accomplice

This night was extremely embarrassing.

Afterwards, Li Xi kept sleeping with Zuo Ji on his back, completely ignoring him.

Zuo Ji felt that he was wronged.

So my heart is also sullen.

The next day, everyone got up early in the morning in order to hurry.

Zuo Ji didn't want to face Li Xi's stinky face, so he ran to Bai Mayan's carriage and sat with the driver.

The carriage belonged to their Li family, and Bai Mayan didn't want to chase him away, so he just said, "Aren't you going to explain it to him?"

"Explain what?"

Yes, explain what.

Bai Mayan also couldn't understand why Li Xi was so angry last night.

Looking at Li Xi's eyes last night, he was clearly jealous, but all three of them are big men, why are they jealous?

Bai Mayan didn't understand, so he couldn't say anything more. He glanced at Old Uncle Huang, but he didn't dare to ask Zuo Ji to come into the carriage, so he let him sit in the front of the carriage and put down the curtain.

Li Xi saw all of this.

Li Xi put down the curtains of the car, but no one called Zuo Ji back.

And so the carriage set off.

At noon, everyone stopped in a shady place to rest. After Bai Mayan arranged the food for Old Man Huang, he came to sit next to Zuo Ji, handed him dry food, and asked, "Are you tired?"

"Not tired, even if he is tired, I will take care of him." Li Xi came over to talk, Bai Mayan raised his head in a daze, at the end, he wanted to drive it to him, not wanting Zuo Ji to take the dry food in Bai Mayan's hand and get out of the car walked away.

The atmosphere was awkward for a while.

Bai Mayan was quite at a loss, and finally said, "Let's chat."

After all, he also changed places.

Li Xi was the only one left here.

Some helpless.

Li Xi just turned around to leave, when he suddenly heard Zuo Ji yelling, he was startled.

He rushed over immediately.

When Bai Mayan heard it, he also ran over.

I saw that Zuo Ji kept pointing at the tree: "Look! Look!"

Everyone raised their heads nervously, and were stunned to see the person hanging on the tree branch.

Bai Mayan jumped on the tree, tested his breath, and said to them, "It's alive."

He saved the person carefully, Zuo Ji approached and saw that it was a woman, he couldn't help being even more surprised.

"It can't be that there are bandits around here?"

"Hard to say."

This woman is over forty years old, and she should have rolled down the steep hillside next to her.

The place was not too high by visual inspection, and her hands and feet were not broken, but she was covered in dirt and blood, and she suffered a relatively serious knife wound.

"Looking at her injuries, for the sake of safety, we'd better not stay here any longer, in case someone chases me down later and our party will run into each other."

Li Xi agreed with Bai Mayan's statement, and immediately ordered everyone to pack up and continue on their way.

The journey was busy, it was almost evening, and they arrived at Lu Town smoothly without any danger.

Because the inn will not let the seriously injured and dying people go to the inn, in order to avoid trouble, the servant bought a small jar of wine, poured it on the injured woman, and then put a cloak on her, let the servants think that she is drunk Grandpa helped him in.

A servant went to invite the doctor.

After reading it, he took back the wound medicine that was taken internally and applied externally, and the servant hired two other women to go inside to take care of the wounded, change clothes and apply medicine.

After everything was settled, the servant came downstairs, went to Li Xi's side, and whispered something to Li Xi.

Li Xi sounded quite surprised.

"sure?"

"Yes."

"What's wrong?" Zuo Ji who was sitting beside him asked.

"You eat first."

Li Xi gave instructions to the boy, who nodded and retreated.

Li Xi glanced at Old Uncle Huang, and said to Zuo Ji: "On that woman's arm, I found a mark that only women in the palace have."

"In the palace?" Zuo Ji sounded surprised.

When Old Man Huang heard this, he stopped drinking tea.

At the end, the old man was also surprised when the dark light flashed across his eyes, but he chuckled and said, "...do you still know about the affairs in the palace?"

"I don't know." Zuo Ji said frankly, "I've never been there."

Zuo Ji's words that he had never been there made old man Huang raise his eyebrows.

"...You haven't been there?" Old Man Huang was a little curious, but when he thought about it, he changed his words and said to Li Xi, "Have you been there?"

Bai Mayan also turned his attention to Li Xi.

Li Xi smiled lightly, and did not answer directly, but: "Women who enter the palace to serve will be marked on their arms. If they leave the palace when they are old, the mark will be washed away by a special potion, but the mark on this woman is still there. Now, so, there are two possibilities..."

Li Xi stared at Old Man Huang: "Either, she came out with the master of the palace and got lost. Or, she escaped by herself."

Old Man Huang didn't speak.

On the other hand, Bai Mayan was interested and somewhat inexplicable.

He thought for a while and asked, "Did the doctor say when this person will wake up?"

"The doctor said that whether she can handle this test or not depends on herself."

Li Xi said, took a sip of tea.

After hearing this, old man Huang didn't speak again.

But his old man was thinking about it.

At a later time, the man sent the woman who was taking care of him away, and he, accompanied by Bai Mayan, sneaked into the woman's room.

Bai Mayan checked the woman's arm and found the mark Li Xi mentioned on her left forearm.

This is indeed a mark that only female slaves in the palace will have.

Seeing this, Old Man Huang narrowed his eyes slightly.

He asked Bai Mayan to turn the woman's face away.

The face has been cleaned, and although there are injuries, it is already recognizable enough.

Old man Huang's eyes were dim. He took the candlestick close to him, squinted his eyes and looked at it carefully. At the end, he couldn't help being taken aback.

"……is her?!"

Upon hearing this, Bai Mayan looked at him.

But he said nothing more, but staggered away, put the candlestick back on the table, and said, "Come on."

Bai Mayan helped him out.

They didn't know that besides the three of them, there were actually other people in the room.

Li Xi and Zuo Ji hid behind the bed and stood against the wall.

After the door was closed, Li Xi said to Zuo Ji: "I just said that his identity is not simple."

Zuo Ji never dreamed that he would meet a great god when he fled.

"What now?"

"What can we do, just pretend that we don't know anything."

In fact, Li Xi didn't really want to get involved in this muddy water.

Because all his thoughts were on Zuo Ji.

As long as Zuo Ji can obediently accompany him back to live a good life, nothing else is important to him.

Li Xi came out from the inside, saw Zuo Ji also coming out, and said to him: "Since you already know who they are, don't mess with that Bai Mayan again."

Of course Zuo Ji would not mess with him again.

Because he had figured it out last night and knew that the other party was not Mo Jia in disguise.

"Don't worry, don't worry, I'm not interested in him." Zuo Ji waved his hand and said indifferently: "I just thought he was Mo Jia at first."

"Why do you care so much about whether he is Mo Jia? Could it be..." Li Xi raised his eyebrows and probed: "Do you like Mo Jia?"

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