Any thought does not come out of thin air; there must be deeper logical deductions and reasons behind it.

When something is unusual, there must be something fishy going on, and the answer lies in the details.

These are the words that a university professor casually said during a study class in Zhao Rong's previous life.

What’s interesting is that Zhao Rong had completely forgotten what the content of the class was or what it was about. Instead, it was this casual remark that left a deep impression on him, and he remembered it again now.

Qingjun saw Xiaoxiao?

This thought, which had just popped up in his mind, attracted all of Zhao Rong's attention. Even though the attack on the "Belt Meridian" failed and the blockage of the meridians seemed to be more troublesome, he did not have the mind to pay attention to it, not to mention the sword spirit's joke that he could not last more than three seconds.

Zhao Rong covered his chest and swallowed another mouthful of blood, as if he had swallowed a ball of ground rust.

"Gui, do you know whether Qingjun looked at my heart lake yesterday morning? Did she... use the secret technique of seeing through the rippling waves and clear colors of the heart lake?"

It was early in the morning. The chirping of crickets slipped in through the gaps between the doors and windows. Besides that, in the empty house, there were bursts of heavy breathing that gradually slowed down. As quiet and silent as it was, was Zhao Rong's heart.

After a moment of silence, Gui said directly: "I was hiding at the time and didn't see it."

Zhao Rong said nothing more.

He rubbed his face. The thought that "the truth will be revealed" that just popped up in his mind was just a thought, and not necessarily the real answer to the matter.

Zhao Rong rubbed his frowned brows again, sighed softly, and thought quietly.

What is the internal logic behind this idea?

Abnormal, details...

He did not get up immediately, but simply sat down on the cold floor, crossed his legs, held his right elbow with his left hand, supported his chin with his right hand, and frowned without saying a word.

The house was quiet and Gui did not make any more noise to disturb them.

Abnormal... details... abnormal... details... Oh, yes, bellyband, Qingjun’s bellyband.

At a certain moment, Zhao Rong opened his eyes slightly, then jumped, stood up, and staggered towards the inner room. Soon he came to the bed again, took out the pure white silk bellyband with lotus that he had carefully hidden before, and stared at it in a daze with his head down.

Gui couldn't help it, "Hey, hey, you've already washed it like this, it must have been cold, why do you want to take it while it's still hot?"

Zhao Rong did not answer. After looking for a while, he suddenly lowered his head and buried his nose in the thin and soft silk surface again.

Warm fragrance.

Zhao Rong sniffed it carefully for a while, raised his head, and frowned, "Worn it, or not? Did Qingjun wear it yesterday?"

Return: “…”

Zhao Rong ignored him, raised his hand and sniffed a few more times, then fell into deep thought.

For a moment he was unsure whether this was the original flavor.

Zhao Rong now wanted to know, why did Qingjun abnormally give him this tight-fitting garment? Was it prepared in advance in Taiqing Mansion, or was it a sudden decision and she took it off her body and gave it to him directly?

Clarifying this detail can explain all the current problems, including whether she looked into his heart lake, and even saw Xiaoxiao in his heart lake.

At first, Zhao Rong had a preconceived notion that Qingjun had made sufficient preparations before coming to see him yesterday, such as the bowl of "lotus seed glutinous rice porridge" that could boil the innate vitality in Zhao Rong's body, and the pure white lotus bellyband that kept him warm and relieved his worries late at night.

Zhao Rong originally thought that his wife was thoughtful, but now it seems that giving her a bellyband was not thoughtful at all, because Qingjun had prepared lotus seed porridge to boost his blood circulation, and could predict that he would concentrate on Chong Meridians and Breaking the Mirror without any distractions in the next two days, so why did she give him something that might distract him?

And it's embarrassing.

You know, Zhao Rong had never mentioned this request to her before. Why did Qingjun suddenly prepare to give this to him when he was in Taiqing Mansion?

Even with Qingjun's pure and innocent character, if he didn't hint or ask for it, she wouldn't even think of giving her husband such a romantic thing as giving his underwear.

Qingjun is not Xiaoxiao who likes to read messy books about talented scholars and beautiful women. Sometimes, some inexplicable words and strange ways of playing are simply tiger and wolf words, which make Zhao Rong dumbfounded and feel inferior. Then he pressed Xiaoxiao and punished her with family rules. When she burst into tears and admitted her mistakes, he tortured her and asked her to confess, "Tell me where you learned it, you stupid girl, you know so much, Zhao Lang, I am panicking..."

It was unusual for Qingjun to suddenly give her a bellyband, and thinking about it this way, she must have been directly influenced by him to give it. In other words, it was not prepared in advance like the bowl of porridge, but a temporary decision made when they were exploring the secluded place together yesterday.

Thinking of this, Zhao Rong couldn't help but bury his nose and carefully sniffed the fragrance on the silk clothes.

Gui in the Ajna Chakra saw this unscrupulous scene and gnashed his teeth and said, "Zhao Rong, I really underestimated your limit. I apologize to you, but can you please wear a headband and do it quietly by yourself! Don't bring me along."

It really can't stand it anymore.

"You think too much. I... I'm doing serious business."

Gui was impatient: "I know you are doing serious business. Who doesn't know about this kind of serious business for men?"

Zhao Rong's face darkened: "I..."

Gui said contemptuously: "What do you mean?"

Zhao Rong's expression instantly calmed down. He nodded and said seriously, "I think it smells great. What about you? Do you want to smell it too? Oh, sorry, I forgot that you are a soul and can't even smell a fart."

"???"

Gui turned and sneered: "Who cares about this thing? Only you men... the dirty ones don't mind the dirtiness and treat it as a treasure."

Zhao Rong twitched his lips and didn't say anything else.

He continued to frown and think carefully.

According to the deduction just now, this tight-fitting garment should have been given by Qingjun on a whim yesterday morning. However, deduction alone is not enough to fully prove it. To reach a conclusion, we need to find some clues from the details to support our conclusion.

As far as I can remember, Qingjun did take off her bellyband yesterday morning, and...twice.

Once, when the two of them were feeding each other porridge with spoons in a shabby courtyard in the mountains, she suddenly said that it was a bit sweet. At that time, he went to find a clear spring for Qingjun without thinking, mainly because the water in the Sumeru object on his body had been stored for too long, so he was reluctant to let his wife drink it.

Another time, when the two of them were getting up to return and prepare to leave the forest, Zhao Rong remembered that he was holding her hand and strolling in the woods. They happened to pass by a hawthorn forest. He saw Qingjun tilting her head to look at the red wild hawthorns on the trees several times, so he went to pick them for her without waiting for her to say anything, just like when they were little and playing in the hills behind the Duke's Mansion.

But this time... Zhao Rong's mouth twitched slightly. At that time, he was picking hawthorns with his back to Qingjun. He was not far away. If he turned back halfway, he could see her under the tree. If Qingjun undressed and took off her pure white bellyband at this time...

Ahem, this is too bold. Zhao Rong felt a little excited when she thought about it. However, she is a cultivator in the Haoran realm, and maybe she has some other magical skills.

For example, if it is a sleight of hand, there is no risk.

Zhao Rong nodded slightly.

The two times when Qingjun did not appear in his sight were both very likely. Thinking about it now, Zhao Rong suddenly felt that if she wanted to get rid of him temporarily, it would be easy. She only needed to look at him eagerly, say "sweet" in a sweet voice, or let her eyes linger on the wild hawthorn for a moment, and he would pick it for her without thinking.

How could this stupid woman fail to control her husband? My husband has been so obedient, and she seems to be very smart now...

Zhao Rong's distracted thoughts came back to life.

There is another detail that can help us determine whether Qingjun made a sudden decision to give him a bellyband yesterday morning.

That is to confirm whether this pure white lotus bellyband was... worn by her yesterday.

There is another question here, that is, whether Qingjun carries several spare bellybands on his body, and this pure white one embroidered with lotus is one of them.

Zhao Rong thought about it and quickly denied this possibility with certainty.

They all have Sumeru objects on them, and can indeed carry a lot of things, but this involves a habit.

Qingjun lives in Qinglianxuan in Taiqing Mansion. According to behavioral habits, daily necessities such as clothes will not be packed in the Sumeru object, because the Sumeru object does not have too much space, and it is usually used to place some important items such as magic weapons and elixirs.

If you have a fixed residence, it is completely unnecessary and will only cause inconvenience to put magic weapons, elixirs and spare clothes together and carry them with you.

Anyway, this is not Zhao Rong's habit. His spare clothes, paper, ink, brush and inkstone are all kept in the Dongli Cottage, while valuables such as the Tingni Purple Gold Furnace are carried with him.

Therefore, as long as Qingjun made the decision on the spur of the moment yesterday, there is no doubt that this pure white silk bellyband with lotus flowers must have been worn close to the body.

Zhao Rong made a careful inference. Thinking of this, he lowered his head, buried his nose, and began to "check" carefully.

A burst of fragrance hits my face.

A light scent of jasmine;

He was already familiar with Qingjun's unique and pleasant body fragrance when he was a child, but now the body fragrance was also light and faint;

The thick fragrance of agarwood...

After several times, Zhao Rong frowned and looked up.

He seemed even more unsure whether this bellyband was the one Qingjun wore yesterday.

Qingjun's body fragrance is very light, which is why Zhao Rong thought that the lady had already washed clean when he first judged it. But now thinking about it, this idea is a bit biased.

First of all, the agarwood has a very pungent smell that easily lingers and covers up Qingjun’s body fragrance.

Secondly, Qingjun saw him yesterday morning. He must have bathed, changed clothes, and burned incense the night before going out to see him. By the time he saw him, only a few hours had passed.

Moreover, she is a cultivator in the Haoran realm who has already drawn spiritual energy into her body, and her delicate body is truly pure and innocent.

Although she has not yet reached the legendary pure body of glass, her skin and bones are as white as ice and she is naturally cool and sweat-free.

Therefore, Zhao Rong was somewhat unsure.

"Why."

He sighed softly. He had never imagined that a meeting with Qingjun would involve so many complications.

If he had checked the small cloth bag she had stuffed into him when they parted yesterday at noon, he might have been able to get it... while it's still hot.

Zhao Rong shook his head and put the bellyband back into his hand. It was the middle of the night, and he felt something strange holding his wife's underwear in his hands. No wonder Gui reacted so strongly.

However, he now had more important things to think about, and these random thoughts were quickly dispelled.

Although there was a lack of crucial evidence, Zhao Rong was almost certain in his heart that this bellyband was given to him by Concubine Zhao Lingfei on a whim yesterday.

When something is out of the ordinary, there must be something fishy going on.

This should be the cause of the uneasy thought in the water of his heart lake before.

Zhao Rong pursed his lips.

His subconscious mind had already deduced and confirmed, just as he had just done, that Qingjun had seen Xiaoxiao.

However, when Zhao Rong deduced to this point, he was still a little confused and unsure of the correctness of this idea.

After all, it was just a subconscious thought that made logical deductions based on the clues of the development of things, not his magical power to predict the future.

Although Zhao Rong looked calm after showing Concubine Zhao Lingfei the Heart Lake yesterday, he was actually a little nervous in his heart.

During their subsequent interactions, even when Zhao Rong was feeding him porridge, he always carefully observed his wife's expression. However, apart from the fact that she asked him a few questions in a somewhat strange mood at the beginning, there was nothing unusual about her. She even did not ask about Liu Kongyi, with whom she had always suspected Zhao Rong of having a relationship.

It seems... nothing happened.

So Zhao Rong later made a rough judgment that Qingjun probably did not look at his heart lake, or rather, he did look at it but could only roughly see the color of the heart lake and used some magic to test the lies of his words, but did not see the "thoughts" in his heart, including Xiaoxiao.

But, for some reason, he felt somewhat relieved but also somewhat disappointed, a very strange emotion, as if he hoped that Concubine Zhao Ling could know the small matter directly.

But later, Zhao Rong thought that this was a good idea. After some days, when he had settled down in the academy and got things on track, he would go find Xiaoxiao.

By then, the "ideological work" for the two should have been done, and Qingjun and Xiaoxiao would be arranged to meet the king who would have the most peaceful conflict with the king...

However, at this moment, things seemed to be heading in another direction.

Zhao Rong patted his forehead.

Why did Qingjun give him the bellyband?

It was after I fed him porridge yesterday morning that I heard him say he felt uncomfortable and mentioned that he wanted to drink hot water while reading at night, so I made the impromptu decision.

Or... seeing what's in his heart and understanding those "thoughts"!

Because these are the thoughts of “little things” that have been on my mind recently.

One is to keep accounts for Yu Huaijin.

One was that drinking honey water could no longer quench his thirst, and he wanted to ask Qingjun for advice on needlework for knitting autumn clothes. He wanted Qingjun to measure him with her bare hands like Xiaoxiao did, and knit a warm autumn clothes of the right size for him...

Zhao Rong felt like slapping himself in the face for thinking about all sorts of nonsense, but now Qingjun brought him the "autumn clothes" to keep him warm and quench his thirst, but he was so distracted that even his Chong meridian had problems, and now he was just staring blankly at the "autumn clothes".

What exactly does Qingjun mean?

Did he see through the little thought and send the bellyband to him on purpose as a subtle warning to him?

Or is it a considerate act that you really didn’t think about that much?

Suddenly, Zhao Rong, who was frowning in thought, gritted his teeth and felt a piercing pain in his waist, which spread throughout his body the next second.

At the same time, my legs became numb and trembling, and I felt pain in my waist and back.

This is the aftermath of the failed attack on the "belt meridian" and the backlash of the innate vital energy.

"hiss……"

Zhao Rong took a breath of cold air.

…

The next morning, the sound of birds was everywhere.

At the bamboo fence in the east corner of the Dongli Cottage, Jia Tengying was bending over, holding a ladle in his hand, scooping rainwater stored in a tank and watering the autumn chrysanthemums.

Boom boom boom——

Jia Tengying put down the ladle, turned around and opened the gate.

Fan Yushu was seen standing outside the door, looking around while playing with the hollow jade gourd around his waist.

Fan Yushu turned his head, looked over Jia Tengying's shoulder, glanced into the yard, and said softly, "Brother Jia, where is Ziyu? Shouldn't he have gotten up at this time in the past?"

Jia Tengying scratched his head and said, "I don't know. I didn't see him get up early today. He seems to be still in the room."

At this moment.

Squeak——

The door of the north room was pushed open from the inside.

Fan Yushu and Jia Tengying turned around at the same time and were stunned to see Zhao Rong's face was as pale as the white frost on an autumn morning. He held his waist with one hand and the door with the other, then stepped out.

Zhao Rong panted slightly and said, "Brother Yushu, Brother Tengying, good morning."

Seeing this, Fan Yushu frowned, sighed, stamped his feet and pounded his fists:

"Tzuyu, ah Ziyu, you, you, I know my sister-in-law came yesterday, and you can't control yourself, but...but you have to be more restrained in what you do."

Zhao Rong: “…”