Chapter 197 Leaving without Saying Goodbye
Gu Xixi closed the door quietly, turned around and looked at the bed, and almost laughed out loud.
I saw Xiaohua standing by the bed, her two front paws fighting with a piece of mosquito net that fell under the edge of the bed.
Seeing Gu Xixi coming in, Xiaohua stopped what she was doing.
Its paws were still hanging on the mosquito net, and it meowed delicately in an aggrieved tone. Its watery black round pupils immediately softened Gu Xixi's heart, and she hurried over to rescue it.
She carefully removed Xiaohua's nails from the tiny holes in the mosquito net one by one.
The furry cat's paw is free again.
Xiaohua immediately jumped away, landed high on the cabinet, and looked down vigilantly.
Gu Xixi looked through the flattened body of a mosquito on the mosquito net and saw He Jinglan still sleeping soundly inside the tent.
I guess it was because Xiaohua accidentally hooked herself when she was hitting the mosquito just now.
Fortunately, Gu Xixi came back in time, and Xiaohua had not yet run out of patience, so she did not make any big movements to wake up He Jinglan.
Gu Xixi quickly washed up, undressed and went to bed.
When she covered herself with the quilt and was about to close her eyes, she heard a vague whisper beside her:
“I’m back.”
Gu Xixi apologized, "Did I wake you up?"
He Jinglan turned over and turned towards her lazily, "No, I was just waiting for you while sleeping, so as long as you make a little movement, I will wake up."
Gu Xixi was startled and said, "Then continue to sleep."
In order to stop He Jinglan from continuing, Gu Xixi even yawned deliberately, "I'm sleepy too."
He Jinglan suddenly spoke in a clear tone, "Xixi, you didn't ask me why I was waiting for you. You knew what I was going to say and you pretended to be confused!"
Gu Xixi closed her eyes and mumbled incoherently, "What, what, why are you pretending to be confused... It's already the middle of the night, we can talk tomorrow if we have anything to say... Let's go to sleep."
It’s best to forget about this matter when you wake up tomorrow morning, never ask about it again, and let it go completely!
There was silence for a moment.
Just when Gu Xixi, who was pretending to be asleep, thought He Jinglan had given up.
Suddenly, a cold voice blew into my ears from beside the pillow, "Did the negotiation break down?"
Gu Xixi opened her eyes with a start, turned her eyeballs inward, and saw the enlarged face of He Jinglan.
"Can you please stop pretending to be a female ghost in the dark and stand so close to me?"
He Jinglan leaned on the pillow, supported her chin with her hand and said, "Sure enough, the talks broke down."
"I was hungry when I saw there was something to eat, but in order not to disturb you guys who were reluctant to say goodbye, I could only hold back and go back to sleep. When I was asleep, I didn't realize I was hungry."
Seeing that she couldn't continue pretending to sleep, Gu Xixi sighed helplessly, "Who told you to be so wronged? You have food to eat but can't go out, but you insist on peeking in the house."
"I wasn't peeking," He Jinglan objected, "I was looking openly through the crack in the window."
Isn’t it called peeking through the crack of the window?
Gu Xixi was silent for a moment and said, "You heard everything, why are you asking me?"
He Jinglan said, "I only heard a few words, and I didn't hear them clearly."
"After all, martial artists have very sharp ears. I don't want to be caught by Mu Nanzhao."
Gu Xixi closed her eyes again, "Ask whatever you want to ask."
He Jinglan: "He's leaving soon? He didn't say when he was leaving?"
Gu Xixi: "Soon, I don't know the details."
He Jinglan: "Didn't he tell you that he wanted to stay here and didn't want to leave?"
Gu Xixi paused, "...No."
Didn't say, but it seems to have some manifestation in this regard.
Otherwise, why would he keep wasting his time and energy, and even deliberately find fault and lose his temper?
Now that I think about it, could it be that Mr. Mu is suffering from end-of-holiday syndrome, which is equivalent to a worker not wanting to go to work?
He Jinglan: "Then you didn't try to keep him?"
Gu Xixi: "No. Who dares to stop him at this time? Do you dare?"
He Jinglan: "I don't dare, but that's not what I meant."
Gu Xixi: "So what do you mean?"
There was silence for a moment.
It was He Jinglan's turn to sigh: "...Go to sleep."
Soon, Gu Xixi's shallow and even breathing could be heard from inside the bed curtains.
He Jinglan glanced sideways, then stretched out her hand and waved it across Gu Xixi's face to make sure she was really asleep. She couldn't help but sigh again.
I thought to myself, every time Mu Nanzhao was mentioned and the subject involved love between men and women, Gu Xixi was even more dull than that wooden Meng Chengping, as if she could neither understand nor perceive.
But she understood everything else very quickly, and was clearly an extremely smart and intelligent person.
Thinking of this, He Jinglan took a deep breath and suddenly realized.
Gu Xixi, this little rascal, just pretends to be ignorant even though she knows the truth!
The next morning, when Gu Xixi got up, He Jinglan also got up.
Even though she thought for a long time before falling asleep in the early morning and was still a little sleepy at this moment, she was really worried about what would happen when the two people who had an unpleasant experience last night met later?
If both of them had cold faces, as childhood friends and good sisters of both parties, He Jinglan felt that it was her responsibility to ease the atmosphere.
When the door opened, a note floated down from above and landed on the ground.
He Jinglan bent down to pick it up and recognized Mu Nanzhao's handwriting at a glance, "Oh, the apology letter came first this morning, Xixi, take a look."
As he said that, he handed the note to Gu Xixi.
The note was not folded, it was just a light and narrow piece.
"I am just giving you the peace and security you want, so you don't need to be too grateful. From now on, you can do whatever you want at home. Master Liu will just continue to be a teacher and won't say anything you don't like to hear."
"Although I have left the shadow guards here, I have given them a holiday. They will no longer follow you around. If you need anything, just go find Master Liu."
"Besides, I don't like the smell of barbarians. I have changed the lock of the west room and taken the key with me."
He Jinglan looked on with a frown, "You left without saying goodbye, and you dare to be so arrogant and cocky?!"
Gu Xixi smiled, "This is his style."
Although she couldn't help feeling a little disappointed when she knew Mu Nanzhao had left.
But she was not overly surprised by this result.
Just like countless times in the past, he left and came back quietly.
This time, I can finally...
Gu Xixi looked at the sunlight filling the yard and felt cheerful and relieved.
"However," He Jinglan looked at Gu Xixi with a playful smile, "From what he said, he will definitely come back in the future."
The soothing melody in Gu Xixi's heart suddenly changed its tune.
Her face darkened and she quickly walked out the door and headed straight for the west room.
There was indeed a new lock on the door of the west room.
The brass lock was as big as Gu Xixi's fist, and it shone brightly in the sunlight.
Gu Xixi pointed at the copper lock, her voice changing with anger, "What is this!"
He Jinglan took a closer look. The copper lock was in the shape of a Ferghana horse. There was a delicate roller on the horse's belly that could slide up and down.
There are four rows horizontally and four rows vertically, and a Chinese character is engraved in each small square.
He Jinglan straightened up and looked at Gu Xixi sympathetically, "This is the password lock for hiding poems."
"I think he should have composed a four-character quatrain..."
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