C21 (2/2)

”Outside,” Luo Yi said as she pulled out the ointment she had brought before the event started. She then pulled out one of Xu Heng's arm through a crack in the railing and carefully smeared some of the ointment on the wound.

The densely packed wounds looked like they had been whipped. Luo Yi's eyes stung from head to toe, but she persisted on looking at them from start to finish: ”Such a good medicine.”

She was still in the mood to tease him. ”It's all because of you.”

”So what? I'll return it to you later.”

Xu Heng went along with what she said, his lips now had more blood red than before.

Not only that,'s entire body became much more energetic due to the coolness of the ointment being applied to his wound. He smiled as he pulled his arm out of Luo Yi's hand and inserted his finger into the wound as well. Then, he gently scratched on her palm.

The itchy feeling from his palm made Luo Yi instinctively retract his hands, but after walking halfway through his movements, he forcefully held back. He allowed Xu Heng to randomly draw on her palm without a destination, and at the same time lowered his voice and laughed: ”Only after breaking your leg do I know how much pain you had while twisting your leg, and it's hard for you to not make a sound.”

Luo Yi choked for a second, she lowered her head and stared at both of their hands, and then replied with a low voice: ”How can a sprained ankle be compared to a broken leg, have you gone stupid from the pain?”

She was clearly fine everywhere, but her voice sounded even more mute than Xu Heng's, like a dry desert, as if she would vomit blood in the next second due to being unable to withstand the scorching sun.

For some reason, Xu Heng suddenly laughed, and used his other hand to stroke her hair in praise: ”Well done.”

He said, ”Fortunately, you didn't really fall down last time in the garden. Otherwise, even if you broke your leg, I'm afraid it would still hurt a lot.”

”You're the fool …” Luo Yi retorted: ”Is it worth it?”

”...” My father only had one son. ”

In short, Luo Yi was not willing to raise her head to look at Xu Heng at all, and was also not very sensitive to the flow of time. She could only make Xu Heng's voice the only thing she believed in in in this kind of dim and quiet environment, hoping that he would open her mouth to save herself while praying that it would be best for him to never speak again.

However, how difficult was this request? Xu Heng could not help but laugh, but he did not stop himself from laughing: ”When I was young, my body was weak, and when I was in school, I was always bullied by the kids in the academy. But the matter of children cannot involve adults, so I kept it a secret from my father, telling him that I was having a good time in the academy. But how can a child fool an adult? ”

Seemingly speaking too much in one breath, Xu Heng paused here for two seconds and took in a deep breath before continuing, ”In order to make those people not dare to bully me again, father specifically found an expert to perform at the entrance of the academy — At that time, there was always a ferocious dog tied to the hundred-year old tree outside the academy. I heard that it was raised by a teacher, and people who came to and fro were afraid of it, but the person my father invited, easily cut its throat with a dagger.”

”Blood was all over the ground. It almost dyed the roots red. The person that my father invited gave that dagger to me right in front of everyone.”

”No one dared to bully me after that. They were afraid of the dagger in my hand, just like the man who did it at the time. ”

Xu Heng's finger continued to randomly draw on Luo Yi's palm for no reason: ”But then I lost that dagger … ”Actually, it's not really a loss …”

He added, ”My father hid it. He said that daggers were a sharp weapon that could wound people, and they would not hurt themselves if they were left in my hands, so he kept them for me. ”But weapons …”

Only by holding it in his hand could he have a defensive effect.

”I know.” Luo Yi replied. Who would've thought that just as she finished her sentence, a short laugh rang in her ears. ”What do you know …?”

Then, without waiting for her response, Xu Heng took out a purse from his bosom and placed it in her hands.

The embroidered mandarin duck looked like two wild chickens, but it was exactly such a worthless thing, yet Luo Yi actually didn't dare to easily pick it up, as if it was tainted with the poison of the Body Refining Bone, and the person in front of her had not only turned a blind eye to the poison, she was even risking his life to tempt her to have a taste.

He said that I had spent a lot of effort to steal it back and leave it behind, so Luo Yi …

The Snake King spat out its bright red tongue, luring humans to work hard for it. ”Next time, you can try fighting for it.”

Luo Yi, ”...”

She had originally already calmed down to the point of being clear of six, yet with just a single sentence from Xu Heng, she was easily pulled back into the mortal world.

It was only at this moment that she started to feel the pain coming from her chest. It densely covered her heart, as if someone was trying to grind her bones and swallow them together with her blood.

Before they left, Liu Liangyun asked them what they had said inside. Luo Yi thought about the last part of Xu Heng's words, ”Don't believe anyone”, which he had whispered in her ear, and said indifferently: ”It's just the embarrassing incident of when he was bullied when he was young.”

While they were talking, two more guards passed by them.

The guards stopped to salute Liu Liangyun, who waved his hand to indicate that there was no need to be overly courteous. The two men then got up and continued their patrol.

Their heads were whispering to each other, but it was unknown what was going on. Luo Yi listened for a bit, but he vaguely heard what they were saying …

”These past two days have been really eventful. Not to mention capturing one who attacked the Royal Tomb at night, even the one who tried to ambush our master a few days ago was captured as well.”

”Is that so?” The other put his ear closer.

He was not interested in who had attacked the Royal Tomb in the night. He only kept asking who was so bold as to dare to lay his hands on the president of the Ministry of Justice.

”Our master is famous for taking revenge!”

”Yeah!” The person who had spoken earlier carefully scanned his surroundings. After confirming that there were no outsiders, he continued, ”I heard that both his legs were broken.”