It took a lot of effort for Xi Honglei to finally escape. After making sure that no one was following him, Xi Honglei changed his path and headed towards the inn.
Back at the inn, Xi Honglei first went back to her and Chen'er's room, changed her appearance again, and packed her things before heading to Jinyu and Qiu Shitian. Looking at the empty room, Xi Honglei could not help but
Wait patiently for their appearance.
After waiting for almost an hour, Xi Honglei saw Qiu Shitian coming back with Chen'er in his arms. He held Chen'er into his arms, Xi Honglei kissed Chen'er's forehead and asked Qiu Shitian in a low voice:
"Where are Jinyu and Zhao Longxuan?"
"Let's go back first. Zhao Longxuan is injured. It's too dangerous to linger here. Chen'er keeps clamoring that he wants to come back to you, so I have no choice but to bring him back."
After listening to Qiu Shitian's words, Xi Honglei nodded slightly. She lowered her eyes and looked at the energetic little ghost in her arms. Xi Honglei coaxed him softly and said, "Chen'er, be good, shall we sleep?"
"Are you planning to stay here?" Xi Honglei's words made Qiu Shitian ask in confusion.
"It's more dangerous to go now. None of those people are just ordinary people. It's a long way back, not to mention taking Chen'er with me. The temperature at night is too cold, and I don't want Chen'er to catch a cold." Xi Honglei said firmly.
He said to Qiu Shitian, then paused, lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, then continued: "Master, please go back to the mountains first. I will take Chen'er away after their vigilance has subsided."
Qiu Shitian looked at Xi Honglei in silence for a while, then nodded and turned to leave.
Xi Honglei looked at Qiu Shitian's leaving figure and bit her lower lip. For some reason, she always felt that something was wrong with Qiu Shitian recently.
Xi Honglei carried Chen'er back to the inn where they lived, and lay down on the bed. Xi Honglei pinched Chen'er's face and asked softly: "Is Chen'er afraid today?"
Xi Zichen rested his head on Xi Honglei's arm, looked at Xi Honglei's disguised face, shook his head, and then asked with a tangled face: "Mom, why do those bad guys want to arrest Uncle Zhao?"
"Because they are bad people, and bad people do things unreasonably, so Chen'er must behave well these two days, stay by mother's side and listen to mother, and are not allowed to run around. Do you understand?" Xi Honglei patted her hands.
She rested Zichen's body and spoke to him in a low voice. "After we return to the mountains and meet Uncle Zhao and Uncle Jin, mother will find a way to take Chen'er to play somewhere else, okay?"
"Okay." Xi Zichen answered Xi Honglei obediently and closed his eyes obediently. After Xi Honglei watched him slowly fall asleep, he got out of bed lightly.
Xi Honglei sat in the middle of the room, thinking about what happened today. The group of people who arrested Zhao Longxuan obviously came for her. How did she offend them? Also, that man's words
, "Is it worth it for Jinyu?" What does it mean?
Xi Honglei had no memory of any entanglements she had with those people. After she woke up four years ago, Xi Honglei found herself in this strange time and space, with a child in her belly and scars all over her body.
Jinyu told her that her name was Xi Honglei, so she accepted her identity as Xi Honglei. But looking at it now, if she wanted to live in this world with this identity of Xi Honglei, she would not be safe.
It doesn't seem to be that easy.
No matter what, Xi Honglei thought that after she returned to the valley, she must ask Jinyu clearly what he knew. Even if she had no intention of provoking that group of people again, she still had to
You know the reason why they are chasing you.
She had no sleep all night, and she couldn't let go whenever she thought of the difficult man in white. With Chen'er by her side, if she really let that group of people get lucky, it would inevitably happen again.
A life and death struggle.
Xi Honglai looked down at her red and swollen wrist, thinking of the sword she left there, and curled her lips.
After dawn, Xi Honglei helped Chen'er change her appearance. The two went downstairs to have breakfast and walked out of the city. People were coming and going on the street, and Xi Honglei took every step carefully.
Arriving at the checkpoint leading out of the city, Xi Honglei looked at the familiar figures from a distance and frowned.
Are they from the imperial court?!
"Mom, aren't we going back?" Xi Zichen lay in Xi Honglei's arms and asked in a low voice with a hint of joy when Xi Honglei turned around and walked in the opposite direction.
Xi Honglei lowered her head and looked at Xi Zichen who wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh wildly. She put him on the ground, raised the corner of her mouth and said, "Well, Mom will take you here to play for a few more days."
Hearing Xi Honglei's words, Xi Zichen almost danced with joy. He followed Xi Honglei and walked toward the center of the city. He didn't expect that they had just arrived and before they could do anything, the sky would fall.
It starts to rain.
Xi Zichen held back his mouth and was taken into an inn by Xi Honglei. He went up to the second floor, lay down on the window, and looked at the people downstairs hurriedly in the rain.
Xi Honglei stayed with Xi Zichen and looked down together. When she saw a sedan slowly coming from a distance, Mu Yunmeng in the sedan was leaning against the window with an expressionless face and looking outside.
At that moment, the eyes that were filled with tears changed.
"Mom, what's wrong with you?" Xi Zichen felt Xi Honglei's body tremble, turned his head in confusion, and asked in a low voice.
Xi Honglei shook his head silently. After watching the sedan go away, Xi Honglei's tense body finally relaxed.
Xi Honglei returned to his original state, and Xi Zichen became a little bolder. He held onto the corner of Xi Honglei's clothes, and after Xi Honglei and Xi Honglei acted coquettishly, he asked: "Mom, why do we have to live in the same house?"
In the mountains?”
Xi Zichen asked the question very carefully, and Xi Honglei could hear the hope in his words again. Xi Honglei thought about it and asked softly: "Chen'er doesn't like it?"
Xi Zichen tilted his little head, thinking seriously about Xi Honglei's question, nodded, and then shook his head. "I like it, but I also like it here."
Xi Honglei naturally understands the playful nature of children. Thinking about the past few years in the mountains, Xi Zichen, apart from playing alone in the mountains, would just follow these adults and watch them wield swords and guns.
. Suddenly came outside and saw this prosperous and lively world, he would definitely yearn for it. It was not that Xi Honglei had never thought about whether she wanted Chen'er to spend her childhood with her in the deep mountains.
But after Zhao Longxuan was arrested, Xi Honglei thought that even if they were to come out, they would have to resolve the matter between her and those people last night. Or, they would leave the country completely and hide somewhere further away.
"Mom will find a way to bring you out, Chen'er, don't worry." Xi Honglei rubbed Xi Zichen's hair and said thoughtfully. While staying in the room, Xi Honglei did not only observe what was going on downstairs.
In addition, more importantly, he is thinking about the things between himself, Jinyu and Qiu Shitian.
After a few days in the city, Xi Honglei met Jinyu. Seeing Jinyu standing in front of his door, breathing a big sigh of relief, Xi Honglei pointed to the chair beside him and said, "Sit down.
."
Jinyu looked back at the direction of the bed, and then sat next to Xi Honglei.
"Why don't you go back?"
"Those people checked too strictly, making it inconvenient to leave, and there are also some things that have not been clarified." Xi Honglei looked at Jinyu with twinkling eyes and asked: "Who are those people who captured Zhao Longxuan? With me.
What does it matter?"
Jinyu didn't expect that Xi Honglei would ask about her and Mu Yunmeng as soon as she opened her mouth. Looking at Xi Honglei in embarrassment, Jin Yu didn't know how to speak for a while.
Xi Honglei lost his memory, which was not a bad thing for Jinyu. He even hoped that Xi Honglei could continue like this and not be able to remember what happened with Mu Yunmeng.
"Do you have to know this?" Jinyu frowned and spoke with a look of reluctance.
"I need to know why they went to such trouble to find me." Xi Honglei nodded and met Jinyu's eyes. "Jinyu, I know you have known me before, and you must also know those people. That man in white
Why did the man want to kill me? What is the problem between me and him?"
After listening to Xi Honglei's words, Jinyu lowered his head. After being silent for a long time, Jinyu mustered up the courage to speak and tell Xi Honglei what he knew.
"The man in white is named Mu Yunmeng. He is the prince of Xixi Kingdom, the only prince with a foreign surname, and he is also the owner of Fengyun Villa. So you can imagine how powerful he is."
"How could I possibly offend someone with such a high status?"
When Jinyu said this, Xi Honglei didn't understand. Could it be that she was also a high-ranking official, a relative of the emperor?
"You and he should have met in Xuanxuan Kingdom. You were once the concubine of the emperor of Xuanxuan Kingdom, and this Mu Yunmeng seems to have his strength in Xuanxuan Kingdom. When I saw you before, you
…It’s with him.”
When Jinyu said the last sentence, he paused obviously. Xi Honglei looked at him in confusion, not understanding what he meant by his words.
"You're saying that he and I knew each other, and maybe we were companions before?"
How could she, a princess of the Xuanxuan Kingdom, have anything to do with the prince of the Xixi Kingdom? Besides, the prince was also the leader of a killer organization, so what would she gain by messing with him?
"Maybe." Jin Yu felt guilty and did not say that Xi Honglei and Mu Yunmeng were more than just companions. "I have only seen you twice before. The third time was when you fell off the cliff. I once
I went up the mountain and saw the place where you fell off the cliff. No one usually goes up there. Because it is hidden and too dangerous, few people know about it. So I have also thought about whether the reason why you fell off the cliff was related to
That Mu Yunmeng is related."
"What do you mean by that?" Xi Honglei analyzed Jinyu's words and guessed: "You mean, he might have done it for me to fall off the cliff?"