For the next two consecutive days, the head of Qin came to ask me about my intentions. According to what he said, it was the guest official who asked in good faith, and was willing to pay a high price for the troupe to compile the play into a happy and happy ending. I thought it was absurd, and the world had already been exhausted, so why bother with a public drama? So ignored.
The next day, I received Song Xiyuan's flying pigeon biography - "Go home quickly, don't panic. Stay at home!"
Almost before and after, but half a day later, Daddy's letter also arrived - "It is possible to take the opportunity to take back the parent and child."
Originally, my heart was ashes as I passed by Xiaoer, and at the same time, I was afraid of being discovered by the Regent. Between thinking, a plan suddenly arises.
The Prince Regent wanted to come out of Beijing this time, and he didn’t want to make a lot of noise to let people know about it. He sent inquirers to report, saying that he did not settle in the royal palace at the foot of Mangshan, but lived inconspicuously in the city near Dexing Restaurant. in an inn. In addition to the rumor that the prince lost his life in Luoyang City, no one seems to know that the Prince Regent has quietly entered the city. The officials are still searching the streets for the children with the beard, which shows that the local officials in Luoyang are still in the dark.
He has always pursued the idea of hiding in the city, and the inn is a place where people come and go for business. However, since fish and dragons are mixed, it is better to fish in troubled waters.
Now that he has found Xiao'er, he will leave Luoyang City in a few days, and he will not come again when the opportunity cannot be missed. It should not be too late, and tonight is the best time to start! At the moment, I planned to deploy the few people named Jia Ding who I had left behind with Song Xiyuan as dead men. An hour later, the map of the guest rooms in the Yuefu Inn was presented to me.
The prince regent accompanied 18 people this time. The prince and Xiaoer lived in the same room, Xiaoer was in the inner room, and the prince was outside, and the rest of the guards were separated into four rooms around them, and they were surrounded as tightly as iron barrels. And these guards are all masters, and the lord himself is also very skilled. If the dead man is allowed to sneak in and take it straight, there is little chance of winning, only to take advantage of the chaos. As long as there is chaos, there is a better way—
Arson!
However, I only want to take Xiao'er back, and I don't want to hurt anyone. How to put the fire, who will put it, and where it is put, every step must be carefully considered. The first thing to do is to lead the regent away from Xiao'er.
I thought about it, and suddenly remembered that fairy play. The play also had a happy ending, but I never let it sing. Since the regent was determined to change the ending, he has now fulfilled his wish.
In the evening, when the class leader Qin got my words, he happily replied to the man, and invited him to go up to the Dexing Building at night to see the newly rehearsed play to see if it could meet his wish. Using this as bait, I don't know if I can invite him out. On that day, seeing his attitude of knowing that Xiao'er was studying opera in the troupe, he definitely did not agree with him. If he came, he would definitely not bring Xiao'er with him.
Xiaoer is just like me. I like sweet food, and I like cakes. In the past, after Xiaoer had dinner at night, I would always ask the maids to send a plate of soft snacks to the wing about an hour later. Xiaoer is usually still edible. The next three or two pieces of pastry, aunties always say that this is not good, it will make the child's teeth caries, I also tried to break the night snack of Xiaoer, Xiaoer is well-behaved, not noisy, just a pair of sloppy I couldn't hide the disappointment in my eyes, and I couldn't bear it in my heart, and I recovered within two days.
Two years later, I don't know if Xiaoer's habit has changed. If there is no correction, it will be just right. At that time, let the dead man pretend to be the second in the store and deliver the cakes. The cakes contain a note written by me. Xiaoer is smart and quiet, and she can read very early. Moreover, although Xiao'er is well-behaved and young, she is wary of Huiji, and will not cooperate if she does not see my handwritten note. Once he struggles to resist, he will inevitably attract the guards at the door. Therefore, this cake matters a lot.
There was a rear window in the house. Because of the high height and steep windows, the lord did not think that Xiao'er dared to climb down from that window, so there was no defense behind it. At that time, the deceased will cling to the window, and when Xiaoer reads the note and opens the window, he will hold Xiaoer out and set him in the fire room by the way.
There was a fire in the Xiao'er's house, and the inn was in chaos. The prince and the guards were calm, and he would not have thought of going to the backyard to investigate first. Those dead soldiers who guarded Xiao'er could take advantage of the darkness and chaos to quietly take Xiao'er away from the inn without being noticed.
This plan is interlocked, and if one of the links is out of my expectation, it will be a business trip and the success will fail.
When it comes to Xiaoer, how can I put my mind at ease, I ignored Song Xiyuan's admonition to "stay at home" in his letters and wandered around in the lobby on the ground floor of the inn, pretending to drink tea as a matter of fact.
However, I may have been unlucky for many years. The bad luck has run to the extreme, and even God can't see it. In the end, I have pity. This time, everything went smoothly. Every step was as I expected, and it was not bad. When I saw the fire on the second floor Xuan window, smoke choked out. My heart that was hanging in my throat finally fell back to my chest and calmed down a little.
Recently, there has been a drought, and there has been no rain for more than ten days. It is dry and dry. The room where the flames came out of the night licked along the beams and wooden ladders and quickly spread along the west wind. Because the time I chose was not late at night, and it was only at the hour of Xu, none of the guests staying in the hotel had gone to bed, smelling such a strong burnt odor, they all rushed out the door one after the other.
There was chaos in the store. The guards who were guarding outside Xiao'er's door and in the surrounding rooms really rushed out of their nests and rushed into Xiao'er's room, all of them suspected of searching elsewhere.
When I saw that this was done, I took out a handkerchief from my sleeve, dipped it in the tea on the table, covered my mouth and nose, and followed three or two people running out of the store.
Guess what, as soon as I walked out of the store, I almost bumped into someone, and when I looked up to see clearly, at that moment, I only felt a thunderbolt hit my forehead, and a cold air poured down from the soles of my feet. The breath was completely suffocated, there was a muffled sound in the ears, and the eyes were completely white.
Biquge
It turned out that God never intended to favor me...
"Wang... lord beware!" The guard on the side reached out to support the man.
The man's face was pale, his black eyes were full of anxiety, and he slid away from my face and turned to the side, "Quick, help me in!"
"Yes!" The guard stretched out his hand to separate me, and barely noticed the man's arm and stepped into the store.
I was completely stunned by this sudden succession of bad luck and good fortune, and in a blaze of fire, I watched in disbelief as the man passed me by, without squinting.
he saw me? He didn't see me
The fire was so bright that it shone brightly around the sky like daylight. I looked down at my hand. The tiny lines that were usually invisible during the day were nowhere to be seen under the fire, and they were very clear... not to mention a person passing by. ? A dead man who should have been in a coffin.
unless…
I turned around, across the chaotic crowd, but seeing Zhanyue leading several guards hurriedly came downstairs and clasped their fists to say something to him, his face sank and he said something. I was facing his direction, and when I saw that mouth shape, there were only three words - "Search for me!"
For a while, the guards scattered all over the inn again and started searching, including the backyard. Only one bodyguard was still standing beside him as a personal guard. But seeing the prince turned his head and said something to him, the guard hesitated for a moment and then led the order to leave.
Only the Regent was left standing in the center of the hall, with frowning eyebrows and a pale complexion, as if he was extremely anxious but unable to go into battle in person. The fist hanging by his side slowly clenched and slapped it on the square table beside him.
The shop assistant, who was walking back and forth in the hall to carry water to put out the fire, saw that all the residents had evacuated, but he stood inexplicably in the center of the hall. The little Er shook his head, ignoring him any longer, and hurried to pick up the water with a bucket.
I just stood outside the door and stood across from him in the hall, but he seemed to have not seen him, his eyes were looking straight ahead, and his black eyes seemed to be lacquered, and his aura was overwhelming. If you look closely, there is a bottomless hole, and there is nothing...
"Meow—" I don't know where a white shadow jumped, and it was still eye-catching in the red. In the blink of an eye, the white threw straight into the man's arms. The man trembled all over, reached out and touched the short whiskers on the white cat's cheeks, and blurted out, "Xiao'er!" Ji Ji turned around, and walked towards the direction where the cat had just rushed.
I stumbled all the way, knocked on the table, overturned the stool, and hit the corner of the wall... A child stumbles like a toddler, only groping with a pair of white and slender hands...
Can't see! He can't see anything...
Blind? !
This consciousness suddenly hit my mind, and my mind went blank for a moment...
When he regained his senses, he had stumbled and pushed open the door of a wing room, and a cloud of smoke broke free from the restraints and rushed out of the door.
I closed my eyes, turned around to go, took two hurried steps, but finally stopped.
I just wanted to find my child, and I didn't want to hurt anyone, let alone a blind person... He couldn't see me anyway, so he gritted his teeth, and I turned around again and rushed into the burning room.
The smoke coming from the house was so smoky that I could hardly open my eyes. After I was reluctant to open my eyes, I saw the man calling out "Xiao'er!" and I was about to reach out and touch a cabinet that was on fire.
I was shocked, I quickly stepped forward and grabbed his elbow, grabbed one of his arms with both hands, and wanted to force him away from this dangerous place. Unexpectedly, he didn't appreciate it, and broke free from me, vigilant. Said: "Who?" The other hand was placed beside him instantly, as if ready to go.
I just remembered that he would carry a hidden weapon with him, and a blind person must have a good ear. Although he can't see, if he wants to send a hidden weapon and kill me, it's just a little effort. And I can't open my mouth. Once I do, he will be able to hear the clue.
When he was in a dilemma for a while, he looked up and saw that a beam was burned by fire, and it was about to fall. Without thinking about it, I reached out and grabbed his hand and pulled him over with the greatest strength in my life.
The beam slammed down, brushed by the two of us, and fell heavily on the ground with a roar.
The man held my hand and suffocated a little, and suddenly gave a strong back grip, almost crushing the bones of my hand. I wanted to be surprised by the sudden loud noise.
"Who are you?" An erratic question and a blazing beeping sound came again, with an inexplicable vulnerability and caution. The footsteps seemed to be rooted on the ground, as if he would never move a step without a reassuring answer, his face became even paler, almost transparent.
I was in a hurry and had no choice but to turn over his hand and write in his palm with my fingertips—"I am dumb."
"Dumb...?"
Looking at his face again, he couldn't tell whether it was a suspicion or a letter. I only felt that his palm trembled slightly as I closed the pen, but he still refused to move on his feet.
"Child! I'm looking for Xiao'er!" He said hoarsely, his words were anxious and stubborn.
No way, I had to write again in his palm: "There is no one here." After I finished writing, I didn't care whether he was still stubborn, I buried my head and grabbed his hand and walked out.
This time, he no longer resisted, thinking that he believed it, and let me hold my hand and walk out.
I was afraid of meeting Zhan Yue, so I took him out of the back door of the inn, carefully circumventing all the obstacles in the corner of the stairs, so that he could not see the road and tripped. I walked through the side alley and walked about 100 steps in the opposite direction from Dexing Building to confirm. It's safe here, so I have to let go of him.
"You..." I didn't know what he was going to say. He seemed very anxious when he opened his mouth, but he was choked by the smoke in the inn just now, and his throat was uncomfortable. As soon as the words came out, he began to cough violently.
I saw that he tightened his eyebrows and coughed extremely uncomfortable, so he simply sent Buddha to the west, and reached out and patted his back, intending to help him soothe him. Jiang Jiang patted twice, but the next moment, his hand was stiff in the air.
On the side, Song Xiyuan, who did not know when to find it, was full of dust on his face. He was wearing a brocade robe with black and gray interlaced indistinguishable primary colors. The robe was burnt with several holes and was in tatters. With a sharp sword in his hand, he stood aside with frowns and lips About five paces away from me, he stared at me strangely.
Suddenly, the corner of his mouth curled into a sneer, turned his head and strode away.
I bowed my head silently, while the regent stopped coughing for some time and quietly grabbed one of my hands. Suddenly, the wrist of the other hand tightened, but Song Xiyuan, who had already left, did not know when to turn back again, holding a sword in one hand, and firmly clasping my other hand in the other, and could not help but drag me away.
Instant stalemate.
The regent's eyes were barren, reflecting the distant firelight, but there seemed to be a fire hidden in his eyes slowly waking up. His palms were cold and covered with fine sweat.
Song Xiyuan looked stubborn and looked directly into my eyes, the corners of his mouth were tightly pursed, the lips were dry, and fine lines burst out.
I don't know who's baby woke up in the night, a cry cut through the night sky, and I was suddenly awakened from the nightmare, I shook my left hand, trying to break free from the restraint of the regent.
"Don't go..." Hearing his words blocked, his words were inexplicably panicked.
How can you not go? Should I wait for Zhan to find him and identify me? Do I wait for him to take my Xiaoer back again
I hurriedly stepped on his instep hard, he heard the pain and gasped for breath, and between the gaps between my hands, I grabbed my left hand, but he still didn't let it go and grabbed it again , was grabbing my sleeve.
I exerted force on my hand, but when I heard the sound of "hiss!" the fabric cracked, a cuff was torn apart between pulling and pulling, and my left hand was immediately freed from the shackles. body.
Song Xiyuan gave me a cool look, picked me up by the waist, and disappeared into the night after a few leaps...