He turned around abruptly, not wanting Chu Yuan to see him.
How embarrassing!
Would a dignified Eastern Depot Commander, who could confiscate property and kill people as easily as drinking water, blush?
If anyone told him this, he would draw his knife and strike without hesitation!
But it is happening right now.
Huo Jin's reason and instinct were locked in a fierce battle within him. Not only did his face turn red, but his fiery peach blossom eyes became bloodshot, even the corners of his eyes were misty red, making one want to commit a crime.
Let's see just how brilliant it can become.
"Admiral, you look so handsome." Chu Yuan teased, thinking, "Little brat, didn't you bring this up yourself?"
Do you want to make fun of her as a teenage girl in the throes of puberty?
I'm afraid that she's not the one who's truly in love.
Huo Jin still had his back to Chu Yuan, and when he noticed her looking at him, he deliberately flinched slightly, his tone fierce, "Stop provoking this admiral. Let's go, it's almost gone!"
I shouldn't have brought her here to digest her food.
He was so hungry, not just in his stomach where he hadn't eaten much, but all over his body.
They want to eat people.
Chu Yuan smiled and decided to stop while she was ahead.
Pointing to the nunnery across the way, he asked, "Do you think it's possible for us to reach the mountain on the other side if we don't go down the mountain?"
Seeing that she had changed the subject to something serious, Huo Jin felt inexplicably relieved.
His previously extremely impatient nature has improved.
He calmly turned around, carefully observed the surrounding terrain for a while, and shook his head:
"Impossible. The two mountains are only close in appearance, but there are natural streams between them with water at the bottom, and there may even be underground rivers."
Let alone crossing the mountain, even getting to the other side after descending it is no easy task.
Chu Yuan stroked her chin. "Is that so?"
Their eyes were fixed on the opposite side with curiosity. From their angle, they could see the nuns in plain clothes walking back and forth in the nunnery.
Similar to Longyin Temple, Houting Nunnery has nuns of all ages, and the older nuns seem to dote on the younger ones.
Chu Yuan smiled and pointed, "Huo Jin, look, the old nun in the nunnery is very kind to the young nun. She even helps her carry the water when she can't lift it. Don't they look like a mother and daughter?"
Huo Jin scoffed, "Where would a nun get a child?"
He didn't notice at all that Chu Yuan had changed how she addressed him.
Chu Yuan nodded with a smile, "Yes, you're right, how could a nun possibly have children?"
But I think that sometimes what we see with our eyes may not be the truth.
For example, when I was serving by the side of the Imperial Concubine, she mentioned that there was a wealthy merchant in the previous dynasty who was very convinced of feng shui. He hired a master to build his tomb on two seemingly isolated mountain peaks, with a mountain stream with a rapid current in between.
A tomb chamber was built on each of the two mountains.
They buried him on one side and his beloved wife on the other, and dug a secret passage connecting them in the riverbed, so that they could remain connected, share joys and sorrows, and still absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
In this way, he can continue his predestined relationship with his wife in this life in his next life.
Chu Yuan told her story in a gentle, flowing manner, her words filled with a woman's deep longing for love.
It doesn't sound deliberate or abrupt.
Huo Jin instinctively wanted to laugh at her, but her feet unconsciously moved to the side. She buried her head to look, and the river flowed westward with a rushing sound. It was hard to imagine what might be underwater.
His eyes narrowed slightly, as if he had thought of something.
Having achieved her goal, Chu Yuan smiled slightly and pulled the person back, saying, "Come here quickly, it's dangerous!"
But she forgot that she had drunk the talent-enhancing water, making her stronger than the average person. With this pull, she caused Huo Jin to stumble.
As they stepped on Chu Yuan's foot, the two of them fell together into the soft peach grove.
Huo Jin, who looked slim in clothes but had a muscular physique when undressed, suddenly pressed down on Chu Yuan.
Chu Yuan, "..."
Her face flushed red without warning, not from embarrassment, but from being pressed down.
But for some reason, the man on top of her didn't get up quickly; he just stared at her without looking into her eyes.
Chu Yuan coughed a few times, finally unable to hold back any longer, and pushed him, "Get up, are you trying to crush me to death?"
"Oh!" Huo Jin hurriedly got up.
Since the rolling dragon wasn't in the temple, Chu Yuan declined Huo Jin's inquiry about whether she would stay overnight and decided to go back first and come back later.
She even grumbled a couple more times: "Next time, remember to call me when there are people around! What a waste of a trip!"
A series of electronic beeping sounds: "[Little cutie, that rolling dragon was temporary, meaning it had just left the temple before you arrived. We are the system, not the tapeworms in your stomachs, okay!]"
Besides, even though you didn't catch the Rolling Dragon, you didn't come away empty-handed, did you?
Didn't you notice that Huo Jin's gaze towards you has changed a bit?
Chu Yuan, "What has changed?"
I want to devour you even more now!
"Thank you so much!!"
Knowing Baba's nature very well, Chu Yuan promptly asked before it logged off, "Hey, by the way, did you say Rolling Dragon suddenly went out? Was it off to harass innocent women again?"
If we could catch her red-handed right now, it would be much better than her telling Huo Jin all sorts of fancy stories!
Baba snorted coldly upon hearing this: "Little cutie, this should be your task. Don't always try to take shortcuts!"
Chu Yuan, “…” Damn system!
The two rode back to the capital overnight, too exhausted to say a word.
The next day, I slept until late morning.
Of course, Chu Yuan, being a free person, could keep making pancakes over and over again, but Huo Jin couldn't; he was summoned away by the emperor early in the morning.
It seems that his whereabouts were not actually being kept secret.
At least the emperor knew what he was doing.
While Chu Yuan was having lunch, the young actress came over, her expression strange.
"What's wrong? Is something the matter?" Chu Yuan ate her meal by herself, not paying much attention to the little actress.
This little eunuch lived up to his name; he was quite the drama queen and seemed to dislike her a bit.
Chu Yuan didn't want to cause herself any trouble. She got straight to the point, saying what she had to say and leaving quickly if there was nothing else to say.
"Sister Huowu wants to see you," the young actress said somewhat awkwardly.
Rumors circulated that the governor of his family was infatuated with Huo Wu, and after killing his adoptive father and several of his adoptive brothers, he took Huo Wu back to his mansion, keeping her as a mistress and pampering her every night.
The handcuffs and anklets weren't meant to restrain Huo Wu intentionally, but rather to prevent her from contemplating suicide.
Given Huo Wu's feelings for her adoptive father and brother, she deeply hated Huo Jin and wished she could kill him with a single blow.
The two are in a love-hate relationship, tormenting each other yet unable to control their feelings...blah blah blah.
The young actress, who was by Huo Jin's side, was well aware that there were untrue parts of these rumors, but it was unlikely that Huo Jin had no feelings for Huo Wu's sworn sister.
After all, he had only ever seen Huo Jin show concern and care for one woman, and that woman was Huo Wu's sworn sister.
Thinking of this, the young actress looked up again, her gaze towards Chu Yuan becoming inexplicably more resentful.
It's all her fault!
Her arrival shattered the Huo family's usual tranquility. When Huo Wu's sworn sister heard that the admiral had taken her horseback riding and to visit a temple, her usually calm eyes suddenly flashed with a hint of complexity.
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