Cypress Boat Floating

The summer rain always comes suddenly. Although she tried her best to avoid the rain, Ye Jianqing was still soaked when she returned to the palace. She couldn't tell whether it was because the rain came suddenly or she didn't want to hide and wanted to use the rain to cleanse her brain and clear her mind.

Although it was a summer rain, she still felt cold after being drenched in the rain. At Lu Ci Qiu's strong request, she obediently went to the bathroom to take a hot bath.

The hot water washed away the fatigue of the day and relaxed the brain. Leaning against the wooden barrel, the air was filled with steam. The rain outside had not stopped yet, and the rain hitting the window sill was fascinating. With the sound of rain, Ye Jianqing gradually relaxed, his upper eyelids drooped, and he fell asleep unknowingly.

"Miss, the water is cold." A woman's voice sounded in his ears. Ye Jianqing woke up from his sleep and opened his eyes slightly to look towards the source of the voice.

But she couldn't see clearly.

She didn't know whether it was the water vapor that covered the person's face or her eyes, she couldn't see the other person's face clearly, but she felt that the voice was familiar.

The other person helped her out of the water.

My body, which had been soaking in the water for a long time, got goose bumps the moment the air touched it, and I couldn't help but shiver.

"Who are you?" Ye Jianqing could feel herself asking the question, but the voice didn't seem to be her own. Her voice wasn't so sticky.

"Miss, I am your maid." While saying this, the other person's hands still obediently picked up the clothes beside her and helped her put them on, but there was a layer of gauze put on behind the undergarment, which just set off her figure perfectly, showing off the parts that should be shown.

Ye Jianqing looked at herself. She didn't like this gauze because it was too tight. Yuqin, who served her, always knew this and never prepared such clothes for her when she took a bath.

According to this, the person serving now is definitely not Yuqin.

"Who asked you to come?" Ye Jianqing asked again. Knowing nothing about the other party and not knowing the environment she was in, she did not directly refuse the veil that the other party put on her. She was afraid that the other party would suddenly use some means to do something to her. She could only say that fortunately the other party still put on underwear for her so that she was not naked.

"Miss, you are joking. I have always been serving you." The other person said again, with a hint of humility in her tone.

Ye Jianqing became more and more confused, but she remained calm. She wanted to see what the other party was going to do.

"Where is the prince?"

"Prince? What prince? Miss, what are you talking about?" The other party's puzzled question made Ye Jianqing even more confused. Isn't this the prince's mansion? This maid didn't even know Lu Ciqiu.

Ye Jianqing frowned. She could feel her body getting hot. She originally thought it was because of soaking in hot water. But now that she had left the hot water, why was her body still getting hot?

Ye Jianqing reached out and touched her forehead, which was cold. The maid next to her, who she didn't know what she was doing, reached out and took her hand off and held it in her own hand, "Miss, what are you doing?"

Ye Jianqing didn't like being supported by strangers, and the second she touched him, he pushed her away: "Who are you? Where is this place?"

Ye Jianqing wanted to find her knife. She remembered that she was used to putting the knife where she could reach before bathing. But now when she looked again, there was no sign of Yun Que. The short knife that had accompanied her through life and death was gone.

"What did I do wrong to make you scared? Please don't blame me. I know I was wrong." The man was so scared when he saw Ye Jianqing like this that he quickly knelt down, tears streaming down his face like they were free.

Ye Jianqing never liked seeing others crying in front of him, especially women.

The man who used to not want to see Yuqin shed a tear in front of him, now turned a blind eye to the poor girl with tears all over her face. Wearing clothes that made him feel uncomfortable, he tried to find his sword in this small bathroom, but the place was not big and not easy to see, so how could he find it?

"Where's my knife?" Unable to find the knife, Ye Jianqing became even more anxious. Her body was burning badly and her head was aching. She could no longer control her emotions. She seldom lost her temper with others, but now she was yelling at the person kneeling beside her.

"Where did you get the knife, young lady?" The man stood up and looked at Ye Jianqing in confusion.

Ye Jianqing looked at the man with a bit of anger in her eyes and murderous intent hidden under the anger. The heat in her body burned her. She no longer had any extra brain to think about things. She only knew that this was not the place where she should stay. She casually put on a cardigan next to her and was about to leave, but the man in front of her stopped her.

"Where are you going, miss?"

"Get out." His head hurt more and more, his vision started to blur and his sight started to disperse. The silhouette of the maid was swaying in front of him, and Ye Jianqing really didn't have the energy to talk to her anymore.

"Didn't the young lady just come back? Where are you going now?" The maid saw Ye Jianqing covering her head and did not go forward to support her. Instead, she stood in front of her, changed from her initial humble attitude, with no tears or fear on her face.

"Who are you?" Ye Jianqing covered his forehead.

"Miss, do you want to find the shrine? I know where the shrine is and how to find it. All you have to do is follow me." The maid approached Ye Jianqing step by step. Ye Jianqing was forced to retreat step by step until he had nowhere to retreat and bumped into the wooden barrel.

"Follow you, why should I follow you, who are you!" Her head was splitting with pain, as if someone was hammering her head with a hammer. She bit her lower lip tightly, not wanting to show weakness in front of this person.

"Miss, you can only get what you want if you agree to me. Didn't you use some means to get this body?" The maid smiled, but the smile was very strange, and the corners of her mouth almost reached her ears. The last sentence she said made Ye Jianqing feel uncomfortable, but she was too weak to resist her.

The maid reached out her hand and lovingly stroked Ye Jianqing's face from top to bottom, then suddenly pushed her chest.

She should have fallen on the edge of the bucket, but she fell directly into the bucket. The water in the bucket originally only reached her chest, but now it submerged her completely. She felt like she had fallen into a deep pool. The water in the bucket was pressing down on her like a heavy stone, making her unable to struggle. There was a hand under the water pulling her down. She could not resist or struggle and could only watch herself fall.

In water, people always hold their breath subconsciously, and Ye Jianqing was no exception. Even though she could hold her breath a little longer than ordinary people, she couldn't do it for a long time. After a long time, she had no choice but to exhale foul air from her mouth, which was carried by the water to form bubbles that fluttered upwards, and she went lower and lower, and finally fell into the deep pool.

She knew she was beyond help. She felt suffocating and there was no more oxygen in her lungs for her to breathe. She would not wake up once she closed her eyes. She could not save herself, and no one would come to save her.

Despair spread at this moment.

The moment she closed her eyes, the water that was wrapped around her body disappeared, and the damn feeling of suffocation also disappeared. Air returned to her lungs, and the lack of oxygen made her involuntarily want to breathe deeply when she came into contact with fresh air. However, she subconsciously knew that this would hurt her lungs, so she only dared to take small gulps to allow her lungs to adapt.

But her eyes seemed to be glued shut. She couldn't open them and she didn't have the strength to do so.

'Forget it then,' Ye Jianqing thought. Instead of being forced to open his eyes, he might as well just let nature take its course and have a good rest.

"Why hasn't the person woken up yet?" It was Lu Ci Qiu's voice. The voice was very close to him, as if it was spoken right in his ear, but why did he appear here?

"This shouldn't be possible. The girl's fever has subsided. She should have woken up by now." The voice sounded a bit old. Ye Jianqing didn't know who it was. She had never heard of it before.

"Then why hasn't she woken up yet?" Lu Ci Qiu became more and more anxious as he spoke. Ye Jianqing listened helplessly. She wanted to get up and tell him that she was fine, but she was so weak that she couldn't move.

Although she couldn't open her eyes at this moment, she knew that she must be in a dark place. Without any light, she could only hear what others said. She couldn't speak or see. She was like a doll.

"He is really anxious." Another voice sounded in his ears. It was a man's low voice, a completely unfamiliar voice. Ye Jianqing was still startled the moment the voice sounded.

"Who are you?" Ye Jianqing suddenly found that she could speak. She also recognized that voice.

"Ye Jianqing, your life is borrowed, and you should return it." The man did not answer Ye Jianqing's words, but said in his own words, "Your life is over, and the extra years you have lived are just stolen."

"It's not your turn to comment on whether my life has ended or not." Ye Jianqing didn't know what the other party meant by saying this, or whether the other party knew something. She suddenly felt a little scared.

If people knew that she had traveled through time and space and was reborn, she would definitely be treated as an alien, and no one would be able to save her.

"Hahahahahaha, you've come in here, do you really think you can get out alive?" The man was not angered by Ye Jianqing, but burst into laughter.

Ye Jianqing didn't know what the other party was going to do, and felt a little panicked.

"The stolen life must be returned eventually." The man began to whisper some words that Ye Jianqing could not understand. It sounded like he was chanting some spell.

Hearing this spell, Ye Jianqing finally began to panic, because she suddenly began to feel as if something was moving inside her body, and this thing was about to leave her.

This won’t work. This cannot be possible. She hasn’t found a way to return to the modern era yet. She hasn’t found the person who killed her in her previous life. She hasn’t said goodbye to Lu Ci Qiu yet. How can she die? She can’t die.