Ning Dao Covered with Snow

Chapter 222 Concealment
Lu Jinshu didn't leave.

He looked at Yan Ci Wan in front of him and felt that she looked very unfamiliar. She had learned horse riding and archery from the King of Xizhou before, but because of her weak constitution, she could not learn martial arts, so she had to have someone to protect her at all times.

And the person who protects her is usually Lu Jinshu.

In his impression, Yan Ciwan has always been frail and someone has to arrange everything for her, including food, clothing, housing and transportation. She is like a flower kept in a greenhouse. Although beautiful and attractive, she cannot do without the careful care of others.

When I saw her again at the Jin County Temple Fair, she was wearing the most ordinary clothes. She was not accompanied by groups of servants. She could only squeeze with passers-by in the cold wind. Later, in order to play archery, she even had to shamelessly ask others for money.

When Lu Jinshu was hiding in the dark and saw this scene, he actually felt very uncomfortable.

After all, she was the girl he had protected with all his heart for sixteen years, and she must mean a lot to him.

He guessed that she must have suffered a lot in the past six months, and when they met again, she would cry and tell him about the many grievances she had suffered.

However, the facts were completely opposite to what he expected.

Not only did Yan Ciwan not cry, she almost beat him to tears.

he couldn't help but ask.

"Where did you learn this martial art? Why have you never shown it before? Are you deliberately hiding your strength to guard against us?"

Yan Ciwan said coldly: "You talk too much."

Lu Jinshu immediately shut his mouth obediently, but he soon realized that he no longer had to listen to her in everything like before.

So he spoke again: "Princess, please come with me."

Yan Ciwan was very impatient: "Lu Jinshu, don't you understand what I'm saying? I told you to get out."

Lu Jinshu's feet seemed to have taken root in the ground, not moving at all.

He repeated what he had said before: "This place is really dangerous. We must leave here before the envoy returns."

Yan Ciwan frowned deeply.

This guy has been like this since he was a child, extremely stubborn. Once he has made up his mind, ten cows can't pull him back.

In the past, she could rely on her status as Princess Leyou to force him to obey her orders.

But now the princess's identity was useless, and she was too lazy to waste words, so she directly put the Ning knife on his neck and threatened: "If you don't get out of here, I will kill you."

Lu Jinshu looked at her without blinking and whispered, "Then do it."

For a moment, Yan Ciwan really wanted to kill him.

But in the end she gave up. After all, this was a mirage. If she really killed him, the body would soon be discovered by the patrol guards, and her whereabouts would be exposed.

She suppressed her murderous intent for the moment and took back her sword: "I suspect that grandma has fallen into the hands of the Five Gods Sect. I will not leave here until I find grandma's whereabouts."

Lu Jinshu was slightly startled, his eyes swept across the Ning Dao, and the four words "God Bless Yongning" engraved on the blade came into his sight.

Yan Ciwan glanced at him and asked, "Have you ever seen grandma before you left Xizhou?"

Lu Jinshu shook his head to indicate no.

"Not long after the princess left Xizhou, the old lady also left Xizhou. No one knows where she went. We guessed that she might be worried about the princess and wanted to go to Chang'an to find you. We didn't expect that she would be captured by the Five Gods Sect. The old lady is just an ordinary woman. Why did the Five Gods Sect capture her?"

Yan Ci Wan guessed that the Five Gods Cult's target should be herself, and the ultimate purpose of kidnapping her grandmother was to threaten her into submission.

She didn't say what she was thinking and just replied casually, "I don't know."

Lu Jinshu did not mention asking her to go with him again. He looked at the closed door behind her and said, "Only the envoy has the key here. If you break the door lock by force, it will trigger the alarm." Yan Ciwan was skeptical: "How do you know this?"

"I entered the black market yesterday and stayed here for a day and a night, so I know more than you. If you want to know where the old lady is, you can ask Manager Ge. He is responsible for the daily affairs of Mirage. He knows more about the things in Mirage than anyone else. If the old lady is really imprisoned here, he must know some inside information."

Yan Ciwan had heard the name Manager Ge from Pang Lei before. Pang Lei and Lu Jinshu probably didn't know each other, and there was no possibility of cooperation between them. This also proved that Lu Jinshu was not talking nonsense.

Yan Ciwan decided to meet Manager Ge.

The envoy went to the snake cave tonight and took away most of the people in the Mirage, but Manager Ge was left behind. He had to stay in the Mirage to prevent any accidents.

As a result, something unexpected really happened.

Manager Ge was told that a jar of wine in the winery on the third floor was inexplicably broken. He was worried that someone had sneaked into the mirage, so he immediately rushed to the winery on the third floor to carefully check the scene.

He did not find any signs of invasion by outsiders in the winery, but the broken wine jar was so strange that his doubts remained in his mind for a long time.

To be on the safe side, Manager Ge immediately ordered the guards to seal the doors between the floors and then search each floor to see if any villains had really sneaked in.

All the guards in the mirage started to move and began to conduct a carpet search.

But what they didn't expect was that the target person they were searching for was following Manager Ge at this moment.

Yan Ciwan pretended to be a maid delivering flowers, and Lu Jinshu pretended to be a guard who was ordered to search, and the two of them followed Manager Ge not too far away.

Manager Ge went to the fourth floor first to make sure that the door on the stairs leading to the fourth floor was intact before leaving with peace of mind.

He returned to his residence on the second floor. There was a guard guarding outside the door. The guard saluted to Manager Ge.

Manager Ge asked, "Have you spotted anyone suspicious?"

The guard shook his head no.

Manager Ge felt a little relieved and pushed the door open and entered the house.

In the middle is a hall for receiving guests, on the right is a study, and on the left are the bedroom and bathroom.

There were two young maids wearing masks sweeping the room. When they saw Steward Ge coming back, they stopped what they were doing and knelt on the ground respectfully.

Manager Ge didn't even look at them and pushed the door open and went straight into the study.

He was the only one in the study, so he didn't need to worry about anything. He simply took off the mask on his face, and his breathing became much smoother.

At the same time, Yan Ciwan and Lu Jinshu had knocked out the guards guarding outside the door.

The two men pushed the door open and entered the house. The maids were frightened to see outsiders breaking in.

They were unable to make a sound and could only turn around and run away.

Yan Ciwan chased after them and struck each of the maids with a palm, knocking them both unconscious.

The three people who were knocked unconscious all fell to the ground.

Lu Jinshu closed the door and bolted it from the inside.

Yan Ciwan leaned close to the study door and listened carefully, confirming that the person was in the study, so she knocked on the door gently.

Tuk-tuk-tuk!
Steward Ge in the study thought it was the maid knocking on the door. He put on his mask again, opened the door, and yelled at the maid standing outside: "Do you understand the rules? Get out after you finish your work!"

Yan Ciwan held a pot of jasmine in her arms and smiled at him through the mask.

"I came to give you flowers."