Save the tragic villain in progress!

Neither Rong Xuan nor Ji Fan has a straight-forward personality. They like to flirt with each other on weekdays. They never expected to meet old acquaintances after secretly kissing twice in the wine cellar. It's really...

awkward.

They met each other's eyes, and the atmosphere fell into a subtle silence for a while.Rong Xuan guessed that Zhao Su probably didn't see the scene where he and Ji Fan were kissing each other, at most he saw the two of them hugging each other.Turning around to explain, he said that Ji Fanlu couldn't walk steadily and helped himself up, so he could barely make sense.

It's the fact that they appeared together in the wine cellar of Donglinhou's Mansion, I'm afraid it's hard to explain.

Ji Fan didn't panic when he saw Zhao Su and the others.Seeing that Rong Xuanzang was moving faster than a rabbit, and he looked like he was afraid of being misunderstood by others, he felt slightly uneasy.Therefore, instead of answering Zhao Su's words, he asked back with a half-smile, "Then dare to ask why His Royal Highness was seriously injured? And why did you appear here with General Xuanyuan?"

This is Donglinhou's Mansion, not the Prince's Mansion.Zhao Su herself was a mystery why she appeared here, so naturally she had no position to question others.

Ji Fan abandoned his usual smiling and gentle manner, and sneered, revealing a bit of imperceptible sharpness.Sensing his hostility towards Zhao Su, Xuanyuan Qing looked at him unkindly, but saw Rong Xuan stretch out his hand and pull Ji Fan behind him.

They confronted each other, and the atmosphere was tense for a while.

Zhao Su held a stack of paper letters tightly in her left hand. She didn't know what it was, but it seemed extremely important.She clasped her heart tightly with her right hand, and looked at Ji Fan with blazing eyes, but said in a startling way: "Why did Gu get hurt? Shouldn't I ask you, Prince Yan?"

She asked word by word: "Is Xiao Duo yours?"

That day outside the princess mansion, Ji Fan saw that Zhao Su and Xuanyuan Qing were conspiring, so he sent his subordinate Xiao Duo to follow them secretly.It just so happened that Zhao Su and Xuanyuan Qing sneaked into the house of Sun De, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, late at night to investigate the disaster.

As soon as they stole the ledger, Xiao Duo appeared on the back to snatch the evidence. The two groups fought and alarmed the guards in Changsun De's mansion, and they were shot and killed by random arrows.Zhao Su and Xuanyuan Qing fell into a cellar while dodging in a panic, and accidentally touched the mechanism of the dark room by mistake, and only then did they meet Rong Xuan and the others——

The secret room in Changsunde's mansion and the secret room in East Linhou's mansion are connected.

There are only a few masters under Ji Fan's command, and under Yan Fengchen is Xiao Duo.The latter is often guarding beside him, barely a familiar face, Zhao Su took the opportunity to take off his mask when fighting with Xiao Duo, and only then did he recognize him.

Ji Fan casually raised his eyes to Zhao Su when he heard the words, neither admitting nor denying.His eyes were dark and gloomy, and he even smiled, clearly showing a message: So what if it's his?

Rong Xuan knew that Ji Fan had sent people to follow Zhao Su, and he knew that there might be some kind of conflict in it, and there might be a fight later.Even though he thought so in his heart, he still kept Ji Fan firmly behind him, never giving way.

Ji Fan lightly poked his waist from behind, lowered his voice and smiled in his ear, "What can we do, I'm afraid we can't hide our personal relationship."

Listen carefully with a bit of schadenfreude.

Rong Xuan glanced back at him when he heard the words, feeling helpless at Ji Fan's small thoughts: "If you can't hide it, you can't hide it, what else can you do?"

They have time to consume, but Zhao Su doesn't necessarily have time to consume.Not a moment later, she fell to the ground because of her serious injuries, and Xuanyuan Qing exclaimed anxiously when she saw this: "His Royal Highness!"

He seemed to want to help Zhao Su check the injury, but Zhao Su held on tightly to the lapel of his clothes and refused to let him touch it.Xuanyuan Qing was honest and did not dare to overstep and commit crimes, so he could only worry on the sidelines.

Rong Xuan and Ji Fan couldn't help but stepped forward, but saw that Zhao Suyan was seriously injured, and most of the night clothes on his body were soaked in blood.Even at this point, his right hand still tightly grasped the skirt of his shirt and refused to let go.

Once Zhao Su died, the state of Zhou was bound to be in chaos, but the Marquis of Donglin also lost a deadly enemy.Ji Fan obviously wanted to get rid of the latter. Seeing that Xuanyuan Qing was motionless, he wondered where the idiot came from: "Your prince is going to die, why don't you treat his wounds?"

Zhao Su heard that she didn't know where the strength came from, she pushed Xuanyuan Qing away with a pale face, and reprimanded in a hoarse voice: "None of you is allowed to touch Gu!"

Rong Xuan knew that she didn't want to be discovered as a woman, but her life was at stake, so she obviously didn't care so much, so she thought about it and said: "General Xuanyuan is loyal to His Highness the Crown Prince, so naturally he won't act arrogantly." , why not let him take care of His Highness's injuries, how about I avoid it?"

Zhao Su still disagreed.

The crime of deceiving the emperor is no small matter. If the news is accidentally leaked, not only she will die, but the queen will also die, and the smoker will also be rejected.Those who handled this matter back then will also be killed.

Xuanyuan Qing was upright in his mind and couldn't hide things.Rong Xuan and Ji Fan didn't know if they were enemies or friends.

Zhao Su didn't want to gamble, and couldn't afford to gamble...

She closed her eyes expressionlessly, and only said four words: "I can't die alone."

Rong Xuan heard that he was about to say something, but he accidentally stepped on something under his feet. When he looked down, he saw a stack of ledgers that had been accidentally scattered from Zhao Su's hands, among which were mixed with many papers from states and counties verifying money and food credentials.

Whenever the emperor sent people to relieve disasters, in order to prevent fellow officials from filling their own pockets, they would put a seal on the silver box and grain box.Every time they stopped in a state or county, they had to hand it over to officials from all over the place to check whether the seal was intact and whether the quantity was correct, and then signed and stamped it as evidence.

When Zhen Yuanzhong escorted the disaster relief silver taels, he passed through 67 prefectures and counties in total, and the receipt certificates of officials from all over the place were there.In other words, there was no problem with the money and food along the way, but they disappeared when they arrived in Jingzhou.After the investigation, the Jingzhou officials became the scapegoats of course.

However, after looking through it roughly, Rong Xuan found a problem, frowned and said: "It turns out that this batch of money and food has never left the capital since the beginning..."

Ji Fan frowned when he heard this: "Why do you say that?"

Even Zhao Su and Xuanyuan Qing looked over in astonishment, apparently not understanding why Rong Xuan made such a statement, and forgot to take the ledger back from his hands for a moment.

Rong Xuan took advantage of the dim light of the fire booklet to carefully review the accounts: "The accounts of the Ministry of Households said that the Jingzhou disaster relief allocated a total of 30 taels of silver and 67 shi of corn. And the signing certificates of these 55 states and counties all stated that There are [-] silver carts and [-] grain carts, the numbers don’t match at all.”

While calculating quickly in his mind, he used the dagger he carried with him to make a draft on the mud floor: "The total weight of 30 taels of silver is 750 catties, and the total weight of 27 shi of rice and grain is 28 catties. 750 catties. And a carriage can transport up to 140 catties of goods, which means that this batch of money and grain needs at least 85 four carriages, and [-] carriages can’t hold so much money and grain anyway.”

In other words,

"That batch of money and food has never left the capital since the beginning, and it has never been to Jingzhou. How can Jingzhou officials embezzle it to fill their own pockets?"

After Rong Xuan's last word was pronounced, the wine cellar couldn't help being silent for a moment, and everyone just woke up like a dream.They never imagined that the mastermind behind the scenes would be so courageous that they would not even take a clear path, and directly withhold money and food in the capital.

No wonder the imperial court turned the small place of Jingzhou upside down and found not even a single ingot of silver or a single grain of rice.

Zhao Su realized what he found later, and looked up at Rong Xuan: "You and Prince Yan are also investigating this matter?"

She didn't ask why the two were hugging each other.From the very beginning, she knew that Rong Xuan and Ji Fan were ambiguous.

Rong Xuan intentionally blurred his words: "In the case of Jingzhou, hundreds of people have been wronged. Prince Yan and I heard the rumors, and we couldn't bear it, so we wanted to come and investigate for a while. We never thought that we would meet His Highness the Crown Prince in Donglinhou's Mansion."

Zhao Su was surprised when he heard this: "What did you say, this is Donglinhou's Mansion?!"

Rong Xuan: "Don't you know, Your Highness?"

Zhao Su shook his head solemnly, but he didn't hide anything: "General Xuanyuan and I visited the House of Minister of the Household Department at night, entered the secret room by mistake, followed the secret passage all the way to this point, but unexpectedly came to the residence of the Marquis of Donglin. They The two of them communicated in the dark room, and they really colluded in secret."

And Ji Fan looked around, and suddenly found a few silver boxes piled up in the corner, and calmly pulled Rongxuan.Rong Xuan exchanged glances with him, walked over to check, and saw neat rows of shiny silver ingots inside, with the imprint of the state treasury branded on them, exactly the same as the one Zhen He stole.

It is no exaggeration to say that the dark wine cellar is a little brighter because of the silver.

Rong Xuan thought for a moment, and finally decided to hand over this hot potato to Zhao Su and the others.Anyway, they want to get rid of Dong Linhou, it doesn't matter who comes, they are happy to be at ease.

Ji Fan and he also had the same meaning. He deliberately moved the silver to make some movement, and his voice was very clear and abrupt in the wine cellar: "Huh? Why is there the imprint of Jingzhou Mansion on this silver?"

Zhao Su was injured and couldn't move.Xuanyuan Qing immediately got up and went to the silver box to pick up the silver ingots to check, his complexion changed slightly, and he said in a deep voice: "This is the disaster relief money allocated by the state treasury to the Jingzhou Mansion, and it really is in the East Linhou Mansion!"

Rong Xuan roughly counted: "There are only tens of thousands of taels here, and the rest may have been taken away by him and recast."

After he finished speaking, he searched around again, wanting to see if there were any leftovers, but when he passed by one of the half-person-high wine jars, he suddenly heard a muffled sound coming from inside, and couldn't help being startled.

Ji Fan also keenly heard the movement.He pulled Rong Xuan behind him, took a few steps back slowly, fixed his eyes on the big wine jar, and squinted: "There are people inside."

Rong Xuan hissed: "Could it be a human pig?"

Ji Fan was stunned for a moment: "What is a human pig?"

There is no such torture in this era.

Rong Xuan explained: "It is to blind a person's eyes, inject copper into his ears, cut off his tongue, cut off his limbs and palms, and seal them in a wine jar."

The wine cellar was already gloomy and gloomy, and Rong Xuan's voice rang in everyone's ears, making people feel creepy for no reason.Accompanied by muffled noises in the wine tank, the timid one's legs would be weak from fright.

Ji Fan glanced at him with a smile: "This punishment is interesting."

Both Xuanyuanqing and Zhao Suju looked down, obviously shocked by Rong Xuan's words.In the end, it was Xuanyuanqing who took the initiative to step forward, and directly opened the seal of the wine jar with a long sword, but saw that there was indeed a bound person struggling violently inside, and could not help but turn pale with shock: "There are people inside!"

Rong Xuan and Ji Fan heard the words and immediately stepped forward to check, and contributed a fire note in friendship.Xuanyuanqing dragged the person inside out, looked at it with the faint light of the fire, but found that the person was actually Nalanchun!

"woo woo woo woo!"

Nalanchun was tied into a ball with something stuffed in his mouth, seeing that he was rescued, he struggled even harder.Rong Xuan immediately untied the cloth strip wrapped around his mouth, and said in a surprised tone: "Nalanchun, why are you here?!"

Nalanchun was hypoxic for too long, his mind was in a daze, and it took a long time before he regained his sanity.Seeing that Xuanyuan Qing, Rong Xuan and others were all here, he asked slowly: "Are you here to save me?"

Rong Xuan was stunned for a moment: "...ah yes, we are all here to save you, why are you here?"

Nalanchun got angry when he thought of this: "You guessed it right! Liu Jianlai, that bastard bastard, was uneasy and kind, and sent someone to tie me here while the guards around me were not around, trying to suffocate me to death! "

His nose was bruised and his face was swollen, and he had obviously experienced an inhuman abuse.

Rong Xuan untied the rope for him, and he didn't know whether to call Nalanchun lucky or to say he was unlucky: "It's lucky that Liu Jian didn't kill you when he came here."

Nalanchun got up from the ground, moved his stiff limbs, and unexpectedly found a black figure sitting in the corner.He stepped forward to check in doubt, only to find that it was Zhao Su, and couldn't help but turn pale with shock: "Zhao Su, why did you get hit by an arrow?!"

Zhao Su lost a lot of blood, and his vision began to blur.Seeing Nalan Chun, he moved his lips silently, as if he wanted to say something, but his strength was exhausted, and he couldn't utter a word.

Xuanyuan Qing was also extremely anxious: "Little County King, His Highness the Crown Prince received a palm and an arrow, I'm afraid it may hurt the inner organs."

Hearing this, Nalan Chun rolled up his sleeves and was about to tear off Zhao Su's clothes to check his injuries. Rong Xuan was startled, and quickly stopped him: "What are you doing?!"

Nalan Chun: "Of course I will pull out the arrow for him. What if there is poison on it."

Rong Xuan is the only person here who knows that Zhao Su is a daughter. Of course, he is the most stressed.Especially Nalanchun has a big mouth, let him know that's okay: "Can't you pull it out through the clothes?"

Nalanchun looked bewildered: "How do you pull out through the clothes?"

After he finished speaking, he wanted to tear off Zhao Su's clothes, but Rong Xuan held his hand firmly, still struggling for death: "Why don't we get out of here as soon as possible and find a doctor for her."

Nalan Chun thought about how Rong Xuan was grinding and haggling today: "Then you have to pull out the arrow first, don't worry, I have experience."

When he was hit by an arrow in the buttocks, the doctor told him that the cold blade remained in the body for too long, and there was a risk of festering, and it would not work if it was not pulled out.

Rong Xuan still didn't feel very good, Zhao Su was a woman after all, it was okay to be seen by so many men, she was stalemate and refused to let go.Seeing this, Xuanyuan Qing couldn't help feeling angry, raised his sword and stabbed Rong Xuan without any warning, and asked in a deep voice: "My surname is Rong, what is your intention to stop His Highness from treating his wounds again and again?!"

Rong Xuan didn't expect Xuanyuan Qing to make a sudden attack, so he dodged quickly, only to hear a stabbing sound, and a piece of his sleeve was cut.Seeing this, Ji Fan's eyes turned cold, and he swished out the soft sword at his waist and stabbed at Xuanyuan Qing. The wind of the sword was swift, and it was facing the Achilles heel of his heart. His voice was so gloomy that water dripped out: "You dare to hurt him, you want to die!"

Ji Fan is a third-rank attainment, and there is still a layer of window paper between him and the second rank.But because of his agility and swiftness, and his killing intent, he didn't lose the slightest bit in the confrontation with Xuanyuan Qing, and others couldn't get in at all.

Rong Xuan wanted to step forward to help, but was blocked by their sword wind several times.

Nalanchun had no idea how the two of them were doing so well and started fighting, and he was very anxious beside him: "Stop fighting! Just take it as a face for me, Nalan, and stop quickly!!"

No one pays attention to him at all, his face is worthless.Even Rong Xuan didn't care about Ji Fan's safety because he cared about Ji Fan's safety.

Seeing this, Nalan Chun could only continue to help Zhao Su draw the arrow, but just as he stabbed and tore off the collar of the other party, he saw a shocking scene, and couldn't help but panic and fell to the ground: "How could this happen?!"

His exclamation attracted everyone to watch, especially Xuanyuan Qing was more anxious.He thought that something had happened to Zhao Su, and in a hurry he threw away the flying sword, and while Ji Fan was dodging, a golden cicada came out of its shell, and with a light effort, he jumped and landed beside Zhao Su.

But Ji Fan didn't expect Xuanyuan Qing to abandon the sword directly, his pupils shrank suddenly, and he was in no hurry to avoid it for a while.Wrapped in the cold wind, the sword edge brushed past his side face, and sank into the wall with a whoosh.

He only felt a coolness on his cheeks, and then some warm liquid dripped down, accompanied by a sharp tingling pain.

Ji Fan was taken aback, and subconsciously raised his hand to touch his face, but his hand was hot and sticky.His complexion is unique, like a cold moon outside Zhu Geqi, and like a flawless jade.At this moment, there is an extra bloodstain out of thin air, like a crack on a piece of peerless porcelain, which makes people feel regretful and sigh.

Seeing this scene, Rong Xuan's heart couldn't help but shrink for a moment, and he hurried forward to check Ji Fan's injury, his tone was anxious, and his usual calmness was rare: "Are you okay?!"

Ji Fan stared at him blankly, but didn't know why he didn't make a sound.

Rong Xuan held Ji Fan's shoulder tightly and checked him up and down.Seeing that there was only a shallow scratch on his face, which was not harmful to his life, he was relieved that it was barely noticeable.

People safe is good……

People safe is good……

If Ji Fan died at the hands of Xuanyuan Qing again, then he would also like to die.

Seeing the blood on Ji Fan's face, Rong Xuan raised his hand to wipe it off for him.The latter, for some reason, suddenly turned his head away from his sight as if he was electrocuted, half of his injured face fell in the shadows, looking a bit obscure, and said with no emotion: "It's nothing."

He said, "I'm fine..."

Seeing this, Rong Xuan took back his hand slowly, and then remembered to go to Xuanyuan to settle the score.However, when I turned my head, I saw Xuanyuan Qing and Nalan Chunju both slumped on the ground in a panic. Looking along, I saw that Zhao Su's clothes were torn off at some point, revealing a piece of snow-white skin and The white cloth used to wrap the chest—

Any fool knows what happened.

Rong Xuan was also stunned.Ji Fan sensed something was wrong, and looked along, seeing the scene in front of him, his pupils shrank slightly, squinted his eyes and said in surprise: "She's a woman?!"

When Rong Xuan came to his senses, he immediately raised his hand to cover Ji Fan's eyes and whispered, "Don't look around."

After speaking, he quickly stepped forward, untied his outer shirt and covered Zhao Su, and looked at Nalanchun angrily: "What are you doing in a daze, don't hurry up and draw the arrow for her!"

Nalan Chunren was dumbfounded: "I...she..."

Xuanyuan Qing also looked like he was caught in the blow and couldn't recover, as if he had begun to doubt his life.

Rong Xuan pushed Xuanyuan Qing away, thinking that it's no wonder Zhao Su looked down on him, it's hard to make a big deal out of nothing.Pulling Nalan Chun directly in front of her, she frowned and reprimanded: "Quickly draw the arrow for her, if the people from Donglinhou's Mansion find out, none of us will be able to escape!"

Hearing the words, Nalan Chun felt like waking up from a dream, and tremblingly stretched out his hand to check Zhao Su's injury. Seeing that there was no injury to his heart, he held onto the shaft of the arrow, gritted his teeth and pulled out the shaft with a whoosh.Blood spattered all over his face.

Zhao Su groaned and passed out.

Nalan Chun held the arrow shaft in a daze: "What to do, she...she seems to have lost too much blood and passed out..."

Rong Xuan glared at him: "Why didn't you say that she was stunned by your anger?"

No wonder the widow and orphan in Zhao Su's original work were unwilling to marry for the rest of their lives. Let's see what kind of stinky men these are, none of them are reliable.

Rong Xuan tied his outer shirt in a knot to stop the blood from Zhao Su's wound, and said coldly to Xuanyuan Qing: "You are carrying her on your back!"

Today's situation is urgent, so don't bother with him for the time being.The next time I meet again, I must use a knife to carve a big bastard on his face.

After Rong Xuanyu finished, he turned around and packed up the scattered ledgers, stuffed them into his arms, picked up a few ingots of broken silver as evidence, and then pulled Ji Fan out of the dark room.

Xuanyuan Qing finally came back to his senses, silently picked up Zhao Su from the ground, and turned around to go out.Nalanchun looked around, bent down to restore the wine jar to its original shape, and followed quickly: "Hey, hey, wait for me!"

Rong Xuan and Ji Fan had already climbed the ladder.They listened quietly for a while, and seeing no one moving outside, they lifted the boards of the wine cellar and climbed up.

Xuanyuan Qing tied a rope around the waist of himself and Zhao Su, followed closely behind.Na Lanchun was afraid that Zhao Su would fall, so he could only stay at the bottom and stretch out his hands to support him.

The people in the Hou's mansion in the east should all have rested, and it was very quiet.Rong Xuan and the others climbed over the wall under the cover of night and left here, a carriage was parked across the street.

Rong Xuan and Xuanyuan Qing were not on their way, so naturally there was no need to carry them.He got into the carriage and was about to drive away, but suddenly found that Ji Fan was uncharacteristically silent today, subconsciously raised his eyes, and saw Ji Fan staring at him: "What's wrong?"

Ji Fan looked away silently when he heard the words, and shook his head: "It's nothing..."

He unconsciously covered his injured half of the face, thinking that the person in front of him loved the most beautiful woman, his brows and eyes were heavy, and inexplicably cast a layer of gloom.