Chapter 87: Flowing Light (1) Looking for Someone
Xie Yun leaned over and pulled his hand away. But she couldn't help but tuck the quilt in for him.
She pretended not to hear him say "forgive me" and turned away.
Two days later, Xie Yun received a reply from Fang Zhen.
He was willing to share the news with Xie Yun because she had promised to give Fang Zhen a 10% share of Yunjitang's annual profits. Yunjitang's business had been growing rapidly in recent years, and this year's profits were particularly impressive. The 10% Fang Zhen received was more than the tolls the Wen family had paid in previous years.
Fang Zhen was naturally happy to do the work.
As soon as she received the news, Xie Yun led her men, following the group Fang Zhen had assigned her, to search for the criminal's wife and children. Meanwhile, the Wen family was also doing their utmost to locate the crew member.
As luck would have it, the whereabouts of the criminal's wife and children were not in Baixia, but in Qingzhou, the former border between the two countries. This was also the place where she and Yan Huinan had reunited many years ago.
She had originally intended to sneak back to Baixia via Qingzhou, but as fate would have it, she and Yan Huinan had met on a narrow road. Now, she was desperately rushing from Baixia to this place.
However, Qingzhou was no longer the border between the two countries. After six years of fighting in the south, Yan Hui had already recovered the lost territory that Xie Yun's father had lost.
But Qingzhou is still a place with very loose management.
It wasn't that stupid of them to flee there, but they really did cause a lot of harm.
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After Yan Huinan took the antidote, he was in a coma for two days, but even after waking up the next day, he was not conscious.
It was only during his coma that he could subconsciously sense someone had moved him away from his original place, and that someone was taking care of him. In his comatose dream, it was Xie Yun who was taking care of him.
It was only a few days later, when he regained consciousness, that he discovered that it was Han Zhen holding the medicine bowl beside him, and Yan Lang sitting at the head of the bed, feeding him the medicine bit by bit with a spoon.
To be honest, he was quite disappointed.
The gap is too big.
One is my lover, the other is a tiny thing the size of a bean.
Yan Lang was still a child after all, and even though he was worried about his father, feeding his father medicine seemed like a fun thing. He had to keep a steady eye on the spoon to make sure it didn't spill. Then he would aim it at his father's mouth, gently pry it open, and feed the medicine in. If a little spilled, he would quickly wipe it with a small handkerchief.
Just like things like archery and kicking football, you have to be accurate.
If it is accurate, you will be very happy. If it is not accurate, you will inevitably feel dejected.
Halfway through feeding his father the medicine today, Yan Lang saw that his father had woken up. He even whispered to Han Zhen beside him: "Is he really awake this time?"
Han Zhen didn't know either and shook his head.
Yan Lang put down the spoon, moved over to hold his father's face, and looked at it very closely. "Does this count as being completely awake?"
After saying this, he was about to reach out and pull Yan Huinan's eyes, but was stopped in time by Yan Huinan.
He coughed twice, then pulled Yan Lang into his arms, stretched out his hand to tickle him, and said, "Look, is your father awake?"
Yan Lang was amused by him and laughed non-stop, begging for mercy and shouting: "Wake up, wake up."
"Little brat, you actually treat your dad as your toy." After teasing for a while, Yan Huinan stopped.
Yan Lang snuggled into Yan Huinan's warm bed and curled up, raising his big round eyes. "Lang'er didn't. Lang'er is very obedient and has always taken good care of his father."
Yan Huinan immediately grasped the key information and asked, "Whose words did you listen to? Your mother's?"
Lang Er nodded, "Yes, before my mother left, she asked me to take good care of my father."
"Before leaving?" Yan Huinan's brows furrowed. Where had Xie Yun gone? And from what Lang'er said, she must be somewhere far away. So he quickly asked Han Zhen to take Yan Lang out and summoned Si Wen.
Yan Huinan asked Si Wen, "Where is the princess?"
In his mind, Xie Yun will always be his wife, once the general's wife, and now his regent princess.
This fact will never change.
"My lord, the madam set out with Fang Zhen's men, presumably to look for the criminal's wife and children. She has been searching for their whereabouts for days. They left the day before yesterday, heading west out of Baixia City. I have already sent people to follow and protect the madam, and they will report back every other day on her whereabouts."
"What is a room earthquake?" Yan Huinan asked.
"He's the bandit leader around Baixia City. He's quite powerful and has been entrenched in the city for a long time. He's a deserter from the battlefield over a decade ago."
Si Wen then told Yan Huinan how Xie Yun got the information.
After hearing everything, Yan Huinan's face darkened to a frightening degree. The good mood that Yan Lang had just felt when he said to Xie Yun, "Take good care of yourself," had completely vanished.
She actually went to this extent for an insignificant person like Wen Yao?
She actually dared to follow the bandits to find someone without asking any questions. Did she not care about her own safety or did she really value Wen Yao too much?
"Where's Xie Run?"
Si Wen said, "The day before the princess left, he had already left the city and headed north. It seemed that he had something urgent to do."
Yan Huinan was about to speak when a noisy sound came from outside the house, making him even more upset.
Outside the house, Wen Rui was talking to Teng Ye, who was guarding the yard.
"How is Master Yan's health? This is the soup I made myself and brought to him. I'll go in and take a look."
Teng Ye, however, stood outside like a solid wall, neither paying any attention to Wen Rui's words nor letting her pass. He just stood there blankly, leaving Wen Rui helpless.
Yan Huinan appeared in the Wen family as Yan Li. When Xie Yun didn't want to tell everything, he decided to continue pretending.
He walked out of the house looking sick. When Wen Rui saw him, she quickly took her maid and slipped under Teng Ye's arm and came to Yan Huinan's side.
"Master Yan, are you feeling better?" Wen Rui asked. "A few days ago, the servants told us you were ill, which really scared us. If the people sent by my uncle had any mishaps in our house, it would be unacceptable."
She spoke in rapid succession, and Yan Huinan simply said calmly, "Nothing. No need to worry, Miss Wen."
"How can this be? I still have to worry about you." Wen Rui was about to raise her hand to support Yan Huinan when she was frightened by Si Wen's cold eyes.
She withdrew her hand angrily and ordered the soup to be brought to the table in the room. She saw that there was nothing on the table, even the tea was cold, and she scolded the servants in the room, even Han Zhen. So she ordered someone to prepare hot tea.
After finishing all this, she turned around and asked Yan Huinan to drink: "Then try this soup. It contains ginseng. You have been seriously ill and your body is weak. You need to replenish it..."
But when he turned around, he saw that Yan Huinan's men had already left, leaving only their backs.
Teng Ye was the only one left. He walked over to Wen Rui and said indifferently, "Miss Wen, please go out."
"You!" Wen Rui's temper could no longer be suppressed. She gritted her teeth and cursed at Teng Ye. After cursing, she said, "This is my home! You are taking yourself too seriously here. Is there any place in my home that I can't come to?! Even a woman like Yun Yun can come into this yard. Why didn't you stop her when she came in?"
Teng Ye said smoothly: "She is naturally different from you."
Everything in the words is as it should be.
This made Wen Rui even more angry.
"Say it again! How can she, a woman of unknown origin, be nobler than me?"
Teng Ye stopped answering her. He said that the more he talked, the more mistakes he made. As a warrior, he should talk less.
After Yan Huinan went out, he asked someone to pack some clothes for him and Yan Lang. Following the marks left by the people sent by Si Wen, he led people to chase Xie Yun.
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However, Xie Yun and the others were also fast, and they arrived at the place where the criminal's wife and children were hiding a few days earlier than Yan Huinan. It was in a small town at the foot of Qingzhou Mountain.
Xie Yun and Fei Jing's clothes were as low-key as possible, but before entering the town, they met some villagers on the road outside the town. Xie Yun and his group's clothes were somewhat out of place with the people here.
Xie Yun was walking on the road leading the horse, and passers-by looked at him sideways.
However, the purpose of this trip was very clear. She got the address of the mother and child from Fang Zhen and asked around in the town, asking if there was a woman with an orphan and a widow. After all, a woman alone with a child would always attract attention. She also had their portraits, which made it easier to find them.
So as soon as she arrived here, Xie Yun went straight to the residence of the mother and son.
They lived in a shabby house near the foot of the mountain, with only a small yard made of wood and thatch, on the outskirts of the town. They planted some vegetables in the yard. Being at the foot of the mountain, the temperature was much warmer than that in Baixia City. Even when it snowed in Baixia City, the temperature here was still pleasant, so the vegetables grew well.
The chives in the field had obviously been cut several times, indicating that someone did live here.
According to the villagers, the mother and son rarely went out. When they were first asked, the villagers had no impression of them. It was not until Xie Yun took out the portrait and asked more detailed questions that some people remembered.
"We hardly saw each other before, but these past few days, it seems that he wants to enroll his child in a school. He has contacted the teacher several times, but it seems that he can't afford the tuition, so he hasn't decided yet."
I asked some shop owners and learned from the owner of an embroidery shop that she had come to pick up embroidery several times in the past few days.
It was confirmed that she wanted to earn money through embroidery to send her children to school.
But I haven't seen anyone in the town today, and I haven't seen anyone outside their house either.
Xie Yun asked Fei Jing to sneak in to see if there was anyone in the room.
Fei Jing's Qinggong was good, and after he entered quietly, he found that there was no one in the room. However, the daily necessities were all there. Just as he was about to leave.
But he noticed that the bucket in the house had fallen over, forming a puddle on the ground.
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