Watch and Wait

As members of a distinguished lineage of physicians and scholars, the name Mu carries great weight in Jin Lan City and beyond, with many coming to their door wanting cures or apprenticeships or trade deals. Their manor is rarely empty, even this late into the winter. Mu Zhufeng supposes at least one visitor could have been a demon; one maid used to live near the Borderlands and told him all about how they loved to trade for human things. That, or just take them.But at the same time, the young heir feels certain that even demon visitors would have used the front gate. They wouldn't have just appeared out of thin air and tumbled into the bushes like this one had. Right?A little snarl pulls Mu Zhufeng out of his musings and reminds him again that no matter how it got here, there is still a demon in the garden.----A little "what if" fic combining thoughts on who Mobei-Jun might have run into when he was on the run from Huan Hua Palace as a child, and how that could possibly relate to Mu Qingfang being pretty calm for someone who's been kidnapped by Luo Binghe.