After several people settled in Biyun Temple, Sheng Jiayan received a letter from the capital, and immediately locked himself in his room to discuss government affairs with Mo Chunfeng and Xiang Dingchen. Their chat ended at night, and Meng Eqi had nothing to do, picking up golden apricot leaves in the yard.
"lush-"
Meng Qiqi looked back, Wei Zixi was standing behind her anxiously, a thin layer of sweat formed on his forehead, he could only hear him: "Chuhua doesn't know where to go, listen to the abbot as she walks up the mountain road. Now, I just went to look for it and found that there are many forks on the mountain, so I thought of asking Young Master Sheng to help me find it together."
Meng Qiqi glanced at Sheng Jiayan's closed door, and hesitated before saying, "Well, the son is resting, I'll go with you first."
Wei Zixi immediately showed a gesture of gratitude, and Meng Eqi asked a monk to tell Sheng Jiayan about her going out to find someone.
Biyun Temple is located halfway up the Yangming Mountain, and the mountain road further up is really muddy and difficult to navigate.
Wei Chuhua is really a demon, and if he doesn't go to the mountain, he doesn't bring his maids and maids.
Meng Eqi kept complaining in her heart, she looked back to see if Wei Zixi was following, but suddenly saw that he lowered his head, his usual pair of gentle eyes were covered under the fine bangs, and Wei Zixi's thin lips were pursed into a line, which looked quite for coldness.
Meng Eqi paused, and subconsciously touched the place where the saber was on his waist with his hand. Today, she did not come out with the long knife, only a bag of chestnuts that she picked up when she went up the mountain just hangs around her waist.
Wei Zixi seemed to have regained his senses. Seeing Meng Qiqi stop, he asked casually, "What's wrong?"
Immediately he pointed to the road behind them: "There is a fork in the road, I will turn left and right, if I can't find it, I will come back here and wait for the other side, okay?"
Meng Eqi originally wanted to go back first, and wait for Sheng Jiayan to come and look for it together. But seeing Wei Zixi's worried face, and thinking that Wei Chuhua was alone in the mountains, she might encounter some danger, she struggled for a while, and finally agreed to Wei Zixi's suggestion.
That's it! Anyway, I still have some skills, so I'm not really helpless.
Seeing Wei Zixi's figure disappearing from the road on the left, Meng Qiqi also turned to the fork on the right.
As the forest goes deeper and deeper, the dense apricot leaves are stacked layer by layer on the treetops, and when several trees are connected together, they have the potential to shade the sun. It was already dusk now, and the leaves were completely obscuring the light, and a few calls of unknown birds could be heard in the distant forest, making the mountains even more quiet.
Meng Eqi walked in with a deep foot and a shallow foot, and the more he went in, the more he felt that Wei Chuhua could not be here. Otherwise, the terrain here is too remote, what is Wei Chuhua doing here
Just as she had the idea of going home, she suddenly saw two figures in the distance, who were looking down at something.
Meng Eqi's brows furrowed, and she took a light step and moved over quietly.
"Big brother, you and her are alive and dead..." one of them asked, they were all dressed as woodsmen, and they were talking around the woman who had fainted on the ground.
"Who knows, or we peel off the bracelet on her hand, it looks like it's quite valuable to me."
Another person nodded and echoed: "Brother, you seem to be pretty good-looking, not as good as us... Anyway, there is no one around. She is dead or alive here, and no one will know."
"No!" The man scolded: "Let's go after we take the things. If you take up other people's body, it will be a big problem. What should we do when we turn around and come to the door? She doesn't look like an ordinary person's sister. , don't provoke some big family, you will suffer. Hurry up and take things away. "
The other person responded reluctantly, and he bent over and groped on the woman.
After a while, I heard a stern voice behind him: "Stop!"
The bent woodcutter didn't wait to look back to see who it was, when he felt that he was lifted up and fell to the side, his back hit the thick tree trunk, and he lay on the ground baring his teeth in pain.
Meng Eqi was still some distance away from them, and another woodcutter saw a man who suddenly got out, and immediately raised his sickle and rushed towards Meng Eqi.
Meng Eqi tossed the chestnut that had been prepared earlier with two fingers, and the chestnut hit the woodsman's eyebrow. He fell to the ground with a throbbing pain, his head buzzing. The woodcutter who hit the tree had already climbed up at this time and supported his elder brother who was lying on the ground. The two of them fled from the other side of the mountain road.
Meng Qiqi didn't want to continue chasing her, and hurriedly stepped forward to help Wei Chuhua, who was unconscious.
Her gorgeous clothes were already stained with mud, and the original pink color had become dirty. Meng Eqi shook her, but she was still dazed. Meng Qiqi had to squat down, pull Wei Chuhua's arms over her shoulders, and go down the mountain with a twist on her back.
After they left, there was a figure standing in the shadow of the trees not far away. He witnessed the whole process, his eyes dark and terrifying.
Qiqi, it turns out that you are really different from ordinary people.
As soon as Meng Eqi returned to Biyun Temple with Wei Chuhua on his back, he collided with Mo Chunfeng who came out in a hurry.
"Qiqi! Where have you been?" Mo Chunfeng saw Wei Chuhua on her back and hurriedly picked it up: "What's wrong?"
"Don't mention it! I'm going to change clothes first. You send her to the wing first, and ask the abbot if there is a gentleman staying in the temple." Meng Qiqi took a step forward and remembered something: "By the way, you can do it again. I asked a few monks to go up the mountain to find Wei Gongzi, and I went up the mountain with him to find Chuhua, he probably didn't know that I found it."
Mo Chunfeng listened to her series of confessions, and sighed in a daze.
Wei Chuhua was diagnosed with the pulse by Langzhong. Fortunately, there was no major incident, and he just passed out. What exactly happened, she won't know until she wakes up. For the sake of Wei Chuhua's innocence and reputation, Meng Eqi deliberately did not find out about the two woodcutters, only that she had fainted when she found Wei Chuhua.
When Wei Zixi was led down the mountain, he blamed himself for not taking good care of his sister, and always stood by Wei Chuhua's side.
Meng Qiqi was changing clothes in her wing room. She put the skirt she took off on the tip of her nose and sniffed. Wei Chuhua got muddy when she was lying on her back.
"Okay now, Sheng Jiayan is going to make my clothes again."
"Is there still a lot of clothes made for you?" A cold voice came from behind, Sheng Jiayan stood beside the screen and turned his eyes slightly, although he still looked cold and cold, his eyes were a little more scrutinized.
After confirming that she was not injured, she relaxed a little.
Meng Eqi covered her chest. She was only wearing a chest wrap and trousers. Sheng Jiayan came in without asking!
Seeing her action, Sheng Jiayan raised his eyebrows slightly: "What?"
"There is a difference between men and women. Although I am a subordinate of the prince, I have to pay attention to etiquette!" Meng Eqi glared at him and turned away.
"Where have I not seen you? It's nothing to see." He said lightly, really annoyed Meng Qiqi.
She turned around and opened her arms violently: "Look! Look! Since you don't care so much, I don't care!"
Sheng Jiayan's eyes fell on the two balls throbbing in front of her chest, he was silent for a long time, and suddenly said softly: "It seems to be big."
big! ? Big sister!
Meng Qiqi grabbed the coat on the screen and put it on: "My lord, has anyone ever told you that your tone just now looked like a beast in clothes."
"There is now."
Meng Eqi squinted at his calm and composed expression, and was using his eyes to measure and guess how thick his face should be.
"For no reason, why did you suddenly go up the mountain to find Wei Chuhua?" He picked up the dirty clothes Meng Qiqi put on the screen, Yingluo, and took a closer look.
"Because Wei Zixi came to look for me, Chuhua hasn't come down yet. I'm afraid I got lost. Let me go and look for it. I saw that you were busy at the time, so I had someone tell you that the situation is urgent, so you won't blame me?" Meng Qiqi Fasten the ties on the chest.
Sheng Jiayan walked slowly to her, tore off the tie she had tied, and tied it again for her in person.
"..." Meng Eqi looked down at a bow on her chest and began to wonder if the ruthless and serious Lord Regent had strange hobbies.
"When you found Wei Chuhua, was she alone?"
Meng Eqi paused, then hesitantly said: "Yes... yes! I saw her fall to the ground and carried her back."
Sheng Jiayan didn't know when she grabbed her purse with chestnuts in his hand, he opened the purse slowly and looked at it: "Why is there one less?"
"..." Sheng Jiayan obviously guessed everything, why is she still making fun of her here! Meng Eqi finally said angrily: "Okay, in fact, when I found Chuhua, there were two woodcutters next to them. They wanted to rob Chuhua's property, but I was scared away."
"The woodcutter?" Sheng Jiayan rarely frowned.
"That's right. One of them was greedy and wanted to take over her body! Fortunately, I went in time, otherwise if Chuhua's temperament woke up and found out, he would definitely commit suicide. Don't go out, you will save more people who know about it. What about her?"
Sheng Jiayan looked at her, and there seemed to be a pool of still water in his deep eyes: "From the time we came up, we could see that the road was wet and muddy, which proved that it just rained on the mountain yesterday. The higher the forest, the more remote the forest, and the more lush the leaves are. , the light is also blocked by half. In this case, the firewood must be damp. If it is really a woodcutter, will he go to the top of the mountain to chop wet firewood?"
Meng Eqi's heart froze at what he said, and when he thought about it carefully, it seemed that Sheng Jiayan's words did make sense. But if those two people were not the woodcutter, they would have done nothing to her and Wei Chuhua. Instead, she fled after being hit twice, which is really strange.
"Are you Wei Zixi who asked you to go up the mountain to accompany him to find him?" There was a hint of chill in Sheng Jiayan's tone.
Meng Qiqi nodded: "You shouldn't suspect that Wei Zixi is playing tricks? He didn't do anything. At the fork in the mountain, he offered me to search with him from left to right. And if it was really planned by him , why would he come to the yard to look for me, knowing that you were there, wouldn't he be afraid of you going with me?"
After Sheng Jiayan heard her words, he didn't want to ask at the moment: "Then if he knows that someone in the capital has sent me a letter, the matter in the letter is so difficult that I have to solve it immediately?"
This sentence really stopped Meng Eqi. Seeing her frowning frown, Sheng Jiayan intentionally changed the topic and didn't want her to worry about these things.
"Do you know why I suspect that you have seen others besides Wei Chuhua on the mountain?" Sheng Jiayan walked up to her and covered Meng Qiqi with the tenderness in her frosty eyes.
"do not know… "
"Because—" Sheng Jiayan took her hand: "The chestnut thorn hurt your hand."
He touched Meng Eqi's injured fingertips with great care, as if he was holding his treasure. Meng Qiqi didn't even notice a single blood bead on her fingertip. It must have been because of the emergency just now that she tried so hard that the chestnut thorn pierced her finger.