Ci Jinzhi

Chapter 12 Qingqing
The golden crow shone with light, but it was mostly blocked by the lush branches and leaves.

A girl was sitting on the tree, and a monkey was squatting.

Xiao Lian had a look of disbelief, and rubbed her eyes vigorously.

No dazzling!
Then, she stared wide-eyed at the girl who continued to climb up under the guidance of the monkey, and was covered by branches and leaves in an instant, and couldn't help rubbing her eyes.

On the tree, Xin You's expression was stiff, and his eyes fell on one spot.

Two thick branches formed a strong branch, and there lay a person, no, a corpse.

The face of the corpse has long been indistinguishable, only from the body shape and clothes, it can be confirmed that it is a woman.

Xin You covered her mouth, her stomach was in a tizzy, and she couldn't control herself anymore and jumped off the tree.

Seeing Xin You jumping down from the tree suddenly, Xiao Lian couldn't help being startled, "What's wrong with you?"

Xinyou paused for a while before looking up at Xiaolian.

That pale face made Xiao Lian's expression stiff, she covered her mouth and asked tremblingly, "What's on the tree... what's on the tree?"

Xinyou took a deep look at Xiaolian, staring down at the ground.

Mountains and rocks are everywhere, and there are soft and fine grasses that drill out tenaciously, showing off their vigorous vitality.

Once something unacceptable happens, there is no way to escape.

She is like this, and so is Xiaolian.

The wind seemed to be getting stronger, and the girl's soft voice reached Xiao Lian's ears, and she had regained her composure: "There is a female corpse on the tree."

"Female corpse?" The blood on Xiao Lian's face faded, she subconsciously took a step towards Xin You, but her feet softened and she fell to the ground.

She grabbed the weeds with both hands, and tears fell uncontrollably.

"Is it my girl?" Xiao Lian raised her head and asked in despair, but she already knew the answer in her heart.

Who else but the girl?

It turned out that the girl was stopped by this tree after she fell off the cliff, so she couldn't find anyone.

Was the girl still conscious?
Must be very painful, right?

Could it be that she was still awake at that time, but couldn't wait for someone to save her?
These questions cut Xiaolian's heart like a sharp knife, causing her to break down and cry bitterly.

Xin You stood quietly without answering.

The monkey looked at the two suspiciously, and saw that they were standing and sitting without other actions, so he cried out a few times anxiously.

Xin You sighed and reminded Xiaolian: "Now is not the time to cry, those two guards will be back soon."

After Xiao Lian stopped crying, she got up, stared at Xin You eagerly and asked, "Did you see clearly, is it my girl?"

Xin You shook her head, and said truthfully, "It's already corrupted beyond recognition."

Xiao Lian was shocked all over, wiped her tears indiscriminately, and begged with a trembling voice: "I want to see it with my own eyes."

Xinyou jumped up to the branch closest to the ground, and reached out to Xiaolian.

Xiao Lian thought it would be difficult to climb the tree, but the strength from that slender hand was far stronger than she imagined, and when she regained consciousness, she was already on the tree.

As far as the eye can see, there is a female corpse that has been corrupted to the point where the bones are exposed.

Xiaolian gasped, and tightly covered her mouth.

Even though the color of the clothes was hard to distinguish, the little maid who was very familiar with her girl quickly recognized it: "It's my girl! The girl was wearing this dress when she went out that day!"

Xiao Lian wanted to climb to the side of the female corpse, but her body swayed and she almost fell from the tree.

"Be careful." Xin You reached out to support her, with sympathy hidden in her eyes, but her voice was calm, "Time is limited, we have no time to restrain Miss Kou's bones and let her rest in peace. I have a suggestion, listen to it."

"Tell me." Xiao Lian's hands and feet were cold, her heart was even colder, and the warmth conveyed by that hand became more and more obvious.

"When I was led here by a monkey just now, I accidentally caught a glimpse of a cave. Let's go and explore it later. If it's suitable, we'll put Miss Kou there for now and bury her when there's a suitable opportunity. What do you think? ?”

Liushen Wuzhu's little maid nodded quickly: "I'll listen to you."

Xinyou took Xiaolian down the tree and went straight to the cave.

Perhaps God took pity on Miss Kou who died unjustly. The cave discovered by Xin You was narrow outside and wide inside, and it was not humid. There was no need to find another place. The next problem was how to transfer Miss Kou's body.

No matter how loyal Xiao Lian was to Kou Qingqing, she knew how difficult it would be to transfer such a corpse from the tree to the cave.

Xin You thought of a non-solution method: "Just use the carriage door curtain."

"The door curtain of the carriage?" Xiao Lian was stunned, "But the carriage stops at the foot of the mountain, and it takes a lot of time to go back and forth. What if the two guards come back?"

As for how to explain to the coachman, Xiao Lian couldn't even imagine.

"I'm fast, and I'll come back as soon as possible. If the two guards come back first, you can tell them that I ran after the monkey, and you didn't keep up. Tell them to find someone quickly."

Listening to Xin You's order, Xiao Lian nodded in a daze.

After Xin You left for a while, the two guards came back.

"I didn't find the jade pendant." A guard said that he was surprised to find Xiao Lian's eyes were red, "Sister Xiao Lian, what's wrong?"

Xiao Lian didn't have to force her tears to fall: "The girl is gone!"

The two guards were taken aback and said in unison: "How could that be!"

"It's all because of the monkey's mischievousness. He snatched the girl's flower hairpin and ran away. The girl chased after her in a hurry, and disappeared in the blink of an eye..."

The two guards were anxious: "Where did the cousin go?"

Xiaolian stretched out her finger in one direction, and quickly pointed to the other side.

"Which side is it?"

The little maid covered her face and cried: "I forgot, I'll turn around!"

The two guards twitched in pain, and made a decision: "Let's go separately to find the cousin girl. Sister Xiaolian, you can wait here. We will come back to meet anyway in half an hour."

Xiao Lian nodded: "Then I will trouble you two big brothers."

The two guards split up to look for someone, Xiaolian looked around anxiously, and finally waited for the figure that reassured her, and hurriedly went up to say: "The two guards came back and went to look for you again, and they will come back to meet in a while. "

Xin You nodded to show understanding, and went straight to the tree.

Xiao Lian followed quickly, and saw that Xin You had already climbed the tree, and she didn't intend to stop, so she hurriedly called out "Miss".

Xinyou lowered her head, but did not pull Xiaolian's raised hand.

"You can't even stand on a tree, let me come."

"Girl—" Xiao Lian was stunned, and forgot to speak for a while.

The bones of Kou Qingqing's body were already partially visible, and he had lost much weight.Xin You covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief, resisted the instinct of nausea, carefully contained the remains, and returned to the ground.

The two each grabbed a corner of the car door curtain that served as a shroud, and carried the body into the cave.

Seeing that the entrance of the cave was blocked by the moved stones, Xiao Lian's eyes were red again, and she kowtowed to the entrance of the cave a few times.

Xinyou rubbed his hands repeatedly by the pool, which attracted the monkey to watch curiously.

A guard who returned first saw this scene and rushed over with a yell: "Bastard, how dare you play tricks on the cousin girl!"

The monkey scooped up a handful of water and splashed it all over the guard's face, then ran away.

　The story happened in summer, and the high temperature exposure progressed quickly, so you don't have to think about it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)