auspicious time has come

He had seen that the little girl in the car was not holding the sword steadily, and when he finished speaking, he reached out and grabbed the sword, and yanked it violently.

Pei Wushuang was brought forward by this force, and the man took the opportunity to grab her arm and pulled her out of the carriage.

"Little lady, this sword looks good, but it's useless if you don't use it!" The man laughed and locked her tightly in front of him, and the sword fell in response.

"Shuanger!"

Seeing this, Mrs. Dou on the side wanted to rush forward, but was kicked heavily in the abdomen by another bandit and fell to the ground.

The maid An Lan had also been pulled out of the carriage, and all the belongings that had just been thrown out of the carriage had been put away by them.

While struggling, Pei Wushuang lowered his head and bit the man's arm hard.

The man was in pain and wanted to throw her away, but she refused to let go, until the man grabbed her hair and threw her out heavily.

"This bitch!" The man looked at the arm that had almost been bitten off by her, and cursed with red eyes: "Tie up all these women and bring them back! Let the brothers train and train them well!"

Pei Wushuang, who fell to the ground, struggled to sit up and wanted to pick up the sword.

But the man was one step ahead of her, bent over to pick up the sword, held it in his hand and looked at it: "It is really a rare and good sword."

Seeing this, Pei Wushuang's eyes were red and she wanted to take it back, but the two grabbed her tightly, and they took the hemp rope to tie her hands.

At this time, there was a sound of horseshoes.

"Help! Help!" An Lan immediately shouted for help.

"Snapped!"

The bandit slapped her on the face: "How dare you shout like a mother! Don't even think about the current world, who dares to meddle in other people's business!"

Even though they said so, they immediately covered Pei Wushuang and the others with cloth towels, quickened their movements and dragged them into the woods.

"Lieutenant General, there seems to be someone shouting 'Help'——"

After the King of Xiang had settled down, Yin Hai, who was about to return to Beijing to return to his command, subconsciously reined in his horse and looked towards the direction of the forest.

After a brief hesitation, he still said, "Go and see."

A group of people approached the source of the sound just now, only a carriage and the corpses of several servants were seen.

One person got off his horse and checked: "I must have encountered a bandit."

Yin Hai sat on the horse and said: "Look at their clothes, they are just ordinary servants... Where is the master's house? The voice calling for help just now sounds like a woman."

After speaking, he turned his head and looked deep into the dense forest.

There is almost no doubt about what will usually happen to the female relatives of wealthy families if they fall into the hands of robbers.

And this time they went to Beijing secretly to handle errands, so they shouldn't have caused troubles to avoid revealing their identities and causing trouble to the general——

At this moment, none of the group spoke.

Until Yin Kai said: "Chasing—"

If you don't save the person in front of you, how can you talk about other things.

If the general is here, it will be the same.

A group of people rode into the forest and followed the traces.

Those people were just ordinary bandits, and they were quickly exposed under the pursuit of the well-trained elite division. After resisting for a while, some died, injured, or begged for mercy.

The twilight was deep, and the sight in the forest was extremely dim. Several people stepped forward to untie the ropes of the three tied female family members. Just as they took off the cloth scarves in their mouths, they saw a figure of a girl rushing towards their deputy general, and threw them all together. Hold on.

All the subordinates were stunned.

Although it is necessary to be grateful for the life-saving grace, how could this little lady have such good eyesight, she just passed them and picked the most handsome lieutenant among them?

They didn't know it, even though it was dark, she recognized the man.

Yin Hai was startled, and looked down at the person in front of him in surprise: "...Why are you here?"

Pei Wushuang didn't answer, she burst into tears first, the sound of crying was full of fear.

Yin Hai raised his hand to comfort her, but when she saw the female envoy helped Madam Dou to stand up, she took her hand back without a trace, and only helped Pei Wushuang away from her, making sure that she was not seriously injured , then asked: "Seeing that it's already getting late, why do you still have to hurry?"

"After this forest is Weinan, where my grandfather's house is..."

Pei Wushuang's shoulders twitched and he cried, "...the uncle's mansion was affected by Jiang Linggong's incident, my uncle was demoted, my second uncle was implicated in prison, my grandmother got angry, and the whole house was in chaos...Auntie I beg A Niang and I to go back to my ancestral home and ask the Dou family to help me, and if I don’t want to borrow some money to use it to move things around, there may still be a way to survive in the uncle’s house..."

She was a little incoherent: "It is only now that I know that the seemingly illustrious Pei clan has not fallen to such a level over the years, and there is only an empty shell left... No wonder Dad always said that there are difficulties in the clan. , He has all sorts of last resorts, but I never really listened to it before, I only know how to be self-willed and nonsense..."

As she spoke, her crying became more and more uncontrollable. Apart from fear, she blamed herself more: "Aniang and I just want to rush to the grandparent's house as soon as possible... Who would have thought that we would meet these people... and the servants who came with us?" They're all dead, I can't even protect A Niang and myself!"

In the dark, Yin Hai looked at the crying girl in front of her who was so embarrassed that she was even a little funny, and unconsciously slowed down her voice: "This...can't blame you."

Pei Wushuang wanted to say more, but was interrupted by Dou's voice: "Shuang'er, it's all right..."

Mrs. Dou was supported by the female envoy and came over, Fushen thanked Yin Hai: "Thank you, General Yin, for saving you..."

"Madam Dou, you don't need to thank me." Yin Hai said, "It's just that I'm on an errand, so it's inconvenient for others to know about leaving the city, so I ask Madam to keep this matter safe."

When he decided to save someone just now, he never thought that he would be an acquaintance, but now his identity has been exposed by accident.

But he didn't regret his decision just now, on the contrary, he felt endlessly grateful.

"Please rest assured, General Yin." Dou agreed.

"The two of you escort Madam Dou to Weinan." Yin Hai ordered two subordinates who had never shown up in front of others, and confessed: "Be sure to send them safely."

"I'm really sorry to trouble General Yin." Dou was very grateful and saluted again.

Pei Wushuang stopped crying, wiped away his tears, turned around and walked towards the fallen bandits, and bent over with his skirts up as if he was looking for something.

Yin Hai walked over, only to see that she bravely pulled out a sword from under a bloody corpse.

He was very familiar with that sword——

"It's all dirty." Sobbing, Pei Wushuang wiped the sword with his sleeve and held it in his arms.

Yin Hai felt it was funny, but at the same time felt a bit bitter and warm in his heart. The feeling was very complicated and hard to describe.

Facing those wet eyes, he wanted to say something, but felt it was inappropriate, and in the end he just said: "When we arrive at Dou's house, ask a doctor to take care of the injury, and let someone cook a bowl of soothing soup, and get a good night's sleep first."

Pei Wushuang sobbed and nodded at him.

"Go." Yin Hai told the two subordinates.

Under the escort of those two people, Pei Wushuang and An Lan supported Dou Shi on the left and right, and left the forest.

Seeing the figure walking away with the sword in one hand and turning his head three times at a step, Yin Hai said: "It's not appropriate to go to the government, kill them all."

This world is already in chaos, leaving these people alive will only cause more innocent people to suffer.

After everything was settled, the group got on their horses and left.

……

At the same moment, a secret letter was delivered to Xiao Mu.

After reading the contents of the letter, his eyes changed slightly, and a momentary look of thought appeared between his brows.

After a while, the thoughtful look disappeared, and the letter paper was lit by the candle, and it was quickly reduced to ashes.

……

In early summer, it was only a little stuffy, and the envoy had already placed an ice basin in the room where Hengyu was under house arrest.

In the evening of this day, Heng Yu was the same as usual, and only used up half of all the meals.

After the female envoy removed the food, she retreated outside to guard.

Heng Yu sat at the table with no expression on his face, looking out of the window.

Recently, she and Shaoyan secretly checked around the west courtyard again and again to make sure that there must be something unusual because of the strict guards there, and they have figured out the time when they change defense at night.

On the north side of the courtyard, there is a side door that has been abandoned for many years. Although it is locked, it has been corroded by rust and is not difficult to break open.

If she and Shaoyan go in through the side door when those people are changing defenses, they can find out...

It is risky to do so, but it is the only way.

At this time, the situation outside will affect the whole body, and there is no longer any delay.

This is also the reason why she chose such a bad strategy to anger Li Wei and force him to put herself under house arrest - this is the only "shortcut" at the moment.

There is no best policy, no comprehensive method, only to step on the edge of the cliff and try to find the way forward, even if it is possible to fall into the cliff at any time and be smashed to pieces.

While she was thinking about the follow-up strategy, there were footsteps outside.

Heng Yu immediately withdrew her gaze from the window, and raised her eyes to look at the person coming indifferently.

It's Qizhen.

She went back to the eldest princess mansion two days ago, and would come here to see her every day.

It's more like watching than watching.

Because of this, Heng Yu became more determined that she must go to the West Court to investigate earlier - Li Wei must have become suspicious of her, or at least took precautions, the longer it dragged on, the more restricted her actions would be.

Qizhen entered the inner room, glanced at the open north window, and said softly: "Although it is summer and the north wind brings coolness, it's better to close the window at night, don't be greedy for the coolness for a while. It draws the evil wind into your body, and it will make your already weak body worse."

At first Heng Yu just listened, but soon realized something was wrong.

She glanced at the cold ice basin.

The ice basin is all set up, but the window is called "temporary cold"?
Moreover, the north wind is mostly in winter, how has there ever been any north wind blowing recently...

The female envoy who came in heard Qizhen's words and closed the window.

Heng Yu slowly raised his eyes to look at Qi Zhen.

Those eyes that were always a bit inaccessible were also looking at her.

"If your Highness has never entered the palace, when you live in the mansion at this time of year, you would not dare to place an ice basin in the courtyard bedroom too early." Qizhen said.

Hengyu's eyes moved slightly.

"So, remove this ice basin too." Qi Zhen ordered.

The female envoy subconsciously glanced at Hengyu, who had been "making heaven and earth" recently, and seeing that she didn't respond, she responded "Yes" and took the ice basin out.

After Qizhen took a deep look at Hengyu, she turned around and wanted to go out.

"and many more."

Heng Yu, who spoke to her for the first time in two days, stood up.

Qizhen stopped and didn't look back.

Hengyu's eyes contained a hint of temptation, and he asked, "How is my family doing these days?"

With Shaoyan around, she naturally knows all the outside news——

Including the matter that the king of Huaiyang County was poisoned and unconscious after he was elected as the new king by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. I heard that this poor child is still in a coma.

But why "just" coma?

Hengyu looked at Qizhen's back—was someone showing mercy?

If so, some words may be credible.

"As long as Mrs. Heng stays here peacefully, everyone in the Ji family will be fine." Qizhen turned her back to Hengyu and said, "Ms. Heng has this kind of thought and effort, why don't you think about something useful, such as how Only then can His Highness calm down, so as not to cause harm to others."

Her tone was flat, but silently bit the word "others" at the end.

Then, she didn't seem to have any intention of saying anything more to Heng Yu, and told the female envoy: "There is a wind blowing from the north and there are black clouds moving. I'm afraid there will be heavy rain coming from the north tomorrow. Doors and windows are closed tightly, so prepare early."

The female envoy agreed and sent Qizhen out.

Heng Yu sat back slowly, his eyes repeated several times.

Qi Zhen would not explain these trivial matters in such a detailed way——

Although there are not many words today, it seems that every word is worth pondering over and over again...

That night, after the lights were turned off, Heng Yu went out the window as usual, and came to the gazebo.

Shaoyan was waiting there in a black robe, and handed a black cloak to Hengyu, Hengyu took it, but did not move, but said: "Shaoyan, I won't go to the west courtyard tonight—"

Shaoyan was taken aback: "Ah Heng...why is this?"

They had checked again and again before they made a plan for tonight.

"I'm afraid it's deceitful..." Heng Yu lowered his voice and said, "The so-called strict guard over there may be just a trick to confuse people... In order to prevent anyone from being suspicious and prying, this trap was set up. Once inside, It will be exposed."

"But..." Shaoyan frowned slightly, and after thinking for a moment, he said: "It is indeed possible, the Eldest Princess behaves differently from ordinary people."

He looked at Heng Yu: "But if His Royal Highness is not in the West Courtyard, where will he be?"

Thinking of Qi Zhen's words, Heng Yu said slowly: "Maybe it's in her courtyard... His Royal Highness the Crown Prince came to visit that day, maybe he not only failed to leave the eldest princess's mansion, but also failed to leave her courtyard." .”

And her courtyard is indeed the easiest place to set traps to prevent the prince from leaving.

"The defense there is no more vigilant than the West Court... Ah Heng, shall we go and investigate now?"

"Not in a hurry." Heng Yu thought about it, "I don't know if it's another trap..."

What if Qizhen deliberately said those words to her to mislead her?
Although she couldn't figure out why the other party made such an unnecessary move at the moment, the most taboo thing at the moment is to act impulsively, so she should be more cautious.

Before Shaoyan could understand it enough, Hengyu said again: "Shaoyan, right now, I have another matter I want to ask you to help—"

"Aheng, just talk."

"I would like to ask you to write a letter and secretly send it to the people in Dingbeihou's mansion." Hengyu said: "The letter said... Tomorrow there may be changes, and Li Wei may be unfavorable to Dingbeihou, so he must be careful .”

Qizhen's words "wind blows from the north", "heavy rain may come from the north", and "prepare early", she thought over and over again, only to feel that they were metaphors for "Marquis of Dingbei".

"Aheng, you mean the eldest princess will..." Shaoyan's eyes trembled.

"She was bound to attack him..." Heng Yu said in a low voice, "But Qizhen specifically mentioned that I'm afraid there will be something unusual this time... After all, what we can find out about the news outside now It’s just superficial... But it’s hard to say whether it’s a trap, so it needs to be explained in the letter, and the Marquis of Dingbei must be careful to distinguish between true and false.”

Shaoyan nodded seriously at first, and then asked: "Aheng, you mean... Aunt Qizhen reminded you of these?"

"Yes." Heng Yu said: "Whether the person is not in the West Courtyard is her reminder... But right now we can't fully believe it, so it's better to tell the difference by reminding Marquis of Dingbei first. If it is true, you and I Then go to Li Weiju's courtyard to investigate."

Shaoyan nodded: "Okay, I understand."

"Although they haven't suspected you yet, you and A Rui have to be careful and put your own safety first in everything." Heng Yu finally urged.

"Ah Heng, don't worry." Shaoyan smiled and said, "I have no other strengths, the only thing I am good at is not attracting attention."

For these years, he has lived in the eldest princess's mansion, and has never had much sense of existence.

In the eyes of everyone, even the Eldest Princess, he is like a kitten or dog who can only obediently shrink in the nest, only knows how to be obedient and quiet, and will not have any thoughts or actions that disobey the owner.

Ah Heng said recently that he would be like this, but now that he thinks about it, it may be that Li Wei deliberately guided him to "nurture" him with such a temperament.

But right now, he's glad he is.

At least, you can use this as a cover to do something—not for Ah Heng, but for yourself, to give yourself an account and expectation that you have never had before.

"Shaoyan, although you shouldn't talk about the future at this time... But I still want to say that after you leave this place in the future, you will have a great future. As for the things in the past, they will all stay here, so there is no need to look back."

There was a frank smile in the boy's eyes when he heard the words: "Let me borrow auspicious words from Ah Heng."

……

The next day, Hengyu inevitably spent in anxiety and various speculations.

At night, she saw Shaoyan again in the gazebo: "How is it? Is everything going well?"

"Aheng, according to your method, A Rui and I quietly entered the Yanchun Tower through the side door to deliver the letter, and soon the deputy general surnamed Wang came in person, but..." Shaoyan looked a little guilty : "It's just a step too late. Vice-General Wang said that when the city gate first opened this morning, Marquis Dingbei had already left the city secretly..."

"He left the city?" Heng Yu's heart skipped a few beats, and then subconsciously said: "It's okay, even if there is no reminder from this letter, he should be prepared..."

Shaoyan hesitated to speak.

But didn't Ah Heng also say last night that there might be something "unusual" this time?

Since Marquis Dingbei went out of the city secretly, he must bring a limited number of people. If the eldest princess really intends to kill him, she will do so at all costs. Under such circumstances, can Marquis Dingbei really escape...

Thinking of this possibility, Shaoyan saw that Hengyu's complexion was slightly pale, obviously also thought of this, and he was even more afraid to say anything more at this moment.

"At least from this point of view, the reminder given by Qizhen is a little credible..." Heng Yu forced himself to calm down and think about the important matter in front of him: "Li Wei lives in the courtyard, you can check it out."