Suddenly he felt a strong force on his back, and then he fell directly into the pond.
"Help! Help!"
Having swum in the river since childhood, this little bit of water naturally wouldn't drown him, but he seemed to have been kicked from behind just now. Not knowing what was going on, he naturally had to pretend to be drowning.
He vaguely saw a slender figure standing by the water, coldly watching him. Zu An was startled. Why would Xue'er want to kill him? Could it be that his cheap wife had seduced Ximen Qing? Or did the Chu family think that such a huge scandal had occurred and wanted to use an accident to kill their son-in-law?
In an instant, all sorts of possibilities flashed through his mind, and at the same time, he pretended to drown and floated motionless on the surface of the water.
"Died so quickly? You got off easy." Xue'er on the shore exclaimed, and with a flick of her wrist, a ribbon flew out from her sleeve, hooking the "floating corpse" in the water to the shore.
Zu An was startled; this little vixen actually knew martial arts. It seemed he needed to be even more careful.
Xue'er squatted down by the water and reached out to check the other person's pulse.
Just then, Zuan, who was lying in the water, suddenly opened his eyes. A jet of water sprayed onto her face. Taking advantage of her instinctive closing of her eyes, he grabbed her tightly and rolled back into the water.
Xue'er knew she had fallen for his trick and instinctively tried to punch him, but when she opened her mouth, she swallowed a big gulp of water.
"Cough cough~" Although she knew martial arts, almost no women in this era knew how to swim. In the blink of an eye, she choked on several mouthfuls of water. She struggled to grab something on the shore, but she couldn't reach it.
In her panic, her little hand trembled, and a white ribbon wrapped around the railing by the water. Just as she was about to use it to fly up, Zu'an held her tightly like an octopus, making it impossible for her to exert any force.
Being held so tightly against her body, Xue'er felt both ashamed and angry. She tried desperately to struggle, but her partner was a very good swimmer and kept pulling her down into the water. She didn't know how much water she swallowed, and her vision became increasingly blurry.
As he sensed that her resistance was fading, Zu'an knew it was time and pulled her out of the water.
With her eyes tightly closed, eyelashes slightly curled, a delicate nose paired with cherry lips, she clearly looked like a quiet and beautiful girl. Unfortunately, her mouth was too sharp and her heart was a bit venomous. Hmm, it would be better if she were mute.
"What should we do next?"
Zu An quickly considered his options. Someone in this mansion wanted to kill him, and staying was too dangerous. But if he ran away, thinking of the grand mansion he had entered through, not only was it uncertain whether he would be able to get out, but even if he did, he was penniless and unfamiliar with this world, and he probably wouldn't last more than two days before starving to death.
Moreover, he just committed such a disgraceful act yesterday. If he were to commit another murder today, the authorities would surely issue a warrant for his arrest.
Wait a minute, since the other party used this method of creating an accident, it's obvious that the mastermind behind it wouldn't dare to kill him openly. Hmm, let's take a gamble.
He lowered his head and put his ear to Xue'er's chest, only to find that he couldn't hear her heartbeat. He was startled and quickly prepared to perform CPR on her.
As soon as he unbuttoned her shirt, a whole bunch of snacks like melon seeds and candies fell out, leaving him stunned: "How come this guy is so thin even though he can eat so much?"
But there was no time to worry about that, so I placed my hands on his chest and started first aid.
After pressing the chest buttons more than twenty times and finding no response, I bent down to perform CPR when a cold voice came from behind me: "What are you doing?"
Zu An turned around and saw Chu Chuyan standing not far away with a frosty expression. He subconsciously looked at Xue'er beside him and saw that her hair was disheveled and her clothes were loose and loose, revealing a bright red bodice and snow-white skin underneath. His hand was on her chest.
"Uh, would you believe me if I said I was saving her?" Zuan replied seriously, subconsciously pressing the button again as he spoke.
Chu Chuyan walked over indifferently and said, "Get out of the way." She glanced at Xue'er, then quickly tapped her body with her slender fingers, leaving only afterimages.
Zuan couldn't help but rub his eyes. Good heavens, he hadn't expected his cheap wife to be a martial arts master. But then he thought of Xue'er, who was also skilled in martial arts, and it made sense.
Was it her who wanted to kill him?
"Wife, how good are your martial arts skills?" Zu An asked tentatively.
"Wow~" Just then, Xue'er coughed violently and spat out several mouthfuls of water. She had obviously been saved. Chu Chuyan gently patted her back and turned to look at Zu An: "What did you call me?"
"Wife?" Zu An's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly changed his tune.
Chu Chuyan's expression turned cold, and she said indifferently, "I told you before we got married that you should call me Miss Chu or Chuyan, but you are not allowed to mention those two words again."
"Yes, my lady," Zu An readily agreed. "Just how skilled are you in martial arts? Where do you rank in the world?"
"Martial arts? You mean cultivation level, right?" Chu Chuyan frowned slightly, but still replied, "The world is so vast, there are always people more powerful than you, how could you possibly know your own ranking?"
Zuan said, "Oh, that means it's second-rate."
Chu Chuyan's breath hitched, and before she could answer, Zu An continued, "But we're all family, so I don't mind. How about you teach me martial arts? Do you have any secret manuals that make one year of practice equal to ten years of practice for others? Or any quick-learning techniques would be fine too."
Someone in this mansion wanted to kill him, which filled him with a sense of crisis. Besides, learning some martial arts would make it easier to find those unknown places in the future.
“There is no such technique,” Chu Chuyan said coldly, “and even if there were, you wouldn’t be able to learn it.”
“How could that be?” Zuan immediately jumped up. “How could someone with my extraordinary talent, one in a million, not be able to learn it? It’s just that you’re unwilling to teach me.”
Chu Chuyan replied, "People in the world start tempering their bodies from childhood when they cultivate, which requires a lot of spirit stones. After adulthood, the body and bones are fully formed, and no one will waste resources. Moreover, your aptitude can barely be considered as the lower grade of Ding... Even if you start cultivating from childhood, there is not much hope." She shook her head slightly as she spoke.
What level is the lower grade of the "T" character?
It didn't sound like a good word, but Zu'an didn't take it seriously. After all, which protagonist in those novels wasn't a useless person at the beginning? They just hadn't found the right cultivation method yet. In a way, he already had the characteristics of a male protagonist who started out as a useless person, so in a sense, he had already succeeded halfway.
Seeing that Xue'er had woken up, Chu Chuyan was too lazy to pay attention to him anymore: "Xue'er, what exactly happened just now?"
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