Vol 9 Chapter 125 (1/2)

Chapter 125

VOLUME 9 CHAPTER 125: DON’T TELL ME THESE ARE YUAN ZHI’S WORRIES (1)

Liu Bei POV

“In any case, I’m very thankful to you, Gan Qing.” I said as I returned the towel to her and flashed the blus.h.i.+ng Gan Qing a smile, “Well then, I’ll be going to the main hall now then. Everyone else should be gathering there by now.”

“Ah, un.” Gan Qing nodded. Even though I did not praise her that much, she was already so overjoyed huh? She really is more like a girl than the others when it comes to her expressions and the like.

Alright, next is…

I took a deep breath and continued walking ahead, looking at the rooms as I did so and stopped when I reached Yuan Zhi’s room. I looked, or peeped rather, inside but could not see anyone inside the room. I initially thought that I could not see clearly because I was tiptoeing but even after a few seconds, there was no sign of anyone inside.

I do not know if she returned yesterday but I hope she did, even if her presence will only worsen the atmosphere, I thought as I made my way to the main hall.

Everyone should know about the meeting this afternoon and when I entered the main hall, I found that about half of everyone who should be here was already present. I looked about and found that only those who were at the encampments since last night were not here. Most were already seated and greeted me when I came in.

“Ah, good morning everyone.”

“My lord looks like he’s in pretty good shape today huh?” Zi Zhong smiled at me as she said so before returning her gaze to her abacus. She did not ask about yesterday nor today.

“Ah, thanks.”

If this were the usual Zi Zhong, she would probably be using the abacus so frantically that the sounds would be almost deafening. But now, it seems like she was being considerate and slowed down her pace so it would not be too loud.

Thanks to the hot water Gan Qing got me this morning, I was now fully awake and when I greeted everyone in turn, I think I did it pretty energetically. At times like these, I have to motivate everyone however I can.

As I headed to the main seat, I shot a glance over to where Yuan Zhi’s seat was and saw that it was empty. Right now, apart from the recovering Yi De, just about everyone would be present except Yuan Zhi. She would not have overslept, could she?

“Chen Gong, did you see Yuan Zhi return yesterday?” I asked Chen Gong who eas reading some letters as she ate biscuits.

“No.” She shook her head and replied without looking over. Since no one else spoke, then that means no one knew if Yuan Zhi came back. My guess is that she did not come back at all yesterday. When I thought of this, dark clouds began to gather in my heart.

“Big brother, we’re back.”

“Xuan De.”

Just as I ruminating over Yuan Zhi with my head lowered, several people came in. I looked up and saw that they were still rather energetic and were not as downcast as I had thought they would be, especially Yun Chang. Compared to yesterday, she seemed a lot better and seemed more motivated as well.

“Has everyone had breakfast yet?”

“Not at all~ I’m starving~” Zhou Cang whined as she smiled stiffly and immediately sat down before picking up the chopsticks and food in front of her which she proceeded to demolish immediately.

“Oi, oi! That’s my seat!”

“Eh?” Zhou Cang looked up at Guan Ping who had exclaimed at her. It was indeed Guan Ping’s seat and it seems like Zhou Cang realised this as well but continued to eat.

“Never mind, never mind, we’ll just go with it then.” Guan Ping said a

s she sat beside Zhou Cang on Zhou Cang’s seat. Though this was not a serious incident by far, everyone seemed a little relieved on seeing that it ended amicably. Zhou Cang obviously did not do it on purpose and I am happy to see how this exchange went.

“Alright, thank you everyone for your hard work last night. Please go ahead and have breakfast.” I said as I too picked up my food in front of me. When they saw me do so, the rest who had just came followed suit.

“You all needn’t have so early actually.” I said as I frowned and delivered some food into my mouth.

“We finished what we needed to do last night and we obviously would have wanted to sleep some more but…” Wen Yuan said after eating several mouthfuls and looked at Feng Xian.