Chapter 156 Timely Rain "The wind is about to pick up."
The passenger ship drifts on the water all year round, enduring rain, wind, and river water. In the scorching summer, the damp planks emit a faint musty smell.
Conditions were extremely limited, and the bulkheads were thin. Although a layer of waterproof and moisture-proof reed curtains was hung on the bulkheads, it was not very effective.
Bai Yuan hesitated for a moment. He had no particular mood to begin with, but he couldn't resist the scalding hot tip of his tongue, which easily stirred up his romantic thoughts.
Zhou Yaren was a shackle that had bound her for a thousand years. Later, Bai Yuan willingly accepted this bond and regarded him as a hard-won gift, enough to comfort her half-life of endless suffering under the law and incarceration.
Despite suffering many hardships and dangers, Bai Yuan, adhering to the principle of the fearless leading the way, has never learned to look back and hesitate. Yet now, he has many concerns about Zhou Yaren.
She considered herself to be as hard as stone, but this hard iron had concealed a slightly soft spot inside, creating a warm place to shelter the person before her.
Bai Yuan couldn't bear to see him so depressed. This man was heavy-hearted, easily blamed himself, and prone to sorrow. He had been tossing and turning all night for the past half month since the voyage.
Although Zhou Yaren never spoke of it, Bai Yuan saw it all and knew it perfectly well. What kept Zhou Yaren awake at night was that Lu Bing had failed to be saved and instead implicated the few boys who had helped him. So he took full responsibility and blamed himself for the deaths and injuries of the boys from Taihang Road.
Even without Zhou Yaren's request for their help, the teenagers would have already run into the Gu Master because of the Yang family's young son's miscarriage. Yu Heqi might have been strangled by the chains, Wen Yi might have been devoured by a snake, and Lian Zhao and Li Liuyun might not have fared much better.
Zhou Yaren rushed over and personally entrusted the captured Gu Master and Lu Bing to the young men. When something happened, he would torment himself again and again, blaming himself for dragging others into danger and for not thinking things through.
However, things aren't always so perfect. Even the simple-minded Lin Mu didn't hold a grudge against him, which means that Li Liuyun and those teenagers never blamed him.
Since Zhou Yaren kept it to herself and refused to say anything, Bai Yuan turned a blind eye and didn't bring it up. You see, she wasn't good at comforting people, and she might accidentally rub salt into their wounds.
The journey by boat was truly uneventful, which made the blind man quite miserable. In the summer, the days were long and the nights were short, and he couldn't spend all his days and nights brooding over his sorrows. It would be good to do something else to distract himself.
Bai Yuan's cool fingertips brushed past Zhou Yaren's ear and temple, his fingers hooking around the back of her head. As their breaths mingled, she tasted a faint hint of tea, extremely faint. It must be some kind of inferior large-leaf tea. Bai Yuan had drunk it before, and it was bitter and astringent when drunk directly, far from being as light as this.
A deep kiss wasn't enough. Zhou Yaren frowned impatiently, one hand reaching for his waist. He slightly lifted his stomach, hooked the tightly bound belt, and loosened it...
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