Chapter 300 Maybe, she is still alive in this world
Xiao Nanyue was hit so hard that his face turned to the side. Drops of water mixed with blood foam slid down from the corner of his mouth, but the confusion in his eyes faded a little.
"Look at what you look like now. Where is the majestic demeanor of the regent who can call the wind and rain and has great magical powers?"
Fu Yunqing's voice trembled with anger, and he pointed at his bleeding back and cursed:
"You, you, are you going to die? Don't you think about it? Your mother's coffin is still in the ancestral hall, your father's funeral is still waiting for you to personally organize, and the yellow book of the new emperor's coronation ceremony is in your study. Now there are internal and external troubles, people's hearts are unstable, Su Qinyao and Helian Feng are recruiting court officials, watching covetously. The pillars of the entire Tianqi depend on you. Are you going to be so disloyal, unfilial, and unjust for a woman?"
The mountain wind blew up Xiao Nanyue's wet hair, revealing the wound on his forehead that had just been caused by the collision.
He looked at his disheveled reflection in the rippling water, and suddenly his mother's coffin and the heart-shaped knot tightly held in his father Helian Cong's hand flashed before his eyes. He finally retracted his steps.
"I have sent three thousand soldiers to search along the waterway."
Fu Yunqing slowed down his tone:
"We've been searching for her for so long, but still haven't found her whereabouts. Maybe she's still alive. If she's still alive, don't you think it's ridiculous that you've become such a horrible person?"
Xiao Nanyue stared at the water for a long time until the sun shone brightly, dyeing the lake golden.
He slowly raised his hand and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth. His fingertips touched the palm print on his cheek, and the stinging pain actually made him regain some clarity.
"Go back!" The voice was as light as a sigh, but it carried a thousand pounds of weight.
Seeing that he finally figured it out, Fu Yunqing breathed a sigh of relief.
When Xiao Nanyue turned around, his body shook violently. Fu Yunqing hurried forward to support him. When she touched his hot skin, she found that he had a high fever.
On the return carriage, Xiao Nanyue was half asleep and half awake, occasionally staring out the window. Among the passing shadows of the trees, it seemed that Xiyan's resolute face was everywhere.
The wound on his back began to bleed again, soaking the quilt beneath him, but he was completely unaware and just kept stroking the evening jasmine flower jade pendant in his hand.
It was found in the mud of the culvert. A corner of the evening primrose petal on the jade pendant was broken, just like his broken heart at the moment.
"If he's alive, I want to see him. If he's dead, I want to see... his corpse."
Xiao Nanyan fainted before he could finish his words, but he still held the jade pendant tightly in his palm, as if he wanted to embed the remaining thoughts into his bones and blood.
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Just as Xiao Nanyue and the others disappeared at the end of the valley, ripples suddenly appeared on the water surface.
A person emerged from the water, his scarlet clothes soaked in cold water, his black hair stuck to his cheeks like seaweed, and his eyes were bloodshot.
It was the Poison King Chu Jin.
Ever since the day Manluo fell off the cliff, he had been searching like a madman along the river below the cliff, without closing his eyes for three days and three nights. Helian Feng sent Mingying and Zou Yi to take him away by force, but he forced them back with poison weapons.
He thought that if there was water below, he would be able to find her.
Unexpectedly, after searching for three days, not even a trace of Manluo was found.
He had also hoped that Manluo might have already swam ashore and returned to the Regent's Palace.
But the secret guards sent out brought back news that Xiao Nanyan also ordered people to search for Manluo along the river, and even mobilized the navy to set up nets downstream, but there was still no news.
"Could it be that she was swept into the sea eye again like last time?"
Chu Jin murmured to herself, if that was really the case, how could she, a pregnant woman, hold on?
He staggered ashore, his wet clothes sticking to his body and he was shivering with cold, but he was completely unaware.
Suddenly, he raised his hand and slapped himself more than a dozen times, with such force that his cheeks turned red and swollen instantly.
"Chu Jin, you're such a bastard!"
He roared into the valley, his voice hoarse and broken:
"Manluo, where are you..."
At this moment, he was filled with regret.
If she and the child were really gone, what would it matter if he killed Xiao Nanyue?
Looking at the vast expanse of water, Chu Jin felt a deep panic for the first time - it turned out that compared to the pleasure of revenge, the bright and beautiful woman who always seduced and deceived him and was pregnant with his child had already become a calamity in his life that he could not give up.
When Helian Feng arrived, Chu Jin was curled up on the reef, his red robe tattered by the river sand.
Helian Feng had not slept for three days and nights. He had hidden it from Su Qinyao and risked being captured by Xiao Nanyue's men to go down the secret canal to search for Xiyan's whereabouts.
Likewise, I returned disappointed.
Presumably, the woman has been washed away by the current, and perhaps we will never see each other again in this life.
The hatred and resentment he had for her had long since vanished into thin air. That woman in white clothes as white as snow would eventually leave a deep mark in his heart.
He knew that Chu Jin was also looking for Zi Sha's whereabouts, and Helian Feng had no good feelings towards that woman Man Luo.
Three days ago, if she had not forcibly stopped him, Chu Jin would have killed Xiao Nanyue and eliminated the biggest worry in his heart.
It’s better for this woman to die. If she were alive, she would inevitably affect Chu Jin’s mind.
Seeing Chu Jin so distraught, he also felt a little annoyed:
"Ah Jin, you've already betrayed me once for Xiao Nanyan's assassins. But I don't blame you. We are not plants or trees, so who can be heartless? I am no exception. However, we must look forward. I hope you can pull yourself together. As for what happened last time, my mother and I will forgive you."
Chu Jin's eyes were full of pain, that was the emptiness that comes after losing a loved one, and Helian Feng understood it well.
"If we haven't found him yet, he might still be alive. Why are you degrading yourself like this? Besides, Xiao Nanyan can't take care of him right now. After a few days, when he recovers, he will focus all his energy on dealing with you and me. We should retreat to Chiyu Peak as soon as possible. There, one man can hold the pass against ten thousand. Even if Xiao Nanyan sent troops, it would be difficult to capture. This place is not a place to stay for long."
Seeing the tension in Chu Jin's eyes gradually soften, Helian Feng sighed softly, raised his sleeve to wipe the dirt off his face, and pulled him up from the ground:
"Let's go!"
The sound of horse hooves shattered the sunset and carried two equally soul-destroying people away from the valley.
But Chu Jin hadn't noticed that there was also moisture in Helian Feng's eyes, which gradually dried up with the mountain breeze...
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