What to do if you receive the wrong package?

Xuan Yi's question left Bai Hongsheng speechless.

Gu Yan looked at Bai Hongsheng with his head down and his two small fists clenched tightly, and felt that he couldn't bear to watch any longer. Just as he was about to speak up to stop him, he heard Bai Hongsheng say:

"Brother Xuanyi, we may need to ask An'an about the specifics after she wakes up. After I heard An'an's voice, I only saw a black shadow fly away quickly from the window. I didn't see anything else."

Xuan Yi climbed through the window and walked to the bedside, patting Bai Hongsheng on the shoulder. "Thank you, Shengsheng, for telling me everything you saw. What you saw is already very useful."

Then, Xuan Yi glanced at Shen Mujin and Gu Yan, signaling them to come out.

Left with no other choice, Gu Yan asked Bai Hongsheng to look after Lin Mu'an, and then went to the courtyard with Shen Mujin and Xuan Yi.

Unexpectedly, Yu Bai was also in the courtyard, clearly waiting for them to appear.

"Young Master Xuan, you guessed right. All of our guards have indeed been affected by the Ten Breaths Sleep." Upon seeing the group, Yu Bai quickly stepped forward and explained the results of his investigation.

"Ten-breath sleep? What's going on?" Gu Yan and Shen Mujin didn't quite understand.

"Ten Breaths of Sleep is a unique incense of Weiyang Palace. This incense is colorless and odorless. Anyone who lights this incense will fall into a deep sleep after ten breaths and will not feel any discomfort when they wake up, as if they have just had a long sleep."

Gu Yan seemed to understand somewhat. "So when I came to find you, you all looked terrible, which means I forcibly woke you up from the sleeping incense?"

Yu Bai nodded. "Yes, fortunately the enemy didn't use too much sleeping potion this time. After being awakened, we only had a headache and nothing else."

"Other things?" Gu Yan was still a little confused.

"Generally speaking, ten breaths of sleep cannot be awakened under normal dosage. If forcibly awakened, it will only bleed from all seven orifices and die."

"Oh my god!" Gu Yan looked at Yu Bai with lingering fear and quickly asked, "Are you all alright? I... I didn't know... it was so serious. Xuan Yi, do you have any antidote or anything with this incense? Quickly get some for Captain Yu Bai and the others."

Yu Bai quickly shook his head, "Miss Bai, don't worry, we're all fine. Young Master Xuan also told me how to get rid of the strange feeling caused by this incense."

Hearing this, Gu Yan finally felt relieved.

Shen Mujin looked at Jiang Si, recalling the dark figure Sheng Sheng had mentioned, and couldn't help but ask in a low voice, "Xuan Yi, is the dark figure Sheng Sheng mentioned the one you chased after?"

Xuan Yi nodded.

"So, did you succeed in catching up with her? What exactly happened?"

"Yeah, I caught a glimpse of it too. It was pitch black, and I couldn't tell if it was a person or a ghost."

Xuan Yi frowned slightly, and after a long while said, "That figure seems to be Huo Wenyuan."

"what?"

"Isn't he dead?"

Xuan Yi was also somewhat uncertain. Huo Wenyuan had been killed by him with a sword through the heart, and he had watched his body perish in the sea of ​​fire. How could he possibly have survived?

When Xuan Yi spotted the dark figure and gave chase, he clearly sensed a dense killing intent permeating the air. Xuan Yi gripped his dagger tightly, his gaze sweeping around, preparing to face any potential danger.

Suddenly, a dark shadow flashed past him. Xuan Yi instinctively turned around, but all he could see was darkness. Xuan Yi dared not be careless. He tensed his body and swung the dagger in his hand backward, making a sharp, piercing sound.

Then he heard a hoarse voice, "Xuanyi, it's been a long time. I wonder if you like this gift?"

"Who are you?" Xuan Yi looked at the person in front of him, who was dressed entirely in black and had a somewhat hunched posture. Judging from the voice, it seemed to be a man.

"Who am I? Hahahaha, I am your old friend, the old friend you killed with your own hands."

Accompanied by the man's hoarse, unpleasant laughter, a series of flying needles, gleaming coldly in the moonlight, shot straight at Xuan Yi's face.

Xuan Yi grinned and quickly swung his dagger, knocking away the hidden weapons one by one.

"Is that so? Then you might be dying a second time today," Xuan Yi said coldly, his eyes flashing with determination.

Xuan Yi moved with lightning speed, like a nimble cheetah, and pounced on the man in an instant.

The two clashed, each move sharp and fierce, sword energy crisscrossing, the scene exceptionally intense. Xuan Yi's daggers flowed like a never-ending stream, yet the man seemed to possess boundless power, managing to contend with him.

Their figures intertwined in the moonlight, moving swiftly like two ghosts.

“Xuan Yi, Xuan Yi, my father told you long ago that only by severing the seven emotions and six desires can you sever all things in the world. Now your every move is slow and dull, it’s truly unbearable to watch.”

"Without further ado."

Xuan Yi's heart stirred, and he instantly unleashed a powerful move, his sword flashing like lightning, aiming straight for the man's vitals.

However, the man easily dodged the attack. With a "sizzle," Xuan Yi's dagger was blocked by the man's arm, which seemed to be encased in metal.

The man laughed twice, looking at his right arm with a nostalgic expression.

“Xuanyi, after all these years, you still prefer to attack from the right.”

Seeing that his attack had failed, Xuan Yi quickly retreated.

"who are you?"

"The one you pushed into hell with your own hands, and who then crawled out of hell to seek revenge on you."

Seeing Xuan Yi's expression change slightly, the man's mood instantly improved. He stopped confronting Xuan Yi and fled in a few moments.

Thinking of this, a complicated look flashed in Xuan Yi's eyes. Apart from Huo Wenyuan, who else would know about Uncle Huo's affairs, and how would they know his fighting habits?

As they were talking, a guard suddenly ran in from outside the courtyard, whispered a few words to Yu Bai.

After hearing this, Yu Bai's expression turned serious, and he said to everyone, "The guards found the person who drugged us during their search. He was just an ordinary servant in the manor. However, when the guards found him, he had already hanged himself."

“Wait a minute, is that person’s body still there? I want to go and see it,” Xuan Yi suddenly asked.

The guard glanced at Yu Bai, and after receiving confirmation from the captain, said, "The body is still there. We cannot move it without the captain's orders."

Gu Yan was still worried about the two little ones in the house. After watching Xuan Yi and the other two leave the courtyard with the guards, he also went back to his room.

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Led by the guards, the three of them walked for a while and then arrived at their destination.

Because the courtyard wasn't very big, only two servants, a maid, and Aunt Li lived there year-round.

Two servants shared one room, while the maid and Aunt Li shared another.

The room where the bodies were found was not their usual living quarters, but another empty room.

"Yu Bai, how did you find out that this person was the one who drugged you?"

“Every day after dinner is the time for changing shifts. Today, before we changed shifts, I wanted to talk to everyone about something, so I called everyone together. But then they lit sleeping incense in the room, which made us all unconscious. From the time we gathered until we lost consciousness, apart from all of us guards, only Xiaoshan came into the room. We wanted to ask him something, but we found that he had hanged himself.”

What did he do after he went inside?

"Nothing much, it seems like they brought us a pot of tea?" Yu Bai said after a moment's thought.

"Tea? Have you checked if there's anything wrong with the tea?" Shen Mujin, who was listening to their conversation, suddenly asked.

Yu Bai shook his head and quickly ordered the guards around him to investigate whether there was anything unusual about the tea they were drinking.

Xuan Yi entered the room, which was perfectly furnished. His gaze swept over every corner, and he carefully observed every detail. He squatted down next to the corpse, took out a white cloth and placed it under his hand. He gently pressed his fingers on the corpse's chest, and then took out a small brown paper package from the corpse's pocket.

The room was dimly lit and cold, and Shen Mujin felt a chill run down her spine as she stood in the doorway. She walked to Xuan Yi's side, her gaze fixed on the corpse, and asked with slight surprise, "He took poison?"

"That's right, purple lips and bluish complexion are typical symptoms of poisoning."

“Xuanyi, pull up his sleeve and take a look.”

Xuan Yi used a white cloth as a pad to slowly lift the servant's hand. The long sleeve slid down the arm, and a clear red mark appeared on the inside of the deceased's wrist. The red mark extended from the inside of the wrist to the tip of the servant's middle finger, as if a red line had been drawn on his palm.

"What is this?" Shen Mujin was a little confused.

Xuan Yi's expression was unusually serious as he shook his head. "I've never seen this kind of poison before."

Seeing this, Yu Bai stepped out of the room and called over another servant to inquire.

"Big Mountain, Little Mountain, have you noticed anything unusual lately?"

Da Shan was stunned when he heard the news of Xiao Shan's death, and his voice trembled as he spoke.

"No...nothing...is wrong."

Xuan Yi and Shen Mujin also walked into the courtyard. Xuan Yi asked, "Don't you and Xiao Shan live in the same room? Why is Xiao Shan here?"

Da Shan swallowed nervously. "Xiao Shan's snoring has been really annoying lately. He's been sleeping alone in the hut for days because he's afraid of disturbing me. Oh, right," Da Shan seemed to have thought of something, his eyes lighting up.

“Xiaoshan has been complaining of headaches lately and he’s also been feeling confused from time to time. I thought it was because he wasn’t getting enough rest, so I told him to see a doctor, but Xiaoshan didn’t pay any attention.”

"Confused? What do you mean?" Xuan Yi pressed.

"For example, you're talking to him, and he suddenly starts spacing out and forgets what he's supposed to be doing. If you remind him, he'll remember."

"Moreover, Xiaoshan has always secretly liked Xing'er in our courtyard, and he always gives Xing'er this and that, but Xing'er doesn't like Xiaoshan and always avoids him. But these past few days, Xing'er seems to have been moved by Xiaoshan's persistence. I've seen them whispering to each other several times."

Fearing he would be implicated, Da Shan told Xiao Shan everything he knew about him, down to the smallest detail.

"Xing'er?" Xuan Yi glanced at Yu Bai, who immediately understood Xuan Yi's meaning and left to send someone to bring Xing'er to him.

"And this was found on Xiaoshan. Have someone check what it is."

Just as Xuan Yi handed the small brown paper package to Yu Bai, Da Shan, who was standing to the side looking uneasy, seemed to think that the package looked familiar.

"Young Master Xuan, may I take a look at what you have in your hand?"

"You've seen it?" Xuan Yi held up a corner of the paper package and waved it in front of Da Shan.

Da Shan looked at the paper package, rubbed his hands together, and seemed hesitant to speak.

"It's okay, don't worry, it's alright if you said something wrong."

"This paper package should have been given to Xiaoshan by Xing'er. I saw it by chance yesterday morning and even touched it. As a result, Xiaoshan immediately snatched it and hid it in his arms like a treasure, saying that it was a folk remedy that Xing'er found for him that could cure headaches."

Upon hearing this, Xuan Yi and Yu Bai quickly exchanged a glance. It was related to Xing'er again, so it seemed that Xing'er was worth investigating.

As the group waited for "Xing'er" to be brought in, a guard quickly ran into the courtyard, followed by another guard who was dragging a panting Aunt Li towards the courtyard.

"Captain, we've searched everywhere but can't find Xing'er. Aunt Li said Xing'er prepared two bowls of calming soup and has already delivered them to Miss Bai's courtyard. I've sent the remaining two to Miss Bai's courtyard..."

Upon hearing this, Xuan Yi and Shen Mujin's expressions changed drastically. Xuan Yi nodded to Shen Mujin, then leaped into the air and flew towards the courtyard where Gu Yan was.

Shen Mujin panicked instantly. The wind blowing across her cheek brought a chill, a chill that felt as if she were plunged into ice. She immediately lifted her skirt and ran as fast as she could, the wind whistling in her ears as if urging her to hurry.

Shen Mujin's vision blurred, and she even forgot the scenery around her. At this moment, she had only one thought in her mind: Hurry, hurry up, or Ayan and Xiaodouding will be in danger!