"What?"
Sun Li sheathed her saber. "He hasn't come back?"
"That's right!"
Sun Buqi nodded heavily. "I asked that Hundred Household Commander surnamed Liu. He said they waited half an incense stick's time at the rendezvous point, and when they still didn't see them, they came back early."
"Sister Tong!"
Listening to the two of them speak.
Tong Shi collapsed on the spot in the courtyard, nearly fainting dead away.
Gu Xinlan supported her and asked, "Sister Li, did... did something happen?"
"Don't panic yet."
Sun Li comforted them. "Maybe they got lost, or something delayed them. If we wait a little longer, perhaps they'll come back."
"Got lost?"
Gu Xinlan seized upon the key point. "Shi Ge'er and the others went beyond the Great Wall?"
How could she not understand her own man?
He ran all over Tiger Head Mountain day in and day out. How could he possibly get lost?
If he truly had gotten lost, it could only have been on the unfamiliar grasslands.
"Yes."
Sun Li tacitly admitted it. "Let's wait a little longer."
The atmosphere in the residence seemed to freeze solid in an instant.
Until dawn, there was still not the slightest sign of movement.
By the latter half of the night, even Xu Wencai had brought Wang Li and the others over to inquire about the situation.
There were women in the household, so it was inconvenient for them to approach. They merely stood far outside the gate.
"Could something have happened to Lord Chen?"
Wang Li's face was grim, his hand pressing against the saber at his waist. "Old Xu, say something. Deputy Thousand Households Luo and Commander Liu both came back, but Lord Chen alone hasn't returned."
Xu Wencai paced back and forth. "Don't panic, don't panic! My lord is blessed