Su Qingluan first noticed something unusual about the surroundings because she noticed someone peeking around her house.
However, there were many idle people in the village who were also wandering around aimlessly like this, and Su Qingluan had never dealt with these people before, so she didn't recognize their appearance.
So Su Qingluan couldn't be sure whether these people were truly "suspicious persons".
Based on the principle of "it is better to wrongly accuse a thousand people than to let one person go", Su Qingluan decided to go to Mu Xingzhi early the next morning to ask him to borrow Song Bo, after all, Song Bo was a martial artist.
Originally, she wanted to go today, but when she looked at the sky, it was almost 8 o'clock in the evening.
Even in modern times, this time is definitely not considered "too early" unless it is in a city with a very rich nightlife.
Going to Mu Xingzhi's house at this time, not to mention the time issue, the whole way is dark and there are no surveillance cameras to track her, so it is a question whether she can arrive safely.
So I'd better wait until tomorrow morning to ask Mu Xingzhi for help...
…Although when she made this decision, Su Qingluan felt a sense of shame, as if she had dug a hole and buried herself in it—if she had known, she wouldn’t have made those four “rice cake biochemical weapons”…
But who had that fellow Mu Xingzhi deliberately put a lot more coptis root in it, making her drink the medicine for several days so bitter it made her wish she could die on the spot?!
…While the Coptis chinensis root was helpful for her condition, those four “taste bombs” of hers were actually real food, okay?!
Su Qingluan rolled around on her couch, muttering to herself to find excuses for her now seemingly childish "revenge behavior", but on the other hand she was thinking timidly: If it really doesn't work, can I ask the Liu family for help? Their kung fu is also very good.
However, she quickly nipped the idea of the second option in the bud.
To put it bluntly, Su Qingluan could confidently ask Mu Xingzhi for help because she knew, even if she couldn't immediately perceive it, that Mu Xingzhi was using Su Ji's products to convey certain information that was hidden from outsiders. Furthermore, Su Qingluan's perspective in sketching had been repeatedly utilized in recent military graphics.
Moreover, Su Qingluan has revealed more than once that if her ideas mature, she might be able to provide other skills that would be beneficial to Mu Xingzhi's development and growth - such as metal smelting, or the improved design of stirrups.
...although many cavalrymen nowadays don't even have stirrups.
To put it bluntly, Su Qingluan provides technical support, Mu Xingzhi provides behind-the-scenes protection and various resources when necessary. The two parties can be regarded as mutually beneficial partners.
And strictly speaking, even if the Xie family wanted to do something bad to Su Qingluan and the Su family this time, it would also indirectly damage Mu Xingzhi's interests.
From this perspective, it is only natural for Su Qingluan to ask Mu Xingzhi for help.
But the Liu family is different.
Let’s not talk about the actual level of Liu Yunniang and Xi Niangzi’s kung fu skills - although Liu Sheng is said to be an excellent kung fu master, his legs have not yet recovered, so he is not even within the scope of Su Qingluan’s casual consideration - the Liu family has no conflict of interest with the Xie family.
So whether from the perspective of pure conscience or personal feelings, Su Qingluan did not want to involve the Liu family in more troubles - they had just struggled out of the quagmire of the head of the family having disabled legs, and it would be too tragic and pitiful if they fell into another one.
Su Qingluan didn't want the Liu family to suffer such an unexpected disaster.
Thinking about all these messy things, Su Qingluan fell asleep in a daze.
Half asleep and half awake, Su Qingluan seemed to hear a noise outside the door, but it was not very loud.
She had spent a lot of time arguing with Manager Xie and Aunt Zhang during the day, which consumed too much energy, so she was sleeping very soundly now.
Although the noise outside made her subconsciously alert and want to wake up, Su Qingluan was really too tired. She tried to open her eyelids several times but failed in the end.
What's more, apart from the first few slight noises outside the door, there was silence afterwards, leaving only the few dying autumn insects outside chirping half-deadly.
Su Qingluan's subconsciously tense nerves finally couldn't withstand the physical fatigue, and she sank into a deeper consciousness.
After a dreamless night, Su Qingluan was awakened the next morning by the quarreling sounds of her sister and brother outside.
"It was you who stole it!"
"I didn't eat it secretly, it was you who ate it secretly!"
"Whoever steals food is a puppy. You are a lying puppy!"
"You're the puppy, you're the puppy, puppy puppy puppy!"
Su Qingluan, who had been hearing the devilish sound since the beginning of the morning: So the essence of human beings is to repeat themselves, right?
Silently complaining about her younger brother and sister's meaningless quarrel as elementary school students—even though the average age of the two of them was not even up to the elementary school admission standard—Su Qingluan slipped out of her room to see what was going on.
Then she discovered that the glutinous rice cakes she had prepared for the two greedy little cats at home last night had disappeared!
In fact, Su Qingluan made rice cakes yesterday just on a whim. After all, she had been using her brain too much during the day and wanted to eat something sweet at night, so she made a few rice cakes with date paste, red bean paste or jam. In addition, she also prepared sweet "dipping sauces" such as honey and malt sugar.
However, considering that it was already evening, she only ate two pieces, and asked her younger siblings to eat only one piece at most, and leave the rest for the next day.
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