Neverland

At this moment, the inner side of Yan Cen's wrist in the banquet hall suddenly felt hot. He lowered his eyes and glanced at his hand, only to find that the progress of the hydrangea wrapped around his wrist had moved down a little, revealing obvious In vain.

Yan Cen twisted his wrist calmly, and hid the hydrangea back in his cuff.He was very sure that nothing happened just now, he was just sitting here listening to these nobles talking meaningless empty words, but the progress bar suddenly moved by itself.

Then Xu Muzhou should have found some key clues, Yan Cen thought.

Yan Cen probably didn't expect that the case he wanted to hide from Xu Muzhou had already changed his appearance and landed in front of the other party.

The nobleman in front of him was still chattering about his newly built hunting ground, Yan Cen twirled the cane in his hand with a lack of interest, and responded with one hit or another.

Dance music followed one after another, and the number of guests coming off the stage gradually increased, not limited to noble young men and women, most people participating in social activities entered the dance floor.

The sound of wine glasses colliding, the sound of high-heeled shoes hitting the floor tiles and the music are mixed together, jingling and lasting.

The movement in this room was too fragmentary, making Yan Cen's ears hurt from the noise.

He rubbed his temples, and with this movement, looked around the banquet hall, only to realize that at some point, Xu Muzhou had quietly left.

Yan Cen's last bit of patience was completely exhausted, he coughed lightly, and knocked the ground gently with his cane.

From the point of view of title, Robert's status is not top-notch, but the iron-blooded temperament left over from the battlefield in him is not known to be higher than other nobles hiding in the royal city.

The aristocrat who was still boasting about his hunting ground just now shut his mouth subconsciously, and asked embarrassingly, "Is there anything the Earl wants to say?"

"No." Yan Cen rubbed his thumb on the eagle's head of the cane, and said, "Everyone is free, I want to leave first."

There was no reason, and there was no politeness. Robert did not feel disobedient when he did such a disrespectful thing, and even other nobles took it for granted.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, of course Robert would not lower himself to manipulate the wheelchair clumsily.So Yan Cen waved his hand, and the housekeeper who had been waiting behind him came forward, unlocked the lock that fixed the wheelchair for him, and pushed him out of the leisure area.

When Yan Cen left the banquet hall, he bumped into Xu Muzhou and Song Yan walking down the stairs one after the other.Xu Muzhou was holding a notebook in his hand, leaning on the handrail of the stairs, and was talking back to Song Yan.

The housekeeper released Yan Cen's wheelchair at the right time, and took his leave before Yan Cen could speak.

Song Yan saw Yan Cen one step ahead of Xu Muzhou, she stopped, leaned on the handrail and waved to Yan Cen.

Xu Muzhou followed her movements and turned around, only to find that Yan Cen was sitting under the stairs smiling at him.

Leaving the general environment of the banquet hall, Yan Cen seemed to have shed Count Robert's skin again. He rested his chin lazily, waiting for Xu Muzhou to come to him by himself.

"Did you find any clues?" Yan Cen said with a smile, "Young master."

"A little bit." Xu Muzhou said.

Xu Muzhou took the slip of paper from Song Yan, and jumped down the stairs in three steps at a time.Yan Cen was afraid that he would not be able to stop the car, so he reached out to catch it.

"Catherine has prepared a repertoire for your wedding anniversary celebration." Xu Muzhou stuffed the piece of paper into Yan Cen's hand.

The nursery rhyme was written on that piece of paper, Yan Cen only glanced at it briefly, then turned over the piece of paper and said, "Don't talk in the lobby, go to the teahouse and talk."

The tea room is next to the restaurant at the other end of the corridor. It is a very private semi-enclosed space, which is indeed more suitable for conversation than the hall.

Xu Muzhou consciously took Yan Cen's wheelchair and pushed him to the other side.

Before nine o'clock in the evening, in order to facilitate guests to use the teahouse at any time, fresh tea will be replaced every hour.

Yan Cen instructed Song Yan to find a small porcelain stove for heating teapots from the lower level of the cabinet by the door, lit the wax block with a blowtorch, and then said slowly: "Where did you find this nursery rhyme?"

"It's on the back of the invitation that Catherine wrote to the novelist." Xu Muzhou said.

Song Yan and Xu Muzhou sat on both sides of Yan Cen, surrounding the small tea table in the middle.

Yan Cen threw the note in his hand on the table, touched the body of the pot on the porcelain stove, felt a little warm, and then poured tea for several people one by one.

"What else?" Yan Cen asked.

"Catherine wants a piece with the theme of 'Moonlight' and 'Love' - that's why the composer was invited, and Catherine wants him to play on your anniversary." Xu Muzhou said: "But I don't think it's Catherine's obsession, it's too shallow, if she is so obsessed with this song, she shouldn't commit suicide."

It's moonlight again, Yan Cen thought.

Captain Kelin also mentioned this word before, what he said last time - as long as you move towards the moonlight, you will definitely get what you want.

Unlike Xu Muzhou who paid more attention to "robin", in Yan Cen's mind, this so-called "moonlight" has become the No. 1 suspicious clue.

In this context, it is not surprising that a certain element of ambiguity emerged.But it is very suspicious if the same thing appears in two people who have no intersection at all.

Of course Xu Muzhou didn't know what Yan Cen was thinking now, he pushed the tea tray on the table to the other side, and spread his invitation card on the table.

"At the same time, a fly was drawn on the back of my invitation card." Xu Muzhou said, "I have to suspect that this nursery rhyme is alluding to this banquet... Maybe in Catherine's eyes, we guests are all 'fly'."

Yan Cen was still pondering the meaning of "Moonlight" in his heart, he only listened to half of it, and then smiled perfunctorily: "How can you be a fly, the young master is so good-looking, of course he has to be a well-behaved little one." Lark."

Before he finished speaking, there was a very light footstep outside.Yan Cen has a keen sense of hearing, and caught the movement in an instant. He frowned slightly, picked up the teacup in front of him, and slammed it on the door unceremoniously.

The teacup made a shocking crisp sound, and the light red tea soup meandered down the half-hidden wooden door, staining a small piece of blanket underneath with dark traces.

"Get out of here." Yan Cen shouted sharply.

Xu Muzhou was taken aback, he was used to the submissive appearance of all kinds of servants in the castle, he didn't notice anyone outside the door for a while, and he didn't shy away from speaking just now.

The door of the room was pushed open a small crack, and the man outside the door was handsome and tall, wearing a snow-white uniform with a tight belt and a slender knife on his waist.

"Lord Earl." The head guard Klin knelt on the ground as soon as he entered the door, his waist and shoulders bent low, and he said softly, "Sorry for disturbing you."

Yan Cen frowned, and asked in a bad tone: "Did I say I wanted to meet you?"

The moment Yan Cen spoke, Kelin's shoulders tensed for a moment.The head guard's uniform was very close-fitting, and he could clearly see the outline of his suddenly tense muscles.It was a subconscious instinctive reaction, like what should have happened the moment Yan Cen spoke.

"I'm very sorry." Kelin repeated again: "The subordinate has something important to ask to see you, and he didn't know that you were visiting."

Xu Muzhou didn't know when the other party came. He was frantically retracing the conversation just now in his mind, guessing whether the other party heard their conversation, and how much he heard.

On the contrary, Song Yan stood up calmly and said to Yan Cen: "It seems that the Earl has something important to do, so I won't bother you for now."

Song Yan's interjection gave Yan Cen a good buffer space, so that he would not reply to Kelin's rhetorical question just now, so he could skip this topic directly and regain the right to speak.

"No need, doctor." Yan Cen gestured to her: "Sit down at ease, our conversation is not over yet."

"—As for you, the chief guard." Yan Cen said contemptuously, "Go back and learn the rules."

"Yes." Kelin kissed the carpet respectfully, then retreated to the door on knees, stood up and closed the door for Yan Cen.

It wasn't until he retreated completely that Xu Muzhou breathed out with lingering fear, and asked in a low voice, "Did he hear us talking?"

"It's okay." Yan Cen said: "People's hearing is limited, and based on the distance he approaches, he can't hear much."

Indeed, as Yan Cen said, when Kelin walked outside the door of the teahouse, he only heard Yan Cen's joking words that seemed to be a smile but not a smile.

Kelin's snow-white knees were soaked with tea stains. He walked into the hall, but he didn't leave the castle immediately. His eyes flicked around on both sides of the corridor, and finally turned around and walked in another direction.

"Robert is quite a loyal dog." Song Yan took a sip of tea and said with emotion: "He is not a good person, but he is very good at raising dogs."

"That's right." Yan Cen nodded in agreement.

After all, for the sake of Robert, the head of Klin's bodyguard would kill innocent girls without batting an eye. He is indeed a good dog that bites without barking.

Xu Muzhou didn't participate in this topic, he looked out the door thoughtfully, always felt that the head of the guard just now was a bit weird.This is closer to the intuition of danger. He always feels that there seems to be a morbid stubbornness in the other party.

"What are you looking at?" Yan Cen asked.

"No." Xu Muzhou looked away, he shook his head, and said, "I'm wondering if the clues I have now are enough to negotiate with Catherine."

"You want to take a shortcut again?" Yan Cen said.

"Hey—" Of course Xu Muzhou would not admit it, and corrected him very innocently: "This is a necessary mission process, how can it be called opportunism."

Yan Cen smiled and did not expose him.

Xu Muzhou felt hungry only after drinking a cup of black tea. He rubbed his stomach and stood up from the chair.

"What are you going to do?" Yan Cen said.

"Eat something." Xu Muzhou said, "I missed lunch earlier—are you two going?"

"I'm not hungry." Song Yan sat on the chair without moving.

Yan Cen has known Song Yan for so many years, so he naturally understands her and knows that she has something to tell him, so he shook his head and said, "You go first."

Xu Muzhou snorted, and prepared to fill his stomach first, and then deal with Catherine a few hours later.

The originally set dinner time in the castle was two hours later, Xu Muzhou thought about it while walking, and planned to grab a maid at random to find him something to cushion his stomach.

However, just as Xu Muzhou walked out of the corridor, he suddenly noticed a black shadow flashing past in his peripheral vision.Before Xu Muzhou could open his mouth to say anything, he felt a pain in the back of his neck, and his eyes suddenly went dark.

In the next second, he lost consciousness.