Chapter 21 Twenty-first Night Chess

All the way to the west, after passing through a row of walls, the path that was originally paved with stones was changed to be paved with wooden boards, with handrails on both sides, and the bottom of the boards is hollow, making a creaking sound when walking up. And every certain distance, there will be a bright lamp inlaid at the junction of the railings. Different from ordinary lamps, there is a candle on the bottom, and essential oil on the top. A faint fragrance. At this moment, the night rain is sparse, the incense is refreshing, and the scenery is more pleasant. The house is not exquisite, but every tree, flower, curtain and chair are all thoughtful in the details.

At the end of the wooden corridor are two cottages. Jiang Chenyu heard a very regular chirping sound from a distance, and when he got closer, it turned out that it was a woman weaving. The door was wide open, and the woman was sitting in front of the locomotive with her back facing the visitor. She was dressed in a light blue coarse cloth, and her long dark blue hair was draped softly around her body. There is a subtle movement. With just such a back view, Jiang Chenyu was sure - without a doubt, this person must be Du Juan. According to the legends in the street, the cuckoo has never been beautiful.She is not a beauty.But such a poor woman who is blind can make a man like Wei Yuheng abandon the princess and his future because of her, there must be something special about it.

And this specialness probably stems from her being so quiet yet nimble. Obviously her hands and feet are doing mechanical weaving movements, but she still looks very quiet; she is obviously very quiet, but it makes people feel that every part of her body is talking and expressing. So contradictory, but so harmonious, concentrated on one person as if it were natural. Jiang Chenyu couldn't help but think that since he was a child, he has seen many women. Some are as beautiful as Xihe, some are as virtuous as Xue Ming, some are as charming as her sister, and some are as enchanting as Yishu... However, like Du Juan is like this, but it is really the first time to meet him.

Just as she was thinking about it, the sound of the locomotive stopped, the woman stood up leisurely, turned around, and bowed to salute: "Du Juan, a commoner girl, pay homage to Lord Hou." Jiang Wanyi hurriedly said, "Madam please get up." The light reflected Du Juan's face—a very thin face, with pale brows and thin lips, dull eyes and no expression.Compared with the agility of the back, this face looks so mediocre and devoid of spirituality.No wonder Xuan Liu was heartbroken at the beginning, because she was not only defeated by a blind man, but also an ugly blind man with her wealth and embarrassing appearance.

Du Juan said: "Aunt Mei, take a seat. Give that girl one too." Jiang Chenyu couldn't help asking: "How does Madam know that there is another me?" Her footsteps were already soft enough, why did Du Juan know that there was a third person present?Moreover, is she a "girl"? Du Juan raised her lips and smiled: "I walk up the wooden corridor in front of the door more than ten times every day. In the past four years, I have kept the sound of every wooden board in my heart. How many people came, what is it like?" You can tell if a person is tall or short, fat or thin. If I guess right, the girl is a beautiful woman with a slim body and a dignified manner. Because your steps are very light, very steady, Quite upright, when walking, the hem of the skirt doesn’t make too many friction sounds, it is obvious that she has received a very good education.”

Jiang Chenyu was amazed by it.And Du Juan went on to say: "Not only that, but I guess the girl's status must be very high. Because I asked Aunt Mei to invite Lord Hou. Logically speaking, even if he will bring someone with him, it should be a subordinate." A person, or an apprentice. In that case, you should walk behind him. But the girl came side by side with Lord Hou. From this, it can be seen that the girl's status is not inferior to that of Lord Hou. That's why Aunt Mei Let's sit together." Jiang Chenyu was startled, and then realized that she hadn't noticed just now, and she was indeed walking side by side with Jiang Wanyi.

As a blind person, her insight is sharper and more precise than that of a sighted person. This Mrs. Du Juan is indeed not an ordinary person.She admired her in her heart and hurriedly said: "Ma'am, I'm too famous. I'm not a noble person. I'm just Dong Bihou's younger sister. Because I have been loved since I was a child, I don't have the courtesy. I dare to walk with him. Madam, please Sit down, I heard that Madam has been ill for a long time, senior brother, he just wants to take a look at you." Du Juan smiled and said, "Alright. So thank you, Lord Hou."

Jiang Wanyi put down the medicine box, Jiang Chenyu skillfully helped out, took out the cushion and put it under Dujuan's wrist, after making a series of preparations, Jiang Wanyi sat down on the chair and took Yi's pulse for a while , the originally slightly dignified expression eased, and said with a slight smile: "Madam is a little weak, but there is no other serious illness. If you take care of yourself, it should be fine." Jiang Chenyu was a little surprised, she originally thought that Wei Yuheng refused to let them see his wife because there was something hidden about his wife's illness, but she didn't expect it to be nothing serious.Could it be that I was overthinking it?

I heard Du Juan say in my ears: "That's good. I don't have any serious illnesses, but the climate is cold and windy when I return to the city. Although I have been here for so many years, I still can't adapt to it. I often get tired easily. However, my temperament is I can't be idle by nature, if I don't prune the flowers and branches for a day, I feel that there is something unfinished, and I can't sleep well..." Jiang Chenyu sighed: "Madam's flower art is really something I have never seen in my life..." Du Juan immediately turned his face to her, and looked at her with a pair of dull black pupils without blinking, almost with a bit of burning expectation: "Do you like those flowers, Miss?"

"Well, I like it very much. Especially the lotus petals of the chrysanthemum... To be honest, my mother's favorite is orchids, and there are many kinds of orchids in the yard, but when it comes to the legendary chrysanthemum and lotus petals, I regret it. For many years, I have thought of many ways, but I can’t see it. Therefore, when I saw the petals of chrysanthemums in the front yard, I couldn’t believe my eyes. I didn’t expect that there are people in the world who grow such rare flowers. Moreover, It is still a perfect and impeccable plant..." Before she could finish her words, Du Juan had already grasped her hand and said, "Then give it to you!"

"what?" Du Juan realized his gaffe, and hurriedly withdrew his hands and smiled: "Famous flowers are given to beauties. Lingtang must be an amazing woman who can teach a daughter like a girl. So, giving her the pot of chrysanthemum and lotus petals is considered a gift." Famous swords and heroes complement each other." "No, no, how can this work?" Jiang Chenyu never expected that Mrs. Du Juan would be so bold, and without even thinking about it, she gave the most precious flower in the world to the guest who met for the first time. I wanted it, but I still refused, "A gentleman doesn't take away people's love, and my wife has spent a lot of effort and energy on that potted flower. How could I accept such a heavy gift from you for no reason? Never..." Du Juan stretched out his hand again and gently held hers.Different from Jiang Chenyu's hands, Du Juan's hands have many calluses, which are the marks left by years of hard work, and she uses those generous, warm hands full of calluses to caress Jiang Chenyu's skin Hands that are as smooth as jade and can be broken by blowing bombs, there seems to be infinite emotion between the brows: "heaviness and lightness are just the eyes of others. I don't know why, when I hear your voice, I like you very much. I always feel that I have a destiny with you. Therefore, to me, it is not important to give any kind of gift to a friend I am interested in. If you insist on not accepting it, you will be neglecting me. Could it be that with my vulgar status, I am not worthy of giving gifts to girls?" Jiang Chenyu became serious when he heard this, and couldn't help feeling a little panicked. At this moment, Jiang Wanyi came out to rescue him and said, "Junior Sister, just accept it. If you feel ashamed, then think about returning a gift to Madam." .” Jiang Chenyu smiled wryly in her heart, she said this lightly, but where can she find a gift that can be given in return?What's more, there are not too many gifts that can equal the value of that precious and fragile flower. Du Juan patted the back of her hand, and said softly: "Master Hou is right, in fact, the girl can help me now." Jiang Chenyu hurriedly said: "Ma'am, please tell me." Du Juan softly called Aunt Mei, Aunt Mei understood, turned around and went into the inner room, and brought out something after a while. Jiang Chenyu took a closer look, it turned out to be a chessboard. Aunt Mei put the chessboard on the table, and Du Juan said, "In addition to planting flowers and weaving, I actually like playing chess very much. But because of my poor eyesight, I always play chess much slower than ordinary people. For this reason, Yuheng always doesn't like to play chess." Be patient and play with me. And the servants in the mansion don’t know how to do it, and it’s inconvenient for me to meet outsiders. It can be said that I haven’t played chess since I came to Huicheng four years ago. If the girl really wants to thank me for sending you That potted flower, then, can you play with me in the next game? I heard people say that the girl is the one who is the best in Chinese chess, and she even beat King Yi." Jiang Chenyu was ashamed, as expected, people just can't show off too much, in order to save He Yi, she purposely played chess with him on the boat all night, but unexpectedly, it spread to the ears of the wife of Huicheng City Lord. But playing chess is not a difficult task, people are willing to give flowers as gifts, how can such a small request be shirked? "If that's the case, I'll make a fool of myself." Jiang Chenyu sat on the opposite side of the chessboard. Du Juan turned to Jiang Wanyi and said, "Is Lord Hou tired? If Lord Hou is tired, please go back to the room and rest first. Because I played very slowly. Although it was only one game, I might not be able to play until dawn." It's over." Before Jiang Wanyi answered, Jiang Chenyu laughed and said: "Senior brother doesn't know anything about chess, it would be torture for him to stay here." Jiang Wanyi said apologetically, "I've been dull since I was a child, and it's a headache when I encounter people who need to use their brains to calculate. So, please forgive me for not being able to accompany me." "That's good. Aunt Mei, take Master Hou back." After Aunt Mei sent Jiang Wanyi away, Jiang Chenyu looked at the chessboard and then at the chess pieces in the bowl. When he was thinking about how to play chess with a blind man, Du Juan said: "My eyesight is not good, so I need to ask the girl to help me." I'm playing tricks." "Where, it should be." "So, if you don't mind, let me go first?" "of course can." "Okay, then the first step is—" Du Juan took a deep breath and said slowly, "Tianyuan." Jiang Chenyu was shocked. Jiang Wanyi followed Aunt Mei out of the west courtyard when a gust of wind suddenly blew in, and two of the ribs of the paper umbrella in her hand broke. "It's raining a lot." He sighed. "That's right," Aunt Mei said quietly behind her, "It's raining tonight, it won't stop..." Hearing her strange tone of voice, Jiang Wanyi couldn't help but glance back, just as a thunderbolt passed through the dark night, it illuminated Aunt Mei's face blue, and her facial features, which were originally benign and kind, were distorted and distorted by the shadow. "You..." Before Jiang Wanyi could finish the following words, he was hit hard on the back of the neck and fell unconscious. The sound of restless footsteps, from left to right, and then from right to left, was repeated several times, finely. Ji Ying's eyebrows moved, she raised her eyes from the book, looked at the source of the voice and sighed softly, "You're disturbing me, Xiao Cai." The maker of the noise——Xue Cai stopped pacing, turned around and said with a vigilant expression: "There is a problem." "What's the problem?" Ji Ying turned a page of the book in his hand. Compared to his calm, Xue Cai seemed extremely impetuous: "If I knew what the problem was, it wouldn't be a problem." After speaking, he walked to the window and slammed it open, and the wind and rain outside suddenly blew in , the paper on the case flew around. "You smell!" "Smell what?" "Don't you think these flowers smell too much?" Ji Ying couldn't help laughing, raised a hand and rubbed his eyebrows lightly: "I didn't know—so you still hate flowers." Xue Cai grumbled. "It's different from you, I like flowers." Ji Ying simply closed the book, got up and walked to the window, looking at the flowers still blooming in the night rain, with soft eyes, "I think flowers are a very wonderful creature: they At first it was just an ordinary leaf bud, with no characteristics and inconspicuousness, but once it blooms, it will be beautiful and unique; and that beauty will soon wither, which is a pity, but because it will bear the most beautiful leaves. The most important fruit has another high value..." He paused for a while, his eyes were deep, and seemed to be hazy, like a misty lake under the moonlight at night, making it hard to see real expression. After a while, Ji Ying gently closed the window and said in a low voice, "But you're right, the flowers here... are indeed too fragrant." Xue Cai's eyes lit up immediately, and she snorted softly, "Is it? I didn't expect Wei Yuheng to be quite courageous." "It may not necessarily be him." Ji Ying walked back to the case, tapped the edge of the table with her index finger, bowed her head and muttered. Xue adopted a pair of big eyes and looked at him flickeringly. Ji Ying turned her head and saw his eager expression, couldn't help laughing: "Test you, what should you do when a person is in trouble?" "Determine what the current predicament is and how to get out of it." "So, in your opinion, what is the current predicament?" "This place is weird, it's not suitable to stay for a long time." "What kind of weird method?" Xue Cai raised three fingers: "First, our guards are gone, replaced by unfamiliar faces outside the courtyard; It's not time to sleep, but except for us, the other houses are pitch-dark with no lights; third, just as it rains heavily at night, we can't hear many sounds, and the fragrance of flowers is too strong, and we can't smell some things. " "for example?" "For example——" Xue Cai suddenly raised his left hand, his sleeve fell down, and his palm turned over, there was a faint bloodstain on it.He explained, "I just accidentally got it on when I opened the window." Ji Ying's pupils are shrinking: "If there was a fight outside just now, even if the rain was ten times heavier, I wouldn't lose my hearing." Xue Cai smiled: "Not bad. Although your martial arts are not very good, I believe that if someone strikes outside your window, you can still feel it." This sentence seemed to be a compliment but not a derogation, and Ji Ying could only smile wryly. Xue Cai changed the subject and continued, "So I didn't say it was what happened just now." Ji Ying didn't comment. Xue Cai analyzed: "In other words, even if there was a killing here, it happened before we arrived. Maybe it was because of the heavy rain that the killer didn't have time to clean it properly, leaving blood on the window lattice." Hearing this, Ji Ying raised her eyebrows and said, "I basically agree with your analysis, but I have a different opinion about the bloodstains." "Oh?" Ji Ying turned around and looked towards the window lattice, her eyes darkened, and her voice suddenly became lower: "I don't think the bloodstain was left by negligence, but—someone did it on purpose." "On purpose?" Xue Cai's eyes widened, "Why?" Ji Ying took the paper from the desk, flattened it, finally smiled, and said four words leisurely: "To warn." The night rain was so sudden that it made the window screens rattle. The water on the red clay stove boiled, and the lid jumped up and down, but the two people who were sitting by the stove playing chess seemed to have not heard it at all, and no one paid any attention to it.The pale water vapor filled the air, and Jiang Chenyu's face was shrouded in the mist, like a statue carved from jade. She held on to the chess pieces and did not move for a long time. The pot lid gradually stopped jumping. The room was very quiet.Only the breathing of the two of them was light and shallow, extremely calm. After a long time like this, Jiang Chenyu finally moved, raised his head slowly and bit by bit, and stared at Du Juan on the opposite side. Du Juan seemed to be aware of her gaze, stretched his eyebrows and smiled slightly: " Have you figured out what to do next?" Jiang Chenyu let out a "huh". "Then why don't you go?" Jiang Chenyu looked at her steadfastly, and shook his head after a while: "I dare not." Du Juan smiled again, and there was something slowly solidifying in the smile: "Oh, why don't you dare? Tell me. Are you afraid of losing?" Jiang Chenyu rubbed the chess pieces, and said slowly: "I was taken aback when Madam took the first step with Tian Yuan. Because very few people start the game like that. Generally speaking, chess players who dare to start with Tian Yuan are either extremely courageous Big, or else, the chess skills are extremely high. Therefore, I dare not relax and be careful, but after walking this way, I found that..." Du Juan continued her words with a smile: "But I found out that my chess skills are no more than that, maybe not even a third-rate chess player, right?" Jiang Chenyu used silence to represent acknowledgment. "Since that's the case, you don't need to be afraid, do you? Because, you are sure to win this game." Jiang Chenyu lowered his eyes, and asked in a low voice: "Madam's chess skills are mediocre, why did you ask me to play chess?" Du Juan covered her lips and smiled: "Hasn't the girl heard that the more rotten the player, the more keen to find someone to play chess with?" "If it was someone else, maybe so, but Madam..." Jiang Chenyu hesitated, but continued, "Before I came here, I saw the flowers Madam planted, and I was thinking, if it wasn't for Zhi Cong Those who are extremely wise, strong and proud cannot grow those flowers." Du Juan laughed: "It's nothing more than being smart, but it's just planting flowers. How can you talk about being arrogant or strong?" "The arrogance and strength I'm talking about refers to knowing one's strengths and showing them to others. This behavior itself is a manifestation of pride and strength. With all due respect, my wife's eyes are not convenient. If you If you are an ordinary person, if you know that you have flaws and are not as good as others, you may become introverted, cowardly and inferior. Even if you can muster up the courage to face life, you will be more "safe and secure". Madam is different, she wants to challenge the most difficult Flower art, moreover, is the best in the world—so from this point of view, my wife is the kind of person who must do her best once she decides what to do—and I don’t believe in such a wife , if you really like to play chess, you will not play well." The smile on Du Juan's face disappeared, and he lowered his eyes without responding. Jiang Chenyu put the chess pieces in his hand back into the box, and turned over the other chess pieces by the way: "Besides, the set of chess sets that Aunt Mei brought out is really a bit new. I believe that the number of times it has been used will never exceed three." The corners of Du Juan's lips curled into an arc, and he said with a half-smile, "You guessed it right. Plus this time, this is the second time I've used this chess set." "Then last time?" Jiang Chenyu elongated the tone implicitly. Sure enough, Du Juan continued: "This morning, I asked someone to teach me the basic rules of the chess sets I bought from the market after unpacking them." Jiang Chenyu was shocked - this was her second time playing chess!Originally thought that this person's chess skills were mediocre, but after learning the truth, the situation changed immediately.Ask yourself, if you change yourself, can you play chess like this the second time, and the answer is no.But Du Juan did it, it seems that her intelligence is far above her own... Her heart was shaken, so her voice trembled a little: "Why do you want to learn how to play chess now?" Du Juan replied quickly: "Because I heard that you can play chess." Jiang Chenyu became more and more puzzled: "Why do you want to learn how to play chess?" Du Juan showed a very complicated expression on his face. After being silent for a long time, he raised his head, facing Jiang Chenyu's direction, and said slowly in a solemn voice: "Because I want to take this opportunity to get to know you. You, Jiang Chenyu, I want to know you, it's been... for a long, long time." Jiang Chenyu was completely stunned. "Warning? Who warned us? Why should we warn?" Xue Cai asked. Ji Ying didn't answer this question, picked up the brush and began to quickly write on the letterhead, and asked, "Test you again. Now that we are convinced that we are in danger, what should we do?" "Analyze your own strengths and weaknesses, and seek ways to protect yourself." "So, what is our strongest?" Xue Cai's pupils flickered a few times: "General Pan Fang." Ji Ying smiled. Xue Cai turned around and said, "I'll go find him right away! With him and Zhu Long here, even if seventeen or eight assassins come, don't be afraid!" Ji Ying didn't stop him, just watched him rushing out indifferently, but as soon as Xue Cai's finger touched the doorknob, he stopped suddenly: "No!" Ji Ying raised her eyebrows. "No..." Xue Cai's hands began to tremble, and when he turned around again, his expression was a little horrified, "For us, the most powerful umbrella is Pan Fang—we can imagine this, but the enemy can't think of it. Therefore , if someone wants to deal with us, the first step is to get rid of Pan Fang and break our arms. If I go to Pan Fang now, I'm afraid I will fall into an even worse situation." The smile on the corners of Ji Ying's lips deepened, and it wasn't until this moment that there was a look of approval in his eyes. "So, it's useless to look for Pan Fang at this time. I guess he can't protect himself now. So who should I turn to? Could it be...Jiang Wanyi?" Ji Ying still didn't say anything, just looked at him quietly. Xue Cai thought for a while, then shook his head: "He can't do it either. His medical skills are superb, and the world knows him. The enemy will not leave him by our side to do bad things... No wonder Wei Yuheng's mother-in-law would rush him as soon as she finished eating. Baba called him away, that's how it is!" Ji Ying couldn't help smiling: "Ma'am? Your words are becoming more and more vulgar." Xue Cai gave him a white look: "What's wrong with vulgarity? I'm already a vulgar person, what do I need to be polite? Anyway, I can't take the number one exam." Ji Ying began to rub his eyebrows helplessly.Xue Cai stared at him: "Mother! Mother!" "Okay, okay, mother-in-law." Ji Ying made a gesture to continue. Only then was Xue Cai satisfied, raised her head and continued: "I think Wei Yuheng is very problematic. I think back then, he was the number one scholar and won the first place, but because he rejected a shameless woman who wanted to marry him, he was left behind. Bear the grudge, send it down to this shitty place..." When Ji Ying heard the words "birds don't shit", the corners of Ji Ying's eyes twitched slightly again.But Xue Cai didn't pay attention to his reaction at all, and said eloquently: "How can a man be willing to live here and deal with such trivial matters as his master being stolen, a chicken being stolen, and a dog missing from his west's family all day long? A real man should fight On the battlefield, kill the enemy to stand up, with iron armor and long spears, thousands of troops, throwing their heads, shedding blood, guarding the people of the Li people, protecting the great rivers and mountains..." Ji Ying sighed softly: "If you are more concise, I will give you higher marks." Xue Cai walked up to him quickly, and stood still: "Then it's four words - Qu Cai, Jealousy." "Who are you jealous of?" "I'm jealous of you." Xue Cai leaned in front of him, lowered his voice, and smiled maliciously, "So, he set up a trick to kill you. My master." "Who are you?" The flames of the red clay stove danced, reflecting the eyebrows and eyes of the two sitting opposite.The water in the kettle was almost boiled dry, and smoke began to sizzle out. Jiang Chenyu looked at Du Juan sitting opposite without blinking: At first, she thought this woman was ordinary in appearance, but beautiful in style, but now that she looked closely, she felt a sense of deja vu.These eyebrows, this mouth and nose, seem to have been seen somewhere. Fortunately, she has always been conceited about her memory, as long as it is the books she has read, the words she has heard, or the people she has met, she will never forget it.But at this moment, the more I look at Mrs. Du Juan, the more familiar she looks, but I can't remember it. "Who are you?" Jiang Chenyu asked again in a low voice.Her trip was a secret, even if more and more people knew her true identity later, it would be too strange for a wife of a city lord in a small frontier town to know.Moreover, the lady of the city lord seems to know more than just "a little bit".What did she mean by "a long, long time"? One after another, doubts arose in Jiang Chenyu's heart. It was clearly a rainy and cool night, but his back was wet and he was sweating profusely. Du Juan's expression was not much more relaxed than hers, with a smile on the corner of his lips, rubbing three points of emotion, three points of hesitation, three points of loneliness and the last point of inexplicable sadness, and said quietly: "Me? Doesn't everyone in the world know me? Who is it? A blind man who was lucky enough to marry a champion of martial arts, a blind wife with no morals who caused her husband to be depressed from now on, a woman who is envied by many people and envied by many people." Jiang Chenyu simply made the topic clear: "Why do you know me?" "I know not only you, but also your parents, brother, sister... I know all of them." Du Juan smiled again. Her facial features were ordinary, but her smile was quite charming, her nose wrinkled slightly, her lips There are two dimples on the corners. Jiang Chenyu let out an "ah", stood up suddenly, stretched out a trembling finger and pointed at her face, and lost her voice: "You, you, you are..." Du Juan raised her face slightly so that she could see it more clearly: "You can see it, right?" Jiang Chenyu's legs went limp, and she slumped back to the chair, staring blankly at her face, unable to say another word. "If it's just jealousy, then as you said, Wei Yuheng is a bit too courageous." Ji Ying finally said so after being silent for a long time. Xue Cai let out a sneer when he heard this: "It's come to this point, do you still want to deceive yourself?" The pen in Ji Ying's hand rested on her fingertips, and the dripping ink smudged on the paper, as if the night outside was dark and damp.Suddenly there was a lot of sadness in his eyes. Xue Cai looked at him coldly, and said: "This time you secretly visited Cheng Guo and temporarily changed the candidate for King Cheng, I thought it was a bit bad at the time. And you have just set foot on the territory of Bi Kingdom, and you are being targeted , Judging from the current situation, the other party has already designed a trap for you to jump in. Who would know that we arrived back to the city today in the first time? Who has the power to order Wei Yuheng? Who will attack you, dare to attack you?" Ji Ying frowned and said, "Stop talking." But Xue Cai didn't stop, and the speed of his speech became faster and faster: "The cunning rabbit is a dead dog. The Bi Kingdom is big, but the Xue family is not alone..." "I said, that's enough!" Ji Ying stopped drinking, then realized her gaffe, and was taken aback. Xue Cai looked at him sympathetically. Ji Ying rubbed his eyebrows with his hand, shook his head and said, "No... no. He won't." "Back then, my grandfather thought he wouldn't." The sympathy in Xue Cai's eyes faded, replaced by a thousand-year-old ice-like indifference. Ji Ying raised her head, lost her mind for a while, and then murmured: "No. I'm different from your grandfather, we... are different." Seeing that he was so sure, Xue Cai showed suspicion. Ji Ying took a deep breath, picked up the pen and continued writing, saying, "There is no point in arguing about it now, and the truth of the matter will be known later. Please send me a letter first." "We are in this situation, can we still go out?" Ji Ying folded the written paper, sealed it in an envelope, and handed it to Xue Cai. On the letter paper with the pattern of Bai Ze, there was still a person's name written in the handwriting that was still handsome and undisturbed—— Wei Yuheng. Jiang Chenyu felt as if she had fallen under a cliff, and was so dizzy due to weightlessness that she couldn't move, think, or even breathe. A certain voice said in his heart: Don't think about it, Chen Yu, don't think about it anymore.It will hurt, it will hurt, it will hurt. But another voice was next to my ear, saying methodically, without emotion, and very clearly: "You thought about it, didn't you? They all said that you are the most outstanding among the children of the Jiang family. You are as smart as you, of course you will Imagine." Tears suddenly appeared in Jiang Chenyu's eyes. She clenched her hands tightly and then clenched them again, but she still couldn't restrain the trembling from her soul. Du Juan's voice was calm: "Does Lingtang like my orchids?" Tears were already rolling in the eyes, but they didn't fall for a long time. Jiang Chenyu maintained that slightly bowed posture, and replied stiffly: "I like it very much. However, those flowers will not survive the winter when they come to my house." Du Juan said: "That is inevitable." "My mother hired a lot of gardeners, but they couldn't do it. She always thought it was because she didn't know how to raise it, but now I know..." Du Juan continued for her: "Now I know that I actually poisoned the soil. If your flowers never die, then what reason would I have to send flowers there?" Jiang Chenyu's eyes turned red again: "Mother has always wanted chrysanthemum and lotus petals." "So after so many years of planting, I finally succeeded. You can take it back to her old man." Jiang Chenyu raised her head and looked straight at Du Juan: "Can I go back?" The corners of Du Juan's lips curled up, and he smiled: "Otherwise, why do you think you are here?" "You are not sick, but you asked Aunt Mei to ask Jiang Wanyi to treat you, because you are sure that when I see those orchids, I will definitely want to meet the person who grows them, and I am Jiang Wanyi's junior sister, and he is here , I will naturally follow. Then you deliberately asked me to play chess with you in order to let me stay here. Since I stayed here, it means..." Jiang Chenyu choked up when he said this , "Apart from this place, it's not safe anymore, right?" Du Juan praised: "You are really smart. Not only smart, I heard that you are also a beauty. You are smart, beautiful, and blessed. I am so envious of you." Jiang Chenyu took a deep breath, and finally asked the most crucial question: "What is Wei Yuheng going to do to Qi Aohou?" Du Juan raised his eyebrows and asked leisurely, "What do you think?" Jiang Chenyu heard a loud noise, sharp and ear-piercing, and there was no way to cover her ears, no way to escape, because it came from her body. ——It was the sound of a heart breaking open. "I don't believe that Wei Yuheng will come at this time." Xue Cai stared at the letter without answering it. Ji Ying raised her eyebrows: "Why don't you try?" "You don't need to try to know. Isn't this obvious? He has laid a net to kill you, so how could he send himself in front of you at a critical moment, so that you have a chance to reverse?" Ji Ying still insisted: "You will know when you give it away." Xue Cai looked at him suspiciously, finally took the letter, opened the door and walked out. Ji Ying watched him walk to the gate of the yard, and said something to the guard. The guard took a step back and let him go, and then the small figure disappeared outside the fence, never to be seen again.Ji Ying blinked her eyes, her pupils were faint, as if she was thinking about something, but she didn't seem to be thinking about anything.Finally, she stood up slowly, shook her robes, walked to the window with her hands behind her back, opened the window, looked at the still misty rain and fog outside, and murmured: "This big dream... still... I don't want to wake up." what……" A flame suddenly shot up, and in an instant, it ignited the night.