Ming Lanruo didn't know what was going on in Jing He's bold and unruly mind, so she only secretly observed the situation along the way.
Not long after, following the instructions of the hidden scholar, the carriage quickly stopped at the back door of an inn.
The inn doesn't look big, with a lively front yard and parking horses in the back yard, but it's quiet and deserted.
Under Scholar Yin's arrangement, they and the coachman quickly moved King Qin and Mr. Unknown through the back door into several hidden rooms in the corners of the second floor of the inn.
Ming Lanruo frowned as she looked at the semi-conscious King Qin on the bed.
Although she really wanted this bastard to die, if this man died, she wouldn't be able to get those medical books!
In that batch of medical books, in addition to the secret recipes for alchemy, there was also the "Miao Jiang Gu Technique" that she needed very much.
She is not good at voodoo. If she uses her own essence and blood every time to activate the voodoo king in her body to forcefully inflict voodoo on people.
Within three times, the Gu King in her body will be useless! This is why she can't just use Gu to control other people.
When the time comes, let alone using medicine and the King of Gu to control the poison in Cang Qiao's body and slowly restore his male "male style", she will not even be able to control the poison in Ming Yueying's body, and she will be poisoned by the poison!
Although Ming Lanruo felt a little unhappy, she still ordered Jing Ming: "Go get hot water, we have to treat Shangguan Hongye's injuries!"
Jing Ming immediately went to prepare hot water, helped Ming Lanruo change out of Shangguan Hongye's bloody clothes, and tucked him into the bed naked.
Ming Lanruo handed the bloody clothes to Jing Ming and arranged calmly and simply: "The prince's people will search from house to house soon. You quietly go to the kitchen to burn the bloody clothes on his body, and then immediately lurk out of the town and return to Tangshan to report to the Queen Mother and invite the Queen Mother."
Your Majesty, please send someone to pick us up quickly!!"
It is only two hours' journey from here to Tangshan Palace. As long as the Queen Mother sends a carriage and horses to pick her up, the Crown Prince will not dare to search for the carriage!
By then, she will be able to take Shangguan Hongye and Master Wuming out!
"But... Miss, I'm not worried about you being here alone!" Jing Ming was unwilling, and she looked at Ming Lanruo worriedly.
Ming Lanruo took a breath, comforting her and comforting herself: "If you think about it, even if the prince discovers that I am harboring King Qin, he will not kill me. After all, the prince also wants to benefit from me!"
Jing Ming looked at his young lady's calm appearance and sighed, in just a few years, she has grown so much.
The Madam will definitely be very pleased.
"Yes! I will definitely bring back the Queen Mother's decree as soon as possible, please take care!" Jingming clasped his fists in salute, turned and left!
Ming Lanruo watched her leave and closed her eyes to calm down, so that she could calm down her anxious heart.
Then, she walked to the bedside, looked at King Qin's handsome and bloodless face for a while, and couldn't help but sneered at herself.
In their previous life, they were a loving couple and enemies in this life, but she still wanted to treat him, which was really... unlucky!!!
She took a deep breath and suppressed her violent thoughts of killing the man in front of her quickly.
She sat down, took out the medicine box, and began to bandage King Qin's wounds and administer needles.
The Miao medicine formula was highly irritating, and Shangguan Hongye soon woke up from the pain.
He was covered in cold sweat and couldn't help but struggle: "It hurts so much, what kind of medicine did you give me!"
"Don't let me treat you if you're afraid of pain!" Ming Lanruo held him down coldly, and inserted the silver needle into his chest's acupuncture points such as Shenfeng and Qimen.
Only then did Shangguan Hongye feel that the wound was no longer so painful. He looked at Ming Lanruo coldly, but reluctantly said nothing.
It is not wise to offend the doctor when you are injured.
After some treatment, Ming Lanruo pulled out the silver needle and said, "You have stopped bleeding now and all the wounds have been bandaged, but..."
Before she finished speaking, the door was suddenly knocked "bang bang bang" - "Open the door, we are officers and soldiers, searching for assassins!"
Ming Lanruo was stunned, then quickly stuffed the silver needles and medicine into the medicine box, and then kicked the medicine box under the bed.
She just got up and was about to open the door, but the next moment, her arm was suddenly grabbed from behind and pulled violently.
Before she could react, Shangguan pinned her down.
"What are you doing~!" Ming Lanruo said in shock when she felt a cold on her shoulders.
He actually tore her clothes off roughly, exposing her white shoulders and chest.
She hurriedly pressed her bellyband and stared at him coldly: "Are you dissatisfied with your longevity?"
"boom--!"
Before she finished speaking, the door to the room was kicked open.
"Hey, what are you doing? Why don't you open the door?" the officers and soldiers scolded fiercely.
Ming Lanruo covered her shoulders and instinctively shrank into the bed. She couldn't help but cursed inwardly - "Why do you keep getting kicked in the door all day long?"
To the outsiders who broke in, it looked like she was shyly hiding in the arms of shirtless Shangguan Hongye.
Shangguan Hongye raised his hand to block her and looked at the door angrily: "What are you doing, sir? Is it a crime for us to sleep together as husband and wife?"
The officers and soldiers who broke in were not the elite elite of the prince's men who were the first to pursue them into the workshop, but other ordinary officers and soldiers under the prince's banner.
The leader of the squad yelled rudely and angrily: "Genius Hei, why are you sleeping? We are searching for assassins. Get together and answer!"
Shangguan Hongye froze. He had injuries on his body. They had just been bandaged and they would be exposed as soon as he got up!
Ming Lanruo could only pretend to be shy and said reluctantly: "Masters, please go out for a moment. I need to put on clothes."
Although it was a startling glance, the officers and soldiers were all stunned by Ming Lanruo's face and looked at each other hesitantly.
"My lords, why are you in such a hurry..." A gentle and delicate voice sounded behind them at the same time.
The scholar in white came up with tea and saw the same scene in the room, and his voice immediately froze.
At that moment, everyone felt that the breath of the scholar in white made the air suddenly cold, making people's breath freeze.
Shangguan Hongye even had the illusion for a moment that the coldness on the white-clothed scholar's body would turn into countless ice picks to crush him.
Shangguan Hongye narrowed his eyes warily and looked at the scholar in white.
But it was only for a moment. Scholar Yin lowered his eyes and said calmly: "Everyone has worked hard, why don't you sit downstairs, guard the exit, and check slowly. I've prepared some wine for you."
For some reason, the man in front of them was obviously just a weak scholar, but the officers and soldiers couldn't help but obey his words, turned around and went downstairs.
Ming Lanruo breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the scholar in white with some hesitation: "Scholar Yin, you..."
Scholar Yin's face was a little pale, and his cold eyes stared at Ming Lanruo for a moment: "Did I disturb you two?"
Although his voice was gentle, he didn't know why Ming Lanruo felt an inexplicable chill in his heart.
Ming Lanruo: "No...no."
"Really?" Scholar Yin looked at her, with an unpredictable light in his cold eyes.
He suddenly said softly: "Then it's best to get up quickly."
After saying that, he turned around and closed the door with a "bang!"
Ming Lanruo looked at his back, feeling a little suffocated in her heart, but she didn't know why.
She turned around and looked coldly at Shangguan Hongye who was pressing her down: "Your Highness did it on purpose, right? Why, you want to take the opportunity to humiliate me for speaking out in a bad way?"
"What are you talking about? Isn't this a search by officers and soldiers? It's just a cover. Back then, you were not so shy about throwing yourself into my arms." Shangguan Hongye smiled half-heartedly, with a sarcastic light flashing in his eyes.
He does mean this, what can she do?
Ming Lanruo bent her bright eyes and smiled: "Next time, if you don't discuss it with me, you will 'cover' with me. I can't guarantee that His Highness will be able to walk out of the inn alive."
After saying that, she raised her hand and pushed Shangguan Hongye away, and "coincidentally" pushed hard on the wound on Shangguan Hongye's waist.
"Ugh!" Shangguan Hongye's face immediately turned the color of pig's liver, and the pain made him lie on the bed all of a sudden, covered in cold sweat.
"Ming Lanruo!!" He gritted his teeth and glared at her fiercely.
Ming Lanruo narrowed her eyes, sneered contemptuously, arranged her clothes, turned around and slammed the door.
As soon as she went out, she saw the hidden scholar standing at the door, looking a little cold and fragile.
She couldn't help but be stunned: "How did you..."
He suddenly raised his hand and pulled her into his arms, clasping the back of her head with his long fingers.
Under the girl's shocked and panicked eyes, he suddenly lowered his head and opened her pink lips roughly and harshly with the tip of his tongue.
The gentle and delicate scholar's kiss was extremely rough, yet extremely fierce and full of boundless desire, as if he wanted to swallow her into his belly, eating up all her soft lips, tongue and breath.
"What’s wrong with you?"
It wasn't until the woman's hesitant voice came to his ears that the scholar suddenly woke up.
The ferocious fantasies full of desire in his mind were forcibly suppressed back to the bottom of his heart in an instant.
The young scholar lowered his crimson eyes, covered his chest and breathed lightly.
"It's nothing... I just feel a little uncomfortable with my heart."
Ming Lanruo instinctively shrank when she thought of the way he stared at her just now.
The scary look the other party looked at her was familiar yet unfamiliar.
"I have had a bad heart since I was a child. I must have scared the princess when I got sick." But the next moment the scholar lowered his head in embarrassment, and the alluring scarlet color in the corners of his eyes became fragile.
Ming Lanruo was a little dazed, maybe... it was her illusion.
This little scholar knew that she was not an ordinary person, so how could he dare to look at her with such lustful eyes?
She coughed lightly and said, "It's okay. I'll take your pulse when I have time."
The hidden scholar nodded and said softly: "I have prepared a secluded new room for you, and I have also prepared hot water. Will you come with me?"
Ming Lanruo pondered for a moment, she really didn't want to stay with Guan Hongye today.
She nodded: "Okay, thank you."
The two of them went downstairs together. There were many officers and soldiers downstairs, and the guests hid and did not dare to show their heads.
Some officers and soldiers who were drinking saw her coming out, their eyes lit up, they whispered to each other and laughed lustfully, not knowing what they were talking about.
That look made Ming Lanruo very uncomfortable. She turned around and left, and couldn't help but frown: "Aren't these people planning to leave?"
Scholar Yin suddenly raised his hand and held her sleeve, and whispered: "They said they didn't find the assassin, so they have to station themselves at the inn. You should be careful..."
Ming Lanruo turned to look at the scholar's low and pale expression and comforted him: "Don't be afraid, they don't dare to do anything."
Jinghe will come soon with the Queen Mother's orders.
The hidden scholar glanced at her and lowered his long eyelashes: "Yes."
Scholar Yin took her to a room deep in the corridor and opened the door: "Princess, please come in."
The room is quiet and elegant, the bedding is clean, and hot water has been installed in the tub behind the screen.
Ming Lanruo was very satisfied: "Very good."
This scholar is quite knowledgeable.
The hidden scholar hesitated for a moment and whispered: "I will look after the princess in the outer room, and you can take a bath in the inner room."
Ming Lanruo turned to look at him in surprise: "What did you say?"
"Lonely men and widows should not live together in the same room, but those officers and soldiers are down there, and I'm afraid they will break in again." The scholar sighed, lowered his head, and his white jade-like ears turned red.
Seeing how weak Ming Lanruo was, she probably didn't have the guts to do anything to herself.
Jing Ming's absence and those bastard officers and soldiers below also made her a little worried.
Ming Lanruo nodded at him politely: "Excuse me."
She turned around and pulled up the screen, began to undress and hang her robes on the screen one by one.
Looking at the bucket full of hot water, she touched the water with her white feet, tested the water temperature, and stepped into the tub.
The warm hot water flooded her soft skin, and the comfort it brought made her sigh with satisfaction. She sat on the edge of the basin and began to wash her hair.
"Do you like it, Princess?" The scholar's gentle voice came from outside the screen.
Ming Lanruo narrowed her soft and bright eyes with satisfaction: "I like it, thank you for your hard work."
Very comfortable.
After a hard day, the hot water relieves fatigue and calms the mind.
"You're welcome. Xiaosheng is also very happy to do something for the princess. I wonder if I can stay with the princess and serve you in the future?"
At the table outside the screen, the hidden scholar leaned elegantly and lazily on the table, taking out a knife to peel an apple.
He took his time to admire the slender beauty reflected on the screen, watching her take off her clothes.
The material of the screen is quite special. Once the light is on inside, you can see everything inside the screen clearly from the outside, but the people inside are unaware of it.
On weekdays, yamen such as Dongchang, Dali Temple, and the Ministry of Punishment often use this material as interrogation walls, so prisoners don't know there is anyone next door.
The dim candlelight casts an alluring soft light on Ming Lanruo's slender waist, and the water droplets sliding down her delicate and fragile butterfly valley are extremely alluring.
He licked the corners of his scarlet lips, and narrowed the corners of his long and slender eyes like a fox.
The beauty behind the screen knew nothing. She only frowned. This scholar wanted to seek refuge with her?