Volume 1: Swan Goose Chapter 101: A Beautiful Lady Breaks a Window and Draws a Candle (1)
It was already half of the night, and there were still lingering sounds in the Xiaoxiang Pavilion. The aroma of wine that had been accumulated all night came out from the door with bursts of fragrant wind, and one after another red-faced drinkers were sent out and helped up.
Got the carriage home.
Bei Xiaobei, who was so busy that he didn't touch the ground, had just seen off a guest when he saw an angry and murderous man walking towards him. Behind him were seven or eight tyrannical government servants with sly eyebrows and sly eyes.
Feeling the oncoming hostility and thinking that the landlady was being imprisoned in prison, Bei Xiaobei's attitude was more attentive than before: "Hey, Mr. Ruan! You are here today! This season's limited edition lychee wine
But I have left several altars especially for you!"
Ruan Lang ignored him and walked directly to the door and stood on the street. He waved to the government servant behind him: "A few people followed me in to search, and the rest blocked the door! Everyone who comes out of it, regardless of gender, must be carefully inspected.
.As soon as someone is found to be injured, he will be taken down immediately, do you understand?"
"Yes!" After several government officials responded in unison, they immediately dispersed: four tall government officials stood in front of the door, stopping every man and woman who came out, and pulled open their sleeves to check their arms without any explanation.
The men and women who were inspected were so frightened that they were half drunk. When they saw the Chief of Staff doing something, they were too angry and dared not say anything. They could only cooperate obediently. The people who came out from behind even took the initiative to show their arms to respond to the inspection. Some new drinkers outside the door had just arrived.
He stopped the carriage, and as soon as he saw the formation of the Imperial Guards, he immediately drove the carriage away quickly, not daring to stay any longer. Ruan Lang rushed in with four servants and took all the drinkers, singers and servants.
They all gathered in the hall, and then conducted a blanket search of the entire annex: they opened up every place in the hall where people could hide, and looked carefully, hoping not to miss even the mouse holes.
The Pinjin Den, which had been buzzing with singing and dancing all night, suddenly became quiet: the singers stopped singing, the dancers stopped dancing, and the dissolute drinkers became as well-behaved as tamed loyal dogs.
"Master Ruan! We have found something!" A government official ran over holding a ball of black cloth and shouted: "We found a night jacket in a wine jar, with a hole in the arm!"
Ruan Lang took the night clothes and took a closer look, and immediately laughed and said: "What a little thief! He hides the head but not the tail! Everyone search carefully, search carefully, don't miss an inch of anyone! That person must still be there
here!"
Bei Xiaobei watched for a long time, and finally had the courage to step forward and asked cautiously: "Sir Ruan, what are you doing? Are you asking the young people to do business?"
Ruan Lang grabbed his collar and shouted: "Listen, an assassin has escaped here. Either you hand over this person obediently! Or you have to endure it and let us search it little by little!"
"Assassin?" Bei Xiaobei looked aggrieved and shook his head repeatedly: "The young one has been waiting at the door to greet and escort me, and I haven't seen any assassins break in! Besides, we have so many people here, even if there is an assassin, he won't choose it.
Hiding here!"...
"Ha." Ruan Lang smiled coldly, unmoved at all: "I also want to know why the assassin chose to hide here! So just wait. When I catch that person, everything will be revealed!
"
"But this..."
"Be honest!" Ruan Lang interrupted him and threatened: "I will leave naturally if I catch the assassin. If you dare to play tricks, I will also let you have a taste of the interrogation room of the Chief of Staff!"
"Young ones don't dare! Little ones don't dare!" Bei Xiaobei couldn't afford to offend him, so she could only shut her mouth and stand aside.
The two were talking, but no one noticed that a red figure was walking quietly and quickly against the wall against the flow of people. It was the assassin Ruan Lang had been chasing all night - Lu Ning.
After she was injured, she ran back to the village building, only to find at the door that her blood was flowing all the way. Not wanting to implicate the caravan, she could only sneak in quietly while Bei Xiaobei was busy, find a place to change out of her night clothes, and hide in
He put it in an empty wine jar so that he could take it back later. Unexpectedly, Ruan Lang was chasing after him like a dog, smelling the smell of blood, and setting up such a big battle formation that he was likely to fight to the death. Once he found his arm
She would never be able to escape from the stab wound, and it would also injure the caravan. After much deliberation, it was impossible to break through forcefully, and she could only take one step at a time.
Go up the stairs. Like the first floor, there are also private rooms on the second floor. You can't hide people at all, so you can only continue going up. The third floor is a more private space.
, Lu Ning searched door after door along the corridor. Finally she saw the door of a room ajar. Looking through the crack in the door, it seemed that no one was in the room, so she slipped in.
After entering the house, she immediately closed the door. Before she could take a closer look at the room, footsteps could be heard outside the door, and it sounded like they were rushing here.
What bad luck! Lu Ning gritted his teeth and could only cover his arms and hide under the bed. He raised his ears and listened to the movement outside: the footsteps stopped at the door, and he seemed to hesitate for a moment before opening the door and closing it again.
Lu Ning huddled under the bed and stared, seeing a pair of black boots at the door, motionless. He didn't move, and Lu Ning didn't dare to move either. He could only hold his breath for fear of being discovered.
Just when she couldn't hold it in any longer, the boots finally moved. Lu Ning felt a little relieved, but before the breath hanging in her throat came out, she saw the boots heading straight for her.
Come this way.
Could it be that she had been discovered? Lu Ning shrank back inside again, staring outside, thinking of countermeasures quickly in her mind. But time waits for no one! Before she could figure out the reason, there was movement above her head.
: "Where did this little thief come from? He dares to break into anyone's house? Don't you want your life?"
Lu Ning gritted his teeth and still hid without moving. The voice above his head became more severe: "If you don't come out again, I won't be polite!"
Lu Ning frowned, seeing that he couldn't hide, so he covered his arms and crawled out from under the bed in disgrace, explaining hurriedly: "Don't say anything! I'm not a bad person -"
Before they finished speaking, the two of them were stunned.
"Miss Lu, why is it you?"
"Your Highness, why is it you?"
The two of them exclaimed in unison, a little surprised to see each other here and now.
"Are you injured?" Yu Fengjin noticed her injured arm at a glance and couldn't help but frown.
"It's a long story." Lu Ning lowered his eyelashes and muttered softly, looking a little guilty.
Yu Fengjin walked over and looked at the wound: a straight wound lay across her delicate white arm. The wound was deep enough to show the bone, and the skin and flesh on both sides were turned outwards. It was clear at a glance that it was caused by a sharp weapon. Yu Fengjin looked at her deeply.
At one glance, you can see through it but don’t tell it.
Just at this moment, there was a loud noise outside the door - it was Ruan Lang who led the government officials to search the third floor.
"Your Highness, please, help me!" Lu Ning grabbed his sleeve, with a rare look of helplessness on his face.
Yu Fengjin pondered for a moment, pushed her onto the bed, and covered her with the quilt: "Take off your clothes and hide under the quilt!"
After being stunned for a moment, Lu Ning quickly understood what he meant, and regardless of her embarrassment, she immediately took off her coat, got under the quilt, lay down on the bed and pretended to be asleep.
There was a knock on the door at the right time, and Yu Fengjin quickly covered her with the quilt and put down the curtains on both sides. Just as she was about to turn around and leave, he suddenly turned around and leaned down to get close to Lu Ning's face.
"What are you doing!" Lu Ning pulled up the quilt to cover half of his face in panic, and huddled up under the quilt.
Unexpectedly, Yu Fengjin just let go of her hair and turned around to answer the door without saying a word.
How embarrassing! It’s already this time, what am I thinking! Lu Ning covered his face with the quilt, feeling ashamed and annoyed at his fuss.
"Open the door!" The knocks on the door became louder and louder, occasionally mixed with Ruan Lang's rude shouts.
Yu Fengjin blew out the candles in the room, held a candlestick and walked over to open the door: "Who dares to be so presumptuous here!"
As soon as he opened the door, he gave the group of uninvited guests a slap in the face. None of the government servants expected to meet the prince here, so they quickly put away their usual arrogance and immediately bowed their hands in a polite manner.
Ruan Lang was also stunned for a moment, and his tone softened a lot in an instant: "I'm really sorry for disturbing His Highness' rest! But I am hunting for an assassin everywhere!"
Yu Fengjin looked at him and smiled coldly: "Ruan Lang, you imprisoned Fangyi as a murder suspect a few days ago. Are you planning to take action against me today? This method is too clumsy.
These are far worse than your previous commander."
"Your Highness, calm down. I bumped into a man in black at the gate of the prison today. I fought with him a few times.
He was stabbed and followed the assassin all the way here!" Ruan Lang kept his body bowed and did not dare to show any displeasure.
"Oh?" Yu Fengjin stared at him with a half-smile, "Then did you catch the assassin?"
"Not yet." Ruan Lang hesitated for a moment and then said: "Back to Your Highness, we have searched the entire Xiaoxiang Villa, except...your room!"
"How outrageous!" Yu Fengjin immediately became furious: "Are you suspecting that I am hiding an assassin?"
"I don't dare!" Ruan Lang lowered his eyes and cupped his hands, but his voice was neither humble nor arrogant: "It's just that this assassin came for the Imperial Guards, who works for the emperor. For the safety of the emperor, I have to act impartially, and I hope your highness can do it.
Cooperate—"
"What if I refuse to cooperate!" Yu Fengjin interrupted him, with two frightening rays in his eyes.
"In that humble position, you can only do things impartially!" Ruan Lang slowly straightened up, his humble face suddenly changed to a look of bureaucratic indifference.
"Hahaha." Yu Fengjin suddenly burst into laughter, and her face changed immediately: "As expected of the person Wang Jing brought out! Such an ungrateful person, he learns the skills of a villain quickly!"
Ruan Lang's face became increasingly ugly, and he could even feel that several government officials behind him were trying hard not to laugh out loud - after all, these were Wang Jing's minions, and they were eager to watch his own show!
"I'm sorry! Your Highness!" There was no turning back now. Ruan Lang could only bite the bullet and do it. He pushed open the door and rushed in regardless of Yu Fengjin's obstruction.
"Bold Ruan Lang! Do you want to rebel?"
Yu Fengjin's angry shouting did not stop Ruan Lang's search. He was pressed for time and took a quick glance: the furnishings of this room were very simple, with almost no place to hide people, except for the bed with a thin veil and low curtains.
"Stop!" Seeing Ruan Lang running towards the bed, Yu Fengjin shouted and rushed over immediately.
But he was still a step too late. Ruan Lang had already opened the curtain, and the silver gauze rose like a mist, revealing a disheveled woman with a shy face.
"Where did you come from?" The woman kicked the quilt and sat up in panic, glaring at him angrily, her pretty face flushed with shame, and her beautiful eyes full of anger and resentment.
Ruan Lang was caught off guard by such a fragrant scene, and for a moment he even forgot to avoid it.
"Get out of here!" Lu Ning kicked him across the quilt and kicked him out of the curtain with all his strength, avenging his revenge.
Ruan Lang held his stomach and stepped back a few steps before he stood still. He gritted his teeth to hold back the pain, lowered his head and raised his hands to the curtain: "Lord of the Lu Gang, please calm down! I am searching for the assassin!"
"Bold! This is the prince's room! How could there be an assassin?" A reproach was thrown from the curtain.
Ruan Lang knew he was being reckless, but he still felt a little unwilling to do so: "I'm sorry for Ruan Lang's rudeness! Please let me take a look at your left arm, Master Lu!"