[Red Mansion] Sir, I'm a rough man

Zhao Yi shook his head and smiled slightly, patted Jia Wan on the shoulder, and said in a low voice, "Don't worry, I'm fine."

Jia Wan looked up at him and said "Oh".

He knew that Zhao Yi was not a random person, and he didn't need to ask if there were some arrangements that he didn't know about, but...

"Your Highness, can you stop standing so close?"

This social distance is obviously wrong.

The most important thing is that he is only 16 years old this year, he is not too short for his peers, but he is not too tall, but Zhao Yi, who usually sits down, doesn't look very noticeable, but now when he stands up...

Doesn't he know how tall he is?Looking up is tiring!Not to mention that this person has a big frame and broad shoulders. It's really weird for the two of them to stand next to each other and be looked down at by him at such a close distance.

Zhao Yi glanced at him, and silently backed away about... Jia Wan calculated in his mind that the distance was about one inch and three minutes.

Jia Wan took two steps back and said, "Your Highness please first."

Zhao Yi stood still, and before he could speak, he saw the door of the wing room at the end of the road opened from the inside, and a thick and thick figure came out drunk, and mumbled: "Cousin! Cousin... you Also, it’s too uninteresting...I agreed that I would not go back drunk...after a few drinks, it disappeared...no fun! no fun! Come out, let’s drink again..."

It turned out to be Jia Wan's half acquaintance - Xue Pan.

Jia Wan frowned, and was about to turn around and go downstairs when Xue Pan recognized him first, and laughed loudly: "Brother Wan! Ha! Haha! It really is you!

"Every time I ask you for a drink, you always say you want to be filial and filial... But you come out by yourself... Eating and drinking... What filial piety? Shit! I know! You just look down on me and refuse to play with me, like, like...cousin...

"That's right! You are noble, you are the sons of generals, I... I am an imperial merchant... You all look down on me... Look down on me..."

As he was talking, he stumbled towards Jia Wan: "Come and drink with me! Otherwise, I'll go to the Grand Master and sue you, sue you for a banquet during the filial piety, and let the emperor dismiss you as an official..."

The probing hand grabbed Jia Wan's wrist.

Zhao Yi stepped in front of Jia Wan and pushed him away. Xue Pan couldn't stand firmly and sat down on the ground. He was half awake from the pain. How dare you hit me! How dare you hit me... Do you know who the Lord is?"

Zhao Yi said lightly: "Who are you?"

"Xue Pan! Young Master, I am Xue Pan!"

"What is Xue Pan?"

Xue Pan was furious: "How dare you look down on me! Let me tell you... Wang Ziteng is my uncle!"

Seeing that the two people on the opposite side fell silent, Xue Pan became more and more proud. With the strength of wine, he shouted at the top of his voice: "My uncle is Wang Ziteng! Wang Ziteng is my uncle..."

"Brother Xue!" A thin, almost slender young man with beautiful eyebrows came out of the wing room quickly, and said, "I'm sorry, brothers, Brother Xue is drunk, I'll take care of you here for him. Sorry for not..."

The footsteps are light and silent, and the voice is gentle and melodious.

Jia Wan asked, "Jiang Yuhan?"

The young man was stunned for a moment, and said: "It's my servant, dare to ask Your Excellency?"

"Jia Wan. Let's drink together next time when we have time."

Jiang Yuhan was speechless, Jia Wan nodded to him, and walked downstairs quickly with Zhao Yi.

When I got downstairs, I still heard Xue Pan yelling: "My uncle is Wang Ziteng! My uncle is Wang Ziteng..."

Zhou Kai glanced upstairs, curled his lips and said, "How many lifetimes of misfortune does the prince have to suffer for such a nephew?"

His uncle is still the emperor, and he never yelled like that!

Emperor Qian also raised his eyes to look upstairs, and said lightly: "Let's go!"

It was not five people who set off together, there were more than [-] riders in front, back, left, and right, and this was only on the surface.

These thirty or so people, looking at their steps and breathing, were obviously the elite of the elite, and their skills were actually stronger than the guards in the palace.

Jia Wan ordered: "Find me a pair of bows and arrows."

One person followed the call, and when the team walked out of the street corner, they had already caught up, and handed Jia an ox horn bow and two barrels of feather arrows.

Jia Wan put the bow and arrow on his back, and opened the distance slightly, which not only brought Qiandi Zhao Yi and others into the protection range, but also did not affect the shooting range.

Security is actually a very annoying job, because 90.00% of the work you do is useless. You are guarding against imaginary enemies that may appear at any time or may never appear.

It was dusk, the light was dim, and it was getting darker. The guards around were all in high spirits, vigilant in every direction around them, not letting go of any movement.

Occasionally, he would find time to look resentfully at someone who was sitting on a horse with his eyes closed.

At the beginning, I was asking for bows and arrows, and adjusting my position. I thought he was very dedicated, but in the end... I ran to the back with someone else, not to better protect the emperor, but to make it easier for him to take a nap without being noticed by the emperor. !

Fortunately, they took him as a reassurance!

……

The shape of Horseshoe Mountain is not like a horseshoe, but like a horseshoe. The two peaks are connected, and the concave place in the middle is a large lake.

The road is not easy to walk, the horse has long been abandoned, and there are vines and thorns everywhere. Only along the lake can we find a place to stay, but the sight is not good at night, and the vines cover the ground. If you are not careful, you will step into the air and fall into the night. It seemed dark and dark in the lake.

The road didn't go far, two fell into the water, and one was bitten by a snake.

Jia Wan once again slandered Emperor Qian's waywardness, forced himself to cheer up, borrowed a knife, and went to the front with a torch to open the way.

One knife cuts off the branches, one knife picks up the thorns, and one knife blows away the poisonous snake...

Understatement, there are no fancy moves, no dizzying speed, only the simplicity and smoothness to the extreme, which is pleasing to the eye.

Because not every place needs to be cleaned up, and Jia Wan's movements are extremely agile, so although there is an extra process, after not having to carefully search for the landing point in the dark, the speed of everyone will not decrease but increase.

Only Zhou Kai mumbled to Jia Wan in a low voice: "This is too talented..."

After all, he is also a third-rank official...

Jia Wan relied on no one to see him, and rolled his big eyes: What is it for a third-rank official to open the way?The emperor and the princes are all rushing through the night among the thorns!

What the hell... If it weren't for these three delicate and expensive people to follow, they might have finished their work.

After walking for a while, Zhou Kai said, "Awan, what's the matter? Are you tired? Why don't you find someone else to open the way?"

He was self-aware and didn't volunteer.

Jia Wan said, "Camphor tree."

to the place.

Jia Wan illuminated it with a torch, pushed aside a vine that was used as a cover, and said, "It's here."

Going around behind the camphor tree, there is a path a few meters long leading to the thorn bushes, and when you walk out, you will find a dense forest. The road is much easier and not far away.

Not long after walking, I saw a star of fire in front of me, and then I heard the creepy crying, pleading and screams echoing in the silent forest.

Emperor Qian breathed heavily, quickened his pace, and a group of people stood silently in front of the wooden house. It was said that it was a wooden house, but it was better to say that it was made of logs, with a fence on the top, which was a large piece.

Emperor Qian nodded slightly, and the door was kicked open suddenly, as if a gate to hell had been opened, and the smell of blood and decay came to his nostrils.

Beside the door was a fresh, half-naked corpse, whose face was covered with blood and long hair, so that the girl's appearance could not be seen clearly, only a pair of eyes were wide open...

Inside, a few naked men are laughing and doing the most primitive catharsis. There are girls and boys who are pressed down by them, or their eyes are empty, or they are crying, or they are dying...

In the back, there are crowded children—newly disabled children, or broken legs, or chopped hands, or blind... The bloody wounds are exposed in the air, and some even faintly see white maggots coming in and out.

Behind it, hidden in the darker darkness like a vortex, I don't know what is hidden inside...

Jia Wan stood where he was, with a strong sense of vomiting in his stomach, but his whole body was cold and he couldn't move.

He has always known that there is such evil in the world, even in the later generations of the peaceful and prosperous age, it is still inevitable, but knowing it does not reduce the impact of facing it head-on.

The next moment, Zhao Yi turned around and stood in front of him: "Don't look, don't look."

His eyes were filled with the broad chest, and it seemed that there was a trace of warmth seeping out and passing to him along the line of sight.

"Don't look."

The hoarse voice reached Emperor Qian's ears, and it was another shock.

He knew the misfortunes that Zhao Yi had suffered, but what he saw in the end was Zhao Yi, whose legs were crippled but superficially intact, whose voice was hoarse but could speak, who had nightmares every night but could fall asleep under the tranquilizing incense... that experience , He didn't ask in detail, and he didn't dare to ask in detail. He just said "kill without pardon", which wiped everything out.

Because of this, he felt guilty for eight years, and his children hated him for eight years.

At this moment, the thing that he deliberately avoided in the past appeared bloody in front of him, and this horrific scene was only a small part of what his child experienced.

"Don't look."

Hearing his son's hoarse voice, Emperor Qian turned his head with difficulty, and what he saw was Zhao Yi's stiff figure with his back to this scene.

His son was begging him...don't look.

Emperor Qian began to tremble all over.

The men who were acting fierce finally came to their senses, got up in panic, and shouted, "Who are you and how did you get here?"

"Everyone, I have something to say..."

Looking at the small scratches and other marks on the man's naked body, Emperor Qian felt that the blood all over his body was rushing towards the top of his head, his lips trembled, and he almost exhausted all his strength before he uttered the word "kill".

……

On the way back, no one spoke. Even Zhou Kai, who has always been in charge of the lively atmosphere, wanted to shrink his sense of existence.

Sending Emperor Qian back to the palace and Zhao Yi back to the mansion, Zhou Kai finally let out a long sigh of relief, walked in silence for a while, and then said: "You said today's incident, is it a bureau?"

Jia Wan asked, "What do you think?"

Zhou Kai smiled wryly and said, "At first, the more I looked at it, the more I looked like it. Later, the more I looked, the less I looked like it. But now that I think about it, it looks like me again."

If it wasn't for Zhao Fu's request on the special day of March [-]rd, how could Emperor Qian decide to travel in micro-service?

If it weren't for the "Old Beggar" appearing twice, how could they easily find clues to the kidnapper?

If what happened was not child abduction, but something else, why would Emperor Qian investigate it himself?

So many "accidents" that lead to inevitable results make everything look like a game.

But it's becoming more and more like it.

The journey was safe and sound, the kidnapper's den had obviously been in operation for many years, and the pile of bones behind the house was not fake.

Jia Wan said: "It's the game."

Zhou Kai was stunned. Jia Wan's answer was not surprising. What surprised him was Jia Wan's tone of voice.

Jia Wan took out a handkerchief from his sleeve, Zhou Kai took it suspiciously, and untied it. There was a small branch wrapped in it. Zhou Kai took it close and smelled it, and said in surprise, "Fire oil! Where did it come from?"

Jia Wan said: "When you resettled those people before, I went around for a while."

His five senses are stronger than ordinary people. Although the kerosene splashed in the bushes is some distance away from their walking route, he still smells it.

Zhou Kai was afraid for a while, and shivered coldly, and said: "That is to say, just now we... including the emperor, were almost burnt to charcoal?"

Jia Wan nodded.

Zhou Kai said: "But why didn't they light the fire?"

Jia Wan looked at him like a fool.

Of course Zhou Kai knew that it was impossible for Jia Wan to know the answer, so he had a flash of inspiration and said, "Could it be that they didn't plan to start the fire in the first place, but they were just playing tricks, or putting blame on others?"

Jia Wan said: "It's very simple to know whether it is to blame or not, and see if the kerosene will disappear tomorrow."

Zhou Kai nodded thoughtfully.

If it's a blame game, then the kerosene will naturally stay there until someone sees it. If it's because of an accident that they failed to do so, then that person will definitely send someone overnight to eliminate the traces...

"It's not as good as us..."

Jia Wan said, "Why don't we go home and eat and sleep quickly."

Zhou Kai put his arms around his shoulders and said, "Aren't you curious, will anyone pass by tonight?"

Jia Wan said: "If you want to seek death, I won't stop you."

Zhou Kai said, "Aren't you going?"

Jia Wan said: "Curiosity killed the cat, and now no one can stop me from going home to sleep... Besides, no matter what the intention of the person who set up the situation is, as long as he brought such a thing to the emperor, I will act for the world." The people thanked him."

Zhou Kai knew he couldn't be persuaded, so he sighed and said, "If you don't go, then don't go!"

Let go of Jia Wan, and said: "At first, I thought that I had a flash of inspiration, and I might have guessed the truth, but what you said made me confused again."

"the truth?"

Zhou Kai sighed: "Think about it, who is the person who we least expect, and who thinks it is impossible?"

Jia Wan thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty?"

Zhou Kai shook his head: "No!"

Jia Wan pointed out: "You?"

Zhou Kai said: "Oh, don't make trouble, you know who I'm talking about!"

Jia Wan said, "His Royal Highness the eldest son?"

Zhou Kaidao: "There is no doubt that the person who is least willing to face today's scene is His Royal Highness, the eldest son of the emperor. For this reason, we have never thought of him, but looking back, if there is a beneficiary in this matter If so, isn't it him?

"Seeing today's scene, will the emperor still have the slightest pity for the queen? What pity is there for such a woman? Her illness was caused by herself, but the injury of the eldest son of the emperor, What man-made sin?"

He patted his head in pain: "I thought I had figured it out, but how can I explain the kerosene incident? It doesn't make sense for the eldest son of the emperor to blame him, it's just superfluous!"

"My head is so big, forget it, I'm not suitable for thinking about these things at all..." He gave up and said something, but couldn't help it: "But I still think there is something wrong with that kid Zhao Yi!"

Jia Wan patted him on the shoulder and said, "I think you're right."

Before Zhou Kai could get excited, he continued, "It's really not suitable for you to think about these problems...Go back, wash up and sleep!"