Vol 9 Chapter 127 (2/2)

At the same time, I do not even know if Yuan Zhi has thought through things, if she is ready to see us and if she is able to answer the questions I have for her. If she wants to, she can easily avoid me after all, especially given how easy it is to spot me by my gra.s.s circlet.

Haa~ What the heck am I doing~

Naturally, I attracted attention wherever I went and after a while, I really could not take it any longer and sat down by the kerb, feeling extremely tired both physically and mentally. Come on people, this is just a barbarian helmet, what is there to be so surprised about?

I felt angry but at the same time felt that this anger was misplaced and sighed as I felt in my pocket for Yuan Zhi’s bandana. Now that I think about it, Yuan Zhi is really weird to be bringing this with her all the time. She’s always wearing white robes yet she wears a red bandana like this which obscures her beautiful face.

… Un? As I rolled the bandana in my hands, I began to find something odd about it. Firstly, it could not be opened as it was sewn together. Secondly, it seems like red was not its original colour. I never noticed this but now that I am looking at it from up close, I can tell that it was dyed red later on.

*Sniff* *Sniff*

I brough my nose to it and sniffed it. It smelled like familiar but at the same time, it also seemed unfamiliar. The smell was rather weak actually but it definitely was not the scent of flowers and the like. It feels like there is a faint smell of iron…

Eh?! I-is this– Blood?

When I realised what it was, I instinctively put distance between it and my face. When I finally recovered from my shock, I realised that I was quite shaken by what I had learnt and had been staring at the bandana for a while.

Soon, various questions sprang forth. Why? Why is Yuan Zhi carrying this sort of bandana around? And whose blood is it?

Before I could deal with the existing questions, new ones were added. Though they are not related, I realised that I do not actually understand Yuan Zhi even though I thought I did. Yuan Zhi has not told us far too much and discomfort began to fill my heart once more as I realised this.

And just like that, I continued to sit there and ponder about this for a while until I realised that the glances that pa.s.sers-by sent me had gotten worse. I cannot blame them, a man with a weird hat looking at a weird red bandana the whole time without doing anything is indeed very weird.

Hai… I sighed and hesitated for a moment before returning the bandana to my pocket and got up, “No matter what, let’s find Yuan Zhi before doing anything else.”

Where could she have gone? I scoured the streets for quite a while just now but did not see any sign of her. Now that I think about it, she is not the sort who will walk around randomly. She is the sort who will stay at some place and do something…

If I continue down this train of thought… Apart from swordsmans.h.i.+p, and strategies, what else does she do in her free time…

Ah! Could it be!

A very likely possibility sprang to mind all of a sudden and I began moving even before the train of though had completed a smooth journey to its answer.

If my guess is right… Yuan Zhi should be selling sugar water in the market!

I began hurrying toward the south of the city which was the designated area for the market day. Chen Gong said that area would eventually be used to house troops so today is probably the last day for the market to be open. If Yuan Zhi wants to do something she likes, then it is very possible that she is there.

At the very least, it’s a likely possibility.

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