Even though she had discovered it before due to Duan Rong's martial arts, she was still unable to control her breathing and subconsciously became lighter.
General Duan was a little frightened by her reaction.
His already confused eyes became even more glazed over, "It's just...you are like this..."
"No, no." He shook his head again and suddenly became happy, "That's not you, Xiao Jiu'er, you only have a little bit of a resemblance."
He shook his head again, "No, no, you are nothing alike."
He was very distressed, "How could I think that was you?"
The confused old general Duan cannot understand that even parents and children who look completely different have similar temperaments and feelings.
Especially Jiuer now.
General Duan laughed, clapped his hands happily and said, "That's great, it's not Xiao Jiu'er, you didn't vomit blood..."
Jiu'er's heart felt like it had been beaten dullly by something, and it began to hurt dully.
She knew that General Duan should not be scared, so she smiled at him as usual, "What was he doing when you saw him? Why...vomited blood?"
The confused old General Duan was deeply impressed by this scene.
"It was so dark that day, but I still couldn't sleep, and that brat Duan Rong disappeared again. So I was pushed to the lotus pond to look at the flowers~"
"Those flowers and purple flowers are so beautiful~that person~"
General Duan made an exaggerated gesture, "It just suddenly appeared not far away."
Speaking of this, Old General Duan rubbed his arms, as if recalling the man's casual glance, and he was shocked by the aura of the man.
He started dancing again, "Ah, that man's eyes are the same color as the flowers in the lotus pond. They are purple, yes, they are purple! The flowers are water lilies, yes, the color of water lilies!"
"Then, then, he suddenly vomited blood..."
General Duan's voice weakened.
"Then, then," he remembered again, "someone who looked like this suddenly appeared."
He gestured to his face, "Look like this, your face is round, and you look like this when you smile."
He gestured with his eyes again, "Such a person. This person calls that person 'Lord' or 'Lord'!"
General Duan nodded, that's right, I remember correctly.
"Then they disappeared again..."
Jiuer tried hard to smile, "That person with purple eyes, does he look in bad health?"
General Duan tilted his head, thinking about the meaning and concept of being in poor health.
"It doesn't matter, you don't have to think about it." Jiuer lowered his eyelashes.
Even if he vomited blood in front of strangers, a person like my father would never let others see the specific condition of his body.
Neither she nor her mother noticed it at first, let alone General Duan, who was confused at the time.
"Very bad...very bad."
Unexpectedly, General Duan suddenly spoke.
Perhaps just because my mind is unclear, in some aspects I have a primitive acumen that leaves everything behind.
What's more, General Duan is used to licking blood on the battlefield and seeing life and death.
No matter what the situation, one has an unusually keen intuition about death subconsciously.
He frowned deeply, "That person may be dying."
For some reason, General Duan, who didn't understand anything now, subconsciously sighed.
"Ah!! I remembered, that was five years ago! After meeting that person, I..."
He counted on his hands and said, "I watched the Lantern Festival lanterns five times, yes, five times!"
His face was full of joy, because he was so good and he remembered it clearly.
Then he grabbed Jiu'er's hands eagerly and said excitedly, "Xiao Jiu'er, Xiao Jiu'er, I couldn't sleep that day, so I went to look for that guy Duan Rong again. Then I saw that he seemed strange, and then...
"
He smiled broadly and said, "I also saw him looking at your portrait!"
He let go of Jiu'er's hand again and gestured. "At that time, you were like this."
"Your portrait doesn't seem to be as old as you are now. Xiao Jiu'er, you have grown up. You can be Duan Rong's little wife. No, no, you are already Duan Rong's little wife~"
Jiu'er hung his head for a long time, then looked up with a bright smile, "General Duan, it's almost time, shall I give you an acupuncture?"
Seeing that General Duan was trying to cheat again, Jiu'er coaxed him first, "Well, you promised me to cooperate obediently. Then you can walk without the wheelchair and go out to play wherever you want."
The temptation to walk and play on my own was too great. General Duan was defeated again and reluctantly said, "Well, okay."
In the next few days, Jiu'er stayed at the General's Mansion, concentrating on recuperating General Duan's body and not going anywhere.
Almost ten days later, General Duan finally had some reaction when his leg was beaten.
Jiu'er was really happy.
The General's Mansion was like an iron barrel, and no one bothered Jiu'er.
Duan Rong never came back.
And in the past ten days in Jiu'er Mansion, there have been earth-shaking changes outside.
When Jiu'er took Banxia out of the mansion again, Yan Qing, the housekeeper of the general's mansion who had always been elusive and did not interfere with Jiu'er's freedom, unexpectedly appeared.
Yan Qing still looked cold and almost inhumane, but she was very respectful to Jiu'er, "Young Madam."
Jiuer smiled, "Steward Yan, what's the matter?"
"Young lady, are you going out?"
Jiuer nodded, "Yes, I haven't been out for more than ten days. I have to go out to do some things."
Now, although she can find some traces of the existence of her adoptive father and father in Cang Yu, which gives her some intimacy, she doesn't feel like leaving Cang Yu as soon as possible.
But her body really couldn't afford it.
She couldn't let her adoptive father and father's thoughts go to waste, not to mention how much she wanted to live.
It has been ten days since she went to find Su Jingxing.
It's time for Su Jingxing to return to Beijing.
But he had no intention of looking for her at all. With Su Jingxing's temper, it would be impossible for her not to take the initiative.
Butler Yan nodded, "Young lady, please excuse me."
Jiu'er, who was about to leave, stopped when he heard this and smiled slyly at Yan Qing, "Butler Yan, you, a person like you who doesn't go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, let me think about it, you suddenly appeared and called me,
You don’t want me to go out, do you?”
She smiled and blinked, "Why did you suddenly change your mind?"
"If I keep the young lady here, will the young lady not go out?"
"Of course not."
Therefore, "Young Madam, please excuse me." Butler Yan turned and left.
"Steward Yan, is there something happening outside that I shouldn't know about?"
Butler Yan stopped and did not look back.
"Since the young lady is going out, with the young lady's keenness and ability, she will naturally find clues when she goes out. Please forgive me for not reporting back to the young lady because of my responsibilities."
The words left.
Jiuer clicked his tongue.
This means that Duan Rong didn't let anyone talk about what happened outside.
Banxia complained, "Butler Yan is mysterious."
As soon as Jiu'er and the two went out, they found that it felt like a different world outside.
Nowadays, no one in Cangyu in Kyoto is as famous as Wuhai Goddess.
This goddess doesn't look down-to-earth, but she is doing the most down-to-earth thing in Cangyu Kyoto.
Free clinic!
People who pass by her face light up when they talk about this goddess.
This is nothing, someone vaguely connected this goddess with Su Jingxing.
It is said that they have noses and eyes, and that the goddess has a special regard for Su Jingxing. The two are indeed a perfect match.
These Jiu'er were not very impressed when they heard it. There were so many women in contact with Su Jingxing, and there was really no one less than this Wuhai Goddess.
Just thinking about it, Wuhai Goddess is so famous and can represent a country. Being involved with Su Jingxing, other princes must regard Su Jingxing as a thorn in their side?
There are who knows how many rights and twists and turns involved, but Su Jingxing's situation seems to be getting more and more difficult.
No, I have to help him.
Just when Jiu'er was about to go to Su Mansion to find Su Jingxing, "There!"
With a roar, a panic-stricken man on the side of the road was hurriedly taken away by a group of officers and soldiers with bandanas tied over their mouths and noses.
He didn't even give the panicked and haggard man a chance to speak.
The people around him didn't react at all. After the officers and soldiers at the end said, "Capture the fugitive," they didn't feel strange at all.
There was a flash of deep thought in Jiu'er's eyes.
The officers and soldiers tied their mouths and noses. They were dressed very strangely...
…
That night.
After Jiu'er came out of the General's Mansion, he blended into the night quietly, throwing away the eyes that were staring at the General's Mansion.
He went straight to the government office where the officers and soldiers who had been following him during the day went to arrest him.
Even if it is a government office, it is not difficult for Jiuer who is willing to get in.
When Jiuer, who had disguised himself, sneaked in and finally tracked the officers and soldiers in the back hill of the government office based on various clues, they were burying people.
Jiu'er lurked in the dark and saw the officers and soldiers pouring quicklime into a pit with nervous expressions.
"What disease is this man suffering from that requires us to tie his mouth and nose and arrest him quietly? Now we have to dig a pit three feet deep and bury him with quicklime?"
The speaker felt a little guilty, "You said this has been the case since ancient times..."
Epidemic! Or extremely terrifying infectious disease!
"Don't scare yourself by making blind guesses. If it's really what you think, can you let such a person sneak into Kyoto?"
"But... if not, why are the orders we received so weird..."
"Okay, I told you not to scare yourself and get to work quickly!"
Several people worked quickly, and it was not until late at night that the three-foot-deep pit was filled.
After they filled it up, they looked around again and then left in a hurry.
After they left, Jiuer went to the deep pit.
After thinking about it, I took some necessary protective measures and put on a pair of gloves made of a strange material as thin as cicada wings before taking out a very small gadget.
Then, after she pressed the small thing, a long thin thread suddenly popped out of her hand.
Such thin filaments are actually tough and sharp!
With such little strength, Jiu'er was able to insert the filament into the compacted quicklime pit without any effort!
Jiuer inserted the filament deeper and deeper little by little, feeling the approximate position of his hand.
After a while, she pulled out the filament, squatted down, and looked at the tip of the filament.
He even picked up the end of the filament and put it to his nose to smell it.
After a moment, Jiu'er's expression changed.
I'm afraid it really is...an epidemic!
Jiu'er stopped staying, took care of everything, and hurried to the general's mansion.
When we returned to the General's Mansion, it was already midnight.
Jiu'er didn't disturb Banxia. He first took a medicinal bath for himself, and then took care of all the clothes he had changed out today.
Then I went to see housekeeper Yan Qingyan.
It was already late at night, and the cold middle-aged man looked more like he was waiting for her than he was still awake.
Jiu'er knocked on the door, and Butler Yan opened the door and didn't seem surprised to see her.
Jiu'er didn't avoid anything and went straight in.
Straight to the point, "Steward Yan, is there a plague somewhere in Cangyu? This is the reason why Duan Rong didn't let you tell me, right?"
"Duan Rong went to the location of the plague, right?" (To be continued)