The carriage traveled for a while, and Li Xiao kept thinking about how to say goodbye.
She had already begun to plan in her mind. When she went back, she would sell the courtyard in Jade Rabbit Alley and buy another one in a farther place. She would continue to hide and start anew.
Sitting in the carriage for a while, she thought about what happened today. Lord Chen put her in danger, which made her panic.
When she thought about touching Chen Jue and seeing herself die at the hands of the shadow monster, she no longer dared to have any wishful thinking. She hoped that Lord Chen would be the first to catch the shadow monster.
This kind of process of solving the case and catching the murderer was too dangerous for her. It was not worth it.
She should throw away the idea of 'living freely under the sun', continue to cover her face, make a living by divination, and find her brother and father who she had never met.
"Daren –" Li Xiao thought of this and finally mustered up the courage to call out.
Chen Jue just happened to open his mouth, but Fang Qiao interrupted him.
He turned to Wang Hua and said, "Immediately take a few Shadow Guards to the Ministry of Rites and protect Jing Bei Hou's daughter."
Wang Hua answered yes. The first reaction in his mind was to wait for the carriage to return to the North yamen of Dali Monastery, then he would go.
But when he saw Lord Chen's serious face at the moment, he thought of Wang Yi's embarrassing appearance when he was kicked out of the carriage in the morning. He immediately tensed up and said, "Stop the carriage."
Chen Jue nodded in agreement.
Wang Hua breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that he seemed to have escaped a disaster.
When Wang Hua got off the carriage, Li Xiao saw that the carriage returned to silence. She mustered up the courage again and said, "Lord Chen –"
Chen Jue said again, "Xu Ting, take a few Shadow Guards and secretly watch Prince Six."
Xu Ting frowned, "Daren also thinks –"
"I suspect that the murderer is Prince Six!
Go and protect Jing Bei Hou's daughter, just in case.
Prince Six is the most important target right now, "Chen Jue said in a low voice.
Xu Ting thought for a moment and said, "Yes, sir." Then, he also called for the car to stop.
Chen Jue suddenly thought of something and stopped Xu Ting.
Xu Ting had already pulled the curtain and was about to get out of the car. When he turned around, the sunlight shone on his face, making his cheeks look crystal clear. His eyelashes shone with golden light, making him look soft and gentle.
But his long eyebrows were connected, and there was a heroic spirit between his brows. When he turned his head, his eyes carried a cold light that was unique to a hot-blooded man.
Li Xiao was looking up at him and was momentarily dazzled.
"Do you really have a superpower?" Chen Jue stared at Xu Ting's big oval eyes.
Xu Ting smiled. "What's the difference between yes and no?"
When his voice fell, he had already jumped out of the carriage.
Li Xiao pulled the curtain and looked out. Xu Ting flashed into a side alley and disappeared in an instant.
She let go of her hand, and the curtain shook beside her. Chen Jue, Zhang Tang, and her were the only three people left in the carriage.
Recalling the expression on Xu Ting's face just now, she pursed her lips and thought about her own plans. She also thought about everything about this case in the past few days.
Wang Yi, Xu Ting, Zhang Tang, Lord Chen … … The dead Liu Yunan, Lady Liu who almost died … … The cold and threatening Prince Six in the pavilion just now, Jing Bei Hou who was worried about his daughter, and Mr. Li Li Ru, who was always gentle and elegant but didn't reveal any information … …
This was a completely different environment from the one she lived in before. In her life where she found it difficult to save herself, there was suddenly another group of people who rushed to save others.
In life, there were other things, other emotions, other feelings and impulses, other things … … that were not quite the same as survival, but seemed to be more mysterious and fascinating. In their eyes, there was a glimmer of light.
It was something she had never come into contact with and didn't understand.
What was it?
Xu Ting's eyes just now, the expression that was shining under the sun … …
Li Xiao was thinking about it when suddenly a pot of warm water was handed to her. She looked down and saw that it was Lord Chen's kettle. It was Lord Chen's slender and good-looking hand.
She took the kettle in her hand blankly. Just as she took a sip, Lord Chen's hand touched her forehead again — — like a parent testing if their child had a fever.
It was a small action, but it was full of care and natural intimacy.
After Chen Jue finished checking her, he also checked his own. Finally, his eyes fell on Zhang Tang's forehead.
Zhang Tang felt sick from being stared at. She hurriedly moved to the door of the carriage. Only when she was more than an arm's length away from Lord Chen, did she feel relieved.
"You don't have a fever, so why is your face so ugly?
Is it exhausting to perform divination for people? "
Chen Jue didn't realize that there was something wrong with letting Li Xiao perform divination for nobles. He also didn't notice Li Xiao's fear. "Women are really useless!"
In his opinion, he just let the little girl come over as a chess piece to test Li Ru and Prince Six.
What's wrong with a nameless little girl performing divination for Jing Beihou and Prince Six?
For him, Prince Six's eyes weren't scary at all. Performing divination for Jing Beihou was no different from performing divination for a beggar on the roadside. Therefore, he didn't empathize with Li Xiao's fear and trepidation.
At this moment, he still reprimanded Li Xiao for being useless.
Li Xiao pursed her lips. She was very unhappy to be reprimanded, but she drank the water bottle that he handed over. Her forehead was still warm from his fingertips … … so she couldn't open her mouth to say that she wanted to leave.
Instead, she timidly asked, "Lord Chen, did I help you today?"
"Naturally." If it wasn't for Li Xiao, how could he have probed so much information?
Chen Jue originally wanted to use the fact that 'Li Xiao can perform divination' to test Prince Six and Li Ru. He wanted to find out the details of these two people. However, he didn't expect to obtain a new breakthrough in Jing Beihou.
Li Ru and Prince Six — —
One was the erudite gentleman who suddenly moved to the capital and wrote the "Chronicle of People with Abilities".
The other was the noble person related to the clues of this case. He had the highest status and was a member of the imperial family.
After thinking about it, he couldn't help but say, "I don't think you can understand."
After saying that, he sneered, as if he was saying: Stupid child, you helped a lot, but you don't know it at all.
You're in the game, but you don't understand the situation. You're really stupid!
Li Xiao didn't care about the sarcasm in his words. Instead, she raised her eyebrows and her eyes became brighter because of joy, "If … … if the murderer is caught, is it also, also my credit?"
Chen Jue opened his mouth. When he thought about the complexity of explaining this paragraph, he became impatient.