The subordinate of the Qingyun Pavilion looked very excited as well. He started shouting from a distance away from Han Yun, and his words caused Han Yun’s face to instantly burst into joy.
At that moment, he took a few quick steps forward. As the subordinate dismounted, he was so excited that he raised his hands to grasp the man’s shoulders:
“Be specific, what did you find? Did you find the Northern Border King? Where is he now?”
Han Yun’s grip was so tight that the subordinate’s shoulder ached. He clearly hadn’t expected their master to be this agitated, and instinctively squeezed with such force that he winced in pain, his face contorting into a grimace.
He nodded hurriedly. “Master, please let me go first. We found the man who saved King Beijang. This time it’s definitely not a lie. He has admitted that the jade pendant of King Beijang was indeed pawned by him.”
After he finished speaking, a fleeting sense of loss flashed across Han Yun’s eyes, and his gaze dimmed instantly.
When his subordinate shouted, “Found him!” he thought they had found Mo Yunjing and was overjoyed.
But hearing his explanation at this time, it turned out that the person they found was just the one who saved Mo Yunjing.
That joy just faded away in an instant. After all, finding someone who could save Mo Yunjing didn’t mean Mo Yunjing would be with that person.
But now that he had come to his senses, Han Yun still hurriedly asked, “Where? Did you check the man’s home? Is there any sign of the King of Beijang in his house?”
…and for some reason, the moment Han Yun asked that question, the Qingyun Pavilion subordinate’s eyes dimmed. He suddenly seemed conflicted and disheartened.
After a moment, he still helplessly said, “Master, this matter is complicated. I’ll take you there first, and you… might as well go and see for yourself.”
“….”
Han Yun’s brow furrowed instantly. Since they had already found the person, what was so complicated about it?
Is it not just a matter of a single word whether Mo Yunjing is in that person’s house or not?
But looking at the helpless expressions on his subordinates’ faces, his eyes narrowed slightly, and a bad premonition arose in his heart.
Right now, I couldn’t worry about anything else. I blew a whistle, and his horse galloped toward me instantly.
Han Yun didn’t say a word. He jumped onto his horse and glanced at his subordinate, saying coldly, “Lead the way.”
Having said that, he raised his hand and whipped the reins. The horse reared up with a long neigh, then galloped off, its hooves pounding like thunder as it sped southwards, vanishing into the dust like a meteor streaking across the sky.
Those under Qingyun Pavilion knew their master was very anxious at this moment, so they didn’t dare to delay.
When their lord mounted his horse, he too leaped up hastily and took his place on its back.
Two people, brandishing their whips and astride horses, galloped swiftly towards the village where they had found a lead.
……
Several of Qingyun Pavilion’s subordinates had already been waiting in the mountain village. They still had two men detained at this time.
The two brothers captured by the subordinates of Qingyun Pavilion were precisely the Big Brother and Little Brother who had rescued Mo Yunjing.
>Damo and Xiaomo, the two brothers, have been hiding these days.
I thought that after yesterday’s raid, when they didn’t find anyone in their village, they would leave today.
So, Damo went back to the village alone after dark. When he didn’t see these people, he led his younger brother Xiaomo down the mountain.
Little did they know, as soon as they returned home, a group of people suddenly burst in and took them under control.
They didn’t even have a chance to escape, as everyone in the group was wielding a long sword.
They are nothing but simpletons, how dare they go head-to-head with these people?
After being caught, the group did not reveal their identities and immediately pressed them, asking if they had pawned a jade pendant in town a few days ago.
Upon hearing this, Da Mao’s heart skipped a beat, because the person who pawned the jade pendant that day was him.
As soon as he thought about these people coming to his door because of a jade pendant, he couldn’t help but wonder if the group in front of him might be the enemy of the person he had rescued.
Therefore, they came looking for him because of the jade pendant. If these people were truly enemies of his.
He and Xiao Mao brought the man back, but these people in front of them would definitely not let them off.
Thinking this way, Da Mao immediately wanted to deny everything, wanting to tell them that he didn’t understand what they were talking about at all.
But before he could utter a word, his younger brother, Xiao Mao, who had been kneeling beside him, had completely broken down.
Upon hearing the interrogation, he burst into tears and repeatedly kowtowed to them, crying out: “It has nothing to do with my brothers. While in the mountains, it was this man who forced my brothers to carry him back.”
This immediately exposed the fact that they had saved their brothers.
At that moment, Da Mao couldn’t deny it even if he wanted to. He could only grit his teeth and admit it.
And this jade pendant was the one that man gave him, asking him to pawn it at a pawnshop a few days ago.
The people from Qingyun Pavilion, hearing them directly admit it, were instantly overjoyed. They immediately asked the two brothers where the man who had given them the jade pendants was now.
Then Da Mao hesitated for a moment before pointing to the back mountain of their courtyard and said that man had left from the back mountain yesterday.
Hearing that the King of Beijang had already left, the people of Qingyun Pavilion were stunned. They had finally found him after so much effort.
If the King of Beijiang really left at this crucial moment, wouldn’t that mean we completely missed our chance?
However, these people from the Qingyun Pavilion were still somewhat unconvinced. After all, they had learned from their Pavilion Master that King Beijang might be seriously injured, perhaps even unable to move, so he was hiding in a mountain village in Xiliang Country, waiting for his people to find him.
The appearance of the jade pendant was mostly because King Beijiang wanted to draw their attention, so he let these two brothers pawn it.
The King of Beijiang couldn’t possibly be unaware of what the jade pendant from Qingyun Pavilion represented, so his act of pawning it must have been a deliberate ploy to lure people from Qingyun Pavilion here, wasn’t it?
Since the King of Beijang’s goal was to lure the people of Qingyun Pavilion over, how could he possibly leave at this crucial moment?
Moreover, the clothes they were wearing were not strange or unusual garments, nor were they the kind worn by commoners in Xiliang.
As long as the King of Beijang glanced at them from afar, he could recognize them as members of the Qingyun Pavilion.
So how could they have possibly left from the back mountain, knowing full well they were being sought after?
Just because of that, the subordinates of Qingyun Pavilion didn’t believe the words of these two brothers at all.
They suspected that the two brothers were lying, so they used some tactics to coerce a confession. However, after a thorough interrogation, they realized that what they said was true.
And from that thatched hut, they truly found another item that could prove the identity of the King of Beijiang.
The thatched hut where King Beijang once resided was now empty. Following the path to the mountains indicated by the two brothers, they searched carefully.
But the traces of King Beijiang were still nowhere to be found.