Chapter 40040 Full of Emotions
Chapter 40
Qi Jingyan held Meng Yuning's arm with one hand and gently stroked her back with the other. He carefully studied her expression and asked worriedly, "Are you scared?"
"No. I wasn't scared." Meng Yuning waved her hand, indicating that she was fine.
She was not a martial artist, and her five senses were not as sharp as those of Mu Feng and Young Marquis Yu. In that life-and-death moment, she did not have any direct feelings, but she sensed the danger from everyone's reactions.
But after being swung around twice by Yu Xiao like a yo-yo, her physical discomfort was greater than her psychological tension.
Afterwards, Mu Feng pulled her arm and made her run wildly. The speed was close to her limit. Her lungs were about to explode, and she completely ignored her fear.
At this moment, being held in Qi Jingyan's arms, feeling those sturdy legs, her heart trembled, her face flushed. Her first reaction was that this was not good, she had to get down. But now her legs were weak, her breathing was unstable, and she had no strength at all. She used the hand that was supporting Qi Jingyan's shoulders to exert a little force to stand up, but Qi Jingyan pushed her back.
Yi'er, who was riding a small wooden horse nearby, got off the horse and ran over when he saw An Ning coming back.
Seeing that Aning couldn't even stand steadily, he stretched out his little hands to hold her legs, but before he could hold her, Aning was carried away by her brother. He missed and fell to the ground.
Fortunately, he was small and short, so he didn't get hurt much. He didn't cry, but got up, clapped his hands, and leaned against his brother's legs. He took An Ning's hand, put it against his face, and said, "An Ning, don't be afraid, Yi'er is here," just like An Ning used to say to comfort him.
Meng Yuning reached out and touched Yi'er's head, smiling at him.
Qi Jingyan's attention was on Meng Yuning, and he didn't pay attention to Mu Feng who had something to say. Mu Feng had no choice but to wait on the side.
Mu Yun came over after hearing the news. As soon as he entered the door, he saw two adults and one child hugging each other. He hurriedly pulled Mu Feng, who was still standing there stupidly, to turn around and asked in a low voice what had happened. Mu Feng told him what had happened and Mu Yun frowned as he listened.
Meng Yuning took a deep breath, and then another deep breath, and quickly calmed her breathing. After she recovered a little, she struggled to get out of Qi Jingyan's arms: "Your Highness, I'm fine, I'm okay." She was really fine, and there was no need to hold her like a child.
Seeing that her breathing had become more even and her expression had relaxed, Qi Jingyan did not stop her this time. He helped her get down from the ground and pulled her to sit on the chair beside him before finally letting go.
Yi'er held Meng Yuning's hand the whole time, looking at her with worried eyes. After Meng Yuning sat down, she held Yi'er in her arms and gently stroked his head: "Don't worry, Yi'er, An Ning is fine."
Yi'er hugged her neck and said, "There are a lot of bad guys outside. An Ning, take Yi'er with you from now on. Yi'er will protect you."
Meng Yuning kissed the little baby's soft face hard: "Okay."
Seeing that Meng Yuning was indeed fine, Qi Jingyan looked at Mu Feng and asked, "What happened?"
Mu Feng turned around and told everything that had just happened at the market.
After hearing the whole story, Qi Jingyan's face darkened: "So, the arrow was heading for An Ning?"
Mu Feng was very confident: "Yes, Miss Meng, the young marquis, and my subordinates, the three of us were walking side by side. The arrow was so powerful that it must have been shot by an expert archer and horseman. There is no way it could have missed."
Qi Jingyan asked again, "What about the second arrow? Was it also aimed at An Ning?"
Mu Feng shook his head. "The young marquis pulled Miss Meng to his side and dodged the first arrow. At the time, the two were standing in a row. If he hadn't dodged the second arrow, it would have passed through the young marquis first and then hit Miss Meng. Under such circumstances, it is difficult for me to determine who the arrow was aimed at."
Qi Jingyan: "Didn't you see the person who shot the arrow?"
Mu Feng shook his head: "No, the young marquis went after her, and later Ayang also went after her."
Qi Jingyan looked at Mu Yun and said, "Take people to search."
Mu Yun nodded in agreement and asked Mu Feng to stay. He turned and went downstairs and ordered the entire ship to be on alert. Then he asked Mu Shan and Mu Jiang to guard the boat. He took a team of people off the boat and searched along the way.
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A carriage was heading towards the city gate, but it was not moving very fast because there were pedestrians on the road.
A man dressed in green, wearing a conical hat and carrying a long sword on his shoulder, holding a package in his arms, ran quickly to catch up with the carriage, jumped lightly, landed silently on the shaft and sat down, then turned around and knocked twice on the carriage.
Fu Dong lifted the carriage curtain and said in a bad tone, "Yuan Qing, what are you running around for all day long?"
The man smiled with his white teeth, handed the paper bag he was holding into the room and to the woman.
The woman had just cried, her eyes were red, and she looked listless, but she reached out and took it: "What is this?"
Yuan Qing said nothing, but gestured with his hands, asking her to open it. The woman opened the paper package and said in surprise, "Roasted sweet potatoes?"
Yuan Qing smiled and nodded, then gestured with his hands, saying that he had just seen a cart selling roasted sweet potatoes passing by, so he chased after it and then gestured as if he was eating.
The woman nodded and said yes. She picked the largest and softest one and handed the rest to Fu Dong: "That's exactly four, one for each of you."
Seeing his daughter smiling, Fudong smiled too, took the sweet potatoes and kept one for himself. He gave the remaining two to Yuanqing and the driver, one each. He softened his tone and said to Yuanqing, "My daughter loves roasted sweet potatoes the most. You've done a good deed this time."
Yuan Qing grinned again.
Fu Dong picked up the bow and quiver that had been placed on the side of the carriage and handed them over: "Don't throw your bow at me next time. It's very heavy, okay?"
Yuan Qing took it, nodded, put the quiver on his back, and placed the bow casually on the shaft of the cart.
He quietly beckoned to Fudong, who walked out of the carriage with a roasted sweet potato and sat on the shaft. While peeling the potato, he whispered, "What's wrong?"
Yuan Qing pointed inside the carriage and then pointed at his own eyes, his eyes full of worry.
Fudong knew he was asking why the girl was crying, so he sat closer and whispered, "It makes me angry just talking about this. It's that Prince Yu. Our girl had to chase him all the way here, but who would have thought he would fall in love with someone else and show his affection to another girl."
Yuan Qing's face was tense, and he gestured to ask the girl what to do?
Fu Dong: "The girl is sad and said she will never talk to him again, so let's go back to Beijing now."
Yuan Qing nodded.
Fu Dong added, "I'm telling you, don't run around on the way back to Beijing. The girl is in a bad mood, and I want to accompany her. You have to be alert. Things outside haven't been peaceful lately."
Yuan Qing nodded vigorously to show that he understood.
Fudong then continued peeling her roasted sweet potatoes: "These sweet potatoes are already oozing with sugar. They look delicious. Why don't you buy a few more?"
Yuan Qing gestured backwards, as if he was about to get off the car, and then chased after him to buy it.
Fu Dong quickly pulled him back and glared at him fiercely: "I just told you not to run around, not to run around, why didn't you listen?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a man holding a knife flashed up from behind and blocked the carriage.
When the coachman saw someone suddenly appear, he hurriedly pulled the reins and stopped the carriage.
When he saw a figure flash by, Yuan Qing threw the sweet potato into Fudong's hand, took the bow in his left hand and slung it over his shoulder, while at the same time drawing the long sword from behind with his right hand, he stood firmly on the shaft of the cart, ready to fight at any time.
Fu Dong threw two roasted sweet potatoes onto the shaft of the cart, drew a dagger from his waist, half-knelt and half-crouched in front of the cart door, and stared at the visitor with sharp eyes.
When the two sides looked at each other and saw each other's appearance clearly, all three of them were stunned.
Yuan Qing and Fu Dong both subconsciously turned around and looked inside the carriage.
The woman in the carriage sat sideways, holding a roasted sweet potato in her hand, peeling it and then staring blankly.
At this moment, the carriage stopped suddenly. She was caught off guard and fell to the side due to inertia. Fortunately, she had practiced martial arts since childhood and had agile skills. She subconsciously raised her hands to support the wall of the carriage and finally avoided being hit.
But she took the roasted sweet potato and pressed it against the wall of the carriage, squashing it. The juice came out and made her hands sticky.
She held the disheveled roasted sweet potato and sighed softly, "Fudong, what happened?"
Fu Dong didn't say anything, but a man's voice came: "Yue Zhao, is that you?"
Hearing the familiar voice, Cai Yuezhao was stunned and said nothing.
Yu Xiao waited for a while, and when she didn't respond, he glanced at the people on the carriage. When he saw the bow on Yuan Qing's back, his voice deepened: "Cai Yuezhao, come out, I have something to ask you."
Cai Yuezhao didn't know what he was going to ask, but thought that since things had come to this point, it would be better to talk it out face to face.
So I put the roasted sweet potatoes on a small table beside me and took a handkerchief to wipe my hands. However, the sizzling sweet potatoes stuck to my hands and I couldn't wipe them off no matter how hard I tried. My mood became worse and worse.
Seeing that she hadn't shown up yet, Yu Xiao became more and more convinced that she was guilty. When he spoke again, his voice was already filled with a hint of impatience: "Cai Yuezhao, if you don't come out, I'm going in."
Seeing him keep urging her, Cai Yuezhao also got angry. She threw the handkerchief, opened the curtain, walked out, jumped off the carriage, and stopped a few steps in front of him: "What else do you have to say?"
Seeing her eyes flushed, Yu Xiao was startled, but he didn't care for the moment and just asked the question in his heart: "Why are you here?"
Cai Yuezhao turned his head and looked away: "I was just passing by."
Seeing that she was angry and obviously not telling the truth, Yu Xiao frowned: "Where are you going and why are you passing by here?"
Cai Yuezhao: "What does it have to do with you?"
Seeing that he said something and she retorted, Yu Xiao was so angry that his eyebrows were throbbing. He stopped asking questions and pointed at Yuan Qing who was still holding the knife and glaring at him: "Then let me ask you, was that arrow shot by Yuan Qing just now?"
Cai Yuezhao was stunned: "What arrow?"
Yu Xiao knew her personality, and seeing her like this, he knew she was unaware of this, but he still said, "Shoot the arrow at Miss Meng."
Cai Yuezhao knew that it was not Yuan Qing who shot the arrow. Yuan Qing had just gone to buy roasted sweet potatoes, and his bow and quiver were given to Fudong.
Besides, although Yuan Qing couldn't speak and didn't understand the ways of the world, he always listened to her and wouldn't kill people casually.
If others misunderstood her, she could just explain it a few words.
But he was Yu Xiao, and she thought they were in love with each other, and the only thing missing was Yu Xiao who broke the window paper.
A while ago, he took her to several newly opened restaurants in Beijing to try new dishes, and he would even climb over the wall in the middle of the night to bring her midnight snacks that he thought were delicious.
But at this moment, he actually suspected her for another woman, and chased after her with a knife, looking for her to question her.
She felt wronged, angry, and sad. All the negative emotions surged into her heart at that moment, making her chest feel like it was about to explode.
She clenched her fists, trying to hold back, but couldn't help herself. She took two steps forward, raised her hand, and slapped him in the face, angrily yelling, "Stop spitting bloody words at me."
Yes, that’s right, she used the hand covered with sweet potato paste.
Why should she have to bear such a bad mood alone?
Yu Xiao was stunned by the sudden slap. He was not angry, but confused. "If it's not true, then it's not true. Why did you hit me?"
Then I felt something was wrong, and when I touched my face, I saw a golden and sticky area.
"What the hell is this?" After asking this question, Yu Xiao's face suddenly changed. He immediately raised his hand far away, tilted his head, covered his mouth, and began to retch: "Hah~hah~"
Several people looked at each other, not knowing what was going on.
Cai Yuezhao raised the hand that was stained with sweet potatoes and looked at it. He tilted his head and observed Yu Xiao for a while. Suddenly, he realized what was happening and bent over with laughter: "Hahaha, Yu Xiao, do you think this is... Are you disgusting? Hahahaha~"
Seeing her laughing like this, Yu Xiao's face turned even darker. He pointed at her, too angry to speak.
Seeing his girl falling down with laughter, Yuan Qing quickly handed the bow to her and asked her to hold on to it.
Cai Yuezhao squatted on the ground, holding the bow and laughing. Seeing Yu Xiao vomiting non-stop, his face pale, he smiled and explained: "Yu Xiao, this is roasted sweet potato."
Upon hearing this, Yu Xiao stopped retching, and with a suspicious look on his face, he slowly brought the hand that he wanted to chop off closer, sniffed it, brought it closer again, and continued to sniff. When he was sure that it was indeed just a roasted sweet potato, he closed his eyes and breathed a long sigh of relief.
Thank God, it was roasted sweet potatoes, otherwise I would not be able to eat for several days.
Yu Xiao felt as if he had escaped death. He took out a handkerchief and wiped his hands clean, then wiped his face carefully. Then he stepped forward, pinched the back of the neck of the girl who was squatting on the ground, laughing so hard that she couldn't straighten her back, and lifted her up. He gritted his teeth and said, "Cai Yuezhao, I will slowly settle this account with you."
Cai Yuezhao raised her hand to hit his hand, trying to open it, but Yu Xiao grabbed her wrist and she couldn't break free. She was so angry that she kicked him several times.
Seeing that his girl was at a disadvantage, Yuan Qing's face suddenly became angry. He threw the bow into Fudong's hand and went over to help with a knife.
Fu Dong grabbed him, dragged him aside with great effort, and whispered, "That's a matter between the girl and Prince Yu, don't mess with it."
Yuan Qing frowned, looking puzzled, but still obediently did not move forward.
Because the girl said that Fudong was smarter than him, so he should listen to Fudong more.
Cai Yuezhao kicked Yu Xiao a few times, but he still didn't let go and kept pinching her neck like a chick.
Unable to break free, she angrily said, "I already told you, it wasn't Yuan Qing who shot me. Yuan Qing went to buy roasted sweet potatoes just now and didn't bring his bow and arrow. He was with me the whole time."
Yu Xiao had already determined from the expressions of several people that the arrow was not shot by Yuan Qing. He pinched her just because he was angry that she made him feel sick for a long time.
But seeing that it was almost done, he was afraid that teasing her any further would really annoy her, so he let go of her hand: "Where are you going?"
Cai Yuezhao snorted coldly: "It's none of your business."
Yu Xiao frowned: "Can you still talk properly?"
Seeing that he was normal and had no guilt towards her, he didn't seem to understand why she was here.
Cai Yuezhao suddenly felt that his temper was really meaningless. He didn't want to argue with him anymore, so he turned around and walked towards the car: "Let's go back to Beijing and say goodbye."
Yu Xiao reached out to stop her: "The situation outside has been unstable recently. Come with me to Lingnan first, and then we'll return to Beijing together."
Cai Yuezhao thought of Miss Meng and became angry again: "Let me go, I won't go with you."
Yu Xiao refused to let go, holding her wrist and walking forward: "I'm not kidding you, the situation outside is so chaotic now, you're a girl, bringing a few people with you, if you run into any trouble, you won't know how you died."
After saying that, he explained, "Also, I didn't mean to misunderstand Yuan Qing. I was attacked in the market and was chasing him in the direction of the arrow. I happened to see Yuan Qing running ahead, so I thought he was the one who did it, so I chased him."
After listening to his explanation, Cai Yuezhao struggled twice but failed to break free, so he stopped struggling.
Yuan Qing looked for a while, then looked at Fu Dong in confusion.
Fu Dong patted his arm and said, "Come on, young lady, you have changed your mind. Let's go to Lingnan together."
So the three of them got on the carriage and followed closely behind the two people who were pulling and tugging.
Yuan Qing pointed at Yu Xiao, then pointed at his own heart, with a questioning look on his face.
Fu Dong: "Looking at Prince Yu's attitude towards our girl, I guess there might be some misunderstanding."
The girl has secretly liked Prince Yu for so many years. Whether it succeeds or not, she has to go and see it with her own eyes to know what is going on.
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At the same time, Su Yang followed the clues and tracked them all the way to the wilderness outside the city.
After chasing him to the outside of a dilapidated temple, he finally caught up with a man carrying a bow and arrow.
He held his breath and hid in the dark, and found that there were seven or eight people on the other side, all wearing black clothes and black boots, with black scarves covering their faces.
He secretly assessed the situation and knew that he would not gain any advantage by fighting head-on, so he secretly opened the lid of the small bamboo basket at his waist. A dozen centipedes crawled out and crawled silently towards the people in the ruined temple.
When the centipedes slowly crawled near the group of people, he took out his flute and suddenly started playing it.
As a sudden flute sounded, several screams were heard from the dilapidated temple.
Amidst the ruins, several men in black quickly drew their swords. The leader pointed in Su Yang's direction and shouted, "Over there."
The remaining few people were immediately filled with murderous intent and rushed towards Su Yang.
Su Yang had no choice but to put away the flute and run away.
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Considering that Meng Yuning was frightened, Qi Jingyan personally sent her and Yi'er back to the room, told her to have a good rest, and then turned around and left in a wheelchair.
Yi'er hugged Meng Yuning's legs and followed her wherever she went.
Meng Yuning dragged the little baby to the mirror on the table, sat on the chair, and put her face forward to look at the mirror.
When she saw the photo, she was stunned.
Isn't this her face?
She turned her face again and looked carefully from top to bottom and left to right. After taking the pictures, she became even more certain that this face was exactly the same as when she was fifteen or sixteen years old.
After taking photos for a while, she took Yi'er to lie down on the bed in a row to relieve the soreness and swelling in his legs from running hard.
After lying down for a while, he stood up again, ran to the mirror, held his cheek, looked at himself in the mirror again, and then felt a lot of emotions.
She and "her" are really destined to be together.
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