Chapter 30 Chapter 30 Don’t come over here!
A Jiang's health gradually recovered, but there was no joy on his face. He often sat by the cold river in a daze.
Hanyu asked him why he was like that. He raised his hands and said to her, "I always feel like I've lost something."
"You mean your memories?"
"It's not just memories," Ah Jiang shook his head and slapped his arms vigorously, not even wincing despite the pain. "I feel like I've become a cripple. Apart from being able to walk with my legs and eat with my hands, I can't do anything else."
Han Yu thought he was talking nonsense and couldn't help but tease him, "What else do you want to do with your hands and feet besides walking and eating? After experiencing the backlash of the goddess' power, it's good enough to still be alive with your hands and feet intact. As for those lost memories, if they are all bad memories, maybe not being able to remember them is a good thing?"
She tried to help Jiang gradually adapt to his new identity, not just the body that had been reborn after the catastrophe.
As the days passed, Ajiang no longer sat by the cold river feeling melancholy as before. He began to want to know about Hanyu's family and wanted to go back to the Shouling tribe with her to meet her father.
But Hanyu hesitated.
"Ayu, do you despise me because I'm an incompetent loser, and that's why you don't want to take me to meet your people and my father?"
"That's not the case. It's just... the clan rules prohibit close contact between clan members and outsiders. And you're not only an outsider, you might also be part of the army that invaded the Snow Mountain. Your identity is suspicious. If the clan leader and elders knew about it, both you and I would die, and my father would be implicated as well."
When she finished speaking, she saw a look of loss on A Jiang's face for the first time. She wanted to explain that she didn't mean to dislike him, but she unintentionally said words that hurt him.
He nodded to accept the reality, suppressed his dissatisfaction and disappointment, and looked at Hanyu with a smile.
"I understand your difficulties. I won't go. As long as I can be with Ah Yu, who am I? Where am I? What does it matter?"
In this way, Hanyu secretly went down the mountain without telling her father and the tribesmen, lived with Ajiang by the cold river, and built a love nest that belonged to them alone.
Ah Jiang once said, "I will cut down hundreds of kilograms of wood and bring them down the mountain to exchange for silver so that I can make a wedding dress for Ah Yu."
Hanyu covered her mouth and laughed secretly, happily accompanying him to chop trees and carry firewood, until one day he really brought back a red wedding dress from the silk shop at the foot of the mountain.
She knew that her long-awaited wedding date was getting closer.
Over the past three years, she has taken good care of Ajiang, waiting for his recovery, and started from scratch with him to build the wooden house as their wedding room. Now she has finally got the wedding dress she has always dreamed of. She feels that her efforts over the years have finally paid off.
In order to decorate the wedding room and prepare for the wedding, she specially went down the mountain to buy some money that she had saved since she was a child.
The innkeeper, who was on good terms with her, prepared a fine wine for her and secretly told her, "I've added some powerful ingredients to this fine girl's wine. I guarantee you'll get pregnant overnight. If it works, come back often! I guarantee you'll have two babies in three years."
"Boss, what nonsense are you talking about?" Her cheeks flushed red.
"Oh my! You're getting married soon, why are you still shy?"
Hanyu's long-awaited wedding night is tonight. How could she not be shy when she has never experienced sex before?
However, it was on that night that her A Jiang mysteriously disappeared, and after that, Yin Jinglong appeared and massacred the clan.
Whenever she recalled this, Hanyu would always feel mixed emotions of sadness and joy. She missed the days when she and Ajiang lived together, envied only by the couple, and at the same time, she also felt a growing hatred for the destroyers who came later.
She cautiously probed, "I wonder what kind of person this great general the princess is talking about? I heard he and Yin Jinglong are twin brothers from the same mother, but they don't get along. What happened between them that led to this enmity?"
Princess Chaoyang glanced at her, as if doubting her intention in asking this question.
"Aren't you Prince Yin's man now? Why are you concerned about the general again?"
Prince Consort Sun leaned over to remind her, "Your Highness, Prince Yin once mentioned that this woman was the wife the general married in the snowy mountains after he disappeared."
"Oh, yes! I actually forgot your most important identity. So you are the Ah Yu that Yin Jinglong has been thinking about? I never thought that a plain-looking and lowly woman like you would have an affair with these two brothers. It seems that you have some tricks up your sleeve."
Hanyu was dissatisfied with the princess's ridicule. She hurriedly explained, "What brothers? The only person I've ever loved is Ajiang. I was captured by that bastard Yin Jinglong. He kidnapped my lover and humiliated me. If it weren't for the Heart-Eating Gu, I would have wanted to kill him long ago."
"What kind of Gu are you talking about?"
Han Yu realized she had let something slip and quickly feigned ignorance, changing the subject. "Princess, if you want me to open the statue for you, then you must first tell me why. You've sacrificed the lives of countless soldiers to obtain the statue. Aren't you afraid of retribution?"
Prince Consort Sun angrily stepped forward and slapped her, cursing, "You bastard, how dare you curse His Highness and bring retribution?"
Han Yu laughed madly and retorted, "God is watching what we do. The goddess is a god on earth. You mortals who desecrate her statue will sooner or later be retaliated by the goddess' power."
"You still don't admit your guilt, shut up!"
Prince Consort Sun wanted to slap her again, but Princess Chaoyang dissuaded him, saying, "Forget it! Can't you tell she's just trying to scare me into giving up? I've worked hard for the statue for ten years. I want to use its power to build an invincible army. How could I possibly give up just because I'm afraid of her curse?"
She looked at Hanyu and said, "Besides, I have captured you now. I have tested it and found that your blood can resist the backlash of the goddess. Therefore, in order to build my army, there is no need to go through the trouble as before. Sacrificing you alone will be enough."
Princess Chaoyang saw that Hanyu wanted to escape from the battlefield, so in order to make things easier, she asked Prince Consort Sun to knock her out and carry her away on his shoulders.
When they arrived at the secret room where she kept the statue, the imperial physician took out a pungent incense from the medicine box to wake Hanyu up.
The moment Hanyu opened her eyes, the scene before her shocked her so much that she was speechless.
She actually pieced together the fragments of the statue that were blown up by Li Yu. Although the cracks between the fragments can be seen with the naked eye, this is already close to the original appearance of the real statue.
They placed the spliced statue in a huge pool of blood. A strong smell of blood filled the air, but the blood in the pool not only did not coagulate, but also flowed slowly without any external force.
Princess Chaoyang proudly showed it to her: "Open your eyes and look. Isn't the goddess more lifelike now than when she was on the snowy mountain?"
Hanyu covered her mouth and nose as she approached the pool of blood at the feet of the statue. She looked at the blood slowly flowing in it in disbelief and asked, "Is this my blood?"
"Not entirely. Doctor Hu added some herbs to your blood to prevent it from clotting after leaving the body. Unfortunately, there is too little blood in it. It doesn't even fill the bottom of the blood pool, so it can't activate the statue."
When Princess Chaoyang said this, she turned her gaze to Hanyu who was in surprise and shock.
"To fill this pool of blood, I have to drain all the blood in your body. What do you think? Are you ready to sacrifice yourself for me?"
Han Yu quickly stood up and backed away. "What if, when you fill the blood pool, you discover that my blood can't activate the statue?"
"If it's not, then it's not. Then why don't I just capture another one of your people and try again? I've waited ten years for this day. Is this just a little more time than that?"
Princess Chaoyang signaled the imperial physician to prepare to take action. The man took out a crescent sickle from the medicine box and approached Hanyu with ill intentions.
"Don't come over here!"
Hanyu realized belatedly that she had been deceived by them. Princess Chaoyang had never thought of slowly bleeding her, let alone leaving her a way out.
But by the time she realized this, it was already too late. She was like a turtle in a jar and could not escape even if she had wings.
That crescent sickle looked really scary. If it cut her neck, blood would gush out like a column. Even a great immortal could not save her.
Hanyu screamed heart-wrenchingly, hoping that someone could hear her cries for help, but she didn't know where the secret room was, let alone where it led to outside. How could she call for someone to save her?
"Doctor Hu, why are you still dawdling? Hurry up and get started!"
Doctor Hu's hand holding the sickle trembled uncontrollably. "I usually save people, never kill anyone, so I feel a little hesitant to do it."
Princess Chaoyang scolded him for being useless, pushed Prince Consort Sun out and ordered him to take over the job of Doctor Hu.
Prince Consort Sun took the sickle with trembling hands and looked at the princess hesitantly.
The princess glared at him. "What are you still standing there for? If you don't do something, she'll run away!"
Prince Consort Sun stammered, "Your Highness, I thought it was just a small knife to cut my wrists and let the blood flow, but I didn't expect it to be such a big sickle to cut my neck! This is a bit scary."
"What are you afraid of? It's not like you haven't killed anyone before. Aren't there enough worthless people who have died at your hands? I don't mind adding her to the list."
Seeing that the two grown men were hesitant and unable to take action, Princess Chaoyang had no choice but to snatch the sickle from Prince Sun's hand and strode towards Hanyu who was hiding behind the statue.
She sneered and said, "I want to see if the goddess can really show up and save your life today."
She raised the sickle in her hand and chopped towards Hanyu's neck, but she missed the first time and Hanyu escaped from the knife nimbly.
"Go ahead and run! This secret room is airtight. I'll see where you can escape to!"
Princess Chaoyang's devilish voice echoed throughout the secret room. She chased Hanyu with a sickle and slashed wildly.
With no way to escape, Hanyu cried out for help. The Zi Gu in her body seemed to sense her intense fear, and the spider mark on her chest emitted a strange red light.
Just when she thought she was going to die tragically under the sickle, the door of the secret room suddenly blew open with a loud bang.
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