded immediately, stretched his waist, and then said, "It's boring, let's go back to the room and sleep."
He said excitedly, "I ordered someone to prepare the Datong bunk, and we all sleep together tonight."
Wen Yantong looked at him in shock, "What?!"
... She wants to sleep alone with the young master!
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