"Ah Huan, remember to go to the grave to offer incense to your mother."
"Ah Huan, the incense candle holder...no one can tell."
"Ah Huan, when you grow up..."
"Ah Huan, I have to repeat mother's words in my heart every day."
Luo Huizhi's words kept echoing in Jiang Yuhuan's ears. The scenes of Luo Huizhi lying on the bed and passing away, the scene of little A Huan painting with stones in the yard, and the scene of Jiang Qiao coaxing little A Huan to drink medicine flashed alternately.
Jiang Yuhuan felt like his brain was going to explode.
She shook her head and staggered.
A hand held her arm, pulling her back to reality.
"What’s wrong with you?"
"I..." Jiang Yuhuan looked at Gu Chen with distracted eyes, and it took a long time to focus.
She covered her head, thinking about what she had just said, and her eyes involuntarily drifted to the incense candle holder in front of the tombstone.
It turns out that what little Ah Huan painted was not a flower bed, but a candle holder.
The seemingly grass-like strokes are actually pillars of incense.
The first time she had a dream, she dreamed that Luo Huizhi asked her to burn incense, but later she was distracted by the incident of entering the palace and Gu Chen, so she forgot about it.
Gu Chen brought it up today, and an unexpected combination of circumstances brought him back to this matter.
"Ah Huan, what's wrong with you? Do you want to go back?" Jiang Qiao looked worried, but his body was facing the direction of the carriage, as if Jiang Yuhuan would take her away immediately if she said she felt uncomfortable.
"No, I want to offer incense to my mother."
The memory of the original owner in her mind was incomplete, but from the words she could still recall, she knew that Luo Huizhi had something to tell the original owner, and she could not tell anyone else.
Perhaps this is the crux of why Jiang Qiao has been drugging the original owner.
She stepped forward, lit two sticks of incense, handed one to Gu Chen, and worshiped Luo Huizhi with him.
The two inserted incense into the incense candle holder.
Jiang Yuhuan looked at it, wondering what was so special about the incense candle holder and why Luo Huizhi mentioned it specifically.
Before she could figure out the reason, Gu Chen had already given the answer.
"Why does this incense candlestick have..."
Gu Chen was about to speak but stopped, Jiang Yuhuan looked towards him, he leaned into Jiang Yuhuan's ear and whispered softly: "It has the mark of my master."
Jiang Yuhuan's eyes widened, and there was indeed something fishy!
With Gu Nantian's mark, this incense candle holder must not be simple.
"Does it have a mechanism?"
"Let me see."
Jiang Yuhuan nodded, stood up and walked towards Jiang Qiao.
"Going back?" Jiang Qiao asked when he saw her coming.
"You should go back first. I still have something to talk to my mother."
"I……"
Jiang Qiao didn't want to leave, but when Jiang Yuhuan glanced at him, he actually felt a little scared.
When he had never won an argument with Jiang Yuhuan, he thought for a moment and then hesitantly agreed.
Jiang Yuhuan watched the carriage leave before turning back to the incense candlestick.
As soon as I got closer, I heard a "click".
A grid popped out from the side of the incense candle holder, and inside the grid was a ball of something wrapped in silk.
Jiang Yuhuan picked it up and opened the silk, revealing two letters inside.
One letter said "A Huan personally expresses your gratitude", the other letter...
Before she could see clearly, she suddenly felt heavy footsteps coming from behind.
She stuffed the letter into her belt, turned around and saw Jiang Qiao running over with a look of horror on his face.
"What's wrong?"
Jiang Yuhuan thought something had happened to Jiang Qiao, but Jiang Qiao shouted: "Give me the thing!"
She paused, then ignored Jiang Qiao and said to Gu Chen, "Restore the mechanism and let's go."
Gu Chen raised his foot and kicked the pop-up grid, then he grabbed Jiang Yuhuan's waist and jumped into the air with his toes.
"Ah Huan! That thing will hurt you!"
Jiang Qiao shouted miserably, and the next moment, a dozen men in black emerged from the forest and intercepted Jiang Yuhuan and the two.
Jiang Qiao was horrified and did not ask Jiang Yuhuan for anything. He shouted, "Ah Huan, go away!"
Jiang Yuhuan was shocked that there were so many people ambushing him around.
Gu Chen was also very upset that he was not alert at all.
He put down Jiang Yuhuan and handed Jiang Yuhuan the hidden weapon used against Zhongyuan and Sanqi that day.
He pointed at a mechanism and said quickly: "Click here and shoot at the person."
After saying that, he took out another hidden weapon and fought Jiang Yuhuan back to back.
Jiang Yuhuan did as he said, aiming at the person and shooting.
The group of people also realized how powerful the hidden weapon was, and stood outside the shooting range to surround the three of them.
At this time Jiang Qiao also moved to the two of them.
Seeing that the man in black made no move, Jiang Qiao began to persuade Jiang Yuhuan again.
"Ah Huan, destroy the things and they will leave."
Jiang Yuhuan held up concealed weapons with both hands and looked at Jiang Qiao in disbelief, "You are crazy! They come here for things, how can I get what they want?"
Besides, she didn't know whether those people wanted to destroy things or see things. Wouldn't it be worse if it backfired?
"Don't act out of emotion, life is the most important thing!"
Jiang Yuhuan sneered at Jiang Qiao's evasive attitude, "If you hadn't yelled like that, who would have known I found something."
"I……"
"I won't hand it over to them. The more nervous they are, the more I have to protect it."
This was something that Luo Huizhi had promised the original owner to find before she died. There was no way she could hand it over.
He had tested Jiang Qiao before and knew that Jiang Qiao had been wary of the Queen Mother.
It seemed that the Queen Mother had been waiting for her to find out this thing.
She was suddenly curious as to what made the Queen Mother so nervous.
Thinking of what Mrs. Zhen had revealed before, Luo Huizhi's death might also be related to the Queen Mother.
Luo Huizhi knew that she didn't have much time, so she made arrangements.
But Jiang Qiao did the opposite, which is really puzzling.
Jiang Yuhuan saw the man in black say something, and then two people rushed towards them.
They were not afraid of the hidden weapons in their hands and tried to open a path with just two people.
The two moved forward against the hidden weapon, and then four more men in black followed closely and released the hidden weapon.
Jiang Yuhuan was busy evading and had no choice but to use hidden weapons.
His body was already injured, and he was quickly hit by a hidden weapon due to his lack of sensitivity.
Hearing Jiang Yuhuan's suppressed groan, Gu Chen put away the concealed weapon, turned around and unloaded the wooden box behind him on the ground.
With a wave of his hand, the wooden box opened, revealing various exquisite machine parts.
He took out an umbrella and inserted it diagonally into the ground. After opening, the umbrella quickly rotated to form a protective shield to resist the opponent's attack.
Gu Chen pulled Jiang Yuhuan behind the umbrella, and after avoiding the hidden weapons fired from the other side, he took out several parts from the wooden box and quickly assembled them and pointed them at the other side.
"Tu tu tu tu"
Three arrows were fired in unison, blocking most of the kills.
The arrow that Gu Chen fired was a life-seeking arrow. No matter how hard he tried to dodge, the arrow would never stop chasing him.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the leading man in black waved his hand, and the rest of the people rushed forward.
The attack at this moment does not apply to the formation. The formation needs to be arranged in advance. Now that the movement is chaotic, it is very likely that the formation will be destroyed before it is set up.
The formation that trapped Fu Shili in the morning had many consumables and could only trap one or two people, which was not cost-effective.
Therefore, Gu Chen never thought of using the formation.
The men in black were approaching quickly, and the crossbows were no longer suitable.
He retreated behind Jiang Yuhuan to ensure Jiang Yuhuan's safety.
The crossbow arrows were thrown back into the wooden box, and the weapon in his hand turned into a whip in an instant.
He waved his long whip and pressed the trigger when the whip approached the man in black. The whip shot out a poisonous needle, killing him with one blow.
Behind him, Jiang Yuhuan aimed at the right moment and released a concealed weapon to deal with some of the firepower.
Soon, all the men in black were eliminated by Gu Chen. Only one man in black, who was being chased by a life-seeking arrow, was still resisting tenaciously.
Perhaps because he saw his companions dying one by one, he tried his best to use Qinggong to reach Jiang Yuhuan and try to divert the arrow's target. However, he was hit by a life-seeking arrow before he landed and fell at Jiang Qiao's feet.
Jiang Qiao was so frightened that he took a step back and stared blankly at the corpses everywhere without regaining consciousness.
"Sister Huan, how are you?"
"I'm fine, just a little dizzy." Old injuries have not healed and new injuries have appeared. It's really bad luck.
Blame her too.
Gu Chen had said before that there was someone else hiding beside her, but she didn't take any precautions and just took out the things carelessly.
Hearing that Jiang Yuhuan was injured, Jiang Qiao hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Ah Huan, are you seriously injured?"
"I can't die for the time being."
Seeing that there was no danger for the time being, Gu Chen collected the weapon parts and put them back into the wooden box.
Jiang Yuhuan didn't want to talk to Jiang Qiao, so he turned his eyes away to watch Gu Chen put away his things.
Jiang Qiao felt guilty when he saw that Jiang Yuhuan's pale face was now almost transparent.
Ah Huan was right, they were very careful in picking up things and couldn't tell at all. He thought there was something there, so he wanted to deceive Ah Huan, but unexpectedly he was exposed to the enemy.
He wanted to take a look at Jiang Yuhuan's injuries, but he didn't dare to speak.
He lowered his head and didn't know what to say. Suddenly he saw a bright light flashing, and the man in black who was supposed to be dead suddenly jumped from the ground with a dagger.
In the flash of lightning, Jiang Qiao had no time to shout and turned around to block Jiang Yuhuan.
The glowing red knife tip was less than an inch away from Jiang Yuhuan's chest, and bright red blood splashed on his chest, causing red flowers to bloom.
Jiang Yuhuan raised his head blankly and met Jiang Qiao's forcedly raised corners of his mouth.
At this moment, he seemed to have full confidence, "Ah... Ah Huan... Dad, I really do this... for your own good..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Qiao fell straight forward.
Jiang Yuhuan's head suddenly buzzed, and he felt that time had condensed in that moment, and there was silence between heaven and earth. She looked at Jiang Qiao's fallen figure and stretched out her hands in panic to hug him, but she couldn't bear his weight and they fell to the ground together.
"Master Hou."
"Ah Huan..." Jiang Qiao was a little anxious, but the more he spoke, the more blood gushes out of his mouth.
"Don't say anything, I will take you back for treatment." Jiang Yuhuan was frightened by the sudden change.
She pulled Jiang Qiao hard, but heard Jiang Qiao say with difficulty: "No, my time is... running out, let me... let me finish."
At this time, Gu Chen took out a pill and said it would make Jiang Qiao walk easier.
Jiang Yuhuan knew that Jiang Qiao was helpless.
She stuffed the pill into Jiang Qiao's mouth, and sure enough, Jiang Qiao no longer vomited blood, and his expression became much more relaxed.
"you say."
She didn't like Jiang Qiao. She felt that Jiang Qiao was self-righteous and self-assertive, and he made her suffer under the guise of doing her best.
She often felt unfair that the original owner had such a father.
But she never thought that Jiang Qiao would die to save her.
She was a little at a loss and didn't understand.
"I'm sorry...Dad is a coward. He knows why your mother died, so...I don't want you to follow in her footsteps. I overheard her telling you her last words, and I know that she was always unwilling...unwilling Give up trying to bring down the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother is cruel. Knowing that you...you have been alone with your mother before her death, I doubt you know anything. I don't want you...to let you..."
Jiang Qiao suddenly became emotional. Seeing his regretful look, Jiang Yuhuan probably guessed that it was about giving medicine and tried to help him make up for it.
"You didn't want me to fall into the hands of the Queen Mother to press for information, so you drugged me to make me crazy and avoid the Queen Mother's suspicion?"
