Chapter 58: Ying, Where Are You?
Pei Zhouwu headed eastward, unable to stop his hurried steps.
He remembered her saying that where she lived was three hills away from here, and all she had to do was keep going east.
The forest was full of weeds and dead branches. Before he had walked for long, the chain under his feet was entangled with many rotten branches and dead leaves. He had no intention of caring about them and only focused on heading east.
He walked through the woods to the other end. This was the farthest distance he had walked since he found out about the underwater passage.
But as soon as he left the forest, he felt a little regretful.
It’s not that I regret not coming out, but I regret that I should have gone back to the bamboo house first, used the incense to get the key, and unlocked the chains on my hands and feet so that I could walk faster.
He just wanted to find Su Yueying as soon as possible.
But now we are already here, and if we go back we will have to go into the water again and again, and it will take some time for the effect of the incense to take effect.
His anxiety was not enough to keep him waiting any longer.
Dragging the chain is a bit of a hindrance, but at least I can walk.
The bright moon was eventually covered with dust and fell to the ground. It was no longer cold and ethereal, and was left with only the head lowered again and again to surrender to love, the endless sweat, the falling and getting up, getting up and falling again, and the blood on the side of the face scratched by the sharp branches.
Where the moon cannot reach, there are minions everywhere.
Cruel, to take away everything he had.
Her hair was lifted up, and the firefly wooden hairpin on her head was hooked and fell to the ground.
He quickly turned around and touched his hair, and found that the hairpin was missing, so he immediately squatted down to look for it. The neatly combed half bun in the morning was picked out by a strand of hair, and the whole person immediately looked messy. In addition, the posture of him almost kneeling on the ground made him look more and more embarrassed.
It was too dark to see clearly.
He used his hands and eyes to touch the sharp stones or thorny vines on the ground, and soon his hands were covered with blood spots.
But fortunately, fortunately the hairpin was finally found.
He held it tightly in his hand and dared not pin it in his hair again, but hid it deep in his arms.
This was clearly a barren mountain, without any signs of mining. He didn't know how Su Yueying found the way over. Even a man like him with martial arts skills found it difficult. What about her? How could she endure such torture?
After climbing two mountains in a row, my clothes were dirty and torn and looked terrible.
He really regretted not asking Su Yueying to bring back an extra set of clothes. If one set was torn, there would not be enough for changing.
But perhaps, she is familiar with the roads in the mountains.
Her family was originally hunters in the mountains. She said that she had been running in the mountains since she was a child. Naturally, she was more familiar with the terrain in the mountains than he was, so she would not necessarily end up in the same miserable situation as him.
While climbing the mountain, he was also calling her name.
After shouting for a long time, his voice became a little hoarse, but all he got was four words: "No one responded."
The weight of anxiety gradually deepened?
When he climbed up the third mountain, his whole body was in more than just a state of disgrace.
After searching all over the mountain for a long time and almost falling off the steep slope, he still didn't find the hunter that Su Yueying mentioned until almost dawn.
This mountain is even more desolate than the previous ones.
There's no sign that anyone has ever lived here.
"Hina."
Pei Zhouwu stood in the wild forest, patrolling the night road. His initial anxiety and nervousness had faded away unconsciously, and confusion crept into his eyes, causing him to tremble uncontrollably.
Although I was hot and sweaty all over, there was a chill rising from my feet.
"Hina...Hina."
He murmured with his eyes red, which contrasted with the bloody scratch on his left cheek.
"Won't."
He continued to walk forward, dragging his heavy anklets, but he stopped after every step and turned back to look around from time to time. The desolate atmosphere of the mountains seemed to spread into his heart. He didn't know where to go, which direction to take, and he was like a lost dog that had been abandoned by someone.
In fact, he might have thought that Su Yueying had deceived him.
This mountain is not suitable for living at all. It is possible that she is not here at all.
But why did she lie to him?
He must not have found the right place. Since it was a wedding, there should be a conspicuous house decorated with red and colorful decorations.
He continued looking.
I searched everywhere, from the top of the mountain to the middle of the mountain and to the foot of the mountain, but I still couldn't find any trace of the house.
“Su Yueying——!”
He shouted towards the empty mountain, and his cheeks, which were covered with sweat, had several new bloody wounds.
"Come out, don't scare me..."
I'm really worried about you!
Maybe… maybe…
He suddenly thought of something, turned around and walked quickly in that direction.
He thought, maybe she had returned to the Xiangshan Bamboo Garden.
On the way here, he might have missed her, so she had actually returned to the bamboo house early.
If that's the case, then it's his fault.
Ah Ying didn't see him after she returned, and thought he was taken away by the guards outside, so she was caught again in her anxiety...
He didn't even dare to think about it.
On the way back to Xiangshan, it was already dawn.
When we arrived at the bamboo courtyard, it was almost noon.
After coming out of the pond, he immediately returned to his bedroom, but the room remained exactly the same as when he left. The bed and teacups were in the same place without any difference.
After turning around and walking out the door, he went straight to the guard post without even entering the front yard.
When the guards on duty saw him, they all widened their eyes in fear.
"Pei... Pei Zhouwu, are you possessed by a ghost? How did you become like this? Where did all the weeds on your body come from? Could it be... Could it be that you wanted to climb up the mountain wall to escape, but you couldn't hold on and fell into the pool? You... Pei Zhouwu, I haven't finished talking yet, you better behave yourself, you hear me? The cliffs around here are more than ten thousand feet high, you can't climb up, and you don't want the food that was sent into the mountain this morning?"
"You're crazy. You've been coming out so late to get food these past two days. I'd rather not have any today."
"He must have gone crazy from being locked up!"
Pei Zhouwu didn't ask or say anything. Just by looking at the guards' attitude, he knew that they had never seen Su Yueying.
But Ying, where are you?
"It's already one day late, Hotaru..."
Why did you break your promise?
Pei Zhouwu stood by the pond, and the scars on his face were reflected particularly clearly on the surface of the pond.
His face was expressionless, as if his soul had been taken away.
He was so exhausted and tired that he could hardly open his eyes and looked like he would collapse at any moment.
"It's okay, it's only been one day, three days have passed, it won't hurt to wait one more day."
He went into the water again, swam outside, and then stood motionless by the spring outside.
Ah Ying would definitely not break her promise on purpose.
She must have been delayed by something.
He promised her that he would pick her up here and take her back with him.
This stop lasted until night.
However, the person who should have come back at night still didn't come back.
…
The violent beating of my heart at the time of separation that day was repeated again at this moment. The intense uneasiness made my eyes red and I felt extremely anxious.
She has never broken an appointment. Whenever she said she would, she would always show up on the agreed day.
At this moment... there is a high probability that something has happened!
Pei Zhouwu clenched his fists, and his divergent pupils gradually gathered into a cold arc of light.
Prince Qi’s Mansion!
He should have thought of it earlier. What kind of person is the old Prince Qi? Not to mention a little girl with no background, even the daughters of officials were often tricked into becoming concubines by him. Since he had already made up his mind, how could he let Aying go easily?
Perhaps they never agreed to let her go in the first place.
She was coerced and forced into agreeing to let her leave for a month for unknown reasons. After the deadline, she had to return to Prince Qi's Mansion.
So, the wedding banquet was fake, and the home three mountains away was also fake.
That's why he couldn't find her after searching the entire mountain.
"I said, even if everyone in this world abandons you, I will not abandon you. As long as you need me, I will always be by your side."
The oath he made in the past echoed in his mind with great force, deafening him and making him feel weak all over, and he began to mutter again.
"She didn't mean to..."
He took a step forward and continued to mutter.
"Prince Qi's Mansion...I want to go to Prince Qi's Mansion."
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