pastoral wedding

Chapter 163 Arrival
"Girl," Liu Li bit her lower lip, "I don't know, Miss, do you still remember the crying little girl we heard when we were buying someone from Mistress Zhu?"

Su Jin nodded, not long ago, she naturally remembered.

"At that time, I thought it sounded familiar, but I couldn't remember it for a while. I remembered it a few days ago. That voice was clearly the voice of the third girl from General Wu's family." She was caught by the officers and soldiers only after protecting her, and she hid with the wet nurse at that time, so she should be safe, but why did she show up at Mistress Zhu?"

Hearing this, Su Jin hurriedly said, "Did you go back and ask Mistress Zhu?"

Liuli nodded, gritted her teeth, and said, "Grandma Zhu said she was sold by a woman around 40 years old. According to her description, she is clearly the third girl's nanny. I hate that this woman dares to betray her master! It's too disgusting." Already!"

"Then where is Miss Wu San going now?"

"Zhu Yapo said that she was bought to the capital, but she refused to say who bought it." Liuli showed anxiety, "Girl, I can't just let the third girl be a maid for others, I want her get back."

"I can understand your feelings," Su Jin patted her on the shoulder comfortingly, "But the capital is so big, what we're looking for is just a little girl, and there's a huge crowd, so I'm afraid we won't be able to find it in a while. I understand how you feel, but you can't be too anxious, it's useless to be anxious, you have to take your time, but I believe that as long as we try our best to find it, it won't be a matter of time."

Liuli nodded, she didn't understand what the girl said, but she was always afraid that if something happened to the third girl when she was looking for her, then how could she have the face to face the wife who trusted her so much? And the big girl.

A few days passed in a flash, and it seemed that they could reach the capital after another day's journey, but Qi Yao and others did not relax their vigilance. During the day, three men, Hu Er, drove the car, and Qi Yao led the scholar to ride a horse. If there will be a person on duty at night, no matter what troubles arise, they can't hide them from their eyes. Seeing that they are about to arrive in the capital, besides being happy, they naturally need to be more vigilant.Qi Yao's face became tense. Although there were no accidents in the past few days, his intuition told him that a group of people had been following far behind, always looking for opportunities to strike, and they were about to enter Beijing. If they didn't do anything, they would die. The opportunity is here, so it must be one of these days.

This night I stayed in a small town closest to the capital. The inn is in the busiest place in the center of the town, but few people come out of such a small town at night, so even the center of the town is quiet very.Qi Yao told them early that even Su Jin was not allowed to go to sleep, and all the quilts lying on the bed were pillows.Five people asked for two rooms, but all the people were crowded together, five people sat around the table, and the room was not lit.

Su Jin sat next to Qi Yao, a little nervous. Although she boasted that she was a courageous and insightful person, it was the first time she encountered such a matter of life and death. It was inevitable that she would feel nervous and squeezed herself tightly. Fist, thinking about what kind of scene it will be in a while.Suddenly, a big warm hand held hers. In the darkness, she could even see that Qi Yao nodded to her, and she nodded too, and slowly loosened her fist, took a deep breath, Sit there quietly and blend yourself into the night.

In the middle of the night, there was real movement outside the window. At first, someone poked open the window paper and blew something like misty smoke into the room. Qi Yao and the others were prepared and covered their mouths and noses with wet handkerchiefs. Didn't move, just sat there.After a while, there was a bird-like sound outside. Taking advantage of this moment, five people immediately stood up from their seats and hid behind the door. Qi Yao led the scholar and Hu Er in front, and Su Jin was at the back. , Leaning against the wall, Liuli tightly guarded her side.

Soon, someone opened the door lightly, and then walked quickly to the bed. Seeing that there seemed to be someone on the bed, he stabbed him down. He was about to leave when he heard the surprised voice of his companion. Talking outside, "There is no one in this room, and the person lying on the bed is not a human being!"

The masked man who was about to leave immediately turned around and searched the house again, and people outside also walked in quickly.As soon as the man approached the door, Qi Yao wiped his neck with a sword, and the fight naturally broke out.The people outside all rushed into the room when they heard the commotion. Although Su Jin was afraid, she didn't forget to look around and found that there were more than 20 people in this group, and all of them were good players. This time, the person in question had to kill them. From this, it can be seen that the evidence given by General Wu to Liuli is true, otherwise these people would never have worked so hard.

These people's attacks were very fierce, and Liuli almost couldn't protect her several times, but Qi Yao blocked her for her.Su Jin took a look at the situation, and quickly moved towards the door. She held several small bags tightly in her hands, and then quickly opened them. When someone approached her with a sword, she quickly raised her hand. He fell to the ground unconscious.

Su Jin was secretly delighted, it seemed that the poisons given by Lin Sanlang were really effective, I thought they were just tricks such as Mongolian perspiration medicines, but now it seems that this is not the case, this medicine is much better than Mongolian perspiration medicines.

Seeing that she had avoided danger a few times and was about to run out of the room, Liuli hurried over to cover her, and when Su Jin came out of the room, she immediately yelled, "Come on! It's on fire! Everyone!" Run, everyone! It's on fire! Run, everyone..."

Many people were awakened in their dreams. When they heard the word "fire", they quickly put on their clothes and got up, opened the door and ran out.Su Jin took advantage of the chaos and ran out with the crowd, and Qi Yao followed closely behind, and rushed out of the room.Although there are not many people in this inn, they are definitely not too few. Because this is the nearest small town to the capital, many people will choose to rest here and go to Beijing tomorrow, and there are many wealthy people among them. .

Seeing a black-clothed masked man appear, the servants and guards brought by several families drew their swords one after another, staring at these people vigilantly, and prepared to strike immediately if they made any unkind moves.The masked man saw that something was wrong, and when he heard a strange bird call, they all dispersed.

After they had all left, Su Jin and the others asked Xiao Er for a room again, but they still didn't dare to rest, they still sat around the table with the lights off, and kept their eyes open until dawn. return.

The sky gradually brightened, and the sun pierced through the clouds to shoot out thousands of rays of light. Su Jin and the others breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the sound of doors opening and closing and shouting outside.Last night, people from the government came to investigate, and some people were left to guard, so those people didn't dare to come again. The people from the government are still downstairs.

Su Jin and the others simply washed up, asked for dry food and water for the road, and hurried on the road.Before, they had always been walking on small roads. Qi Yao said that the people behind these masked people might be officials, so if they took the official road, they were afraid that someone would trip them up in the dark, and they would move their hands and feet at the post station, and they were all around them. It's hard to deal with, but now they don't take the small road anymore, they go to the official road after they come out of the inn, and they will arrive in the capital in half a day. As long as they don't stop and run all the way, I believe they can't catch up with them, and even the carriages are blocked. After giving up, Su Jin and Liu Li also changed their horses.

When it was getting dark, but there was still a ray of sunset in the western sky, five people entered the gate of the capital.Qi Yao took Hu Er and the scholar to send Su Jin and Liuli to the Chu family first, and then went directly to General Lu's mansion.

Su Shuang was naturally pleasantly surprised by her younger sister's sudden visit. She held her for a long time and refused to let go. Su Jin was also held by her. It was rare to see her second sister like this. She really missed home.Chu Luo persuaded him with a smile, and Su Shuang, who was wearing a summer shirt covered with gold in snow and embroidered with rose lace and a lake blue pomegranate dress, let go and patted Su Jin's shoulder with a smile, "I listen The eldest sister said that you ran out secretly, during the time I was not at home, you became more and more courageous?"

The meaning of this sounded wrong, Su Jin chuckled, and replied: "Second sister, are you trying to vent your anger on our mother? I know she must be in a hurry, and she is going to hunt me down all over Daxing Kingdom .”

As soon as she said that, Chu Luo noticed the embarrassment of her and Liuli, and asked suspiciously: "Could it be that you came here on horseback? Why are you so embarrassed?"

Su Jin glanced at her second sister, and Su Shuang told all the servants to retreat except Qiu Liang and Qiu Ye, and then Su Jin told what happened on the road.Chu Luo's first reaction was to call the butler and ask him to give orders to strengthen the defense at night and not to relax.

Su Jin nodded with a smile. The second brother-in-law is really a person who can distinguish priorities. Just as she thought about it, Chu Luo reached out and knocked her on the head, "Okay, not only have you become bold, but you have also learned to cause trouble. , do you know that the case of General Wu involves a lot, why do you have to follow Qi Yao to this muddy water? Just hand over that girl Liuli to him?"

"Tsk tsk." Su Jin was holding a teacup to drink tea. Hearing this, her hands stopped, and she squinted at him, "Second brother-in-law is indeed a businessman, and he is also a very shrewd businessman. Just ask my second sister , if Qiuye and Qiuliang encounter something, will she do what you said just now?"

Su Shuang gouged out Chu Luo's eyes when she heard the words, Chu Luo smiled dotingly, stopped saying this, and said: "Since you want to take care of it, then stay at home during this period, the guards in my house It's not the same kind of wine bag and rice bag, it will definitely protect you and Liuli, and General Lu is an upright person, since Qi Yao took the evidence and sent it to General Lu's mansion, I think this matter will come to fruition soon, tell me Liuli told her not to worry, I will send someone to inquire."

Su Jin smiled and patted him on the shoulder, "This is the brother Chu I knew before."

A few people were talking, and when the servants reported that the eldest girl had arrived, they knew it was Yue Ya'er, Su Jin rushed to the door, and seeing that it was really her, Yue Ya'er's smiling eyes were just like Crescent Moon's, and she jumped at her with a smile. In her arms, "Sister Yingluo and Sister Shanhu both said that you are coming, but I don't believe it, Zhuque City is so far away, how could you come, they asked me to come and see by myself, it really is the third sister who is here, Yue Ya'er is so happy .”

As soon as Su Jin raised her head, she happened to see Shan Shan smiling at her. Seeing herself looking over, she hurriedly pulled a thin girl with a pointed chin to greet her, "Shu Shan and Yingluo greet the third girl."

Su Jin stretched out her hand to help the two of them, nodded to Yingluo, but smiled at Shan Shan: "It seems that we are destined, you served me when I came to Chu's house, I thought we would never see each other again. Who would have thought that my second sister would become the mistress of your Chu family again, and there will be plenty of opportunities for me to come in the future." As he spoke, he took off a pair of pearl-studded hibiscus flowers from their heads and stuffed them into two people respectively. In his hand, "I came here in a hurry and didn't bring anything good, don't hold it against me."

Yingluo and Shanshan hurriedly kowtowed to thank each other.This pair of pearl flowers is not considered expensive, but for maidservants like Yingluo and Liuli, it is not rude.Su Shuang looked at her eccentric girl with a smile, and suddenly felt that she had grown up.

In the evening, it was natural to welcome Su Jin, and even Liuli set up a table under the masters to sit and eat this meal, accompanied by Qiu Liang and Qiu Ye.After dinner, Su Shuang insisted on sleeping with Su Jin. Chu Luo had thought of this a long time ago, so she smiled and said that she had already given the quilt to her.

The two sisters huddled together to sleep on the same bed after so many days, and neither of them could fall asleep for a while, so Su Shuang naturally wanted to ask about the situation at home, the situation with the eldest sister, how is brother Shuo's schoolwork?Did you fight with anyone again?After Su Jin answered one by one, she asked how the family's business was going.He also asked about the Ping An Post Office, and Su Jin also told them all about it.Su Shuang was silent for a long time, just when Su Jin thought she had fallen asleep, she said softly, "Jin'er, I regret it, I regret marrying here, so far away from home, so far away from you."

"Second sister, don't think so much. Look at how happy you are now. I can tell without asking. The second brother-in-law treats you really well, and Yue Ya'er also likes and respects you as her own mother." , Waiting for you to give birth to a few more children for your second brother-in-law, wouldn’t it be perfect? ​​Besides, although you are far away from home, it’s not impossible to see each other, and you can always see each other several times a year.” Hearing what she said, Su Jin also felt that It was uncomfortable, thinking of the situation when the three sisters were together every day, the circles of their eyes could not help but turn red again, but they tried their best not to let their voice be influenced by their emotions.

Su Shuang snorted, her voice was cold, "It's only a few times a year, thanks to you, you can say it."

Knowing that the second sister was about to lose her temper again, Su Jin hurriedly shook her arm sideways, "Second sister, it's rare for me to come, it's rare for our sisters to sleep together again, don't tell me I'll be happy , you must tell me to cry, once you say such a thing, I think of the situation when the three of us sisters were not married and lived together every day, and I feel sad."

Sure enough, as soon as she said that, Su Shuang quickly stopped talking, looked at the corners of her eyes with tears, as if she was really crying, and quickly reached out to help her wipe her tears, and said in a soft voice: "Don't cry, two Sister knows that she often loses her temper. Although you are younger than me, you give way to me everywhere. It was the second sister's fault in the past. From now on, the second sister will treat you well and never bully you again. Be a good sister like the eldest sister. You also tell Brother Shuo and Xiao Qiaoer, I..." Before she finished speaking, tears flowed down her cheeks.

"Second sister, I understand what you mean, but before we women get married, we live in our mother's family and focus on the family members, but after we get married, we can only focus on the husband's family. Fortunately, you and the eldest sister are married very well. Brother-in-law treats you all sincerely, even if you go home from time to time, they won't say anything." Su Jin moved her head to her head, "Second sister, you are really happy, don't be too greedy, Even if you don't marry your second brother-in-law, but marry someone else, just marry next door to our house, but you don't live happily, do you think your parents and us will be happy for you?"

Su Shuang lost her voice, as if she was thinking about something, and sighed for a long time, but there was still stubbornness in her voice, "Sooner or later, I will let Chu Luo's family move to Zhuque City, and then our sisters will move to Suzaku City. The three can still stay together every day."

"At that time, second sister, do you remember what you said just now, you said that you will be a good sister and stop bullying us." Su Jin came out with a laugh, thinking about this scene, I think it is very beautiful, very expect.

Su Shuang also laughed, and pinched her nose, "Your second sister, can I still coax you?" After speaking, as if thinking of something, she hurriedly said, "Then you are not allowed to marry somewhere else. , in Suzaku City, waiting for me to go back and find you."

"Second Sister, it's still too early for me to get married." Su Jin didn't want to mention this, because she felt dizzy when she mentioned it, and remembered Zhu San and Han Yu who were still waiting for her in Suzaku City.

Su Shuang laughed, "Do you think I don't know anything when I'm far away in the capital? Eldest sister has written to me a long time ago, and heard that the third young master of the Zhu family has taken a fancy to you, and Han Yu, didn't he have long been interested in you?" Do you have a special liking? No matter which one of these two is in Suzaku City, they are not far away." After speaking, he laughed, and Qiu Liang, who was on duty outside, couldn't help laughing when he heard the laughter, the second girl and the third What did the girl say so happy?

"Second Sister," Su Jin said with a touch of helplessness in her voice, "What if I say that I also want to marry in the capital in the future?" The stern face appeared in her mind, the one who stretched out her hand to hold her in the dark night. The person who held her hand, the person who kissed her secretly, for some reason, he often appeared in his dreams recently.

Hearing this, Su Shuang turned over and hugged the quilt, and pointed at Su Jin's face, "Do you have someone you like? Who? It's not that Zhu San or Han Yu, who is that?"

But Su Jin didn't speak, turned over and lay down flat, closed her eyes and ignored her, and was afraid that Su Shuang would not let her go so easily, so she thought for a while and said, "I don't know if I like him yet, and I don't know his Xinyi, Second Sister, I will tell you when I am sure, don’t ask me, okay?” After speaking, he yawned intentionally, “I’m so tired, Second Sister, I didn’t sleep all night last night, and I rode a horse again today. It's been a day's journey..." The last sentence dragged on, and there was a hint of coquettishness in the tired voice.

Su Shuang felt distressed immediately, so she didn't ask any more questions, and just said, "Then close your eyes and go to sleep." After speaking, she suddenly added, "Let the kitchen cook something delicious for you tomorrow."

"Second sister still loves me the most, haha."

"Still sleeping! Are you sleepy?"

"Yes, I'm sleepy..."

The voices of the two sisters gradually lowered in the dark night, Qiu Liang, who was on duty outside, got up and went to have a look inside, and saw that the two masters were asleep, so she went to rest too.There were guards holding lanterns and torches patrolling the Chu family's courtyard all night, so naturally nothing happened all night.

(End of this chapter)