Song Wangyue watched idly.
The man who had fallen into mid-air twisted his body and landed narrowly on the ground as his toes rested against the trunk of a tree. He immediately turned his back.
“How many of you are there?”
Song Wangyue stood still and didn’t move.
“Ten, ten people.”
The man’s suppressed voice was tinged with chagrin.
He hadn’t expected Song Wangyue’s fall to be a fake, and he had been tricked into revealing his trail.
“All around this mansion?”
The man nodded.
“Was it one of your men who helped me against the water bandits?”
The man didn’t say anything.
“Not talking, are you? Good, this debt is also credited to Chu Yunxiao.”
The man’s body trembled and he immediately returned, “Yes, it’s one of ours.”
“Assigned by whom?”
The man said nothing.
Song Wan Yue paced slowly towards him, “Those few people followed them from the capital, which means the person who assigned them is in the capital, the people from the Ding Guo Gong House can’t do anything under the Emperor’s eyes, only one person ……”
She walked up behind this man and stared at him closely, “That is my sister-in-law’s brother, Xiao Qian, who has been recuperating in the temple since he was a child.”
When she said “sister-in-law’s brother”, the man’s body trembled invisibly, and when she said the name “Xiao Qian”, the man turned around sharply and looked at her with wide eyes.
“It seems I guessed right.”
Song Wangyue smiled faintly.
The man’s eyes tightened a few times, and then he turned around violently, wanting to deny it, his mouth opened, but he couldn’t get the words out.
They had known from their master that Song Wangyue was clever, but they had never thought that she would be so clever as to deduce their leader simply by the fact that those few people had travelled from the capital.
“You send a message to Chu Yunxiao ……”
Song Wangyue’s eerie voice came from behind him, “Tell him to wait, auntie can’t spare him!”
Hearing her words that she hated to tear her master apart, the man’s cold sweat ran down and he stiffened his body, not daring to move.
Song Wangyue turned around, her gaze sweeping over both sides as she walked unhurriedly towards the bottom of the hill.
When she was no longer visible, several more shadows leapt out from either side, reaching the man in the blink of an eye, seeing him frozen in place, she bumped him with her elbow, “What’s going on?”
The man looked at them, his lips parted and closed, unable to cry.
……
“Yue’er!”
Meng Cheng ran over with a pale face, eagerly sizing her up, “Are you alright?”
“Don’t worry cousin, I’m fine.”
“You scared the hell out of me, do you know it’s dangerous for you to chase after me like that?”
Meng Cheng covered his chest to calm his breathing, and suddenly thought of something, his eyes bursting with light, “You know martial arts?”
Song Wangyue nodded her head.
Meng Cheng excitedly circled around her twice with a look of admiration. He was a boy, and he had longed for martial arts training since he was young, and his grandfather had also hired a master for him, but what he had learned was only skin deep, and he could at most defend himself in case of trouble, unlike Yue’er, who could actually perform light kung fu.
Kong Qing came up from afar with Xiao Bao in his arms, and he also came back to the fact that Yue’er should have lured that man out on purpose. The man was one of Gu Yi’s men, so naturally he wouldn’t do anything to Yue’er, but he didn’t know what Yue’er had lured them out for.
When Song Wan Yue greeted her, Xiao Bao excitedly jumped into her arms, not scared by the “flying” just now, but excitedly asked Song Wan Yue to do it again.
Kong Qing cried and laughed, “Okay, the road is slippery on the mountain, don’t really fall, if you want to fly, go back to dad to hold you and fly.”
“Don’t want dad, want aunt.”
“Brat.” Kong Qing scolded with laughter.
Song Wangyue lifted him high and spun him around a few times, and Little Treasure giggled with delight.
Fearing that both of them would fall, Kong Qing kept his arms outstretched to protect him. When he saw Song Wangyue stop, he immediately said, “Stop spinning, my heart is on edge.”
Only then did Song Wangyue stop and carry Xiaobao down the hill with the two of them.
Meng Cheng’s excitement had not yet passed, and as he walked, he asked, “Cousin, who did you learn your martial arts from?”
If he could, he would like his grandfather to go and invite someone in. Although he was a little older, hard work would make up for the lack of skill, and he would just have to practise diligently.
“The master Gu Yi hired for me, surnamed Chu, is a female master, and I’ve never seen her again since the Gu family’s accident.”
Kong Qing was aware that the Gu family had hired a female master for Song Wangyue, but had never met anyone. At this time, he did not feel anything when he heard it, but Meng Cheng instantly regretted it, was he not rubbing salt into his non-cousin’s wounds?
Immediately, he changed the subject rigidly, “After this rain, the scenery in the mountains is something else.”
“Who says it’s not ……”
Kong Qing was also afraid that Song Wan Yue would be sad and followed to agree, “I also saw this scenery after the rain for the first time, we have to take a good turn.”
A few people took a long, slow turn, and when they returned, both the old man and Song Lin returned, each having caught two fish. Meng Cheng volunteered to kill them, and Song Wan Yue made them all into boiled fish, which the family ate with great enthusiasm and praise.
The following day, after breakfast, we cleaned up and left two of our servants to look after the house, and returned to the city.
Just as they arrived at the entrance of the Meng family, they saw Meng Jiao coming out of the house in a hurry.
“What’s happened?”
Meng Cheng was about to dismount his horse when he saw her like this and stopped moving.
“One of the ice cellars on the farm has collapsed, I’m going over to check it out.”
As he spoke back, he saw Song Wangyue poking her head out of the carriage and immediately came this way. He stepped on the horse stool and got on the carriage, without asking Song Wangyue’s opinion, he directly instructed the carriage driver to turn around and head outside the city.
“Aunt, tell grandfather that you should ask him to arrange a mansion for second sister and the others, one that is closer to the workshop.” Meng Cheng finished speaking to Xu and also turned his horse around to follow.
At the manor, Xu Ling’er was directing the underlings to dig open the collapsed ice cellar a little, which contained quite a lot of well-made herbal tea.
There was a lot of herbal tea being made and the ice cellar on the ground was not enough, she was the one who suggested digging a few ice cellars for it, but now it had collapsed, and she wondered if Meng Jiao would blame her when she came.
“Be gentle with your hands and feet, don’t dig and break the jars.”
The subordinates all moved very gently, first digging away the earth that had collapsed on top a little, and when the jar was exposed, they used their hands to pick up the earth and bring it up.
By the time Song Wangyue arrived, almost all the herbal tea in the ice cellar had been dug out.
Seeing them, Xu Ling’er came forward with a white face, “Dongjia.”
“Did anyone get hurt?”
Meng Jiao walked towards the ice cellar and Xu Ling’er hurried to follow.
“No one was hurt, and the herbal tea was all dug up. I’m to blame for this, I should have thought of it, after so many days of heavy rain, the ice cellar could have easily collapsed.”
“It has nothing to do with you, no one thought of this.”
As he spoke, he had already reached the ice cellar, and when he saw that the jars dug out by the subordinates were all intact, Meng Jiao was relieved that these herbal teas had been ordered long ago, and if the goods were not delivered on time, it would be detrimental to the reputation of the Meng family.
“Check if the seal is open, if it’s open, don’t want it, lest something fall in and affect the taste.”