Chapter 134: Avoiding Suspicion

Waiting for the hands of the affairs finally come to an end, the handover are handed over, Su Yan embarked on the way back to the capital.

This day is the fourth day of the lunar month, later than he expected. Cold roads are difficult to travel, even with the escort of the brocade guards, full counting will have to spend 15 or 16 days on the trip, the twentieth day of the lunar month can arrive in the capital would be good.

Fortunately, when returning to the capital changed a rather spacious carriage, the carriage is covered with felt, burning charcoal pots, the wind and snow are isolated in the thick curtain outside.

When Su Yan came to Shaanxi, he was turned into a fried chestnut by the carriage. The way back was not much more comfortable, upside down or upside down, slow or slow.

So it’s half tea and half spring.

He reached out to test the temperature of the water and turned his head to look at Chu Yuan and the others.

The brocade guards immediately understood what he meant. Chu Yuan laughed and said, “Your Honor, feel free to take a dip in the soup, my humble servant and the others will pull up a curtain on the outside of the pool to block the wind.”

Su Yan waved his hand, “You guys don’t know the fun of soaking in wild springs, what’s the point of having the curtain drawn and what scenery covered.”

“How about this, let’s retreat a hundred paces away and circle the place so that any errant villagers or wild beasts don’t startle Your Excellency?” Gao Shuo proposed.

Su Yan nodded and added, “Two hundred …… no, three hundred steps.” About two hundred meters, the forest is lush and surely invisible, so as not to have to worry about getting naked while soaking. Although they are all men, but he does not have a nudity fetish, there is no need to give people a visit.

Chu Yuan led the order and retreated in all directions with dozens of brocade guards, his figure quickly disappearing among the trees.

Before Gao Shuo left, he saw Jing Hong chasing after him standing by the rock, seemingly with no intention of leaving, and was very upset, so he deliberately asked, “Why is Squire Jing Hong still standing here? Didn’t you hear Lord Su’s command?”

Jing Hongchou hugged his sword and turned his back to the hot spring, his face expressionless, “I’m different.”

“What’s different?”

“I am the Lord’s personal guard.”

Gao Shuo mocked in a low voice, “It’s really rare, I haven’t heard of anyone’s personal guards, even when the master is bathing, they have to stick to it, when your family’s adults get married in the future, do you also have to stick to the bed, so that you can hang up clothes for the couple?”

Jing Hongchou disdained to make a verbal argument with someone, and glared at him extremely sternly, the invisible fury forcing the other party to take half a step back. Gao Shuo’s chest qi and blood surged slightly, his face turned a little white, but he gritted his teeth and refused to leave.

Su Yan has already taken off his outer robe and hitched it on the biggest rock, turning his head to see the two men confronting each other like a cockfight, he raised his voice and asked, “You two are still not leaving, do you want to come down to soak in the soup too? Come on, anyway, there are two small pools next to it, why don’t you all take one?”

Being asked so frankly, Gao Shuo was a bit embarrassed and pouted desperately at Jing Hong, “Go away! Do you know you’re avoiding suspicion? Dozens of pairs of eyes are watching, so if you don’t leave, what will the others think of your relationship with Lord Su?”

Look at it as you like, it has nothing to do with me. Jing Hongchou wanted to reply like this, but considering Lord Su’s reputation, he could only leave for the time being.

Before he left, he said to Su Yan, “If you have something to shout at me, I can hear you.” Three hundred paces away, in his case it was nothing, and under the concentration and quiet breath, he could even hear the sound of fabric rubbing.

Once the two left, the world finally cleared up, Su Yan stripped off all her clothes, even dismantling her hair, and slipped into the warm spring water, panting comfortably.

Jing Hongchou walked out three hundred paces in the opposite direction from Gao Shuo, stopped, leaped onto a snowy black pine, and meditated with his sword in his arms.

It wasn’t long before the sound of a flute, if any, was caught in the cold wind and blown to his ears.

Compared to the sound of an ordinary flute, the voice seemed clearer and sharper, crane-like, intermittently playing a strange tune.

This special tone …… is the bone flute “Jugao”! Jing Hong chased his eyes violently opened, a trace of surprise swept through his gaze: is it him? Why did he suddenly appear here, to do what?

Jing Hong chased a frown, suspecting that the other party was coming at him. If he avoided it, nine times out of ten, he would have to approach without dying, and then in case of a conflict, he was afraid that he would really disturb Lord Su.

It would be better to preemptively dispatch the other party. Anyway, there were dozens of brocade guards in the vicinity, all of them were elites with good hands, more than enough to escort His Excellency.

The sound of the bone flute was getting closer and closer, Jing Hongchu’s face was cold and cold, and with a point of his toes, he held his sword and drifted out in the direction of the mountain peak.

His silhouette in the twilight flickered like a ghost, like a wisp of green smoke, a residual soul, not long away from the “Plum Fairy Soup” is located in the mountain pass, appeared in the middle of the mountainside protruding fan-shaped boulders above.

The boulder was in the air, with the inky valley below it, and at the edge stood a man in gray, playing a slender, brown bone flute made of crane bone with his back to him.

The gray-robed man was plainly dressed, his figure was plain, and even his long hair was only tied up with an extremely ordinary thin hemp rope, tied into a sharp and slightly juvenile high ponytail.

Feeling the breath behind him, he stopped his whimpering flute, turned to gaze at Jing Hongchou, and said softly, “Senior.”