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Chapter 19
Jiang Rao rolled on the bed for a while, and after a while, the maid blew out the light, and it was time for her to sleep.
She promised that Rong Ting would go to him tomorrow, not to sleep again for fear of delaying things.
Jiang Rao slowly sank into the dream.
In a dream, saw a beautiful woman, dressed in gold and emerald green, don't know how extravagant she is.
She wanted to see where it was, but she couldn't see it at all, she could only see the general appearance of the two people who were talking.
There was a nanny next to her ear, whispering to the beautiful woman.
"The old slave sent people to hurry up. He arrived in Yecheng in the middle of this month and went there to find out. This time the person named Wang Zhou will be caught. It is true that someone is secretly obstructing."
Jiang Rao held her breath.
It turns out that this is the one who has been hurting Rong Ting.
"who is it?"
"There is an unintentional nobleman in Ning'an's mansion who has been wandering outside Jiang Siye, can you remember it?"
"It's him?"
When it comes to what her daddy does, does it hurt her daddy?
Hearing the old lady in the dream open her lips, she said in a gloomy tone, "It's not Fourth Master Jiang, but the only direct daughter of Fourth Master Jiang, Jiang Rao, Miss Jiang."
In the eyes of the beautiful woman of Jinluan Pinecui, there was a moment of poison in her eyes.
Jiang Rao shivered and woke up from the dream.
Unstoppable trembling.
In the dream, the old mama's cold and gloomy "Four Girls Jiang", after waking up from the dream, changed her ear all the time.
There is endless darkness around, invisible, like a knife, just behind her.
She stiffened and glanced behind her, there was nothing but blackness behind her.
But she didn't breathe a sigh of relief, instead, a sense of unease began to spread in her heart.
Today is March 12.
The middle of this month is now.
At the same time, the good spies found by Ji Momo are rushing on their way, day and night, and they will arrive at Yecheng within twenty miles.
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In the Splendid Palace, the fog in the copper incense furnace was thick, and the rich aroma of benzoin filled the room.
Empress Jiahe, however, with a gloomy expression on her face, asked Mammy Ji anxiously, "Mammy, when will the person you sent back?"
"It will take three days to go and three days to return. It will take a total of six days of effort." Sister Ji said, "Ye City is remote, it was the place so far away that the Empress chose to be, Empress, you can't be impatient."
The complexion of Queen Jiahe instantly became as ugly as eating a fly.
When Yecheng was chosen, it was because it was remote and remote, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and inconvenient to travel, so that Rong Ting was called Tiantian not to be there, and the ground was not working. The heavy snow this year sealed the city, and God helped her even more. .
Who would have thought that she would suffer this loss by herself today.
She suppressed the anxious urgency in her heart and asked, "The day after tomorrow, March 14, is it the time for him to arrive in Yecheng?"
Ji Momo nodded, "That's right."
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On the thirteenth day of March, the branches were noisy, and magpies stepped on the branches that had just spewed green and jumped up and down.
After waking up, the feeling of a sharp sword hanging from the back of the neck has been lingering in Jiang Rao's heart, and there is a chill behind him.
She couldn't fall asleep again, and she was not in the mood to eat breakfast, so she asked the maid to go to the main courtyard to say that she didn't have to eat this morning, and sat at the table, recalling the dream last night.
Predicting the future from her dreams did allow her to avoid many disasters, but her dreams were not under her control, and sometimes she could only dream halfway, which made her a little confused.
That dream last night, what means would that woman use to deal with her?
She asked someone to go to the inn today to ask. Among the people who entered the city, there were no foreigners.
Those who want to enter the city must stop for a while at the post station next to the city gate and receive an admission order before entering the city.
Station...
She tapped her finger on the table, before she could figure out what to do in the future, a small group of people rushed in from outside the door with an anxious tone, and shouted to Jiang Rao: "Sister! Sister! Something happened! !"
Jiang Jinxing Baozi's worried expression and anxious tone made Jiang Rao think that something major had happened, but he heard him say, "Dad, he wants to ground you."
Jiang Rao was stunned for a moment, "Foot restraint?"
Jiang Jinxing nodded heavily.
For seven-year-old Jiang Jinxing, being grounded, like the sky is falling, is the worst thing.
Such a bad thing was about to happen to his elder sister, so he was so anxious to finish his breakfast that he ran over to give her a letter, so tired that he was panting and sweating, "Daddy saw that you didn't come during the meal just now. , he was unhappy and becameβ¦β
He was too young to describe. He straightened the corners of his mouth, lowered his cheeks, made a serious look, and moved his lips and said, "The face looks like Guan Gong in the temple, so scary. I have a small face. Friends, when I went to the temple, I shivered with fright!"
Seeing that he was talking more and more crookedly, Jiang Rao made up a friend and smeared the "little friend" about his trembling in Guan Gong Temple. He hugged him on his lap and helped him get back to the point, "Why did Daddy ground me?"
Just not having breakfast, not just being grounded
Bar.
Jiang Jinxing tilted his head and thought for a while, "Last night, my sister came back late, daddy knows."
He looked quite experienced, "If my sister wants to go out to play today, she must know how to get out. The wall is too high, and you have to ask the maid to hold it to turn over, but at the foot of the west wall in the backyard, there is such a big hole. ."
Jiang Jinxing raised his hand and gestured to a circle about the size of his chubby belly, "I can get in, so can my sister."
"That's a dog hole." Jiang Rao couldn't help laughing and crying.
When she came back last night, she didn't pay much attention to the time, but she remembered that it was not too late. She was a little confused when she heard Ming Shao say, "Girl, we came back every hour."
Jiang Rao's heart skipped a beat.
A moment late.
Just for this moment to punish her...
Daddy when did he become so strict?
...
"Isn't it too harsh for you to ban her feet just for a moment when you come back every year?"
Mrs Jiang Qin handed a cup of tea to Fourth Master Jiang after the meal and asked softly.
Fourth Master Jiang had a gloomy look on his face, his voice raised a lot, and he looked a little ruthless, "If you don't be stricter, she's afraid that she will live in the west of the city and won't come back!"
It's just that his iron face can't last long, and soon he couldn't bear it anymore, so he called a maid over, "Cook a bowl of sweet porridge and send it to the girl, even if there is something in your heart, how can you not eat breakfast."
Seeing Jiang Qin looking at him with a slightly teasing smile, he felt that his attitude was too soft and a little shameless, so he called back the maid, "Stop making sweet porridge, make something she doesn't like to eat. Barley and lily porridge, she suffers. I can endure her."
He coughed, "Barley and lily, just add a little, it doesn't need to be too much."
The old father jumped around repeatedly between caring for his daughter and punishing her. Jiang Qin smiled, "Nian Nian is not an ignorant child, and he will not do unruly things."
At this time, the housekeeper of Jiang's house came to report
"Master, Madam, people are gradually leaving the city outside. The old slave did some inquiries. Although the officials here haven't issued an unblocking order, the mountain road has melted away, and it's not scary. Those who leave the city and enter the city are all safe and sound. "Master, should we start preparing for our return to Jinling?"
Fourth Master Jiang thought for a while, "It's time to go back to Jinling."
Jiang Qinshi was reluctant to leave so early.
The old uncle's birthday has passed, and it will be several months before Jiang Rao's grandmother's birthday. She has not found out how the young boy's family background in the west of the city has changed, and the marriage is not a word. She doesn't want to leave so soon.
"Zihuai." She called Fourth Master Jiang's words and asked softly, "Can you stay for a few more days? Go back to Jinling, and don't be in a hurry."
Jiang Siye always doted on his wife. After thinking about it, he was really in no hurry to go back, so he said to the old housekeeper, "Wait for the release order, and then let's talk about leaving."
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And Jiang Rao was so pitifully grounded.
She didn't think about how to avoid the disaster predicted in her dream, but she was caught off guard by this small accident.
It's no use complaining. Her father specially sent servants to watch outside her courtyard. In exchange, they made the worst barley porridge for her and told her to stop even thinking of begging for herself and stay in the courtyard honestly. How to avoid the calamity of dreams.
Up to now, she didn't know which family Rong Ting was a child of, so she couldn't deal with the lady directly.
You can only start with the person sent by the woman.
She thought about it along the way in the morning, the station, the station.
If the person passed by the inn, she would definitely recognize it.
She had to find a way to prevent him from reporting back to Jinling.
"Ming Shao, go and call Jiang Ping over!"
After Jiang Ping arrived, Jiang Rao handed him two pieces of paper, "Find a few more skills, and then do as it is written on the paper, don't be too loud."
Jiang Ping raised another rolled paper scroll in his hand, "What about this one?"
"Send to the west of the city."
Jiang Rao remembered the agreement with Rong Ting yesterday.
It's just that she was grounded today, so she couldn't find him, so she could only ask Jiang Ping to bring a letter to apologize on her behalf.
Go find him another day, then bring some gifts of apology and apologize sincerely.
...
After reading Jiang Rao's paper, Jiang Ping burned the paper in accordance with her silent instructions, and silently kept the request in his heart.
He first gathered the males in the family to have a test, and selected the most powerful ones in martial arts, plus two who were not very skilled in martial arts, but with big arms, round waists, burly stature, and great strength, and used them to scare people .
This work took half a day of work for him. After finally choosing, Jiang Ping rushed to the post station to do some work.
Finally, going all the way east, came to an abandoned house along the mountain in the east of Yecheng City, and arranged for two people to clean up here.
After doing this, it was already dark.
"Girl, everything you arranged on paper has been done."
Jiang Ping rushed back to Jiang Rao in the dark, and replied.
Jiang Rao motioned Ming Shao to hand Jiang Ping the reward money he had prepared earlier, but
Hearing Jiang Ping knelt down with a plop, "This reward is not worthy of a villain."
With sweat on his forehead, he pulled a roll of paper out of his sleeve, and stretched it out in front of Jiang Rao's eyes with trembling hands, "The little man has been busy all day and forgot about delivering the letter. When I think about it, it's too late, I can't make it in time. already."
Jiang Rao frowned.
Letter not delivered.
Then didn't he wait for a day?
She frowned, but instead put the reward back into Jiang Ping's hands, turned her head and asked Ming Shao, "Outside the hospital, are there people from Daddy who are watching?"
Ming Shao said, "It's already night, and no one is watching. At the main entrance, someone else is guarding."
She glanced at Jiang Rao hesitantly, "The girl means..."
Jiang Rao sighed, "Try the tricks that I've said."
He let go of his pigeons without saying hello, what if he had been waiting.
Ming Shao glanced at the sky outside, "It's almost time for bed, maybe he's already asleep."
Jiang Rao had already put on the cape that he was going to wear when he went out, lit a lantern and carried it, "It's always my fault, even if he's already asleep, I'll have to see him before I can feel at ease."
Jiang Ping felt guilty, and said casually: "The villain will follow, and go together."
Jiang Rao nodded, "Let's go, go to the backyard."
...
In the morning, before the morning light came up, Rong Ting went to the stream to fetch water.
After so many days of taking medicine and massaging, he gradually gained some strength in his legs. Although he couldn't walk without leaning on other things, it was much better than when he was so severe that he lost consciousness.
However, if you want to take a bath, changing it is time-consuming and labor-intensive.
Changing a set of clean clothes from the inside out is also time-consuming and labor-intensive.
So he woke up very early in the morning, cleaned himself well, and waited for a long time, until Jiang Rao couldn't wait for a long time, and then he began to feel agitated.
Seeing the sun rising in the east with my own eyes, it sinks back in the west.
After waiting all day, he was sure that she really wouldn't come today.
Yesterday's sincere request was taken as a joke by her...
Rong Ting frowned.
What was more in his heart was anxiety. Emotions he hadn't had for many years led the memory in his mind. She didn't come for a few days that time, and the last thing he waited for was the news that her carriage fell off the cliff.
He got up suddenly, anxious for a while, forgetting that his leg injury had not fully recovered, and his bones suddenly hurt as if they were broken.
He said that if she doesn't come, he will go to find her in person.
He turned the wheelchair and went out of the house.
...
After arriving at the Jiang's mansion, before he reached the main entrance, he heard a rustling sound from the wall.
On the top of the wall, a small head is probing out.