Chapter 69: Prelude to Action

February 7, 528 at 14:09

Hongying finished the noon business, dragged her still sleepy body, and collapsed on the sofa in the lounge. Very sleepy, Hongying planned to close her eyes and sleep for a while, but because of the meeting with Dean Dan at night, Hongying was a little irritable and restless to prop up her upper body from the sofa, sighed and changed into the chef's uniform on her body.

"Hongying, where are you?"

The communication card placed on the table in the kitchen lounge of the academy cafeteria lit up, and Hongying didn't notice.

The lifelong ring of class in the afternoon rang, and Hongying hurriedly packed the things on the table into her bag and hurriedly ran to the classroom.

After the first exam eliminated half of the people, the classroom was not so crowded in an instant. But Hongying is still used to sitting in the last row of the classroom. There are many young girls in the same eighth class as Hongying, who especially like to surround Hongying's side and care about Hongying's every move. They didn't care what the teacher said in front of the podium, and asked Hongying questions on their own.

"Lord Hongying, why are you in such a bad state today?"

Hongying didn't think much about it and replied, "I'm going to see the sunrise today." ”

"Is it Kawa-sama?"

"Yes."

"How nice is the sunrise? Where did you look at it? Can you tell us about the place? ”

"It's a beautiful view from the rooftop, but I don't think you should be able to get up early."

"Wow...... You and Yu-sama have a really good relationship. ”

Hongying lay on the table and shifted her gaze from the teacher to the girls: "Why do you care so much about me and Tianyu?" I think it's weird. ”

One girl said, "Because the love between you is so touching." ”

"yes, yes, we never thought that anyone would really have the courage to express love. We really want to witness this beautiful love story, and we really hope that you can be together and overcome all kinds of difficulties. ”

Hongying asked in a low voice, "When did you know that I was with Tianyu?" ”

"On the day of the exam, we all saw that you and Yu-sama cooperated tacitly, and then you kissed. Wow, everybody saw it that day. ”

Hongying blushed and put her finger to her lips: "Shhhhh ”

"If you want to chat, please wait until class ends, okay?" The teacher stared at them, then at Hongying, "Hongying, I know you're pretty good, but the others still need to learn." ”

"Teacher, I'm sorry, I'll listen to the class."

"Red Screen! Red Glow! In the distance, there was the sound of Tian Yu shouting. Then Tianyu broke into Hongying's classroom, and after seeing Hongying, he hurriedly ran over.

"Hongying, why don't I have news? I thought you were already ......"

Hongying hurriedly glanced at Tianyu.

Tian Yu glanced at the teacher and the surrounding students in embarrassment.

Tian Yu said apologetically, "I'm sorry. ”

The teacher rolled his eyes: "Hongying, why don't you deal with your affairs first." ”

Hongying stood up in a panic and pulled Tianyu behind her: "I'm sorry, teacher, I really have something to deal with." Hehe. ”

Hongying pushed Tianyu away, combed his hair, and asked, "Tianyu, what's wrong with your hair?" ”

"I just woke up and found you weren't there, I thought something had happened to you." Tian Yu rubbed his eyes in a daze.

The girls looked at each other when they heard this, then lowered their heads and laughed.

The teacher slapped their desks hard: "Don't have this kind of dream, if your attack speed hasn't improved in the next class, I'll contact your parents." Attend class well, don't speak, hear no! ”

Reluctantly, the girls replied, "Yes." ”

Hongying pulled Tianyu to stand at the top of the stairs, still arranging Tianyu's hair: "You just woke up?" Why can't I get a good haircut? ”

"I'm afraid you've gone to the palace."

"Are you sleepy? It's broad daylight. ”

"Oh." Tian Yu admits that he reacted a little too much.

"You don't have to worry about me, you haven't eaten yet, I'll make it for you. Let's go. ”

Hong Ying took Tian Yu's hand, and Tian Yu followed behind Hong Ying like a good child. Hongying made a simple meal in the back kitchen of the restaurant and sent it to Tianyu to the lounge. But Tianyu didn't have much appetite and looked at the food in a daze.

"Tianyu, what's wrong with you? Isn't it hard to stay up late and haven't woken up yet? ”

"It's not." Tian Yu shook his head, "I, I have a very bad feeling. I think something is going to happen this time. My chest was tight. ”

"You don't have to go to work at night. You're in terrible shape. I'm worried about you right now compared to my business, it's strange that you're like this. ”

Tianyu took out his communication card and contacted his boss to ask for sick leave.

Hongying sat on a chair behind the table in the lounge and said to Tianyu, "Isn't the food I cooked to your liking?" ”

Tian Yu moved his body sunken in the sofa and ate his food slowly.

Hongying looked at Tian Yu with her face in her hands, Tian Yu put down the plate and said, "I know that the little girl is very important to you, but you are also very important to me, I don't want you to go." ”

Hongying took a deep breath: "I know you're worried about me, but I ......" Hongying exhaled and raised her eyes to look at Tianyu, she knew that she couldn't talk about Tianyu, so she had to silently look away and look at other places.

Tianyu said, "I see you seem to have made up your mind." Then I'll go first. ”

Hongying looked at the leaving Tianyu and stopped talking.

Tianyu left the restaurant and went to find Marshall. But there was no one in Marshall's room, so Tianyu was just like a headless fly, looking for it in the academy without thinking.

Marshall ended the exchange with Teacher Lilith, and Tianyu bumped into Marshall on the third floor, and said to him with an excited and serious face, "Marshall, can you help me stop Hongying?" ”

Marshall shook his head: "You know, we can't talk about Hongying. Unless you're trying to coerce. ”

Tian Yu nodded: "That's what I thought. ”

"Let's not talk about whether it's possible for you to trap her, do you think she'll forgive you?"

"I can't control it so much, it's too dangerous for her to do this! Won't you stop her? ”

Marshall stared at Tianyu: "If I go to stop her, she will definitely hate me." Only you can stop this, at least she won't hate you. ”

Tianyu frowned, lowered his head and thought for a while, then left without answering Marshall.

In the evening, Hongying changed her clothes in the lounge of the restaurant, and she rarely wore a black bodysuit, which Marshall bought through the black market. She tied the holster around her waist to put the moonlight flower tightened, and then leaned down and gently touched the face of Tian Yu, who was lying on the sofa and fainted.

"I'll be back sooner."

Marshall was also dressed in black and stood beside Hongying: "Let's go, it's almost time." ”

Hongying left the lounge: "Didn't you have a date with Melili today?" ”

"It's too early, and our appointments are usually in the middle of the night." Marshall's face was expressionless.

"It's nine o'clock now. No wonder your dark circles are getting heavier. ”

"That woman is so good at tossing. She and I can't break off now. ”

"Marshall, even if you're young, you can't spoil your body like this. Why don't you use healing magic on yourself? ”

"This dark circle was boiled last night, and it will be fine tomorrow." Marshall raised his eyebrows, "Have you forgiven me about yesterday's incident?" ”

Hongying snorted, "I didn't forgive you. ”

"And you're still looking for help?"

"This is what you owe me. You have the ability to help me, and you are willing to help me, why don't I ask you for help? ”

Marshall thought for a moment: "Why does it feel a little weird?" ”

"I didn't realize that you were lying to me, and sure enough, my judgment has been a bit wrong lately."

"You don't have any experience in this kind of thing, and as soon as I say this, as soon as you doubt it, you will naturally have a delusion."

"Marshall, you've changed."

"You used to be a kid, you didn't understand a lot of things, and now you're older. There are some things you should understand. ”

"I'm still a kid, I just look like an adult."

"Forget it, I know you, you have matured psychologically very early, and now you are physically mature. You're an adult. ”

"So you're lying to me."

"Oh, I'm really wrong about this, don't mention it again, okay?"

"No way!" Hongying glared at Marshall, her eyes drooped after a while, and her pace slowed down, "I'm also very uneasy in my heart, and I'm worried that I'll be discovered." ”

Marshall glanced at Hongying: "It's been a long time since you've done something like this?" ”

"No, I didn't care about it before, even if I was arrested and beaten to death, I don't care, I'm not afraid. But now it's different, I still want to find our future with Tianyu, I'm afraid that I will make a mistake and affect him, and he left the dream house for me. I was really scared. ”

"Then give up."

"No, the little girl is innocent. I had to save her. ”

"So I'm here to help you, I can help you watch the wind, help you cushion. Let me make amends to you. ”

"Thank you, Marshall."

Marshall paused, then smiled, "It's been a long time since I've heard you say thank you to me." ”

"Then I'll say it again, thank you, Marshall."

Hongying and Marshall ran through the dark streets, arriving outside the Yetingfang Orphanage on time at eleven o'clock.

"Marshall, you're waiting for me here, I'm afraid Dean Dan will be nervous when he sees someone other than me. It will be bad for the little girl. ”

"Okay, I'll hide and wait for you." Marshall turned and burrowed into the darkness.

Hongying was now more nervous than anyone she had ever been negotiating, and she took several deep breaths before pulling open the large iron doors of the orphanage.

The iron gate made a very loud noise, as if it was telling the people in the orphanage, "Someone is coming."

Hongying cautiously walked into the courtyard of the orphanage and looked around. The lights suddenly came on, and a little girl was tied to a wooden chair in the middle of the hall.

Hongying was about to run over, when a large group of rats suddenly appeared in front of her, and the body of the rats was accompanied by a foul smell, and Hongying felt disgusted and took two steps back: "Mouses? Why are there so many rats? ”

Dean Dan walked out: "You're very punctual. ”

"Of course." Hongying squinted her eyes and looked at the little girl carefully, and recognized her at a glance, "Little girl! Little girl! Are you okay? ”

The little girl raised her head and looked at Hongying with big watery eyes: "Who are you?" ”

"I'm Sister Hongying. Don't you remember? ”

The little girl looked at Hongying blankly: "I don't remember." ”

"Don't you remember? I took care of you when I was a kid and brought you black tea to drink. Hongying looked at the little girl expectantly, hoping that she could remember herself.

The little girl shook her head.

But when Hongying left, Xiao Yaya was only five years old, and after six years of leaving, it is normal for Xiao Yaya not to remember herself. Hongying looked at the little girl with some loss: "Little girl, how are you doing?" ”

The little girl didn't answer Hongying, just cried silently. Hongying looked at the little girl biting her lip and didn't dare to cry out and felt very distressed: "Dean Dan, look at what you have done to this child. She's eleven years old now, and she's so thin, what have you done to make the kids skinny? ”

"Anyway, now that the little girl is here, if you want to take her away, bring me the moonlight flower." Dean Dan pulled out his dagger and pressed the tip of the knife against the little girl's neck.

"I see, I'm going to steal it for you now. You, you keep the knife away from her. Hongying looked at the little girl's neck nervously.

Dean Dan put the knife away: "After you stole the Moonlight Flower out, you put the Moonlight Flower directly into the mouse's mouth." After I received it, I would naturally let the little girl go. ”

"How do I know if you will let the little girl go after you receive it."

"It's useless for us to keep this girl, I'll let her go. If you don't do what I say, she'll die right now. ”

"Okay! I see, which mouse? ”

Dean Dan coughed, then "Squeak, squeak." After that. The rats dispersed, leaving only one mouse.

Dean Dan warned, "If my rat dies, I'll get the news all at once." Don't forget that the little girl is still in my hands. Dean Dan dangled the dangerous dagger beside the little girl's skinny, sunken face, "You only have one day." I don't have the patience to wait for you. ”

Hongying looked at the little girl and felt that her breathing became heavy. She left the orphanage backwards and ran to the junction to meet Marshall.

Marshall said, "How? ”

Hongying frowned: "The little girl is not doing well at all." I've got to steal the Moonlight Flower. She pulled Marshall and whispered in his ear, "The rat will always follow us, and we should be careful what we talk about." Who knows if it can understand us too. ”

"Yes, I understand."

"The rat spoke, so that's not it." Marshall didn't say anything, and turned his head to look at Hongying.

"Yes. The same. Hongying nodded, "Let's go first." ”

Marshall and Hongying climbed the same tree that Hongying had climbed yesterday and checked the situation in the palace.

"There are so many more knights in the palace than there were yesterday," Marshall said. ”

"Probably because of Tianyu's letter yesterday."

"It's so hard not to be found right now." Marshall shook his head.

"Although I don't want to make things too big, I can only do this for the sake of the little girl."

"Hongying, I'll listen to your arrangement."

"I'll have to lure some of the knights out of the way first."

"Set fire?"

"Actually, I don't want to do that, it's easy to hurt other people."

"There is no one in the restaurant at night, so you don't have to worry about anyone getting hurt."

Hongying nodded: "It's strange, Dean Dan can manipulate the mouse, why didn't she just let the mouse sneak in and steal the moonlight flower?" ”

"Didn't Tianyu say that the Moonlight Flower was hidden in the secret room of the king's bedroom, a secret room that rats couldn't enter."

Hongying frowned: "No, if you think like this, there will be more and more things and troubles, so it's better to make it simpler." ”

"In your way?"

"A well-planned plan is better than a simple and crude robbery."

"You don't want to use your brain, do you? You're a thief! ”

"I only have such a short time, don't you know who took the name thief? It's because they didn't look at the things and said that I was good and threw the pot at me. Hongying pouted.

"Okay. It's better to put the fire on the Rose Music Restaurant. I'm in charge of helping you block some of the knights, in case something I can cover your escape. ”

Red Ying broke off a branch from the tree, jumped off the book, blew at it, and handed it to the mouse that followed them all the way, "Go, order the Rose Music Restaurant." ”

The rat took the branch and ran away.

Red Ying climbed the tree again and waited with Marshall for the fire at the music restaurant to the north.

After a while, some fiery red light began to come from in the distance.

"Let's go."

Hongying let the tree stretch forward a long way, and then jumped lightly into the palace wall. Marshall then flipped in.

It was a gust of wind blowing, and Hongying shook her lips: "It's over." ”

"What's wrong?"

"It's windy tonight."

"What's the matter?"

"Hope everybody's okay. Let's hurry up first. ”

Hongying flipped into King Onli's study, and the books in the study were a little too neat, and even the cabinets fit perfectly with those books. She walked out of the study and looked at the empty, but bright, corridor, and felt a little strange. But she had to follow the wall, go to the bedroom door and knock on it.

Hongying quietly closed the door, leaning her back against the wall. It was so quiet that I could hear my own heartbeat.

"It's finally there."

Hongying held her breath, this was the first time she had broken into someone's room to steal something, and she would inevitably be a little nervous in the face of the owner of the room.

King Anli turned on the lamp on the bedside table, but the light was not very bright, and the red appearance was still very blurry in Angli's eyes.

"You're Hongying."

"Yes." Hongying's brain spun rapidly, trying to keep herself calm.

"Didn't you think it was a trap?"

Hongying looked at Ang Li, who was sitting on the bed in his pajamas, then turned around and fumbled around the wall for a while, turning on the light. She looked down and smiled slightly, looking at King Anli and the two inquisitors beside him, "It's much more comfortable to turn on the light this way." ”