If Xi'an was missing in normal times, Lin Qingbai would not be so anxious.

He knew that Xi An was playful, so he ran out of the mansion secretly not once or twice.

But this time is different.

There are monsters in the world.

Lin Qingbai saw with his own eyes that monster pinning Xi An under him, opening its mouth wide to swallow his little apprentice at any time.

Although the monster retreated at that time, Xi An was only slightly injured.

But as long as he thought of the scene at that time, Lin Qingbai felt as if a big stone had been pressed against his chest, and he couldn't even breathe.

For a moment, those terrible scenes reappeared in Lin Qingbai's mind over and over again, as if under a spell.

The more he thought about it, the more apprehensive he became, and the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became.

The mountain road was difficult to walk, Lin Qingbai's foot slipped, and the servants behind him hurriedly supported him, and then stabilized his body.

"My lord, why don't you rest first, we'll just go and look for the young master." Aunt Lian couldn't stand it any longer and said in a low voice.

Lin Qingbai lowered his head and did not want to say much, but just raised his hand and waved it, as if he was extremely tired.

At this time, a guard suddenly shouted in front of him: "Master Xi'an has been found! We have found it!"

Lin Qingbai raised his head abruptly, and before Aunt Lian could react, he followed the sound and ran over.

When Lin Qingbai saw Xi'an, he was leaning against the tree and trying to stand up with difficulty while holding onto the tree. He didn't know what kind of injury he had suffered, so he couldn't stand up. When he saw Lin Qingbai, he shoutedHe said, "Master."

Lin Qingbai quickly walked up to Xi An, and knelt down to check how he was doing.

"Are you injured?" Lin Qingbai asked anxiously, touching Xi'an all over.

Xi An didn't answer, but quietly looked at Lin Qingbai with lowered eyes.

Lin Qingbai was very close to him, and he could even see the fine sweat from Lin Qingbai's forehead, and Lin Qingbai's always clean clothes were also covered with mud at this time.

This was the first time he saw Lin Qingbai so anxious.

Xi An's eyes gradually slowed down, and he leaned closer to Lin Qingbai as before, grabbed Lin Qingbai's hand, and said in a low voice: "Master, the wound on my leg seems to be cracked.opened."

Lin Qingbai's hand stopped immediately, and he quickly lowered his head to check Xi'an's leg.

The wound on the leg had almost healed before, but now the gauze bandaged was stained with blood.

Lin Qingbai's face turned cold in an instant, and he said angrily: "I will never change after repeated admonition!"

Lin Qingbai was in a hurry, shook off Xi An's hand, threw up his sleeves and left.

Xi An froze for a moment, and was about to stand up with his hands on the tree.

"Master!"

"Master!"

Lin Qingbai turned a deaf ear to Xi An's voice, and the servants around looked at me and I looked at you, and they didn't know what to do. Only Aunt Lian was the first to react, and stepped forward to comfort her: "My lord, youDon't be angry, An'er is a bit naughty, but...he has been at home for half a month, and he probably got really bored, so he sneaked out."

"My lord, it's not too late to punish him when you go back."

"My lord, you go so fast, he will break the wound after chasing you."

When Lin Qingbai heard this, he stopped in his tracks. He turned around and looked over, and saw Xi An limping after him.

His leg was injured, his face was pale, and he frowned in pain.

The servants around did not get Lin Qingbai's order, and none of them dared to step forward to support him.

Now Lin Qingbai was even more annoyed.

He was so angry that he even wanted to throw Xi'an on the mountain, so that he could have a long memory.

Why are you so courageous?

Why are you disobedient?

Why do you dare to sneak out when you know that there are wild beasts in the mountains recently?

The monster almost ate him last time, what if something happened this time?

But thinking of this, Lin Qingbai felt distressed again.

He was always like this to Xi An, he couldn't get angry, he beat and beat so badly,

This contradictory mood disturbed Lin Qingbai.

With a cold face, he didn't make up his mind after all, and said to the guard next to him: "Go and carry him."

After finding Xi'an, everyone was not in a hurry when they went down the mountain, and found an easy road.

Lin Qingbai was still angry, and walked in the front, with Xi An's guard on his back walking a little behind him.

Suddenly Lin Qingbai felt his sleeve being pulled, he lowered his eyes and saw Xi An's little paw.

Lin Qing waved him away with a white hand.

"Master..."

Xi An's voice was low and weak, sounding pitiful.

Lin Qingbai's Adam's apple rolled, and he ignored him.

After a while, Xi An's little hand grabbed Lin Qingbai's sleeve again, this time Lin Qingbai didn't shake it off, but just let him pull.

So Xi An tugged and tugged again.

"Master..."

"Master..."

Lin Qingbai who Xi An called was a little annoyed, so he turned around.

Xi'an looked at him eagerly, with grievances twinkling in his eyes, obviously he did something wrong, but it was as if he had been greatly wronged.

Lin Qingbai glanced at him, still ignoring him, but Xi An was dishonest on the guard's back, like a little monkey.

One hand tugged on Lin Qingbai's sleeve, seeing that as long as Lin Qingbai shook him off again, he would fall off.

"What are you dragging me for?" Lin Qingbai said coldly.

"Master, my hand is also hurt..."

Hearing what Xi An said, Lin Qingbai looked at Xi An's hand.

Lin Qingbai didn't notice it in the dark night before, but now he looked carefully at Lin Qingbai and saw a scar on Xi'an's left hand.

Lin Qingbai's heart tightened, he stopped, held Xi'an's wrist, and looked at Xi'an's wound by the light of the torch, the more he looked at Lin Qingbai's brows, the tighter his frown became.

The wound spanned Xi'an's entire palm, and the edge of the wound was covered with dark brown dried blood, and the blood was still flowing out along the wound.

Lin Qingbai held his wrist tightly and asked, "How did you do it?"

Xi An said: "Accidentally cut by a branch."

After speaking, Xi An grabbed Lin Qingbai's sleeve with his injured hand, and the blood on his hand stained Lin Qingbai's robe red.

There was a posture of insisting on dragging Lin Qingbai to forgive him regardless of the injury on his hand.

Lin Qingbai knew Xi An's stubborn temper, if he got rid of Xi An, the kid would probably be able to keep grabbing his sleeve.

Lin Qingbai was afraid of hurting Xi An's hand, but he really didn't dare to break free.

For a while, Lin Qingbai's stomach was exhausted by Xi An, he sighed helplessly, and said to the guard: "I will carry it."

The guard hesitated for a moment, and put Xi An on Lin Qingbai's back.

Lin Qingbai was very thin, much thinner than the guards.

Xi An lay on Lin Qingbai's back, and could almost feel the bones on Lin Qingbai's back.

This recognition made Xi An pause, straightened his upper body and shouted: "Master."

"kindness."

"Am I heavy?"

"not heavy."

"If you can't carry it, I can come down and walk by myself."

"Just be honest."

Xi An obediently lay on Lin Qingbai's shoulder.

His little face was soft, and the heat spread down the clothes to Lin Qingbai's shoulders.

Lin Qingbai's body smelled fragrant, not that pungent fragrance, but a mild and refreshing smell, like the fragrance of bamboos in the forest after it rained, and you have to get close to smell it.

Xi An's eyes dimmed, and he moved closer.

Aunt Lian next to her smiled and said, "The young master is already so old, he still only likes to cling to the prince, and he is not afraid of crushing the prince's body, so let me carry it."

Xi An hugged Lin Qingbai tightly with both hands.

Lin Qingbai refused calmly: "How can I be so easily crushed."

Xi'an buried his head on Lin Qingbai's neck, and said in a muffled voice, "That's right."

Aunt Lian looked at the master and apprentice, smiled and shook her head, and stopped talking.

Xi An was dishonest on Lin Qingbai's back, the breath from the tip of his nose blew onto Lin Qingbai's neck, making Lin Qingbai itchy.

Master, master.

Xi An called him loudly.

Lin Qingbai walked very slowly, without making a sound, just quietly listening to Xi An's voice, looking softly into the distance.

The view on the mountain is very good, the sky is full of stars above the head, and the lights of thousands of families can be seen down the mountain, which is much more beautiful than staying in the palace with high walls.

The mountain road was not far away, Lin Qingbai and Xi An returned to the carriage.

As soon as he got in the car, Xi An approached Lin Qingbai flatteringly, and asked Lin Qingbai: "Master, does your back hurt, let me rub it for you."

Before Xi An's little hand touched Lin Qingbai's waist, Lin Qingbai grabbed his little paw.

He looked down at the wound on Xi An's hand and said, "Sit honestly."

But after not sitting for a long time, Xi An began to move around dishonestly, asking around Lin Qingbai, like a puppy, the tail behind him was about to wag out of the circle.

Lin Qingbai closed his eyes and asked straightforwardly: "What do you want?"

Xi An laughed twice, and said: "Master, I just saw a puppy on the mountain, so I took it with me......"

Only then did Lin Qingbai open his eyes. He scanned Xi An's body back and forth, and asked, "Where is it?"

Xi An immediately stood up when he heard it, and said with burning eyes, "I'll show it to Master!"

Speaking of which, the child ignored the injuries on his body, leaned out from the window of the carriage, waved his hands and shouted: "Bring me my sack!"

Not long after, a guard handed over a sack, and Xi An happily took the sack.

I don't know what was in that sack, but there was a strong smell of blood.

Lin Qingbai was uncomfortable riding in a carriage, but this smell rushed into his nostrils instantly, and turned his stomach upside down.

Xi An buried his head and concentrated on taking the puppy out of the sack, completely unaware of Lin Qingbai's strangeness.

"Master, you see it is thin and small, it may be eaten by wild animals on the mountain, so I picked it up, you asked me to raise it..."

Xi An was holding the dog with one hand, and was about to show it to Lin Qingbai, when he raised his eyes and saw his master's face was pale, he covered his nose with his sleeve, and his Adam's apple kept rolling.

Xi An reacted quickly, he opened the curtain and threw the sack out, and then he looked at the blood-stained puppy in his hand, and almost threw it out of the window too.

Xi An rubbed his hands on his trouser legs, and explained: "Master, this is a sack I picked up randomly in the mountains. It should be that the farmer used to pack prey, so it has a taste..."

As soon as the bag was thrown out, the smell in the car became much lighter. Lin Qingbai leaned on the seat, and when the discomfort in his stomach subsided, he said in a hoarse voice, "No problem."

Lin Qingbai lowered his eyes, saw the puppy jumping around in the car, and said, "Pick it up and let me have a look at it."

Xi An bent down and picked up the puppy with one hand, and was afraid that the smell of the puppy would infect Lin Qingbai, so he dared to get closer.

Lin Qingbai glanced at the puppy.

When the puppy was in Xi'an's hands, it was very obedient, neither struggling nor barking.

Its eyes were dark, and its whole body was covered in white fur, which was somewhat dirty, especially the feet and chest were covered with mud, and the white fur turned black-gray.

Lin Qingbai glanced at the puppy for a moment.

He saw that the dog had white fur all over its body, except for a tuft of red fur on its chest, which was shaped like a cluster of flames.

That mark hit Lin Qingbai fiercely like a heavy hammer.

Lin Qingbai raised his finger to point to that spot, and asked, "What is this?"