Chapter 139

As it was damn cold outside and not safe lately, only very few villagers came out in the morning. Therefore, the footprints left in the snow were not messy. The patrolmen split up into small groups and looked for the young man and the midwife separately, following the footprints.

When they finally found the old midwife again, she was walking along the village road again! To be precise, they did not found her, but ran into her!

The old lady was walking in haste. However, when she saw them, she looked calm, showing no sign of having been kidnapped!

Full of doubt, they were eager to figure out what had happened!

“What’s going on? Where’s the young guy? Can he use Qing Kung? Were you really taken away to help the pregnant woman? How many people are there in that pregnant woman’s family? What do they look like? Is her husband really a businessman?”

The old lady revealed a confused look when she was bombed with a series of questions. After a while, she gave a brief account of what had happened: that young man did not lie. His master’s wife had recently experienced abnormal fetal movements and was even showing signs of miscarriage. Under the unremitting efforts of her and an old physician from the town, the fetus was safe now. She did not know if the young man could use Qing Kung, but she was indeed struck by the speed at which he walked. As she was focused on how to stop the bleeding and keep the fetus safe, she did not pay attention to the pregnant woman’s family members, let alone their appearance. She was old and had poor eyesight, so she only remembered that the young man’s master looked majesty, but he did not look like the portrait provided by the patrolmen (with poor eyesight and hearing, the old lady did not know that the portrait was actually a wanted poster). As for whether the man was a businessman or not, she did not pay any attention to it. However, she noticed that his luxurious carriage was parked in the Tian’s courtyard in the east of the village.

Hearing that, the patrolmen ran to Tian’s house in an instant. However, it was too late. The businessman and his family had left! The information provided by the Tian couple was similar to what the old midwife gave. The only thing they knew more was that there were eight people in the family. In addition to the businessman and his wife, there were five servants, among which a female servant had a baby with her. They had no idea why this family had left in haste and where they had gone!

The patrolmen did not get any valuable clues after a long time, but instead of feeling frustrated, they heaved a sigh of relief. On the one hand, they just needed to mind their own business. If they meddled in matters outside their own jurisdiction, their peers would be annoyed. On the other hand, most of them became patrolmen in the small town by pulling strings, and some of them did not even know the basic combating skills! Therefore, they had been hoping that there would not be any security problems in their district. Once they ran into a ferocious wanted criminal, they could do nothing but ask someone for help! Thinking of the young man’s superb Qing Kung, they couldn’t help secretly felicitating that they didn’t confront him head-on. What’s more, it was normal for a wealthy businessman to hire a martial artist as a bodyguard!

As they did not find anything wrong, they decided to give up the idea of tracking down the carriage and reporting this case to their leader. After all, they had no proof that the family had anything to do with the wanted criminal, so they would be asking for trouble if they reported it. They were familiar with the way of officialdom!

After a hasty patrol, they left the village, without knowing that before the night fell, in spite of the cold weather, the old midwife went to the temple on the hill alone on her crutch to offer incense and even donate a large sum of money. Actually, the Tian couple did not provide any valuable information because they were often bullied by the officials, and for fear that they might get themselves into trouble, they did not dare to say more. Moreover, the patrolmen did not know that both the midwife and the physician from the town received a handsome “reward” from the “businessman”! Of course, above all, they really did not find any clue that the patrolmen wanted. Even though the wanted poster had been posted in the village, the portrait on it probably did not look anything like the wanted criminal himself at all!

After receiving the news from Ah Chen, Nangong Du decisively decided to split the team into two. Needless to say, he was not wanted, so he could continue along the state road. On the contrary, he asked his man to change the Yus’ appearance briefly and let them go down the small path. The Yu family could only pray not to be caught by the patrolmen!

A few days later, Zixiu finally came out of his coma.

He thought he was still on the bumpy road. After a while, feeling no rocking back and forth, he calmed down a little. It seemed he was not in the moving carriage.

He then turned his head slightly and looked around. He found himself not lying on a hard wooden bed in the dark countryside room, but on a gorgeous bed behind a thick pink curtain. The quilt on him was light but warm, giving off a faint fragrance.

When he looked outside of the half-closed curtain, he saw the luxurious and classic furniture shining in the golden sunshine.

He struggled to sit up to look at the room carefully. The room was exquisitely furnished, full of luxury and elegance.

Now that Zixiu had regained his memories of his “previous life”, what he saw made him feel like he was sleeping in the Forbidden City in Beijing! But obviously, it was not as mysterious and antiquated as the Forbidden City in his mind.

Under the bright sunshine, everything looked fresh and vigorous!

‘Am I still alive or reincarnated?’ he hammered his chest while asking himself. At the thought that he might have reincarnated after his death, he felt his heart sink at once.

Indulged in himself with his head lowered, Zixiu did not notice a figure leaping out of the dark.

So, when Yueying spoke in front of the bed, he bounced up out of fear, and almost cried out “Ghost!”

“Prince Mu has gone to the capital city. He asked you to take a good rest here!” As before, Yueying was expressionless when he spoke and his voice was as cold as ice.

“Oh!” Zixiu nodded feebly, showing no interest to know why Nangong Du had to go back shortly after he came out of Luanzhou. It was none of his business. Besides, he had his own things to worry about.

Before the “ghost” Yueying floated away, he asked in a hurry, “Am I in Prince Mu’s Mansion?” He was surprised that he had arrived at Nangong Du’s fief so soon.

“Yes!”

‘Seems I’ve been in a coma for a long time,’ Zixiu thought. He then yawned, as if he was tired, and was about to lie down again.

However, Yueying showed no intent to leave. He continued coldly, “Your Highness, from today onwards, without Prince Mu’s permission, you can’t walk out of this room…”

“Why?” Zixiu was instinctively shocked and angry at the unreasonable demand, and he did not notice that he had accepted the title as “Your Highness” unconsciously.

“Why are you locking me up?” He did not intend to run away, so he could not help but feel angry.

However, he was struck dumb by what Yueying said next. “They found Princess Liuxu!”

“How… is that possible?” Zixiu could not believe it. Meanwhile, an uneasy feeling rose in him. He stared at Yueying in tension, believing that Nangong Du had told this guard what had happened in the Cirrus Valley, “Is it really Liuxu? My sister?”

“Yes!” Yue Ying confirmed with a nod.