Chapter 221: Rescued Princess Embrace
The main house of the Su family's old house and the annex where Mao Ya and others lived were all empty. The Feng brothers lived in the west wing, and several rooms were enough for them.
After entering the house, passing through the patio, and reaching the steps under the corridor, Ershi took off his shoes and walked barefoot up the corridor. The house was clean and the weather was hot, so he liked to walk barefoot. Just as he was about to turn around and greet Hua Ping, he pushed open the doors of each room one by one like an official inspector checking the rooms, as if looking for something, which made Ershi nervous. "Brother Hua, we didn't touch anything in the master bedroom."
Hua Ping and Ye Huaizhen just wanted to find the young master quickly, so they had no mood to answer him. They pushed the door after door until they came to the room where Mao Ya and Li Xiuzhu lived. They felt something was wrong and shouted, "Ershi, come and take a look. Has this room been moved?"
Normally, the Feng brothers went out early and came back late, so there was almost no one in the house during the day. When they heard Hua Ping shouting, they were both nervous and relieved. Nervous because there really was a thief? Fortunately, it was not the master's house, but the small room where the maids lived, so there should be no valuables stolen.
The house was cleaned by his wife. Ershi asked his wife to stand at the door of the house to see if anything was missing.
Ershi's wife Lancao looked carefully twice before expressing her doubts, "Someone has come in, but nothing is missing."
Hua Ping asked: "How do you know someone came in?"
Lancao pointed at the cloth on the small dressing table and said, "This room is small, and it's easy for odors to accumulate inside. I open the window every two or three days to get rid of the odor, but summer thunderstorms come at any time, and the cloth can easily be blown away when the wind and rain blow in. I dropped a small stone on the corner of the cloth, and now the small stone on top has fallen to the ground."
Ye Huaizhen followed Ershi's wife's gaze and picked up a small stone with a thread still on it from the ground.
The secret agent sent by Prince Jin's Mansion was good at finding people by smell. Mao Ya gave a piece of Su Ruojin's clothing, and he found the old house by the smell. Could it be that those men kidnapped the young master and took him to the old house and hid him in the brothel?
Hua Ping and Ye Huaizhen were suddenly very excited. They looked at each other and quickly looked on the bed, under the bed, and in the cupboards. However, after searching everywhere, even in rat holes, there was no sign of Su Ruojin.
Could it be that he found the wrong clue, and the young lady had lived in the old house before, so he smelled the old scent?
The two did not give up and decided to search the old house again. When they were about to go to Su Yanli's study, they heard footsteps at the Su family's gate and heard that there were many people.
Hua Ping hurried out to check, and found that it was the young prince, accompanied by Prince Wei, Lu Siqing, and the suspected Lord Xue.
Zhao Lan saw Hua Ping. Could it be that the secret agents in the palace had also found this place? Hope suddenly rose in his heart, and he hurriedly asked, "How is it? Did you find it?" His eyes were full of hope, as if he could get a definite answer from Hua Ping.
Hua Ping shook his head, meaning he didn't understand.
Zhao Lan suddenly turned his head and said, "Sir Xue, where is the person you saw?"
Lord Xue looked around and pointed at the well in the courtyard and said, "I saw from the crack in the door that the girl had her back to the well..." Before he finished his words, a figure flashed before him.
Santai chased after him and shouted urgently, "Master, no... no..."
Prince Wei and Lu Siqing looked at each other in shock. What was Zhao Zijin doing?
Sure enough, the next second, Zhao Lan was about to jump into the well. Hua Ping was so scared that he quickly stepped forward to hug him, "Sir, if anyone wants to jump, I'll be the one to do it."
The Ershi couple were stunned by the nobles and walked over tremblingly, "Young Prince, what are you doing..."
Without saying a word, Ye Huaizhen lifted the manhole cover, took out a tinder from his sleeve pocket, lit it and looked into the well water. After looking around, he found nothing, so he sank the bucket again, and there was no foreign object blocking it.
When she performed these actions, Zhao Lan was like a piece of fragile jade, which seemed to fall to the ground and fall apart if she was not careful, until Ye Huaizhen shook his head at him, "Master, no."
Zhao Lan seemed to be reborn. He suddenly shuddered, untied his arms, ran to the wellhead, and looked into the water. Yes, it was empty. There was nothing... Really nothing...
What about his Ah Jin? Where is he?
Seeing that the sky was getting darker, if he couldn't find Ajin, he would miss the best time to look for her. He unconsciously looked at Xue Dada again.
This... this... Master Xue finally understood something after a while, "Could it be that Ah Jin is missing?"
No one replied to him and everyone remained silent.
The young master is missing? The Ershi couple were so shocked that their pupils almost popped out.
"But I'm not old. I did see that girl's back. Could it be that the girl wasn't with Ah Jin?"
Ershi replied, "No, he has been looking after the Su family's new house."
Ershi's wife pulled her husband and whispered, "This morning, Madam Dong came to the shop and said that the girl surnamed Li went to look for her mother when the capital was in chaos, and she hasn't come back yet."
He was from the Ministry of Industry, but now Lord Xue acted like he was from the Ministry of Justice or the Dali Temple. "Could it be that the girl surnamed Li kidnapped Ah Jin and wanted to extort money?"
Lu Siqing had always been suspicious of Lord Xue. When he heard this, he seemed to deliberately want to clear himself of suspicion. He glanced at him and asked Zhao Lan, "Zi Jin..." There was no one here, so he quickly followed Bi Changgui's clues to find someone.
Zhao Lan raised his head, looked across the skylight at the vast night sky. The dark sky was like a man-eating mouth, swallowing up everything, which made people feel terrified.
"San Tai..."
"Young Master——"
"I will dig deep into the ground to find Ah Jin."
He had a hunch that Jin was here.
Digging three feet underground?
Wait, Ershi thought of something and shouted, "Wait a minute."
After saying that, he ran barefoot to the entrance of the cellar, opened the lid, and looked down.
Ye Huaizhen quickly took out a fire stick to light the way for him.
Zhao Lan was stunned for a moment, then rushed over and followed Ershi down the cellar. Just after going down a few steps, he saw Su Ruojin lying in the cellar, her face pale and unconscious.
"Ajin...Ajin..."
Ershi was pushed by the excited young prince and almost fell down. Before he reached the bottom, he jumped to the side and made way for the young prince. He nervously watched the young prince use his hand to feel the young master's breath, and when he saw him relax, he also relaxed.
Okay, we found the person, everything is fine!
Half an hour later, Su Ruojin was awakened by the imperial physician's acupuncture.
At this moment, Su Dalang and Su Yanzu also found the old house.
She opened her eyes, as if she had a serious illness. She was very weak. She looked around with great effort, and then she seemed to remember something. "I... I remember buying cloth in the West Market, and there was a little boy..."
Little boy...
Seeing that her young master had finally woken up, Mao Ya ignored Zhao Lan who was occupying the edge of the couch and threw herself on her young master's legs, burying her face in her legs and crying silently. Her tears instantly soaked Su Ruojin's legs.
"Ya... Sister Ya..."
Zhao Lan didn't care anymore. He put his arms around Su Ruojin and buried his head in the crook of her neck.
Su Dalang: ...
Su Yanzu: ...
Prince Wei: ...Okay, let him go look for Bi Changgui first!
Lu Youbai thought to himself, it seems that he has to go back and persuade his niece to give up the marriage with Prince Jin's Mansion.
Wei and Lu looked at each other and realized that Zhao Lan had no time to deal with them now.
Santai respectfully sent the two off, "I would like to thank the two princes and lords on behalf of my master. I will thank you again after my master has recovered from this breath."
Wei and Lu smiled slightly, turned around and left the Su family's room, and soon left Guihua Lane with their men.
Madam Su was fine. Lord Xue didn't know whether he sighed or breathed a sigh of relief, or both. However, there was one thing he couldn't understand. The girl named Li wanted to blackmail the Su family, so why did she hide her in the Su's old house?
Was he sure that the people from the Three Departments would not search the Su family's old house? To be honest, this reverse thinking almost worked. If he hadn't suddenly become interested in Feng Shui, it is estimated that Prince Zhao would not have thought of the Su family's old house.
In a dark room somewhere in the capital, Li Xiuzhu was beaten so badly that she could neither live nor die.
The man, who only showed his eyes, said sinisterly, "You ruined my good deeds. It's not that easy to die."
"Use whatever torture can torture people."
"Yes, sir."
The masked man sneered, turned and left the lynching room.
Turning a long corridor, the masked man arrived at a gorgeously decorated room. A middle-aged man sat in the main seat. His eyes, which had been sinister and vicious just now, instantly became flattering. "Master, why are you here?"
"I want to see how you fail."
The masked man took off his veil and smiled awkwardly: "If it weren't for that girl, I would have just done the opposite."
The middle-aged man gave him a cold look, "Have you always been so smart?"
The masked man shut up instantly out of anger.
The middle-aged man said, "Since we have failed, we should give up the pieces that need to be given up and cut off the connections that need to be cut off. Do you understand?"
"Yes, Master."
In the wing room of the Su family's old house, Su Ruojin was being held both above and below, and she was sweating profusely from the heat. If Su Yanzu hadn't pulled the two apart, it is estimated that her little niece would not have been killed by the bad guys, but would have been strangled to death by the master and the servant.
Mao Ya knelt on the ground and begged for punishment, and no one could persuade her.
"No one can prevent special circumstances, how can you be blamed?" Su Ruojin asked her brother to help her up, but Mao Ya refused to be helped and just knelt.
"You deserve to be punished." Zhao Lan said coldly.
"Little...Brother Zhao, you can't blame Sister Ya in that situation." Although Su Ruojin didn't know how she was drugged, she still remembered the situation when she rescued the little boy. In that situation, how could she do both without hurting civilians and saving the little boy?
He almost lost his life, but he still considered his servants. Zhao Lan didn't want to hear a word and just carried him in a princess hug, scaring everyone so much that they took three steps back, their eyes widened.
Young Prince Zhao, is this your wife? Even if she is, she can't be so aggressive, right?
Su Yanzu: ...Does his brother know that his student is doing this to his daughter?
Su Dalang: ...Brother Zhao, this job should be done by him as the elder brother, why are you rushing to do it? He looked down at his small body. The fifteen-year-old boy seemed much shorter than the nineteen-year-old young man. He seemed unsure whether he could easily carry his sister horizontally.
Oh my goodness, Su Dalang, your sister is about to be kidnapped, and you are still wondering whether you are tall enough. You are really something.
Hua Ping, Ye Huaizhen and others were not surprised. They silently made way for the young prince, saluted and watched him leave.
The person being hugged——Su Ruojin:...Why do I feel like there will be no way out if I don’t marry the young prince?
Zhao Lan lowered his eyes and looked at the weak person in his arms. The desire to protect him surged towards him like a flood.
Su Ruojin: ...Although I cannot bear the violent surge, this feeling is so good.
He carried her out of the wing room and into the boudoir where she lived when she was a child. He carefully put the young lady on the bed, lowered his head, and coaxed her gently: "Wait a minute, drink some ginseng soup, have a good sleep, and everything will be fine when you wake up."
The young lady smiled slightly, "Brother Zhao, thank you for your hard work in finding me!"
Brother Zhao's heart melted.
"No." Zhao Lan reached out and patted her gently, "I'll have someone bring the ginseng soup."
"Thank you, Brother Zhao."
All the hard work was worth it. Now the young lady called him Brother Zhao, which sounded so nice. Zhao Lan's mouth corners raised.
Chunxiao knocks on the door.
"Come in."
Chunxiao carried the tray, put it on the table, found a towel, and prepared to feed the second lady.
"go out."
"Yes, Master."
Zhao Lan picked up the small bowl and fed him himself.
It’s not a serious illness, it’s just a coma. Su Ruojin sat up with embarrassment and amusement.
Zhao Lan quickly put down the bowl and came over to help her. "Lie down, I'll feed you."
Su Ruojin, who had already sat up, suppressed her smile and waved her hand, "Really, no need, I can do it myself."
Zhao Lan insisted on feeding him.
Su Ruojin: ... a boy and a girl feeding each other, this scene... what do I think... how...
She insisted on drinking it herself, otherwise she wouldn't drink it at all. She was very willful.
Now it was Zhao Lan's turn to be helpless. "Okay, finish your drink and rest early."
Although she had been in a coma for nearly a day, Su Ruojin still felt sleepy after drinking the ginseng soup. She did not care that Zhao Lan was guarding her side, closed her eyes, and fell asleep again after a while.
Zhao Lan asked Chun Xiao and Ye Huaizhen to stay and left the room.
Santai hurried forward, "Prince Wei is still investigating."
Zhao Lan nodded: "Tonight, we will stay in the Su family's guest room."
"Yes, Master."
Su Yanzu and Su Dalang did not leave at night and also stayed in the Su family's old house.
Mao Ya knelt all night. The next morning, Ye Huaizhen came to pull her up, but she still refused to get up.
Ye Huaizhen said seriously, "You mean, I have to kneel for three days and three nights too?"
"I didn't mean that?"
"But you and I are protecting this person together. You have a responsibility, and so do I."
"I'm different from you."
Ye Huaizhen sneered, "Then kneel down and cripple your legs, so that you can better protect the young master."
Mao Ya: ...
Ye Huaizhen threw out a sentence, looked at her coldly and left the room.
Hua Ping sat outside Su Ruojin's door with his arms folded, watching all night. When he saw Ye Huaizhen coming out, he asked, "How is the Second Lady?"
Ye Huaizhen replied: "Very good."
That’s good. Hua Ping finally felt relieved.
After a night of sleep and a hearty breakfast in the morning, Su Ruojin finally came back to life.
Only then did they have the energy to discuss what happened in Xishi yesterday. Everyone agreed that this was a carefully planned kidnapping.
Su Ruojin asked Zhao Lan and Hua Ping: "Where do they want to take me?"
Hua Ping pursed his lips and said, "Second Madam, you know a lot of things. I guess you were taken to Liaoxia like Carpenter Li and Carpenter Zhang."
Is that so?
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