Shen Qiyin noticed his reaction and asked, "You know him?"
Chu Si shook his head blankly: "I don't know him."
"Then why do you have that expression?"
"Look over there," Chu Si said, pointing.
Shen Qiyin looked in the direction he was pointing and saw something moving in the grass a little further away. The piled-up weeds made a "rustling" sound as they were being disturbed.
Xianglan grabbed Shen Qiyin's arm and said, "Don't be afraid, Miss, I'll protect you!"
As she finished speaking, she met the obvious suspicion in the eyes of Shen Qiyin and Chu Si, and awkwardly forced a smile, saying, "Mental protection."
After saying that, she quickly changed the subject, asking, "Was that a tiger?"
Shen Qiyin pondered for a moment and said, "A wolf?"
Fourth day: "...It's a stray dog."
He glanced at the man lying under the tree and said, "He probably smelled the blood and came looking for us."
"Girls, stay here and don't move."
On the fourth day, he leaped up, drew his sword, and charged forward.
Having become Xiao Yan's bodyguard, dealing with two wild dogs was naturally a piece of cake for him.
After the battle ended on the fourth day of the lunar month, Shen Qiyin finally walked towards the man whose fate was unknown.
He had multiple sword wounds, and although the wounds were not particularly deep, he had lost too much blood.
Xianglan knelt in front of the man, hugging her knees. Then, as if remembering something, she looked up at Chen Qiyin and asked, "Miss, are you going to save him?"
"What's wrong?"
"Based on my years of experience reading storybooks, it's best not to easily rescue random men on the street."
The fourth-year student asked, puzzled, "Why?"
"Who knows if he's a good person or a bad person?" Xianglan said warily. "It's like hitting the jackpot. If you're lucky, you might find yourself a perfect husband..."
Before Xianglan could finish speaking, Chu Si immediately declared, "Miss, then let's not save her!"
Are you kidding me!
He helped the girl find a suitable husband; if the young master found out, wouldn't he turn the entire capital upside down?
Shen Qiyin, however, was curious about Xianglan's strange ideas and pressed her for an answer: "What if you're unlucky?"
"If you're unlucky, you've saved a living devil!"
"He's unconscious right now and has no idea that you saved him. He might mistake someone else for his benefactor when he wakes up. If you try to acknowledge him, he might think you're trying to take credit for him and end up helping that imposter to torment you. Isn't that infuriating?"
“There’s an even more terrifying possibility,” Xianglan said, her expression turning ferocious. “You save him, and he turns around and kills your whole family! Tsk tsk tsk…”
Upon hearing this, Miss Shen made a decisive decision to save the person.
Kill her whole family! This is a golden opportunity; you'll never get another chance like this!
The man bled quite a bit, but thankfully he was still half alive.
Shen Qiyin applied medicine to his wound and bandaged it up.
On the fourth day, after carrying the person down the mountain, he still couldn't help but remind Shen Xiyin, "Miss, let's make this clear first: you're saving people, but you absolutely mustn't fall for him."
"If he tries to offer himself to you, you must firmly refuse!"
"Otherwise, if something really happens, not only will Xianglan and I, who accompanied you up the mountain today, be in danger, but our young master will have to pour boiling water into the ant holes on this mountain."
Shen Qiyin unconsciously swallowed: "...Mmm."
She never doubted Xiao Yan's destructive power.
After handing the man over to the monks at Lingyan Temple, Shen Qiyin did not leave immediately. Instead, she asked Xianglan to find paper and pen and wrote down that the person who saved her was the eldest daughter of the Shen family.
Xianglan thought to herself, "As expected of their second young lady, she is so thorough in her work, nipping any misunderstandings, like mistaking someone for someone else, in the bud."
Then, Shen Qiyin stuffed the note into the man's sleeve while muttering, "That way, you won't be afraid that when you want to kill my whole family, you won't know who I am."
Xianglan: "..." She has not forgotten her original intention.
However, what Shen Qiyin did not forget was that when she left, she took the jade pendant that the man was wearing at his waist.
Of course, it wasn't stealing.
In the letter she left for him, she had already stated that the jade pendant would be used as payment for his treatment for the time being, and that he could use the money to redeem the jade pendant once he recovered.
On the way back, the sky was dusky.
Before long, a day's worth of snow began to fall gently.
When they returned to the Shen family home, the ground was completely covered in snow, and from a distance, it looked like silver flowing everywhere.
As she passed by the gate of Jiang Wan's courtyard, through the bare hedge, she saw Jia Lan setting off firecrackers, chanting loudly, "Chen Qiyin! I'll blow you to pieces, blow you to pieces!"
Shen Qiyin raised an eyebrow and looked again in the direction where he threw the firecrackers. She noticed a few words crookedly written on the tree trunk, which seemed to be her name.
The character “栖” was also written incorrectly, as “七”.
Back at the Begonia Courtyard, Banxia told her, "The young master came by before and lit firecrackers and threw them into your room, almost setting the house on fire."
He threw it away and ran off, but Banxia was too busy tidying up the house to chase after him.
Even if we catch up, what can we do to him?
He refused to admit it no matter what, and she, a mere maid, couldn't do anything to him. They would have to wait for someone with authority to come back and make a decision.
Shen Qiyin smiled slightly after hearing this.
Oh.
OK.
It's raining and you're just idling around anyway.
Later that evening, Honeysuckle returned, and the snow had stopped.
It's a thick layer, and it makes a "crunching" sound when you step on it.
When she returned to the manor, it was not yet time for dinner, so she took the opportunity to practice martial arts. However, this time she left the Begonia Courtyard and practiced near the small pond.
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