When the word "fire" was mentioned, several women trembled at the same time. They looked at each other, and the hesitation in their eyes eventually turned into fierce murderous intent.
"In that case..."
"how?"
Liu Yanqiu smiles
"You revealed your plan to me, so you got mad and wanted to kill me to silence me?"
He slowly took a step back, looking at them with his head held high.
"Come on, then."
The fallen leaves rustled down, and it seemed as if something was about to explode in the air.
…
There were many bonfires burning on the cliff, and some officers and soldiers were sitting around the bonfires, eating the dry food in their hands.
Their faces showed the vicissitudes of the journey, but they got along happily, and all the horses were placed together to rest.
Not far from the horses was a very luxurious carriage, inlaid with countless gems and made of extremely valuable silks and satins. The fragrance of the finest golden nanmu wafted from the carriage.
A tall maid passed by the carriage carrying a bowl of grapes. Her expression was full of arrogance, and she tried hard not to touch the corners of the soldiers' clothes.
Just as she reached the carriage door and the maid hadn't even stepped on it, a crisp sound suddenly came from inside!
“Bang!!”
The sound was so clear and crisp in the night that it even stopped the chirping of insects for a while.
"You're a piece of shit!"
A maid was kicked out from behind the carriage curtain without mercy!
She landed on the front deck of the carriage, but because the space was too small, she rolled down!
The moment she fell, her forehead hit the ground. She let out a muffled groan and stood up tremblingly after a long time. She knelt on the ground with her head lowered.
The blood dripped from her forehead onto the gravel road. The maid seemed to be crying and only when she looked up did she realize it.
So this person actually fell into the water?!
Lin opened the curtain and looked down at the man kneeling on the ground.
"You're so brave! You actually dared to wash my hands with river water?! If I hurt my fingers, you wouldn't be able to afford to lose a hundred heads!"
Xun Yi held the grapes and looked at the fallen water on the ground with disdain. He walked forward a few steps and said in a scolding tone:
"Princess, you can only wash your hands with spring water. It's been so long, and you still haven't learned anything. Are you brainless?"
As she spoke, she kicked the person who fell into the water.
He had already fallen heavily because of Lin's kick, causing all kinds of pain all over his body. Now he was bullied by Xun Yi and fell into the water in so much pain that he felt like vomiting blood.
But he still dared not move, and could not even utter a groan, his voice was hoarse.
"Now, in the cliff, there is only water in the nearby river. There is no... no spring water..."
This answer was obviously not what Lin wanted. When she heard Luo Shui's explanation, her eyebrows were raised and she was furious. She didn't care about anything else.
"If there's no spring water, can't you dig some yourself?! Don't you know how filthy the river water is?! All these uncouth people are in the river..."
"princess!!"
Sensing the strange and hostile looks from the surrounding officers and soldiers, Xun Yi quickly blocked what Lin was about to say.
"It's getting cold, Princess, please go in quickly so you don't catch a cold."
"As for this damn girl..."
Xun Yi glanced at Luo Shui lightly, with a tone of sarcasm and gloating.
"Let her kneel here all night."
Lin immediately understood Xun Yi's intention. She looked around and found that the officers and soldiers were looking at them with different eyes. She understood what Xun Yi meant and raised her head and coughed.
"You're right, it's getting a bit cold outside."
She turned and went in, Xunyi followed her into the carriage, but the person who fell into the water never raised his head again.
As she spoke, her blood fell onto the gravel ground, along with some water stains and her tightly clenched fist.
In the carriage, Lin sat down, patted her chest, and said to Xun Yi:
"I'm really grateful to you this time, otherwise I would have spoken without thinking. These officers and soldiers are all under the Emperor's command and have nothing to do with the prince. If they catch me with anything, I'm afraid I won't be able to explain it clearly."
"But that bitch is really getting more and more disgusting. She even used the water that those low-class people used to wash their hands to wash my hands. What if I get sick again? It's really disgusting."
As if remembering the disgusting feeling when she fell into the water and told herself that she was washing her hands with river water, Lin wiped her hands vigorously with the handkerchief, and her hands were red.
Xun Yi was very discerning and went to Lin to massage her shoulders, smiling and said
"There are a lot of gossips out there, so we have to be extra careful when we go out."
"As for the girl who fell into the water, she probably had too many good lives in the past. How could she, a young lady, know how to serve others? Princess, please don't be angry with her. It's not worth it."
The sound of the bonfire burning outside the carriage was very quiet. Lin's complexion also improved a lot. Xunyi rolled his eyes and continued
"You have come all this way to personally take the princess home. I believe the princess will be very touched and will reconcile with you."
A strong hand pressed on Lin's shoulder. Lin exhaled, and his tone became more relaxed. His eyes were full of shrewdness.
"I still don't believe that I can't cure a little girl like her."
"The Emperor received a letter saying that this girl had blocked a knife for the Empress. He was so anxious that he didn't even attend court and sent someone to fetch her. It seems that this damn girl is going to become a celebrity in the palace again."
"It is precisely because of this that we cannot offend her now. I really forgot about her a while ago. Now that I have personally followed this group of inferiors to pick her up, she can't still be angry."
The nails on her hands, which were painted with bright red Dankou, had some chips on the edges because of the slap she had just made against Luo Shui. Looking at the nails, Lin felt disgusted. This place was in the middle of nowhere, and she really wanted to leave this damn place as soon as possible.
"Princess Changle is only in her teens, exactly the age when she craves care. Princess, you only need to use a little trick, and it will be easy to win her over."
Having followed Lin for so many years, Xunyi naturally knew what Lin liked to hear, so he only chose to say what she liked, which made Lin not as irritable as before.
The two were talking and laughing in the carriage, but some officers and soldiers outside kept rolling their eyes.
"This princess is really something. She had to keep up. Without her, our journey would have been at least a day and a half faster, and we would have picked up the princess long ago."
"She keeps taking breaks and getting thirsty along the way. I think she's just like that devil girl Gu Miao in our palace."
They were whispering to each other and looking at the carriage behind them from time to time.
The officer who said this poked the officer next to him who was staring blankly into the distance.
"I'm talking to you. What are you looking at?"
"red……"
The soldier's Adam's apple rolled, and suddenly a syllable came out of his throat, tremblingly pointing to a mountain in the distance.
"Is that the mountain of Luofo Temple... So much smoke, so red..."
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
