Jiangshan Fengwuzhi

Chapter 166 Missing
At the night banquet in the Bai family's villa, a candle was flickering, as if blown by the breeze.

But if you look closely, you will find that there is no wind in the hall, and the other candle flames are not shaking at all, except for the one not far in front of Gu Jingnian.

Gu Jingnian sipped his wine with his eyes lowered, seemingly bored at the banquet, but in fact he was trying to control the anger in front of him.

But no matter how hard he tried, the candlelight was like a disobedient cat. It would only glance at him occasionally, and most of the time it just lay there and ignored him.

"Marquis Chengye?"

It was not until Yin Wanqing called Gu Jingnian again that he came to his senses.

A red pill was handed over.

"You smell it." Yin Wanqing said: "I have smelled it, and it does contain a lot of medicinal herbs."

Gu Jingnian then also smelled it, and apart from the smell of medicine, he only smelled the faint scent of ink on Yin Wanqing's fingertips.

He shook his head to show that he couldn't smell it, and simply asked Bai Yuze directly: "Mr. Bai, is there nothing else in this pill except the medicinal materials?"

Bai Yuze stroked his beard and said, "That's right, but I can't tell you the specific ratio. Please forgive me."

He looked at the candlelight in front of Gu Jingnian, smiled slightly, and said, "If Marquis Chengye needs anything, I will give him a box."

Gu Jingnian was not polite and responded, "In that case, thank you very much."

Today's trip to the Bai family villa was actually somewhat beyond Gu Jingnian's expectations.

He originally thought that the so-called "practice" was fake and "refining" was real, but after personal experience, this concept has been changed.

Although supernatural powers are innate, they can be enhanced through practice.

Even he found a way.

That night, everyone stayed in the Bai family's villa.

When Gu Jingnian and Pei Nian walked towards a room naturally, the servant of Bai Mansion smiled and said, "My house has limited guest rooms. We can only vacate two rooms. Please choose one for each gender. Don't blame me."

Looking from the opposite hilltop, it was obvious that this villa covered a large area, but since the owner said there were few guest rooms, there was nothing they could do.

So, Pei Nian and Yin Wanqing lived in one room; Gu Jingnian lived in one room with You Yan and Hao Pangshui.

"Marquis Chengye, are you willing to admit defeat?" You Yan couldn't help asking as soon as he entered the house: "You didn't burn the forest before sunset, you lost to me."

"Yes."

"Hao Pangshui, you heard it, he lost."

"heard it."

Hao Pangshui seemed a little listless, without his usual arrogance.

The three of them lay down, silent, with nothing to say.

You Yan felt the atmosphere was very uncomfortable and he tossed and turned, unable to fall asleep. But then he thought, this was only the first time and he would never be able to sleep with Gu Jingnian again, so he endured it.

Just as he was about to fall asleep, there was a knock on the door.

Bai Ji said, "Marquis Chengye, are you asleep? How about we chat?"

Gu Jingnian, who had been quiet all the time, stood up and walked out.

The two walked in the courtyard, Bai Ji said: "Miss Pei is a very good woman. Prince Xin threatened her to leave you, but she remained loyal to you. Don't let her down."

"it is good."

"That's it? You're being too perfunctory."

Gu Jingnian said: "Brother Bai, I am very grateful that you saved Pei Nian, but you are too nosy."

"I just think you don't value her enough."

"You said that, which shows that you don't understand her." Gu Jingnian said: "She is not a woman who needs to be held in the hands and protected."

Bai Ji was stunned and murmured, "Of course I know. When I rescued her, I thought she was dead. But under such strong winds and rapids, she was so tenacious. I have never seen a woman like her."

"That's because you haven't seen him enough. Just see him more often." Gu Jingnian said, "Pei Nian is not suitable for you."

The atmosphere fell silent.

After a while, in order to make Bai Ji give up completely, Gu Jingnian added another sentence.

"I'm going to marry her soon. Come and have a drink at the wedding."

Bai opened his mouth, but in the end, he uttered only one word with difficulty.

"it is good."

"Go to bed early."

"There is one more thing." Bai Ji said, "The jade hairpin I gave her, you can return it to me tomorrow... It was left to me by my mother."

"it is good."

The next day, before dawn, Gu Jingnian was woken up from a deep sleep.

"Get up." You Yan said.

"Why so early?"

"We still have to take the flying car back to Yuewei Academy. Hurry up or we will be late."

Gu Jingnian had no choice but to get up.

He slept very late last night and yawned again.

Maybe it's because they are incompatible, he feels uncomfortable when being with You Yan and Hao Pangshui. Fortunately, there won't be a next time.

After leaving the house, Gu Jingnian deliberately went around to Pei Nian's room, knocked on the door, and asked, "Are you done with your hair done?"

"Come in." Yin Wanqing opened the door.

Gu Jingnian walked in and saw Pei Nian tying her hair. He went over and pulled out her jade hairpin.

"doing what?"

"Since Bai asked you to return it to him." Gu Jingnian said, "I will solve this matter for you."

"Thank you very much." Pei Nian said lightly.

She held her hair in her hands and looked around, but couldn't find a suitable replacement.

"Use this." Gu Jingnian handed over a wooden hairpin.

It is called a hairpin, but in fact it is just a piece of tree branch, which is sharpened at one end and thick at the other. What is rare is that it is polished very smoothly and a simple pattern is carved on the end.

"what is this?"

"Wooden hairpin."

"I'm asking what the carving is?"

"Eagle."

"what?"

Pei Nianzheng was puzzled, Gu Jingnian leaned close to her ear and whispered, "Gu Diao."

"Did not see it."

"It's better if you can't see it."

Pei Nian snorted and put the wooden hairpin on his head.

She really missed the days when she wore the brocade robe embroidered with Gu carvings from Kaipingsi. The footsteps faded away, and the jade hairpin was left on the table.

From Pei Nian's perspective, she didn't know what caused Bai Ji's feelings. She just felt that it was sudden and inexplicable, and she was actually very alert in her heart.

After finally removing the jade hairpin, she took advantage of Yin Wanqing's washing up and found an opportunity to quietly say to Gu Jingnian in a secret language: "Actually, it was stolen jade. I knew it from the beginning."

Being in Kaiping Division, she naturally knew Thief Yu.

"Then why are you still wearing it?" Gu Jingnian said.

Pei Nian looked alert and said, "I'm worried that he will doubt my identity."

"No."

"Why else would he give me a stolen jade?"

"He likes you."

Pei Nian shook his head and said, "That's impossible. What could he like about me? And so quickly."

Gu Jingnian said: "It's easy for a man to fall in love with a woman."

"I'm not pretty, he..."

"He just likes you." Gu Jingnian said, "If he suspected you, he would use a more natural method to put the stolen jade on you."

Pei Nian didn't want to discuss this matter anymore and said, "Let's go."

Gu Jingnian said: "So that day..."

"Walk."

Several people boarded the flying car and flew straight to Yuewei Academy.

As soon as he landed outside the academy, many female disciples surrounded him and shouted, "Marquis Chengye!"

You Yan immediately stepped forward, raised his hand and gently brushed his long blue hair, smiled slightly, and said: "Yesterday, I had a competition with Gu Jingnian, and he lost to me!"

However, there was no expected surprise.

The female disciples all avoided him and surrounded Gu Jingnian.

"Marquis Chengye, I heard that General Bai raised the water of Yongjiang yesterday to fight you at Shushan. Is that true?"

Before Gu Jingnian could answer, someone else started talking.

"Of course it's true. Someone in the suburbs saw it from afar. Shushan Mountain was blazing with flames, Yongjiang River was flooded, water and fire were fighting, and fog surrounded the entire eastern suburbs!"

"It is said that water can conquer fire. Cheng Yehou fought against four people alone, and was almost unaffected by the law of mutual generation and mutual restraint. How amazing!"

"..."

You Yan had no choice but to squeeze back next to Gu Jingnian and asked them, "How did you see that?!"

"Of course Jing Heta saw it with his divine eyes."

"Then you should have seen that Gu Jingnian and I agreed..."

"Go away!"

Before You Yan could finish his words, he was pushed aside.

After a lot of noise, Gu Jingnian finally squeezed through the crowd and returned to Zhishi Hall.

Many of his female disciples who regarded him as a hero were greatly disappointed to find that he was still studying elementary education, and finally left on their own initiative.

But when class started, Gu Jingnian found that Zhang Xiaofang had not arrived yet.

This is strange, because Zhang Xiaofang used to love attending classes and would attend them rain or shine.

The first lecturer today was Yu Moxian again. She changed into prettier clothes, but her lecture became even more boring.

After class, Zhang Xiaofang still didn't show up, so Gu Jingnian simply left Yuewei Academy and went back to Gu's house to look for her.

In Gu's house, Yan Er was breathing fire at Lao Hei's hands, burning Lao Hei so much that he grimaced. Afterwards, Lao Hei spread out his hands and unfolded a boiled egg.

"It's ready to eat."

Gu Jingnian wanted to communicate with Yan Er and Huo Bo, but he still asked first: "Have you seen Zhang Xiaofang?"

"No."

Gu Jingnian went to find Feng Niang.

Feng Niang was not very happy and said angrily, "Isn't she with you? She didn't even come back last night."

"She didn't come back last night?"

"What? You went out alone with Pei Nian last night?"

"Look where she went."

Feng Niang then called many birds to ask, and finally, she frowned slightly and said, "She was taken away."

"Who?"

"An old man."

"Where did you take it?"

"I don't know. The birds around the old man have been driven away."

Gu Jingnian turned around and was about to leave, but he was very confused.

Who would take such an ordinary little girl away? Was it for me?

"Oh, there is one more thing." Feng Niang said, "It is related to Wei Li."

"what?"

"Her senior brother is back."

"Zhao Boheng?"

"Yes."

Gu Jingnian nodded and said, "I'll go find Yin Jinggeng."

He walked hurriedly to the gate of the courtyard and suddenly smelled a faint fragrance.

Something brushed across his cheek, like spider silk, but not spider silk because it was very smooth.

A slight rustling sound was heard, and a few fallen leaves at Gu Jingnian's feet suddenly broke.

He became puzzled and asked, "Gao Changgan?"

After waiting for a few moments, the tall pole did not appear.

"What's wrong?" Feng Niang asked.

"fine."

Gu Jingnian was anxious to find Zhang Xiaofang, so he continued walking outside.

He walked out of Gu's house and took more than ten quick steps. Suddenly he stopped and turned around.

I thought someone was following me, but when I looked behind me, there was nothing suspicious.

Maybe he was too suspicious.

(End of this chapter)