Chapter 147

It snows heavily in winter. At night, light snow turns into heavy snow, so all encounters and reunions have a kind of wind and snow, and the dust of returning at night.

But in the midst of heavy travel, there are some wonderful and beautiful scenes.

The young girl leaned out half of her body, and her face was frozen with surprise for a moment. She looked cute because of surprise. The young man in red smiled and leaned against the window with the handle of the fan. He looked up calmly, and his eyes were full of seemingly amorous feelings.

It is pure and fragrant, unexpected, and like the arrangement in the play.

In the silence, the young man broke the silence. He raised his lips and asked, "silly?"

Jiang Li regained consciousness and said, "why did the Lord of the kingdom come?"

"Aren't you going to the government tonight?" Ji Xuan smiled and said, "I'll pick you up."

Jiang Li: "...."

The four words "I'll pick you up" should have been very gentle with infinite affection, but when said by the person in front of me, there was a creepy unnatural. Jiang Li said, "the Lord doesn't have to be so troublesome. In fact, just let Zhao Ke come, or I can go by myself."

"Oh." He said, "I've come."

Everyone has come, and he can't be allowed to leave. Jiang Li sighed and stood up. Ji Xuan stretched out her hand, put her arm on and said, "jump down."

Jiang Li stepped on the stool, then on the table, holding Ji Heng's arm, and jumped down from the window. The window was not high, but she was still a little shaky when she jumped down. She subconsciously grabbed Ji Heng's robe corner.

Wait for Jiang Li to stand firm before he reacts, huh? Why jump out of the window? She can open the door and go out, can't she?

He glanced at Ji Heng again, sighed silently in his heart, and was taken away again.

Ji Xuan looked at Jiang Li with great interest and said, "your body is very suitable."

Due to the need to travel at night, Jiang Li can't wear too complicated. The woman's skirt is too long. She doesn't even wear a cape. She only wears a plain white cotton padded jacket prepared by Bai Xue. Her lower body is gray pants, and she wears black boots. Her long hair is all tied high behind her head, which is a man's disguise.

But although it was dressed as a man, in the snow, under the lantern light, the facial features became more and more gentle and beautiful, with an unspeakable cheerfulness.

"Thank you for your praise." Jiang Li answered, and she asked, "how do we get out?"

"Go through the back door." Ji answered.

"Back door?" Jiang Li was stunned: "what back door?"

Facts have proved that Ji Heng is much more familiar with the interior of the Jiang mansion than her second Miss Jiang. Bypassing several gardens that are not common in ordinary days, there is actually a back door. I didn't meet anyone along the way. Although I knew that Ji Heng must have let people pay off all possible servants in advance, it was too simple, which would make Jiang Li have an illusion, as if the whole Jiang mansion was made of paper, and anyone could come in at will. If Jiang Fu was ransacked at night, Jiang Li might not be too surprised.

After all, there are no bodyguards guarding the door at night!

Ji Heng took Jiang Li and went out the back door almost openly.

In the snow outside the back door, there was a black soft car parked. In front of the soft car, Zhao Ke stood, and there were four coachmen. Seeing Jiang Li and her two people coming out, they came to lift the car curtain.

Jiang Li hesitated. The sedan chair was different from the carriage. The two men and women were in the same sedan chair. In the end, it was more ambiguous.

She was still hesitating here, but Ji Heng calmly got on the sedan chair. After waiting for a long time, seeing Jiang Li didn't move, she asked, "don't you come up?"

The man's words were light and relaxed, as if everything was her thinking. Jiang Li couldn't help but doubt whether she was making a mountain out of a molehill, but the road was still far away. If she didn't take a sedan chair and walked on the street, if she was recognized by Princess Yongning's people, she was afraid it would cause trouble, so she had to bite her teeth and go up immediately.

Zhao Ke ordered the sedan bearer to lift up.

The sedan chair is as gorgeous and exquisite as its owner. There are even hot tea and snacks in it, which is difficult to enjoy in winter. But in any case, this is a sedan chair made by one person, so even if it is wide, the distance between Jiang Li and Ji Heng cannot be pulled very wide.

Almost close.

Ji Heng handed Jiang Li a cup of tea. The tea was still gentle. Jiang Li took a sip, and the chill dissipated a lot. She looked at the dim sum on the small table and suddenly said, "is this made by the Lord himself?"

At that moment, Jiang Li could be sure that Ji Heng's action paused, and the tea in his hand spilled out.

The people who carried the sedan chair outside walked steadily. The sedan chairs of the government were carefully selected, and they couldn't feel the turbulence at all. Therefore, it can never be because the sedan chair bumped and spilled tea, because of her words.

Ji Xuan put down the tea cup, took out the snow-white silk, slowly wiped the tea on her hand, and finally looked at Jiang Li: "No."

Jiang Li: "...."

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Jiang Li suddenly understood why outsiders wanted to spread rumors that Ji Xuan was moody. He was already moody.

"Who are you, Haitang?" Ji Heng suddenly asked.

The words diverged too quickly, and Jiang Li didn't react for a moment. She just heard Ji Heng say, "you're so nervous to search for her trace, don't hesitate to ask me for help, and you're not afraid that I'll see your secret. It seems to be very important to you."

"It's really important." Jiang Li smiled: "also, I never wanted to hide the Duke."

"Don't say it well. You're the most cunning." Ji hunhun smiled carelessly and said, "you know this woman called Haitang, just like you have known qiongzhi of Xihua building and Xue Huaiyuan of Tongxiang."

"I know." Jiang Li said, "she is the one who can help me bring down Princess Yongning."

"What I have never understood is," Ji Heng whispered, "why do you want to kill Yongning?"

"The Duke of the country only saw that I wanted to kill Princess Yongning, but he couldn't see that Princess Yongning had poisoned me many times." Jiang Li smiled lightly, "only state officials are allowed to set fire, and people are not allowed to light lights. It's unfair."

When she said "unfair", although she could suppress her emotions, she could still hear a trace of resentment. She really feels unfair.

Ji hung his head, looked at her and said, "you are the first daughter, not the people."

"Is the first daughter privileged?" Jiang Li asked, "but in my opinion, maybe it's worthless for Yongning or higher people."

Seeing that she was the daughter of a petty official, Yongning could bully Xue's family at will. But at the beginning, she was the eldest daughter of guan'er. As long as she blocked Yongning's way, but her status was not as high as Yongning, Yongning could still do whatever she wanted. This is the truth of today's world. People are oppressed by small officials, small officials are oppressed by big officials, big officials are afraid of kings and grandchildren, and kings and grandchildren bow down to the emperor.

There is exploitation at every level, and blood and tears at the bottom. As a common people, Xue Fangfei has personally experienced how it feels to be bullied by power.

"You seem very angry." There was a smiling voice in her ear, and Jiang Li found that before she knew it, Ji Hong had sat up straight, so in the not so spacious sedan chair, the distance between Ji Hong and her was at the end. Her ears seemed to feel the warm breath exhaled by Ji Heng.

Itchy, with inexplicable heat, let her heart a moment of anger, also dissipated a lot.

Jiang Li deliberately stepped back a little. She didn't think she had reached the edge, and her head almost hit the sedan chair beam. Thanks to Ji Chen's quick eyes and quick hands, she stretched out her hand behind her head, so what Jiang Li's back brain touched was Ji Chen's palm.

His hands are cold all the year round. His red clothes are like fire, but they are as cold and thin as ice.

Jiang Li was stunned and thanked softly.

Ji Xuan withdrew his hand and said lazily, "you don't have to be so hostile to the officials. Jiang Yuanbai is the first auxiliary. What you said has put you on the opposite side of the officials. Little guy," he didn't know whether it was a kind or malicious reminder, "it will be exposed."

It will be exposed.

What will be exposed? Jiang Li was a little nervous for a moment, which would reveal that she was not Miss Jiang er? Although there are many mysteries in her body and many incredible ones in others' eyes, as long as she doesn't say it herself, no one will think that there is another soul hidden in the shell of Jiang Li.

But that's for ordinary people. If it's for Ji Heng... Jiang Li looks up at each other.

The young man's eyes were deep, with a smile. His Phoenix eyes were narrow and raised, and the color was slightly heavy, so he was more and more able to outline a beautiful shape. The bridge of his nose was high, and his lips were purplish, like a cup of poisonous wine with a mystery. You can't see his heart, but you feel that you are caught by his eyes, and there is no hiding the secret of your heart.

He is too dangerous, too sober, too rational, and too easy to sink.

He is not an ordinary person. If he were, he might find out the secret of her. Jiang Li thought for no reason.

Jiang Li was silent. She didn't know what to say. Every word she said could become a clue for Ji Heng. If she said more wrong, she had to say nothing.

However, Ji Heng did not continue to ask her, as if slightly tired, so he put his head on his hands, leaned against the side of the sedan chair, and closed his eyes.

In the narrow sedan chair, the two people were close together, and they were silent. They could hear the wind blowing outside the sedan chair, and the sedan chair man's boots rustled in the snow, making the cold and quiet night a little more fresh.

Each thought, I don't know how long it took, the sedan chair stopped, and Zhao Ke's voice sounded outside: "Duke of the country, here."

Ji Heng, who had been sleeping with her eyes closed, opened her eyes, lifted the car curtain, took the lead to go down, and waited for Jiang Li to come down.

The government house at night looks more beautiful than it does in the daytime. Under the dim lights, it looks a bit unreal. It seems that people who have been trekking in the mountains for a long time have seen a fairy temple, and then have a look at the handsome young people who are not like mortals, and suddenly think that they have reached the strange nest.

Jiang Li came down, the door of the government opened, and she went in with Ji Heng.

Old general Ji has probably fallen asleep, because he didn't see his shadow. If old general Ji was there, it wouldn't be so quiet. He must drag Jiang Li and ask her why she came here at night and what is the relationship with Ji Heng.

Walking all the way to the innermost courtyard of the government house, there was a room. Outside the room, Wen Ji was waiting. Seeing them, he said, "my Lord."

"People are inside." Ji Xuan looked at her, "are you going in now?"

Jiang Li nodded and was about to go in. Wen Ji said, "Miss Jiang Er, this girl named Haitang doesn't trust her very much. If you go in alone, I'm afraid she will hurt you. Let the guard..."

"No need." Jiang Li smiled and refused his kindness, saying, "I'll go in and negotiate with her, and she won't hurt me."

Wen Ji looked at Ji Xuan, and saw that Ji Xuan did not show disapproval, so he stepped aside to facilitate Jiang Li to push the door in.

Jiang Li hesitated for a moment and turned to Ji Heng. Just about to speak, Ji Heng smiled and said, "I know, I'll wait at the gate of the yard and won't eavesdrop on your 'secret'." He bit the word "secret" a little harder.

Jiang Li said with a smile, "thank you for your consideration."

Ji Heng and his bodyguards all retreated to the yard. Jiang Li took a deep breath and summoned up courage to open the door.

Close the door, Jiang Li looked into the room. There was a lamp on the table in the room, and there was a person sitting in front of the table. She leaned back against the wall, as if this could make her feel a little more at ease. Her back was thin and tall. As soon as she saw this back, Jiang Li's tears almost came down. This figure made her familiar and mixed feelings. She couldn't recognize it. This is Begonia.

When Haitang heard someone coming, he immediately turned around quickly and stared at Jiang Li warily. She wore a veil on her face, showing only a pair of eyes, but the look in her eyes was strange. In the past, Haitang was gentle and calm, and she gave advice on everything. It was the most considerate and safe. However, today's Haitang can't see the tenderness of the past in her eyes. She looks like a wounded animal, staring at someone warily.

This look broke Jiang Li's heart.

But Jiang Li just raised a gentle smile and sat down opposite Haitang. When she did these actions, Haitang dodged her and kept close to the wall without saying a word.

"Are you Begonia?" Jiang Li smiled and said, "I asked someone to inquire about your news and brought you back from Zaohua village."

Haitang still looked at her with the eyes of a stranger. In fact, for Haitang, Jiang Li is really just a naked stranger. I don't know the details. Begonia opened her mouth, and she said, "what's your purpose?"

Hearing this, Jiang Li was stunned for a moment, and her face was stunned.

The voice of Begonia is gentle and very pleasant. In those days, others were still joking, saying that Begonia had been with his master for a long time, and his voice was like Jiang Li. But now her voice, as if it had been burned, was hoarse and unpleasant.

"What's wrong with your voice?" Jiang Li asked.

Haitang stared at her and said nothing.

For Begonia, it is abnormal for a strange woman to ask her voice for such a concerned attitude.

"Your purpose." Begonia asked again.

"I'm Jiang Li, the second miss of the Jiang family, the daughter of Jiang Yuanbai, the first assistant." Jiang Li tried to lighten her voice and make her look soft and friendly. She said, "I was entrusted to investigate the case of Miss Xue Fangfei."

"Miss..." Haitang was stunned and immediately became excited. She asked, "what's the matter with Miss?!"

Jiang Li frowned, "don't you know?"

"I don't know!" Begonia asked eagerly, "what happened to her?"

When Haitang and Dujuan left the Shenfu, Xue Fangfei was not dead, but was under house arrest for the scandal of having an affair with others. Xue Fangfei drove her and Du Juan away because one day Xue Fangfei suspected the two servant girls of stealing property, expelled them from the house, and made them never return to Beijing.

At that time, Haitang and Dujuan were greatly wronged, but Xue Fangfei had never been so severe. The friendship between master and servant for many years was destroyed, and Haitang was also sad. But then they left Yanjing City, and after a long time, Haitang gradually calmed down, and also wanted to understand that Xue Fangfei was to protect them. If she and Du Juan stay in Shen's house, sooner or later she will be attacked by Shen's mother.

Since their young lady wanted them to live well, Begonia and cuckoo could only endure grief and linger. Now hearing Jiang Li suddenly talk about Xue Fangfei, Haitang's heart suddenly had an ominous premonition.

Jiang Li looked at her and said, "she's dead."

Begonia was stunned and almost sat unstable, falling to the ground. Jiang Li held out her hand, and Haitang looked at her, but her expression was still confused. She asked, "how... How can it be? She was still well when I left..."

"Xue Fangfei lost face after finding out that she had an affair with someone. Soon she became seriously ill and finally died of serious illness and went." After a pause, Jiang Li said, "it's like this on the surface."

"What do you mean?" Begonia immediately caught the meaning of Jiang Li's words.

"It means that Xue Fangfei's death was not an accident, nor did she die of a serious illness. The reason why she died was that she was killed by someone. Just like when she had an affair with someone, she was framed."

Haitang looked at Jiang Li, and her expression gradually changed, like being on guard or excited. She asked, "how do you know that she was framed for having an affair with others?"

"It doesn't matter how I know, but you should know that you are Xue Fangfei's personal servant girl. You know best whether Xue Fangfei had an affair with someone in those days." Jiang Li Dao.

Haitang tightly clutched the tea cup on the table: "she didn't have an affair."

Jiang Li looked at her, "I know."

"Why did you come to me," Haitang asked, "and why did you say these words to me? What good is it for you to do so? If you want my life, just take it. I don't care. If you want to use you and me to achieve an ulterior purpose, I advise you to give up this idea as soon as possible, and I won't do anything."

Jiang Li didn't answer, but just looked at Haitang and smiled.

After a while, Haitang nervously asked, "what are you doing?"

Jiang Li shook her head, "I'm just sighing. It's nice for Xue Fangfei to have you as a servant girl. No wonder she tried her best to send you and Du Juan out."

Haitang was stunned: "do you know?" Her voice suddenly trembled: "back then... Did she expel us out of the house on purpose? In fact, she has never wronged us?"

Although Haitang later guessed that it was possible, she couldn't let it go. Now Xue Fangfei is dead, and this question will never be answered, but from Jiang Li's mouth, she suddenly has a glimmer of hope, as if only in this way can she be perfect.

"Yes." Jiang Li looked at her calmly, "she knew that she would be in danger everywhere in the Shen family, and it was more likely that she could not even save the lives of the two of you. Only by driving you out of the house can you get a chance of life. If you tell the truth to you, you won't leave, and you have to live and die with her. It's better to be cruel, which can make you die, leave Yanjing city completely, and save your lives."

Haitang was listening. Not long after, a line of tears suddenly fell. She murmured, "I know... I always know."

"However," Jiang Li asked the question she wanted to ask, "what I know is that you were not a servant girl at that time, and there was another one named Du Juan. Why are you alone now? Have you parted ways halfway? Or do you have other plans?"

Haitang lowered his head and said, "dead."

Jiang Li's heart shrank tightly, as if someone had grabbed it with his hand, and he just felt out of breath. Although I had thought of this possibility for a long time, I still couldn't accept it when I really heard what Haitang said.

The excitement around her left one by one, as if nothing had been left.

"How did she... Die?" Jiang Li's voice was a little choked up.

But because Haitang is so sad at the moment, she didn't find anything different. She was just very tired, as if she had exhausted all her strength and said, "not long after we escaped from Yanjing City, we suddenly found that the government was posting our notice everywhere, saying that we had stolen our master's silver and wanted to arrest us. Cuckoo was caught. I wanted to help and ask the official to tell them that cuckoo was innocent, but that night... When I found cuckoo, she had been strangled and thrown on the mass grave."

The pain in Jiang Li's heart is unstoppable.

"I don't know if it's the people of the government. Since it's the people wanted by the government, why should the case be directly executed without trial? That's the punishment, why don't we announce it to the world. If it's not the people of the government, why are the wanted notices of the government posted everywhere? I don't understand, but I also know that there's no way to avoid it. I saw that they even ambushed near the random burial post, probably waiting for me to throw myself into the net and catch me when I go to collect the body of cuckoo Get up, so I didn't collect the body for the cuckoo. " When it comes to this, Haitang's hands tremble. About now, he can't forgive what he did at that time.

"I ruined my face, escaped the search of the government, and fled back to my hometown." Begonia Road.

"Your face..."

Begonia asked, "do you want to see it?"

Jiang Li nodded.

Begonia laughed miserably and stretched out his hand to lift the veil.

Jiang Li's breathing almost stopped for a moment, but he saw that the original white and beautiful face had two deep knife marks, from eyes to chin, ferocious and terrifying, and the wound was scarred, but instead of making people feel better, it was even more shocking.

What can make a gorgeous woman willing to destroy her appearance to such a degree? From then on, you can only cover your face with a veil and walk in the world.

Haitang has been staring at Jiang Li's eyes. Her face, everywhere she goes, sees nothing but disgust and fear. She has long been used to it. Even those people in black who came to pick her up were quite unnatural when they saw her face. She thought Jiang Li was the same as those people.

But Jiang Li didn't.

Jiang Li just looked at Haitang deeply. Her eyes were full of sadness and guilt, heartache and regret, but what she didn't have was fear and avoidance. She even stretched out her hand to touch the scar.

Haitang suddenly stepped back, put on the veil again, and kept silent for a while before she said, "you see."

Jiang Li was also silent. Seeing her old friend at first sight was not a happy reunion. Both of them had rough experiences, which made people sigh the absurdity of fate.

"I want to ask, what on earth is it for that you don't hesitate to destroy your appearance in order to survive?" Jiang Li asked.

"I don't know." There was a moment of confusion in Haitang's eyes. "At first, I thought the wanted notice of the government was put by the young lady. But I didn't feel it in my heart. I hope to live on. One day, I can see the young lady and ask why it's the case. Why do we say that we steal property? Maybe the young lady is to save our lives, so we shouldn't give up our lives casually, but try to live."

She said, "we have known since childhood that we live for young ladies."

Jiang Li closed her eyes.

In fact, Xue Huaiyuan never wanted the servants of the Xue family to devote everything to their master and should have their own life. Jiang Li is also matched with Begonia and cuckoo as sisters, but there is about such a kind of loyal servant in the world. Her life is tied to another person.

Very heavy, very heavy.

"I didn't know the young lady was dead..." Haitang murmured, "I still thought, maybe I can see the young lady again..."

"Xue Fangfei can't live," Jiang Li thought hard and looked at her again, "not only that, Xue Zhao is also dead, Xue Huaiyuan is crazy. The whole Xue family, now there is nothing."

Haitang stared at her blankly and shook his head, "no..."

"Haitang, listen, it's not an accident, nor is it karma. It's a conspiracy, a living conspiracy. Someone killed the Xue family. I'm Miss Jiang er. I was entrusted to help the Xue family rehabilitate, clean up Xue Fangfei's unwarranted reputation, and find evidence that she was killed." Jiang Li stared into Haitang's eyes, "this is not only because of Xue Fangfei, but also for you. Why does Du Juan die for all the innocent people in this conspiracy? Do you want to see the murderer go unpunished?"

"Why should I trust you?" Begonia asked. She is a smart girl with determination and determination. Now she is hit by the truth and can still adhere to her reason.

"If I want to kill you, I won't try my best to bring you to Yanjing city. You can also go to see the crazy Xue Huaiyuan to see if what I said is false." Jiang Li said, "you are Xue Fangfei's personal servant girl. You know at least who you should suspect when you are with her every day. When Xue Fangfei was framed for having an affair with someone, who is the most suspicious and what suspicious things she did?"

Haitang stared at Jiang Li. After a while, her eyes sank and spit out a few words.

"Xiao Deyin."

"Also, everyone in the Shen family."