"Something happened to Miss Ning. You'd better

go over and take a look." Xiang Yi was so shocked when he heard this that he found out after asking again.

It turned out that yesterday afternoon, my sister Xiang Ning found a lost child at the door of her house. She was afraid that the child's family would be worried, so she took the child to find a way and sent the child home.

It was just that when she came back, it was already getting late. She couldn't see anything at night, so she could only rush home, but unexpectedly bumped into a few passing merchants.

Seeing that she was young, beautiful and alone, the merchants started teasing her and even extended their hands to her.

Xiang Ning was so frightened that she turned around and ran away. At first, the merchants chased her, but she ran further and further away, throwing them away.

Just running in such a panic, it became dark, she couldn't see the road, and she fell into the ditch.

The secret guards of the Tan family complained repeatedly.

"It's my subordinate who neglected his duty, it's his subordinate who neglected his duty... Miss Ning rarely goes out. My subordinate thought that nothing happened and went to eat. Unexpectedly, when he came back, he found out that Miss Ning was missing and that she was still a resident. The local nobleman pulled Miss Ning out of the ditch. The girl sprained her foot and had a few bruises. There were no other injuries, but she was indeed frightened. "

Xiang Yi heard that his sister was shocked . Danger, he lifted it up and let it go in one breath.

However, after Xiao Guan heard this, he called the secret guard aside with a cold face.

It happened that Tan Jian was about to pack his things and go to Boyun Academy. Xiang Yi mentioned the matter to him and said that he would go there with him.

Tan Jian and Yang Zhen were both surprised when they heard this, and Yang Zhen even said, "Sister-in-law, why not bring sister Ning to the house, so that she can be my companion."

Xiang Yi indeed had this idea. , nodded with her, said to go and take a look first, and then went to the county town near Bo Yun Academy with Tan Jian.

The county town was a little far away from the academy, so Xiang Yi didn't let Tan Jian accompany him. He sent him to the academy and went to the small courtyard where Xiang Yu and Xiang Ning rented.

When she arrived in front of the door, there were footsteps coming towards the door, and then the door opened with a creak, and an elderly woman walked out.

The old woman saw her and looked her up and down.

"Is this lady...?"

Xiang Yi remembered that the small courtyard where his younger siblings rented was adjacent to the courtyard where his classmates' widowed mother lived. It seemed that this elderly woman was Xiang Yi. The widowed mother lives with her classmate.

She gave her name, "...I am elder sister Ning Ning."

The old woman groaned, and while saying that she was the next door neighbor, she took another look at Xiang Yi.

"I'm sorry for my blindness, but I didn't expect that you and Miss Ning look very similar. The old lady didn't recognize her at first sight."

She said and looked at Xiang Yi in surprise.

"Speaking of which, you are indeed very similar to Brother Yu..."

Xiang Yi did not respond to this, but just smiled at her and saw that she was still holding a basket in her hand. Taking the bowl and chopsticks, he thanked her.

"Thank you for taking care of my little sister."

The old woman came back to her senses, said yes, and invited Xiang Yi in.

...

Xiang Ning's injuries were not too serious, but he looked really miserable. There were bruises and blood marks on his face, chin and forehead. The most important thing was that he sprained his foot and could not move around.

As soon as Xiang Yi mentioned taking her to Tan's house in the capital, she waved her hand.

"Don't worry, sister. Nothing serious happened to me. It was just an accident. I will definitely not wander around in the future."

She was already in poor health and suffered from night blindness. She could not go out more than once a year.

When Xiang Yu was in Qingzhou Academy before, he could take her out for a walk. Now that Xiang Yu only returns home every few days, she can only stay in the courtyard and not go out.

Xiang Yi still wanted to take her to the capital, "You live here alone, how can sister feel relieved?"

But Xiang Ning thought about it for a while, and still said, "Why don't we wait until brother Yu Xiu Mu comes back, otherwise he will come back Isn't the house going to be in vain?"

Xiang Yi glanced at his sister, but saw her looking at her with a smile.

"Aren't my sister and the Tan family getting better and better? My sister never mentioned the Tan family before."

Xiang Yi had indeed never mentioned the Tan family before, and Xiang Yu and Xiang Ning had almost never been to the Tan family's mansion in Qingkan . .

Xiang Yi was looked at by his sister with a smile. He cleared his throat uncomfortably and glanced at her.

"What do you want to hear from me?"

Xiang Ning covered her mouth and snickered, and Xiang Yi's face heated up from her laughter.

Fortunately, she remembered the next thing again.

"Uncle Tan also sent secret guards to protect me. I will make a special trip to thank him the next day. But A Yu is a vengeful person and may not be willing to accept his favor."

Doesn't Xiang Yi know what his younger brother's temperament is?

She could only smile and sigh. She still hadn't sorted out her affairs with that uncle, let alone Xiang Yu.

However, Xiang Yi didn't say anything more about taking Xiang Ning to Beijing immediately.

"I'll stay here for the next few days and wait until Brother Yu comes back."

Jingcheng.

In the evening, Tan Ting and his colleagues had a drink. When they came out of the restaurant and saw Zhengji, they were still swaying.

Zhengji did not dare to let the uncle ride a horse by himself, so he called a carriage and took the uncle home.

Tan Ting took a nap on the carriage for a while, and when he got home, he remembered his wife's instructions before going out in the morning, and couldn't help but cheer up.

He asked Zhengji while walking towards the main courtyard.

"Do I look like I've had too much to drink?"

Zhengji glanced at his uncle.

"Sir, it looks a bit like it."

Tan Ting was speechless for a while, so he had to pinch his eyebrows to make himself look better. He was already at the entrance of the main courtyard.

He asked again in a low voice.

"I wonder if Madam will be angry?"

I wondered in my mind, thinking of how she took the initiative to hold his hand on the porch last night, and told him to drink less in the morning...he drank a little now. If it's too much, she might be a little angry with him, but she probably won't ignore him.

The alcohol makes people feel dazed and confused.

The corners of Tan Ting's mouth curled up more and more.

But Zhengji answered his question.

"No, madam won't be angry."

"No?" Tan Ting stopped, turned and frowned at Zhengji.

Masaki was startled by this look, but he told the truth.

"Back to the uncle, my wife is not at home today."

"Huh?"

Tan Ting turned around and looked at the main room. The room was quiet and dark. He quickly walked into the room. There was no trace of deserted space in the room. Warm.

Tan Ting was stunned and was mostly awake from the wine.

"Where's Madam?"

It's so late, why isn't my wife at home?

Masaki then told the story.

"...Madam stayed to take care of Miss Ning. She said she would come back in a few days."

"How about that?" Tan Ting frowned and told Zhengji, "Go there tomorrow and bring Madam and Ning together." The girls are all coming to the house. "

Tan Ting is now a serious official, and except for Xiu Mu, he has to go to the Yamen. His wife is not at home, so he wants to pick her up in person, but the city gate is closed now, so he can only wash it by himself. Go to sleep.

Who would have thought that the next day, Tan Ting went home after leaving the Yamen. When he came home and asked, his wife had not come back yet.

"What's the reason for this?"

Zhengji ran back and forth, and he just came back not long ago.

"I want to tell you that Miss Ning injured her foot and is inconvenient to move. Madam also said that she will wait until the young master takes a rest and discuss it with him."

After hearing this, Tan Ting glanced in the direction of Bo Yun Academy, but only saw her own house. of the four-cornered courtyard.

He was silent for a long time and then remembered something. He asked an experienced doctor to see Xiang Ning's foot injury and returned to the room alone.

The West Cross Courtyard is also sparser than usual.

Tan Ting heard that since Tan Jian went to the academy, his siblings have been in a state of uneasiness. They send letters back and forth every day, missing their hopeless younger brother.

It was also the wife that their father had chosen for their brother before his death, but his wife was calm and relaxed, with no intention of coming back at all.

Tan Ting thought about Xiang Yi's temperament and decided to let it go.

Could it be that he could have sex with her because of this? How is that different from the younger brother who has no future?

There was no one in the room, so he had to go to the study to sort out some things.

Since tomorrow was the Spring Festival, he also ordered people to make arrangements for the Tan clan members who came to Beijing to participate in the Spring Festival. After the exam, they would be picked up early to rest and wait for the results to be released.

Several leading candidates who had caused trouble in Gyeonggi Province, He Guanfu and others, also sent a message, saying that they wanted to visit him after the exam, and Tan Ting naturally agreed.

This is how the common people should be, and this Spring Festival is an opportunity. The prince also wants to use this to reassure the scholars from poor families. The imperial court has not abandoned them, and the imperial examination has always left a path to success for them.

But it is a pity that the person who instigated the trouble and wanted to assassinate Tan Ting has not been found yet, and there are no clues about his father's old affairs for a while.

Tan Ting flipped through the mansion papers, read for a while, and then returned to his room.

He looked at the half empty bed, sighed, and fell asleep.

Unexpectedly, I didn't sleep well this time.

The dream was messy.

Suddenly, by the riverside of Qingkan's hometown, Chen's soldiers and horses were running wildly. He only had a letter of divorce in his hand but could not find anyone.

Suddenly, he arrived at Lingshui where there was sudden trouble, and all the people rushed up. He turned around and couldn't see the people around him, but only saw the flames shooting into the sky.

Suddenly the surroundings suddenly became quiet. It was damp and suffocating. It was the library of the Lin Mansion. He searched all the way down from the third floor and finally saw his wife. He saw her standing with her aunt. Seeing him coming, He just looked back at him, turned around and walked out the door.

He was startled and immediately chased her out, but it was dark outside and she left completely without any trace.

"Yizhen!"

Tan Ting suddenly opened his eyes. Moonlight poured in from the window. He shook for a moment and realized that he had just been dreaming.

He was stunned for a moment, then got out of bed, lit a lamp, and poured himself a glass of water.

Picking up the water glass, she couldn't help but think of the night after they returned from the Spring Banquet. She, who was usually so tired that she lay on his shoulder, got up in the middle of the night and went outside to enjoy the breeze. She sat alone on the porch and didn't know what she was thinking. . . .

The night was already deep, and the candlelight lit by Tan Ting flickered.

The maid on night duty saw the light and walked to the door.

"Master, are you awake? Do you want some tea?"

Tan Ting regained his composure after being asked this question.

He said no, let the maid go down, and then rubbed the center of his brow.

It was just a dream, and now he was thinking too much about it.

He had to go to the Yamen tomorrow, so Tan Ting didn't waste any more time, blew out the candles and went back to the bedside.

His eyes fell on the inside of the bed, which half was empty. Tan Ting pursed his lips and whispered, not knowing who he was talking to.

"Why don't you go home quickly..."

The next day, Xiang Yi sneezed several times when he woke up early.

"Sister, won't you catch a cold?" Xiang Ning asked her.

Xiang Yi didn't feel any discomfort, but he couldn't help but think of the old man in Beijing.

She hadn't been at home these days, so she didn't know how he was doing...

She glanced outside the door a few times, but she didn't expect someone to come to the door not long after.

She looked over and saw that Zhengji was here again.

Xiang Yi's eyes brightened slightly and he tilted his head and asked Zhengji.

"Why did the uncle ask you to come here again? Didn't I say I would go back in a few days?"

Zhengji could only say, "The uncle was thinking about his wife and Miss Ning's foot injury, so he asked me to invite a doctor from Beijing. "

Xiang Yi's eyes flashed with soft light more and more, and there was a smile on the corner of his mouth. Xiang Ning, who was sitting next to him, was stunned for a while.

This old doctor had trained for two years with the imperial physician at the Imperial Hospital, and his medical skills were quite superb.

He first looked at Xiang Ning's foot injuries and various abrasions, then checked her pulse, and then asked in surprise.

"The girl has some night blindness?"

Xiang Ning said yes, and Xiang Yi asked along the way, "Do you have a way to cure this blindness? This fall was caused by the inconvenience of blindness.

" The doctor checked Xiang Ning's pulse again, looked at her eyes and complexion, and then asked Xiang Yi to take a look as well.

Xiang Yi used to see a doctor for his sister and asked about this disease, but there was no improvement after repeated treatments.

This time the old doctor even watched her, and Xiang Yi felt that it was unusual.

But after the old doctor finished diagnosing Xiang Yi, he stroked his beard and said nothing for a long time. He asked a few questions about the situation of everyone in the Xiang family. He was stunned for a while when he heard that Xiang Yu, a compatriot from the same mother, and Xiang's parents did not have this disease.

Xiang Ning blinked, "Is it because my disease is difficult to cure? In fact, as long as I don't go out at night, I'll be fine."

The doctor still didn't say anything, but Xiang Yi thought of something, his eyelids twitched, and he said carelessly, "Please The doctor went outside to talk to no one.

"Do you have any concerns?"

The old doctor glanced at her, then looked at the people around her, and then said.

"To be honest, madam, the second girl's disease is not an ordinary night blindness. I'm afraid it was a disease brought by her mother in her womb. In other words, there must be someone in the second girl's ancestors and parents who had this disease."

But everyone in the Xiang family came to Xiang. None of Yi's ancestors suffered from night blindness.

Xiang Yi was silent for a moment as he said these words.

She didn't say much, but just asked, "I wonder if night blindness, which has been passed down from our ancestors, can be cured?"

The doctor said with some difficulty, "I have never seen this disease, but I heard that it is common in one place. I still need to go back to Beijing and ask again.”

Xiang Yi nodded, glanced at Xiang Ning's room, then looked back, and whispered to the old doctor.

"My little sister, I have to trouble you to tell anyone about this illness."

The old doctor often walked around the wealthy houses in the capital. How come he didn't know the truth here, so he kept saying yes.

"Don't worry, madam, this old man must be tight-lipped."

The old doctor left a prescription and ointment and left. Xiang Ning also comforted Xiang Yi, "It's just that it can't be cured. Sister, don't worry about it."

Xiang Yi smiled at her, Xiang Ning But he remembered something again, and said after counting the days.

"Brother Yu will be back in two days. Sister, please don't tell him that I panicked and fell into the ditch because I was harassed by the merchants. Otherwise, he will definitely seek someone else's bad luck again."

Those merchants have been tied to the Yamen. Having settled the matter, Xiang Ning didn't want to make the matter any bigger.

Xiang Yi knew what she meant and his brother's temper, but inexplicably, some thoughts passed through his mind.

She nodded slightly and said okay.

"It's okay not to let Brother Yu know."

Bo Yun Academy.

On the second day after Tan Jian entered school, he met his half-brother.

"Ah, brother Yu!"

Xiang Yu was reading at the stone table under the bamboo forest. When he saw Tan Jian, he didn't really want to talk to him, so he just bowed.

Pian Tan Jian came over and patted him on the shoulder.

"Don't worry, your sister is fine. You can just study here with peace of mind."

Xiang Yu glared after hearing this.

"What did your Tan family do to my eldest sister again?!"

As soon as he glared, Tan Jian stepped back in fright.

"No, no, we didn't do anything to my sister-in-law. I, I'm talking about your second sister..." When

he said this, Xiang Yu's eyes widened even more.

"Ning Ning?! What's wrong with Ning Ning?!"