Cui Pingan charged directly to the front of the horse carriage. If Da HongZao hadn’t been moving slowly and reacted quickly, the collision with Cui Pingan would have likely injured him, given his thin fra.
Seeing this, Mo Yan imdiately beca annoyed, "My carriage isn’t for picking up passengers. If you want to go to Yuan City, you could just go to the stable to buy one, or even hire a carriage. Why must you block my way?"
Cui Pingan blinked at her words, "Because you’re a good person."
Hearing this reason, the corner of Mo Yan’s eye twitched fiercely. Did her face have "I am a good person" written all over it?
It seed like Cui Pingan read her thoughts and pointed to a little beggar in the corner, speaking proudly, "Young Master saw you giving him a piece of candy."
Following his pointing finger, Mo Yan saw a beggar with a face full of satisfaction eating candy. Her face darkened imdiately, and she pretended to scare him, "You’re thinking too much. I’m not a good person. I gave him candy to gain his trust, so later on, I can capture him and his companions and sell them to toil in the dark mines."
If it were soone else, they would never believe such words, but Cui Pingan seed sowhat scared, staring at the stern-faced Mo Yan, pondering the truth in her words.
However, no matter how he looked at her from all angles, he couldn’t see Mo Yan as a hateful human trafficker. He felt cheated and beca even more determined to follow her, "Young Master won’t fall for your tricks. If you don’t want to take Young Master to Yuan City, that’s fine, but you must take Young Master to stay at your ho for a few days. Don’t worry, Young Master will pay you in silver."
"Heh heh!" The only response for the adolescent’s words was this cold laugh.
This person was not just immature; he was also incredibly naive. What made him think that after a few words, she would have to take this strange young man ho? Did he think everyone would simply adore him or that blind people would suddenly see the silver before them?
Mo Yan internally mocked and, too lazy to waste more words on a fool, lightly patted Da HongZao’s backside and ordered, "Go around him, quickly."
Da HongZao accurately understood its master’s intention, lifted its hooves and turned sixty degrees to the right, bypassing Cui Pingan, and after making sure the carriage behind wouldn’t hit him, suddenly picked up speed, breaking into a trot and soon leaving Cui Pingan behind.
Seeing Cui Pingan standing there dumbfounded, not regaining his senses, Mo Yan turned her head and praised Da HongZao, "Well done!"
Da HongZao happily flicked its tail and carefully avoided the passersby, maintaining a steady pace as it navigated through the streets, oblivious to the fact that the abandoned Cui Pingan was running along behind it.
When they left the city, Da HongZao slowed its pace, and the carriage’s movent wasn’t as bumpy as before. The light breeze brushed gently across Mo Yan’s face, which wasn’t very hot, and she humd a tuneless ditty, quite contented and leisurely.
Halfway through the journey, Da HongZao suddenly stopped moving, its large ears perked up as if it was listening intently to sothing.
Mo Yan, seeing this, stopped humming and asked in confusion, "Da HongZao, why have you stopped?"
Da HongZao turned its head towards Mo Yan and neighed, yet its gaze was fixed behind the carriage, still not moving.
Mo Yan couldn’t help but be puzzled, and as she leaned out to look behind, there in the not too far distance, she saw a person tottering along following them—the slender and frail figure, if not that immature youth, then who?
...
Cui Qingrou, along with the maid, had been out of the mansion searching for her nephew for a full six hours and hadn’t caught even a glimpse of him. There was also no news from the servants at ho.
As the sky grew darker, Cui Qingrou beca increasingly anxious. Not daring to tell Old Lady Cui, she had no choice but to send soone back to inform the Family Head of the Cui family—her blood brother, Lord Cui.
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