Huangfu Bin, who was in the inner room, said, "He's here to bring back Huangfu Zhong. Although Xiahou Qing isn't in Qinghe County right now, it's not that easy to kill him. I just hope they can get away with it. The people they brought out must be brought back intact, otherwise none of us will be able to complete our mission."
The three of them frowned as they looked into the inner room. The matter of the living dead was truly too important and needed to be resolved as soon as possible, otherwise there would be endless trouble.
...That night, after the doctor had forced Huangfu Zhong to drink a lot of medicine and pricked him like a hedgehog, Huangfu Zhong, who had been unconscious the entire time, suddenly opened his eyes. However, he was still dizzy and everything he saw was spinning. The first thing Huangfu Zhong did after waking up was to grab the people around him and shout, "...Xiahou, Xiahou Chun, be careful!"
Upon hearing this, Xiahou Jun hurriedly supported Huangfu Zhong and asked, "Mr. Huangfu, you're awake. How do you feel now?"
Huangfu Zhong didn't know where Xiahou Chun was. After confirming it was him, he hurriedly said, "Master Xiahou, the Huangfu family is here. Is the Shengxi Gu okay?"
Xiahou Jun was slightly stunned, then he reiterated, "Huangfu family? Sir, are you talking about your family, the Huangfu family?"
Huangfu Zhong said in panic: "Yes, they are here, and they are all masters! My lord, I don't want to die yet!"
Now, Xiahou Jun connected the dots between the events of the day. If it were the Huangfu family, they could have blown up the government office, causing chaos, attacked Huangfu Zhong and attempted to kill him, then poisoned him to ensure his death. "...Sir, don't worry. The Shengxi Gu is still safe in your room. As for the rest, don't worry. As long as I, Xiahou Jun, am here, I will definitely not let anything happen to you. By the way, sir, the bone flute you gave us suddenly stopped working today. Do you know what went wrong?"
"Let me see, ahem." Huangfu Zhong took the bone flute and pretended to examine it. Then, while Xiahou Chun wasn't paying attention, he tampered with it and said, "...Sure enough, someone tampered with it."
Huangfu Zhong, enduring the pain, asked Xiahou Chun to take out a small bottle of something from his pocket. He smeared the contents on the bone flute and said, "Try it again later, sir. It should be fine now. Ahem!"
Xiahou Jun took the bone flute and said in admiration, "The Huangfu family is truly extraordinary. This bone flute has been in my hands the entire time, and they actually found an opportunity to take it."
Huangfu Zhong, his face pale and covered in cold sweat, replied, "Although the Huangfu family is famous for their witchcraft, their skills in poisoning are not bad either."
Xiahou Jun saw Huangfu Zhong's frail appearance and felt it was really difficult to force him to wake up tonight. He looked so weak, so he should just take good care of himself. After all, the Shengxi Gu still depended on him for nourishment. "Sir, get some rest. Something big happened today, and I haven't finished dealing with it yet. I'll come and talk to you later."
"Sir, take care," Huangfu Zhong said, and as soon as his head touched the pillow, he fell into coma again.
Xiahou Jun warned, "Take good care of him. If the Pavilion Master finds him dead, we'll all be buried with him."
"yes."
After leaving Huangfu Zhong's place, Xiahou Jun went straight to the government office. After entering the government office through the secret door, he saw the flames rising to the sky outside, with torches one after another, which was somewhat different from the brightness of night. He asked, "Are those rioters outside doing anything else?"
The subordinate reported: "After making a scene, they realized they were trapped and had nowhere to escape. They didn't make any other moves. Now they are all sitting outside the government office and can't be driven away."
Xiahou Jun sat down on a chair and said, "If they don't want to leave, let them stay. You don't have to be ruthless. The city gates are now sealed. Without our people to transport food and supplies to the city, they won't be able to hold out for long. If they want to be tough and demand an explanation, then let them wait."
"Your Excellency is wise."
After taking a sip of tea, Xiahou Jun said, "...I'm not worried about them right now. If the Pavilion Master knew that the Qinghe County incident had caused such a big uproar, I wouldn't know how I would report it to him."
"Don't worry, sir. Judging from the Pavilion Master's attitude towards you in the past, there won't be much trouble this time, so it should be fine." This person's words were not just flattery.
In the past, no matter how big or small the problem was, Xiahou Qing would just slap him twice and then suppress the matter. But this time, Xiahou Qing's plan was threatened after all, and I don't know if he can still treat himself with the same attitude as usual.
Xiahou Chun looked up with a timid expression and said, "I hope so. Although the Pavilion Master treats me like his own son, I am only surnamed Xiahou after all. Unless I am truly his son, if something like this happens again, I will probably be dead soon."
The subordinate said that today's events were ultimately Huangfu Zhong's fault. If he had considered the matter more comprehensively and suggested to Xiahou Qing earlier that the living dead be moved to a safer place, things wouldn't have gotten so drastic. "After all, it's all the Huangfu family's fault. But if they spread this back to Nanyue, wouldn't we..."
Xiahou Jun interrupted him and said, "Humph, if you were worried about this getting known to Nanyue, you wouldn't have done it in the first place. Nanyue has already been arranged, and that's the place we least need to worry about."
"The Pavilion Master has really thought it through!"
Despite the massive blunder in Qinghe County, Xiahou Qing was unaware and was still on his way, hoping to return home quickly so Xiahou Chun could "rest." He had clearly already arranged everything when he left, and he had no idea how Xiahou Chun could manage things. Even with everything planned out, he couldn't figure out how something could go wrong. Previously, it was just Lin Feng. If the next group of people to cause trouble in Qinghe County set their sights on Huangfu Zhong or the Living Dead, Xiahou Chun, with his idiotic mind, would be unable to resolve the situation.
After traveling almost non-stop day and night, the Arabian horse under Xiahou Qing's crotch finally couldn't bear it anymore and began to twitch as it lay on the ground with foam at the mouth.
Xiahou Qing squatted on the ground, looking at the fine horse in front of him, and couldn't help shaking his head, "What a pity, what a pity." Before he finished speaking, he raised his hand and swung his knife, and hot blood gushed out from the big wound on the neck of the Ferghana horse. After a while, the horse was dead.
Xiahou Qing wiped the blood off his face and said, "Even the horses can't handle it. I should take a break. It's just that I lost Lin Feng. I'm just a little worried that Xiahou Chun will cause me other trouble."
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