into the bosom

Chapter 28

Seeing He Lianshu leave without looking back, Xu Jiao felt chilled in his heart.

"Princess, what's wrong with you?" Yuan Niang turned her head and saw her frowning, with a gloomy expression on her face.

Xu Jiao cheered up and said, "It's okay! It's just that I feel sad..." Now her family is ruined, and she has been reduced from a princess to a court prisoner overnight. Any abnormalities are human nature.

Sure enough, after hearing what she said, Xianniang looked at her with distressed face, her eyes were also red.

Xu Jiao couldn't stand this hesitation, so he changed the subject seriously, "Xiang Niang, Pingliang City is not safe right now, we'd better get out of the city as soon as possible."

Xian Niang nodded, looked her up and said, "The checks on the ladies at the gate of the city are relatively strict. It's good for the princess to do this. I think it shouldn't be difficult to go out. Without further ado, let's go back to my residence and tidy up a little bit." Clothes, let's go now?"

Unexpectedly, Xianniang is still a vigorous temperament.

Xu Jiao sighed in his heart, he took two breaths before saying "OK".

The two master and servant walked into the city, and Xu Jiao asked questions while walking.

"I thought you died in that fire too, but I never thought that you would be so lucky that you and I could meet again."

"Isn't it? The servant girl was lucky enough to escape that day, so she left Baijiang County without stopping. It was also lucky that she happened to meet a group of dart runners, so she followed them back to Pingliang City. The princess arrived a few days early.

There is a distant cousin in the servant girl's family. His family moved to the north and left a house for us to take care of.The servant girl didn't dare to go home, even the palace just sneaked a look, fortunately there was still this house to stay.

Hearing that our lord was buried in Nanshan, the servant girl thought that if the princess is still alive, she will try her best to return to Pingliang City, and she will definitely go to Nanshan to worship after hearing about the lord.

The maidservant stood guard there, it was a pity that the maidservant finally saw the princess again.In the past few days, the servant girl hardly dared to close her eyes. The prince and concubine trusted the servant girl and entrusted the princess to the maidservant's care. If the princess had something good or bad, the maidservant would have no face to see the prince and princess even if she got down there. "

Xian Niang held Xu Jiao's hand, and she burst into tears as she spoke.

Xu Jiao sighed, and lightly patted the back of Xianniang's hand, "Don't say that, you have always been loyal and treated me very well, if Xiqiu hadn't given up his life to protect me that day, I'm afraid I would have been buried in the sea of ​​fire, how could there be any more?" Today? It’s because of me that I have troubled you.”

"Your Majesty, don't say that. It's our duty to protect the Majesty. The Majesty's words are meant to scare the slaves, even Xi Qiu and A Yin... If Quanxia knows, I'm afraid there will be no peace. It's gone." Xianniang said anxiously.

Xu Jiao's eyes darkened, and he changed the subject, "By the way, I still don't know how Xianniang escaped that day?"

"Speaking of which, the servant girl's fate is too big. After sending the princess away that day, the fish and shrimp ordered for the store two days ago were delivered, but the servant girl saw that it was not fresh enough. Thinking that they took a lot of money from us, they sent it to the store. Such a perfunctory thing came, and I was overwhelmed for a while. The princess was not in the mansion, so she didn't need the servant girl to wait on her, so the servant girl simply went out of the mansion to find the shop owner to argue. But when she came back, she just walked to the alley, and saw The courtyard where we live is full of flames..." After that, Qiang Niang choked up and didn't say anything.

"The servant girl didn't know well. She hid in the crowd and watched. She thought that the princess had already... The servant girl was deeply saddened, but she still remembered that she would go back to Pingliang City to report to the prince. Who would have known about our palace only after returning to Pingliang City? ..."

Xian Niang couldn't speak any more, she held up her handkerchief and pressed the corners of her eyes, crying uncontrollably.

The corners of Xu Jiao's eyes were also red, "Xiangniang, don't worry, when we find Sister, she will definitely have something to do. There are nearly two hundred people in our whole family, so we can't just die without knowing why."

Xian Niang cried for a while, raised her eyes to look at Xu Jiao, "The princess is looking for the princess?"

"This is natural." Xu Jiao nodded.

Yuan Niang nodded and stopped talking.Both of them fell silent, and for a moment only the low sobbing of Xianniang could be heard.

The master and servant entered the city without a word, and arrived at an ordinary residence in the south of the city.

"This place is cramped, I feel sorry for the princess. The princess sits here for a while, and the servant girl will go to pack the dry food and luggage." Xian Niang packed up a stool, put it under a plum tree in the small yard, and sat down. I hurried into the house to clean up.

Xu Jiao didn't sit down, but looked up at the branches of the plum tree. At this time of year, the plums were already as thick as a pinky finger. She was very focused, but she was not counting the plums on the tree, but listening to the garden with her ears up. There was no movement outside, but after listening for a long while, I didn't hear anything.

She couldn't help but frown tightly.

Xian Niang's hands and feet were nimble, and she prepared her luggage and dry food in a short while. The two hurriedly ate a bowl of soup cakes to fill their stomachs, and then they pretended to be a commoner mother and son, and left Pingliang City.

Xu Jiao behaved in a graceful manner, no different from ordinary teenagers, and when he left the city, he didn't take any trouble.

But when he left the city, Xu Jiao couldn't help but stop, and turned his head to look in the direction of Pingliang City.

Xian Niang thought she was reluctant to leave her old place, so she patted her hand to comfort her.

How could he know that Xu Jiao was swearing in his heart, did that pervert really just leave her alone?

cannot!He tried and tried like this now, just to make sure that she was useful.Before she was confirmed, no matter what, she would not be abandoned first.Thinking of this, she felt relieved, she gritted her teeth, turned around and took a step.

The weather was not beautiful, and after Xu Jiao and Yuan Niang left Pingliang City for a while, the sky darkened.It looked like it was going to rain. After all, it was still around Pingliang City, and Yuan Niang was quite familiar with it. Speaking of the Earth Temple not far ahead, the two decided to go there to hide from the rain.

Unexpectedly, before we got to the Earth Temple, the big raindrops were already falling, and there was some pain in the "slap, slap".

The rain was very crisp, but after a while, a layer of rain and fog formed on the official road in the forest.The two of them didn't care about anything else, and each carried a burden, and ran towards the earth temple.

When they ran to the Earth Temple, both of them were drenched from head to toe.The Earth Temple was not much better either, it was deserted and nothing more than a dilapidated house.

"Forget it, let's just rest here for a while!" Xu Jiao was happy with the situation.

The rain curtain outside covered the sky and the sun, and the sky was dark, as if it had entered the night. It would be nice to have a tile to cover your head.

"Only the Princess has been wronged." Xian Niang's face was distressed.

"The princess wait here for a while! Maid to see if I can find some dry firewood, light a fire, or get some boiled water to drink."

Xian Niang did what she said, put down the things in her hands, and walked out of the Earth Temple in the rain.

Xu Jiao didn't speak, and didn't stop her. She just raised her eyes and looked outside with some emptiness. The sound of rain was pouring down, and a small river gradually flowed under the dilapidated eaves of the Earth Temple.

By the side wall of the Earth Temple, Xianniang hid under the broken eaves, so as not to be drenched immediately.She looked a little panicked, and while looking back, she carefully took out an object from her bosom, looking at it, the movements of her hands froze again, with a look of hesitation on her face.

(End of this chapter)