"Make way, make way," Mu Anxiao said. "Look at your attitude." As she spoke, she shifted slightly to the side with Jia on her back, and asked, "Jia, which way?"
Jia looked down at Mu Anxiao's head and said, "In some courtyard to your left and forward."
"Forward and to the left..." Mu Anxiao murmured as she crouched down.
Next, Jia dismounted from Mu Anxiao's shoulder and asked, "Are you going to take a look?"
"Since we can't see, let's follow the sound," Mu Anxiao said, suddenly worried about the woman's safety.
Feng Qishi watched Mu Anxiao and Jia without any reaction and said, "I advise you not to meddle."
Hearing this, Mu Anxiao stood up and looked at Feng Qishi, who appeared unfazed. "You'd better say less."
"I'm just reminding you," Feng Qishi said coldly. He glanced at Mu Anxiao and Jia again, then walked past them towards the direction of the woman's screams.
Not long after, Mu Anxiao and Jia stopped behind some trees not far from the lady's residence, following Feng Qishi. Feng Qishi sighed softly, turned to look at Mu Anxiao and Jia, who had followed him all the way, and asked, "What are you following me for?"
Mu Anxiao peeked at the room lit by candlelight, then turned back to Feng Qishi and said, "You told us not to meddle, but look at you, you just came over while walking. You..."
"I just came to look for Mu Hua. What are you following me for?"
At this moment, although the woman had stopped screaming, Mu Anxiao had a premonition that the woman was nearby.
"I followed the woman's screams, not you," Mu Anxiao said in a low voice.
"That woman is not far behind you," Feng Qishi said, pointing behind Mu Anxiao. "Not this way."
The woman had stopped screaming halfway, and at that moment, Mu Anxiao lost track of her. So, guided by her premonition, she followed Feng Qishi with Jia to this spot.
Originally, she thought that by following Feng Qishi, she might be able to find the woman.
Unexpectedly, he stopped here. It was his action that made her think he had noticed something? It turned out... she had overthought it.
"Behind me," she said.
Feng Qishi said, "Stop following me." He pointed to Mu Anxiao's face.
"I wasn't following you," Mu Anxiao said, her eyes darting away. She looked down at Jia. "What's wrong?" she could tell Jia's expression had changed by the moonlight.
Jia looked up at Mu Anxiao and said, "It's too late."
"Too late..."
Before Mu Anxiao could utter the word, the voices of two servants suddenly called out, "Who?"
Hearing the shouts, Mu Anxiao froze, turned around, and saw two servants not far away holding lanterns, shining them around. Seeing this, Mu Anxiao anxiously looked left and right. Just as she was about to crouch, Feng Qishi grabbed her arm.
"These few trees can't hide you at all. They'll see you even if you crouch," Feng Qishi said, pulling Mu Anxiao behind him and then looking at the two servants.
Mu Anxiao hid behind Feng Qishi, looking down at her arm, which was still held by Feng Qishi. She wondered what he meant.
Jia stood beside Mu Anxiao and said in a low voice, "It seems he did help us."
"I just don't want you to drag me down," Feng Qishi suddenly said.
Thus, Jia's hopeful thought was immediately shattered by Feng Qishi's words. He then pouted and looked up at Mu Anxiao.
Mu Anxiao didn't notice Jia. She continued to stare at her arm, which was tightly held by Feng Qishi. Just as she was about to have wild thoughts, Feng Qishi let go and said in a low voice, "Stay close to me."
"..." Mu Anxiao was stunned. She stepped forward obediently and stood close behind Feng Qishi.
Feng Qishi tilted his head slightly and said, "Don't move."
"..." Mu Anxiao nodded slightly. Then, to avoid being discovered, she pressed her forehead against Feng Qishi's back.
Feng Qishi stiffened and turned to look at the two servants approaching with lanterns. "It's me."
Due to the darkness and Feng Qishi's tall stature, they couldn't see Mu Anxiao at all. At this moment, they also didn't recognize Feng Qishi's voice.
Subsequently, the first servant stopped in front of Feng Qishi and asked, "Who are you?" He raised his lantern and shone it at Feng Qishi's face twice.
Feng Qishi looked at the first servant motionlessly and said, "If you knew my name, you would die."
"Die?" the first servant repeated and laughed. "I know who you are, so you wouldn't kill me, would you?"
"If you want to try, I'll oblige you... No," Feng Qishi glanced at the second servant's face. "I should oblige both of you."
"..." The first servant sneered.
In contrast, the second servant was clearly less bold than the first. So, the moment Feng Qishi said that, he hurriedly said, "Then you shouldn't say it."
Hearing this, the first servant frowned, turned to the second servant, and said, "We've done big things before. Can't you tell he's bluffing and trying to fool us?"
"Fooling us..." the second servant said with a trembling voice, glancing at Feng Qishi. "I don't think so."
"What do you mean 'not think so'? He clearly doesn't have that kind of courage," the first servant said, still staring at the second servant's face.
The second servant showed a distressed expression.
Feng Qishi glared coldly at the first servant and said, "If you don't want to die, leave." He completely disregarded their conversation.
The first servant heard this and turned to Feng Qishi, sneering, "Threatening us with death again."
"..." Feng Qishi remained expressionless. Ignoring the first servant, he looked directly at the second servant and said, "I mean what I say." As he spoke, he put one hand behind his back, inadvertently touching Mu Anxiao's hand.
Mu Anxiao was startled. Seeing Feng Qishi's hand gently touching her hand, she hesitated. On impulse, she directly took his hand.
Feng Qishi was stunned.
Jia looked at Mu Anxiao's action, his mouth twitched, and he asked, "What are you doing?"
"...."
However, Mu Anxiao didn't know what she was doing either. So, the moment Jia asked the question, she quickly let go of his hand.
Jia smiled.
To prevent them from noticing anything amiss, Feng Qishi continued to look coldly at the two who had suddenly fallen silent and asked, "Why aren't you talking anymore?"
The first servant cautiously looked at the hand behind Feng Qishi's back and asked, "What are you doing?"
"If you don't leave, I'll draw my sword," Feng Qishi said, deliberately trying to startle the first servant.
The first servant's expression froze. "...."
At this moment, Mu Anxiao understood... Feng Qishi had put his hand behind his back... it was all prepared for this sentence. She suddenly felt embarrassed.
"Who are you?" the first servant said, drawing the dagger at his waist and pointing it at Feng Qishi.
Feng Qishi: "...." He looked down at the dagger.
The second servant's eyes widened.