Although her tone was somewhat exaggerated, Rong Qingqing couldn't help but feel a sweet warmth in her heart as she listened.
Seeing her beaming smile, Feng Xin couldn't help but say with a hint of envy, "To be cared for so much by the Emperor, you are probably the happiest person in the world."
Rong Qingqing said with a laugh, "You're exaggerating."
Feng Xin smiled and smiled, then suddenly felt a little melancholy.
"What's wrong?" Rong Qingqing asked with concern upon seeing this.
"It's nothing, I'm just a little unhappy because I was thinking about how my brother didn't come to say goodbye when he went back to Xuzhou," Feng Xin said sullenly.
Rong Qingqing didn't know what to say, so she only said, "I guess it's something important."
"Mm." Feng Xin nodded, forcing herself to cheer up.
At this moment, in a forest near Xuzhou, many corpses lay scattered about. The stench of blood lingered in the dense forest, suggesting that a fierce battle had taken place here not long ago.
A brother and sister, dressed in strikingly different clothes and with high noses and deep-set eyes, passed by and were somewhat taken aback by the scene before them.
"How could so many people have died?" the girl exclaimed, but there was no fear on her face.
"What's so strange about that?" the man said dismissively, glancing at the sky obscured by the dense forest. "We need to hurry, or it'll get dark."
"Alright." The girl shrugged and followed the man quickly out of the woods.
"Help, help me..."
At that moment, a faint voice came from beneath the corpses.
The brother and sister, both skilled in martial arts, naturally heard it, but the man ignored it and continued walking forward. The girl, however, couldn't help but stop and call out, "Brother, there's still one alive here."
The man stopped and said impatiently, "So what if he's alive? We can't save him."
"Save me, please, please help me..."
Perhaps hearing the man's indifferent voice, her cries for help became urgent.
The girl felt a pang of pity and went over to remove the bodies that were pressing down on the man.
When she saw that the person being pinned down was a woman, she was somewhat surprised and turned to the man, saying, "Brother, it's a woman."
The man has now returned.
Seeing the woman lying there covered in blood, he was very impatient. "So what? I think she's too badly injured to survive."
The girl sighed, "Since we've already bumped into her, let's help her out. At least we can take her to the city and find a doctor to examine her."
The man was somewhat overwhelmed by his sister's sudden outburst of kindness.
"You decide what to do."
The girl smiled, squatted down, checked the woman's breath, and seeing that she was still breathing, reached out to help her up.
Seeing that she was struggling to get up, the man couldn't just stand by and do nothing. He bent down, supported the woman on the other side, and helped her up from the ground.
The woman had fainted, her face covered in blood, making her features unrecognizable.
Seeing how badly injured she was, yet how strong her will to live was, the girl was somewhat moved and said to the man, "Brother, carry her on your back."
The man felt that going out with his sister was a wise decision, and taking this mountain path was an even bigger mistake.
But looking at the pleading in her sister's eyes, she couldn't refuse.
"Alright."
The girl breathed a sigh of relief and helped the woman onto the man's back.
The man carried the woman on his back and easily left the dense forest.
However, what the brother and sister didn't know was that the woman hadn't fainted.
The woman secretly breathed a sigh of relief the moment she was carried on someone's back.
But the thought of being abandoned when danger struck only intensified the hatred in her heart.
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