Chapter 404: Why Dont You Give In? (Part 2) (2/2)

It was Chao Xiaoshu's sword.

Of course he couldn't have lost to Liu Yiqing.

Then why would the Sword Garret of South Jin Kingdom have his sword?

To keep himself focused when fighting, Ning Que didn't think about anything. But now that the fight was over, his mind was full of the bad things that might have happened to Chao Xiaoshu and it made his hand shake slightly.

After the fierce fight in the Spring Breeze Pavilion, lots of people thought Ning Que and Chao Xiaoshu were faithful friends and were very close to each other. But Ning Que knew clearly it was not the case.

The relations.h.i.+p between him and Chao Xiaoshu was more like that of a landlord and a tenant, a leader of gangsters and a killer he employed or like what he had told Liu Yiqing, food buddies. For most of the time, they talked about food and money, rather than sharing each other's feelings and secrets. Therefore, he wasn't really familiar with Chao Xiaoshu, he had just met him a few times and had not even been to his home.

There were always some people who showed up from nowhere, entered your life and talked casually with you. But after all this, the two were already bosom friends.

Chao Xiaoshu walked into the Old Brush Pen Shop on a rainy day.

And Ning Que met Zhuo Er at a small village in the Yan territory.

They seemed to be not close at all. They might not have gotten in touch for many years, or randomly written to each other. And when meeting on a boat, they would just drink with each other, chat a bit and depart.

But they were actually very close. Even if they hadn't met for many years, they still could understand each other perfectly well with just a smile and could fight together against their enemy.

And when one knew that the other was in danger, no matter what he was doing, he would not hesitate to help. Even if he was in the most important exam in his life or about to get married to a princess, he would give up all those things and ride a horse to where his friend was.

Ning Que looked at the hilt in silence.

He didn't know what situation Chao Xiaoshu was facing.

He found it really good that he didn't know much about his friend.

Because that meant that he didn't know whether Chao Xiaoshu also believed in the principle of 'I would only be alive if I still had my sword.' And it meant he didn't have to confirm that Chao Xiaoshu was dead.

Ning Que raised his head and looked at Liu Yiqing, who was sitting under the tree as silent as a dead man. He tightened his grip on his podao and pointed it at him.

The crowd screamed, they didn't expect Ning Que to kill this person from the South Jin Kingdom.

In the crowd, Professor Huang He frowned and shook his head in concern, trying to warn Ning Que to be more careful.

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