The content of the imperial edict was brought back from outside the mansion by Butler Zeng and presented on rice paper in front of Xia Zhaoyi.
After Xia Zhaoyi read it, he said calmly: "Nothing unexpected."
"Master, are you leaving tomorrow?"
"The itinerary remains unchanged."
Butler Zeng nodded, wanting to keep her here longer, but he didn't want to talk too much.
Xia Zhaoyi continued to write letters.
The letter papers were pressed one by one under the paperweight. After drying, Li Man loaded the envelopes from the side.
After answering all the letters, Xia Zhaoyi took up the pen and laid out the paper again. After thinking for a while, he wrote ink at the beginning of the letter: "Feng Wensheng."
The sky was getting dark and the city was in turmoil, so Xia Zhaoyi finally stopped writing.
After leaving the water pavilion, Zhan Ning couldn't help but said: "Second Miss, do you want to go out to eat glutinous rice balls?"
"..."
Xia Zhaoyi thought for a moment and said, "Yes, and no."
I went to eat when I came across one, but the purpose was to see how the Sihai Tea House and the streets were like.
"Second Miss," Zhan Ning looked at her dressed in white, "if not, please change your clothes before leaving."
It's enough to squint your eyes during the day, but at night, wearing white clothes is really eye-catching.
Xia Zhaoyi smiled and immediately understood what he meant: "How could I be afraid?"
Seeing Zhan Ning frowning, Xia Zhaoyi added: "Li Qian came here just to be domineering. I don't show off, so I have restrained myself."
She turned around and walked lightly: "The injury to Jixing Mountain before was a temporary incident. Now I have a hidden weapon, so there is no need to worry."
Even those people at Sihai Teahouse, she wished they could come to her immediately instead of hiding behind her back.
Leaving through the back door, a carriage came slowly.
The coachman glanced at her one more time, and the curtain of the carriage was lifted at the same time.
Mao Zilong looked out and saw Xia Zhaoyi walking down the steps to leave. He was stunned for a moment and suddenly said: "This girl!"
Xia Zhaoyi turned around.
The carriage stopped, Mao Zilong got out of the carriage, looked Xia Zhaoyi up and down, smiled, cupped his hands and said: "This girl met a woman at noon today and spoke rudely to me. I wonder if she is a servant in the girl's house? "
"How to speak rudely?" Xia Zhaoyi said.
Mao Zilong raised his hand and described the next person: "She is wearing a light brown upper body, a gray-brown skirt, and a faded belt."
"How to be rude?" Xia Zhaoyi still said.
Mao Zilong paused and looked at her: "Girl, is she a member of your family?"
"Did you touch her?" Xia Zhaoyi asked back.
"Not really."
"Then you provoked her?"
Mao Zilong was annoyed by the other party's attitude and suddenly lost all his good impressions of her appearance.
"She is the one who offended me," Mao Zilong said calmly, "Girl, do you know her? If you do, please discipline your servants. If you don't, just pretend that I didn't tell you."
Xia Zhaoyi turned around and left without saying a word.
"Hey!" The entourage got off the carriage and looked at the girl's beautiful back angrily, "Who is this person? Everyone in this house is so weird!"
Mao Zilong snorted coldly and returned to the carriage: "Let's go to Nie's Mansion."
Xia Zhaoyi took a shortcut through the back alley and planned to go to Zifengfang first.
At the end of the intersection, I saw a figure flying quickly from a high altitude in the distance, stepping on the cornices and tiles at a very fast speed.
Seeing that he didn't stop, Xia Zhaoyi pointed and whistled.
He stopped for a moment, then looked towards her, panting heavily and sweating profusely.
Xia Zhaoyi frowned when she saw the blood on his clothes.
"Senior sister," Zhili murmured, falling in front of Xia Zhaoyi in an instant, his eyes red, "Senior sister!"
"What are your clothes?"
"Senior sister, something happened. A group of people suddenly rushed into the Sihai Tea House. Shopkeeper Li was killed on the spot. Brother Dai Yu, in order to protect me, also..."
Zhili cried and told her what happened this afternoon, starting with the killer who burst out of the coffin.
He was interrogating them in the house, but a group of very skilled people suddenly rushed in. When he heard the noise and rushed over, there was already chaos outside.
Xia Zhaoyi felt suddenly, but her voice remained calm: "When did it happen?"
"Two sticks of incense have been burning for so long. I can't beat them, so I thought of coming back first to report the news and call people!"
"Then the blood on your body..."
"It belongs to shopkeeper Li and Brother Dai, wuwu, Mr. Ji, I asked him to hide first, and I don't know if there is any danger yet!" Zhili covered his face and started crying.
"But the blood on your body is not human blood." Xia Zhaoyi said.
He paused for a moment and looked at her with teary eyes.
Xia Zhaoyi raised his hand to pick it up: "Look at this blood, has it turned dark red?"
She blinked her eyes and lowered her head to look.
"But, but..." Zhili said.
"Smell carefully, the fishy smell is not strong at all," Xia Zhaoyi said, "This is not human blood."
My nose was runny and my tears hadn't dried yet, and my eyes were already dumbfounded.
"You go change your clothes first, and I'll go take a closer look," Xia Zhaoyi said, "Don't be sad, nothing will happen."
"Senior sister, is it true that nothing will happen?"
Xia Zhaoyi smiled lightly and patted his shoulder: "Go ahead."
"Hmm..." Zhili nodded, not knowing whether to continue crying or laughing.
Watching the senior sister's figure leave, I couldn't react for a while.
But this blood doesn't really seem to be human blood.
Xia Zhaoyi quickened her pace and reached behind a wall. She put her hands on the wall and relied on the strength of her waist and lower body to flip back and land on the high wall lightly and softly.
Wanjin Long Street is separated from the Shiliudaofang of Sihai Tea House by three long streets, less than a thousand houses.
Xia Zhaoyi walked straight on the roof unreasonably, avoiding the twists and turns of the alleys.
There are residential lights and long street lampposts on all sides. It is quite spectacular when viewed from a high altitude.
Xia Zhaoyi was moving very fast. When she was approaching the Sihai Tea House, a crossbow arrow suddenly shot out. Amidst the already strong high-altitude wind, ordinary people would be caught off guard. However, she quickly stepped aside and the crossbow arrow came from beside her.
Two steps passed by.
Soon, the opponent set up another arrow and shot it.
Xia Zhaoyi stepped aside again, raised her hands together, and a crossbow arrow shot out from her arm, heading towards the third floor window sill where the shooter was.
The opponent's arrow deflected.
Her crossbow arrow pierced the opponent's shoulder blade with a "bang" sound.
Xia Zhaoyi quickly ran towards the house.
Crossbow arrows were fired from other places, but she deftly avoided them all.
The injured man endured the severe pain of the wound and quickly went to the stairs. The girl had already broken the window and entered. A silver whip in her hand came first, wrapped around his neck and pulled back.
When the people downstairs heard the commotion upstairs, a woman held a lamp and shouted in a trembling voice from downstairs: "Who, who is upstairs?"
"If you want to live, don't come up here." The girl's voice came from the darkness, as cold as ice.
The woman turned pale with fright and quickly went to find her husband.
The small oil ball lamp fell from Xia Zhaoyi's fingertips. She stepped on the archer and looked at him coldly in the dim light.
The man gritted his teeth and glared angrily, then suddenly became angry, as if he was going to make a last ditch effort.
Xia Zhaoyi did not stop him, but moved to the back.
A crossbow arrow shot out of the window at exactly this moment.
The man who had just climbed up and raised his knife was stabbed across the throat by his companion's crossbow arrow. Blood gushed out from his mouth and he fell to the ground dead.
Xia Zhaoyi left from another window, clung to the eaves, and once again climbed onto the roof with the strength of her waist.
She didn't bother to chase the archers and walked quickly towards the Sihai Teahouse.
