The man picked up the phone and was very respectful to the person on the other end of the line.
"Yes, there was no one around her today except a young girl who looked quite young."
"That shouldn't be the case. I've walked around here several times and didn't see any bodyguards. It's very likely that he ran out on his own, carrying Huo Linxiao on his back."
"Okay, I'll find a way to knock her out and take her back. But helping you like this will risk offending the Huo family, so I can't do this for nothing."
"Okay, don't worry, I will definitely bring the person back to you. Now that they're out, I'm hanging up first."
The man lowered the brim of his hat and watched Xia Yiqian and Huo Lintong come out of the store, turn right onto another street, and followed them quietly.
As a result, as soon as he walked over, he met Xia Yiqian's eyes who suddenly turned around, and was immediately startled.
Fortunately, he managed to keep his body steady and pretended that he was not following them. He passed Xia Yiqian and the others as if nothing had happened and passed by them like an ordinary passerby.
Xia Yiqian watched the man walk away expressionlessly, and was certain in her heart that he was indeed following them.
However, the one who was following her was probably not her, but her younger sister, Little Sucker, who was also a victim of abuse.
On the other side, the man who turned the next corner breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that Xia Yiqian and the others had entered the shop and did not follow him.
I feel like something is a little strange about what happened today. Why does it seem like he has been discovered?
No, he couldn't take the risk. He had to wait until they let their guard down.
The man wanted to leave here first, but as soon as he turned around, he met a pair of dark eyes.
Xia Yiqian looked at him expressionlessly, speaking extremely cold words in a very clear voice.
"Why don't you follow? Do you think it's still too late to leave now?"
The man was stared at by those emotionless eyes. He suddenly felt a chill on his spine and felt uneasy.
He knew that he had been exposed and that quibbling would not end well.
A light bulb went off in his head, and he looked helplessly past Xia Yiqian and at Huo Lintong who was a little nervous behind her.
Her tone was very innocent, "Young Madam, it's because the young master cares about you that he asked me to come and protect you.
But he didn't want you to feel that he was keeping someone by your side to monitor you, so he asked me to protect you in secret.
If you don’t believe me, you can call and ask the young master.”
Xia Yiqian blinked, looked up and down at the man's appearance, and frowned even more tightly.
When Huo Lintong heard that it was her boyfriend who was worried about her safety, she was immediately overjoyed. She took out her cell phone from her bag and said with an unconcealable smile on her face, "I'll call him and ask."
After the call was dialed, a gentle man's voice soon sounded on the other end. Huo Lintong chattered to her about the longing he had accumulated for not seeing her for a long time.
Xia Yiqian had good ears and could easily hear what they were saying on the phone, but she didn't really want to listen, so she simply made some hand gestures to isolate Huo Lintong completely so that the sound could not reach her.
I always feel that the content of the conversation between Huo Lintong and her boyfriend is a little bit like the love-brained and infatuated female supporting role in TV dramas, who forgets everything after a sentence or two of teasing.
This kind of brainless sweetness in other people's homes sounds inexplicably unpleasant to others.
After a while, Huo Lintong hung up the phone and said to Xia Yiqian with a happy face: "Don't worry!
It really is someone Jing Yi sent to protect me."
As she spoke, she waved her hand indifferently at the man and said, "Stay away from us, we need some private space to go shopping.
Don’t get too close.”
The man glanced at Xia Yiqian inconspicuously. He still couldn't figure out why the person he saw enter the store suddenly appeared behind him.
It seems he was wrong.
The reason why Huo Lintong felt at ease to go out with this girl alone was not because they were running out secretly, but because this girl was really capable.
Analyzing the situation in his mind, the man kept smiling respectfully and nodded to Huo Lintong, "Okay, Madam."
Then he turned around and left without any reluctance, as if he really wanted to protect them from a distance.
Huo Lintong looked at Xia Yiqian, whose eyes had not yet moved away from the man, and said with a smile: "He's gone, we don't need to care about him anymore.
Let me tell you, it’s only because I came out with you today that my brother allowed me to go shopping quietly. Before, I had to have at least seven or eight bodyguards following me.
I have no freedom to do anything, it’s so annoying.”
Xia Yiqian filtered out all of Huo Lintong's complaints with her ears, not even letting them enter her mind. She just continued with her own thoughts: "Something's wrong."
Huo Lintong blinked, "What's wrong?"
Xia Yiqian said with absolute certainty, "That man's face shows that he will die in a foreign land after failing to commit murder for money. He is not someone who can protect others."
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