Chihuang half-crouched beside Huo Ji, and touched his cheek with her cold hands. She saw helplessness and sadness in his eyes.
Huo Ji collapsed on the ground, lowered his head and sobbed softly: "Let's go home."
Chihuang carefully wiped away the water and tears on his face with her sleeves, "Ziye, are you really willing? You have been holding back for more than a year, are you going to give up at the last moment?"
"But I'm afraid. I'm so afraid that if it's too late, I'll really lose her!" Huo Ji covered his face and cried again.
If his subordinates saw their iron-clad general crying bitterly for a woman, I don't know what they would think.
"She is no longer the imperial minister you once knew. As far as I know, she is good at making hidden weapons. Anything she wears can be used as a hidden weapon. Moreover, she has a magical weapon in her hand called the Tazi Bead."
Huo Ji held back tears and looked confused: "She knows how to use hidden weapons? What are tazi beads?"
"I don't know."
Chihuang turned his head and looked away due to a guilty conscience, but was forced to straighten his body by Huo Ji.
"Tell me! Tell me! What on earth is that tazi bead?!"
"It's nothing. She may have made a wish to Ta Zi Zhu to find your whereabouts, so Ta Zi Zhu sent her to Xiliang."
"Make a wish?"
'crunch'
While the two were talking, a strange noise suddenly came from the bushes behind them, and they immediately stopped talking.
Huo Ji immediately stood up, pulled out the dagger from his waist, and blocked Chi Huang behind him.
"Who is it? Come out!"
However, there was no movement in the grass.
"Huang'er, you wait here, I'll go take a look."
"good!"
Huo Ji held a dagger and walked towards that direction. Just as he was about to push away the grass, a ball of gray-green fur suddenly flew out towards him.
Before he could see the true identity of the ball of hair, it was bouncing towards the southeast.
When Huo Ji saw this, he immediately chased in that direction.
Chihuang stayed where he was, clenching his hands involuntarily. Upon closer inspection, he could see that they were trembling vaguely.
He lowered his head and looked at the mud puddle dug out by Huo Ji, and couldn't help but sigh: "Yu Ziye, Yu Ziye, she is the calamity in your life."
On the other side, Huo Ji chased Maoqiu all the way, passed through two gardens along the southeast corridor, and bypassed several courtyards, and finally came to a small, dilapidated and messy courtyard.
The place is in a mess, the courtyard is full of debris, dust is everywhere, and the gaps are full of spider webs.
Huo Ji turned his head every step of the way, listening in all directions and alert to the movements around him.
But the strange thing is that he found no trace of the fur ball, and the doors and windows here were locked.
There was a golden square lock hanging on the door. I fiddled with it twice with a dagger, but no keyhole was found.
"It's strange! This lock has no holes?"
"Master Huo! What are you doing?"
The sudden voice behind him startled him, and when he turned around, he found that it was the young man beside Hong Hao, Ahe.
"Ahe? Why are you here?"
Ah He lowered his head slightly and said in a deep voice: "I was just passing by. I wonder why the young master came to this courtyard?"
"Miscellaneous courtyard? Since it is a garbled courtyard, it must be used to store excess things. But why does this door lock have no holes or eyes? If there is no keyhole, how can you unlock it?"
"Things that can be put into the courtyard are naturally no longer needed. In this case, there is no need to take them out anymore."
"Then why not just throw it away?"
"The boss lady can't bear to part with it."
"That"
"Mr. Huo, I have to make dinner for you all, why don't we leave first." Ahe raised his hand to signal.
"Wait a minute! I came here to find a gray-green fur ball. It may have gotten inside. You might as well open the door and let me look for it."
"I'm sorry, sir, but there is no key to this door. The fur balls you mentioned may be spirits from the mountains. They won't hurt anyone. You can rest assured, sir."
Huo Ji still hesitated after hearing this. It would be fine if it was a spirit, but he was worried that He Liang would know about Yu Qingwan's affairs. If his true identity was found out by following the clues, the consequences would be disastrous.
After all, he saw with his own eyes a ball of golden light hitting He Liang outside Dongyin City.
That blow should have been fatal, but He Liang actually survived! He even appeared inexplicably at Huaxi Waterside Pavilion!
There was something strange about this flower all over the path, and he had to be on guard against it.
He didn't know that his gloomy look had fallen into Ahe's eyes. It wasn't until Ahe called a few more times that he suddenly came back to his senses.
"Ah He, you mentioned dinner earlier. I seem a little hungry. Let's go back first."
"Okay! Master, please come this way!"
Under Ahe's guidance, the two successfully returned to 'Fanghuaxuan'.
Fanghuaxuan has three floors. The first floor is the dining room, and the second and third floors are habitable rooms.
When he came in, he found that everyone was gathered here except He Liang.
Tang Zhixing's face was full of anxiety and he was pacing back and forth with his head lowered and chest raised, as if something had happened.
After seeing Huo Ji, he immediately stepped forward and asked: "Brother Huo, have you seen Miss Mo Shen?!"
The proprietress of this Huaxi Waterside Pavilion seemed to dislike the court officials, so they all changed their tune.
"She has gone back." Huo Ji's expression was very cold.
"Go back? Did she find a way out?"
"Um."
"Then why didn't she say anything to us? Not to mention how dangerous those people outside are, she is a girl walking in the desert. How can this make people feel at ease?!"
"She will be fine and will come back safely."
Tang Zhixing was very surprised when he heard this and mistakenly thought that Huo Ji had ambushed his troops outside.
He was about to ask a few more questions, but Huo Ji walked upstairs with a cold face.
He looked outside a few more times and couldn't help but sigh.
Old Zhutou drank a jar of wine, his face was rosy.
Putting the wine jar on the table, he stroked the goat's beard and said with a smile: "Oh! What a pity! There are certainly people who are crazy about love in this world!"
Tan Zhi, who has always been taciturn, suddenly said: "He Liang was attacked outside Dongyin City earlier. I always feel that something is not right."
"Yes, and as soon as we arrived at the Huaxi Water Pavilion, he fell from the sky to the entrance of the water pavilion. Isn't it a coincidence?" Pei Shaojun said.
"Do you think someone killed him and then he turned into a ghost to take revenge?"
As soon as Tang Zhixing finished speaking, a red fruit fell on his head.
"Oh! It hurts!" He covered his head and looked at Chihuang, "Princess, why did you hit me?"
"Is it possible that what you said means that someone between us sneaked up on him?"
"Maybe that's true. We came to the waterside pavilion one by one. Maybe someone set up some trap on the way."
"According to what you said, the missing girl might have fled in fear of crime?" Lao Zhutou said with a sinister smile.
"This is absolutely impossible! Although she has martial arts skills, she has no enmity with He Liang, so how could she set up an ambush to kill him?"
"You mean, we all have a grudge against him, so we are the ones who killed him?"