Grassy smell
Mute in the mouth.
Ren Beixi seemed to pause, and when he looked up he saw the morning light slowly coming in from the distance. He blocked the light with his hands, and through the light, he seemed to see Gui Yao smiling as she pinched the back of the necks of the little animals, with her index fingers pointing at their furry cheeks.
Should he ask? Should he ask?
Where do I start?
What secret is it? Why is there this secret...and why do I want to tell him?
On many nights in the past, he lowered his eyes and leaned sideways to hold her in his arms. She did not hide away, and her curled eyelashes rubbed his neck, making it itchy. The dragon and phoenix candles were lit, and the night was on.
It feels like we are really married.
Ren Beixi knew that if he followed his heart and asked this question.
Nothing will change.
The names written on the marriage certificate were Ren Beixi and Gui Yao, and the ones who got married were also Ren Beixi and Gui Yao.
But through Gui Yao's bright eyes, Ren Beixi knew that she was not Gui Yao. Her heart was broader than that of anyone else in the world. She would not be the young lady from the Gui family who had been foolish for many years.
But Guiyao has secrets, and he also has secrets.
Who is right and who is wrong.
Gui Yao raised her hand, imitating Ren Beixi's behavior.
Blocking the view.
She squatted beside Susu and asked it, "Do you want to look directly at the sun too?"
Susu shook off the dry hair on her body.
"I'm a mouse."
A mouse? Guiyao couldn't remember if she had spoken to Susu at that time to distinguish between a mouse and a hamster, a guinea pig, or a chinchilla. She must have just been lying by the small table, her hair hanging down, only to be picked up by the fingertips of a man who had approached at some point.
Guiyao asked him.
"How many days will we stay in Wuhua City?"
"We have to leave tonight." Ren Beixi tied Guiyao's hair in a knot in his hands, then loosened it. Finally, he let her lean against his arms and combed her hair with both hands until the sun rose. The sun gently moved out of the clouds and was not dazzling at all, but he still covered Guiyao's eyes with his hands.
"Yaoyao..."
The person who was called said "Hmm?" softly, and the numbers in his mind were interrupted.
The world is changing rapidly, all kinds of human things.
At least there is no 24-hour system in this world, and no one knows that sixty seconds is one minute. The time of sunrise is not recorded in Arabic numerals, so it only remains in Guiyao's heart.
and Ren Beixi's sixteen minutes and fifty-seven seconds.
She leaned over and looked into Ren Beixi's eyes, reaching out her hand to cover the sporadic silence in his eyes.
It was a clear kiss without any lust.
Was it a kiss? Ren Beixi didn't know. Before he met Gui Yao, he had never thought that he would be so reluctant to even touch her.
He could vaguely feel the pity in Guiyao's kiss.
It's not just pity.
But at this moment, Gui Yao didn't want to discuss what "love" was, at least before she told Ren Beixi everything in person.
Gui Yao pushed Ren Beixi away with one hand, stood up and packed her belongings. The dew was quite heavy on that autumn morning.
She stretched out her hand, and Susu jumped up clumsily, grabbed her sleeve, and jumped into the small pocket under her guidance.
Ren Beixi put a light green and white cloak on Guiyao.
Guiyao pinched it and said, "Is it newly bought? I'll have to take it off when it gets hot, and it's not easy to hold."
The man said in a deep voice, "I'll take it."
Okay, so Guiyao went out to the street with Susu in her arms, and along the way she listened to it telling her stories about what had happened in Wuhua City over the years.
The previous prefect of Wuhua City was named Lu Shui, a well-known prince's party member. He disappeared shortly after the new emperor ascended the throne and his whereabouts are unknown. However, according to available information, he should be dead. Lu Qingshan, as his son, took the position of the new prefect by killing his own blood relative.
"Ah." Guiyao opened her mouth.
The buns that Ren Beixi fed me were delicious. The pancakes were okay even though they lacked a little oil. As for the information, it was very useful.
Susu was wilting. She had originally wanted to show off her skills, but now, after listening to the man's solemn narration of information that she had never known before, she could only stretch out her little paws to beg for food from Guiyao.
The two men and the rat walked south from Wuhua City. As they walked, Pinyue appeared beside them. Pinyue summarized the information about the actors on the street last night and said, "It was indeed arranged by Lu Qingshan, but... the national master beside Lu Qingshan doesn't seem to be Jiuchong."
Xiao Hui came up from the left again.
"Jiuchong is so annoying!"
Guiyao rarely heard him say such emotional words, so she leaned over and asked, "What's wrong?"
Ren Beixi frowned slightly and paused when he heard this. Under Gui Yao's guidance, he saw Ren Hui's wound. It was not deep, but there was a lot of blood.
It was indeed caused by Jiu Chong's hidden weapon, but the angle was extremely tricky. I haven't seen him make a move for many years, so it is difficult to tell whether it was intentional or unintentional.
Putting the topic aside for the moment, the group rented a carriage.
Ren Hui was still a patient, so Gui Yao let him sit in the carriage. She and Ren Beixi leaned on the left and right of the carriage, their calves swaying in the air with the inertia of the carriage moving forward.
The hairband swayed slightly in the wind.
She suddenly remembered something and handed the Susu in her arms to Pinyue.
So Pinyue and Ren Hui, who were forced to ride in the carriage, stared at each other, and finally focused their attention on the little furry ball.
"Where did you pick this up from, a rabbit?"
Xiao Hui poked the small cloth wrapped around Pin Yue's legs, and Susu's furry back shuddered. He turned his head and wanted to scare people! Oh, he was scared!
"Ahhh what is this!"
"It's a mouse."
“Why didn’t you say it earlier?!”
"You didn't ask."
Ren Hui shrank into a corner of the carriage with his sword in his arms, and the bandage on his abdomen pulled at the wound. He didn't say anything else, and only curled up the corners of his mouth after a long time.
He even made Pinyue laugh. He is really good.
The carriage window was narrow, and looking forward, the destination was the other end of the secret passage. The carriage was passing through a dense forest.
“Whoosh—”
Gui Yao's pupils trembled as she saw the half arrow blocked by the sword in front of her. She didn't even feel when Ren Beixi drew the sword.
She instinctively leaned behind him.
The two people in the carriage heard the noise and immediately used their swords to lift up the roof of the carriage, scaring Gui Yao so much that she screamed.
Pinyue handed her the package.
His voice was a little hoarse: "How dare you."
Guiyao and Susu looked at her together, and while saying words of regret, they held the swords even tighter in their hands!
It happened in the blink of an eye.
Seeing dozens of masked men armed with knives attacking from the dense forest, dressed in black and carrying out an assassination in broad daylight? Gui Yao was stunned when her hand was suddenly grasped and she was suddenly lifted into the air, lifted horizontally and flown out of the carriage.
"Wait, can we run at this time?" Gui Yao didn't know where to put her hands and turned back hurriedly.
I saw that Pinyue had already stabbed forward and fought with the man in black. Xiaohui covered the wound with his right hand and stood behind Pinyue, seemingly casually holding the sword and making moves. It seemed that he could not distinguish between friend and foe in the small space, and just stabbed the sword into his chest.
There is another arrow.
Gui Yao watched helplessly as the arrow was placed on the string. The man in black on the far right bent his bow and shot it with all his might before his neck was cut.
Like a frightened bird, it broke through the wind and shot towards Ren Beixi's back, or into her eyes.
Ren Beixiong, perhaps sensing the subconscious force of her fingers, said in a gentle and soothing voice, "Don't be afraid."
Next second.
"Squeak." The sound just fell.
Ren Beixi swung his sword and killed the villains.
The carriage was abandoned, Pinyue caught up with their backs in three or two steps. Xiaohui was holding a sword and seemed to be counting the dead men in black on the ground. This was what Guiyao saw when she turned around. She comforted Susu in her mind, and also comforted herself.
Gui Yao whispered, "It looks like they are Lu Qingshan's men."
"That's right." Ren Beixi put her down steadily on the ground. Seeing the sweat on her forehead, he simply hung her in his arms with the dress she wore as promised, and continued, "I didn't expect him to dare to do it in broad daylight."
"It's a fatal move."
He looked ahead: "I just let someone go."
After tracking it down, I will replace it and invite it again. Let’s see if I can catch it in the trap tonight.
The priority now is.
"Found it!" Gui Yao trotted over from the dense forest, holding an ink-black scabbard in her hand, which was engraved with mountain and flying birds. It could only be seen when you got closer.
It turns out that things like scabbards really need to be picked up. Gui Yao wiped the dusty scabbard with her hand and was suddenly stunned.
Ren Beixi followed her gaze and saw the white powder. He raised his hand to stop Gui Yao from touching him any further. He just took back the scabbard and frowned.
"Herbaceous smell."
Gui Yao naturally thought of the poison that Lu Qingshan had previously called Hanjiangxue. She looked carefully at this moment and found that there seemed to be tiny powdery particles all over the dense forest, which was most obvious around the tree stumps.
Ren Beixi said, "It's hard to grow plants in the northern border, so we use the essences from plants as nutrients."
"Everyone in Northern Xinjiang knows that this type of nutrient is poisonous, but no one in An Dynasty knows it."
Ren Beixi used his fingertips to brush away the white powder on the scabbard and put the sword back into the sheath.
Gui Yao pondered for a long time and suddenly said, "Is it possible that Jiuchong saw that there was poison in the dense forest, so... But why did he hurt Xiaohui? It was a two-on-one situation, and they could have captured Lu Qingshan alive."
Xiao Hui handed the badge confiscated from the man in black to Ren Beixi and scratched his head behind them.
"It's not really two against one."
"Our men fired their crossbows and laid in ambush outside. When Lu Qingshan came out, he had a secret guard beside him. Lu Qingshan handed the secret guard over to his men and went into the dense forest alone. I followed him in to avoid alerting the enemy."
He pointed this way, meaning that this was where he and he started fighting.
He pointed over there, meaning that Jiuchong and Lu Qingshan were beating him up over there.
"etc."
Gui Yao asked seriously, "So what was the opportunity that led you to walk from the dense forest to the cliff?"
She narrowed her eyes slightly and suddenly met Ren Beixi's silent gaze.
Sure enough, the cliff is the most important thing.
But what secret lies behind the cliff that caused Jiuchong to stab Xiaohui?
The system in my mind suddenly popped up.
"So you believe Jiuchong is a good person?" the system said. Seeing that Guiyao was running seriously and had not had time to pay attention to him, it waited for a while and chuckled after half a second.
"Congratulations, host! The completion rate of the side quest, Xiangshu Wuyi, has increased to 80%."
The mission is big.
Guiyao stopped.
The bloodstains on the edge of the cliff still dripped onto the rocks and weeds. The place was still empty, but a place name had been added to her mind because of Susu.
"Bottom of the cliff."
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