You blockhead!

Shi Ziran felt that frustration of hating iron for not becoming steel.

How was this son’s brain so straight? Couldn’t he turn a corner?

At this moment, he wished he could use his hands to lift open Lang Bo’s skull and get a good look at the structure inside.

How could he be so blockheaded?

Lang Bo, however, disagreed. He felt he was quite clever.

Not only clever, but as Shi Ziran had just said, he had the physique! He had the martial arts! And he was brave!

He glared and jabbed his elbow hard toward Shi Ziran’s chest.

“You little punk, I’m warning you for the last time—stop spouting nonsense here, or I’ll dismember you into eight pieces and then bury you alive.”

Scared the baby to death.

Shi Ziran raised an eyebrow and looked him up and down a few times. “Just you?”

Disdain!

Looking down on him!

In terms of martial arts, Shi Ziran was indeed superior to him by a notch! Lang Bo grew anxious. “I really have nothing going on with that girl. I have no feelings for her either. You teasing me is one thing, but I’m a rough old man who’s not afraid of anything. But she’s a perfectly fine young lady who hasn’t wronged you in any way. And what’s most important for a woman? Her reputation! You absolutely cannot say such things carelessly again.”

“Oh my, you haven’t even gotten together yet, but you’re already thinking on her behalf.”

“You…”

Damn it!

My liver hurts.

Lang Bo clutched his heart with one hand.

With the other hand, he clenched his fist and gnashed his teeth as he swung toward Shi Ziran’s face.

But the direction was off!

One punch landed with a dull thud on a tree stump.

A few leaves scattered down.

Shi Ziran knew he wouldn’t dare, and also knew that if he kept teasing him, this kid would probably get angry enough to have smoke coming out of his head. So he reached out and patted his shoulder, putting on the appearance of a good old fellow, saying, “Alright, I’ll stop teasing you. But Lang Bo, let me remind you—if you don’t seize the opportunity with a good girl, once she’s gone, she’s gone. Once she’s lost, she’s lost. While you still like her, you need to act quickly. I’m just putting this out there—whether you listen or not is up to you.”

“Go, go, go play somewhere else.”

Shooing him away!

“Fine, I’ll go. Why so anxious!” Shi Ziran laughed, and with a leap of his body, he was up in the tree.

His body hung on a tree branch as he lay down.

Huh?

That fellow was actually sleeping in the tree!

Impressive!

Lang Bo’s emotions were complicated and extremely flustered. After organizing his thoughts for a long while, he slowly walked out from behind the tree, leaning sideways against the large tree, unable to help but look toward Qin Xi by the fire.

A strange, indescribable feeling rushed to his head!

Could he really have developed feelings for a woman?

Impossible, impossible.

He quickly pressed his hand to his chest, swallowed, and muttered a few sentences under his breath, inaudible.

Besides, as a big rough fellow without a house, without a carriage, without savings, how could a young lady like her possibly fancy him? Wouldn’t that be like a toad wanting to eat swan meat?

Qin Xi kept her head lowered eating, completely unaware that Lang Bo was watching her.

At this moment, her eyes were still brimming with tears.

Lang Bo had saved her, given her clothes, and given her food and drink. After experiencing the terrifying events of the past few days, she felt that Lang Bo was like a ray of light—a warm light that suddenly shone into her heart when she was in darkness and danger, allowing her originally anxious and uneasy heart to finally settle down, and her cold heart also became warm like that fire!

Before long, everyone gradually rested as well.

There were still guards keeping watch around the area.

Just in case!

Jingrong and Muruo leaned against the large tree behind to rest.

Ji Yunshu, however, had no desire to sleep. She glanced at Bai Yin in the distance, who was tied to a tree. That person was motionless, like someone dead.

She thought for a moment, then took a pot of water and walked over.

In the moonlight, she carefully walked to Bai Yin’s front.

Bai Yin heard the subtle movement and opened his eyes. What appeared in his line of sight was a pair of simple women’s shoes with many beautiful pear blossoms embroidered on them, though there was some mud splattered around them.

He knew who it was!

So he slowly raised his head, revealing those powerless, haggard eyes and a pale face. Because Jingrong had stabbed his arm with two sword strikes, plus the humidity in the forest was quite heavy, and the rope binding position happened to press against the wound, causing the wound to fester and his arm to completely lose sensation.

He met Ji Yunshu’s gaze, but his mouth was stuffed with a wad of cloth, making it impossible to speak!

Ji Yunshu stood before him for quite a while, her expression unreadable, perhaps contemplating something in her heart.

After a long while—

She finally reached out and removed the cloth stuffed in Bai Yin’s mouth.

The cloth was covered in blood!

Then she unscrewed the water pot in her hand and brought it to Bai Yin’s lips.

But Bai Yin just stared at her, motionless.

He simply refused to open his mouth to drink.

Ji Yunshu then said, “From here to Hou Liao, it’s at least a full day’s journey. They’ll keep you bound and make you walk under the scorching sun yourself. If you don’t drink now, by tomorrow you’ll only end up dying of thirst.”

Indeed that was the case.

They surely weren’t going to give him a horse to ride.

He was, after all, a criminal who had kidnapped Ji Yunshu. That Jingrong hadn’t killed him was already showing him mercy.

Bai Yin glanced at the water pot by his lips. His parched, bleeding lips moved, and finally he opened his mouth.

He drank a full half pot!

Ji Yunshu then took out the bottle of medicine Bai Yin had given her before, opened it, and sprinkled the medicinal powder on his wound.

That sensation of pain was like tens of thousands of ants continuously gnawing!

The pain went straight to his heart.

After applying the medicine, she screwed the medicine bottle closed and tucked it into Bai Yin’s waist.

Now perhaps he would need it.

“Why help me?” he asked weakly.

“I’m not helping you. I just don’t want you to die so quickly yet.”

“I was the one who captured you. You should have killed me.”

“Do you Yuedan people all like to solve problems by killing people?”

Bai Yin laughed once. “At least killing people can solve many problems.”

Spoken so righteously!

Ji Yunshu’s expression darkened slightly as she retreated a small step backward. She knew that someone like Bai Yin had already become accustomed to the battlefield’s way of doing things, accustomed to using swords to solve all problems. To him, killing someone was merely a matter of a nod, and that mode of thinking had become deeply ingrained—it couldn’t be changed in a short time.

So she couldn’t be bothered to preach.

Bai Yin heard no sound from her and lifted those dark, powerless eyes, as if seeing through her.

Grinning with his blood-covered mouth, “Speak. What do you want to ask me?”

Having her thoughts completely seen through, Ji Yunshu was not surprised.

She said directly, “The portrait! I want to know—where did that portrait you mentioned come from? Why do you have a portrait of me?”

“Does it matter?”

“I just want to understand.”

“And after you understand? Kill me.” He curved his lips.

With provocation!

Ji Yunshu frowned slightly. “Not everything is solved by killing people. At least I don’t do that.”

Telling him solemnly!

Bai Yin’s eyes darkened.

A cold smile curved at the corner of his mouth.

Ji Yunshu knew she wouldn’t get anything out of him now, because Bai Yin wasn’t susceptible to threats and wasn’t afraid of death at all.

So then—