Cold and warm depend on each other

The carved and hollowed-out door opened slowly in front of her eyes, Xue Wanxiang's heart was beating fast, the corners of her mouth were slightly raised, and she wanted to say: "Azhe!"

The name circled around the tip of the tongue and stopped.

Inside the delicate upper door, a graceful woman stands lazily, wantonly and casually.The woman turned her eyes around Xue Wanxiang, and said leisurely, "Who are you looking for?"

Xue Wanxiang was slightly stunned, but managed to calm down and said, "I'm looking for Su Zhe."

"Su Zhe?" The woman leaned against the doorpost, her eyes twitched slightly, and she glanced into the room.

Across the small flower hall, Xue Wanxiang couldn't see what was going on inside, so she couldn't look around anymore, lowered her eyelashes, and couldn't tell for a moment whether she was hoping for Su Zhe's presence or not.

The woman took a few steps towards the bed, and a low laugh came from behind the deep red agate curtain, the voice was clear and sweet.Xue Wanxiang suddenly remembered that the day before they parted, Su Zhe kissed her body and bloomed under her body...

She bit her lip, not daring to think about it.

The woman from before came out of the house again, with a clear smile on her face, and her tone was a little gentler than before: "You are looking for the wrong place. There is no one you are looking for here."

There's none?

Xue Wanxiang, holding a small bundle, hesitated in front of the door.Just now when she saw this strange woman standing in the room, she already guessed that Su Zheyuemo was not here, and when she heard her confirmation with her own ears, she felt both clear and disappointed.

She thanked the woman and walked slowly towards the wooden stairs.Xi'er followed her upstairs full of expectations, and then followed her down in despair.

After such a delay, the more leaking quicksand gradually fell to noon, and several tables of guests were seated one after another in the lobby of the inn.Xue Wanxiang calmed down, and said to Xi'er, "Go to the carriage and ask the driver to come in, and tell him to have lunch before setting off."

Xi'er agreed to go out.After a while, the coachman really came with her, Xue Wanxiang nodded, and sat at a table with Xi'er, with the coachman next to him, and opened another small table.

After ordering a few side dishes, Xue Wanxiang asked the waiter, is there a customer surnamed Su in the restaurant?

The second brother tilted his head and asked, "I don't know if the girl is asking about male or female customers?"

Xue Wanxiang was silent for a moment, then said, "It's... a girl."

The shop waiter was silent for a moment, does this need to be hesitated?But he still replied honestly: "There is no surname Su among the female guest officers staying alone. I'm afraid the family members will have to ask the shopkeeper."

Xue Wanxiang asked Xi'er to take a few large copper coins and give them to him.

The waiter happily thanked them, and turned around to pass the dishes to them.

Xi'er sat at the bottom, looking at her young lady with her face in her hands.Her young lady frowned, slowly turning a small white porcelain cup in her hand.

Su Zhe is no longer at the inn.where did she goWhy, not waiting for her?

After the lunch coachman went to the stables to feed the horses, he already knew that Miss Xue came to the inn to find someone, but he couldn't find her and was unaccompanied, so he couldn't rush her.

But today he must go out of the city, and he has to rush back to meet Master Chai.

After feeding the horses, the coachman watched a game of chess in the backyard. When he returned to the lobby, he saw that the waiter in the shop had wrapped a small package and handed it to Xi'er. When he took a closer look, he found a few hard pancakes and a bag of jerky.

"Can you trouble uncle to give me a ride, I want to leave the city through the east gate." Xue Wanxiang stood by the counter wearing a suede cape.

The coachman stood outside the shop, glanced into the hall, and replied: "It takes more than an hour to get to the east of the city from here, where is the girl going?"

Xue Wanxiang said: "Master Chai told you to send me out of the city within today, did you say that you will return today?"

"That's not true. Linhuai City occupies a vast area, so it's not easy to leave your girl's house alone at the city gate. The master said that you can come back in three or two days."

Xue Wanxiang smiled subtly: "That's good. Uncle, please take us out of the city from the east gate. I remember that there is a small town not far from the east gate, and you can get there in half a day. After arriving in the town, uncle will return to Chai Mansion to report."

Seeing her smiling gracefully and beautifully, the coachman couldn't bear to refuse.He nodded his head and went out to set up his horse.

What Chaifu prepared was an unremarkable green cloth car, the interior of the car was small, the walls were made of hard wood, and only a little cushion was installed on the seat.

After leaving the city, the road became more and more bumpy, Xue Wanxiang leaned against the wall of the car, feeling panicked with chest tightness.Xi'er hugged the water bag and wanted to pour her a cup of water, but the car overturned a stone, and half of a cup of water was spilled.

There was a puddle of water stains on the car board, Xi'er was so anxious that she almost cried when she saw her young lady's pale face.

Xue Wanxiang took the teacup and comforted her: "I'm fine. Don't wipe it. There is no place to wash the skirt if it gets dirty."

The tea is cold.Xue Wanxiang took a sip, but instead of suppressing the nausea in her heart, she felt even more uncomfortable.She covered her lips and tried to hold back.Thinking of this journey, Su Zhe took care of her bit by bit by his side, cared for her relentlessly, suddenly there was sourness in his eyes.Tears seeped through the fingertips of the green onion and fell drop by drop on the velvet cloak.

The cloak you bought for me, you said you like it.I'm wearing it to meet you.

Su Zhe, where are you?

Following many passers-by, they rested overnight outside the tea shop. Xue Wanxiang and Xi'er stayed in the car. Xi'er was so heartbroken that she dozed off. In the middle of the night, she couldn't hold on anymore and fell asleep lying on the car mat.Xue Wanxiang watched the dawn fall on the car curtain and rubbed her eyes.

Around noon, she arrived at a small town, Xue Wanxiang thanked the coachman, and took Xi'er to find a small inn.The town is too small, so there is not much to pay attention to. There is a fat woman sitting at the counter, presumably the proprietress.

The proprietress led them through the trembling stairs and opened a half-old guest house. Xue Wanxiang thought about it and asked the proprietress to help find two coarse clothes, not beautiful, just clean and tidy.

The proprietress took the broken silver and agreed to go.Xi'er cleaned up quickly for a while, and asked her lady if she was hungry.

Xue Wanxiang saw how innocent she was, since she left the mansion, she never asked where she was going, and just followed her with peace of mind, feeling relieved and sad at the same time.

She found a contract of sale from the bundle, pulled Xi'er to sit down at the table, and handed the contract of sale to her.

Xi'er couldn't read, she looked at Miss Xue stupidly, er, she is her family's young lady now.

Xue Wanxiang told her that this was the contract of sale returned to her by the Chai Mansion, and she would no longer be a slave in the future.She is an ordinary person who has to live on her own. She no longer has to serve anyone, and she doesn't have to look at other people's faces every day, let alone be beaten and starved at every turn.

Xi'er held the thin paper with square and square ink characters written on it, the corners of her mouth were bent down, and tears fell down patter.

"Miss. Woooooo. Miss. Why are you so nice." She hugged Xue Wanxiang and cried loudly.

Xue Wanxiang patted her on the shoulder and let her cry.

"Thank you, miss. Hiccup. Redeem me. Hiccup." Xi'er cried until hiccupped, and finally stopped. She folded the deed of prostitution and prepared to put it back in the bag.

Xue Wanxiang was puzzled: "Why did you put it back?"

"Um. Then..."

The room was facing the backlight, so it was a little dark. Before it was time to light the lamp, Xue Wanxiang found a flint from the lamp holder, took the thin paper, and burned her deed of prostitution to ashes in front of Xi'er.

"You are no longer a slave. You can do whatever you want in the future. I have some silver taels here, and I will share half of it with you. Don't shake your head in a hurry. You saved my life. I was in Chai that day. If it wasn't for You risked your life and death to come and tell me those things, I am afraid that I am already dead in the hands of Young Master Chai, even if I do not die now, they will definitely try to get rid of me in the future." Xue Wanxiang said, putting all the money on her On the table, there are silver taels, jewelry, and several small bank notes.

She roughly divided them into two small piles of equal value, and pushed one of them in front of Xi'er.

Xi'er shook her head desperately: "I don't want to. I want to follow Miss."

Xue Wanxiang sighed: "I'm going to a very far place. It's too far away, I'm afraid it won't be safe on the road."

Xi'er's eyes widened: "That's why I want to go with you even more!"

Xue Wanxiang: ...

Dinner was served in a small inn, and the side dishes were well fried, but Xue Wanxiang didn't have much appetite, so he only used a few chopsticks.Xi'er eats deliciously, she is free, and can follow the young lady to serve the young lady freely. Thinking of this, she was so happy that she ate another bowl of rice!

The proprietress brought them some clothes, all of which were newly made coarse cloth, and asked Xue Wanxiang to choose two. Xue Wanxiang thought that Xi'er needed to be changed, so she bought them all, and asked where I could rent a car.The proprietress shook her head, the town is too small, there may still be people on the way to Linhuai City, and there is no one willing to go east.

"Where are you going?" The proprietress sat at their table chatting after she was full.

"Accompany the capital."

The proprietress was taken aback: "It's a long way from here."

"Ah."

Miss Xue responded and stopped talking.

The proprietress looked greasy, but she was actually a warm-hearted person. She rolled her eyes and gave them advice: "Go forward six or seven days, there is Xucheng, do you know?" Seeing Miss Xue nodding, she continued: " Although Xucheng is not big, it is much better than our small town. When you go to Xucheng, you may be able to find a car."

Falling asleep at night, Xue Wanxiang said that Xi'er could sleep on the bed with her, Xi'er's head shook like a rattle.She has in her heart the young lady's redemption for her to come out, and it is a blessing from heaven that she doesn't have to be beaten to death by the eldest mistress every day in Chai's mansion.

Xue Wanxiang knew that she couldn't change the habit of being a girl for a while, so she didn't force her anymore, and she was really tired, so she lay down on the bed after a little grooming.

Closing her eyes, Su Zhe's handsome figure flashed in front of her eyes again, she sighed slightly in her heart, indulged herself, missed her fiercely, wanted to lean in her arms, wanted to cling to her, wanted to pinch her Earlobe, I want to see her when I wake up.

The next day Xi'er woke up on the hard couch, the fire of the charcoal stove had been turned off, she rubbed her face, got up and went to the kitchen to fetch hot water.When she came back, Xue Wanxiang also got up, changed into a suit of coarse cloth clothes, and put yesterday's brocade skirt and gown into her bag.The master and the servant washed and washed respectively, and Xi'er took a comb to help Xue Wanxiang comb her hair.In the middle of combing, Xue Wanxiang took over the mahogany comb, and Xi'er stared blankly at her young lady's hair like a waterfall, which was tied into a bun that a young woman usually combs.

"Xi'er, since you want to follow me, I won't hide it from you. I'm going to accompany my capital, Xuanwu Mountain, to find someone. Xuanwu Mountain is far away, and... I'm not sure if I can find her. If I find her If you don't, I'm afraid you have to go further. If you want to go on the same road with me, you have to be prepared to endure hardships."

"Miss..." Xi'er stared at her hair bun, her eyes fluttered, as if she didn't listen to those words, she asked in a murmur, "Are we going to Xuanwu Mountain to find my uncle?"

Xue Wanxiang's face turned red in an instant.