Mysterious Tang Dynasty

Chapter 353 Patience
It was already dark at the small villa, and a nest of birds had already flown back to the chickadee's nest.The little chickadee sent by Li Lijun stayed on the branch next to the nest for a long time in a daze, only then came to his senses, fluttered his wings and flew to the opposite cliff, and flew around the small villa.

Mrs. Yang and her mother-in-law were both in the upper room in the main courtyard, and the old man in the porter looked annoyed, walking around the room, as if he was worried about something.After a while, he took the broom placed against the wall in the corner of the room to the door, and said to himself, "I'll get up early tomorrow to sweep the mountains! I won't let you fall down again!"

Li Lijun looked at the picture in the small target mirror, frowned, and manipulated the little tit to fly to the stone steps up and down the mountain, and found that the gravel scattered earlier was much less, as if it had been cleaned by someone.Fortunately, I only cleaned the length of about dozens of steps, and the small stones and branches and fallen leaves on other sections of the road are still there.

Li Lijun recalled the situation when she set off from Zhuju to go down the mountain today. Before she left, she clearly checked the small target mirror to make sure that nothing happened to Xiao Yang's side.Less than two hours had passed, and the person fell?Has anyone even swept the stone steps?What luck!
The little tit flew to the mountain walls on both sides of the stone path, and was about to peck a few pieces of gravel with its beak to fill it up, when it saw the old woman appearing in the gatehouse, and hurriedly flew over again, and stopped under the eaves opposite the gatehouse.

The old woman was comforting the old man: "My lady is fine, you don't have to be afraid. She just fell down a little bit. If she didn't push us away on purpose and wanted to go down the mountain secretly, she wouldn't have stepped on a stone and fell this one." I fell. Even if Liulang knew, he would know who was the culprit, and he wouldn’t blame us.”

The old Cangtou sighed: "Sister, what is your nobleman trying to do? Is it possible that she really wants to sneak down the mountain to escape? Let alone whether she knows the way, it's dark now, she went down the mountain, look Do you know the direction? Do you have the strength to go on the road? She is not afraid of encountering a big worm that will eat her up in one bite?! She has a good life on the mountain, but why is she so confused? Please persuade her more. "

The mother-in-law nodded: "I will persuade her. Don't worry, brother. Although our wife is a little headstrong, she is always afraid of death. I told her the risk of going down the mountain, and she will not dare to mess around again."

The old Cangtou said: "Get up early tomorrow, and I will sweep the road down the mountain again, so that the nobleman will not fall again."

But the old woman said: "That's unnecessary. Now that she has lost her foot, she can't go down the mountain. We don't lack food and food. We don't need to go down for three or five days. It's useless to sweep the mountain trail. If you have time, It's better to patrol around the house twice more, keep a close eye on the door, and don't let the lady find any more loopholes."

The old man responded, and the old lady turned and went back to the courtyard.Li Lijun manipulated the little tit to fly to the eaves of the main house one step ahead of her, just in time to see Xiao Yang standing on tiptoe looking around the door, and seeing the mother-in-law enter the courtyard door, she flew back to the bed, didn't she look injured at all?
Li Lijun stared at the silver hairpin with large gold crystals on Xiao Yang's head, and the white cloak casually placed on the bed by his hand, and suddenly realized.This woman was not stupid enough, although she intended to take advantage of the darkness to escape down the mountain, she did not forget to bring the self-defense clothing that Li Wenqi bought for her.These are the things collected by Master Zhuji, with them, even if Xiao Yang travels through the mountains and forests alone, she is not afraid of any wolves, tigers and leopards, and even if she encounters bandits, she is expected to escape safely.

From this point of view, it is not whimsical for Xiao Yang to escape secretly to find his own two children in the Sui Prince's Mansion Zhuangzi at the foot of Zhongnan Mountain.It was rare for her to be so close to a pair of children. If the third generation of the Sui Palace returned to Chang'an, or if she was taken to some isolated village by Li Wenqi, it would be difficult for her to escape.

The mother-in-law entered the room, unaware that Xiao Yang's foot injury was faked, and started thinking about it again.She reminded Xiao Yang how steep the way down the mountain was, how dangerous the deep mountains and old forests below the mountain were, what kind of beasts, insects and snakes, just a little bit would kill Xiao Yang, a pampered woman in the inner house.What's more, people in the nearby mountain villages rarely go out of the mountains, and the roads are not easy to walk. The mountain roads of tens of miles are no joke.Little Yang has been pampered and pampered for many years, even if he didn't suffer any hardships during his escape, how could he survive?If she got lost in the deep mountains, she might starve to death on the way.

Mrs. Yang listened silently, pretending to touch her injured foot with both hands, and said softly after the mother-in-law finished speaking: "I didn't intend to sneak away, I just went out for a stroll and had a look at the scenery, and I knew where the steps were. Will there be small stones on the ground? Don’t talk about me. If you have this skill, it’s better to let the old man sweep the stone steps, so as to save you from falling when you go down the mountain. In two days, we will leave. You go and make dry food from the grain stored in the kitchen, and you can bring delicious food with you on the way, and you won’t delay things when you arrive in the village.”

This makes sense.The mother-in-law agreed without hesitation.

Then Xiao Yang said: "We went to the village, but we don't know if we can go outside to find out the news. I will write a letter in a while, and you can ask the porter to send it out, even if it is to hire someone to run errands in a nearby town. Okay, try to find a way to deliver it to Yanniang, at least let her know that her mother is not dead, but she still misses their siblings, let her take good care of her younger brother, and one day the family will be reunited."

The mother-in-law suddenly became vigilant: "What are you talking about, lady? If this letter is really delivered to the third lady, wouldn't the palace know that you are not dead?!"

Xiao Yang disapproved: "I wrote the letter in your name, saying that the old servant missed the old master, and the writing was vague. Even if an outsider read the letter, they would not know the truth. Yan Niang knew my handwriting, she knew it well. of."

The woman hesitated: "No one in the nearby villages dares to go out easily. If the old man wants to find a place to hire people, he must at least go to the town. He may not be able to make it back after a couple of days. The lady will not You want to take the opportunity to send him away, and if you fool me again, you will take the opportunity to escape?"

Xiao Yang said angrily: "Look at how my feet are hurt! I can't even get out of the yard, how can I escape?! Aren't I thinking about my child?! I can't get out, but Yan Niang always She can go out. I reminded her in the letter to take care of her mother, so that her life in the nunnery would be better. Anyway, I will definitely wait until the old man returns to his life before leaving. I don’t believe it, Liu Lang can’t even wait for this time. "

The mother-in-law heard that the letter was good for her old master, so she no longer objected: "In that case, let's write the letter." Then she turned and went to the kitchen to make dry food.

Xiao Yang looked at her as she walked away, just spat, and said triumphantly: "If you are so cunning, why are you coaxed by me? When Liu Lang doesn't see me when he comes back, what will you do?" !"

Li Lijun put down the small target mirror and couldn't help but sneered.

It doesn't matter, Xiao Yang is stupid, but it is convenient for her.

She picked up the small target mirror again, steered the little tit back to the stone steps, and dutifully chiseled many small and round gravels, and also collected many small branches that were easy to roll, and large pieces of withered yellow leaves, all temporarily Placed in an inconspicuous corner.Now she doesn't tamper with the stone steps and paths, and waits until the old man goes down the mountain, and then rearranges them.Not only should stones and branches be placed, but dead leaves should also be used to cover them, so that those who come down the mountain cannot see what is hidden under the dead leaves.

As long as Xiao Yang dared to sneak down the mountain, at a height of several hundred meters, there would always be a time when he stepped on a trap.Even if Li Wenqi did a hundred investigations afterwards, it would be impossible to find that there were human factors involved.

Even if someone sweeps this mountain path clean a hundred times, Li Lijun can still set up traps for her a hundred times.Wanting to make the whole thing seem like an accident, or an accident that Xiao Yang wanted to kill herself, she has a lot of patience, and see who can wear it out!

(End of this chapter)