Seeing the petal-shaped scar, Xiao Xuanye's mind went blank for a moment. He took a few steps back and sat on the rock. Looking at Sheng Nuan in his arms, he felt a little dazed.
After a pause, as if suddenly awakened, he raised his hand, trembling slightly, hesitantly, and very carefully touched the scar behind Sheng Nuan's ear.
The bumpy touch is real.
A little girl with a blurred face suddenly appeared in front of Xiao Xuanye's eyes...a little girl whom he had only met a few times, but who had stayed in his heart for a long, long time.
Not long after, a Xuanying Guard flew over: "Master, all the killers who came to attack have been killed."
Xiao Xuanye raised his hand and the Xuanying guard left. He lowered his head and glanced at the man who was sleeping deeply in his arms. He was silent for a moment and then stood up.
Xiao Xuanye brought Sheng Nuan back to the camp and put her directly into the carriage and handed her over to Su Luan, and then sat alone by the fire.
There was still a bloody smell around the camp, indicating the sudden fight that had just occurred. Xiao Xuanye sat there without saying a word, looking at the dancing fire in front of him, thinking of the man who had made him dream so many times.
screen.
He was trapped in the burning dilapidated house, unable to move at all, and desperately calling for help... Then, a cute little girl from Yuxue rushed into the scene of the fire...
He could no longer remember what the little girl looked like. He only remembered that when he went to look for her the day after she was injured, he found out that she had returned to Beijing with her family.
Then he found out that the house was the old residence of the Sheng family, where Mrs. Sheng, her aunt, and several young ladies came to escape the summer heat.
The Xiao family also came here to escape the summer heat...
Xiao Xuanye remembered how he mustered up the courage to ask the servant who was looking after the Sheng family's house to know the name of the little girl.
Yes, he didn't even have the courage to ask her name.
Then he learned from the servant that the person who was burned yesterday was the fourth daughter of the Sheng family.
After returning from the old home of the Sheng family, he pestered his family to return to Beijing. The first thing he did after returning to Beijing was to ask his mother to take him to visit the Sheng family, in the name of thanking him and inspecting his family.
But when they arrived at the Sheng family, they learned that the fourth lady had fallen ill.
When he didn't see anyone, he sent people to keep an eye on the Sheng family every day, hoping to see her as soon as possible after she recovered. However, a month later, the sad news came that the fourth lady had contracted smallpox and died...
He cried and pestered his eldest brother to take him to the mourning hall, where he met the fourth lady's sister, the eldest lady of the Sheng family.
It was also because of this that the Xiao family and the Sheng family were engaged, and his eldest brother made an appointment for the eldest daughter of the Sheng family.
Xiao Xuanye still remembers that during those two years, he often sneaked to the Fourth Miss's grave and shed tears. He insisted on saying that the Fourth Miss was his "dead wife" and was often beaten and punished for it... But now, she is still alive.
In front of him!
There is no such coincidence in the world!
Xiao Xuanye calmed down and summoned two Xuanying guards. After whispering instructions, the two Xuanying guards took the order and quickly disappeared into the dark night.
Xiao Xuanye glanced towards the carriage, his expression tense, and he forced himself to look away after a long while...
The next day, Sheng Nuan realized something was wrong.
Xiao Xuanye actually came to deliver food to her in person, and changed his stern look at her the previous two days and looked at her with a very strange look.
Sheng Nuan was a little worried and asked the customer service: "Does he have any conspiracy?"
The customer service said faintly: "There is no data on what has not happened. It may be that he discovered the host and you are the one who saved him when he was a child."
Sheng Nuan was stunned: "That happened so many years ago, does he still remember it?"
She had heard from customer service before that in order to establish a relationship with the Xiao family, the Sheng family deliberately described the fifth lady who was a concubine who saved the second young master Xiao as the fourth lady who was a direct descendant.
But before they could find a way to disguise themselves, the fourth lady contracted smallpox.
When the fourth young lady who was kind to the Xiao family died of illness, the Sheng family naturally pushed the eldest daughter of the fourth young lady and her mother to the Xiao family.
After all, Sheng Nuan was a concubine, and no matter how much the Xiao family thanked her, they would never allow the second son to marry a concubine. And when it came to saying thank you, what kind of gift could be compared to becoming an in-law with the powerful Xiao family?
That incident was just an episode when time and space were confused. Sheng Nuan didn't expect that Xiao Xuanye would remember it for so many years.
The customer service couldn't analyze other people's thoughts, so Sheng Nuan clicked his tongue: "Forget it, I'm going to Youzhou soon anyway."
Fifty miles out of Youzhou was Yanyunguan, and she knew that Huo Xiao, who led the troops in Youzhou, was actually a member of the Xiao family, so when she arrived in Youzhou, she could basically determine Xiao Xuanye's safety, and the mission was basically completed.
Sheng Nuan decided that when she arrived in Youzhou City, she would ask Xiao Xuanye for a letter of release from his wife, and then, the sky would be high and the sea would be vast...
The Xuanying Guards that Xiao Xuanye sent out to stir up trouble in the entire Tang Dynasty have basically returned. Xie Yuchen also knew that he had missed the opportunity to kill Xiao Xuanye, so he could only change his strategy.
A few days later, Sheng Nuan followed Xiao Xuanye into Youzhou City in a carriage.
The architecture in Youzhou City combines the folk customs of the Central Plains and the Southern Barbarians. It has a solid atmosphere, and because of the influx of many disaster victims, the streets are very lively with people coming and going.
The types of things peddled along the street are also dazzling, including rouge and gouache from the Central Plains, bone knives and blankets from the barbarians... There are even human traffickers selling people!
Born in troubled times and disaster years, human life is despicable.
Not long after entering the city, Xiao Xuanye and his party entered a house. It was neither big nor small, with three entrances and three exits. Sheng Nuan and Su Luan lived in the small courtyard at the end.
Most of her external injuries have healed, but her internal injuries have not yet recovered, which fortunately does not affect her movement.
On the night of check-in, after dinner, Sheng Nuan went to find Xiao Xuanye.
Xiao Xuanye was reading a secret letter in the study. Opposite him was the Xuanying guard who had just returned.
"I know this, you..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard a noise from outside, and then the Xuanying guard guarding the door knocked on the door: "Master, the eldest lady is here."
Xiao Xuanye paused for a moment, raised his hand, and the Xuanying guard on the opposite side disappeared. The next moment, Sheng Nuan knocked on the door and came in.
"Second Young Master..."
The look in Xiao Xuanye's eyes softened unconsciously, but before he could speak, he heard Sheng Nuan ask: "We will arrive at Yanyun Pass soon. That... Wife Release Letter, when are you going to give it to me?"
Xiao Xuanye was stunned for a moment.
Is she so anxious to cut off her relationship with the Xiao family so that Su Lan can find someone new for her?
His expression suddenly turned cold, and he raised his eyelids with neither salt nor indifference: "It's not here yet, why are you in a hurry?"
Sheng Nuan was puzzled: "I'm here in the blink of an eye fifty miles away. Isn't this..."
But before she could finish her words, Xiao Xuanye said firmly: "I still have important things to deal with now."
Seeing that he seemed to be in a bad mood, Sheng Nuan didn't want to argue with him, so she paused and shrugged: "Okay then."
