C24 (2/2)
”Where is the cemetery? We can also burn incense in the clear. ”
He asked again and again, his tone still as calm as ever, yet, under these questioning, Luo Yi almost couldn't sit still. Since he had nothing to hold on to, he desperately clenched his hands, forming red seals in his palms one after another.
She had her parents at home, and her last words were still lingering in her ears. After she died …
There was no fixed location.
It was unknown which of the three sentences had provoked her, but Luo Yi's eyes instantly turned scarlet, and he almost wanted to pinch his nails into his palms to make himself bleed. Just like at that time, Xu Heng's blood had also dyed her entire hand.
She looked to be in an extremely sorry state, but Tang Yuan sat to one side and did not speak a word to comfort her.
The process of extracting the poison was like a change of blood. Only when the poison in the body was cleared by extreme pain would new and cleaner blood begin to circulate.
Luo Yi finally cried, but due to the great tragedy, he lost her voice, making him look like a mute. Her heart was clearly filled with extreme pain, yet she was unable to make a sound.
That day, she didn't notice that there was another person in the forest. When she was knocked unconscious, she vaguely heard Liu Liangyun say that he was going to take her somewhere.
She hadn't heard the details of the location clearly, but it shouldn't be a good place, so Luo Yi had never thought that she would see Xu Heng again.
When she woke up, she felt pain at the back of her head. Her first reaction was to reach into her bosom and touch the piece of jade that Chen Long An had given her. She breathed a sigh of relief. It was still there.
It was only at this moment that she had the mood to observe her current position.
A three-sided wall, a narrow passageway... Luo Yi frowned, thinking that Liu Liangyun had probably thrown her into a dead end.
But why?
A group of crows flew over her head. Luo Yi carefully made her way to the entrance of the alleyway, and just as she stuck his head out, she was caught off guard and bumped into a pair of eyes.
Luo Yi was startled.
His pupils enlarged slightly but his reaction was shockingly fast. As he shouted to stop the man who was carrying him as he sprinted, he reached out his hand and dragged Luo Yi deeper into the alley.
The man tilted his head in confusion and glanced at him, but he did not make any objections. He only turned his head to look at the soldiers that had not caught up to him yet and reminded them in a slow and unhurried manner, ”Be careful, give chase.”
This was a dead end, hiding here would only result in death. The man did not believe that the only son of the Li Kingdom's prime minister did not understand, but he took money to help the man – the man who gave him the money only said that he would listen to the man's words, as for whether or not he could save him in the end …
It doesn't matter.
With this thought in mind, he didn't say anything else and just leaned against the wall.
Xu Heng was wearing a prison uniform and wearing an outer coat, which was already drenched in blood. He turned his head to look at the alley entrance, and spoke with a voice that sounded a little strange: ”Why are you here?”
She was completely unaware of Liu Liangyun's motive for leaving her here, but she clearly knew what kind of situation Xu Heng was in right now. She forcefully pushed him, urging him to run: ”Run! Didn't they say that the pursuers would catch up to us soon? ”
”What about you?” Xu Heng lowered his voice and asked.
”I'm fine …” Luo Yi wanted to say that now was not the time to worry about her, and his words were cut off by Xu Heng before he could finish: ”Liu Liangyun left you here, right?”
Stupid girl.
A helpless look surfaced on Xu Heng's face, ”Didn't I tell you not to trust anyone?”
Luo Yi, ”...”
She immediately realised her bad intentions, but when she was nervous, her mind suddenly turned faster than ever, thus she quickly made her choice. However, Xu Heng's movements was always faster than hers, so before she could even speak, her eyes were covered by someone: ”It's useless.”
Xu Heng said: ”They want me.”
”But the one who truly controls the fate of Li Kingdom is you.”
He and Luo Yi made the same decision at the same time.
Then, as if he was coaxing a child, Xu Heng gently covered her eyelids with one hand and coaxed her to turn around with the other. ”Don't turn your head, don't look at me.”
There was a thin cut on his finger, and the dried blood left a red smudge at the corner of her eye. It looked like she was crying blood.
The smell of blood was not strong, but this faint scent was magnified in her countless dreams of the future, and eventually became a nightmare that wrapped itself around her for the rest of her life.
Luo Yi lowered her eyes as her eyelashes swept across the center of Xu Heng's palm, giving rise to an itch.
She knew what Xu Heng meant. Compared to an ordinary girl, the Northern Tribe was obviously more interested in the only son of the Li Kingdom's prime minister. If she was the one caught here today, then the entire Northern Tribes would be under martial law.
”Send her away.”
As he spoke, Xu Heng's hand was still on Luo Yi's eyelids. The man who was leaning against the wall raised his eyebrows, as he was unable to understand the direction of the strange story in front of him.
At that time, Luo Yi was very obedient and did not turn her head back, nor did she open her eyes, but it was probably because she did not see anything, and when she heard the news, her mind would immediately replay the scenes they had painted, regardless of how they were rendered or how they were processed.
”I heard that he …” Luo Yi paused for a moment, and then said with a throaty pain, ”I always dream about the scene when he was executing her punishment.”
The blood ran all over the ground, and then it was trampled under the shoes of the people who came and went, and it was as if every inch of the earth had been stained with his blood.