Mo Ye paused for a moment, seeing that she didn't seem to be joking, his playful and eccentric expression gradually darkened: "Who cares about your liking? Disgusting! You can refuse to come to Julu Kingdom with me, but what about what I want?"
He didn't believe her words of saving face at all. How could he not know how crazy her love for him was? She could abandon her family, her family feud, and her country just to stay by his side. How could she say she didn't like him anymore?
"thing?"
He grinned and said, "Didn't your older brother tell you that?"
Zheng Quchi quickly realized that the group of men who came to the Sang family with ill intentions to demand what she owed them were none other than this guy.
Her throat was on fire: "Did you burn down my house?"
"So what if I am? Stop playing dumb!" Mo Ye's patience had run out, and his sinister eyes flashed: "You said you would let me help you take revenge and bring down the Mo family. I have already stolen the Nine Dragon Mechanism Box for you. This time, the Mo family will definitely suffer heavy losses. It was also in order to retrieve the Nine Dragon Mechanism Box that I was ambushed and seriously injured by Yuwen Sheng. I have made a deal with you with full sincerity, but what about what you promised me?"
His angry words tore away the fog that had been obscuring her vision, and things that she hadn't understood or was confused about before seemed to become clearer and clearer.
Mohism, Zheng Quchi, Autumn, Julu Kingdom, Yuwen Sheng, Nine-Dragon Mechanism Box, Revenge, Transaction...
It turns out that Sang Xuanqing was the mastermind behind all of this.
But she was already dead. Zheng Quchi had no memory of her past, so how could she know what kind of deal she made with Mo Ye, or what she had to pay as a price?
But explaining these things to him now is useless and impossible, so she could only stall: "I had no idea I would run into you here, so I didn't bring what you wanted with me at all."
But these words still enraged Mo Ye.
"Sang Xuanqing, you don't actually think that with this broken crossbow and me being seriously injured right now, you can't do anything to me, do you?"
He suddenly struck, sending sand and stones flying, and in one fell swoop, he slammed her heavily against a tree trunk. He gripped her shoulders, and her slender bones felt incredibly fragile under his broad, thick palms, causing her lips to turn deathly pale with pain.
"Cough cough..."
The side stitch caused by the impact made her cough.
"Be good, don't try anything funny, I'll give you one last chance..." He pinched a piece of her cheek until it turned red.
Zheng Quchi: "Lock the wooden trap, then the mother belt..."
The words were mumbled from the deformed mouth.
If I said I didn't bring it, then I didn't bring it.
Stubbornness might get you tortured, but at least you'll survive. If you have no idea what he wants, you'll definitely be killed.
Fortunately, at that moment, Mo Ye heard some noise coming from behind the woods. His ears twitched, and then his brows furrowed with annoyance.
Taking advantage of his tall stature, he grabbed Zheng Quchi with one hand and pulled her close, staring intently into her eyes: "Remember, if I don't get what's mine next time, then we'll part ways. I can't let myself lose too much. I'll make up for it with your brother's and sister's lives. Last time we only burned the house, next time we'll burn the house and the people together."
Just as he turned to leave, Zheng Quchi, who had slipped and fallen to the ground, grabbed his belt.
She jumped up and bumped headfirst into his chin, who was completely unprepared.
With a loud bang, his teeth clashed, and he probably even bit his tongue. He cursed under his breath in pain.
"You dare touch my family? I, Zheng Quchi, have never been afraid of being threatened by anyone in my life. If you dare to come to my house again, I will make sure your entire Mo Ye family is in an uproar, and I will make sure that the name of your Julu Kingdom disappears from the Nine Provinces Plateau forever!"
Her eyes were red with anger, but she spoke to him fiercely as if making a vow.
Mo Ye, who was in a fit of rage, was suddenly stunned.
He rubbed his aching jaw from side to side, licked the rusty taste from the corner of his mouth, nodded repeatedly, and laughed in exasperation: "Sang Xuanqing, Zheng Quchi, right? Fine, I'll be waiting for you."
He lingered on her for a few seconds with an extremely dangerous look, then vanished in the blink of an eye.
Because of her emotional outburst, Zheng Quchi was breathing heavily. She took a few deep breaths to calm herself down.
Suddenly, she remembered something.
That bastard Mo Ye actually stole her crossbow bolts!
She guessed that Mo Ye's hasty retreat, without even having time to avenge himself, meant that pursuers were close by. She shouldn't linger here to avoid being arrested as an accomplice.
She saw the white fox pelt lying on the ground. It must have been peeled off recently, as the inner membrane of the pelt was still bloody. Perhaps Mo Ye had eaten the flesh and deliberately left this pelt as a disguise.
Since she figured she might as well take it, she quickly turned around and picked up the nearly 200-pound worm. Judging by its size and length, it must have just reached adulthood.
If it were truly a mature, experienced insect, she might not be able to aim for its vital points and kill it with a single blow.
She carried the tiger back to the edge of the river village. Fearing that she would be seen and cause unnecessary commotion, she found a patch of grass to cover the tiger's body.
Then she ran back to the village, found a hunter's house, and after agreeing on the terms, asked him to bring all the tools for skinning and butchering the meat so she could go with him.
Zheng Quchi didn't spend any money to deal with the tiger; he only gave the other party a tiger leg as payment.
Zheng Quchi didn't know if tiger meat was delicious, but she had been taught since childhood to protect wild animals. Killing a tiger was an accident, but she couldn't stomach eating tiger meat, so she dragged the remaining meat to the county town and sold it all.
With money, wouldn't it be great to buy more roast chickens and ducks?
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