Chapter 494 A Ling and God's Will

January 14th, three days before departure for Dongyan.

Yun Chen didn’t know what Yan Shijiu was busy with recently as he was nowhere to be seen all day long.

Wan Chen and the guards were so busy that whenever they passed by her, they would just bow and leave in a hurry.

This left Yun Chen with no chance to talk to Yan Shijiu.

Ever since receiving the news last night that Huo Gannian and Yun Chen had agreed to elope, he had been wondering what to do.

Should I go alone, or take Xiaoyueer and Lan Qian with me?

If he wanted to take the Cloud-Swallowing Beast and the Wolf-Slaying Colt with him, he would have to take the sword as well. The Taiping Sword and the Hidden Moon Sword had been hanging in the front hall, used as decorations by Yan Shijiu. What excuse could he use to take them down?

She began to hesitate, whether she should tell Yan Shijiu everything and ask Yan Shijiu to help her elope?

For her, considering Yan Shijiu's help and care for her, and their long-standing friendship, Yan Shijiu would definitely be willing to help.

But Yan Shijiu would be implicated again. If Nan Li Jun found out that she had escaped, he would probably be furious and would definitely vent his anger on Yan Shijiu. What if that affected his favor?

After all, in Yun Chen's opinion, Yan Shijiu worked very hard and it was not easy for him to become Nan Lijun's male favorite.

Thinking of this, Yun Chen decided not to tell Yan Shijiu. He should take responsibility for his own actions and not implicate his friends.

When escaping, you don't have to take anything with you. It's easiest to run alone. Carrying only a sword and a horse will give you the highest chance of success.

As for Lan Qian and Xiao Yue'er, after she escapes, just write a letter to ask Yan Shijiu to let them go home.

But in this case, she must find an "accomplice" who can help her elope successfully.

Her idea was to wait for the caravan to set off and travel for a whole day. At night, she could use the excuse of going to the bathroom to leave the caravan and quietly disappear from everyone's sight.

During this period, someone had to untie the Swallowing Cloud Beast from the caravan, bring it out, lead the horse, hold the Taiping Sword, and wait for her in a secluded place nearby.

Otherwise, Yun Chen only relied on his legs and light skills, and if Huo Gannian couldn't get a horse, he wouldn't be able to run for a few days.

After she rode away at full speed, this man stayed where he was and found excuses to delay, buying her more time to escape.

Then who should I find as my accomplice?

In the Yan Mansion, her confidants are only Lan Qian and Xiao Yue'er. The two girls are weak in character and may not be able to take on such an important task.

Moreover, if Lord Nanli investigates and punishes them, the two maids might lose their lives.

In this case, it is safer to use Yan Shijiu. If he is implicated again, at most he will fall out of favor, but he will not be killed.

Okay, back again.

Yun Chen was upset. If all else failed, he might as well just go all out and fight his way out of Yan's residence single-handedly, relying on his martial arts prowess, without dragging anyone down?

But how could she be so cruel as to fight against the imperial guards who were supervising her and the guards of Yan Mansion?

Everyone’s life is a life, and they are just doing their duty. Why does she kill her compatriots indiscriminately?

Yun Chen thought over and over again in his mind, hesitating, not knowing how to choose.

Finally, she was so exhausted that she chose the stupidest and most helpless method -

Make the decision by flipping a coin.

If the answer is positive, she will go to Yan Shijiu and confess her intention to elope with Huo Gannian, asking Yan Shijiu for help;

If the situation turned out badly, she would hide it from Yan Shijiu and ask Lan Qian and Xiao Yue'er for help. When she escaped, she knocked both maids unconscious and pretended that her escape had nothing to do with them.

If the silver coin appeared upright in the least likely and most unlikely way, she would rush out of the mansion alone, even if it meant injuring or killing the imperial guards or the Yan Mansion guards.

In fact, when you think about it, the option of choosing one of three is just choosing one of two.

How could a silver coin fall to the ground upright?

Yun Chen has never been a person who kills innocent people. In her eyes, the life of one person is as important as the lives of ten thousand people.

She tossed the silver coin high into the air. With a pleasant "ding" sound, the silvery luster spun and shone in the air, and finally landed on the ground with a tumble.

It rolled down to the stone bench in the courtyard and stopped upright against the leg of the bench.

Her eyes widened and she immediately said, "No, no, that doesn't count!" Then she threw the silver coin into the air again.

This time, she threw it high and hard, and the silver coin deflected and flew towards the side hall where A Ling was, making a clanging sound all the way and jumped into A Ling's iron cage.

Before Yun Chen could see clearly whether the silver coin was front or back, A Ling lowered her head and swallowed the silver coin.

"Hey, hey, hey, give it back to me!" Yun Chen subconsciously went forward to grab it, opened the cage and got in, then sat on A Ling's seven inches and forced its mouth open.

Ah Ling shook his head in pain and had to open his mouth. The silver coin was stuck in the folds of the snake's jaw.

It's actually standing upright!

Yun Chen was a little nervous now, and a layer of white sweat appeared on his neck.

She took out the silver coin, rubbed it on her boots, and looked at Aling.

The man and the python looked at each other stupidly, and then focused their attention on the small silver coin.

Yun Chen swallowed his saliva, his palms sweating a little:

"This is really weird! Let's throw it one last time and see what happens!"

She threw the silver coin high into the air for the third time.

At the moment she threw it out, she couldn't imagine how terrifying it would be if the silver coin was still upright this time.

There's no such probability of the universe being destroyed, right?

Her eyes followed the silver coin closely, and just when it was about to hit the ground, A Ling beside her suddenly rushed over for some reason and gently pushed the silver coin with his snake head, and it flew sideways again.

Yun Chen cursed and hurried after her, and A Ling also slipped out through the small door she came in through.

The man and the python wandered around the yard for most of the day, and finally came to the door of the study.

Yun Chen lay on the ground and looked inside through the crack in the door. He could vaguely see a little reflection.

She pushed the door open and looked, only to find that the study was deserted and many books were missing.

The remaining items were randomly divided into seven or eight piles and stacked in the corners of the wall, looking as if they were about to be burned.

In addition, there is a faint smell of pine oil in the air. You can't smell it when you stand outside the study, but once you come in, the smell becomes stronger the further you go inside.

Ever since Yun Chen caused such a shocking "disaster" in Yan Shijiu's study, she has never dared to step into here again.

One is that he was afraid of getting into trouble again, and the other is that he was wary of the aphrodisiac and powder that Yan Shijiu had collected for many years.

This time when I came in, the study was deserted, very different from before.

Yun Chen was about to find the silver coin and go out, but he saw A Ling suddenly go crazy. He pressed his huge black body against the wall, moved upwards little by little, and crawled towards a decorative snake head on the top of the beam.

Yun Chen looked around the beams and discovered that the four corners of the roof were all decorated with copper-cast snake heads.

A Ling had apparently woken up from hibernation, and in the spring, the mating season, she wrapped her arms around the bronze snake's head one by one.

Yun Chen was speechless and called out to it:

"Stop playing around, that's fake! Is your eyesight not working? You can't have a baby like that!"

A Ling had no intention of paying any attention to Yun Chen. After causing trouble for three snake heads, she slowly crawled to the last fourth snake head.

Looking at the narrow and deep beams, only a snake like Ah Ling could climb up there. Yun Chen couldn't help but sigh:

"Forget about humans. Look, animals are working so hard to reproduce. Why shouldn't I elope?"

After finishing his nonsense, Yun Chen rolled up his sleeves and prepared to go forward to catch A Ling, but he saw that the bronze snake's head suddenly tilted slightly under A Ling's strong entanglement, and then with a "click", a secret door appeared behind the heavy bookshelves, and a deep and terrifying black crack appeared.

"A Ling, you are so filial to Yan Shijiu. You have exposed all his secrets!"

Yun Chen gave A Ling a thumbs up, then tiptoed to the study door and glanced around secretly.

Seeing that there was no one in the yard, Yun Chen chuckled and gently closed the door.