Chapter 23 Concealment

After lunch, Xiao Yurui explained a few words, and then left with his entourage, Bai Zhu took the initiative to ask Ying to send Xiao Yurui's master and servant out of the house for Ling Yuxin, Ling Yuxin agreed without hesitation, but looked at Bai Zhu's eyes with a trace of doubt, this scene did not escape Xiao Yurui's eyes, and Bai Zhu was anxious to remind Xiao Yurui that he could not teach Ling Yuxin to practice martial arts, and was anxious to find an opportunity to talk to Xiao Yurui alone, so when he saw Ling Yuxin's promise, he hurried to send Xiao Yurui out of the backyard, but he didn't notice the look in Ling Yuxin's eyes.

Out of the backyard, Bai Zhu took two quick steps, narrowed the distance between him and Xiao Yurui, and then asked softly: "Childe, are you teaching Miss to practice martial arts?" ”

Xiao Yurui didn't stop at his feet, and only nodded as an answer.

Bai Zhu was puzzled: "The slave maid remembers that when the assassin was first discovered in the Twilight Villa, the slave maid had suggested to you that it was better to teach the young lady some martial arts so that she could defend herself, but at that time, you said that her dantian was damaged and she could not practice internal skills, and if she forcibly cultivated, she would probably hurt her life, and asked the slave to hide the matter from the young lady." But now, why did you teach the young lady martial arts? ”

Xiao Yurui's eyes deepened, "It's Xin'er who has repeatedly asked me to teach her, she shouldn't remember that her dantian was injured, and now I only teach her some external exercises, as long as she is not allowed to practice internal exercises, it will be fine." With Xin'er's temperament, I am afraid that in the future, I will inevitably ask you from time to time to give her guidance and even accompany her to practice, you can teach her, you can also accompany her to practice, but remember not to involve internal strength, do not use internal force when practicing with her, only learn from her external exercises, as for her dantian injury, still continue to conceal it, and must not mention it to her. ”

Bai Zhu suddenly replied, "Yes, the slave knows." After thinking for a while, he couldn't help but ask: "Ordinary martial arts practitioners understand the harm of damaging the dantian, unless they go mad or are deliberately injured, otherwise the dantian will not be damaged to the point that they can't practice internal force at all, how could she hurt the dantian?" ”

Xiao Yurui's face was slightly cold, and he said in a deep voice: "Bai Zhu, do you know why I chose you among your four sisters to protect Xin'er?" ”

Bai Zhu was stunned for a moment, and then confessed: "Actually, the slave and maid have never figured out this problem. In terms of martial arts, I am not as good as the eldest sister, I am not as good as the second sister, and in terms of cleverness, I am even less than the fourth sister, why would the son arrange it like this? ”

Xiao Yurui's tone softened slightly, "You don't have to be presumptuous, you are no worse than Bai Mei and Bai Lan, as for being smart, Bai Ju is indeed more flexible, but it is not as calm as the three of you." And the reason why I arranged for you to protect Xin'er is because among the four people, you know the most about proportion, know how to advance and retreat, and compared to the three of them, you know better what you can do and what you can't do, what you can say and what you can't say, so I am more relieved to hand over this matter to you. ”

Bai Zhu immediately woke up, "The slave and maid understand, just now the slave and maid asked too much that should not be asked, and they will never do it again in the future, and ask the son to forgive him, as for the young lady, the slave and maid will never mention half a word." ”

"Hmm." Xiao Yurui bowed slightly, and then said lightly: "Just now, you took the initiative to ask Ying to send me out of the house, Xin'er is suspicious, remember to find a suitable reason to explain to her when you go back later." ”

Bai Zhu was stunned for a moment, and after a while, his face showed remorse, "It's the slave maid who was negligent, and I will definitely pay attention to it in the future," after a pause, he continued: "After a while, the slave maid told the young lady that it was because she had just heard you talk about martial arts with her, and the slave and maid suddenly remembered that there were some incomprehensible places in the family kung fu, so I thought of asking you for advice, but I didn't dare to make a special trip to ask, for fear of delaying your time, so I thought about using the time to send you out of the house by the way, so I took the initiative to ask Ying to send you out of the house for the young lady." ”

"Hmm." Xiao Yurui nodded again, agreeing with Bai Zhu's reasoning, "No need to send it, go take care of Xin'er." Xiao Yurui left after speaking.

"Yes." Bai Zhu immediately stopped, and after saluting respectfully to Xiao Yurui's back, he immediately returned to the backyard.

When Xiao Yurui walked out of the gate, Zhang Meng was still guarding the door, and when he saw him, he still hugged his fists slightly, but he never spoke. Xiao Yurui still nodded slightly at him. The entourage also followed Xiao Yurui's instructions, like Ling Yuxin, kept his head down and followed closely behind him, Zhang Meng stared at the entourage more attentively this time, this time he actually had a stronger feeling that something was wrong than before, but he still couldn't tell what was wrong, so he stared at the entourage without blinking, but until he stared so hard that his eyeballs were about to protrude, he still couldn't find any problems, so he could only be anxious in his heart, and watched them out of his sight in a daze, Then I started to figure it out on my own.

In the afternoon, Cui Han also came to the backyard to accompany her, but was surprised and depressed to find that Ling Yuxin had been fiddling with a pile of clay figurines all afternoon, neither talking to her nor giving her a chance to speak.

Ling Yuxin began to fiddle with the sand table he sent in the morning after Xiao Yurui left, and the more he played, the more fascinated he became, and all his thoughts fell on the sand table and the clay figurine, he didn't notice Cuihan's depressed color at all, and only took care of himself to put the formation with beans one by one on the sand table with the clay figurines, and even the dinner was hastily used under the repeated urging of Bai Zhu and Cui Han, and then put it into the sand table again, until late at night, under the urging of Bai Zhu and Cui Han in turn, he hurriedly went to bed.

After waiting for Ling Yuxin to go to bed, Bai Zhu and Cui Han were on the way back to the West Courtyard together, Cui Han asked Bai Zhu curiously, "What is the one that Miss has been playing?" ”

Bai Zhu replied with a smile: "It's a sand table sent by the young master this morning." ”

"Sand table? What is a sand table? I see that Miss has been playing with those clay figurines, one moment like this, the other like that, do you know what she's doing? ”

"Mademoiselle is using those clay figurines to line up her troops."

"Formation?" Cui Han's eyes widened in disbelief, "How is that possible?" How could Miss possibly play this! ”

"Any questions?" Bai Zhu couldn't help but ask curiously. "Why can't Miss play this?"

"You don't know, Miss hates fighting and killing the most," Cui Han explained, "how can she play any kind of arrangement!" ”

Bai Zhu frowned, remembering how he had witnessed Ling Yuxin's obsession with the art of war in the past two years in Chi Du Villa, and remembering that he had witnessed her studious martial arts today, a trace of doubt flashed in his eyes, and he spoke after a while, "You're talking about what happened before Miss lost her memory, right?" Just because I hated it before doesn't mean I hate it now, but maybe I'm interested in it now. ”

Cui Han was stunned for a moment, and then looked sideways at Bai Zhu, "You mean that although Miss hated fighting and killing before she lost her memory, after losing her memory, not only did she not hate these anymore, but she became very interested in them?" ”

Bai Zhu shrugged his shoulders and pretended to smile lightly, "I'm just guessing casually, I don't know what happened before Miss lost her memory, but judging from Miss's actions today, it seems that she is quite interested in arranging troops." ”

Cui Han muttered suspiciously, "Really? After the amnesia, not only do you not remember the people and things you used to have, but even your interests have reversed? I don't know if I'm talking to myself or asking Bai Zhu.

Bai Zhu frowned again, and couldn't help but have doubts similar to Cui Han in his heart, although he heard Cui Han's words, he didn't know how to answer, so he could only pretend not to hear, and his feet gradually quickened.

So, Cui Han and Bai Zhu went to bed with their own full of questions, and they didn't say anything for the night.

Early the next morning, Xiao Yurui still appeared in front of the gate of the Ling Mansion at about the same hour, and Wei Chifeng still greeted him with a smile, but because Zhang Meng had told him about the previous day's doubts, he also deliberately paid attention to the servant who followed him today, and Zhang Meng, who was standing beside Wei Chifeng, also stared at the servant with wide eyes as he did yesterday.

Although the servant kept his head down and followed closely behind Xiao Yurui today, so that he couldn't see his face clearly, Wei Chifeng recognized at a glance by his eyesight that this person was indeed the same person as the servant who pushed the half-human-high box yesterday, and he didn't see anything wrong, he carefully observed for a long time and didn't find out where this person was suspicious, and after Xiao Yurui's master and servant entered the house, he looked at Zhang Meng suspiciously, because Zhang Meng still didn't see any clues, he could only shake his head with a stupid face, so, He slapped Wei Chifeng with a big roll of the eyes without any suspense.

However, when Xiao Yurui appeared at the door again with Ling Yuxin, who had changed into a domestic servant's clothes, Wei Chifeng immediately discovered the clue, and after a while, Zhang Meng also saw his eyebrows.

Wei Chifeng could see at a glance that this person was not the servant who had entered the mansion earlier, although he did look quite similar in terms of body shape, but because he had paid close attention to the attendant, he found that there was a significant difference in the posture of the two of them.

But when Wei Chifeng found out about the problem, he didn't stop Xiao Yurui and Ling Yuxin at the first time, but began to think about why Xiao Yurui wanted to bring someone out of the house, and who this person would be. Thinking of this, he was immediately relieved, relaxed his guard when he suddenly noticed something unusual, and ignored Xiao Yurui to pass by with Ling Yuxin, who was pretending to be a family member, and led the horse away.

The first thing Zhang Meng saw yesterday was Ling Yuxin's pretending to be a domestic servant, although according to his intuition, he felt that this domestic servant was a little strange, but he couldn't tell the reason, and when Xiao Yurui left the house with the real servant, after seeing the real domestic servant, although he felt that something was wrong, he couldn't fully react for a while. And this morning, because he deliberately observed the domestic servants when he entered the mansion, when he saw Ling Yuxin's pretended domestic servants again at this moment, although he couldn't see his face and didn't recognize Ling Yuxin, he also found that it was not the same person, but he didn't think about the reason like Wei Chifeng, seeing that Xiao Yurui and the two servants were about to leave, and although Wei Chifeng's face changed a few times, he just quietly watched the two of them leave, and he didn't want to stop them from leaving. He took it for granted that Wei Chifeng must have not realized that the servant who left the mansion at this moment was not the same person as the servant who entered the mansion before, and in a hurry, he didn't have time to explain to Wei Chifeng first, for fear that the two of them would leave if they were late, so he shouted: "Stop." At the same time, he wanted to walk towards the two of them, trying to stop them first.