Chapter 41 Chapter 41 "Ah Xian, you will regret it." ...
From the very beginning, Xie Yun had been lying to her, and his eyes suddenly opened in the spruce forest silently proved everything.
Zhang Jingxian felt like a joke. She thought she had done a good deed, but in fact, it was just the beginning of being fooled by him.
Then, he feigned amnesia, pretended to be kind, deceived her, mocked her, manipulated her, and did it so effortlessly. Even after she revealed the truth, his face remained free of any guilt.
Did he really take her life-saving grace to heart?
"Mr. Gongcheng, you were saved but you deceived them in return. You treated me coldly from beginning to end. This shows your cold nature."
"I simply refused the noble man's offer to leave Xishan Village with him, yet he pushed me into the spotlight, making me the envy of the villagers. He even used my background to force me to submit to him. His methods were truly cruel."
"I didn't stay away from him, but instead fell in love with him because of his coldness and cruelty. How foolish I am. I am so blind and heartless. How can I have a good ending?"
Zhang Jingxian looked at Gong Chengyue opposite her with great sincerity, and standing on the high rocks, said the last words to him.
"I wish you and Mr. Gongcheng to soar high and achieve great things. As for me, an ordinary woman like me, please allow me to continue to live my life quietly."
As soon as she finished speaking, she jumped off the rock, straightened her coarse linen dress, and walked along the stream.
In the stream, the black ink has been completely diluted, and the water has become clear again in just a moment. A few small fish are clearly visible swimming around, wagging their tails.
Gong Chengyue watched the peasant girl's figure blend into the forest until she disappeared.
He pretended to brush the dust off his sleeves and said in a distressed voice, "What should I do? I can't even refute what she said. I have to find a way to explain it to Xie Yun."
"She certainly couldn't say her original words. It would be better to say that the peasant girl was too timid and had feelings for Envoy Xie, but she didn't dare to leave the village where she grew up."
Gong Chengyue nodded, slowly walked down from the rock, and bent down to take his beloved feather fan.
At the moment when his fingers were about to touch the feather fan, a terrifying black shadow stood silently in front of him.
Gong Chengyue's heart sank. He threw the feather fan he had touched aside and called him softly, "Qilang."
Xie Yun had no expression on his face.
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“Chirp, chirp, chirp.”
On Zhang Jingxian's way home, a little bird with yellow feathers flew over her head and chirped incessantly.
She recognized the bird as a yellow warbler and chirped apologetically, "I'm sorry, yellow warbler, I won't be here these few days. Please wait a little longer, I'll be back soon."
"When the time comes, I'll be willing to take in your bugs."
The yellow warbler landed on the palm of her outstretched hand. Zhang Jingxian smiled and touched its feathers, muttering to herself.
"I don't know what the little monkey saw that made it scream. I hope there was no forest fire, or..." She paused after saying this. The little monkey had actually screamed like that before because a human accepted its apology and then stabbed it with a branch out of revenge.
But Xie Yun did leave in a horse-drawn carriage. The villagers were so sure about it that it couldn't be false.
She forced herself to suppress the slight uneasiness in her heart and continued to walk forward. The yellow warbler spread its wings and flew up from the palm of her hand, and a thin yellow feather fell down.
Zhang Jingxian picked up the feathers, and then was lucky enough to find a nest of turquoise wild duck eggs.
Even though she didn't catch any fish, wild duck eggs were still good. She happily carried a dozen eggs and placed them in the kitchen of her uncle's house.
At dusk, she, Chun'er, Xia'er and others ate delicious roasted wild duck eggs.
"Big sister, when will that Gongcheng gentleman leave?" Chun'er asked her curiously.
Her uncle, aunt, and others looked over, and Zhang Jingxian replied calmly, "Tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, the nobles will leave. As a counselor, why would he stay here?"
"The nobleman seems to have returned. Abao said that the nobleman stopped him in the afternoon and asked about the condition of the chariot under him."
Zhang Shuanghu frowned and told his niece not to think about moving back for the time being, as the nobleman might have to stay for a few more days.
Zhang Jingxian nodded absentmindedly. So was the little monkey's cry really because of Xie Yun? Thinking about the time when the cry appeared, she clenched the chopsticks in her hand.
Gongcheng Yue is a smart man and should know what to say and what to keep secret.
But despite this, her heart was still anxious and unsettled.
Finally, she made up her mind. Before dawn the next day, she gently pushed Chun'er's arm away, took a bow and arrow, vines, herbs, water bags and other items and went into the mountains.
She stayed in the mountains to minimize the chance of running into Xie Yun.
Zhang Jingxian walked along the mountain road for half an hour and first went to the valley where she used to collect honey. The location here was relatively secluded and almost no human had visited it except her.
The weather was nice today, with a cool mountain breeze that was very comfortable.
She ate a few wild fruits and a piece of wheat cake, worked for a while and rested for a while, and finally had a lot of harvest. But she did not rush home, but made a simple swing with rattan and tied it to a tree.
After lighting the insect-repellent wormwood incense and sprinkling the powder again, Zhang Jingxian snuggled up on the swing, quietly admiring the clear green sky and the rolling mountains in the distance.
She swayed and fell asleep.
A low, ghostly laugh sounded beside her ears. Zhang Jingxian was sleeping soundly, her brows relaxed, as if she had entered a peaceful dream.
Soon, the green vines became taut, as if bearing an unimaginable weight, leaving deep marks on the hard tree trunk.
Fortunately, the vines and trees in Yangshan have been growing for many years. Even though they bear a lot of weight, they have never broken, but instead firmly protect the human being who is always in close contact with them.
In a daze, Zhang Jingxian's cheek seemed to be firmly lifted up by a big hand and then placed on her hard legs.
Another mountain breeze blew by, but the valley was so silent that only the sound of the wind could be heard.
A few long fingers lifted the woman's hair that was messed up by the wind, and the hair slid down gently. The long fingers then moved down from her cheek, passing the small mole on the tip of her nose that had faded, her lips with natural color, to her delicate and stubborn jaw, and then to her slender neck.
Those long fingers remained motionless, indifferently feeling the pulse beating on the side of the woman's neck. Just a slight tightening, a little more pressure, and the pulse would stop beating, and the person would stop breathing.
He laughed again, and it seemed that it would not be difficult to strangle the unaware woman by the neck and send her to death.
Look, how simple it is!
He is a cold-hearted man with cruel methods, so isn't it normal for him to give her a profound experience in the end?
It would be better not to save him from the beginning, or to stay away from him after saving him, deliberately showing off her charm and displaying her beauty, but when she achieves her goal, she starts to regret it and says that she will never like him!
Tsk, he told her more than once, don’t regret it, don’t regret it!
When his black eyes were filled with dense red bloodshot, she couldn't help but coughed slightly.
As if having difficulty breathing.
Xie Yun's hand trembled, and he lowered his eyes and stared coldly at the woman lying on his legs. He moved his fingers away from her neck and pinched her jaw tightly.
She couldn't wake up at all, but her body was in danger, and her eyelashes began to tremble subconsciously, as if she was struggling with herself.
But it was in vain.
"Ah Xian, has anyone ever told you to never provoke a person's competitive spirit? Love is just a tiny bit, and it will fade after a few days. But you said it would never happen!"
Xie Yun sneered, staring at her with a gloomy and creepy look. One day, he would make her wish she could swallow those words back.
"Ah Xian, you will regret this."
No one had ever gotten away with trampling on him. In fact, his true cruelty had not yet been revealed to her.
"But it's okay, you'll find out soon enough."
Xie Yun lowered her voice and gently stroked the beautiful, smooth long hair. Her cold eyes and gentle tone formed a strange and weird balance.
"It's better to be obedient."
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A furry paw slapped Zhang Jingxian's face heavily. She woke up dazed and felt pain in her back.
"Xiao Li, thank you for waking me up. If I had continued sleeping, my bones would have broken."
Her jaw ached badly, and she rubbed it gingerly, feeling annoyed.
She shouldn't have slept on the wicker swing and leaned against the tree trunk. It must be because her sleeping posture was not good and her chin was pinched by the wicker.
And my neck feels prickly and uncomfortable.
"Meow!"
The black cat hunched its body and circled around her vigilantly. How could its human friend suddenly become stupid and not even notice that it was attacked by the enemy?
"Is something wrong?" Zhang Jingxian noticed Xiaoli's strange reaction and shuddered, looking around nervously. Her bow and arrows and water bag were in their original places, the wooden frame hadn't been moved, and even the medicine powder she'd sprinkled was still there.
Zhang Jingxian breathed a sigh of relief and stretched out her hand for the black cat to sniff.
It's that male human!
The black cat recognized another scent, and the hair on its back returned to normal. It licked the fingers of its human friend. Since they were acquaintances, then... was the attack considered a playful act among humans?
Humans are so complicated.
The black cat stretched and jumped onto the swing. The vines kept shaking and its tail stood up high.
"So you want to play. Sit tight." Zhang Jingxian quickly put away her doubts and started playing with the black cat with a smile.
Finally, she called the red fox, who was hiding far away, over. The swing was big enough to accommodate two animals at the same time.
However, the red fox looked at her from afar and refused to approach her, as if there was something extremely terrifying on her body.
Zhang Jingxian kept doubting and finally attributed it to the powder she had sprinkled. Most animals in the mountains did not like the smell and would avoid it when they encountered it.
She had no choice but to throw a pheasant she had caught to the red fox. It had given her fenugreek before, and she hadn't thanked it yet.
Seeing this, the black cat became unhappy. It stared at her with its round green eyes and meowed, as if accusing her, "Human, how can you treat me differently?"
Zhang Jingxian narrowed her eyes and respectfully placed the captured field mouse in front of Xiaoli. "Your Excellency, Master Black Cat, please enjoy it."
Her laughter lingered in the valley for a long time.
As the sun was setting, she trudged back home from the valley carrying the wooden frame, but the red fox still did not approach her.
Zhang Jingxian didn't take this matter to heart, but as soon as she entered the village, the villagers' subtle gazes made her feel a little cold on her back.
They looked at her as if they were looking at a huge treasure, their eyes full of fanaticism.
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