Chapter 20: The Plain Past
Zong Yue was flipping through the account books of the pharmacy in Baicaotang, and his subordinates came over and said that the prince of Beiming had brought a girl over, and Zong Yue guessed that the girl was Yiyi nine times out of ten.
Waiting for Beiming to come in with Yiyi, Zong Yue put down the account book and saw the two of them saluting: "Second master." ”
Zong Yue replied, "Coming back?" ”
As soon as Gu Qingyan finished talking to him about Yiyi that day, he found Yiyi over, at that time, Yiyi always insisted that he wanted to learn martial arts, it was Chen Su who agreed, in the face of a girl, Zong Yue couldn't be too tough, so he sent it back to Shimen, thinking that one day Yiyi couldn't hold on, so he found a reason to bring Yiyi out. Otherwise, if he really has something long and two short in Shimen, he will not be able to explain it to his friends.
Beiming stepped forward and returned to Zongyue: "Back to the second master, my master's meaning is not suitable for Shimen, so I sent it back to the second master." ”
Gu Qingyan has always been decisive in doing things, once she decides, she will immediately implement it, so when she sent Yiyi out, Gu Qingyan made up her mind and sent it out after meeting.
Zong Yue let Yiyi come to his side and said, "I know, let her be here." ”
Yiyi saw that he had been handed over in this way, and he was still worried about whether he could learn martial arts when he left Shimen, so he turned his head to look at Zong Yue and said, "Second master, can I learn martial arts from you?" ”
Zong Yue squatted down, his gaze parallel to Yiyi: "Yes, but are you willing to learn medical skills too?"
Yiyi raised his little head, his eyes turned around, and he had long lost his restraint in front of Gu Qingyan, thinking that if he studied medicine and martial arts at the same time, wouldn't he kill two birds with one stone, so Chao Zongyue nodded.
Beiming saw that this task had been accomplished, and he stayed soon: "Second master, my subordinates will retire first." ”
Zong Yue said: "Go, Su Xin didn't go to Shimen, you pay more attention to your master's body." ”
Beiming responded and came out of Baicaotang, since then, Yiyi has become a little apprentice by Zong Yue's side, and later Gu Qingyan also joked that the four of them were in Peach Blossom Stream, but they didn't expect that Zong Yue was the first to accept the apprentice.
Beiming, who returned to Shimen, was called by Gu Qingyan, and Holly was also there when he entered the house. Gu Qingyan was asking him what Shimen had done in the past by arranging hidden guards and secret guards, especially the wave of people who were going to be tested this time.
There will be a record book for these, Holly presented, Gu Qingyan flipped through it, and listened to Holly say: "In addition to the daily tasks, that is, a month to half a month ago, the secret guards of the trial went to the Dark Fog Forest in batches to adapt to the environment, and rehearsed it in advance. ”
Holly chose the key point and said to Gu Qingyan, hearing what she wanted to hear, Gu Qingyan was suitable for the record book, and asked Beiming: "What do you think?" ”
Those people are different, Gu Qingyan will inevitably pay attention to them, these secret guards will be brought into the palace after the trial, if something really happens, she will bear the brunt of it, and if there are really others among these people, the consequences are something that Gu Qingyan does not dare to think about. Therefore, she would rather be suspicious at this moment.
Bei Ming and Gu Qingyan had similar thoughts, but they also had some thoughts in their hearts, and said: "In addition to its environment, the Misty Forest also has the mechanism we set up, if it weren't for our own people, ordinary outsiders wouldn't dare to trespass." ”
Gu Qingyan held his chin with one hand, lightly tapped the fingers of the other hand on the record book, and stared at the hand stove on the desk with a pair of apricot eyes: "Beiming, come with me to the Misty Forest tomorrow." ”
Gu Qingyan had some ideas about this, but she didn't know how to express it, she only knew that her intuition told her that going to the Misty Forest might make things clearer.
"Who's running that team?" Gu Qingyan asked Holly.
Holly replied: "It's Dongxin." ”
In this short moment, the room was quiet, and Holly knew that if it was confirmed that there was a problem, they would all be punished by Peach Blossom Stream and Shimen, and Dong Xin, as the most direct manager, would be the one who was punished the most.
"Go down first, you just know it in your hearts." Gu Qingyan said.
There was a little more helplessness in her tone, and let the two of them retreat, Gu Qingyan sat on the soft couch, closed her eyes, her brows gradually wrinkled together, her hand unconsciously pinched the bridge of her nose, and exhaled a long breath, subconsciously telling her that there was a threat approaching her, and she hoped that she was thinking too much.
The sky gradually turned white, and a new day quietly came, and the ice bars were hung on the treetops at some point, and the sudden drop in temperature made those who got up in the morning shiver. Seeing that the weather was like this, Su Xin was worried that Gu Qingyan would catch a cold in Shimen, so he took two people to send Qingque fine velvet and two sets of slightly thicker clothes early in the morning.
Gu Qingyan woke up, and saw Su Xin in the house for her back of the stove, Su Xin's body leaned forward slightly, she should be adding spices to the stove, Gu Qingyan didn't like strong fragrance, so Su Xin took a spoonful and only lit the incense on the tip of the spoon, Gu Qingyan looked at it half-leaning on the bed and didn't bother.
I just suddenly felt a little cold, and I couldn't help coughing lightly, which attracted Su Xin's attention.
"Master, you're awake." Su Xin walked over, hung up the curtains on both sides, put a coat on Gu Qingyan, and helped her get up.
Completely out of the warm quilt, Gu Qingyan completely felt the cold outside, and when he said a word, it was all fog coming out of his mouth: "Why are you here?" ”
Gu Qingyan never let Su Xin come to Shimen, when he came here, there were mostly men, Su Xin was not a person who practiced martial arts, he must be unaccustomed. Second, Gu Qingyan is used to taking care of herself in Shimen, and Su Xin is not of much use.
Su Xin brought hot water for Gu Qingyan to freshen up, and replied: "The slave maid saw that it was cold, and the master didn't bring any thick clothes when he came, so he sent two bodies over." ”
"You've got a heart." Gu Qingyan said and pulled Su Xin's hand.
Su Xin, this girl, is very honest about people. When Su Xin was sold into the Shuangying Building, because she didn't want to use her body as a tool to find out the news, Su Xin ran away several times and was arrested several times, and then accepted a beating, and when the injury was better, she continued to escape, and met Gu Qingyan on the way to escape, Su Xin didn't know Gu Qingyan's background, and kowtowed again and again, asking Gu Qingyan to save her.
Since Yuan Zhao's incident, Gu Qingyan has automatically blocked the matter of saving people, so naturally he didn't take Su Xin in his eyes at first, and rode his horse and whip past Su Xin. Beiming followed him, and Gu Qingyan didn't stop at Beiming, but only followed.
Su Xin didn't know where the strength came from at that time, and for some reason, he recognized Gu Qingyan, rushed forward, and was stunned to hit Beiming's horse, the horse was frightened, looked up to the sky and shouted, Beiming tightened the reins, and saw the horse raise its front hooves, Su Xin was just below the horse's front hooves, seeing that the horse's hooves fell Su Xin might be dying, Gu Qingyan turned around, flew up from the horse, picked up Su Xin and threw it aside.
Beiming took advantage of this effort to settle the horse, and hurriedly got off the horse to see if Su Xin was okay.
"Girl, are you alright?" Beiming gently patted Su Xin, who was lying on the ground.
After a while, Su Xin regained consciousness, shook his head slightly, but his hand grabbed Beiming, and said in an extremely weak tone: "Help... Rescue... I. ”
Beiming looked at Su Xin, there were many large and small scars on the erect neck and exposed arms that could be seen with the naked eye, new and old injuries were mixed, and it was distressing to look at, plus just now, Beiming was hurting for her.
Gu Qingyan had already remounted after throwing Su Xin aside, and now he didn't look at them, just waiting for Beiming to get on the horse and they left, Beiming knew Gu Qingyan's thoughts, but he couldn't bear to put Su Xin here like this, and opened his mouth: "Master, why don't you take her for a ride and find a place to put it in front?" ”
They are now in a suburb, and there is no one in a radius of several miles, if they really let Su Xin stay like this, it is estimated that tomorrow people may not know how to disappear.
Gu Qingyan listened to Beiming's words, tilted her head and skimmed Su Xin, who was lying on the ground and didn't move much, her hand was still holding Beiming's sleeve, and was about to say something, Gu Qingyan heard a sound of footsteps, and then saw several people in black coming towards them with knives.
Subconsciously said: "Take her on the horse!" ”
Beiming simply hugged Su Xin on horseback, and the two were about to leave, when they heard someone shouting behind them: "Put that girl down!" ”
The tone was full of orders, Gu Qingyan gave Beiming a look, Beiming nodded, dismounted, blocked the comer, Gu Qingyan turned the horse's head, and approached Beiming's horse, the horse also moved a step to Gu Qingyan's side, Gu Qingyan protected the horse and the horse's Su Xin behind him.
"Whatever you are, that girl is ours, put her down and we'll let you go." The man in black said.
After hearing what he said, Beiming sneered, and before he could say anything, he continued to say on the other side: "Don't be ignorant!" ”
Beiming thought to himself and didn't know who to correspond to: "Do you know who dies quickly?" ”
The tone was cold, and there were already a few more silver needles in his hands as he spoke, no matter what the expression on the other side was, someone was already approaching him step by step, and Beiming answered for them: "People who talk a lot die the fastest." ”
After speaking, the silver needles in his hand had already penetrated into the middle of those people's foreheads one by one, and before he could get close, the first wave of black-clothed people had already fallen to the ground, and the few people behind saw that Beiming was not easy to provoke, and that Gu Qingyan was a girl, so they changed direction and went towards Gu Qingyan.
can only blame them for being too light on the enemy, Gu Qingyan is not afraid of a few people coming together, standing on the horse, a man in black played a knife to slash at Gu Qingyan, Gu Qingyan bent his waist, dodged a move, held a folding fan in his sleeve, blocked the hand of the man in black who did not hold the knife with one hand, and followed the force of the knife back with the other hand, the fan slashed across the knife and approached the neck of the man in black, with a "swish", the fan opened, and the neck tendons and veins of the man in black on the opposite side oozed blood, and he fell to the ground.
Seeing that Gu Qingyan had solved their partner so easily, the other people planned to go together, Gu Qingyan didn't want to waste time with them, so he threw out the peacock feathers in his sleeves, and simply and decisively solved the person in front of him.
Looking at the corpses lying horizontally, and then at Su Xin lying on horseback, Gu Qingyan said to Beiming: "Bring it back to Yuhualou first, let the third brother deal with it." ”
In this way, Su Xin was unconsciously rescued by Gu Qingyan and brought back to Yuhualou, and later Su Xin mentioned this, Gu Qingyan insisted that it was Beiming who saved Su Xin, not himself.
After returning to Yuhualou, Su Xin woke up, and once thought that she would live a life in Shuangying Building, and it was also here that she knew who she asked for help, Baili Mo saw Su Xin's surprised expression when she woke up, and asked her: "Do you regret it?" ”
Su Xin bit her lip, she didn't know what to say.
Bai Limo chuckled: "You recuperate here first, and then talk about the other injuries." ”
Su Xin didn't expect that the development of things later was all for her to make her own decision, deciding whether she wanted to stay in Yuhualou to work or serve the four girls of Taohuajian, after all, Baili Mo felt that Gu Qingyan had grown up, and there were not all men around her to take care of, just to have a Su Xin, it was quite suitable, and the two of them were also fateful.
Thinking about it for a while, Su Xin still chose to become Gu Qingyan's maid, although she waited cautiously at first, but after a long time, Su Xin also knew Gu Qingyan's awkward temperament, and couldn't help but become more and more interested in Gu Qingyan.
During this memory, Su Xin tied Gu Qingyan's hair, and Gu Qingyan also painted a light makeup: "Okay, Beiming and I are going to go to the Dark Fog Forest in a while, so you can go back to the Pure Heart Courtyard first." ”
"Yes. Master, yesterday Gu Erye asked the master if there was any wine brewed? When Gu Ning and the others came back from Lao Yi, they sent someone to the Pure Heart Courtyard to ask about the wine.
Gu Qingyan just asked Xu Shaolin and them to open up under the old tree a few days ago, and this was remembered.
"How did you get there?" Gu Qingyan asked.
"We are also lighting the slaves and maids in the past few days, if the lady and the old man want it, point it out and send it over." Su Xin is honest and sincere, but after following Gu Qingyan for a long time, he has learned a little bit to leave a way back for himself.
Gu Qingyan praised Su Xin's wit, and learned from Su Xin that it was Lao Yi who mentioned it, and Gu Ning sent someone to ask, and suddenly realized: "Yes, I remembered, at that time, I left two jars for him with Uncle Yi at the end of the year." Su Xin, you go back and really order it, even out the two jars and put them first. Gu Qingyan told Su Xin, after all, she still wanted to learn some other brewing methods from Lao Yi, so she had to give some sweetness before talking about things.
After the master and servant finished speaking, Su Xin put a green sparrow on Gu Qingyan, and the two came out, and Beiming was already waiting outside the door: "Master." ”
"Let's go." Immediately, the two of them went to the Misty Forest, and they were all arranged in advance for the trial in seven days. Su Xin also went out of the stone gate and went back to the Pure Heart Courtyard.