Raiders of the Duke and Duchess

Grandma said that the Ji family has a presbytery, and the presbytery supports the saint. The status of a saint can be equal to that of the patriarch. The Saint was raised by the Presbyterian Church from an early age and had little contact with the outside world. She was almost a puppet in the hands of the Presbyterian Church, a tool used by the Presbyterian Church to check and balance the head of the Ji family. That has been the tradition of the Ji family for hundreds of years. The power of the Presbyterian Church reached its peak during the period of the previous generation of saints.

The woman in front of me who looked like a dirty old beggar... was an elder who had seen the peak of his power. Ji Wuyan could not convince himself to accept such a realization. She took a step slowly and saw that the other party was shivering even more fiercely, like a frightened bird unable to escape. Even though he selfishly refused to accept such a "truth", Ji Wuyan still hesitated and asked, "Fifth... elder?"

The other party trembled suddenly, and subconsciously wanted to turn around, but suddenly stopped, lying there, motionless, like a stone statue. Due to her movements, the tattered cotton coat slipped down, revealing the same ragged and thin clothes underneath, with neither color nor shape visible. She didn't make a sound, and Ji Wuyan didn't urge her. The only thing left in the cave was the whimpering sound of the wind at the entrance of the cave, low and like weeping.

Not long after, the other party seemed to be unable to maintain such a half-rising posture, and fell back to the straw mat without any strength. He laughed infatuatedly, and his laughter was as desolate as the hoarse whine of a trapped animal.

"Haha... I didn't expect that I would hear such a title in my lifetime..." She said, and then changed her words, "Girl, you have recognized the wrong person, you'd better leave here as soon as possible. Don't lose your life. .”

Ji Wuyan did not move, only looking down at this extremely thin figure with pity in his eyes, "He won't show up today. As soon as I made a little noise, you asked me cautiously who I was... It can be seen that you You knew early on that I couldn’t be him, right?”

But the other party laughed, sometimes laughing, sometimes sighing, like a madman, until she was tired of the tossing, she gasped and calmed down her breathing, and said slowly, "I don't know if he will come... He is a madman, he comes and goes at the same time. No definite number. But, if it were him, it wouldn't be just such a slight movement, with curses coming and going, and if he was angry in the meantime, he would also..." He finally swallowed the words that followed.

What else is there, it seems difficult to say.

The haggard old woman looked like she wouldn't survive the winter.

Although Ji Wuyan thought that people who dealt with Lin Yi would probably not be able to please him, he really didn't expect that it would reach this point. She moved her lips, hesitated for a while, and asked, "Do you regret it? You tried so hard to escape from that place where you could live a long life, escaped here, and ended up in this situation... Fifth Elder, do you regret it?"

The other party's head was turned away from Ji Wuyan, who seemed to be raising his head as if he was surprised, "You actually know all these things...you...who are you?" His voice was hoarse, and he shrank back after speaking. He stretched out his hand to pull up the tattered cotton coat.

On the exposed, wrinkled back of the hand, a new injury covered the old one. There was a scar deep enough to show the bone, and the flesh and blood rolled around, almost festering.

Ji Wuyan frowned, looked away, and said, "An old friend of the Ji family." She was not really an old friend. She was not yet born when this elder became famous. When she was born, Ji Wuyan There is no Presbyterian Church in the family anymore, and the Ji family is not an ancient family that hides from the world, but is just a giant businessman in Yunzhou. The grandmother said that she wanted to leave a clean Ji family to her granddaughter.

Just talking about this fifth elder, grandma still sighs. Come to think of it, in grandma's heart, these elders who are educated people to her deserve the word "old friends".

The other party was startled, but then she suddenly raised her head and laughed wildly. However, she was weak, and she was exhausted from laughing and lying on the straw mat, panting. She still had her back to Ji Wuyan, panting and smiling infatuatedly, "Baby Baby is not very old, and he tells lies without blinking an eye. If it were anyone else, he might have doubted it, but it's me... Since it's me... Old friend, why can you call an old woman "Fifth Elder?" Ji Wuyan was stunned, not understanding what the other party meant.

It seems like... something went wrong?

She remained discreetly silent.

But the other party suddenly asked, "You are... that Ji Wuyan, right?" The originally hoarse voice became hoarse and unpleasant because of the maniacal laughter just now, like a fish that has been left out of the water source for too long, and the words are testing. time, but with a sense of oppression from being in a high position for a long time. It was a very contradictory feeling, a poor old beggar covered in filth, yet speaking with the aura of a peerless master.

It was only at this moment that Ji Wuyan truly believed that the person in front of her was really the fifth elder of the Ji family who once held great power. Even though she fell into the quagmire at this moment, the things in her bones had not changed.

His identity was revealed suddenly, Ji Wuyan stood with his hands down, but Qingshan calmly took half a step forward, barely blocking Ji Wuyan's side.

He followed Shangguan Chu and had never been exposed to the affairs of the Ji family, let alone the secrets of the Ji family in the early years. He didn't know who the other party was, let alone who the fifth elder was, but since the other party knew the girl's identity, he was not a simple person... He was not a simple person, and he was an enemy rather than a friend, so he couldn't stay!

This is Qingshan’s principle of doing things.

But the other party laughed, and the laughter was very unpleasant and painful to the ears.

"The bastard told me that a woman named Ji Wuyan came to Yanjing City, and when she kept ruining his good deeds, I noticed this surname. I thought it was just a coincidence. After all, the surname Ji is not uncommon... ...I didn't expect that he was really from the Ji family. But, what about my old friend, Milk Baby... You are so loud, even at your age of not being weaned, you are worthy? Tell me, where did you find out? With such an old story, you rush to come here to get close to me? Just to... use me to target that bastard? "

The fifth elder's genealogy began to be laid out, but the tattered appearance was a bit nondescript.

Ji Wuyan found a place to lean on the mountain wall and looked at the other party's figure with the fire fold in Qingshan's hand. He didn't want to waste time talking to her here, so he introduced himself with a smile, "This junior is a branch of the Ji family. I just raised myself under the lap of the old lady, and when I heard her letter talking about the fifth elder, I thought of trying my luck at finding him..."

Before she finished speaking, the old woman who had never looked back at Ji Wuyan suddenly turned around and yelled in anger, "Fart! If she told you, how would you know that the fifth elder is a woman?! I have been pretending to be a man for most of my life, the Ji family Apart from that person, who else knows that I am a girl?!"

Ji Wuyan was shocked...