Chunhua was stunned for a moment.
"Aren't you...leaving?"
The hope in her eyes was rekindled.
"You are killing people, so I can't just sit there and do nothing. I was just scared at the beginning. Besides, what you did was not wrong. If they don't die, we will be the ones to die." Killing people and burning corpses is not what I want, but when I have no other choice, it is understandable to do so.
Zhang You approached, pulled her up, and began to speak his mind. "This place is quite far from Caiguang Town. If we burn the body, no one will notice."
"But it takes a long time for the body to burn into ashes... Do we have to wait that long?"
"No, this is an abandoned yard. We just need to gather the bodies together and the fire will start soon. Once the fire gets bigger, even if someone finds out there is a fire, they won't come to help.
No one would waste energy trying to save an abandoned house.
So these bodies will all turn to ashes. Even if someone investigates later, they won’t know their identities.”
Zhang You knew what was flammable and what could help with combustion. This place looked like it had been abandoned for a long time. The small room to the east looked like the kitchen, with a pile of firewood covered in ash and a large iron pot that had been abandoned for a long time and oxidized.
If used properly, it will only cause a raging fire that will burn everything to ashes without leaving any evidence.
Chunhua and Zhang You quickly carried the body to the broken kitchen in the east.
The little mute had been untied by Zhang You and was sent to the door to wait for them.
After throwing the bodies in, Zhang You secretly put the things together while Chunhua wasn't paying attention. The tinder first ignited their clothes, then swept the firewood next to the bodies, and the fire gradually grew, with smoke billowing.
Zhang You pulled Chunhua out, and there were crackling sounds of burning wood and some strange little explosions inside, but Chunhua, who was being pulled away by Zhang You, did not notice anything.
After they went out, they pulled the little mute and started to leave.
"How can the fire be so big? This house has been abandoned for so long that a fire can burn so quickly." Chunhua looked back and saw that the yard was already in flames. Large clouds of smoke were blown up by the wind and drifted high into the sky.
Even the wind is helping them.
"Yes. Let's go quickly so that no one can see us." Zhang You and the others took a deserted road and headed towards Caiguang Town.
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Zhang You and the others took advantage of the fact that some people in the town were rushing out to watch the excitement, sneaked into the town, and quietly returned to the inn.
They knew that they couldn't hide this from Jingzhu, so after returning to the inn and settling the little mute down, they went to Jingzhu's house.
In the room, Cui Liu and Hong Mei were pacing anxiously, and only felt relieved when they saw that they were safe.
"Where have you been? Are you okay?" Hongmei checked them one by one. Seeing that they were fine, she felt relieved and breathed a sigh of relief.
"I was so scared! I thought something happened to you guys. You didn't come back the whole afternoon. Qiuyue is still out there looking for you guys."
"Yes." Cui Liu looked at Jing Zhu, "I'll go get her back."
Jingzhu nodded, and Cuiliu went out immediately, closing the door for them before leaving.
"Who did you meet?" Jingzhu guessed something from looking at their expressions. "That fire in the suburbs, you couldn't have been the one who started it, right?"
Upon hearing this, Chunhua nodded with a heavy expression, "Sister Jingzhu, does anyone else know about our disappearance?"
"No, the moment I found out, I told them to keep the news secret and just tell everyone that you were out shopping. Qiuyue was worried about you and went to look for you on her own."
After Jingzhu finished speaking, she looked at them, waiting for them to tell her what had happened.
"Sister Jingzhu. We have been kidnapped. Judging from the identities of those people, they are not from Caiguang Town, and they should not be coming for us." Zhang You hesitated but still spoke. The little mute caused all these things, and Jingzhu must take precautions early to avoid missing out on Qiao Si's important plan.
"They are coming for that woman." Jingzhu didn't expect that an ordinary woman would bring fatal disaster to Chunhua, Xiahe and others.
"We were tied up in an abandoned house. There were five burly men and a woman inside. The woman ordered the old magician to capture people and also ordered... to kill us." Chunhua did not say that they wanted to rape them. A woman's reputation is important, and she did not want to say it out loud and cause criticism.
"After that woman took advantage of the old magician, she sent people to kill him. They were originally going to attack us, but fortunately we had the muscle softening powder that the princess gave us before we left, so we knocked them down in time, and then..." Chunhua didn't say it out loud, but gestured with her hand to wipe her neck.
Jingzhu understood, "They deserve to die. Given that woman's personality, if you run away, you will probably be caught. It's good to strike first." Jingzhu looked at them with appreciation and didn't think there was anything wrong with killing people.
She was trained by the princess and had seen life and death before, so she naturally wouldn't be so cowardly as to not dare to take action.
"We set the fire to prevent their bodies from being discovered and causing trouble for the princess," Zhang You continued.
Jingzhu nodded with some satisfaction. These people did not disappoint her. She had trained Qiao Si to be a careful and loyal subordinate, which was considered as fulfilling one of the princess's instructions.
"You've done a great job. I'll have someone take care of the rest. Go back and rest. I've asked the waiter to prepare some food for you and put it in your room."
After Zhang You and the others thanked her, Chunhua followed Zhang You to her room, just in time to wait for Qiuyue to come back and let her know she was safe.
They sat in the house and waited for a while. Qiuyue came back in a hurry. She looked at them anxiously, fearing that something had happened to them.
They told her the whole story again, and Qiuyue was still a little frightened after hearing it.
"It's too dangerous. I told you to practice with me and Dongmei a long time ago, but you refused to listen. Now look what happened. You almost got into trouble."
"Don't you still have the hidden weapon you practiced with? I'm lucky I had it today, otherwise Chunhua wouldn't have been able to cut my rope so quickly." Zhang You pointed at the pair of hairpins on Chunhua's head and said, "Hey? Qiuyue, why don't you get me one too? I'm unarmed and just need a weapon to defend myself."
Qiuyue crossed her arms and rolled her eyes proudly, "Huh? Didn't someone say they didn't need it? Didn't they say they couldn't use it? What does this mean?"
"Good Qiuyue, I was blind to recognize Mount Tai." Zhang You held Qiuyue's arms and coaxed her in a low voice, "Having this is better than having nothing! What's more, it was made by our Qiuyue, so it must be very powerful."
Qiuyue didn't want to make things difficult for her. She had originally planned to make one for Chunhua after she finished making one for her, but the process was complicated and took some time.
She worked on it for a long time and just finished typing it this afternoon. She wanted to send it to Xia He immediately, but when she returned to the inn, she found that they had disappeared for the whole morning.
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