Raiders of the Duke and Duchess

The dark, damp secret passage winds and leads to nowhere.

The breath is filled with a musty, mottled smell of blood. The further down you go, the more obvious the smell of blood becomes.Ji Wuyan touched the slippery walls on both sides and walked down step by step. In the darkness, there were some weird sounds, vague and rustling. If he listened carefully, it seemed like there were many small insects squirming and crawling. .

My heart lifted little by little, and I even held my breath unconsciously.

Finally reaching the bottom of the steps, the sound became more obvious and the smell of blood became stronger.I don't know where the fire broke out, and it lit up. When I came closer, I realized that it was an empty cave. There were many large and small jars as far as I could see. However, the cave was filled with thick fog. Only some outlines can be seen vaguely.

Ji Wuyan frowned and stepped closer, but the thick fog did not fade away at all. Instead, it became thicker and thicker, as if it had condensed into liquid and stuck to his body, making it difficult to breathe.The cold wind hit, and the fire stick in my hand trembled slightly. The thick fog dissipated, and the contents of the jar were instantly exposed...

"what!"

Ji Wuyan woke up suddenly, only to realize that it was just a dream. The rain was still falling, but the patter was much lighter, but the clouds were still heavy.Looking at the sky, I couldn't tell what time it was.

It was a long and tiring sleep, and I dreamed of specious dreams over and over again.The heart was beating violently in the chest, and "Plop, Plop" resounded throughout the deserted room.

Just as he was about to get up, a voice came from outside the door. It was Ning Xiuyuan. His voice was low and gentle, "Is the girl awake?"

"This slave has just arrived and didn't hear anything. I saw that lunch time was coming soon. I'm afraid the girl hasn't eaten anything since last night. Do you want to... wake the girl up to have a meal?"

Her voice was kept very low. In the drizzling rainy day, there was a kind of tranquility that only belongs to the mortal world. The violent heartbeat gradually subsided. She opened the quilt and got out of bed, wrapping herself in a cloak. , raised his voice and called, "Come in, I'm awake."

The wooden door opened in response, and Ziqiu was the first to come in. The little girl put down the tea cup she was holding and went to make the bed. While doing so, she did not forget to tell her, "Miss, as Miss Shen told me, you caught a cold yesterday." , I got caught in the rain again today, and I feel exhausted after all this hard work. If you don’t want to catch the cold, you have to drink all the ginger soup, not even a drop is left."

After saying that, he turned around and emphasized, "Not a drop can be left!"

Ji Wuyan looked at the large bowl of ginger soup and felt the spicy aftertaste in her throat. She leaned back slightly, distanced herself from the bowl of ginger soup, and then muttered dissatisfied, "Isn't it right before going to bed?" Have you drank yet?"

Ziqiu nodded, "Well, this is the second bowl. After lunch, there will be another bowl. Miss Shen told the slave to watch the girl drink it all."

There's still another bowl?Ji Wuyan was stunned, who drinks ginger soup this way?Are you sure Shen Luoxin didn't torment her on purpose?Ji Wuyan opened his eyes bitterly to look at Ning Xiuyuan who was following him, and softly called out, "Third brother... have you drank?"

The little girl has a very nice voice, especially when she calls "Third Brother" in a soft and glutinous manner, it reminds people of sweet and glutinous rice dumplings.Ning Xiuyuan touched her head and turned to Ziqiu, "Go and pass the food first. Your girl hasn't eaten for a long time. I have already ordered the kitchen and prepared lean meat porridge. Remember to bring a bowl." Come here." Ziqiu nodded, walked to the door, turned back and told Ning Xiuyuan, "Third Master, ginger tea... drink it while watching the girl, not a drop is left." After saying that, he left briskly.

"This girl..." Ji Wuyan laughed helplessly as he watched holding an oil-paper umbrella and jumping around, making the pendant on the wooden hairpin in his hair tremble. This little girl is in the same camp as Shen Luoxin. A group of people came to bury themselves.But...she glanced at Ning Xiuyuan and smiled, "Third brother, how about you drink it? I slept a good while and I'm not hungry at all. If I drink such a big bowl of ginger soup now, I’m afraid I won’t be able to eat anything for lunch later…”

A delicate and soft little girl, with bright crescent-like eyes when she smiles, with a bit of innocence and sweetness that is ignorant of the world. No matter how you look at it, she looks well protected.

But even so, Mrs. Ji still said that she always felt indebted and only wanted to bring the best things in the world to her. What was in her heart was still the grievance she suffered, even if it was a frown. , always remember.

At that time, Mrs. Ji asked Ning Xiuyuan, "Do you understand this feeling?"

Naturally, we understand, because... they are all the same.

After taking the ginger soup handed to him with a playful smile and drinking it all, Ji Wuyan asked again, "What did grandma say when she left you alone just now? Didn't she make things difficult for you?" The old man had the same temperament when he was young. To be honest, my mother fell in love with my father at that time and wanted to marry into the Shangguan family. Grandma lost an heir. From then on, the Shangguan family's nose was not the nose, and the eyes were not the eyes.

It can be seen that my grandmother's temperament and temperament are really worrying.

"Worried about me?" Ning Xiuyuan looked at her with a chuckle, hooked her fingertips and held them in his palm, and asked her, "Now...can you still blame me?"

It’s not surprising.

It was originally a misunderstanding, and coupled with my own random guessing, I had those little tempers that even I thought were strange and awkward. When I think about it now, I feel a little embarrassed, and... I think about this person in the study who was pestering me. His face suddenly turned red... He shook his head slightly.

"Grandma never said anything to me. She only told some interesting things about you when you were a child, and told me to be a good student and take care of you for the rest of my life." Ning Xiuyuan played with her fingertips and warned, "Grandma also said, if In the future, if a situation like this happens where you are alone in danger, she will have my skin peeled off."

"So, in the future... I still hope that Miss Ji, you can take this worthless skin of Ning into consideration, hold back a little more, and put your own safety in a more important position." He looked at her, The tiny smile in his eyes spread out, and it was gentle enough to drown people in it.He held his hand, lowered his head slowly, pressed his thin lips on the back of his white hand, and then slowly raised his eyes to look at her, "Miss Ji, how are you?"

This man is really becoming more and more out of tune. He is the only one who can say that his skin is worthless.

Ji Wuyan twitched the hand that was grabbed, but it didn't twitch. However, the place where the person touched him felt a burning sensation gradually spreading in this rainy day...