Chapter 289 What if I don’t want to leave?
Lord Zhao seemed to be afraid of being seen, so he grabbed the yamen runner who was talking, trotted for a while, and made sure that no one surrounding the tea trees saw him. He patted his chest and breathed a sigh of relief.
Lord Zhao said earnestly, "Did you see the extra gauze hat on Sang Dongjia's head?"
The baffled yamen runner nodded subconsciously: "I see."
"Is there something wrong with that veil?"
Lord Zhao shook his head calmly: "The gauze hat is right in every way, but the person who brought it up the mountain is wrong."
Seeing that the yamen runner still looked puzzled as to what he was talking about, Lord Zhao shook his head and said cryptically, "Some people don't want to show up. Even if you see them, you have to pretend not to see them, understand?"
The person who brought the gauze hat up the mountain obviously did not want others to see his true face.
It's also good that he pretends to be blind at the right time.
The land in the northwest is so small that when the noble person feels the time is right, he will have the opportunity to appear before the true God sooner or later.
And now…
Lord Zhao turned his head with a complicated look at the place he was left behind, and said subtly: "I am just a small city guard in the northwest. I don't know anything about it."
No matter his former immense wealth or his current seclusion from the mortal world, none of it has anything to do with him.
The sky is high and the emperor is far away in the northwest, and half of the sky here is covered by Chen Nianhe.
Good or bad, those were all disputes between big shots, so he wouldn't bother asking too many questions.
Lord Zhao made up his mind to pretend to be deaf and dumb and continue to be a small and foolish official. He quickly went down the mountain and left behind all the land deeds. He didn't even wait for Sang Zhixia to come down the mountain, and immediately returned to the North City.
What Lord Zhao did reached Xu Yu's ears through Deputy General Wu, and Xu Yu just curled the corners of his lips after hearing it.
"He's quite sensible."
Deputy General Wu jokingly said, "Lord Zhao cares about the people, but unfortunately his acting skills are poor. He is too straightforward and can't hide his inner thoughts."
"He probably knew he couldn't hide it, so he just pretended not to know."
"Can't hide it?"
Xu Yu sarcastically said, "That's not necessarily true."
On the one hand, he showed goodwill to Sang Zhixia and opened the door for her to do things, while on the other hand, he pretended to be ignorant and threw all the possible troubles of having dealings with the Xu family onto Chen Nianhe. Such a person does not seem to be a simple-minded person.
But it doesn’t matter.
Sang Zhixia's activities are getting bigger and bigger, so Chen Nianhe will have to work harder to cover it up in the future, and he won't have to worry about any troubles arising in the next three to five years.
As for three to five years later...
Xu Yu lowered his eyes, concealing the anger in his eyes, and said irrelevantly: "The time will tell."
He also couldn't let Sang Zhixia suffer with him in this small place in the northwest.
Deputy General Wu listened without saying much, smiled and took the initiative to walk in front, and swung his knife to cut off the branches on the roadside that might trip him.
The one walking in front was Sang Zhixia, who had always been followed by Xu Yu's gaze.
When Sang Zhixia first went up the mountain, he had planned to see more than 300 tea trees in one go.
Only by seeing with your own eyes where tea trees grow well, and remembering the details that villagers would overlook, can you come up with the optimal solution after summarizing it, and infer where the tea seedlings can take root and survive.
The conclusions drawn from on-site inspections are far more real and reliable than those heard from others.
But Sang Zhixia was still careless.
The villager leading the way exhaled a large puff of white air as he held his knees and panted, "The rest are all on the mountain. The nearest one will take at least an hour to walk from here!"
If you just walk there without looking around, you'll still have time.
But Sang Zhixia stopped all the way along the way. Every time he came to a place where there was a tea tree, it would take at least half a quarter of an hour to dig the soil and cut the branches.
If we continue to go up at the current speed, it will definitely be late at night when we get down the mountain.
Someone who knew the situation in the mountains couldn't help but say, "Boss, the mountain roads are already difficult to walk on. Even experienced hunters don't dare to stay in the mountains for long after dark. Do you think you still want to continue going up?"
The mountains are colder than other places, and it is even colder at night.
Sang Zhixia had a sudden decision today, and the people who had been traveling with him were all wearing thin clothes. Not far from the mountainside, they could clearly see some people shivering in the mountain breeze.
The higher you go, the colder it gets.
The person who was speaking had a look of anxiety on his face, as if he was worried about angering Sang Zhixia. He didn't even dare to look at Xu Yu, the murderous man who wanted to kill people.
Xue Liu was about to say something but was stopped by Xu Yu's raised hand. Xu Yu did not interrupt rashly, but waited quietly for Sang Zhixia to make her own decision.
Sang Zhixia glanced around, clasping the cloak around her shoulders with muddy fingers. She said, "Mark this. Come back tomorrow."
The anxious people felt relieved and started to pack up their things to go down the mountain.
Xu Yu took the small shovel from Sang Zhixia's hand and said in a voice only she could hear, "Do your feet hurt? How about I carry you?"
Sang Zhixia led his men up the mountain at dawn this morning and has not had any rest since then. He has been running in the mountains for nearly five hours.
The man who looked much stronger than Sang Zhixia had a pale face. In addition, Sang Zhixia had done all the work of watching the soil and pruning the branches by himself along the way, so he must be more tired than anyone else now.
Sang Zhixia calmly pinched his fingertips, smiled and shook her head: "It's okay, while it's still early, let's talk about it down the mountain."
On the way down the mountain, a fine fog rose in the mountains.
At first it was just a blurry white, but in the blink of an eye, as it turned a bend, the fog gradually thickened, and it was obvious that there was an icy dampness in the air.
The person leading the way uttered a cry and turned back to shout, "Boss, it's foggy and now it's raining. We have to hurry! If we're late, the road on this mountain will become even more difficult to travel!"
The fog was thick and the mountain roads were slippery. With the falling night, the longer they stayed in the mountains, the greater the potential danger would be.
Sang Zhixia uttered a cry and subconsciously reached out to grab a nearby branch. Before he could stand firmly, his feet suddenly felt lighter.
Xu Yu had been walking on the outside of the cliff. He stretched out his long arm and clasped Sang Zhixia's waist. He leaned in close and whispered, "Zhizhi, hold on tight."
Sang Zhixia instinctively grabbed his arm and her eyes fell on Xu Yu's back.
Xu Yu carried the man on his back and walked steadily down, stepping on the mist that seemed to gather and disperse under his feet. He said, "It's not safe here next to the cliff. I'll carry you over and then walk on my own."
Sang Zhixia lay on his broad back, her throat moving slightly, the corners of her mouth curled up, and she put her hands around Xu Yu's neck, leaning close to his ear, her voice involuntarily becoming a little coquettish: "What if I don't want to leave?"
"I'm telling you, we walked a long way today. These boots are warm, but the soles are soft. Stepping on all those gravel along the way hurts my feet."
Xu Yu carried her on his back, carefully avoiding the dead branches growing across the cliffs. He sneered, "You said it was okay earlier, but now you feel the pain?"
Sang Zhixia buried her face in his shoulder like a spoiled brat and said lazily, "Yeah, it hurts now."
"I can't walk, I can't walk. I can't walk at all."
"If you can't leave, just hook me."
Xu Yu was so angry that he laughed. Hidden behind Sang Zhixia's large cloak, he gently patted her back and said coaxingly, "Lie down. I'll carry you."
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