He Yan didn't sit up immediately, but just held his head and groaned, thinking about other things.

Yuan Baozhen really came to test her, first to test how she could find out the problem with the glass of wine, and second to see if she was really blind. This man was very thoughtful, and even asked Ding Yilai to put a bench to see her reaction. If He Yan's response was wrong, I'm afraid this master and servant would have other ideas.

She had excellent hearing and had heard Ding Yi's movements early on. She also knew that Yuan Baozhen did not leave immediately, so she deliberately acted here to cooperate with them and act out what Yuan Baozhen wanted to see. But Yuan Baozhen was testing her, so why wasn't she testing Yuan Baozhen?

Obviously, they have a deep relationship, but he insisted on saying that they were just acquaintances. If they were just acquaintances, He Rufei's servant Ding Yi would never follow him here. There was indeed something wrong with that glass of wine, but what puzzled He Yan the most was what role He Rufei played in this matter. Did he and Yuan Baozhen conspire to murder Xiao Jue, or was it He Rufei who was the mastermind, or were they both working for others?

Next, she had to follow Ding Yi and find out what these two people were going to do.

There was no movement outside. He Yan's "Aiya, aiya" sound became louder. There was movement behind him. It was Fei Nu's voice. He asked, "What's wrong with you?"

"I just hit my head." He Yan reached out to grab him in confusion, "Brother Fei Nu, come and help me, I sprained my ankle."

Fei Nu responded and came forward to help her onto the couch. The cloth covered He Yan's eyes, so Fei Nu couldn't read her emotions from her eyes, and naturally didn't know what He Yan was thinking at the moment.

In fact, the performance just now was not only for Yuan Baozhen, but also for Fei Nu.

Yuan Baozhen and Ding Yi wanted to test He Yan, but they didn't realize that Fei Nu had been standing at the door, listening to the noise inside. They didn't realize it, but He Yan did. Fei Nu only asked someone to remove the dishes, so why did he stay away for so long? It was nothing more than a mantis catching a cicada while the oriole was waiting behind.

For some reason, He Yan always felt that Xiao Jue and Fei Nu did not trust her. This was nothing. Of course, someone who had never met her before would not trust her at the beginning. But she was sensitive to the fact that Xiao Jue not only did not trust her, but was also a little wary and suspicious.

He Yan was also confused. She thought that she hadn't done anything suspicious. Now that she was here, she and Yuan Baozhen had never met before, so why was she suspected?

Forget it, I'll just be suspicious, it's just a trick to fool two people. He Yan said: "Brother Fei Nu, where did you go just now? That Yuan Yushi came over and sat for a while, but you didn't even see him."

Fei Nu avoided her question and just asked, "How is your head?"

He Yan touched her head and said, "I have a big swelling. I don't know when it will go away." She sighed again, "This is really a banquet for the rich. I think my little brother is quite smart. It's a good thing he didn't come. This is much more dangerous than being forced into marriage."

If Cheng Lisu were here, he wouldn't know what the situation would be like.

"Sit down and rest for a while." Fei Nu's voice was emotionless. "I'm at the door. Call me if you need anything."

He left again.

He Yan was lying on the bed, covered with a cloth. Fei Nu couldn't see her expression, and she couldn't see Fei Nu's reaction either. She thought he had no expression on his face either.

I don’t know when Xiao Jue will come back.

…

When Xiao Jue came back, it was already late at night.

That day, He Yan and Fei Nu stayed in Sun's house and did nothing. All the food and wine sent by Sun Xiangfu were tested for poison with silver needles. Since He Yan couldn't see, he simply slept in the house for a day, and Fei Nu also guarded the door for a day.

After Xiao Jue came back, Fei Nu, who was sleeping on the bed, woke up immediately, got up and walked to Xiao Jue, saying, "Young Master."

Xiao Jue motioned for him to follow him into the inner room. Fei Nu glanced at He Yan who was lying on the bed. Under the dim light, she was sleeping soundly.

Fei Nu and He Yan went into the inner room and did not see the sleeping boy on the bed, tapping the mattress with his hands. He Yan was certainly not asleep. She had slept all day, how could she continue to sleep at night? She was not a pig raised in the village. The second son of Xiao obviously had something to say to his confidant, and it was estimated that Fei Nu would also tell the governor everything that happened here today.

He Yan didn't have the courage to listen to the master and servant's private conversation. Xiao Jue was not Yuan Baozhen, he had real kung fu, and if he exposed himself, there would be too much trouble, and the gains would not be worth the losses. However, he could imagine what Fei Nu could say to him, and He Yan felt that he could still fool Fei Nu with his acting today.

As for whether she could deceive Xiao Jue, she didn't know.

In the inner room, the lamp was lit.

Xiao Jue put the sword on the table and sat down on the chair in front of the table.

"Young Master, Yuan Baozhen came here today." Fei Nu said.

Xiao Jue raised his eyes and asked, "What's the matter?"

“From what I can see, he came here specifically to look for He Yan. Yuan Baozhen had a few words with He Yan.” He told Xiao Jue the entire conversation between Yuan Baozhen and He Yan, and finally said, “Yuan Baozhen seemed to be testing He Yan.”

Xiao Jue hesitated for a moment and said, "What do you think?"

"From the way He Yan answered, it seems that he doesn't know Yuan Baozhen. There is nothing wrong either, but it is also possible that the two of them are acting together. But in general, the doubts about He Yan can be cleared for the time being."

"Cleared?" Xiao Jue smiled and said, "Fei Nu, the liar in our house has even deceived you."

Fei Nu was stunned and didn't understand.

"Don't forget that when He Yan competed with Wang Ba in archery, he shot a flying bird in the sky with his eyes blindfolded. Do you think that someone with such good hearing can't hear that Yuan Baozhen's guards put a stool in front of her?"

"Young Master, what you mean is..."

"He could have easily avoided the stool, but he fell down anyway. He lied to Yuan Baozhen for one thing, and lied to you for another." Xiao Jue said casually, "This guy is very good at lying."

What is a blind person like? Stumbling, panicking, and unable to do anything when no one is around. Very pitiful. This is the impression that ordinary people have of blind people. Yuan Baozhen and Fei Nu are both ordinary people, so they naturally think so. Seeing He Yan fall and be helpless is exactly what a blind person looks like. But He Yan is not an ordinary blind person. Even if she is covered with a cloth strip, she can still practice bows and crossbows better than others.

Yuan Baozhen had never seen He Yan blindfolded and shooting arrows, but Fei Nu had seen it before. Even so, even he overlooked this point.

"Lying to you is secondary. The person he wants to appease the most is Yuan Baozhen. Otherwise, he wouldn't have said such nonsense as there were flies in the wine."

There were flies in the wine? How could this be possible? It wasn't summer yet, and the Sun family paid special attention to this. There were insect-proof wormwood sachets hung everywhere. It was hard for He Yan to imagine that a fly could have flown into the wine glass.

"Master, is he from Yuan Baozhen?" Fei Nu was also a little confused. If he was from Yuan Baozhen, why would he be so suspicious?

"It doesn't look like it, but I can't say it's not." There were pens, ink, paper and inkstone on the table, which must have been specially arranged by Sun Xiangfu. He himself didn't like these things, but preferred to be pretentious.

Xiao Jue found a piece of paper and a pen and wrote a few words. His handwriting was elegant and vigorous, very beautiful, and on the paper, it was as dazzling as the person himself.

"I want you to take a letter to Lin Shuanghe."

"Mr. Lin?" Fei Nu's calm face finally showed a surprised expression, "Young Master, didn't you forbid Mr. Lin to come to Liangzhou?" He suddenly remembered something and said in disbelief, "Could it be... He Yan?"

The handwriting dried quickly in the wind. He put the letter into the envelope and said with his eyes downcast, "For him, but not entirely for him."

Fei Nu did not ask any more questions, but put the letter away and tiptoed out. Seeing this, Xiao Jue sneered.

"Why are you being so careful? The people outside have already woken up," he said.

"Young Master?" Fei Nu was stunned.

"Forget it. When it comes to deceiving people, you are no match for him." Xiao Jue shook his head and said lazily, "Anyway, he doesn't have the courage to come in."

Fei Nu stood there and thought for a while before leaving the room. After he left, Xiao Jue turned the wick of the lamp, and in the bright light, his pupils were bright and compelling.

"Xu Jingfu..."

The night swallowed his whispers.

…

When He Yan woke up, Xiao Jue was gone again.

He seemed very busy these past two days. When He Yan was awake, he had already left, and when he came back, He Yan had already fallen asleep. They didn't even meet. She guessed that what Xiao Jue did was probably related to what happened at the night banquet at Sun Mansion, but she couldn't go with him, so she could only sit here and wait.

But she didn't like sitting and waiting. Fortunately, it was past noon and approaching evening, and Fei Nu had to go out for something. Before leaving, he repeatedly told her to stay in the house and not go out to avoid trouble.

He Yan nodded in agreement.

In fact, in He Yan's opinion, there were not as many murderous intentions in Sun's mansion as Fei Nu said. From the incident at the night banquet that day, it can be seen that the assassins' target was only Xiao Jue. Without Xiao Jue, the mansion was 70% safe. The remaining 30% might not be able to defeat her.

This morning, He Yan removed the cloth strips from his eyes. It was because the cloth strips had been used for two days and it was time to replace them with new ones. However, the doctor in the mansion was scared away by Xiao Jue last time, so no one made cloth strips for He Yan.

Even though the cloth strips were removed, after two days, everyone in the mansion had determined that He Yan was blind and would not treat her as a normal person, except He Yan herself.

When she suddenly took off the cloth strip, she felt that the light was too bright and she still felt a little uncomfortable. Yesterday morning, she took off the cloth strip in front of Fei Nu and kept her expression unchanged. God knows how much she wanted to cry at that time - it was really blinding.

In fact, He Yan has never been "blind".

That night at the banquet, the last servant sent by Ding Yi to attack her did throw a handful of powdery substance at her. She blocked it and did feel some pain in her eyes.

After all, she had been blind once, and her eyes were extremely nervous and sensitive. She subconsciously felt that the scene in front of her was blurry, and suspected that she was going blind. But when she calmed down, she felt that she had actually avoided it. At night, when no one was around, He Yan secretly untied the cloth strip, and she could see the light of the lantern outside.

But it was just a blunder because she was too nervous. She wanted to explain it the next day, but when the next day came, she changed her mind.

A blind man is probably not a threat. It is much easier to be a non-threatening person and get close to Yuan Baozhen than to be a "clever Mr. Cheng who can find poison in the wine".

So when she unwrapped the strips of cloth in front of Fei Nu, He Yan didn't show any abnormality. She had been playing the blind man for quite some time, and she could imitate all the reactions a blind man should have, so that no one could find any mistakes.

But she didn't expect Yuan Baozhen to be so cautious and even came to confirm whether she was really blind. This made He Yan even more trapped. But at the same time, she was more certain that there was definitely something wrong between He Rufei, Ding Yi, and Yuan Baozhen. He Rufei must have been involved in the murder of Xiao Jue. Although she didn't understand what the grudge between He Rufei and Xiao Jue was, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, and now she and Xiao Jue are in the same group.

She had to find out what Yuan Baozhen and Ding Yi were trying to do.

He Yan tied up her hair and quietly went out.

Everyone knew that Master Cheng was now blind and stayed in his room every day except for going to the toilet. Moreover, everyone in the mansion was worried about their safety these days. Sun Xiangfu was busy clearing himself up, and no one cared about He Yan. Thanks to her good memory for knowing the way, she knew the way around the Sun Mansion by heart when she came to the Sun Mansion on the first day.

However, He Yan didn't know where Yuan Baozhen lived. When she was in a dilemma, she saw a person walking quickly through the garden in front of her. It was not someone else, but Ding Yi.

Good timing! He Yan secretly praised in her heart and quickly followed. She moved very quickly and was used to finding houses to hide in. Of course, because the Sun Mansion was self-righteous and luxurious, with rockery and bonsai everywhere, she had many hiding places. No one noticed her along the way. Finally, Ding Yi stopped in front of a house and pushed the door open to go in.

For some reason, the room where Yuan Baozhen lived was also very far from the hall, almost in the middle of nowhere, and there were not many people there. It was the autumn evening in Liangzhou, and it was already dark. He Yan estimated and climbed onto the roof.

She was thin and petite. The roof had high corners and flying eaves, and was decorated with carved patterns and stonework everywhere. He Yan lay on the roof, almost blending into the roof. She carefully searched for a long time and finally found a gap. She didn't know if it was rain or hail, but the fragile crystal tiles broke a little, leaving a gap. He Yan put her face close to it and listened to the movement inside.

Ding Yi walked into the house.

"How is it?" Yuan Baozhen asked.

Ding Yi shook his head: "I lost him."

"You didn't get discovered by him?"

"That's not the case." Ding Yi hesitated for a moment, "I didn't dare get too close to him, for fear of being discovered by him. He left early today and went to the east of the city. I looked for him nearby later, but couldn't find him."

Yuan Baozhen was uncertain: "What on earth does Xiao Jue want to do! He clearly happened in Sun's mansion, but he wants to live in the mansion. He goes out every day and I don't know what he does. I always feel that something is wrong."

When He Yan heard this, she became suspicious. Did Yuan Baozhen ask Ding Yi to follow Xiao Jue?

"Have the matters at the government office been dealt with?" Yuan Baozhen asked.

"Yingyue and her group are all dead, there is no evidence, the spy in the mansion is also dead, and since we have informed Sun Xiangfu in advance, there shouldn't be any problems." Ding Yi said, "I still don't understand how Cheng Lisu knew the actions of the spy at the time. He was also the one who found the glass of wine."

"You think there's something wrong with him? But you saw it yesterday. He's blind, and he's just an ordinary teenager."

"Even so... I always feel that something is wrong." Ding Yi couldn't tell. The young man must be blind, otherwise he wouldn't pretend so well. The servants in the mansion also said that he stayed in the house all day, and Xiao Jue's guards guarded him. He looked like a helpless rich boy. But Ding Yi still remembered that at the banquet, Cheng Lisu cast a look at him.

The glance was fleeting, as if it was just a casual glance at someone else, but for a moment, Ding Yi seemed to feel the anger in the boy's eyes. When he looked again, the boy had already looked away, as if what he had just seen was just an illusion.

But was it really an illusion?

They were talking excitedly, but He Yan was also shocked. "Yingyue is dead", "no evidence", "Sun Xiangfu was informed", which means that Xiao Jue's assassination was indeed done by Yuan Baozhen. Maybe Sun Xiangfu also helped.

Now that Xiao Jue is still living here, isn't this just an invitation for others to continue to harm him?

As she was thinking, she heard Yuan Baozhen ask, "Has Brother He written to you recently?"

He Yan thought that this "Brother He" was most likely referring to He Rufei.

"No, the master told me before he left that this time I must succeed." Ding Yi said, "If I fail, I will not be able to explain to Prime Minister Xu."

Xu Xiang?

He Yan's heart moved. What this meant was that He Rufei asked Ding Yi to assassinate Xiao Jue in order to give an explanation to "Prime Minister Xu". In other words, He Rufei was working for Prime Minister Xu? But who was Prime Minister Xu? She knew that it was Xu Jingfu, the prime minister of the current dynasty, but she didn't know if it was the "Prime Minister Xu" mentioned by Ding Yi.

"We have already failed," Yuan Baozhen said, half angry and half depressed, "I didn't expect Xiao Jue to be so difficult to deal with, and now he has already suspected me... I don't know if there will be another opportunity in the future."

"Xiao Jue is indeed difficult to deal with, but he also has a blind nephew." Ding Yi said, "Since this person is blind and can do nothing, he is like a fool. I think he can be used."

"What do you want?" Yuan Baozhen asked.

"Don't forget what I did before." Ding Yi said: "I have my own way..."

Before he finished speaking, he heard a "crunch" sound above his head and a small piece of green fell down. Ding Yi's expression changed, "Who?" He jumped out.

Under the moonlight, a figure passed by very quickly, as light as a swallow, and disappeared into the night in the blink of an eye.

He Yan complained in her heart. Sun Xiangfu was trying to be sophisticated, and even used jade tiles for the roof. They looked good, but they were very fragile. Even a frail person like her would collapse if she lay on them. What was the logic? He Yan wondered if Sun Xiangfu was playing the pig to eat the tiger. The purpose of using these tiles was to make it impossible for anyone to eavesdrop on the roof. If it was an ordinary man, he would have fallen off as soon as he lay down.

In the distance, Ding Yi was still chasing after him, but for some reason, he did not call the servants of the Sun Mansion to catch the assassin. Perhaps he had something to hide. He Yan relied on his familiarity with the roads here and hid left and right, thinking about the conversation he had just overheard.

Yuan Baozhen came to Liangzhou, Ding Yi came to Liangzhou, and He Rufei was in Shuojing, all for one purpose, to assassinate Xiao Jue, and all three of them had to give an explanation to "Prime Minister Xu". Now Xiao Jue was alive and well, and the assassins were all annihilated. Yuan Baozhen was unwilling to give up and wanted to come again, and Ding Yi also targeted her, the "useless blind woman". He wanted to use her as a blind woman to murder Xiao Jue.

After thinking about it, one person using another person is nothing more than instigating rebellion, hostages and being an unwitting murder weapon. Cheng Lisu and Xiao Jue are uncle and nephew, Yuan Baozhen probably wouldn't think of instigating rebellion. Then there are only two options left, taking He Yan as a hostage, firstly, He Yan doesn't think Ding Yi can beat her, secondly, she is not the real Cheng Lisu, and Xiao Jue probably won't do anything stupid like "surrendering for the sake of his nephew".

As for the third option, being someone's murder weapon without knowing it... they forgot the most important point, which was that He Yan was not blind, and had even started to be wary of Ding Yi from the beginning.

While thinking about these things, He Yan had already seen the room she lived in. The light was on in the room, probably Fei Nu had come back. He Yan touched her body, and found that the cloth strips were left in the room by her. Thinking that she would have to perform for Fei Nu later, she felt a headache.

She was afraid of being caught up by Ding Yi, so she leaped forward and ran into the house at lightning speed. When she turned back, she was almost choked to death by her own saliva.

There was a bathing tub in the room, with white mist rising from it. Xiao Jue was sitting in it. The beauty was bathing, her skin was as white as ice, and the moonlight slid in through the gaps in the window, casting a layer of coldness on his black hair, making him look particularly attractive. His shoulder blades were very beautiful, and for a moment, He Yan's mind drifted elsewhere. She thought that when she was in Xianchang Pavilion, she had never seen this man take off his outer clothes. Most of the big men in the army were sturdy and rough, and Xu Zhiheng was probably considered gentle, but Xiao Jue was different from them. He was both handsome and powerful, and his strong waist was particularly attractive. I think no matter men or women, they would admire him when they saw him.

It turns out that this man not only has a good-looking face, but his body is also different from that of ordinary people. No wonder he is called "Jade-faced Governor", which is indeed worthy of the name.

The mist made it difficult to see his expression. Xiao Jue probably didn't expect someone to suddenly come in at this moment. He stood up immediately and splashed with the sound of water.

He Yan: “…”

This was over. He Yan had seen everything, whether it was what she should have seen or not. At this moment, she cursed herself in her heart. Why did she wear a cloth strip every time she went out, but not today? Or if she really couldn't see it, it would be great.

Young Master Xiao quickly picked up the clothes on the rack and put them on, looking at her coldly.

The room seemed to have grown quite a bit colder.

Just as he was about to speak, he saw the young man in front of him open his hands and close the door carelessly. His eyes were calm and seemed to be widening, but he could not see anything. He asked, "Who... who is it?"

"Heh." Young Master Xiao was so angry that he laughed at the poor acting.