Chapter 390: A white-robed gentleman comes for tea (1/2)

Chapter 390: A white-robed gentleman comes for tea

Creak…

The noisy door shattered the calm of the inner courtyard, startling all the birds inside into taking flight. Long Feiye shut the gates behind him, effectively locking out Chu Xifeng when he arrived. A few guards revealed themselves at his approach.

“Leader, why did His Highness come personally?”

“Leader, just what kind of person’s been locked up here? We’ve never done something so secretively before. Could it be that…it’s not even human?”

“Leader, speaking from the heart, we fellow brothers have followed you for years now. Don’t you trust us after all this time? Why won’t you tell us what Little Li Fourth knows?”

Chu Xifeng had bore with all the complaints from his guards until now, but the last statement made him crease his brows. Coldly he said, “Trust? Could any one of your mouths be more trustworthy than a dead man’s?”

Everyone fell silent at his words. A dead man’s mouth was the most trustworthy one of all. Without a doubt, Little Li Fourth wasn’t going to live much longer.

“Even I can’t ask about His Highness’s business, much less you lot. Behave yourselves!” Chu Xifeng said, before leaping onto the courtyard wall to stand guard.

Inside the courtyard, all had returned to silence after the birds flew off. But none of that mattered to the woman there, who couldn’t hear a thing. She stood by a wall, two sharp stones clutched in her hands as she chiseled madly at the surface. Unfortunately, her strength was too limited to even make a mark. Her nerves were agitated, her face serious. She grit her teeth and looked as surly as an ox. Long Feiye had already walked up behind her, but she still had no idea he was there.

He looked at her coldly before he asked, “Who gave her those rocks?”

Little Li Fourth sprang out from his watchpost on the side and reported, “Your Highness, she found them herself. When this subordinate took them away, she threatened suicide. This subordinate could only let her do as she liked.”

“Useless thing.” Long Feiye’s glance sent Little Li Fourth breaking out into a cold sweat. He wanted to back away, but it was already too late. Long Feiye’s blade was shockingly fast. Little Li Fourth didn’t even see him draw his sword before he saw blood spraying from his own abdomen. By the time Long Feiye resheathed his weapon, Little Li Fourth had already crashed to the ground. Despite all the ruckus, the woman chiseling at the wall remained oblivious to it all. Long Feiye had tested her multiple times and found that she really was completely deaf. However, this time wasn’t meant as a test. Nor was Little Li Fourth the first guard he’d killed off.

For the sake of protecting this secret, he’d already changed guards five to six times on the way here.

“Chu Xifeng, clean up the mess,” Long Feiye said coldly before he entered the rooms.

Chu Xifeng originally assumed that His Highness would personally talk to that person, but he allowed her to continuing chiseling at the wall. He didn’t understand why, nor did he dare to ask. He only busied himself with getting rid of Little Li Fourth’s corpse. After following His Highness for all these years, this was his first time seeing him protect a secret so carefully. His Highness didn’t even take such cares with his own life! Chu Xifeng knew that the person wasn’t the biggest secret, but the knowledge and secrets she held inside her.

At this point, Han Yunxi had already finished changing and walked out, only to see no Long Feiye in the guest hall. She looked around for him, but found no signs of the man. Where did he go?

“Xu Donglin,” Han Yunxi ordered, and the young guard appeared out of thin air. Ever since the black market, Long Feiye had handed this guard over to her as a personal attendant.

“Where’s His Highness?” she asked.

“I didn’t see him. But I did see my leader run out towards the southern outskirts,” Xu Donglin replied honestly.

Han Yunxi was puzzled. So Long Feiye must have gone out. Was it urgent business? Her time with him over the past month outnumbered all the times they’d spent together in the last year. Although Long Feiye had never particularly told her where he went, she usually knew when he was missing. Where did he go this time? And for what purpose? To find more grain?

The imperial uncle’s estate had already fallen, but the famine still existed. Their grain was enough to help the people past the beginning of winter, but there was still the new year ahead of them! They still needed to find ways to get more grain! Han Yunxi thought and thought before going to change her clothes again. If Long Feiye was in a hurry to find grain, then he’d at least tell her before he left. Could it be…personal business?

“Did the Tang Clan sent people over again?” Han Yunxi muttered to herself.

“Esteemed wangfei, what did you say?” Xu Donglin asked timidly.

“Nothing. Call for lunch,” Han Yunxi couldn’t help but think that forming habits was a scary thing! When they returned to the capital city, Long Feiye would probably be busy everyday again. She wouldn’t be used to that again, she figured. Han Yunxi stood by herself in the doorway, looking at the skies above. Her thoughts began to wander off until a warm voice spoke from behind her.

“Miss Yunxi, long time no see. May I request a cup of tea?”

Startled, Han Yunxi whipped her head back to see the white-robed man from the Sky Pit sitting at her tea table. Somehow, he’d already started making tea. She quickly entered the room and shut the doors!

“You…why are you…” she sputtered in agitation.

“Miss Yunxi seems very nervous.” the white-robed man smiled, tempting one to daydream about what he looked like beneath his face veil.