idle mistress

Chapter 27 Lost and found

She stood there dumbfounded, and it took a while to find her voice:
"You... why did you kill him? Are you crazy?"

She accused the person in front of her with an expression of disbelief: "He was obviously saved, but you killed him." At the end, she almost yelled.

Zhao Yan glanced at her and said casually:
"You said that he was seriously injured. What can we do to save him in this barren mountain? He is dead. I just ended his pain early." While speaking, he wiped the dead grass beside him. Blood on hands.

A life, in exchange for a fluffy explanation.Is that human being?It was simply inferior to animals, Xu Weiqiu was furious, but he had nothing to do with this man.

She gave him a cold look, turned and walked away without saying anything.

The sun was slanting to the west, and Zhao Yanbai squatted on the ground bored, looking at the servant who was digging a hole a foot away, who was digging extremely hard, and said, "It's almost done, if we dig further, the sun will go down."

The other party was working hard without any response.

It seemed that this slave was determined to ignore him, Zhao Yan stood up helplessly, and walked towards the dead Ding Yang not far away...

Xu Weiqiu was digging the grave with the hilt of his sword. Suddenly, a small object flew over her head and landed in front of her. She picked it up suspiciously...it turned out to be her lost knife.

She turned around and asked with question marks, "Why is this knife with you?"

Zhao Yan came behind her and squatted down again, resting his chin on one hand, and teased: "Why, are you finally willing to talk to me?"

She stopped talking and just stared at him.

"I found it from him?" While speaking, Zhao Yan stood up, walked to the corpse not far away, and hooked his fingers at her.

Xu Weiqiu crawled out of the grave suspiciously and came to him.

Zhao Yan bent down, stretched out his hand and tore off the cloth on Ding Yang's back, and a wound appeared there.

Xu Weiqiu is a surgeon, and he recognized at a glance that the wound coincided with the knife in his hand; when he realized this, his back felt a chill, and she asked in disbelief: "You mean Ding Yang is hunting The masked man for both of us?"

Zhao Yan didn't speak, just looked at her lightly.

Xu Weiqiu's palms were sweating, and she swallowed nervously: "Did you know it from the beginning? Or did you find out after searching his body?"

"Is this important?" Zhao Yan didn't answer directly, but kicked Ding Yang's body into the grave.

Xu Weiqiu didn't ask any more questions, took a look at the pit, and began to fill in the soil. When it was almost filled, Zhao Yan was already very impatient:

"Okay, don't waste time, let's go..."

Leaving those words behind, he had already taken the lead.

Xu Weiqiu had no choice but to pat the dirt on his hands, hastily picked up the scabbard on the ground, and followed quickly.
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A thick branch was blocking the way, and Zhao Yan jumped over it lightly, his movements and posture were quite beautiful.Xu Weiqiu, who followed closely behind, was not so chic, so she had to climb over the branches with difficulty.

As she walked forward with difficulty, she raised her eyes from time to time to look at the tall and straight figure walking in front.

Did this person kill Ding Yang only after he knew that Ding Yang was a traitor, or did he find out after he killed him?

Xu Weiqiu knew that it was pointless for her to struggle with this, but along the way, this doubt always puzzled her.

In her eyes, Zhao Yan has always been a cold-blooded animal who treats human life like dirt.

Zhao Yan naturally felt her emotional resistance to him, and he was too lazy to explain, so the two of them didn't talk much along the way.

I drove the mountain road for two days and one night in silence, drank dew when I was thirsty, picked wild fruits, and occasionally hunted some game.

At night, the two looked for a place to spend the night as usual, and then looked around for dry wood to light a fire. When they walked to a bamboo forest, they suddenly saw a bunch of green flames flashing in front of them, and the flames flickered very frighteningly.

The two looked at each other, and tacitly picked up the dry bamboo branches on the ground and exited the bamboo forest.

The fire started quickly, and the two sat beside the fire. Zhao Yan turned to look at Xu Weiqiu, and said, "Is that a ghost fire just now?"

He thought he was brave, but just now he saw clearly that the green will-o'-the-wisp could even move, which made him feel strange.

Unexpectedly, the person beside him just said "En." with a very calm expression on his face.

Zhao Yan couldn't help being surprised: "Aren't you afraid when you see that thing?" He looked at her probingly, wondering if this little girl was really bold or just superficially calm?
Xu Weiqiu looked up at him and said, "Don't worry, there are no gods and ghosts in this world. The bamboo forest may be a mass grave. The so-called ghost fires are just some unique substances produced after the corpse rots. Under the right conditions, a fire will start, that's all."

I have read some similar annotations in some novels, but I didn't expect this little girl to explain it so clearly. Zhao Yan secretly marveled, and couldn't help asking: "Where did you know these things?"

Xu Weiqiu didn't explain much, but said lightly: "I just heard what the old man in the village said."

At night, Zhao Yan leaned against the tree trunk and quickly fell asleep. Xu Weiqiu sat in front of the fire, watching the dancing flames in front of him, and the green flames he had just seen in the bamboo forest flashed in his mind.

Ghost fire is actually phosphorus fire, which is a phenomenon of spontaneous combustion of phosphorus when it encounters oxygen in the air.Although she knew the origin of the will-o'-the-wisps, it was the first time she had witnessed them with her own eyes.

In the night, the eerie firelight was indeed somewhat scary. She was never superstitious, and she always firmly believed that there were no ghosts and gods in this world.But she thought about it, if there were no such supernatural things in this world, how would she explain her time travel?Thinking of this, she couldn't help but feel a chill down her back.

In the darkness of the night, strange sounds from the forest far away could be heard, Xu Weiqiu could no longer sit still, and slowly moved his body towards the person not far away.

When the people beside him squeezed over, Zhao Yan woke up, he moved to the side, and after a while, the other person leaned over again.

After all, he didn't move any more, didn't even open his eyes, he laughed at her and said, "Didn't you say that you are not afraid, that there are no ghosts and gods in this world?"

"I'm not afraid, I just feel a little cold." Xu Weiqiu insisted.

On a July day, it would be nice if it wasn't too hot, but Zhao Yan didn't tell her that it was cold, and continued to sleep with his eyes closed.

Zhao Yan woke up the next day, and found that the little slave beside him was sleeping in his arms at some point. He didn't think it was a problem two days ago, but now he knew that the slave was a daughter. I couldn't help but feel a little strange in my heart.

(End of this chapter)