Chapter 26 Jinjiang exclusive authorization first release 6 Bathing…………
Two days later, it was Lu Qin's mother's birthday.
Yan Yi got up early, washed up, changed into festive clothes, and prepared to go out.
Xiaoli's demonic power had not yet fully recovered, so Yan Yi had no choice but to keep her in the room and continue to heal her using the method taught by the old witch doctor.
It rained lightly last night, and the sky cleared up after the rain, and it was as clear as blue.
Yan Yi was holding an exquisitely crafted incense box with a red background and gold decoration. He slowly opened the door and walked out.
When he arrived at the gate of the mansion, he saw Wen Huoran standing with his back to his head and his hands behind his back, explaining something to several guards from the Demon Realm.
After the solemn-looking guards received the order and left, Yan Yi slowly walked forward.
"Your Majesty, good morning!"
Wen Huoran turned around and looked at her intently, "Where are you going?"
Yan Yi shook the incense box in his hand and said truthfully, "It's Lu Qin's mother's birthday, I'm going to celebrate it."
Wen Huoran: "Do you need me to send someone to arrange a carriage to take you there?"
"Your Majesty, there's no need to trouble you," Yan Yi said softly. "Lu Qin's residence is quite close to ours. It won't take more than a quarter of an hour to walk. I just need a break to relax."
Wen Huiran nodded slightly and continued to remind others, "Be careful and come back soon."
"Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty." She smiled slightly and waved at the villain. "Your Majesty, I'm leaving now!"
Wen Huoran stood alone, lost in thought as he stared at the receding figure. A cool breeze brushed his face, and an indescribable loneliness gradually welled up in his heart.
When I walked to the gate of Lu Qin's house, I happened to see Lu Qin and her mother waiting at the door to welcome guests.
Yan Yi quickened her pace and walked forward. After exchanging greetings, she handed the incense box in her hand to Lu Qin's mother. She glanced at the other person and saw that she was wearing a pair of jade earrings in the shape of teardrops.
She was always generous with her compliments and immediately said that the earrings were very beautiful and unique, and suited Lu Qin's mother very well.
Lu Qin's mother was so happy that she couldn't stop smiling, saying that it was Lu Qin who asked someone to make it.
Hearing this, Yan Yi was quite surprised.
When they met today, Lu Qin treated her as warmly and friendly as ever, and did not treat her coldly because of her previous indifference.
Yan Yi felt a little embarrassed.
A few days ago, she had been worried that Lu Qin would pester her to borrow the red crystal, so she had deliberately avoided her. Now it seemed that she had been worrying too much, always assuming the worst of others.
Perhaps Lu Qin really borrowed the red crystal pendant as a reference to create a pair of similar earrings for her mother.
Thinking of this, Yan Yi gradually felt relieved.
There weren't many people celebrating the birthday, only about a dozen or so. Yan Yi stayed for lunch, and after having some tea, he said goodbye and left.
The afternoon sun was warm on people's bodies, and Yan Yi felt drowsy while walking on the road.
Suddenly, there was a burst of chirping noise not far away. Yan Yi looked in the direction of the sound. On one side of the road was a dense jungle, and on the other side was a shimmering fish pond.
More than ten shirtless young men climbed out of the fish pond one after another and ran towards her.
Yan Yi quickly moved to the side of the road, fearing that the other party would play around too much and accidentally push him into the water.
The sounds of fighting gradually approached, and suddenly, the crowd was in front of him. Yan Yi stood still by the roadside, waiting for the group of young people rushing by.
One of them suddenly stopped in front of her and said something awkward, "Sister, I think we've met somewhere before."
As soon as he finished speaking, the others started screaming and cheering, like a group of monkeys free in a zoo.
Yan Yi pursed his lips and couldn't help muttering, it's really unlucky that he met a naughty kid even after traveling into a book.
She dodged to the side and said coldly, "You've got the wrong person."
When the leading young man saw that she was about to leave, he stepped in front of her and waved his hand, signaling the other ten or so people to surround Yan Yi and block her way.
Yan Yi took a deep breath, looked up at the young man in the lead, and asked calmly, "What's the matter?"
"Make friends."
Yan Yi was furious and cursed these lazy kids in his heart no less than eight hundred times, but he didn't dare to take any action.
Traveling alone in an unfamiliar place, she was just an ordinary person, powerless and no match for the leader of the naughty kids, let alone a small group of more than ten members.
"No need." Yan Yi said patiently, and as she spoke, she tried to squeeze out from the gap beside the leader of the naughty kids.
Perhaps this action angered the other party, or perhaps he had never intended to let Yan Yi leave from the beginning.
"Stop her!" The leader of the naughty kids suddenly shouted and pushed her shoulder hard.
Yan Yi staggered and lost his balance, and was immediately thrown into the fish pond on the side of the road.
Fortunately, it was a summer afternoon, and the water wasn't too cold. Yan Yi choked on the water several times and swam hard towards the shore.
The naughty kids gathered on the shore, pointing and yelling at her, "Wow, you can swim too!"
"It seems she is not a good person, we can't let her off easily!"
"Stop messing around and go back to report!"
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There was a lot of noise and Yan Yi swam to the shore, dripping wet. Just as she was about to climb ashore, the group of young people with bad behavior swarmed over and blocked her way again.
The sun was very strong and his clothes were wet and stuck to his body, making him feel very uncomfortable. Yan Yi clung to the rocks on the shore with both hands and felt that he was about to lose strength.
"What exactly do you want to do?" She had no intention of angering the other party and tried her best to sound kinder.
"us--"
Before he finished speaking, a female voice came from somewhere, "What are you doing?"
Everyone turned around and saw a tall young woman walking quickly towards them.
It's Deer Scutellaria baicalensis.
Yan Yi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"Another one!"
Someone blew a whistle, and the naughty kids started screaming again.
It seems like some kind of incompletely evolved mutant species, a genetically mutated alien.
Without waiting for them to attack, Lu Qin used her magic to knock the group of naughty children to the ground, causing them to convulse. The people who had just been lawless were immediately terrified and howled like ghosts and wolves, rolling and crawling on the ground.
But in the blink of an eye, they all disappeared.
Lu Qin reached out and pulled Yan Yi ashore, then took off her coat and put it on her, and asked with concern: "Miss Yan, how did you get involved with these things?"
Yan Yi wiped the fishy water stains off his face and said truthfully, "They were bathing in the fish pond. I ran into them just as I walked here."
Lu Qin: "Are you scared?"
Yan Yi nodded, his voice trembling, "Thank you, Lu Qin. If you hadn't arrived in time, who knows what the consequences would have been."
"You left in a hurry, so my mother asked me to bring this to you." Lu Qin helped her straighten her wrinkled collar and then handed her a food box. "This is the mung bean cake my mother made herself."
"Thank you, Lu Qin, thank you!" Yan Yi took the food box and thanked them repeatedly.
Lu Qin smiled and waved her hand, then said, "I'm worried about you like this. I'll take you back."
Yan Yi: "No need. Your family is busy, go back and accompany your mother. They were scared by you just now, they probably won't come back."
Lu Qin gnashed his teeth, his eyes full of contempt, "What a bunch of filth! If I run into them again, I'll kill them straight away."
As if realizing something, her expression softened and she asked softly, "Miss Yan, are you really okay?"
Yan Yi gathered his clothes and said, "It's okay, I've recovered. This place is not far from the mansion, you can go back!"
Lu Qin hesitated for a moment, then nodded, turned and left.
Encountering an unexpected disaster, Yan Yi ran as fast as he could, and ran to the gate of the mansion in fear. He stopped and held on to the wall to catch his breath.
Before she could catch her breath, she heard hurried footsteps behind her. Her whole body stiffened and her heart was in her throat.
Yan Yi suddenly turned around and almost cried out, "Your Majesty, you scared me to death!"
Wen Huiran quickly stepped forward and put his hands on her shoulders, "What happened?"
"I—accidentally fell into the fish pond."
Wen Huoran hurriedly took off his outer robe and put it on her shoulders, then walked inside with her in his arms, "Let's go back to the house first."
Back in the study, Yan Yi gradually calmed down, and then took off his outer robe and held it in his arms, "Your Majesty, I will return the clothes to you after washing them."
Seeing her soaking wet and in such a miserable state, Wen Xuran frowned slightly, his eyes full of pity, and then ordered, "Go take a shower first."
Yan Yi gathered the hair sticking to his cheeks and couldn't help shivering.
When she was getting dressed after taking a shower, she reached out and felt around her collarbone, only to be shocked to find that her neck was empty. The thin hemp rope that had held the red crystal pendant was long gone, and the red crystal was nowhere to be found either.
Yan Yi immediately panicked, his breathing became rapid, and he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.
She quickly stood up and searched carefully among the pile of clothes she had just taken off. She picked them up and shook them, but there was nothing there except the residual warmth on the clothes.
The red crystal is lost.
Yan Yi hurriedly put on his clothes and ran out of the room, looking at the villain in panic, "Your Majesty, have you seen my pendant?"
"No." Wen Huiran sat at the desk and immediately stood up when he heard this. "The pendant is missing?"
Yan Yi nodded, and said with a tearful voice, "Not in the room."
Wen Huoran: "When I put the clothes on you, I didn't see the pendant. Where did you fall into the water? Maybe you fell into it."
Hearing this, Yan Yi nodded slowly, feeling that the villain's words made a lot of sense. She had not yet told him in detail why she fell into the water and how she was rescued.
Now he had no choice but to tell the villain the details of the accident. Wen Huoran clasped the edge of the table tightly with one hand, his knuckles turning white, and his expression darkened.
"Take me to have a look. If it really fell into the fish pond, it can still be found."
A glimmer of hope gradually rose in Yan Yi's heart, and he hurriedly pulled the villain towards the fish pond where he fell into the water.
It was dusk and the afterglow filled the sky.
Yan Yi stood anxiously behind the villain, full of anticipation, watching him use magic to track the red crystal.
However, things went against one's wishes. In the huge fish pond, apart from the messy aquatic plants and smelly water, there was no trace of the red crystal.
"There's no running water in this fish pond, so the pendant couldn't have been washed away." Wen Huoran stopped what he was doing and turned his head to look at her. "Think about it again. Could it be that it was lost somewhere else?"
After hearing this, Yan Yi felt very disappointed.
On the way back from Lu Qin's house, she clearly touched her chest to make sure the pendant was safely hanging around her neck.
Seeing her with her head down, silent and pitiful, Wen Huiran's heart tightened. He carefully considered his words and asked, "Did you see anyone else when you came back?"
Hearing this, Yan Yi suddenly raised his head and said hesitantly, "Your Majesty, do you suspect that it was taken away?"
Wen Huoran stared at her and did not deny it.
On the way back, she only saw the group of naughty kids who were rude and deliberately making things difficult for her, and Lu Qin who scared the kids away and rescued her to shore.
The group of naughty kids always kept a certain distance from her. Except for one of them who pushed her shoulder, the others did not get close to her.
Could it be Luqin?
"Your Majesty, I have already told you all the people I have seen. There is no one else."
Wen Huiran noticed that she was worried and couldn't help but ask, "Are you hiding something from me?"
Yan Yi lowered his head and finally managed to utter a word after a long while: "Lu Qin once asked me to borrow the pendant, but I refused."
Wen Huoran patiently listened to her story and pondered for a while, as if he had figured out the twists and turns. Then he slowly took Yan Yi into his arms and whispered soothingly, "Don't worry, I have my own way to find the pendant for you."
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