It's March again, and the fluttering catkins are like white snowflakes, shrouding the entire Xin'an City in a white haze.
Cheng Muyou stood in the palace and looked out anxiously, his only son Xun'er was still playing at the door in the morning, but only a few hours have passed, and the servants sent out to find it have come back several times, but still no trace of the child has been found.
Cheng Muyou clenched his palms, and the fine sweat slowly condensed on his forehead, Xun'er was the only child left by his deceased wife, and it was also the only seedling of the Cheng family, although his brother had been married for many years, he never gave birth to a son and a half daughter, and himself, after the death of his wife, did not remarry and did not come out, so the importance of Xun'er in the whole family is self-evident.
However, now that he is missing, it is still at such a special time, how can this not make Cheng Muyou scratch his heart and lungs like anxious.
A slender figure holding a long sword hurriedly walked in from outside the door, seeing this, Cheng Muyou walked quickly towards her, frowned and asked softly, "No?"
” Jiang Xixi shook her head gloomily, the worry on her face was no less than that of Cheng Muyou, she watched Xun'er grow up and treated him as her own brother, but just now, she walked through the entire Xin'an City, but she still didn't find a clue.
"My lord," Jiang Xixi bit his lower lip, and took a step closer to Cheng Muyou, but his voice became more and more firm, "Otherwise, the city will be closed, if Xun'er is taken away by others, at least it can be guaranteed that he can't get out of the city gate, in case the thieves run away, the sky is high and the earth is far away, where can we go to find him back." ” Cheng Muyou turned his back, and after a long time, he spit out a sentence from his mouth, "No, this is my Cheng family's family matter after all, and now Xin'an City is restless, and it must not make such a big move because of private matters." ” "But......"
Jiang Xixi wanted to argue a few more words, but he raised his arm to stop her, she knew Cheng Muyou's temperament, he looked humble and gentle, but once he made up his mind, no one could change it.
Helpless, Jiang Xixi had to put the sword on his back, swayed at the cold back, and then walked out of the mansion again.
A gust of wind swept in the face, blowing the catkins all over the house, Cheng Muyou and Jiang Xixi covered their eyes with their hands at the same time, just when the two slowly opened their eyes, they saw two figures walking in front of Xin'an Mansion one after the other, the person in front of him was dressed in green clothes, less than twenty years old, was a beautiful girl, she had a pair of phoenix eyes, the corners of her mouth were slightly upturned, and there seemed to be a smile on her face.
Behind her was a young man who looked like a servant, no more than fifteen or sixteen years old, with a bun on his head and eyes full of wisdom.
On the young man's back was a small child with fine skin and tender flesh, and the child seemed to be asleep, and his arms were limp and dangling on the young man's shoulders.
"Xun'er."
Jiang Xixi let out a soft snort, ran outside the house like the wind on the soles of her feet, pulled the child off the boy's body, and held it in her arms, she carefully patted the child's face, and gently tried it with her index finger under his nose.
"He just fell asleep."
A crisp voice came from the other side, and the woman in green clothes walked up to Jiang Xixi, took out a handkerchief from her cuff, and gently wiped Xun'er's sweaty forehead.
Jiang Xixi quickly opened her hand, pulled out a sword from behind and put it on the woman's neck, her eyes looked up and down at this stranger she had never met, and her voice became low and cold, "Say, did you kidnap Xun'er." ” Seeing this shining blade, the young man was so frightened that he squatted on the ground with his head in his hands, shouting in his mouth, "Girl, don't distinguish between good and evil, we just found that this child passed out on the side of the road, and the young lady has a good heart, so we want to take him home to take care of ......."
Jiang Xixi snorted coldly, "Don't look at where this is, who do you think you can deceive with this kind of nonsense?"
Before he could finish speaking, the sword moved forward two more points, almost cutting a bloody streak on the woman's thin white neck.
Two fingers suddenly clamped Jiang Xixi's long sword, and Cheng Muyou's deep voice sounded in her ears, "If it is Xun'er who they kidnapped, how can he come back here by throwing himself into the net, don't be rash anymore, take the child back to the inner room first, and I will give him a good examination in a while." ” After saying this, he turned his head to look at the woman who had been coerced by Jiang Xixi with a sword for a long time, only to find that not only was there no fear on her face, but as if she was examining herself, a pair of cold star-like eyes stared at his eyes without blinking, and in the end, at the corners of her eyebrows, turned into a smile that he couldn't understand.
Cheng Muyou was stunned for a moment, he always felt that this smile had a taste of déjà vu, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it, he was a little uncomfortable stared at by these eyes, and he didn't stay or go, but fortunately, the woman took the lead in speaking to break the embarrassment between the two, "Presumably this is Lord Cheng of Xin'an County, the little woman Yan Niang, who has just come here, and I hope that the adults will take care of her." ” Jiang Xixi was already angrily holding Xun'er and walked indoors, but when she heard Yan Niang's words, she turned back again, her pair of willow eyebrows frowned slightly, "You want to live here permanently?"
” Yan Niang didn't care about the previous suspicions, she looked at Jiang Xixi, "I have rented the courtyard next door to the county government, and I am going to open an embroidery village, if the girl doesn't dislike it, I will pick two batches of good satin for you and send them to you in a while, how about it?"
” Jiang Xixi smiled heartily, "It's not necessary to send satin, but," she leaned into Yan Niang's ear and lowered her voice, "That courtyard is haunted, and several people have died inside, you should be careful." ” The wooden door of the courtyard was pushed open, and the oncoming dust choked Yan Niang straight back, she looked at the big willow tree behind her that shook gently, picked up a stone and threw it on, "Right ear, stop playing, come and clean up the house." ” There was a rustling sound on the willow tree, and then, the young man named "Right Ear" jumped down from the tree, he dusted off the willow cotton on his body, and then walked into the courtyard gate under Yan Niang's disgusted gaze.
As his right ear stepped into the dilapidated courtyard, his body gradually transformed into a silver-white monkey, except that the monkey's eyebrows had an extra eye, which was embedded in the snow-white hair, shining.
He looked at the mess in the garden and sighed deeply, "How long will this be for me to clean?"
” Yan Niang ignored his complaints, picked up a clean stone pier and sat down, she said faintly, "Except for you, there is really no one in this world who can clean up this broken yard overnight." ”