Volume 1: Swan Goose Chapter 356: Lost Jianghu Wine Store (2)
Yu Fengjin subconsciously grabbed the hand and scolded in a deep voice: "You dare to hit me? Aren't you afraid of harming the caravan?"
Lu Ning looked at him nervously, suddenly becoming unfamiliar.
She shook her head absentmindedly, never expecting that Ping Si's death would actually let her see another side of King Yi!
"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have acted on His Highness impulsively! I can't afford to lose the lives of the caravan brothers! Thank you for your reminder, which made me completely sober!"
After saying that, she wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, slowly took a few steps back, and turned around resolutely.
With her back to Yu Fengjin, she calmed herself down, trying not to sound like she was crying, even though her face was already covered with heavy rain.
"I think... we should not meet again in the future! Please also stop sending wine to Zhuanglou! We, the whole caravan, are not so lucky and cannot bear your kindness!"
Yu Fengjin asked in a low voice: "Don't you regret doing this?"
Lu Ning smiled sadly and said word by word: "Thank you for your concern, Your Highness, I won't regret it!"
With that said, she strode out the door.
Looking at her back, Yu Fengjin suddenly felt a strange feeling in her heart: it seemed that when she left, she walked out of his life. From now on, they would never see each other again.
"Wait!" Yu Fengjin suddenly shouted, took a deep breath, and asked softly: "What if I want you to stay?"
Lu Ning suddenly stopped and turned around after a long time. Although she was heartbroken and almost suffocated, she still asked with a smile: "You want to keep me? Well, if you are willing to risk being blamed by the emperor, marry me
I am the illegitimate daughter of Concubine Ying! I will keep her immediately! So, do you dare to marry her?"
Yu Fengjin clenched her fists and whispered: "I will marry you, but not now..."
Lu Ning suddenly laughed wildly and raised his hands to King Yi: "Lu Ning bids farewell to Your Highness!"
Having said that, she never wanted to see this man again, the man who made her crazy with love and hate, so she fled the Xiaoxiang Villa without looking back.
She was so distraught that she stumbled out of the annex and saw Hu Qizheng standing at the door of Zhuanglou with his hands behind his hands, looking at her with a worried look on his face.
"What's wrong? Are you quarreling again?" Hu Qi's eyes were full of tenderness.
Lu Ning looked back and saw the figure behind the window on the third floor, and said lightly: "Don't worry, I'm here to say goodbye! From now on... we will never see each other again!"
Seeing Hu Qi diligently accompanying Lu Ning back to the village building, Yu Fengjin's face became even more ugly.
He closed the window, sat back at the table, picked up the teacup and took a sip, with a dangerous glint in his eyes.
After Yan Rong saw Lu Ning leaving, he cautiously walked in the door. Seeing that Yu Fengjin was in a bad mood, he sat quietly aside.
A silence filled the air between them. Yan Rong opened his mouth several times to speak, but closed his lips tightly.
After a long time, when Yu Fengjin gradually calmed down, Yan Rong asked cautiously: "Brother, you know that Miss Lu is in a bad mood because of her brother's death, why don't you let her go?"
"She has determined that Ping Si's death is related to me! In this case, no matter what I say, this will be the final result." Yu Fengjin said in a calm voice, the green color on his face slowly fading away.
Yan Rong twitched the corners of his lips and said, "Then why don't you just tell her all the truth? Why do you have to cause a misunderstanding?"
Yu Fengjin said calmly: "Hu Qi's pool of water is too deep, but we don't have any strong evidence in our hands! If Lu Ning was confused because of Ping Si at this time, and went to question Hu Qi, then the people behind Hu Qi
I will definitely take action!"
Yan Rong scratched his nose and asked hesitantly: "Brother, are you really relieved to let Miss Lu leave like this? If Hu Qi plots something evil, wouldn't her life be in danger?"
Yu Fengjin turned the ring on her thumb and muttered: "Don't worry, I have my own plan for this matter!"
Yan Rong suddenly chuckled inappropriately.
Yu Fengjin raised her eyes and looked at him expressionlessly: "What are you laughing at?"
Yan Rong tilted his head and couldn't help laughing: "Although I don't know what happened between you two.
Well, my brother’s determination is really nothing to say! The people you like have all come to your door, and you can still let it go! If it were me..."
"What would happen if it were you?" Yu Fengjin threw him a stern look.
Yan Rong immediately suppressed his smile and said sarcastically: "I was wrong, I was rude! After all, Miss Lu is engaged to Hu Qi now, and His Highness should not do anything to steal the baby! If it were me, I would do the same.
Push it away righteously!"
Yu Fengjin couldn't help but sigh, and recounted everything that happened last night. Of course, he just brushed it off about Fengyue, which Yan Rong was most interested in, and refused to say more.
After Yan Rong heard this, he immediately became furious: "Gu Zhili, this old fox! He did such a terrible thing to his own relatives! Brother, should we teach them a lesson?"
Yu Fengjin waved her hands and said in a deep voice: "It's not time to deal with them yet! Lu Ning and Hu Qi are about to leave Shengjing, and I still have many things that I haven't prepared for!"
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Lu Ning was so distraught that she had to say goodbye for a while and go straight back to the embroidery building.
After entering the room, she threw herself into the bed, gasping for air, and tears fell silently.
Before going to see Yu Fengjin, she had been feeling uneasy: If he was really the murderer, what should she do? Should she let him go or kill him?
But the moment she faced Yu Fengjin, she knew that even if he was the murderer, she would not be able to kill him.
She hated herself for being so useless. As the leader of a gang, she cared about her children's personal affairs and lost the most basic fairness. She didn't even have the courage to press for the truth.
She slowly closed her eyes, took a few deep breaths, and murmured to herself: "Your Highness, no matter what the outcome is, the relationship between you and me is really clear. From now on, there should be no more entanglements..."
Turning around, she couldn't resist the physical and mental exhaustion and fell into a deep sleep.
Early the next morning, it was already bright when she opened her eyes. The dazzling sunlight came in through the bamboo curtains and scratched her face.
Lu Ning let out a cry, then turned over and slowly opened his eyes.
After spring arrives, Shengjing seems to become hotter overnight.
The windows were closed all night, and the room was as stuffy as a steamer.
Lu Ning jumped up from the bed, but fell back on the bed because his legs were weak.
For some reason, she felt extremely heavy and her throat was so dry that it was on fire.
After steadying her mind, she stood up slowly while holding on to the bed frame, dragging her leaden legs step by step to the desk.
She picked up a wine jar in the corner, immediately broke the mud seal, and took a few gulps.
The strong alcohol burned her throat and choked her to tears, but she felt extremely happy in her heart.
"Little deer! Little deer!"
There was a rapid knock on the door accompanied by Toto's rough voice.
Lu Ning was so frightened that he quickly walked over and opened the door.
"What happened?"
Toto was about to speak when he saw Lu Ning's face and was suddenly startled: "What's wrong with you?"
"Huh?" Lu Ning was a little surprised. He turned to look at the life-size bronze mirror at the door, and was also shocked by himself.
Red and swollen eyes, fluffy and messy hair, inelastic skin, pale face...
She doesn't look like an eighteen-year-old girl, but like a living ghost who refuses to rest in peace!
"What's the matter? Come in and talk slowly!" Lu Ning stepped away and immediately arranged her hair.
"Oops! We can't be slow! If we are slower, it will be too late!" Toto waved his hands around and shouted in a rough voice.
"Brother, what's wrong? Speak slowly, I have a headache!" Lu Ning sat down weakly and rubbed his swollen temples.
"Hey, I won't talk anymore, look at this!" Toto handed a letter to Lu Ning.
Lu Ning took the letter and saw that it was written in elegant fonts on the envelope: "Lun Ning personally sends this letter".
Opening the letter, there are only a few sentences: Life is like a journey against the odds, and I am also a traveler.
"Who wrote this? What does it mean?" Lu Ning looked at Toto, a little confused.
Toto was so anxious that he was sweating profusely: "This is what Hu Qi left! I went to look for him early this morning, and he is no longer there, not even his luggage and personal entourage!"
"What?" Lu Ning's eyes widened suddenly, he picked up the letter and read these two sentences carefully.
For a moment, Hu Qi's reluctant expression when he wrote these two sentences seemed to be vividly reflected in front of his eyes.
Hu Qi!
Lu Ning stood up in a hurry, pushed the door open and rushed out. She ran to Hu Qi's door in one breath. After calming herself down, she raised her hand and knocked on the door gently.
As Toto said, Hu Qi's clear and loud voice did not come from inside as usual.
She knocked a few more times, but when she heard no sound, she pushed the door open.
The house had been cleaned so clean that all Hu Qi's belongings had disappeared, as if this person had never appeared. Only the last wintersweet of this winter was still stuck in the glass vase on the table.
Lu Ning searched the house three times before he had to admit that Hu Qi had indeed left.
After asking the brothers guarding the door, they all said that Hu Qi left with Baohua before dawn. In order not to wake Lu Ning up, he begged the brothers guarding the door not to inform him yet.
Lu Ning sat slumped in Hu Qi's room, staring blankly into the air, as if his heart was empty.
In the past, she never took it seriously when Hu Qi was by her side every day, but now that Hu Qi suddenly left without saying goodbye, she suddenly felt a little sour.
She turned to look out the window. The orange tree in front of the window was still swaying in the wind, but the person who planted the tree had already moved away.
I think of Hu Qi's careful care in Lingzhou Prison; on the execution ground, Hu Qi's life and death. I also think of Hu Qi's considerate care of me in the past few months, with deep affection and no regrets.
Lu Ning suddenly became annoyed: every time he needed help, Hu Qi showed up in time, using his not-so-large shoulders to comfort and protect him.
But I was so stupid that I turned a blind eye to this and even accepted it as a matter of course!
No! We can't just let him go!
Lu Ning took a deep breath, put away the letter, opened the door and walked out!