CHAPTER XXII

"This place is very close to Tuzhou, presumably you just left Chongyang Academy, why were you chased and killed?"

Chu Jing thought about it and asked out loud.

Du Qingyan finally finished eating the roasted sweet potato in his hand, and was still not satisfied, squeezing his fingers sticking to the sweet potato, listening to Chu Jing's question, and heading straight at him.

"What? Didn't you leave the academy and be hunted down? Chu Jing saw Du Qingyan shaking his head and asked suspiciously.

"No, since I was still in the academy, I felt that someone was always secretly following me." Du Qingyan said.

"Stalking you? How do you say that? Zuo Idiot also asked.

"I don't think you're bad people, so I won't hide it from you, but I'll tell you the truth. Actually, when I was in the academy, that is, four days ago, I woke up at night, but I saw two people behind the rockery in the east courtyard of the academy. ”

Du Qingyan thought back that since he saw those two people at night, he felt like someone was staring at him for several days.

"What do you see? Will it invite trouble? Zuo asked again.

"I'm really wronged by this! I didn't see anything! Yesterday when I ran for my life, I was telling them that I didn't know anything, but they just didn't believe me, and I had no way out, so I jumped into the river. ”

Du Qingyan really didn't know, why didn't the two people who wanted to kill him even listen to an explanation?

"I can't swim, I jumped into the river and choked on saliva and fainted, and I don't know how I was washed here, but fortunately I met you, otherwise Xiaosheng would really die in Huangquan."

Du Qingyan remembered his struggle and fear when he fell into the water, and he looked afraid.

"You can't jump into the river! The scholar is really useless, stupid and stupid. ”

After listening to Du Qingyan's words, Deng Si'er thought that he still admired the learned person the most before, and when he saw that Du Qingyan in front of him was so rigid and inflexible, he suddenly disliked the reader.

"Don't interrupt."

Chu Jing glared at Deng Si'er, then turned his head and asked Du Qingyan:

"Since you saw two people, did you see their appearances? Or heard their conversation? ”

Du Qingyan thought about it, and then said uncertainly:

"I didn't see what those two people looked like, but I could be sure that one was a student of the academy, and I recognized him wearing the clothes of the academy. There's one more."

Du Qingyan paused, thought more carefully, and said:

"The man was dressed in purple, and he didn't see his face clearly, but his skin was very white, oh! By the way, the man's cuff was embroidered with a big bird, and before I could see what it was, they found out, and I was scared, so I immediately ran. ”

"Birds?"

Zuo Idiot thought about it, who would embroider a bird on his sleeve?

"Yes, the moonlight was very bright that night, and his cuffs were embroidered with gold thread, and when he raised his hand, it reflected the light." Du Qingyan said again.

"Have you ever seen someone like this with a bird embroidered on the cuff?"

Zuo Idiot turned his head to look at Chu Jing and asked, Chu Jing has been wandering the rivers and lakes for many years, and what he has seen and heard is not comparable to ordinary people, hoping to hear something useful from Chu Jing's mouth.

However, Chu Jing shook his head and said:

"There are indeed many sects in the rivers and lakes that will embroider their own logos on their clothes, birds and beasts are the most common, for a while, I really can't think of it, not to mention, we just know that it is a bird, but we don't know the specifics."

Zuo Idiot nodded, thinking about it, they don't even know what birds are, so how can they check?

"Xiucai, tell me, did you hear anything from their conversation? Otherwise, why do they have to hunt you down? They can spot you, you shouldn't be far away, right? ”

Deng Si'er on the side saw that Zuo Idiot and Chu Jing both had sad faces, so he turned his head and asked Du Qingyan.

Du Qingyan kept looking at Zuo Idiot and Chu Jing, almost ignoring Deng Si'er on the side, and when he heard Deng Si'er speak, he was stunned for a moment before he replied:

"I was not far from them, but their voices were too small for me to hear, but I knew that they kept saying 'potions', 'death rows' or something. They repeated these two words the most, and after hearing them twice, they only heard them clearly. ”

"'Potion'?" Death row inmates'? ”

What do you mean?

Zuo Idiot and Chu Jing glanced at each other, but these two words were too vague to think of anything more.

"'Potion?' Isn't that the potion from your Chongyang Academy? Is it the one you use to write? ”

Deng Si'er didn't pay attention to the 'death row inmate', and as soon as he heard the 'potion', he thought of the small bottle of blue potion he took out from the box.

It can't be this, right?

Chu Jing and Zuo Idiot's eyes lit up as soon as they heard Deng Si'er's words.

That's right, quite possibly.

"That potion is not a special thing, although it is more expensive, but you can buy it as long as you go to Chongyang Academy. Why go out of their way to make a sneaky deal? ”

Du Qingyan said loudly at this time, if you want to say that he also has this potion, it is not a particularly rare thing, why was it traded by those two people?

"Deal? How do you know they're trading? Chu Jing grabbed the conversation and immediately asked rhetorically.

Du Qingyan nodded and said:

"That's right, they must be trading, because I saw the man with the bird embroidered on his sleeve give the academy a box of gold."

"Gold? Or a box! ”

Deng Si'er obviously focused on the wrong point, so he had to retract his head again under Zuo's serious gaze.

Good fellow, he has never seen gold in his life, let alone a box, so much money, just to buy that potion that can write?

Deng Si'er thought about it, so he reached out and touched the small glass bottle in his arms, and he was happy, if he wanted to say that he also had a bottle of potion! This should make a lot of money, right?

Deng Si'er sat on the side and calculated, and the three people here didn't pay attention to Deng Si'er's sudden interruption, only to hear Du Qingyan say again:

"It was a whole box full of gold, I don't know how much, but it was shining golden in the moonlight, and I was only accidentally discovered by the light of the gold."

"And after that? Did you find out that someone was following you? Do you know who it is? Zuo Idiot asked.

"At first, I didn't know that anyone was following me, but for two days I was always pushed and shoved inexplicably, and once I almost fell from the bridge into the pond, and I realized that it was all deliberate."

Du Qingyan showed a frightened expression when he thought of this, looked at Zuo Idiot and Chu Jing for help, and said pleadingly:

"I think you are extraordinary, but you must not be ordinary people. Can you help me, escort on the next trip, this autumn exam, Xiaosheng has been preparing for so long, and finally passed the spring exam, and he can't give up anything. ”

"Uncle Jing, this is bothering you." Zuo Idiot turned his head and said to Chu Jing, Zuo Idiot knew that there must be other people around Chu Jing.

Chu Jing nodded and did not excuse himself.

"Don't worry, I will send someone to escort you to the capital."

"What about you"

"Let's go to Chongyang Academy."

It seems that Chongyang Academy is not a good place either