The psychic Xi ​​Lan

Chapter 58
Long Xilan found that Zi Xuyuan was ready to make a move, so she pulled his arm sleeves. "Don't worry!"

Zi Xuyuan didn't really want to make a move, but watched those officers and soldiers approaching, and subconsciously blocked Long Xilan.

A young soldier in the blue armor got off his horse and ran straight to them with a respectful expression. "May I ask if this is Young Master Longmen?"

Zi Xuyuan heaved a sigh of relief, and replied: "It's just me."

"Young Lord Qu, please, Mr. Long, please come with me." The man spread his arms and pretended to be respectful.

A dozen or so places behind, a carriage from Prince Qu's Mansion slowly approached.

He was naturally unwilling to leave, but he knew he couldn't refuse, so he had no choice but to take Long Xilan forward.

When they got into the carriage, both of them looked very serious.

Zi Xuyuan was silent for a moment, then said to her in a soft voice: "If you ask who you are, just say that your name is Long Xi'an, and you are a cousin of the same generation of my Long family."

Long Xilan shook her head: "I can't answer like this. If King Qu is entrusted by King Xu, you have to tell him frankly that you are not Mr. Long. You are Zixu Yuan from Nanxian Temple, and I am your fellow disciple, Zixu combine."

Zi Xuyuan was puzzled for a while.

She hurriedly explained to him: "Before I didn't know that you were pretending to be me, I reminded Li Huai in particular, I guess King Qu asked you to go back, it should have something to do with Li Huai, so if you don't tell that person To be honest, he will doubt you, and this time he specially asked you to go back, we have to be prepared."

Facing a smart person, cheating is not a good way, but frankness is.

Not long after, the carriage really stopped outside the gate of Prince Xu's Mansion.

The two of them got out of the carriage back and forth without saying anything.

It was the first time for Long Xilan to visit Prince Xu's Mansion, and it was not as fancy as the Pear Court, but it was magnificent and worthy of Li Huai's status in the court.

Prince Qu and his accompanying eunuchs were waiting outside the gate. When they saw them coming down, they first glanced at Long Xilan behind him suspiciously, and then explained the reason for inviting them here.

"Mr. Long left without saying goodbye the day before yesterday. I feel uneasy in my heart. I don't know if the hospitality is not good enough?"

Zi Xuyuan shook his head and said: "That's absolutely not the case, it's just that my junior brother came to the capital to look for me suddenly, so I left without saying goodbye."

King Qu didn't think about the meaning of his words, but just glanced at Long Xilan behind him again.

He immediately took the initiative to introduce: "This is Zixuhe from Nanxian Temple."

When the other party heard it, Nan Xianguan's eyes were immediately filled with reverence.

However, since there were still people waiting inside, he said shortly: "That's right, I'm afraid you two know what happened now, and my king invited you back to help find the missing Princess Xu."

Li Huai never believed these things, so it is likely that Li Wei made his own claims.

But it can be seen from this that King Qu and Li Wei are on the side of King Xu.

Soon, King Qu personally took the two of them into the mansion.

Long Xilan saw Yan Ting hurried forward with a sword in his hands with a serious face, as if there was something urgent to report to the master.

At this time, Li Huai, who was dressed in a light purple brocade robe, came from the garden leading the royal guard of the "Heaven" department.

"Sixth brother!" He called King Qu first, and his eyes immediately fell on Zi Xuyuan who was next to him, and his brows tightened as expected.

"Seventh brother, the whole city is now searching for the whereabouts of the princess, but there has been no news. Maybe we should try other methods."

Li Huai stopped, and replied politely: "Sixth brother Lao, I'm sorry, but the seventh brother is going out soon, there is news from below, it is possible to find Jin Hua!"

Long Xilan was a little surprised, did she find Jin Hua?Where?
Prince Qu was very pleasantly surprised and asked, "Really?"

"The city guards just now found a woman suspected of being a brocade painting in a workshop, and she was imprisoned in a hut. Now Ji Hai is rushing over to confirm it." Li Huai replied.

King Qu hurriedly replied: "The sixth brother will go and have a look with you."

Li Huai nodded, and his eyes never fell on the inconspicuous Long Xilan at the back.

In this way, they hurried out again to go to the carriage.

Because King Qu's carriage today is light and fast, it is a bit crowded for three people. When King Qu sat in, he also discovered this.

"Otherwise, Daoist Xuhe will go to the carriage of my seventh younger brother?"

Long Xilan was puzzled, even though this carriage was not too big, it could barely fit three people, why did Prince Qu bother to ask her to share a carriage with Li Huai?As for her, she also didn't want to stay with Li Huai alone.

Zi Xuyuan knew it well, and hurriedly said: "Otherwise, I'll take King Xu's carriage!"

King Qu immediately joined in and said, "Brother Long, you come up to accompany me, I still have something to say to you!"

The honorable Prince Qu has said so, and the two of them naturally dare not refuse.

So Long Zhilan had no choice but to get into the carriage of Prince Xu behind.

Li Huai was sitting in the carriage with a serious expression on his face. Seeing her coming, he only asked, "Did my Sixth Brother send you to sit with me?"

"Excuse me, my lord, grass people can walk." She had learned the mouthpiece technique for many years, and she pretended to be a man, very realistic.

"No need, since you are the sixth brother's guest and this king's guest, there is no reason to let the guest walk, you come up."

Long Xinglan's heartbeat began to speed up, and she had to sit on it with trepidation.

After going up, she lowered her head cautiously and humblely, not daring to look deeply at Li Huai's face.

She was just afraid that if she took a look at it, she would be fascinated again.

Li Huai also remained silent, looking down at the white finger in his hand, thinking about something.

Going to the rumored place to find the place suspected to be Ji Jinhua, there is still some distance.

In the quiet carriage, it was very quiet for a time, but outside the carriage, it was bustling with traffic.

The sound of breathing between the two was around, and suddenly, a low male voice from the opposite side broke the silence in the car.

"What's your name?"

"Zixuhe." Long Xilan answered carefully, without looking up at him.

"Zixu... seems to be the name of the Nanxian Taoist. Are you a Taoist priest?"

She was a little surprised that Li Huai, who had always looked down on Xuanmen warlocks, actually knew the Dao name of Nanxian Temple.

"Yes."

Then, the previous silence in the carriage returned.

Long Xilan didn't dare to let go, she kept her head down and didn't dare to lift it up, for fear that if her face fell into the eyes of the sharp-eyed Li Huai, she would discover the clues of the mask.

But Li Huai didn't care much about her face.

He heard the cries of vendors outside the car, and the hustle and bustle of those stone wells, and he asked after a long time, "Tell me, could that be her?"

When Long Xilan heard the voice, she looked over subconsciously.

Seeing him lift the curtain of the car on one side, his eyes were a little lost and low.

It's rare to see Li Huai like this, and it's still in front of a 'stranger' like her.

Long Xilan felt a little sad, her palms were hidden under her clothes, sweating profusely.

"No!" Finally, the two people were still spoken out.

She is here, unless the dead Ji Jinhua comes back to life, there will be no more Ji Jinhua.

Answering this way, I don't want him to have any expectations.

After hearing this answer, Li Huai's expression changed, but his eyes fell on her.

Seeing her bowing her head, she said in a low voice: "You should know that this king doesn't want you to answer like this, and you don't believe what you say. However, you dare to answer so bluntly in front of this king, you are very courageous."

Long Xilan hurriedly pleaded guilty and said, "I hope the lord will forgive me."

"You said what you think is the truth, what is your crime?" Li Huai asked her, without moving his eyes from the top of her head, and then he said: "At that time, she was also sitting in the same position as you were sitting."

That time, he took her to see lanterns.

She sat there, lowering her head and thinking about how to disappear in front of him.

After trying several times, she came back with another identity. She was still sitting there, same as last time, thinking about how to disappear in front of him.

But there was a complex and secret emotion in her heart, struggling in the middle, which caused her heart to suffer.

Facing the dazzling and lonely man in front of him, Long Xilan was still unable to predict.This is also a strange place of fate, she can see through so many people's thoughts and stories, but cannot see through his heart.

Did he really care that Ji Jinhua disappeared?

Does he care about that identity, or that person?

Soon, the carriage stopped, and Li Huai got out of the carriage first, and Duan Kuan, deputy chief of the city guard, came to greet him.

Long Xilan waited for Qu Wang and Zi Xuyuan who came from behind, but seeing that the atmosphere of the two was not right, she suddenly felt suspicious.

When no one was paying attention, she asked softly, "What happened? Why does your face look like you've eaten ashes."

Zi Xuyuan continued to walk forward with a stern face.

Seeing that he didn't answer, she kicked him.

The other party pouted and said displeasedly, "I really don't want to mention it."

Then turned around and continued walking forward.

Thinking of the reaction of King Qu and Li Wei when they got into the carriage just now, her mind suddenly brightened, and she chased after her and asked in a low voice, "Could it be that King Qu said something to you?"

Being guessed by her, Zi Xuyuan's expression became even more ugly. "These princes and princes are really ignorant and incompetent, and they are ridiculous."

Long Xilan found it amusing to see him bowing his head patiently and drooling on the floor.

Just adding fuel to the fire: "You can't blame the prince, who made you have such a skin, you are still a sissy..."

"Damn girl, if you call me a sissy again, you won't even think about me talking to you again." After speaking, this guy was so angry that he threw up his sleeves and strode forward.

Long Xilan shook her head helplessly, cursing inwardly, what a cheapskate.

Soon, everyone arrived in the workshop.

This is a black workshop that produces cloth. When the city guards came to search, they seized the place and found a young and stunning woman inside. She was arrested by the owner of the black workshop and locked in a small black room. After coming out, she kept saying that she wanted to see Prince Xu.

Duan Kuan didn't dare to slack off, and immediately sent someone to report to Princess Xu, and that's how the current situation came about.

Long Xilan walked to the side of Zi Xuyuan who had walked away angrily just now, and wanted to say something nice to him, but this fellow said: "Don't try to please me, I won't accept your tricks."

After speaking, I went to the other side.

She really couldn't laugh or cry, but she could only hold back.

"My lord, my lord——" Suddenly, a sad female voice came to her ears, and Long Xilan looked up at the sound.

Then I saw a woman in pink with loose hair rushing out from the entrance of the workshop and hugging Li Huai who was at the front tightly.

Looking from Long Xilan's perspective, he could see the light purple tall and tall figure in front of several mighty Wangfu guards, and the flamboyant jade arms around his waist.

That is, Yu Meiren?

Suddenly feeling cold, Li Huai didn't push her away, but let the woman hug him, sobbing and begging for mercy in his arms.

"Mei Ren thought...that she would never see the prince again...the prince..."

When Li Huai saw the woman's face clearly, he was dazed for a moment, and then slowly raised his right hand, the right hand that Long Xilan always thought was beautiful - gently patted Yu Meiren's shoulder and back like soothing .

"Don't be afraid, charming, the king is here!"

These eight words, like a lightning flash, knocked Long Xilan down on the spot, standing upright and watching from a distance.

She suddenly remembered that that day Qian Mo said that Mr. Li from the Ministry of Justice molested Yu Meiren at the banquet. At that time, Li Huai, just like now, pulled Yu Meiren out of Mr. Li's arms angrily. Taken away in full view, right?
Humans are not grass, how can they be ruthless, let alone the woman who once saved him?Five years of watching is naturally heavier than a woman who has only known each other for a few days.

But, but, why did Li Huai keep emphasizing that he didn't like it when he was in front of her?

She looked back, in fact, she could understand.

Everyone can lie, even she can't help but say something that is beneficial to herself.

Although it was not intended, it was done!

Later, I learned that Yu Meiren met the owner of the workshop by chance when she was leaving the pear courtyard. The man took pity on her beauty and imprisoned her here. Fortunately, the city guards found her soon. No other injuries were sustained.

Li Huai ordered the owner of the workshop to be sent to prison, and took Yu Meiren away.

Walking outside the workshop, Prince Qu saw that Li Huai let Yu Meiren get into the carriage, and said wisely, don't bother, and then he will take Zi Xuyuan and Long Xilan away first.

Long Xilan stood in front of the cloth frame with colorful cloth floating on it, seeing Li Huai carefully helping the frightened Yu Meiren into the car, she couldn't move her feet for a while.

At that time, without going through the situation, I thought that a man would be considerate to a person only if he liked a person.

She was deeply infatuated with Li Huai's subtle eyes, and felt that they were the most beautiful things she had ever seen in this world.

But when he saw that beauty applied to other women, he suddenly realized that maybe that kind of subtlety was his privilege as a noble body, and he could treat whomever he wanted to be good to.

Let's go, if there are still so many reluctance and wishful thinking, it should be stopped at this moment!
Seeing Zi Xuyuan standing in front of King Qu's carriage waiting for her, she lowered her head to cover up the disappointment in her heart, and walked forward.

"Xuhe?" Suddenly a familiar voice came from behind.

Long Xilan paused and turned her head slowly.

Seeing Li Huai still standing in front of the carriage, he asked her, "Aren't you coming up?"

King Qu poked his head out, a little surprised.

"Seventh brother?"

"Sixth brother was distracted and asked two guests to come and help, how can seventh brother refuse?" After Li Huai finished speaking shallowly, he said to Long Xilan: "This king thinks calling Zi Taoist chief too old-fashioned, so I call you a false cooperation." , you don't mind, do you?"

This is Li Huai, he is of high status, he is humble, courteous, gentle and peaceful in front of people he thinks are useful.

So, Long Xilan had no choice but to bite the bullet and get in the car again.

Yu Meiren was already sitting in the carriage, and when she saw an irrelevant person coming in and disturbing the world between her and the prince, she was very unhappy, but there was only a flash of disgust in her eyes, Even after Long Xilan sat down next to her, he asked her softly: "I can't tell that this young man is young, since he is an expert outside the world."

Yu Meiren has also experienced some things in her life, so it is no problem to observe her words and demeanor. After hearing what Prince Xu said just now, she immediately knew who the person in the same car was.

"I dare not, I just live in seclusion in the mountains most of the time." Long Xilan replied humbly, continuing to lower her head.

Immediately, he didn't say anything to her.

The carriage was driving on the way back to Prince Xu's Mansion. Compared with the silence when it came, there was an indescribable embarrassment inside the carriage.

Especially Long Xilan, watching Yumeiren sit next to Li Huai with anxiety.

After being rescued from the black workshop, he could finally sleep peacefully for a while, and just like that, he fell asleep on Li Huai's shoulder with his eyes closed.

Li Huai first glanced at her sideways, not knowing whether he knew she was troubled or felt distressed, but he didn't push her away, silently looking out of the carriage window, the picture flashed by.

Long Xilan looked at Yu Meiren's hands and feet from time to time, seeing her approaching Li Huai intentionally or unintentionally in her sleep, she really wanted to throw her out of the car.

But after all, it was just thinking about it, she didn't believe that Yu Meiren would be such a coincidence, but at this moment, she was imprisoned in a black workshop, this woman must have other things to hide from her.

Not long after they arrived at Prince Xu's mansion, Yu Meiren was still awake.

Long Xilan thought that he would quietly wait for Yi Ren to wake up, but it was Li Huai who called softly: "Charming?"

Yu Meiren slowly opened her eyes. "My lord!"

The voice was so soft that there was water in her throat, Long Xilan heard it in her ears, she really didn't like it, and got out of the car in a hurry.

Zi Xuyuan was already waiting outside with King Qu, seeing that she came out first, he hurried up and asked her softly: "I've wanted to ask you for a long time, could it be that while you were pretending to be Miss Ji Er, you made love to Na Xu?" Is the prince moved?"

Long Xilan was so disgusted by the jade charming man that her chest was tight and her breath was tight, and she was worried that she had no place to vent her anger, so this guy came up to her, and she didn't have a good face at all and said: "Didn't you say that if I call you a sissy again, you will ignore me?" Me, how can I forget what I said so quickly? Sissy!"

Zi Xuyuan was so angry that he almost jumped violently, snorted coldly, and walked forward.

King Qu was waiting for him in front, but when he saw King Qu's smiling face, his steps slowed down. Rather than doing this, it would be better to be called a sissy by the stinky girl behind.

"My lord, the charming man has made trouble for the lord. The lord shouldn't be so kind to the charming man. If Miss Ji sees it, he will be unhappy again!" Yu Meiren's delicate voice came from behind.

Long Xilan knew that it was Li Huai and the others who were coming, and although Yu Meiren lowered her volume on purpose, she still heard it and stood aside with her head bowed.

Li Huai didn't speak at first, and then replied softly: "You don't know about Mei Ren, Jin Hua is missing!"

"Ah?" When Yu Meiren heard this, a frightened and worried expression appeared on her face.

Long Xilan thought to herself, the acting is really realistic, probably the woman who most wants Miss Ji to disappear is this woman, right?

Li Huai, Li Huai, don't you have sharp eyes, why can't you see it, and let her continue to disgust herself!
"Could Miss Ji still be angry with the prince because of what happened that morning?" Yu Meiren asked like this, who knows if she really doesn't know, or if she doesn't know.

"It's not good to be charming. I thought of coming to say goodbye to the prince early in the morning, but just happened to be bumped into by Miss Ji, alas..."

Long Xilan sneered in her heart, she really treated herself like a green onion!

Li Huai comforted her and said, "This has nothing to do with you, Jin Hua was kidnapped!"

"Ah? Kidnapped? Such a rampant villain, actually..." Yu Meiren was shocked and angry, and really felt aggrieved by what happened to Miss Ji!
"If you can make the prince not worry, Meiren really hopes that she will be taken away instead of Miss Ji!"

Hearing these words, Long Xilan estimated that she would not be able to say it so beautifully after ten more births.

But Li Huai, who shouldn't like to listen to such high-sounding words, comforted her: "Mei Ren, just take care of yourself. Now, I will order someone to send you back to rest!"

After Li Huai finished speaking, he called Liu Jin and sent Yu Meiren back to Ruyun Pavilion where she used to live to rest.

After seeing off Yu Meiren, Li Huai remembered Long Xilan.

Looking back for her, I saw her waiting under the pomegranate tree not far away.

"False cooperation!"

Long Xilan stepped over and asked, "What orders does the lord have?"

"Since you were able to predict that the person in the prophet's workshop was not her, then you must be able to figure out where she is at the moment, right?"

"This—" Long Xilan hesitated in her heart, divination to find someone is not impossible, but she is facing two problems at the moment.

One is, how can she help the prince to find herself?

Second, if she talks nonsense and the prince can't find anyone later, wouldn't it be a question of her?
Li Huai doesn't believe in people from the Taoist sect, and he went to the doctor for an emergency today, let's just believe it, if he makes a mistake, he can do other things completely!

Long Xilan was not found, but still suffered because of it, isn't it worth the candle?
No, you still have to find an opportunity to leave quickly.

"If you have something difficult to say, you might as well tell it directly." Seeing that she didn't answer for a long time, Li Huai said this.

"But you can find it, but it will take some time. When Xuhe finds Miss Ji, the wedding day has already passed!"

Li Huai's complexion sank, and he frowned slightly and said, "So what, I came back to her not because I was in a hurry to marry her, but because I hoped that she would return to my side safely."

When Long Xilan heard these words, her heart was agitated.

For a moment, I didn't know how to respond.

Li Huai paused, as if he knew that he was being rude just now, he lowered his voice and asked, "Tell me, is she alive or..."

Fighting at the Ji Mansion in the middle of the night resulted in heavy casualties. When Li Huai heard the news and arrived, the black-clothed assassination group had already fled, leaving a hospital of corpses and wounded soldiers. Even Ji Jinjiang, who was always proud of martial arts, was wounded. How tragic it was.

And when he went to Miss Ji Er's room to check, he found that a whole round table had been split in half.

At that time, the killer must have broken into Jin Hua's house at night. She was unarmed, how did she escape those attacks?The room was full of blood, did it flow from her body?

After the incident, he personally went to investigate the situation that night, and questioned the surviving guards one by one, but no one knew how Miss Ji disappeared.

Moreover, he was still in it, and found a very weird clue!

(End of this chapter)