Chapter 989 - 224: The Eyeball Fell Out_3
The pastry was fragrant and crumbly, melting in the mouth as soon as one bit into it.
"Delicious!" Pei Qin finished one piece in three bites and reached for another.
Li Shun and Zhou Jian were still waiting outside, "Didn’t General Mo say he was bringing us over to meet General Pei? Why has he abandoned us here?"
Outside the door stood only two Protectors, not even a master in sight.
The two had been waiting a while and grew anxious upon seeing a maid carry pastries to the inner courtyard. Had General Mo left them here to enjoy tea snacks by himself!? After all, General Pei had gone to recuperate from poisoning and wasn’t even residing at General Mo’s residence!
Suddenly, both recalled during the march how attentive General Mo had been toward their general, even hunting wild geese for them to eat when mentioned in passing, which once displeased General Dou.
Though General Mo had the celestial appearance of a deity, it was an existence that conflicted fiercely with theirs. Could it be that because of this conflict, General Mo had secretly confined their general in his estate? That was why he preferred living in Daxing instead of Capital Jingcheng!?
Could it be their general had resisted being subordinate to General Mo, and out of anger, General Mo had imprisoned him!?