Second Marriage

She wanted to speak up to ask him if he was hiding something from her, when suddenly, there was the sound of horses approaching. She turned around in fear and saw a long torch lit on the mountain road they had come from. The fuzzy figures in the dark were moving like a long dragon inspecting its own territory.

“Fifth Master!”

She held onto his hand tightly in alarm.

Ye Shen’s eyes were fixed on the distance. His men stood up, revealing their swords. Even the wind in their ears was infected with a sharp coldness.

“Don’t be afraid, just wait for them to come.” He patted her hand gently.

Xiao Youning didn’t know why, but she felt better. Right, with him around, I don’t have to be nervous. 

Jian Yin had rushed towards them, and he calmly said, “Fifth Master, please retreat.”

Ye Shen shook his head and waited quietly for the people to come.

Soon, they came forward and their horses stopped in front of the temporary camp. One man was thrown down, covered in blood. He let out a grim howl as he fell to the ground.

A guard pointed his sword at the person and yelled, “Withdraw now!”

The leader of the other side dismounted and kicked the man on the ground in front of the guards. He asked coldly, “Take a good look. Is it them?!”

Xiao Youning was so far away that she could not see the person’s face clearly, but she vaguely felt that she had heard this voice before somewhere.

The man looked up with great difficulty. When he had a clear view of their clothes, he nodded again and again. “It’s them! I’ve already brought you here. You have to have mercy! I don’t want money, just let me go! “

“Mercy?!” The leader laughed and unexpectedly pulled out a sword and chopped his head off. The man didn’t even have time to scream and was instantly killed.

Fortunately, Xiao Youning was standing from far away and did not know that the person over there had lost his head. Ye Shen covered her eyes for a moment and waited for the man to put his sword back before letting go.

A guard saw that this man was so impetuous that he tried to force him back with his sword, when the man unexpectedly shouted, “Fifth Master Ye! I can’t believe you used Ning’er to force me to show myself! Laozi1 wants you to come out!”

The leader’s voice was loud and clear. If the man’s voice was familiar before, then it was all too familiar for Xiao Youning now.

She was trembling all over. She could not believe what she was looking at. Her hand was lightly pulled by Ye Shen at this time. He took her forward step by step, and his soft voice said in her ear, “Go take a look. Why don’t you make sure of it yourself?”

Xiao Youning looked at him blankly and saw him smiling tenderly in the night.

“—Ye Shen!” The leader shouted again.

Xiao Youning suddenly turned to look ahead. Ye Shen pushed her forward and released her hand. His voice was still soft. “Go.”

She looked back at him again, her flickering eyes slowly filled with tears.

She knew why he was uneasy this afternoon. He was not thinking about the bandits today, but about how she would be separated from him.

But how did he do it, and when did he know?

“You…”

“What is Ning’er hesitating for? As I said before, all I care about is whether the people I care about are happy. You need to go confirm it. I’ll still be right here, okay?”

Xiao Youning’s eyes felt sore for no reason. The familiar voice behind her was roaring. In the blink of an eye, she pressed the pain down, looked at Ye Shen firmly and said, “Just wait for me here!”

With that, she turned and lifted her dress to run forward. Her heart was beating wildly the entire time.

It’s daddy! It must be daddy! Ye Shen helped me find my father!

With her clothes flying, Ye Shen smiled silently behind her. He watched her go through the crowd, and then flew into the arms of the other man.

“—Daddy!” Xiao Youning wrapped her arms around Marquis Ningyuan’s neck and burst into tears.

Marquis Ningyuan bent down and heard the words he had not heard for a long time. His eyes were also starting to water. After a while, he reached out and patted her on the head and said in a weak voice, “Ningning has suffered.”

Ye Shen actually dared to take his daughter across mountains and rivers, and deliberately provoked and exploited those ferocious mountain bandits to force him to appear.

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He learned that Ye Shen was traveling with a girl whose surname was Xiao. He finally had a guess when he heard that hundreds of people were to be ambushed at the foot of the mountain. No matter how capable Ye Shen was, he could not overcome being outnumbered. He was worried that the girl with the surname Xiao really had something to do with him, so he led the army to clean up those bandits and interrogated them to find out what the young lady surnamed Xiao looked like.

Xiao Youning did not cover her face with a veil when she got off the ship, and the mole below her eyes was particularly conspicuous.

For this reason, how could Marquis Ningyuan stay hidden? How could he feel rest assured when his daughter was with that jade-faced King of Hell? He naturally had to look for her.

Xiao Youning did not know that her father’s thoughts were complicated right now. She wept tears of joy and kept calling out to her father. All the worry that she had held for so long had poured out, and the tears gushed forth like a damn collapsing.

With his daughter crying until she was gasping for air, Marquis Ningyuan was distracted. He did not have time to be angry at Ye Shen’s scheme as he repeatedly comforted his daughter.

He patiently waited for her to stop crying and answered her many questions. It was only when she was told that her brother was safe that she showed a smile.

“Ningning, Daddy can’t stay out here for too long. Wait until we get to a place where we can talk and Daddy will tell you more.”

Marquis Ningyuan loved his daughter the most. He was tall and strong, but he spoke softly to her.

Xiao Youning raised her sleeve to wipe away his tears and agreed. When Marquis Ningyuan was about to help his daughter onto the horse, she suddenly turned and said, “Father, wait a moment for me!”

She quickly ran into the distance, her dress fluttering like a colorful butterfly flying in the night. Marquis Ningyhuan had a sharp eye and looked coldly as he watched his daughter run to a slender young man and said something to him.

The young man shook his head. Marquis Ningyuan concentrated his eyes on him and naturally recognized that it was Ye Shen. It’s just that he was standing far away before, and he didn’t notice.

As Marquis Ningyuan watched Ye Shen shake his head, his daughter reached out to grab his hands and pulled him towards her father.

Seeing this, Marquis Ningyuan’s heart was raging like the stormy seas…