Chapter 22 Chapter 22 You have to untie your belt...
Xue Yuanyin gnashed her teeth in hatred. When she thought of how Zhang Jingxuan had kicked her in the butt just now, she felt like smoke was coming out of her head. She wished she could cut him into pieces to vent her anger.
What a shame! What a shame!
At this moment, a sharp sword flew towards Xue Yuanyin's face. Her heart skipped a beat, knowing that she could not dodge it. She made a decision in an instant, and immediately gathered energy in her dantian, and a light breath flowed into her limbs and bones.
She jumped lightly onto the tree trunk with a flash of her body. After standing firmly, she glanced to the side with anger.
Zhang Jingxuan took advantage of the moment when she attracted the guards and swiftly slipped into the shadows at the corner between the study and the corridor, without attracting any attention at all.
Only when she was forced to use lightness skills to avoid the guards' moves did he catch a glimpse of her in the dark at the study door.
The look in his eyes was half-smiling, and contained a hint of foreseen meaning.
Xue Yuanyin could even see clearly what Zhang Jingxuan wanted to express through the darkness -
You really are good at Qinggong, and you want to hide it from me?
Xue Yuanyin: “.”
Damn it! So angry!
When the study formation was fully activated, the courtyard and several guards seemed to be isolated in this separate space.
Zhang Jingxuan seemed to see that she was safe for the time being, so he stopped paying attention to this side. He took out the key that Chen Su had prepared in advance and opened the study door in a few seconds. Before the guards saw him, he quickly entered the study and closed the door behind him.
Xue Yuanyin withdrew her peripheral vision and when she looked up again, she saw several guards standing in front of her who were imprisoned in the main courtyard with her and looked at her with vicious eyes.
she:"……"
Xue Yuanyin wished she could tear Zhang Jingxuan into pieces!
After she gets out, she will definitely find an opportunity to kick him back hard to vent her hatred!
Although she had many thoughts in her mind, she did not dare to be vague in her moves and only used a dagger to deal with several guards in the yard.
Fortunately, after the Bagua Formation was opened, no one else outside could come in, giving her space to maneuver.
The leader of the guards thrust his sword forward and demanded sharply, "What is your name and what is your purpose?!"
Xue Yuanyin dodged their fierce encirclement. Anyway, her lightness skill had been exposed. She fought while circling the courtyard, walking around a group of guards and taking the time to study the formation.
The Bagua formation, as the name suggests, should have been mentioned in the I Ching. Unfortunately, her I Ching studies were so poor that she couldn't decipher such a powerful formation. If Zhang Jingxuan were here, he would probably be able to explain it to her.
Never mind, she'll ask him later, but the most urgent thing is that she can't escape at all.
Xue Yuanyin tried to jump out, but found that she landed where she was.
It was as if he was "locked" in this world by the hexagram formation.
The guard leader sneered when he saw her doing this:
"Little thief, this is a hexagram array set up by our county magistrate. Any stranger who breaks in will be trapped in the courtyard! Just surrender!"
Xue Yuanyin silently wrote down the information he revealed, and waited for Zhang Jingxuan to get the clue and interpret the hexagram, so that she could go out.
Why is he so slow? How long has it been?!
When Xue Yuanyin's arm was injured by one of them, her patience had reached its limit. Zhang Jingxuan finally pushed the door open from the study, and his voice came softly through the veil:
"Walk!"
Xue Yuanyin immediately shouted at him, "These trees and flowers are all dead ends, not the core of the formation! I tried, but I can't get out!"
Zhang Jingxuan had already walked along the corridor to her side, and said calmly:
"It's okay, I know how to find the exit."
Xue Yuanyin followed closely behind him, struggling to fend off the encirclement from all sides, and said jealously:
"Can you still break the formation?"
Zhang Jingxuan glanced around the courtyard, and between his slender fingers, several stones fell to the ground in various directions. The sounds were inconsistent.
He raised his eyebrows slightly and said leisurely, "For others, it's difficult. But for me, it's easy - isn't this what I found?"
He pointed to a spot about three feet and three inches from the courtyard gate and said, "There, destroy it."
As he was speaking, another guard stabbed with his sword. Xue Yuanyin twisted his body to avoid it, and the dagger pierced through several guards and was pinned there accurately.
There was a loud "boom" and the air in front of my eyes flashed. The surroundings that were originally unclear gradually became clear!
The Bagua formation is broken!!!
Xue Yuanyin ran out immediately. The sound of the courtyard formation being activated just now could not be hidden from the other guards of the county magistrate's mansion. Now he was afraid that there were ambushes outside.
The two of them had to escape quickly before the other guards arrived.
She ran very fast, not caring whether Zhang Jingxuan, who had no martial arts skills, could keep up with her. She even said maliciously:
"If you can't keep up and get beaten to death, I won't care about you!"
Zhang Jingxuan never fell behind, following her through the layers of roofs and tree shadows, running out of the mansion. The thick night could not hide his relaxed and carefree look, and said:
"I saved your life after all, and you're repaying my kindness with hatred."
Xue Yuanyin did not answer, but only sneered.
They met other guards one after another on the way, and heard the sounds of pursuit from behind, but the two of them reunited with Qin Fang without any danger.
Qin Fang breathed a sigh of relief and took the lead to escape along the route he had checked earlier.
An arrow came from behind, but Xue Yuanyin didn't dodge. Instead, he shot it towards Zhang Jingxuan's heart!
Just now, this man dodged several attacks leisurely behind her, now it's his turn to get a taste of what it's like!
Her temptation was so blatant that Zhang Jingxuan couldn't avoid it.
He let out a light click, and from an angle where Qin Fang and the other two couldn't see him, he lightly reached out and grabbed the sharp arrow that was flying towards his heart.
The next moment, the arrow turned into powder!
He threw away the shattered arrow with a look of disgust, looked at Xue Yuanyin calmly and said:
"Miss Xue has a cruel heart, betraying her allies like this."
Xue Yuanyin sneered again.
You are so good, Zhang Jingxuan, you have such profound and outstanding lightness skills, but you actually hid it from everyone for so long!
She and everyone in the capital thought he was just a weak civil official!
Holding the arrow out of thin air, he crushed it into powder with one hand.
What a weak and gentle minister!!!
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Perhaps the noise they made attracted the attention of the three people in front. Zhang Zimo's hesitant gaze drifted over again, and after a long pause, he managed to say:
"Can we get out and do it later? We're still running for our lives!"
Xue Yuanyin ignored Zhang Jingxuan and focused on running away.
In the end, the group escaped from the county magistrate's mansion safely and only breathed a sigh of relief when they reached a safe place. However, except for Zhang Jingxuan who was dressed neatly, everyone else looked a little disheveled.
Xue Yuanyin had been wandering around the courtyard for too long, and the soles of her shoes were covered in mud. Combined with her expressionless face at night, she looked extremely terrible.
She said to Zhang Jingxuan expressionlessly:
"We went to such great lengths to escape, and don't tell me you didn't find anything in the study."
Judging from her tone, if Zhang Jingxuan really dared to nod, she would skin him alive on the spot.
"I stole a few pictures."
Zhang Jingxuan took out a few thin pieces of paper from his lapel and started to piece the pieces together. Everyone leaned over to look.
Xue Yuanyin frowned and asked, "Could this be... a map? Where does it point to?"
Zhang Jingxuan placed the map under the moonlight, vaguely making out the lines on it that looked like ghostly scribbles, and said:
"It's a map. But the lines are so messy, I think it's a map that needs to be deciphered."
The map that needs to be deciphered is indeed very important.
Zhang Zimo squatted at the foot of the wall like a beggar, and said seriously:
"We have to decipher it as quickly as possible to see where this map points and what it represents... Coming out every night to decipher it is unrealistic. But during the day, the garden is full of workers. Where is there a secret place for us to concentrate on deciphering the map?"
This question caught everyone's attention and they fell into silence for a moment.
After a while, Zhang Jingxuan put away the map and said, "We'll talk about it tomorrow when we get to work. It's too late today, you should go back first."
If he didn't sleep in the bunk bed for one night, he could explain it away, but if three people didn't come back for a long time, it would arouse suspicion.
This is all we can do now.
Qin Fang and the other two were about to turn back when Zhang Zimo suddenly turned around and couldn't help asking:
"Just now, the two of you were hiding in the back, going back and forth. What were you doing?"
Xue Yuanyin was annoyed when she heard this, but Zhang Jingxuan finally said in a gentle voice, "It's okay."
But this sentence made Zhang Zimo a little excited, which obviously deepened the misunderstanding. He looked back and forth between the two of them.
…
After saying goodbye to Qin Fang and the other two, Xue Yuanyin returned to the courtyard and turned to glare at Zhang Jingxuan, feeling cheated.
"Why didn't you tell me you knew martial arts?"
"Whether I say it or not, doesn't it affect our actions?"
Zhang Jingxuan raised his eyelids and said, "Besides, I don't know how to fight, I can't beat you."
Xue Yuanyin's eyes widened, and just as she was about to accuse him of lying, Zhang Jingxuan calmly explained:
"When I was young, I was in poor health. My grandfather searched the world for famous doctors to treat me, but unfortunately, the results were minimal. Later, he stumbled upon a folk remedy that wasn't really a cure - it told me to practice Qinggong, regulate my internal energy, comb my meridians, and invigorate my bones and blood. If I persisted in this, my body would be transformed from the inside out. But practicing martial arts was not an option; it was too much of a burden for me."
Xue Yuanyin was a little suspicious and obviously didn't believe it.
Zhang Jingxuan stretched out his hand towards her, motioning her to let go.
Xue Yuanyin:?
No way, even though she had doubts, she wouldn't go so far as to touch his dantian!
That part is so private, she probably needs to unbuckle her belt, right? Maybe even her underwear... She doesn't even bother to touch it!!!
Zhang Jingxuan calmly hooked her hand and placed it on his pulse. Only then did Xue Yuanyin realize that Zhang Jingxuan wanted her to feel his pulse.
She paused, pretending nothing had happened, and touched his pulse with her fingertips. There was a faint internal energy flowing in it, but it didn't seem like he had undergone martial arts training. Only then did she realize that he was telling the truth.
After Xue Yuanyin withdrew her hand, Zhang Jingxuan straightened his cuffs and looked at her with a half-smile.
"I asked you to take my pulse. What were you thinking about just now?"
Xue Yuanyin felt her face getting hot, and she defended herself loudly, "Don't misunderstand me! I just think that physical contact between men and women shouldn't be allowed, so how can you just touch someone's pulse?"
It's bullshit. She really knows how to lie with her eyes open.
Zhang Jingxuan looked at her deeply for a moment, then didn't continue the conversation. He simply said indifferently, "You'd better think so."
Xue Yuanyin suppressed the cold snort that almost came out of his mouth.
How narcissistic, he thought she wanted to touch him so much!
but……
Her eyes swept across his tall figure calmly, his broad shoulders, his narrow waist tied tightly in his shorts, and the thin muscles that were faintly visible on his arms...
It must be said that when he took off his embellished brocade and fur coat and wore only a cloth shorts, his stature was indeed much stronger than she had imagined, and his pulse was steady and strong. He was completely unlike the thin scholar that the outside world had said he was.
Is he secretly taking some drugs?
Xue Yuanyin's previous thought suddenly popped up again.
She wanted to see other expressions on his face, and suddenly she became eager to do something, so she drew out her voice and said:
"What if I said, 'I'm wondering what your pubic area feels like?'
Zhang Jingxuan was a little surprised that she would say this. It was not like her usual speaking style. He looked at her for a long time before saying calmly:
"Then you can only think about it. There are too many people who covet my body, both men and women, and it won't be your turn."
Xue Yuanyin: "...You are so narcissistic, I don't need you!"
Worried that staring at him for too long would cause him to overthink things, Xue Yuanyin forced herself to look away from him and changed the subject:
"When we were little, we played together every day, but why didn't I see you practicing Qinggong?"
Zhang Jingxuan glanced at her calmly: "It's just that you play every day."
Xue Yuanyin: “…”
Zhang Jingxuan continued calmly, "You kept the fact that you were learning Qinggong from me a secret. Wasn't that also a deliberate concealment?"
This is the truth. Xue Yuanyin thought about it and decided to cancel each other out.
Feeling sleepy, she yawned and vaguely felt that she had forgotten something.
It seemed like she originally wanted to investigate Zhang Jingxuan for something?
I'm too sleepy, never mind.
Xue Yuanyin yawned, waved to Zhang Jingxuan, turned around and went back to sleep.
However, Zhang Jingxuan walked to the door and stopped, glancing at her sideways.
The situation was urgent, and that incident of accidentally kicking her butt...did she forget to lose her temper?
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The next day, the news that the county magistrate's mansion had been robbed at night spread like wildfire throughout Quanyang County, and of course also spread to the garden.
A group of people with dark circles under their eyes were listening to the manager emphasizing discipline and rules in an angry tone among a group of workers.
Because of the thief last night, the manager was so angry that he cursed the sky and the earth, and spit flew everywhere.
Xue Yuanyin couldn't help but yawn. She had slept for more than an hour last night and was so sleepy that she wanted to faint on the spot.
Zhang Zimo whispered beside him, "What did the steward say? He probably doesn't know that we slipped out of the bunk bed."
Chen Su said impatiently: "I'm so sleepy, I don't know."
Zhang Jingxuan glanced at them. This group of people was too conspicuous. He reminded them lightly:
"Stand still, don't let anyone notice you."
So everyone tried hard to open their lifeless eyes.
Luo Changfeng was in the same team as them, but he had never seen these people look so haggard. He was shocked and said:
"You...were you ghosts last night?!"
I didn't think I was a ghost, but a thief. I didn't sleep much that night.
Zhang Zimo waved his hand weakly: "Good brother, don't ask."
After the manager finished explaining the discipline, he began to ask everyone to hand in the handwritten guarantee drafts of the previous orders, one team at a time.
Luo Changfeng took out the manuscript, turned his head to look at it, and asked hesitantly: "Have you finished the manuscript?"
Zhang Zimo woke up from his nap and looked around at the people around him with horror: "What are you handing in? What manuscript? Why do workers have to hand in homework manuscripts?!"
Luo Changfeng explained that because the workers had poor discipline, the manager asked everyone to copy the county magistrate's disciplinary rules and regulations and memorize them. Those who could not read had to sign their names with their hands.
Nowadays, education and enlightenment are widely popularized, and even workers can recognize a few basic words.
Chen Suo didn’t write about it, and Qin Fang didn’t write about it either.
Xue Yuanyin didn't write anything either. What was a handwritten manuscript? Yesterday, she was just planning to go to the county magistrate's mansion at night. She subconsciously turned her head to look at Zhang Jingxuan and said:
"It's over! The county magistrate's mansion was just robbed, and the five of us..."
The next second, Zhang Jingxuan took out two copies of the manuscript with a calm expression and handed them over while everyone looked at him as if he were a traitor.
Zhang Jingxuan calmly said to Xue Yuanyin, "I wrote it for you last night. Consider it an apology for accidentally kicking you."
Xue Yuanyin:?
Xue Yuanyin felt as if struck by lightning, and everything flashed through his mind, and he remembered it all in an instant!
It would have been fine if he had used her as bait last night, but he actually kicked her in the butt!
It is truly a great shame and humiliation!!!
The manager scolded those who didn't hand in their manuscripts before leaving. Everyone returned to their seats in groups of three or four and started working.
Xue Yuanyin could no longer contain her rage, wishing she could punch Zhang Jingxuan's calm and handsome face until it swelled up.
"I was wondering why you were so kind and even handed in a copy for me. Turns out you remember what you did!"
Xue Yuanyin felt ashamed and angry when she thought about it. That was her butt! A girl's butt! He had kicked her without hesitation!
Aa ...
Perhaps seeing that she was about to get angry, Zhang Jingxuan quickened his pace and said:
"I'm sorry, I was in a hurry and didn't have time to think too much."
Xue Yuanyin sneered. But in an instant, another strange thought flashed through his mind.
She walked casually beside him, her eyes inadvertently falling on his buttocks under the restraint of his narrow waist.
Although this behavior was completely perverted, she still stared at it and admired it for a few seconds - hidden by the coarse cloth pants, it seemed a little bit raised? But it didn't seem to be that raised, I don't know...
Xue Yuanyin retracted his strange look, put on a talkative look, and smiled as he said:
"I'm not unreasonable. I don't mind you kicking me, as long as you let me kick you back—"
Zhang Jingxuan followed her gaze and knew what she was thinking. He interrupted her coldly: "Impossible."
He then added calmly, "Don't even think about it."
Xue Yuanyin raised her eyebrows, but she wasn't angry. She smiled and tried to persuade him, looking very kind:
"I know, young masters of noble families all care about their reputation! How could they endure the humiliation of being kicked in the buttocks? I understand. There are so many people here, it's too inconvenient. When we return to the courtyard tonight, I'll kick you again, and this matter will be over. Or, if you are willing to let me touch it back... that's also possible!"
Zhang Jingxuan looked at her with a complicated expression. He had not expected such a condition, so strange and so perverted. He pondered his words for a moment and said tactfully:
"Do you know what you're talking about?"
"I know."
Since Xue Yuanyin had already said it, she was like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water. She didn't care what he thought. The most important thing was that she felt good.
She said calmly, "You've suffered a loss yourself in this exchange, so my request isn't excessive, is it?"
Zhang Jingxuan glanced at her calmly and said without hesitation, "Impossible."
Xue Yuanyin knew there was no hope when she saw his unyielding attitude. She felt regretful and said unwillingly:
"What's wrong? I can let you kick me, but not yours? Is your butt made of gold and can't be touched?
Zhang Jingxuan frowned and said:
"I didn't mean to humiliate you, but if you intentionally humiliate me when you're not in a desperate situation, I absolutely cannot agree to it."
Seeing his firm attitude, Xue Yuanyin had no choice but to give up the idea.
But if she didn't take revenge on him, she would feel at a disadvantage.
An idea suddenly popped up in her mind. Perhaps because she didn't get enough sleep last night, she felt a little dizzy and couldn't think straight. She said something:
"You won't let me touch the back, then touch the front?"
By the time Xue Yuanyin realized what she had said, the air had already fallen silent.
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The author has something to say: I have to post a clip on Thursday, so there will be no updates during the day on Wednesday and Thursday. It will be postponed to 23:00 on Thursday night, muah~
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