It was night, Qiu Yilan was awakened by a strange noise not far away.
She kept her breathing even, quietly opened her eyes to look, and felt her heart suddenly shrink!
After calming down, I saw clearly that it was a cat squatting on the edge of the footstep.
It suppressed part of the brocade curtain, and a pair of round mandarin duck eyes glowed in the dark night. At first glance, it looks like a ghost, but it really scares people to death!
"Were they let in deliberately, or did they run here by chance?" Qiu Yilan thought in her mind, "Both Fan's mother and Xiuyan have been near my bed before. Did they do something to it?"
He was on high alert that the cat would pounce on him and scratch him, but he didn't expect the sound of deliberately gentle footsteps coming from outside the screen!
Qiu Yilan felt awe-struck and hurriedly closed her eyes and pretended to sleep.
After a moment, accompanied by the faint scent of Ruilin, a figure flashed into the scene, seemingly relieved, and shouted in a low voice: "I finally found you!"
The cat meowed lazily, seemingly reluctantly.
"I was scolded by my cousin for telling you to run around!" The man scolded him lightly, and leaned down to pick up the cat. "When you get back, you will be punished by not having lamb liver for your midnight snack!"
Qiu Yilan heard the voice of a girl. She should be about the same age as herself now, and it was very strange. She didn't look like someone from the palace in her memory, so she couldn't help but feel relieved.
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The girl picked up the cat, but did not leave immediately. Instead, she smiled and said: "Oh, there is a smell of medicine. Could it be that this is the one who was beaten during the day when I lay on the wall and listened to the story for a long time?" As he said that, he tiptoed towards the bed.
"..." Qiu Yilan was speechless.
"She's a little beauty, tsk tsk, she's so miserable, her face is swollen!" The girl didn't know that she was awake, so she stood by the bed with great interest, looking at her through the dim gauze lamp used at night, and kept looking at her. Regretfully, "I don't know what I did. This Qiu family really doesn't know how to show mercy!"
She said what she said, and even reached out her hand to touch Qiu Yilan's face from time to time.
No matter what, it has nothing to do with you, just go away...
Qiu Yilan's heart was in a mess. She probably guessed that this girl might be from the next door. Even if she wasn't from the Jiang family, she should be the neighbor on the other side... She was probably so favored in front of the elders that she even climbed over the wall in the middle of the night to look for her. Regardless of what happened to the cat, you don’t have a guilty conscience when you sneak into someone’s boudoir!
Fortunately, after the girl muttered for a moment, a clear cough suddenly came from outside the window!
Then a young man asked in a gentle tone: "Cousin, are you in there? Come out quickly!"
"Damn it!" The girl seemed to freeze for a moment and cursed, "Nianxue, you have hurt me!"
Huh... But her family is still responsible and they came to find someone.
Qiu Yilan was about to relax when the girl did something she couldn't even imagine!
... She picked up the cat named Nian Xue and threw it towards the bed. While throwing it, she shouted: "I won't go out!"
Qiu Yilan froze!
It’s not just the fear of being scratched by a cat that’s very close to you, the key is! That damn girl actually quickly tapped her acupoints while throwing the cat!
Then, the girl slipped out of the curtain from the other side... and ran away!
Sure enough, the next moment, the window lattice sounded softly, and the gentle voice came in while saying: "Don't be ridiculous! This is my boudoir! Come back with me!"
This young man didn't know what happened in Jinmu, and Qiu Yilan was unable to remind him after being tapped on his mute point. So he... naturally took the sound of the cat being thrown on the bed and thought it was his cousin crawling into someone else's house!
So he naturally lifted up the gauze curtain beside the bed to pull his naughty cousin out - and then - his whole body was messy in the wind!
But this young man was obviously not an ordinary person. He calmed down in an instant. He saluted Qiu Yilan, who was glaring at him angrily, and whispered: "I'm sorry - I didn't mean to offend you!"
He was probably the owner of the cat. He didn't need to shout "apologise" for the cat to gracefully walk up to him and jump into his arms quickly!
"I am Meng Lang today. I will definitely apologize to the young lady when I turn around!" Qiu Yilan had half of her shoulders bare at the moment. Although they were covered with medicine, they were not suitable for men to see after all. The young man lowered his head and said this, hugging As soon as he caught the cat, he wanted to leave first... But at this time, Zhou's mother's voice came from outside: "Su He, go to the yard and see if anyone has come in? I'm going to see the princess!"
The young man's expression changed, and he was about to rush towards the window when he heard Su He say "Hey" from outside the window: "Grandma, I'm afraid of the dark... After you finish watching the princess' place, come out and watch the yard with me, right?" "
"Then just wait!" After saying this, Zhou's mother opened the door to the inner room!
Qiu Yilan sighed deeply...
Mother Zhou entered the door, took off the thick gauze cover on the night lamp, walked in with the lamp, and called softly: "Princess?"
"Mom, it's okay. Go to bed." What reassured her was that Qiu Yilan's voice soon came from the tent.
Mother Zhou took another photo outside and found nothing unusual. Then she put back the gauze cover and warned, "I heard someone talking loudly just now. If you need anything, please call us."
"Yes." After Zhou's mother went out and called Su He to look in the yard, Qiu Yilan whispered: "Can you get out of my bed now?"
The young man got up from her side in great embarrassment, and was about to apologize, but there was a rush of footsteps outside the door, and the young man fell asleep in a hurry again!
Both of them were in a state of confusion... But they saw Zhou's mother rushing in three steps at a time, and said in panic: "Princess, someone climbed over the outer courtyard wall!"
"...I think someone was spying on me two days ago."
"No, I looked at the courtyard wall in the evening. There was no trace! Someone must have entered our courtyard just now! What should we do?" Zhou's mother was a little confused, "Just now Fan's mother and Xiuyan came to talk to the county. The main concern is the dowry of the dowager and the princess—are they finished? What should we do?"
Before Qiu Yilan could say anything to comfort her, Zhou's mother clapped her hands and gritted her teeth and said, "Princess, you are just a little bit of flesh and blood, and yet they are killing you like this... Although I am incapable of protecting you, I can't live alone!" Then she shouted to Su. Together, "Go get our bedding! We will guard the princess in this room tonight!"
When Qiu Yilan heard this, she almost breathed out! The boy next to her was also breathing heavily...
Both of them had one thought in their minds: "Tomorrow morning, Mother Zhou and Su He will come in to wash themselves up. How will they explain when they see us lying like this?!"