Concubine's three acres of pastoral garden

Chapter 45 Self-defeating
Luo Jinxing said: "Probably not. Uncle knows that I often come to the Royal Tomb, and the defenders here are all his cronies. Every year when I enter the Royal Tomb, I will lose my trace."

Xu Lin said: "Could it be that Xi Zuo couldn't enter the Wangling, and ran to the other side of the river to monitor?"

Luo Jinxing said: "How can we monitor across a river?"

Xu Lin bowed his head and remained silent.

An Guang thought about it for a while, and said, "I said, Guard Xu, have you really figured out that it is a spy or not a thief?"

Xu Lin was a little anxious, and said: "Of course not, those three people are all with guys, and they are quite experienced. They are definitely not as simple as thieves."

Luo Jinxing thought for a moment when he heard the words, and said, "Then are you sure they must be after me?"

Xu Lin was stunned for a moment, and said, "I just peeped at the back of this house, and didn't even take a step towards the east courtyard. Is it not for the prince, but for the women and children in the house?"

After Luo Jinxing thought about it, it was really impossible. Except for Chen Xianglai's special ability to grow rice, this family had nothing that could attract people's attention. Could it be possible that planting rice could attract people to kill her?
Even he couldn't convince himself of this kind of thinking, so after thinking about it, he asked An Guang to wait for him to take off his clothes and go to sleep.

The next day, Xianglai got up early in the morning and saw Xu Lin leaning against the door of Luo Jinxing. The blood stains on his body had not been washed off, but the clothes were not dry yet.

She was surprised: "You, you didn't sleep all night?"

Xu Lin said with a cold face: "Not sleepy."

Xianglai was speechless, she was a little apprehensive about such a person, so she went out to the field with a shovel to see the water.

But as soon as she came to the edge of the field, she saw a trace of the rice in the field being trampled obliquely from southeast to northwest.

She felt distressed for a while, and was about to curse a few words, when she suddenly remembered the strange behavior of Luo Jinxing and the three of them last night, and wondered if they were trampled on by wolves?
While thinking about it, I walked towards my own vegetable garden at the beginning, but when I arrived, I saw a lot of human footprints, including the deep footwells in the field, which were also stepped on by people, and there were no wolf footprints at all.

Looking at the shocking bloodstain on the ground again, her heart beat wildly!
my mother!Could it be a murder?What is the origin of these three people?This is really not something I can afford!
Thinking of this, she panicked as if she had killed someone herself, and was at a loss for a long time. Then she remembered to use a shovel to stir up the soil on the ground, turning all the blood to the bottom, and then pumped a lot of water from the field to wipe out the remaining blood. It was all washed clean, and my heart was a little more at ease.

Looking back at the trampled rice, I still feel distressed, but the ears of rice have sunk, and I can only scrape down more by myself, and I have no choice but to admit the loss.

After that, she carried a shovel to clean up the blood spilled by Xu Lin when he moved the corpse, and then tried to calm down and returned home, intending to send the three plague gods away as soon as possible.

Breakfast was still the leftover chicken from last night, plus freshly steamed vegetable dumplings. Luo Jinxing ate it with great relish, and the three of them bid farewell to Xianglai's family shortly after the meal.

As promised, Xianglai packed some dried wild vegetables for An Guang to take, and together with her mother, Tianlai, and the second aunt who just dared to show up, sent the three of them out of the yard.

Standing on the road outside the courtyard gate, Luo Jinxing smiled and said to Xianglai: "Don't forget, your rice has already been sold to me!"

Xianglai said: "Don't worry, I will send you the rice seeds after I leave them."

Luo Jinxing turned around in satisfaction, took two steps forward and then turned around again, teasing: "Don't raise the price too high, or I will think your chicken is the one that lays golden eggs!"

Xianglai thought he had forgotten something, but she didn't expect to be here waiting for her, she couldn't help but was stunned for a while, not knowing how to answer.

While she was in a daze, Luo Jinxing had already turned around and walked further and further away.

Looking at their backs, Xianglai heaved a sigh of relief, and said in her heart: "It's considered gone. If I knew these three people came from a wrong path, I wouldn't keep them here if I didn't say anything yesterday!"

But she didn't know that if Luo Jinxing didn't happen to live here, her life would be gone now.

After seeing off the guests, the four mothers turned and walked back to the courtyard. Wu Zhaodi at the window in the middle room quickly retracted her head, and said to Dachang mysteriously: "Hey, why did Chen Xianglai recruit a few more men back? Look at this. Live, my God, all the men are staying at home now!"

This time even Dachang believed it a little bit, and discussed with her: "I saw it yesterday, Second Aunt killed all the old hens that laid eggs and ate them!"

Wu Zhaodi looked surprised and said: "Oh, that's the etiquette for entertaining the new son-in-law. Could it be that Xianglai has found a rich master? Tsk tsk, you just went to Songning City, why did you hook up with so many people? !"

Dachang looked at her with envy, and said angrily, "What's the matter, are you envious? I envy you and hook up too!"

Wu Zhaodi was taken aback by what he said, and with a grunt, she climbed onto the kang to sleep and returned to her cage.

When the three of Luo Jinxing and the others left from Xianglai's house, Qi Xing, who had been galloping all night, entered the north gate of Songning City in embarrassment.

I went to the Maosheng Grocery Store to eat something in a hurry, changed my clothes, and then rode to Huikang Mansion.

A group of Koreans live in a remote house in Huikang Mansion. Like Beiliao, Goryeo is a subsidiary state of Southern Liao. Because Beiliao's intention of independence is becoming more and more obvious, Southern Liao also prohibits any contact between Goryeo and Beiliao. And these people did not greet the court of the Northern Liao Dynasty when they entered the Northern Liao Dynasty, they came in as smuggling businessmen.

At this moment, Yu Zixi was in the house.

It was already two days later when Qi Xing arrived here, he was exhausted from running, he could hardly stand on his horse, and staggered straight to Yu Zixi's room.

After entering the room, she said to Yu Zixi who was reading a book: "It's not good, Second Master, something happened!"

Yu Zixi looked up and saw that it was him, and immediately remembered the matter of asking him to kill Chen Xianglai, she couldn't help but sink slightly, but she didn't show it on her face, and asked calmly: "What's the matter, what a fuss."

Qi Xing entered the room and closed the door, and said: "Didn't you ask me to kill Chen Xianglai, not only did it fail, but the two of us who went there also died!"

Yu Zixi's hand holding the book moved slightly, his expression froze for a moment, and he said, "What's the matter, the three of you can't kill a little girl?"

Qi Xing said despondently: "Hey, don't talk about killing them, if we haven't even touched the shadow, our people will be cleaned up!"

As he spoke, he recounted the whole process of meeting Xu Lin, and finally said: "That man is so powerful, I guess we don't have such a master among the people we brought."

Yu Zixi said: "How could it be, haven't you seen such a person beside her before?"

Qi Xing said: "Yeah, I often go to see her place, there are two women who have lost their men and bring a big and a small two children, not to mention their family, even the entire Yanjiang Xitun has no kung fu, but I don't know how to fight." It popped up all of a sudden, before I saw the three people standing in front of her house dressed luxuriously, at that time I thought they were not from her family, who would have thought that only one would come out and almost make the three of us fall there!"

(End of this chapter)