The reason why Mo Junyang stayed on the roof at night was circuitous yet not complicated.
In the final analysis, he considered for Shi Qingxue’s safety.
It was his style to be so reserved.
Shi Qingxue knew that and couldn’t even reproach Mo Junyang as he didn’t love himself. She had to glare at him.
However, she was like an idiot and felt sad for him.
“Asshole!”
Shi Qingxue cursed angrily and turned around to push the door, entering her room.
After she entered, she stood for a while with her back to the door. It was silent all the time behind her.
She hesitated for a while and still looked back, to see that Mo Junyang still stood at the door blankly. There was no emotion on his face, but seen from his eyes, he was at a loss seemingly.
Shi Qingxue shouted at the door crossly, “Why are you standing there? Why not come in quickly?”
Mo Junyang was hesitant yet entered the room obediently after a while.
They stood across from each other, and Shi Qingxue was mad at Mo Junyang, so she didn’t say anything but just glared at him with her bright almond eyes.
After Mo Junyang entered the room, he returned calm on his face, while he still didn’t meet Qingxue’s eyes. He stated softly after a moment, “Go to bed early. I will guard here, and you will be fine.”
Shi Qingxue was speechless.
She felt that a basin of warm water was poured into her heart suddenly and extinguished her flames of fury but made her heart warm.
In the face of such a man, how would she be angry?
Moreover, in the final analysis, after Mo Junyang did so, she would be the beneficiary.
If she lost temper in front of Mo Junyang for this, it would show that she was ungrateful.
However, if she didn’t say anything, she would feel uncomfortable all the time.
In the end, she sighed and asked helplessly, “Junyang, even if you are worried when I stay in the room alone, as long as you say something, I won’t refuse to let you stay here, but why didn’t you say that?”
Shi Qingxue couldn’t figure it out from beginning to end.
Was Mo Junyang still unable to fully trust her till now, so he would rather suffer than ask her?
At this thought, Shi Qingxue felt disheartened.
She trusted Mo Junyang so much.
Her trust was the more solid understanding, support and even sharing joys and sorrows, more than the trust on the surface.
Now she could do that.
She told Mo Junyang anything good or bad.
Nevertheless, in the end, Mo Junyang still kept everything from her.
“It’s not true.”
Mo Junyang finally spoke in a hoarse voice.
Before Shi Qingxue prepared to turn around, he grabbed her arm and stressed again, “It’s not for this reason.”
Shi Qingxue looked up at Mo Junyang and asked coldly, “What is it?”
“I…” Mo Junyang licked his dry lips and then replied slowly, “It’s not that I don’t trust you, but as for something, if I ask for too much, it will be consumed sooner or later.
“I just hope that…it will be consumed more slowly.”
He said some words in a low voice, and Shi Qingxue tried her best to listen yet couldn’t hear them clearly.
Moreover, what was Mo Junyang talking about?
Except the words “it’s not that I don’t trust you”, she didn’t understand a word.
However, Shi Qingxue just needed those words.
As for the others, she pondered for a moment and then said to Mo Junyang straightforwardly with certainty, “What are you talking about? If you ask me for it, I will give it to you.”
Mo Junyang suddenly looked at Shi Qingxue, with emotions surging in his heart. His eyes were deep, and his voice was so hoarse that it could hardly be heard clearly.
He asked with uncertainly, “If I lose it, can you give it to me again?”
When Mo Junyang didn’t win Shi Qingxue’s love, his plan was always to win her heart.
When he got it after waiting patiently, he still couldn’t relax. He felt restless in a part deep in his heart. He was like the stingiest rich man who held his only treasure and accurately calculated the consumption.
He was afraid that if he consumed the love Shi Qingxue gave him, he would have nothing.
Mo Junyang had never expressed his fear in the past. Till now, he had to say it as Qingxue questioned him closely.
Perhaps it was Mo Junyang’s first time to show his fragility, which didn’t accord with his arrogant and heartless image.
However, in front of Shi Qingxue, all his abnormality was normal.
Shi Qingxue didn’t know what Mo Junyang was thinking about, but she could give him a positive answer. “Of course. As long as I have it, there is nothing that I can’t give you.”
She answered so firmly and persistently, and her big bright eyes were clear, showing all her thoughts.
Mo Junyang didn’t tell Shi Qingxue about his circuitous thoughts till the end, yet seeing Qingxue’s expression, he got happy involuntarily.
Then he smiled and nodded automatically. “Okay.”
“So…” Shi Qingxue stated tentatively.
As soon as she spoke a word, Mo Junyang understood what she meant and hurriedly nodded, saying, “I will tell you in advance if there is something in the future. I will sleep on the couch tonight. Have a good night.”
Two significant things had been finished, and Shi Qingxue heaved a sigh of relief, with a brighter smile on her face. “Good night.”
The light was off, and the room was in darkness.
It was silent and peaceful.
Next day, the three changed their plan to ride fast horses. They bought a carriage in Beipo Town and continued with the trip in the carriage. They wore more luxurious clothes and went to Jiangzhou, dressed as rich merchants.
Moreover, this time, they specially chose a more rough mountain path and headed to Jiangzhou City, but everything went quite smoothly on the way, and even some places which seemed to be suitable to lurk were surprisingly quiet.
Nobody could be seen all the way, and they just heard the little birds’ chirps in the forest.
The mountain path was tortuous and went down, and the dense trees were by the road. They could see the bright light from outside indistinctly.
They didn’t meet one robber.
“It shouldn’t be like this.” Shi Qingxue murmured and then checked their clothes and horses carefully.
It showed that they were rich men, but why did nobody take actions against them?
Were all the robbers in Jiangzhou City so rich that they disdained to rob the nobodies like them?
Or were the robbers on horseback on a rampage in Jiangzhou City as they said just in the hearsay?
While thinking, Shi Qingxue suddenly heard a low voice to ask for help outside the carriage.
“Help! Help…Please help me…”
Wei Ziye yelled outside and stopped the carriage, asking outside the curtain, “Master, there seems to be a person lying in the brushwood by the road and asking for help.”
Shi Qingxue’s eyes lit up instantly, and she suddenly looked at Mo Junyang.
Wasn’t it written in the novels?
Some robbers liked to play injured and weak people and lurk on the way where the tourists had to pass, making use of their sympathy to follow them. And then they would take the opportunity to kill the tourists and rob their money.
Mo Junyang noticed the itchy light in her eyes. He didn’t want to be meddlesome, while he asked, “Shall we go out to have a look?”
Shi Qingxue nodded repeatedly, with light flashing in her eyes seemingly.
Mo Junyang couldn’t help but smile and nod. He said indulgently, “Okay. Let’s go and have a look.”
The two lifted the curtain and got out of the carriage, following the voice to find the person in the brushwood.
Shi Qingxue looked at the person carefully, to find that it was a young girl.
She was about sixteen or seventeen years old, and her facial features were cute and exquisite, with an oval face, arched eyebrows, a prominent nose and a tiny mouth. If her face were not as pale as a piece of white paper, she was a great beauty.
The young girl was so weak that she could hardly speak. When she saw Wei Ziye, her eyes lit up suddenly and she grabbed his clothes with all strength, asking for help in a feeble voice, “Please save me. Don’t let them take me away. I am going to…”
Before she finished her words, all her energy was consumed, and she fainted next to Wei Ziye’s foot, with her face close to his shoe.
Wei Ziye was grabbed by the young girl and couldn’t escape. He was too embarrassed to kick her away, so he had to look at the two masters hesitantly. “Master, look…”
Shi Qingxue was looking the young girl up and down.
The girl was dressed in top-quality brocade clothes, yet there was dust in her beautiful clothes, and she had been cut several times, with blood stains in some parts. She looked dirty.
However, a resplendent jade plate was tied on her waist, with nail polish on her ten fingers and a beautiful jade pendant on her thin neck.
Judging from any aspect, this was a young lady from a wealthy or noble family.
Would the robbers pay so much?
Shi Qingxue was at a loss and then turned to Mo Junyang.
Mo Junyang pointed to something under the young girl. “Take it out and show it to me.”
The other two followed his finger and had a look, to find that the young girl held a box in her arms, which was covered with her clothes, only one corner revealed.
Wei Ziye bent over and reached out his hand to take it, but he couldn’t take it out in the beginning.
The girl in a coma seemed to be conscious, and she grasped that box with her five fingers, refusing to let it go.
However, Wei Ziye wouldn’t have compassion for womanhood. He knocked a part of the girl’s body without mercy, and her hand got weak instantly, letting him take it to Mo Junyang.
Shi Qingxue finally saw it clearly. This was a square iron box, with a length of about thirty-three centimeters and thirteen centimeters in width and height. There was a small lock fixing the iron box on one side.
Mo Junyang received the iron box and weighed it. Later, he kept silent for a while and then turned to Shi Qingxue, asking, “Shall we save her?”
Shi Qingxue naturally wanted to save her, yet judging from his tone, were there other choices besides saving her or not?
She didn’t dare to nod rashly but asked cautiously, “If we save her, will there be something bad?”
“It’s uncertain. If we don’t save her, just throw the iron box back to her, and we will go, while if we save her…”
Mo Junyang pondered for a moment and his eyes fell on the iron box as he said slowly, “There will be another way.”