At night, the night sky is high in the sky, with stars and a bright moon.
At the corner of the alley, a woman walked out slowly.
At the other end of the alley, Liu Dahai kept rubbing his hands, looking at the big moon rising in the sky for no reason and feeling a little weird.
"How is it, did you get the news?"
In the empty night, even though the woman lowered her voice, her voice was still very recognizable. A burn scar was faintly visible on her white wrist, and there was a red scab around the wound.
This is Minsa.
Facing Min Sa's questioning, Liu Dahai looked around and nodded heavily when he saw that there was no one around.
"I got it."
"how?"
Minsa's eyes lit up, and she moved closer to Liu Dahai. Then she heard Liu Dahai whispering a few words in her ear.
The two separated and she nodded again
"Just as I thought."
He took out ten taels of silver from his pocket and threw it into Liu Dahai's hand.
"Well done, this is a reward for you."
After getting the silver, Liu Dahai nodded and bowed to Wen Sa and then ran away. Looking at his running figure, a woman in black slowly emerged from behind Wen Sa.
Because it was too dark at night, Liu Dahai did not see that there was someone behind Min Sa.
"Boss, can this Liu Dahai really be trusted? I've done some research, and he's known for being greedy..."
"It should be true."
Minsa frowned
"Last time, I put a slow-acting poison in the ginger soup for her. Later, I saw the maid take the bowl back, so there shouldn't be any problem.
"After drinking my poison, her body should be getting weaker day by day, so it's normal for Liu Dahai to tell me this now. Now that Xu is also injured and has gone out with Jing Yuan. The maidservant beside Princess Changle is also injured and is recuperating. She is alone in the inn, and those officers and soldiers are not a threat to her."
"But you're right to worry. I've always had a very strange feeling in my heart, but for a moment, I don't know what's wrong. I always feel that things seem too simple."
She sighed and shook her head, trying to get rid of the mess.
"There's no point in thinking so much. Let's repay the favor quickly and go back to Master."
The two people disappeared into the night again and slowly disappeared.
…
The inn was silent.
During the day, Xu Qingyi was taken away by Jingyuan and never came back. Gu Qingsheng was the only one in the entire inn, and the burning candles seemed to emit a cold light.
She was lying on the couch, reading a book seriously.
The moonlight outside shone through the window onto her snow-white inner garment, and her profile exuded a soft and tender white.
The sound of turning pages of a book was very loud in the room, and a quiet atmosphere was everywhere. Suddenly!
There was a very loud muffled sound coming from outside!
Gu Qingsheng raised his head and looked down the window. There was nothing in the empty street.
A faint fragrance came from below, which was like the aroma of candlelight in Luofo Temple.
She was a little surprised, closed the book, and murmured
"Who would worship Buddha in the middle of the night? That's really weird."
He reached out and closed the window without even looking at the alley to the side, where he saw the last glimpse of the soldiers being dragged in.
I blew out the candles on the table, and not even a trace of light disappeared from the room.
After a while, Gu Qingsheng on the couch began to breathe very evenly.
There was a sound of a door opening in the dark, a very obvious creaking sound.
There was a screen across the middle of the room, and through it one could see the figure lying under the quilt.
Min Sa held a short blade in her hand and slowly walked to the side of the couch. Below her was Gu Qingsheng's sleeping face.
Her brows were relaxed and she slept peacefully, completely unaware of the impending danger.
With a step, Minsa held the short blade in his hand horizontally in the air.
The blade illuminated by the moonlight was very dazzling, like a very sharp light, and below the blade was Gu Qingsheng's heart!
"The same thing again, if you die, come find me."
After saying this, her eyes flashed and the blade stabbed towards Gu Qingsheng's heart!
Everything happens in an instant!
Before Gu Qingsheng's eyes, the knife was only a millimeter away from his heart. The knife stopped firmly, and Min Sa couldn't move at all.
Gu Qingsheng slowly opened his eyes, feeling the coolness of a knife blade coming from his heart.
The gaze was cold, and in an instant it shifted to Minsa's face.
Zheng Xueyi was behind Minsa, one hand holding her shoulder to prevent her hand from moving down, and the other hand was across her neck, where the blade had already scratched her skin!
The blood was red, she swallowed her saliva, and glared at Zheng Xueyi behind her.
"you……"
"I didn't expect that."
As Gu Qingsheng said this, the knife in Minsa's hand was kicked to the ground by Zheng Xueyi with a clanging sound.
She felt a little pain and breathed a sigh of relief, but she couldn't move too much because danger was just around the corner.
The feeling of being a fellow human made Minsa realize in a second that the woman behind him could take his life at any time.
Gu Qingsheng smoothed his hair and slowly stood up, his eyes clear.
"You should have been intoxicated by my scent long ago and should be unconscious now! How could this be!"
"You mean, that smell I smelled when I opened the window?"
Gu Qingsheng blinked his eyes when he asked Wensa.
"It's useless."
"Including your bowl of ginger soup."
When mentioning ginger soup, Min Sa's whole body trembled, but she couldn't move at all because of Zheng Xueyi's grip. Gradually, there was some confusion and uncertainty in her eyes.
"You...what are you..."
"How should I know?"
Gu Qingsheng snorted coldly, and his eyes were like a bone-cutting knife reflected on Minsa.
"Ever since Bai Lu told me that a young monk wanted to help her, I thought it was very strange. At that time, the monks of Luofo Temple were meditating and chanting, so why would there be a monk cleaning?"
"Later, Master Jingyuan poured out my bowl of ginger soup for no apparent reason. I had a rough idea of what was going on. As for who poisoned me, I still don't know who it was."
"Later, when we met at Luofo Temple, Bailu and I were both covered in dust and tattered clothes. You recognized me immediately and attacked me, so you must have seen me before. That's when I started to wonder if you were the one who poisoned me. I've already investigated the effects of that poison. It makes people increasingly weak after a week. While the illness isn't fatal, it can leave people bedridden."
"so……"
There was surprise in Wensa's eyes.
Gu Qingsheng was sitting on the couch, bathed in moonlight, with a gorgeous and cold appearance. However, the aura he exuded made Wen Sa feel as if she was being strangled.
"So, that's why you guessed I was the one who poisoned you? And then you set this trap for me!"
She yelled at Gu Qingsheng, who shook his head.
“Not entirely.”
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