…Ou Yezi handled himself well in Su Zhirou's room, but Tang Chen, who was waiting in the tree outside the courtyard, felt like the days were passing by like years. "Why did he take so long in there? Did Su Zhirou find out, or did something unexpected happen?"
Hong Yu comforted him, "Don't worry. Even if you're discovered, with Ou Yezi's skills, you won't have to worry about being defeated by a girl who's still injured."
Just as he finished speaking, the tightly closed door quietly opened again in the darkness. Hong Yu warned, "Speak of the devil! The door is open, silence."
Hong Yu saw Ou Yezi seemed to be carrying something away and left. After confirming that Su Zhirou had not followed him out, he hugged Tang Chen's waist and said, "...I'm going to follow him. Don't make a sound."
"Um."
When Hong Yu, carrying Tang Chen, followed the trail left by Ou Yezi, found him, Ou Yezi had already put down the sack. Tang Chen looked at the large bag on the ground and couldn't help but feel curious: "It seems that the trip was quite fruitful, sir. What is this big bag?"
After Ou Yezi took off the suffocating mask on his face, he smiled and said, "Guess what."
The corner of Tang Chen's eye twitched slightly, and he smiled bitterly: "Uh, just don't tell me it was Huangfu Bin."
Ou Yezi replied, "She's not that stupid. She hid the person under the bed."
Tang Chen's face was filled with shock when he heard this. She had searched every nook and cranny of Su Zhirou's room, so how could someone be hiding under the bed? "Under the bed? Impossible! I checked before, and there's nothing there!"
After Ou Yezi took the handkerchief from Hong Yu, he wiped his sweat and said, "I don't know where he was before. I only know that she pulled this person out from under the bed when I went there."
Tang Chen squatted down and glanced at Huangfu Bin, then asked, "It doesn't look like there are any external injuries. Should he be okay?"
There shouldn't be any external injuries, but I don't know how much datura was in the drug. If there was too much, there might be sequelae after waking up. "She said she only fed him some drugs with datura added. He should be able to wake up before this time tomorrow. If he doesn't wake up, I have a way to make him wake up, so you don't have to worry about that."
Hong Yu then suggested, "In order to avoid alerting the enemy, we should send him somewhere else first. Once we find out Su Zhirou's intentions, we can make plans later. What do you think, Achen?"
Tang Chen nodded and said, "That's what I meant. I just don't know where else in this town we can hide without being discovered by Su Zhirou and her helpers."
From the moment she saw Ou Yezi enter Su Zhirou's room, Tang Chen had been mentally informing herself that Su Zhirou was truly problematic and that she couldn't afford to remain blind this time. However, upon seeing the injuries she'd sustained, she simply couldn't understand why such a healthy person, after enduring such torture, would still consider lying. At least, until this question was resolved, she wouldn't break up with Su Zhirou.
To understand Su Zhirou's intentions, they absolutely couldn't let her, or anyone else they trusted besides the three of them, know that Huangfu Bin had been safely recovered. Therefore, Ou Yezi suggested, "If you're confident, how about handing this person over to me?"
Tang Chen said helplessly, "Of course I am 100% confident in you, sir. I'm just worried that it will be difficult for you to explain after he wakes up."
Hong Yu interrupted, "That's easy. He recognizes my handwriting. I can just write him a letter to inform him of the situation and leave him a token of my gratitude."
Ou Yezi said, the implication is that you can leave it to him, right? Then don't waste time, it will be dawn soon. With such a big person, even if you are careful, there will always be traces left. Now hurry up and he still has time to clean up all the traces: "In that case, then hurry up and prepare everything."
Just as Hong Yu was finding pen, ink, paper, and inkstone to write, Tang Chen, who had been standing quietly by the side in a daze, seemed to have thought of something. He looked at Ou Yezi coldly and said, "...Sir, it's not that I don't trust you, but I'm a little curious about where you want to place him."
Ou Yezi sighed slightly. Some things really couldn't be avoided just by wanting to. He just didn't know when Tang Chen had become so perceptive. "I have my own considerations."
Tang Chen pressed on: "What is your relationship with those three children?"
Facing Tang Chen's questioning, Ou Yezi answered without blushing or panting: "The three of them are my old friends. They owe me a favor, so they came to help me."
Tang Chen sneered and asked with red eyes, "So, only a master like that would come to help you guard the artillery?"
Ou Yezi also answered very straightforwardly: "Yes."
"So, Xinzhai died, right?" This last question was actually the one Tang Chen least wanted to ask. Besides Jiang Ling and Yao Chen, Ou Yezi was Wang Ruo's greatest attachment in this world. She didn't know if she could really ignore Wang Ruo and treat him as a murderer, making him pay with his life.
"……yes."
Ou Yezi's lack of argument or explanation, coupled with his perfectly calm expression, completely infuriated Tang Chen. Regardless of who Li Xinzhai was, that was a life. Other lives, in the eyes of these so-called masters, were nothing more than worthless dust. "Wang Ruo was clearly with Li Xinzhai and the others at the time. Why, why didn't you stop them? Even if you didn't know Li Xinzhai, wouldn't you have known Wang Ruo? What would you have done if Wang Ruo had died?"
Hong Yu had already finished writing, but she could only sit aside. If the matter between the two of them involved Li Xinzhai's life or death, then she had no reason to interfere.
Ou Yezi didn't move at all. He let Tang Chen hit and pull him without a single resistance. "I was there at the time, and I had many opportunities to take action. I owe you his life."
Tang Chen's legs felt like they were weighed down by a thousand pounds of lead, weighing her down so much that she could only cling to Ou Yezi's clothes to stay standing. Her eyes, reddened with anger, now shed bitter tears of helplessness: "Is it because you're so sure Wang Ruo will be fine that you can treat other people's lives like dirt?"
Tang Chen's questioning was heartbreaking. Ou Yezi had once considered himself a gentleman, but he was truly sorry for what had happened to Li Xinzhai. He simply didn't want Wang Ruo to see him as ordinary as he was. A single thought had cost him a life.
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