allonlinenovel Chapter 117 Risking Yourself
Chapter 117 Risking Yourself
Achoo!
Beijing, outside the back hill of the Wang family.
Black Glasses was perched on a leafy tree when his nose started to itch, and he sneezed without warning.
Who's thinking about Blackie like that? They can't stop themselves...
Hearing the sound, Xie Lianrui, who was meditating under a tree, twitched his eyelids. He was speechless at how unreliable Black Glasses had been all along the way: he'd lied about a shortcut, only to end up taking over an hour's detour; he'd said Xie's Taoist robe was too conspicuous, only to pull out a cassock from his bag; and he'd asserted that the dense forest was so vast that the Wang family couldn't have set up traps at the edge, only to almost fall into a trap disguised as a hunter's snare before he even finished speaking...
The key point is that Xie Lianrui actually believed Hei Yanjing's lies and kept following him into traps!
Too much to say, it's all tears. It's better to take precautions yourself and let karma take its course!
Xie Lianrui took a deep breath of the dense forest's true energy, not asking a single question about what Black Glasses had discovered. But even if he didn't ask, was Black Glasses someone who could stay idle? No, especially when it came to his mouth.
"Old Xie, are you asleep? It's springtime, the season when forest animals are active and mating. Be careful, some cute little thing might suddenly pop out of the bushes, see your handsome face, and kidnap you. Let me tell you, Blackie can't save you!"
"Oh right, how did you figure out this place? If Xiao Huai hadn't told me beforehand, I wouldn't have found it!"
"Oh, I remember now, Xiao Huai said you smelled bad before, that's why! Then why couldn't Hei Ye smell it? His nose... what's wrong with him..."
The long prelude has finally come to an end, and now comes the main event.
Xie Lianrui gradually learned about Black Glasses's rhetoric and developed a very effective way to deal with it—as long as he ignored him, or as long as he was paid, Black Glasses would say whatever he needed to say.
"Hey, tell me, which way should we go next? If we go west, it'll be dark, the grass will be thick, and the path will be steep. It won't affect me much, but you with your delicate skin will suffer a lot! If we go south, there seems to be miasma. If there are any traps or obstacles, we'll just be cannon fodder!"
"Although the Wang family isn't very bold, they're always up to some dirty tricks. So, I suspect there's something fishy going on in either of those directions. Let's go in the middle!"
Xie Lianrui grunted through his nose, opened his eyes sharply, and started walking southwest.
Black Glasses is still on the tree...
"Hey Lao Xie, wait for Hei Ye! Xie Lianrui! Damn it!" Seeing the gray figure disappear into the distance in the blink of an eye, Black Glasses quickly slid down the tree, picked up his backpack, and followed. "Master Xie~"
The Wang Family Council Hall.
Wang Quan sat in the main seat, his eyes slightly closed, sensing the no longer peaceful atmosphere below.
“My men just reported that they’ve found A-Ning’s trail in the Jilin area. However, it seems that Chen Pi’s men are also following her.” The Second Elder of the Wang family said, tapping his pipe and shifting the tobacco leaves to the middle.
"It seems Qiu Dekao is about to make another move." The Third Elder's tone was meaningful, but his gaze unconsciously drifted to the empty seat in the upper right corner, where Wang Jue was sitting.
“Qiu Dekao is already severely injured and won’t make any big moves. But this Chen Pi… his activity is a bit suspicious.” The Fifth Elder of the Wang family put his teacup back on the tea table and looked at the Second Elder, his gaze inexplicably adding fuel to the fire. “Second Brother is the best at gathering intelligence. I wonder what brilliant ideas you have?”