Chapter 17 The evidence of a woman disguised as a man
No one would have thought that the Han family, who always showed weakness, would secretly plot to kill Huo Gannian.
Unfortunately, they shot themselves in the foot. The Han family failed to kill Huo Gannian and was instead completely swallowed up.
As the second largest owner of the Han family, Yan Shijiu expressed his complete loyalty to the Huo Gang, so he specially came to participate in the Huo family ancestral temple to worship his ancestors.
The sacrifice was long and boring, and the ancestor worship performance was certainly not interesting. Yan Shijiu was very bored and wandered around, unknowingly walking into the Rock Garden.
He was leisurely fanning himself, and just as he turned around the rockery, he felt a black screen in front of his eyes, and he flew out as if he was hit by a bull, and fell heavily to the ground.
Yan Shijiu rubbed his aching chest and was about to greet the other party's ancestors, but saw Yun Chen standing stiffly opposite him.
Her black guard uniform was gone, leaving her wearing only a disheveled undershirt with a large, dark, unidentified stain on her pants.
What attracted Yan Shijiu's attention the most was the streamlined blush on Yun Chen's fair cheek, which added a bit of charm to her already handsome face and was quite stunning.
Looking at the "human spring roll" wrapped in a guard uniform on Yun Chen's shoulders, twisting restlessly, Yan Shijiu was surprised:
"Brother Yun, are you going to pick flowers?"
Yun Chen's face suddenly turned dark.
Leaning over to look at Spring Roll's face beneath its messy black hair, Yan Shijiu's eyes widened.
"You want to pick on the Second Miss Huo? Here? In front of hundreds of her ancestors?"
Yun Chen's face turned even darker.
Feeling Yun Chen's vigilance and even murderous aura, and looking at Huo Luyu who seemed to be wearing nothing under his guard uniform, Yan Shijiu understood everything in an instant.
After quickly going through various countermeasures in his mind, he called out to Yun Chen:
"Let's go to my room!"
Seeing Yun Chen hesitate, he said again:
"This place is too far from the women's courtyard. There are many guests and servants along the way. Miss Huo will attract too much attention in this state. It's better to go to my room and clean up first!"
As they were talking, voices were approaching.
Yun Chen was extremely anxious and had no other choice but to follow Yan Shijiu straight to the guest room.
Yan Shijiu's room was in a very remote corner. He was waiting in the outer room while Yun Chen was taking care of Huo Luyu in the inner bedroom.
She wiped Huo Luyu's body clean and changed him into a set of Yan Shijiu's clothes.
Huo Luyu was petite, while Yan Shijiu was tall and strong, so their clothes didn't fit them at all.
Yun Chen tore Yan Shijiu's outer shirt into pieces, ripped it into strips, and tied them around Huo Luyu's wrists and ankles so that the clothes could wrap around his body properly.
But the effect of the medicine on Huo Luyu had not yet worn off. He groaned in pain and soon his clothes fell off again.
"There's a reddish-brown porcelain bottle in the corner cabinet. It contains Lu Fei Condensate, which can detoxify many common herbal poisons. I wonder if it's useful. You can give it a try."
Yan Shijiu's voice came from outside and sounded a little unnatural.
Yun Chen quickly took the medicine and fed it to Huo Luyu.
Soon, Huo Luyu gradually calmed down. His body still twitched from time to time, but it was much better than before.
Yun Chen helped Huo Luyu to tidy up again, turned Yan Shijiu's quilt over and covered Huo Luyu with it. He watched Huo Luyu sleeping with even breathing, then put on his guard uniform, got up and walked out of the bedroom.
Yan Shijiu was still the only one outside.
He was dressed in white, sitting astride a chair with his back to the chair, casually leaning on the back of the chair, tapping his chin lightly with the folding fan in his hand.
Yun Chen looked at him straight in the eye for the first time.
I have to say that Yan Shijiu is quite good-looking. He is taller than the average man and can even be described as having a tiger back and a wasp waist.
What is extremely inconsistent with his body shape is that he has an extremely sunny childish face, and his eyes are curved like a crescent moon when he smiles.
But Yun Chen really disliked him. He always felt that he was too fake. Who could always have a smile on their face?
And looking at Yan Shijiu's behavior, to put it nicely, he is unrestrained and romantic, to put it bluntly, he is unruly and has no seriousness.
As if seeing the disdain in Yun Chen's eyes, Yan Shijiu smiled and said:
"I helped you, but you didn't thank me and you plotted against me, didn't you?"
Yun Chen didn't say anything.
Yan Shijiu asked again: "How are you going to thank me?"
Thank you? If I don’t kill you and silence you, I’ll be failing in my duty as a guard! Yun Chen thought to himself.
Yan Shijiu, like a worm in Yun Chen's stomach, instantly understood Yun Chen's thoughts, raised his hands in surrender, and said with a smile:
"Brother Yun, I know you have a strong sense of responsibility, but from beginning to end, I only saw a few strands of your Second Miss Huo's hair. You protected her tightly with clothes, so I really didn't see anything. Don't even think about silencing me."
Yan Shijiu said he was showing weakness, but his expression was very happy and he didn't look scared at all.
Yun Chen felt that the matter of Huo Luyu was no small matter, so it would be better to wait for Huo Gannian to make the decision personally. If Huo Gannian said to kill Yan Shijiu at that time, it would not be too late for her to take action.
Yun Chen was preoccupied with her thoughts and didn't notice Yan Shijiu sizing her up and down for a few times. Finally, his gaze landed on her crotch, and he suddenly said:
"Are you a woman?"
Yun Chen was caught off guard by the question. Her face froze, her body stiffened slightly, and her eyes subconsciously avoided. This reaction just betrayed her.
This time, Yan Shijiu was stunned.
He gasped exaggeratedly and quickly opened his fan to fan himself, "You...you..."
After saying "you" for a long time, Yan Shijiu, who has always been the most eloquent, still couldn't make any sense of it.
Yun Chen frowned, "How did you tell that?"
Yan Shijiu pointed at the bedroom door with his fan, then at Yun Chen's crotch, and said:
"I just feel that you haven't had the reaction a normal man would have when you've been alone with Miss Huo, a beauty like her. This reaction has nothing to do with your character; it's just a man's instinct. Do you understand?"
Yun Chen's face turned red, and Yan Shijiu quickly shut up.
Looking at Yun Chen's neat male attire, Yan Shijiu was not quite used to the fact that she was actually a woman.
So, the sentence "You are a woman, right" just now was just a joke, but it unexpectedly revealed Yun Chen's biggest secret.
Over there, Yan Nineteen was fanning himself so hard that it was about to catch fire;
On this side, Yun Chen was very conflicted about whether he should stab Yan Shijiu in the neck, cut his throat, and make him mute.
Seeing through Yun Chen's thoughts again, Yan Shijiu was very interested:
"Just now, in order to protect the reputation of your second young lady, you immediately thought of killing me to silence me. Now that your secret has been discovered, you have no intention of killing me at all. Yun Chen, you are really interesting."
As if he had completely accepted the unbelievable fact that Yun Chen was a woman disguised as a man, Yan Shijiu showed a slapping smile that said "I've got you beat."
Looking at that smile, Yun Chen felt it was very dazzling, and said with a dark face:
"Make me a condition. What will it take for you to keep my secret?"
Yan Shijiu narrowed his eyes and said, "I originally wanted to use the fact that I helped Miss Huo Er today to ask Huo Gannian for a favor. But now I don't think so. I think it's more interesting to ask you for a favor."
"What kind of favor do you want?"
Yan Shijiu said with a smile, "If I ever run into trouble, I can just ask for the help of Guardian Wangyun."
Yun Chen thought about it for a moment and nodded in agreement, "Okay. But the prerequisite is that you can't be the young master's enemy."
Yan Shijiu deliberately showed a look of regret on his face, "That's not necessarily the case..."
Seeing Yun Chen's expression getting nervous, Yan Shijiu couldn't help but burst into laughter, then he folded his fan with a snap, jumped off the chair, stood up, dusted off his clothes, performed a standard bow, and said seriously:
"My name is Yan Qing, the nineteenth child in my family. Because I wasn't loved by my father, I ventured out into the world on my own. Yan Qing is fortunate to have met Miss Yun. You can just call me Yan Nineteen."
Yun Chen hadn't been called "girl" for many years, and for a moment she even forgot how to respond.
Yan Shijiu looked at her, bewildered and not knowing what to do with her arms and legs, and thought she was silly and cute.
Yun Chen just felt that this guy was jumpy and unruly at one moment, and then looked like a completely polite and noble young man at another moment, as if he had a split personality.
But now she needed help from someone, so she had to suppress her emotions and ask Yan Shijiu to be a good person and help her with a small favor.
Following Yunchen's instructions, Yan Shijiu asked Xiaoyue'er to take care of Huo Luyu, and also found a big black dog.
Seeing that Yun Chen was about to leave when Xiaoyueer arrived, Yan Shijiu smiled happily:
"Brother Yun, are you leaving now? Can I understand that Brother Yun recognizes me as a gentleman, and that's why he dared to entrust these two girls to me?"
Seeing that Yan Shijiu was shameless and keen on flattering himself, and that her disguise as a man was being used as evidence, Yun Chen could only force out an awkward smile:
"Yes, yes, yes! Then I'll trouble you, Master Yan!"
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