Chapter 63 - Exploring the Mine Together (1/2)

Chapter 63: Exploring the Mine Together

“Is there anything I can do for you?” After the team that escorted Jia Yuanling was far away, Yuwen Tong asked.

“No,” Ling Zhang said. He trusted his uncle’s arrangement. They wouldn’t allow Jia Yuanling to reach the border alive.

Yuwen Tong took a glance at Ling Zhang and said nothing. It seemed that he had seen through something from Ling Zhang’s att.i.tude.

“Let’s go to the west mountain,” Ling Zhang stood up and said.

Then Yuwen Tong and Ling Zhang left the teahouse together.

“It will take two hours to get to the mine in the west mountain. We need to rent two horses,” Ling Zhang said.

Mines and herb farms were located in the distant suburbs of Tanyang, so the horses were the most essential means of transportation and riding. There was a horse shop near the west gate. Ling Zhang rented two horses, and went out of the city with Yuwen Tong. Before going out of the city, Ling Zhang looked around specially, trying to find the traces of those elusive guards of Yuwen Tong, but he didn’t even see a shadow.

“What are you looking for?” Yuwen Tong asked.

“You…just you and me?” Ling Zhang looked at Yuwen Tong.

Yuwen Tong raised his eyebrow and said, “I can handle everything. Let’s go.”

Thinking of Yuwen Ton’s personal guards who protected him all day long, Ling Zhang didn’t think they would give up following him this time.

After mounting the horse, Ling Zhang went out of the city with Yuwen Tong and headed for the west mountain.

” We will see a fork at the end of this main official road. And the narrow one on the right leads to Jia Family’s mine,” Ling Zhang said.

Had he known that Yuwen Tong would drag him along, he would not work hard to draw a map.

He had not been to the west mountain for a long time and the Jia Family’s mine was strictly guarded, so he had never been there but just knew its general location.

They slowed down to avoid going the wrong way or b.u.mping cross the people of Jia Family without the time to dodge after taking the fork.

The further they went, the more remote the place was. It was so quiet that there was only the chirping sound of birds.

Yuwen Tong suddenly loosed the rein and patted the horseback. Then he sprang from the horseback, just like an eagle shooting high into the sky.

Ling Zhang was frightened and hurried to look up at him.

But Yuwen Tong disappeared in a blink of an eye and he didn’t know where Yuwen Tong was.

“Hey.” Ling Zhang was stunned. Yuwen Tong left without even saying goodbye. Did he want to leave him here alone?

Just when Ling Zhang was scolding Yuwen Tong inwardly, Yuwen Tong fell from the sky, which dazzled Ling Zhang suddenly. Yuwen Tong landed on the horseback, and turned to Ling Zhang. “It’s not far from there. The road ahead is heavily guarded. We need to tie the horse in the woods. Let me take you there then.”

Ling Zhang’s nervousness was finally relieved. Then a dark look formed on his face. Thinking of his fl.u.s.teredness just now from worrying that Yuwen Tong would abandon him, his face chilled like ice.

That obvious anger was hard to be neglected. “What’s up?”

“Please tell me in advance when you decide to suddenly disappear, my lord.” Ling Zhang gnashed the teeth in anger.

Yunwen Tong knew what was going on. But the way Ling Zhang gnashed his teeth was really cute. So he nodded, deliberately misinterpreting his words, “I will take you with me next time.”

‘That’s not what I’m trying to say. He put it in a way like I can’t tolerate a second without him by the side. Pah!’

Ling Zhang stared at Yuwen Tong with anger, blus.h.i.+ng scarlet with embarra.s.sment.

Yuwen Tong’s eyes turned profound as he saw Ling Zhang’s cheeks become rosy. Ling Zhang’s eyes gleamed in anger, clear like the surface of a lake under the bright sun where now a cl.u.s.ter of flames was burning. He felt so fascinated by Ling Zhang’s vivid reaction after being p.i.s.sed off but having no way to vent it out.

There was also a fire burning in his heart, which aroused his impulse to bully this person in front of him.

But if he did it, Ling Zhang would leave immediately.

“Cough. I won’t tease you again. Let’s go and have a look,” Yuwen Tong said.

Ling Zhang took a deep breath to regain his cool and turned away first. He was afraid that he wouldn’t be able to hold back his impulse to beat Yuwen Tong up if he looked at Yuwen Tong one more time.

Yuwen Tong was a clever man. He said nothing but followed Ling Zhang closely.

As they approached the mine, they faintly heard various noisy sounds.

Yuwen Tong suddenly stopped, his face turning serious, “Wait a moment.”

Ling Zhang stopped and looked at him.

“Something wrong ahead. Let me take you there, because there are guards ahead,” Yuwen Tong said.

Ling Zhang looked in the direction of the noises and said, “Okay.”

Although he was angry, he never became affectedly bashful when he got down on his business.

Yuwen Tong put his arm around Ling Zhang’s waist and said, “Hold me tight.”

Ling Zhang froze…

Fighting hard to suppress the weird and uncomfortable feeling, Ling Zhang held Yuwen Tong’s waist tightly. The next moment, he felt like he was flying. This feeling of insecurity that he would fall at any time forced him to abandon those complaints about Yuwen Tong and hug Yuwen Tong as tight as he could.

Yuwen Tong took Ling Zhang quietly through the Jia Family’s guard and entered the mine.

“Hurry up, don’t dawdle!”

” Move your lazy a.s.ses, you fools!”

Bang! Bang!

An open pit mine appeared in front of them where hundreds of miners in coa.r.s.e gray cloth were busy working under the close watch of the guards around. Although these guards were wearing unremarkable black clothes, judging from their standing posture and temperament, they were not ordinary guards. These men kept a close eye on everything that was going on inside the mine.