So smart
No one in Pingwu City dared to come to East Street. Everyone took a detour. Occasionally, someone would hear a woman's laughter and voice coming from East Street and be so frightened that they would run away shouting, "The woman in human skin is coming! The woman in human skin is coming! Help!"
After shouting and returning home, they would burn incense and pray to Buddha. Some even insisted on bowing to Zhou Lang's portrait to feel at ease.
Therefore, Zhou Liuhu, who was being pointed at with a sword by Yi Shen, shouted loudly at the entrance of the pastry shop without attracting anyone's attention. If anyone were lucky enough to hear Zhou Liuhu's voice, they would probably be scared out of their wits.
Zhou Liuhu was also quite helpless. He had said it a hundred times: Wu Qi would never die and would definitely live safely. However, the young master remained expressionless, and it was unclear whether he believed it or not.
She pointed to the door and said, "Look, your little green plum is in the pastry shop."
Yi Shen sheathed his sword, picked up the dagger from the ground, and pushed open the door to enter.
As soon as Yi Shen entered, Wu Qi rushed into his arms. "Yi Shen, Yi Shen, were you scared?! Don't be afraid, they are all good people!"
Yi Shen subconsciously withdrew the sword in his hand away from her, and only after listening to her finish speaking did he put his arm around her waist and truly protect her in his arms.
Are you injured?
Were you scared?
He asked two questions in a row, and after each question, he hugged Wu Qi even tighter.
Wu Qi said, "I'm fine, I'm not injured, don't worry."
These people switched him in front of Yi Shen. If Yi Shen isn't coaxed a little, he might silently blame himself for a long time.
I've been like this since I was little, never speaking, just silently blaming myself.
As she grew older, she improved considerably. Instead of locking herself in her room and refusing to see anyone, she started to hug her.
Wu Qi smiled and gently patted his back. "It's all thanks to the pink jade hairpin that our Third Young Master Yi gave me. Otherwise, I would have been really frightened. Thank you, Yi Shen, for protecting me!"
What kind of talk is that?
Chang Ying was the one who led Wu Qi to the pastry shop with a lantern. She didn't see the slightest bit of fear in Wu Qi. As for the pink jade hairpin, she really didn't know that Wu Qi had a pink jade hairpin hidden on him.
She asked Zhou Liuhu, "How were you discovered?"
After removing the human skin mask, Zhou Liuhu sneered and said, "Who would believe that? I felt like he noticed me the moment I stood next to him. No, was my disguise not good enough?"
She had no idea how she was discovered...
She even imitated Wu Qi's personality and said a sentence. Just one sentence, and this cold-faced Yama realized that he was not Wu Qi.
Seeing that Zhou Liuhu really couldn't understand, Wu Qi smiled and reminded him, "It's because the flowers in your hair are different from the flowers in mine!"
Wu Qi and Zhou Liuhu were not much different in size, and their voices were also somewhat similar. If Zhou Liuhu disguised himself as Wu Qi, put on her clothes, and spoke like her, it would be difficult for ordinary people to tell the difference. Coincidentally, it was very difficult for anyone to make the flowers in Wu Qi's hair look exactly the same.
Even if the number and type of flowers are the same, their positions will not be exactly the same.
Yi Shen noticed that the flower in Zhou Liuhu's hair was in a different position than the flower in Wu Qi's hair, which confirmed that Wu Qi had been switched.
Zhou Liuhu almost laughed out of anger. Could someone really tell that the person next to him had been replaced just by looking at the flower in his hair?
She asked Wu Qi, "With so many flowers in your hair, how could he remember which flower was which in which spot?"
“I don’t know either,” Wu Qi said, “but he’s been able to remember it since he was a child.”
Wu Qi never followed any particular pattern when it came to putting flowers in her hair. Today one flower might be here, and tomorrow another might be here. She herself couldn't find any pattern, and her friends were too lazy to remember such trivial matters. Anyway, the flowers in her hair changed every day, so there was nothing to remember.
Only Yi Shen is different.
He could remember the flowers in her hair clearly with just one glance.
Occasionally, when Wu Qi was in a good mood, he would deliberately circle around in front of Yi Shen and ask, "Which flower is more beautiful, today's or yesterday's?"
Yi Shen replied carefully, "They're all beautiful."
Chang Ying looked at Yi Shen warily and said disapprovingly to Zhou Liuhu, "Then you can't bring him here. How can you trust a man? Sun Fang spoke so well back then, but he almost exposed our secret."
Sun Fang was her childhood sweetheart, and the two were engaged. Chang Ying thought he was a trustworthy person, but Sun Fang and Zhao Lang got too close and almost exposed their secret. Fortunately, she managed to cover it up with some excuses, and luckily, Sun Fang didn't know much.
She had been trying to find a way to break off the engagement, but Sun Fang refused, and the two remained deadlocked.
Zhou Liuhu said nonchalantly, "I didn't want to either, but if I didn't bring him here, you wouldn't be able to see your lovely little sister! Besides, sister, he seems to be a trustworthy person."
It wasn't that this person was particularly righteous, but rather that he was too worried about Wu Qi.
As long as Wu Qi is around, he is a trustworthy person.
“Of course, of course! Our Third Young Master Yi is wonderful. He’s not like Sun Fang, Zhou Fang, or Li Fang. He’s Yi Shen!” Wu Qi showed off the pink jade hairpin in his hand, winked at Yi Shen, and admitted, “I used this hairpin to pierce someone’s neck.”
Yi Shen was taken aback for a moment, which was uncharacteristic of him.
He glanced at Li Shuying on the ground; she seemed to have been dead for a long time, and the substance inside her body did not appear to be blood.
Seeing that Wu Qi did not pierce the neck of the living person with a hairpin, Yi Shen did not know whether to be happy or helpless. He sighed and said, "So, you want to help her take revenge?"
Wu Qi nodded hurriedly, saying logically, "That's right, I stabbed someone in the neck, of course I have to avenge them. A life for a life, right? Nobody else is going to be my role model, so I had to do it!"
Yi Shen asked knowingly, "Who killed her?"
Who killed Li Shuying?
Wu Qi looked at Li Xingge, who shook his head and said, "I don't know, but my sister died in the Zhao family mansion and was thrown into a mass grave by the servants."
Chang Ying chimed in, "Yes, Sun Fang let it slip when he was drunk. I quickly sent Xing Ge to check the mass grave, and to my surprise, we actually found Sister Shuying."
Sun Fang?
Wu Qi recalled the scene on the street. Chang Ying had taken off her veil first, and Sun Fang hurriedly picked it up, wanting Chang Ying to wear it. After Chang Ying refused, he seemed to have been holding Chang Ying's veil the whole time.
However, this person is not as good-looking as Yi Shen.
If Sun Fang knew even a little about the cause of Li Shuying's death, things would be much easier.
Wu Qi raised his hand and suggested, "Could we kidnap Sun Fang and question him?"
The women were taken aback by the suggestion. Although they wanted to avenge Li Shuying, they had always thought of planning carefully and making a proper strategy. Wu Qi, however, kicked over the chessboard, threw the chess pieces in his hand, and laughed, "It's more satisfying to cut the Gordian knot!"
"Also... okay?"
It should work...
The women all looked at Chang Ying, who said, "Of course, do you need my help?"
Wu Qi waved his hand and said, "You don't need to go. Just tell me where Sun Fang is right now, and Yi Shen and I will go."
These women are neither skilled in swordsmanship nor in light-body techniques; if they were captured, it would be a real problem.
Hearing Wu Qi say this, the women looked at Chang Ying again. Chang Ying thought for a moment, and with a hint of sacrificing family for the greater good, she confirmed, "Sun Fang should be waiting for me at the entrance of the Chang residence. He will not bring any guards when he comes to see me, so you can rest assured."
No guards?
That does make things a bit more convenient.
After confirming the approximate location of the Chang residence, Wu Qi said, "I don't really want to fight today. Do you still have the incense that confused me earlier? Could you give me some?"
"Oh, oh." Li Xingge handed her the fragrant medicine.
Wu Qi took the incense and medicine, and instructed, "Don't pretend to be men in black and follow me and Yi Shen!"
Li Xingge exclaimed in surprise, "How did you know that the man in black was us?"
Wu Qi said mysteriously, "I guessed."
Wu Qi had seen the figures of the men in black before, and when he saw them at the pastry shop, he could roughly guess that they were the ones pretending to be the men in black. As for the purpose of following them, it was nothing more than to find out her personality so that he could switch her with Yi Shen.
Moreover, the tracking skills of these individuals were rather questionable.
While everyone else was in the trees or on the eaves, these women swaggered around on the street or by the window, making it difficult for them to go unnoticed.
For a young woman confined to her chambers to conceive of using a ghost to commit murder and to dare to be the first to remove her veil during the Fire Festival is already something that deserves genuine praise and celebration from others.
Wu Qi said he didn't really want to fight, but he took the dagger that Yi Shen handed him.
She advised, "But I say, it's only because you met our kind-hearted Young Master Yi today that your secret was exposed, and you might all be dead."
The kind-hearted Young Master Yi remained silent.
Zhou Liuhu retorted angrily after hearing this: "He's kind-hearted? He almost stabbed me to death with a sword!"
Upon hearing this, Wu Qi did not reprimand Yi Shen. Instead, he smiled and promised the women in the room, "Then I am truly sorry. In that case, we will make amends and bring the person who murdered Lord Zhou Lang to justice!"
"Don't worry, Zhou Lang will not have died in vain."
After saying that, she left with Yi Shen.
The two of them didn't even bother to disguise themselves; they just swaggered off to kidnap Sun Fang. Anyone who saw it would be amazed and would say, "Heroes who don't know the immensity of heaven and earth."
Zhou Liuhu was a little slow to react. He repeated Wu Qi's words before leaving in his mind, and then suddenly thought of something.
Watching the two figures disappear into the distance, she asked, "Does she know that we know Lord Zhou is dead?"
Although the words were a bit convoluted, Li Xingge understood them and said, "Yes, she knows."
Zhou Liuhu then asked, "When did she find out that we knew?"
Li Xingge didn't know when they were exposed.
Chang Ying thought for a moment, then said uncertainly, "Perhaps, when that young master was choosing flowers for her, Sun Qi was slightly lost in thought when she saw him, wasn't she?"
Sun Qi said, "I just glanced at that young master, and she understood? Isn't that a bit too clever? Besides, logically speaking, that young master is indeed handsome, so it's normal to glance at him more!"
Chang Ying said, "That's just my guess."
She didn't know when Wu Qi found out, but she felt that this person must have been hiding a lot of his intelligence.
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