Chapter 216: The Cold Buddhist Girl and the Sinister Young City Lord 12
Before Cha Jiu could respond, there was a commotion outside the carriage.
Shen Suyuan quickly opened a corner of the curtain to check and found that his men disguised as servants were actually fighting with the soldiers guarding the city.
Shen Qi swung his sword to block the attack, then turned around and shouted to the people in the carriage: "Master! Our identities have been exposed, hurry up and leave!"
It turned out that when they were at the Lotus Temple, there were spies from Hengzhou among the pilgrims. They saw with their own eyes that Shen Suyuan and Cha Jiu went to Hengzhou together, so they rode back as fast as they could to report the news.
Now Hengzhou has sent soldiers to stop them from leaving the city.
Shen Suyuan decisively drew his sword, cut the rope between the horse and the carriage, and carried Cha Jiu onto the horse.
"Hold on tight." He lowered his head to remind her, swinging the back of his knife towards the horse's buttocks.
Cha Jiu quickly and obediently hugged his strong waist.
With a neigh, the horse's hooves were raised and it galloped into the forest.
The Hengzhou pursuers saw the two men running farther and farther away, and they didn't care whether to capture them alive or dead, and directly ordered their men to shoot arrows.
Shen Suyuan used the visual barrier of the forest to dodge many arrows, but in the end one arrow still hit the horse's leg.
The horse roared in pain and fell to its knees. Shen Suyuan carried Cha Jiu and rolled down the hillside nearby.
There are many gravels on the hillside, which hurt when they scrape my skin.
As the world spun, Cha Jiu subconsciously buried Shen Suyuan's head into her soft neck and stretched out her hands to protect the back of his head.
Shen Suyuan was stunned for less than half a breath, then he quickly turned around and held her in his arms, pulling his cloak to wrap around the vulnerable parts of both of them to avoid fatal injuries.
After rolling for an unknown amount of time, the two finally stopped at the bottom of the mountain.
"Are you okay?" Shen Suyuan quickly opened his cloak and checked the person in his arms.
Cha Jiu raised her head from his chest, shook her dizzy head, and said hesitantly, "I'm fine."
But when Shen Suyuan lifted her arms and took a look, he saw bloodstains all over them from being pierced by gravel, which was shocking to see.
How can this be called "no problem"?
But the situation was urgent now. Shen Suyuan didn't say much. He picked up Cha Jiu and walked forward in a direction.
Cha Jiu placed her arms lightly on his shoulders and whispered, "My legs are not injured, I can walk."
"Don't talk." Shen Suyuan's lips were hard and he seemed a little annoyed.
He didn't think Cha Jiu was troublesome.
Instead, he was regretting that he had not made a thorough plan for his trip to Hengzhou, and that he had caused Cha Jiu to get hurt due to his impulse.
Cha Jiu stopped talking and leaned obediently on his chest.
The two walked for an hour or so but still hadn't gotten out of the forest. They only saw a small stream nearby.
Shen Suyuan was thirsty from walking so he put Chajiu on a stone beside the stream and scooped up a handful of water with his hands.
But it is not for yourself to drink.
He handed it to Cha Jiu.
"There's water splashing on the shore, don't go over and get your shoes and socks wet." Shen Suyuan said.
Cha Jiu didn't expect that he was so meticulous.
After hesitating for a moment, she lowered her head and drank the water from Shen Suyuan's hand.
Although she was very careful, her soft lips still touched Shen Suyuan's palm from time to time, and her upright nose touched his hand little by little.
Itchy.
...and it's unbearable.
This elusive and seductive torture did not end until Cha Jiu had drunk enough.
Shen Suyuan drank the remaining water in his hand.
He pretended not to notice Cha Jiu's surprise, pointed to a cave not far away and said, "It's getting dark, let's stay in this cave for one night and find a way out tomorrow morning."
There are thousands of branching roads in this forest, and the pursuing troops from Hengzhou will not be able to find this place for a while.
Cha Jiu nodded and followed him to the cave.
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At night, Shen Suyuan started a fire in the cave to avoid being attacked by wild beasts.
He took off his cloak, spread it on the flat boulder, and made a simple bed for Cha Jiu.
And he sat by the fire, ready to watch over it all night long, to prevent it from going out.
Cha Jiu turned over in her soft cloak, and something fell out of her arms and hit the ground with a crisp breaking sound.
When she reached out to pick it up, Shen Suyuan had already strode over and picked it up for her.
It turned out to be the jade peace ring that Madam Jiang had given her during the day.
The jade ring was broken into several pieces, some of which were lost somewhere unknown, just like the irreparable relationship between her and the Jiang family.
Cha Jiu sat up slowly.
Shen Suyuan placed the jade pendants in his palm and looked at her with a sneer: "You are still carrying these worthless things with you, don't you feel ashamed... Why are you crying?"
The light from the fire was a little dim, and the surrounding mountain walls reflected Cha Jiu's silent shadow. The light and shadow blurred her expression, so that Shen Suyuan didn't notice the tears hanging on her long eyelashes for a moment.
She was so silent even when she cried.
Shen Suyuan's heart softened immediately.
"Okay, stop crying." He walked over and couldn't help but use his fingertips to wipe away the tears on her face.
"It's just a broken jade ring. What's so rare about it?"
Just like the Jiang family, there is nothing to worry about.
Shen Suyuan thought.
Originally in Hengzhou, he saw Cha Jiu being so nonchalant and thought she really didn't care.
But now it seems that even a pure Buddhist girl can have feelings.
Shen Suyuan was not good at comforting people. After thinking it over, the only thing he could think of was to take off the black jade pendant with dragon pattern from his waist and put it in Cha Jiu's hand.
"This is the evil-warding jade pendant I've worn since I was a child. It's carved from thousand-year-old jade and consecrated by a great monk. It's not something you can get by simply worshipping in a temple for two months."
"Now it's yours, be happy."
Cha Jiu held the dragon-patterned jade pendant in her hand, lowered her eyes and said forbearingly: "Shen Shifu, can you... turn around?"
Shen Suyuan turned around.
Through the silhouette of a person reflected on the mountain wall by the firelight, he saw Cha Jiu slowly rest her forehead on his back and begin to cry softly.
Her thin and stubborn shoulders twitched slightly, and she looked so pitiful.
Cha Jiu's choked voice sounded like a wronged kitten: "I lied."
Shen Suyuan knew that she was referring to the words she said in the carriage when she denied that she was sad about breaking off relations with the Jiang family.
She is sad.
She was also terrified and guilty for having told a lie.
Shen Suyuan listened to her crying. Although he appeared calm on the surface, his heart felt as if it was being grasped by an invisible big hand, dull and painful.
"Jiang Yu." He turned around, held Cha Jiu in his arms, patted her head and said soothingly, "Just tell the lie."
"It's okay. I will hide it from the Buddha for you."
His tone was soft but firm.
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