Qingyu Case: Female Minister of Dali Temple

Li Tianliu's face was cold, as if someone had smeared snow on his face and then froze him.

Chen Shao glanced at him with a half-smile, then said to Chan Yi and Quan Shu Yu who were escorting him on horseback, "Go back. You don't have to see me off."

Chan Yi pulled the horse back and said to Fu Jiu, "Protect the young master!"

Fu Jiu nodded.

Chan Yi looked at Li Tianliu again.

Li Tianliu still had a cold face and walked about three meters without looking back. He did not hear her warning voice, so he walked another two meters and finally could not help but look back.

Chan Yi said disdainfully, "Are you finally willing to turn back?"

Li Tianliu snorted coldly and retracted his gaze. After riding for a while, he turned his horse's head and trotted to her: "I left twenty Yulin guards for you. Protect yourself and don't rush forward."

After a pause, he continued, "I know you and your young master want me to stay, but the former prince's party is not just one or two people. If your young master goes to Xitang County, the former prince's party may deal with you, or she, or even both of them. I came to Hongyuan County to protect your young master. No matter what happens, I can't let her be in danger. I believe that you, like me, don't want your young master to be in danger, right?"

Chan Yi didn't expect him to have this idea. After taking a look at the carriage that had already gone far away, she retracted her gaze and put away the sarcastic expression on her face. She said seriously: "In this case, I hope you can protect the young master well."

"Of course." The ice and snow on Li Tianliu's face melted, revealing a faint smile. "The same way your young master left today, he will come back the same way. If he loses a hair, he will be stepping on my dead body."

Chan Yi said to the person beside her, "Who wants your corpse?"

Li Tianliu raised his eyebrows, "Xu Guang must be very interested."

This time when he went to Xitang County, in addition to Li Tianliu and Fu Jiu, Chen Shao also brought Xu Guang, Cui Shu, Zhang Ruyuan and Chang Si.

Chan Yi made another "Pah" sound and sneered, "If you dare to die, even if Xu Guang covets your corpse, I will definitely take it away and tear it into pieces. I mean what I say!"

Li Tianliu smiled.

The thin sunlight penetrated the chill and fell on him, making his smile inexplicably dazzling.

Quan Shuyu looked at him, then at Chanyi, and then raised her lips, and rode away from them quietly. After an unknown amount of time, Li Tianliu rode up to her, left a message saying "You should also be careful", and then rode away quickly.

Watching him walk away, Quan Shuyu retracted his gaze to look at Chan Yi who was slowly approaching, and jokingly asked, "Just let him go like this?"

Chan Yi said softly, "He can protect the young master better than I can."

Quan Shuyu asked, "So you went to Xitang County?"

"No." After watching the carriage turn a corner and disappear, Chan Yi subconsciously squeezed the horse's belly. The horse ran forward for a long distance due to inertia, and Chan Yi pulled the reins to make it stop. It stayed there for a long time before turning the horse back.

As they walked back with Quan Shuyu, Chan Yi's eyes suddenly turned red as she said, "I wonder how long you'll be gone, young master."

Quan Shuyu said: "At most two months, right?"

Chan Yi raised her head slightly, forced back her tears, and said, "I have never been separated from you for more than two months."

Quan Shuyu smiled and comforted him, "You have never been separated from the Master for more than two months, and the Master must have never been separated from you for more than two months. You miss the Master, and he must miss you too. We have no way to find the Master, but the Master can quickly catch the murderer and rush back to find us. So, maybe in ten days or half a month, the Master will come back."

Chan Yi glanced back and said, "If it's just an investigation, I wouldn't worry about anything. I'm just afraid that..."

I’m afraid that Xitang County is like Hongyuan County, and there is more than one case waiting for her.

Quan Shuyu was a little worried, but he didn't show it: "How could it be such a coincidence?"

Chan Yi was reluctant to return to the prefect's mansion, so after returning to the county town, she went straight to Huimin Pharmacy.

The people injured in Shipailou were still in the hospital. Chanyi went to the ward where they were staying and spent more than half an hour checking them one by one. After changing their prescriptions, she saw that it was still early, so she checked each ward one by one. When she checked the fourth ward, she looked up as if she had sensed something and saw Li Tianliu standing at the door of the ward. After a moment of hesitation, she rushed over quickly, looked around a few times, frowned and asked, "What are you doing back?"

Li Tianliu leaned against the door, his arms folded across his chest: "Of course I came back to protect you."

Chan Yi said coldly: "Where is the Master?"

Li Tianliu said calmly: "Of course we are going to Xitang County."

Chan Yi looked at him coldly and walked out quickly.

Li Tianliu followed her. After leaving Huimin Pharmacy, he saw that she didn't even have time to ride a horse, and was about to use Qinggong to rush back to the prefect's mansion, so he quickly stopped her and said, "Okay, I won't tease you anymore. The people of the General of the State have arrived and happened to run into us. When they learned that your son was going to Xitang County to investigate a case, they took the initiative to offer to go with him to protect him, and your son agreed."

Chan Yi obviously didn't believe it.

Li Tianliu said: "It is Miss Gu Liu who is here."

Chan Yi still didn't believe it: "Miss Gu Liu?"

"Miss Gu Liu and your Master hit it off right away," Li Tianliu sneered. "Miss Gu Liu proposed that she escort your Master to Xitang County, and your Master agreed immediately."

Chan Yi turned around and went to the stable, untied the horse's reins, and started to chase after him.

Li Tianliu sighed twice and reminded: "Don't be so anxious. Your master said that she is waiting for you in front."

"Take good care of Shuyu," Chanyi climbed onto the horse, "and tell her I'm going to look for the Master."

Watching her back as she shot out like an arrow, Li Tianliu clicked his tongue twice and snorted, "Why are you running away so fast? Who knows how close your young master is to Miss Gu Liu now."

In the leeward part of the valley twenty miles away from Hongyuan County.

Gu Feiyan took the tea handed to her by Chen Shao, took two sips slowly, and said jokingly, "You are disguised well, but... should I call you Mr. Chen Liu, or Miss Chen Qi?"

Chen Shao paused for a moment while pouring the tea, then looked up at her and said, "It's just a name. You can call me whatever you like, Miss Gu Liu."

"Really?" Gu Feiyan looked at her unscrupulously for a moment, and said mischievously, "You probably don't know that Mr. Chen Liu, your sixth brother, also left for the border not long after you left Beijing, right?"

Chen Shao's pupils shrank slightly. No wonder every time he sent a letter back to the capital, it was the prince who replied. No wonder...

"By the way," seeing her reaction, Gu Feiyan chuckled twice and said sarcastically, "The Duke's Mansion has never raised you, so are you so willing to be used by your sixth brother?"