Gu Yanfei stretched out his hand as if to invite someone in, with a light and comfortable smile.
She seemed to have not noticed the old man with a long sword outside the pavilion at all, and was very relaxed.
Master Xia readily sat down on a stone bench beside the stone table and looked at her face with interest, as if he was examining her, but it seemed his mind had drifted away.
His icy eyes revealed his indifference to everything.
Without saying a word, he took out a snow-white handkerchief from his sleeve and wiped his slender fingers slowly and carefully.
Gu Yanfei took a step closer to him, not caring about his indifference, and smiled: "Mr. Xiahou, Mr. Xiahou."
When the girl smiles, her eyebrows and eyes are flying, and her demeanor is elegant and graceful. She has the brightness of a young girl, but also a bit of cunning and a bit of willfulness in her glance.
Xiahou Qing's originally calm pupils finally showed a slight ripple.
He stopped wiping his fingers and glanced at Gu Yanfei with a slightly raised eyebrow.
It was not until this moment that Gu Yanfei's face appeared in his pupils.
The girl in front of him was not even 28 years old, and her face was still a bit childish, but the ease, comfort, and unrestrainedness revealed in her every move were definitely not that of an ordinary girl.
The cold wind was still raging, and the green bamboos beside the pavilion were still emerald green, with a layer of white snow covering their branches and leaves, like jade leaves and branches, occasionally swaying and making a rustling sound.
Gu Yanfei smiled slightly and looked into Xiahou Qing's deep eyes steadily.
She knew that she was like walking on a thin tightrope suspended in mid-air, with an unfathomable abyss below.
If she deviates by just one step, she might fall into the abyss and be doomed.
But the more this situation happened, the calmer she became.
She is a medical practitioner, and no one in the Yaoling Realm would be an enemy of medical practitioners. However, the spirit beasts and monsters are ferocious. If she wants good medicinal materials, she must put herself in danger. She has encountered countless crises, big and small, and she has long been accustomed to facing the danger of being targeted by monsters.
"Master Xiahou." Gu Yanfei walked towards him and asked casually with a smile, "How long will it take for Baili Yin to arrive? How much time do we have left to talk?"
It seemed that the two were old acquaintances and were just reminiscing about the past today.
Xiahou Qing began to wipe his fingers slowly again, wiping each finger clean, and then threw away the still white handkerchief.
A male voice like the sound of a mountain stream or the ringing of bells floated out from his lips: "It seems that you know a lot."
He placed one hand on the stone table, and the blood-red ring was emitting a strange and cold luster in the light.
The young man smiled brightly, and in an instant, the scarlet "energy" around him surged wildly, with an indescribable madness and weirdness, which also gave his outward temperament a majesty that made people dare not look directly at him.
"Not much." Gu Yanfei said frankly, sitting down leisurely on the stone bench opposite him, chatting and laughing freely, ignoring the overwhelming pressure around him.
"This is the capital," Gu Yanfei pointed his index finger at the oil lamp on the northeast corner of the stone table, then gently tapped the table in front of him, "This is Zhuangzi."
"No matter where you go from the capital, you will not 'pass by' this village."
"Bai Li Yin must have come here to plot against you, Master Xiahou, in order to kill him."
"You can use yourself as bait. All you need to do is replace everyone in this manor with your assassins, and you can kill Baili Yin silently."
"In this way, no one will know that it was the young master who did it. All others will see is that Baili Yin died in an ordinary manor in the suburbs of Dajing."
As the last word fell, he slowly turned his gaze to Xia Houqing, with the corners of his eyes slightly raised, as if asking him -
Is it right?
The pavilion fell into dead silence.
From the distance the ominous cry of a crow could be heard again, its pitch somewhat distorted by the sound of the wind and snow.
“Snap! Snap!”
After a moment, the sound of gentle and slow clapping was heard.
Xiahou Qing looked at Gu Yanfei, who was less than three feet away from him, raised his hand and lightly clapped his hands, confirming her guess.
He laughed, and seemed unable to stop laughing for a long time. The light cast a faint glow like broken gold on his long curved eyelashes.
His smile was beautiful, but in this snowy night, it gave off a dangerous chill.
Gu Yanfei was also laughing, and he was laughing happily. He stroked his hair that was messed up by the wind and said bluntly, "Master Xiahou wants to use Baili Yin's death to 'divert trouble to others', so that Dajing and Yue will have disputes again, and then he will benefit from it?"
She used a questioning tone, with the ending sound rising.
But he did not expect the other party to answer, so he continued: "You are a Yue countryman, so what you gain will naturally benefit Yue country."
"Unfortunately, Yue and Dajing will not go to war."
Her tone was very firm, and the smile on her lips deepened by three points.
Xiahou Qing did not comment, but just gently turned the blood ring on his finger. Under the reflection of the light, his thick eyelashes cast a faint shadow, and behind the shadow was a bottomless pupil.
Meeting his dark eyes, Gu Yanfei said calmly, "The Saint of Yue would not dare!"
"..." The old man outside the pavilion twitched his eyes. This little girl is really bold!
Gu Yanfei casually picked up a withered yellow leaf from the oil lamp on the table, twisted it twice casually, and continued nonchalantly: "The sage of Yue State is old and decayed, and is no longer the fierce tiger he used to be."
She loosened the two fingers that were holding the dead leaf, and in the blink of an eye the dead leaf was blown away by the strong wind and snow and disappeared into the darkness.
Gu Yanfei turned his head to meet Xiahou Qing's eyes and said seriously, "In fact, if you want to gain the benefit, you don't need to go through so much trouble."
"Oh?" Xiahou Qing still slowly turned the blood ring, and his charming eyes narrowed.
Gu Yanfei snapped his fingers crisply and suggested with a relaxed expression, "Why don't we consider occupying Yue first?"
"I can help you."
She smiled as brightly as a flower, as if she had no sense of life or death crisis at all.
At first glance, these words sounded a bit arrogant, and the old man outside the pavilion curled up a mocking arc at the corner of his mouth.
Xiahou Qing laughed again.
His eyes were beautiful and enchanting, like the crescent moon in the night sky, stirring the heart and captivating the soul.
He stopped spinning the ring, as if he was bored. He turned his slightly tilted face towards Gu Yanfei and said softly, "One more stick of incense."
He only had one stick of incense left for her.
Xiahou Qing's pupils were icy cold, not hiding his intention to massacre the people in the village at all. In sharp contrast was the leisurely smile on his face.
The snow continued to fall without stopping, and snowflakes fell on the roof of the pavilion with a crackling sound. The air was filled with a suffocating solemnity.
The howling wind and snow surrounded the pavilion like a hungry beast.
"Have you ever heard a saying, Young Master Xiahou?" Gu Yanfei still had a smile on his face. He looked extremely relaxed, with a chuckle, a joke, and a threat in his eyes.
"One arrow pierces the clouds, and thousands of troops rush to meet you."
She looked directly into Xiahou Qing's eyes and spoke very slowly, enunciating each word.
This sentence is known to everyone in the world, and it came from the mouth of Emperor Taizu of Dajing.
Gu Yanfei raised his hand and pointed to the night sky above: "Look."
The next moment, a "whoosh" sound was heard, and a bright red stream of light rose from the southeast, like a huge bolt of lightning tearing through the air, and flew unstoppably towards the snowy night sky above.
“Wow!”
A huge red firework suddenly exploded in the night sky, turning half of the night sky red and casting a scorching red light, even illuminating the village below.
Xiahou Qing's expression changed slightly. He looked up at the huge red fireworks in the night sky. His charming smile froze on his lips, and his pair of dark pupils seemed to be dyed with bright blood.
"..."The old man guarding outside the pavilion's pupils suddenly shrank into a point, as if he was struck by lightning, and he was terrified.
He lay motionless, letting the snowflakes float on his frosty white eyebrows. His wrinkled face was gray and gloomy, and his heart seemed to sink little by little as if soaked in water, and he felt extremely cold.
By now, Baili Yin and his companions should be four miles away. They must have seen the brilliant red fireworks in the sky. Unless he was blind or stupid, he would never fall into the trap again.
The plan failed! This thought clearly emerged in the old man's mind.
He didn't dare to look at Xiahou Qing at all, and just knelt on one knee in the snow, sweating profusely.
His mind was in a mess and he had no idea what went wrong.
He had clearly sent people to keep a close eye on everyone in the village. Anyone who made any unusual movements would be killed. So who was responsible for the "cloud-piercing arrow" just now? !
Where on earth had he missed something? !
“Quack…”
In the distance, the noisy crows' cries were heard again. I couldn't tell whether they were crying or cheering.
But in a flash, the big red firework disappeared into the night sky, without even a spark of fire left.
Gu Yanfei tapped the stone table lightly with one hand, his eyes sparkling like bright stars.
"Look, we can't kill Baili Yin anyway." She smiled slightly and asked again "kindly," why don't you consider my suggestion and take over Yue Kingdom first, how about that?"
She finished her words in one breath, with a relaxed posture and a gentle smile on her face from beginning to end.
She knew that Xiahou Qing wanted to kill them not just for the sake of slaughter, but simply to achieve his goal by any means necessary.
To Xiahou Qing, the hundreds of lives on this farm are just ants. Why would he care about stepping on a few ants while doing things?
Just because she ruined his plan to assassinate Baili Yin doesn't mean that she can let the people in the manor survive.
Most importantly, benefits and values.
She has to provide the other party with enough benefits and value to arouse the other party's interest.
Xiahou Qing stared at Gu Yanfei, his smile still enchanting but a bit lazy. For the first time, he fell into deep thought, his thumb slowly stroking the blood ring.
"I can help you."
(End of this chapter)
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