Chapter 23 Top-grade golden pear wood
On the way back to the Huo Mansion, Huo Gannian suddenly asked to get off the carriage to get some fresh air.
Yun Chen put the wheelchair aside for him, then tied the horse's reins, touched the horse's mane, and patted the back of its neck.
Huo Gannian asked casually, "Are you familiar with it?"
Yun Chen turned his back to Huo Gannian so that he couldn't see her and her face froze.
She grinned: "I am very outgoing and familiar with everyone."
He couldn't help but teasing:
"Indeed. You've only been in the Huo Mansion for half a year, and those three have already dared to disregard the rules for you."
He was talking about Ye Yan, Hua Jue and Buyan.
Thinking of Ye Yan and the other two, she couldn't help but feel warm in her heart.
"We guards spend every day together, through thick and thin. We trust our backs to our brothers and our lives to God, so we get to know each other quickly."
"My back is in the hands of my brothers, and my life is in the hands of God."
Very cool, very envious.
As he recited these two sentences, his eyes unconsciously fell on the two legs that had been without any sensation for many years.
He was like this once, a young man with a sword that spanned 30,000 miles, dressed in fine clothes and riding a fierce horse...
In the end, he could only sigh softly:
"Yun Chen, push me and walk for a while."
The night is as quiet as water, and the sky is vast.
The sky is full of stars twinkling, as if listening to the whispers of the world.
"When are you leaving tomorrow?" he asked.
"At the hour of Mao, we'll leave before daybreak," she replied.
"Are you in such a hurry to leave?"
"No, it's cooler in the morning."
“…”
Yun Chen couldn't refuse the kindness of Ye Yan and the other two.
But she had no way to explain why Huo Gannian wanted to send her abroad for half a year.
They all wondered why she was suddenly exiled to the "frontier" when she should have been promoted to the fourth imperial guard, and they were all angry for her.
In fact, this was the "crime" that Huo Gannian took on for her:
The overseas mission was just a cover. In fact, Huo Gannian heard from three places that someone had saved a woman with a child in the past. Yun Chen wanted to visit them one by one to find her benefactor.
If you find it, you won't come back.
This was the agreement between her and Huo Gannian.
So, today may be the last time we see each other. From now on, the sky is high and the road is long, and it will be difficult for us to meet again.
"Have you received your monthly salary?" Huo Gannian asked again.
"I received it. The knot is very clear."
"In the Huo family ancestral temple, the Zhou Li you killed was a guard of the Yu family. He offended Yu Yangji. You must be careful to avoid people from the Yu family when you are outside."
"knew."
The head of the Yu family, Yu Yangji. She thought of that disgusting old man and his group of arrogant guards.
She was not afraid. If she met the "dog" from the Yu family, she would kill it.
"Don't lose the three addresses I gave you." He reminded again.
She patted her chest and said, "Don't worry, Master. I've got it all memorized."
He was suspicious: "I remember you said you couldn't write."
She answered confidently, "I can't write, but I can recognize characters. My father didn't allow me to learn to write and didn't allow me to have paper and pen in the room. My mother could only teach me to recognize characters in secret, so I never learned to write."
He shook his head regretfully, "Stupid."
She pointed at herself, "Master, are you talking about me?"
"I'm talking about your dad."
"I think so too."
She laughed.
After laughing for a while, her eyes dimmed again and she murmured, "My father won't let me learn, but my brothers and sisters can learn."
"Why?"
"Because I am the only one born to my mother, and my brothers and sisters are born to my second mother. My father hates me and my mother."
He was silent, not knowing what to say.
He felt that he rarely had nothing to say.
After thinking for a while, he was about to ask, "Is this the reason why you started wandering around when you were very young?" But before he could ask, she suddenly walked in front of him, knelt on one knee, held the Hidden Moon Sword in her hands, and said:
"Young Master, I'm leaving now. I'll return the sword to you."
"No need for that. If there really is a benefactor in these three places, and he has given you a better sword, then you can return Yin Yue to me."
Seeing that she was about to refuse, he added, "When you're away from home, without your brothers to look after you, you need a good sword."
Finally, she nodded, but did not stand up, and smiled again:
"Young Master, I still owe you dozens of slaps on the palm of your hand!"
Looking at her innocent eyes and childish smile, his heart softened for no reason, but he still pretended to be serious:
"If you have anything left in the Huo Mansion that you haven't explained yet, just tell us all at once."
"Hey, no more!"
"Then you still owe me a few dozen slaps on the palm of your hand. Stretch out your hand and I'll hit you now."
She stretched out her hand, and her white palm, with a scar pierced by a python's fang, appeared before him.
For some reason, after Qingyuzhou, he always thought of her fight with the water python in the water.
He is the young master of the Huo Gang. He has hired many guards over the years and has been rescued countless times.
Why does he only remember that time with Yun Chen?
He thought about it for a long time but still couldn't understand.
Maybe it was because the wind was very cold that day, the sky was very far away, and the water and sky were so one color that you couldn't see the boundary between the earth and the sky.
Perhaps it was because, at the moment when she was dragged into the water by the anaconda, she subconsciously smiled when she saw that he had safely reached the shore.
There is no panic of survival, only peace of mind and determination.
Then, she sank deeply to the bottom of the water, and at that moment, his heart sank inexplicably as well.
"Young Master, hit him!" She opened her eyes wide and called him back to his senses.
He pretended to raise his hand high, then gently lowered it and placed his hand over her palm.
When he waved his sleeve away, he saw a Shan Yin Yue token lying in her palm.
"I still owe you a meal of mutton, and this just makes up for it - this is for you. The Huo Gang has many branches. If you get into trouble, you can use this token to seek help from any branch nearby. They will all help you."
She was deeply moved and thought for a long time about what to say. Finally, she asked:
"Can I also pawn it for silver?"
He laughed. "Top-grade golden pear wood, one gram is worth ten gold. Don't let anyone cheat you when you're pawning it. This token is worth at least fifty gold."
She nodded hurriedly.
No more words were spoken along the way.
She pushed him into the Huo Mansion and walked around back to Beining Hall.
"Let's stop here." He gestured for her to park the wheelchair in the yard. "Let me sit down."
She clasped her fists in greeting and turned to leave.
He unconsciously followed her with his eyes, but she suddenly turned around, knelt solemnly in front of him, kowtowed devoutly and seriously, and said:
"Young Master, if I find my benefactor and don't come back, I will write to tell you so that you won't have to wait in vain."
He deliberately turned cold, "Who would wait for you? Why would I?"
She bared her teeth and said, "I think the young master will, so if I don't come back, I will definitely write to let you know so that you don't worry."
After saying that, she kowtowed again, then stood up and left.
In the blink of an eye, the figure disappeared.
Even her footsteps could not be heard.
Looking at the familiar courtyard around him, with the pear trees under the corridor in full bloom, he suddenly thought:
If she never appeared here again, would Lihua feel lonely?
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