royal girl

Chapter 287 Accident or Conspiracy?

Xueying opened the curtain, Ji Qiyu and Huiyu entered the room, changed clothes and sat down again, and then let Zhong's mother come in to answer.

It was very cold in the twelfth lunar month, and after walking around, the stove in Huiyu's hand was already completely cold, and Xueqi replaced it with a new one, which was filled with new silver frost charcoal and was just warming up.Holding it in her palm, Huiyu looked at Mother Zhong and asked, "Mom, tell me what happened, where did you get the letter from?"

Huiyu looked at the letter on the table, but there was not a word on the letter, it was blank.

Mother Zhong wasn't nervous when she was facing Huiyu, but Ji Qiyu was a little nervous when she was around her. She lowered her head and replied respectfully: "My servant came to work today, and when I was about to turn the corner of Wangfu Street, I was bumped by someone and then handed her a hand. There is just such a letter in the book, and I told the servant to hand it to you. At that time, he was wearing a gray cloak that covered his head, and the servant did not see what he looked like in a hurry, but only heard the voice and knew it was a man. "

Huiyu looked at Ji Qiyu when she heard this, and Ji Qiyu reached out to pick up the letter and opened it to read. Huiyu saw Ji Qiyu's expression suddenly changed, and couldn't help asking: "What is written in the letter?" what?"

"Kan Zhiyi has news, I want to go and see for myself, so as not to be fraudulent." Ji Qiyu got up immediately, "You stay at home and don't go out. The palace will be closed until I come back."

"Okay, I got it. You must be careful. I don't know who sent this letter. Isn't it too risky for you to go in person? Why don't you ask Jiang Qing to take someone to see it first?" Huiyu said.

"I will bring enough people, don't worry." Ji Qiyu had already put on her cloak while speaking, and turned to look at Huiyu, "The person who wrote the letter either deliberately laid a hook to lure me over, or Kan Zhiyi has trouble walking now, so he asked someone to deliver the letter. No matter what it is, I have to go and see for myself."

Huiyu couldn't persuade Ji Qiyu, she knew that the account book on Kan Zhiyi represented whether Ji Qiyu could turn around in this battle, so she simply didn't persuade her, and just said: "The future is unknown, bring more people, whether it is If you can't come back in time for any news, remember to send the letter back." After a pause, he suddenly said: "You are still in the period of confinement, if you go out rashly, it will be a serious crime if you are discovered."

"I know, I'll go through the back door." Ji Qiyu said as he walked, and when he reached the door, he smiled at Huiyu, and then strode away.

Seeing Ji Qiyu leave, Huiyu sat back on the couch, feeling very uneasy, but there was no other way but to wait.

Ji Qiyu led Jiang Qing and his guards to leave quietly through the back door. Fortunately, he didn't have to go out of the city gate, but the address mentioned in the letter was in the south of the imperial city.Since ancient times, the east is rich, the west is rich, the south is poor, and the north is humble. The address left in the letter is the place where the poorest people in Kyoto live. A large group of them must have been particularly eye-catching. Riding on horses, Ji Qiyu immediately ordered Go down, let everyone approach in three ways, try not to attract attention.

Jiang Qing immediately divided the people into three teams according to Ji Qiyu's instructions, "My lord, you can go now."

Ji Qiyu held up the horsewhip with his right hand, pointed forward, and the crowd dispersed immediately, and set off according to the teams they were divided into.

The sky was still clear when we went out, but it suddenly turned overcast when we walked halfway, and the north wind was bitter, blowing like a knife on the face.There were also fewer pedestrians on the street because of the sudden change in weather. After Jiang Qing led the way for a while, he arrived not far from the place mentioned in the letter.Looking around, there are all low and dilapidated houses, and the thick snow is pressed on the roof, almost crushing the beams, which makes people worry.

After Ji Qiyu arrived, the two teams from the two foreign countries also rushed to the place, merged together, and found the place very quickly.Looking at the closed wooden door, Jiang Qing got off his horse and went to knock on the door in person. After knocking a few times, a group of people suddenly appeared around the corner.

Ji Qiyu looked from a distance, and saw that the person at the end of the long street was also the same horse, Huaqiu, who was almost the same as her.Because of the distance, it was not clear who was coming, but the guards behind Ji Qiyu had already fanned out, protecting Ji Qiyu in the middle, staring at the approaching people from afar.

Jiang Qing knocked on the door a few times, but he didn't hear anyone coming to open the door, and seeing people approaching from a distance, he knew that today's matter might be a little inappropriate.Immediately, he pulled out the knife and stood it next to Ji Qiyu's horse's head, and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, should you go and have a look?"

But Ji Qiyu said: "No need, we all know the person here."

Jiang Qing looked at it intently, and was a little surprised when he took a closer look. Isn't the one sitting on the horse King Su?
"King Su? What is he doing here?" Jiang Qing couldn't help but speak, full of doubts.

Ji Qiyu watched Su Wang leading the people gradually approaching, and when she saw that the person sitting immediately was Ji Qiyu, she was also shocked, "Fourth? Why are you here? I thought who it was, but it turned out to be you." During the confinement period, the fourth child actually dared to sneak out, this is really courageous.

"Brother." Ji Qiyu cupped his hands, "Why did Big Brother come here, and why did I come here."

Su Wang was taken aback, looked at Ji Qiyu's expression carefully, frowned and said: "I said, fourth child, you are a bit unreasonable, your elder brother, I just came to see an old friend, are you following me?"

Visiting an old friend?Ji Qi Yumeifeng was frivolous, looked at King Su and said word by word: "Brother, this old friend is really a coincidence, and I have something to do with it."

King Su was not happy, looked at Ji Qiyu and said, "What do you mean?"

Looking at King Su's demeanor, it doesn't look like a fake. Could it be that the person living in this courtyard is really a friend of King Su?But why would someone tell him that Kan Zhiyi is here?What is the intention of the sender?Ji Qiyu didn't understand for a while, but she still asked, "Brother, forgive me for asking, has your friend lived here all this time, or just moved here, is this the first time or has he been here before? "

Su Wang was very upset when he heard Ji Qiyu's inquisitiveness, and said with a straight face, "You are the magistrate of the county for interrogation? Is it possible that I have some friends and I have to talk to you?" Although the words are so asked, but Su Wang also became suspicious in his heart. It was indeed his first time to meet friends here. Before that, he received a letter from a friend saying that he had come to Kyoto and asked him to have a gathering.Although the place he chose was very shabby, King Su still respected this friend very much, so he came to the appointment in the snow, but unexpectedly met Ji Qiyu here.Hearing what Ji Qiyu asked, it seemed that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong now, but he didn't want to tell Ji Qiyu clearly.

"Big brother misunderstood." Ji Qiyu said in a deep voice, "Since big brother is unwilling to speak clearly, then I will say it first. I received a letter today and asked me to meet here because a friend of mine was seriously injured. The letter was written in his name, that's why I went through this personally, otherwise I wouldn't dare to go out in my current situation."

Ji Qiyu saw that King Su refused to tell the truth, and he sneaked out against the holy will and was caught by King Su, so the current situation can only drag Su together, so he simply stated directly.If his prediction is correct, King Su should be here for the first time.

King Su's face was not very good-looking at the moment, he glanced at Ji Qiyu, but didn't speak.

The snow fell more and more heavily, and everyone's bodies were soon covered with a thin layer.King Su's eyes swept across Ji Qiyu's body, and Ji Qiyu didn't dodge it, his eyes met each other, and each considered his own.

"It seems, perhaps, that we were deceived." King Su finally spoke.

Ji Qiyu turned her eyes and looked at the wooden door that hadn't been opened yet, "Since this is the case, I think it's time for us to leave too, what does the elder brother say?"

Su Wang's eyes also turned around on the wooden door, and he smiled, "What the fourth brother said makes sense, but it's a pity that you are still grounded, otherwise we brothers should find a warm place to have a good drink. This The weather is really cold, I knew it would be better to sleep at home." After a pause, he looked at Ji Qiyu and raised his eyebrows and smiled, "I am really sleeping at home today, I don't know what fourth brother is doing today?"

King Su is covering up for him that he sneaked out of the house against the holy will. Ji Qiyu nodded slightly at him, "My brother is grounded, so naturally he can't go out. I'm very interested in Buddhism recently, so I'll talk to my elder brother another day. Dharma."

To put it seriously, the fourth child likes to pretend, and he pretends to be pretty good!Su Wang snorted coldly in his heart, smiled at Ji Qiyu, "Let's go." He turned his horse's head and led the people away, but he didn't go in to see what was in the yard.

"Let's go." Ji Qiyu also turned the horse's head and led the people away.

The two came from different directions, and walked from different directions. In the blink of an eye, the long alley in front of the wooden door was quiet again. There was heavy snow, and soon the imprints on the snow were covered, and the ground was white, as if It is a time and space that has never been disturbed by anyone.

After walking two streets, Ji Qiyu stopped, and said to Jiang Qing, "Go and find out immediately, in these alleys, there have been strangers living in these alleys in the past few days."

"Yes." Jiang Qing immediately asked someone to inquire in person, and after ordering, she turned her head to Ji Qiyu and said, "My lord, are you doing this to suspect that people are really here?"

"Although the gate of the courtyard is closed, there were many scratches on the ground before you knocked on the door. It can be seen that someone has entered and exited it not long ago. Moreover, there is a faint smell of medicinal materials in the air, which is only used by traumatized people. Medicinal ingredients." Ji Qiyu said lightly.

Jiang Qing thinks back carefully that this is really the case, but at that time his attention was on knocking on the door, and later he was diverted by the sudden appearance of King Su, so he didn't pay attention to these small details. At this time, he heard the prince say this , I really felt a little guilty in my heart, "The subordinate is too negligent. You suspect that the person living in the courtyard is indeed Kan Zhiyi, but he left in a hurry after sending us a letter." The prince has always had a cleanliness disorder. The smell is very sensitive, for example, he didn't smell the smell of medicinal materials in the air, let alone distinguish the medicinal materials that can only be used after trauma in the smell of medicinal materials.

"It's hard to say now, but it should be right after thinking about it." Ji Qiyu stopped talking after finishing speaking, and waited quietly for news.If it was really Kan Zhiyi, even if he left in a hurry, he probably wouldn't hide very far. He sent himself a letter, and he should be anxious to see him.As for why he hastily transferred, this can only be known after seeing him.

After a while, news came from the guards that there really was such a person.The place where they live is the small courtyard they left just now, but they moved out this morning, and they don't know where they moved.Ji Qiyu asked people to look for unoccupied vacant houses on these streets again, this time it took more than an hour to find an empty courtyard, Ji Qiyu led the people to rush there immediately.

This small courtyard is really small, the courtyard gate facing the street is dilapidated, and there is a palm-sized gap in it. Standing outside, you can faintly see the situation inside the courtyard.The important thing is that the gate of the courtyard is not locked, that is to say, there are people living in the house that should not have been lived in.

Huiyu waited in the palace for a long time, it was dark, and Ji Qiyu came back, the cloak on her body was almost soaked by the snow, her face was also blue, and it was hard to see from the cold.

"Why did this happen?" Huiyu complained, and immediately raised her voice to ask the maids to bring new clothes for Ji Qiyu to change into, and then stuffed her hand warmer into his hand, "Why don't you take a hot bath ?”

Ji Qiyu saw Huiyu was busy, and said: "It's okay, don't worry about it, I'm hungry, let's bring some food first."

Huiyu asked the girl to pass on the meal, then turned to Ji Qiyu and said, "Sister Zhao went to bed early after playing all day, and I ate with her. I asked the kitchen to leave some food for you. It's all smoked in the steamer. hot."

Ji Qiyu nodded, and the food was delivered soon.Seeing that he was really hungry, Huiyu didn't rush to ask him about going out, but just sat across from him and picked vegetables for him.Even though she was very hungry, Ji Qiyu's attitude of eating was still aloof, and she would never swallow a virtue with her when she was extremely hungry.

After eating, the two sat facing each other on the soft pillow, and Huiyu asked, "Have you seen anyone? Is it Kan Zhiyi?"

"I met King Su before I saw Kan Zhiyi." Ji Qiyu recounted today's situation, and seeing Huiyu's surprised face, it was obvious that she had never thought of such an accident. "...Later, I sent people to look for an unoccupied house, and I found Kan Zhiyi. It's just that he was in a very bad condition, seriously injured, and almost unconscious. He waited for me. Now I sent him to another place. The hospital has let Cheng Qizhou go to recuperate, I will ask him when he is better."

Huiyu couldn't recover from the news for a while, but Kan Zhiyi was seriously injured and almost lost his life.One must know that a person like Kan Zhiyi even sits on such a dangerous thing as going to sea, he must have a much higher perception of danger than ordinary people, and he was seriously injured just like that.

"At the beginning, you asked Jiang Qing and Gao Yongyi to look for him from the borders of Henan, Hebei and Shandong. Jiang Qing came back before there was any news. Gao Yongyi has not come back now, and Gao Yongyi did send news back before. It is said that he found some clues, it seems that Gao Yongyi's path is correct, but he did not expect Kan Zhiyi to return to Beijing without anyone noticing by his own strength." Gao Yongyi has been chasing behind but has not been able to catch up. Kan Zhiyi now has a reasonable explanation, because Kan Zhiyi has returned to Beijing.

"I will let Gao Yongyi continue to go around in circles to confuse the enemy, and I will wait a few days before returning." Ji Qiyu's eyes were cold, "I have the account book, just wait for Dongfeng."

"Kan Zhiyi's allegiance to me was only because I saved his life. Now he has repaid his kindness, and he will be free from now on. You should make it clear to him when the time comes." Huiyu turned her head and looked out the window. The red light of the lanterns under the eaves of the corridor is reflected in the snow, and the ground is also covered with a layer of warm color.Kan Zhiyi is a man, and no matter what Guan Huiyu said, he had to serve her with the mentality of repaying his favor.Now that he almost died because of this errand, it can be regarded as repaying his favor. A person like him should not be restrained. There is a wider sky outside that suits him.Now that the two don't owe each other, Kan Zhiyi shouldn't feel that he owes her anything.

Ji Qiyu knew that Huiyu was feeling guilty, and couldn't help but said, "What are you thinking? After hearing this, Kan Zhiyi probably thought that you despised him as useless, and kicked him aside."

"How could it be?" Huiyu frowned, "I didn't mean that, I just thought he almost died, and he has already repaid the kindness he owed back then."

Ji Qiyu sometimes feels that many of Huiyu's thoughts are very strange, such as now, such as her previous views on love and marriage, such as her treatment of servants in the family, and there are countless strange things.Seeing Huiyu's serious demeanor, he thought for a while and decided to simply talk to Huiyu, "Kan Zhiyi is a businessman in the first place. Why do businessmen do business?"

"Make money." This is for sure.

"But no matter how much money he earns, he is still a lowly businessman. If he wants to have a more decent status, he has to pay more. At the beginning, Kan Zhiyi chose to be loyal to you. Of course, the main reason why you saved his life was the main reason. , but there are other reasons, such as following you, a girl from the Duke’s Mansion, will definitely have a brighter future. When he stands outside, others will not mock his status as a businessman, they will only say that he is a servant of the second girl of the Duke’s Mansion, yes He is very good at doing business and good at making money, and the second girl trusts him very much. Now you think that Kan Zhiyi's life-saving grace has been repaid, and you changed him to be free for his own good, but he lost his status when he was free. Is this what he wants? Knowing that the task this king gave him is very dangerous, but he still has no hesitation to complete it even if he desperately wants to do it, why?"

(End of this chapter)