heaven money

"Oh, you're leaving now?"

On the other side, Meng Qi looked helplessly at the place where Shang Yi disappeared and complained:

"Are you going to see Miss Ruan?"

"Whoops"

As soon as he finished speaking, a hand passed through the void and flicked a finger on Meng Qi's forehead, immediately making Meng Qi shut his mouth!

Jiang Zhiwei on the side smiled slightly and said softly:
"Deserve it!"

Jiang Zhiwei's smile seemed to light up the world, and Meng Qi was stunned for a moment, intoxicated by her smile.

The girl also noticed Meng Qi's daze, and immediately turned her head slightly, walked forward awkwardly, and quickened her pace a little.

"Ahem! Okay, let's not think about this matter for now. In any case, be careful of Lan Die and her gang. Try to mislead them and seize the opportunity to assassinate Zuo Hanfeng." Meng Qi looked up at the sky.

"By the way, what were you worried about before?"

Jiang Zhiwei bit her teeth lightly:
"It's not a big deal. I just made up my mind and feel a little melancholy. I'll tell you after the mission is over."

Have you made up your mind? Meng Qi was a little confused. He didn't understand what decision would make Jiang Zhiwei sad. But since she said that they would talk after the mission was over and she didn't dodge and was honest, there was no need for him to ask her now, lest it ruin her mood and prevent the team's main combat force from fully exerting its level, resulting in failure and annihilation of the entire army.

"Well, if there are difficulties, we will go through fire and water to overcome them."

Meng Qi nodded, and went back to the garrison with Jiang Zhiwei. As the person in charge of the outer mansion patrol, no one would notice him if he disappeared for a moment, and they might even think he had gone to inspect somewhere else.

The next night, Meng Qi took Ruan Yushu on an inspection tour, helping them familiarize themselves with the terrain of the garrison one by one.

Zuo Hanfeng's mansion is very large, with winding corridors in many places, lotus ponds reflecting the moon, and towering rockery. Walking among them is like strolling in mountains and rivers.

A cool breeze blew. Meng Qi looked at Ruan Yushu, who looked like an ordinary girl beside him. Her cheeks moved slightly, as if she was chewing something.

Ruan Yushu and Jiang Zhiwei are both women, and they have a good relationship. Perhaps they know what Jiang Zhiwei is thinking.

"Have you noticed that Zhiwei has been worried lately?"

Ruan Yushu's mouth stopped moving and he swallowed. "She didn't mention it, and I didn't ask."

She always adheres to the principle of respecting other people's wishes. No matter how good the relationship is, she will not pry into other people's privacy. Those who are willing to speak will speak naturally.

"She said she would tell us after the mission is over. It shouldn't be a big deal." Meng Qi consoled himself. "She is almost at the same level as nature. Could it be that she is struggling with the choice of her own path?"

"Or maybe it's something that happened in Xijian Pavilion, such as giving up some worldly rights and concentrating on practicing swordsmanship."

Ruan Yushu didn't say anything, but turned his head to look at Meng Qi. Among his "ordinary" facial features, his eyes were dark and bright, cold and deep, and captivating.

When Meng Qi felt a little uncomfortable, she said calmly, "It's possible."

"Could it be that Miss Jiang has embarked on the path of ruthless swordsmanship?"

Meng Qi unconsciously began to think wildly, and then shook his head:

"Well, there's no use in making wild guesses."

Meng Qi took two deep breaths and calmed himself down.

At this time, the sound of the piano came faintly, lingering and sad, almost like the sound of a flute.

Meng Qi looked in the direction of the sound and saw the three-story building in the inner palace. There were clusters of parasol trees outside, as if a phoenix had landed there.

"Hehe, it sounds like Miss Zuo has some girlish thoughts." In front of Ruan Yushu, Meng Qi did not use the derogatory term "lustful".

Ruan Yushu paused and listened attentively for a while before saying, "The music is sincere and seems to come from the heart, not fake."

"Well, does she really have someone she loves?" Meng Qi just said it casually just now, but he never expected to get the approval of "piano sound expert" Ruan Yushu.

Ruan Yushu looked at the lotus pond reflecting the bright moon, and said while thinking: "The sound of the piano seems sweet and sad, with a lot of hesitation and struggle. Maybe I have fallen in love with someone I shouldn't love..."

"You can hear this?" Meng Qi said in astonishment.

“The words you say may be deceiving, but the music you pour out when you are alone will not deceive your heart.” Ruan Yushu is as cold as the moon.

"Is that so..." Meng Qi chose to believe the "professionals" and muttered to himself, wondering what kind of piano music you would play when you are alone.

He always had an unrealistic mindset, and began to make up stories about Zuo Yiqian behind her back: "Could it be that she fell in love with a poor scholar or an ordinary soldier, but was rejected by the guards? She wanted to elope with him, but was afraid of the chaos outside?"

……

"Or fall in love with your enemy, and love and hate each other?"

Thanks to the TV dramas in his previous life, he knew too many sad and bloody plots. The endless spread made Ruan Yushu, who was usually indifferent, couldn't help but twitch his eyes.

"Enemy..." Meng Qi was suddenly startled and repeated his previous words. He met Ruan Yushu's eyes and saw the surprise in each other's eyes.

"Could it be Du Huaishang?" Meng Qi's voice unconsciously lowered.

Ruan Yushu said "hmm", seeming to think this was possible.

"The city has been sealed off and all the local tyrants have been controlled, but we still haven't found Du Huaishang, who is seriously injured and under the influence of witchcraft. This is simply unbelievable. It's dark under the lamp, it's dark under the lamp. Could it be that Du Huaishang is hiding in the garrison just like us..." The more Meng Qi thought about it, the closer he felt to the truth.

"But this is the enemy who killed my father..." As the legitimate daughter of a prominent family, Ruan Yushu, a girl who just turned 18, found it difficult to understand and rarely revealed a bewildered expression.

Meng Qi thought thoughtfully, "Perhaps when she fell in love with him, she didn't know his identity yet, and it was her father who took the initiative to attack the Red Army, and Du Huaishang was not present, so it was not him who commanded or took action..."

"I have to go and spy on it." Meng Qi has always been a man of action. Since he felt that there was something wrong with Zuo Yiqian, he immediately prepared to sneak into the inner palace and climb up to the embroidery tower.

Ruan Yushu nodded slightly: "I'll meet you outside."

Meng Qi had figured out the topography of the mansion over the past few days. After roughly determining his current position, he transformed himself into a phantom, stepped directly on the lotus leaves, walked across the water, and then silently climbed over the courtyard wall.

"In the middle of the night, in the girl's boudoir..."

Ruan Yushu muttered something in a low voice, as if he had thought of some special "profession".

Meng Qi's steps suddenly became slightly unsteady, and he almost made a noise and was noticed. He smiled helplessly, without saying a word, and concentrated on walking towards the direction where the piano sound came from.

Following the sound of the piano, Meng Qi moved like a ghost between the guards and soon arrived at the embroidered building.

He knew that there must be a master of the nanny level beside Zuo Yiqian, and any movement here would attract Zuo Hanfeng's attention, so he carefully went around to the shadow corner, pressed his body against the outer wall, and climbed up silently like a gecko.

The small building was shrouded in darkness, with only one room having a dim light coming through, mixed with the sound of piano music, just like a pool of spring water flowing eastward.

Meng Qi stopped by the window, like a piece of paper stuck to it. His mind was like a mirror, reflecting everything in the house. It seemed as if he could see every detail.

Zuo Yiqian sat behind the desk, her mind wandering in space, playing the piano casually. Just as Ruan Yushu said, her mood seemed both sweet and sad.

She sent the nanny beside her to the warm room next door to rest. She didn't want to reveal her feelings to anyone, so she stayed alone in the spacious room.

Meng Qi did not take action because he sensed that Zuo Yiqian had a good secret treasure on her, which posed a threat to him and would definitely create a big noise and attract Zuo Hanfeng and Yin Lenghui.

He stayed outside, waiting patiently to see if Zuo Yiqian would do anything unusual. After playing the piano for a long time, Zuo Yiqian sighed, stood up, and called the maid to come in and help her undress.

Meng Qi looked away without paying attention, withdrew his senses, and waited for a while. He found that Zuo Yiqian had already gone to bed, and the two maids were sleeping in the outer room. In this way, she could no longer do anything secret, so Meng Qi quietly slid down and returned the same way.

"Nothing unusual..." He frowned slightly and looked at Ruan Yushu.

"How is she feeling?" Ruan Yushu asked the point directly.

Meng Qi described it in detail:
"…She must have emotional troubles, but if we focus our attention on her, and end up finding out that it's a girl's troubles that have nothing to do with Du Huaishang, wouldn't that be a waste of time?"

"Anyway, this is the only clue at the moment." Ruan Yushu said coldly.

"That's right." Meng Qi nodded slightly.

Ruan Yushu was telling the truth. Originally, Meng Qi and others planned to find an opportunity to assassinate Zuo Hanfeng, but he was always in the inner courtyard and no one knew what he was doing. Only Yin Lenghui could get close to him, and even Jiang Shenghong could only report from far away outside the room. This made it impossible for Meng Qi and others to find a good opportunity to take action as they could not enter the inner courtyard openly.

The next day, more bad news came. When Meng Qi and Zhao Heng were patrolling, they learned from Jiang Shenghong that the leader was also invited, and it was unknown what they communicated with Zuo Hanfeng.

The strangers were gaining more and more trust, and more and more of them were coming, which made him feel a great sense of crisis.

"Master?" Meng Qi said half-truthfully.

The blind-eyed master who can communicate with the "ancestor" has also entered the mansion?

Not to mention whether there may be other secrets hidden in this matter, the increase in the number of experts alone has made the plans of others difficult!

Yin Lenghui is a good player in the Half-Step Exterior Scene. Even if he is not as good as the Queen Mother of the West, he may be able to beat Jiang Zhiwei in a one-on-one fight. In addition, his witchcraft skills are strange, so he can at least entangle two people on his side. The strength of the Closed-Eyes Sect Leader is similar to his, so it is not easy. Moreover, as a reincarnation, he may have hidden treasures. Just dealing with them and Lan Die, his team will have a hard time, not to mention Zuo Hanfeng, who is still a strong man at the exterior scene level.

Even if we lure the tiger away from the mountain, we may only be able to take one of them away.

"Yes, I didn't expect that Yin Lenghui's leader was also in Daning, acting mysterious and sneaky!" Jiang Shenghong said gritting his teeth.

Meng Qi was no longer wrapped in white cloth, and his face was covered with scars. He said fiercely, "This kind of sect must have ulterior motives and plans. We can't let the adults who stay behind suffer. We have to find out what they want to do."

"Yeah." Jiang Shenghong nodded gloomily, tacitly agreeing to Meng Qi's secret investigation of Yin Lenghui and others.

After Jiang Shenghong left, Meng Qi paced with his hands behind his back and whispered, "We can't wait any longer. The longer we delay, the more uncertain Zuo Hanfeng will be."

"Two of them will lure the tiger away from the mountain separately, and three of them will assassinate Zuo Hanfeng?" Zhao Heng's demeanor was calm and steady, and he had a feeling of being a superior.

"First, let's 'force' Zuo Yiqian to see if she can find Du Huaishang. He's an outsider after all. As long as we find a way to cure him, things will go much more smoothly." Meng Qi did not act rashly because of the tense situation.

"How to force?" Zhao Heng was quite confused.

Meng Qi pondered and said, "When Zuo Yiqian goes out to wander around..."

He had already thought of a plan to alert the enemy. If successful, he would be able to quickly find out whether the person hidden by Miss Zuo was Du Huaishang.

At this time, Meng Qi was secretly complaining in his heart. If Shang Yi directly helped, he would be able to know what Miss Zuo was thinking through his telepathy, and would know at that time whether it was Du Huaishang.

Unfortunately, he also knew that this was a trial for him and others. If Shang Yi interfered repeatedly, it would probably continue to attract the intervention of the Lord of the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

The fact that these rare reincarnation missions were running normally made Meng Qi understand that the various abnormalities before were probably due to Shang Yi's super-model combat power, which led to the intervention of the Lord of the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

The next day, Zuo Yiqian, who had been bored for a long time, left the house with her nanny and maid.

Meng Qi said to Qi Zhengyan beside him, "Brother Qi, please take advantage of the fact that the embroidery building is empty now and hide inside to check if there are any secret passages or doors. Wait for Zuo Yiqian to come back and then spy on her actions."

"Okay." Qi Zhengyan did not refuse.

Meng Qi looked at his serious and expressionless face and suddenly laughed: "You can't just go into a lady's boudoir as you please, Senior Brother Qi, you have to control yourself."

Qi Zhengyan's eyes twitched and he turned and left.

Meng Qi turned around with a smile, went into the dark, quickly sneaked out of the mansion, changed his clothes, and then put ointment on his face to cover the scar.

Zuo Yiqian wandered aimlessly on the most prosperous street in Daning, picking up small ornaments from time to time and putting them down blankly. Several maids knew that the young lady was in a bad mood and did not dare to speak. They could only follow closely with the nanny.

Suddenly, Zuo Yiqian's eyes blurred, and she saw a "middle-aged man" with a dog-skin plaster on his face appearing in front of her. He was holding a bamboo pole with a white cloth hanging on it, with the words written on both sides:

"If you count life and death, you don't count yourself. You can make accurate predictions."

"You can predict marriage and fate, but not the heart. A word will become a prophecy."

Zuo Yiqian was about to tell the nanny to chase the sorcerer away, when she suddenly saw him glance at her. She shook her head repeatedly, "Poor thing, poor thing, you have such a sensitive heart, but you gave it to the wrong person."

Zuo Yiqian was stunned as if struck by lightning. When she came to her senses, she saw the middle-aged man with the dog-skin plaster shaking his head and walking away.

"Sir, sir, wait a minute!" she blurted out.

"This girl called me?" Meng Qi, who had a dog-skin plaster on his face, half turned around and said.

After hearing what you just said, he still called me. Things are starting to look more certain!

"Miss..." The nanny next to her tried to stop Zuo Yiqian. She had seen too many similar swindlers. They were just good at observing people's expressions and then making big statements to scare people. They were not real fortune tellers. Anyway, she could say whatever she wanted to scare people. As long as she could scare the other person, she would be halfway successful.

Zuo Yiqian shook her head slightly, signaling the nanny not to say anything. This gentleman's casual words just now hit the most secret part of her heart. She must be quite skilled in this.

Care leads to confusion, and asking for something leads to confusion. Zuo Yiqian took a deep breath and said, "Sir, I want to predict my marriage."

"It's unpredictable." Meng Qi tried to play hard to get, and waved his hand, "Miss, why bother spending money to make yourself sad? I am ashamed to accept your money."

After saying that, he raised the bamboo pole and threw the side that said "Test marriage, not fate" high up in the air, attracting everyone's attention.

Zuo Yiqian's face turned pale, as if covered with a layer of snow, and her voice trembled slightly: "Sir, please stop. It is better to be sad than to be kept in the dark. If you prepare early, you may be able to escape from the sea of ​​suffering sooner."

The maids looked at each other in bewilderment, wondering if the young lady had met with some evil fate.

What should I do? Should I advise him privately first, or should I report it to my wife and the master who stayed behind immediately?

"Well, I will do a good deed today. Miss, don't force it if it is not destined to happen. Be careful not to hurt yourself and others, and involve your relatives and friends. It's better to break up early. It doesn't matter if you don't break up at all. Anyway, we will only be connected for the last one or two days..." Meng Qi shook his head as he spoke, and when he mentioned fate, he deliberately imitated the mysterious Taoist Tianming.

After saying this, he walked away without even looking back, acting like a master.

Zuo Yiqian watched as the gray figure blended into the crowd in a few seconds, without saying a word about collecting money, as if he was trying to avoid it. She was stunned for a moment, not knowing whether she was in a dream or an illusion.

"You really didn't ask for money?"

"He left right after finishing his speech. He doesn't look like a charlatan, but more like a master in the gaming world..."

The whispers of the maids around her reached Zuo Yiqian's ears, bringing her back to her senses abruptly. She swayed a few times and seemed about to fall.

"Miss, are you okay?" The nanny quickly supported her.

Zuo Yiqian took a deep breath, her face pale: "I feel a little dizzy, let's go back home."

The nanny glanced at a few maids and asked them to help quickly. She kept watch on the surroundings. According to the fortune teller, the young lady's bad fate was destined to be broken and the result would be seen in two or three days. So she would not tell the lady and the adults who stayed behind for the time being, so as to avoid being punished by them and being accused of not taking good care of the young lady.

It would be best if we could conceal the past quietly! (End of this chapter)