After traveling through time, the four best friends were all targeted by the boss

Verification takes time, so they had a lot of fun for several days.

That night, a group of people were chatting and admiring the moon in the yard when Lu Yun suddenly flew down and stopped in front of Gu Ling.

"Master Gu, I found out." He looked serious and his tone was a little anxious.

He took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Gu Ling.

Meng Yin immediately moved forward to take a look.

"The map thing is true." Lu Yun said, "A good friend of the previous hall master took the initiative to send a letter saying it."

"What did you say?" Xia Nian asked.

"He said that the previous leader of the four major sects found the jade slip in the tower, and these four towers are called one name - the Jueqing Tower." Lu Yun said.

"We have asked this old gentleman before, but he was very stubborn and refused to say a word. Now he suddenly sent a letter, Qiao Yi felt suspicious, so he went to his residence."

Having said this, Meng Yin saw a drop of red mark on the letter. Her heart skipped a beat. Could it be blood?

"I didn't expect that the old man had been hanged in the house for two days! This letter was just delivered to us and his body was discovered." Lu Yun said.

"What a coincidence..." Pei Xuanxi murmured, and the fragmented information connected into a line in his mind.

"Could it be Mr. Han and his group?" he asked, "They lost the map a few days ago, so they went to look for someone who knew about it? Could it be that the old man couldn't bear the humiliation and chose to pass the news to us, and chose to commit suicide?"

Xia Nian looked at him with some gratitude. She had originally wanted to infer this way, which would make others less suspicious about the origin of the map.

After reading the letter, Meng Yin raised her head and looked at Xia Nian. Apart from the matter of the map, what Pei Xuanxi said should be correct.

The old gentleman was most likely threatened, and was afraid that those people would get the news about the jade slip before them, so he changed his stubborn temper and gave them the news, hoping that they could find the jade slip before Mr. Han.

Unexpectedly, by accident, it connected with their clumsy plan of accidentally snatching the map.

"Gu Ling." Meng Yin tugged at Gu Ling's sleeve, "Are we going to look for the jade slip?"

"Well." He crumpled the letter, "Tomorrow, we will split up to look for the jade slip."

"I agree. If Mr. Han could find him, he must have won over some people behind the scenes. The sooner we find him, the better." Xiahou Yu said.

"Then tomorrow..." Xia Nian took a deep breath and looked at Tao Tao, whose eyes were red, and Xu Zheng, who was hanging her head, with a choked voice, "Let's go tomorrow."

-

After Yi An got the news, he immediately rushed to the yard where Mr. Han was.

"Lu Ziqiu is dead!?" He pushed the door open, ignoring Old Han and another man sitting inside, with a slightly ugly expression.

"That's right." Han Laodao, "When we sent people to look for him yesterday, we found that he was dead."

"He is the only one who might know the information in the jade slip." Yi An sat down and frowned in anger.

"Not necessarily." Han Lao said, "He dared to die like this, he must have done something."

"I have asked Liu Yi to keep an eye on their movements. If they really get the information from the jade slip, it will be a good opportunity for them to reap the benefits."

After hearing his words, Yi An felt a little relieved and looked at the man sitting opposite him.

He raised his eyebrows slightly. He didn't expect that Mr. Han would even win him over.

-

In the yard, Xun Tao bent her waist slightly, suppressing the pain in her lower abdomen, and threw the stained skirt into the basin.

She picked up the wooden ladle tremblingly and tried to scoop some water down, but was forced to squat on the ground because of the cramps in her abdomen.

"Sister Xuntao, what's wrong with you?" asked a slightly childish female voice.

Xun Tao turned her head and looked at her. It was the maid that Yi An bought to serve her, named Wen Xin.

Her pale face scared Wen Xin.

"I'm fine, I just have my period." Xun Tao held down her hand as she was about to support herself, her voice weak.

"Let me wash it, otherwise the young master will punish me if he sees it." She said, bending down to pick up the wooden ladle on the ground, scooping a few scoops of water into it, then turned around to help her to rest.

Xun Tao looked at her gratefully, but still tried her best to walk back by herself. She couldn't accept being served by others in her heart.

"Sister Xuntao, you go and take a rest. I'll go tell Brother Zifei to buy some medicine." Wen Xin said.

Xun Tao held her hand and whispered, "Don't go, I'll just lie down for a while. If you go to buy medicine, Zifei will definitely tell him that the young master is not in a good mood these days, so don't disturb him."

"But..." Wen Xin wanted to persuade him, but Xun Tao's pleading eyes stopped her. She bit her lip and said, "Then I'll go boil a pot of hot water."

The weather was getting colder, and the peach trees in the yard were becoming dry. As the autumn wind blew, the hem of her pink skirt fluttered up and down, just like her fate.

Wen Xin looked at her frail back and couldn't help wondering: Sister Xun Tao is so loved by the young master, why would she still worry about him finding out? Wouldn't it be better if he knew and cared about her?

After all, she was just a teenage girl and could not understand Xuntao's sensitive and thoughtful mood.

His concern for me is because of that girl. No matter how pretentious I am and how much patience he has, he will abandon me without hesitation.

Then she was back in that quagmire.

Xun Tao lay down in the bed and curled up into a ball. Her thin fingers tightly grasped the quilt and her teeth chattered.

She would rather live carefully here than go back.

It was night soon. Yi An strode into the yard and saw Wen Xin holding something in her arms and running towards the kitchen.

Hearing the footsteps behind him, Wen Xin hurriedly bowed her head.

"Looking for Tao?" he asked, searching the yard.

"Sister Xuntao..." Wen Xin hesitated a little and looked up at his expression.

"What's wrong with her?" Yi An frowned and turned to look at what was in her arms.

"She was sick, so I bought some brown sugar and cooked it for her to drink." Wen Xin realized that she couldn't hide it anymore, so she had to tell the truth.

"Sick?" Yi An murmured, without asking any more questions, and walked directly towards Xun Tao's room.

Inside the house, under Wenxin's care, Xuntao's stomach pain was no longer so severe. She sat on the bed, looking out the window with listless eyes.

It was dark inside, and she didn't light a candle, so she relied on the faint moonlight.

The moment Yi An stepped in, he was stunned.

She sat there with her hair loose, and he could only vaguely see her profile. Under the moonlight, it overlapped with the figure in his memory.

"A Tao..." He didn't even blink, just staring at her, talking like a child.

"Why don't you turn on the light? Aren't you afraid of the dark?" Yi An walked forward with a tender smile on his face.

Xun Tao was stunned. Not only was she not afraid of the dark, she even liked being in a dark environment.

"Young Master, why are you here?" The moment she turned around, she saw Yi An's sparkling eyes dimmed instantly, like a flame that had finally started but was ruthlessly extinguished.

"I came to see you." Yi An's tone returned to normal, "Why are you sick?"

Xun Tao knew that he had mistaken her for someone else, so she waved her hand and said, "It's okay, it's just a girl's thing."

"Yeah." Yi An responded calmly, reaching out to touch her cheek, "If you get sick in the future, let Zifei go and ask a doctor to see you."

Before Xun Tao could answer, he turned around and said, "Eat more, you've lost weight."

This is not like her at all, he thought to himself.

"Oh, okay, sir." Xun Tao agreed obediently and touched his chin reflexively, which was indeed a little pointier.

Yian returned to the study and saw portraits of the same person hanging on several sides of the screen.

His expression returned to the time when he mistook Xun Tao for someone else. He looked at the portrait almost infatuatedly and touched the girl in the painting with his fingers.

In the portrait, Tao Tao has bright eyes, is always smiling, and still has some baby fat on her face.

He didn't know that after passing through Taoyuan City, Tao Tao had lost a lot of weight and her baby fat had faded away a lot, and Xun Tao looked more like her now.

At the same time, in Pei Mansion in Xuanwu City, Tao Tao, who was crying on Xia Nian's shoulder, shuddered inexplicably and goose bumps appeared uncontrollably.