"What?"
Sun Li sheathed her sword, "They haven't returned?"
"Right!"
Sun Buqi nodded heavily, "I asked that Liu Households Commander, and he said they waited at the rendezvous for the time it takes half an incense stick to burn, but then they returned ahead of time."
"Sister Tong!"
Listening to the conversation,
Tong Family collapsed on the spot in the yard, nearly fainting away.
Gu Xinlan supported her, asking, "Li, has something... happened?"
"Don't panic just yet."
Sun Li soothed, "They might have lost their way, or something delayed them. If we wait a little longer, they might return."
"Lost their way?"
Gu Xinlan seized on the key point, "Did Brother Shi and the others leave the Great Wall?"
How could she not understand her man?
Roaming around Tiger Head Mountain day and night, how could they possibly lose their way?
If they were said to be lost, it could only be on the unfamiliar grasslands.
"Mhm."
Sun Li acknowledged, "Let's wait some more."