Rebirth's Charm

Chapter 77

Zhong Lishan came forward with her entourage, smiled politely at Ye Xizhao, and looked at Qiao An.Compared with the past, it is considered amiable, "I haven't seen you for a long time, I heard that you are in a difficult situation recently?"

Qiao An didn't even bother to look at Zhong Lishan's appearance, and said impatiently, "What are you doing?"

"I don't care about how you are doing, but my elder brother will never forget you." Zhong Lishan shook her head and smiled bitterly, "You are also asking for trouble, and now you can't even go back to your hometown to visit Lingci. If that's the case, how about Let my brother help you out of the cage."

Joan smiled dismissively, "I want to leave, why do I need help from others."

After hearing this, Qiao Chen's eyes were full of guilt.Joan couldn't leave, and he couldn't take her with him when he left, so he was willing to be grounded.

During this period, Ye Xizhao looked back at the situation of Zhong Liming, Xiao Xun, and Yu Shaoheng, but found that the people who came to offer incense in the temple left in a hurry and flocked outside the temple.

Is this Xiao Xun's or Zhongli's meaning?
The huge monastery fell silent after a short while.

Ye Xizhao felt a chill in his heart.Immediately, Mrs. Tai was the one who missed her the most, so she told Yu Shaoheng to look for Mrs. Tai inside with his eyes and gestures.

Yu Shaoheng nodded slightly and gave her a comforting smile, telling her not to worry.

Under such a premise, Ye Xizhao felt a little at ease, but he still deserved to accompany Mrs. Tai, informed Qiao An, and walked towards the main hall of the temple with Zhilan.

At this time, Qiao An looked at Zhong Lishan, "You brothers and sisters are not going to confront Xiao Xun here, are you?"

Zhong Lishan waved her hands with a smile, "Don't count me in, I don't care about your rights and wrongs, I just came to watch the show for fun." Afterwards, she looked around and smiled even more, "I won't hide it from you, I Elder brother has always been very concerned about your affairs, when he first learned that you were going back to Longcheng, he arranged for people to accompany you all the way, and when Ling Ci recovered from your recovery, he would capture you halfway back to the palace."

Joan laughed, as if he had heard a joke.

Zhong Lishan continued: "Who knows that Xiao Xun's refusal to let you do so made my brother's plan come to naught. The two of them have had a deep grudge, and you have intervened between them recklessly, and now they will naturally be treated as a A tool for revenge on each other."

Qiao An laughed at herself and said, "It turns out that I still have some uses. In the past, I always felt that I was really useless."

Zhong Lishan knew that it would be difficult for anyone who wanted to hit Qiao An, and she couldn't. She ignored it and appealed to the current situation: "My elder brother ordered many people to stay near this temple—it can't be helped, the chances for him to get close to you are rare. Not much, now even the Xiao Mansion has no way to set foot, this has become his only chance."

"If he wishes—"

"From today onwards, you are a dead person and will be brought back to the palace by my elder brother. And this matter is the same as before. It is just another fight between my elder brother and Xiao Xun. You are just someone who was injured innocently. It is my elder brother Plead guilty to the emperor, so what can the emperor do? Xiao Xun lost one of his hands, and the emperor did not punish Xiao Xun for this matter. Right now, Xiao Xun intends to bring the situation to a stalemate, otherwise, you You won't show up here, right?" Zhong Lishan fixed her eyes on Qiao An after saying this, "You can take care of yourself, this matter will be untied or tied, it's all up to you."

Joan asked, "Why tell me the whole story?"

"You are Xiao Xunfa's wife, and Xiao Xun is a close friend of Marquis Yongping." Zhong Lishan really didn't want to see the grievances between Prince Jing's residence and those two families get worse.

Qiao An narrowed her eyes and thought for a moment, "I didn't realize before that you still have some merits."

No one would be offended by such a compliment, and so was Zhong Lishan, "I see that you are still hated as usual."

When Ye Xizhao was approaching the main hall, Mrs. Tai and Yuanyang came out in a hurry.

"Mrs. Tai." Ye Xizhao quickly walked up to her.

"What's going on here?" Mrs. Tai took Ye Xizhao's hand, "The person offering incense was kicked out, and someone wanted to take me to a meditation room forcibly."

If it was Xiao Xun's subordinates, he would definitely not force Mrs. Tai, so Ye Xizhao smiled wryly, "Should be Prince Jing's son?" He said and motioned Mrs. Tai to look at the situation of several people in the distance.

Sisters Zhong Lishan and Qiao An stood at the same place, and Zhong Lizhen stood at the same place as Xiao Xun and Yu Shaoheng.

Just looking at their expressions, I feel that they are gossiping.If it weren't for dozens of well-dressed guards approaching them with murderous intent, the observers would not have noticed the slightest clue.

Ye Xizhao couldn't see the expression on Zhongli's face clearly, but he could only feel that he was very relaxed and confident.

At this time, Chang An rushed over with a few people, and said respectfully: "Mrs. Tai, it's better to go back to the residence first."

Mrs. Tai was so happy, she really didn't want to witness the fight or even the bloody incident in the Buddha Gate Pure Land, "Well, let's go back to the mansion first."

Ye Xizhaoxu helped Mrs. Tai, although she was worried that Qiao An would be affected, but she could only take care of one side at the moment.As he walked, thinking of Yu Shaoheng, he guessed that his original intention was to spare some time to accompany Mrs. Tai and her—even if he wanted to go through the muddy water, it was impossible for Mrs. Tai and her to come to the temple without knowing it. .

But a group of people over there refused to give the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law time to leave. They didn't go far before they started.

Under the warm and pure sunshine of early autumn, in the isolated place in the eyes of Mrs. Tai, swords, swords, and murderous blood are intertwined.

Shocked, Ye Xizhao subconsciously raised his hand and covered Mrs. Tai's eyes. With this move, she forced Mrs. Tai to turn around and told Yuanyang and Zhilan: "It's better to find a meditation room for Mrs. Tai. Hurry up!" He told Chang'an, "Be careful, don't let Mrs. Tai make a mistake."

Although Mrs. Tai is dedicated to the Buddha, she has witnessed bloody things several times in the past few years.She is not flustered right now, but just warms her heart for Ye Xizhao's thoughtfulness and decisiveness at this moment.

Ye Xizhao hurriedly sent Mrs. Tai to a meditation room, and told Chang'an again to ensure Mrs. Tai would not be disturbed, so she turned around and left.

Madam Tai hurriedly asked: "Xizhao, where are you going?"

"Master Hou and Qiao An are in danger, my daughter-in-law must go and have a look."

Mrs. Tai understands her mood, but why is she not worried that she will be frightened, "What happened over there..."

At this moment, Chang An answered, "It's enough to separate two people to go with Madam—Master Xiao's subordinates have also arrived at the temple, Prince Jing's son will not harm the family of the Hou family."

It will not bring disaster to the family of the Hou Mansion—Yu Shaoheng has already intervened. Although he has a unique skill, he is always afraid of accidents...

Mrs. Tai looked at Ye Xizhao's unconcealable anxiety, and waved her hand, "Go, go, but protect yourself."

Ye Xizhao hastily said yes, followed by two men with excellent skills, and quickly walked back to the spacious courtyard in front of the main hall of the temple.

The fight between Zhongli Yang's men and the dark guards, Xiao Xun, and Yu Shaoheng was already in full swing.Because they were all dressed in black, Ye Xizhao couldn't tell which side the people who fell to the ground due to casualties belonged to.

Zhongli Cang, Zhonglishan, Qiao An and their personal entourage stood at the same place and watched.

Ye Xizhao gradually realized how dangerous the situation was——

This time, the bodyguards led by Zhong Lizhen were completely equal in skill to the hidden guards, and there were only 20 hidden guards who came to the temple, so it led to the situation where the dark guards were outnumbered and more than half of them were killed or injured.

Fortunately, Xiao Xun and Yu Shaoheng took action.

Both men use swords.The moves were too fast, so that they were surrounded by sword lights, and it was impossible to distinguish each move. Ye Xizhao could only see blood splashing everywhere their long swords went.

Ye Xizhao was worried that his approach would distract Yu Shaoheng, so he stood there anxiously.She pinched her arms fiercely, and still couldn't believe what she saw - what reason did Zhong Lixuan and Xiao Xun go to such a point of recklessness?Is it just for Joan?She didn't think so, at least, not entirely, there must be other reasons.

While Xiao Xun was dealing with the siege, out of the corner of his eyes, he caught sight of two people leaving and heading straight for Qiao An.

Joan still stood there calmly.

This woman is obviously tired of working...

"Shao Heng, I leave it to you!" Xiao Xun quickly confessed, leaped to the vicinity of Qiao An, raised his sword in his hand, and beheaded the two who intended to attack Qiao An one by one.

Yu Shaoheng was already able to deal with the besiegers with ease.Ye Xizhao became more and more sure that this was nothing more than a small disturbance to him, and then he focused his attention on Zhong Lixuan.He was standing right behind Xiao Xun, and she was worried that he would attack from behind Xiao Xun.

What happened next was not beyond her expectations, but something else happened——

Zhong Lizhen drew out his long sword with his left hand, and attacked Xiao Xun with all his strength.

"Be careful!" When Yu Shaoheng uttered his voice, the long sword in his hand flew out, hitting the sword in Zhongli's hand, and then kicked a guard's sword away with his toe, and raised his hand to catch it.

Xiao Xun turned around when he realized the danger.

But at this moment, the maid beside Zhong Lishan pulled out a dagger from her sleeve, and attacked Xiao Xun with all her strength.

Zhong Lizhen had already prepared well before, but the real killing move was the maid's sneak attack on Xiao Xun.

No one would have expected that the maid beside Zhong Lishan was actually a martial artist.Zhong Lishan didn't expect that, seeing this situation, she exclaimed.

The blood in Ye Xizhao's whole body was about to freeze.Yu Shaoheng was able to help Xiao Xun once, but he couldn't help Xiao Xun a second time in this situation. One was that he didn't expect it, and the other was that there were still a few people nearby who were desperately trying to trap him.

Sometimes, you will feel that a year or two is in your memory, like a wild goose passing by without a trace, because it is as plain as water, and nothing that makes you emotionally ups and downs happen.

Sometimes, you will feel that the sudden change is in the memory, and it will last forever, because your emotions will rise and fall in that moment, but there is no way to turn the situation around.Ye Xizhao and Yu Shaoheng couldn't do it, and Xiao Xun knew he was in a dangerous situation, so he didn't have the slightest chance to get out of it.

But the situation was completely reversed——

At the critical moment, Qiao An flew over and received the sword for Xiao Xun.

She had ignored the people in the Xiao family for a long time, and even ignored her own life and death, but when her husband was in danger, she did not hesitate to help him block the danger.

The price she paid was that she was injured instead of him.

The dagger pierced Joan's abdomen.

The servant gave a poisonous smile, and pulled out the dagger violently.

Blood spattered from the wound.

Xiao Xun took advantage of this gap and swung his long sword, hitting the maid's heart.

Seeing this situation, Yu Shaoheng was furious, and every move in his hand became fierce and swift. After quickly beheading those who besieged him one by one, he came to Zhongli's face, and the tip of the sword dripping with blood did not hesitate. Pierce Zhongli's shoulder.

Ye Xizhao first raised her hand to block her sight, driven by instinct, she was unwilling to accept it, let alone see Qiao An going through such a ordeal.Immediately, he put down his hand and hurried to Joan's side.

"Joan..."

"Joan!"

It was Xiao Xun who spoke first, his voice was very hoarse.

Immediately, a female voice spoke, with an extremely anxious tone.

Ye Xizhao didn't have the heart to care about other things, and when he got to Qiao An's side, his eyes were blurred with tears, and he helplessly covered Qiao An's wound, trying to stop her gushing blood.It was only later that he thought of Qiao Chen, and lost his voice, "Qiao Chen! Come here!"

Qiao Chen's face was also full of tears, he squatted down, tore off a piece of his clothes, and blocked the wound with all his strength to stop the bleeding.

"Qiao An." Xiao Xun wanted to pick up Qiao An, and said to Qiao Chen, "Go to the Zen room to heal her wounds!"

Qiao Chen nodded.

Qiao An shook his head, and even pushed Xiao Xun away, "No hurry. Xiao Xun, listen to me."

The people who followed Ye Xizhao said: "My subordinates will order people to prepare the things needed for healing."

When Xiao Xun heard this, he stopped moving Qiao An, sat on the ground and hugged her, listening to her first.

Joan's lips faded little by little and became pale, but his expression seemed to be unaware of pain.She drooped her eyelids, took out a purse with great effort, and handed it to Ye Xizhao, "Open it for me."

Ye Xizhao nodded, opened the purse, her hands trembling slightly, after that, she saw more than a dozen black crystal beads inside, guessing that these were what Qiao An wanted, quickly took out a few and gave them to Qiao An inside.

Qiao An handed the black crystal bead to Xiao Xun, "Xiao Xun, it's time to return it to its original owner."

Xiao Xun looked at the object in his hand, his expression changed from puzzlement to surprise, "You..."

Qiao An smiled peacefully, "How many times have I told you that I want to marry you with all my heart, but you still don't believe me."

"You were just a few years ago..."

"I won't talk about that anymore." Qiao An's voice has gradually become weaker, "I just feel that life and death are unpredictable now, even if you are going to die, you shouldn't be misunderstood and disgusted by you after death."

Xiao Xun bowed his head, stroking Qiao An's forehead with his chin, and his voice was full of guilt, "I...I'm sorry for you."

"Don't talk about that, listen to me..." Qiao An smiled desolately, "If I don't die, please allow me and my sister to return home after I recover... If I die, please send me a letter of divorce , Let my sister return home with my coffin."

Xiao Xun said helplessly: "Qiao An, don't rush to say these things, let me make it up to you."

"Make up for it?" Qiao An said sarcastically, "It's because of my wishful thinking, because I blocked a sword for you, and making up for it... I really... don't care."

With a wrong gaze, Qiao An saw Zhong Liming who had been stabbed by Yu Shaoheng and fell to the ground, and the irony in his voice was even stronger, "You married me because of your personal grievances with Zhong Liming... He may have been a little bit towards me at first." Sincerely, in the end, it was because of grievances with you... I used any opportunity to get close to me, making you despise and doubt me even more... But you, you actually firmly believed that I used you to marry you..." Looking at When Xiao Xun was young, her eyes were full of despair, "Tell me, what kind of thing am I in your heart?...Hmm? A tool for taking revenge on the other party, a tool for raising children for you, right?"

Ye Xizhao and Qiao Chen both turned their faces away, and wiped away the tears on their faces again and again, but the tears fell like pearls with broken strings, without stopping.

"I just pity my parents... Such a proud person, for my own wish, let me marry far away to the capital even though he didn't want to... If they knew, you would have been abandoning me like a widow and throwing away everything since I got married." The faces of Qiao's family..." Qiao An couldn't go on, tears glistened in his eyes.

After panting heavily, Joan smiled again, "I'll ask myself, I've treated you with the utmost kindness. If you are still the man I admire, then you will fulfill me. I ask you to fulfill me once."

"If you want to get your wish, you must live first!" Xiao Xun said in a heavy voice, "As long as you live, I will let you get your wish. Otherwise, you will be my Xiao Xun's person after you die."

After finishing speaking, he stood up, hugged Qiao An, and walked quickly to the meditation room.

Yu Shaoheng witnessed all this from the side, and then ordered in a silent voice: "Cut his tendons!"

The dark guard Ying claimed it was, and approached Zhong Lizhen.

Her hamstring was broken... Zhong Liming was really useless.

Zhong Lishan had only expected the situation of Zhong Lizhen after he got his wish, but never thought that he would end up in such a situation after his defeat. Hearing the sound, she hurried to Yu Shaoheng, and after a moment of hesitation, she knelt down in front of him, "Master! That's it! If that's the case, there's no way to resolve the hatred between you and the palace..."

Yu Shaoheng smiled indifferently, "There is no need to resolve it."

Zhong Lishan said eagerly again: "I know, my father and brother are thinking behind closed doors now, and shouldn't go out to provoke troubles, my brother is confused, but..."

She didn't go on, because she saw that the dark guard had followed Yu Shaoheng's orders, and she heard Zhong Lizhen's two muffled groans in pain.

Yu Shaoheng had already paced to another place, and was looking at Zhongli's dead and injured bodyguards, and ordered: "Find out where these people come from, as soon as possible!"

"Yes!"

The bodyguards of Prince Jing's mansion cannot be as skilled as the hidden guards, and this group of people is probably borrowed by Zhong Lizheng to help him deal with Xiao Xun.

After the dangerous fight, the situation is a lose-lose situation.

Zhongli Can no longer walk as usual, and Qiao An's life and death are uncertain.

After the turmoil in the courtyard in front of the main hall passed away, the people in the temple showed up—these people were affected for no reason, and they were put under arrest by someone assigned by Zhong Lizhen. Since the guards had the tokens of the royal guards in their hands, and the monks didn't know much about court officials. He didn't know that Prince Jing was thinking about his mistakes behind closed doors in the palace, and he didn't know that the people in the palace were already inconvenient and shouldn't dictate to anyone anymore, so he had to obey orders.In the final analysis, even if he knew it well, he could only pretend not to know——Prince Jing is a relative of the emperor, so it is so easy to return to court.

Ye Xizhao and Yu Shaoheng went to the meditation room first, and then immediately sent Mrs. Tai back to the residence.

No matter how much she worried about Qiao An, Ye Xizhao couldn't stay by her side at this time, she still had to take care of her family.

Mrs. Tai returned to the mansion, and after hearing what had happened, she looked at Yu Shaoheng worriedly: "Prince Jing's son has no sense, Xiao Xun accompanied him to mess around, and now you are intervening again—is it because you have too many grievances when you were officials?" , or the emperor's intention?" She just couldn't believe that her son was a willful person.

Yu Shaoheng thought for a moment, then smiled, "It's both."

Mrs. Tai and Ye Xizhao immediately relaxed a lot.

Immediately, Mrs. Tai still smiled wryly and sighed: "There are some things I can only talk to you in the room—the emperor and you embarrass Prince Jing so much, are you really not afraid that Prince Jing will have other thoughts in his anger?"

Other thoughts, of course, refer to the thoughts of committing crimes and making troubles.

But Yu Shaoheng was very calm, "If you have other thoughts, it would be great if you can show off the dew. The emperor has no intention of letting the son become a weapon, mother, don't you know what the emperor is thinking?"

Mrs. Tai can see it naturally, but she is still helpless, "No matter how you say it, people who know this kind of behavior will only think that you did it on purpose, and those who don't know will only think that you are being willful and arrogant, which is still not considered." He laughed again while talking, "But the emperor is not afraid of big troubles, not even making jokes, so what can others do?"

The emperor who escaped from the palace frequently, you really can't blame him and his important ministers for deviant in some matters.

Afterwards, Mrs. Tai studied Ye Xizhao's expression, and said in a gentle voice: "You and Mrs. Xiao have been walking close recently. Now that something like this happened to her again, let's go and have a look."

Ye Xizhao said yes.

Mrs. Tai told Yu Shaoheng again: "You are fine today, go with Xi Zhao. If Prince Jing's mansion is angry, even Xi Zhao will plot against me, I can't bear it."

Yu Shaoheng nodded and smiled, and rushed to Xiao Xun's mansion with Ye Xizhao.

On the way, Ye Xizhao asked: "In your opinion, will Qiao An's life be in danger?"

Yu Shaoheng said: "It's inconvenient for me to take a closer look at the injury, so I can't make a judgment."

"I'm really afraid that something will happen to her... If she dies like this, wouldn't this life be too unfair?" Ye Xizhao almost cried again as he spoke, "We must give Xiao Xun a chance to make up for her. That's right." Thinking of Qiao An's words, he became depressed again, "Joan refused to give him such a chance."

"That's Xiao Xun's own fault." After the incident, Yu Shaoheng also heard every word of Qiao An, "Every day, he is either busy with official duties or busy with finding someone to drink, but he just refuses to pay attention to family affairs. I've already lost my heart even if I don't know who Joan is."

(End of this chapter)