Rebirth of a Star General 97
Thank you Somebody for the kofi!
See no evil
He Yan didn’t sit up immediately, just groaned while holding her head, as she was thinking of various things in her heart.
Yuan Baozhen really came to test her. First, to test how did she found out the problem with the glass of wine, and second, to see if she was really blind. This person was so thoughtful that he even asked Ding Yi to put on a bench to watch her reaction specifically. If He Yan’s response was even half wrong, she was afraid that this pair of master and servant will have other ideas.
She has excellent ears and heard Ding Yi’s movements early and knew that Yuan Baozhen did not leave immediately, so she deliberately cooperated with them in acting and acted out exactly what Yuan Baozhen wanted to see. As Yuan Baozhen was testing her, so why not she also do the same?
It was obvious that his relationship with He Rufei was very close. If they’re only acquaintances, then He Rufei’s little servant Ding Yi would have never followed him here. There really was a problem in that glass of wine, but what puzzled He Yan the most was what role did He Rufei played in this matter. Was he conspiring with Yuan Baozhen to murder Xiao Jue, or was he simply the mastermind, or were they both working for someone?
For the next step, she had to follow Ding Yi to figure out what the two of them are up to.
When there was no more movement outside, He Yan’s “Ah Ah Ah” grew louder. Then came the voice of Fei Nu as he asked, ” What’s wrong with you?”
“I knocked my head just now.” He Yan stretched out her hand to grab him blankly, “Brother Fei Nu, come and help me, my ankle is hurt.”
Fei Nu responded and helped her to the bed. The cloth strips covered He Yan’s eyes, so Fei Nu couldn’t see the emotions in her eyes and naturally didn’t know what He Yan was thinking at the moment.
In fact, the acting just now was not only for Yuan Baozhen but also for Fei Nu.
Yuan Baozhen and Ding Yi wanted to test He Yan, but they didn’t realize that Fei Nu had been standing at the door, listening to the movement inside. They didn’t find out, but He Yan found out that Fei Nu only went to ask people to take away the dishes. Why would it take so much time? It was nothing more than the mantis catching the cicada while the oriole in the back.
For some reason, He Yan always felt that Xiao Jue and Fei Nu didn’t trust her. But this was not a problem at all as people who had nothing to do with each other before, certainly, they would not trust her at the beginning. But she was sensitively aware that Xiao Jue not only did not trust her but was also a bit wary and suspicious.
He Yan couldn’t figure it out. She wondered whether she had done anything suspicious. Now that she is here, she and Yuan Baozhen have never even met in the past, and still, she was being suspected for some reason.
No matter what the suspicion is, she could just play an act to deceives both in one go. He Yan said, “Brother Fei Nu, where did you just go? Did you not see the Imperial supervisor Yuan came over to sit for a while?”
Fei Nu avoided her questioning, and only asked, “How is your head?”
He Yan touched her head and said, “It’s swollen. I don’t know when the swelling will disappear.” She sighed deeply, “This banquet… I think my little brother is quite smart, as he didn’t come. It’s more dangerous than being forced into marriage.”
If Cheng Lisu was here, she doesn’t know what the situation would be right now.
“Sit down and rest for a while.” Fei Nu’s voice was without emotions, “I’ll be at the door, call me if anything happens.”
After that, He left again.
He Yan was lying on the bed, her eyes were covered with cloth strips. Fei Nu still couldn’t see what her expression was. She also couldn’t see Fei Nu’s reaction but thought he probably would be expressionless.
She wondered when Xiao Jue will come back.
…
When Xiao Jue came back, it was already late at night.
On this day, He Yan and Fei Nu stayed in Sun’s Mansion and did nothing. The wine and dishes that Sun Xiangfu brought over were tested one by one with silver needles. Because He Yan couldn’t see, she simply slept in the house for the entire day, and Fei Nu stayed at the door guarding.
After Xiao Jue came back, Fei Nu who was sleeping on the other bed immediately woke up, got up and walked to Xiao Jue’s side, and said, “Master.”
Xiao Jue motioned him to follow into the back room, Fei Nu glanced at He Yan who was on the bed, sleeping soundly under the dim light.
Fei Nu and Xiao Jue went into the back room, but they didn’t see the teenager who just now was sleeping on the bed, was gently tapping the mattress under them with his hands. Of course, He Yan didn’t fall asleep. She slept all day in the daytime. How can she continue to sleep at night? She is not a pig raised in the village. The Second Young Master Xiao obviously had something to say to his confidant, and she estimated that Fei Nu would also tell the General of everything that happened here today.
The master and servant whispered but He Yan didn’t have the guts to listen. Xiao Jue was not Yuan Baozhen, he has real skills. Once she is exposed, there will be too many troubles and the loss would not be worth anything. But thinking about what Fei Nu could say to him, He Yan thought she could fool Fei Nu by acting today.
As for whether she can fool Xiao Jue, she doesn’t know.
In the back room, the lamp was lit.
Xiao Jue placed the sword on the table and sat down on the chair in front of the table.
“Master, Yuan Baozhen came by today.” Fei Nu said.
Xiao Jue raised his eyes and said, “What’s the matter?”
“They came to see He Yan specifically. Yuan Baozhen said a few words to He Yan.” He told Xiao Jue about the conversation between Yuan Baozhen and He Yan, and finally said, “Yuan Baozhen seems to be testing He Yan.”
Xiao Jue pondered for a moment, and said, “What do you think?”
“Looking at He Yan’s answer, it seems that he doesn’t know Yuan Baozhen. There was no flaw. However, it is possible that the two of them were acting together. But in general, the doubts about He Yan can be cleared up for the time being. .”
“Cleared?” Xiao Jue smiled, and he said, “Fei Nu, the liar in our house has fooled even you.”
Fei Nu was stunned, not knowing why.
“Don’t forget, when He Yan was competing with Wang Ba in crossbows, he was blindfolded and still shot a bird in the sky. Do you think that a person with such hearing can’t hear Yuan Baozhen’s guards putting a stool in front of her?”
“Master means…”
“He can completely avoid the stool, but he still fell. One is to deceive Yuan Baozhen, and the second to deceive you.” Xiao Jue said casually, “This person is very good at deceiving.”
What a blind man is generally like, stumbling, panicking, and unable to do anything when there is no one around him, very pitiful, this is the impression of ordinary people of blind men. Both Yuan Baozhen and Fei Nu were ordinary people, and naturally, they would think the same. Seeing He Yan fall helplessly is exactly what a blind man would look like to them. But He Yan was not an ordinary blind person. Even if she is covered with cloth strips, she can practice bows and crossbows better than the others.
Yuan Baozhen had never seen He Yan shooting an arrow blindfolded, but Fei Nu had seen it. Even so, he overlooked this.
“Deceiving you come later. Yuan Baozhen was what he wanted to deceive the most. Otherwise, he won’t tell the nonsense that there were insects flying in the wine.”
There were flying insects in the wine? How could this be? It’s not summer now. Sun’s Mansion pays special attention to this. There were insect-proof wormwood sachets everywhere, how could an insect fly into the wine cup, and it was difficult for He Yan to think of it.
“Master, is he from Yuan Baozhen?” Fei Nu was confused. If he was from Yuan Baozhen, why would they bother to test and doubt him like this?
“It doesn’t look like it, but I can’t say he’s not.” There were pens, ink, papers, and inkstones on the table, which Sun Xiangfu arranged deliberately. He doesn’t love these himself but prefers to look elegant.
Xiao Jue found a pen and paper, picked up a pen, and wrote a few words. His handwriting was elegant and dynamic, very beautiful. Falling on the paper, it was glittering and lifelike.
“I want you to bring a letter to Lin Shuanghe.”
“Young Master Lin?” Fei Nu’s calm face finally showed a surprised expression, “Master, did you not let Young Master Lin come to Liangzhou?” He suddenly remembered something and couldn’t believe him, “Could it be… because of He Yan? “
With the wind, the ink dried quickly. He put the letter paper into the envelope and said, “For him, but not totally because of him.”
Fei Nu didn’t continue to inquire, put the letter in place, and tiptoedly went out. When Xiao Jue saw this, he snorted and laughed.
“What are you doing so carefully, people outside have already woke up.” He said.
“Master?” Fei Nu was stunned.
“It’s just that, in terms of deception, you are not his opponent either.” Xiao Jue shook his head and said lazily, “Anyway, he doesn’t have the guts to come in.”
Fei Nu stood there thinking for a while before leaving the room. After he left, Xiao Jue flicked the wick. In the light, his pupils were bright and compelling.
“Xu Jingfu…”
The night swallowed his whispers.
…
When He Yan woke up, Xiao Jue was no longer there.
He seemed to be very busy these two days. When He Yan was awake, he had already left, and when He came back, He Yan had already fallen asleep again, and they didn’t even meet up. She guessed that what Xiao Jue did was probably related to what happened at the Banquet in Sun Mansion, but she couldn’t go along with him, so she could only sit and wait here.
But sitting and waiting was not what she likes. Fortunately, after noon, almost evening, Fei Nu had to go out too Before leaving, he told her to stay in the room and don’t go out, so as to save trouble.
He Yan nodded and said yes.
In fact, in He Yan’s eyes/opinion, there was not as much danger in Sun’s Mansion as Fei Nu said. It can be seen from the banquet that day that those assassins only targeted Xiao Jue. Without Xiao Jue, the mansion was 70% safe. The remaining 30% may not be able to beat her.
Earlier this morning, He Yan removed the cloth strips on her eyes. It was really because the cloth strips had been used for two days and should be replaced with new ones. However, the doctor in the house was scared away by Xiao Jue last time, and there was no one to make cloth strips for He Yan.
Although the cloth strips were removed, after two days, everyone in the mansion believed that He Yan was blind, and would not treat her as an ordinary person, except for He Yan himself.
Suddenly removing the cloth strips, she felt that the sky was too bright, and still felt a little uncomfortable. Yesterday morning, she untied the cloth strip in front of Fei Nu and kept her expression unchanged. God knows how much she wanted to cry at that time—it was really dazzling.
In fact, He Yan has never been “blind”.
At the night banquet that day, the young man who finally received Ding Yi’s command rushed over and indeed threw a handful of medicine-like things. But she blocked it, and she did feel some pain in her eyes at the time.
After all, she had been blind once, with eyes beyond the average perception and sensitivity. She subconsciously felt that the scene was blurred in front of her and suspected that she was going to be blind. But when she calmed down, she felt that she had actually avoided it. At night, when there was no one, He Yan secretly untied the cloth strips, and she could see the lantern light outside.
But it was because she was too nervous to make a mess. She wanted to explain it the next day, but after the second day, she changed her mind.
A blind man is probably not a threat. It is much easier to be a non-threatening person and get close to Yuan Baozhen than to be a “smart son who can find poison in wine”.
Therefore, when she opened the cloth strips in front of Fei Nu, He Yan did not show any difference. She has been a blind man for a long time and can imitate all the responses that a blind man should have, and no one can find the slightest error.
But she didn’t expect Yuan Baozhen to be so cautious and deliberately come to confirm whether she was really blind, and as a result, it became even more difficult to get off the ground. But at the same time, she was more determined that there was definitely a problem among He Rufei, Ding Yi, and Yuan Baozhen. He Rufei was definitely involved in the murder of Xiao Jue. Although she didn’t understand the enmity between He Rufei and Xiao Jue, but the enemy’s enemy is a friend. Now she and Xiao Jue were in cahoots.
She had to figure out what Yuan Baozhen and Ding Yi want to do.
He Yan tied up her hair and quietly went out.
Everyone knows that today’s Master Cheng can’t see, except for going to the toilet, he stays in the room every day. Moreover, in the past few days, everyone in the mansion was in danger, Sun Xiangfu was busy clearing himself, and there was really no one to accompany He Yan. Thanks to her good memory of knowing the way, when she came to Sun Mansion on the first day, she searched the way almost 7 to 8 times.
However, He Yan didn’t know where Yuan Baozhen lived. When she was in trouble, she saw a person walking quickly through the garden in front of her. It was not someone else, it was Ding Yi.
Good timing! He Yan gave a secret compliment in her heart and hurriedly followed. She moves very fast and was used to finding a space to hide. Of course, because the Sun’s mansion was luxuriously renovated, there were rockery and bonsai everywhere, giving her many hiding places. No one found her all the way, and finally, Ding Yi stopped in front of a room, pushed the door, and entered.
She doesn’t know why, the room Yuan Baozhen lived in was also far away from the other side of the hall. It can be regarded as very remote, and there were almost no people. In the autumn, Liangzhou’s evening, the sky becomes dark a little early, He Yan estimated a little and swept up to the roof.
She was small in stature, the roof was angled and cornices with stones carved everywhere. He Yan was lying on the roof, almost blending with the roof. She carefully searched for a long time and finally found a gap. She doesn’t know if it was due to rain or hail. The fragile crystal tiles were shattered forming a gap. He Yan pressed her face to it, listening to the movement inside.
In the room, Ding Yi walked in.
“How is it?” Yuan Baozhen asked.
Ding Yi shook his head: “I lost him.”
“You weren’t discovered by him, were you?”
“That’s not true.” Ding Yi hesitated, “I didn’t dare to get too close, so as not to be discovered by him. He went out early today and went to the east of the city. Later, I looked for him nearby, but couldn’t find him. .”
Yuan Baozhen looked uncertain, “What on earth does Xiao Jue want to do! It’s obvious that something that big happened in the sun’s mansion, but he’s staying there and going out every day, and here we have no idea what he’s planning. I always feel that something is wrong.”
He Yan’s suspicion grew when she heard this. Did Yuan Baozhen ask Ding Yi to follow Xiao Jue?
“The matter at the other end, has it been dealt with?” Yuan Baozhen asked.
“Yingyue and her party are all dead. There is no evidence. The internal staff/spies in the mansion are also dead. Since we greeted Sun Xiangfu in advance, there should be no problem.” Ding Yi said, “I still don’t understand. How did Cheng Lisu knew the movements of spies? He also discovered that glass of wine.”
“Do you think he has a problem? But you also saw it yesterday. He couldn’t see. He was just an ordinary teenager.”
“Although it seems so… I always feel that something is wrong.” But Ding Yi couldn’t tell. The boy should be blind, otherwise, he would not pretend to be like this. The servants in the mansion also said that he stayed in the house all day long, and Xiao Jue’s guards guarded him. It seemed that he was indeed just a rich young man without the power to restrain him. But Ding Yi still remembers that Cheng Lisu had cast a glance at him at the banquet.
The gaze was fleeting, like a casual glimpse of someone else, but for a moment, Ding Yi seemed to feel the anger in the boy’s eyes, he looked over again, the boy had already looked away; it seemed that it was all just his hallucinations.
But was that really an illusion?
He Yan’s heart was shocked by what they were talking about. “Yingyue was dead”, “no evidence”, “greet Sun Xiangfu”, that is to say, the assassination of Xiao Jue was indeed done by Yuan Baozhen. Perhaps Sun Xiangfu also has a hand in this.
Now that Xiao Jue was still living here, isn’t he leading others to continue to harm him?
She was thinking, and heard Yuan Baozhen ask again, ” Has Brother He sent you any letters recently?”
This “Brother He”, He Yan thought, was referring to He Rufei in all likelihood.
“No, the master told me before he left that it must succeed this time.” Ding Yi continued, “If it fails, I can’t explain to Minister Xu.”
Minister Xu?
He Yan’s heart trembled. The meaning of these words was that He Rufei asked Ding Yi to follow Xiao Jue to give an account to “Minister Xu”. In other words, is He Rufei doing things for Minister Xu? But who is Minister Xu? She knows Xu Jingfu, the prime minister of the current dynasty, but she does not know whether it is the same “Minister Xu” in Ding Yi’s mouth.
“We have failed,” Yuan Baozhen was half annoyed and half frustrated, “I didn’t expect Xiao Jue to be so difficult, and he already suspects me now… I wonder if there will be an opportunity in the future.”
“Xiao Jue is indeed difficult, but he still has a blind nephew.” Ding Yi said, “Since this person is blind, he doesn’t know anything. He’s like a fool, I think we can use him.”
“What do you mean?” Yuan Baozhen asked.
“Don’t forget, what I used to do.” Ding Yi, “I have my own way…”
Before he finished speaking, he heard a “creak” above his head. A small patch of emerald fell, and Ding Yi’s expression changed, “Who?” He leaped out.
Under the moonlight, the figure of someone flicked by extremely quickly, like a swallow, disappearing into the night in the blink of an eye.
He Yan complained incessantly that Sun Xiangfu was very artsy, and even the roof tiles were made of crystals/jade, which looked good, but were really fragile. Even a thin person like her would accidentally collapse when she lay down. What was the purpose of these tiles? He Yan suspected that Sun Xiangfu was pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger. The purpose of using this type of tile was so that no one could listen to it by lying on the roof at all.
Ding Yi was still chasing him in the distance, but for some unknown purpose, he didn’t say a word to greet the servants of Sun Mansion to catch the assassin, probably because he had a ghost in his heart. Relying on being familiar with the road here, He Yan hid from left to right, still thinking of the conversation she had just overheard in her heart.
Yuan Baozhen came to Liangzhou, Ding Yi also came to Liangzhou, and He Rufei was in Shuojing, all for one purpose, to assassinate Xiao Jue, and the three of them had to give an account/explanation to some “Minister Xu”. At the moment Xiao Jue was alive and well, the dead soldiers were wiped out, Yuan Baozhen was upset and waiting for a chance, while Ding Yi has his eyes on her “the blind man”. To use her, the blind man to murder Xiao Jue.
After much deliberation, one person using another is nothing more than instigating rebellion, taking hostage, and using her as an ignorant murder weapon when unaware. Cheng Lisu and Xiao Jue are uncle and nephew, and Yuan Baozhen probably would not have thought of instigating rebellion. Then there are only two alternatives left if they think of taking He Yan a hostage. First, He Yan didn’t think Ding Yi can beat herself. Second, she was not really Cheng Lisu, and Xiao Jue probably would not do anything stupid like, “give in easily for sake of his nephew.”
As for the third, making her ignorant murder weapon… they didn’t know the most important thing, that not only was He Yan not blind, but even was beware of Ding Yi early.
While thinking about this, He Yan had already reached the room lived in. The lights were on in the room, and Fei Nu probably had already returned. He Yan touched her body, she put the strip of cloth in the room, thinking that she would have to make a show to Fei Nu later, and felt a headache.
Fearing that Ding Yi would catch up, she leaped forward and walked into the room in a thunderous manner. Just turning her head, she almost choked to death with her own saliva.
There was a wooden barrel for bathing in the room, and the white mist was steaming in it. Xiao Jue was sitting in it. The beauty was bathing, with jade-like muscles and body. Moonlight slipped in along the gaps in the windows, putting his blue silk-like hair, a layer of cold and clear color, and it looked extraordinarily tempting. His shoulder blades were very beautiful. For a moment, He Yan’s thoughts drifted away. She thought, when she was in Xianchang Pavilion, she had never seen, this man take off his outer clothes. Most of them were sturdy and rough, Xu Zhiheng was probably considered gentle, but Xiao Jue was different from them. He was both handsome and powerful. His strong waist was especially attractive. Regardless of men and women, one will be amazed when they see it.
It turns out that not only did this man have a good-looking face, but his body was also different from ordinary people. No wonder he was called “Jade-faced General”, but he was also worthy of the name.
The fog made it hard to see his expression. She wouldn’t also be too happy to think about it. Xiao Jue probably didn’t expect that someone would suddenly come in at this moment and stood up immediately with a “clatter” sound, and the sound of the water was very clear.
He Yan, “…”
This is the end, what should be seen or not, He Yan has seen everything. At this moment, she scolded herself for the foolishness in her heart, why did she wear cloth strips all the time in the room, but didn’t wear it today. Or maybe it would be better if she really couldn’t see.
Young Master Xiao quickly picked up the clothes on one side of the rack and put them on, looked at her coldly.
The room seemed to become colder.
When he was about to speak, he saw the boy in front of him open his hand and slam the door indiscriminately. His eyes were unwavering and seemed to stare widely, but nothing could be reflected as he said, “Who… who is it?” “
“Heh.” Second Young Master Xiao scorned at the clumsy act.
