Chapter 131.1: Is Your Mouth Still Ok? (1/2)

The hidden guard sighed in relief and prepared to go into hiding again in order to continue protecting Tang Doudou from the darkness.

Tang Doudou, however, had spotted him the moment he walked in.

“Hey, you! Stop right there!” Tang Doudou hastily got up and cried for him to stop upon seeing that he was about to run off.

The guard had no choice but to stay upon hearing her displeased tone.

Tang Doudou reached him with just a few steps. “What’s your name?”

“This subordinate is Xiao Dao (aka little knife). My greetings, Lady Doudou.” Xiao Dao checked Tang Doudou’s expression out of the corner of his eye, puzzled as to why she had called out to him.

“Xiao Dao?” Tang Doudou circled him. “You were the one following me earlier?”

Xiao Dao nodded honestly. “Master has commanded this subordinate to protect Lady Doudou.”

“En, I know.” Tang Doudou stopped walking. “Then do you know where Baili Yu and the rest went?”

“Hasn’t Master already returned?” Xiao Dao was a bit confused. Master had headed back after sending him to follow Tang Doudou, so shouldn’t Master already be back in the Chamber of Commerce?

“He did come back, but he left again. In addition, Qing He and those fellow hidden guards of yours are gone too…” Tang Doudou dragged him to a corner of the courtyard and asked him surreptitiously, “Could it be that they’ve already left Mist City?”

“That’s not possible. Master said that he was going to stay in Mist City for a while, there’s no way he’d leave that quickly. Furthermore, if Master was going to leave, he’d definitely bring Lady Doudou along.” Xiao Dao shook his head like it was a rattle drum. “I think Master probably rushed off to deal with some urgent matter. There’s no need for Lady Doudou to worry, he’ll return very soon.”

“Stupid!” Tang Doudou knocked his forehead with the back of her bent middle finger. “No matter how urgent the matter was, there’s no way he would bring the tea-serving maids along as well!”

“Are you talking about Qing He and the others?” Xiao Dao felt wronged. He had been hit for no reason and it was so painful too! Not even Master had hit him like this before.

“That’s right ah! Bringing along so many people – not only all the maids but also all your brothers as well – is he off to handle a matter or to have a fight ah?” Tang Doudou gave Xiao Dao a look of disdain for being so simple-minded. No wonder she had been able to shake him off with that little trick. What exactly was Baili Yu thinking, to dispatch such a dumb guy to protect her?

“It is a bit strange…” Xiao Dao finally caught on to the oddity of the situation after Tang Doudou called his attention to it. “Lady Doudou, please wait a moment, I’ll go check if they left me any information.”

In the past whenever they had to head out for a mission, if there was a brother that was busy with other matters and didn’t go with them, they’d leave a secret sign where they lived to let that brother know which way to go.

The secret signs were invented by Master so the only people who could understand them were the brothers in the Chamber of Commerce.

“Then what are you still waiting for, let’s go!” Tang Doudou hastily pulled Xiao Dao and ran towards the west side of the courtyard. She remembered Qing He had said before that all of the servants lived on this side.