Oh no! Seven kids at the start, all yellow and skinny.

Chapter 101 Heading North

Guo Yining frowned, recalling the scene when she met the Taoist priest. It seemed that the way the Taoist priest looked at her was not so simple. Could it be that he knew her?

Normally it wouldn't be a problem, but the situation was rather special, so she didn't dare to be careless. She called over a guard and said, "Brother Zhang, go and investigate that Taoist priest."

Zhang, the head nurse, nodded and left.

At this moment, Huanxing Daoist was somewhat conflicted, wondering whether he should go back. After all, Miss Guo had already left, so Huo Qingyuan would definitely not be able to find the medicinal ingredient. In that case, it wouldn't be a problem for him not to leave, since Huo Qingyuan was not short of money. If he went to another party, he might not be able to find such a sucker.

"Master, what's wrong?" The young Taoist priest couldn't help but ask when he saw that Illusion Star Taoist wasn't sleeping and was just wandering around.

"Your master is currently struggling with something."

"what's up?"

"You don't understand it."

"How can I understand if my master doesn't explain it to me?"

"I see." Daoist Huanxing stopped and turned to sit down opposite the young Daoist. "Xing'er, your master has a question for you."

"Master, please ask." The young Taoist Xing'er nodded.

"If you had a piece of meat..."

"Master, didn't you say that we cultivate the Quanzhen School and can't eat meat?"

“We can also switch to the path of cultivation.” Daoist Huanxing waved his hand. “But that’s not important. Master is just assuming something. If you can eat pork every day, but you need to kill a chicken, and suddenly one day the chicken is gone, and you can’t eat meat anymore, what would you do?”

Why not just eat the chicken directly?

"This……"

“Master, you’re asking the wrong question.” Xing’er shook her head. “Pork isn’t necessarily as delicious as chicken.”

"Alright, I won't beat around the bush anymore. Before, when we followed Lord Huo, we could eat meat, and even big chunks of meat. But now that we've run away, we won't be able to find a backer who can make us eat big chunks of meat anymore."

"Then let's have some meat."

"You..." Daoist Huanxing was speechless for a moment, and raised his hand to tap the boy's head. "But now, we have a chance to go back and eat lots of meat. Don't you think we should go back?"

"Was that girl the medicinal ingredient?" Xing'er looked up at Huanxing Daoist.

“Yes.” Daoist Huanxing nodded. “She has already run away. If we go back, nothing will happen to us.”

"But what if Lord Huo asks you to calculate that person's location? What if..."

"Alright, that's enough." Daoist Huanxing waved his hand. "Go to sleep now, so you can get ready to travel."

Xing'er nodded and then obediently got into bed.

Outside the door, after listening, Zhao, the head nurse, hurriedly left, knocked on Guo Yining's door, and told her what he had heard. Although he didn't hear very clearly, he got the gist of it.

Guo Yining was so frightened by what she heard that her face turned pale.

"Second Miss, don't worry, everything is alright now." Cuiqin hurriedly comforted Guo Yining, "With Lord Huo not here, that Taoist priest can't do anything to us."

Guo Yining nodded, but after a moment of silence, she suddenly stood up: "No, we can't go with him, we have to leave immediately."

Upon hearing this, Cuiqin hurriedly turned around and went out to inform the guards.

Feng Erniang was fiddling with her abacus behind the counter when she heard that they wanted to check out, and she immediately became unhappy: "Sir, you... please have a safe trip." As she spoke, she took the silver ingot handed to her by the other party. Since they were not only not refunding the fee but also giving her extra silver, it would be wrong of her not to let them go.

"Boss lady." Guo Yining hesitated for a moment, then slowly bowed to Feng Erniang. "I had no choice but to leave home because someone was forcing me into marriage. I was worried about implicating my parents. Now that person may have caught up with me. I hope that if anyone asks, you can say that you have seen me and that I went north."

“This…” Feng Erniang hesitated; this was a lie.

"I know I can't force you, so I'll leave it at that." Guo Yining gave a wry smile. "Thank you, madam." With that, she turned and left.

Looking at the gold ingot in her hand, Feng Erniang couldn't help but sigh. Perhaps no one would come to inquire about it?

However, in the middle of the night, someone knocked on the inn's door, and several menacing-looking people rushed in, holding a portrait in their hands: "Have you seen this person before?"

That's the woman who checked out and left last night.

Feng Erniang's heart sank. Just as she was about to nod, she heard someone rushing down from upstairs: "Lord Huo?"

"Taoist Master? What are you doing here?" Huo Qingyuan looked displeased. He had only confirmed last night that Miss Guo was not in Longxi City, and then he had followed the trail all the way to Carp Town.

"Oh dear, you're one to talk about it. Miss Guo has left Longxi City, so I followed her here. She's in that room." Daoist Huanxing pointed to the second floor.

"Oh dear, the guests in that room have already left," Feng Erniang hurriedly waved her hand.

"Gone?" Huo Qingyuan rushed upstairs to the second floor, pushed open the door, and saw that the room was indeed empty. He then turned back and asked, "When did you leave? Where did you go?"

“It was last night. I told her that even though I didn’t stay there, the room fee wouldn’t be refunded, but the girl didn’t ask for it back. She said she had something urgent to do and left. As for where she went…” Feng Erniang frowned. “I really don’t know, but I heard the girl say to the maid next to her that it gets colder the further north you go, and you need to buy some warm clothes or something.”

"Why didn't I hear any noise?" Huanxing Daoist immediately became anxious upon hearing this.

"Maybe you're a heavy sleeper." Feng Erniang shrugged. She could tell these people weren't good people. Even though the girl had given her money, she could still consider it an act of kindness.

Huo Qingyuan turned and walked out.

Huanxing Daoist thought for a moment and hurriedly followed. He had already been discovered. If he continued to run away, he would probably have no chance of survival if he was caught.

Huo Qingyuan stood on the town's street on his horse, but instead of immediately setting off north to pursue them, he divided his men into three groups and chased after them from three directions.

Although the Guo family didn't say where Guo Yining was going, he knew that the eldest daughter of the Guo family had married into the Jinan Prefecture, and it was very likely that they wanted their second daughter to go there to discuss marriage.

But when he heard that the other party was going north, he became uncertain again, so he had no choice but to chase in all three directions.

If he can't find one soon, who knows when he'll find another woman of suitable age with no vagina; he can't wait any longer.

However, after Huo Qingyuan and the others left, Guo Yining finally breathed a sigh of relief in a distant alley.

"Second Miss, what do we do now?" Cuiqin asked with a sob in her voice. She never expected that the one who had designs on her Second Miss was the Commander, a figure that ordinary people could not afford to offend.