After a long while, Zhang Xiaohua said softly, "Let's go, Meng. There are no more clues here. We should head for the next place."
"Mm." Meng nodded. The two mounted up and rode straight to the edge of town. Zhang Xiaohua glanced at the villagers nearby, considered for a moment, but in the end did not dismount to ask for directions.
After they had traveled far from town, Meng could not help asking, "Where is the next place? If you do not ask how to get there, how will we reach it?"
Zhang Xiaohua smiled. "Let's leave town first. I keep feeling as though someone is following us. If we ask now, then even if we mention several different place names, once we set off, they will know where we are going. Wouldn't that be telling them for nothing?"
"Mm, I'll listen to you." Meng was somewhat sorrowful at the moment.
Zhang Xiaohua understood what she was thinking. He patted Four Unlike and moved closer, taking her hand as he said, "Meng, do not think so much. No matter what your background is, no matter... who your family is, you will always be Meng in my heart—the girl who makes my heart stir. I... for this whole life, will think of you, miss you, protect you, cherish you... stay with you day and night, never to part!"
"Xiaohua..." Meng called out Zhang Xiaohua's name, then leaped into his arms and wrapped her arms tightly around his waist, burying her head against his chest. A moment later, she lifted her head. Her cherry lips were right before him, and Zhang Xiaohua could not resist lowering his head. With a soft "Mmm," he kissed her!
Only after a long time did the two, both long-practiced in internal arts, finally separate with flushed