Guan Yue said slowly, "Do you know what will happen to you if someone reports these words to the county magistrate?"
"What will happen? Can the county magistrate throw me into jail just based on these few words of mine?" Xue Huan had just arrived in this era and did not have enough understanding of the official power here, otherwise she would not have said such words so openly.
But fortunately, Guan Yue was not the county magistrate's lackey.
"Don't say such things in front of others in the future. The county magistrate is the king of Fengchi County. If he wants to deliberately make trouble for you, a little girl like you can't hide from him."
Guan Yue's words were more of an exhortation than a warning.
Xue Huan's heart skipped a beat. Wasn't Captain Guan from the county government? The county magistrate was his immediate superior, so why did his words seem to betray his dissatisfaction with the magistrate?
She tentatively asked, "In the county, the county magistrate is indeed the most powerful, but isn't there a governor and the emperor above the county magistrate? Can the county magistrate really cover up everything? Is there no justice in this world?"
Guan Yue didn't know what he was thinking, his expression ferocious and uncontrollable. "Justice? Those bastard officials are all protecting each other, where is the justice?"
Xue Huan didn't expect that her test would actually reveal something incredible. The captain of the police actually called the county magistrate a dog official. This was not just dissatisfaction, but resentment and anger.
Realizing his slip of the tongue, Guan Yue closed his eyes and calmed himself down. When he opened his eyes again, he was the calm and sharp Captain Guan again.
He looked at Xue Huan deeply, with a hint of meaning: "Miss Xue is really not a simple person." He was almost certain that the incident last night was done by the girl in front of him. Although he had no evidence and didn't know how she did it, he just had this intuition.
Many times, intuition is far more accurate than evidence.
Xue Huan smiled back, "Isn't that the same with Captain Guan?"
After a moment of silence, Guan Yue spoke first: "Miss Xue, I hope our conversation today won't reach the ears of a third person."
"Of course."
Guan Yue: "I still have to investigate Mr. Qian's case, so I'll be leaving first."
Xue Huan understood his implication and watched him ride away.
If she guessed correctly, this Captain Guan had some kind of hatred towards the county magistrate and Qian Dazhi, so much so that he was happy to see Qian Dazhi's murder. This was also the reason why he deliberately let her go even though he clearly noticed that she was a suspect.
Only when his figure completely disappeared did Xue Huan breathe a sigh of relief.
In the end, he was careless, thinking that he could act without being noticed by relying on the magical artifact, the Five Elements Bead. As a result, when facing Captain Guan, he was tricked by him and revealed his flaws.
If someone else had come here today, she might have been taken away. Once in the county jail, she might have been tortured into confessing.
By then, the Five Elements Beads would be useless unless she escaped from prison and became a fugitive.
Then Xue's mother and the others will definitely be implicated.
The more Xue Huan thought about it, the more frightened she became. She repeatedly reminded herself in her heart that she must be extra careful in the future and must not act recklessly relying on the Five Elements Beads.
After entering the mountain, Xue Huan first entered the space. As expected, the space became a little bigger, but this time it was not obvious. It only expanded slightly outward.
The porcelain bowl containing seeds, the sea willow ball, and the wooden puppet, the purple energy contained in these three things, combined, is far less than that of the handsome man rescued last night.
She gave the exquisite ball and the little wooden man to her younger siblings, and kept the porcelain bowl for herself, placing it in her space as a container.
After washing, the porcelain bowl returns to its original appearance, white as jade, bright as a mirror, thin as paper, and sounds like a chime. It is truly the top beauty in the porcelain world.
Fortunately, the porcelain bowl was preserved intact and not broken anywhere, otherwise it would have been a waste of such a gift.
She classified the seeds inside and found that most of them were common fruit seeds, such as peach, plum, apricot, watermelon, grape, orange, etc. She couldn't help but suspect that these were actually the fruit pits that the grocery store owner spit out when eating fruit.
The porcelain bowl was specially used for him to spit out fruit pits.
What Xue Huan didn't know was that she had revealed the truth.
However, there are also some very strange seeds in it, such as green wheat seeds, purple rice seeds, golden lotus seeds...Are these really not caused by mold?
There were some that she couldn't even recognize, but she did find some ginseng seeds.
She planted a separate plot of land for each type of seed.
I don't know if these seeds are good or bad, so I'll just plant them and see. If they grow, that's great, but if they don't, that's fine too.
After watering the seeds with spiritual spring water, Xue Huan left the space, sank underground and came to the hut.
It is very difficult to go up the mountain, but it is very convenient to go straight underground.
Moreover, she had memorized the route she had walked once, so she no longer had to worry about getting lost.
So a journey that would have taken at least an hour was completed in ten minutes.
She did not appear inside the hut, but outside. If the handsome man in the house woke up and saw her suddenly emerging from the ground, wouldn't he be scared to death?
For some reason, Xue Huan felt a little nervous when she went in, but after opening the door and seeing that the man didn't wake up, she relaxed.
She boiled a pot of hot water and added a drop of spiritual spring water. She poured a bowl of water and let it sit for a while. When it was no longer so hot, she brought it to the bedside, helped the man up, and fed him some water.
Compared to yesterday, his body had obviously recovered a lot and he already had the awareness to swallow on his own.
"Cough cough." The man choked. Xue Huan quickly stopped feeding him water and wiped him with a handkerchief.
As she was wiping, she suddenly realized that something was wrong. When she raised her eyes, the person in front of her actually opened his eyes, and a pair of dark and clear eyes were staring at her.
Xue Huan shuddered, let go of the person, pushed him away, and took two steps back.
"You...are awake?"
The man didn't say anything, looking a little confused. He sat up and looked around, and finally his eyes fell on her face.
Xue Huan couldn't stand being stared at by him. He was good-looking to begin with, and he had such an innocent and confused look on his face like a little deer. She couldn't help but feel pity for him.
Of course, no matter how her heart was beating, she managed to keep a straight face and didn't reveal too much emotion.
"How are you? Do you feel any discomfort?" she asked in a very soft tone.
He seemed to have finally come to his senses. The weak, pitiful and helpless aura he had when he first woke up instantly faded away. His expression turned cold and he pursed his lips slightly. "Who are you? Where is this?"
The sound is like a cold spring, clear and chilling. It is a real pleasure to listen to, though a little chilling.
Xue Huan smiled. "My last name is Xue Huan, and I'm your savior. I pulled you out of the river when you fell in. This is where my father used to rest while hunting. You were badly injured, so I brought you here to take care of you."
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