Yue Lingyin flew out on the roof, and Feng Mian flew to chase her.
The two flew back and forth for a long time, and Yue Lingyin finally got rid of Feng Mian under the cover of the woods outside Beijing.
In order to prevent Feng Mian from coming back, Yue Lingyin waited on the tree for half an hour, and only flew down after making sure that Feng Mian would not come back.
The sky was dark and a rainstorm was brewing.
Yue Lingyin walked for a while, and raindrops as big as beans fell down. There was a house on the side of the road, and she knocked on the wooden door.
"Squeak--" A woman opened the door and looked at Yue Lingyin with a vigilant look.
"Sister, it's raining heavily. Can I stay here for one night?"
The woman looked at her overly stunning appearance and refused: "No, go away."
"Madam, who is here?" A man's voice came from behind.
The woman blocked Yue Lingyin and said to the man, "It's nothing. Don't come out when it rains."
"Okay, my lady."
The man went into the house, and no matter what Yue Lingyin said, the woman refused to let him stay overnight.
Seeing the rain getting heavier and heavier, and with no other buildings around to provide shelter, Yun Yuan looked towards the oxcart outside and said, "Sister, can I stay in your cart for a night?"
The woman agreed: "Okay then, it's not easy for a little girl like you, one tael of silver per night."
Yue Lingyin: “…”
Yue Lingyin stayed in the ox cart. As the sky grew darker, she was awakened by shouting in the house in the middle of the night.
A flash of lightning streaked across the sky, and a man in black, carrying a bulging bag on his shoulder, pushed a man outside with a fierce look on his face.
Judging from her pace and momentum, she is no match for him.
Yue Lingyin had a bad feeling. The host family refused to receive her, but she insisted on spending the night on the ox cart. When it was dawn, they discovered that something had happened at home, and the first person they suspected was her.
She had to leave quickly.
Regardless of the fact that the rain had not stopped yet, Yue Lingyin got out of the car and headed down the mountain. She was not familiar with the route and did not know what was on the road. It was dark and her visibility was poor. As she was walking, she missed a step and fell into a dry well.
The ground beneath my feet was soft and there was a strong, sickening smell of blood.
Yue Lingyin couldn't help but scream, and used her hands and feet to move away. After her eyes adjusted to the darkness, she mustered up the courage to look at what she had hit.
With the help of the dim light, Yue Lingyin took a closer look and was immediately frightened - it turned out that the man who was kidnapped by the man in black had been killed, and his body was lying quietly at her feet!
Blood flowed from the man's body, staining the ground beneath him red, forming a shocking pool of black shadow.
She was anxious to escape from this place, but the entrance to the dry well was narrow and the bottom was spacious, shaped like a strange gourd. The walls of the well were covered with thick moss and were extremely slippery, so she couldn't get out at all.
Yue Lingyin yelled, "Is there anyone here? Help!"
However, no one came.
There was dead silence all around, with only her voice echoing in the air, adding a touch of terror and despair to the atmosphere.
Finally the rain stopped and the sky brightened. Yue Lingyin was tired and felt that life was meaningless.
If she had known this would happen, she would have asked Feng Mian to take her back.
Now she is trapped in a dry well and among the dead. Will she die here?
Yue Lingyin felt helpless and panicked. She wanted to cry as she thought about it, but she held it back.
She didn't know how long it had been before she heard a sound outside. She perked up and shouted, "Help!"
Someone pulled away the dry grass and looked inside. Yue Lingyin looked up with hope. She couldn't see the person's face clearly because the light was behind her, but she felt that his outline was somewhat familiar.
"Someone, bring a rope."
This voice... Yue Lingyin's body stiffened.
Wasn't this Qiu Xiangnan, the man who had captured her in her previous life and then solved a major case? It was truly a narrow road for enemies to cross, and she had finally fallen into his hands.
Qiu Xiangnan tied the rope around his waist and jumped down. The first thing that caught his eyes was the tragic state of the dead. His cold gaze shot like an arrow at the only living person in the well.
"You killed him?"
His gaze froze for a moment when it met her face, and the sharpness faded a little.
Yue Lingyin knew this would happen, and she explained frankly, "Don't look at me being here, with blood stains on my clothes, but I really didn't kill him."
Qiu Xiangnan remained silent.
He was originally investigating a case of stolen official silver nearby. When he heard the peasant woman asking for help, he thought that he might be able to get some clues, so he stopped what he was doing.
Judging from her behavior and appearance, the woman in front of him did not look like someone who would kill someone.
He took the rope off and said, "I'll tie the rope for you, you go out first."
Yue Lingyin nodded quickly. She had wanted to leave the well for a long time and didn't want to stay there any longer.
Qiu Xiangnan tied the rope for Yue Lingyin and found that her waist was very thin. When he got close to her, he could smell a faint fragrance, which was different from the unpleasant smell of blood.
He paused slightly, then sped up his movements, finally tied a knot, and looked away.
"alright."
The people above pulled Yue Lingyin up with force. Yue Lingyin saw two people wearing Dali Temple official uniforms and the woman she had met yesterday, both with sad expressions.
The man's body was also carried out, and the woman threw herself on it and burst into tears.
"Boss, you died tragically."
Yue Lingyin quietly took a step back, but unexpectedly bumped into Qiu Xiangnan from behind.
"Well, it's really none of my business. I'm leaving first..."
Her wrists were restrained, and Qiu Xiangnan refused to let her go: "Please cooperate with the investigation."
The woman cried miserably, tears and snot streaming down her face. She pointed at Yue Lingyin and said, "Sir, it was her. She came to stay at my house yesterday, but I refused her offer. She insisted on sleeping on my ox cart. The thieves who broke in at night are most likely related to her!"
Yue Lingyin struggled: "Coincidence, everything is a coincidence."
No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't break free. She glared at Qiu Xiangnan angrily, and then used all her strength to try to shake off his hand, but this not only failed, but made him hold her tighter.
Yue Lingyin was about to collapse: "Let me go! I want to go home!!"
Qiu Xiangnan's hands did not move at all. His already stern face was now as expressionless as a sculpture, his eyes staring at Yue Lingyin.
He opened his lips slightly, his tone calm but unquestionable: "I have said that you should return to the Dali Temple for investigation."
Yue Lingyin was about to break down. What secrets could she keep if she accepted the invitation? Was she destined to be implicated?
She used her free hand to attack Qiu Xiangnan, but just as her senior sister said, she was easily subdued by Qiu Xiangnan with her mediocre skills.
Qiu Xiangnan grabbed her hands and swiftly tied her up with a rope. He then said to his accompanying subordinates, "Take her back to the Dali Temple."
"Wait!" Yue Lingyin wanted to struggle again: "Actually, I am the Queen Mother, please let me go."
When these words were spoken, everyone laughed.
How could the Queen Mother not be in the palace but appear in the wilderness?
No one believed her.
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