After Zhang Jingyi saluted, the others also bowed and hurriedly gave a perfunctory salute. Then, without waiting for Xiao Yi to say anything, they turned around and ran away in a swarm.
"Miss Shen Si, please stay."
Before Shen Zhuo took two steps, he heard Xiao Yi's clear and cold voice coming from behind him.
"Jiaojiao, the seventh prince is calling you."
Shen Zhuo wanted to ignore it, but Lu Waner grabbed her arm. Shen Zhuo had no choice but to stop.
Shen Zhuo turned around, lowered his eyebrows and said, "I wonder why the Seventh Prince called me to stop you?"
Xiao Yi frowned slightly. The woman in front of me is indeed Shen Zhuo, but she doesn't seem to be Shen Zhuo. Xiao Yi felt something was wrong.
His Jiaojiao always loves to laugh, make fun, and get angry. Her eyes are always bright, like they are filled with stars. The corners of Jiaojiao's mouth were always slightly upward, even if she was annoyed, they were still curved. Instead of having a calm and cold face like now.
Xiao Yi looked at the top of Shen Zhuo's hair and couldn't help but feel slightly startled.
Shen Zhuo didn't hear Xiao Yi's voice, so he couldn't help but raise his head, looked at him and said, "Seventh prince, why don't you call me?"
Shen Zhuo felt a little angry in her heart, and she couldn't help but increase her tone.
Well, the sound is somewhat similar. Xiao Yi suddenly came back to his senses.
"Fourth brother's people are looking for Mr. Xie." Xiao Yi said.
"Huh?!" Shen Zhuo didn't understand what Xiao Yi was talking about for a moment, and stared at him blankly.
Well, the eyes look a bit similar now. Xiao Yi felt a sense of satisfaction in his heart.
"What fourth brother, what Mr. Xie?" Shen Zhuo was a little confused.
Xiao Yi didn't say anything, his eyes were a little wandering. Shen Zhuo saw that he couldn't speak clearly, he was always distracted, and the anger in his heart was rising, almost uncontrollable.
"Fourth brother's people are looking for Mr. Xie." Xiao Yi repeated, his tone lowered, almost coaxing.
Shen Zhuo couldn't bear it anymore, and she suddenly became furious, and she said loudly: "Who does your fourth brother want to go to, what does it have to do with me?! Why don't you thank the young master but not the young master..."
Just in the middle of shouting, Shen Zhuo suddenly stopped. She stared at Xiao Yi in shock and said, "You, are you going to say... Your Highness, the Fourth Highness, went to see Master Xie?"
"No." Xiao Yi said.
Shen Zhuo's heart suddenly dropped, and just when he was about to feel relieved, he heard Xiao Yi say again: "It was Fourth Brother's people who went to find him, not Fourth Brother himself."
If he had a stone at hand, Shen Zhuo would hate not being able to hit Xiao Yi again!
"Where are they? Where is my sister? Is my sister here too?" Shen Zhuo asked hurriedly, his eyes full of anxiety.
"You come with me." Xiao Yi lowered his eyes and looked at Shen Zhuo. His voice was very calm, but his fingertips were gently twirled out of sight.
It was purely an accident that Xiao Yi found out that Xiao Cheng's people were going to be detrimental to Xie Ze. His original intention was to let the Longhu Guard keep an eye on Shen Zhuo's whereabouts, but Lu Yun automatically understood that the person he wanted to keep an eye on was Shen Yao. Therefore, in the Taolin today, the person Lu Yun and Zhao Liujin, another dragon and tiger guard, were following was Shen Yao.
When Xiao Yi followed the mark left by Lu Yun, what appeared in front of him was Shen Yao and Xie Zhe. Lu Yun was still dutifully reporting to him.
"My lord, Miss Shen and this man have been hanging out together for about half an hour. There were rumors before that Miss Shen has another sweetheart, and it may be this person."
Xiao Yi remained silent and did not speak. He was thinking silently whether his instructions were not clear enough or Lu Yun was too stupid. Do you want to change your personal guard leader?
Xie Zhe, Xiao Yi knows him. The first time I met Xie Zhe was at Prince Yi's Mansion. He was the wife that Xiao Cheng paid a lot of money to pay to his eldest son Xiao Nan. He was born in Tanhua, and was an editor of the Hanlin Academy at that time. Later, he was promoted to a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy. He was a strong-willed and upright minister who never married.
Xiao Yi frowned, how could he be with Shen Yao? The two seem to have a close relationship. Seem to be interested in each other?
Xiao Yi was thinking, and Lu Yun's voice came to his ears again.
"My lord, my subordinates just saw Yan Shiyi walking around. She was disguised as a maid, and she might want to attack Mr. Xie."
Xiao Yi frowned and said, "Is there anyone else?"
Lu Yun said: "Yan Wu and Yan Qi are here too."
Xiao Yi half-closed his eyes, hesitating between caring and not caring. He could roughly guess what Xiao Cheng wanted to do.
In her previous life, Shen Yao was Xiao Cheng's princess, but in the seventh year after her marriage, she was assassinated and she and her son Xiao Nan died together. He had never heard about the relationship between Shen Yao and Xie Zhe.
At this time, a maid came over and saluted Shen Yao: "Miss Shen, my wife has got a piece of jade, and I would like to invite you to come and have a look."
Shen Yao recognized this maid as the eldest maid beside Mrs. Nan Guo. Shen Yao's level of appreciation of jade is also famous in Kyoto circles. Therefore, Shen Yao did not doubt that he was there. After bidding farewell to Xie Zhe, she took Huan'er and left with her maid.
Xiao Yi narrowed his eyes, looked at Shen Yao's leaving figure, and ordered: "Protect Xie Zhe, and don't let anything happen to him."
In Xiao Yi's memory, apart from the day when the Shen family was executed, the most saddening thing for Shen Zhuo was Shen Yao's death. During that time, Shen Zhuo cried every day and did not think about food or tea. He went to Shen Yao's mausoleum to talk to her every day. Her body, which was still plump, became visibly thinner.
It was the first time that Xiao Yi knew that a woman could shed so many tears. He felt that he was almost drowned by Shen Zhuo's tears.
Whether Xie Zhe lives or dies is not important in Xiao Yi's eyes, but if it concerns Shen Yao, Xiao Yi must take care of it. The deep tears are so hot and scorching that they will disappear if they can be seen in this life.
Lu Yun thought this order was strange. Could it be that there was a rift between the Lord and the Fourth Highness? But if the Lord has an order, he can only execute it.
Xiao Yi quickly flew through the peach forest, and then found Shen Zhuo, who was about to go with him to see the talented man.
Along the way, Shen Zhuo urged Xiao Yi to leave quickly. Xiao Yi glanced at Shen Zhuo's short legs and said nothing. His pace was slow because Shen Zhuo couldn't keep up, not because he couldn't walk fast.
Shen Zhuo urged her again and again, and she became more anxious. Xiao Yi felt annoyed, stretched out his hand and twisted Shen Zhuo's belt a few times, then picked her up and started galloping quickly.
"You~~~~~" Shen Zhuo wanted to curse, but as soon as he opened his mouth, he was filled with wind.
In less than a cup of tea, Xiao Yi carried Shen Zhuo to where Xie Zhe was.
The wind blew Shen Zhuo's hair into a mess, and his hairpin hung crookedly. Shen Zhuo glared at Xiao Yi, wishing he could pounce on him and beat him.
Xiao Yi's heart palpitated.
Shen Zhuo was angry and glaring at himself. Xiao Yi was very familiar with it. It had been a long, long time since he had seen such a lively and agile Shen Jiaojiao with his own eyes, and even his memory was a little blurry.
Xiao Yi looked at the woman in front of him almost greedily, feeling a slight numbness deep in his heart, and an inexplicable itch passed by, like a light feather sweeping from the tip of his heart.
Slight itching, hard to suppress...
Xiao Yi's throat rolled and his fingertips curled up.
