Chapter 126

A minute later, Zixiu ran back in a panic, panting. “My dad is gone!”

“Huh? Have you looked all over the house?” Nangong Du was still lying in bed calmly as if nothing had happened.

Zixiu flared up in an instant. He rushed to the bed and lifted the quilt while yelling, “Why are you still sleeping? It’s all your fault! My dad must have been abducted as a meat coupon(In Chinese, ‘meat coupon’ is an informal synonym for ‘hostage’.)! ”

“A meat coupon?” Nangong Du looked at him blankly. “What does it mean?”

Zixiu was so anxious that he almost jumped up. He was in no mood to explain to Nangong Du, and he even forgot how aggressive this prince was.”Get up! I’m not going to go easy on you if something happens to my dad! Get up! Get… ” he shouted while trying to pull Nangong Du out of the bed.

“What are you doing?!” Infuriated, Nangong Du roared in a low voice with a sullen look.

Zixiu’s heart shuddered and he immediately fell silent.

“Get your hand off me!”

“…” Zixiu loosened his grip obediently.

“Your dad’s formation isn’t so easy to break! The signal flare only means those people are still trapped in the formation!”

“Really? How did you know?”

“It’s simple! It’s unnecessary to send flares for help when dealing with a couple of people who were either sick or old or injured!” Nangong Du was tired of satirizing Zixiu for his slowness. He guessed that the “meat coupon” Liu Zixiu said must be “hostage”. Really… how could this guy come up with such a completely impossible thing?  “Now your dad is the most capable one among the five of us. What’s the point they take him away and leave us here? For fun?”

“Uh…” Needless to say, Zixiu was not naïve enough to think that those people would kidnap his dad for fun. However, a bunch of killers who had come for Nangong Du were hiding near his house and sending signal flares at midnight. Moreover, his dad was missing! It was no wonder that he was so anxious.

“Have you searched every corner of your house?” Nangong Du repeated. Actually, though he looked calm, he felt restless about Liu Wuyi’s sudden missing as well.

“Yes!” Zixiu lowered his head with a worried look.

The next second, he suddenly grew irritable, “My house is not so big. If my dad is here, there’s no way that I can’t find him!”

Nangong Du still looked calm. “Are there any new footprints in the snow outside?” he asked.

Hearing that, Zixiu rushed out of the room in the blink of an eye.

A minute later, he ran back again, panting. “No! All the footprints outside were left by me when I went back and forth between the woodshed and the kitchen during the day!”

With his eyes half-closed, Nangong Du poked his brows with his fingers. After a while, he continued, “Your dad is very skillful in Qing Kung.”

His voice sounded so calm that Zixiu could not tell whether he was affirming or inquiring. As it was related to his dad’s life and death, he had to keep as low-profile as possible. “My dad said that was just a small trick!”

A small trick? Nangong Du sneered, thinking of Liu Wuyi and his son escaping from under his nose that night. It turned out that Liu Wuyi had played this small trick more than once!

Maybe because he was too worried, Zixiu did notice Nangong Du was sneering maliciously at all. He asked anxiously, “What are you laughing at?”

Of course, Nangong Du would not answer this question. He withdrew his hands under the quilt and said, “Your dad doesn’t want to expose his whereabouts!”

“Why?”

“Go ask your dad!”

After a while, hearing no response from Zixiu, Nangong Du grew impatient. “If you don’t trust me, just go outside and look for him! Why are you still standing there?”

“Nothing will happen to my dad, right?” After pondering for a while, Zixiu thought Nangong Du’s speculation was reasonable, but he still could not relax. “Those people won’t kill the innocent, right? My dad has never offended them!”

“…” Nangong Du did not want to waste his time explaining anymore.

Without noticing his impatience, Zixiu kept nagging until Nangong Du suddenly sat up and blew out the oil lamp because he could no longer stand his drowsiness.

The sudden blackness around him made Zixiu forget what to say. He blurted out, “Gosh! The power is off!”

“Zip it!” Nangong Du patted the bedside table hard. Liu Zixiu did not even see him get up. ‘What a blind idiot! Wait… Power is off?’

“Why did you blow out the oil lamp?” Zixiu finally came back to his senses, but he was in no mood to think about what he had blurted out. While blaming Nangong Du, he fumbled in the darkness and was about to light up the oil lamp again. “Those people are just around! How come you’re still sleeping?! I don’t want to die with you… ”

“Why are you still nagging at this late hour?” Tired and sleepy, Nangong Du became more irritable. “If you dare to nag next time, I’m going to kill you!”

“Am I nagging?” He just wanted to find someone to pour out his troubles, but this asshole was complaining about his nagging! At the thought of this, Zixiu was burning with fury. “Nangong Du, how could you blame me! You wanted to  pry into my privacy and kept asking me to tell you more, but now you’re blaming me!”

“I asked you to go on, and then you went on? Since when have you become an ass kisser!”

“An ass kisser?! You… “Nangong Du! You have slept for a whole day! Are you a pig?”

“Liu Zixiu! How dare you curse me?”

“So what?” Zixiu shot back angrily and even forgot that he was in the darkness. Unfortunately, when he was holding his head high and challenging Nangong Du, he bumped against the edge of the kang and fell onto it. To be precise, it was his big belly that pressed against Nangong Du!

“You little brat, you want to pick a fight?” Nangong Du was so annoyed that he pulled Zixiu onto the kang and pinned him under his body.

Needless to say, Zixiu’s big belly could not bear the weight. He struggled hard while shouting, “Let go of me! My belly is going to explode! Hurry up, you damned pervert!”

“Pervert?” Nangong Du’s voice suddenly turned cold.

Even in the darkness, Zixiu seemed to have seen the icy look in his eyes. He was so frightened that he stopped shouting and changed his attitude in an instant. “Nangong Du, I’m really uncomfortable. Let go of me… I didn’t mean to fight or argue with you. I was just too worried about my dad… I promise I won’t disturb your sleep anymore! Please let go of me!”

To Zixiu’s surprise, what he said worked! It seemed that Nangong Du was really sleepy and he almost fell asleep on him! But Zixiu did not know that Liu Wuyi had added some sedative to Nangong Du’s decoction.

So, when Nangong Du “kindly” got off him and lay close to him, Zixiu kept his word and did not move or make a sound anymore!