Chapter 8 A mother's bottom line

Duke's Palace.

A thin figure walked all the way through the servant area, letting the strange eyes of people around him fall on him full of schadenfreude.

As the woodshed at the rear got closer and closer, Huo Yuhao's heart beat violently uncontrollably, and even his pace couldn't help but speed up a bit.

Soon, behind the low wall, a figure sitting on a small bench washing clothes came into view. The other person seemed to have heard the movement and turned around subconsciously.

Although he looked a little haggard, he still couldn't hide his beautiful appearance. His eyebrows revealed gentleness and softness that went deep into his bones. But the next second, his eyes were filled with fear.

"Yuhao!"

Seeing Huo Yuhao covered in blood, the woman was so frightened that she screamed. She no longer cared about the unfinished clothes in her hands and stumbled towards him.

Looking at that familiar face, Huo Yuhao's throat rolled and he let out a choked murmur.

".mom."

"Mom is here, Yuhao, don't be afraid, mom is here."

Huo Yun'er raised his hand, wanting to check on Huo Yuhao's condition, but when he saw the horrific blood stains, he stopped moving, for fear of hurting Huo Yuhao because of his recklessness.

"Yuhao, don't be afraid. Wherever you feel pain, let mom see."

Huo Yun'er, who was at a loss for a while, could only comfort Huo Yuhao with her mouth, and she was so anxious that tears were about to fall out.

"Mom, I'm fine. If you don't believe me, just look."

A smile appeared on Huo Yuhao's face, and he pulled up his sleeves to reveal his arms without any trauma. He then pulled up the hem of his shirt and turned it around as if to show off.

Huo Yun'er was a little dazed for a moment, and then she stepped forward suddenly and checked Huo Yuhao's body over and over. After a long time, it seemed as if she breathed a sigh of relief, and her whole shoulders sank. Just when Huo Yuhao wanted to say something, Huo Yun'er The son hugged him.

"Great, great. I really scared mom to death just now."

Listening to the choked sobs in his ears, Huo Yuhao couldn't help sniffling, his eyes were soft, and he comforted softly.

"Mom, I told you I'm fine..."

After a while, Huo Yun'er's mood gradually calmed down. She wiped away her tears, her voice still a little hoarse, and looked at Huo Yuhao and said seriously.

"Yuhao, tell mom what happened."

"I don't understand it either."

Huo Yuhao shook his head and then began to tell his story.

"I detected my innate soul power when I awakened my martial soul just now. I wanted to come back quickly and tell my mother, but I met a strange man in black robe on the road. When he saw me, he immediately picked me up and put on my clothes. Passed through the side door and rushed into the woods outside the Duke's Palace."

Hearing this, Huo Yun'er's expression tightened and she asked, "What happened next?"

Huo Yuhao took out the white tiger dagger with some blood stains on it from his arms and spoke in a low voice.

"I was very scared at the time, and while the other person was not paying attention, I stabbed the weird man with this dagger in a panic. Then a lot of blood came out of the man's neck, and I lost strength in my hand, so I broke free. , He seemed to want to catch me, but he quickly fell to the ground and became motionless. I didn’t dare to stay any longer, so I ran back.”

After listening to Huo Yuhao's description, Huo Yun'er calmed down a little. She couldn't help but feel lucky that she had allowed him to bring the White Tiger Dagger to the martial arts awakening today. Then she seemed to realize something and asked again.

"Yuhao, is there anything special about that weirdo you mentioned besides wearing a black robe?"

"have."

Huo Yuhao nodded immediately, as if he was reminiscing while speaking. At the same time, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. He was originally ready to take the initiative to speak out, but now it is naturally better for his mother to ask.

"I saw that the weirdo was wearing white armor when he was running. Later, I cut his black robe with random slashes, and I saw that the white armor seemed to have a tiger head pattern on the shoulder."

When Huo Yun'er heard that the perpetrator was wearing white armor, an ominous premonition arose in her heart. And when Huo Yuhao said that there was a tiger pattern on his shoulder, it was like being struck by lightning, and his heartbeat stopped. A moment.

"White Tiger Guards."

She thought it was the Duchess's men who took action, but she didn't expect that it was Duke White Tiger's personal guards who took action. Those were the guards who were only loyal to Duke White Tiger!

Now that the facts were in front of her, she couldn't help but not believe it.

The last time the White Tiger Guards appeared in the Duke's Palace was before Huo Yuhao was born, and what Huo Yuhao described was exactly the same as the White Tiger Guards armor she had seen before. If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, it would have been impossible to say so accurately.

"Mom, what are the White Tiger Guards?"

Huo Yun'er pursed her lips and touched Huo Yuhao's head with a sad expression.

"It's nothing, mom said it wrong."

How could she say that those were your father's guards? Let a child know that the people who just kidnapped him and even wanted to kill him were his father's men?

She always thought that Dai Hao was deceived by the duchess, so she never knew about it. Because of this, no matter how much suppression she suffered and how much she suffered, she still looked forward to the day when the other party would discover the truth.

She did not leave here not because she was reluctant to part with her wealth, but because she hoped that her son would get better opportunities. After all, the outside world was not much better than the Duke's Palace. She believed that as long as Dai Hao found out that she had a son, Yuhao can at least live a life without worries about food and clothing, which is much better than going out to work alone.

However, now, the attack of the White Tiger Guard on her son completely broke her last thoughts. Dai Hao may have known about Yu Hao's existence from the beginning to the end, but he allowed the Duchess to suppress them. Even after the awakening of the martial spirit, he found that Yu Hao's talent was not high and chose to kill him.

As for whether the Duchess sent someone to pretend to be the White Tiger Guard to deceive her to give up, it is indeed possible, but she can't gamble with her son's life. Not to mention that stealing or making the armor of the White Tiger Guard is a felony, the Duchess dares to risk Dai Hao's wrath to do this.

Once this is Dai Hao's original intention, what awaits Yu Hao next will be a catastrophe.

She can endure hardships for her son's future life, and it doesn't matter if she dies, but now the other party actually wants to attack her son, which has violated the bottom line of being a mother.

Huo Yun'er took a deep breath, her eyes gradually became firm, she looked at Huo Yuhao, and forced a smile on her face.

"Yuhao, let's leave the Duke's Mansion, okay? Let's find a new place and start a new life without waiting for your father to come back."

"Wherever Mom goes, I go."

The young man's clear voice sounded, he raised his hand and gently held Huo Yun'er's thin palm. His immature face seemed to mature several times at this moment, and he spoke seriously.

"From now on, it's my turn to protect Mom."