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Jiang Nian was a little confused about the progress of this incident.
Is it really going to change so quickly that the goddess wants to cooperate with her, and then become a joint collaboration...?
She moved a little and was about to stand up from behind the wooden box when she turned her sight. Two flat-faced people were standing in front of her without her knowing when. They were staring at her with their featureless faces.
Startled, Jiang Nian reflexively took a few steps back and leaned against the edge of the wooden box, then reached into her sleeve pocket to pull out the fan that Xiao Yingzhu had given her.
She raised her hand to touch the sleeve pocket under her left hand. In the darkness, all her senses were magnified. At the moment when the flat-faced man was about to pounce on her, she reached out to touch the sleeve pocket hidden in the maid's uniform. Then, her fingertips were pulled down by gravity, and her palm was empty, without touching anything.
“?!”
how so.
Jiang Nian leaned forward to avoid the attack from the flat-faced man, turned around and ran behind the wooden box, while subconsciously lowering his eyes to look at the bag hidden in the sleeve under his left hand.
But in the dark, even though there is light obstruction and it is difficult to clearly identify the patterns on the clothes, the colors can still be seen to some extent.
The flat-faced man behind her paused, slowly raised his head to look in the direction she was fleeing, then moved his body and slowly leaned forward.
Jiang Nian didn't plan to look back to glance at the whereabouts of the two flat-faced men. He took a deep breath and rushed forward. The light at the intersection of the mezzanine was not far away. Who knew that several flat-faced men slowly emerged from the wooden boxes beside the road.
She glanced around and didn't see many people, probably five, six, seven or eight with flat faces.
Anyway, no matter how many numbers they had, they all ran towards her at an extremely slow speed, as if they had pressed the buffer button. They could even feel a sense of stagnation when jumping into the air, pausing for a moment in the air before falling to the ground.
Jiang Nian:?
Is she really not dreaming?
In her panic, she no longer had the energy to care about those plain-faced people. She was just thankful that the maid's uniform she was wearing allowed her to move easily, and was not like the complicated skirts and robes she had worn before, which greatly restricted her movements.
The hem of her skirt, which fell to her knees, swayed as she ran. The road to the mezzanine entrance seemed to extend infinitely. Jiang Nian had not eaten lunch, so she felt a little tired after running for a long time.
As he gasped for breath, he could only hear his heart beating wildly from fear.
While keeping an eye on the group of slow-moving, flat-faced people, she lifted her skirt, preparing to make a final push to speed up as she moved closer to the light that was suddenly approaching her.
The flat-faced people around seemed to have also realized this, and their movements suddenly became much faster, just like when they brought Jiang Nian to the talisman formation yesterday, and they moved at an extremely fast rate.
Among the messy wooden boxes, they easily avoided the boxes from the four directions of front, back, left and right, and rushed over extremely quickly. The next moment, they surrounded Jiang Nian tightly in a circle.
“!”
His firm footsteps on the ground paused, and in order to avoid the flat-faced man who suddenly appeared in front of him, Jiang Nian leaned back reflexively, but his body seemed to be suspended in the air.
All objects in the field of vision intersected and crossed each other, and then extended in all directions. The wooden boxes twisted and deformed, and then rose into the air like balloons and burst. The water masses were affected by gravity and scattered in all directions, spraying crystal clear water and breaking through the air with fine rain mist.
His face was cold, the wooden boxes below were crushed into powder, and the flat-faced man didn't know where to go.
Before a question mark popped up in her head, Jiang Nian subconsciously turned her head and suddenly found that there was a flat-faced man who, for some reason, had also risen into the air with her, staring at her from a distance.
Jiang Nian:?
Before she could figure out what was going on, she felt more and more cold on her face, and then it was like standing in a downpour, pouring down on her.
—
The maid and the secret guard covered Jiang Nian's face with a wet cloth, and then repeated the action three times. Finally, she lowered her head, put her hands on her hips, and looked at her for a while.
Strands of light came from the darkness where Jiang Nian was, and penetrated the hazy and blurry fog that was so blurry that no color could be seen.
Soon, the light became more and more, forming a beam, which lit up the sky in her world that was falling into endless darkness.
The edge of the sky grew larger and larger, soon covering all the darkness. At the moment when it was about to become dazzlingly bright, it froze, as if it had lost its strength, like a puzzle piece falling off the bottom. The beams of light that condensed into white skylight began to crack in the middle, and pieces fell from above, breaking into powder above her body.
“…”
She must be dreaming.
When did you fall asleep?
Is it on the way to send the goddess, or on the way to find the talisman formation?
......
wrong.
Her mind changed.
It wasn't her who eavesdropped on the goddess's conversation.
Because she was very clear about her own abilities, after the maid left last night, she thought about it for a long time and called the maid back.
Tell her in advance the location where the goddess will be visiting, and ask her to find someone to wait in that room in advance.
So she didn't eavesdrop at all.
In order to avoid meeting You, after Jiang Nian sent the goddess away, he went to the place where his personal maid usually ate to eat after hearing that Lu was going to find You, and then returned to the room to wait for the personal maid to report.
After getting the situation, while looking for the last talisman array on the first floor, I entered a room while avoiding the maid and accidentally heard the conversation between You and Lu in the tea room next door, and then -
Then continue.
She dodged the guards and found the door to the room that seemed to have a talisman array.
Then push it open.
Memory fragments.
—
My head feels dizzy.
Jiang Nian opened his eyes, stood up, and looked towards other parts of the room.
Very unfamiliar.
Where is this?
She bent down to look for her shoes and immediately noticed that her clothes had changed slightly.
It still belongs to Zuihualou, but it is not a maid's uniform.
“…”
Jiang Nian stood up with her hands on the edge of the bed and took a few steps towards the room. She caught a glimpse of the door being pushed open. Her body stiffened, and when her eyes fell on the face of the person who came, she breathed a sigh of relief.
She's a maidservant and a secret guard.
I didn't want to delay any longer. The sky outside the window was a little dark, so it must be approaching evening.
Jiang Nian blinked and looked at her: "Where did you find me?"
Is that the room?
The maid glanced at her and closed the door.
"It's just what you think."
"Because I delivered the message you instructed, I went to your room to look for you, but since I didn't see you, I thought that if there was a talisman array in the room on the first floor, there might be a tunnel nearby. I could go down directly and save myself the long way around the tunnel."
She put the water cup on the table, tilted her head towards Jiang Nian, and her eyes, with a look of scrutinizing fragile objects, fell straight down from Jiang Nian's face and paused on Jiang Nian's cuffs.
"Who knew you'd faint there?"
"You're lucky. If you were discovered by the guards, you wouldn't have to get any more information."
The Goddess and You were secretly giving her some leeway. If they made it public, she would probably be eliminated directly.
Jiang Nian smiled helplessly and raised his hand to rub his still dizzy head: "So... did you go into that room later?"
The maid and the secret guard shook their heads: "How could that be? You fainted. It's inconvenient to take you directly to your room, so I brought you here directly."
Before Jiang Nian could show any doubt in his eyes, the maid added, "It's just my resting place."
So the last talisman array still hasn’t been found.
That place looks a bit strange, so it seems she will have to wait for You to take her there tomorrow.
After secretly noting down the place where the mistake occurred, Jiang Nian didn't plan to stay here any longer.
It feels weird to stay in the rest room of people you don't know very well for a long time.
After taking a few steps toward the door, she turned around and asked, "Who did you give the information to?"
The maid crossed her arms, twirled the silver pendant in her right hand, and then looked directly at her and said, "He's just a subordinate of the Intelligence Bureau's leader."
Part.
Jiang Nian understood and nodded in understanding. After her personal maid gave her a few words of explanation about the general route, she went out and returned to her residence.
—
The partition doors on the third-floor corridor were all open.
When passing by, Jiang Nian turned his head and looked inside. When he didn't see anyone, his heart instantly calmed down. After walking to the end of the corridor, he pressed the handle and opened the door that belonged to him.
After returning to his shelter, Jiang Nian suddenly relaxed when he caught sight of this quiet place.
She walked to the window, opened the curtains, and looked at the river outside.
The window was not opened, so the strong wind could not be felt, only the ears could sense its presence.
After standing in front of the window in a daze for a while, his stiff head began to think again.
The conversation between the goddess and herself that she had just heard in her dream was the message conveyed to her by the maid and the secret guard, but it was presented to her in another form.
Compared to the guest who suggested that the goddess cooperate with her, Jiang Nian was more inclined to believe that the goddess would use her to test You's loyalty.
If You accidentally revealed his private collaboration with her, she would not only be distrusted by the goddess, but would even feel betrayed. She would likely be eliminated immediately by the goddess.
"......" In order to prevent this situation from happening, she really needs to create a 'shield' for herself that can withstand life-threatening situations.
She turned slightly, glanced at the closed door, and then took out the bottle of perfume from her sleeve.
You had previously wanted to judge who the goddess cared about from the self-defense items she brought with her.
Which one is more important right now, this bottle of perfume or the fan?
She didn't want to lose the bargaining chip for cooperation so quickly.
It is necessary to determine the cost-effectiveness between the two.
Jiang Nian looked at the perfume that was almost half consumed for a while, then took out the fan that Xiao Yingzhu had given her from her sleeve pocket.
The red and black fan surface was flowing with golden light in the beam of light. With a slight movement of her wrist, the golden thread followed her movement and flowed down a short distance from the folds of the fan surface.
However, it is still different from the fan that Xiao Yingzhu has.
This fan does not have a tassel pendant.
There was one on the sword that Xiao Yingzhu took out earlier.
The distant memory of first meeting Xiao Yingzhu in Pingzhou came flooding back to him. Jiang Nian blinked and put the fan back.
Perhaps it was a psychological reason, but when she took out the fan and saw it for the first time, her somewhat tense mood warmed up a little.
It's like soaking in a honey pot, and the mood becomes happy because of the dessert.
However, when she looked up again, she found that she was still in Zuihualou, and only one day had passed, so this feeling of joy suddenly disappeared.
Jiang Nian sighed and then closed the curtains.
No matter how much she wanted to leave Zuihualou, she still had to complete her mission first.
The sooner she finished, the sooner she could get out of this attic.
If the progress is unfavorable, it will eventually be delayed until the goddess causes chaos and she is taken away by Mo Qing.
A feeling of melancholy surged up for a moment, then returned to calm like the receding tide.
Jiang Nian gathered his chaotic thoughts, walked back to the dressing table and sat down.
—
Now that the information about the "fourth party" and the issues concerning the old man have been passed on, we have to wait for Qin Lan and the others to reply before we can move on to the next step.
Now, the things that can be inferred from other objects are in the process of being processed, and the remaining part is for her to observe and infer on her own.
What is most needed now is to confirm one thing.
Something that would allow her to delay being used by the Goddess or Worry and then deal with the time.
On the first floor of Zuihualou, guests who come in are sometimes informed of the geisha on duty that day.
The goddess's name would occasionally appear above.
Although she doesn't appear often, the goddess still has to pretend to be so in order to play the role of the "Oiran" well.
Later, when the number of customers on the first floor decreased, she needed to check on the Goddess's previous itinerary.
Based on this, we can infer that when You asks about the remaining strange objects tomorrow, choose the most conservative one to tell.
At the moment, she has made You want to "stay for a while", but the goddess's desire is far from enough.
She needs all the information on the schedule to estimate the value of the wonders on display tomorrow.
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