The General’s Genius Daughter

Chapter 203To Fan the Emperor Down to the Ground

”Qiyue, don’t be guilty. If you let go of them, I’m afraid that they will turn against you in the future.”

Ji Feng comforted Hua Qiyue as he thought that she was feeling guilty about killing so many people.

Hua Qiyue slightly twitched her mouth and gave a smile which looked uglier than crying.

”I’m not guilty…”

”Yes, Princess, if you didn’t kill them, you might leave trouble to yourself!”

”Right, such vicious people deserve to die!”

”They actually intended to torture you to die, why would you let go of them?” Those people from gangs who stood aside said and showed their support.

Hua Qiyue glanced at them and found that many of these kind people once accepted her tasks, so she bowed with her hands folded in front of her chest to show her gratitude to them. Then, Ji Feng set forth to return to the capital.

One month ago, she was so hurried to chase after Princess Qianyang and Yun Shimo that she didn’t go to the palace to search for the clue to their elopement.

But now, since she couldn’t find them, she should go home.

At dusk of that day, Hua Qiyue got on the carriage. She wearily leaned inside the carriage. Ji Jing gave her a kettle of water, but Hua Qiyue just took a small sip of the water and refused to drink it.

”Sister Qiyue, this is the most famous Liquor-roasted Chicken of the Cloud Dragon Inn, try it!”

Ji Jing took out her food prepared for the journey—the roast chicken, which had been Hua Qiyue’s favorite. But at this moment, she just glanced at it and said, ”No, thanks, I’ve lost my appetite.”

Ji Feng’s face darkened, and he said, ”Qiyue, you’ll be thinner and weaker if you still keep doing like this. Tianci will not like you doing this. No matter whom brother Yun likes, Tianci still likes you. You’re his benefactor.”

”I’m not only his benefactor but also his mother.”

Hua Qiyue thought sadly and she was a little red-eyed. She quietly received the roast chicken from Ji Jing and ate it one bite after another difficultly.

After taking some chicken and a little water, she sighed and said, ”Tianci always asked me to go shopping with him when he lived with me. And I always thought he was annoying… Alas, I feel extremely sad since he’s not with me now, and I want to give my best things to him so that he’ll come back…”

Ji Feng nodded and said, ”I know, you’re a good mother.”

”Tianci is the only one I care about… Although Yun Shimo eloped with Princess Qianyang, I’m not worried because I can still live a good life with Tianci in the capital. But without Tianci…”

Hua Qiyue’s voice changed and she was too sad to continue.

Ji Feng and Ji Jing glanced at each other. They were both astonished on hearing that Hua Qiyue valued Tianci more than Yun Shimo.

”Forget it. Take a good rest. Let’s ask the Emperor about this after we return to the capital and see if we can find any clues.”

Ji Feng said and comforted Hua Qiyue. Seeing she carry tear in her eyes, he felt sympathetic and helpless.

Hua Qiyue ate the chicken quietly but she stopped soon, leaving a large half of the chicken. Hua Qiyue thought, ”Ji Feng was right, I have to keep a healthy body.”

If she fell sick, how could she find Tianci?

For one moment, no one talked in the carriage. Unknowingly, hare showed aside Hua Qiyue, and patted her shoulder with its claws, saying, ”Girl, I believe that they’ll come back.”

Hua Qiyue glared at it and darkened her face.

She thought that little hare must know something about the truth, but it just didn’t want to tell her.

However, it had no reactions no matter how she tried, induced, and threatened it.

The hare didn’t take action even when Hua Qiyue and other people were in the most emergent situation. Sometimes, Hua Qiyue had to suspect that whether it stayed with her on purpose.

Hare didn’t dare to say anything when it saw Hua Qiyue was in a low spirit. So it had to lie on its stomach and closed its eyes to refresh its spirit.

It would probably take them seven or eight days to return to the capital from here.

During these days, Hua Qiyue and others slept in the carriage for most nights because they hurried to go back the capital.

Ji Feng shot a signal shell to send a message that they had already set forth to capital when he passed a small town.

With this signal shell, the disciples of Ouyang Youche’s and the Ji family’s could return to the capital quickly, and they didn’t need to find Yun Shimo.

After all, Yun Shimo wasn’t an ordinary person. Once he intended to vanish, even Hua Qiyue could not find him.