Chapter 316: Chapter 221
They were even uprooted, without any clans to protect them.
Virtually anyone could bully them.
If they weren’t truly out of options, why would they risk going south alone?
But at the first stop, they encountered trouble.
Such encounters are indeed tragic, but in the grand scheme of the Great Khan, they are nothing.
Especially to the guards around Pei Yuqing, who’ve been on missions all over, witnessing countless horrors. Just like the Ming Feng at the Hot Spring Villa that day, witnessing such atrocities without a change in expression, they were hardly moved.
Inside the room, apart from the voices of the two servants recounting, it was very quiet.
Pei Yuqing listened quietly and asked, "Do you know which part of the South?"
The two servants looked at each other and shook their heads together, "This... we do not know."
Pei Yuqing had anticipated this; he turned to look behind him and instructed, "Go investigate, be cautious, and do not alert any soldiers."
Two guards stepped forward, bowed to accept the mandate, and left.
Everything happened quickly. Pei Shu observed this, a vague suspicion forming in his heart, but seeing his master with half-closed eyes lost in thought, he dared not interrupt.
After a while, Pei Yuqing said, "You may go, leave Lu Zhou."
The two servants were stunned, realizing it referred to them, their expressions filled with joy, and they repeatedly agreed, getting up from the ground and running out.
Pei Shu watched their backs and whispered, "Master, shall I..."
He made a hand gesture.
Lu Ziyuan was frantically searching for someone; the recent questioning might have alerted those two.
Only dead people can keep secrets; they sometimes aren’t truly trustworthy.
The Qingtian Guard manages the most top-secret intelligence of the Great Khan, and as its leader, he was never an honorable gentleman who always kept his word.
But Pei Yuqing remained silent for a few breaths and said, "Send someone to follow them. If they do not leave Lu Zhou obediently, then assist them."
If she can truly remain unharmed, then he too has survived a close call. He would be grateful to the heavens, let it be to accumulate good fortune for that girl; he was unwilling to betray the trust and commit more wrongful acts.
The next morning, the two guards sent to gather information returned overnight to report.
After Pei Yuqing listened, he moved his lips.
"Bianzhou..."
The place where Lu Ziyuan brought back that woman back then.
He murmured softly, "What a coincidence."
Had Lu Ziyuan not done such a foolish thing that day, even with all his efforts, he couldn’t have inserted himself between them and brought that girl through the door.
Now, he must go personally.
If his guesses were correct, he would bring that girl home.
Otherwise... if it was all his fanciful thinking, he only hoped she could wait for him.
Pei Shu understood his intention and asked, "Should I go prepare the carriage and horses now?"
"Wait," Pei Yuqing stopped him, "Tell the people below not to stop searching. Outwardly claim that I’m physically weak, bedridden, unable to get up."
He paused for a moment before continuing, "In half a month, say I am in a coma, then take me back to the Capital for treatment."
"Are you planning to use the golden cicada plan to find Madam?" Pei Shu realized and said, "Even if concealing your whereabouts, you should still take some people with you."
Pei Yuqing said, "Not now. I still need to appear in the coming days, waiting for Lu Ziyuan’s next move."
Recalling the confrontation at the villa that day and the recently bloodthirsty Lu Ziyuan, Pei Shu frowned, "That madman can’t possibly..."
Pei Yuqing said, "No, he won’t."
After saying this, he picked up a tea cup, took a sip, and didn’t intend to explain to his subordinates why not.
