Beijing/1
Is she influenced by this madman?
It must be.
Ye Xuanling pulled out the dagger, her hand still hanging in the air.
Ji Yan looked at Ye Xuanling slumped on the ground, listless. He walked a few steps towards her, slowly squatted down, and made his eye contact with her.
He raised his hand and wiped the blood and tears from her cheek.
"It doesn't matter, just kill him." To him, it was just an insignificant life. Even if it could provide clues, he wouldn't care.
Ye Xuanling was frightened, she bent her body and turned her head away, not looking at him again.
The men in black seized the opportunity and started to panic, scattering in all directions, brandishing their swords to carve a way out for themselves.
"withdraw!"
The man in black was outnumbered, and more than ten officers swarmed over and surrounded and subdued him.
"Leave him here and take him back for interrogation." Ji Yan exuded a murderous and cold aura.
The Grand Tutor and the squad leader, as the leaders, were dead, and the rest were no more than ten soldiers. Ji Yan ordered their arrest, but these people seemed to have accepted their fate and did not resist. However, on the way back to the yamen, these people committed suicide by swallowing the poison under their tongues.
The group dismounted, and the officer took the body of the man in black back for examination, while the two stood in front of the yamen gate.
"Take care of your injuries first." Ji Yan said to Ye Xuanling, "Can you do this on your own? Do you need me to find a healer for you?"
"It's just a minor injury, don't worry about it." Ye Xuanling felt the stinging pain on her face and reached out to touch it.
There was a scar on her right cheek, not too deep or too shallow. She wiped the blood away with her sleeve. She didn't care about her appearance, not to mention it was just a scar.
As long as it is handled properly, it will still be fine.
Ye Xuanling thought that she would be able to do something earth-shattering after she became more mature, and that she would be able to analyze the current situation rationally, but she was still impulsive and would just ignore everything.
She left everything behind, just wanting him to die.
Obviously, obviously, we are about to find that person.
The Grand Tutor's words were still ringing in her ears. Ye Xuanling was about to ask him a question, but he spoke first: "Don't worry, that person will die anyway, it won't be your fault."
"It's not my fault?"
Ji Yan coughed lightly and said, "I mean, that person is trying to stop the squad leader from telling the truth. After taking the squad leader's life, he will definitely commit suicide by taking poison like the others."
Ye Xuanling nodded thoughtfully, but she didn't know what she was thinking: "In that case..."
"In that case, you take care of your wound first. I'll be watching over the government office. I'll let you know when I have any news."
"Ji Yan, I told you, it's not necessary, it's just a minor injury."
It was the middle of the night, the darkness thick as ink that could not be dissolved. The only sound in their ears was the whistling of the cold wind. They sat in silence, one after the other, entering the main hall of the government office.
When the time came to Chou hour, Ye Xuanling looked at the busy figures of the officials and could not help but lower her eyes. Ji Yan, who was standing beside her, also did not say anything like her and watched the scene in front of her quietly.
The identical Nuo mask marks on the corpses looked like an abyss, making people afraid to open their eyes to explore.
The governor of Dianhai arrived late, and as he walked towards them, he bowed and smiled: "Oh, Master Ji, I'm so sorry. I thought that after dealing with these matters tonight, we would be done. I didn't expect this."
The governor pointed to the dozen or so bodies on the wooden planks and asked, "Are these what you are talking about?"
"Yes, the crisis in Dianhai has been basically resolved, and it's time to do what we promised before." Ji Yan's voice was cold and his face was calm.
Ye Xuanling knew what they were talking about. It was just to prevent the Nuo mask figurines and the Dianhai missing people case from causing panic among the people.
"Sir Governor, the Shisi grass needs to be banned and eradicated. It needs to be poisoned with alkali, but there is no antidote." Ye Xuanling reminded again.
"Yes, thank you, Doctor Ye." The governor smiled, as if thinking of something. "How about I arrange a thank-you banquet tomorrow to thank the Jinyiwei for their efforts for Dianhai this week?"
"I wonder when your Excellency will have time?"
Ye Xuanling was a little panicked when she heard this, but she didn't show it. She just looked at him and wanted to give Ji Yan a look, but Ji Yan didn't seem to see her. So, she reached out and gently tugged at Ji Yan's sleeve.
"No need." Ji Yan said, "Submit the inspection documents to the post station later. I will no longer be in Dianhai."
"Are you in a hurry, sir?"
"Yes, there is a fox at home who is very anxious."
Ji Yan acted nonchalant, with a mixture of pride and smugness, and his tone was lazy, but it didn't seem to be an important matter.
Inside the government office, Ye Xuanling stopped talking, her mind wandering to who knows where.
Ji Yan led his men out of the door. In the cold and dark night, the two of them stopped in tacit understanding.
Late at night, a cold wind blew against my body. The lights in the streets had been turned off long ago. Two dim lanterns were hung in front of the government office, making the air hazy and turbid.
Ye Xuanling would often think of the dead, or rather those who died because of her. Li Si from Kanzhou would always appear in her dreams with a bloody face and a mutilated body.
She told herself that she would find out the truth and she would not let Li Si die in vain. She told herself to cheer up and not let these things affect her thinking.
But to put it nicely, she is sober, calm and rational; to put it bluntly, she is conscienceless and indifferent, and can easily throw a person's life away from her.
Ye Xuanling looked at Ji Yan's back, walked forward, stood beside him, and suddenly said, "Don't you think I'm scary in the water eye?"
"What?" Ji Yan tilted his head slightly and found that her expression seemed a little lonely and silent.
"Murder! I killed someone like a madman. Is that scary?" Ye Xuanling lowered her eyelashes, her eyes nearly piercing the ground. "Will there be any consequences?"
"No, as long as you are happy, just kill him, don't worry so much." I will take care of it for you. Ji Yan thought about something and asked, "Now, what are you going to do?"
"If the Nuo mask-makers really want to perform a five-element human sacrifice, then none of them can be left out," Ye Xuanling said. "Ji Yan, besides the three known elements of gold, water, and fire, do you have any other information?"
"Yesterday, news arrived from the post station: Luoyang, the former capital, was prosperous and wealthy, rivaling even the capital. Tens of thousands of people lived there, but in winter, the entire city only did one thing: chop trees and gather firewood."
Everything was quiet, and Ye Xuanling listened to his words silently.
He continued, "When times get better, firewood burns faster. This winter, there are no trees left to cut within hundreds of kilometers. The price of firewood has skyrocketed. Because of the freezing weather, there are not a few people who have stampede to grab firewood."
"There were frequent riots among the masses, the rich were hoarding, and the poor didn't even have firewood to cook with."
Ye Xuanling asked, "Didn't the court officials come up with a solution?"
"The powerful and wealthy are secretly obstructing the sale, and wealthy merchants are reselling the property at exorbitant prices. Large areas of Luoyang City have been wiped out, and the population has plummeted. Recently, Luoyang City has become desolate and desolate."
Ye Xuanling pondered, "Does the imperial court take these matters lightly? If someone were to capture Luoyang, wouldn't it be easy, as simple as pie?"
After a moment, he smiled and swallowed the words that were about to come out: "You are right."
For Ji Yan, he doesn’t care which city is destroyed and which city is alive.
Soon, Ye Xuanling answered him directly.
"The capital city, no matter whether the Nuo mask man's last stop is the capital city or not, I will go there." Ye Xuanling couldn't face her senior brother, but it was also impossible for her to choose to escape after knowing that her senior brother was in danger.
In addition, she must meet Liu Dakou or his daughter in the capital, otherwise she will have no ability to catch Him who is hiding in the dark and is called "God" by his minions.
"I'm going back to the capital too, can we go together?" Ji Yan asked.
"good."
"So, are you still going to be a medical officer of the Imperial Guard during this period?"
Ye Xuanling nodded seriously and said, "Ji Yan."
She called out.
She raised her head and met his gray eyes, and smiled faintly: "Ji Yan, thank you."
During their time together, her doubts about him had long since vanished, or rather, from the very beginning, those doubts were only a trace, faint, half-hearted, non-existent. It was just that everything she had experienced affected her, and those things were like tiny, fine needles and threads that pierced into her heart and pulled at her thoughts.
Regardless of the misunderstandings they had when they first met, he had truly helped her when the ulcer struck. No matter how she treated him or misunderstood him, he didn't care, and she was well aware of this.
"Didn't you say you don't have to say thank you to me?" Ji Yan leaned over, his handsome face and turbid grey pupils reflected the dim light at this moment, his eyes were burning, staring at her.
Ji Yan did not avoid it at all. The low pressure around her made Ye Xuanling breathless. The feeling of suffocation invaded her brain. Ye Xuanling took two steps back in panic.
She didn't dare to look into his eyes. His eyes were like a spell, eroding her and seeing through her.
"Well...get some rest early. I'm in a hurry to get on with my journey." Ye Xuanling hurriedly made an excuse. "Oh, by the way, don't you have a fox at home? You're worried about it too, right? So hurry back to the capital to feed it."
"Oh, yes, tease her a little." Ji Yan chuckled, his eyes like the dark seabed, obscure and gray.
"Will Sanqi still stay with us?" Ye Xuanling asked this question after a long time. It was not to change the subject, but because Sanqi provided her with too much help and she was too good to her.
We are friends.
He is such a unique friend she has made in her more than ten years of life.
"Do you want to?" Ji Yan said, "If you want to, she will definitely come with us."
Ye Xuanling thought about it, feeling that there was something else behind his words. Would Sanqi follow her thoughts?
"If you hire her, she'll definitely come with us. If not, it depends on her willingness." Ye Xuanling shook her head unconsciously. "Then I'll go back first and ask her."
"I'll take you back to the inn."
Along the way, the two of them were no longer silent like before, but chatted casually. Ji Yan could feel her confirmation, as if he could touch the warmth flowing out.
The winter night was so cold and lonely. A little beggar in thin clothes leaned against the wall, rubbing against the warmth emanating from the house.
Ye Xuanling touched her purse, took out some change and placed it in front of the beggar without saying anything. After completing this action, she continued to walk to Ji Yan's side.
Ji Yan slowly closed his eyelids, opened them after a while, and smiled faintly.
The two continued walking on the road.
He thought of that cold day all the time, the pain and the coldness, and he could forgive it all as long as she was there.
The last winter will not be cold anymore.
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