Chapter 328: Happy in vain

Fortunately, there was no one coming and going here to sweep the floor. The fallen autumn leaves had piled up thickly against the wall. Hu Xiner gritted her teeth and prepared to jump down.

"We're already here, there's no way we're going back home." She encouraged herself in her heart.

Then she covered her belly, closed her eyes and jumped, praying silently: "Baby, don't be afraid, it's just a light jump! You will be fine."

However, the expected pain of falling to the ground did not happen. After a brief feeling of weightlessness, she fell into a slightly cool but very safe embrace and landed safely on the ground.

Hu Xin'er patted her heart and opened her eyes with a guilty and surprised look: "Mu Qing, why are you here..."

However, what caught my eye was a handsome face that I hadn't seen for a long time.

It turned out to be Yin Li!

At this time, he tied his white hair into a silver crown. If ordinary people saw it, they would probably think they had met some ghost or god.

Hu Xiner didn't expect it was him and was stunned for a moment.

Yin Li's usual cynical expression disappeared, and her eyes were filled with anger: "You stupid girl, are you trying to kill yourself? You dare to jump off such a high wall while pregnant?"

"Oh, isn't it all right?" Hu Xin'er came back to her senses and said with a smile. "Okay, put me down quickly, I have something important to do."

Seeing that she didn't repent, Yin Li said angrily, "Even if you don't think about yourself, you should think about the child, right? I've never seen a woman as stupid as you!"

"Hey, you keep attacking me personally. That's too much!" Hu Xin'er struggled to get off the ground. "The fallen leaves are so thick down here, it won't matter even if I jump."

Yin Li put her on the ground, looked her over several times, and after making sure she was safe, he said in a very arrogant tone: "With your body, if it weren't for me, the Pavilion Master, you would have turned into a meat pie long ago!"

Hu Xin'er rolled her eyes: "Aren't you exaggerating too much?"

Yin Li's fingertips sent out a few strong gusts of wind, which blew away the thick fallen leaves, and the scattered bamboo branches and a small bamboo shoot inside were immediately exposed.

Hu Xin'er was a little scared: "Thank you."

If Yin Li hadn't caught her, she would have fallen into the bamboo leaves and not only would she have sprained her ankle, but she would also have been pricked in the butt by the bamboo shoots. That would have been too embarrassing.

This bamboo forest is very dense because no one has taken care of it for a long time.

Although it was already autumn, most of the bamboo leaves were still emerald green. A slightly yellow leaf swirled and fell on the top of Hu Xin'er's head, but she was completely unaware of it. She only felt an itch on the tip of her nose and sneezed.

Yin Li reached out her hand as if possessed by a ghost, picked up the leaf, and said softly, "Next time, no matter what happens, you must protect yourself first. Got it?"

Hu Xin'er stared at him blankly, her face flushed.

I was angry.

"Okay, I treat you as a friend, and you actually want to be my dad!" She stepped hard on Yin Li's foot, "Please don't lecture me in such a daddy tone!"

Yin Li was caught off guard and jumped up, hugging her knees: "You little bitch, I'm clearly..."

"I don't care what you think, I care what I think." Hu Xin'er crossed her arms and said angrily, "I haven't seen you for a few days. Why do you become more annoying?"

Yin Li was so angry that his teeth were itching, but just when Hu Xiner was ready to quarrel with him, he laughed inexplicably again.

A string of ellipsis appeared in Hu Xin'er's head, and she asked in surprise, "Let's get back to the topic. Why are you here?"

Yin Li pulled out a sandalwood fan and waved it with a smile: "Of course I felt that some unlucky guy was in danger, so I showed mercy and extended a helping hand~"

Hu Xin'er wanted to retort, but suddenly remembered something and quickly took out the key from her arms: "By the way, did you give me this key secretly?"

Yin Li looked confused: "What key?"

"You really don't know? But who else except you would do such a wicked thing?" Hu Xiner frowned slightly. If it really wasn't Yin Li, things would be too troublesome.

Yin Li closed her fan and knocked her on the head: "What happened?"

"Well, someone gave me this key and said that the secret of the Lu family's blood feud is in the Liu family's basement." Hu Xiner briefly recounted the cause of the incident.

Yin Li suddenly realized: "Oh! So this is why you came to the Liu family?"

"Yes," Hu Xin'er said with some distress, "The situation is getting more and more complicated. I always feel like I'm being led by the nose."

As soon as she finished speaking, she saw Yin Li's eyes looking at her as if she was an idiot: "You knew it was someone else's trap, but you still came here alone? That's the Lu family's business, not yours."

Hu Xin'er pursed her lips and said, "Forget it. I won't tell you this. You won't understand even if I tell you."

Time was urgent, so she walked out of the bamboo forest, but someone grabbed her sleeve.

She turned around and saw a flash of complex emotions in Yin Li's eyes that she hadn't had time to hide. "What if it's dangerous there? Is the Lu family really that important to you?"

Hu Xin'er said unhappily, "I wasn't afraid at all, but now that you've said that, I actually think there might be danger inside. You shouldn't... just stand by and watch someone die, right?"

Although the last sentence was a question, it was expressed in an affirmative tone.

She wanted to pull back her sleeve, but Yin Li stubbornly held on to it tightly and refused to let go.

"What are you doing?" Hu Xiner's patience was almost exhausted.

Yin Li hesitated for a rare moment and said softly, "You and Lu Yunjue have already done that, why are you still going through so much trouble?"

"What?!" Hu Xin'er almost yelled this, but in order not to alarm others, she lowered her voice.

Yin Li looked at her fierce look, feeling both bewildered and a little aggrieved: "Why are you always so fierce? No wonder Lu Yunjue wants to divorce you!"

Hu Xiner stared and said, "I'm not divorced. I just came here to check the Liu family's basement!"

Yin Li threw away her sleeves and said in disbelief, "Then my happiness was in vain?"

Hu Xiner: ...

Well, she was wondering why Yin Li was acting weird today, and it turns out it was because of this reason!

She asked suspiciously, "Why do you want me to divorce my husband so much? You were the one who took out that key to sow discord between us, weren't you?"

Yin Li gritted his teeth and said, "I, the Pavilion Master, will never do such a mysterious thing! If I could help you, I would not give you a broken key and let you take the risk. Instead, I would find it and give it to you directly."

He used to be so arrogant, but now he looked listless, and seemed to be feeling a little aggrieved and jealous.

At this moment, Hu Xiner suddenly understood something, and even the wind in the bamboo forest became silent.