"I see. That's easy then." Kurumi nodded and stretched out her hands to Xing.

Xing then took the opportunity to pick up Hu Tao by the waist.

Hu Tao is very light. Among all the girls she has ever hugged, she is probably the lightest.

Could it be that there is too little meat in some parts of the walnut?

Xing couldn't help but look down at Kurumi's chest.

"What are you looking at?" Walnut hugged Xing's neck with both hands, rested his head on her shoulder, and couldn't help rubbing it.

"Nothing, I just think you should eat more in the future." Xing smiled and lowered her head to give Hu Tao a gentle kiss on the lips.

"I don't have such a big appetite. Besides, if I gain too much weight it will affect my movements." Hu Tao knew what Xing meant, but she didn't really care about her current situation.

Unless she and Xing can have a child in the future...but that's probably impossible no matter how you think about it.

"Okay, it's time to go." Xing hugged Walnut, looked down, and jumped.

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Shimen is the dividing line between Liyue and Mondstadt. There is a constant stream of people coming and going here, so many vendors see business opportunities and set up stalls here to sell things.

Xing and Walnut landed right near these vendors.

Anyway, it would take a long time to get back to Liyue, so they thought they might as well have a cup of tea before continuing on their journey.

It’s a pity that Hu Tao couldn’t use the teleportation anchor like her, otherwise they would not have to spend so much time on the road if they had already passed the teleportation anchor near Liyue Harbor.

"Boss, give us both a cup of hot tea!" Hu Tao sat down and greeted the owner of the tea stall.

"Okay, please wait a moment, both customers." The stall owner was an old man, and others said he was called Uncle Zhou.

The name of this tea stall is Big Bowl Tea. As the name suggests, the two cups of hot tea that Hu Tao ordered turned out to be two big bowls.

Hu Tao was dumbfounded and for a moment regretted why she didn't want a cup.

I don’t know when I can finish these two big bowls.

"We have gained nothing today... No, it can't be said that we have gained nothing. At least there is a possibility that the young lady is still alive." Xing supported his head with one hand, looking at the large bowl of tea in front of him, and felt a headache.

"It's possible. Apart from the body found at the water source of Feiyunpo, I don't remember any young girl dying in recent times." Hu Tao nodded and took a sip of tea.

Her Wangsheng Hall almost monopolizes the entire funeral industry in Liyue, so if a young girl dies, they will most likely come to her to hold the funeral.

But we cannot be too absolute. After all, almost monopoly is not complete monopoly. And there may be people who, for various reasons, do not hold a funeral and just bury the body hastily.

“Miss, please don’t say that. Once we leave Liyue…”

"But I will be a burden to you."

Xing's ears moved slightly, and she couldn't help but turn her eyes and glanced at the table not far away with some curiosity.

A young couple was sitting together, looking flustered and tired.

She didn't have the habit of eavesdropping on other people's conversations, but her ears were too sensitive, and the two people were not sitting too far away.

Even though their voices were very low, they still reached Xing's ears.

She was somewhat concerned about what these two people said, saying that everything would be fine once they left Liyue, as if they had done something wrong in Liyue.

And that girl...

Xing's brows slowly furrowed. The more he looked at this person, the more he felt that he matched the image of Hua Chu that he had heard about before.

"Hu Tao, have you ever seen the daughter of Duke De'an?" Xing couldn't help but turn his head and asked Hu Tao.

"Ah? No, that young lady doesn't go out very often, and it seems that not many people in Liyue have seen her." Hu Tao shook her head.

Otherwise, there would be no need for them to ask others about Miss Hua Chu's appearance.

This may not be accurate.

"Well, look at that..." Xing straightened up and pointed vaguely at the table not far away with his hand.

"Huh?" Hu Tao looked over in confusion, and then his eyes widened slightly.

Twenty-Nine Nights The familiar feeling on Lan [Additional]

"Hua Chu?!"

"Shh..." Xing quickly reached out and covered Kurumi's mouth.

But unfortunately, it seemed to be a step too late, and the two of them turned their heads and looked over.

"Hua... uh, I think this painting cannot be produced, cannot be produced, cannot be produced..." Xing quickly changed his posture from covering Hu Tao's mouth to patting Hu Tao's shoulder.

"Ah...ah, yes, my friend, you are right. I won't publish this painting then..." Hu Tao also reacted and said with a slightly stiff expression.

I don’t know if the two people noticed it or not. Anyway, they stared at Hu Tao for a while and then turned their heads away, as if they were no longer paying attention to the situation here.

Xing was relieved to see this.

"Looking at their reactions, maybe that girl really is Hua Chu." Xing lowered his head and pretended to drink tea, but actually whispered to Hu Tao.

"It looks like he matches the appearance we inquired about, but who is that man?" Hu Tao also lowered her head and frowned.

"Didn't Lord De'an tell you that his daughter fell in love with a poor boy and Lord De'an had always disagreed with this marriage, which led to Hua Chuyi's suicide..."

"Oh, you mean!" Walnut opened his eyes wide.

Now that it has come to this, anyone should be able to figure it out.

They must have seen that the marriage would fail and they could not get the support of Duke De'an, so they came up with a way to escape and eloped.

I just don't know where the female corpse came from. If they bought it or stole it through some means, then it's relatively okay. But if they deliberately murdered her...

In short, these two people must not be allowed to leave now.

"What should we do? Should we just go up and catch them?" Hu Tao took another look at the stall not far away and asked.

This matter is still unclear, but if it is really the worst possibility, then these two people are criminals. It is not their duty to catch criminals, but since they have encountered them, it is naturally their duty.

"Don't worry, we are not 100% sure that the person is Hua Chu. I will find a way to say hello to them and ask about the situation." Xing shook his head.

Although the reactions of the two people and some other details confirmed that the girl was Hua Chu, it would be very embarrassing if they made a mistake.

So it’s better to confirm it.

"Okay." Hu Tao nodded. She naturally had no objection.

The two of them drank tea for a while, and seeing that the time was almost right, Xing also decided to take action.

She slowly stood up and moved closer to the two men.

"Well, hello, may I ask..." Before Xing finished his words, the two people looked at each other, and a different emotion flashed in their eyes.

They quickly pulled out their hands from under the table and threw something over, aiming directly at Xing's eyes.

"Xing, be careful!" Hu Tao's voice came from a distance.

"!"

But Xing's reaction was also very quick. He took a step back in an instant, took out a baseball bat and knocked the two things away.

However, what was unexpected was that the moment the bat hit the thing, the two small things exploded, and a huge amount of smoke instantly gushed out, filling the entire tea stall.

"Let's run!"

"Hey, you guys... cough, cough cough!" Xing covered his mouth and nose, frowning, but his vision was badly blocked and he couldn't see anything clearly.

At the same time, what was worse was that the tea stall in front of him was in chaos because of the smoke. There were quite a few customers at the tea stall, and in such chaos Xing had no time to stop the two men.

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"Wow! What happened over there?!" Paimon couldn't help but exclaim. The tea stall in the distance was filled with black smoke.

"Is there a fire?" Ying also frowned. Seeing so much black smoke, if there was a fire, it would probably be difficult to control.

"Hurry up and take control of the scene." Ye Lan raised her eyebrows. She could tell at a glance that it was definitely not as simple as a fire.

"Yes!" A team of Qianyan Army soldiers around them immediately rushed towards the tea stall in the distance.

"Let's go and take a look too." Ye Lan then said to Ying and Paimeng.

"Ok!"

“How could such a big tea stall catch fire…” Paimon flew beside Ying and covered his nose to avoid inhaling the thick smoke.

"That wasn't a fire, but a smoke bomb that someone deliberately dropped." Ye Lan said slowly.

"smoke bomb?"

"Well, it's the kind that treasure-stealing groups usually use when escaping, but this is obviously a version with a larger metering capacity... Haha, interesting." Ye Lan narrowed her eyes slightly.

Could it be that the suspects already knew that they had tracked them here, so they deliberately created some chaos to delay them?

However, all the investigations into this matter were conducted by them in private. Apart from asking Lord De'an for some information, they did not disclose it to anyone else.

Even if those two knew, there was no way they could calculate the time they would arrive here.

It seems that something else happened.

Soon, several of them arrived at the scene.

It's a mess here.

Although it was just a large smoke bomb and not any harmful gas, the dosage was too large after all, causing a certain degree of confusion. In panic, people messed up the small tea stall.

"I'm afraid this smoke bomb will cause that old man to lose a lot of money."

Just as they were looking around, a familiar voice instantly attracted everyone's attention.

"Ah! It's Xing and Walnut!" Paimon was the first to discover the two people.

Xing and Kurumi's attention was also drawn to Paimon's voice.

"It's Ying and Paimon, and there's an unfamiliar woman next to her..." Walnut looked over there with an expression of surprise on her face.

She thought that this team of Qianyan soldiers just happened to pass by, but she didn't expect that there were acquaintances among them.

However, Xing did not reply, and Kurumi could not help but turn her head away in confusion.

"star?"

Xing was staring at the strange woman beside Ying without blinking. Hu Tao tilted her head, but soon understood what was going on.

"Xing, are you going to look for a second partner in Liyue so soon?" Hu Tao said to Xing with her hands on her hips and a pout.

"Ah? No, no, I just felt that the lady looked familiar..." Xing quickly shook his head and said to Hu Tao.

To be honest, the number of pretty girls she knew seemed to be over a dozen, so no matter how pretty the woman opposite her was, she wouldn't be so pretty that she would be stunned where she was.

She really had this inexplicable sense of familiarity, but she couldn't tell exactly what it was.

How strange...

Chapter 30: Looks like, very similar

"Hello, Miss Xing, just call me Ye Lan." Ye Lan stretched out her hand to Xing and showed a charming smile on her face.

Xing was slightly stunned, but he quickly stretched out his hand and shook hands with Ye Lan.

"Hello, hello..." Xing felt inexplicably nervous, perhaps because of Ye Lan's voice.

Like, very similar.

How could they be so similar? If it weren't for the very obvious difference in appearance, Xingdu almost thought that Kafka had also come to this world.

"So, what happened?" Paimon asked anxiously. Her sudden voice finally brought Xing back to his senses.

Shaking her head, she slowly told him everything that she and Kurumi had come to investigate.

"Oh? It was indeed done by those two people." Ye Lan nodded. She had guessed that perhaps the culprit was those two people, but she didn't expect it to be such a reason.

Ying, who was standing on the other side, pinched her chin and lowered her head to think.

However, what she was thinking about was not this case. To be honest, the situation regarding Hua Chu was already very clear. Those two people definitely had something to hide, which was why they ran away when they saw people.

She was now thinking more about Ye Lan and Xing.

The moment Xing saw Ye Lan, he was stunned where he was. The look in his eyes changed when he looked at Ye Lan. It was obvious that there must be something special about Ye Lan to Xing.

She had to think carefully about how to create some space between Ye Lan and Xing so that Xing could take her down.

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