Yusu came in and re-brewed the tea.

Pei Qing poured a cup and handed it to Li Yan, who took it and sipped it leisurely.

"What about them?" Pei Qing also poured a cup and asked thoughtlessly.

Li Yan was stunned for a moment, and then woke up, "A little bit." ”

"Which point?" Pei Qing insisted on it.

"There was a girl, very beautiful, smiling all the time, two little dimples, very sweet, swinging very high."

Pei Qing was stunned when he heard this, "Yusu! ”

Yusu responded with a pale face.

"Hear that?" Pei Qing stared at Yusu's pale face, and Yusu nodded, "Tell me." Pei Qing stared at him and ordered.

"Yes...... Small...... Cousin ...... "Yusu's lips trembled.

He was chosen to the Seventeenth Master, and it was him, their whole family, and the glory of their whole clan, which also brought a glorious future to the family. Glory and future come at a price: all those who are chosen to serve by the lord of the mountain must serve the lord for life, and must not marry and start a family.

"The little ones don't have ...... Little ......" Yusu was trembling all over, and her eyes were full of horror when she looked at Li Yan.

Li Yan looked at him and smiled slightly, he and his cousin were a couple of beautiful people......

"The little ones don't have ...... There is no ......" Yusu looked at Pei Qing, and the fear in her heart spread to her whole body, how ruthless the master is, they know best what they have been waiting for for many years.

"Before you entered the house?" Pei Qing couldn't see any expression on his face.

Yusu nodded hurriedly, "Yes, after being selected, the little one ...... Little ......" Yusu quickly glanced at Li Yan, and didn't dare to say anything about the rest of the words.

He secretly watched her a few times, said a few words twice, and the other times, he watched from a distance for a long time and left.

"It's normal for people to know how to obey the rules. Step aside. Pei Qing glanced at Li Yan with Yusu, and his tone was light and peaceful.

Yusu was like being amnestied, kowtowed again and again, and walked to the door on her knees before she dared to stand up and go out.

Pei Qing looked at Li Yan who was looking out the window, with a slight imperceptible paleness on his face, he somewhat understood the meaning of the words left by his ancestors.

Is there anything in the world that can hide from such a person? There is a privacy that can be hidden from her...... Maybe there is still a mind......

She said she couldn't see herself, was she really invisible, or was it ...... She doesn't say it......

Pei Qing thought about it for a while, and felt that his back was cold, and for a moment, he had the urge to immediately pull a knife and kill her.

Li Yan's slender and white fingers tapped the cup lightly, and looked out the window leisurely and lazily, the spring color on the shore was already very rich, and the waves of ups and downs passed, the cold and cold river water......

She was the meat on his chopping board, not even a layer of skin, she tried her best, and after that, let him be.

………………

For a few days, Pei Qing was in the front cabin, and Li Yan was in the rear cabin, just like in the days before arriving in Yangzhou, separated by two narrow cabins, hearing each other's voices and not interacting with each other.

It's just that before arriving in Yangzhou, Li Yan didn't go out, and after leaving Yangzhou, Pei Qing didn't go out.

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After leaving Yangzhou and the itinerary, it is extremely fast. The ship never docked again, and every day a boat came up and brought all kinds of things, and the cavalry guards accompanying the shore one after another.

Li Yan was wrapped in a thick sable cloak, holding a hand stove, watching the ship that sent supplies come up, watched the ship that delivered letters and people and all kinds of things come up, and looked at the guards with superb riding skills on the shore......

Yushu sat next to her, looked outside, and then looked at her, reaching out from time to time to touch whether the hand stove was still hot.

I can't tell why, she can feel the changes in the eldest lady, the eldest lady has become more and more familiar to her, and it seems to be more and more unfamiliar, these changes, in her intuition, are not joy, but fear, and sadness, why are they afraid and sad, she feels as if she knows, but she can't remember.

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Ten days later, the ship was moored at the pier closest to Duoyunjian.

On the shore, Sun Rong stood beside a copper-plated and gold-plated Nanmu cart, the entire wharf had been emptied of idlers, and the guards of the Cloudy Villa were lined up layer by layer.

Far away, piles of idlers on tiptoe, stretching their necks, looking at the movement of the wharf from afar, this is the carriage and horses and guards of the Cloudy Villa, from the oldest to the youngest, they have all seen the stewards, guards, miscellaneous servants, etc., at most there are only a dozen people, like today, hundreds of people spread out of the big formation, this is the first time.

The crowd looked at it from afar, not daring to approach, such a formation, so that they were inexplicably full of uneasiness and ominous, in their impression, the cloudy mountain villa should be like a sacred temple full of gods, and now, the gods have come out......

It was already the end of March and the beginning of April, Li Yan finally took off the heavy sable cloak, replaced it with a lighter gray squirrel cloak, wrapped in the cloak, followed Pei Qing, along the flat springboard, got off the boat, and almost got into the car directly.

Pei Qing also followed Li Yan and got into the car, Yushu and Jin Dou followed, kneeling next to him.

Pei Qing lifted the curtain and looked at the crowd in the distance with a somewhat gloomy expression, but Li Yan just looked up and down the luxurious car curiously.

Pei Qing watched the car leave the dock and lowered the curtain, Li Yan was still curious about the car, and opened the small drawer on the carriage to check what was in the drawer. Pei Qing leaned back, Jin Dou hurriedly stuffed a cushion behind him, Pei Qing bent one leg and looked at Li Yan, who was curious about everything, with an expressionless face.

Li Yan finished reading all the drawers on her side, took the book out, turned two pages and put it down, moved to the car window, lifted the curtain and looked out.

"It's windy outside, and the mountain wind is cold and hard, let Yushu put your cloak on for you." Pei Qing looked at Li Yan for a while, his voice was soft, faintly uncomfortable.

Since the day he left Yangzhou, this was the first time he had met her face-to-face and talked.

"It's cold." Li Yan lowered the curtain and moved in, "Can you go to Duoyun Villa today?" ”

"Hmm." Pei Qing responded, paused, felt a little cold, and added, "When you go to the villa, there is no place to rest on the way, there is an inn in Shanxia Town, which is prepared to rush back to the mountain and rest, it has not been used for decades, and it has long been abandoned." ”

Li Yan was stunned when he heard this, as if he had thought of something, and looked at Yushu.

The inn......

Pei Qing followed Li Yan's gaze and looked at Yushu who was unconscious, "You have been to the town under the mountain, you have to stop ......"

"No, you don't." Without waiting for Pei Qing to finish speaking, Li Yan quickly replied, let's go to the villa first, the villa is the most important place, in the town under the mountain, those people have lived and multiplied for so many years, there are too many things, and they look too tired.