54 Chapter 54 The Light Bearer
◎Miss Su, why are you here? ◎
Yuliu is always the last one to get off the bus.
But this time, she made an exception and got out of the carriage first after the black-clad spy stopped the carriage to announce the way.
At this time, it was already late at night.
The night was so dark that one could not see one's hand in front of one's face. Even the tree where the horse was tied was not visible swaying.
Yuliu got off the carriage and looked from afar. She could only see the shadowy figures of the horses and the stomping of their iron hooves on the ground, making a restless and vibrating sound in the dense and empty darkness.
It's too dark.
Yuliu stopped beside the carriage, and was thinking about this when she was about to turn around and take a portable lamp from the carriage to use for lighting. At the moment when her eyelashes drooped and were about to lift them, she suddenly smelled the mellow herbal fragrance that always lingered around Yunhe.
Eyelashes trembled slightly.
When Yuliu looked up again, Yunhe had already walked to her side, holding a long bamboo lantern.
This gauze lantern was probably just a spare on the carriage, and its design was extremely simple.
It was just a long brown solid wood pole holding up a cage made of smooth and shaved soft bamboo, and the candle was simply placed in the center of the bamboo cage.
Therefore, the warm red candlelight also vaguely casts the strip-shaped shadows of the bamboo lanterns in the illuminated room. In the flickering lights, the shadows and light at the same time add two different colors to the silent night.
This long-pole bamboo lamp is far inferior to the weeping willow gauze lamp that Yuliu usually uses, no matter its shape, style or lighting level.
But Yuliu thought that this was just right.
Yun He held the long bamboo lamp in his hand, lighting the way ahead for Yuliu. The flickering light spread along the direction of the night wind. When the light had faded to the faintest distance - at the moment when it was about to reach the suburban villa guarded by a kind of secret guards, the tightly closed wooden door of the villa was suddenly pushed open!
The light was dim as the carriage traveled along the road.
Master Chen was sitting in the carriage, and originally thought that Yunhe would follow Yuliu out of the carriage. However, he had to sit there until Yunhe first took out a bamboo lantern from some secret compartment, lit it with a flint, and then used a wooden stick from the window to string together candles and bamboo lanterns, making a temporary lantern. Only then did his senior brother lift the curtain and get out of the carriage.
Master Chen usually calls the shots like a spring breeze blowing over the railings, but gradually his temper has become impatient, not to mention that he is a person who cannot sit still. Now that Yun He, the person who can suppress him, has finally gotten off the carriage, he cannot wait to jump down.
With this jump, he almost stepped on the edge of Yuliu's skirt.
When Master Chen Lou suddenly saw the light and almost slipped, he immediately broke out in a cold sweat.
Master Chen instinctively tilted his head back to distance himself. He was surprised and asked in confusion, "You all got off the carriage long ago, why are you still standing here together?!"
However, Yunhe and Yuliu ignored the frightened Master Chen.
They all looked at the distant two people who walked out from the wooden door of the suburban courtyard, one in front and the other behind, only half a body's length apart.
——The fourth prince Xiao Tianmin was in front, and the eldest son of the Su family, Su Yunyan, was behind.
There were many weeds and few people in the suburbs. Apart from the chirping of insects, birds and the clatter of horses' hooves, the conversation between Xiao Tianmin and Su Yunyan seemed to be very open. The sound of their conversation followed the sound of the hunting wind and blew straight to Yuliu's ears.
Su Yunyan's black hair was tied up meticulously, and he wore a white brocade gown with only a white jade pendant hanging around his waist. He was dressed very neatly. However, the smile in his peach blossom eyes was completely different from that of Yuliu and Su Yunyue.
There are only three members left of this generation in the Su family. The Su family has always practiced inter-clan marriages, and the appearance of the younger generations is expected to be extremely handsome and elegant.
Su Yunyan is no exception.
But even though Su Yunyan, Su Yunyue and Yuliu, the three siblings, all had a pair of extremely similar peach blossom eyes, the outline of their eyes made them look affectionate even when they were not smiling.
However, there was a hint of deep calculation hidden in Su Yunyan's smiling eyes. It was precisely that little bit of calculation that made his entire temperament suddenly become more like a jar of aged liquor.
——It has a mellow aroma but also a throat-cutting spiciness.
The facts were just as Yu Liu had expected. Su Yunyan lagged behind the Fourth Prince Xiao Tianmin by half a step and personally escorted Xiao Tianmin out of the hospital. He leaned towards the Fourth Prince and said with a smile:
"My sister has no talent, but now she has won the favor of the Fourth Prince. It is truly a blessing for our Su family. If, at this Flower Festival Banquet, she has your secret help, it will not be difficult for our Su family to make a comeback."
The Fourth Prince's secret guards had originally surrounded the villa like stone lions ready to strike. However, as soon as they saw the Fourth Prince being escorted out safely by Su Yunyan with a smile, they immediately gathered in front of the road where the Fourth Prince was about to pass, and lined up in two rows like a "human-shaped passage" like the Great Wall, as if they were lining up to welcome him.
The Fourth Prince kept his eyes fixed on the ground all the way. When he walked out of the villa, he looked so majestic that it seemed as if his name, Xiao Tianmin, was written on the ground.
He seemed to be accustomed to being flattered since he was a child, so even when faced with the goodwill of the eldest son of the Su family, his nominal brother-in-law, he only raised his head slightly with dignity, which was considered as a nod of agreement.
But more often than not, the Fourth Prince's gaze was fixed on Yuliu and his group standing outside the human wall.
He still remembered that these same people had appeared at the lantern festival yesterday.
Ah, it seems...
One of them was called Su Yuliu, his wife's lost sister whom he had finally found after many years. She was indeed quite pretty.
It's a pity that her body is too thin. At first glance, she is a beauty with little fortune, which is a bit lacking in meaning.
The man standing next to Su Yuliu, holding a bamboo lantern that looked like an inextinguishable firefly, was a skilled doctor from the Poison Doctor Valley.
I have to say that the man's identity, temperament and knowledge are quite good, but unfortunately his vision is not very good. With such a background, if he could judge the situation and come to work for him, he would not have to use such a broken lantern now.
Looking further ahead, you can see the owner of Chunfeng Fulan Chenlou, who is dressed in red and looks arrogant and dissolute.
Xiao Tianmin's gaze suddenly became deeper.
He doesn't like the spring breeze blowing against the railings.
Over the years, he has experienced a lot of things, both openly and secretly. Although on the surface, everything seems to have nothing to do with Chunfeng Fulan, when he investigates carefully, he always finds clues related to the Chunfeng Fulan industry with great difficulty, but is forcibly blocked by some external force.
But he didn't believe it. He didn't believe that the many things that happened over the years really had nothing to do with Chunfeng Fulan. After all, looking at the country of Xiao, who else had such huge financial and material resources to compete with him in every aspect?
Unless the master behind Chunfeng Fulan is willing to give up the wealth, power, fame and fortune he has accumulated over half his life and escape in one day, so that he can no longer find any evidence against Chunfeng Fulan, otherwise...
Xiao Tianmin stared at the Lord Shen, who was dressed in a gorgeous red dress, with cold eyes like a poisonous snake, and in his heart he cut him into pieces with his eyes.
Because of Lord Chen, the Fourth Prince looked at the three people standing in a triangle and snorted coldly with displeasure on his face.
Yuliu saw the Fourth Prince's reaction clearly, but she didn't show it on her face. Instead, she chuckled softly, lifted her skirt slightly, and walked through the path formed by the wall of people. She and Yunhe walked in front of the Fourth Prince and the eldest son of the Su family, one after the other. They bowed in a polite manner, knelt, and said:
"Your Highness the Fourth Prince, my dear brother, have a good evening."
The Fourth Prince had not had anything going his way in recent days. Seeing the fearless appearance of the owner of the building in front of him, he was ready to take the opportunity to attack him. However, when Yuliu greeted him so politely, he missed the chance to strike first.
So the Fourth Prince just glared at Yuliu and asked in a cold voice, "Miss Su, it's even darker now and the dew is heavier..."
"What are you doing here, a woman?"
【Author’s words】
Yuliu: Haha, do you look down on women? Wait until you ask for help, and I will give you a big wave.
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