See you later? Where?
Before Xiao Nanhui could react, the other party had already run ten steps away in an instant.
This means: Master and servant are birds of the same forest, but when disaster strikes, they fly away separately.
She glared fiercely at the shrike's agile little body that disappeared quickly, and had to choose another way to escape.
The continuous rain for several months had made the ground wet, and footprints were easily left on the mud and fine sand. Xiao Nanhui looked around and chose a small path paved with bluestone slabs. He also took off the handkerchief on his face and threw it onto another path to buy himself some time.
She ran along the path for a while and saw a messy yard with millstones and grinders scattered around. Under the wall of the house was a neatly stacked pile of firewood. It turned out to be the kitchen of the servants in the Zou Mansion.
Fortunately, the moonlight was clear tonight, allowing her to see everything clearly even without candlelight. Xiao Nanhui spotted a square wooden board covering the bluestone floor, likely a vegetable cellar or something. The sounds of the guards seemed to be growing closer, and in a panic, she fumbled to pull open the board, revealing a space beneath.
She didn't have time to think and jumped in.
As soon as her feet touched the ground, she felt the warm breath of another person. Her heart trembled, and just as she was about to take action, she smelled a familiar smell at the tip of her nose that could not be covered by rotten vegetable leaves.
The moonlight shone through a little, and when she looked up, she met Zhongli's surprised eyes.
It's true that we meet everywhere in life.
There were faint sounds of footsteps overhead, and Xiao Nanhui didn't care about anything else and pushed the person in front of him inside.
"Just squeeze in, thank you."
After she finished speaking, she reached out and pulled down the wooden board above her head to cover it. The surroundings instantly fell into darkness, with only a little moonlight shining through the cracks in the floor.
The footsteps were getting closer and closer, and sounded very steady, like those of a martial artist. She held her breath, and Zhongli Jing's breathing also calmed down.
The next second, the wooden board above his head was pulled open, revealing an anxious square face.
"Master, I am late..."
Xiao Nanhui forced a friendly smile and stared at the somewhat stunned Ding Weixiang.
Ding Weixiang, dressed in black, asked in a bad tone, "Why are you here?"
She was also not in a good mood: "I should ask you this question."
Ding Weixiang glanced at Zhongli Jing, who was squeezed into the corner by her, and gritted his teeth: "Because my master is here."
There was a faint sound of voices coming from not far away, which sounded extremely chaotic. Ding Weixiang jumped into the vegetable cellar and closed the wooden board above his head.
The air became quiet again, and the three of them pricked up their ears to listen to the noise outside.
Sure enough, the footsteps sounded again, and this time there seemed to be more than one person, and it was particularly chaotic.
The footsteps stopped just above the wooden board, and there seemed to be faint breathing sounds.
Xiao Nanhui was a little puzzled. He had just thought that the guards in Mr. Zou's mansion were quite skilled, but how come they became so useless after a while? They were out of breath after running a few steps.
Just as I was thinking about it, a voice came through the wooden board.
"What should I do now? If I had known, I wouldn't have run away. I'm not a thief, why should I run away..."
Hey, this voice sounds familiar.
Another more familiar voice sounded, with a bit of exasperation: "Who told you to run away? I was running well, but you insisted on following me, and you were wearing white clothes..."
She rubbed her head and felt that the county magistrate's mansion was unusually small tonight. She stood up and lifted the wooden board above her head.
The two people standing in the moonlight looked like two frightened roe deer. They were Hao Bai and Shrike.
Xiao Nanhui waved his hand expressionlessly: "Want to squeeze in?"
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However, the guards in the mansion chased them with torches, but the two thieves disappeared out of thin air in front of them.
The leader looked around with the light and found a handkerchief on a branch not far away.
An emerald green handkerchief.
When you put it to your nose and smell it, you can smell the scent of a woman's makeup.
"Brother, this must have been left by those two thieves. Why not give it to Madam and let her make the final decision?"
The leader clearly had other plans. He lowered his voice and motioned the others to come closer: "I don't think that might be a thief."
The other three looked at each other in confusion: "If it's not a thief, then who is it?"
"Tell me, which thief would use a flower girl's handkerchief to cover his face?"
The others nodded, agreeing that it made sense, and the leader continued his analysis.
"I heard that the master was completely captivated by Miss Feiyan from Wangchen Tower a while ago and had already reserved two private rooms. He was originally planning to go there to listen to music tonight."
"Now that you mention it, it seems to be true. This matter has been kept secret from the eldest lady. Who knew that he would collapse before he even went there?"
"That's really weird. Could it be that he's been bewitched by some kind of magic?"
"Ah, do you think those two just now...will they...?"
Everyone stared at the handkerchief, their expressions changing unpredictably.
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"Um..." Someone in the darkness broke the eerie silence first, "Did anyone bring flint?"
There was a rustling sound, and finally a flame suddenly lit up in the impenetrable darkness.
There were five people crammed into the narrow cellar, all of them looking a little disheveled. Only Zhongli seemed to be still calm and composed, as if he were still among the mountains and rivers.
Xiao Nanhui, who was sitting on a few cabbages at the time, was rather disgusted: "I thought Brother Zhongli was so elegant and indifferent, but it turns out he is capable of such petty theft."
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