The action was subconscious. Nan Yi quickly hid the city defense map back in a pile of books, and then turned back as if nothing had happened. His heart had jumped into his throat, but a smile still appeared on his face.
"Sir, you are back, I am waiting for you."
"Yeah?"
There was no candle lit in the room, only a faint moonlight shining on the person.
Xie Queshan slowly approached Nan Yi, and the smell of alcohol on his body spread into her nose. She looked at him nervously. In the darkness, his face could not be seen clearly. She could only vaguely feel that he still had a peaceful aura around him, and he did not seem to be on guard.
When he was only one step away from Nan Yi, Xie Queshan did not stop and continued to take a step forward. Nan Yi retreated subconsciously, leaning her waist against the edge of the table, unable to retreat.
He lowered his eyes to look at her face, admiring the calmness and fear on her face at a glance. Then he pinched her mouth off guard, and at the same time, he peeled off a piece of oil paper with his right hand hidden in his sleeve, and unexpectedly took out an unknown grain of oil paper. Something was stuffed into her mouth.
Nan Yi reflexively wanted to spit out the thing, but he took a step ahead of her and pressed her chin with his backhand.
Nan Yi was forced to taste the thing in her mouth. The sweetness of osmanthus and caramel spread on her taste buds - it was sugar!
He stopped his hand and asked her seriously: "Does it taste good?"
Nan Yi replied blankly: "...delicious."
Jelly candy is something only the princes and nobles can afford. With prices soaring, they can even be sold for a few taels of silver each.
Nan Yi still remembers meeting an aristocratic girl on the street when he was a child. Half of the caramel in her hand fell to the ground and got a little dust on it, so she refused to eat it. After she left, Nan Yi went over to pick up the half of the caramel. When she tasted it, the sweetness that she had never experienced before, with an unobtainable rarity, remained firmly in her memory.
This was the first time she had eaten a whole candy, and she could feel its crystal clearness, being wrapped in her mouth, with an unprecedented touch and taste, which made her instantly sweet and confused.
Xie Queshan smiled lightly and said, "It's the sweet-scented osmanthus candy from Hua Chao Pavilion."
Nan Yi was a little confused - he went to Huachao Pavilion for a banquet, and when he was drunk with wine, he actually hid a candy in his sleeve and brought it back to her? What is the deep meaning of his move?
But not everything needs to be meaningful.
Today, Xie Queshan went to Huachao Pavilion to attend Wanyan Jun's reception banquet. During the dinner, it was inevitable to change cups and cups, showing false feelings and annoying people. The banquet was filled with delicacies from the mountains and seas that cost a lot of money, but this plate of sweet-scented osmanthus syrup could not show how noble it was.
He drank some more wine, rolled it up and tasted the candy. Inexplicably, he remembered that day when Nan Yi was at Huachao Pavilion, looking at the table full of delicacies and swallowing, he suddenly felt that Nan Yi would like it. He ate it, so he hid one in his sleeve and brought it back.
He must be a little drunk to do such boring things. But he didn't intend to tell her such a simple intention, let her guess.
Xie Queshan still stood in front of Nan Yi and refused to give way. He leaned over and lit the candle on the table. The light in the room restored some clarity to him. His eyes swept over the books stacked on the table, and then returned to her face.
"What are you waiting for me here for?"
Nan Yi pretended to be calm: "Master, I would like to ask you to teach me how to read. Aunt Lu asked me to copy Buddhist scriptures for Mrs. Tai. I am afraid that I will make mistakes if I don't know big characters."
"Come in through the window just so I can teach you how to read?"
"I was afraid that others would see me and criticize my relationship with the young master, so I secretly came in and waited."
"Then why are you nervous?"
Xie Queshan looked at her lightly.
"I'm not nervous." Nan Yi quibbled.
Xie Queshan grabbed her wrist, and her pounding pulse jumped at his fingertips, exposing her guilty conscience and nervousness.
Nan Yi was about to cry but had no tears. She really couldn't be deceived in front of him!
But the strange thing is that Xie Queshan no longer struggled with this issue, and instead said: "I can teach you to read."
"……real?"
“However, it’s only superficial on paper.”
"What do you mean?" Nan Yi was confused.
"That is to say, reading alone is not enough to make your memory long."
"What about...?"
"Go somewhere with me."
Nan Yi did not dare to question Xie Queshan's words, so she could only follow him out of Jingfeng Residence, only to find that the guards outside had been withdrawn at some point. But he didn't intend to go out on the main road, so he picked up her clothes and took her to the eaves.
"Follow me."
After saying this, Xie Queshan jumped forward as easily as an immortal. Fortunately, Nan Yi had some light skills to escape, so he could barely keep up with Xie Queshan's footsteps.
The two walked all the way from the roof to Wangxuewu and landed in a remote dark alley.
Xie Queshan behaved too kindly, which made Nan Yi lower his vigilance a little. But once he stood still, Nan Yi saw five or six masked men in black standing in the dark alley, all of them looking fierce. Light, the one who comes is not good.
Nan Yi was already feeling guilty, and was so frightened that her tongue couldn't even speak: "You can't do that...what do you want to do with so many people?"
Xie Queshan looked back at her, his face covered with a shadow, and his voice was as cold as Shura: "You still dare to steal my things, do you have a long memory?"
Nan Yi's heart suddenly went cold. He must have seen through her intention to steal the city's defense map from the moment he walked in. At this moment, on this dark and windy night, she was abducted outside Wangxuewu again, fearing that he might kill her. Heart.
Nan Yi knelt down with a plop, and communicated with tears: "I don't dare to do it anymore, young master, please don't kill me."
"You can kill with just a nod," Xie Queshan lowered his eyes at her, "You are too cheap."
Nan Yi was startled and trembled: "Quan, don't you keep the whole body?"
"Next time, I won't keep it."
Another time? So this time...?
Nan Yi was about to breathe a sigh of relief, but the next moment she heard Xie Queshan spit out one emotionless word——
"beat."
The men in black immediately swarmed towards Nan Yi.
……
This is really like giving a candy and a big slap in the face.
Nan Yi received several punches, and relied on instinct to dodge a few moves. At this moment, she still had a little bit of luck in her heart, and looked at Xie Queshan imploringly, but Xie Queshan stood outside the crowd. His expression was cold.
"Beat until death."
As soon as these words came out, Nan Yi didn't dare to take any chances anymore. She ran away immediately. Driven by her huge desire to survive, she nimbly passed several people and rushed out of the alley while grabbing a gap.
The sound of a watch sounded on the street, and it was already the third watch. Most of the houses in the city were silent in the dark night, and not a single pedestrian could be seen on the streets.
Nan Yi didn't dare to run onto the main road. He only dared to sneak into the alleys, for fear of encountering patrolling soldiers. After the Qi army entered the city, a curfew was imposed in the city, and it was unclear if they were caught by the officers and soldiers.
But no matter how cleverly she swung away the pursuers behind her, they would always magically catch up with her, but they always kept a distance, chasing her into various corners as if teasing her.
Nan Yi was running a little exhausted, and she was thinking quickly in her mind - Xie Queshan took her out of Wangxuewu to kill her, which meant that he had some scruples, Wangxuewu was the safest!
She had to find a way home.
Thinking of this, Nan Yi had an idea. She climbed up to a taller building nearby and aimed in the direction of Wangxuewu. She wanted to go up to the roof and pass through, but she was soon blocked by a man in black coming towards her. Lived the road.
She was forced to jump back into the dark alley and continue to fight guerrilla warfare with the pursuers.
……
When the sky was dimming, Nan Yi fled back to Wangxuewu exhausted.
She was covered in stinking sweat and didn't dare to disturb the maid. She heated some hot water to take a bath, and then fell asleep while soaking in the tub.
It was three o'clock in the morning the next day, and the water in the bathtub was already cold. Nan Yi vaguely felt the coolness under his body, and then he slowly woke up. Just as she was about to get up, she looked up and suddenly saw Xie Queshan standing in front of the tub.
She quickly got back and looked at Xie Queshan in fear.
Xie Queshan's tone was calm but sinister: "How dare you come back?"
Nan Yi still wanted to argue, but Xie Queshan had already pulled out the dagger from his sleeve.
"Do you think I dare not kill you?"
A cold light flashed, and the dagger grazed her neck. Nan Yi opened her mouth, but what she wanted to say was choked in her throat, and she could no longer say it. The water in the bathtub was stained red with blood...
