Wishful Things

"Girl, the hot water is ready. Maid will wait for you to take a bath?" At this moment, the little maid who just woke up said timidly.

Xu Mingyi nodded, raised his foot and went to the ear room first.

Seeing her brisk steps, the little maid hurriedly followed.

After taking off her dress, the fair-skinned girl with a graceful figure sank into the bathtub.

"What is your name?"

"How old is this year?"

Xu Mingyi asked the little maid from time to time, apparently in a good mood.

During the chat, the little maid's nervousness gradually disappeared.

Why do you say that the girl has a bad temper, she is obviously very approachable.

but--

The girl suddenly asked her to sing a little song, what's the matter?

In the middle of the night, the little maid felt that this request was more or less inappropriate, but she cleared her throat and began to sing seriously.

"The reeds are green, and the white dew is frost. The so-called Yiren are on the side of the water..."

The little girl's melodious singing came out of the ear chamber, and floated melodiously into the dark night.

...

The next day, when the sun rose at the beginning of the morning, the city gate was bustling with merchants and common people.

The appearance of a group of people made the surroundings vibrate even more noisy.

"Look, who is that!"

"What a big battle..."

"What's the matter with those people pulling behind?"

Wearing a black cloak, a young girl with handsome features and cool eyes was sitting on the horseback, and beside her was a handsome young man in a crow green robe, with an extraordinary appearance and a noble temperament.

After seeing the appearance of these two people clearly, exclamation sounded faintly from all around.

"Which family is this young lady... You really are a fairy!"

A man sitting on a donkey cart with a child in his arms said that he would answer this question: "I know! This is Miss Xu from Zhen Guo Gongfu!"

"So this is Miss Xu..."

There were endless discussions all around, after Zhu Xiu explained the general situation to the city gate guards, Xu Mingyi and others had already entered the city gate without inspection.

Seeing that the pedestrians walked a little further, the curiosity of the crowd not only did not diminish, but increased even more.

"What is the origin of those people with their hands tied..."

"There's a little girl inside!"

"It doesn't look like an honest person!... Some of them still have knives in their waists!"

"Hey! Miss Xu won't take people out of the city to suppress the bandits, right?"

"Suppress bandits?!"

"As expected of the granddaughter of General Xu!"

Everyone's imagination became wider and wider, but the man in the donkey cart urged the driver to turn around and return to the city.

The black-faced boy driving the car scratched his head: "Uncle, are we not going to offer incense?"

Isn't Uncle Qi the one who likes to listen to the excitement? Even if he doesn't go to the incense, he should stay here and gossip with everyone.

Is this still his uncle?

"What kind of incense are you offering? Go to the yamen! Hurry up!"

Inexperienced people will continue to waste time here, smart people have already thought of going to the Yamen to occupy a good position!

Without such a keen sense of smell, how could it be possible to hear the freshest and most accurate gossip?

When Xu Mingyi and his group arrived at the yamen, they saw a dozen or so people surrounded by them, looking forward to it.

Officials also waited outside the Yamen.

——Suddenly, people came to watch, and they knew that something must happen. After asking the familiar face holding the child, they had a general understanding and preparation for the next thing.

Sure enough, isn't this coming?

Ji Dong was quickly promoted.

Xu Mingyi led people into the hall to salute.

"Miss Xu—" Ji Dong suppressed the surprise in his heart, looked at the group of people with their hands bound and asked, "I don't know who these people are and what they have committed?"

Could it be that, as those common people said, what kind of bandit den did Miss Xu bring?

Xu Mingyi looked at Zhan Yunjiao who was kneeling there, and said coldly: "Miss Zhan is the mastermind of this matter, let's tell the story."

"..." Zhan Yunjiao knelt down with her head bowed, her bun was disheveled and messed up, tears were streaming down her face, she bit her lower lip tightly and shook her head without speaking.

Ji Dong felt a headache.

What he is most afraid of when trying a case is this kind of crying in class and not cooperating. If you didn’t do anything wrong, then hurry up and defend yourself. You really did something wrong—are you afraid you won’t have time to cry when you’re in prison? Then I can cry as much as I want, and my inmates will cry with me, so what's the rush now.

Fortunately, the girl from the Xu family is neat——

"Then let me explain what I know to the adults." The girl standing there said clearly: "A few days ago, a little boy sent a letter from an unknown source, indicating that it was addressed to me. Even if it is here, please take a look at it.”

While she was speaking, she took out the letter from her sleeve, and the yamen servant took it over and sent it to Ji Dong.

Ji Dong unfolded the letter paper and scanned the contents of the letter, his eyebrows twitched.

Zhan Yunzhu?

Is it the young man who threw himself into the river last year?

Considering the reputation of the girl's family, and fearing unnecessary rumors would arise, Ji Dong hesitated for a while whether to declare the contents of the letter in court.

However, at this time, the girl from the Xu family said by herself: "After reading this letter, I realized that it was written by a person who claimed to be Zhanyunzhu. He saved his life, but he couldn’t show up because of his difficulties, so he asked me to meet outside the city two days later, and told me to go alone, not to disturb others—”

As soon as this remark came out, there was a gasp of surprise among the people outside the hall who were listening with pricked ears.

Those who squeezed to the front were all senior gossip crowds, and whoever knew gossip, who wouldn't know this Mr. Zhanjia who threw himself into the river after leaving the Yamen last year?

What, is this man still alive? !

"At that time, I felt that this matter was very strange, and men and women were different. If I went to see him alone, it would be really inconvenient. But at least we got to know each other, and I was afraid that he would encounter some difficulties when he was really alive. He was threatened—so, I decided to have someone go to the appointment instead of me. I took another person to guard in the dark to prevent accidents from happening. Sure enough, this matter is really fraudulent."

Xu Mingyi said these half-truths, then turned his head to look at the people standing beside him.

Yun Liu: ...It is inevitable that we have come to this point.

He took a step forward, raised his hand and took off the fence above his head as if death was at home.

Ji Dong secretly took a deep breath.

It's not that the other party's appearance is ugly, on the contrary, this person is very handsome.

But the key point is that this person stood there, he always thought it was a girl's house, but when the fence was removed, it turned out to be a man's face with light green stubble... Who can withstand such a sudden visual impact?

"..." The Yamen servants were also shocked.

"This is the person who will attend the appointment for my girl—"

Facing strange sights one after another, Yun Liu tried his best to make his expression look normal enough.

"At that time, someone will come to meet you in a wooden house in the forest, and try to use drugs to knock you unconscious." He pointed coldly at the man in the long gown who was kneeling in the hall and holding the broken arm, and said in a deep voice. Said: "This is the person - after pretending to be unconscious, he tried to do unbearable things to me!"

Good evening, everybody.