"You're wronging me!" Su Qinghe said, looking aggrieved.
"The reason I didn't touch you that day was because it was almost lunchtime, and Xiao Xi was waiting for us to go out to eat. It wouldn't be good if he saw us."
"Besides, it was during the day. I was afraid you would think it was an insult to you!"
"As for why I didn't come to your room to rest at night, I'm even more wronged. You've only been here for a short time and you're injured. I was afraid you wouldn't feel comfortable and I didn't want to trouble you!"
"Really..." Ji Yuan asked in a daze, unable to believe what he was hearing.
"I was doing all this for your own good, but in the end it's all my fault!" Su Qinghe pouted, pretending to be displeased.
After listening to Su Qinghe's rapid-fire explanation, Ji Yuan was stunned for a long time before realizing that he had misunderstood Su Qinghe. However, he was still overjoyed to learn that she did not despise him.
Seeing her displeasure, he panicked.
"My lady...my lady, please don't be angry!" He gently tugged at Su Qinghe's sleeve. "It was A Yuan's fault. A Yuan misunderstood my lady!"
He was already 28 years old, nine years older than Su Qinghe. Faced with a wife so much younger than him, he didn't know how to coax her for a moment, and could only dryly tell her not to be angry.
"Hmph! Now you know you're wrong, but I don't know what kind of nonsense you're thinking all day! Besides, Qingyu is still in your room, aren't you afraid he might suddenly wake up and see something?"
"Yu-ge'er can move to the small west room to sleep for the time being!" Ji Yuan blurted out his thoughts the moment he heard her mention Ji Qingyu, but it was too late by the time he realized it.
"Oh~ So you had already thought it through!" Su Qinghe looked at him, her tone drawn out with a half-smile.
"I...I didn't think of it..." he murmured.
Realizing he had accidentally said the wrong thing, Ji Yuan blushed slightly and huddled in Su Qinghe's arms like a quail, refusing to come out!
"My lady!" Lin Xi's anxious voice came from outside the door.
Su Qinghe turned her head and saw him running towards her in his outer robe, looking worried, clearly frightened.
Upon hearing Lin Xi's voice, Ji Yuan panicked and quickly scrambled out of Su Qinghe's arms, awkwardly calling out to him.
"My lady, Brother Yuan! Are you alright?"
Lin Xi saw a man in black lying on the ground and looked them over with concern, worried that they might be injured.
"We're all fine, why are you dressed so lightly? It's chilly now, be careful not to catch a cold!"
Su Qinghe knew he had also been woken up, so she quickly went over and adjusted his outer robe.
"I'm worried about my wife, how can I care about anything else!" Lin Xi choked up, looking at the man in black on the ground with fear.
"My lady, who are these people? Why have they come to our house? And they're all carrying knives!"
"I don't know. Maybe Bao Min was unwilling to lose the restaurant to me, so he sent someone to kill me."
“If I die, the restaurant will naturally fall back into her hands!” Su Qinghe used Bao Min as an excuse.
I just overheard those people saying they came looking for the Pregnancy Fruit Tree. The only people who saw her with the Pregnancy Fruit were those people on the street that day. They also mentioned an employer, but ordinary people have no money and dare not hire someone to kill her.
That day on the street, the only person who was rich, unafraid of the government, and had made an enemy of her was Steward Qi from the government office!
"What if she sends even more people? My lady, should we report this to the authorities?" Lin Xi frowned, her face full of worry.
“We have no evidence to prove that these people were sent by her.”
Su Qinghe gently patted Lin Xi's hand. "Don't worry, your wife is very skilled in martial arts. I'm here for you, everything will be alright!"
"Tomorrow we'll stay at an inn in the city, and in a couple of days we'll move to a restaurant. That's the center of Tianhe County, and there are guards patrolling at night. I doubt she'll dare to commit any more violence in the city!"
Su Qinghe gently comforted her, walked to the bedside, picked up Ji Qingyu, and took Lin Xi and Ji Yuan back to the next room.
"I can't sleep next door for now, and it'll probably be dawn in another hour or two, so I'll just have to squeeze in here for the rest of the time!"
"You all stay inside quietly, I'm going out to take care of the funeral arrangements!"
"Okay!" Both of them nodded obediently.
Ji Qingyu was placed at the very back by Su Qinghe. Ji Yuan originally wanted to lie down next to him, but Lin Xi, who was sitting at the head of the bed, quickly rolled over and moved away.
"Brother Yuan, I'm a little scared, let me sleep inside!" After Lin Xi lay down, she pulled the blanket over Ji Qingyu and herself, then turned and stuck out her tongue at Ji Yuan with a grin!
He heard it all just now, Brother Yuan wants to sleep with his wife!
"Okay, alright!"
Ji Yuan opened his mouth, somewhat at a loss for what to do.
He knew Lin Xi meant well, wanting him to get closer to his wife, but in this situation, with other people around, even just lying together doing nothing made him very uncomfortable.
After he lay down, a long time passed, from initial tension to him drifting off to sleep, before Su Qinghe returned.
The bedside dented slightly, startling Ji Yuan awake. In his groggy state, he realized his wife was lying next to him, and his mind instantly cleared.
He could hear Lin Xi's long, steady breathing from beside him. Even though he knew Lin Xi was asleep, Ji Yuan was still very nervous, his whole body stiffening uncontrollably.
"Go to sleep, don't think too much! There's a lot to do tomorrow!" Su Qinghe reached out and pulled him into her arms.
"Mmm!" Ji Yuan hummed softly, snuggling into his wife's arms.
The faint scent of soap lingered around his wife, and slowly, his body relaxed from its stiffness, and he drifted off to sleep without realizing it.
Realizing that the person in her arms was fast asleep, Su Qinghe probed her consciousness into the space.
Since she had already killed one person, she simply killed the other two as well.
She spent a long time agonizing over what to do with the four bodies. If she buried them, she would have to dig a hole in the middle of the night, and she would have to run up the mountain to dig it. Burying them in the village would make them easy to be discovered.
But that was too troublesome. After hesitating for a long time, she had a flash of inspiration and simply put the person into her space.
The four corpses were still lying where they had been thrown in. Su Qinghe used her consciousness to lift them up and transport them into the depths of the boundless grassland, finally burying them somewhere far from the Pregnant Fruit Tree.
She couldn't bring herself to use them as fertilizer for the fertile fruit trees, since the fertile fruit on them was meant for human consumption.
But these grasses can be used as fertilizer.
Her consciousness returned to the fruit-bearing tree. Su Qinghe looked up at the top of the tree, which was still lush and green, but there wasn't a single fruit.
A week has passed since the last harvest. She has added fertilizer intermittently several times during this period, but the fruit-bearing tree still shows no signs of bearing fruit, not even a single flower bud.
"If it's like the fruit-bearing trees outside, only bearing fruit two or three times a year, when will I ever be able to live a life of extravagance and debauchery?!"
"Doesn't that mean we can't count on it at all!"
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
