Chapter 1798: Chapter 1798: I Was Just Catching a Bamboo Rat
When descending from the back mountain, she happened to run into Jin Zijin, who was looking for her.
Seeing her red eyes, he knew what she had been doing.
Earlier, they had stayed behind to exhume Fu Jian’s body, and saw Gu Youyou turn around and follow Jin Xuyao out.
He glanced at the back mountain and asked in a low voice, "Did you see him?"
"Yes!" Gu Youyou nodded gently and said, "He didn’t want me to see him; he said his face is fake."
"I know, after all, we’ve been searching for so many years, there’s no rush. Let’s give him some time to adapt. Let’s go back for now."
Gu Youyou thought the same, but seeing the sky was getting late, she worried about him alone on the back mountain, in the cold wind.
She remembered when he was still Zhu Yiping, Jin Luoyin once said, the Young Master of Tianhai Mountain Villa, Zhu Yiping, was particularly lonely, and he was also afraid of loneliness.
He would sit alone in a tree, counting the leaves, watching the ants relocate at the corner of the wall, or from dusk, watch the sunset until the sky in the west turned completely dark.
So is he at this moment, alone on the back mountain, watching the sunset until no color is visible in the sky?
The thought made her heart ache.
Gu Youyou followed Jin Zijin down the mountain but suddenly stopped. She turned and said, "Why don’t you go back first? I’ll go call him... call him back to have dinner first!"
The only thing that could make a shrewd mother panic, become clumsy, hesitant and uneasy, so changeable, was her own children.
Even though she planned to give him some time, she suddenly regretted it the next second.
Jin Zijin was taken aback for a moment, but Gu Youyou just smiled bitterly.
"Forget it, let’s go back and let Luoyin go."
...
The sky gradually darkened, and Jin Luoyin went to the back mountain to find Jin Xuyao.
But when she got to the place Gu Youyou mentioned, there was no sign of him.
Anxious, she wandered around the back mountain for a while, calling his name loudly.
"Zhu Yiping, Brother Zhu, Brother... Brother..."
There’s only one path from the back mountain to the foot of the mountain, and she was sure Jin Xuyao hadn’t returned.
Yet, without seeing Jin Xuyao anywhere in the back mountain, considering his previous escape, she was terrified, her face turning pale.
"Brother, Brother, where are you? Don’t scare me, we finally found you!"
No one answered, and Jin Luoyin grew increasingly frightened.
After a while, the rustling in the Bamboo Sea seemed a bit unusual, as if it was moving by itself, not the soft breeze stirring the green bamboo waves.
As she looked closer, she couldn’t care about anything else and quickly ran into the forest.
"Brother, is that you? If it is, come out, don’t hide and make us unable to find you..."
Jin Xuyao held a fat bamboo rat in his hand.
He paused, looking at his pale-faced sister.
"I’m here!" he said calmly.
"Why didn’t you go down the mountain? What are you doing here?" Jin Luoyin complained.
Jin Xuyao said, "My face mustn’t be seen by them. Although Jin Xuyao hasn’t returned, the former Zhu Yiping is already dead."
Looking down at his sister, he lifted the bamboo rat to show her, and with a smile said, "I was just hungry and caught a bamboo rat."
Jin Luoyin, with tears at the corners of her eyes, was relieved to see him still able to smile.
She patted her chest and said, "Look, I was so worried I cried."
Jin Xuyao laughed and said, "I see that!"
"If you’re hungry, you can come down the mountain for dinner. Mom told me to call you down for dinner!"
