Chapter 110 Overthinking
Chapter 110
"Wait a minute, turn around first and don't look over here!" Gu Chenran's usually calm voice now contained an anxiety and panic that could not be concealed.
Wen Ling stood there, blinked, and was a little unable to react for a moment.
She only saw Gu Chenran sitting in the bathtub in the hazy mist, with his hands crossed in front of his chest.
His beautiful collarbone, the thin muscles of his chest and arms were all clearly visible, his slightly red cheeks were covered with crystal clear water droplets, and his red lips were steamed to become even redder.
He didn't dare look directly at Wen Ling with his upturned phoenix eyes, and could only look to the side. She was truly... a feast for the eyes.
After Wen Ling reacted, she wanted to walk out directly, but then she thought of the noise just now and felt uneasy about walking out like that.
She turned around, her back to Gu Chenran, and said embarrassedly: "I'm sorry to disturb you while you were taking a shower. I came in to ask if you encountered anything."
Gu Chenran's mood at this moment was complicated, very complicated.
Why are his and Wen Ling's identities always swapped? Now it seems like he is the good man who is being flirted with and seen naked.
but! No matter who is suddenly seen naked while taking a shower, he would react like this!
Gu Chenran took a deep breath and said, "Just now I found someone behind the tent, spewing poisonous smoke through the vent. Fortunately, I found him in time and I hit him with a ladle. It was inconvenient for me to chase him out, so he should have run away by now."
"Blowing poisonous smoke? Are you trying to knock you out and do something to you?"
Wen Ling wanted to turn around and go to the vent window to check if there were any traces left.
When I turned around, I saw Gu Chenran quietly standing up from the bathtub and putting on his clothes.
Now Gu Chenran's chest muscles and abdominal muscles are clearly visible.
Their eyes met, and Wen Ling turned around silently again, adding, "I didn't see anything, put on your clothes quickly."
Gu Chenran: “…”
He silently quickened the pace of changing his clothes.
Wen Ling whispered again: "I didn't expect that you look thin and weak, but you have a strong body..."
Gu Chenran's hands were almost tangled from tying his clothes, and the top and bottom buttons were buttoned wrong, so it took him a while to get his clothes on.
He coughed softly: "I'm fine."
Wen Ling then turned around and saw Gu Chenran had already put on her outer clothes and was standing outside the bathtub. She kept wiping her dripping hair with a towel with both hands. Hot steam seemed to be still steaming from her body, like a picture of a beauty emerging from the bath.
Wen Ling didn't know what was wrong with her. When she passed by Gu Chenran, she whistled at him: "Oh, you have a nice figure."
Then I saw Gu Chenran’s face turned red like in the cartoon, turning into the color of a red apple.
This was the first time Wen Ling saw someone's face suddenly turn red at close range.
She was really afraid that if she said a few more words, Gu Chenran's face would explode, so she quickly stopped joking.
She walked quickly to the air vent, which was originally a small window that could be opened, covered with a piece of oilcloth, leaving only a fist-sized hole in the middle for ventilation.
She leaned in and smelled it, and could smell a special fragrance on the oilcloth near the hole.
A very complex floral scent, as if it were a mixture of several kinds of flowers, with a slightly pungent smell.
Wen Ling just leaned in and sniffed it, and she felt her nose go a little numb.
No matter how powerful she is, this body is still that of an ordinary person and will react to medicine.
Wen Ling stood up and said, "This should be a powerful anesthetic. Just the little bit left has made my nose numb. If you hadn't discovered it in time, and the man's poisonous smoke had all blown in, you would have been numb all over and fainted in the bathtub."
Gu Chenran also leaned over and smelled it carefully.
His eyes narrowed slightly, and then suddenly widened again: "This smell... I seem to have smelled it before the accident when I was eight years old.
I was out hunting at the time and thought it was the scent of flowers wafting from somewhere in the forest, so I didn't pay much attention to it.
But now thinking back carefully, there is no floral scent in the winter forest. It turns out that what I smelled was the odor of anesthetic! ”
Wen Ling nodded: "Then you lost consciousness and woke up a few days later. No matter what someone did to you in the meantime, you would not wake up. This is because you were not drugged, but anesthetic."
After putting on their clothes, Gu Chenran and Wen Ling walked to the back of the tent. They didn't find any footprints or anything like that, but they did find a small piece of reed.
Wen Ling picked up the reed and said, "This reed is hollow in the middle. The man must have used it to blow smoke into it. Unfortunately, there are many of these reeds around. You can find them anywhere, so they can't be considered a useful clue."
Gu Chenran suddenly smiled, but it was a very cold smile, with obvious sarcasm: "It's only the first day, and you can't wait to do it. It seems that you really want me to die."
"From the tone of your voice, have you guessed who the murderer is?" Wen Ling asked curiously.
"Of course," Gu Chenran did not answer directly, but turned to Wen Ling and said, "My dear mother is ill today and has been staying in her tent all day. Since she is unwell, we are so close, no matter what, I should go to visit and care for her, so as not to cause criticism, don't you think?"
Wen Ling seemed to understand that Gu Chenran suspected that Concubine Xian was the one who did it.
Yes, they went into detail about what happened back then and finally found that the most suspicious person was Concubine Xian.
Before, Gu Chenran went to Concubine Xian’s palace and was kept there for a day. Something happened when he came back.
So what happened today, the same smell, the possibility that it was Concubine Xian is very high.
Wen Ling became even more curious about this Concubine Xian who had never summoned her before. She readily agreed: "Okay, hunting is not urgent anyway, let's go visit her tomorrow.
Moreover, I have a feeling that your mother might have clues about the Lord of the World. ”
When Wen Ling said this, Gu Chenran quickly looked around and made a shushing gesture: "Be careful, the tent is not soundproof, there may be ears through the wall."
Wen Ling waved her hand gently, and a layer of golden transparent film appeared on the top of the tent. "No, I have already set up this soundproofing formation just now. No one outside can hear any movement we make inside."
Gu Chenran called Lu Jian in and told him what had just happened. He asked him not to alarm anyone at night and to investigate privately to see if he could find any clues.
This matter ends here.
Finally it was Wen Ling's turn to take a shower. After she finished quickly, she went to the big tent and found Gu Chenran still sitting at the table reading a book.
She tilted her head towards the bed: "Why don't you go to bed after taking a shower?"
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