Huo Wuyou tilted his head slightly and was looking at her with a playful expression.
When his eyes met Xue Zhiyi's unexpectedly, he saw that when she was doing something bad, her face, which usually looked well-behaved, was full of guilt and panic.
Huo Wuyou's heart thumped, a deafening sound...
His eyes flickered quickly, as if to hide something. He raised his hand to fiddle with the ribbon on his head and chuckled softly: "Xue Zhiyi, what are you doing so sneakily?"
Xue Zhiyi was so frightened that his heart started beating fast. Being caught doing something bad made him feel guilty for a moment.
But at this moment, the little servant was already whispering behind the screen: "Miss, are you ready?"
Seeing this, Qiuyun handed him another silver ingot and said, "It's almost done, almost done!"
Xue Zhiyi suppressed her guilty conscience: She would accomplish this matter today no matter what, no matter who tried to stop her!
So she suppressed her guilty conscience and did not answer his question. Xue Zhiyi hurriedly pasted Xue Tingliu's name on the back of Jiang Xu's essay, and then crumpled up Xue Tingliu's essay and stuffed it into his sleeve.
Huo Wuyou uttered angrily, "You're so wicked that you even exchanged the policy papers of the poor students?"
Hearing this, Xue Zhiyi sighed silently and looked up at him: "I advise the Marquis of Lin'an not to worry about this matter, so as to avoid reminding me of something I have finally forgotten."
This is about the incident where Huo Wuyou broke into the Zhao family, the Marquis of Yongping.
Huo Wuyou hesitated as Xue Zhiyi pushed away the hand that was pressing on the stack of policy papers. Then, he watched her mix the secretly altered policy paper into the stack of papers.
After doing all this, it is not advisable to stay here for long.
As soon as the two of them walked out of the screen, Xue Zhiyi suddenly stopped and turned around, causing Huo Wuyou to almost not be able to stop and bump into her.
But he saw Xue Zhiyi staring at him. Although he was still smiling, his eyes were full of displeasure.
Huo Wuyou hadn't come along so hastily today. It couldn't be that he was just messing around with her because he had nothing better to do. Did he notice something? Was it related to what he was doing?
Looking at Xue Zhiyi's fake smile, Huo Wuyou felt uneasy: "What... happened?"
He had feelings for Xue Zhiyi, but that was all. It had not reached the point where he could not control himself. He was just curious about what Xue Zhiyi was going to do at the Spring Gathering, which would be held when the Spring Examination was approaching and would bring together scholars from all over the world. In other words, what the Xue family was going to do.
But what is surprising is that she just wanted to replace an unknown candidate, and the policy discussion between her and her second brother is really hard to understand.
Xue Zhiyi was the first to smile: "Nothing, it's just that the Marquis of Lin'an seems to have something to say to me, right?"
Huo Wuyou hummed nonchalantly, blinked, and holding his chin, he slowly paced beside her. "There are rumors that the legitimate and illegitimate branches of your Xue family are at loggerheads, and they are incompatible. But now it seems that the rumors are not credible, otherwise you wouldn't have replaced such a good article that criticizes current social problems with your half-brother's name."
"Are you done asking?" Xue Zhiyi asked her.
"I'm done." Seeing Xue Zhiyi still looking at him with scrutiny, he spread his hands and said, "Everyone has a gossipy heart. I usually have nothing to do, so I like to ask about these things."
Hearing this, Xue Zhiyi breathed a sigh of relief and said nothing.
But suddenly, he changed the subject: "What a pity."
When he said this, his voice was high and mighty, as if he was chatting with her casually: "Unfortunately, this is just a guess based on the premise that you are a fool."
He smiled softly and suddenly moved closer to Xue Zhiyi, causing a ripple of emotion to flash across her eyes.
When his voice softened, it was casual and lazy, with a hint of youthful cunning. However, what he said shocked Xue Zhiyi: "But if you are not a fool, but a scheming little vicious woman, then my guess should change... You didn't want to help Xue Tingliu. You gave him that policy paper in exchange for his death. Not only that, you also wanted Xue Zhentong to die with him, right?"
Xue Zhiyi clenched his hands, and when he raised his eyebrows and looked at Huo Wuyou who was so close to him, there was only vigilance in his eyes.
His pair of auspicious phoenix eyes seemed to have a cold light like the edge of a sword, and on his very youthful face, there was a coldness that was hard to ignore.
But suddenly, he smiled brightly, and all the haze on his face disappeared in an instant like a spring breeze, as if every word he had just said was Xue Zhiyi's illusion.
"So...Xue Zhiyi, are you a little fool, or a little vicious woman?"
Xue Zhiyi blinked slowly, and in a flash, the expression in his eyes disappeared.
She took two steps back, distanced herself from Huo Wuyou, and covered her chest in a pretentious manner: "Oh my God, it's the first month of the year, Lord Hou, what are you talking about? It's so scary."
Huo Wuyou folded his arms and looked at her. He obviously had some guesses in his mind, so he was not displeased by Xue Zhiyi's pretense of stupidity. He only raised his eyebrows slightly: "I've finished asking questions, it's your turn."
"My turn?" Xue Zhiyi was still covering his chest.
Huo Wuyou nodded: "It's your turn to ask me."
Xue Zhiyi sighed angrily, then confidently spread his hands and said to him, "Compensate me ten taels of silver."
Pointing at himself: "Me?"
Xue Zhiyi said, "Yes, if you hadn't interrupted me just now, I would have finished it long ago. I could have given you one less ingot of silver. Do you think you shouldn't pay for it?"
Huo Wuyou sneered in disbelief, "Just understand, it's you who's doing the unethical thing of replacing the author."
"That's right." Xue Zhiyi looked disappointed and withdrew his hand: "It's true that I did something wrong. I was the one who stole the show, sneaked around, and broke into the house..."
"Stop talking." Seeing Xue Zhiyi still bringing up the Zhao family matter, Huo Wuyou gave in: "I'll pay."
Just as he was about to take the silver, he paused and suddenly smiled: "I left the purse with someone else."
After saying that, he fumbled around his body for a while as if in embarrassment. Suddenly, he made an artificial "eh" sound, untied the ribbon that tied his hair from his head, and handed it to Xue Zhiyi.
"This ribbon is woven with gold thread, and the red jade pendant on it is also of the highest quality. It's worth more than ten taels. You've made a killing."
Xue Zhiyi frowned, not wanting to accept this personal item. Just as he was about to refuse, he threw it into Qiuyun's hands without explanation: "Keep it for your lady."
Then he crossed his arms and smiled casually: "If you don't accept it, I'm afraid you'll go around telling everyone that I owe you money."
After saying that, he turned and left.
Huo Wuyou's heart was beating wildly... He really deserved to die. He had agreed to come here to do something serious, so why was he clinging to her again? He was really messing things up!
Xue Zhiyi took the ribbon from Qiuyun and played with it for a moment: How could she keep such a thing? Just throw it away.
But after thinking carefully, she realized that if this thing fell into the hands of others, something might happen, so she hid it so that no one could see it.
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