Chapter 48 Song Qinian's Heart Knot

"I didn't write to Zhou Dongyun, but I received a letter from her, asking me to meet her at the ruined temple that night.

That night, I went there. I wanted to tell her clearly that I had no fantasies about her and wanted her to give up the idea, but when I arrived at the ruined temple..."

When he said this, Song Qinian stopped talking and his face looked a little strange.

"You arrived at the ruined temple, and then what?"

Bai Wei asked curiously.

After thinking for a long time, Song Qinian blushed and said, "I saw Zhou Dongyun sitting on the waist of a male educated youth. I saw that she was naked. The whole broken temple was filled with low panting. I..."

After hearing Song Qinian's description, Bai Wei's face turned red.

She could even imagine the scene: the ruined temple, the bonfire, and the young men and women entangled together...

“Stop, stop, stop!”

Bai Wei waved her hands. Seeing Song Qinian's embarrassed expression, she blushed as she listened, "Let's skip this part. What happened next?"

"I wonder if the letter was given to the wrong person."

Bai Wei felt confused when Song Qinian said this.

"Isn't your name on the letter?"

"No, he just asked me to meet him at the broken temple at 12 o'clock in the morning to express his love for him... Yes, that's the sentence! But it was signed by Zhou Dongyun."

Bai Wei looked at Song Qinian. As a rough man, he couldn't say that this guy "felt a deep love for her".

"If you don't like her, you don't have to go!"

Unexpectedly, when Bai Wei asked this, Song Qinian frowned with a hint of anger.

"She has written dozens of letters like this! I burn each one! So that day I decided that I had to explain things to her face to face! In my heart, there is only my motherland!"

Song Qinian waved his hand and uttered the last eight words in a sonorous and powerful voice.

Bai Wei looked at Song Qinian, who was holding his head high and chest out. His eyes were full of love for his motherland without any falsehood.

"Hey, Song Qinian, Zhou Dongyun is pretty too, why don't you like her?"

Zhou Dongyun in the photo is indeed very pure, like a bunch of beautiful little daisies, which makes people feel pity.

Logically speaking, shouldn't a rough man like Song Qinian like such a delicate and adorable little beauty?

"No! She's too timid! One time, she was turning the soil outside the classroom and got a barb stuck in her thumb. She cried like she was swept by a storm. I was leading a training session nearby and was really annoyed by what I heard, so I helped her pull the barb out and asked the soldier to take her to the sanitation team to apply medicine. Only then did she feel at ease!"

Song Qinian waved his hands. When he said this, he suddenly remembered the scene where Bai Wei shot an arrow at him.

His wife is still the best!

Excellent archery skills, fast, accurate and ruthless!

If that arrow had been shot at someone else, they would have definitely become the dead soul under her arrow!

His daughter-in-law is the best!

Bai Wei listened to Song Qinian's narration and suddenly understood that maybe Zhou Dongyun fell deeply in love with Song Qinian at the moment when he removed the thorn for her.

But in the eyes of this straight man, she cried too loudly.

"Alas, the world of straight men..."

Bai Wei sighed, and when she looked up, she found Song Qinian squatting in front of her, his eyes full of bubbles, staring at her tenderly.

"What are you looking at?"

Bai Wei was frightened by Song Qinian's look. She quickly changed the subject, "You've got off topic! You've got off topic! So you went to the ruined temple, what happened next?"

"I thought she had a crush on someone and left."

When Song Qinian said this, his voice became low. He raised his eyes with a hint of sadness in them.

"The next day, I learned that Zhou Dongyun had hanged herself. Then I realized that the man who destroyed the temple was not his lover. He... must have drugged her that night!"

After saying this, Song Qinian punched hard into the snow.

He punched with so much force that it punched through the thick snow and hit the cold ground. A trace of blood seeped out of his fist, staining the snow red.

"What are you doing?!"

Bai Wei was startled and lifted Song Qinian's hand. Looking at his fist covered in blood, there was a hint of heartache in his eyes.

"I checked afterwards and found that the clothes that the man took off were worn by an educated youth! But I searched all the educated youth in the surrounding villages and couldn't find him!

If I had discovered something unusual that night, maybe... maybe I could have saved her!"

Song Qinian's voice was trembling slightly. Even if he didn't like Zhou Dongyun, he couldn't bear to see such a pretty girl ending her life in despair with a heart full of resentment.

"This matter...is not your responsibility."

Bai Wei hugged Song Qinian gently. She could feel the soft heart beneath his tough appearance.

"I have never told anyone about the destruction of the temple. If I tell anyone, it would tarnish Zhou Dongyun's reputation."

Song Qinian lowered his eyes.

After Zhou Dongyun's death, Huang Siyu, in anger, went to the army and pointed at him and cursed him, insisting that it was he who asked Zhou Dongyun to go to the ruined temple and tarnished her innocence.

This incident caused such a big uproar at the time that he was even suspended from his post and underwent an investigation by the army.

Originally, based on Song Qinian's military achievements, his promotion order to division commander was about to be issued, but it was canceled because of this incident!

If it weren't for Commander Tang's full support for him, Song Qinian might not even be able to keep his position as regiment commander and would be directly demoted to battalion commander.

"So... you would rather let Huang Siyu curse you behind her back than explain anything, right?"

Seeing Song Qinian nodded silently, Bai Wei's heart trembled violently.

When Zhou Dongyun was found, she was naked in the ruined temple. Coupled with Huang Siyu's accusation, I'm afraid many people would think that Song Qinian did it.

He could have explained that he could escape the accusation by telling the truth, but Song Qinian took it on.

"After all...I am the one who let her down."

Song Qinian raised his head, gritted his teeth, and tried to control his emotions. "I recalled later that when we arrived at the ruined temple, I did faintly hear Zhou Dongyun, with his remaining consciousness, saying, 'Save me...'"