Beauty has a disease

Chapter 18

Embers and Zhan Shuyun burned all the way, looking from a distance, it was like a fire line ignited from both ends to the middle.

Then, meet on a narrow road.

"Don't make a sound and don't move!" Ember pulled Zhan Shuyun past and hid in the dark place at a narrow corner, holding her breath.

Ember knows Zhan Shuyun, but Zhan Shuyun doesn't recognize Ember.

He was tired of running, but he didn't want to be caught by someone suddenly, but at this moment, this person was just confining him and hiding in this narrow corner, without any intention of hurting anyone.

However, Zhan Shuyun turned his head slightly to see the tense body of the man in a pitch-black black scarf, it was hard to tell whether he was an enemy or a friend.

The broken arrow on his shoulder had been inside his body for two days, and the wound was no longer bleeding, but it had started to fester and become inflamed, causing severe pain when he moved a little, and the inflammation drove his body temperature to rise, which made his mind even more dizzy.

The two of them were facing each other, and Zhan Shuyun was much taller than Ember, but at this moment, his physical strength was exhausted, and the high body temperature was also burning his strength. His legs were slightly bent, and the two of them were standing at a relatively equal height.

He knocked his chin on the shoulder of the person in front of him, this overly intimate posture made Zhan Shuyun feel at a loss and ashamed.

The embrace of the person in front of him was cold and cold, and even the breath he exhaled had no temperature. The cold breath hit his bare skin, making him a little clearer.

Ember raised the torch in his hand to Zhan Shuyun, and said, "You say that an enemy is an enemy and an enemy is a friend. Friends, do you want to fight with me?"

It was a voice he had never heard before.

Zhan Shuyun said in a deep voice, "How can I trust you?"

After hearing this, Ember clicked his tongue, "Then do you have any other options?"

"There they are!"

"There's someone there!"

"Fire arrows!"

Ember found a firecracker out of nowhere, ignited it with a torch, threw it, and the firecracker crackled and exploded into pieces.

Ember took advantage of the chaos to pull Zhan Shuyun up, and sighed, "Come with me, I won't sell you out."

She could have ignored such things, but who told this Mr. Zhan Xiaozhan to tell her that he wanted to protect her and return to Beijing safely!

She owed the most favors.

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After coming out of the bandit village with Zhan Shuyun, Yu Jin first dealt with Cui Shexi, lying that the pheasant probably ate something that caused its meat to have the effect of inducing coma, and she woke up early because she ate less, Regardless of whether Cui Shexi believed it or not, he threw Cui Shexi a few banknotes to send him away.

Then he went back to the official road again, and handed Zhan Shuyun over to the carefree Xu Hong and Chang Wenyuan who met on the way. He didn't care about the astonishment and doubts on their expressions, and only left a sentence, "Go and ask your lords." Then we parted.

So, it's still easy to walk alone, and this tossing has exhausted all the strength she had finally accumulated.

Hurry up slowly, and finally arrived in the capital on the eve of New Year's Eve.

The setting sun is slanting, and the mountain is hidden. The bluestone city wall is half bright and half cool. Ember lifts up the car curtain and looks at this familiar yet unfamiliar city through the small window. Hope and eagerness.

The speed of the convoy suddenly slowed down.

After entering the city, every household is pasted with red-hot couplets, New Year pictures are pasted on the opposite gates, and paper lanterns are hung on them. Some families are slow in progress, and they are doing these necessary decorations for the New Year with ladders. Said that almost everyone's face is beaming, welcoming the new year with the best mood and attitude.

The carriage drove along a wide alley, and every house that passed by from entering this alley had tall and long walls, and the gates were like one another.

It seems that the status of the Duan family is not low in Pingjing, a place where rich and powerful people gather.

That's right, after all, there is the chief assistant of the current dynasty, and everyone has to respectfully call him an old man.

The first jaw on Ember's side was thinking boredly.

Some people are still decorating for this year, and the servants and maids who come and go look at this simple and unfamiliar carriage with curiosity, and look at it from time to time, secretly guessing that it looks shabby. Where is the carriage going.

And the person who glanced through the curtain of the car was thinking about who is a relative of such a beautiful young lady?Have you been here before?It looked familiar.

The carriage stopped, Ember raised his eyelids, Duan's residence has arrived.

The gate of the Duan Mansion is not much different from the alley except for the plaque hanging on it. The thick bluestone road is lined with majestic stone lions on both sides, and the couplets are pasted symmetrically. , it can be seen that the writer's knowledge is very deep, and the vermilion gate should have been repainted to reveal a "new beauty".

The maid hired on the way stepped forward to knock on the door, and the groom who was also hired to drive the carriage jumped off the shaft and moved the footstool to stabilize it so that Ember could get out of the carriage.

"you are?"

The girl said: "Miss is back, hurry up and report."

The boy who opened the door stretched his head and glanced over the girl, bowed slightly and then quickly ran away, "It turns out that the young lady is back, and our young master has been nagging you for a long time! Please wait a moment, I will report it right away." Master and son!"

There was a rattling noise inside the door, and with the panting "Miss is back", the servant gradually disappeared from sight.

Ember couldn't help but be affected by his high-pitched emotions and couldn't help laughing, she turned her head and asked the other servant who stayed at the door to look at her curiously: "Which yard is this from, so lively and clever."

The servant blushed, and said shyly, "This is the son's book boy, Duan Li."

"It turns out that it's the book boy next to my brother, so it's hard to ask for it."

The little servant hurriedly said: "Although there are not many servants in our mansion, there are also quite a few. It's up to you to choose."

Ember shook her head and said, "I'm just saying that, you don't have to take it seriously, and I like to be quiet, the fewer people around me, the better, as long as there are enough."

While speaking, the heavy wooden door creaked and reopened. The leader was about the age of Tianming to Ershun, with mixed black and white beard and hair.

This is the chief assistant of the dynasty, Duan Chang, Duan Hetong.

A step behind him was a graceful and luxurious woman, and the woman was supported by a tall young man in green robes.

Madam Zheng, and Duan Qingrong, the grandson of the Duan family.

Ember smiled just right, neither close nor too distant, leaned forward and saluted according to the etiquette learned before, "I met grandpa and mother."

Then he called out to Duan Qingrong, "Brother."

Duan Qingrong smiled and said: "After waiting for so long, my sister finally came back."

Duan Chang also said: "It's been so long since I've been lettering, I never thought I'd arrive today."

Ember replied: "The journey is long, and the road is blocked by heavy snow, so it was delayed for a long time. Fortunately, I came back in time for the last hurdle of the New Year's Eve."

Duan Chang stroked his beard, "Well, it's good to be back safely."

Mrs. Zheng finally said: "Father, Qingwu must be very tired from the exhaustion of the boat and the car. I ordered the yard to be cleaned out early, and the hot soup and rice in the house have been prepared. Let the child go to the house to rest first. If you have anything to say, we will wait in the evening." Not too late."

Duan Chang nodded repeatedly: "Yes, you go back to rest first, and come to the study to find me later."

"Yes, grandfather." Ember looked at Zheng Shi again, "Thank you mother for your concern."

Mrs. Zheng replied lightly, "Yes."

"I don't know the maid I sent in advance..."

"Hurry up and enter the mansion, and we'll talk about the rest later." After Duan Chang said, he turned around and walked into the gate first.

The conversation was interrupted, and Ember stopped talking, and she smiled politely: "Yes, grandfather."

Ember raised her head, and the big red lanterns hung on both sides of the plaque, swaying slightly under the blowing of the evening wind, and she could hear faint human voices coming from the alley, clearly noisy, but she felt even more lonely.

"Pretentious." With a barely audible murmur, Ember stepped into Duan's mansion.

(End of this chapter)