Chapter 16 Our relationship? Guess!
"You... who are you?" Qian Deren slumped in the mud, his gold-rimmed glasses hanging askew on his ears, his eyes behind the lenses rolling around in panic.
"Do you know who I am? I am from the County Revolutionary Committee—"
“Tick, tick, tick.”
The sound of military boots stepping on the bluestone slabs was like a death warrant. Tang Jingmo took every step very steadily, and the sunlight reflected from the star on his shoulder badge shone a dazzling golden light, blinding Qian Deren's eyes.
"It doesn't matter who you are." Tang Jingmo stood three steps away from him, "What's important is that you remember who I am."
With every word he said, Qian Deren moved back an inch. His fat body plowed a furrow in the mud, and the mud covered his Dacron Zhongshan suit, making him look like a fat maggot that had fallen into a cesspool.
"Tang Jingmo." He suddenly leaned forward, his shadow completely covering Qian Deren, "A small soldier who is not worth mentioning, Lin Xiaobai's legitimate fiancé." His slender fingers gently tapped his epaulettes, "Do you remember?"
Soldier?
Qian Deren stared at the two generals, his Adam's apple rolling wildly. If this was a soldier, he would write the word "Qian" backwards!
"roll."
When this word fell lightly, not only Qian Deren was stunned, but even Lin Xiaobai looked up suddenly. The steel wire wrapped around her fingertips was "clanging" and was about to explode -
Tang Jingmo grabbed her wrist, his large palm completely covering her clenched fist, and his calloused thumb gently pressed on her throbbing pulse.
"Don't be impatient." He leaned over and whispered in her ear, his breath brushing against her ear, "I'll let you vent your anger."
Lin Zhihong finally woke up from his dream and dragged Qian Deren up by the ground. The two of them stumbled out like rabbits being chased by wolves.
The old village chief walked in from outside the crowd with a cane, his wrinkled face solemn: "Everyone go!" He tapped his cane heavily, "People in our Longshan Village, even if we break bones, we still have tendons!"
The turbid old eyes swept over the Lin family huddled in the corner, and his gaze was like a knife: "Don't forget the teachings of our ancestors - if you are a traitor, our ancestors won't accept you!"
The crowd gradually dispersed, leaving only two figures confronting each other in the threshing ground.
“Swish!”
Lin Xiaobai suddenly turned around and hit Tang Jingmo's throat with her elbow. The man turned his head to avoid it and grabbed her wrist with his backhand, but was forced back by her knee strike. In just a few breaths, the two had exchanged more than ten moves, and the dust raised startled the sparrows on the fence.
"If you don't explain it to me today," she threw out the wire and wrapped it around Tang Jingmo's wrist, "we're not done yet!"
Tang Jingmo didn't dodge or evade, letting the sharp steel wire cut into his flesh. Blood dripped down his wrist, but he suddenly smiled: "Xiaobai, every world has its rules."
He stepped forward, the steel wire deeply embedded in his muscles: "This world is brand new, it is based on law and discipline." The bloodstained hand suddenly grasped her shoulder, "You have to learn--"
"Use legal means to make those who deserve to die die more miserably."
"Legal?" Lin Xiaobai sneered, the steel wire on his fingertips "clang" straightened, "Whoever has the harder fist is legal! After all this talk, you still want to protect that bastard!"
The sunlight filtered through the branches of the pear tree, casting mottled shadows between the two of them.
Tang Jingmo looked at the angry girl in front of him, and some images flashed through his mind——
A tattered world, a bloody dusk,
With his gun pointed, he ordered her to follow base regulations.
She also stood stubbornly on the ruins, confronting him with a defiant look on her face.
How similar.
One wanted to avenge his enemies, the other wanted to restore order. The gap in their ideologies had made them go in opposite directions.
"It seems that if I don't let you vent your anger," Tang Jingmo suddenly reached out and gently tapped her smooth forehead, "you won't listen to me carefully."
He sighed helplessly, "Let's go, I'll let you vent your anger. But before I let you vent your anger, I have to make some preparations first."
Lin Xiaobai leaned against the door frame with his arms folded, watching suspiciously the actions of someone who had entered the room.
Tang Jingmo unbuttoned his military uniform neatly, revealing his well-defined abdominal muscles. In the sunlight, those old scars were like a mysterious map, looming with the rise and fall of his muscles.
"Have you seen enough?" He put on his civilian clothes without looking back. "It's not convenient to wear a military uniform for what we are going to do."
"......Men are always troublesome." Lin Xiaobai turned away, but the tips of his ears turned red. Damn, this guy looks thin when dressed but has a good figure when undressed!
The jeep was driving crookedly on the country dirt road at dusk.
“Bang!”
The sudden sound of a tire burst startled the sparrows in the treetops.
Before Qian Deren could react, both front tires burst at the same time and the car plunged into the roadside ditch.
“Help, help!”
The moment the sack was put on, Lin Zhihong smelled the familiar scent of pine wood - this was the scent he had smelled on Tang Jingmo this morning!
For the next ten minutes, dull thumping sounds and pig-slaughtering screams could be heard from the sack.
Lin Xiaobai specifically attacked places that were sensitive to pain but not fatal. His punches penetrated deeply into the bones, and each one made Qian Deren's fat flesh tremble.
"Alright." Tang Jingmo held her wrist, "Don't hurt your hand. It will be useful if he is kept alive."
Lin Xiaobai kicked a few more times, still not satisfied: "He got it easy."
Tang Jingmo squatted down and stuffed a note into Qian Deren's pocket - it was the secret code found in the gold watch.
"There's someone behind Qian," he wiped the blood from his fingers, "I'll use him as bait for this mission." When he stood up, his military boots deliberately ran over Qian Deren's fingers, "Now, let's save his life."
"Mission?" Lin Xiaobai's eyes suddenly lit up, like a cat smelling fish.
"Captain Tang, if I help you complete this task..."
She deliberately dragged out her tone and lightly kicked the stones on the ground with her toes, "Is there any benefit?"
Tang Jingmo's back froze for a moment.
He turned slowly, his boots crushing a few dead leaves, his deep eyes locked on her: "I have wanted to ask this question for a long time-"
The night wind suddenly stopped, and even the chirping of insects fell silent.
"What is our relationship?"
His voice was soft, but like a blunt knife, it gradually peeled away her carefully disguised appearance.
"Why are you so familiar with my combat habits? Why do you dismantle traps in exactly the same way as me?"
He took a step forward, and the hem of his military uniform brushed against her fingertips. "You said I was your fiancé, and you were attracted to me because of my beauty. I can understand that. But the tacit understanding between us..."
Taking another step, the scent of pine mixed with the smell of gunpowder enveloped the area.
"That kind of tacit understanding where you know what the other person is going to do with just one look cannot be deceived."
Lin Xiaobai stepped back unconsciously, her back against the rough tree trunk. The bark hurt her, but it was nothing compared to the burning look in Tang Jingmo's eyes.
"I checked all the files," he rested one hand on the tree trunk beside her ear, his breath brushing her nose, "From birth to now, we have no intersection. Except..."
"The time in the dilapidated temple in the back mountain?" Xiao Bai continued, his eyes rolling like grapes, "Oh, that was probably the legendary fate?"
She deliberately dragged out the last word, trying to slip away from his arms, but he grabbed her waist.
"Fate?" Tang Jingmo laughed softly, his thin lips almost touching her earlobe, "How deep is the fate that allows you and I to kiss each other on our first meeting..."
The warm breath flowed along his neck and finally stopped at his lips. Lin Xiaobai could clearly count the shadows cast by his eyelashes and could clearly see his own suddenly enlarged reflection in his pupils.
"I remember now!" She pushed him away and struggled to get out of his arms like a slippery fish. "Qian has a hideout in the back hills! Come on, I'll take you to see it!"
The moment she turned around, she touched her burning ear and cursed in her heart:
Dead coffin board!
She was an annoying person before she lost her memory, but she turned into a seductive fairy after she lost her memory!
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