Chapter 166 Choose One of Two
At the top of the cliff, there is a waterfall.
In the dazzling sunlight, Meng Shuyue was startled by the noisy sounds beside him and poked his head out of the sack.
As soon as I opened my eyes, I was stunned by the scene in front of me.
There was a thousand-foot waterfall in front of her. Her hands and feet were tied and she was thrown beside the waterfall.
The waterfall beside me cascades down and collides with the cliff, making a deafening roar. The sound seems to shake the heaven and earth and makes people feel awe.
Meng Shuyue was startled and when he looked up, he met a smug and contemptuous look.
Chu Yanyan just stood there contentedly, looking down at her, her eyes full of satisfaction and a sense of success.
"Meng Shuyue, do you think I don't know that you sent so many people to protect you because you were afraid that I would find someone to kidnap you again?"
"Now you see, you have fallen into my hands."
Chu Yanyan laughed so hard as she spoke, looking like she was sure of victory, which left Meng Shuyue speechless.
"If I were missing or dead, you would become the biggest suspect. Do you think you could get away with it?"
There was no panic in Meng Shuyue's eyes. She just looked at her with a smile, curious about why she suddenly took action after holding it in for a month.
Unexpectedly, Chu Yanyan laughed even louder, with the corners of her lips stretched wide as if celebrating her victory.
She leaned over and patted Meng Shuyue's face, her eyes full of crazy laughter, "Do you think I'm that stupid? Of course I thought of this, so I thought of a way that no one would doubt me, and no one would suspect me."
As Chu Yanyan spoke, she took the rope handed to her by the kidnapper under Meng Shuyue's puzzled gaze and tied her feet tightly.
After a while, with the help of the kidnappers, Chu Yanyan was tied up and became as defenseless as Meng Shuyue.
Seeing that the kidnappers tied the other ends of the ropes of the two people to the trunk of a small tree next to the waterfall, Meng Shuyue instantly understood Chu Yanyan's idea.
She wanted to create the illusion that she was kidnapped together with him to remove suspicion. How could she come up with such an idea?
Chu Yanyan tied herself up like a silkworm pupa, still jumping and shouting at her loudly, "Meng Shuyue, even if I'm not the real Chu family's daughter Chu Yueyue, so what? It's me who has been with them for three years, and I'm their favorite. Let's see whether they will choose me or you!"
Meng Shuyue raised her eyelids. Her ears were almost deafened by her shouting. Was she afraid that the waterfall was too loud and she couldn't hear it?
Thank you for her thoughtfulness.
"Chu Yanyan, let me ask you, how did you trick them into recognizing you? How could such powerful people like them trust a country girl like you?"
Meng Shuyue pretended to be confused and asked her.
Chu Yanyan's face darkened. What she hated most now was people calling her a country girl.
Then, she proudly told them the whole story of how she recognized them using the moon-shaped jade pendant given by Song Shijing.
Sure enough, it was similar to Meng Shuyue’s guess.
After showing off, it's time for her to hit the road.
Meng Shuyue looked at the bottomless abyss waterfall beneath his feet and his legs became a little weak with fear.
She still underestimated Chu Yanyan's madness and found a good place to die with double insurance.
Either they fell to death or they drowned.
The other end of the hemp rope tied to his body was hung on a thin, crooked tree next to the waterfall, and the rope tied to Chu Yanyan was also tied to the same tree.
There were two people hanging on a crumbling tree, and she wanted them to choose between the two and save one.
How confident she was that they would save her.
Following Chu Yanyan's eye signal, the kidnapper pushed the two of them down the waterfall together.
Then he ran away immediately.
Nearing the edge of the cliff, the water flowed down like a fearless and determined warrior, instantly turning into countless crystal water droplets, splashing everywhere.
Meng Shuyue was in the waterfall, feeling the cold water rushing over his body like a knife, and recalled the flood that year.
The water was just as icy back then, but even more suffocating than this turbid water.
However, Shen Jinxiao held her tightly in his arms and climbed up the tree together.
But now, she knew no one could save her.
The only one who can save her is herself.
Meng Shuyue forced her eyes open with trembling eyelashes.
The water curtain in front of you reflects colorful light under the sunlight, like a dream.
Through the water curtain, she saw Bai Qingfeng and Chu's father and mother and their group who were anxious to climb the mountain nearby.
When they saw Chu Yanyan hanging in the waterfall, they were all shocked and screamed, especially Chu's mother, whose shrill cries echoed throughout the valley.
Meng Shuyue's eyes became hot as he watched his biological parents stumbling and rushing up the mountain like crazy.
She knew that their hearts and eyes were filled with Chu Yanyan at this moment, and they had never seen her in the same desperate and miserable state.
Her face was so cold that she didn't even know if there were tears on it.
She missed Meng's father and mother so much now. She missed how Meng's father tapped her head with the chess set and how he taught her to write calligraphy step by step. She also missed the bowl of hot wonton noodles that Meng's mother brought her.
She regretted it.
She regretted putting herself in such danger just to prove that she was their daughter.
From overhead came the anxious calls of Chu's father and mother, as well as Bai Qingfeng's angry roar.
"Save! Both of them must be saved! What do you mean you can only save one? If one of the two below dies, you will all die!"
Bai Qingfeng grabbed the captain of his bodyguards who had followed him all year round, and the anger in his eyes almost burst out.
The captain of the bodyguards trembled with fear. He pointed at the small tree that was about to collapse and explained to him truthfully, "Master, this rope has been greased. We can't pull it. Now if we want to rescue the person, we can only drive a tree stump to fix it, and then send someone down to pull the person up. But driving a tree stump takes too long. This tree can't support the weight of two people for so long, so we can only save one person!"
Chu's father and mother suddenly became anxious and yelled at Bai Qingfeng, "Hurry up and save Yanyan, why do you care about that widow? Could it be that Qingfeng, you really like that J person?"
"Yes, Qingfeng, you have to think about it. What did you promise us when you were little? You said you would take care of her for the rest of her life. How could you ignore Yanyan's life and death for a wild woman?"
Bai Qingfeng's eyes were red with anger as he stared at the tree that was creaking as it was pulled by two ropes, unable to make a decision.
Seeing that no one moved, Chu's mother went to untie the first rope tied to the tree. She just saw clearly that the person tied to the first rope was Meng Shuyue.
Seeing this, Chu's father did not stop it.
All the people who came with her did not stop it and acquiesced to Chu's mother's action.
How can an outsider be as important as the daughter of the Chu family and the future mistress of the Bai family?
By the time Bai Qingfeng reacted, it was too late.
The rope wrapped around the tree trunk was untied quickly with a "swish" sound, and the person who was about to flow down with the water fell completely into the bottomless cold pool.
"don't want!"
Bai Qingfeng subconsciously reached for the rope, but unfortunately the rope only stayed on his palm for a moment. The greasy touch of the rope seemed to still be on his fingertips, but the rope in his hand was like something important in his heart that he could not grasp no matter how hard he tried, and it completely slipped away from his palm and disappeared.
He lowered his eyes and looked at his shaking hands, and it seemed as if a string in his mind had completely broken.
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