Chapter 388 – Monitoring Division Stops The Carriage! (2/2)

Taohong and Liulu also marveled at the young Miss's shoe.

Taohong turned around to say to Li Muyang, “I didn't know that Gongzi Li has so much talent, it really is a surprise.”

“Miss Taohong is too kind.” Li Muyang chuckled, pa.s.sing over the brush in his hand.

Cui Xiaoxin evidently really liked this pair of skylark boots. She gazed at it with a wide smile on her face for a good while before she ordered Taohong to bring the seal over and stamped the painting with her own seal.

Cui Xiaoxin rolled up the painting, “you gave me the 'Winter plum blossoms bloom proudly in snow' painting, I will return the gift with this 'Plum tree king'.”

Li Muyang received the 'Plum tree king' scroll with two hands. “Thank you Miss Xiaoxin.”

He then took out the 'Winter plum blossoms bloom proudly in snow' from his bosom and presented it. “Miss s.h.i.+nian told me to deliver it to Miss Xiaoxin.”

Cui Xiaoxin looked at Li Muyang and said: “I think, last night's 'Winter plum blossoms bloom proudly in snow' is the real Winter plum blossoms bloom proudly in snow painting, right?”

She received the scroll and ordered Taohong to carefully store it away, then raised her head to see the clouds tumbling overhead. “Looks like it will snow again. Let's go back to the city.”

Cui Xiaoxin was right. On the way back, white flakes were fluttering down again.

Li Muyang trudged through the snow, and did not dare to operate qi to resist the cold for fear that Ning Xinhai would notice. He could only use his physical body to withstand the cold. His wax yellow's face turned pale, and he looked battered and exhausted.

Swoosh——

The curtains were undrawn.

Taohong shouted to Li Muyang, “Gongzi Li, Miss tells you to get on the carriage to avoid the cold.”

Ning Xinhai furrowed his brows as he reminded, “Miss, physical contact between men and women is forbidden, if people see him together with Miss in a carriage, I'm worried that there will be rumours.”

Cui Xiaoxin's soft voice sounded. “Uncle Ning, don't worry. It is cold outside, let him come in to warm up his body. There is no one in the wilderness, we will let him off at Tiandu's city gate. Besides, there's Taohong and Liulu here too, so what if someone sees us?”

Ning Xinhai wanted to say something but then hesitated. In the end he halted the carriage and scowled at Li Muyang, saying in a warning tone: “get in the carriage. If you try to do anything, be careful of your head.”

Li Muyang after a brief thought said under his breath, “they have three people, I am by myself.”

“——”

The carriage was s.p.a.cious, and the three girls were slim, so Li Muyang did not feel crowded at all.

Cui Xiaoxin was sat with her back against the seat while Taohong and Liulu were each sat to one side. Li Muyang swept his eyes across and saw that only Cui Xiaoxin's side was the most s.p.a.cious, so he seated himself there.

Cui Xiaoxin was holding a hand warmer facing forward. Li Muyang also could only, like her, see the snow through the gap of the curtains.

Everyone said that this year's snow would be heavier than usual. But hopefully the common people will have a good harvest this year.

Stepping onto the public roads, there were more and more pedestrians and horse-drawn carts.

There was a clatter of clomping of hooves when a group of black-clad mounted soldiers came galloping over.

They moved around the carriage, and after a distance, they turned back around under the leaders.h.i.+p of a man.

The black-clad mounted soldiers crowded round Cui Xiaoxin's carriage, and the leader fiercely yelled: “The Imperial Monitoring Division, we suspect that there is a wanted criminal on board, the people in the carriage immediately come down for inspection.”

Li Muyang was shocked: could my ident.i.ty been leaked, otherwise, why would the Imperial Monitoring Division come over?

His right hand clenched into a fist. It was as if he was prepared to act if those people made any unusual movements – he would fight back with his life.

Because Li Muyang had killed Cui Zhaoren and destroyed the majority of the Imperial monitoring division, he had a deep prejudice against the Monitoring Division——of course, they also had deep hatred toward him.

Li Muyang knew well that if he were to fall into the hands of the Monitoring Division, he would be in utter misery.

Cui Xiaoxin furtively patted Li Muyang on the back of his hand, saying in her soft voice, “Don't worry.”

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