CH 10.2

People Do Not Return (part 2)

This time, it just so happened to be a period of troubled times. Among the four shadow guardians, wind, rain, thunder, and electricity in the Jiuzhong Palace, the thunder guardian was sent to the east half a year ago, and the two guardians of wind and rain also received a secret order to go out a few months ago. On the subject of the Palace Master's indulging in beauty…..he had to say that in the eyes of outsiders, it was indeed an "opportunity to take advantage of".

Although Jiuzhong Palace was secretive and had few deadly enemies, regardless of good or evil, since they were Jianghu people, they must be on guard from time to time. Now that the Palace Master suddenly had an accident, many people were beginning to think about the worst……  

However, Bai Hua, who was the most suspicious, but was deeply doted on, no one really dared to touch him, let alone using real swords to force answers from him.

At about three o'clock, outside the main hall, Qiu Jin and the guardians were in a state of anxiety. Suddenly, Fang Jing, the master of the dark hall, with a heavy face like water, came slowly, followed by hundreds of masked men in black clothes and black scarves.

These people walked in a neat and uniform manner, revealing only a pair of eyes without waves.They gathered together, not like a group of people, but like a sharp knife. These were the secret guards of the Jiuzhong Palace.

Qiu Jin asked in surprise, "Hall Master Fang, what are you...?"

Fang Jing looked at the people in black behind him, and said coldly, "Let them find him.”

"This......" Qiu Jin hesitated to speak. Standing beside Qiu Jin was a tall, graceful and glamorous woman in blue clothes, who was one of the four shadow guardians with the character "electricity" in the Jiuzhong Palace.

Seeing Qiu Jin's hesitation at this moment, she frowned, and spoke out for Qiu Jin, "Hall Master, you have mobilized so many secret guards without permission, this…..If the Palace Master look into it, it will be the crime of abuse of power. We have already sent someone to find him, why don't we wait a little longer?"

Fang Jing sighed, with some helplessness on his always cold face. Just as he was about to speak, he heard footsteps coming from behind, and then a calm and reassuring voice came, "You don't have to wait, it’s this secret guard’s responsibility and therefore made the decision. It doesn’t have anything to do with Hall Master Fang."

He saw Mo Ren coming from the opposite corridor, dressed in black, with a black long sword bestowed by Chu Yan on his waist, looking pale and thin under the misty moonlight.

"If the Palace Master pursues the matter, I will bear all the blame.”

Qiu Jin was both surprised and happy, and hurried to meet him, "Eldest Brother Mo, are you alright?"

Mo Ren's expression was as cold as ice, he raised his hand to stop Qiu Jin's steps, then his eyes turned, and he fixed them on Bai Hua who was still wiping tears in the corner. He walked over in two or three steps, raised his hand and pulled Bai Hua up, ignoring the latter's panic and struggle, then asked in a cold voice, "Where is the Palace Master? Do you really not know!?"

"I don't know..." Bai Hua's eyes that were already hazy like autumn water were even more pitifully wet with tears, and he choked up, "Guard Mo, I, I really don't know... "

Mo Ren was already going crazy at this moment, and he was burning with anxiety and was deeply afflicted. The Palace Master went out with this traitor Bai Hua, then he suddenly disappeared in a blink of an eye. How could he not be worried!?

"In that case…..”

Mo Ren closed his eyelids, and raised the black as night long sword in his hand, "Hold down Bai Hua into the Punishment Hall and take the Hall Master back to deal with it. Dark Hall secret guards, follow me to find the Palace Master."

In the third watch, the moonlight was the brightest.

The pear grove outside the Jiuzhong Palace was shrouded in darkness, Mo Ren and others came to the stone table and chair where Chu Yan and Bai Hua had stayed for the last time, and ordered the secret guards to disperse from here.

Seeing the vigorous black shadows quickly disappearing before his eyes, Mo Ren turned around and said to Qiu Jin and the others, "Everyone, go back to the palace, I am enough here."

Qiu Jin objected, "How is this possible? You are still wounded, and if someone is going to stay, it should be one of us. If something happens, what if you pass out like in the daytime…..at that time, it really scared me. By the way, how are you now, what did the people in the Medicine Hall say?" She said, and was about to feel the pulse of Mo Ren.

But Mo Ren held Qiu Jin's wrist, and sighed with a heavy face, "Qiu Jin, this time the Palace Master disappeared, and the secret guards were dispatched. If you don't quickly appease people's hearts, it will be a big disaster. If I go back, I won’t be able to sleep anyway, I’ll only spend the night tossing around. It's much easier to just sit and wait here. If you're worried about me, then just let me stay here quietly."

Seeing what he said, everyone knew that Mo Ren was determined not to return to the palace without news of Chu Yan, and there was nothing they could do about him. As Mo Ren said, there were a lot of miscellaneous things to do in the Jiuzhong Palace, which couldn’t be delayed for a moment, thus they needed to hurry away.

Soon there was only Mo Ren who was left here, with a lamp, and under the curtain of the night. It was very quiet. The wind blew in the middle of the night, and it brought the chill of the early spring.