"I can't control that. Anyway, I don't know whether the information on it is true or not. It's up to you whether it's intentional or not." Xu Yixing put the note in the candied fruit package and placed it on the sundries beside him. He took a last look at the "child".
"Thank you for taking the trouble to prescribe so many medicines for me. I will never let you down. I will live a long life." After saying this, he smiled, patted the cake crumbs on his hands, and walked out of the alley humming a little tune.
Ying Si opened his mouth to shout, but found that he had nothing to say, so he turned around and stared at the package, spat as if in anger, and strode away.
But when he reached the end of the street, he turned back for some unknown reason, reached out to take the bag of candied fruits, put it in his arms, then with a red face, he slipped out of the back street like a thief and disappeared into the night.
Xu Yixing felt that he had done a great thing and felt much better. When he returned to the garden, he met Lu Anyuan's anxious gaze and asked, "Where did you go? Why were you out for so long?"
"Ha, I went to do a good deed and help the homeless children find their biological parents."
"You're really kind." Lu Anyuan glanced at the person in front of him, and seeing that the maid Mo Ci didn't show any reaction, he knew that nothing had happened to her and that she was just having fun. "Wash your hands and eat. The food here is not to your liking. Today we asked a northern chef to cook the meal. Why don't you try it?"
"Okay. There's something I want to ask you. Let's eat first."
Lu Anyuan got excited, held her chopsticks, and said playfully, "You also need help from others? Tell me, what trouble did you get into?"
"Hey, I want to know if you can give me the knife that Prince Gu Du gave you as a gift?"
"Eagle Soaring Wolf Head Blade?" Lu Anyuan looked puzzled. This thing was the Emperor Sword of the Western Hu. How could he just give it away? "I can give it to you, but Yixing, you know how special this thing is. If I show it to outsiders, it will be very troublesome."
"Of course I know. I'm not afraid to tell you, I'm planning to give this knife to someone, so of course I have to ask if you agree."
Lu Anyuan's face darkened slightly. This knife, filled with murderous intent, was obviously meant for a man. How could she actually give her own thing to another man? And such a dangerous thing at that!
"Who are you planning to give it to?" This is something I have to find out clearly, so that it will be easier to find the right person when I want to kill him later.
Xu Yixing immediately noticed the evil in his eyes and stopped him immediately. "To be honest, I ran into one of my former shadow guards in the city today. I had already let them go back at Pingyun Pass, but they still followed me. I strongly suspect the other shadow guards are also in Jiangnan. They asked for your sword to get rid of them."
"Is there any necessary connection? If they don't obey your orders, I can send someone..." Lu Anyuan said as he made a gesture of wiping his neck. He really wanted to get rid of those people.
"Hey, hey, hey! My Shadow Guard saved your life after all, how could you be so ungrateful? I know they follow me because they're worried about me, and secondly, being a Shadow Guard for too long inevitably leads to losing their sense of identity. I'm just trying to find a target for them, don't you understand?"
"Haha." Lu Anyuan smiled awkwardly, put away his knife, and touched his non-existent hair. "Then tell me, how can we make them all disperse willingly? What do you need, manpower, money, or something else?"
"One of my subordinates really likes this sword of yours. If you give it to him, I'm sure he will be willing to leave." Xu Yixing finally explained the reason. Yingba had been eating sand on the grassland for half a year for this broken sword. It was really hard. It wouldn't be a waste for him to give it to him now.
"Hey, you're really good to your subordinates. But I said Ada and Aer also want it. Can't I give it to them?"
After hearing this, Xu Yixing immediately shouted outside the yard, "You two want it?"
"I don't want to." A unanimous answer came from outside the yard. Xu Yixing turned his head and stared at Lu Anyuan. How about it, you have nothing to say this time, right?
Lu Anyuan was so disappointed that he secretly thought that he would transfer Ada and Aer to the outer courtyard tomorrow to let Qiu Ling teach them a lesson. They were really disappointing!
Even so, Lu Anyuan didn't give the Wolf Head Knife to Yixing so easily. If the Hu people or the people in the imperial court discovered the existence of the knife, it would be disastrous. He simply found a reason to refuse Yixing while he had people search the city for the whereabouts of the Shadow Guard.
Unfortunately, he had only seen two of Yixing's shadow guards. Even the little ghost who had left Jiangnan was only known to exist after Mo Ci and Mr. Yao confirmed the existence of such a person. He had to admit that these people had some means of hiding.
After Xu Yixing's repeated pleas and sweet talk, Lu Anyuan finally relented and had the tightly wrapped wolf-head knife delivered to her. He also reminded her, "I'm not saying this, but even if you give this to your shadow guard, it will bring him death. Think it over before you decide."
"I know, I know." Xu Yixing's eyes lit up. He took out the knife and admired it carefully. It was such a rare and good blade. No wonder it became a treasure of the royal court.
The next morning, she warned everyone not to follow her and went to a pork shop in the west of the city. She sat at the butcher's door for a long time, until the butcher finally couldn't help but took the opportunity to invite her into the room.
"Master." Yingba lowered his head, feeling a little guilty, not only because he followed his master to Jiangnan, but also because he failed to protect his master from leaving the grassland.
"Forget it, I already told you to leave on your own. What's the point of being a master or not?"
"Yes, Madam Xu."
"Shadow Four is gone, you know that, right?"
"I heard about it." Ying Ba had heard about the boy deserting the battlefield and leaving Jiangnan after being scolded by his master. He sneered at it and had no idea what was going on in his mind!
"What do you think? Do you have any unfulfilled wishes or unfinished goals that you want to achieve?"
"I don't have any wishes. I'm butchering pigs and selling meat here, and the feeling is almost the same as killing people. I think it's pretty good."
Xu Yixing sighed again. Yes, her shadow guards were extremely loyal, but each of them was stupid and very stubborn. Otherwise, she wouldn't have had to disperse them in the first place.
"This is for you." Xu Yixing put down what he was holding in his arms. On the chopping board in the inner room, there was a mixture of pork blood and bone residue. The scene was really weird.
"What is this?" Yingba had already seen his master holding a long object at the door of his shop. It looked like a guqin or something. He reached out to remove the coarse cloth wrapped around it, and his eyes immediately widened.
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