Quick Wear: Cousin, Come to the Bowl Quickly

Her vision suddenly became much wider, but when Lin Xi saw the densely packed and wriggling group of snakes not far away, she would rather be blind at this moment.

Enduring the tingling sensation on her scalp, she quickly walked to the back of the line, helped up several young ladies and maids who had fallen to the ground, and swiftly spun the incense ball in her hand, spreading the brown powder inside to create a dividing line on the ground.

This aromatherapy ball is also filled with snake-repellent powder. Although Lin Xi knew that the heroine in the original plot did not succeed, she was always prepared. Therefore, she embroidered snake-repellent purses for Lan Zhi and Lan Xue, and also prepared some powder for herself. She originally wanted to protect herself, but she did not expect it to play a big role at this moment.

This snake repellent powder is of high quality. If it were an ordinary venomous snake, it would have fled away long ago. However, Lin Xi looked at the dark mass not far away and knew that this powder would not be able to stop it for long.

It was obvious that these snakes were attracted by the smell. Thinking of the dispute between Cen Mei and Cen Yan in the Begonia Garden at noon, Lin Xi had an idea. It seemed that the problem must be with the jade pendant.

So she looked at the group of young ladies and maids, and sure enough, she saw Cen Mei with disheveled hair and untidy clothes among them. She was the first to discover the snake, but for some reason, she was pushed to the back and sat on the ground, looking as if she had lost all hope in life.

Lin Xi quickly squeezed to her side, only to find that she must have sprained her foot. She was squeezed by others and sweated all over her forehead. Her maid looked anxious and wanted to drag her up from the ground. Lin Xi quickly stopped her, "Don't pull her, she sprained her foot, the more she moves, the more painful it is. Give me your handkerchief."

The maid was startled by Lin Xi's sudden appearance, and seeing her matter-of-fact tone, she subconsciously took out her handkerchief.

Lin Xi took the handkerchief and swiftly wrapped it around her hand. She tried to pull the jade pendant from Cen Mei's waist, but Cen Mei grabbed her hand with a look of vigilance, "What are you going to do!"

"There's something wrong with your jade pendant. Take it off and throw it away." Lin Xi didn't waste any words with her and still wanted to pull off her jade pendant.

"Nonsense! This jade pendant of mine is a relic of my late mother. I have been wearing it all the time. How could there be..." Cen Mei was halfway through her rebuttal when she suddenly came to her senses and said in disbelief, "Are you saying that Cen Yan wants to harm me?"

"I didn't say anything, but your jade pendant was indeed tampered with. Otherwise, how come you were the first to discover the snake when there were so many people by the stream just now?" Seeing that the force she was holding on to his hand had weakened, Lin Xi quickly took off the jade pendant, wrapped it in a handkerchief and threw it at the group of snakes that were still slowly crawling towards them.

Lin Xi's aim was very good, and the jade pendant wrapped in the handkerchief fell right into the middle of the snake group. The snakes were frightened and scattered for a moment, but then attracted by the smell of the jade pendant, they quickly surrounded it. The pink handkerchief was soon submerged by the black snakes.

Seeing this scene, Cen Mei, who was sitting on the ground, felt a chill all over her body and couldn't help muttering to herself: "She actually wanted to kill me..." Of course, she would never have thought that Cen Yan was now an evil ghost returned from hell, who was always thinking about devouring her. She just thought that the two of them had some quarrels on weekdays, but Cen Yan actually wanted her life because of it.

Naturally, Lin Xi would not get involved in the two lives' entanglement between the two. After resolving the jade pendant, she felt much more relaxed. However, she did not dare to be too careless. After all, the jade pendant had been worn by Cen Mei for such a long time, and she must have been stained with a lot of smells. Moreover, the ladies all played the game of hiding the hook today. If Cen Mei touched the jade pendant and then the jade hook, then all the ladies' hands would be more or less stained with the smell of snakes.

Sure enough, after a while, Lin Xi saw that although the jade pendant attracted most of the poisonous snakes, there were still a few that escaped and persisted in crawling towards this side. Lin Xi did not hesitate to stand behind the line drawn by the powder, and when he saw a snake approaching, he would hit it with a willow branch. The snakes twisted their bodies and crawled back in panic.

The young ladies who fell behind were frightened by Lin Xi's ferocious momentum when she was pulling out the snake. For a moment, they even forgot to speak. The garden, which had been filled with crying just now, became much quieter.

On this side, He Lanting finally squeezed to the front. Looking at the young masters who were crowded in the front and refusing to give way to each other, he tried to persuade them first. But one of them mocked him, saying, "You are persuading us to get out of the way, but you, Young Master He, are still squeezed to the front. You said something about letting the women go first. I think you want us to make way for you." The young master next to him also echoed him.

He Lanting listened to the man's sarcastic remarks, and no matter how good his temper was, he could not bear it anymore. He first punched the man in the face, and then, the moment the man reacted and wanted to fight back, he pulled out the soft sword that had been hidden at his waist and put it on the man's neck. The sharp sword edge flashed a silver light in the sun, reflecting on the man's face, scaring him so much that he dared not speak anymore.

"Since you won't listen to my kind words, I have no choice but to use force. If anyone dares to cause trouble now, don't blame me for having a blind sword in my hand." All the young masters were so shocked by this sudden change that they forgot to speak.

The young man with the sword on his neck stammered, "He Pingchuan, you, you dare!"

He Lanting's expression was icy, and he spoke in a deep voice, "Why not? Even if I kill you here, and His Majesty and the Princess investigate it later, I can only report the truth, saying that a thief deliberately blocked the escape route of the young masters and ladies, and I had no choice but to kill him. Do you think His Majesty and the Princess will believe me, or you, a dumb corpse?"

The young man shrank back in fear at the coldness in his eyes and dared not speak again. Seeing that he had calmed down, Helan Ting spoke loudly to the crowd, "Those at the front should go out in order, the men at the back should step aside, and the maids should go to the back to support the young ladies and let them go out first!"

With his command, the team became orderly. Soon the ladies at the back were helped out of the garden in a hurry, followed by the gentlemen. He Lanting stood by the moon gate with a cold face, counting the number of people. Until the end, Lin Xi still didn't come out, and his expression became more and more cold.

Here, Lin Xi carried Cen Mei, who had sprained her ankle, and walked out slowly, while Cen Mei's maid followed closely behind with a look of gratitude on her face.

After Lin pulled all the snakes away, he was planning to walk out, but he saw Cen Mei's maid tremblingly supporting her, and the two of them were moving out with difficulty. Cen Mei looked frail to begin with, and her maid was even weaker than her. Lin Xi couldn't bear to watch it any longer, so he walked to Cen Mei with an impatient look and picked her up on his back.

Cen Mei was caught off guard and let out a scream. She wanted to struggle, but Lin Xi said, "If you move again, I'll send you to feed the snakes." She was so frightened that she dared not move. She could only say thank you with a red face and lie on Lin Xi's back obediently.