Chapter 48 Chapter 48 "Enough... Enough!"...

Xie Yun stood in the white fog, the expression on his face was clearly vague and unclear, but he had a pair of black eyes that were even darker than the night.

Just staring at her from top to bottom, Zhang Jingxian began to lose her own sense of existence, her mind was being pulled and absorbed.

Her eyes seemed empty.

At this moment, he lifted her chin forcefully and ordered in a deep voice, "Ah Xian, kiss me."

Zhang Jingxian suddenly came back to her senses, her fingertips almost digging into her palms, and she showed a stiff and somewhat uncomfortable expression.

"My dear, you may have misremembered something," she reminded him. "I am your guest, not your concubine."

Because she thought he would leave Xishan Village soon, she kept silent about his actions that crossed the boundaries between men and women.

However, the situation is very different now. He insisted on forcing her to go back to Changling County with him. Zhang Jingxian couldn't escape for the time being. Some things had to be made clear.

She was not his concubine. She could obey his orders, but she could not accept any ambiguity or intimate touch.

What else would it be? A bigger joke?

Seeing her determined expression, Xie Yun remained calm. He simply fiddled with her soft earlobe with his fingertips and said nonchalantly, "If I can catch it once, I can catch it a second time, and a third time."

It's no longer just a mountain cat or a red fox, but all the animals in Yangshan.

Zhang Jingxian's breath hitched, and she couldn't help but reveal a little of her anger. "My dear, why do you have to force me? I have done you a favor, not a grudge!"

"I'm not a gentleman, nor a good person. Didn't Ah Xian know that a long time ago?" Xie Yun looked at her who was angry and showed a contemptuous smile.

What he wants will definitely be in his hands, and he doesn't care about morality or ethics.

Zhang Jingxian heard his determination and strong threat, pursed her lips and said nothing.

"It should be in time to chase him now."

Seeing that she was still hesitating, Xie Yun spoke coldly.

"Don't!" Zhang Jingxian took a deep breath and hurriedly stopped him. If he asked her to put the little foxes into the cage for the second time, she would want to die with him.

… His dark eyes narrowed slightly, and he loosened the restraints on her wrists and jaw.

Zhang Jingxian slowly stood on tiptoe, raised her arms, and placed them on the man's shoulders with difficulty, moving closer to him.

Her lips touched the corner of his lips like a dragonfly skimming the water. For just a moment, she prepared to pull away, perfunctorily and displeased.

There was a surge of magma in Xie Yun's throat. Suddenly, he reached out and grasped her two wrists, bent down and pressed down on them, holding the rosy soft flesh in his mouth, rolling, sucking, and biting.

The dizzying sweetness penetrated every corner of his body. For the first time, he lost his composure, hugged the peasant girl, and let her shoes step on his feet.

Without blinking, it was pitch black.

Zhang Jingxian's breath was completely taken away, and her whole body was like a reed growing by the river, swaying left and right with his movements, and her vision was black.

That's enough, it's time to end it. With this thought, she managed to stay awake.

However, every time she thought the kiss was about to end, he would get stronger and hold her tighter, as if he wanted to eat her alive.

In fact, in their previous life, they hugged each other many times and kissed each other many times. Except for the last step, they did everything that a man and a woman should do.

But none of them were as violent and violent as now.

Zhang Jingxian was really scared and stepped on his foot hard, "Enough...enough, let go...let go of me!"

Only when her shoe accidentally kicked his leg did the suffocating kiss stop and return to calm.

Xie Yun's thin lips touched the small mole on the tip of her nose. He lowered his eyes, and the satisfaction in his eyes was inadvertently concealed. He let go of her again and returned to his expressionless face.

"This is Ah Xian's punishment. If there is a next time, I won't let you off so easily."

He said it calmly, but when he thought about the next time, the blood that had just calmed down began to flow faster and faster, and was about to boil again.

Zhang Jingxian breathed in small sips, not paying any attention to what he said. She just looked silently at his leg that she had kicked.

She knew that the injury there must not have healed completely.

She hadn't given him acupuncture for many days and hadn't seen how his legs were recovering.

Zhang Jingxian closed her eyes, trying to convince herself that even if his leg was broken, it had nothing to do with her. However, she only took one step before stopping and whispering to Xie Yun, "My dear... do you need my support?"

The tone was dry.

Hearing this, Xie Yun immediately sensed her softness, stared at her without saying a word, and then nodded at her.

Helplessly, Zhang Jingxian had to stretch out her hand, lightly touching his elbow to support him.

"If the chariot had not been destroyed into a pile of wood, we wouldn't have to work so hard now." At this moment, she couldn't help but think of the time she spent drawing the chariot picture on the linen and the silk she spent, and felt a little distressed.

"Ah Xian, you still remember that you gave me gifts to curry favor with me, and then you called me cruel and cold-hearted in front of Gong Chengyue. What? I smashed that chariot, and you're upset?"

Hearing this, Xie Yun looked at her with a half-smile and said in a cold tone, "Ah Xian, you should be thankful that you are my savior, so that day I only smashed a sedan chair and burned a piece of linen!"

Otherwise, with the humiliation she inflicted on him, he would have simply broken her neck.

"My dear husband, I will always remember your forgiveness." Zhang Jingxian felt relieved when she heard his words. She thought to herself that it would be best if both of them remembered those words forever.

That way, she stayed clear and he wouldn't misunderstand.

"Forgive?" Xie Yun repeated these two words with a hint of sarcasm, and then his eyes fell on the lips of the woman beside him that had been severely ravaged. He never said that he would forgive her.

Of course not forgiveness.

Xie Yun's eyes were extremely dark. He would make her regret and make her swallow back the words she had said word by word while crying.

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As the sky brightened, the two returned to the carriage.

Zhang Jingxian drank two sips of water as if nothing had happened, and told Xie Yun that she wanted to find Xie to ask him if he had any silver needles that could be used for acupuncture.

The silver needle in her hand did not belong to her and had been returned to Doctor Meng.

"Yes." Xie Yun replied indifferently. After she left the carriage, his eyes stayed on the porcelain cup she had used.

He picked up the porcelain cup with his long fingers and drank the remaining water. He murmured a few words slowly, "Ah Xian is pretending again."

However, he didn't hate it, but was looking forward to it.

…

Zhang Jingxian secretly wiped her lips several times, found Xie, and first told him that Xie Yun agreed to release the little raccoons in the cage, and then spoke to him loudly.

"My dear, your leg seems to have been accidentally injured. I can give you acupuncture to relieve the pain. Xie, do you have any silver needles here?"

Her voice ensured that several people heard it at the same time.

Although Xie was puzzled by her excitement, he still nodded and found the silver needle for her.

Zhang Jingxian took it in her hand, looked at it carefully, and found that it was several times better than Doctor Meng's silver needle, so she felt relieved.

"Xie, as a guest recruited by my lord, I can shoot arrows to protect you, and I can give you acupuncture to relieve your pain. How much should I be paid every month?" She asked the question without blushing, and Xie was slightly startled.

"Madam Zhang, you are overthinking it. You are the envoy's savior. Whether you are a guest of our sect or not, we will not treat you unfairly." After realizing what was happening, Xie answered cautiously.

"No, it's not that I'm afraid of being treated harshly. It's just that as your Excellency's guest, I naturally deserve my share of money and food. I won't take any more, and if it's less... Xie, if you don't explain it to me clearly, how can I know whether it's too much or too little?"

Zhang Jingxian looked very serious. She really only wanted the treatment that belonged to a guest. Not only would she not accept anything else, she would also... avoid it!

In a trance, Xie understood what she meant and his expression paused.

The peasant girl made it clear to herself that she would only be a guest of the envoy, no different from any other guest who came to seek refuge with him. She would receive his salary and perform her duties, and could leave at any time or join another master.

For some reason, Xie had mixed feelings. Intellectually, he admired what the peasant girl did, but at the same time, a voice in his heart was dissatisfied with the envoy.

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the envoy had romantic feelings for her, yet she was pretending to be stupid and putting herself in the position of a guest. Could it be that she disliked the envoy?

"Guests under the envoy's household are divided into three classes: upper, middle, and lower. The upper class receives five gold coins, one hu of grain, and ten pieces of silk per month; the middle class receives three gold coins, one hu of grain, and five pieces of silk per month; and the lower class receives one gold coin, one hu of grain, and three pieces of silk per month. In addition, they receive several sets of clothing and shoes for each season, varying only in fabric and style."

Xie explained in detail the standards for guests under Xie Yun's tutelage, and concluded by saying, "Given Madam Zhang's abilities and qualifications, she's barely... lower class. But since the envoy values ​​you, you're considered superior."

From the lowest to the highest, Zhang Jingxian's mood fluctuated. After a moment of silence, she whispered, "The highest is too ostentatious. Xie, the middle, I want the middle treatment."

For her, the average is just right, neither too high nor too low.

There is more than enough money and food, and it doesn't arouse much jealousy. How perfect!

"Since you have spoken, we will naturally follow your wishes." Xie nodded in agreement without any hesitation.

It's just an average treatment, no big deal.

Having achieved her goal, Zhang Jingxian curled her lips and smiled happily.

She turned around with the silver needle in her hand, and where Xie and the others couldn't see, the smile on her face gradually faded.

If she could escape from Wuling County, then the words she had just said would be a deceptive trick. If she couldn't find a way to escape before reaching Changling County, then staying as a middle-class guest under Xie Yun wasn't a hopeless situation.

She is working hard to plan for herself.

"Alas, you still don't give up, what a pity!"

Not long after Zhang Jingxian left, a man waved the feather fan in his hand and sighed at Xie, wondering why he had let his favorite bird run away.

"I have always been magnanimous, but Envoy Xie is not."

…

Zhang Jingxian sincerely helped Xie Shijun apply acupuncture on the acupuncture points on his legs. For three days, the look in his eyes when he looked at her was no longer always sinister, but much softer.

Occasionally, that heart-pounding feeling disappeared.

She knew very well that he had let down his guard towards her and his attitude had begun to return to the time when they were just the two of them.

And ahead is Wuling County City.

Inside the carriage, Zhang Jingxian put down the book in her hand and looked through the window at the cars and people passing by on the official road outside, fascinated for a moment.

In their previous lives, they had never come to this place.

"What are you looking at, Ah Xian?" A soft sound drew her attention back.

She looked up and Xie Yun's fingertips had already touched her eyelids.

The tone was full of inquiry.

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