A life of two souls traveling through time

Chapter 107: Small Town Reunion

The town was peaceful and tranquil at night with sporadic candlelight, and the spring breeze was as light and gentle as the willows. This town was sparsely populated and not an important place, so the only people who usually stayed in the inn were passers-by or caravans passing by in groups of three or four.

Outside the guest room, Lao Zhou approached An Yun with a gossipy look on his face and asked curiously, "Is this woman your son's lover?"

An Yun frowned in disdain at the alcohol smell on Old Zhou. He did not answer, but glanced at the closed door worriedly. When he came back from feeding the horses, he happened to see Old Zhou being driven out of the room. Although he did not see Xuanyu, he only heard Old Zhou's story and knew that Xuanyu had been hiding in Qile City. She disappeared for so long and suddenly appeared here. He did not know what Xuanyu's identity was now? Was she sincere or fake to the young master?

Seeing that An Yun was silent all the time, Old Zhou became disappointed and went back to his room yawning, leaving An Yun standing outside the room silently.

In the room, Huanyu opened the window slightly and looked outside vigilantly for a long time. Seeing that Li Yunye was not being targeted by anyone, she put her thoughts aside with relief. Turning around, she saw Li Yunye sitting in front of the candlestick with a cup of warm tea in his hand, staring at her blankly. Her whole body stiffened, and a hint of shyness flashed unconsciously in her eyes.

"Ahem, why are you staring at me?" Yan Yu coughed twice, put away her emotions, regained her composure, and sat in front of Li Yunye.

“So you really are a female knight!” Jiang Siyao put down the teacup in his hand, looked at the beautiful and heroic Yan Yu, who was dressed in black, with shining eyes, and smiled excitedly.

When she was a child, she also liked martial arts and fantasized about entering the martial arts world and becoming a female knight roaming the world on horseback with a sword. Now, when she saw a real female knight like Xuanyu, she was both admiring and envious.

"You don't doubt my identity?" Looking at Li Yunye who was still innocent and simple, Yan Yu couldn't help but sneer in her heart, but soon she sighed sadly and asked indifferently.

"Of course I'm curious about your current identity. I'm also curious about why you, with your martial arts skills, want to be a courtesan in Hongxiang Pavilion. I'm even more curious about where you went after leaving Qile City? Why do you appear here again?" Li Yunye poured a cup of hot tea for Yanyu and asked with a smile. He was very happy to meet his friend again.

"Why do you want to leave Liangdu? What are you going to Mocheng for?" After a moment of silence, Yan Yu did not answer Li Yunye's series of curiosity, but asked in a cold voice with a gloomy face.

"How do you know I'm in Liangdu? How do you know I'm going to Mocheng?" Li Yunye was frightened by Yan Yu's sudden cold voice, but what he was more concerned about at this moment was why she knew his whereabouts so well?

"Mr. Li, do you know how many eyes are outside staring at the famous Li from Jiangnan? And how many people are hoping for the downfall of the famous Li from Jiangnan? Your self-righteous low-key travel is nothing but a sheep walking into a tiger's mouth, and in the end, nothing will be left of your body." Yan Yu sneered, and a little anger inexplicably surged in her heart. She mocked the old fox-like Li Xingyuan for raising his son to be so simple-minded.

"Don't be angry, Xuanyu. I know you are worried about me..." Although Li Yunye had many doubts in his heart, he dared not ask anything more when he saw Xuanyu's angry face. He hurriedly spoke to comfort her, but before he could finish, he was interrupted by the other party coldly:

"I do not have."

Li Yunye thought that Xuanyu's denial was hypocritical, with a hard mouth and a soft heart. He smiled helplessly. Xuanyu, who had always been so tight-lipped, mysterious and dignified, began to show her girlish side after leaving Hongxiang Pavilion. He realized belatedly that Xuanyu was only eighteen or nineteen years old.

"You must go back to Liangdu tomorrow morning and don't go to Mocheng again." Seeing the intriguing look in Li Yunye's eyes when he looked at her, Xuanyu was distressed that she had inadvertently revealed emotions that she shouldn't have, so she hurriedly avoided the other's sight, stood up, walked to the window, and said coldly.

"Xuanyu, do you know that the famous Li in Jiangnan is facing a crisis now?" Xuanyu's sudden commanding tone made Li Yunye, who always regarded her as a friend, unhappy. He then frowned and asked seriously.

"Even if Jiangnan Mingli is in danger, what can you do? Your escaping this time will only add fuel to the fire for your father..."

"How do you know what I can't do? As soon as we met, you didn't care about why I risked my life to become a good woman? Maybe you are not interested in what I do at all. In your eyes, I'm a loser who only knows how to eat, drink and have fun! But I don't understand. Why do you want to be friends with me when you are smart and excellent and look down on me?" Xuanyu's indifferent words made Li Yunye very angry. He glared at Xuanyu who was standing in front of the window with grievance, and tears welled up in his eyes.

Seeing the grievance on Li Yunye's face, Xuanyu's heart, which was as hard as stone, softened again. She sat back in front of Li Yunye and explained in a slow and gentle voice, "Zhao Changhe knew in advance that you were going to Mocheng. He had colluded with the bandits in Yanjiapo and planned to kidnap you at the border of Mocheng."

"Zhao Changhe? He...he actually colluded with the bandits? What about his son Zhao Chu?" Xuanyu's words shocked Li Yunye again. He didn't care about the grievance and asked hurriedly.

"Zhao Chu is dead."

"died?"

"I killed him." Xuanyu looked at Li Yunye expressionlessly and replied.

When Xuanyu said these three words coldly, Li Yunye felt a chill on his back. He noticed that her expression was not as righteous and indignant as that of a heroine, but instead, like a cold and ruthless killing weapon.

"What? Are you scared?" Seeing the fear on Li Yunye's face, Xuan Yu smiled coldly.

"Why do you want to kill him?" At this moment, Xuanyu's smile was like a ghost in Li Yunye's eyes, making him dare not look directly at her. He just lowered his head and asked fearfully.

"Shouldn't he die?" Yan Yu no longer looked at Li Yunye, but picked up the cool teacup at hand, stared at the warm tea in her arms and asked lightly.

Li Yunye was choked for a moment. He admitted that Zhao Chu deserved to die. He felt a little secretly happy when he heard that Zhao Chu was dead. He just didn't expect that it was Huan Yu who killed him. But when he thought about it carefully, Zhao Chu was extremely evil. Although Huan Yu carried out lynching, it was also to get rid of harm for the people.

"This is strange. You killed Zhao Chu, so why did Zhao Changhe target me?" After a moment's silence, Li Yunye once again realized what was happening and said in surprise.

"Mr. Li, you may not know that the crisis facing the famous Li family in Jiangnan this time was caused by Zhao Changhe?" Yan Yu said with a guilty conscience, then turned to look at the angry Li Yunye and continued, "The Zhao family was destroyed, and Zhao Changhe put the blame on the Li family."

"Damn it! It's clearly the Zhao family that deserves it, how dare they blame others?"

Li Yunye was so angry that he slammed the table, causing the teacups on the table to bang. An Yun, who was guarding outside, heard the noise and hurriedly pushed the door open. The room suddenly became quiet for a moment. An Yun saw that it was only his own master who was angry, so he hurriedly retreated and closed the door again.