Comprehensive film and television: Make trouble before lying down

Hearing someone knocking on the door, a hint of doubt flashed in the eyes of the old general Xiao Dachuan. He had lived alone outside the city for many years, and no one had ever come to look for him, let alone late at night.

I couldn't help but feel a little more alert. I went to the door and listened carefully. There was no sound. I picked up the wooden bolt beside the door and gently opened the door a crack, but still didn't notice any signs of anyone.

This made him very puzzled. He knocked on the door, but no one showed up.

So the door opened wide and he walked out. Someone had indeed been at the door. For many years, he had always maintained a soldier's vigilance.

Therefore, every night, he would scatter a few dead branches in front of the door, including the corners of the yard wall. Once someone approached, they would make a noise when they stepped on them.

But since the visitor chose to knock on the door but didn’t want to see me, what was the reason?

Xiao Dachuan walked around the yard and found nothing unusual. When he returned to the house, he frowned and went in.

At this time, Xiao Heng had already jumped out of the yard, mounted his horse and prepared to return to Beijing.

He came here on impulse, but after knocking on the door, he regretted it. It was true that his father's death was unjust, it was also true that Lieutenant General Peng died, and it was also true that his grandfather did nothing this year.

Even though he was threatened because of him, his grandfather chose to keep him in the dark and refused to reveal any information to him.

Even though he is now His Majesty's confidant and has the Dragon and Tiger Army under his command, my grandfather still chooses to remain silent.

Perhaps in my grandfather's mind, he was not qualified enough to know all this.

So he deliberately stepped on the branches at the door to break them, attracting people to investigate, and then he went around to the side and entered the house to check.

Although he had already guessed that there was something else going on, looking at the furnishings in the house made his heart flutter.

His father's helmet, his mother's round fan, his childhood toys, and a portrait of his family of three were all placed together with his grandfather's armor.

If I put it in the bedroom, I can see it every day when I open my eyes. Isn't this another form of self-torture?

Xiao Heng sniffed, took a deep breath, and before his grandfather returned to the house, he flipped out from the side again.

As for the defensive tricks he used, they were all from the military and had been taught to him. How could he not have thought of them?

On the way back, the horse whip cracked, but he still didn't dare to ask in person, not knowing how to face his father's death.

As soon as he returned to the mansion, he immediately ordered Lu Ji to find out why Mother Wang suddenly disappeared. His father had passed away at that time, and his intuition told him that there must be a connection between the two.

On Jiuning's side, the situation was much more serious. As soon as Xiao Heng left, she could no longer suppress the surging in her chest and spat out a mouthful of blood.

The doorman was startled and rushed forward to ask. Jiu Ning raised his hand and signaled them not to make any loud noise.

Just like that, without disturbing anyone, a servant helped Jiu Ning back to the main room, while another went to the capital to invite a famous doctor.

The doctor kept his fingertips on Jiuning's wrist. The longer he kept his fingertips on her, the tighter his brows furrowed, and he looked up several times.

"Doctor, I know my body best. Just tell me what you want to say."

The doctor sighed, his expression showing both regret and reluctance: "Madam, have you suffered any severe physical trauma recently?"

Jiuning nodded, the old doctor stroked his beard and shook his head again.

"My wife was injured before, and she was almost dead. She didn't receive good treatment during that time, and the wound has split open.

Although your body has healed on the surface, your meridians are completely blocked, and blood is seeping into your internal organs. I'm afraid there's nothing I can do."

After saying this, he lowered his head, feeling sorry for this young lady of her twenties.

Jiu Ning was shocked. She didn't expect his condition to be so serious. His meridians were blocked. She said that when she practiced internal skills, she could never run them smoothly.

Is this a life saved from the brink of death? Living isn't easy.

"Doctor, how long can my body hold on?"

"With good medicine, it will take at most a month."

Jiu Ning smiled bitterly, still feeling a little unwilling. The people who had harmed her were still alive and well, but the stigma on her had not been washed away yet.

She hadn't done anything for the world yet, and she made a move, but it disappeared again like dust in the air. She thought she still had a lot of time and could slowly plan.

There has to be something left behind. Let's do as much as we can!

After sending the doctor away, Jiu Ning went to the study to write and draw. After drinking the medicine prescribed by the doctor, he prepared to go out.

He cheered himself up, hitched a carriage, and went to the Ye family's villa in the capital.

Ye Shijie was very surprised by Jiu Ning's late-night visit.

"Curfew is in an hour. It's very dangerous to come here at this time, don't you know? Can't you send someone to inform me if something happens?"

Seeing the other party frowning and blaming her with every word, but actually showing concern, she felt very touched. Not all of her relatives were like the Jiang family who calculated the pros and cons and gains and losses.

"Okay, cousin, don't be angry. I did come to see you for something."

Ye Shijie also realized that his words of blame were a bit harsh, so he changed it to condemnation in his eyes, but he still honestly welcomed Jiuning into the study with his body.

After Jiu Ning sat down, Ye Shijie turned around and walked out without caring whether there were any secrets in the study that should not be known to others.

After a while, two servants brought a large box, and he himself held a brocade box, and placed everything in front of Jiuning.

Jiuning tilted his head and pointed at himself curiously: "Are these all for me?"

Ye Shijie opened the box directly, and inside were all kinds of clothes.

His Luyang Ye family started out by selling antique fragrant satin. They had a vast inventory of various types of precious fabrics, and even opened a shop in the capital.

After reuniting with his cousin, he ordered the clothing shop to make many clothes according to Jiuning's size. In his opinion, Jiuning would be more beautiful in fairy-like clothes than in red.

In the other brocade box, there were pearls, head ornaments, and extremely exquisite hairpins.

Jiu Ning took out a red gold tassel hairpin from the brocade box and replaced the one Xiao Heng had prepared for her on her head. Immediately, she received a big smile from Ye Shijie.

"I have also prepared some cloth and brocade for you, but it has not arrived yet. When it arrives, I will have someone send it to your house."

Ye Shijie was like a worried old father, wanting to make up for all the suffering she had endured over the years, and she did not refuse his kindness.

"You haven't told me yet, why are you here so late at night?"

Jiu Ning sent all the servants and book boys serving in the room out and sat at an arm's length away from Ye Shijie.

"Cousin, with your talent, even if you don't win first place this time, you will definitely be able to enter the court and become an official in the future imperial examinations."

Ye Shijie nodded. He was somewhat confident about this.