Gentle Sleep Instructor
Chapter 1443 Under the Veil
"Could it be that Li Bai tore it herself?" Zhu Jie's voice sounded somewhat distorted in the night wind. "Yao Shunyu said that Li Bai said she heard the late madam's summons. Could it be that she fell into an illusion, and because she actively tore the red string in the illusion, that's why..."
Zhu Jie's conjecture sounded reasonable at first, but Jiang Cheng didn't think that was the case. Li Bai wasn't that easy to fool.
Just as Jiang Cheng was helping Li Bai's body tidy her collar and put the broken red string back in place, his fingers habitually rested on the side of Li Bai's neck, but the next second, Jiang Cheng's expression suddenly changed. "She's not dead! There's still a pulse!"
Hearing this, Yao Shunyu immediately grabbed Li Bai's wrist, and after testing, his face turned happy, and he nodded vigorously at the stunned fatty. "That's right, she's not dead. Her pulse is still very strong."
"Oh right, do you guys remember, the Shezai Nü (Disaster-Suppressing Woman) said that copper coins can be lost, but they can't be damaged." Zhu Jie also looked happy. It wasn't so much about Li Bai's life or death, but mainly that she understood that even if she was hit, she wouldn't die immediately.
The group tried to wake Li Bai up, but it was completely useless. Li Bai lay on the ground as if she was asleep.
Jiang Cheng put down Li Bai's hand and turned to comfort the fatty. "Don't worry, she's fine for now. As long as we can complete the task before dawn, Li Bai will wake up."
"I'm afraid it's not that simple, we still have to get back the copper coin that belongs to her."
A somewhat discordant voice rang out. It was Lu Qin speaking, but no one refuted her, because everyone knew she was right.
The problem now facing everyone was why Li Bai "died," which taboo she had violated. Everyone watched her approach from behind, and it didn't seem like she had been discovered by the late madam.
"Could the problem be with that basket?" Zhu Jie asked. "I saw it very clearly, Li Bai was attacked the moment she touched the basket, and immediately stopped moving."
"Are you saying there's something to the basket?" Zhang Qizheng frowned.
"It's possible," Zhu Jie nodded.
But the next second, Jiang Cheng shook his head in rebuttal. "It's not impossible that there's danger in the basket, but I don't think that's where the problem lies. First of all, the Shezai Nü (Disaster-Suppressing Woman) didn't emphasize being careful of the basket, she didn't even mention the basket at all. Also, we all saw that Li Bai just touched the basket, she didn't open it at all. She wouldn't be hit just by touching it, right?"
Indeed, thinking about it carefully, even if the plot was perverted, there wouldn't be such a disgusting setting as dying with a single touch. After all, the hydrangea was in the basket, and to steal the hydrangea, you had to open the basket, which was an unsolvable problem.
Suddenly, the fatty's face turned cold. Jiang Cheng, who was familiar with him, immediately realized what he was thinking and asked, "What did you think of?"
The fatty's lips trembled, and he looked in the direction the late madam left with a look of horror. Everyone was on guard. "I was thinking... I was thinking, could it be that Li Bai violated the taboo the Shezai Nü (Disaster-Suppressing Woman) spoke of? She was actually discovered by the late madam a long time ago, but she didn't know it herself. Just as she was approaching from behind, the late madam was staring at her."
The fatty seemed to know that his ability to express himself was problematic, and immediately continued, "You all saw that the late madam has a large hijab covering her head. We can't see her face, not even the outline. Could it be... could it be that the face hidden under her hijab is reversed, the front is in the back, and the back... the back is in the front?"
This setting really made everyone sweat. Yao Shunyu, Tang Qisheng, and others' eyes kept trembling slightly. They were thinking about the possibility of this problem, and after thinking about it, they thought this assumption was very likely.
"Brother Wang's possibility is very high, which also explains why the late madam wanted to cover herself with a hijab. Tonight we are simulating snatching the hydrangea, not doing a wedding ceremony." Tang Qisheng looked serious, as if he had already determined this guess.
Zhu Jie also chimed in, "If that's the case, then Li Bai's sneak attack was useless from the start. She had already been discovered. The real way to approach should be from the front. That's the late madam's blind spot."
Hearing everyone's intense discussion, Shao Tong still had that inscrutable expression. He was just observing, his gaze constantly wandering between Jiang Cheng and the fatty's faces, without the slightest hesitation.
But at this time, Jiang Cheng didn't have time to pay attention to him.
Suddenly, Zhu Jie, who was explaining her guess in her heart, felt a pain in her chest, and suddenly knelt down, then looked terrified, and began to breathe heavily.
Concern clouded Tang Qisheng's mind, and he panicked instantly when he saw this scene. "You... what's wrong with you?"
Zhu Jie's eyes kept trembling, cold sweat ran down her cheeks, but Yao Shunyu seemed to understand and immediately asked, "Zhu Jie, did you hear that summoning sound too?"
After a long while, Zhu Jie was like a drowning person being rescued, panting heavily, grabbing Tang Qisheng's hand, her voice trembling. "I heard it, I heard it! The late madam is calling me, calling me to take the hydrangea, she's calling me!"
Tang Qisheng's heart turned cold. It seemed that the second person was Zhu Jie's turn.
Seeing this, Lu Qin stepped forward to comfort the terrified Zhu Jie. "Don't be afraid, we have already grasped some clues. You have an advantage over Li Bai. This time you approach the late madam from the front, as long as you are fast enough, and you pay more attention, you will be fine."
Tang Qisheng's mouth opened, obviously a classic curse, but in the end, he didn't say it. He didn't have the slightest goodwill towards Lu Qin and Shao Tong. These two were plotting against their teammates and had no good intentions.
Yao Shunyu was constantly paying attention to the surrounding movements and couldn't help but remind, "Disperse quickly, Li Bai sensed the summoning about 10 minutes before the attack, the late madam is about to appear."
But this time, everyone went against the norm and decided to actively look for the late madam. According to the late madam's speed, she couldn't have gone far, and Li Bai's "body" was here. Everyone was worried that staying here for a long time might cause terrible things to happen.
"Are you saying Li Bai's corpse... no, her body might come back to life?" Perhaps it was her turn next, Zhu Jie's face became a little pale. One late madam was hard enough to deal with, and adding a reanimated Li Bai would be unimaginable.
"It shouldn't, but who can say for sure about this kind of thing."
Jiang Cheng hastily comforted her and took out his phone, turned on the camera, found a hidden spot to place it, and then used the fatty's phone to adjust it a few times, so that the scene in front of the camera could be seen from the fatty's phone. Not far away in the scene was Li Bai's corpse.