Chapter 23: 11.2

11. Wounded (2)

But the sword wound was really not light. The night rain was rustling, and although Murong Yan saved his life, he no longer had the strength to walk around.

After being exposed to the rain all night with injuries all over his body, can he still survive until dawn tomorrow?

Murong Yan didn’t dare to think about it. He can only gamble with fate to see which one would come first, death or dawn.

But he really did not expect that Yu Qingjia would return. He had never even considered her coming back from the beginning, even siblings would not dare to willingly take the risk of the unknown just to come back and save each other after escaping from death. If it was the same as before where there were so many servants assisting and guarding him, Murong Yan might have waited, but the extravagant hope that the other party would come personally, is not even something he would think about.

So when he heard her voice, he did not make a sound nor dare to move, he was wondering if this was another assassin who was good at imitating voices. Oh, she seems to have kicked the dead person and cried out. So clumsy and useless, most likely not an imitation.

On the contrary, Murong Yan couldn’t understand what she wanted to do even more? What does she want, and what is her purpose? He has nothing now, and even his identity had to be hidden, what else can she be plotting for?

Even though she couldn’t see it, she could feel Murong Yan’s eyes staring at her with a deep oppression that left her no room to escape, “Why exactly did you come back?”

Yu Qingjia’s body was now soaked through, and after finding Murong Yan, she was so relieved that she let herself cry. She was sobbing and choking, her eyes could not open because of the mixture of rain and tears, but she was now holding Murong Yan and could not free her hands, so she turned her head and rubbed her tears on Murong Yan’s clothes, “I’m afraid of the dark.”

The person beside her did not speak for a long time, after a while, the young man gave out a short laugh, his voice clear and pleasant, it was so sweet that one can not distinguish his gender, “You can’t even remember your way back, how stupid you are.”

Yu Qingjia did not bother arguing with the wounded. She helped Murong Yan up, and the two of them stumbled in the endless night rain. They finally groped their way into a small cave that could shelter them from the rain. In fact, it’s not really a cave, it’s more like a crack that was formed between two boulders stuck together forming a spike-like gap. The outside of the boulders is covered with vines, so if one does not look carefully they won’t be able to find it.

Yu Qingjia threw a stone to check it out, and when she found that there seemed to be nothing inside, she stumblingly helped Murong Yan into the crack. Now they’re finally sheltered from the wind and rain, they felt a bit relieved. However, Murong Yan’s complexion had turned extremely pale, he felt around his body, and threw a flint towards Yu Qingjia, “Light the fire.”

Yu Qingjia narrowly caught the flint, she looked at the things in her hand with difficulty, Murong Yan waited for a while, and gave an incredulous rhetorical question, “You don’t want to?”

Yu Qingjia could only say through gritted teeth, “‘I’ll do it.” She found some dry grass from the cave, and went outside to pull some dry vines. She tried to recall how Bai Zhi and Bai Lian did it before. After fiddling around with it for a long time, a small cluster of sparks finally appeared wobbly.

The fire suddenly lit up, and Yu Qingjia’s crystal eyes were reflected brightly. She immediately shouted excitedly, “Vixen! Did you see…” Half her words slowly disappeared between her lips, because Murong Yan had already leaned against the stone wall, and fell asleep.

Now she was the only labor force, and she was full of a sense of responsibility. She collected all the dry firewood in the cave, and then took out her wet outer jacket and skirt, wrung it dry and put it on the side of the fire to dry. Yu Qingjia thought that the Vixen was still wearing wet clothes, and he was still wounded. She walked up to Murong Yan lightly, and was about to reach out to untie his clothes when her wrist was suddenly grabbed by him.

He was so strong that he almost crushed the bones on her wrist, and Murong Yan, who was asleep, suddenly opened his eyes, and his gaze was cold and frightening. When he saw that it was Yu Qingjia, the killing intent in his eyes diminished, but when he realized what she was planning to do, he still got angry and said, “What are you doing?”

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Yu Qingjia was caught off guard by his sudden reaction. Murong Yan did not control his strength, so her wrist was squeezed by him causing her pain. Tears immediately welled up in her eyes reflexively, “Your clothes are wet, I want to change your clothes.”

Murong Yan looked at the cluster of miserable fire next to him, and sounded as if he was a bit exasperated, “There’s no need.”

“But you are injured. If you keep wearing wet clothes you will get sick!”

“If I say I don’t need it, I don’t need it.” Murong Yan said in a forceful tone, but when he looked at her, he suddenly realized her current state. He immediately turned his head away in a scuffle, and his voice sounded like he was gnashing his teeth, “What are you wearing? What is that?”

Yu Qingjia looked down at her clothes in astonishment. She took off her outer garments earlier, and only wore a middle coat. She was too thin-skinned and shy to expose her body in front of the vixen, so she endured the discomfort and kept the middle coat for herself. After seeing his clothes were wet as well, she hurried over to the vixen’s side to help him change, but what’s wrong with that Vixen’s tone!

Yu Qingjia felt aggrieved, when she saw how the vixen was avoiding her, as if she did something extremely offensive. She was also annoyed. She lightly grunted and stood up, “I just wanted to help you take them off. You don’t even know how to appreciate my kindness.”

Yu Qingjia went back to the fire and tried to take off the inner clothing that was completely soaked and now sticking to her body. She had not yet left the cabinet after all, so even though she was wearing her middle coat, she still felt a bit embarrassed to untie her inner clothes in front of another woman. She glanced towards Murong Yan and found that he was still tilting his head hard and his neck turned out a nice curve. She doesn’t know if it’s because of the heat from the fire, but the vixen’s ears and neck looked as if they’d been dyed red.

Yu Qingjia fiercely yelled at the vixen, “You are not allowed to turn back!”

Murong Yan was still wondering what Yu Qingjia was going to do, but when he heard the rustling movements behind him, he froze for a moment and reacted abruptly.

“You’re a girl…”

Through her middle coat, Yu Qingjia was trying to untie the straps of her inner clothes with her hands clasping behind her back. She looked at Murong Yan innocently, “What’s wrong?”

Murong Yan was about to break his neck. He forcefully look towards the stone wall, while the tip of his ears had turned so red to the point where it looked like it was bleeding. The fire shook a little for a while. Yu Qingjia then sat in front of the fire, while her shadow was casted unsteadily around the boulder.

Murong Yan hurriedly closed his eyes, gritted his teeth and waited for a bit, but he couldn’t take it anymore and said in an angry tone, “What are you dawdling on, hurry up!”

The Author has something to say:

‘…there were still constant rain droplets running across her cheeks. It was winding into a line of water that stayed on her chin for a moment and finally integrated into a rounded water droplet that fell to the ground with a clatter.’   

It’s a little sad to write this, Jia Jia is still small, wait for another two years, those water will fall on her chest instead of falling to the ground.

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