Chapter 55 Meeting again
"How dare you! This is a stone tablet inscribed by Emperor Taizu himself. Do you think a servant like you can touch it?"
Su Qing seemed to be under a spell of immobilization, keeping one foot raised but not daring to look back.
"Hahaha, this guy is too timid. He was scared by just one sentence." The voice from behind continued.
Su Qing suddenly felt like he was being teased, so he retracted his foot and turned around to look. He saw a young man in blue standing five or six steps away from him, wearing an inappropriate hat that made him look a little funny.
Su Qing turned around, and the young man laughed even louder, "Oh my God, what kind of outfit are you wearing? What is that on your head? Are you a bear? Hahaha... um..."
Su Qing didn't have a hooded cape, so she made a hat. In ancient times, there was no wool, so Su Qing tore soft old clothes into strips and knitted them together. It was warm to wear, but it was too big, and it made her head look particularly big.
When she put it on, Chuan Er laughed so hard that she almost couldn't breathe, and waved her hands repeatedly to refuse Su Qing's kindness to make one for her. Even Mother Liu saw it and laughed and said that she had never seen Su Qing make such a weird expression.
Before the boy finished speaking, a large snowball hit him in the face. He was stunned and looked at the little girl opposite him. The little girl was clapping her hands and smiling at him with a smug look on her face. Her face was flushed and her big eyes were shining.
The boy quickly leaned over, grabbed the snow, made it into a ball and threw it towards Su Qing. Su Qing couldn't dodge and was hit on his hat, knocking the fluffy hat to one side and hanging it on his head, causing the boy to laugh even louder.
Su Qing became furious and grabbed the snow on the ground and threw it towards the young man. The two of them fought back and forth, and with the snow falling, they were soon covered in white.
Suddenly, the boy stopped moving. Seeing that he was not moving, Su Qing subconsciously stopped moving with the snowball in his hand.
The young man stood there for a moment, then suddenly called out, "Wu Hen."
I saw a man flash out from behind a tree. He was very tall, with cold features, an almost expressionless face, and a pair of eyes that seemed to be shining with coldness.
The man called Wu Hen seemed to be listening to something, then looked around, suddenly leaned over, took the boy under his armpit and went behind the stone tablet.
The young man was held under his armpit but pointed at Su Qing with his hand, and the man called Wu Hen pushed Su Qing to the other side. Su Qing felt dizzy and closed his eyes tightly in fear. When he opened his eyes after landing, he saw three people squeezed behind the stone tablet, like a small cave.
Just as Su Qing was about to speak, the young man covered her mouth with his hand and whispered, "Don't talk if you don't want to die." His tone was very serious. Su Qing looked at the face in front of her and felt as if she had seen it somewhere before. There was still a scar on his forehead that had not healed completely, but it did not affect the handsomeness of the young man at all.
Before Su Qing could think any further, he heard the voices of at least three people talking in front of him.
"What a messy place! These ladies are playing pretty crazy when they are having fun." A shrill voice said.
"I heard that a noble person from the city came to burn incense today. I wonder which family he is from?" The voice sounded much more mature.
"It's the wife of Marquis Huainan and her female family members." A young man's crisp voice continued.
"Oh, how did Master Zhe know? Did you ask someone to find out? The Meng family is not worthy of you worrying about it, right?" The shrill voice just now said with a smile.
"The Meng family is not qualified, but Meng Hai is their son. Also, one of their family members is engaged to the second son of Prince Shen's Mansion." said the young man.
"Humph, Meng Hai was really lucky last time. And the Prince Shen's Mansion, a while ago, but..." The shrill voice was interrupted by the older man before it could finish, "Shen Yan, this is not the place to talk, let's go."
At first, Su Qing wanted the young man to take his hand away from his mouth, so he kept shaking his head. When he heard the disdainful tone in their voices when they talked about the Huainan Marquis Mansion, he seemed to have forgotten that there was someone covering his mouth, and he listened motionlessly.
The three people hid behind the stone tablet. When they felt the people walking away, the young man nodded to Wu Hen. Wu Hen went out and came back after a while. He picked up the two people like he was holding a sack and returned to his previous position.
Su Qingke had truly witnessed the Qinggong described in Gu Long's novels, and could not help but look up at Wu Hen with admiration. However, when she looked up, she only saw herself and the young man, as if everything that had just happened was just a dream, and the man named Wu Hen had never appeared at all.
The boy looked at Su Qing and frowned, looking her up and down as if he was thinking about something. After a long while, he said, "You haven't seen me today, nor heard anything, you know?" After that, he turned around and left.
"Wang Xiaoer." Su Qing finally recognized the man and shouted.
The boy was stunned. He turned around and was about to open his mouth, but saw a big snowball coming towards him and happened to land on his mouth.
Su Qing was very happy to see that the boy was hit by her. She lifted her skirt and ran away quickly before he could react.
The young man wiped his face. It turned out to be that girl. Then he touched the scar on his forehead and smiled slightly.
When Su Qing came back, she saw Yuan Dong holding the pearl flower and walking out with a smile on her face.
"I was just about to go look for you, and you were right. Look... Oh, what happened to you? Why are you covered in snow?" Yuan Dong said as he helped her brush the snow off her body.
"Oh, I accidentally fell."
"Are you okay? Where did you fall? Are you okay?" Yuan Dong asked with concern.
As the two entered the Zen temple, Jiaolian and a servant of Meng Juan were standing in the courtyard. When they saw them come in, they said coldly, "Why did you take so long? Madam was kind enough to allow us to go out for a walk, just to take a look around. The young lady has been back for a long time, but you are still playing until now."
Ever since Wanxiang started hanging around Jiaolian every day, Su Qing clearly felt that Jiaolian's attitude towards him was getting worse and worse. In the past, some of her words were not obvious, and there were times when she was sarcastic, but now she is hanging around every now and then and is very targeted.
Before Su Qing could say anything, Yuan Dong smiled and said, "It turned out that I accidentally dropped the pearl flower, and Qing'er came to help me find it, but she accidentally fell, so she came back late." Jiao Lian didn't say anything after hearing what Yuan Dong said, and went to the backyard of the temple with Meng Juan's maid, one after the other.
"I don't know how I offended her." Su Qing said with a wry smile.
"Sister Jiaohong is not in charge of things now, so her responsibilities are much heavier, and she can't help but get angry sometimes." Jiaohong is also getting married next spring. Seeing that Mother Guo has given grace to Qingrui, Mother Liu doesn't arrange for Jiaohong to do any work after she comes back. She discusses any important daily matters with Jiaolian.
"Why don't I see the ladies?" Su Qing asked in a low voice.
"A distinguished guest has come to the temple, and Madam has called the young ladies to go and pay their respects." Yuan Dong helped Su Qing, who had pretended to have fallen, into the meditation room, "I'll go to the kitchen to take a look."
Su Qing sat on the edge of the kang, leaning against the wall, listening to the whistling wind outside, thinking about the conversation between the three people. Who are those people? How can they be so arrogant? Even Huainan Hou is nothing in their eyes. And what did they mention about Meng Hai taking advantage of them?
And that Wang Xiaoer was definitely not just a servant as he thought. Which servant would be followed by a martial arts master who came and went without a trace?
Su Qing suddenly felt as if she had traveled into a TV drama and was experiencing a big drama.
"Who's in the room?" Mother Wu's voice came from outside, pushing the door open. Mother Wu looked at Su Qing sitting on the kang and asked without thinking, "Are you the only one? Where are the others?"
Su Qing stood up and said, "Sister Jiaolian went to the backyard, and Sister Yuandong said she wanted to check the kitchen."
"Then come with me."