Li Yu wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and said, "You should know what happens next."
Mu Lan said "yes".
In the early morning of that day, Mu Lan had recovered from her illness. She got up and walked to the door of Yinlong Villa. She saw a girl about her age sweeping the floor outside the door. Mu Lan walked over, took the broom from the girl's hand and said, "Luoshui, I was sick yesterday, thank you for helping me. You have a rest today, I will take care of your work today!"
Luo Shui said: "Are you feeling better? Don't hold on to it, it will be bad if there is any root cause of the disease."
Mu Lan said confidently: "It's okay, it's just a little cold!" Mu Lan took a broom and started sweeping the floor. While sweeping the floor, she asked: "Where are Madam, Aunt Xin, and the Second Young Master?"
Luo Shui replied: "The eldest lady and Miss Jianxin took the second young master to Zhurenmen."
Mu Lan wondered: "In the past, it was about three days in advance. Why is it five days in advance this time?"
Luo Shui whispered to Mu Lan: "Yesterday, for some reason, the village owner and the eldest lady had a big fight! Then the eldest lady got angry and took the second young master back to Zhurenmen."
Mu Lan nodded, "Why is this happening? Do you know why the owner of the village quarreled with the eldest lady?"
Luo Shui shook his head, "The quarrel was quite fierce at that time. The owner of the village and the eldest lady were arguing. Who dared to get in there?"
Mu Lan said: "That's right."
In the early morning of Ji Xia, the bright sunshine had already shone on the earth, causing some thin sweat to break out on Mu Lan's head while she was sweeping the floor. Luo Shui sat on the steps at the gate, looked into the distance, and saw a carriage approaching the villa. The carriage was getting closer and closer. Luo Shui took a closer look and shouted to Mu Lan: "Mu Lan! Look, the carriage is not Mr. Zhao Shu!"
Mu Lan looked in the direction Luo Shui said, "Yes! It is indeed Master Zhao Shu!"
Luo Shui said: "That's not right! Mu Lan. It was Mr. Zhao Shu who left yesterday in a carriage with the eldest lady and the others! Why did he come back just one night?"
Mu Lan said: "Did you leave something behind? I'll go over and ask." Mu Lan walked toward the carriage and slowly approached, and found that Zhao Shu's body was covered in blood. Mu Lan was startled and held her hand in his hand. He threw away his broom and asked tentatively: "Master Zhao?"
Zhao Shu lowered his head and his eyes were dull. When Mu Lan asked, he suddenly raised his head, saw Mu Lan, and said in a small voice: "It's Mu Lan."
Mu Lan looked at Zhao Shu who was covered in blood and asked, "Master Zhao, didn't you send your wife to Zhurenmen?"
Zhao Shu turned his head to one side and said, "Madam, madam, she... is on the carriage."
The carriage moved very slowly, so slowly that Mu Lan could easily jump onto the carriage. Mu Lan opened the curtain and opened her eyes wide. Everything she saw made her freeze there. In the carriage, Ouyang Lan was lying straight on the seat on one side, with a large red blood stain on his chest. Li Yu knelt on the carriage, lying next to Ouyang Lan with empty eyes, while Jian Xin sat on the chair on the other side with a bloodless face. Mu Lan's appearance did not make these two people make any move.
After a while, Mu Lan asked in a trembling voice: "What... is... what's going on?"
Jian Xin slowly turned her head, looked at Mu Lan, and said, "Yesterday, we, we met a robber, miss her, miss her, woo woo woo." Jian Xin covered her mouth and cried bitterly.
Mu Lan slumped down, shook her head and said, "No, no." Then she got up, went to Ouyang Lan's side, shook Ouyang Lan's body desperately, and shouted loudly: "Madam! lady!"
Li Yu said in a low and hoarse voice: "No need to shout, I have been calling my mother all night."
Mu Lan didn't want to believe it, but she still shook Ouyang Lan's body vigorously, and still shouted, "Madam, wake up! Madam!" Her voice gradually turned into a sob.
The carriage arrived at the entrance of Yinlong Villa. The sight of Zhao Shu covered in blood frightened Luo Shui so much that his face turned pale and he didn't dare to take a breath.
Zhao Shu stopped his horse, stood up, walked to Luo Shui, and weakly said to Luo Shui: "Go to the villa and call some people and ask them to carry the wife home."
Luo Shui's legs were weak and it took a lot of effort to stand up. Then he said "yes" and stumbled towards the villa. After Luo Shui left, Zhao Shu opened the curtain and looked at the people in the carriage. At this time, he wanted to say something, but he didn't know what to say, so he didn't say anything. Just stood there and watched quietly.
After a while, several servants came, and they were all startled by Zhao Shu's appearance. Then he saw the scene in the carriage and asked in surprise: "Madam, she?"
Zhao Shu said: "Madam, she has passed away. You go find a shelf and carry Madam into the house."
The servants responded and ran back to the villa. At this time, the housekeeper Li Ji walked out of the door and asked, "What happened?"
When Zhao Shu saw Li Ji, his voice trembled and he said, "Uncle Ji, madam her."
The housekeeper Li Ji was already in his sixties. When he saw Zhao Shu's expression, he knew that something terrible must have happened. He walked quickly to the carriage, looked inside, and saw a look of surprise on his wrinkled face, and then faced Zhao Shu Asked: "How could this happen? Zhao Shu, didn't you go with your wife yesterday?!"
Zhao Shu knelt down and blamed himself: "It's my fault, it's my fault that I didn't protect my wife!"
After all, Li Ji was a man who had experienced strong winds and waves. He calmed down and said in a sad tone: "Let's help the lady into the house first." The servants brought a stretcher over, and everyone carefully moved Ouyang Lan from the carriage to the stretcher. Go up and carry it into the hall of the house. The servants passing by showed panic.
Li Ji said to a servant: "Go to the Chamber of Commerce to find the owner of the village. Don't tell me what happened, just say that I have something to ask him for!" The servant responded and went out.
The affairs of the Longhang Chamber of Commerce are now complicated, and Li Zhentian sometimes just stays overnight in the Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber of Commerce was an expansion of the former Longxing Escort Agency, and considered it a place for Li Zhentian to rest. Zhou Weimin often helps Li Zhentian handle affairs, so he often stays in the Chamber of Commerce with Li Zhentian. Li Zhentian and Zhou got up earlier and had already started sorting out the chamber of commerce's information. At this time, a servant knocked on the door. Li Zhentian said: "Come in."
The servant bowed to Li Zhentian and said, "Master of the village."
Li Zhentian saw that he was a servant in the villa and asked, "What's wrong?"
The servant said: "Steward Li said that he wanted to see you for something, so he sent a villain to inform you."
Li Zhentian was a little confused, "You want to see me if you have something?"
The servant said: "Yes."
Li Zhentian looked at Mr. Zhou who was standing aside. Mr. Zhou said, "Maybe Uncle Ji has something to do with you, Mr. Guan. So, Mr. Guan, please go back first."
Li Zhentian said: "What about you?"
Zhou said: "The slave family will help you sort out these documents and I will return later."
Li Zhentian nodded and said, "Wei Min, I'll trouble you."
Zhou smiled and said, "It's okay, officer."
Li Zhentian returned to Yinlong Villa with this servant. When he rode to the entrance of the villa, he saw a tattered carriage parked at the door. Li Zhentian, who had been in the world for a long time, could tell at a glance that the marks on the carriage were caused by being stabbed with weapons. He immediately sensed something was wrong and quickly jumped off his horse and ran quickly towards the villa.
I saw Ouyang Lan lying quietly in the middle of the hall, while others were crying beside her. Li Zhentian was dizzy, as if he had been hit by something, and asked, "What's going on?"
"what happened!"
"What's going on!" Li Zhentian shouted!
Some of the servants were so frightened by Li Zhentian's roar that they became weak and did not dare to say a word.
Li Ji said to Li Zhentian: "Master, madam, she passed away."
Li Zhentian couldn't believe what he heard, "Passed away? What does it mean to pass away!"
Li Ji lowered his head and replied: "He has indeed passed away, and has no breath!"
"Impossible!" Li Zhentian roared, and immediately ran to Ouyang Lan's side, leaned down and felt Ouyang Lan's pulse. Ouyang Lan's hand had become cold and there was no pulse at all. Li Zhentian helped Ouyang Lan sit up, used his skills, and faced Ouyang Lan's palm, constantly instilling Qi into Ouyang Lan's body.
After instilling the energy for a long time, Li Zhentian was unwilling to stop. Until his lips turned white and his inner energy was almost exhausted, and he had to stop. However, Ouyang Lan still showed no signs of recovery. Li Zhentian sat paralyzed, still unwilling to believe that this was true. One hand held Ouyang Lan's hand, and the other hand brushed Ouyang Lan's face. A burly man who once faced thousands of people without changing his expression, now apologized like a child who made a mistake, "Lan'er, wake up! I am Zhentian, I was wrong, I I shouldn't argue with you! It's all my fault. Open your eyes and look at me! Lan'er! You said you would grow old together with me! You can't break your promise! Lan'er!" A man's shoulder bone was broken with a stick. The owner of Yinlong Villa, who had never shouted a word, was now crying heartbreakingly. The cry shook the entire villa, and the people around him couldn't help but shed tears when they saw Li Zhentian like this.
Li Zhentian cried for a while, looked at Jian Xin beside him, his eyes were red, and his tone was filled with murderous intent, and he said, "Jian Xin, what's going on?"
Jian Xin choked and said: "Yesterday, robbers appeared, and my wife was stabbed to protect Yu'er!"
Li Zhentian gritted his teeth and said, "Where are they?"
Jian Xin said: "Zhao Shu has been killed, but the leader ran away."
Li Zhentian gasped and said: "There is a road from Luoyang to the capital. How can there be robbers?"
"The lady said that she is not allowed to go to Kaifeng and must go directly back to Zhurenmen!"
After hearing this, Li Zhentian was filled with guilt and slapped himself hard in the face, "It's all my fault! If it weren't for me, if you had gone to the capital! This wouldn't have happened. it's all my fault!"
Li Ji stopped Li Zhentian's hand and said with tears in his eyes: "Master, you have to express your condolences. My wife has passed away. It's useless for you to blame yourself. At the moment, you should take care of your wife's funeral."
Li Zhentian looked up and saw Zhao Shu covered in blood on his side, and asked, "Zhao Shu, what were you doing at that time?"
Zhao Shu was speechless for a moment, "I..."
Li Zhentian yelled: "You were with my wife, how did you protect my wife!"
Zhao Shu lowered his head and said, "It's my fault. I failed to protect my wife."
Li Zhentian stood up with difficulty, almost using up all his internal strength, walked over and grabbed Zhao Shu's collar, and said loudly: "I believe you so much! You!"
Li Yu shouted loudly at this time: "What's wrong with Master Zhao! Are you my father or he is my father! Where were you when my mother and I needed you most?" Li Yu stood up, blushing With his eyes open, he continued to yell: "There are more than a dozen of them, and Master Zhao is the only one. What do you want him to do?" Jian Xin quickly hugged Li Yu tightly and put her hand against his mouth.
After hearing this, Li Zhentian loosened Zhao Shu's collar, smiled bitterly, and looked at Ouyang Lan, who was lying quietly on the ground with a hint of smile on his lips.
