Ning Dao Covered with Snow

Chapter 221 Meeting an old friend again
No wonder the maid’s first reaction when she saw her was not to call for help, but to turn around and run away. It turned out that it was because she couldn’t speak.

Yan Ciwan hit the maid on the back of her neck with his palm, knocking her unconscious. He then took off the maid's clothes and saw a tattoo on the back of her neck with a small word "Maid".

I heard that there was an old custom in the previous dynasty to tattoo slaves to distinguish their identities. By the Daye Dynasty, this old custom had been abolished, and now only criminals would have tattoos on their bodies as a punishment.

Yan Ci Wan exchanged clothes with the maid, and then hid the Ning sword and the pipe. The bow and arrow were too big to carry, so he had to give them up.

In order to prevent the maid from running out and informing others after waking up, Yan Ciwan tore off a strip of cloth from the hem of his clothes and tied up the maid's hands and feet.

After doing all this, Yan Ciwan put on the mask and temporarily replaced the identity of the maid.

She held a pot of blooming jasmine, opened the door and walked out of the greenhouse.

There was a straight corridor outside. Yan Ciwan walked along the corridor. There were two doors on each side of the corridor. Birds singing and beasts roaring could be heard from behind the doors. It must be a house used to raise birds and beasts.

When she walked out of the aisle and came to the patio in the center.

The patio was round. Yan Ciwan stood behind the guardrail and looked down. He saw a pool at the bottom of the patio. The pool was divided into two halves, yin and yang. The water in the pool showed strange red and green colors.

There are footsteps behind me!

Yan Ciwan immediately looked back and saw a four-member patrol team walking towards them, followed by a ferocious hunting dog.

She calmly withdrew her gaze and walked to the left holding the flowerpot.

The patrol team did not notice Yan Ciwan, but the hound stared at Yan Ciwan's back and made a low growl in its throat.

Seeing this, the team leader immediately called out to Yan Ciwan.

"Wait a minute!"

Yan Ciwan's heart tightened and he had to stop.

She knew that appearance could be disguised, but the smell of the body was difficult to change. The hound must have smelled her scent and found it strange, so it became alert.

The patrol team came to Yan Ciwan, and the hound circled around her. The dog sniffed hard with its nose. The scent of jasmine was too strong, which interfered with its judgment and made it a little irritated. It swung its tail hard.

Yan Ciwan lowered his head slightly, showing a submissive and weak attitude, but he was thinking in his heart how to get rid of the four people and one dog in front of him in the shortest time.

At this critical moment, a crisp sound came from the room opposite the patio, as if some porcelain was broken.

The patrol team immediately looked across the patio, and the hounds also barked wildly at the room across the patio.

There was no way they would sit idly by and watch such an obvious abnormality, so they immediately ran towards the other side of the patio at high strides.

Yan Ciwan managed to escape the disaster.

She immediately turned around and walked quickly in the opposite direction, and soon she arrived at the stairs.

The stairs on the left lead downstairs, while the stairs on the right lead upstairs.

Yan Ciwan hesitated for a moment and then stepped onto the stairs on the right.

Who knew that there was a locked door at the end of the stairs.

She put down the flowerpot and leaned over to carefully examine the door lock. She couldn't pry it open with her skills. If Xiao Wang was here, he might be able to find a way to open the lock.

She touched the hilt of the knife at her lower back. Ning Dao should be able to forcibly cut the copper lock, but that would definitely make a lot of noise.

Just as she was hesitating, she felt someone approaching from behind and her heart started to tremble.

She turned around suddenly, used her hand as a knife, and slashed fiercely at the opponent's face!
The man reacted very quickly, spun around to avoid her attack, and then grabbed her wrist.

Yan Ciwan turned his wrist, grabbed the other person's forearm, and threw it to the side. The other person's back hit the wall with a heavy thud.

Without waiting for him to get up, Yan Ciwan leaned over, bent his left hand, pressed his elbow firmly on the opponent's throat, drew out the Ning Dao with his right hand, and stabbed the thin blade towards the opponent's abdomen.

The other party suddenly spoke: "Princess, it's me!"

The voice was too familiar, causing Yan Ciwan to pause.

She stared at the person in front of her. He was wearing the uniform of a patrol guard and a mask on his face. Her features could not be seen and only his eyes could be seen through the two holes in the mask.

Those were a pair of eyes that Yan Ciwan felt very familiar with.

She quickly recalled that at the temple fair in Jin County, there was a Nuo dance performer with an exaggerated ghost mask on his face. The eyes seen through the holes in the mask were exactly the same as the person in front of her.

Yan Ci Wan narrowed his eyes slightly and pulled off the mask on the other person's face.

Under the mask was a handsome face that was too young. He looked no more than eighteen or nineteen years old, with a healthy wheat-colored complexion, sharp eyebrows, deep eyes, a high nose bridge, and a tall and slender figure.

Yan Ciwan blurted out the other person's name.

"Ashu!"

This person is none other than the adopted son of the King of Xizhou, Lu Jinshu. He grew up with Yan Ciwan and now serves as the commander of the Ulanqi, responsible for commanding the entire Ulanqi.

Lu Jinshu felt very uncomfortable being pressed, but he still grinned at Yan Ciwan, revealing two small fangs.

Yan Ciwan didn't expect him to be here. He was surprised and became more alert.

She lowered her voice and asked, "Did you follow me here?"

Lu Jinshu's voice was a little hoarse. "I followed you from Jin County to Yizhou City. Later, you lived in the governor's mansion. My people couldn't get in, so they had to guard outside. During this time, I found that there was another group of people watching you. I took the opportunity to check the background of that group of people, and found this."

"Why are you following me? Have you also been bribed by Yan Tingyu?"

Lu Jinshu did not answer the question directly. He reminded: "We will talk about Yan Tingyu later. The most important thing right now is to leave here as soon as possible."

"I'm not leaving." Yan Ciwan refused flatly. "If you want to leave, get out now."

After saying that, she let go of Lu Jinshu and quickly stepped back to keep some distance from him.

Lu Jinshu stood up straight and rubbed his aching throat, thinking that Yan Ciwan was so strong that he almost crushed his throat.

He cleared his throat and said, "Just now I deliberately made a noise to help you get rid of the patrol team, otherwise you would have been discovered by now."

Yan Ciwan responded calmly: "So it's you."

"You don't need to be so defensive against me. At least I won't hurt you right now."

Yan Ciwan raised an eyebrow: "Right now? Does that mean that once we leave the black market, you will kill me like Wulan Shisan and the others?"

Lu Jinshu did not answer.

This attitude is tantamount to acquiescence.

Yan Ciwan pulled the corner of his mouth and revealed a sarcastic smile: "I really didn't expect that you would betray me and Aye one day."

Lu Jinshu stared at him with a very complicated look.

Yan Ciwan could feel that he seemed to have something to say to her, but she had more important things to do at the moment and had no time to waste with him.

She drove him away directly: "Get out of here and don't bother me here."