Yan Fei

"Young Master, Third Young Master Xu is still at the door."

Yan Zi covered her forehead in pain, and retreated to the chair in the room.

Lui came in with freshly brewed tea, poured him a cup, and said, "Master, why don't you go and see him? Third Young Master Xu is squatting all day and night, it's so pitiful."

"Poor? How is he pitiful?" Yan Zi gritted his teeth, "If he hadn't insisted on following me, I wouldn't be trapped here!"

Lui tilted her head and said puzzledly, "Then why didn't you agree and bring the third young master Xu with you? I heard that the third son of the Xu family was not treated well by the master Xu, and he even kicked him out when he was young." I've been to the house."

"...I only know that he has a bad relationship with his father, how can there be such a thing."

Yan Zi picked up the tea that Lui poured for him and drank it up, touched his neck: "Forget it, I'll just go out and meet him. I'm always stuck here, even if Brother Shu asks me to do things, I can't do anything." .”

Xu Zhiming stretched his legs, and sat carelessly on the stone steps outside Yanzi's courtyard, caressing the thick down on Ganu's neck boredly.

Now that the weather is hot, he doesn't really like Ganu coming up, but it's not bad if it's okay.

The wooden door behind was suddenly opened inwards, Xu Zhiming didn't notice it for a while, and almost knocked his back on the threshold.With sharp eyes and quick hands, Yan Zi squatted down and protected his head with his body.

He wasn't blindfolded today, but he opened his eyes slightly when he saw Yan Zi, and said with a smile, "You're finally out."

"What are you going to do? Squat here without moving." Yan Zi sighed, sat down on the threshold and helped him up.

Xu Zhiming propped his elbows on his legs, resting his chin and said, "Didn't you ask me earlier if I wanted to go with you to investigate Yazi?"

"But isn't your home in the local area?"

"It's nothing. I've been lost before, and my father doesn't care about me."

"..." Yan Zi looked at him with complicated eyes, and hesitantly said, "...Why do you want to investigate Ya Zi?"

Xu Zhiming didn't answer and asked instead: "Then why do you want to investigate Yazi?"

Yan Zi sighed and scratched his cheek.He seems to be particularly lethargic today, and his speech is weak: "I... my family was killed by Yazi."

Xu Zhiming was taken aback, and sat up straight.

Yan Zi glanced at him again, and continued: "People in my family... my father, my mother, me and my sister, have all been raped... none of my servants were spared.

"My father was wronged again at that time. My sister and I escaped and fled to Yiwei to cross the river. Thanks to the acquaintance of the Master of the Gusu Pavilion with my father, my sister and I saved our lives."

Xu Zhiming didn't answer, but just looked at the ground, as if he was thinking about something, his expression was serious, but Yan Zi's face was confused.

"Zhiming?"

Hearing him call himself that, Xu Zhiming was stunned, and then realized that he was talking to himself, and said: "...I just thought of something. Yan Zi, let me go with you, I can help. Even if I'm useless, and Kanu can help you too."

"I really don't understand you..." Yan Zi whispered, "Your eyes are not big, are you? It's not a good thing to mix with people from the Cobalt Forest League."

"It's okay, I just wanted to help you."

"Help me?" Yan Zi moved closer to him, as if she didn't understand him for a while, "You...are you really willing to help me?"

Although the two had known each other for more than a month, they were still not familiar, so Xu Zhiming didn't know Yan Zi's past, nor could he understand what he was thinking at this moment.He didn't know why his words had reached this point, and Yan Zi was still unwilling to let him join.

"Can I really...can't go with you?"

Yan Zi sized him up again, and finally nodded.

There is no reason to accept, but there is no reason to reject either.He would not harm himself, otherwise he should have acted before the truth of Li Ying's case came to light.

Now that Xu Zhiming had made it clear, Yan Zi made a plan to leave Qizhou the next day.Early the next morning, Yan Zi came outside Xu's mansion, but there was no sign of Xu Zhiming.

The two of them agreed to meet here yesterday, but why did Xu Zhiming, who asked to go with him, not show up?

"Xu--"

"Shh!"

Yan Zi was startled, and hurriedly looked up.I saw Xu Zhiming lying on the wall, raised a finger to his lips, and said with a serious face, "Hush your voice! My aunt somehow found out that I was going to sneak out, and asked the servants to guard the door strictly so that I wouldn't let me escape." What! You wait!"

Yan Zi wanted to say that he couldn't go and let it go, who wanted to wait for him to make a sound, Xu Zhiming had already pushed himself hard, his cloak was rattling, and he had already climbed over the wall.

As soon as Xu Zhiming hit the ground, he took his hand and ran out along the street. Lu Yi, who was following Yan Zi, never expected this to happen, and hurriedly followed after being shocked.

"What are you doing?! Slow down! Aren't your eyes bad?!"

"Wait!" Xu Zhiming turned his head and shouted, "Ganu is coming out! Do you think that group of people are blind? It's not like you haven't seen how big it is!"

The three of them sat down to rest at a teahouse outside the city not far from Qizhou, and Ganu followed after a while.

Yan Zi propped her forehead against the table and said, "You really...cause me trouble as soon as you come up."

"Haha, I'm sorry." Xu Zhiming rubbed his hair subconsciously, and both of them were stunned after rubbing.

"..."

"……sorry."

Yan Zi felt her head hurt even more.He muttered: "...What the hell was I thinking about yesterday..."

"Speaking of which, what are your plans next?"

"Hmm...go to Langya Valley. Maybe you don't know this place?"

"No, I know. Isn't it the place where the tea leaves that are paid to the palace are produced every year? What are you going there for?"

Yan Zi glanced at him, and said slowly: "I...a property of the Ministry of Yan is there, and I have left a lot of things that I found earlier."

"That's a good thing."

The three of them rested for a while, got up and went to the next town unhurriedly.

The name of this city is Shanyang, and there are not many people. After all, this area is located in the extreme north of Minghan, and the people live loosely, and the population of Qizhou accounts for more than half, so the population in other towns is getting rarer.

Although the sky has not yet darkened, but if you go any further, you will have to stay in the wilderness.The three of them inquired about a hotel in Aspen City, but at that time they were told that there were only two rooms that could be vacated immediately because the store had no new customers for a long time, and the New Year's Eve had just passed more than a month ago.

Although Yan Zi is not very willing to live with Xu Zhiming, and the two have known each other not long ago, he is not familiar with Xu Zhiming, and he always feels that his back is not easy, but he can't let a girl like Louy live with them, and Xu Zhiming whispered to each other. After some discussion, it was decided that Xu Zhiming would live in one room with him, and Lui would live in the other.

The shopkeeper took a picture of a booklet on the counter at the cash stall, guessing that any disputes had occurred before, and those who stayed in the shop had to make a note.

There is nothing wrong with left or right.Yan Zi turned over to pick up the pen and dipped in the ink, halfway through writing, glanced at the name on the side, felt a chill down his spine, turned around and shouted to Xu Zhiming: "Zhiming, come here."

"what happened?"

The shopkeeper looked up at him, Yan Zi smiled at him, then lowered his head to count the money again.

"Take a look." Yan Zi lifted the corner of his blindfold and showed him the name on the brochure, "She lived here."

——Dipping plum.

"...Shopkeeper, is the person staying in front of us still in your store?" Xu Zhiming asked.

The storekeeper replied casually: "I've lived here for a long time, and I've given you a lot of money. I just live here. I can't wait for a few people to stay here for more than half a year. Do you know each other?"

"...There must be some kind of fate." Yan Zi smiled, returned the finished booklet to the shopkeeper, looked up at the doors on the second floor, "Which one does she live in?"

"Hey, I haven't noticed it for a long time, and I forgot. She went out today, and I'll take a look when she comes back." The shopkeeper laughed again, "A runaway?"

"……what?"

"I saw that when she first arrived, she had a cold face and ran in in a hurry. She thought she didn't want to get married and escape."

Yan Zi laughed a few times, and dragged Xu Zhiming upstairs.

After entering the room, Xu Zhiming walked to the table next to the window, took off the blindfold and put it on the table, and looked back at him: "This store really likes to ask if there is anything."

"But I didn't expect that Jinmei didn't leave..."

"Maybe it's because I didn't find what I wanted in Li Ying, and I somehow realized that it wasn't Miss Louie."

Louie lived next door, and if something happened, they could go there as soon as possible.

"You don't seem to have much luggage. Don't you have anything to take with you in the room in Qizhou?"

"This time I sneaked out with the lord on my back, so I didn't want to bring too many things with me... That room is our lord's property, but it was allocated to our Yan department. I didn't bring anything with me before I came. On the contrary, it's easy." Yan Zi blinked, turned to the table again, and said, "We have to tell our leader about this matter, you open the window."