Chapter 61
In the secluded mountains, there is a dilapidated little temple hidden in the weeds. The moonlight shines through the trees and casts its bright light on the ground, forming puddles of light like stagnant water.
Three people walked silently in the silence. Looking closely, I saw that two of them were carrying sacks on their shoulders, which kept shaking as they walked.
Finally entering the temple, the group put the sack on the ground, untied the ropes and let the person out.
The moment he saw the light of day again, Yue Qingning seemed to have no strength to struggle anymore, and he obediently sat up from his lying position, leaning against the collapsed stone statue.
At this moment, the three strong men were looking at her with fierce eyes. Facing such a situation, Yue Qingning sat there and suddenly realized something in her extreme despair.
Que Ming is still alive.
He came for revenge.
I let him go in a moment of hesitation, and he really remembered it in his heart. He was thinking about how to take revenge on her to relieve his hatred.
But I clearly understood long ago that if I let him go, I would not be able to let myself go.
She deserves what she has ended up like this.
Sparrow Ming Sparrow Ming...
She kept repeating his name in her mouth, tears falling layer by layer in her trembling eyes.
She said she wanted to see him so much, but she didn't know what to say when they did. They were no longer the childhood sweethearts they once were. He had left and joined another faction, and they were irreconcilable. So what else was there to say...
The leader among the three, who had a pair of slanted eyes, couldn't help but feel curious when he saw her so calm.
He squatted in front of her, turned her face towards him, and observed her carefully before speaking.
"Don't you have anything to ask?"
Yue Qingning raised her head, stared into his extremely familiar phoenix eyes, and suddenly stopped crying.
"Who are you? Who sent you?"
The leader sneered, somewhat amused at her pointless stubbornness when facing death.
"What's the use of telling you? Are you still going to find my master? I tell you, an ant like you can't get close to him even if you die and turn into a ghost. You'd better give up on this idea!"
As he spoke, he drew a dagger from his waist and patted her face.
"But if you behave yourself, I'll give you a quick death later!"
Faced with the threat, Yue Qingning did not move. She stared at the pair of raised eyebrows and felt so familiar.
"You are a member of the Yao family, right?"
Those eyes were 60% similar to Yao Chunying's. Only when I saw her again did I realize the similarity between them.
When she first met Yao Chunying, because she was a woman, she couldn't see the similarity very clearly. But now when she saw this villain again, so close to him, she slowly began to feel this unexpected sense of familiarity.
Being suddenly exposed, the villain was stunned for a rare moment, but he thought that she would definitely die tonight, so what if she could see it, so he pulled off his face mask and looked at her carefully.
Only after the veil was lifted could one see that the two had extremely similar faces. He should be Yao Chunying's cousin. Apart from their eyebrows and eyes, the two were not very similar, but it was enough for people to notice the relationship between them.
He raised the corners of his mouth with a wicked smile and asked her softly, "Even if you figured it out, so what? Can you survive and tell others about it?"
"Who do you think wants you dead? The Crown Prince and the Crown Princess don't want you to live. Since I'm working for them, I naturally won't make any mistakes. But you, with your sharp mind, didn't judge the situation. You stole the spotlight on Double Ninth Festival. Why didn't you use your sharp mind to think carefully when you angered the Crown Prince? How could he let you go if you offended him?"
As he spoke, he pulled her by the front of her clothes and threw her onto the straw mat beside him.
I want to enjoy myself with you guys a little longer before the beauty is killed by a knife.
Yue Qingning glared at him angrily without resisting. When he approached with a lewd smile, she suddenly bent her leg and kicked him hard, hitting him directly in the crotch.
The villain who was hit in the vitals immediately fell down with his face turning purple. He could no longer have any evil thoughts. He hunched his back in pain and fell to the ground, shouting viciously.
"Oh my... Kill her! Kill this fool! Chop off her feet!"
Little did she know that this was exactly what she wanted. Yue Qingning knew very well that she would not survive today, so it would be better for her to die early and suffer less.
She leaned back and closed her eyes as if relieved.
In the brief moment before her, she thought of many people, her father and mother, her younger brothers and sisters who were still young, Cui Hu, the eldest princess and Prince Shou.
But in the end, her only obsession in life was Que Ming.
She had tried her best in her life, but she still couldn't escape the same fate in the end. She didn't seem to be a cold-hearted person, so she couldn't get over it because she couldn't figure it out.
Yue Qingning took a long breath and said silently in his heart: Que Ming, let's not be entangled in the next life. You go your way and I go mine. Let's be well!
Many images of him flashed before her eyes: the young but exhausted young boy when they first met; and the soft look of him, wet by the rain, with a fierce gleam in his eyes but shaking his head to beg for mercy at her.
He never liked to laugh. The few times he smiled, it was always in an inconspicuous place behind other people, and he carefully showed her a slightly upturned corner of his mouth.
Yue Qingning then realized that he knew less about him than he knew about the prince.
She smiled bitterly, and tears flowed timidly from the corners of her eyes, leaving a wet spot on her collar.
The rustling sound of the blade cutting through the air was already ringing in her ears. She closed her eyes tightly and did not move.
Until she felt a sudden pain in her chest, she gasped uncontrollably and dodged backwards. The pain eased, but she heard the sound of another knife cutting through flesh, and with a "puff", blood fell on her face.
She didn't dare open her eyes. The wound on her chest was still causing her pain. She took a deep breath and leaned to the side. The warm current in her chest was overflowing from her body, and every part of her body was cold.
The chaotic sound of fighting continued for a while and then suddenly stopped.
Yue Qingning felt dizzy at the moment and could not even open her eyelids to see who was coming, but she heard a voice coming from far away, someone picked her up in his arms and called her anxiously.
"Miss, wake up! You can't sleep! Open your eyes and look at me."
The man covered the source of the pain in her chest with one hand and tightly held her shoulders with the other hand, even pinching her so hard that it hurt a little.
She took a few breaths and tried to open her eyes, only to see that the person who shouldn't be there had returned.
He lowered his eyes to look at her, the blood stain on his face unexpectedly washed away by the tears.
Drop after drop of red tears fell on her face. He trembled and couldn't spare a hand to wipe them for her. He bit his lip and closed his eyes tightly as if he couldn't bear to see her suffering. But he opened them quickly and tears rolled down his face inch by inch.
"I'll take you away right now! Que Ming will take you home right now!"
As he spoke, he held her in his arms with trembling and difficulty and straightened her up.
Yue Qingning leaned against his neck and saw that the green robe he was wearing had a clean and wrinkle-free collar stained with a layer of blood because of her.
At this moment, she figured it all out.
She wanted to say, why bother?
Why did she end up in such a situation? But she couldn't say anything at the moment. When she opened her mouth, the fishy smell in her throat seemed to overflow and swallow her words.
So she could only cling to his neck, and as he ran almost as fast as the wind, her heart softened by the drizzle.
He said, "Don't be afraid, you'll be fine!"
He said, "Just in case, just in case... Queming will accompany you!"
Amid the rustling sound of the wind, Yue Qingning saw the layer of mist above his head break apart, and a soft, almost golden light flowed down. She couldn't help but feel at ease, and in the extreme warmth she even had the mind to laugh at his silliness.
Yue Qingning actually had no hope of seeing the light again. She had made mistakes and spent almost half of her time taking revenge on an irrelevant person. She actually didn't have the face to look at him again.
But those cries, like sobs and complaints, like lightning and dew, made her unable to bear to hear him blaming himself like this.
So she could only open her eyes and tell this kneeling believer to stop whispering and crying in her ears.
Seeing her wake up, Que Ming opened his eyes wide in disbelief, and stammered as he wanted to call someone over, but he didn't dare to disturb the silence, for fear that if he spoke too loudly, the young lady would melt away by his breath.
Yue Qingning and he stared at each other for a long time, but she finally gave in first and reached out to touch his messy temples.
"Taller... and thinner."
Que Ming seemed unable to respond to her words. He wanted to say something to comfort her and tell her that he was doing well, but when he opened his mouth, the sob got stuck in his throat, and the sob made his eyes hurt.
He tried hard to swallow the sourness for a long time before forcing out an extremely ugly smile and speaking to her.
"Everything is fine with Lord Xu. Knowing my identity is a great help to me. How could Que Ming deserve such greatness and deserve such greatness to make so many people worry about me!"
He deliberately avoided the main point and did not mention the curse she had uttered in anger when they separated.
He didn't dare and couldn't think of it, otherwise he would have to get to the bottom of it and ask the young lady why she was dissatisfied with him and why she hated him so much.
If you don’t want to remember it, just don’t ask. This way you can meet again calmly.
He admitted that he was a coward, but he just couldn't leave her, leave the young lady. He lived hopelessly like a walking corpse every day, and those days seemed to have no end.
He was too scared that she wouldn't want him.
Seeing that he lowered his head again after he finished speaking, Yue Qingning had to look away from his handsome face and saw that the buttons on his sky-blue round-necked robe were not fastened properly, and the cross collar under his neck was also covered in a mess.
She was obviously a person who cared a lot about her appearance, but for the first time she didn't care about her appearance at all. She didn't even tie her hair up properly, and a bunch of her hair fell down and rubbed against her cheek.
He had grown considerably taller. Without the gray coat, he looked like a tall, growing pine tree, proudly standing tall, clear and ancient. Not only had his body grown longer, but his fingers had grown considerably longer as well. He carefully washed a clean face towel and placed it on her forehead. His pale, slender fingers were as cool as jade.
As soon as he touched her forehead, Yue Qingning suddenly said with a dizzy head.
“Don’t go!”
Que Ming was frozen in place by her sudden shout, his fingers resting on her forehead, about to fall.
He didn't know what to do and tried to hold on for a long time. Finally, the lady sympathized with his difficulty in raising his hand and finally moved her arm to hold down his hand.
"Que Ming." She muttered in a daze.
"I didn't mean it. I just don't want to be your enemy for life." After she finished speaking, tears flowed from under her tightly closed eyes, and the people around her who had already stopped feeling bitter became even more panicked.
Que Ming knelt down beside her bed and reached out to touch her forehead.
"I know! Queming understands!"
He said, "My lady, my master, Queming will always be loyal to you."
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