Noble First Daughter-in-law

Chapter 1019 The Mysterious Master Jia
"what are you doing!?"

The low cry immediately woke up Woxue who was lying on the bed. She opened her eyes in surprise. Her first reaction was to look down at the bed, only to see Shang Ruyi still had his eyes closed, soundly sleeping. Woxue frowned slightly, but still breathed a sigh of relief.

At least, Shang Ruyi was fine.

So, what happened?

Her mind was still a little fuzzy and she couldn't react, but she still looked up and an expression of astonishment immediately appeared on her face.

Because this cabin was too small and obviously not prepared for entertaining guests, everyone found a place that could barely accommodate them last night to lean against or sit. Woxue sat by the bed, watching over Shang Ruyi. Lei Yu sat at the end of the bed, leaning against the wall, trying to fall asleep. Lu Xiao sat by the wall not far from the bed. Everyone was silent, and gradually lost consciousness and were swallowed up by the tiredness and sleepiness to the sound of the wooden fish.

As for the other two men, they seemed to have always been near the east room.

But when Woxue looked up, she saw that Wang Shaoqiu had walked towards them without them knowing when, and was standing in front of Luxiao, leaning down to look at her; and, perhaps because he had not slept all night, his eyes were full of bloodshot, and the desire in his eyes seemed as if he wanted to swallow the person in front of him!

Wo Xue couldn't help but gasp: "You——"

Finally, their voices woke up Lu Xiao.

She woke up slowly, and just as she opened her eyes a little and saw the outline of the person in front of her, she immediately opened her eyes wide as if she was startled by something, and said in horror: "You, what are you going to do!?"

"..."

Wang Shaoqiu said nothing, nor did he show any embarrassment of being seen through. He just slowly stood up, turned around and walked to the other side without a word of explanation.

The three women were stunned for a moment.

Especially Lu Xiao, although she had long been accustomed to the various stares, hunting and even offenses from men, and could handle it with ease, but when facing a man like Wang Shaoqiu who was cunning and whom she could not see through, let alone guess, she inexplicably felt an indescribable fear. When she just opened her eyes and met his gaze, her heart almost jumped out of her chest.

As soon as she saw him leave, Lu Xiao hurriedly stood up from the ground and looked at Lei Yu and Wo Xue with disordered breathing.

The expressions of both of them were somewhat complicated.

None of them had the intention to protect Lv Xiao, but as women, they could sense her fear and uneasiness. Lei Yu stood up with his stiff legs and tried to comfort her, "It's okay. He--"

She was about to say "he dare not do anything", but her eyes involuntarily passed from the shoulders of Lu Xiao and Wang Shaoqiu who was facing away from them. The wooden house in front of her was brightly lit, and because the house was very small, she could see through the main room and the east room at a glance, and immediately found that the east room was empty. The young master Jia who was kneeling on the futon and beating the wooden fish and chanting scriptures last night was nowhere to be seen!

She immediately asked: "Where are the others!?"

After hearing her words, Wo Xue finally reacted and stood up immediately: "That Master Jia, why is he gone?"

Lu Xiao wanted to turn around with lingering fear, but she saw Wang Shaoqiu's back still standing in this small house. She couldn't calm down for a while, but she understood something. Just as she took a deep breath and was about to turn around to look, Ashina Zhuxie's voice sounded outside the house: "Is he not here?"

Wang Shaoqiu had already walked into the main hall at this moment. He looked around again and his eyes swept over the three women.

"Indeed."

Everyone realized that the room was bright because the door was opened, and while they were talking, Ashina Zhuye came in from outside. It turned out that they had originally planned to guard that Master Jia all night and wait until dawn to discuss the matter of Zuo Gong's Tomb in detail, but they had been running around these days, especially Wang Shaoqiu was already weak, and Ashina Zhuye had hardly climbed a mountain. Climbing all the way yesterday did consume a lot of his energy, so the two of them actually dozed off at dawn. When they opened their eyes, they found that Master Jia was gone.

Ashina Zhuye immediately went out and looked around the house. There was nothing around except an earthen stove for cooking at the back of the house. He asked the Turkic soldiers and Shang Ruyi's followers who were guarding outside the house, but they also said that they had not seen Master Jia come out all night. Ashina Zhuye felt something was wrong. While he continued to check himself, he was worried that Master Jia might be hiding somewhere in the house, so he asked Wang Shaoqiu to come back and check carefully.

However, Wang Shaoqiu didn't know what was wrong with him and would stare at Lu Xiao.

After saying this, Ashina Zhuxie looked at the puzzled and solemn expressions of several people in the room, and his brows furrowed even tighter.

Lei Yu asked, "Did he leave while we were all asleep?"

Ashina Zhuxie said, "Everyone in our room was asleep, but the soldiers outside were not. According to the rules, two people would get up every hour to patrol, and they didn't see him leave."

"If he didn't leave, where could he go?"

"..."

Until this time, Lu Xiao finally calmed down her emotions, slowly turned around, instinctively ignored Wang Shaoqiu, and said to Ashina Zhuxie and Lei Yu: "Since the people outside didn't see him leave, he should still be in this room."

Ashina Zhuxie turned his head to look at Wang Shaoqiu: "Did you find anything?"

Wang Shaoqiu shook his head.

But he went on to say, "She is right. The people outside cannot have seen it wrong. Besides, there are so many people outside. It is unreasonable for him to leave without alerting anyone. He must be hiding somewhere in this house."

"Why did he hide?"

"I'm afraid it's because of Zuo Gong's tomb."

When the question of Zuo Gong's Tomb was mentioned again, Ashina Zhuye's eyes became sharper. He stared at Wang Shaoqiu and said, "What do you mean--"

Wang Shaoqiu said: "We should have found the right place. Zuo Chen'an must have set up his real tomb at Tianding Mountain. This so-called 'Master Jia' must know the truth about Zuo Gong's suspected tomb!"

In fact, everyone had already had such a guess in their minds last night, and after a night, the mysterious disappearance of Mr. Jia seemed to confirm this suspicion.

Lei Yu said: "But the house is so small, if he didn't leave, where could he hide?"

"..."

Wang Shaoqiu did not speak immediately, but turned around and slowly walked to the east room, where the shrine and the futon were quietly placed, but the wooden fish in front of the futon was kicked to the ground, perhaps because Master Jia left in too much of a hurry.

He walked to the mat, lowered his head and thought for a while, then suddenly reached out and lifted the mat!

A piece of wood was exposed underneath!