"Uncle Mu, what are you standing here staring at like an idiot for? Have you bought the flowerpots you said you wanted to choose?"
Wei Yao squeezed through the crowd from the other side, carrying gift bags of various sizes as she jogged over.
"What's the rush? You've been coming to my house to freeload, what's wrong with you? You're not happy about me buying you some gifts?"
Wei Yao shrugged and said indifferently, "Who's unhappy? Buy it if you want. If it weren't for the general forbidding us... never mind, if we had somewhere to go, I really wouldn't want to mooch a meal at your house. It's mainly because your wife is too long-winded. Every time I listen to her preach, I can't help but doze off."
"No, let's talk about these things later. My eyesight may be failing me lately. Can you take a look and see if that person... is our general?"
Muko squinted and pointed in one direction.
"General?"
Upon hearing this, Wei Yao instantly perked up.
He looked in the direction Mu Ke pointed, but the crowds blocked his view, and he could only vaguely see a glimpse of a blue hem of clothing flash by.
He couldn't help but move a few steps to the side, and now the view was unobstructed.
On the wide cobblestone path, a petite and slender woman was carrying a tall man as they scurried through the crowd and ran forward. This scene deeply shocked him.
Wei Yao looked on with surprise and astonishment.
He had seen men carry women, adults carry children, and young people carry the elderly, but this was the first time he had ever witnessed a woman who looked so delicate and petite lift up a grown man and still have the energy to run...
Did she secretly take some kind of super-strength pill, or did she learn some jack-like kung fu?
However, if someone has practiced the skill of lifting heavy loads, regardless of gender, they will develop a powerful physique with muscular arms and a strong V-shaped torso. It's impossible for them to still have such a effeminate figure.
That's why he was even more surprised and couldn't understand it.
No, he wasn't the only one who thought so. Basically, everyone around who saw this scene couldn't help but turn their heads and stop, dumbfounded.
For some reason, Wei Yao felt that the little girl's back view looked somewhat familiar...
"Zebang, come quick! Look at what that is!"
Wang Zebang had just finished picking and choosing a wolf hair pen, but before he could pay for it, Wei Yao suddenly appeared and snatched it away.
He looked displeased and was about to ask him what was wrong with him when he saw Wei Yao hurriedly pull him into the street and point ahead: "Look, that little girl might be our lady. I don't know what happened, but she's running wildly down the street with the general in her arms!"
Perhaps others cannot recognize a person based solely on some superficial characteristics, but who is he? He is the general's childhood follower.
He was certain that the man was a general.
And besides his wife, he really couldn't think of anyone else who could be so close to the general, yet the general didn't resist or kill him, and even let him lose face by picking him up.
Wei Yao's emotions were complex, a mixture of surprise, bewilderment, excitement, and curiosity.
There were so many flaws in that sentence that Wang Zebang didn't even know where to begin his critique. All he could do was sternly rebuke him.
"What nonsense are you spouting? The general being held by his wife? Have you lost your mind and said the opposite of what you meant?"
"No, oh dear, they've run far away! Quick, chase after them!"
At this moment, Mu Ke also picked up his small potted kumquat tree and came over: "Yes, yes, hurry up and catch up! I saw that the general's foot... seems to be bleeding. Could it be that he was injured and that's why the lady is carrying him?"
The general's foot is injured... What's going on? The location of the injury is truly puzzling. What kind of enemy would launch a sneak attack or ambush to concentrate the injury on the sole of the foot?
Seeing that they were chatting so earnestly, Wang Zebang also stared intently over, but saw nothing. However, the passersby's reactions were a bit strange; they all stopped on the side of the road and didn't move, as if they had just seen something strange and hadn't recovered yet.
"Zebang, stop daydreaming and hurry up and chase after them!"
Wei Yao didn't want Wang Zebang to waste time. He took the small potted plant from Uncle Mu's hand, grabbed him with one hand, and chased after him quickly.
"Hey, if it really is the General and his wife, wouldn't you be secretly investigating the General's affairs by following them like this?"
"Who said that?" Wei Yao smiled, her fox-like eyes narrowing, and winked slyly. "We clearly just happened to bump into each other in Fu County. How can that be called tracking?"
Wang Zebang rolled his eyes at him: "Have you ever heard that being too curious isn't a good thing?"
"But if there is no curiosity, wouldn't a person's life be like a stagnant pool forever? Don't worry, we'll be careful and just see what the general's wife looks like, and why the general was injured. Is it related to the runaway horse in the east? Aren't you worried about the general's injury?"
Wang Zebang was not fooled: "If the general were really seriously injured, there would definitely be secret guards to report it. But right now everything is quiet, so it seems that he is fine. You are obviously afraid that the general will blame you later, so you are trying to get me to join you and share the risk."
"You know that now that you're on my pirate ship, it's too late to get off."
Mu Ke turned his head and gestured to them: "Alright, you two stop chatting and focus on following the person. Don't lose them later. Also, don't follow too closely and disturb the general and his wife's time alone."
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Zheng Quchi is always busy and rarely has the leisure to stroll around the main streets of Fuxian County to familiarize herself with the way. At present, the route she is most familiar with is to the clothing store.
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