Zhou Wen has hardly gone out of the room in the past few days. It is not only because his face is inconvenient to show others, but also because he is afraid of being recognized by the people in the cottage by chance, so he dare not go out. When he heard the knock on the door, he first subconsciously slammedWith a shake, he stabilized his mind and carefully opened a gap, only to heave a sigh of relief when he saw it was Liu Xiaoran.

Seeing Liu Xiaoran followed by someone he hadn't seen before, Zhou Wen suddenly became nervous again. Su Mu naturally caught the change in his expression, smiled and waved his hands: "Don't be afraid, Liu Shaoqing and I are good friends."

Liu Xiaoran was slightly taken aback when she heard the words, it seemed that it had been a long time since anyone claimed to be her good friend. Even if she occasionally had one or two young friends in the past, they were already strangers because of their different identities.In fact, it is a bit too far away.

He nodded slightly, and Zhou Wen stopped being suspicious, closed the door instead, and gestured twice.

Before Su Mu could understand the meaning, Liu Xiaoran shook her head: "The girls are already safe. The cottage suffered an accident, and almost all the guards were wiped out overnight. Now the governor of Wang Jiang has pleaded guilty, but those who wereThe whereabouts of the girl...is not clear."

Zhou Wen's exposed eyes showed a bit of surprise. Although he hated that group of people, he never expected that such a large cottage would be completely wiped out. If he hadn't accidentally rescued Liu Xiaoran, maybe he would haveIt would be the one who died in that cottage, thinking about it, he couldn't help but feel a little terrified.

Liu Xiaoran waited until he calmed down, hesitated for a moment, then took out the jade hairpin and handed it to Zhou Wen.

"I have already asked those girls for you, but Miss Xu was sent away from the village half a year ago, and her whereabouts are unknown, but before she left, she gave this jade hairpin to Miss Li.your."

Zhou Wen's hand trembled a little, and after taking the jade hairpin, he held it carefully in the palm of his hand as if he was afraid of breaking it. He couldn't speak, and when he finally shed tears, he could only whimper a few times. Liu Xiaoran and SuMu also felt sour. Although Zhou Wen couldn't speak, they could read the stories behind this sorrow.

Liu Xiaoran said softly: "We will definitely investigate this matter, if we can find Miss Xu one day..."

Zhou Wen came back to his senses, wiped away his tears indiscriminately, and looked at the two of them.

Seeing this, Su Mu immediately handed over his hand very thoughtfully. Since he was used to communicating with Mo Shu, he is now very sensitive to people who cannot speak.

Zhou Wen was taken aback, then bowed gratefully to Su Mu, stretched out his hand and wrote on it: "Thank you both, I will also look for her, and stay with her."

When the door was closed, Su Mu glanced in. Zhou Wen carefully closed his palms and put them on his forehead, extremely devout.

After the creak, all the stories were left in the little room that had become ashes.

A sixteen-year-old girl who is greedy and loves to eat, and a weird person who is kept silent, the two seem to have cultivated the most perfect tacit understanding between stillness and movement. Whenever the dawn dawns, the little girlHe would come to the kitchen to beg for a piece of pastry, and chat a few words with Zhou Wen indiscriminately.

Say you want to go home, say you want your family.

She told Zhou Wen her name, but agreed with Zhou Wen to conceal her identity. They seemed to have known each other for many years, but they still had the restraint of strangers.What Zhou Wen couldn't say took root in his heart, and Xu Zhiyi was the first ray of light left in his heart when the night faded.

But the little girl was still taken away. Before leaving, she left her hairpin behind. In this village, apart from the sisters who share the same illness as her, there is only one person who still cares about her life and death.

"Just treat it as a reward for so many days of pastries."

Xu Zhiyi left, but entrusted the hairpin to a sister in a room.

I don't know where it started and ended without a disease.

Su Mu and Liu Xiaoran walked in the noisy market in the afternoon, but they were silent. The line behind this case is so long, and the people behind it must be so difficult, but if they don't continue to search, those girlsThen there is really no hope.

Now they can only sort out a roster from the mouths of other people, and just like that, more than a hundred girls have been taken away from the village.

Su Mu's desire to find the truth is so strong that it makes him more painful when he confronts those worries in the past.

"In a few days, should we go back to Capital City?" Su Mu asked suddenly.

Liu Xiaoran's footsteps paused, she turned around and nodded lightly: "I need to bring you back to Capital City."

Su Mu squinted his eyes. When he left home, autumn had not yet begun, but now it was time to wear winter clothes. He had been away for too long, so long that he almost forgot that he was here for Su QiThe whereabouts of the people came together.

Although it wasn't nothing, he still couldn't figure out Su Qi's purpose. If it was said that Su Qi only planned to frame him because he had a problem with the original owner, then everything about Jiang Prefecture would be unexplainable. If there was any hatred, directlyWouldn't it be faster to send someone to assassinate, instead of exposing himself cleanly at the expense of innocent people in Jiang Prefecture?

Thinking of what King Ning and Du Han said when they left, even if Su Mu didn't know much about court affairs, he could feel the turbulent tide.

Liu Xiaoran lowered his eyes, and was also full of thoughts. If it wasn't for his duty, he didn't want to return to Capital City. There are endless ways of dealing with the world in Capital City, even though he has saved a lot of trouble because of his soft and hard temper.But there were still people who tried tirelessly to win him over.

He has no interest in the battles of the princes, let alone intervene. Now that he has been reminded one after another, he can already foresee that Capital City has already become a bloodbath. As early as the beginning of this year, he heard that the emperor was unwell and the prince was mediocre., the emperor had reprimanded him in his words, and even unintentionally revealed the intention of changing the reserve, so all the princes were ready to move, especially King Ning.

Perhaps in the future, he would have no choice but to be classified as King Ning's faction and be involved in the struggle.

"Yan Xuan." Su Mu suddenly said, although it still feels strange to call Liu Xiaoran's name, but he has gradually become familiar with this name.

"Huh?" Liu Xiaoran was worrying about the future battle, when she heard her name, she turned her head and saw the sparkle in Su Mu's eyes, and she couldn't help being moved again.

"After we go back to Capital City, can I still come to you?" Su Mu said with a smile, "Of course, I know you Dali Temple is very busy, but I mean occasionally, occasionally we can be together like nowgo?"

As if the haze in her heart was suddenly blown away by the wind, Liu Xiaoran's worries about the ending of those strangers in her heart seemed to have disappeared without a trace in this smile.

He stopped suddenly, and raised the corners of his lips, and said softly, "Of course."

This was the first time Su Mu saw Liu Xiaoran's smile, and he was stunned for a moment.

He couldn't help thinking before, what would such a person with a straight face all day long look like when he smiled?Liu Xiaoran has handsome eyebrows and outstanding eyes, young and successful in career, if she doesn't keep a straight face all day long, she must be the ideal type that many people yearn for day and night.

It seemed that he thought of something that made his heart skip a beat, and he suddenly stopped the thought.

He also seemed unable to imagine what Liu Xiaoran would be like if she had someone she liked.

Seeing that Su Mu didn't return to his senses for a long time, Liu Xiaoran felt a little flustered. It seemed that he hadn't laughed like this with others for a long time. Did he scare Su Mu?

He coughed lightly and returned to his original appearance, but his voice was still soft: "What's wrong?"

Su Mu immediately waved his hands, trying to cover up the fact that he was arranging Liu Xiaoran in his mind: "No, because I have never... never seen you smile, so I accidentally lost my mind."

He didn't realize how straightforward his words were, and continued without realizing it: "You look so pretty when you smile."

It's not that Liu Xiaoran has never been praised for being good-looking, but no one has ever said it in front of him so directly, and the other party is Su Mu. He only felt a surge of enthusiasm in his ears, so thatHe hardly knew how to respond to the compliment.

Su Mu never thought that good-looking was an adjective that could not be uttered, but after walking a long distance, he realized belatedly: Would it be a little offensive for him to use such a word to describe a man?

He immediately glanced carefully at Liu Xiaoran, who looked as usual, and didn't seem to be angry because of it, so he was relieved, and began to reflect on why he suddenly said such a sentence.

But the more he thought about it, the more he felt that what he said was indeed true.

Then Liu Xiaoran is really pretty.

Before seeing him, he had admired his name for a long time. Although he was a little hasty when meeting him for the first time, he was still impressive, but too often Liu Xiaoran hid her pretty eyebrows behind her frosty aura.

But it seems that gradually, Liu Xiaoran no longer has this frosty armor in front of her.

Su Mu suddenly felt a sense of accomplishment again. This can be regarded as a unique treatment. In Capital City, he is finally not alone and helpless. Although he still has to rely on himself for everything, there are always people aroundA lot of peace of mind.

In this way, even if I don't have any legitimate reason to participate in this kidnapping case, I can still go to Liu Xiaoran secretly to find out the situation, and satisfy my heart of seeking the truth that is not willing to stop here.

Lu Lingjue, who was eating pastries and waiting for the two of you to come back, saw Su Mu who seemed to be in a good mood and Liu Xiaoran who looked a little strange. He looked at the two suspiciously. Since he thought more and more clearly this morning, heSuddenly, I felt like I missed a lot of things inexplicably.

It even seems a bit redundant here.

"You guys are back!" Seeing that there was no sign of burning his upper body, Lu Lingjue jumped up from the stool, "Dr. Wang came to see the doctor just now. He wanted to take care of your wounds, but you were not here, so I stayedThe medicine is gone, and he said that he reminded you to change it, oh, and what's more, he said that the poisoned person has recovered, and he will wake up tomorrow at the latest."

"At that time, we can ask him what he knows! That Li He's mouth is too hard, no matter how interrogated, he won't say anything. Although the people under him are weak, but they know too little. After the interrogation for a long time, there is still nothing.Clues." Lu Lingjue sat back and sighed exaggeratedly, "It depends on how much this person knows."

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Afraid of unfamiliarity after returning to Capital City?Then we won't go back (bushi)