Chapter 31 Chapter 31 Desire. (Revised)
Lin Yue, who had not slept well for several days, sat against the wall of the carriage. The carriage was shaking and swaying, and she finally couldn't stand it anymore. She tilted her head and closed her eyes uncontrollably.
After an unknown amount of time, she suddenly heard a strange sound in her ears, which immediately startled her so much that her eyes opened wide and she became alert.
Lin Yue clenched her hands tightly, looking in fear at Ji Sui, who was flipping through bamboo slips not far away. He lazily unfolded a new scroll, raised his eyelids and looked at her, sneering, "Why does she always protect these idiots?"
He seemed to have remembered something unpleasant, and his raised lips suddenly tightened. His fingertips gripped the scroll tightly, and his knuckles turned white.
Seeing him like this, Lin Yue became more and more frightened, staring at Ji Sui with red eyes.
After a long while, Ji Sui's expression gradually calmed down. He lightly brushed the scroll with his fingertips and said indifferently, "Tianxiang."
Lin Yue quickly knelt in front of the table, opened the incense box beside her with trembling hands, took a spoonful of incense powder with an incense spoon, and poured it into the incense burner.
After doing all this, she looked up at Ji Sui's expression. Seeing that he was neither happy nor angry, she felt much more relaxed. She continued to curl up to the side, looking at him warily.
Ji Sui is still wearing a neat black suit today, which perfectly outlines his broad shoulders and slender waist.
He looked at the scroll in his hand with a stern expression. If it weren't for his pale face and thin lips, it would be impossible to tell that he was seriously injured.
Lin Yue felt that he was simply a monster. She had applied medicine to the injuries on Ji Bai's back while he was unconscious. The burns that were so severe that they made her unable to look at them and even nauseous made her terrified and resist. But at this moment, the man was still sitting there calmly as if nothing had happened.
Lin Yue felt a chill on her back, as if the injuries had transferred to her body, making her shudder and feel uncomfortable all over.
*
As the sun gradually set in the west, Lin Yue sat in front of the carriage window, her heart beginning to tremble. She subconsciously rubbed her bruised wrists.
Sure enough, as soon as night fell, Ji Sui's heart disease flared up.
She had been arranged to stay with Ji Sui for more than ten days. She didn't remember when his heart disease started, but every time it attacked, he would grab her wrist tightly and force her to face him sideways.
A rustling sound suddenly rang out, and Ji Sui swept away all the bamboo slips on the table with red eyes. In an instant, his heart seemed to be tightly strangled by thousands of silver threads, as if it would be cut into thousands of pieces in the next moment.
He pinched Lin Yue's injured wrist hard. She couldn't bear it anymore and whimpered uncontrollably.
"shut up!"
Ji Rui opened his scarlet eyes angrily and stared at the familiar profile in front of him until it gradually changed its appearance. The fear on the face slowly dissipated, and was covered with a thin layer of frost. She glanced at him calmly and indifferently.
Lin Zhen.
Lin Zhen!
Lin Zhen......
The scarlet peach blossom eyes were first swept by a gust of wind, stirring up huge waves and pushing the anger to the extreme, and then the waves receded, leaving only rippling water.
The anger in his eyes turned into a desire that he himself was not even aware of.
All the strength in his body was drained away, and Ji Rui fell heavily onto the table.
Lin Yue finally dared to cry out loud. After a long time, she looked at the silent jungle outside the car window. The cavalrymen were all sleeping on the side of the road. Everything seemed quiet and peaceful.
The only thing that was churning and noisy was a shocking idea that suddenly burst out of her mind.
*
After docking at the ferry for a few days, the passenger ship finally set sail again.
On this day, the thick fog on the river dissipated and the sky became clear.
Lin Zhen stood in front of the railing, staring blankly at the rippling water surface.
Qi Yushi's words made Lin Zhen realize clearly again that what she saw in the Dali Temple's duty room was not just a few lines of words written with pen and ink.
Since ancient times, battlefields have been left with no one to collect the bones...
The girls who had originally surrounded Lin Zhen on the boat soon left tactfully when they saw that she looked sullen and ignored them. Only the little girl in a pea green jacket not far away was still standing in front of the railing, taking advantage of the opportunity to enjoy the scenery, and from time to time she would secretly glance at Lin Zhen with her clear and beautiful eyes.
She has been silently paying attention to Lin Zhen for many days.
Seeing Lin Zhenqing's cold eyes suddenly meeting her without warning, the little girl shyly and hurriedly looked away. After a while, when she quietly turned her head back, she found that Lin Zhen was standing in front of her without her knowing when.
"I……"
Because of her guilty conscience and the spring feeling quietly spreading in her heart, the little girl's face turned red for a moment, and her usually clever mouth began to stutter. She just blinked her round almond eyes and looked at Lin Zhen.
Lin Zhen took a deep breath, held the little girl's hand, put it close to his ear, pinched her hand on his earlobe, and looked at her calmly.
The little girl's expression changed from shyness and confusion at first to astonishment. Finally, she bit her lip deeply, pulled her hand away, and trotted away.
Looking at her leaving back, Lin Zhen was reluctant to look away. She seemed to see again the girl standing in the wind under the eaves wearing a snow-white cloak that year.
Xinyi, who was leaning against the door, saw this scene and couldn't help but frown: "You will be getting off the ship in a few days, why bother with this?"
Although she was dissatisfied with Lin Zhen's decision to take the young master to the epidemic center, Lin Zhen had saved the young master's life after all, and they both returned safely, so she couldn't say anything more and simply let it go.
Lin Zhen glanced at her indifferently, still looking into the distance.
Xinyi didn't understand why Lin Zhen wanted to reveal his identity to the little girl. She didn't know that the girl was just beginning to fall in love, so pure and genuine, how could she be misled?
Lin Zhen's chaotic thoughts were suddenly interrupted by the soft touch at her feet. She looked down and saw a fluffy thing curled up in front of the tip of her shoe, sniffing something.
Her slightly frowned brows relaxed slightly, she leaned over and picked it up. Seeing its four furry paws waving in the air restlessly, she placed it in the palm of her hand.
It turned out to be a rabbit, a very small one at that.
Lin Zhen's fingers were white and slender, and the rabbit was so small that it barely filled her entire palm.
The rabbit was held in Lin Zhen's palm, but it did not panic. It even rubbed her palm with its soft nose, as if a soft feather was brushing across her heart, soft and light.
"Oh, I finally found this little bastard!"
Suddenly, a woman ran up to Lin Zhen, panting. She looked at the elegant young man in front of her and said embarrassedly, "I'm sorry to bother you, sir. This is a little beast we keep in the kitchen. We haven't slaughtered it yet, but you scared it so much that it ran out of its cage. I'm so sorry."
As she spoke, she wiped her wet hands behind her back twice before reaching out to Lin Zhen to ask for the rabbit.
The little rabbit's red eyes were rolling around, and its fat belly was pressing against Lin Zhen's palm. She seemed to be able to feel its rhythmic heartbeat.
"Thank you very much, sir. Thank you very much."
She seemed to have not expected it to be so smooth. Looking at Lin Zhen's outstretched hands, she was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly went to take them with a smile.
Seeing this scene, if Xinyi was still confused just now, now she was angry and shocked.
What a heartless and cold-hearted woman!
Just as Lin Zhen was about to return the rabbit to the woman, a gentle voice sounded from behind him. Qi Yushi came over, pushing a wheelchair. He nodded and said to the woman, "May I ask how much this rabbit is worth? We bought it from you."
As soon as she finished speaking, Lin Zhen immediately withdrew her outstretched hand. When she looked up at Qi Yu, the latter was also looking at her and smiled faintly at her.
She quickly looked away and continued to look down at the little thing in her hand.
After getting Qi Yushi's permission, Xinyi happily took out some silver from her sleeve, stepped forward with crutches, and neatly handed the silver to the woman. Then she snatched the rabbit from Lin Zhen's hand and said, "Little rabbit, I saved you!"
Seeing Xinyi take the rabbit into the room, Lin Zhen was not annoyed, and even showed a faint smile at the corner of his lips for the first time in a long time.
This would have been enough.
After a moment, Lin Zhen slowly walked towards Qi Yushi. She looked at the sails rustling in the wind and asked, "Why did you come out? Aren't you cold?"
*
There were weeds all around and it was quiet.
Lin Yue held up her skirt with both hands and ran forward, looking back from time to time at the carriage that was getting farther and farther away from her.
She didn't know where her destination was and just wanted to escape from there.
The hem of her skirt was torn to pieces by the dead branches, and one of her embroidered shoes had fallen off. Suddenly, she stepped on something soft and tripped her to the ground.
She fell face down on the ground, dry grass scratching her cheeks, and she turned aside in pain.
Suddenly, an enlarged face appeared in front of her, which frightened her so much that she screamed. The next moment, someone covered her mouth tightly.
"Shut up if you want to live."
Lin Yue looked at the dead man's face and her eyes widened in horror.
Behind the huge rock, Lin Yue fell to the ground and cried to the two soldiers in tattered armor, "I... I won't say anything... Let me go, let me go..."
They had already reached Yizhou, where wars had been going on for the past six months. There were rumors that the soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty were about to be defeated. Therefore, in order to save their lives, batches of soldiers deserted the battlefield.
The two men were old acquaintances. They killed the third person who escaped with them and took his silver. When they were about to leave, they unexpectedly met a young lady.
After more than half a year of fighting, all they saw all day long were swords, guns and iron horses. They had long forgotten what it felt like to be loved by a soft and fragrant woman.
Unexpectedly, he got rich unexpectedly today and met a beautiful woman who looked like a fairy. He immediately became lustful and laughed while clapping his hands.
"We'll let you go, of course we will. As long as you're willing to have some fun with us two brothers, we'll naturally let you go. How could we bear to hurt such a beautiful person?"
Her hands were suddenly held down by someone, and the moment the man approached, long-forgotten memories suddenly flooded into her mind again.
In the red wedding room, she was drugged, and lying on the couch with her was another man with his eyes covered with white gauze...
“No…no!”
The reluctance and anger that time were more due to the fear of the unknown and the disgust towards men with eye diseases.
She didn't want to be forced into marriage, and she didn't want to marry a blind man.
But this time, Lin Yue felt what true panic and despair were, and she struggled like crazy.
No matter how hard a woman tried, she could not match two grown men. As she collapsed and screamed helplessly, the sound of horse hooves rang in her ears.
Ji Sui rode a tall and handsome horse straight towards her.
With a flash of the long sword, she felt the restraints on her hands suddenly loosen, and the man who was originally on top of her fell heavily to the side. The other man was so scared that he ran away, but he only ran two steps before he was hit by the long sword and fell straight to the ground.
"This is what happens when you run away without permission. Will you dare to do it again next time?"
Looking at the man leaning over and extending his hand towards her, for some reason, Lin Yue felt for the first time that the sarcastic smile at the corner of his lips was not so glaring.
The cold wind was howling, Lin Yue sat next to Ji Bai on the horse's back, her skirt fluttering in the wind.
Perhaps to hide the mess on her collar, she slowly leaned against his back.
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