Shen Dingzhu was about to go to bed when a maid called from outside: "Is Miss Xibao here? The eldest lady needs your help."
She quickly sat up, looked in the bronze mirror at her fair cheeks that had removed the yellow powder, and said, "Wait for me for a moment while I get dressed."
The maid outside the door curled her lips.
After a while, the door opened from the inside. The sky was a little dark. Shen Dingzhu's figure in white pajamas was slim and charming, but her face was yellow.
There is only a pair of watery eyes, dark and bright, with thick long eyelashes, like butterfly wings, slightly upturned at the end of the eyes, especially charming.
The maid was a close attendant of the eldest lady. She unfolded the painting she was holding in her hand: "This is one of the eldest lady's dowry, but the ink on it is about to fall off. So, I heard that Miss Xibao is good at painting, so I wanted to invite the girl. Help me make a copy."
Shen Dingzhu took a look at the painting and felt a little troublesome.
"I definitely can't finish the painting in two days." She planned to politely refuse.
Unexpectedly, the maid took out a small bag of heavy silver from her sleeve.
"Madam is generous, how can I miss out on your hard work? Miss Xibao, just agree. Madam rarely asks you to do things. Is it possible that you are favored by the uncle, but you are not even willing to do such a small thing as Madam?" The maid raised her head. He frowned and his tone was a bit mean.
Shen Dingzhu took the silver and weighed it. He opened it and took a quick look. It was about forty taels.
She thought about it and took the job.
"You have to go back and tell Madam that I can't finish this painting in two days, and we have to be in a hurry. I'll give it to her in half a month."
The maid nodded happily, turned around and left.
Shen Dingzhu suddenly stopped her: "Wait a minute."
The maid became a little impatient: "Miss Xibao, do you have any other instructions?"
Shen Dingzhu pursed her lips, remembering that Xu Huaisong took good care of her. Although Mrs. Xu disliked her, she had not done anything excessive to her for so long.
So she kindly reminded: "If you can, I don't want to bring the scent in Madam's room. It contains musk, which is not good for Madam's health."
The maid's eyes widened in disbelief, and then she burst out laughing mockingly.
"Si Bao, do you know how precious that fragrance is, and you said it's not good for Madam's health? It's so funny!" The maid flicked the veil, deciding that she wanted to be attentive, "That's all, I don't have to tell you this, that painting Please make up for it as soon as possible. If it can be taken out within two days, Madam will be very happy."
After saying that, the maid left.
After Shen Dingzhu returned to his room, he was not sleepy and simply started to outline the original outline of the painting.
She was busy until the third watch. Before she went to sleep, she saw the watchman in the house hurriedly walking past the courtyard door twice, not knowing what happened.
Shen Dingzhu didn't think much, locked the door bolt, and fell asleep.
*
On the road outside Baishi City, the mountain wind was bleak and the autumn air was cold. The bright moon hung high in the sky, illuminating the ground with a white snow.
Recently, many people from White Lion City have migrated to the hinterland of Beiliang through this road, just to avoid the war.
But in order to allow him to leave quickly, the fourth prince had this road blocked during the day, forcing the people of White Lion City to take another road around the mountain.
However, the fourth prince never expected that precisely because of his move, he would attract a group of ambush masters.
In the middle of the night, the mountain road was littered with fighting, and blood meandered into a river. The guards of the fourth prince were caught and held to death.
"Whatever you want, I, I can give it to you, all heroes, spare your life!" When the fourth prince was dragged out of the carriage by the man in black, there were two brothel girls in the carriage.
They screamed and were dragged down together.
Under the cold and cold moon, the men in black gathered in a circle, with long knives dripping blood in their hands. Their aura was so terrifying that they were frightened to death.
Steady footsteps came, and the people in black moved out of the way.
The fourth prince looked up and saw a tall and handsome man walking in front of him. His eyes were condescending and arrogant. The dark night behind him seemed like an abyss that existed because of him.
The timid aura at first glance made the fourth prince tremble uncontrollably.
"Are you the fourth prince? It turns out you are also incompetent." Xiao Langyan sneered with thin lips, his dark cold eyes like two cold blades.
He just heard that the fourth prince was going to leave in a high profile, so he simply arrested him and humiliated the Beiliang Emperor. As for whether to kill him or not, it depends on his mood.
The fourth prince didn't recognize him at all, but felt that this man's aura was terrifying. He cried and begged for mercy: "Hero, spare your life. There are countless treasures in the carriage behind me. Take it all, take it all!"
Xiao Langyan looked back and signaled, and someone immediately went to the carriage to move all the treasures out.
Finally, like a hill, they piled up in front of Xiao Langyan.
In Xiao Langyan's eyes, the so-called rare treasures were just worthless yellow and white things. With a cold face, he raised his boots and kicked the pile of treasures lightly.
A purple jade bead rolled down, worth thousands of gold! The fourth prince's heart ached when he saw it, but Xiao Langyan picked it up and looked at it twice before throwing it down the mountain road.
The fourth prince was so frightened that he almost cried, because he realized that if these people didn't want wealth, they would definitely cost their lives!
Just when Xiao Langyan was about to tie him up and throw him into the river, he suddenly saw a picture scroll pressed between the treasures.
The painting handle, which had been smeared with special tree oil, glowed like elk grease under the moonlight.
Xiao Langyan was surprised.
He had only seen this professional method of preserving ancient paintings twice in the Jin Dynasty. The first time was in the treasury, and the second time was in Father Shen's collection.
He likes to collect antiques, so he knows that there are not many people in the world who know how to use special tree oil to protect ancient paintings and wooden hangings.
But Shen Dingzhu definitely counts as one.
Xiao Langyan took out the painting with almost no hesitation. After discovering that it was Ban Gu's work, he slightly opened his thin eyes.
This painting is fake, the real one is with him.
So he could see that there was a slender brown branch in the painting, which was extra, but if he didn't look carefully, he still felt that it was integrated.
Such lifelike painting skills...
His big palms were almost trembling, and a sea of fire burst out from his thin eyes.
Could it be her? ! Will it be? !
"Who touched up this painting for you?" he immediately asked the fourth prince.
The fourth prince was stunned: "Yes, she is a woman, a painter."
"Where is she?" Xiao Langyan straightened up, the paranoid and fiery look in his eyes frightened the fourth prince.
He trembled, not daring to tell his cousin's name, feeling a little guilty.
Seeing his hesitation, Xiao Langyan grabbed the fourth prince's collar with his big palm and almost lifted him up: "Did you hurt her?"
Only then did Xiao Langyan see the finger marks on the fourth prince's face. His heart skipped a beat. The veins on the back of his hands bulged from exertion, like the lines of a horned dragon.
There was almost a fierce look in his eyes. The moonlight fell on his eyes, but he seemed to have fallen into an abyss. His expression was so sharp and majestic.
Xiao Langyan directly pulled out the sword from his waist and pressed it against the fourth prince's neck.
"Is that what you said, or should I cut off your head and go to the city to ask everyone?" The edge of his sword slowly penetrated, cutting a wound that continued to bleed.
His expression let the fourth prince know that he was really capable of killing himself with a knife.
The fourth prince was so frightened that he peed his pants and cried: "I, I really didn't! She is my cousin's concubine, how dare I hurt her, hero, hero, if you want to find her, she will be in the white house." In the Lion City, it’s called…” What’s it called!
The fourth prince was so frightened that he could not speak coherently, and suddenly he could not remember what the woman's name was.
The brothel girls on the side were so scared that they hugged together, for fear of losing their lives: "I know! The cousin of His Highness the Fourth Highness is from the Xu family. You should go to the Xu family to find him!"
When Xiao Langyan heard this, he glanced sideways and saw the fourth prince nodding his head. Without hesitation, he lowered his sword, blood spattered, and the skeletal head slid along the hillside for a while, and then stopped.
The screams of the brothel women pierced the sky, and they fainted one after another.
The mountain wind came, and there was a strong smell of blood on Xiao Langyan's body. The moonlight illuminated his dark sword eyebrows, but could not shine into his pair of deep and cold eyes.
He stood up with his sword in hand and immediately ordered: "Go back to White Lion City."
Chen Heng hurriedly stepped forward: "Master, you must not do it. General Shen Lan's army will arrive soon, and the gunpowder in the city has been prepared. If you go back now, you will probably put yourself in danger."
Moreover, what if that woman is not the Queen?
Can anyone really fall from such a high cliff and still survive?
Xiao Langyan could no longer care about anything. He asked someone to fetch the horse, put the painting away, and then he landed on the ground and turned over.
"I must confirm it with my own eyes." After he said that, he whipped up his whip with his big palm, and with a whoosh, he rushed towards the White Lion City, which was about to be in war.
Chen Heng and others, as well as the Yifu Xuanjia Army, immediately followed.
Under the moonlight all over the mountain, the only sound was the clatter of horse hooves, like thunder.
Xiao Langyan took the lead, galloping on the moonlit road covered with hoarfrost, so fast that only the wind could be heard.
He watched with his own eyes the day Shen Dingzhu jumped off the cliff, and his heart seemed to die with him.
From then on, he was nothing more than a walking, emotionless shell.
At this time, he discovered that she might really be alive. Xiao Langyan had never felt his heartbeat so fast!
It was as if his flesh and blood were regenerated, and his bones were reshaped by the thoughts of so many days and nights, and the corners of his eyes and brows were stained with fanatical persistence.
Hope she lives!
Please let her live!
