Red and graceful, beautiful and charming.

It is like a ghost in the mountains and forests, breathtakingly beautiful, but too timid to approach strangers.

Looking back with a startled glance, Jiang Ying saw the woman's appearance clearly. He was stunned for a moment, staring with his eyes wide open, standing there stupidly.

Unfortunately, she quickly turned her head away, and an invisible wall of vigilance and alert rose up around her, like a hedgehog, making people afraid to approach her easily.

The black hair draped over the woman's shoulders and back like a black waterfall, exuding a mysterious charm.

Jiang Ye's face flushed red, and he stammered, "Comrade...you, you..."

He hesitated for a moment, too nervous to utter a word.

Han Jingchen had quickly put on his shirt by this time. Seeing Jiang Ye's useless look, he stopped looking at him and moved his cold and sharp gaze towards the woman.

Jiang Ye didn't notice it, but Han Jingchen was keenly aware that there was something strange about this woman.

For example, the skin on her face and neck was white and tender, obviously she had never been exposed to the sun before; the hands that had just grasped his arms were soft and boneless, slender and white, a pair of extremely well-maintained hands.

However, the clothes she was wearing were extremely shabby and worn. The dark brown cotton shorts were made of coarse linen and stuffed with reed fluff to keep out the cold. The fluff was popping out of the holes in the clothes. The style was old, bulky and rustic, and no one knew when these old clothes could have been left behind.

In short, this woman's life is full of contradictions and doubts.

"What's your name? Which production team are you from? What are you doing here so late at night?"

Han Jingchen stared at the woman with his eyes like a hawk, and unconsciously used an interrogation tone.

Pei Manning lowered her eyes, her slender, pale fingers nervously twisting the hem of her clothes. What do "comrade" and "production team" mean?

She found that the accents of these two people were very different from hers. If she opened her mouth, wouldn't it expose the fact that she was from a foreign country?

Firstly, single women who come from other places have no one to rely on and are more likely to be kidnapped and bullied.

Secondly, although her father-in-law would not go to look for her in a big way, as a royal merchant, the government would also make it convenient for him to let the counties and prefectures focus on checking foreign women.

It can be done.

But if she remained silent, wouldn't that be even more suspicious? No one in the nearby villages knew her, and she might be taken to the government as a fugitive slave or criminal...

Pei Manning was torn between feelings and didn't know what to do. She couldn't help but raise her eyes again and look at the two of them carefully.

The two men in front of her were very imposing, especially the one who was interrogating her. Although she couldn't see his features clearly because of the backlight, she could feel his sharp gaze, just like the commander of the Royal Guards whom she had seen from a distance before, so cold and severe that it made her scalp tingle.

Pei Manning clenched her fingers, retracted her gaze, lowered her eyes and dared not look again.

Jiang Ye felt embarrassed when he saw Pei Manning glance at them cautiously and then quickly looked away like a frightened little animal.

"Brother Chen," Jiang Ye nudged Han Jingchen with his elbow and warned him in a low voice, "Don't be so serious. This is not a soldier under your command. She is a female comrade."

Brother Shen is really something. Why is he so fierce to a cute lesbian? Listening to his tone, it's like he's interrogating a spy or a criminal.

Soldier!

Pei Manning's eyelashes trembled slightly, hiding the shock in her eyes, and clenched her palms tightly to avoid showing any abnormality. They were actually military officers nearby? Were they from the garrison?

At this moment, Pei Manning's heart almost beat in her throat.

Jiang Ye felt that he needed to adjust the tense and stiff atmosphere, so he coughed lightly and said, "Hello, female comrade! We are from the army, this is our..."

He searched his pockets and found them empty. Then he remembered that he came to the pond to take a bath and did not bring his military ID. He scratched his head in embarrassment.

"Well, which production team are you from? Why did you jump into the pond so late at night..." He suddenly realized something, "Ah? Are you trying to commit suicide?"

"I'm not saying that there are no obstacles in life that you can't overcome. You are still so young, so don't let it get you down. If you have any difficulties or grievances, you can speak out, and the organization will definitely help you."

"Did something happen in your family, or did your family force you to marry someone?"

Jiang Ye felt that there were not many reasons for such a young and beautiful lesbian to commit suicide.

Apart from being forced by family to marry a foolish, disabled old man in exchange for a dowry or something, it was because something happened in the family or she was insulted and defiled.

Of course, he did not dare to mention the latter at all. If he said it carelessly, it would be like exposing someone's scars and making them bloody.

What if lesbians can't stand it?

After all this excitement, what should I do if I jump into the water again?

Pei Manning was stunned for a moment after listening to his words. She didn't quite understand what he said before, but the last sentence hit the nail on the head. Her body instinctively stiffened for a moment.

Wasn't she married into a wealthy family by that father?

The two men saw her subconscious reaction and knew it was Jiang Ye's guess, so they looked at each other.

Pei Manning had been rescued for a while by now. She was soaked in water. The late autumn night was especially cold. The mountain wind was icy and biting. Her face turned pale and she sat on the ground, hugging her arms. She couldn't help shivering.

"Brother Chen? What should we do now?" Jiang Ye subconsciously looked at Han Jingchen and let him make the decision.