Nan Yi was stunned for a few seconds, unable to believe his eyes.
I heard the word "captive" in my ears every day, but the more I heard it, the more I lost my imagination. Only at this moment did I have a shocking reality.
"Madam, there are so many people here, let's go."
Song Yushu reminded Nan Yi in a low voice.
Only then did Nan Yi notice that they had been staying here for a long time, and the guarding Qi Bing had already looked over with suspicion. She could only move away.
Before turning the corner, she couldn't help but look over there again. Di Ji had already entered the house, and the vermilion door was about to close.
As if by mistake, Fu Diji also turned around and took a deep look, and happened to meet Nan Yi's lingering gaze.
Then the vermilion painted door closed, isolating the woman's sad and painful eyes.
The look wasn't intense, but it was like a blunt stick hitting Nan Yi's chest.
Nan Yi lowered his eyes sadly and noticed that Song Yushu's hand was holding the edge of the scroll tightly, and his knuckles were even turning green and white.
He was also very angry.
"Song Qilang, have you heard of this Empress in the capital before?"
"Her name is Xu Keyue, she is the most favored empress in the Imperial City of Tokyo."
"Kuoyue? What a nice name."
"It is said that she was born in the middle of the night, and that night dark clouds covered the moon. But at the moment she was born, a loud cry came from the eaves, and all the dark clouds in the sky dispersed, as if the moon door was knocked open in an instant, spreading the moonlight. , so the officials loved this daughter even more and gave her the title '叩月'."
Nan Yi sighed. In just a few sentences, you can know her past where she was loved by thousands of people.
She was originally the moon in the sky and the phoenix on the branches. But beautiful things are fragile. After the war, no one was spared.
——
Xu Keyue followed everyone into the house. Wanyan Jun stopped in the courtyard, and she did not dare to go forward and stood at the screen wall. The servants dispersed one after another with interest, leaving only these two people in the courtyard.
Wanyan Jun looked back at Xu Keyue with a sinister and indifferent expression.
"No one is watching."
It was a meaningless sentence, but Xu Keyue had already understood it.
She knelt on the ground, took off her gorgeous outer robe, folded it in front of her, and then gradually took off the hairpins on her head, the earrings on both ears, the gold necklace and jade bracelets on her hands, and placed them on the outer robe. Then respectfully present it with both hands.
In the cold winter, she only wore a single coat, as thin as a piece of white paper. Obviously, she has been domesticated, so she is as knowledgeable and well-behaved as she is now.
She shed tears, but her hands were still as light as an orchid, and her movements were still elegant.
But Wanyan Jun didn't have any sympathy for her. Seeing her resigned face made me feel even more disgusted. He flicked his sleeves, flicked all the fine clothes and jewelry she handed over to the ground, and strode away.
A dirty footprint suddenly appeared on the goose-yellow robe on the ground.
Xu Keyue took it for granted and packed up the things on the ground again. After tidying up, she did not get up in a hurry. Instead, she raised her head in the western courtyard and looked blankly at the sunset of her motherland.
The cicadas sing in the west, and the guests in the south are deep in thought.
——
After Nan Yi sent Song Yushu back to Jiangyuefang, he returned to Wangxuewu feeling somewhat lost. However, after going out for a day, she encountered many things one after another, and her state of mind was very different from yesterday.
But she couldn't tell exactly where it started to change.
She wanted to go find Xie Sui'an, but learned that as soon as Xie Sui'an came back, Lu Jinxiu ordered him to be placed under house arrest in a room, guarded by people on the inside and outside.
Needless to say, we also know that the situation in Lidu Mansion has suddenly changed. Lu Jinxiu was afraid that her daughter would cause trouble and get involved in Xie Zhu's case, so she locked her up preemptively.
Nan Yi completely forgot about rent collection and was just about to return to Zheyue Pavilion when she bumped into Lu Jinxiu in the courtyard.
Seeing that her hands were empty, she was a little suspicious: "Young Madam, have you just come back? - Where is the rent collected today?"
Nan Yi replied in a low voice: "The tenant farmers and merchants really don't have that much cash on hand..."
Lu Jinxiu was a little impatient: "Young madam, you are too naive. Those unscrupulous people are just scheming and using various excuses to refuse to pay the rent."
"——I waived their rent for three months."
Lu Jinxiu took a breath of air: "What?!"
Lu Jinxiu's voice was too loud, causing the female envoys passing by to look sideways. She could still maintain a pleasant look towards Nan Yi before, but now she really couldn't pretend anymore, and there was a hint of reprimand in her tone.
"Young Madam, you are a good person. You went out and became a good person. Do you know how Wangxuewu's expenses are maintained? There are so many mouths in the house, Young Madam, will you take care of them?"
Nan Yi was already frowning in his heart. The Xie family was still enjoying a good life in troubled times. While flaunting their benevolence and morality, they refused to open their eyes to see the suffering in the world.
But she still had a smile on her face: "Isn't it true that the Madam is ill? Let's spend some money to pray for the Madam's virtues."
Lu Jinxiu choked back her words - filial piety is the most important thing in a family, and no one should do anything too much to honor their elders. Nan Yi's light words made it seem that it was her fault.
Lu Jinxiu glanced at Nan Yi unkindly. She was somewhat unhappy to be blocked by such a countryman.
But there must be no more words to say, Lu Jinxiu knew what to do.
She always remembers to play the role of a dignified woman from a wealthy family, even though deep down she is a philistine who flatters the superior and disdains the inferior. Good and evil are not important to her, but she knows that compassion is also a good mask.
She quickly changed her tune: "Since the young madam is interested, then go back and copy a few more Buddhist scriptures to pray for the madam."
Nan Yi didn't dare to say that he couldn't read at all, so he could only agree obediently.
Lu Jinxiu had already expected that she was a rough person. Even if she copied Buddhist scriptures, she would be unable to do anything with them. Either she would not be able to hand them over at all, or she would be embarrassed in front of the Madam. After winning the battle, she felt a little more balanced.
……
After Nan Yi returned, looking at the densely packed characters in the Buddhist scriptures was like reading a heavenly book, and he felt dizzy. She regretted it now. Zhang Yue had promised to teach her how to read before, but she felt that anything that could not be exchanged for money immediately was useless and she was too lazy to learn. She was really short-sighted at that time and could only see a few taels of broken silver in front of her.
Nan Yi felt extremely frustrated with herself. She didn't know what she could do or what use she had.
Just when she was depressed, an idea quickly swelled in her mind.
By the time she started to regret her retreat, she was already standing under the eaves of Jingfeng Residence.
There are guards guarding the west part of Jingfeng Residence. It is dark inside and Xie Queshan is out for a banquet tonight and is not in the room. For Nan Yi, it was not difficult to sneak into the room while avoiding the guards' patrols.
Stealing is, after all, her specialty.
That night, Usha sent a city defense map to Xie Queshan. The map should be in his room. She rushed to Xie Queshan's desk and rummaged around on the desk calmly, but her hands were shaking violently and her heartbeat was beating like a drum.
Finally, she found a roll of parchment. Although she didn't recognize the words on it, the picture on it was the city of Lidu Prefecture. It must have been a city defense map. She was about to take a closer look when suddenly a voice came from behind her.
"what are you doing here?"
