Cypress Boat Floating

After all, Liu Miao was an old fox who had been in this theater for decades. How could he not understand the meaning of Ye Jianqing's words? It sounded as if Ye Jianqing had given his Liu family a great privilege. But in fact, even if he found out that the Cao family had really cooperated with the Shenwu, then logically speaking, his handling of the matter was in line with the procedures.

This condition, after all, was just good for Ye Jianqing, but Liu Miao had no choice but to refuse. No matter what condition Ye Jianqing offered, he had to agree to it, because only by agreeing to it could he gain room for his master's next plan.

But Liu Miao did not agree immediately. Instead, he closed his eyes and pretended to think. What he wanted to do was to temper Ye Jianqing's mentality. In his eyes, Ye Jianqing was nothing more than a teenage girl. No matter what she had experienced, her mind could not be compared with his own. So from the beginning he did not regard Ye Jianqing on the same level.

Now it seems that Ye Jianqing is superior to him, but he still thinks that he is the one who actually controls the overall situation. What he wants is to play with Ye Jianqing's mentality and let Ye Jianqing fall into the trap of his master.

After about an incense stick of time, Liu Miao calculated that Ye Jianqing should be getting impatient, so he slowly nodded and agreed to her condition. It seemed helpless, but in fact, it was all under his control.

Seeing that Liu Miao agreed to her condition, Ye Jianqing's mood, which was almost impatient, instantly improved, and she naturally put away the dagger on Liu Miao's neck. Just kidding, everyone is a partner now, and she is still counting on Liu Miao to find the location of the shrine for her. How can they continue to hold knives against each other? They have to live in peace.

The dagger that had been placed on his neck and controlled his life and death finally left, and Liu Miao finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Boss Liu is straightforward. Since he has agreed, then fine. It's getting late. We should leave too. You should have a good rest." Ye Jianqing saw Liu Miao's exhaustion and snorted in her heart. She didn't like this Liu Miao, but she had to cooperate with him. Now that the intention of cooperation has been confirmed, she planned to get up and leave directly. As for the injured Liu Miao, let him fend for himself.

She did not forget that he had just hit her to death with a sword. If his martial arts skills were not inferior to hers, the person lying here without a say would not be him, but herself.

Ye Jianqing didn't hold grudges, but he was used to taking revenge on the spot. He had to bear the consequences of his own actions.

I don’t know if Liu Miao saw through Ye Jianqing’s thoughts. Seeing that she was about to leave, he became anxious and quickly stopped her: “No, Miss Ye, are you going to leave me here? I’m still injured.”

Ye Jianqing, who had turned around to leave, heard Liu Miao's voice and turned around to look down at Liu Miao on the ground innocently, "Then what do you want me to do about it, Mr. Liu? Men and women should not touch each other, and I, a little girl, don't have the strength to support a grown man like you."

Seeing a trace of anxiety in Liu Miao's eyes, Ye Jianqing glanced at Lu Ci Qiu beside him. Lu Ci Qiu also had no desire to help. Ye Jianqing covered his mouth in surprise and looked at Liu Miao and said, "Oh my, does Liu Banzhu want the Eighth Prince to help you? This... isn't it a bit bad?"

Liu Miao was so angry about Ye Jianqing's actions that his teeth were itching. Of course, he didn't dare to ask the Eighth Prince to help him. What was his identity and what was Lu Ci Qiu's identity? Not to mention that he was a prince, he was still a temporarily favored prince. How could he dare to ask Lu Ci Qiu to take action?

"Then don't worry about it, Miss Ye. I can do it myself." Liu Miao said this word by word while gritting his teeth. Ye Jianqing didn't care whether he really hated him or not. He smiled at him and left, not forgetting to say goodbye to him before leaving.

"Okay, let's go first."

But he immediately stopped smiling, without any expression on his face, and even couldn't help wanting to roll his eyes.

Both of them knew that cooperation was necessary, but they would also cheat each other in the process. Ye Jianqing wanted to send him to jail, while Liu Miao wanted to let her follow her master's plan. They were both people with ulterior motives.

After leaving Liu Miao's house, the two went back to the original cottage to change into their original night clothes. As for Xiao Ding and others, they had already left there under Ye Jianqing's command and returned to the mansion.

Although Lu Ciqiu, as a prince and an official of the Dali Temple, naturally had a pass, and it was no problem for him to walk carelessly on the street with Ye Jianqing, but Lu Ciqiu was in solitary confinement, and it would be bad if someone found out, so the two of them went back the same way they came.

"It's so unlucky. It's so unlucky." Ye Jianqing was so angry that he couldn't utter a word along the way. When he returned to the room, he was so angry that he almost smoked.

"Don't be angry. Didn't everything go according to plan in the end?" Lu Ci Qiu took off the black cloth on his face and sat next to her to help her calm down.

"I still think this guy is weird. We can't trust everything he says. As for the shrine, we can't trust him completely until he is sure that he can help us find it." Ye Jianqing frowned and took the cup of water that Lu Ci Qiu poured for him and drank it.

She still felt in her heart that Liu Miao was not trustworthy. After knowing that he was not the one who would harm her, she no longer wanted to get entangled with him, but he just happened to bring up the shrine.

This made her have to be on guard.

"He said that the shrine appeared years ago. Do you believe it?" Ye Jianqing frowned. Now, she wanted to hear Lu Ci Qiu's opinion.

"If the shrine appeared so quickly, then why did it only reveal itself in the past two or three months? What is the purpose of the shrine?" Looking at Lu Ci Qiu's expression, Ye Jianqing knew that he didn't really believe what Liu Miao said, or rather, they didn't believe anyone and they were suspicious of each other.

"It's hard to say about these things." Ye Jianqing shook her head. She always felt that Liu Miao seemed to have some plan. Perhaps the cooperation conditions she proposed today would not only benefit herself, but also him.

The more she thought about it, the more her headache got. A brain that had not yet fully recovered must not be overused, otherwise the headache would always come back again and again. After suffering from the headache, Ye Jianqing decided not to continue pondering. She felt that these matters were beyond the ability of herself and Lu Ci Qiu to handle alone. Perhaps it would be better to ask Lu Zhixing. After all, there was someone next to Lu Zhixing who knew more about the Cult of the Gods.

Speaking of Lu Zhixing, Ye Jianqing remembered that Lu Ciqiu's confinement seemed to have not been lifted yet, but he didn't seem to be in a hurry. Since Ye Jianqing woke up, Lu Ciqiu had gradually recovered from his original haggard and almost unrecognizable appearance.

He turned back into the elegant young man that Ye Jianqing knew. Even though he was only wearing a simple black nightgown, he still looked in great shape.

Ye Jianqing asked: "By the way, when will your confinement be lifted?"

As a prince, Lu Ci Qiu received a lot of etiquette education, so even if he was just sitting on a chair, he would sit straight and elegantly.

"I don't know. Father has personally issued the decree. When the time comes, a eunuch will come to announce the lifting of the decree. Don't worry."

After drinking two glasses of water, Ye Jianqing calmed down. She thought carefully about everything that happened tonight. It seemed that everything started to change from the time Liu Miao took out the sword to hurt her.

"Liu Miao was just putting on a show for us before." Ye Jianqing suddenly said. Liu Miao had never believed in ghosts, and as for finding a Taoist priest to exorcise ghosts, it was most likely just for show for them.

"He doesn't believe in ghosts?" Lu Ci Qiu asked back.

"I don't think he believes it. His behavior tonight makes him very sure that someone is pretending to be a ghost. That's why he took the sword and placed it beside him in advance, waiting for me to show up so that he can take action." The situation suddenly changed just now, and she didn't react for a moment, so she could only go along with it. Now that she has calmed down, she has figured it out.

"Liu Miao is really not the one who harmed you, so you don't believe in ghosts?" This was the only explanation Lu Ci Qiu could think of.

"I don't know either, but he is weird. I always feel that he is weird." Ye Jianqing really believes in his sixth sense.

"The more important point is that when I met him, I didn't take the initiative to mention the matter of the God's House to him. I just wanted to find out whether he was the one who harmed me. But he took the initiative to bring up the God's House and told us that the God's House had actually appeared a long time ago. Isn't this even more strange?" The doubts in Ye Jianqing's eyes were about to become substantial.

Whether it was today or her first meeting with Liu Miao two months ago, Liu Miao's every move proved that he was investigating Ye Jianqing. He knew that Ye Jianqing was investigating the Shenwu, so he sent people to attract Ye Jianqing to Washe.

He used the existence of the shrine to negotiate with Ye Jianqing.

Can......

If it was just because of the Cao family troupe, the competition between the two troupes would not have to be so high-profile. If the head of the Cao family troupe really went to find the shrine, how did he know about it?

And since he knew where the shrine was, wouldn't it be a better idea for him to go to the shrine before the Cao family did? Why did he go to all that trouble to find me and make me doubt him?

This is very wrong.

"Although he keeps saying that he wants to get rid of the Cao family, I think his purpose is not just that." Ye Jianqing couldn't understand this.

She didn't know Liu Miao, she didn't know him at all, and something happened to her after her first meeting with Liu Miao. Even now she didn't know who had harmed her.

It is normal for her to be suspicious of Liu Miao.