Ding Feng sat stiffly beside the carriage, subconsciously tilting his ear to listen to the movements inside the carriage. He was struggling with whether he should take action if a fight really broke out, or just pretend he heard nothing.

He had just followed Yuan Suiyun’s order to go to the store to buy fish skin dumplings for Yun Chuxiu. But when he walked in, Yun Chuxiu was sitting inside. When he saw him coming, he smiled and said hello to him, “My godmother and the other fairies didn’t want to eat on the street, so I came here by myself. Do you want a bowl?”

Ding Feng saw that there were only two dumplings left in his bowl and he would finish them soon, so he quickly shook his head and declined his kindness. Yun Chuxiu asked them to make sure they had dealt with the situation over there and were ready to return, so he said he would make another bowl of fish skin dumplings for Yuan Sui Yunduan. “If he doesn’t want to eat, I can have another bowl!”

He was in high spirits, so Ding Feng naturally did not refute him. He just smiled and helped him take the boxes of various snacks on the table, and accompanied him back to the carriage…

——Then it was discovered that the young master was having a secret meeting with a man in the carriage, and was caught red-handed by Yun Chuxiu.

The problem is that it was just a tryst, and he and Yun Chuxiu did not hide their whereabouts at all. With such loud footsteps, the young master should have heard them clearly a long time ago with his hearing! Ding Feng was puzzled and even suspected that his master wanted to cause a quarrel on purpose, just for fun. However, this was not something he, a subordinate, could comment on.

He was sitting on pins and needles outside. Inside the carriage, Yun Chuxiu crossed his legs and took a vicious bite of the fish skin dumpling. It seemed that he regarded the dumpling as Gong Jiu on the side. The latter still had his clothes open with no intention of covering up. Seeing him looking at him fiercely, he couldn’t help but smile and said, “Mr. Yun, you really came at the wrong time.”

“Humph!” Yun Chuxiu glared at him. “How dare you be so arrogant to mess with my people so confidently!”

Gong Jiu said indifferently: “This is a matter of mutual consent. Young Master Yun should be more generous. After all, how could there be only one man like Young Master Yuan?”

“You——” Yun Chuxiu bit her lip, looked at him and then at Yuan Suiyun. “Do you have anything else to say?!”

Yuan Suiyun was still holding his belt in his hand, but he was not nervous. Hearing this, he just said calmly: “This is just his one-sided statement. Why should you take it to heart?”

Yun Chuxiu retorted loudly: “I caught you in the act, and you still say such things. Do you mean that I am blind?!”

Yuan Suiyun sneered, “So what? Are you really going to get mad at me over such a small matter?”

He glanced at her coldly, and Yun Chuxiu’s tears immediately welled up. She smiled bitterly and said, “Okay, very good! Blame me for being blind and trusting someone like you! From now on, you go your way and I go mine. It’s best if we don’t interfere with each other! – Do you think I would say that?”

Gong Jiu was watching the fun with great interest when he suddenly saw him put his feet down and took another bite of the fish skin dumpling – that’s right, even when he was angry just now, he didn’t put down the bowl in his hand.

He felt something was wrong, and saw Yun Chuxiu throw the spoon into the bowl and hook his finger at Yuan Suiyun. Then, Young Master Yuan stood up with a smile and sat down on his lap very obediently!
“Brother, next time you seduce someone else’s wife, you should first understand the situation!” Yun Chuxiu put one hand around his waist, motioning Yuan Suiyun to eat the dumplings by himself, and then glanced at Gong Jiu with disdain. There were still tears in his eyes, making his face look even more charming and beautiful, but his expression was full of arrogance. What shocked Gong Jiu even more was that Yuan Suiyun, who was so arrogant and refused to bow to him just now, actually bowed his head and scooped a dumpling from his bowl to eat!

They? …They!
Ding Feng, who was outside the carriage, only felt a white shadow flash by. Before he could react to what happened, he heard Yun Chuxiu’s wild laughter coming from the carriage. He felt even more confused. But since Yun Chuxiu didn’t get angry, they probably wouldn’t do anything either, which made him silently relieved.

Inside the carriage, Yun Chuxiu wiped his face, put the bowl aside, and hugged Yuan Suiyun and said, “Did you see his expression just now? It was so funny! Hey, Old Yuan, do you think he will go out and tell everyone about it and ruin your reputation?”

Yuan Suiyun sat on his lap calmly, not in a hurry to get down, and said calmly: “Let him say whatever he wants. Even if he says it, there is no evidence, but someone has to believe it.”

“That’s true.” Yun Chuxiu thought to himself that he usually pretended to be a perfect person, and outsiders didn’t even know his true face, let alone such a romantic thing? But since the eyesore was gone, he pushed Yuan Suiyun and coughed twice, saying, “Don’t you have anything to explain to me?”

“Aren’t you not angry? Besides, if you had come a little later, everything would have been clear.” Yuan Suiyun said this, smiling and leaning over to kiss him. Yun Chuxiu dodged away, pouted and said, “Why, do you think I came too early? I’m not angry with you, because I know you don’t have that kind of feelings for him, but it’s better to make things clear, so that I don’t have to be angry with him when I run into him alone one day. Come on!”

Yuan Suiyun then said, “Do you still remember that man? You met him once before when you went to find Meng Jiao to get Li Zixi back.”

Yun Chuxiu said, “Remember, isn’t it the pervert who asked you to beat him up? What, are you trying to say that you wanted to beat someone up instead of taking off your clothes?”

Yuan Suiyun smiled and said, “As expected of you, you are A-Tu. You really know my feelings.”

Yun Chuxiu glared at him and said, “Why don’t you use anything else to hit him? Why do you have to use a belt?!”

Yuan Suiyun smiled slightly and pressed lightly with his fingers on the white jade on the belt. The shark gauze wrapped on the belt suddenly retracted into the white jade. With a flash of cold light, what he was holding in his hand was no longer a belt, but a thin and slender Burmese knife as long as a whip!

Yun Chuxiu was shocked. He knew that although Yuan Suiyun knew many martial arts, he still used the sword according to the family martial arts of Wuzheng Villa, so he often carried a short sword in his sleeve, but this was the first time he saw him take out another sword.

He was curious for a moment and reached out to touch the Burmese knife, but Yuan Suiyun grabbed his hand and scolded him, “Why do you want to touch everything? Aren’t you afraid of hurting your hand?”

“Is this the first time I’ve seen a Burmese knife?” Yun Chuxiu rolled his eyes and looked at the drooping blade. The Burmese knife is a soft knife, and its usage is different from that of ordinary blades. If you don’t know the tricks, it is very easy to hurt the owner when using it. The advantage is that it can be wrapped around the waist to attack people suddenly. “How do you use it?” “Just like that.” Yuan Suiyun shook the blade casually, and a silver thread like water flashed by, and the chair opposite snapped into two halves. He pulled his hand again, and the blade rolled back and circled around his wrist a few times, but it didn’t hurt him at all. Seeing this, Yun Chuxiu subconsciously clapped his hands: “Awesome! That’s it…”

His expression became a little weird: “You use this knife to hit someone, do you want to beat him to death here?!” This is like he’s going to chop him into meat paste!

“What does that have to do with me? Didn’t he come to me on his own?” Yuan Suiyun smiled. He just wanted to beat someone up, but he was not responsible for saving the other person’s life.

Yun Chuxiu: “…” Unconsciously, he felt a little sympathetic towards Gong Jiu…

He made a fuss for a while, then lost his energy again, and buried his head listlessly in Yuan Suiyun’s chest. Yuan Suiyun touched his forehead, knocked on the car door and said, “Ding Feng, let’s go back to the restaurant.”

“Yes.” Ding Feng finally got the order and drove the carriage away quickly. When he returned to the restaurant, he wouldn’t have to feel so uneasy anymore.

However, once they arrived at the restaurant, Yuan Suiyun first sent Yun Chuxiu back to his room, and then turned back and gave him an order: “Go check the recent movements of the Taiping Palace and the Nan Palace, and give me the results tonight.”

“Yes!” Ding Feng did not ask the reason and took the order and left. Naturally, he did not know that after he left, Yuan Suiyun wandered in the corridor for a while, with his hands behind his back, muttering to himself: “If Ye Gucheng is a decoy… then who is the killer move?”

By dinner time, the situation in the capital had changed again: news came from the palace that only eight people were allowed to enter the Forbidden City. Excluding Ye Gucheng and Ximen Chuxue who were participating in the martial arts competition, there were only six spots left, and the one who was ordered to select the people was Lu Xiaofeng!
“No way, we’ve come all the way here, and you can’t even let us watch the fun?” Yun Chuxiu was a little unhappy when he heard the news. “Lu Xiaofeng is so unlucky, why does he always have to do these thankless jobs? Fortunately, he is good at martial arts, otherwise I don’t know how many times he would have died!”

The old man served Xiao Donglou a bowl of fish soup, but smiled and said, “If his martial arts skills were not good enough, he would not have been given this fatal mission.” He then asked the servant who brought back the news, “What is the evidence for the selected person?”

The man replied respectfully, “They are six ribbons donated by Persia. They are treasures of the imperial palace. They change color and glow in the moonlight. They are rare in the world.”

Xiao Donglou said calmly: “It sounds like a very rare thing.”

Jellyfish Yin Ji smiled and said casually, “It’s just a rare kind of silk. I’ve asked someone to get it and make it into ribbons. You can take as many as you want.”

Shenshui Palace is a sect of women, and women always have a preference for things like cloth.

Yun Chuxiu was a little curious: “Godmother, we shouldn’t be the only ones in the martial arts world who can produce this satin, right? Shouldn’t the Imperial Palace have some other means to identify it?”

Hearing his question, Shuiji Yinji’s smile became even more indifferent: “It doesn’t matter, let him do whatever he wants. Even if I don’t take anything that day, who dares to stop me?”

Of course she has that confidence!
Since she said so, Yun Chuxiu dared not say anything. He just followed his elders anyway, so he didn’t need to think too much.

Seeing Yuan Suiyun beside him with a thoughtful expression, he couldn’t help but poke him with his elbow: “What’s wrong? What are you thinking about? Why are you so absent-minded?”

Yuan Suiyun came back to his senses, but ignored him. Instead, he said to Shuiji Yinji: “Perhaps, we don’t need to worry about it. Uncle Wei will present the ribbon with both hands and invite the Palace Master to watch the battle at the top of the Forbidden City.”

He is not the kind of person who speaks without thinking. Jellyfish Yin Ji was surprised and said, “Wei Ziyun and I don’t have any friendship, why do you say that?”

Yuan Suiyun’s answer was quite intriguing: “In order to protect a drop of water, it is necessary to put it into a lake. The Palace Master is the master of all waters, so he is naturally the best candidate.”

——Sure enough, not long after dinner, Lu Xiaofeng suddenly appeared and gave Shuiji Yinji a ribbon. Then came Wei Ziyun, who was even more generous. He gave everyone a ribbon and strongly recommended everyone present to watch the game. But there were already seven people here, which was more than the six people. Yun Chuxiu was full of doubts. As soon as Wei Ziyun left, he pulled Yuan Suiyun’s sleeve and asked him: “What’s going on? Why does Wei Ziyun look like you must understand? What are you guys talking about?”

Yuan Suiyun had already figured out the attitude of the palace, and replied calmly, “Because the day after tomorrow, a distinguished guest will come to watch the battle. Uncle Wei now just hopes that there will be as many people as possible that day. Although it is easy to fish in troubled waters, as long as the palace master is here, not every monster can act recklessly.”

“Who?”

“Today.”

(End of this chapter)