After two days of heavy spring rain, the ground in the corner of the courtyard is still a little muddy, and the moist and cool air is mixed with the fragrance of peach blossoms and rhododendrons.

Mei Jingxian finished her dinner in the pavilion and read a book for a while. Seeing that the sky was getting dark, she called the maid and planned to take a bath and go to bed.

Ximen Chuuxue, who was practicing sword outside the Moon Cave in the small courtyard, saw his figure disappearing into the vermilion carved gate, so she also put away her sword and turned to leave.

Two stout maidservants had already prepared a bucket of hot soup, and as the dense water vapor evaporated upwards, a warm and moist breath rushed towards the face.

Mei Jingxian retreated from the maid, took out a bottle of perfumed dew from her backpack and poured it into the bathtub, and the thick plum blossom fragrance permeated with the heat.

He untied his bun, removed the hairpin ring accessories, and took off the complicated women's clothes, and stepped into the bathtub.

During the two months of playing Du Xinyue, only at this time can he relax for a moment.

Mei Jingxian brushed back her long wet hair, and sighed long and relieved.

After brewing half a cup of tea, until his skin was almost wrinkled, he reluctantly got out of the bathtub and changed into a comfortable pair of normal clothes.

Every night when he takes a bath is the time when the yard is most heavily guarded. There are more than a dozen maids guarding outside the doors and windows, and all of them are not weak, just to prevent accidents from exposing the new moon. The true identity of the princess.

After taking a comfortable bath, Mei Jingxian asked them to leave, and went to bed after blowing out the candles.

When he was in a drowsy sleep, he faintly heard a slight sound, and immediately woke up.

With quite good night vision ability, he saw a woman dressed as a maid quietly pushing open the door and walking in, avoiding the objects in the room with light and flexible movements, and walking towards the bed.

Mei Jingxian didn't feel the killing intent on the other party, but she wasn't stupid enough to think that the woman who sneaked into her room in the middle of the night had good intentions.

He pondered for a moment, closed his eyes silently, and did not make a rash move.

The woman soon came to the bedside, raising her hand to hit Mei Jingxian's neck.

Hearing the sound of the wind coming from her ear, Mei Jingxian reckoned that it would take a long time to wake up after being knocked out.

He turned over in his sleep to avoid this, and after the opponent's attack fell to the pillow, he pretended to be awakened, and said in a panic and panic, "Who are you?"

The woman didn't make a sound, she was about to strike again as soon as she raised her hand.

Mei Jingxian hugged the quilt and hid in the bed.

Suddenly there was a slight knock on the door.

There were only two knocks on the door, light and short, which Mei Jingxian was very familiar with.

The next moment, his throat tightened, and his neck was tightly bound by the person in front of him.

"If you don't want to die, you know what to do."

Although the other party's voice was soft and charming, it carried a gloomy coldness, and some words were awkwardly blunt, a bit like a foreigner speaking Chinese.

Mei Jingxian's heart twisted a few times, but she nodded repeatedly on her face, her expression was disturbed but she tried her best to be calm.

Feeling that the other party's fingers were a little looser, his eyes flickered slightly, and he raised his voice to the door: "Who is it?"

His voice was clear and soft. In such a late night, such a woman's voice seemed to have a special meaning that attracted people's imagination.

The person outside the door paused and said in a deep voice, "It's me."

"Let him go." Mei Jingxian heard the woman whisper in her ear, and her fingers tightened her throat as if threatening.

Mei Jingxian nodded in panic, and hurriedly said to the people outside the door: "What are you doing outside my room so late? This is the inner courtyard, not where you should come, so leave quickly."

The voice of the person outside the door became colder, "I just heard footsteps coming here. I suspect that someone has broken in. Please ask the princess to open the door and let me in."

Listening to Ximen Chuixue's voice, Mei Jingxian noticed that he was a little unhappy.

But he was a little curious about the identity and purpose of the woman who sneaked in. He really wanted to understand the forces behind her, but he couldn't just deal with her directly.

Without bothering the woman next to him to speak, he replied: "I am the only one in this room, how can there be any villains? I have also undressed and went to bed now, and it is not suitable to meet outside men. It is late at night and the dew is heavy. You should go back quickly." , I'm going to rest too."

Ximen Chuuxue was silent for a while, and said coldly: "Are you really not going to open the door?"

His voice was cold and full of displeasure, as if the people inside would break in if they didn't open the door.

Mei Jingxian felt the breathing of the woman beside her suddenly become heavy, with nervousness and full alertness.

He raised his voice, with the displeasure of being offended, and raised his voice: "If I don't open the door, is it possible that you still want to break in?"

There was silence outside the door, and when the woman who broke in was extremely vigilant and fell into a state of preparation, Ximen Chuuxue's voice came again: "Then you have a good rest."

The voice was calm and waveless, as if the anger and coldness before were all illusions.

Then, there was the sound of footsteps fading away.

The woman obviously didn't react from this reversal, pinched Mei Jingxian's neck, and said coldly: "Who is this person? What is your relationship with him?"

Because of suspicion and anxiety, her voice became hurried, and the bluntness in her words became more obvious.

Mei Jingxian guessed her identity in her heart, and replied: "He is a guest invited by my mother to protect me."

"Guest?" The other party obviously didn't believe it, and there was a strong sarcasm in his voice, "What kind of guest would pay attention to the movement in your room at such a late hour? I think it's a lover?"

Mei choked in shock, but was a little speechless.

"The woman Shi Tianwang wants to marry is such a flirtatious woman." The woman still came to a conclusion and said contemptuously: "Don't worry, since you want a man so much, I will definitely fulfill your wish."

There was strong malice and jealousy in her voice, which made Mei Jingxian somewhat doubt her own judgment.

Perhaps this woman was not sent by any force, but a woman next to Shi Tianwang. Because Shi Tianwang wanted to marry a wife, he shot Princess Xinyue out of jealousy.

Otherwise, even if they are "women" from different standpoints, there is no need to harbor such malice towards him.

However, Mei Jingxian didn't have time to ask the probing words, because the other party took out a thin bottle and shook it under his nose.

After roughly guessing the function of the bottle, he closed his eyes.

After "fainting", he felt that the other party bent down and carried him up, turned a few roads and entered a room, put himself in a box, and waited until the day was bright to mix it with some old boxes that were not used. go out.

Mei Jingxian lay quietly in the box, and faintly heard the voices of people in the downtown area, it should be dawn outside.

This experience of being put in a box reminded him of when his son was still in his infancy, Aunt Yu put him in a basket and brought him all the way to Qixiufang Pier.

At that time, he was packed in a basket, unable to see the things around him, and did not know where he would be sent, but he could still maintain a calm mood, waiting for an unknown fate.

Then the basket was opened and he saw the master for the first time.

And this time, who will he meet when the box is opened?

——Meet Ximen Chuuxue.

As expected and as if unexpectedly, when Mei Jingxian saw Ximen Chuuxue's calm face as usual, she felt an inexplicable feeling in her heart.

He was only wearing a thin middle coat with a disheveled placket and a slightly open neckline, revealing a small piece of white chest and undulating collarbone.A head of long black hair was casually tied with a silk ribbon and stretched across the bottom of the box. Two strands of blue silk broke free from the silk ribbon and hung down between the collarbones, adding a bit of romantic and uninhibited meaning.

Ximen Chuuxue's eyes were slightly dark, and when his eyes fell on his neck, his expression changed slightly.

He reached out to caress the red mark on Mei Jingxian's throat, and frowned, "What's going on?"

Mei Jingxian touched her neck, but she didn't feel anything unusual, thinking that the woman had been pinching her throat last night and left some marks.

His skin is sensitive, and it is easy to get red when he touches it with force, so he didn't take it seriously, he waved his hand and said, "No problem."

Ximen Chuuxue's hand was still resting on his neck, Mei Jingxian suppressed the uneasiness in her heart, and got up naturally, dodging the opponent's hand.

This place is obviously a room in an inn, there are faint voices coming from outside the window, the woman who kidnapped him has just left the door, and it is unknown when she will come back.

"How is the situation at Jade Sword Villa?"

Ximen Chuuxue brought the hot steamed buns in front of him, and replied: "Jade Sword Villa has blocked the news, and there are secret guards in the nearby towns."

The implication was that it was impossible for the woman to take him out.

Mei Jingxian leaned against the window and gnawed on a vegetable steamed bun, thought for a while, and said, "The woman who kidnapped me is from Dongying."

He didn't react to the awkward accent that made him uncomfortable at first, but then he thought of it.

The pirates invading the coast of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the outlaws in the grass and the people in the green forest, there are also Japanese pirates composed of ronin from Fusang in Japan.

If Shi Tianwang's intrusion was an internal dispute among the Han people, then these Japanese pirates were external troubles.

From Mei Jingxian's point of view, compared to Shi Tianwang, those Japanese pirates are more hateful.

Now that Shi Tianwang is powerful, those Japanese pirates in Japan have not yet formed a stage, and they are not to be feared.But in the future, this external force will gradually grow stronger, and those Japanese merchants, samurai, and ronin will form a larger team to plunder the coastal areas, further invading the land of Ming Dynasty, and becoming a threat to Ming Dynasty.

Mei Jingxian thought for a moment, and said in a deep voice: "I want to know which force is behind this. I also ask the owner of Ximen Villa to send a message to Yujian Villa for me, let them relax the guard at the city gate, and let me investigate. Find out who's behind the scenes."

He wanted to take this opportunity to investigate, if there were really Japanese pirates stirring up trouble among them, this operation would definitely wipe out these hateful guys.

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