"How can we continue to matchmake them? My mother spends all her time treating the second young master, and the rest of her time she locks herself in her room fiddling with herbs. How can they possibly have a chance encounter?"
"Really?"
Baili Mengran asked in disbelief. She had thought Gu Qianying had a long period of free time every day, but she didn't expect it to be like this.
Little Yi Hao couldn't help but complain about Gu Qianying. His own mother was sometimes like a workaholic. Sometimes, he wouldn't even see his mother for the entire day. Where would she have time to see Baili Jingxuan?
Baili Mengran nodded frantically. The two children prepared to go back and finish this task.
As the two of them got up, they saw a familiar figure at the cave entrance.
"Uncle Ouyang!"
Little Yi Hao saw a man in a dark blue robe appear before him. The torch in his hand illuminated the narrow opening of the rockery.
"You two little rascals have made us search for you!"
Ouyang Qinglin shook his head helplessly. Seeing Baili Mengran and Little Yi Hao together, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't expect Little Yi Hao to have some skills. It seemed that those childish games of hide-and-seek were not played in vain.
"Why aren't you two going back?"
Ouyang Qinglin asked. It was brightly lit outside, but these two little ones insisted on staying in this dark cave. He couldn't understand the thoughts of children now.
"Mengran was a bit sad, so I was comforting her. But Uncle Ouyang, why did you come so late?"
Little Yi Hao didn't dare to reveal that he was trying to find a man for his mother. He could only shift the blame to Baili Mengran, with an awkward smile on his face.
For some reason, Baili Mengran was always a little afraid of this man who always liked to smile. Logically, Little Yi Hao liked Ouyang Qinglin the most. Since she played so well with Little Yi Hao, why would she be afraid of Ouyang Qinglin?
But people are strange. Baili Mengran was afraid of Ouyang Qinglin, always feeling that he wasn't a good person. Ouyang Qinglin felt wronged about this. He liked children the most, especially cute girls like Baili Mengran. How could he be a bad person?
"There was a temporary matter outside, and everyone was frantic looking for you two, which is why I was delayed! Hurry and come back with me!"
Ouyang Qinglin glared at Little Yi Hao.
"Then Uncle, won't Mother scold me?"
Little Yi Hao knew that he had been out for a long time. Moreover, Baili Mengran had gone missing in the afternoon, and now he was missing too. Everyone probably suspected that they had been abducted by bad people!
"Let's go out quickly! You should also go find your father and mother."
Little Yi Hao grabbed Ouyang Qinglin's hand and turned to say to Baili Mengran. Who knew Baili Mengran would say, "No, I don't want to find my father and mother, I want to find Auntie."
Auntie was a title Baili Mengran gave to Gu Qianying. She didn't like to call her "esteemed guest" like she called her father and mother. Perhaps in the future, she could call her sister-in-law. Thinking of this, Baili Mengran was overjoyed.
Ouyang Qinglin couldn't manage that much anymore. The most important thing was to quickly take the two children away.
The three of them walked out of the rockery cave. Ouyang Qinglin suddenly frowned, turned his head, and glanced at the rugged rockery behind them. However, it was too dark, and he couldn't make out anything.
"Stay put and don't move, I'll go take a look."
He held up the torch and went to look. Seeing that there was indeed no one behind, he finally left with peace of mind.
The man in black behind the rockery was lying on the mountaintop, beads of sweat on his forehead.
He didn't expect to be discovered after eavesdropping for so long.
After hearing Ouyang Qinglin's footsteps leave, the man in black finally got down from the rockery. Seeing that no one was around, he dared to quietly leave the rockery.
...
In Song Wuji's room,
"Is what you said true?"
"Absolutely true. Your subordinate dares not hide anything. I personally heard the conversation between Baili Mengran and Gu Qianying's son near the rockery. It's unlikely to be fake."
Song Wuji's personal guard, Song Qing, said with his head bowed. His young master liked to make tea with water steeped from bamboo leaves, but by chance, there were no bamboo leaves, and the maid hadn't returned yet, so he had to go himself. While picking bamboo leaves by the rockery, he heard someone crying inside the rockery. Just as he was about to go in and check, he saw Gu Qianying's son go in. He didn't interfere. Coincidentally, all the bamboo leaves he picked fell. As he squatted down to pick them up, he happened to hear the entire conversation, so he rushed back to tell Baili Su about it.
"If this is true, it seems the Baili family already knows what we are planning."
Song Wuji twirled the jade cup in his hand. The Baili family's living conditions were even better than the Song family's. They were truly living in luxury. No wonder his father couldn't tolerate the Baili family and insisted on obtaining that thing.
"Then, Young Master, what do we do next?"
Qing Song asked in a deep voice. Although he was a subordinate of the King of the Western Regions, he was loyal to his young master. No one could break his loyalty.
Song Wuji's face turned cold. He looked at the jade cup in his hand, a mysterious and unfathomable smile appearing on his face.
He looked at his subordinate and said, "It's fine. Since that's the case, we'll deal with whatever comes our way. We will always find a way to block everything the Baili family does. However, the fact that they dared to do such a thing is beyond my expectation. In short, we must not be careless now. Hurry up and send people to make arrangements. We must capture Baili Su in three days, otherwise, it will be difficult to explain to Father."
Although Song Wuji was a good person, he was now the young master of Western Regions City, and he had to obey his father. He absolutely could not betray his father again. If he couldn't be responsible, how could he convince the public?
"Yes, your subordinate will go and prepare now."
Qing Song glanced at Song Wuji, finally understood his young master's command, and turned to handle these matters. He was loyal to his young master, and his role was to protect him. If there were any accidents in three days, he would appear before his young master at the first moment.
"Wait a moment, this matter is not urgent."
Song Wuji suddenly spoke again. Qing Song was a little surprised and turned to look at Song Wuji, asking, "What is it, Young Master? Do you have any other instructions?"
"You just said that Little Yi Hao wants to matchmake Baili Jingxuan and Gu Qianying. These two?"
Qing Song never expected his young master to ask such a question. He was stunned for a moment, then turned his head and nodded, saying, "Replying to Young Master, it is absolutely true. Your subordinate heard it personally. The two children actually want to meddle in adult affairs."