Li Qingwu subconsciously wanted to pull away the gauze and take a closer look, but when his fingertips fell in front of the gauze, he remembered that he had to hide his identity now, so he held it back.
Qiu Che interrupted her fugue.
She said in an interesting tone: "Miss Yue, why did you stay up so late at night and come to my yard?"
"I'm really sorry..."
Li Qingwu said in shame, "Because I haven't been free these days and I've been thinking about it. , I didnât accept any of the pastries I sent...I wonder if itâs not to your taste?"
She said, taking off the grass blades from her fingertips.
She was clearly in a state of embarrassment, but Qiu Che found strangely that she still behaved properly and sat upright, without any trace of inappropriateness.
This is very similar to Li Qingwu's character.
While appreciating her gesture, Qiu Che shook his head and considered, "Miss Yue - she seems to be very concerned about whether the cakes are sent out?"
"Ah?" Li Qingwu was stunned for a moment, then pursed his lips and smiled lightly.
It's a pity that the face is hidden under the bamboo hat and no one can see it.
She said: "Actually, I made that cake with my own hands. I think that since the young master accepted it that day, he probably agreed to my request to be friends."
"But I can't go out for some reasons, and I really want to meet him. " Young Master... I had no choice but to make this move - it's really ridiculous."
As she said that, she lowered her head in embarrassment, the tips of her ears turning red.
Qiu Che couldn't see her expression, and could only tell her emotions from her tone.
Hearing this, she twitched the corners of her lips, and for a moment she didn't know whether to regret accepting the box of cakes before or to regret confiscating those cakes later.
After thinking about it, Qiu Che said, "Miss Yue is here today. Apart from this, do you have anything else to say?"
Li Qingwu also thought about it, shook his head sincerely and said, "No more."
...Just for this, I specially Climbing the wall to ask her?
Qiu Che took a deep breath: "It's not that I don't accept those pastries, but Miss Yue is just too enthusiastic... Besides, if word gets out about climbing the wall late at night, I'm afraid it will ruin the girl's maiden name, right?"
Li Qingwu pursed his lips. , with a hopeful tone: "Then will you spread the word?"
Qiu Che said silently: "...No."
Li Qingwu chuckled lightly and said nothing.
But Qiu Che understood what she meant almost immediately, and felt helpless.
The two looked at each other in silence for a moment, and Li Qingwu probed: "Then as we are now, can we be considered friends?"
So obsessed with making friends?
Qiu Che felt a little strange.
She nodded indifferently and asked tentatively: "So... so?"
Li Qingwu hesitated and said: "Since we are friends, in the future... can you come to my yard to see me more often?"
Qiu Che asked eyebrow.
Li Qingwu's voice dropped another level: "It's not what you think - you should know that I am trapped in the house for some reasons and cannot go out. If you can come to me, then we can travel together.
At this point, Qiu Che finally understood .
Is this an excuse for her to go out?
No wonder he climbed the wall in the middle of the night to look for her. Was he afraid that he would run away with the only excuse he could catch?
After Li Qingwu finished speaking, he folded his hands and looked at her with some expectation under the veil.
It wasn't that difficult. Qiu Che thought for a moment and nodded in agreement.
Li Qingwu's eyes lit up, but before he could speak, Qiu Che thought again and said, "Wait a minute."
Then he stood up and entered the house.
When he lowered his head to pick up the things in the box, Qiu Che saw his slightly spread collar.
She was not used to corseting her breasts and eyebrows when sleeping at night, and she put the fake Adam's apple she made under her pillow.
So, was this how she chatted with Li Qingwu just now?
Probably...didn't notice it?
Fortunately, the girl was wearing a veil, otherwise she would have been so embarrassed that she didn't know who she was.
Qiu Che secretly cursed himself for being less and less vigilant. He quickly raised his eyebrows and pressed his Adam's apple to his throat. After a while, he came out fully dressed.
She held an exquisite, leaf-shaped wooden sculpture in her hand and sat back down beside Li Qingwu without changing her expression.
The wooden carving was only half a finger long, dyed maple leaf red, and looked lifelike.
Li Qingwu couldn't see clearly through the veil, and his eyes paused on her neat clothes. When she handed over the wood carving, he asked in a low voice: "What is this?"
"Bird whistle."
Li Qingwu repeated in confusion: "Bird whistle ? "
This thing obviously looks like a tree leaf, but how does it look like a whistle?
"I don't know when you want to go out, and you are under strict guard and cannot be contacted - fortunately, our wing is not far away," Qiu Che pointed to the thing in her hand, "Take it, if necessary If you want to help me, blow the whistle. If I am in the wing, I will knock on the door of your courtyard within a quarter of an hour."
Li Qingwu turned his wrist slightly, and sure enough he saw a thin opening under the wood carving, which was the whistle.
She said blankly: "But... blowing the whistle, wouldn't it be too conspicuous?"
None of the imperial guards in her yard were vegetarians.
What's more, there are two well-informed maids, Yingchun Yingyue, who follow the emperor. Whenever they hear the whistle, they will immediately notice that something is wrong.
Qiu Che smiled: "You'll know after you blow it, won't you?"
Li Qingwu looked at the gadget for a moment, then carefully brought the wooden carving to his lips.
The first sound is the cuckoo's cry.
The second time, the magpie cries.
The third sound was the chirping of cicadas.
Sounds sound, sounds are different.
At this point, there was no need to try again, Li Qingwu stopped.
She held the whistle and looked at it, and said in a slightly surprised tone: "Bird whistle... I see! Where did this treasure come from? If this thing existed among the people, it should have been widely circulated."
Qiu Che said calmly: "It's not a treasure, it's just a gadget I made myself. If you're interested, I have a bunch more there."
After hearing the first sentence, Li Qingwu subconsciously clenched the wooden whistle in his hand.
Upon hearing the second sentence, her eyes hidden under the veil brightened slightly, and she said happily: "Is it okay?"
Qiu Che nodded.
Li Qingwu pinched the whistle in his hand loosely and tightly, then tightened and loosened again. After a long while, he sighed and said: "That's all, it's also Master Qiu's hard work. It's enough for me to get this one."
Upon hearing this, Qiu Che knew that Li Qingwu was Thinking that he was pretending to be relaxed, he was afraid that she would actually be reluctant to let him go, but he didn't dare to say it, so he refused this kind offer.
I have to say, this girl is quite considerate.
Qiu Che understood, but still just twitched the corners of his lips, not saying that it actually didn't take much time to do this.
After all, they are not that familiar yet.
There is no need to explain so much.
Before leaving, Li Qingwu hesitated and said, "I'm really sorry for disturbing you for so long tonight... But Mr. Qiu just agreed to help me without asking who I am and why I was so closely guarded. ?"
Qiu Che stood beside her, nearly a head taller than her, looking at her slightly.
He asked like a joke: "Will you tell me if I ask?"
Li Qingwu was silent for a moment, then said: "How do you know not?"
Qiu Che was dumbfounded.
She couldn't tell for a moment whether what Li Qingwu said was true or if he was just playing along with her joke.
Her eyes swept over Li Qingwu's exquisite clothes, and then she said calmly: "But there are some things that I can't know."
It was not what she wanted to know.
In short, not interested.
Li Qingwu obviously didn't understand.
She tilted her head slightly, and the veil swayed: "Then why do you want to help me?"
Qiu Che glanced at her slightly, as if he was in a fugue.
After a moment, she said: "Just think of me as a Bodhisattva who can't bear to see people suffer."
Li Qingwu: "?"
After chatting, Li Qingwu finally left.
After taking a few steps, she suddenly moved back in small steps.
Qiu Che, who had not had time to turn around and go back: "?"
Li Qingwu whispered: "Master Qiu, I suddenly remembered that I climbed over the wall."
Qiu Che was stunned for a moment: "Ah, so?"
Li Qingwu said in a low voice: " When I came out, I used incense to stun the people who were guarding me... But now they are probably awake, and I really can't go back to the room under their noses."
Qiu Che's emphasis was distorted: "You can use it. "What kind of incense is there?"
"..."
Li Qingwu said, "Broken bone grass."
This is the most common intoxicating drug in Nanyi.
Nanyi is good at poison poisoning. In the early years, they used the poison poisoning technique to dominate the world. Decades ago, the late emperor led troops to fight back to their hometown in the south, where they stayed peacefully for many years.
Nanyi and Daxia are so far apart, why would a woman from a deep palace in Daxia have such a thing in her hands?
It seems that even if she is not Li Qingwu, she still has many secrets.
Qiu Che took a deep look at her, then nodded, and then stretched out a sleeve.
Li Qingwu didn't know why, but he still subconsciously handed over his hand: "...Huh?"
Qiu Che said: "Don't you want to go back?"
Li Qingwu: "Yes...ah!"
Before he finished speaking, Qiu Che turned his wrist and grabbed it. Her arms lifted her whole body up, and the other hand was wrapped around her waist, holding her and flying into the air.
Li Qingwu was startled, and immediately grabbed her sleeves, not forgetting to hold on to the bamboo hat, "This, this is -"
"Offended." Qiu Che said without sincerity, "But if I want to take you back, this is the only way. "
Li Qingwu: "...Okay, okay."
Qiu Che smiled.
It was not the same reaction as she expected.
Why are you still so good?
This scene actually seemed familiar, but Qiu Che didn't think much about it.
It's not easy to get someone into the house from under the nose of the Ouchi master.
But Qiu Che was both civil and military, and he was almost a general in his previous life. In the end, he sent Li Qingwu back without any danger.
Yingchun, who was keeping watch at night, felt a cool breeze passing by her side. When she looked up again, it was still dark.
Although Qiu Che entered the room, his eyes were calm and he didn't look at anything that should be seen or shouldn't be seen. He put the person on the bed and backed away silently.
Li Qingwu nervously tangled his hands together, wanting to say thank you, but afraid of making any noise, so he could only gesture to her stumblingly.
Qiu Che's eyes swept across her bamboo hat, and she used her inner strength to say: "You're welcome, it's just..."
She said meaningfully: "Not all men are as kind-hearted as me. Next time, girl, please don't give in. It's better for strangers to enter her room easily. "
After all, she is a fake man.
And there are some real men who won't leave in this situation without doing something.
Li Qingwu was stunned.
Qiu Che had already turned around, jumped out of the back window, and his thin figure disappeared gracefully into the night.
Li Qingwu sat in silence for a moment, took off the hat on his head, and ignored his messy hair after tossing it all night. He lowered his head and looked at the bird whistle that he had held in his hand for half the night.
For a long time, I held it in a daze.
She thought, no way.
Qiu Che is not a stranger.
Moreover, she never lets others into her room easily.
Only Qiu Che is the exception.
The next day, Yingchun, who was watching the night, took a break and was replaced by Yingyue to take care of the princess.
When combing her hair, she held her waist-length hair with some confusion: "Has His Highness's hair not been taken care of for a long time? Why is it all in clumps?"
Li Qingwu coughed guiltily.
"Maybe... I had a bad sleep."
Yingyue didn't become suspicious.
Qiu Che was woken up in the middle of the night last night and slept until three o'clock in the morning.
As soon as the clock struck noon, the crisp call of the oriole came from not far away.
Qiu Che opened the door and came out. Yu Yan was practicing martial arts in the yard. He was holding a wooden sword that he picked from Qiu Che a few days ago, and he was already gaining some momentum.
Yuming sat peeling the peanuts sent by the temple, smiling and chatting with her in a low voice.
Seeing Qiu Che coming out, Yu Ming hurriedly asked: "Master, are you awake?"
It was not convenient to call the master when he was away from home, so they all called him master.
Qiu Che responded: "I'm going out."
Yu Ming was stunned: "Where are you going, Master?"
"Go to an appointment."
Yu Ming Yu Yan: "...?"
They didn't know what happened on this night. thing?
Half a quarter of an hour later, Qiu Che knocked on the door as promised.
"I am going to the auditorium today to pray, and I would like to invite Miss Yue to go with me."
The two maids looked at each other, and they both saw doubts in each other's eyes:
Didn't Mr. Qiu refuse their highness's cake yesterday?
What kind of trouble would it be if you delivered it to your door today?
But the so-called visitor was a guest. In order to prevent others from discovering the special nature of Li Qingwu's identity, the two of them could not take the initiative to refuse.
Li Qingwu was even less likely to refuse.
The two of them had no choice but to let Li Qingwu and Qiu Che walk side by side, and they followed behind them at a moderate distance -
because Qiu Che said that he was not used to being followed, and this was the result of Yingchun's argument.
Glancing at the two girls who were watching them warily behind him, Qiu Che whispered: "I thought you wouldn't blow the whistle today."
Li Qingwu pursed his lips and smiled, and also whispered: "I'm afraid it will disturb your rest. The whistle wasnât blown until noon.â