Tear off the mask
Xie Xuanye seemed to have lost his soul, continuing to walk forward step by step.
Cai Zhicai called out again, "Thank you, Brother Xie."
Xie Xuanye paused, but did not turn around. He said, "Don't worry, I understand."
Cai Zhicai breathed a sigh of relief.
Xie Xuanye arrived at the prison cell, but halfway there, he saw the people inside and was so frightened that he immediately turned around and quickly walked out.
After coming out, he leaned against a tree trunk with one hand, his face filled with panic, and said, "How could it be them!"
"Why are Jiang Nianrou and Ye Huaijin here?!"
"And isn't Su Yuexing at the Li residence?"
He thought about it for a long time but still couldn't figure it out. He took a deep breath and looked at the cell door.
He covered his face, went back to the cell, and stood in front of them.
Ye Huaijin looked at the masked man in front of him with a wary gaze.
Jiang Nianrou felt that the person in front of her looked somewhat familiar, and kept staring at him.
Xie Xuanye felt a little flustered by her gaze, but he still tried to remain calm and used his inner strength to change his voice.
His voice sounded somewhat low, "Why are you here?"
Ye Huaijin sneered, "The reason we're here is because you brought us in!"
Xie Xuanye: "..."
Su Yuexing looked at the masked man in front of her with curiosity.
Xie Xuanye wanted to ask another question, but Jiang Nianrou frowned slightly and said, "I think your features are very similar to those of a friend of mine."
"Could you please take off your mask?"
Xie Xuanye immediately refused, saying, "No!"
Upon hearing Jiang Nianrou's words, Ye Huaijin also carefully examined the person in front of him.
Fearing being discovered, Xie Xuanye quickly turned and left.
Once outside the cell, Xie Xuanye pulled off his mask, patted his chest, and exclaimed, "That really scared me to death!"
"No! I can't show my face in front of those two again."
Su Yuexing was kidnapped by bandits and taken up the mountain. Li Jinghe must be worried sick! No way! I have to go down the mountain and tell him!
As he was leaving the gate of Leiyu Village, the gatekeeper stopped him and said, "Young Master Xie, the chief has given orders that you cannot leave."
Xie Xuanye said angrily, "Why! Why won't he let me leave!"
The bandit guarding the gate said, "I don't know about that!"
Xie Xuanye turned and left, walking slowly down the road. "Not letting me leave is a form of imprisonment!"
How can I tell Jing He that Su Yuexing is being held here?
Hiding in the shadows, Xu Mingwen instructed his men, "Keep an eye on him!"
"Tell me immediately if there's any sign of trouble!"
"Yes!" The bandit beside him accepted the order and left.
Xu Mingwen stared intently at Xie Xuanye's departing figure, his eyes filled with murderous intent. "You, who suddenly appeared, actually want Big Brother to lead the entire Thunderstorm Village to surrender to the imperial court."
Leiyu Village is a place that my elder brother and I worked hard to build. It's not something you can just give away like that!
If you are someone sent by the imperial court, then don't blame me for being impolite.
In the dead of night, Xie Xuanye returned to the gate of Leiyu Village, intending to sneak out.
Everything went so smoothly that he flipped over and arrived outside the mountain stronghold, just as Xie Xuanye thought he had escaped the bandits.
A group of people suddenly appeared with torches and surrounded him.
Xu Mingwen, who was in the lead, said with a smile, "Brother Xie, where are you trying to run off to?"
"Someone, go and call the eldest brother over to see a good show!" he ordered.
Xie Xuanye forced himself to remain calm and said, "I just had nothing to do, so I was just wandering around."
Xu Mingwen sneered, "So you just wandered off and ended up outside the village."
Xie Xuanye laughed and said, "I'm just tired of staying in the village all day, so I wanted to come out for a walk."
"I didn't expect to cause such a commotion and trouble everyone. I'll go back now." With that, he turned and walked away.
Cai Zhicai rushed over in a panic. Seeing everyone surrounding Xie Xuanye, he asked, "Brother Xie, what do you mean by this?"
"Are you planning to inform on me to the imperial court?"
Xie Xuanye stopped in his tracks and waved his hand, saying, "No, Brother Cai, you've misunderstood me!"
Cai Zhicai pressed him impatiently, "Then why did you have to go out at this particular time?"
Xie Xuanye explained with a smile, "I just had nothing to do, so I took a walk."
Xu Mingwen leaned close to Cai Zhicai's ear and said, "Brother, this is a crucial time. Don't let Brother Xie ruin our plans!"
"I think it's better to lock him up!"
Cai Zhicai nodded and said, "Okay! As you said."
"Men, take Brother Xie away and keep him under close guard!"
Xie Xuanye said unhappily, "Brother Cai, we are brothers!"
"you……"
Cai Zhicai patted his shoulder helplessly and said, "You'll have to suffer in jail for a few days."
Xie Xuanye was escorted to the prison cell.
Su Yuexing was half asleep when she heard a noise outside. She opened her eyes groggily and saw someone being brought in.
She looked closely, and the drowsiness in her mind vanished instantly.
Xie Xuanye! How did he get locked up here too?
Ye Huaijin and Jiang Nianrou were shocked when they saw Xie Xuanye enter, and exclaimed in unison, "Xie Xuanye!"
Xie Xuanye quickly turned his back and covered his face with his hands. Why did they have to lock me up with them?
Su Yuexing was surprised that the two of them also knew Xie Xuanye.
Xie Xuanye felt a pang of regret, then turned around helplessly and waved to them, "Huaijin, Jiang Rou, you're here too."
The three of them know each other! Su Yuexing thought to herself.
Xie Xuanye waved to Su Yuexing and said, "Madam Li, it's been a long time."
Ye Huaijin and Jiang Nianrou exchanged glances, their eyes falling on Su Yuexing.
"Madam Li?" Jiang Nianrou asked.
Xie Xuanye continued, "It was a wife that Jinghe's father found for him, saying it was to bring him good luck."
A hint of sadness flashed in Jiang Nianrou's eyes; he had actually gotten married.
Su Yuexing asked Xie Xuanye, "How did you get locked up here?"
Xie Xuanye's eyes shifted, "Just like you, I was captured and brought up the mountain."
After saying that, his eyes swept over Ye Huaijin and Jiang Nianrou, and he said, "Why didn't you two stay in the capital? Why did you run to Pingchun County and get kidnapped by bandits?"
Ye Huaijin glanced at Xie Xuanye, then at Su Yuexing.
Jiang Nianrou understood his concerns, so she said, "He accompanied me to Pingchun County to visit Jinghe."
Xie Xuanye nodded knowingly and said, "Jinghe, you don't need to worry about his illness. The renowned physician Sai from the capital will treat him."
"Moreover, I heard that the Divine Physician Sai can cure his illness."
Ye Huaijin frowned and asked, "Is it Sai Taxue?"
“He’s the only one in the capital who is a miracle doctor,” Xie Xuanye said.
Upon hearing that Li Jinghe's illness could be cured, Jiang Nianrou's eyes lit up, and she couldn't help but feel happy.
Xie Xuanye's gaze lingered on Su Yuexing. "Madam Li, haven't you always been at the Li residence? Why are you being locked up here?"
Su Yuexing lowered her eyes, unsure how to explain. She said that she had escaped from the Li residence, but on the way, her horse suddenly went mad.
He and his horse fell off a cliff, and after surviving the ordeal, they encountered the two of them.
When they rushed back to Pingchun County, bandits suddenly appeared and tied them up here.
We can talk about what comes next, but after I told him all this, will he tell Li Jinghe what I said before?
That means I'll have to go back to the Li family.
Seeing that she remained silent, Xie Xuanye asked, "What are you thinking about?"
Su Yuexing shook her head and said, "I wasn't thinking about anything."
"I……"
Ye Huaijin stepped forward and interrupted her, saying, "Didn't you tell us you were a hunter?"
Su Yuexing: "..."
She then explained with a smile, "It's not because I have to be careful when I'm out and about."
Ye Huaijin rolled his eyes and said, "It's clearly you who's not being sincere with us."
Since it was wrong of her to lie before, Su Yuexing could only smile and purse her lips.
Xie Xuanye smoothed things over, saying, "Now is not the time to dwell on this."
"Should we honestly think about how to get out?"
Su Yuexing breathed a sigh of relief, thankfully Xie Xuanye didn't press her about why she left the Li residence.
Ye Huaijin said quietly, "The only thing we can do now is wait."
Xie Xuanye asked, puzzled, "Wait?"
"Wait for what?"
"We're waiting for someone to come and rescue us," Ye Huaijin replied.
His answer left everyone speechless. Xie Xuanye said, "You're really funny."
Li Mansion
Holding the bottle in his hand, Dongyang said, "Young Master, Hua Hong has noticed that Madam applies the ointment from this bottle to her face every morning before getting up."
Li Jinghe took the bottle from Dong Yang, opened the cap, smelled it, and frowned slightly.
"Have someone go to a rouge shop and buy some ordinary face cream to put in this bottle and replace it," Li Jinghe instructed.
"Yes." Dongyang accepted the order and left.
This is a disguise cream that can make a human skin mask stick tightly to the skin, so that no one can tell the difference.
Dongyang secretly had Huahong replace the medicine bottle without anyone noticing.
Su Yuexing came to Li Jinghe's room for dinner.
This time, Li Jinghe didn't pick up his bowl to eat as usual; instead, he kept staring at her.
Su Yuexing paused in her eating and asked, "Husband, why aren't you eating?"
Li Jinghe sneered, "You've never called me husband."
Su Yuexing's heart tightened, and she avoided eye contact, saying, "It must be that you've remembered it wrong, my husband."
Li Jinghe raised an eyebrow and said, "I'm just sick, not stupid."
He pressed further, asking, "Has your personality suddenly changed, or are you not yourself at all?"
Su Yuexing hurriedly stood up from the stool and said, "Husband, what do you mean? I don't understand."
Li Jinghe said with disgust, "I'll say it again, don't call me those two words."
Su Yuexing was too frightened to speak when she saw his gloomy face.
Li Jinghe walked up to her, narrowed his eyes, and reached out to tear off her human skin mask.
"Ah!" The torn-off human skin mask had flesh attached to it.
Su Yuewei covered her injured face, looked at the blood on her hands, and exclaimed in horror, "My face!"
Li Jinghe took a step back in shock. She was Su Yuewei, and the person that Yue killed was...
He sat back down on the stool as if all his strength had left him, and said, "You two sisters, what a clever trick of switching the beams and pillars!"
Su Yuewei knelt on the ground in a panic, pleading, "Brother-in-law, this has nothing to do with me. It's my sister who has always wanted to go out."
She brought me a human skin mask and made me put it on.
"As her younger sister, I dared not disobey her and could only obey her orders."
Li Jinghe clenched his fist and said, "Dongyang! Throw her out of the Li residence!"
Dongyang came in from outside and saw Su Yuewei kneeling on the ground. He asked in surprise, "Miss Su, what are you doing here?"
Li Jinghe roared again, "Do I have to repeat myself?"
Dong Yang immediately pulled Su Yuewei away.
Li Jinghe made a gesture, and Yue emerged from the shadows. He had seen everything that had just happened.
His legs were trembling slightly. He had caused the death of the lady, and the young master probably wouldn't spare his life either.
"Find her for me! I need to see her alive or dead!" Li Jinghe ordered.
"Yes!" Yue accepted the order and went to carry it out.
Li Jinghe calmed down and thought about it. Looking at the human skin mask on the table, he wondered where she got this thing.
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