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Du Fa stayed in the Marquis Anyang's Mansion for three days.

In these three days, many noble and great families either sent their Attendant s to invite people over or personally paid a visit to see him. One must know that ever since the founding of the Great Zhou Empire, although they had shown tolerance towards all kinds of theories and understood all sorts of sects, none of the emperors had ever believed in any kind of sect or school. However, Du Fa had been bestowed the title of State Protector, which was a precedent that had never happened before.

Everyone came to pay their respects, some fawning over, some probing, but Du Fa rejected all of them.

According to him, "I'm not a monkey at all, what's there to look at? I might as well play chess with you. "

Thus, for the past three days, Xie Wanqing did not go out much. Come to think of it, it was weird, no one would be able to continue watching Xie Wanqing's chess play. However, Du Fa had been playing with her for three days straight, and he was actually enjoying it.

The two of them continued to chat while playing chess, causing even Xie Kai to be shocked. He thought to himself, Master Du Fa is indeed someone with an extraordinary temperament.

Who knew that when he went up to take a look, he felt that he had been blinded.

The two of them could not even be considered as playing chess, he knew that Xie Wanqing's chess was bad, but Du Fa actually had a competition with him. The two of them did things without any pattern, and he, who thought that his chess skills were pretty good, was completely unable to understand it.

However, he was too embarrassed to say that Du Fa's chess skills were poor, so he could only flatter his a little, and say a few more words to Du Fa before returning to his own courtyard.

He did not believe in these sects nor in the so called Demon Ox and Snake God, but since Du Fa was the teacher of the country and had erased any suspicion of Xie Wanqing from the Countess's birthday celebration, he could only be considered half a benefactor. Thus, Xie Kai could only bear with it and greet him. But at least Xie Wanqing had held him back, and Xie Kai felt much more at ease.

On the fourth day, Du Fa woke up early and entered the palace. When he returned, it was already afternoon.

For some reason, Xie Wanqing always felt that the past few days were different from the days at the Hanshan Temple. She had a faint premonition that Du Fa might be about to leave.

"Second Miss, this humble one is going back." He carried a gray bundle and wore a gray monastic robe. He stood in the yard and bowed to her.

Autumn had come to the end, and the winter was approaching. Du Fa's skinny body stood in the autumn wind, as if he was going to escape with the wind.

"Where are you going?"

"Go back to where you belong." Du Fa pursed his lips and smiled at her.

When Xie Wanqing saw his heartless smile, she felt that her sadness was excessive. Knowing that he liked to butt in, she straightforwardly asked: "Are you going to go back to Hanshan Temple?"

As expected, Du Fa shook his head: "Hanshan Temple is not where I should go."

Sure enough, he was leaving.

"I'll walk you out." After Xie Wanqing finished speaking, she did not care about whether the other party agreed to it or not, she only ordered Yue Xin to arrange for a carriage.

Du Fa could only close his mouth and wait to speak. Forget it, she would send his off.

Before leaving, Du Fa had already bid farewell to the old lady and Xie Kai, they already knew that Xie Wanqing had gone to send him off, so they did not stop him, and just treated him as her savior, and let her go.

The two of them got into the carriage, "Go to Shen Yuan." Du Fa said to the carriage driver outside.

However, since the carriage driver was someone from Marquis Anyang's Mansion, they would naturally not listen to him. After hearing what he said, they looked towards Xie Wanqing, and received her nod of her head, before saying "take" and drove the carriage over to Shen Yuan's house.

"Tch!" Du Fa said in disdain.

When he first met Du Fa, he looked like an esteemed monk. However, the more they got along, the more he realized that he was actually no different from an ordinary person. However, he was different from ordinary people. No ordinary person could casually obtain the title of a State Protector from the Emperor.

Xie Wanqing had been reborn for such a long time, and when she was with Sun Xiaoxiao, she was naive and worry-free like a child. However, when she was with Du Fa, she was the happiest and most relaxed, and she could show her true nature freely. Du Fa did not think it was weird, because he himself was curious, which monk would lie and act sloppy?

Du Fa was Xie Wanqing's true friend in this life, and the only person she could talk to. After all, Sun Xiaoxiao was still a child, but Xie Wanqing was an adult's soul, so she couldn't tell her everything.

Although Marquis Anyang's Mansion said that there was a bunch of family members, none of them truly cared for and protected her.

Now that she suddenly had to part ways with Du Fa, Xie Wanqing felt a little sad.

"Are you no longer a State Protector?" she asked, resting her chin on her hands.

Du Fa glanced at her, "That's not appropriate, I've already returned the booklet to the emperor." he said.

Xie Wanqing was about to be subdued by his courage. To dare to return the things bestowed to him by the Emperor, Du Fa must have a lot of guts. Furthermore, he actually ditched all these, abandoned the Hanshan Temple, abandoned the position of a State Protector, abandoned Shen Yuan, abandoned her new friend, and continued to wander around by herself.

"You actually dared to do something like that? Did His Majesty not blame you?" Xie Wanqing was truly curious, Du Fa's way of doing things could be said to be directly slapping the emperor's face. How long had it been under the protection of the country's patron saint before he shouted that he was leaving?

"Do you think I'm as stupid as you?" Du Fa rolled his eyes at her, "What I'm saying is that I need to continue roaming the world, and the booklet will be temporarily kept by His Majesty. I'll continue to be a protector for the country when I return later."

So that's how it was. Xie Wanqing looked at him with her head held high: "Are you really leaving?"

"Otherwise, how could I possibly deceive you?"

"Don't tell me you are reluctant to part with Mr. Shen Yuan and your new friend?" Xie Wanqing asked doubtfully.

"Pfft." Unexpectedly, Du Fa chuckled, and said: "Those who are willing to part with it are able to do so. Should I leave you behind because I can't bear to? "

Even though he said those words with sincerity, Xie Wanqing only heard a little bit of them.

"There can be no lack of conflict between people. Shen Yuan and you and I have only just gotten to know each other, but if we spend too much time together, there will be arguments among us. So if I'm not willing, I should stay away from you guys instead. "This way, I won't quarrel with you guys, what I won't get is the best."

Seeing Xie Wanqing's confused look, he continued: "I originally thought you had already let me go, I didn't think you would still be an idiot."

After saying that, the carriage driver stopped and said: "We have arrived at Mr. Shen Yuan's courtyard."

"Will you come with me?" Just as Du Fa was about to get off the carriage, he remembered that she was there and immediately turned to ask.

Knowing that Du Fa and he had been good friends for so many years, Xie Wanqing definitely had many things to say, hence Xie Wanqing did not go and join the commotion, "I'll wait for you in the carriage." She shook her head.

"I've come to bid you farewell." Opening the door, Shen Yuan saw the baggage on his body, and immediately knew his purpose for coming. Every time he came to see Du Fa, he would not stay for long, and this time, Du Fa had become a protector of the nation, and had saved the young miss of the Marquis Anyang's Mansion. When he was still in the limelight, he thought that Du Fa would really not leave, and maybe even stay in the capital.

At that time, if Shen Yuan wanted to go see him, he would only need to go to the Hanshan Temple at the outskirts of the city.

But this time, when he saw Du Fa standing outside the door, he immediately extinguished all his previous thoughts. Du Fa was still the same Du Fa. His eyes were clear and clear and his gaze was firm. One could see that he was not even the least bit bewitched by Qian Quan.

Shen Yuan was happy for him, but also sad at the same time. Happy friends do not change, sad is friends want to travel.

"Why are you so dejected?" Du Fa pushed Shen Yuan who was standing in front of him away and walked in. It was the first time Xie Wanqing had parted with him, so it was unavoidable for him to be sad. Although Shen Yuan had known him for so many years, he still could not figure this out.

"Where are you going this time?" Shen Yuan did not mind him pushing her, but asked about this instead. He had asked in the past, but had always been unable to get an answer to his question. Today, he might as well ask again. Perhaps one day, he might even hear a response from her.

In this day that he had parted friends, Shen Yuan really could not think of anything to be happy about.

"Go where you need to go, where you want to go." As expected, it was the answer.