C8

There were two figures running in the front and back of the small forest. After they were sure that they had lost the pursuers, they took a break and both hid in the forest.

Lu Haoran leaned against a tree and gasped for breath. He sighed, "Today is the seventh batch." No one could stand being chased every day, not to mention Lu Haoran's Qing Gong was only at the intermediate level.

"You should be glad that these are all small characters. You should consider them as Qing Gong."

"Even my Qing Gong is not that much better!" Lu Haoran glared at Yue Zijun. He didn't know how many times he had sighed at the man in front of him for being able to maintain his cool and elegance even in such a miserable situation. Look at his hair, not a trace of it is messy, his clothes are clean and tidy, his breath is orderly!

On the other hand, he himself … Sigh!

"Is there no other way?" Evading was not Lu Haoran's nature, he was tired of playing cat and mouse with people.

However, Yue Zijun smiled and asked: "Could it be that Young Master Lu prefers unnecessary fighting?"

Of course, fighting wasn't Lu Haoran's nature, otherwise he wouldn't have the nickname Gentleman's Blade.

"I mean, maybe there's another way."

"I thought I already knew it when you sent Miss Qian back to the Tian Xin Building!" Yue Zijun pretended to be surprised and asked, "So you still have delusions about those people?"

"I believe that not all sects are unreasonable people." Lu Haoran still maintained his opinion and believed that he could convince others with reason.

Yue Zijun sighed lightly and murmured: "Idiots are idiots, even idiots are so cute!"

"What?"

"Nothing, let me ask you, why is everyone so focused on Green Isolated Palace?"

"It's because they don't care about human life, they won't even let a child go!"

"You saw it?"

"…" Lu Haoran was speechless, of course, he had heard all of this before. But in the recent years, with so many children mysteriously disappearing, there should be a connection between Green Isolated Palace and this! "

"Are you so sure?"

"…" Lu Haoran was a little annoyed by Yue Zijun's attitude and asked: "Then what makes you say it's not Green Isolated Palace?"

Yue Zijun laughed: "When did I say it's not Green Isolated Palace?"

"You!" Only then did Lu Haoran realize that Yue Zijun was just teasing him. This feeling made him feel very uncomfortable, as if he was playing a fool, even though he often heard Yue Zijun secretly call him a fool.

"Alright, keep running!"

"Huh?"

"The pursuers are here!"

"Again?"

Yue Zijun still remembered that day at the Tian Xin Building. He said that he would send Qian Piaoxue north to get out of the city, and only outside the city could one be considered truly safe.

Lu Haoran thought about it and felt that it made sense. After all, Qian Piaoxue had secretly escaped from the Green Isolated Palace, so it didn't matter that Wu Lin from the Central Plains wouldn't let her go. He didn't know why Qian Piaoxue left the Green Isolated Palace, but he couldn't bear to see her forced into a dead end. In the end, she agreed to Yue Zijun's request and helped to escort Qian Piaoxue.

The method that Yue Zijun gave was very strange. He and Lu Haoran swaggered out of Yangzhou City with Qian Piaoxue, letting the world know that they were the ones who protected them. But on the way, Lu Haoran noticed that Qian Piaoxue had suddenly disappeared and asked about Yue Zijun. He was not surprised, and replied: "That is a servant girl beside me, she has already returned to her original appearance and Tian Xin Building."

"Then... What about Miss Qian? "

"Of course they arranged for another group of people to escort them north! You don't think it's safer for her to follow us, do you?! "

That's right, they were targets on the path of martial arts right now. Even if one had the best martial arts to follow them, it would not be safe.

"Wouldn't it be dangerous if we went north along the same route as Miss Qian?" Luring the tiger out of the mountain was the best plan. They shouldn't have been travelling on the same route as Qian Piaoxue.

Yue Zijun smiled and praised, "I didn't think that you would still have the time to be smart."

Lu Haoran was not happy when he heard that. He had never been stupid. It was just that he seemed a bit clumsy when compared to Yue Zijun.

"That's why we don't go to the other side of the city."

"Where to?"

"To … Beijing … City!"

"Beijing?"

Yue Zijun laughed, "Don't you know that the Emperor is recruiting candidate lady into the palace?"

Lu Haoran was surprised. He was silent for a long time before he asked in confusion, "You want Qian Piaoxue to enter the palace as candidate lady?"

"That's right, but I just want others to think that's the way it is." Yue Zijun took a sip of tea and said, "Where do you think is the safest place in the world? No matter how powerful the sects were, they wouldn't dare to openly go against the emperor, right? As long as the people of this world think that Qian Piaoxue has been elected to the Palace, we will be able to retreat! "

"But …" "But the fact is …"

"The truth is unimportant. The important thing is that Qian Piaoxue has the qualifications to be candidate lady. She can also make people believe that she would choose candidate lady! And we are the Flower Protectors who safely escorted candidate lady into the capital, aren't we? "

Looking at Yue Zijun's smile of certainty, Lu Haoran finally understood how scary this person was. No wonder the people chasing them acted in secret and didn't dare to openly intercept them. The title that he had on his list was "The Emperor's Emissary in the Civil Competition", while Qian Piaoxue was the one who had dedicated the title to the Emperor. To capture the future woman of the Emperor, he would have to go against the Imperial Court.

Lu Haoran suddenly felt glad that he didn't oppose Yue Zijun. Against such a person, how many heads did Lu Haoran have would be no match for him?

"Then do we still have to run?"

"Of course we have to lure them away. I have arranged for three palanquins to enter the capital, but they will soon realize that none of them are Qian Piaoxue. "They will only know Qian Piaoxue's whereabouts if they catch us. Do you think we should chase after them?"

Lu Haoran covered his head and complained about a headache, which made Yue Zijun laugh. He then said subconsciously, "You just don't like to use your brain. You lose to me every time."

Lu Haoran was stunned for a moment before asking, "When did I compete with you?" He only listened to Yue Zijun's arrangements along the way. He would do whatever Yue Zijun said, so how could he lose to him?

Yue Zijun was surprised, he turned around with a straight face and said, "Alright, let's rest early. We still have to play tomorrow!" With that, he turned around and returned to the bedroom next door.

Lu Haoran stared at the floor in a daze, and it was only after a long time that he muttered to himself: "Yue Zijun! "You must have been hiding something from me …"

— — The content is from [Mick Read]