Ignoring the beautiful scenery around her, Xu Caiyi stepped on the rugged mountain road, sweating profusely as she cursed,"It's so hot. What kind of weather is this? It's no different from an oven. It's so hot!”He must be possessed to travel abroad in this scorching July. Sigh! It was really a big mistake.
However, she still had to continue to move her feet with all her might so that her tortoise-like speed could slowly advance to the rabbit level so that she could keep up with the group of members who were far ahead of her. However, it was really difficult for her to do it since she was willing but not strong enough.
She finally caught up with them when everyone was resting, but she was already so tired that she was panting like an ox and had several buckets of sweat dripping down her face.
"Little thief, calm your heart." The old lady beside her said to her in a vulgar language.
Along the way, she had been calling her little thief, little thief. She was too lazy to correct her. Little thief, so be it! It didn't matter.
"Yes, yes, yes!" She nodded vigorously in agreement, hoping that the old lady would let her ears be quiet for a while, but the old lady continued to speak without stopping for a moment.
"The remaining young ones are really impatient. They can't even walk a little. Look at me, I'm already six or five years old, but I'm still walking as fast as flying.”
The old lady rambled on and on, bombarding Xu Caiyi's ears with fatigue.
At this moment, she regretted her decision on a whim. It was all his fault for not choosing a tour group carefully in advance. That was why he had followed this tour group with a bunch of strong and healthy "Obasans" and "Ojisans". Without a companion, he had fallen into such a difficult situation.
After the break, everyone continued to move forward.
When Xu Caiyi saw the magnificent temple gate at the end of the stone steps, he finally heaved a sigh of relief.
They had finally arrived!
"Little thief, hurry up."
"Good luck!"
Xu Caiyi was impressed as she watched the old ladies walk up the stairs with ease. She would be thankful if she could still have half of their strength when she reached that age.
Looking at the stair-like stairs, she sighed and followed them slowly.
After arriving at the temple, the members dispersed.
Xu Caiyi walked out of the main hall, which was surrounded by smoke, and went to the back of the temple. He found an ancient well under a big tree. She stuck her head out and looked down. The well water seemed unfathomable. She picked up a stone and threw it down, but she did not hear any sound for a long time. So she gave up the idea of getting some water to wash her face and sat by the well to rest.
A gentle breeze blew over, and Xu Caiyi felt that it was especially cold here. Just as she was feeling comfortable, the lingering voice appeared again.
She couldn't help but roll her eyes. Heavens! Here it comes again.
"Little thief, Yan Lai, you're here! This place is very nice. Let's take a picture together.”The old lady called everyone over.
After a while, a group of people gathered around the ancient well.
"Everyone, come closer so that we can take pictures.”
The old woman was so close to Xu Caiyi that Xu Caiyi, who was sitting by the well, was terrified. He was afraid that he would accidentally fall down.
"Look over here and smile."
The grannies on both sides suddenly raised their hands and made a V sign. Xu Caiyi was dazed for a moment. She was knocked back by the two golden hands that were covered in gold ornaments. With a scream, she fell straight into the ancient well.
The heavens really wanted to kill me! This thought flashed through Xu Caiyi's mind. Then, she lost consciousness and fell into endless darkness.
After Xu Caiyi fell into the well, the group of people beside the ancient well panicked and shouted for help. The leader and the local escort immediately rushed over and hurriedly found someone to go down into the well to save them. However, they couldn't find Xu Caiyi after searching for a long time. She had mysteriously disappeared into the ancient well, and even her corpse could not be found.
The night was as cold as water, and the sky was filled with stars. Mo Hongfei walked alone in the forest. For some reason, he felt an inexplicable sense of annoyance and uneasiness in his heart tonight. He kept feeling that something big was about to happen.
The croaking of frogs and the sound of flowing water filled the surroundings. He followed the stream to a small pool.
Suddenly, a white figure beside the pool attracted his attention. He pushed aside the grass and found a person lying there.
At first, the short hair of this person made him think that it was a little boy. However, when he picked her up and accidentally touched her chest, he realized that this person was actually a girl.
Although Mo Hongfei had many questions in his heart, he had no time to think about it because the body of the person in his arms was as cold as ice. He had to bring her back to the residence as soon as possible. Otherwise, her life might not be guaranteed.
Mo Hongfei took off his cloak and wrapped her in it. He hoped that this would give her some warmth.
At this moment, Xu Caiyi slowly opened her eyes.
Her consciousness was still not fully awake, and she was still a little muddleheaded.
"Miss, are you alright?"
Mo Hongfei's voice came from above her head. Only then did she realize that she was in the arms of an unfamiliar man.
"How could I…"
When she looked up, she met Mo Hongfei's eyes and was momentarily dazed. His sword-like eyebrows and star-like eyes made her soul fly away.
This little girl was too bold. Her eyes were staring straight at him. Mo Hongfei was puzzled, but the strange thing was that he did not hate her gaze.
He felt relieved when he felt her body temperature slowly return, but he couldn't just look at her like that. He had to figure out her background.
"Miss, why are you lying here?”
"What?" Xu Caiyi was confused. She didn't understand his question at all.
"I asked you why you fell here. What happened?" Mo Hongfei patiently asked again.
"I don't know either." She was still confused. She had fallen into an ancient well, so how did she end up here and see a handsome man?
Realizing that she was still in the arms of this handsome stranger, she quickly asked him to put her down.
"I'm really sorry. You can put me down first.”
When she was put down, she realized how small she was because her height only reached his shoulders.
Xu Caiyi was stunned again. He looked exactly like the hunk described in novels. If he was placed on the streets of Taibei, he would definitely charm a bunch of little girls. However, what puzzled her was why he was dressed like this. It was not like he was filming a period drama.
"Why are you dressed like this? Are you role-playing?”
"Is there anything wrong with this? What is role-playing?" Mo Hongfei sized himself up and felt that there was nothing unusual about him. On the other hand, her outfit was really strange. The man did not look like a man, and the woman did not look like a woman. He had accidentally offended the beauty and accidentally touched her chest.
"Aren't you acting?" She began to frown. What was this strange situation? She suddenly remembered the plot of a novel she had read before. Could it be…
"Tell me today's date?"
"September 18th."
The date was different from when she fell into the well, and it was a month later. She had a bad feeling.
"Is it the Republic of China?"
"Miss, you must be a foreigner!"
Hearing him call her a lady, Xu Caiyi immediately knew that her guess was correct. "Ah! We're done for." Her face was full of tears." Which dynasty are we in now? The Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties?”
"I've never heard of any of what you're saying, but I can tell you that it's now the 9th month, 18th day of the 9th year of the Great Law Empire.”Mo Hongfei looked at her ever-changing expressions and found it funny.
"Destroyed! Destroyed! What is this Great Law Empire? Why have I never heard of it before? The history teacher didn't teach it either, or did I accidentally fall asleep in class and didn't hear it?”She was so anxious.
"Are you alright?" Mo Hongfei asked.
"No, I'm not okay." She felt like she was about to faint. This situation was really too strange. "Why am I so unlucky!"
She wailed and stomped her feet. Mo Hongfei was really confused. He didn't know what was wrong with her.
While Mo Hongfei was still thinking about how to continue communicating with the person in front of him, Xu Caiyi suddenly stepped on a slippery rock and threw herself at Mo Hongfei. Her tall nose bumped heavily into Mo Hongfei's chest.
"Ah! It hurts."
The sudden situation forced Mo Hongfei to hug her tightly.
Mo Hongfei did not have the time to enjoy this lucky encounter because he could already feel a dangerous aura around him.
When Xu Caiyi came back to her senses, she realized that the two of them were too close. Just as she was about to open her mouth to remind the man who was hugging her, a silver light flashed in front of her eyes. A dart flew through the air.
Before Mo Hongfei could make a move, the dart had already hit Xu Caiyi's left shoulder. Blood flowed out non-stop and dyed her white cloak red.
Without thinking much, Mo Hongfei immediately picked her up and used his lightness skill to leap up, anxious to get rid of the enemy who used the hidden weapon. In the situation where he was unarmed and had people with him, he felt a little tired, but in the end, he finally got rid of the killer who was chasing after him.
After a while, he carried her directly into the water tower where he lived and placed her on the bed.
"Matsuhira, quickly prepare the medicine and clean water. Also, bring the Hundred Spirit Pill over.”Songping had been Mo Hongfei's attendant since he was young.
"Hundred Spirit Pill?"
"That's right, go quickly."
Matsuhira was puzzled. He didn't know who this person was. The young master actually valued him so much that he was even willing to let him take the Hundred Spirit Pills, which were less than twenty in the mansion's collection.
After Songping left, Mo Hongfei looked at the person on the bed. It was all his fault for being too careless and not noticing that there was an ambush. He pulled out the dart from her shoulder, and blood immediately gushed out again.
Xu Caiyi's face was pale. She had fainted from the pain after being hit by the dart.
"Young Master, let me do it! Go and change your clothes first." Matsuhira wanted to help after he brought the things over.
"You can go out! Oh right, call Shui Ling over." When he thought about how his snow-white skin would be seen by others, a trace of unhappiness rose in his heart, so he dismissed Matsuhira.
He tore off a corner of her clothes on her shoulder and skillfully cleaned the wound, applied medicine, bandaged it, and fed her a hundred spirit pill.
Looking at the slightly pale face of the person on the bed, Mo Hongfei's heart was filled with heartache and frustration. If he had been more vigilant just now, she would not have been injured.
Just as Mo Hongfei finished treating Xu Caiyi's injuries, Shui Ling entered the room. Shui Ling was his servant girl.
"Young Master! Do you have any instructions?"
"Help her change into clean clothes."
Although Shui Ling was surprised that her young master wanted her to change clothes for a man, she still obediently picked up her clothes and walked to the bed. When she took off the stranger's clothes on the bed, she realized why Mo Hongfei was standing in front of the window with his back to the bed. It turned out that the person on the bed was a girl.
Mo Hongfei thought to himself as he looked out of the pitch-black window. Who would send assassins to kill him? What should he do to lure out the mastermind?
Suddenly, he had a flash of inspiration and an idea came to his mind.
Now, other than him knowing that the person lying on the bed was a woman, no one else should know her background. If he used her as bait, he might be able to lure out the enemy who had been staring at him recently.
According to the previous investigation, the most suspicious ones should be Ma Dafu and the Liu Family. They had always hoped to become in-laws with the Mo Family. If everyone thought that he had brought back a man and showed that he liked a man, then who would dare to come and propose marriage?
In addition, he was already annoyed to death by those matchmakers who came to his door every day. In this way, those people would probably not come to his door again.
What he needed to do now was to hide her gender.
"Young Master! I've already changed my clothes. Do you have any other instructions?”
The watery voice woke Mo Hongfei from his thoughts.
"Shui Ling, no matter who asks, tell them that the person I brought back is a male. You can call her Miss in private, but remember to call her Young Master in front of others.”Considering the need to protect this girl and his plan, he ordered with a cold expression.
"Yes, Young Master." Although she felt that the young master's actions were very strange, as a servant, she could only do as he said.
"You can leave now."
"Yes."
With a pile of dirty clothes in her hands, Shui Ling was stopped by Song Ping as soon as she stepped out of the room.
"Let me see the clothes in your hands.”Matsuhira hoped to find some clues, but other than a few round coins, he found nothing.
" The Republic of China…" He studied it carefully. "Where is this place? Why haven't I heard of it before?”
"The person Young Master brought back must be a foreigner.”Shui Ling guessed.
"What do you mean?"
"Her clothes are completely different from ours.”When she was helping the girl change her clothes, she was shocked by the " cloth " she was wearing on her chest. She was also surprised that she was not wearing a dudou.
All the girls here had to wear undergarments, but she didn't, so Shui Ling thought she was a foreigner. However, she couldn't say anything about this, because if she did, it would reveal her identity.
"Is that so?" Matsuhira was still full of doubts, but he had no other choice but to wait and see.
After Xu Caiyi was injured, she had a high fever and was in a coma for five consecutive days. When she woke up, the first thing she saw was Mo Hongfei, who was lying by the bed and sleeping because of exhaustion. In these five days, he had personally taken care of her without any help from anyone else.
She tried to move her body and sit up.
"Ouch, it hurts!" She accidentally pulled on her wound.
"You're finally awake." Mo Hongfei immediately woke up when he heard the sound.
"How do you feel? You've been unconscious for five days."
"Five days…Really?" Xu Caiyi wondered why she had slept for so long.
"Have you been taking care of me for the past five days?”She didn't ignore his moustache.
"That's right!" After answering her, he continued,"You are now in Yi Garden, and this room is the water tower where I live." My name is Mo Hongfei. What's yours?”
"Xu Caiyi." Looking at this unfamiliar room, Xu Caiyi guessed that Mo Hongfei should belong to a wealthy family. Although there was no " glittering gold or auspicious " thing in the room, the cypress table and chairs were of good quality.
"You should rest for a while. I will instruct the servants to prepare some food for you.”Looking at her pale and bloodless face, Mo Hongfei's heart ached for her. He shook off that feeling and immediately instructed the servants to prepare meals. He also went to wash up. These five days had been really torturous for him.
Wow! There were also servants. Rich people were indeed different. Who was he?
Xu Caiyi's brain started working, and her thoughts drifted to the day she fell into the well. Thinking back, all of this seemed like a dream. This Great Law Empire was an unknown place that she had never heard of before. The only thing she could be sure of was that she had indeed arrived in an ancient era. This was because Mo Hongfei's outfit was similar to the ancient characters he saw on television. Moreover, there were candles on the table, not electric lights.
Heavens! How was she going to survive in this era without television?
Her parents must have thought that she was dead. They would be very sad.
Just as she was letting her imagination run wild, a little girl brought some things into the room. Instantly, the room was filled with fragrance.
"Miss, it's time to eat."
"Wow! It smelled so good. It's really tempting." Xu Caiyi, who had been starving for a few days, immediately felt a symphony of hunger in her stomach.
When the fragrant food was served to Xu Caiyi, she immediately attacked the delicious mushroom porridge. She did not look like a patient who had been hungry for five days at all, because she did not even have the slightest weakness in her limbs.
"It's delicious." After the issue of the people's livelihood was resolved, Xu Caiyi looked at the young lady who had been standing beside him since she came in.
"Kawaii!" She was really a cute little girl. She had two buns on her head and was dressed in red. Her small red face, big watery eyes, and a standard oval-shaped face made her look like a beauty.
"Little girl, you look so cute! What's your name?"
"Miss, my name is Shui Ling."
"Yes! She was beautiful, and even her name sounded good. You work here?" Xu Caiyi began to investigate Shui Ling's background. "Where do you live? Who was there in the family? How about working here?"
"Replying to Miss. Shui Ling's family lived in Autumn Water Village. Her parents died young and she only had a younger brother.”
"Don't call me Miss. My name is Xu Caiyi. Just call me Caiyi.”
"No, miss is miss, how can this servant call you by your name?”Shui Ling insisted.
"Forget it, do whatever you want!" Seeing Shui Ling's determination, she knew that she couldn't change her.
At this moment, Mo Hongfei returned to the Water Tower and Shui Ling retreated, leaving only Xu Caiyi and Mo Hongfei in the room.
"Miss Xu, from today onwards, you will live with me in this water tower.”
Seeing him return to the way he was when she first met him, she couldn't help but be stunned. However, he did not miss out on her words.
"Why?" Was this era really that open? He wanted her to live with him when they just met?
"To protect you and to help me solve my problem.”
"What?" She was a little confused.
"From the moment I brought you into the Mo Residence, you became mine.”Mo Hongfei's words undoubtedly declared his ownership of Xu Caiyi, but he did not realize it. "After getting involved with me, those people who want to assassinate me will definitely not let you off. Moreover, you blocked a dart for me and are my savior. It is my responsibility to take care of you. And for your safety, I want you to temporarily pretend to be a man and live with me in the water tower. Only then can I completely protect your safety.”
"Why do I have to dress up as a man? What does my safety have to do with dressing up as a man?”Xu Caiyi could not help but interrupt. She did not understand why he was doing this.
Hence, Mo Hongfei explained everything from the beginning to the end, and Xu Caiyi finally understood everything.
"In short, my mission is to help you create an illusion and be bait.”Xu Caiyi thought that since she had nowhere else to go, she might as well stay here since there was food, drinks, and handsome men to admire.
"Don't worry, I'll ensure your safety.”
"Alright then! I'll do as you say and stay here.”
"Thank you! But you have to remember that we have to act ambiguous in front of others so that outsiders will think that I like men.”
"I'll do whatever you say. I don't have any other choice anyway.”
She agreed straightforwardly.
"Xiao Cui, don't you think my outfit is beautiful?”
"Beautiful, Miss."
"Really? I don't believe you. You're just coaxing and lying to me.”
"Xiao Cui wouldn't dare lie to you. Miss is really beautiful. Even Ruyan Liu is not as beautiful as you.”
Ruyan Liu was the most beautiful woman in the city. In Ma Ning 'er's heart, only she could threaten him and only she could compete with him for Mo Hongfei's number one love rival. As for the other irrelevant people, she did not take them to heart at all.
"Then do you think that Young Master Mo will like me?”Ma Ning 'er's sharp voice sounded again.
"Young miss is so good, young master Mo will definitely fall in love with you.”
This conversation was repeated almost every day, and Xiao Cui could almost recite it.
In fact, there was nothing bad about Ma Ning 'er. She was just a little arrogant and a little jealous. She could not tolerate compliments from people who were more beautiful than her. Ever since she met Mo Hongfei by chance at the Dharma Lotus Temple, the young master of the Mo family had become her lover. She admired and loved him extremely and fell in love with him.
"Xiao Cui, tomorrow is the fifteenth, right? Let's go to the Lotus Temple to offer incense and pray for our parents.”Although Ma Ning 'er said that, he hoped to meet Mo Hongfei again.
"Yes, Miss." Xiao Cui felt that she was really too lucky. As long as Miss's mood remained so happy, then her life would be better.# Review: hch471000 Time:102420182: 14PM #
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