Enter Chang Xiangsi and help Jingzhai fight

Chapter 128 Holy Land

I was curious, but I didn't dare to go closer to take a look. It was not until he waved at me from a distance that I walked over to him and looked at the map.

He smiled, pressed his slender white fingers on the torn part of the map, and said, "I know where this is."

I exclaimed in admiration: "Young Master is really smart. This picture couldn't be simpler, and there's not even a single word written on it. How could you figure out where it is?"

The corners of his lips curled up: "No, no, I can see that not because I'm extremely smart, but because I've been here before."

I looked in the direction where he pressed, and saw an irregular crescent-shaped circle drawn on the map, with some stars dotted around it. I couldn't tell if it was a pond or a potted landscape.

I asked curiously, "What is this? Is this a landscape with the theme of stars and the moon?"

He smiled and said, "No, this is the tail of the nine-tailed fox. Look, the crescent-shaped artificial pool in the middle is the big tail, and the big rocks scattered around are the small tail."

I thought to myself that this was too abstract, how could anyone see it? But I said, "So, this is what our ancestors left behind? Our ancestors had wonderful ideas, really elegant! Could this be some treasured place of our fox clan?"

He nodded and continued, "Almost. I only went there once when I was a kid with my grandmother. But the shape is really unique, so I recognized it at a glance. My grandmother said that this place is the holy land of the Nine-tailed Fox Clan. Because the Fox Clan is good at tracking, they are more cautious and hide this place more secretly, leaving only the mechanism next to the artificial pool as the entrance, and there is no other way to enter. As for what is enshrined in the entrance, only the previous clan leader can tell it after he ascends the throne, so I have never been in, I just know that such a mechanism exists."

I thought for a moment, then asked, "Then...does the young master know this place?"

Tu Shanjing's eyes showed some helplessness, and he said, "I know, grandma took the two of us there."

I secretly criticized this biased and foolish grandma, but I remained calm and said, "Well, if the young master knew that the picture was of this place, wouldn't he... go to the holy land bravely?"

Just as Tu Shanjing was about to answer, there was an urgent knock on the door, and Yu Xin's voice rang out from outside: "Young Master, this is bad! I have something important to report."

I hurried to open the door and invited Yu Xin in. He hurried in, bowed quickly to Tu Shanjing, and said, "The eldest master ran away!"

I was shocked when I heard that, but seeing that Tu Shanjing was calm and composed, I felt anxious for him and asked, "What's going on?!"

Yu Xin replied, "I just ran into Changbao. He said he was going to invite the eldest young master and would come back to eat something with me. I waited for him but he didn't come down, so I went to the eldest young master's room to see what was going on. Unexpectedly, the door was wide open. I knew something was wrong, so I walked in and saw Changbao lying on the ground. I didn't know who had knocked him unconscious. The eldest young master was nowhere to be seen either."

Tu Shanjing nodded and said calmly, "I understand. Then you go and look after Changbao. There are some immortality pills here that can help in an emergency. If the doctor here is unwilling to see patients at night, you can just give him money."

Yu Xin said yes, but did not move immediately. He asked hesitantly, "Then, young master...?"

Tu Shanjing looked at him: "I have my own arrangements."

Yu Xin then clasped his hands and bowed: "Then I will leave first."

After he left, Tu Shanjing sighed and said, "I didn't expect that big brother would really be so careless."

I hurriedly asked, "Sir, is this also within your control?"

Tu Shanjing nodded and said hesitantly: "I thought he might run away, but in my heart I really hope he can come and have a good chat with me..."

I knew he was a little sad, so I consoled him, "Don't worry, sir. The eldest master may have debts from gambling, and there are many people chasing him for debts, so he ran away in a hurry. Look, he didn't kill Changbao, did he? He still has some conscience."

Tu Shanjing didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "There's no need to force yourself to praise me."

I chuckled and heard him raise his voice to the window and say, "You, come in, I have something to ask you."

As soon as he finished speaking, You opened the window, put one foot on the windowsill and one foot outside, first stuck his head out and called out "Young Master", then jumped down and walked over.

Tu Shanjing looked at him and asked, "Who did you go with, brother? Did you see clearly?"

You replied, "With Guanglin. Guanglin disguised himself as a waiter and rode away hurriedly with the young master."

Tu Shanjing asked again, "So, did the fast shadow guard I asked you to choose catch up? Did you send back which direction he went?"

He said in a deep voice, "Don't worry, young master. We are chasing them closely. They reported back that they are heading back to Qingqiu."

Tu Shanjing and I looked at each other and said, "Then let's go back to Qingqiu too, and set off early tomorrow morning."

You nodded, bowed, turned around and climbed out of the window again.

I have been away from Tushan Mansion for such a long time, and suddenly I heard that we are going back. I don’t know whether Xiaowei, Senying, Ruiyang and others have a smooth journey back, and how Jingye and the others are doing in the mansion. I was thinking about my worries and couldn’t help but be a little distracted.

Tu Shanjing said to me, "Go downstairs and ask the shop assistant to bring up some hot water. Go take a shower and go to bed early today. We have to travel early tomorrow morning."

I responded in a daze, opened the door, went downstairs and walked up the stairs to the lobby on the first floor. I saw the young man sitting at the table, his head supported by his hands, and dozing off.

The door was closed, but a cool breeze squeezed in through the gap. I shivered, and the wind made me more awake.

Suddenly a thought flashed through his mind: why was Tushan Hou in such a hurry to return to Qingqiu?

I hurriedly woke up the waiter, asked him to arrange for hot water to be delivered, and turned back to Tu Shanjing's room.

He was still looking at the map carefully. When he saw me come back, he nodded and said nothing.

I asked, "Sir, where is the holy land?"

He collected the map, folded it in half, put it back in his arms, gently covered his lips and cleared his throat, and replied: "Do you still remember the Xueyun Cave on the top of Tushan Mountain?"

When he mentioned this place, I immediately thought of the hot spring in the Xueyun Cave, and the hot spring...

My face felt a little hot, so I shook my head to get rid of some thoughts that shouldn't be there at the moment. I glanced at him and saw that he slightly turned his eyes away, and his face was slightly flushed.

"Remember, remember... there is a hot spring." I got nervous and started talking about things that were not relevant.

"Well, that holy place, my grandma said that it is the source of the hot springs. The entrance is in the large forest behind Tushan Mountain."

At this time, the waiter brought hot water, and Tu Shanjing told me not to wait on him and to go back to my room to rest.

I left the room, but a question still popped up in my mind, so I turned around and pushed the door open again, asking, "Sir, then--"

Unexpectedly, when I looked up, he had unbuttoned his shirt, his collar was wide open, his chest was faintly visible, and he was standing there holding a bath towel.