She is the most beautiful rose

Chapter 239 You Are Avoiding Me

The mountain air was cool, and Shen Manzhi took the shirt hanging by the door.

"Let's go."

Si Qi glanced over her shoulder into the house, then walked out side by side with her.

"Being punished?"

Shen Manzhi put on his coat, took down the wind chime at the door and stepped half a step behind him, "Small punishment."

Si Qi raised his eyebrows.

The two left the villa and walked up the mountain along the bluestone road. The wind chimes in Shen Manzhi's hand swayed gently in the wind, startling the birds roosting in the woods and splashing water and dew on the tips of his hair.

Halfway up the mountain is Tang Duo's residence.

Si Qi was two steps behind her and suddenly called her name.

Shen Manzhi stood on the high steps, holding the wind chime and looking back. He looked at him without saying a word, just tilted his head.

They both kept their composure. Si Qi looked at her and asked, "Nothing to ask?"

Shen Manzhi hooked Feng Ling's fingers and made circles, "What do you want me to ask?"

She returned to Beijing yesterday and went straight to Jiuqing Temple. After being punished by her master, she stayed in the temple copying books. This time when she saw Si Qi, she was already full-term away from Xincheng.

"Sir," Shen Manzhi called him softly, the wind blew and the bell rang, the voice was extremely beautiful, "Have I ever disappointed you?"

As soon as these words came out, even Si Qi's expression changed a little.

Shen Manzhi didn't wait for his answer. He lowered his eyes, smiled, turned around and walked into the courtyard.

Si Qi stood there for a while before entering the yard.

Shen Manzhi stood on the wooden ladder, stretched out his arm and hung the wind chime on the eaves beam.

A breeze blew by, and the elegant sound of bells passed through the hall, swaying past a white and slender waist.

Si Qi blinked and stepped forward.

The wild cat on the tree was startled and jumped down from the branch with a whoosh. It jumped a few steps and went around the wooden ladder. The impact caused the ladder to shake, and Shen Manzhi was shaken so hard that half of his body tilted, and the wind chimes rustled.

Si Qi stepped forward and stepped onto the wooden ladder, holding Shen Manzhi's hand and taking her down, whispering in her ear, "No."

Shen Manzhi was unstable and his wrist that was holding Si Qi was slightly stiff. Then he quickly let go and held on to the wooden ladder behind him before looking at Si Qi.

The latter straightened his sleeves and stood aside, looking up.

Wind chimes are hung on the eaves of temples to pray for blessings and ward off evil.

Tang Duo lived in the inner room. As soon as Shen Manzhi entered, he was blocked by a piece of paper thrown out from inside.

She sighed softly, bent down to pick up the books one by one, walked in and put them next to the low table, "Master."

Tang Duo sat on the armchair behind the desk, his legs covered with a blanket. His temples were already graying, and his slightly raised eyelids were lifeless.

"Have you finished copying?"

"Almost."

Tang Duo said solemnly, "Your junior brother's handwriting is really unbearable to read."

"That's what you were taught since childhood."

Tang Duo opened his eyelids a little more, looked at Shen Manzhi leaning against the beam like a boneless person, and said unhappily, "Did you meet Si Qi?"

Shen Manzhi was happy, "From what you said, you know that he has something to ask me?"

“I don’t want you to have a gap.”

She turned her eyes away and looked out the window without saying anything.

Tang Duo continued, "Si Qi has more than just the entire Linjiang River behind him."

Shen Manzhi chuckled and turned to look at him, "So, Master, you also know about those things, right?"

When she went up the mountain at the beginning of the year, she personally looked for Si Qi. She suspected that her whereabouts had been exposed in many of her missions last year. But she was not a staff member of Linjiang after all, so she could not interfere. She only said so much in front of Si Qi.

But there was no traitor at all, he was just on guard against her.

"I thought that at least when I accepted Linjiang's mission, we were sincere. I didn't expect that I was also a part of their mission."

Tang Duo's expression was evasive for a moment. He had many things on his mind but couldn't speak. He only said, "He has his own considerations for doing things."

Shen Manzhi raised his eyebrows, "So it's normal for me to be angry."

"You never told him the reason why you decided to leave at the beginning of the year."

"Master, you are biased."

Tang Duo looked at her and finally sighed, "I haven't told Si Qi about your health. If you really count it, he owes you."

After all, she was arrested and used as an experimental subject while completing Linjiang's mission.

"I always feel more at ease when he protects you."

Shen Manzhi didn't care much, "I don't plan to have too many ties with him."

Tang Duo got angry after hearing this, "You don't want to be bound by anyone."

"Master," Shen Manzhi smiled helplessly, "I'm thinking of you all the time." Tang Duo blew his beard and glared, "I can't die."

Shen Manzhi slowly stopped smiling.

She went to the Shen family to visit her grandmother a day in advance and gave her a birthday gift because she learned that her master had just been released from the intensive care unit yesterday.

It was for this reason that the master, who had always distinguished between the high and the low, thought that she should put her family first. In addition, she had left without saying goodbye before, and this was the first time she came to see him after returning to China. Simply copying scriptures was the lightest punishment.

Once you enter a master's door, abiding by the rules is always the first step, and she accepted it all.

Shen Manzhi put aside his thoughts, his eyes brightened slightly, "You must live a long life."

Si Qi came to her again before three o'clock in the morning.

Shen Manzhi was coming out from behind the bathroom screen, wearing a belt. Her ankle-length black skirt swayed with each step, making her waist look so slender that it seemed like it could be held in one hand.

This is Shen Manzhi's private residence, even the master will not set foot here.

Apparently Si Qi, who was sitting in the living room at this moment, had crossed the line.

She was wearing a belt and a long gown covering her waist. She said in a cold tone, "If you need anything, you can tell me in advance."

Si Qi didn't shy away from the question, "Aren't you busy?"

Shen Manzhi pursed her lips. She did reply to his WeChat message that she was not available.

"tomorrow……"

"You're avoiding me."

Si Qi looked at her, placed one hand on her folded knees and tapped them lightly, but his words left no room for doubt.

Shen Manzhi went over with a kettle and added a glass of water to him. "Do you have such thoughts because you have done something to let me down?"

Si Qi raised his eyes to look at her, "Did you believe everything that Bian Shu said to you?"

"Whether you believe it or not, and how much you believe it, is my business. As for if there is any rift between you, don't blame me."

Si Qi curled his lower lip when he heard that, and there was a faint scent of roses in his nostrils.

"Listen to him, and you have to listen to me too."

Shen Manzhi raised his eyebrows, put the kettle back, poured himself another cup, then turned and leaned against the window.

"You know, I've always wanted you to enter Linjiang, but you didn't want to, and I couldn't force you. So since it involves some confidential missions, I can't tell you all the details."

Shen Manzhi nodded casually, "I understand."

"Bian Shu has established himself in Huaicheng through steady and steady efforts. I don't want him to become the next Jiu Ye."

There are many organizations coveting Linjiang, and Bian Shu is considered a core figure. If his hidden identity is exposed, he will naturally not be let off.

Shen Manzhi's eyelashes flickered slightly, "I thought he and I were friends, but he had no choice. He was on good terms with me, but at the same time he stabbed me in the back without mercy."

She turned her eyes to look at Si Qi, "After all, wasn't it you who instructed this?"

"Put yourself in my shoes. If everything goes your way, how can Bian Shu survive?"

Bian Shu had to provide her with some information, but he couldn't expose himself in front of a circle of upper-class people. How could everything be perfect?

Shen Manzhi's eyes became colder and colder. "You could have discussed these things with me in advance, but you don't trust me."

Si Qi looked at her calmly, "Nan Zhi, when have I ever failed to trust you?"

Shen Manzhi frowned slightly.

Si Qi hasn't called her by her code name for a long, long time.

He stood up and walked towards her step by step, his tone calm and cold, "That time in the deep mountains and snow, I entrusted my life to you. I never asked anyone to join Linjiang. You are the only one."

Shen Manzhi watched him getting closer and closer, his heels touching the ground, his face calm, "That was my own choice."

"You always choose to be alone and never trust others."

Si Qi stood one meter in front of her and said, "Among the people I personally trained, you are the only one who is the least close to me."

Shen Manzhi felt that there was something behind his words, but he couldn't remember what it was like, so he didn't want to continue the topic. "Sir, I didn't pursue this matter with you."

"So what are you avoiding?"

Shen Manzhi looked back, "Do you think this place and time are suitable?"

Si Qi took two steps closer, lowered his gaze, and stayed at her straight lips for half a second, then slowly looked into her eyes, "I have personally trained you for two years. Ask Jing Mo if she has been treated this way?"

"I have not forgotten your kindness, sir."

"Well, it's just getting more and more distant."

Shen Manzhi leaned back slightly, "Sir..."

Si Qi had already leaned against the window railing behind her waist, and his long fingers easily untied the slippery belt. "I undressed you to heal your wounds and remove blood stasis. Have you forgotten everything?"

Shen Manzhi raised her hand to stop him. Her gown slipped off her shoulders. She tried to shake off his hand with a cold look on her face. "Sir, don't test me in this way."

Si Qi chuckled, as stunning as a flash in the pan.

Every move of Shen Manzhi was what he had taught her carefully. He lifted up his coat, grasped her slender waist, and easily pressed her against the window eaves.

"If you had been more attentive, which of the things I allowed Bian Shu to do would not have benefited from you?"