"That's settled then." Su Wanyan remained as carefree as ever, showing no intention of interfering with or prying into Yu Nanqing's life.
“However…” Su Wanyan struggled to overcome her drowsiness, opened her heavy eyes and smiled, “If you want to say it now, I’m all ears.”
Yu Nanqing felt a surge of emotion as he looked at her. He gently stroked the back of her head and let her rest her head in his arms: "Sleep."
Not long after she finished speaking, Su Wanyan began to breathe evenly.
Everyone was exhausted, but the next day all the villagers woke up exceptionally early, except for Su Wanyan, of course.
Because of what happened last night, all the villagers had doubts in their hearts. They went to the village chief's house early this morning, saying they wanted to go up the mountain to take a look and ask the village chief for his opinion.
The village chief hadn't slept well all night either. When he heard that the villagers wanted to go up the mountain to take a look, he didn't object. He tapped his pipe on the corner of the table, put on a fur cloak, and led everyone out of the village.
The women and children remained in the village. When the men went up the mountain, they carried weapons, just in case there was any emergency or any fish that might escape.
A ray of morning sunlight streamed in through the window, illuminating Su Wanyan's face and causing her to furrow her brow.
When she opened her eyes, Yu Nanqing's handsome face was right in front of her, his beautiful eyes seemingly holding gentle waves as he stared at her intently.
Su Wanyan had seen this scene countless times, but no matter how many times she saw it, she would still feel a flutter in her heart every time she saw it.
She pulled the blanket over half her face, pretending to yawn, when she heard Yu Nanqing ask with a laugh, "Yan'er is awake?"
"You slept so late last night, why are you up so early?" Su Wanyan asked instead of answering Yu Nanqing's question.
Yu Nanqing raised his hand and gently lifted a strand of Su Wanyan's hair, playing with it: "It was too noisy, so I woke up."
Su Wanyan nodded in understanding. The houses in this village were all close together, and the mountain paths were also very close to the houses. Whenever the villagers walked around or had something to do, the sound of them walking and talking was particularly clear.
“The villagers have already gone up the mountain. There are some things up there. I wonder if Yan’er is interested,” Yu Nanqing said gently.
Su Wanyan asked curiously, "What is it?"
“There are many kinds of medicine.” He paused, then added, “Many strange and unusual medicines.”
Each cabin has one.
"So, they all escaped from Hundred Nether Valley?"
"Um."
Su Wanyan became interested: "You were gone for so long last night, was it because they were difficult to deal with?"
They weren't particularly difficult to deal with, because they had all taken Su Wanyan's antidote pills, and the soldiers she brought were also warned in advance, so there weren't many casualties.
“The real time-consuming part is because they ran away.” After a long pause, Yu Nanqing finally uttered this sentence.
"Hmm?" Su Wanyan propped herself up slightly: "They escaped?"
Su Wanyan was somewhat surprised. She had considered that they would fight, that the other party might negotiate, and that it would be a one-sided massacre, but she never expected them to escape.
"Yan'er seems very surprised."
"A little bit. After all, capable people are often arrogant, so I didn't expect them to run away." Thinking of Xiao Chensheng, Su Wanyan sighed, realizing she had overestimated them.
Su Wanyan thought for a moment: "Is it because they know it was you who was besieging them?"
Because Yu Nanqing's siege of Baiyou Valley instilled fear in them.
"They probably don't know." Because they escaped separately, it took a lot of time to deal with them all, and that's why he didn't bother to investigate Xiao Chensheng's whereabouts.
but……
Yu Nanqing looked at the little one in his arms and curled his lips. It wasn't that he didn't want to ask, but that he didn't have the opportunity.
Su Wanyan had no idea that Yu Nanqing had fallen into his own mental trap. Remembering the medicine he had mentioned, she said, "You should just destroy the medicine."
In Baiyou Valley, Xiao Chensheng's medical skills are the best. What good medicine can someone who can't even compare to Xiao Chensheng make?
"Hmm." Yu Nanqing also felt that those medicines were inferior to those made by Su Wanyan. Even the poison she used was extremely pungent and of such poor quality that he found it repulsive.
Yes, it seems they wanted to put Xiao Chensheng's medical skills into practice, which is why they captured people for dissection...
Yu Nanqing, who was about to speak, swallowed her words back in an instant.
Never mind, it's best not to mention Xiao Chensheng...
During their conversation, the two made no mention of the woman who had followed them back the previous night.
To be honest, it was too dark last night, and the woman was completely wrapped in Yu Nanqing's outer robe, so Su Wanyan had no idea what she looked like.
Her curiosity was fleeting, and she didn't intend to ask.
Just then, Huang Ye's voice rang out from outside the door: "Has Your Highness woken up?"
Su Wanyan stretched and jumped out of bed with a "whoosh": "You're awake, come in."
Meanwhile, on the other side...
The bandits' hideout.
"Ahhh—"
"Village...Village Chief! This...this is..."
Several neat and terrified screams echoed across the entire mountain, and the snow on the branches fell in a rustling sound because of these screams.
In front of the cabin, several villagers were so frightened that they collapsed to the ground. Even the experienced village chief gasped in shock.
Human organs were scattered everywhere, and the frozen corpses were twisted and struggling in various positions, their bodies like those of livestock, having been emptied out by the executioner.
Those who couldn't bear it couldn't help but cover their mouths and vomit upon seeing this scene.
"Village...Village chief...there...there seems to be more over there..."
In the center of the hideout, behind a small wooden hut, there seemed to be rows of corpses.
The bolder villagers had already gone over, and the old village chief suppressed his fear and followed.
Behind the house, a dozen or so bodies were lined up, bearing signs of struggle. They were normal deaths, unlike the gruesome deaths in the cabin.
"It's him! It's him!" Old Yang excitedly stepped out from the crowd, pointing at one of the corpses and shouting, "I met him while hunting back then, and these... these must all be his accomplices. Young Master Yu wasn't lying, they really wiped out the bandits!"
The village chief nodded, indicating his agreement.
"Village chief, what should we do with these corpses? Are we just going to leave them here and ignore them?"
"I think... it would be better to go back and ask Young Master Su. After all, they were the ones who wiped out the bandits..." The main concern was that they dared not touch the corpses inside the cabin. They had died such tragically, and if they were moved carelessly, would they turn into vengeful ghosts to take revenge on them?
Upon thinking about it, the villager who was speaking suddenly felt a chill run down his spine, and as the cold wind passed by, he felt his limbs stiffen even more.
“You’re right.” At this moment, the village chief spoke up: “Let’s go back first.”
Whether it should be reported to the authorities or used for other purposes, the village chief dared not make a definitive conclusion.
If he hadn't known that Yu Nanqing was a powerful figure, he could have simply buried these people anywhere, but now that he knew, he definitely needed to ask for permission.
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