This indignant accusation stunned the people in the hall, Liu Qinghuan turned his head to look at the masked man, and saw that the other party was not only not panicking, but on the contrary looked like he was playing right into his heart. Tang Zibo, on the other hand, had a flash of surprise in his eyes.
Liu Qinghuan blinked quickly. This group of people really wasn't Zoroastrians. They only knocked out the real Kucha band without hurting anyone's life. They just wanted to use their mouths to make people think they were Zoroastrians. But Tang Zibo's reaction was a bit interesting, he looked more like he had something to do with the Fire Worship Cult.
Before everyone could react, a word clearly popped out of the masked man's mouth: "Withdraw."
His voice was not loud, and he was as arrogant as when he was holding Liu Qinghuan hostage, but when the end sound fell, the "Gucha Band", who was still kneeling on the ground holding the instrument, suddenly threw off the instrument and jumped up, scurrying around like a mouse, By the way, several table cases and distinguished guests were overturned.
The main hall, which had been enjoying itself just now, suddenly jumped up and down, screams and the sound of various utensils falling to the ground, and everyone in the hall pushed and shouted at each other, and the chaos was uncontrollable.
Liu Qinghuan glanced at the real Kucha band, but did not see Pengpeng inside. She groaned in her heart, this time it might be over again, she bet that a good Mani Pengpeng went to inform Xue Mu.
Seeing that the scene was chaotic enough, the masked man gestured for everyone to evacuate, but he heard a scream from the hall: "Ah! My painting is gone!!"
The masked man was taken aback for a moment, then subconsciously looked in Zhou Jinjin's direction. On Zhou Jinjin's master's table, there was supposed to be "Magnolia" which was dropped by the maid, but now it was empty. The already chaotic main hall became even more out of control because of Zhou Jinjin's yelling. The masked man frowned. He was busy destroying just now, and he didn't see when the painting disappeared. His long and narrow eyes narrowed slightly. Apart from Tang Zibo and him, who else wanted to steal that painting at this banquet
It should be Xue Mu's person.
As soon as he came to this conclusion in his heart, he heard another woman's scream from beside him. He turned his head and took a look. It was "Anaye" who knocked down a maid in the confusion and even stepped on her.
Liu Qinghuan herself was taken aback, and quickly helped the maid on the ground up, and patted the ashes on her body: "I'm sorry, didn't I hurt you, did I?"
The masked man who was watching from the side twitched his eyebrows, stepped forward and grabbed "Anaye" by the wrist, and ordered in a deep voice, "You come with us."
Liu Qinghuan was still waiting for the maid to answer, but now she was frozen in place by the masked man's words: "Why?" In fact, what she wanted to ask was "Why?" With those dark eyes, he had no choice but to ask more tactfully.
The masked man didn't answer her as a matter of course, he just dragged her out quickly.
"Wait, my mission has been completed, why do I still want to go with you?" This doesn't make sense! Liu Qinghuan was still chattering, the masked man just ignored him and continued to move forward quickly, even when he knocked a person on the ground to the ground, he only paused slightly, without even looking at the person on the ground.
He pulled Liu Qinghuan out of the main hall quickly. Cao Jingren, who was knocked to the ground, looked at the tall and tall back who was gone, and a sly smile appeared on the corner of his mouth that did not fit his image of a scholar.
After Liu Qinghuan was pulled out of the main hall, he followed the masked man and landed in a small alley outside Zhou's mansion. Several people were already waiting there, all riding tall and strong horses, when they saw the masked man coming out, they all looked over.
Liu Qinghuan was thrown off the horse roughly, and the masked man was about to get on the horse too, when a man next to him suddenly asked strangely: "Aies, what did you bring her on?"
Although Liu Qinghuan was lying on the horse's back with difficulty, he could clearly see that the masked man's movements of getting on the horse froze stiffly. He stared at the person who asked the question for a while, and finally couldn't help kicking his horse: "Can you stop calling me by my name!"
The kicked horse neighed in shock, and carried the screaming man on its back away.
Sensing the masked man's eyes on her, Liu Qinghuan said sincerely, "I swear to God Mani, I didn't hear that your name was Aies." She didn't believe in Manichaeism at all.
Aus: "..."
He turned down his lapel, took off the obstructive beard hat on his head, threw it away, and got on his horse: "I think I need to introduce myself again. My name is Aes Falcon, and I am the special envoy of the Dongganluo Kingdom."
When the words fell, two powerful legs clamped on the horse, and the strong horse galloped away like an arrow from Li Xuan.
Although it was just a quick glance, Liu Qinghuan still left a deep impression on Aies' face. The standard silhouette of a foreign man, with tough lines and unruly. When Liu Qinghuan looked back, he had already put on the falcon mask from before.
"You'd better be honest." Seeing her looking back at him, Aus warned.
Liu Qinghuan twitched the corners of her mouth and turned her head honestly.
Before they knew it, they had already run into the woods, and a man behind them drove a horse to them: "Someone has been chasing us from behind."
Aies thought for a while, and ordered: "Go and see who it is."
"Yes." The man turned his horse and turned back.
After a while, the person who went to inquire hurriedly chased after him on a horse: "It's Xue Mu! The leader is Xue Mu!"
Aies frowned suddenly, and the people around him made a disturbing noise in a low voice.
Aies sneered, looked at them and said, "Is it scaring you so much to hear Xue Mu's name?"
The people around closed their mouths tightly and stopped making a sound, but the horses under them ran faster in unison.
Aies ignored them, but pursed his thin lips, and said with some doubts: "Why is Xue Mu chasing us so hard?"
Hearing his question, Liu Qinghuan turned around and said to him, "I think I also need to re-introduce myself. In fact, I'm not Anaye, I'm Xue Mu's newlywed wife."
Aus: "..."
When the man in front heard her words, he turned around and said to Aies angrily, "I just said why did you bring her with you! Now it's all right, you robbed someone's wife, and if they don't chase after you!"
Aus: "..."
He stared at Liu Qinghuan for a while with narrow eyes, then suddenly grabbed her by the back collar and threw her out. Xue Mu, who had already caught up, looked at Liu Qinghuan who was thrown out, narrowed his eyes, jumped up from the horse, and caught her with a swoop.
When Liu Qinghuan landed, she saw some unknown yellow petals flying up. The sun has already slanted to the west, just hanging on the top of the tree, the sky full of sunset glow has been dyed an unreal orange red, and time seems to slow down.
Then Xue Mu's face appeared in front of his eyes, his brows were slightly frowned, with a trace of indescribable anxiety: "Qingqing, are you alright?"
Liu Qinghuan shook his head, and straightened up from the hard but scorching chest that was leaning on it: "I'm fine, Master Hou didn't get hurt from the fall, did he?"
Xue Mu shook his head, put his arms around Liu Qinghuan's waist and helped her up from the ground. Aies' horse team had gone far away, leaving only dust flying along the way. He took off the veil from Liu Qinghuan's face, and said calmly, "Go back to the Hou Mansion first."
"En." Liu Qinghuan replied, and looked up at Pengpeng who was riding beside her. Peng Peng was looking at her sadly, those pale blue eyes seemed to be shining with a thousand words. Liu Qinghuan suddenly felt that she had the same soul as him—this was an unprecedented resonance caused by the suffering she was about to suffer.
Xue Mu didn't seem to notice the communication between the two of them, so he got on his horse, bent slightly, and stretched out his right hand to Liu Qinghuan: "Qingqing, come up."
The outstretched hand had slender fingers, and it was also dyed a faint orange red in the glow of the sky. Liu Qinghuan held his hand, and the next moment she was pulled onto the horse by a force of ingenuity.
Xue Mu surrounded her from behind, Zhao Ye neighed loudly, and ran like the wind. Liu Qinghuan, who was beaten to death, thought sadly, it's better to be her Xiaobai.
After a stick of incense, the lotus pond of Yongning Hou Mansion.
Liu Qinghuan and Pengpeng stood side by side, ready to be interrogated by General Xue. Xue Mu sat on the lotus pavilion, brewed a pot of tea in silence, and poured it evenly into five celadon tea bowls.
"Is the banquet at Zhou Jinjin's mansion still fun?" Xue Mu picked up a tea bowl in the middle and blew the foam off his face.
Liu Qinghuan and Pengpeng glanced at each other, and said bravely, "Pomegranate is very sweet."
Pengpeng: "..."
Xue Mu held the tea bowl and looked up at her. Liu Qinghuan laughed out loud, and decided to let Pengpeng answer the next question.
"Why are you dressed like this?" Although Xue Mu didn't mention his name, he was obviously asking Liu Qinghuan. Liu Qinghuan pursed her lips, feeling that she couldn't escape, so she said aggrievedly: "It's all Pengpeng's fault! He was afraid that his favorite Orchid would be spotted by Zhou Jinjin, so he asked me to pretend to be her!"
Pengpeng: "..."
He looked at Liu Qinghuan in disbelief, usually he caused trouble and blamed it on others, but he didn't expect that one day he would capsize in the gutter as well.
But no matter what, Liu Qinghuan is the wife of Lord Hou. Does he still expect Lord Hou to push her out to play dozens of big boards? This matter seems to have to be carried by him anyway. So he nodded and said sadly: "It's all my fault, I blame myself very much."
Xue Mudan laughed: "Remorse? Have you ever considered suicide?"
Pengpeng: "..."
Lord Hou, I was wrong! Don't scare me!
Xue Mu suppressed the smile on his face, and told Nian Tang behind him: "Send Qingqing back to her room, and don't allow her to leave the room without my permission."
"Yes." Nian Tang nodded, and stepped forward to escort Liu Qinghuan. Liu Qinghuan breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, but luckily she was only in confinement. She gave Peng Peng a sympathetic look, and followed Nian Tang away. Pengpeng looked at Xue Mu cautiously for a while, and asked worriedly: "Master Hou, I don't want to be confined too, do I?"
Xue Mu said, "You don't need it."
Very good! Before Peng Peng could let go of his heart completely, he felt a pain in his stomach, and with a "plop", he had been brutally kicked into the lotus pond.
Xue Mu stood on the pontoon, with a habitual smile on the corner of his mouth: "Count the number of lotus flowers of each color in the pond, and you are not allowed to go ashore before the count is over."
Pengpeng: "..."
Here... it's full of lotus flowers!