Lei Yue Longmen

"Don't make trouble, someone is coming." Li Jingzhu stopped them.

The three of them immediately stuck to the wall to hide, and sure enough, they heard the sound of cars and horses marching in the streets and alleys, from far to near.Soon, a green-covered carriage slowly stopped in front of the dilapidated house.

"It's the carriage that the officials of Qin took to go out this morning!" Yun Zhong pointed out.

Li Jingchen frowned, "Keep quiet."

But he narrowed his eyes and stared closely at the carriage.

The coachman with one leg curled up stopped the carriage, jumped off the front of the carriage, removed the pedals, and then skillfully lifted the curtain.A young man bowed out from behind the curtain.Due to the angle, only one front can be seen, and the rest are silhouettes.

But I saw that he was wearing a wide moon white round neck blouse and the most popular black gauze soft-footed headband nowadays. His complexion was fair and beardless, and his figure was tall and thin.The black waistband is loose and loose, but it doesn't look decadent at all, instead it has a Wei-Jin style.When jumping out of the car, Wusha's soft feet were not very obedient, and she jumped onto her shoulders, but he flipped it back with the back of his hand rashly, and the pink lotus sashimi clearly jumped into everyone's eyes.

Yun Zai said indignantly: "God is too unfair to give this rascal such a skinny and tender skin. Look at his head-turning movements, he is as skillful as a big man who is facing the mirror. It looks like a girl, and it looks like it's helping the big girls with their hair, it's really flirtatious."

Li Jingchen was also very surprised, the face of this profiteer was different from the sharp-mouthed monkey cheeks or fat head and big ears he had expected, and he was gentle and elegant, as if he was a scholar!

Yun Zhong said: "This high-ranking Qin official is in his 30s, but he looks young, but his methods are resolute. The entire Jiangnan grain business community basically listens to him."

The official Qin walked to the door, suddenly twisted his neck lazily, and patted the back of his shoulder. Seeing this, the three of them withdrew quickly and came back. When they looked again, he had already entered the inner house.

"Your Highness, do you want to send troops?"

"Give me an order to surround the house and not let anyone go. The two of you come in with me."

The three of them walked to the door of Qin's house, seeing that the door was half-closed, they still knocked on the door out of courtesy.He just knocked several times, but there was still no response, so Li Jingchen pushed open the door, threw his robe and went in.When they turned the screen wall, all three of them froze.

I saw that the square courtyard was divided into the main house and the east and west sides, and various flowers were planted everywhere.Several pots of red peonies, white phalaenopsis and four-season begonias are placed on the balcony of the main room, which are fresh and eye-catching.There are four water tanks at the door of the East and West Wings, all of which are planted with water lilies.A small rectangular flowerbed was set up at each of the four corners of the courtyard, where rhododendrons, camellias, poppies and pansies were planted respectively, and short hedges were erected around them.The three rooms are covered with pink, yellow and purple roses, which are neither cramped nor empty, and the garden is covered with just the right green clothes.There are two magnolias in the center of the courtyard, both of which have bloomed, exuding bursts of fragrance in the air.

This is not an ordinary man's house, it's clearly a girl's house!

Seeing the orderly scene with colorful butterflies flying, the three of them were amazed and forgot their original purpose.

"Your Highness, look at how beautiful this poppies bloom!" Yun Zai squatted under the flowerbed in the northwest corner, sniffing the faint fragrance of poppies, and said happily, "In my opinion, it is possible to grow this kind of flower." The person who is here will definitely not be a bad person."

Although Li Jingchen didn't fully agree, he was also surprised that the inside of this profiteer's residence would be so quiet.If you don't love flowers and plants to a certain extent, you won't be able to get out of it.

"Hmph, this only shows that the Huakui lady is a good person, so the Qin official may not be." Yun Zhong said with his sword in his arms.

"You can't say that. I remember you said just now that the person who can win the favor of the number one rich businessman in Jiangnan is the number one oiran in Jiangnan, and the person who can be favored by the number one oiran in Jiangnan may not be the number one flower appreciator in Jiangnan."

"Just now I said, don't compare yourself with the fireworks girl."

Li Jingxuan suddenly said suspiciously: "Why is this courtyard so quiet, Yun Zhong, go to the house to see if there is anyone."

Yun Zhong came to his senses and raised his sword to look, "Your Highness, there is no one in the room."

"Oops!" Li Jingchen said inwardly, "Search the yard immediately."

"Yes!"

The officers and soldiers rushed into the yard aggressively, searched inside and outside, but they really came to nothing.

"How is this possible? We saw people go in with our own eyes, and the small courtyard was surrounded by people, how could it have disappeared!" Not only the official Qin disappeared, but also the lady Huakui evaporated along with her. .

The queen mother rested her chin in thought. Suddenly, the officers and soldiers caught an old woman in plain clothes behind the kitchen stove in the west wing, and found a middle-aged man who was as thin as a stick and had a lame foot in the hut. Come to see Li Jingchen.

"Quickly tell me, where did the Qin official go? And that lady from Konggulou? Hurry up and hand him over! Otherwise..." Little General Mu put on a cold face, and slowly drew out his sword.

The old woman was frightened, looked at them tremblingly, said uh-uh, and kept shaking her head and waving her hands at them.And the lame man stood there like a log, with his mouth open and motionless, as if he had been frightened out of his wits.

"Stop yelling, one of them is deaf and the other is dumb, and they won't respond to you!"

Yun Zhong was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, put away his sword, and observed carefully, the old woman was really deaf, and the middle-aged man did not make a sound despite his threats and lures, and punched him in the chest, only screaming in pain, Really dumb.

No energy said: "This Qin official is really difficult to deal with. Even the servants find this kind of speechless and inaudible. He is so wary. If he slips away this time, he will definitely be strict in the future." If you take precautions, it will be even more difficult to catch him!"

"But I really can't figure it out, where did he escape from?" Yun Zai was puzzled.

"This courtyard is surrounded by walls on all sides, and our people are guarding the outside. It is impossible for people to get out. In my opinion, there must be a secret passage leading to the outside." Li Jingzhen paced quietly, observing and thinking.Strolling to the study room in the main room, I saw a red sandalwood desk in the middle, on which stood a white flask with a few fresh peach branches stuck in the mouth.

With a thought in her mind, she called Yun Zhong: "Go and ask if there is a peach garden nearby?"

Yun Zhong quickly came to report, "According to the neighbors, there is a peach blossom farm three streets behind this house, with fruit trees all over the house, but the gate is locked all the year round, and it is unknown who the owner is. Li Jing's eyes narrowed, and he immediately asked someone to lead the way.

"Your Highness guesses that the secret passage leads to Peach Blossom Manor?" Yun Zhong asked as he walked.

"That's right. I just walked into the study room. There are a few peach branches stuck in the ampule of the desk. The cuts are still green. Obviously, they have just been cut. There are no peach trees in this yard. Where did they pick them?"

Yun Zhong suddenly realized.Follow Li Jingzhu to Taohuazhuang quickly.Zhuangzi is very big, with high white walls erected around it. There is only one brown door to pass through, but the door is locked with an iron lock, and there are some rust marks on the lock. It is obvious that the owner has not arrived for a long time.

"Pick the lock!"

The officers and soldiers brought in a big axe, cut the lock in half with three strikes, five cuts and two cuts, and all the people rushed in and searched the village.Turned upside down back and forth, but there was no trace of Qin Daguan, the empress dowager's complexion became more and more ugly.

"Your Highness, there is a row of footprints here!" Yun Zhong led Li Jingzhu to look at it, "I climbed over to the bottom of the wall and disappeared, and there were also two strings of wet mud marks on the wall! This Qin official probably escaped over the wall."

Li Jingchen gritted his teeth, damn it, this cunning profiteer!

Li Jing's face was flushed with anger, the disaster in the north was imminent, the imperial court's food urging orders became more and more urgent, and the situation in the south of the Yangtze River was delayed. All kinds of pressure piled up in her heart like a huge rock, which made her feel unprecedented anxiety and suffocation.

With a blushing face, Yun Zhong coughed lightly, reminding the empress dowager who was about to go berserk, that this trip was not all fruitless, at least she caught the old friend of the official Qin—Miss Hua Kui.

When Yun Zhong and Li Jingzhu crawled out of the kitchen stove like gophers one by one, Yun Zai was stunned.After that, another woman emerged from the stove, turned around, and looked at Yun Zai with the same curious expression.She froze there like a log.

Because this woman is really not any one she imagined.

She stood there dimly like a fake person.Wearing a long skirt with pear blossoms and white embroidered purple cloud patterns, holding a pot of scorching and blooming crabapple flowers in her hand.The hair is loose and hangs down to the waist.A light and sheer white veil was worn on the face.On the veil flashed a pair of peach blossom eyes that seemed drunk but not drunk, not very clear, like the shadow of the moon under the water bridge, broken by the water ripples.But inexplicably, people can't move their eyes.The tails of the eyes are slightly upturned, and a little pink is extending from the ends. I don't know if it's because of the powder application, or it's just a natural dizziness.When looking at you, it seems to be able to pierce your heart, but when you look at her, you can't see clearly.

Yun Zai's eyes were full of peach blossoms, and he stared at her in a daze.Even his mind seemed to be taken away by her, and he turned to the stove together with her.The stove was as high as her waist, and she was standing in the circle of the stove holding the flowerpot, tilting her head in embarrassment, as if thinking about how to get up.Eyeballs slid to the left, Li Jingzhu was concentrating on flapping his clothes, and didn't intend to pull her up.Rolling to the right again, Yun Zhong seemed to be sympathetic, but he didn't dare to go overboard.Therefore, Yun Zai, who was still ignorant of everything, happily ran forward and took on the important task of salvaging the beautiful sister out of the stove.

"Miss, stretch out your hand, and I will pull you up."

The distressed expression suddenly relaxed, the tails of the eyes drooped slightly, two beautiful lying silkworms bulged out under the eyelids, and he nodded at Yunzai with a smile.Yun Zai's heart melted in an instant, this beautiful sister is a fairy from the sky, oh no, from the ground?Why do you look so pretty when you smile?Although she only showed half of her beautiful face, she was really beautiful to the extreme, her skin was clean and white as if she had applied a layer of makeup, and her eyebrows were thin and sparse, as if painted on.The key is the pair of peach blossom eyes, which are soul-stirring and charming when they smile.She somewhat believed that those men were willing to pay sky-high prices just to admire half of her face.Truly the most beautiful woman she had ever seen in her life.

The beautiful sister gently placed the flowerpot on the stove, and grabbed Yunzai's two little white hands and was about to climb up.Yun Zai's hand that touched her was very cold, her heart trembled involuntarily, and began to beat wildly.

"Miss, wait a minute," Yun Zai suddenly seemed to remember something important, and resolutely pulled the little white claw out of the beautiful sister's pale hand, and quickly ran out of the kitchen.

After a while, he ran over from the main room with a light green bed mat embroidered with beautiful lotus patterns, quickly spread a half circle around the stove, smoothed the corners, and then sat down with satisfaction. My sister stretched out her hand, "Okay, this way there will be no dust. You can come up!"

Li Jingchen, who had just finished tidying up his clothes, froze the corners of his mouth, and had no words to this little girl who ate her.It seems that when she climbed up like a bear just now, she didn't see her actively using the mat as a mat. Don't you worry that she will also be afraid of getting dirty?

The beautiful elder sister seemed to be momentarily sluggish looking at the mat, and her heart trembled slightly.This is the best silk satin, I'm afraid I won't be able to find a second one if I travel all over the Central Plains...

Yun Zai couldn't wait to pull the young lady out, and was flattered to hear her say "thank you". "No, you're welcome." Suddenly his eyes lit up, "Oh, what are these white things in your hair? I picked them off for you!"

The little sister who was in the stove just now was standing on the flat ground, and suddenly she was much taller than the petite Yun Zai.She had to tiptoe to reach the snow on her head.The young lady lowered her head considerately, so that it would be convenient for her to pick, and asked a little shyly and at a loss, "What is it?"

Before Yun Zai could answer, one hand took the advantage of being taller than her and passed over the top of her head, and flicked back and forth on the beautiful sister's head twice. The white thing looked a little beautiful. It collapsed and fell down in front of the two of them.

It's really... a sight to behold.