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Chapter 73 Dilemma (4)
When Yan Hui saw the more delicate and lovely pastry than the previous night, she smiled even more, which made the people serving on the side quite puzzled and even a little creepy.
"Today's dim sum is very good." He tapped his knuckles on the table twice, and his playful eyes fell from behind the golden mask to Liu Xiaoran's face.
Liu Xiaoran responded with almost no reaction. He seemed to bend over in panic, waved his trembling hands, and even let out a rough and hoarse voice with unknown meaning once or twice from his throat.
Yan Hui narrowed her eyes, let out a soft laugh, then patted the wide hem of her clothes, and Shi Shiran stood up from the main seat.There was a small bell hanging from the peony gilt silver sachet on his body, and it rang with his steps, and the strong fragrance arrived before anyone approached.
After stopping, he put his index finger in front of his mouth, shook his head slightly, and then showed a faint smile.
"Go and see people."
Before Liu Xiaoran was given time to respond, Yan Hui had already given orders to the others, and most of the people in the room withdrew not long after.
"What are you doing standing there! Clean up your things and take them down!" Seeing that Yan Hui had gone far away, Hei San immediately bossed her around and yelled at people.
After Liu Xiaoran came back to her senses, she also put on her original stooped appearance.
Although he only exchanged eyes for a moment, he was already sure that Yan Hui had recognized him.
But no matter what, he couldn't figure out how the other party saw him. In terms of old acquaintances, Yan Hui and himself had only met once.
Su Mu was drawing a map of the cottage on the ground with Xiao Shitou, when he heard the sound of someone coming in, he hurriedly rolled to the side and hid in the corner, and when he saw it was Liu Xiaoran, he breathed a sigh of relief.Before he breathed a sigh of relief, Su Mu found that Liu Xiaoran's brows were wrinkled like a whole twist, and immediately held back the remaining half of his breath.
"What's the matter?" He asked in a low voice. In order not to be found by the person who opened the door suddenly, he only showed his head, and his chin rested on the table. Little Stone didn't need to bend his legs like him, but he couldFollow him to learn, leaning on the table and looking at Liu Xiaoran with his head exposed.
Liu Xiaoran looked at these two heads protruding from the ground like radishes, and felt that the hesitation and nervousness all the way had completely disappeared.
He paused for a moment before regaining a sense of tension, and said, "Yan Hui recognized me."
He had been planning to move forward his plan to leave by one more day since just now, Yan Hui's status is not simple now, and he doesn't know what danger it will bring to them.
He pondered and said: "It's just that since he has recognized me, why didn't he point it out directly, but left as if nothing had happened, as if he didn't care about my purpose here at all."
Su Mu and Xiao Shitou looked at each other, and they both found that there was shock and doubt in each other's eyes, although one was because of Liu Xiaoran's words, and the other was because of Liu Xiaoran's words.
Xiao Shitou reacted first, took a step back, and asked in disbelief, "Aren't you dumb?"
Su Mu then asked, "Then how do you know he recognized you?"
Liu Xiaoran paused slightly, then shook her head: "He doesn't have any obvious movements, you can tell it from his eyes."
Su Mu nodded when he heard the words, other people's eyes may be wrong, but Liu Xiaoran has always been very accurate in seeing people, and since they all used affirmative sentences, that's probably the case, and only then did he start to get a little anxious.
"Then what to do, you have to leave here quickly, but now everyone in the cottage is going to look up to him, if he tells other people, then—" Before Su Mu finished speaking, after seeing Liu Xiaoran's gaze, he suddenlyAfter stopping the words behind, he understood what Liu Xiaoran wanted to do.
"You want to confront him directly?"
Liu Xiaoran remained silent, but he really had such intentions in his heart.
This can be regarded as a very risky move, Yan Hui most likely set a trap to lure him in, but he still wants to give it a try.
In the past few days in the village, he has basically figured out that the rest of the people here can only be regarded as shrimp soldiers and crab generals. They don't know anything about his family.So, in the end, he prevaricated at will.
If Yan Hui is not that adult, then there must be a black hand behind this who has not yet surfaced, and here perhaps only Yan Hui knows who this person is.
Su Mu knew that he couldn't persuade Liu Xiaoran, so he didn't make any fearless struggles, and like Liu Xiaoran, he wanted to find out who the person behind this was.
To shoot a man, shoot a horse first, and to capture a thief—to capture the king first.
Little Shitou felt very dissatisfied when he saw that the two were talking to themselves and ignored him. He stretched out his short hand and shook it in front of Su Mu, protesting, "Why are you two ignoring me? Is heIs that the friend you were looking for?"
Su Mu was drawn back to his attention, nodded, and admitted it openly.
Xiao Shitou looked enlightened: "So you are that quiet official, how did you become like this? I didn't recognize you with so many tangles on your face, but I saw you lying on the roof several times.I'm back……"
Seeing that Xiao Shitou and Liu Xiaoran had a tendency to reminisce about the past, Su Mu quickly interrupted him: "Then what are you going to do? Go and take Yan Hui down on the spot now? But your injury—"
Liu Xiaoran was also a little hesitant, even though Yan Hui didn't look like a person who knew martial arts at all, but there are many schools of all kinds in the world, and there are also many people who know how to use hidden weapons and poison, and he himself may not beYou can subdue the opponent smoothly, not to mention here, any noise Yan Hui makes may attract the whole village.
After listening to Su Mu's words, Xiao Shitou patted his chest complacently, and said, "Isn't there me? I can help you distract other people, or I can help you fight bad guys together."!"
Su Mu quickly covered his mouth with his hand. The child's voice became much brighter after eating. When he got excited, his voice became louder. He shook his head and said, "This is dangerous. I'll get you involved in a while."How worthless it is to go in, you still have to save your master."
Little Shitou struggled to get away from Su Mu's hand. Although he was a little unconvinced, he lowered his voice obediently: "I'm very good, okay, if I didn't make a noise yesterday to lure away people for you,It's not that easy for you to hide!"
Now Su Mu remembered, and said how the noise yesterday helped him just right. It turned out that Xiaoshishi made the noise specially to save himself.
Although he and Xiaoshitou have only known each other for a few days, they broke into the tiger's den together, which can be regarded as a kind of touching teammate friendship.
Xiao Shitou waved his hand not to thank him, and continued to insist on his proposal with this as evidence: "Look, I'm already so good, without my help, you definitely can't do it."
Liu Xiaoran originally wanted to send the two of them out together before going to investigate, but seeing that neither the elder nor the younger had the consciousness to leave, she didn't know what to pick up for a while, and just watched silently from the side.
In the end, Su Mu and Xiao Shitou finally reached an agreement to go together, and looked at Liu Xiaoran with a particularly piercing gaze, so that Liu Xiaoran could hardly find any reason to refuse.
He felt from the bottom of his heart that even if he rejected these two people this time, they would sneak back when he acted. Instead of worrying about them again at that time, it is better to act together now.
Su Mu originally thought that he would have to argue with Liu Xiaoran to persuade him to stay, but he didn't want Liu Xiaoran to nod very readily this time, and didn't even use the reason of "dangerous" to persuade him to leave.I am still dreaming.
"Liu Shaoqing, did you agree?"
Liu Xiaoran looked at him helplessly, and asked back: "If I disagree, will you leave?"
"Of course not." Su Mu replied as a matter of course, and then saw Liu Xiaoran's expression of "Then why do you ask?", and laughed a few times, "Before that, you would have persuaded me to leave first."
Liu Xiaoran sighed in her heart, and said: "No matter what the situation is, you must remember to protect yourself first. This place is no different from the previous places. They are mostly lawless thieves, and they attack fiercely. When you can leave, you must go first.Leave, remember."
Su Mu nodded sincerely, as usual, but it's hard to say how much he listened to. Xiao Shitou was very displeased with being treated like a child, and frowned and wanted to say something. Mr. Su MuOne step was blocked back.
"No matter how good your martial arts are, you have to run if you can't beat them. While the green hills last is not afraid of running out of firewood, understand?"
"understood!"
During the daytime, the cottage seemed to be extremely quiet, and there were occasional noises from one or two places, but they all subsided quickly. The three of them were still on guard because of Yan Hui, but they didn't expect that Yan Hui would not come for a whole day.Looking for trouble, even sending someone over for lunch to say that it was avoided, Su Mu couldn't help but feel a little bit drummed in his heart. Could it be that Liu Xiaoran's feeling was wrong?
Although Liu Xiaoran didn't know exactly what Yan Hui's intentions were, he knew that his glance was definitely not an illusion. Originally, if he was alone, it would not be difficult to delay the time he planned for a day, but right now he doesn't want to takeSu Mu's life is at stake.
Looking at the two heads working together to study the escape route, Liu Xiaoran suddenly felt that when he was alone in the past, he never felt afraid even in more dangerous situations, but now that someone is by his side, he is more worriedCome.
As soon as Su Mu raised his eyes, he met Liu Xiaoran's gaze.
"What's wrong?" He touched his face, "Is there something on my face?"
Xiao Shitou looked over upon hearing the words, checked Su Mu's face carefully, and said with certainty, "No."
Liu Xiaoran suddenly didn't know how to answer, she could only cough twice, and then looked away.
"No, I'm just thinking about the evening."
Their plan can be said to be very simple. Yan Hui can be regarded as an old friend of Liu Xiaoran and Su Mu, and it is time to meet up. Little Shitou is not interested in the conversation between adults, so he volunteered to go outside to watch, what's the matter?The situation made noises to remind them.
And in the dinner that was handed out, Liu Xiaoran added some white powder that Bai Zhi gave her before, the effect is similar to Datura, it can make people fall asleep for a period of time, but because there is not much in it, the effect may not be obvious,Talk is better than nothing.
When the commotion outside had subsided, Liu Xiaoran led Su Mu carefully avoiding the drowsy guards, and went outside Yan Hui's house with little hindrance.
He was a little nervous along the way, and when he met someone passing by unintentionally, he would unconsciously reach out and hold Su Mu's wrist tightly, and then he simply kept holding it, and only loosened it when he reached the door.
Compared with when he was hiding alone before, Su Mu felt much more relieved. With Liu Xiaoran, who is called a humanoid automatic radar, he walked much more smoothly and avoided the trouble of getting lost.
Most of the lights in Yan Hui's room were extinguished, and according to yesterday's situation, she should have fallen asleep. The two opened the door a little, and just stepped in from the middle, but they didn't expect that there was a person lying on their side on the bed.
Hearing the sound of someone coming in, Yan Hui smiled and opened her eyes, her voice was still soft and tender as before.
"It's finally time for the two of you."
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The metal sachet is Dangdang, some special product of the Tang Dynasty?Due to the prosperity of the Tang Empire and the close exchanges between Chinese and Western cultures, the production of gold and silverware was unprecedentedly prosperous.In the National Museum, there is a gilt and silver sachet unearthed in Shapo Village, Xi'an, Shaanxi in 1963.With a height of 5.1 cm and a diameter of about 4.8 cm, the sphere is exquisite and elegant, the whole body is made of silver, the outer layer is gilded, and the upper and lower hemispheres are carved with flower and bird patterns.There is also a silver chain on the outside of the sphere for hanging or tying.Back then, Concubine Yang Guifei's body died, but the incense didn't go away, it was because of the metal sachet she used (it won't break)!