"Little beauty, I will never go back on my promise to you." Hongtai stopped, "Don't be afraid, go treat the wound first."
Fang Zilan stopped, with mixed feelings in her heart, but she still said firmly: "I'm not afraid."
"Okay, I'm scared." Hongtai's eyes fell on Fang Zilan's bloody shoulder, "Go, don't let your friend worry."
Fang Zilan hummed lowly, turned around and walked back, letting Zhen Mier treat her wounds. Afterwards, she and Wan Jun took Mingxiang and Ah Shi down the mountain path.
After Hongtai arranged his men, he saw Fang Zilan and Hong He waiting not far behind him, "Okay, let's go down the mountain."
Fang Zilan was indifferent and just stretched out her hand, "Give me your hand."
Hongtai curled her lips and smiled ambiguously, grabbing Fang Zilan's wrist, "Why, the little beauty can't leave me like this?"
"The other hand." Fang Zilan said, carelessly grabbing Hongtai's hand that was trying to hide behind his back, "Since I hurt you, I have to take responsibility."
She treated the wound on Hongtai's hand in a few moments, "Try not to get wet in the past two days."
"Thank you, little beauty." Hongtai held Fang Zilan's wrist with her backhand. She broke away for a moment, but considering the injury on his hand, she did not let go.
"Master Su, if you are willing to tell the truth, maybe I can help you." Fang Zilan said tentatively: "I once met a woman named Su in Linjia Village..."
Su Yun's pupils suddenly dilated and shrank, and he blurted out: "Master Fang, are you serious about what you said?"
Fang Zilan didn't answer, but just looked at him steadily. Only then did he realize that he had lost his composure. He was about to say something to defend himself when he heard her say: "Seriously."
Su Yun said softly: "I asked myself to be the special envoy to the southeast. It is indeed selfish and I want to take the opportunity to find someone. What did the woman named Su say to Mr. Fang?"
"She said that when Emperor Xianning Shun came to the throne, Mr. Su Che of the Su family used the excuse of retiring and returning to his hometown..." Fang Zilan deliberately drawled: "Does Mr. Su know about Xing going out to sea to find the elixir of immortality?"
"I know about this." Su Yun responded hurriedly: "The person Mr. Fang saw was my cousin Yue Xi?"
"Master Su asked you to be the special envoy to the southeast to find your cousin Yue Xi's family?" Although it was a question, Fang Zilan said it with great certainty. She continued without waiting for Su Yun to speak, "I am in the Lin family A woman who was rescued by Miss Su Yuexi was seen in the village. She said that before Miss Su Yuexi left, she knew that there was no hope of returning to her hometown in this life, so she gave her a personal jade pendant, hoping that she would bury it in the capital one day. Next to Su's ancestral hall. However, the woman contracted the plague not long ago, so she entrusted the jade pendant to me."
After she said that, she took out the jade pendant from her arms. Su Yun stared at the jade pendant in her hand closely, "Sister Yue Xi is in the Penglai land of the East China Sea. She must be as graceful as a fairy..."
"That's what I originally wanted to tell you." Fang Zilan interrupted him abruptly, her voice becoming a little deeper, "But after thinking about it, I still feel that this is unfair to Miss Su Yuexi and you."
"What do you mean?" Su Yun said blankly: "Master Fang, what you just said is not true?"
"The woman I met in Linjia Village is Miss Su Yuexi herself." Fang Zilan put the jade pendant on the table, took a deep breath and said, "Everything I say next is the truth."
She told Su Yun what she saw and heard in Linjia Village and what Su Yuexi told her. She deliberately concealed the cause of Xia Houyan's death and the fishermen who were sent to Linjia Village. Everything else Let Su Yun know without any pretense.
"This is the truth. Miss Su Yuexi went away after her great revenge was avenged." Fang Zilan looked at the tea smoke escaping from the tea cup and sighed.
Su Yun lowered his head, his eyes were red, and his whole body seemed to shrink into a ball as his shoulders shook.
"In addition to me, Lin Jian, the escort leader who came to the village with me, also knows about this matter. If Mr. Su doesn't believe it, I can accompany you to ask Lin Jian..." As soon as Fang Zilan spoke, she was interrupted by Su Yun coldly. "No need, I trust Master Fang. Sister Yue Xi has never let others touch this jade pendant in the past. Not even the Su family. If she hadn't died, she wouldn't..." His voice was choked, and there was no Go on.
Fang Zilan pursed her lips and said, "Mr. Su, please rest assured. For the sake of Miss Su Yuexi's last dignity and the reputation of the Su family, I will keep it secret and not let more people know about it."
Su Yun didn't react at all, and he didn't listen to a word of what Fang Zilan said next. He didn't understand why a good person like Sister Yue Xi would suffer so much and eventually end up burning herself in the world. Why?
"Mr. Su?" Fang Zilan called him, only to hear him suddenly whisper: "The Su family has a daughter who is like a full moon, bright and shining, looking forward to the brilliance. She is a master of music at the age of seven, and writes poems at the age of ten. There are no bad poems or songs. The moon waxes and wanes, but even if the full moon cannot hang forever, it should not... fall into the quagmire..."
He cried out every word, and by the time he said the last sentence, tears were streaming down his face.
The ends of Fang Zilan's eyes turned red, and she couldn't bear to look any further. She turned away and said in pale words: "Master Su, please forgive me and comply with the change."
"Sister Yue Xi..." Su Yun asked with a trembling voice, "Do you have any... last wishes?"
"She said she wanted to go home." Fang Zilan tried her best to suppress her emotions, but her voice was still tainted with a hint of bitterness. "She also said that she wanted me to bury the jade pendant for her next to the Su Family Ancestral Hall in the capital. In fact, she is afraid that no one in this world will remember Su Yuexi anymore."
"How could it be..." Su Yun stretched out his hand and slowly approached the jade pendant on the table, "After my uncle's family left Beijing, my grandmother and aunts and uncles would talk about Sister Yuexi every time they mentioned it. It would be great if Yue Yatou was here. Until my grandmother passed away the year before last, she would not close her eyes while calling Sister Yue Xi's name..."
As he spoke, he carefully touched the jade color with his fingers and sighed: "The world is like a gift, how can the fairy pod in the sea of clouds be as good as this person?"
"Master Su..." Fang Zilan didn't know how to comfort him, but felt that everything she said was in vain. Things are right and people are different, and there are bitter twists and turns in them. How can words be able to explain them clearly?
After a long time, Su Yun calmed down a little, and then he spoke again: "Master Fang, I have an unkind request. Please give me this jade pendant. I will definitely take it back to the capital and send it to you." This is the Su family's ancestral hall. It's my duty to leave you in my thoughts, okay?"
"Okay." Fang Zilan nodded slightly, and Su Yun held the jade pendant like a treasure, "Sister Yuexi, I will take you home when things happen in the southeast."
