Cypress Boat Floating

In order to return to the capital as soon as possible and not let others catch him leaving the city, Lu Zhixing compressed the journey back to the capital into one day. He took a short rest in Tianshu Hall, and after getting his things, he left Qixing Mountain and headed for the capital.

Fortunately, the horses he rode were all good horses that had accompanied him to the battlefield. If they were replaced with ordinary horses, I'm afraid I don't know how many of them would have died in this situation.

Not long after he returned home, Lu Ci Qiu arrived.

"Second brother, you're back!" As soon as Lu Ci Qiu entered the Prince Qin's Mansion, he saw Lu Zhixing and Wei Wangshu in the hall and was extremely surprised.

"No wonder I felt so relieved when I first stepped into Prince Qin's Mansion. It's because my second brother returned safely," he thought.

"Old Eight, I'm here." Lu Zhixing saw that he was still holding a bunch of things in his hands, and asked curiously: "Why do you bring so many things?"

Lu Ci Qiu handed the things in his hand to the servant, rubbed his sore shoulders, and said helplessly: "These are all given to you by my mother. Some are for my second sister-in-law to nourish her health, and some are for you to recover from your illness."

This is all mother's love. Although Lu Zhixing is helpless, he can only accept it. He knows that he is not sick, and Lu Ci Qiu also knows that he is not sick, but his mother doesn't know. His mother is just worried about her son.

"Okay, since second brother is back, I'll leave first. Seeing you look like this, you should have a good rest first." Lu Ci Qiu naturally did not miss the dark circles under Lu Zhixing's eyes and the stubble on his face. It was obvious that he must not have had a good rest in the past two days. It was not convenient for him to disturb him any more, so it was better for him to leave.

"Okay, you go back home first. I'll come to see you tomorrow and talk to you about this shrine." Lu Zhixing was also very tired. He couldn't talk much with Lu Ci Qiu, so he had to let him leave first.

After leaving Prince Qin's Mansion, Lu Ci Qiu walked towards his own residence. Now he walked with a sense of relief. His mother and second brother were fine, which was extremely important to him.

I don’t know how Qing’er is doing.

After calming down, he thought of Ye Jianqing. He didn't know whether she had returned or not, so he thought of taking a carriage to the Du Mansion to wait for her and go back with her.

But who would have thought, before he arrived at the Du Mansion and the carriage was about to set off, he saw Ye Jianqing walking alone on the road from afar, walking like a lost soul.

Seeing her like this, Lu Ci Qiu was extremely worried. He jumped off the carriage without thinking and ran towards her.

Ye Jianqing didn't notice him until everyone ran up to her. If he was ten steps away, she would have noticed him long ago.

"What's wrong with you? Are you dispirited?" Lu Ci Qiu asked worriedly.

Ye Jianqing looked up at him, not knowing what was in his mind. He sighed deeply, shook his head, and said nothing.

But it was this kind of reaction that made Lu Ci Qiu even more worried. He suddenly wondered if his panic in the morning was because something had happened to Ye Jianqing?

She was worried about her mother and her second brother, but she didn't think that something might happen to Ye Jianqing. Could it be that nothing would happen just because she went to the Du Mansion to find Du Rou?

When he thought of this, he suddenly felt a little guilty, and his worry about Ye Jianqing was directly expressed. Seeing that she was unhappy and wanted to continue moving forward, he grabbed her and asked softly, "What happened?"

He was afraid that if his tone was a little harsh, Ye Jianqing would feel uncomfortable and unhappy.

Seeing that Ye Jianqing didn't intend to say anything, Lu Ciqiu pulled her towards the carriage and said, "Come on, let's go home together. It's dangerous for you to walk on the street like this."

Ye Jianqing followed him obediently and let him lead him.

Her entire mind was now filled with the story Du Rou had just told her, and she was completely unable to think. She looked at Lu Ci Qiu and really didn't know how to tell him, just like Du Rou didn't know how to tell her at the beginning.

She had no choice but to follow Lu Ci Qiu back. In this huge capital city, she had nowhere else to go except the palace.

Lu Ci Qiu took her onto the carriage, and seeing that she didn't want to say anything he didn't force her, but just asked her to rest for a while. The Qin Palace was not far from the Xian Palace, and they could get there after walking for a while. Before Ye Jianqing could figure out what was going on, they arrived.

Lu Ci Qiu treated Ye Jianqing like a porcelain doll, fearing that Ye Jianqing might lose her mind and fall, so he even helped her get off the carriage. Little did he know that his actions would soon reach the ears of Concubine Shu in the palace. But he was not in the mood to think so much now. He only thought about how to take care of Ye Jianqing first.

After returning to the palace, Ye Jianqing asked to go back to her room to rest, refused Lu Ciqiu's request to accompany her, and went to her room by herself. Lu Ciqiu watched her from behind, he had no idea what happened to Ye Jianqing, he was so anxious that he even had the urge to go directly to Du's house to find Du Rou and ask her about it.

If Huai Xi hadn't stopped him and said that it was against the rules, he would have gone long ago.

Ye Jianqing was nowhere to be seen, so Lu Ciqiu had no choice but to take a book and run to the pavilion in the courtyard. From this position, he could just see Ye Jianqing's room, and he could also see him the first time Ye Jianqing came out. If Lu Ciqiu wanted to talk about what she was thinking about, she could see him when she came out and talk to him directly.

I don’t know how long I waited, probably until the sun had set and the sunset came out, then Ye Jianqing walked out of the room to look for Lu Ci Qiu.

Just as Lu Ci Qiu thought, as soon as Ye Jianqing went out, he saw Lu Ci Qiu sitting in the pavilion. His steps forward suddenly paused, but he quickly recovered and walked straight towards him.

"Have you been waiting here all day?" Ye Jianqing asked.

Seeing that she was no longer the same as when she first came back, Lu Ci Qiu knew that she had figured it out, and he felt a little happier: "Yes, this way you can see me directly when you come out."

Lu Ci Qiu's light words made Ye Jianqing's heart pause. She glanced at Lu Ci Qiu and said nothing, but she seemed to have a different feeling in her heart.

"Actually, you don't have to do this."

"Your appearance today is really worrying. I was planning to go directly to the Du Mansion to pick you up, but I saw you wandering on the street just after I left the Prince Qin's Mansion. I thought something happened to you. I was scared to death." Seeing that Ye Jianqing was fine, Lu Ci Qiu couldn't help but complain, saying how scary she was today.

When Ye Jianqing heard him say this, she couldn't help but laugh out loud. She was just thinking about something at that time, and she wasn't like a wandering soul as Lu Ci Qiu said.

"I went to see Du Rou today." Ye Jianqing said.

After Du Rou told her this story, she asked Du Rou if she could tell Lu Ci Qiu. Du Rou agreed, so she decided to tell it.

Lu Ci Qiu nodded: "I know."

He looked at Ye Jianqing. He knew that this was just the beginning. Ye Jianqing would tell him what happened today.

"Du Rou told me a story about why she had to investigate the God's House."

Lu Ci Qiu looked at her and said nothing.

Ye Jianqing was looking at the crumbling sunset in the distance. The sunset was about to fall, and the darkness was about to swallow up the last piece of orange and red, but stars would also appear in the night, and those stars were crucial to those who were trapped in the darkness.

Du Rou's mother was a famous spiritual woman in the Miao village more than ten years ago.

That year, her mother first came to the capital with the chief elder of the Miao village to pray for the royal family. It was her first time to leave the mountains and the Miao village. She was curious about everything in the capital. She wanted to try all the food, drinks and toys, but as a spirit girl, she had to be isolated from these things. She could only eat what the chief elder prepared for them and drink the dew prepared by the chief elder. She could not step out of the temple. She had to maintain the mystery of being a spirit girl.

At that time, Du Guangyao was just an ordinary soldier who had just joined the Ministry of War. His first task was to protect the safety of the spirit girl. During that time, he stood guard at the door of the spirit girl's room day and night to escort her.

That was their first meeting. Two people who were curious about everything would eventually come into contact with each other. Du Guangyao knew the hardships of the spiritual girl's cultivation, so he would secretly bring some delicious food to her; sometimes when Du Guangyao was the only one on guard, the spiritual girl would come out to chat with him.

But the time for praying was very short. They were in contact for only half a month before the spirit girl had to return to the Miao village. They agreed to meet again next year.

The next year, the spiritual girl came to pray again, and Du Guangyao volunteered to go to the post station to protect the spiritual girl.

In this way, emotions gradually developed between the two people.

Later, because Du Guangyao wanted to leave the Miao village, the spirit girl entered the shrine. She thought that entering the shrine would allow her to escape from the fire pit, but who knew that this was just jumping from one fire pit to another.

The spirit girl successfully married Du Guangyao and gave birth to a daughter for him, but the God's House did not let her go and kept pressuring her to work for it. She was unwilling, so the God's House activated the poisonous insect that had been planted in her body at that time, and it was this poisonous insect that accelerated the death of the spirit girl.

A kind of poisonous insect will be planted in the body of the spirit girls since they are born. The one who survives can become the king of all poisonous insects and can control all poisonous insects. However, there are different levels of powerful spirit girls in different generations.

The poisonous insect in Du Rou's mother's body was lost to the man in the Shenwu, causing the poisonous insect in her body to mutate and leading to her premature death.

Du Rou's mother taught her a lot of these things when she was young, but never told her about the shrine. If the shrine had not suddenly appeared this time, Du Rou would not have discovered that something was wrong with her father, and after secretly following and investigating, she would not have found some clues in her father's study. Otherwise, she would not have known that her mother's death was not an accident, but was caused by the shrine.

That's why she was in such a hurry to find Ye Jianqing that day, thinking of going with him to investigate the shrine. She knew that her ability was not that strong. If she went to investigate alone, she was afraid that she would find nothing and even lose her life in vain, so she thought of using the Dali Temple.

After Ye Jianqing learned all this, he felt deeply moved.

She didn't have a deep understanding of the Miao village's spiritual women, and she didn't know that these spiritual women, who were synonymous with purity, would have to face such difficulties.

She didn't know anything about poisonous insects. She had only seen them in some books before and had never really come into contact with one. So she was caught off guard by what she saw.

So after leaving the Du Mansion, she had been thinking about how to deal with this matter, and for a while she didn't notice Lu Ci Qiu.