I wish for a long time

It wasn't until noon on the second day that Qi Shao'an slowly woke up.

She moved her fingers slightly, only to feel stiff and painful all over, as if falling apart.

"Shao'er, you're awake."

A slightly hoarse voice came from beside him, Qi Shaoan slowly turned his head, and what caught his eyes was Ye Jiu's smiling face.

Just looking closely, there was a bit of fatigue on that face.

She only took a cursory glance and knew that this guy must have guarded her all night.

"Yeah." Qi Shaoan pursed her lips, leaned on the bed with her elbows, and wanted to sit up, Ye Jiu quickly stood up and supported her.

"You've been sleeping for almost a whole day. Are you hungry? I'll ask Master Zhang to make some clear porridge."

Qi Shaoan shook her head when she heard the words, and leaned closer to Ye Jiu's arms, smelling the reassuring faint sandalwood, she closed her eyes again.

Ye Jiu put his arms around her thin shoulders, seeing her listless, he held her palm in distress.

The two of them didn't speak any more, they just leaned on the bed frame together like this, the dazzling sunlight fell halfway on the bed, and the dust in the air reflected the light, dancing in a trance.

"Ajiu."

Qi Shao put his head on Ye Jiu's neck and spoke softly.

Ye Jiu kneaded her hand bones, smiled lightly, and replied softly, "Yes."

"...Ajiu."

"here I am."

"Ajiu..."

"Well, here~"

……

Qi Shaoan called Ye Jiu so many times, and Ye Jiu answered so many times, until the light and shadow on the quilt slowly climbed onto their overlapping hands, Qi Shaoan finally tilted his head and fell silent.

Hearing the gradually steady breathing in his arms, Ye Jiu raised his head, forced back the tears in his eyes, and quietly hugged the drowsy woman in his arms for a while, gently laying her down.

Ye Jiu brushed Qi Shaoan's cheek with his fingertips, and tucked the broken hair on the side of her face behind her ears.

Seeing that her normally ruddy complexion was extremely pale at this moment, the tenderness in Ye Jiu's eyes gradually receded, she clenched her fists, turned and left.

……

study.

"Nanyuan, how is the investigation going?"

Nan Yuan clasped his fists and replied: "The guards in the mansion asked the hawkers and merchants in the nearby streets along the street. During the time when the young lady went, no suspicious person passed by, and no one knew the young lady. The restaurant and the stream Tang didn't find anything abnormal either."

Ye Jiu squinted his eyes and tapped his fingers on the table. Since there was nothing suspicious, there was only one possibility.

"Master! Master!"

Dong Fei's voice came from outside the door, and the next moment a fiery figure stepped into the door.

Ye Jiu looked at his figure and smiled.

"Young master, Mr. Ke just delivered the news. The person you want has been found."

……

The Yamen of the Ministry of Punishment.

Ye Jiu calmly stepped out of the carriage, looked at the familiar gate of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, with a faint smile hanging from the corner of his mouth.

"Brother Ye, my father is waiting for you inside. I don't have an official position, so I won't go in." Standing beside the carriage, Ke Tong saluted Ye Jiu with a respectful tone.

Ye Jiu looked sideways slightly, and patted his shoulder, "Thank you brother Ke for this, you and I don't have to be cautious."

Ke Tong was half relieved when he heard that, and a smile floated on his face, "Brother Ye is really temperamental, thank you Ke."

Ye Jiu naturally knew what he was talking about, and a little bit of guilt flashed in her heart.

True temperament?

Since she stepped into the officialdom, the so-called true feelings have already been blown away by the strong wind, and what is left is almost as dirty as those who are addicted to the officialdom.

"Brother Lin and I have other reasons for making friends, but it is because Brother Lin has a high vision, a clear mind, and knows right from wrong. Even if Brother Lin has schemes, Ke feels that Brother Lin is worth making friends with."

Ye Jiu paused slightly, the sparkle in her eyes flashed, then she looked sideways, and said lightly, "I hope you can believe it."

When Ye Jiu stepped into the yamen of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Ke Lu was wandering in front of the side door. Seeing Ye Jiulai, he hurriedly greeted him, "I have seen Marquis Lin."

"Master Ke, excuse me, I'm sorry."

Ye Jiuxu gave him a little help, Ke Lu looked around and stretched out his hand, "Marquis Lin, this way please."

Ye Jiu nodded slightly, and the two walked back from the side path. Just as the figures of the two disappeared in the front hall, a middle-aged man in official robes stopped slightly at the window sash of the opposite room, and then disappeared behind the window .

……

"Brother, let me reveal it to my brother, we have offended some gods, and we must be locked up in this ghost place."

Across the cell door, a lean man was holding on to the railing, and with a wicked smile on his face, he kept chatting with the jailer guarding the cell door.

In the prison, there were a few people in prison uniforms lying and sitting.

Seeing his sincerity, the jailer glanced left and right, and then secretly turned his head, "I don't know, I just know that the higher-ups were involved in this matter. If you have the time, hurry up and think about who you have offended recently."

The thin man nodded and bowed, thanking him repeatedly, and then he turned around and came to the side of a fat man, "Boss, I don't know the people in this prison, it's probably because we touched some big man's bowl."

"Big man? Who is that? Our brothers just gave away a few slaves recently. As for the Guo family, their wealth has long since been wiped out. There is no one else there." A young man with a mustache He leaned forward and asked in a low voice.

The fat man pondered for a moment with a grass stalk in his mouth, then turned his head and spat it out, "We are in this line of work to do things for others. We are the uncle, and they all have to beg us. You forgot that the Chu family entrusted us How much money did the women of the Guo family spend on managing it?"

After thinking about it carefully, the thin man felt reasonable, "Yes, they are afraid that we will not be able to make it in time, so why would they lock us up here."

"Let me tell you, you took people's money and made people half-dead. Maybe some cheap talker stabbed them."

"You can pull it down, but I'm just playing with a girl, those robed hands above don't know how many hands they have every day, how can they have free time to care about us."

The fat man gave a disdainful cut, and then he smacked his mouth, seeming to think about it, "It's a lot of money to do our job, but it's hard work. After traveling through mountains and rivers for many months, I still have to watch those disobedient things. If it wasn't for some fun on the road, who would do this."

After the words fell, a voice echoed from the side, "Yes, it's just a pity for the little lady of the Guo family. Before our brothers have tasted it, she bit her tongue and committed suicide. She was blind for nothing."

The thin man glanced at him, "Speaking of which, it's not because of you, you are picking her mouth, and you go to untie your trouser belt. This is a good move, not only will you not taste something new, but you will also cause bad luck for nothing."

"Yes, yes, I will hold back next time, just like Brother Sun. Last year, the eldest lady of the Wang family, and the young lady of the Qi family the year before, were so stunning, they all depended on Brother Sun."

"So, you have to learn a little bit, smack your mouth with your hands, what is it called, that, impatient..."

"More haste less speed."

"That's right, that's what it means," the thin man nodded repeatedly, but when he finished speaking, he looked at the few people in front of him whose lips had no movement at all, and blinked in a daze.

The prison fell into a dead silence for a moment, the thin man finally realized, turned his head quickly, and looked in the direction of the sound just now.

In the dark and dark corridor, under the candlelight far away, a ghostly face floating in mid-air, the face was extremely gloomy.

The thin man almost fell off the bed, his voice trembling: "Ghost ghost..."

The fat man next to him frowned and kicked him, "What the hell, come on."

He sat up, tilted his head, and shouted into the distance: "Who is here, what are you pretending to do!"

The face in the distance moved and moved a little towards them. Slowly, the dark blue skirt was exposed, and then the jade-inlaid belt, the hem of the cloud pattern, and the silver-patterned boots appeared in the light and shadow one by one.

The fat man breathed a sigh of relief, and then he squinted his eyes: "I don't know what you can't say outside, but you have to lock us here. Although we are humble, we are still servants of the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, Your Excellency..."

"This subordinate has seen Lin Hou."

The guards clasped their fists in salute, and the fat man's remaining words were immediately choked back. He opened his mouth, and the words were stuck in his throat, unable to come up or go down.

Ye Jiu's eyes fell peacefully on the faces of several people, and even the corners of his lips curled up slightly, "Of course..."

"Eat hot tofu."

The orange light hit half of her face, and the corners of her pair of phoenix eyes slightly raised, as if she was a monster walking out of the deep mountains and old forests, and could suck up the essence and blood of people in the next second.

"Hou... Lord Hou..."

The fat man panicked. He stood there and forgot to salute.

The thin man reacted quickly, since he knew that the person coming was not a ghost, he had nothing to fear.With a flattering smile on his face, he took two steps forward, bent over and cupped his hands: "I have seen Lord Hou, please greet him."

The thin man looked at Ye Jiu's expression, and said bravely: "Tofu or something, let's go out to eat, the Yi family in the west of the city makes a good one, little one..."

"Oh, really."

Ye Jiu smiled slightly, his eyes shifted and fell, and fell on the man's mouse-like eyes, "But I have already found a better one."

The thin man looked at Ye Jiu's eyes anxiously, took a small step back, and his body trembled uncontrollably, "It's... is it..."

Ye Jiu raised his forearm slightly, pointed at the cell door, and the guards immediately opened the door, and then a team of guards appeared from nowhere, and escorted the people inside out one by one.

"What are you doing?"

"What crime have I committed?"

"You dare to touch me!"

"Sir, forgive me..."

All kinds of voices filled the cell for a while, Ye Jiu blinked slowly, glanced at the people kneeling on the ground in front of her, and said softly:

"One, two, three... Eleven, twelve, thirteen."

She shook the note she took out at some point, and read it over and over again very seriously: "What a coincidence, it's all on it."

The lean man and the fat man looked at each other, raised their heads, and summoned up their courage to ask, "Hou...Master Hou, you, what are you going to do."

When Ye Jiu heard the movement, the corners of her mouth slightly raised. She turned around, looked down at him, and said with a faint smile, "I heard that you can bear it."

The thin man's mouth twitched, "I don't know what Lord Hou said..."

Ye Jiu squatted down and looked at him, "Hit your mouth, slap your mouth, press your wrist, hiss, what else is there?"

The thin man's heart trembled, and his voice trembled: "Why are you asking this..."

Ye Jiu nodded and stood up, looked sideways slightly, and said softly, "Did you hear clearly?"

The yamen servants on the side clasped their fists together: "I heard you clearly."

"Go."

"Master Hou, Master Hou, what are you doing... Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

The man's inarticulate wails and the sound of slaps to the flesh continued to be heard in the cell. Ye Jiu was wearing a brocade handkerchief in his hand, and looked at the man lying on the ground indifferently.

"not enough."

The yamen servant stood up upon hearing the words, "What orders does Lord Hou have?"

Ye Jiu looked around, and his eyes fell on the thorn whip on the torture tool, "I think that one is pretty good."

"Remember, don't let him make a little noise."

Ye Jiu smiled slightly, as if thinking of something, he patted his forehead annoyed, "Oh, let alone kill yourself by biting your tongue."

"Yes!"

Hearing Ye Jiu's light words, the thin man twisted his body like crazy, but was crushed to death by the yamen servants beside him, only the sound of "whooping".

The yamen servant looked at the whip wrapped in wire in his hand, with barbs vertically and horizontally, he swallowed, then gritted his teeth, and swung the whip down.

"Well--!!"

The man at the side saw that the thin man's blood had flowed down to his knees like a trickle, and hurriedly moved to the side in horror.

"Don't worry, it will be yours soon."

The smile on the corners of Ye Jiu's lips remained the same, his voice was like the spring breeze in March, soft and sweet, but when it fell into the man's ears, it was more terrifying than the roar of an evil ghost.

"I heard that you still want to use your grandson as an example, how about learning from it?"

The man trembled like a sieve, "No, no, the villain dare not, dare not."

Ye Jiu hooked his fingers, and then the jailer brought a brazier, on which a copper pillar was burning.

Reflecting the flames, the man's face was already pale, he stared straight at the burning flames in front of him, his lips turned purple from fright.

"Why don't you let me teach you."

The author has something to say: Last night, I stepped on the accelerator and fell into someone else's car, so I would like to propose a birthday gift - to repair the car tomorrow (smile).