4 Anew (1/2)

Not long after, a huge smoke and fire could be seen from somewhere and anyone would doubt that the fire would cease from spreading, eating away everything it touches.

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Falling from a 187 meter high water fall, Jiao Yu felt like it would take forever before she reaches the water below, so she didn't really have to rush and drown herself so the only thing she could do midair was wait.

The pain from the impact of the fall and the water didn't make her feel any much better as Jiao Yu's body was slowly sinking down and exerting more effort to get her out of the water was extremely tiring. Though, she'd told herself that she knew how to hunt and live all her life doing things to survive the day, no one can deny that she's still after all, a young girl at the age of 13.

The throbbing pain she felt in her head increased making her brows furrowed and eyes struggled to stay open, then darkness slowly took over her vision.

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Rain start to fall a little from the skies and since the Yan Chi river was lit up by the bright lights from the moon in the sky.These kind of beautiful scenery of the moon was seldom seen even in the previous years' of Ghost Festival andthere will be a few sightseeing boats floating in the middle of Yan Chi river and only the riches would be able to afford an exquisite boat to course its way in the river but no one knew can see clearly who were inside the boats as the rain starts to pour heavily making the sightseeing boats unnoticeable.

From a far, it seemed as though a sightseeing boat was just leisurely floating downstream of the Yan Chi river but the more it floated downstream, the further away it courses from the city and seemed to not stop until it bumped into something, making the people inside the boat to wobble.

”What happened?” A gentle voice sounded inside the boat.

”Daren, it seemed that we bumped unto something.” Another voice can be heard but sounded polite.

”I can clearly see and felt that.” This time a slightly irritated replied.

The two people on the boat was wearing silk and looked very righteous. Both of them head over andstood at the head of the boat, bending over to look at the thing that bumped their boat and what they saw shocked them, it was a body. The two immediately scooped the person in the water to put it on board the ship. They clearly didn't think things thoroughly first but considering that this person was unconscious and have a very high temperature, one would doubt that this person could even lift a finger to try and sneak an attack.

The two of them gently but anxiously turned the body over to see the face of the person and at this moment bothof them felt surprised and couldn't believe what they just saw and thought that maybe because of the impact of the boat they dazzled their eyes.

In front of them a young girl was lying unconsciously on the wooden floor, two gentle straight with a slight curve brows, long and soft lashes extended from the unopened eyes of the girl, prominent bridge and small nose and a thin cherry red lips but because of having stayed too long in the river, her crystal white skin looked paler, nevertheless, two words could only describe this type of woman, a peerless beauty.

A long silence transpired between the two of the them and then the gentle voice older man with a growing beard spoke with warning, ”Tie Yi... you saw nothing, heard nothing and one should never speak of this to anyone even after death, do you understand?”

The younger man called Tie Yi, felt chills as his forty-three years old master had never acted like this before, speaking with threatening aura, even when he's angered by something he wouldn't speak like this to anyone, even to his subordinates. ”This lowly servant understands, master.”

”Let's go back.”

With that one order, Tie Yi immediately obeyed his master without asking, he clearly understands that as a servant, one should never doubt nor disobey orders from their masters yet, he could not help but to give the girl another look, confused what would his master do to this little girl.

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The gold incense burner were hung in each corner of the bed, emitting a costus root scent. Inside a room, two maids were carefully fanning the person on the bed.

”It has been four days already yet, the young lady has still not open her eyes.” An orange clad maid anxiously said as she fanned, keeping up with the pace of the other two maids.

”What can be done, she had been suffering from a very high fever for several days and Jing Chu why are you calling her young lady?” The other maid clad in green said.

”When master came back after the Ghost Festival, he brought an unconsciousyoung girl back here, calling old Pei to treat her and have us all here to take care of her, doesn't that mean that young lady came from a noble family?” Jing Chu looked at the girl lying on the bed but because she had aveil on her face, they didn't get to see the young girl's face this past few days.

When the words were spoken, the person lying on the bed moved, uttering some words but because they were not near her, they were not able to hear it.