C25

Chapter 25 - Cloud Searching at night

The night was dark and the wind was strong, the moon and stars sparse.

The cold air assaulted the autumn night, like the cool moonlight falling from the water.

A pair of delicate white hands grabbed the roof and slowly revealed her head. She laid on the roof, alert of the patrolling guards that had just passed by. She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw them walk away.

Following that, a person appeared beside her in a relaxed and elegant manner. Under the awkward situation of the person beside her, his nobility and elegance was further accentuated.

Yun Qianliang laid on the cold tiles, and on the autumn night, a drop of frost fell on her body. She stuck to the roof, and the frost wetted her dress, causing the night wind to freeze her body, causing her to tremble uncontrollably.

Yun Qianliang lowered her voice and said impatiently: "Gu Yicheng, are you sick?"

"You have medicine?" His lips curled up in a provocative smile.

"I'm poisoned!"

"Yes, there is indeed poison."

Under the splendor of the moon, the person dressed in the purplish red splendor was laughing arrogantly.

Yun Qianliang secretly heaved a sigh of relief, and rolled her eyes at the person beside him.

In the middle of the night, he was completely oblivious to sleep, and he even disturbed people's sweet dreams.

There was a basket of soulmates in the mansion, and he found them one by one throughout the long night, talking about them night and day, from poems and songs to philosophy of life. It was more than enough. But he had actually pulled her out of the warm quilt and laid her on the roof of the Yun Xiang Mansion to enjoy the wind!

Gu Yicheng looked down at the dark terrain below him, and took out a terrifying mask from his sleeves to cover his face.

"Are you familiar with the general terrain of the Yun Xiang Mansion?" Gu Yicheng turned around and asked.

Yun Qianliang turned his head and was just about to advise him to give up.

Turning his head to look, what entered his eyes was a ferocious ghost mask, the mask had created a scene of blood and flesh being torn apart, and a cool scarlet tongue hanging from his mouth. Yun Qianliang trembled twice, cold sweat forming on his back, as he instinctively dodged backwards, almost falling down from the roof.

Gu Yicheng quickly lifted her and put her down on the roof. Then he said in a deep voice: "Lie down."

Yun Qianliang breathed heavily twice, and her thunder-like heartbeat gradually calmed down. However, after being startled, the cold feeling on her back started to rise bit by bit, as if a cold snake's skin was sticking close to her skin, seeping out until it became extremely perturbed.

This fellow must have deliberately dragged her out in the middle of the night to scare her to death seeing that she wasn't poisoned to death.

"This master's mask is quite pretty, isn't it?" Gu Yicheng took off his mask, proudly admiring the scene in front of him.

Yun Qianliang forcefully raised the corner of her mouth and laughed dryly.

Look at your brother-in-law!

After resting for a while, Gu Yicheng put on his mask again and easily picked up the person who was lying on the roof.

The roof tiles were heavy with frost and made it easy for him to slip. He stood still and held her in his arms as he stood up straight and wrapped his arms around her waist.

"Where is cloud phase's study room located at?" Gu Yicheng asked.

Relying on his memories, Yun Qianliang pointed to a certain direction.

The night wind brushed past their ears, and their hair tangled together in the wind, forming a kind of intimate relationship.

Yun Qianliang held onto his sleeves tightly, just in case he fell down and landed in a half crippled state.

With Yun Qianliang, the living map that had been here for more than ten years, the two of them easily avoided the patrolling guards. Even she knew a little about the secret guards around the study.

After sneaking into the study room, Gu Yicheng immediately released his, as if a gentleman didn't like to take advantage of others.

He lit a fire piston and, under the dim light of the fire, roughly illuminated the study.

Yun Qianliang was still standing by the door, there was no fear in her pitch-black eyes, but her face was pale white.

A little too much.

Gu Yicheng did not ask for Yun Qianliang's help and just went back to rummage through the study quietly.

"What are you looking for?" Yun Qianliang asked.

Yun Qianliang was not stupid, but today, when Gu Yicheng went back to his residence, he was in a bad mood, and most likely, it was something that happened in the imperial court. However, it was difficult for her to find out about the important matters of the imperial court, so Gu Yicheng was still wary of her, and could not take the initiative to inform him.

Now that she was pulled to Yun Xiang Mansion in the middle of the night, if she couldn't figure out the connection, she would have been played to death a long time ago.

"I'll take a look at anything that's useful. I don't think there's too much of it." Gu Yicheng casually answered.

Yun Qianliang looked at her toes, and did not make a sound.

She had been in the Yun Xiang Mansion for many years, and was used to being headstrong. She would dare to enter anywhere and cause trouble, but the study room was a forbidden grounds, so it could be seen just how important the secret in the study room was.

Gu Yicheng quickly rummaged through the box and returned it back to its original place.

Although her voice was light, Yun Qianliang had a reaction. She lifted her gaze to look at where Gu Yicheng was standing, but he had already moved to a different position, so she was unable to see where he had moved.

Yun Qianliang walked over and whispered, "Move over that position again."

Gu Yicheng looked at him suspiciously, he turned around to look for the flat box that was painted with yellow paint, picked it up and put it down.

Yun Qianliang listened attentively. His movements were light, and when she released them, it was in case any sounds would attract attention. She first descended to the edge of the lake, and then she pushed her way in.

Yun Qianliang reached out to touch the shelves and wiped it with his thumb. After that, Yun Qianliang squatted down and grabbed onto Gu Yicheng's fire piston and shone it towards the bottom of the shelves. Looking up from the bottom, he saw that there was something stuck at the bottom, she extended his hand out to take it.

When she reached the shelf, she stopped.

"It can't be poisonous, right?" Hiding in a hard to find place, it must be something important.

"Hard to say." Gu Yicheng replied and reached out to grab it.

Yun Qianliang grabbed his hand, with an expression as if he was going to throw caution to the wind, "I'll do it."

How could Gu Yicheng take the treasure that she discovered?

Yun Qianliang lifted up a layer of his skirt to cover his hands. It was better to just hide his position at the bottom, otherwise, it would be easy for others to discover.

Yun Qianliang reached his hand in and discovered that it was only as thick as five sheets of paper. It was stuck closely to the bottom of the shelf and she used her hand to buckle it.

"It's too sticky, I can't take it." Yun Qianliang stopped and thought that if she had the chance in the future, he could come and steal this wooden board. But as he thought about it, Yun Qianliang changed his mind. He put his hand under his nose and took a whiff.

The smell of acid.

Old Cloud Man was rather gluttonous, he had hidden a piece of New Year cake wrapped in paper underneath.

"Gu Yicheng, I think you've lost." Yun Qianliang released his hand, "This old man …"

Gu Yicheng covered her mouth and blew the fire extinguisher, holding his down and bringing his to the window, escaping through the window.

Along the way, Yun Qianliang broke out in a cold sweat after returning to Green Pine Academy, but she did not forget to finish what she had said earlier.

"Old Cloud Man is actually so sad that you have to deposit a piece of New Year's Cake until it becomes sour. Your purity can't even be considered a gentle breeze. I have two sleeves full of the northwest wind." Yun Qianliang wiped away his previous depression and displeasure, his eyes filled with happiness, like a cat that was satisfied with its food, "I was able to grow this much, it was all due to my natural beauty."

After Yun Qianliang finished teasing, she happily ran back to the Cloud Water Pavilion and spun a few rounds excitedly.

He had a feeling that he was about to make a huge fortune.