Chapter 452: Chapter 452: Hair on Fire Chapter 452: Chapter 452: Hair on Fire Big Bull went into the tea house and looked around, but he did not see the person with the conical hat that the little girl had mentioned. He stepped back out and glanced over at the small stand selling baked bread, only to find that Xuexue’s figure had vanished. He instantly felt that something was terribly wrong and hastened his pace, approaching the young man selling the bread and asking, “Brother, where did the girl sitting here just a moment ago go?”
When he had entered the tea house earlier, he had even looked back and saw with his own eyes Xuexue sitting right there.
The young man, who was busy baking bread at the stand, looked up at Big Bull, whose good looks made a deep impression. It was not easy to find such a handsome man in the town, and he knew he had been with the girl who had been eating the bread just now. He said, “A child, wrapped up tight from head to toe, led her away.”
“Led her away?”
“Indeed, it was quite strange. With weather this hot, to wrap oneself up so tightly, they’re not afraid of getting heat rash or something.”
Big Bull was secretly alarmed. Xuexue had always practiced martial arts, and she was fit as a fiddle! She must have been drugged with Bewitching Powder, surely by that dwarf who had committed murder at Qinger Building, who deliberately lured him to the tea house. It looked like he had fallen for the enemy’s trick of luring the tiger away from the mountain.
“Yeah, I don’t know what happened either. The girl had barely taken a couple bites of her bread when she slumped over on the table. It scared me to death—I thought someone had died. But then, at that moment, out came this tightly-wrapped child, silent as the grave, and just led her away.”
“Which way did they go?”
“That way.”
The boy selling bread, hands covered in flour, pointed in a certain direction.
Before he had even finished speaking, Big Bull took off running in that direction, hoping he could catch up to them.
However, after chasing for a while, he saw no sign of them at all. It seemed that the dwarf was pretty clever and might have changed direction long ago.
It made him run around frantically, cursing to himself, “That idiot Long Yi, he can’t even do one job I asked him to do properly.”
Now look, trouble’s left behind, hasn’t it?
To think that the dwarf survived and even took Xuexue away. If anything were to happen to Xuexue, he would skin him alive.
Immediately, he rushed to a small bamboo forest in the town and sent out a secret signal.
Shortly after, several fast horses came galloping over.
“Whoa…!”
A few men in brocade clothes quickly entered the Small Bamboo Forest and knelt before Big Bull…
“Subordinates report to the Master.”
Big Bull waved his hand impatiently, a frown on his face, and said, “Get up, get up. What’s with all this formality at a time like this, when the situation is so urgent?”
Long Yi realized that the Master sending an urgent signal for them to come must mean that something serious had happened. Thus, he asked with obvious anxiety, “Master, what exactly has happened?”
Big Bull glared at him fiercely and said in a harsh tone, “You still have the nerve to ask? I told you to kill that dwarf, and you let him escape. Now he has come back and taken Xuexue away.”
Long Yi, who had just stood up, felt weak in the knees and knelt down again: “This subordinate was inept. Please punish me, Master.”
“We’ll settle this account later. Hurry up and find the girl for me. If anything happens to Xuexue, none of you should think about living either.” Big Bull’s voice was as cold as the depths of a freezing pool.
“Yes.”
Long Yi felt a slight tremor in his heart.
It had been so long since he had seen the Master that angry, and now he was this furious over a peasant girl. It seemed the Master truly cared for Miss Mo, and he had to search diligently for her. Otherwise, his head would surely be twisted off by the Master and used as a ball.