Wen Ning quickly fell silent. Amid the sound of the water flowing as the oars were rowing, Wei Wuxian opened his eyes with a splitting headache.

He leaned on Lan Wangji and found that he was no longer in the Lotus Pier. He didn't understand the situation for a long time until he saw Lan Wangji's left hand and the blood on his sleeve, as if a bunch of plum blossoms fell in the snow. Then he remembered what happened before he fainted. His face suddenly changed to a horrible expression and he sat up suddenly. Lan Wangji came to help him, but Wei Wuxian's tinnitus had not subsided, and there was a bloody smell in his chest, which made him feel very uncomfortable.

He was worried that he would spit blood onto Lan Wangji, who was naturally clean, so he waved his hands, turned to the side, and held on to the side of the boat to endure it for a while. Lan Wangji knew that he was not feeling well, so he didn't ask a word, but put one hand on his back and sent a gentle stream of spiritual energy into his body.

After enduring the rusty taste in his throat, Wei Wuxian turned around and asked Lan Wangji to remove his hand. After sitting quietly for a while, he finally spoke tentatively: "Hanguang-jun, how did we get out?"

Wen Ning immediately became nervous and stopped rowing. Lan Wangji kept his promise and did not mention the incident he had exposed. However, he did not lie or make up a story. He simply said, "We had a fight."

Wei WuXian pulled out a hand and rubbed his chest, as if trying to relieve the pent-up energy in his chest. After a while, he sighed, "I knew Jiang Cheng wouldn't let us go so easily. This brat... is really unreasonable!"

Lan Wangji frowned and said in a deep voice, "Don't mention him."

Hearing his unfriendly tone, Wei WuXian was slightly startled, and immediately said, “Okay, let’s not mention him.”

After pondering for a moment, he said, "Well, Han Guang-jun, don't take what he said seriously."

Lan Wangji asked, “Which one?”

Wei WuXian’s eyelids twitched, and he said, “Whatever you said. This kid has been like this since he was young. When he gets angry, he speaks without thinking, and his words are particularly harsh. He doesn’t care about his manners or upbringing. As long as it can make people unhappy, he will say all kinds of nonsense. He hasn’t made any progress in all these years. You must not take it to heart.”

As he spoke, he secretly paid attention to Lan Wangji's expression, and his heart slowly sank.

Wei Wuxian thought, or hoped, that Lan Wangji would not take those words to heart, but to his surprise, Lan Wangji’s face did not look very good, and he did not even say “hmm”.

It seems that Lan Wangji was more upset than he expected about Jiang Cheng's bad words. Maybe he simply didn't like Jiang Cheng's personality, or maybe... he couldn't stand being accused of being "unruly", "shameless", or "a mess". After all, the Gusu Lan family was a famous family with the motto of "elegance and righteousness", and Han Guangjun himself had never been associated with these words.

Although he felt that Lan Wangji valued him and thought differently about him, he still didn't dare to speculate how much this "value" meant, and whether the "difference" was really what he thought. Wei Wuxian never thought that self-confidence was a bad thing, and he was often proud of it. It was said that the Yiling Patriarch played with the fragrance of flowers and peaches, but in fact, he had never experienced such a flustered mood. He used to think that Lan Wangji was a very easy person to guess, but now he couldn't figure it out, and he was afraid that he was the only one who was daydreaming, wishful thinking, and overconfident.

Lan Wangji remained silent. Wei Wuxian wanted to use his best jokes to get away with it, but he was afraid of forcing a joke and getting embarrassed. After a pause, he asked abruptly, "Where are we going?"

This topic change was very abrupt, but Lan Wangji cooperated and took it up, saying, "Where do you want to go?"

Wei WuXian rubbed the back of his head and said, “We don’t know if ZeWu-Jun is safe or not, and we don’t know what those people are going to do. Why don’t we go to Lanling first…” Suddenly, he remembered something and said, “No, let’s not go to Lanling first, let’s go to Yunping City.”

Lan Wangji asked, "Yunping City?"

Wei WuXian said, “Yes. Yunping City in Yunmeng. I told you about it, didn’t I? When I was at Jinlin Terrace, I saw my manuscript in the secret room of Fangfei Palace. Along with my manuscript, there was also a deed to a place in Yunping City. The Lanling Jin family is very wealthy and powerful. I don’t think Jin Guangyao would have kept this deed if there was no hidden secret. Maybe there is something to be discovered there.”

Lan Wangji nodded. At this time, Wen Ning asked, "Sir, is Yunping City heading in this direction?"

Wei WuXian: “What?!”

He and Lan Wangji were sitting with their backs to the stern, so they hadn't seen Wen Ning. Suddenly, someone spoke at the stern, and he was so frightened that his scalp tingled and he rolled over on the spot, looking back and asking in horror, "Why are you here?!"

Wen Ning looked up and said blankly, "Me? I've always been here."

Wei WuXian asked: “Then why don’t you speak?”

Wen Ning said: "I saw you and Han Guang-Jun were talking, so I didn't..."

Wei WuXian asked: “Then you should at least make a sound?”

Raising the oar in his hand, Wen Ning defended himself, "Master, I've been rowing the boat and making noises the whole time. Didn't you hear it?"

“…” Wei WuXian waved his hands and said, “I didn’t notice. Forget it, forget it, don’t row. The river flows fast here at night, we can go fast without rowing.”

He grew up in Yunmeng and had experienced the ups and downs of the water in this area since he was a child, so he was naturally familiar with it. Wen Ning responded by putting down the oars and sitting stiffly at the stern, six feet away from Lan Wei and the others. It was Yin time when they arrived at Lotus Pier. After a lot of trouble, it was already dawn, the sky was blue and white, and the outlines of the mountains and waters on both sides finally appeared.

Looking around, Wei WuXian suddenly said, "I'm hungry."

Lan Wangji raised his eyes. Wei Wuxian was certainly not hungry at all. He had just eaten three cakes at a stall outside the gate of Lotus Pier not long ago. But Lan Wangji only ate one. Moreover, this was the only thing he had eaten in nearly two days. Wei Wuxian was thinking about this matter. Seeing that there was no one in front of him, he was afraid that he would have to walk for a long time by water before he could find a town to rest and eat.

Lan Wangji pondered and said, "Dock?" High IQ crime novel

Wei WuXian said, “There aren’t many people on the shore nearby, but I know a place we can go.”

Wen Ning quickly picked up the oars and rowed in the direction he pointed. Not long after, the ferry turned into a branch stream and sailed for a while before entering a lotus lake.

The lotus leaves in the lake were scattered in different heights, towering like a canopy. The slender ferry broke through the crowded lotus branches and rowed into the depths of the lotus pond. From the air, where the ferry passed, a line of green leaves swayed. Walking through the shaded green umbrellas, pushing aside a wide lotus leaf, suddenly seeing one after another full lotus pods hidden underneath, the mood at that moment was as if suddenly discovering a small treasure. Wei Wuxian was about to reach out to pick it with a smile, but Lan Wangji suddenly said, "Wei Ying."

Wei WuXian asked, “What’s wrong?”

Lan Wangji asked, "Does this lotus pond have an owner?"

Wei WuXian said with a clear conscience: “Of course not.”

Of course there was. Ever since Wei Wuxian was eleven years old, he had often been stealing lotus pods and water chestnuts from the various lakes in Yunmeng. He had retired from stealing for many years, but now he had to get some food to continue his journey, so he had to return to the arena.

Lan Wangji said calmly, "I heard that all the lotus ponds in this area are owned by someone."

“…” Wei WuXian said: “Hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, is that so? This is such a pity. You’ve heard so many things that I haven’t even heard of. Let’s go then.”

Now that he was exposed, he naturally felt embarrassed to ask Lan Wangji to do these nonsense with him. It was inappropriate for a great Han Guangjun to steal other people's lotus pods to eat. Just as he was about to take the oar, Lan Wangji raised his hand and took the lead in picking a lotus pod.

He handed the lotus pod to Wei WuXian and said, “This won’t happen again.”