"Song Tantan, be more reserved. You're a girl, or I might take advantage of you." Ye Moxun felt a surge of irritation as he smelled the faint fragrance emanating from the person next to him.
"You can't do anything to me, so how am I being unreserved or promiscuous? Other people wouldn't even have the chance to lie down next to me. I'll just lie next to you for a while to save myself the trouble of sleeping on the floor. It's safer that way too." Song Tantan turned around, her back to him. Soon, her even breathing could be heard. She really was heartless.
"That brat! I'm right here and she just ignores me." Song Zhuiyan sat up in bed, her chest aching with anger.
Ye Moxun also sat up, tucked the blanket around the other person, and got up to leave. "Nothing should happen tonight. I'll sleep in the guest room next door. Aunt, call me if you need anything."
"Okay, go get some sleep. It'll be dawn in a few hours." After he left, Song Zhuiyan took something out of her spatial storage to eat. Since becoming pregnant, she had been craving something and needed to eat something as soon as she woke up, otherwise she felt unwell.
The next day, Song Tantan was woken up by Song Zhuiyan, who practically dragged her by the ear to get her out of bed, saying, "Hurry up, I need your help with something."
"What time is it now? It's barely dawn. Even if you're on your way, there's no need to be in such a hurry, is there?"
"You may not be in a hurry, but the dead man downstairs can't wait." Song Zhuiyan's words seemed nonsensical, and Song Tantan didn't react for a moment.
“Those dozen or so were bandits, but they were still human. Now they’re all dead. When someone passes by and comes into the inn to see so many dead bodies, how are we, the living, supposed to explain it?” If we tell people they were bandits and that’s why they were all wiped out, where’s the evidence?
Who would believe your side of the story? People will definitely think that the survivors are the bandits. Killing so many people in one go must be suspicious.
“If they report it to the authorities, and the soldiers come, then we’ll be in big trouble,” Song Zhuiyan said, pulling her up.
"Don't pull me, I'll get up myself," Song Tantan sat up abruptly from the bed, brushing the stray hairs from her forehead, a little annoyed. "This is such a hassle. Why don't we hurry up and leave, burn the inn down after we get out, and at the same time, stop anyone from running a shady business here."
Burning it will solve everything.
"Why burn it? This place is in the middle of nowhere. Keeping this inn will allow travelers to stay for the night, or at least provide shelter for the many refugees on the road." From Xifeng to the capital, there are many refugees along the way, heading in all directions, but they are all homeless people fleeing for their lives.
"Keep it then, I'm going downstairs." Song Tantan rubbed her eyes and went downstairs without even going into her space to wash up.
When she got downstairs, she found Ye Moxun and the others were already there. Hearing footsteps, Ye Moxun turned around and saw her coming down. He tugged at the corner of his mouth and said, "You've finally decided to get up. Perfect timing to come and help."
"Young Master Ye, who is this?" The person who asked the question was the stunningly beautiful young lady, and her tone suggested that she was quite familiar with Ye Moxun.
Um?
With a gentle smile, Ye Moxun began the introductions, "This is Song Tantan, and this is Miss Bai Zhiyan. This is her younger sister, Bai Zhiyi."
"Hello, Miss Song, thank you so much for last night." Bai Zhi said sincerely, without any resentment towards Song Tantan for abandoning them last night.
"Thank you, Miss Song." Bai Zhiyi also stepped forward to thank her.
Bai Tantan's gaze swept back and forth between the three of them, then he waved his hand dismissively and said, "It's just a side trip, no need for such formal thanks. If it's useless, I won't say anything more. Let's explain about these dead people first."
"Let's carry the person to the small hill behind the inn and bury them there. It's too far for us to manage." The main problem was that they couldn't bury them all at once. After saying this, Bai Zhizhu looked at Ye Moxun, wanting to hear his opinion.
"Let's just dig a big pit and burn it down, that'll save us the trouble," Song Tantan said casually.
Bai Zhiyan and Bai Zhiyi's pretty faces stiffened. They couldn't figure out the difference between burying and burning. Was filling the hole too tiring? But since they had already done the more tiring work of digging the hole, why would they care about filling the hole?
Song Tantan thought that if they burned it, the pit could be shallow, but if they buried it, the pit had to be very deep, otherwise wild animals would easily dig it out.
She didn't pity the bandits; she just felt disgusted at the thought of it. How horrifying would it be if someone accidentally witnessed it? She simply couldn't accept it.
"What do you think, Young Master Ye?" Bai Zhiyan bit her lip and looked at Ye Moxun.
"Then let's burn it," Ye Moxun said calmly.
Finally, following Song Tantan's instructions, they dug a shallow pit on a slope 800 meters behind the inn, carried the body there, poured oil on it, and set it on fire.
"Let's go back and eat first, then come back to check. I don't want to stay here and smell the barbecue." Song Tantan looked at Ye Moxun innocently and blinked.
Bai Zhiyan and Bai Zhiyi didn't understand what she meant at first, but after a while they realized it. The two sisters' expressions suddenly changed, and they couldn't help but gag.
"Are you alright? You'll get used to it. It's nothing. You'll calm down after seeing it a few more times." Song Tantan smiled and walked past them first.
Ye Moxun sighed, amused and helpless, and said while suppressing a laugh, "Let's go, it's better not to stay here." After saying that, he left as well.
“…Hey, Young Master Ye, Third Brother Ye, wait for us.” Bai Zhiyan patted her chest, suppressing the churning in her stomach, and helped her sister catch up.
Ye Sange is Ye Moxun. It turns out that Bai Zhiyan is the eldest daughter of the second branch of the Bai family in the original capital. The Bai family and the Ye family are two generations of families that have been in contact. However, the Bai family has a prominent family background, unlike the Ye family, which is a merchant family that made its fortune, although they are incredibly wealthy.
However, among scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants, the status of merchants was far too low, unlike the Bai family, which had three members serving as officials in the imperial court: one a civil official and the other two military generals.
Seven years ago, when the capital was in chaos, the Bai family also left the capital. Several officials also resigned and left after the death of the late emperor. Ye Moxun did not know what happened to them afterward.
Actually, the relationship between the Bai and Ye families wasn't very good. It's just that a girl from the Ye family married a son of a concubine from the Bai family as his legal wife. The Ye family had a lot of money and would often give money to the head of the Bai family, so the Bai family would occasionally visit the Ye family.
Ye Moxun met Bai Zhiyan twice when he was a child. There were only two times. Once was when Bai Zhiyan came to the Ye family to play, and the two met by chance in the back garden. The other time was when Ye Moxun was bored at home and asked his uncle to secretly take him out to play. They met by chance in front of a small stall selling candied hawthorns.
Yes, both encounters were chance meetings, and both were when they were very young. But why are people who have only met twice able to recognize each other at a glance when they meet again years later?
It can only be blamed on the fact that both of them have photographic memory and amazing memory. They can remember anything they have seen once. Of course, they may not remember the contents of books they have read a long time ago, but they can remember faces.
This morning, Ye Moxun actually recognized Bai Zhiyan first, but he felt that the two had no interaction and were not particularly close, so he pretended not to know her.
He tried to pretend he didn't know the other person, but for some reason, the other person stopped him and began to explain their identity in detail.
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