09Formal acquaintance
As soon as Ayu entered the door, he noticed something was wrong with the atmosphere in the room.
She was not surprised to see that the injured person who was still unconscious when she went out woke up, and saw that they were looking in the same direction, and Yun Zhi was lying on the table in a daze, looking like he was lost.
"Hey, what's going on?" Ah Yu put the food box he was carrying on the table, approached Yun Zhi and asked with concern: "What's going on, are they bullying you?"
Without waiting for Yun Zhi's answer, he scolded the two men again: "How ungrateful. This girl put in so much effort to save you. Do you know how to be grateful? Looking at the mannequin How can you repay kindness with enmity when you are like a dog!"
The two people looked innocent, and Yun Zhi quickly explained: "No, they didn't bully me, I just feel a little homesick."
Ayu snorted, "I'm... sorry... I thought..." As she said that, she smiled awkwardly and began to change the subject, "Um... where do you live?"
In a very distant place, Yunzhi thought in his heart, but replied: "Luozhou."
"Then you came to Jiahe Town to visit relatives?" Ayu asked again.
Yun Zhi was just about to agree, but she was afraid that Ayu would ask her which family her relatives were from, so she shook her head and said, "No, I'm just passing by. I want to go south."
The two countries, Yuan and Yan, were at odds with each other, so she couldn't reveal her destination easily.
This girl Ayu seemed to be very gossipy. When she heard that she was going south, she quickly asked: "Are you also going to Ming'an to participate in the Sword Appreciation Conference?"
Where is Ming'an? What is the Sword Appreciation Conference?
Although his mind was filled with doubts, Yun Zhi still nodded in recognition.
A Yu looked surprised, "In a place like Luozhou where officials are important, there are still people interested in the Sword Appreciation Conference!" He then looked at the other two people, "Are you guys together too?"
Pei Shun glanced at Xiao Yi quickly, then quickly turned back and nodded, "Yes."
Yun Zhi frowned slightly, not understanding why he answered, but she also knew that although the pretty girl in front of her had excellent medical skills, her background and identity were unknown, so naturally she could not reveal too much to her.
But Ah Yu didn't seem to regard him as an outsider. After hearing Pei Shun's answer, he immediately laughed, "Great, let's go together. I happen to be going to Ming'an too!"
Yun Zhi and the other three had different expressions upon hearing this, but A Yu seemed not to notice, and came forward to hold Yun Zhi's arm intimately, "By the way, my name is A Yu, and I am a doctor. Do you know what you call me?"
"I am..." Yun Zhi said for a moment, glanced at Xiao Yi, and continued: "Yun Zhi."
"It's Miss Yun!" Ayu looked at her with a smile and repeated: "Miss Yun."
Yun Zhi said hurriedly: "Just call me Zhi Zhi."
"Zhizhi." Ayu smiled very cutely and turned to the two people beside the bed, "What about you?"
Pei Shun thought for a moment, then said his name calmly, followed by Xiao Yi.
In this way, the four people officially knew each other.
They just knew each other's names, but Ayu seemed to have understood everyone's past, and even her tone became very familiar. She opened the food box to invite people to come over to eat, and then hid it at the bottom. A bowl filled with dark soup was handed to Yun Zhi, and he glanced towards the bed and said, "His medicine."
After chatting for a few words, Yun Zhi also calmed down. She came to this world by accident. If Senior Brother Pei was really here, she should worry about whether her master and wife could bear it. Fortunately, the Pei Shun in front of him was not Senior Brother Pei. Yunzhi secretly rejoiced. He took the medicine bowl handed over by Ayu very naturally and walked to the bedside to feed Xiao Yi the medicine.
Xiao Yi thought the medicine was bitter and refused to open his mouth after taking a sip. Yunzhi had to use sugar as bait to coax him to take the medicine, which made A Yu and Pei Shun shake their heads.
Not only this time, but in the following days, every time it was time for him to take medicine, Yunzhi had to take out a few pieces of candy before Xiao Yi would take the medicine.
In the past few days, in addition to the daily decoction, Ayu has also been giving Xiao Yi acupuncture to suppress the poisonous hair. However, after a few days, the poison still crawled along the wound to the upper arm and neck, and Xiao Yi's complexion became worse day by day. Yunzhi always broke out in cold sweat when she saw him in pain, so she would give him a piece of candy. After a few days, she didn't have a few pieces of candy left in her pocket.
Fortunately, Yu Luo came back in time with Bai Jie Wan.
Yu Luo was covered in wind and frost, and he didn't know how long he had been traveling. After handing the Baijie Pill to Ayu, he no longer had the strength to stand. Yunzhi quickly sent her to another room to rest.
After Xiao Yi took the Baijie pills, he soon coughed up a large pool of black blood clots. Ayu said that this was the poison he had been poisoned. He also dipped a small piece of it with a handkerchief and said that he would go back and study it. Try this poison and see if you can make an antidote or something to prevent future troubles.
After coughing up the poisonous blood, Xiao Yi took a long sleep. When he woke up the next day, he was no longer tired and had eaten more food.
When Yun Zhi came to see him, the man was walking back and forth in the room. When he saw Yun Zhi, he immediately stopped, sat down on the chair, covered his shoulders and started to cry out in pain.
Yun Zhi exposed him mercilessly, "Okay, stop pretending, I've seen you jumping around."
Xiao Yi smiled awkwardly and said harshly: "It still hurts a little."
Yunzhi ignored it, looked around the room, and asked: "Master Pei... where is Pei Shun?"
"I went out early in the morning." Xiao Yi raised his hand and touched his chin, and said in a calm tone, "You have something to do with him?"
"It's okay." Yun Zhi smiled and said, "I'm here to find you."
Xiao Yi raised his eyebrows slightly and curled the corners of his mouth, "I guess you want to ask me why I sent Yu Luo to the palace to pick you up? Or you want to ask me why I didn't return to Luozhou to recover after being injured?"
How come he knows everything! Yun Zhi looked at him in surprise. Could this person have the ability to read minds?
Her expression answered for her, and Xiao Yi began to explain: "After receiving the marriage decree, you jumped into the lake three times. It shows that you didn't want to marry Prince Ning at all, but you were overjoyed on the day of the wedding. You looked very much looking forward to it, and then I met you at the Royal Library, so I guess you were willing to marry Prince Ning because you wanted to go to the Royal Library so that you could enter the palace, right?"
"And of course you didn't go to Yushulou for that kind of book." Xiao Yi said, coughing slightly, his eyes flickering a few times, and then continued: "Actually, your real purpose is the The Heavenly Book written by the Empress of the Kingdom - you can understand the contents of the Heavenly Book, right?"
Yunzhi lowered his eyes slightly and asked instead, "What does this have to do with you sending someone to take me out of the palace?"
Xiao Yi made a surprising statement: "You are not the first one who can understand the contents of the Heavenly Book. According to "Dayuan Shidai Lu", about forty years ago, there was also a person who understood the Heavenly Book, and that person The first thing a person does after reading the Book of Heaven is to go to Yan Kingdom, so I guess the same goes for you."
"Then what happened to this person?" Yunzhi eagerly wanted to know everything related to this.
But Xiao Yi didn't say much, just said "I don't know", and then continued to answer the two questions: "And the reason why I help you is, firstly, because Duke Anguo is kind to me, and Brother Shenjun is kind to me." He is an old friend of mine, and there is no reason for me to watch you do anything to implicate them because you left the palace; the second reason is--"
At this point, Xiao Yi paused and said word by word: "You are Princess Ning."
Yun Zhi couldn't help but start to doubt: "You also have friendship with Prince Ning?"
Xiao Yi touched his nose and said, "That's right."
Yun Zhi asked strangely: "You are helping someone else's wife escape from marriage even though we are friends with her? Isn't it because of a grudge?"
Xiao Yi coughed, forced a smile at the corner of his mouth, and silently changed the subject, "As for why I don't go back to Luozhou, it's because after this crisis, I suddenly felt that being a royal messenger was meaningless. I wanted to go back. Let’s take a look at Qingyi Villa.”
This Yunzhi can understand that people are particularly homesick after encountering life and death events. She also misses home and wants to go home.
Thinking of going home, Yun Zhi quickly asked: "There is another question. Last time in Yushu Tower, I asked you who is the current empress of Yan Kingdom..."
Xiao Yi exclaimed, "It's still the same person who wrote the Book of Heaven fifty years ago, Sikong Jing."
"Then how old is she this year?" Yun Zhi secretly became nervous.
Xiao Yi looked at the memory and thought for a long time before replying: "She is probably in her late 70s, I don't know the specific number."
Already almost seventy years old? Will the empress be her sister? If so, why is the timeline so different after coming to this world? Did my sister come to this world during the half year she disappeared? Half a year in reality is equivalent to fifty years in this world?
Yun Zhi frowned and thought about these questions quickly. Xiao Yi sat aside and looked at her quietly. Although he had many doubts in his heart, he didn't ask if she didn't want to talk.
The two sat in silence for a while, and then Ayu suddenly opened the door and came in.
As soon as Ayu came in, she got in between the two of them and shared with them the gossip she had just heard from the street.
"Tonight, Jiahe Town is holding an ancestor worship ceremony. I heard them say that the scene will be grand, and there is still money to get! Let's go and see it together tonight!"
Xiao Yi frowned slightly, "Isn't it usually during the day for ancestor worship? Why is it still at night in Jiahe Town?"
"You haven't gone out these days, so you don't know." Ayu sighed first, then lowered his voice and said, "There have been murders in this town for five consecutive days!"
Yun Zhi also came to his senses and subconsciously felt something was wrong: "Five days? Didn't that start on the day we arrived in Jiahe Town?"
"Yes!" A Yu nodded, "I heard that of the five people who died, not only did each of them die in a horrific manner, but they also had strange symbols drawn on their foreheads. The people from the yamen have been investigating for the past few days. No results were found, so everyone was spreading rumors that evil spirits were responsible for the murder, so the mayor proposed to offer sacrifices to ancestors and ask for their blessings."
When Yun Zhi heard this, he immediately sneered, "There are no evil spirits in the world. I'm afraid it's just some people pretending to be gods."
"I think so too!" Ayu agreed, and added: "But I heard they said that this matter has alarmed the Criminal Investigation Department. Tomorrow, the Criminal Investigation Department Chief Lu will personally bring people to investigate, and maybe he will be able to investigate by then. The murderer has been found!"
"Chief Lu of the Criminal Investigation Department?" Lu Shenjun is coming? The smile on Yunzhi's face gradually stiffened, "Is your news accurate?"
"It's true!" Ayu smiled sweetly and lowered his voice a little: "I personally heard this from the Yamen people and the mayor!"
Yun Zhi raised his eyes and looked at Xiao Yi. The two exchanged eyes for a moment. Xiao Yi stood up and asked casually, "Miss Ayu, is the time for the sword appreciation meeting coming soon?"
Ayu replied: "There are still about twenty days left for the Sword Appreciation Ceremony on September 16th."
Xiao Yi snorted and suggested: "Then let's set off today. It's only half a month from Ming'an. It would be bad if something delays us along the way."
"Ah?" Ayu was about to question the healing status of his wound, when Yunzhi stood up and agreed, "That makes sense, I'll go back and pack my things right now!"
After saying that, he turned around and ran away, leaving no chance for Ayu to question at all.
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In the afternoon, a group of four people drove a carriage out of Jiahe Town.
However, they didn't go far before they were stopped.
Yun Zhi quietly lifted a corner of the carriage curtain and saw a group of government servants wearing official robes and holding weapons. The leader was riding a white horse majesticly. His eyes were like cold light, staring closely at their carriage, and there was no sound in his voice. A hint of warmth.
"The Criminal Investigation Department is investigating the case. Everyone should stop their horses and get off their vehicles immediately!"
