Chapter 163: The Teacher Has Disappeared

  "Is there anything else in your brain besides women?" Ji Bian sneered at Gu Jing's words,

  "What the teacher said can't be wrong!" Gu Jing furrowed his brow.

  "Hah!" Ji Bian chuckled and said, "I advise you, except for orders, it's best not to believe anything Mr. says."

  It's just that sometimes Ji Bian himself would also unconsciously follow Song ChuYi into the gutter, but at least he didn't have the same "I'm-so-sure-I'll-live-forever" look on his face like Gu Jing did.

  "Someone deeply agrees." Gu Han threw down a sentence and lifted his foot to go back to the house to rest. Just as he walked onto the corridor, he suddenly thought of an important matter, "The master ordered us to hurry up and prepare to set off two hours later."

  "Sir, why do you change your mind so often?" Ji Bian complained. Ji Bian was used to military campaigns and would occasionally make temporary changes to the original plan during the march, but frequent changes would lead to instability in the army's morale, which was a major taboo.

  Gong Jingdao said, "Just now I was observing your brother's demeanor, has his temperament changed?"

  Ji Fan glanced at him and smiled, "What's wrong, didn't you say that charm is a woman's buttocks?"

  "What's so strange about that! Perhaps the charm Mr. spoke of and the charm Brother Ji spoke of aren't the same thing!" Gu Jing argued, with a "Mr. is always right" expression.

  Ji Bian was speechless, and since their paths were different, they couldn't work together. He quietly stepped aside.

  A peaceful night.

  As it approached dawn, there was a stir in the courtyard, and the swordsmen came out of their rooms one after another.

  Ji Yu entered the house and called out a few times, but only got vague responses. She then avoided the crowd and first rolled up the woman along with the mat and bedding, carrying her from the house to the boat.

  Gu Yan arranged for a water route, and after everyone got on the boat, they settled everything and set sail smoothly to Shu State.

  The wind is fine and the sun is shining. Elegant words and emotions are first revealed.

  After a day's journey, just before dinner time, Gu Jing rushed out of the cabin and shouted, "The master is gone!"

  "Lost?" Gu Han's heart tightened. Since boarding the ship, he had indeed not seen Song Chuanyi at all! He calmed down and turned to ask Ji Yu, "Brother Ji, where did you put Mr. Song this morning?"

  "Isn't there only one cabin on this boat?" Ji Yu asked.

  "There is only one place, but I've looked and Mr. Gu hasn't been inside." Qu Jing said.

  At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, as the mainstay of this trip, it was absolutely impossible to make any mistakes. At present, everyone's heart is slightly uneasy, and Gu Han said, "Don't make a noise, let's go in and take a look."

  After finishing speaking, Gu Han cleared his throat, and just now Gu Jing's loud voice was so loud that it wasn't just the boat, but probably both shores could hear it clearly.

  Several people walked into the cabin, took a look around, and Gu Han asked in a low voice, "Ji brother, do you think it's possible that the person who played chess with Mr. last night kidnapped him? I don't think he has good intentions."

  Inside the cabin, everything was in plain sight, and there was nowhere to hide. Moreover, although Song Chuyi had never been very serious, he wouldn't be bored enough to play this kind of joke.

  He furrowed his brow and asked Gu Jingdao, "Have you looked elsewhere?"

  "I've looked everywhere I can think of." Gu Jing rubbed his head, thinking if there was anywhere else he hadn't searched.

  "Let's search the boat then." Ji Yu looked at Gu Han. The boat wasn't big and didn't have any hidden rooms or secret compartments, a person couldn't possibly not be found on it.

  "It can't be helped." Gu Han nodded and went out to instruct someone to find people.

  The sun sets in the west, and there is no idle person on the whole boat.

  Two cups of tea time passed, more than 40 people did not find any clues.

  Everyone is getting more and more anxious. Guxuan and his men were swordsmen trained by the great Qin state, every time they protected the powerful ministers of the Great Qin, so even if Song Chu was just a humble historian without any power, they didn't dare to have any doubts about her importance to the Qin state. What if something happened to her? Could they use their heads to get her back?

  "Has anyone moved things in the bedroom?" Ji Yu asked.

  After a moment of silence, a swordsman stepped forward. "Before boarding the ship, the captain told me to clean up my quarters, but I didn't have time to tidy up beforehand, so after setting sail, I immediately cleaned up. Nothing else was touched, only the pile of bedding and mats inside were put into the hold, and new ones were laid out."

  Several people in the know couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat, and even Kyoto Valley fell silent.

  "Didn't you notice anything unusual about that quilt?" Gu Han said weakly.

  The swordsman was bewildered, but still spoke the truth, "Chen Dian."

  Ji Yu had never been a gentle and meticulous person, so he simply rolled up the bedding and threw it into the cabin. If Song Chu'er had slept soundly and kept everything as it was, how could the swordsman not have discovered someone inside? The key was that she had messed up the bedding, and in the dim light of dawn when boarding the ship, the swordsman was in a hurry to save time, so he hastily bundled up the package and threw it into the cabin, not carrying it like Ji Yu did.

  "Hurry up and go down to the hold to get that quilt!" Gu Han said angrily.

  The swordsman suddenly understood the reason, his face turned slightly pale, he responded with a sound, and hurriedly ran to the bottom cabin.

  Song Chu Yi was the kind of person who could sleep soundly as long as there was no light, and he had never woken up inside.

  It was too dark in the cabin, so the swordsman had to go down with a torch.

  He had just come down the stairs and stood on the deck, when he saw a hand sticking out of the bundle in front of him. After struggling for a moment, a big, fluffy, black thing squeezed out.

  The swordsman, who had seen much of the world, still paled slightly, holding a lantern in one hand and unconsciously pressing down on the hilt of his sword with the other, calling out tentatively, "Sir?"

  "Hmm." A muffled voice came from inside, followed by a roar, "Who the hell tucked my quilt in so tightly!"

  The swordsman couldn't help but wipe his sweat and hurriedly untied his bundle.

  Song Chu let out a sigh of relief and crawled out from inside with a messy head of hair, looked around the cabin and asked, "Isn't it dawn yet?"

  "Back, sir, it's getting dark." The swordsman held up a butter lamp and asked cautiously, "Sir, do you want to go up?"

  Song Chu slowly regained consciousness after a brief pause. She looked at the surrounding piles of supplies, then at the swordsman's expression, and felt something was amiss. "What happened? Where are Yu and Han?"

  Why did she hide in the cabin? And where are the two masters?

  "They're waiting for you up there." The swordsman said with a lack of confidence.

  Song Chu'er took another look at the person in front of her, and indeed recognized him as the swordsman she had brought with her. The young man who would occasionally tease her with a sentence or two now looked uncertain, saying "Let's go."

  As soon as she stepped out onto the deck, a gust of river wind carrying a faint smell of blood blew over, and the fresh air choked Song Chuyi, only then did she realize that she had almost suffocated just now.

  "Sir!" Kuang Jing strode over with big steps.

  Ji Yu looked up at the starry sky. Gu Han cleared his throat and said, "It's getting late, sir, let's have dinner."

  Song Chu closed his eyes slightly.

  Kou Hanzo's sharp senses picked up on the danger, and he turned around, hands behind his back, looking up at the sky as he spoke to Jubei, "The weather is quite nice today, isn't it?"

  He raised an eyebrow and said coldly, "Who are you teasing?!"

  Gu Yan turned his head and saw Ji Yue brush off his sleeve and leave, he couldn't help but be stunned. He just wanted to say: Today the wind is blowing smoothly, it's convenient for traveling, what kind of teasing is this?

  But in an instant, Gu Han understood that Ji Yu was indeed worthy of being a former general, his mind was quick to turn and he immediately found an excuse to slip away. Only this excuse was a bit far-fetched.