The wound looked like it had been stabbed by a sharp weapon, and a thin layer of scab had formed.
She clung to Zhou Cheng obediently and dependently, looking as if she was in great pain but was still enduring it, and whispered, carefully, a single word: "It hurts."
This moment.
Zhou Cheng's heartache level skyrocketed, and his anger surged.
"Who did this?"
"I can't remember clearly. I was so hungry and dizzy. They took all my valuables. They could take anything else, but not the hairpin you gave me. I wouldn't let them take it."
"They pricked my hand with something..."
At this point, Cheng Xianyi paused for a moment, then took out the phoenix hairpin from her bosom: "No one can take away what you gave me. I've been protecting it carefully."
Zi Yan was absolutely furious: "!!!"
What utter lies and nonsense these are!
I didn't teach this myself.
Not only has the master mastered the art of feigning weakness to the fullest extent, but now he has even learned to weave a perfect story for suffering.
If it weren't for me accompanying my master all the way here!
These words, coupled with that pitiful appearance, would make anyone who didn't know better think that their master had suffered a great injustice!
Zi Yan was filled with a thousand layers of horror. When she looked at Young Master Zhou's face... sure enough, it had darkened, and he looked as if he wanted to tear the person who stole Cheng Xianyi's things to pieces.
"Nothing is more important than you. If the hairpin is gone, I can buy another one."
"Don't joke about your own safety anymore. I'll apply the medicine for you when we get back to Jiangling City." Zhou Cheng gently blew on the wound on his palm.
then,
He then stretched out his hand, pointing to the dozens of people in the distance who looked as if struck by lightning, and asked, "Do they also want to hurt you?"
"Wait a moment--"
At this moment, the deputy guard finally regained consciousness.
He glanced at Cheng Xianyi, who had suddenly become delicate, and felt aggrieved. He tried to explain, but couldn't, "I have something to say. What happened just now was a misunderstanding. May I ask your surname, sir?"
"We are first-class guards of the Marquis's mansion in Pingyang City. We are here to deliver supplies to General Zhou on the orders of the Marquis and his wife."
"Ever since learning of General Zhou's rebellion, the lady has been very worried about the Zhou family's situation. However, because she is in Pingyang City, she is unable to move around easily, and His Majesty has been secretly monitoring the Marquis's mansion."
"Therefore, the lady only dared to send us to Jiangling City to secretly deliver some supplies to relieve General Zhou's urgent needs."
Zhou Cheng didn't even glance at the deputy guard.
He simply asked Cheng Xianyi again, "Xianyi, what were they trying to do to you just now? Is that what happened?"
"Ah Cheng, they're so scary. They want to kill me, and they want me to depend on them for a living." Cheng Xianyi blinked her clear eyes and said calmly how scary these people were.
As soon as these words fell.
The dozens of people on the other side were absolutely furious.
How scary?
The head of the deputy guards, his face flushed with anger, pointed at Cheng Xianyi, who was being held in Zhou Cheng's arms, and gritted his teeth as he roared, "You're being insolent! You're just putting on an act! You weren't like this just now!"
"You're faking it. You're not as harmless as you seem at all."
"Our guards just felt that you were all alone and in the freezing cold, so they asked what difficulties you were facing and wanted to help you."
"And yet you did just that, slitting the guard's throat with a dagger and now you're trying to shift the blame! Young master, this woman's words are absolutely unreliable; don't be fooled by her appearance."
"If you don't believe me, look! Our guard's body is right here. What else does she have to say for herself?"
Zhou Cheng squinted and saw the corpse with its throat slit in the distance.
One fatal blow, the wound clean and swift.
Cheng Xianyi, nestled in his arms, wore an innocent expression. She gently clutched Zhou Cheng's collar and whispered naively, "Cheng... I didn't..."
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