Noble First Daughter-in-law

Chapter 1032: Who did you originally want to kill by luring the snake?
Shang Ruyi's steps hesitated for a moment, but she still walked forward - among all the people who broke out of the stone chamber, Lei Yu was in the best condition, especially after she washed herself and changed her clothes. She was so clean and calm as if she had not experienced that life-and-death catastrophe at all.

And all this was naturally thanks to Ashina Zhuye.

Seeing that she was safe and sound, Shang Ruyi smiled and said, "You are waiting for me."

"..."

Lei Yu did not speak immediately, but looked down at her hand. There was still a thin bandage wrapped around the base of her hand, but it was obviously just for the minor skin injury. From Shang Ruyi's brisk and energetic appearance, everyone knew that she was not poisoned by the snake.

In other words, even if she was hit, she already had a way to deal with it and was able to escape death.

Lei Yu asked: "Who did you originally want to lure the snake to kill?"

Hearing this sentence that almost exposed his own face, Shang Ruyi remained calm and just smiled and said: "You still speak like this, straight to the point, without any concealment."

Lei Yu said: "I thought there was no need to hide anything between us."

Hearing this, Shang Ruyi's expression finally became serious. She looked around and saw the guards in the distance were making a fire and cooking, and the Turkic soldiers were drinking and grilling meat. Of course, some of them saw the two of them, but no one dared to approach them.

Shang Ruyi said: "I also thought that you wanted him to die."

"...!"

Hearing this, Lei Yu's expression was slightly shocked.

Her breathing became disordered, but she did not respond to this sentence. Instead, she said after a moment of silence: "So, you really want to kill him?"

"Ah."

"On that stick—"

"I mixed some medicine with snakeberry and added water to secretly apply it on the stick. This medicine is specifically used to attract silver-ringed venomous snakes."

"It is true," Lei Yu slightly widened his eyes and said in a deep voice, "I felt strange at the time. The stick is used to scare away the snake. It doesn't make sense for the snake to crawl up the stick and bite people."

Shang Ruyi smiled.

Lei Yu immediately frowned again and said, "But you didn't expect him to notice something was wrong? Even if that was the case, you could find a chance to throw it away. Why did you continue to use the stick? You knew it would attract poisonous snakes."

"..."

"Could it be——"

At this point, she took a deep breath, as if she had thought of something.

Seeing the flash of light in her eyes, Shang Ruyi lowered her head as if feeling guilty. Seeing her like this, Lei Yu understood everything and asked in a deep voice, "Being bitten by a snake was also part of your plan?"

Shang Ruyi lowered his head, nodded again, and buried his head even lower.

She said, "Yeah."

There seemed to be a flickering light in Lei Yu's eyes: "Why?"

At this point, there is no way to avoid it. Besides, it was his own doing, so he had to take the responsibility. Shang Ruyi took a deep breath, and finally raised his head to look at Lei Yu, and said in a low voice: "I have three-two plans. One is to lure the snake. If he dies because of this, then the danger of Xiazhou will be solved, and I can also get rid of a big worry and a powerful enemy for the Great Sheng Dynasty."

"..."

Lei Yu frowned, looked at her with a complicated expression, and said nothing.

Shang Ruyi looked at her like this, paused for a moment, and then continued: "But from our previous interactions, Zhuye Khan is a very cautious person. My plan may not come true. Then the second plan is to follow this plan and let myself be bitten by the snake and fall into a coma."

Lei Yu's eyes turned cold, and he said, "Can you take advantage of this opportunity to get out of this matter of looking for Zuo Gong's tomb?"

Shang Ruyi said: "Yes."

Lei Yu said: "But how did you know that we would go through this? Zuo Zhen wouldn't collude with you in advance, right?"

Shang Ruyi shook his head: "Of course not, I haven't seen him before." "Then you——"

"I'm just guessing. After Wanggang Village was destroyed, my brother has been asking his master for information, wanting to know the whereabouts of Zuo Gong's suspected tomb. Although he didn't get the exact location, from various information, he speculated that the most likely location of Zuo Gong's suspected tomb is Tianding Mountain."

"..."

"And Zuo Chen'an is a more cautious person than Zhuye Khan."

"..."

"He spent so much time choosing the site for his own mausoleum, so how could there be no defenses at all in the mausoleum?"

Lei Yu understood immediately: "If Zuo Chen'an's tomb is still here, there must be traps inside to prevent tomb robbers. You are trying to get out of this matter. Do you want to ambush them when they go to look for it?"

Shang Ruyi nodded: "Not bad."

"..."

"Although, I didn't expect that Zuo Gong's tomb would have been buried deep underground, but things have ended up in the same place."

Lei Yu chuckled, "Yeah."

Although they were not buried in Zuo Gong's Tomb, but only in a tomb passage and a tomb chamber dug by Zuo Zhen himself to bury his brother Zuo Heng, they were indeed in danger. Wang Shaoqiu eventually died there, and they escaped after a life-and-death struggle.

Isn't it the same end?

Lei Yu stood there quietly. Under the moonlight, her appearance was still gorgeous and dazzling, but the coldness in her eyes made this beauty have an indescribable, heart-wrenching sense of brokenness.

After thinking for an unknown amount of time, she finally looked up, looked at Shang Ruyi with bright eyes, and said with a smile: "People often say that you should look at someone with new eyes after three days of absence, but I know that I don't need to do that with you."

"Oh."

"Because I've always known that you're very smart and a heroine who's no less capable than any man."

"I can't bear this."

"But this time, I still have to look at you with new eyes."

"why?"

"Because,"

Lei Yu looked at her, with the smile on his face unchanged. But this unchanged smile seemed like a mask on such a cold night, with the sound of pine trees around them, but between the two of them, there seemed to be no room for the sound of wind. Lei Yu said calmly, "Because you never thought of telling me what you were going to do from beginning to end."

One sentence made the originally cold night even colder.

A gust of cold wind blew between the two people at the right time.

Shang Ruyi felt her hands and feet were a little cold. She pinched her fingertips subconsciously, then looked up at Lei Yu, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "No."

"Ok?"

"It's not that I never thought about telling you. I did think about telling you. It's just that—"

"It's just that you changed your mind."

"Yes."

"When did you change your mind?"

"..."

Shang Ruyi was silent for a while, then slowly raised her head and looked at Lei Yu with bright eyes. She whispered, "When you said that you didn't want to save Xiazhou because it was the territory of the Eastern Turks."