When Shen Lie came back, he was surprised to see the girl leaning under a big tree not far from the two swordsmen, Shen Chen closed her eyes and had fallen asleep.
Even the slight movement of him putting down a few bundles of sticks could not wake her up.
"Ah Li." Shen Lie called her softly.
The girl's head was slightly tilted, and her palm-sized face was as clear as jade, except for the faint halo under her eyes.
The reason why he was surprised was that this place was still a dangerous place, and she actually fell asleep like this.
Shen Lie looked at the girl's arm and touched it gently with his long fingers with distinct phalanges. Looking at the blood stained clothes, he knew that the wound was not shallow.
He came back a little late because he was looking for water.
He washed the water bag he carried with him and poured it into the clear spring. He also washed the handkerchief soaked in the river water.
But she was already asleep, and he didn't know whether to change her dressing.
After hesitating for a while, Shen Lie untied the cloth from her arms.
His strength was already extremely gentle, and the girl still frowned in her sleep. He immediately stopped, terrified.
Then, intense and undisguised distress appeared in his deep and bright black eyes.
Only in her dreams would she show her true emotions. If she were awake, she would not even blink and could even chat and laugh with him.
It's not that she's trying to show off, but that she really doesn't take the pain to heart.
Shen Lie tried to use the lightest force on his fingertips, and used the dagger to cut open the clothes on her arms.
Xia Zhaoyi chewed up the green juice and pressed it on the wound. The green juice mixed with the blood, and both of them formed lumps. Especially the blood clots had darkened, making the area around the wound look muddy and dirty.
Shen Lie gently wiped it with a damp cloth, and a slender, oblique, smooth wound appeared on her fair and moist skin.
Seeing the half-cut black hair on her left shoulder, I can imagine that the danger of the situation at that time was definitely not the "accident" she said calmly.
Shen Lie raised his eyelids and looked at the two swordsmen tied under the tree. His dark eyes were like frost, not angry but powerful.
One swordsman was seriously injured and dying, and the other swordsman kept watching them.
When he met his gaze, the swordsman was slightly startled, but he did not avoid it and just looked at him.
Shen Lie suppressed the anger in his heart, took out the porcelain bottle from his arms, lightly sprinkled the powder on her wound, then applied the ointment, and finally wrapped it again with his washed and dried towel.
Being such a vigilant and attentive person, she did not open her eyes the whole time and slept very deeply.
The long and curly eyelashes occasionally trembled slightly, like small butterfly wings flickering on her clear and white face. She looked at her face intently, and suddenly reached out and gently wiped away the very light mud on her cheeks with her thumbs. Ash.
The touch from her fingertips was excellent, full, elastic, smooth and delicate, while her brows were still calm, completely removing her guard.
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Ye Zheng led people to find him two hours later.
The two soldiers who stayed on the tidal flat never saw Shen Lie come back. Fortunately, they were lucky enough to encounter a fishing boat and took the boat east. After a short while, they saw Ye Zheng and others on the bamboo raft.
Ye Zheng thought something had happened to Shen Lie, so he sat down by the river and cried in tears. After hearing what the two soldiers said, Ye Zheng immediately led his troops to find him and found a few fishermen to lead the way.
Shen Lie ordered the two swordsmen to be escorted back first, and then sent twenty people to investigate the open space where the woman had been holding the two headless corpses and crying.
"Master, why is Miss Ali here?" Ye Zheng looked at Xia Zhaoyi, who was still sleeping soundly.
"I haven't figured it out yet," Shen Lie said, "I'll tell you when she wakes up."
"Then, young master, please take her back."
"What if she has other reasons for coming here?"
Ye Zheng nodded: "That's right. If she goes through all the trouble to get here and the young master carries her back, that would be too much..."
After saying that, Ye Zheng looked at the corpse that Shen Lie had moved away: "Are the two corpses over there the same group as these two swordsmen?"
"Um."
The corpses were moved away, but their heavy swords remained, having been taken away just now.
Except for the swords and a small bag of broken silver on each of the two corpses, there was nothing else.
The money bags were ordinary roadside purchases, nothing special, so Shen Lie didn't keep them, only their weapons.
"I'm going to take a look at the body," Ye Zheng said. "If there is an interrogation later, let's see what we can find."
"Okay." Shen Lie said.
Shen Lie returned to Xia Zhaoyi and squatted down silently.
The girl is still sleeping, and from the looks of it, she is sleeping soundly.
There was a strong wind in the mountains, and her long hair hanging down on her chest floated from time to time. Another gust of wind came, and Shen Lie reached out and gently tucked her hair behind her ears.
At this moment, the girl's eyelashes trembled slightly and she slowly opened her eyes.
Shen Lie didn't have time to get up and leave. His handsome face was slightly stunned, and then he said in a deep voice, somewhat uncomfortably: "Ah Li."
Just waking up from his dream, Xia Zhaoyi's eyes were a little out of focus, and they slowly turned around, showing a lazy and charming look that was rare to see in others, and then gradually regained their energy.
"Shen Lie." Xia Zhaoyi smiled lightly, her black hair was blown by the mountain wind, flying gently to the south along her chin, her hair tips were flying mischievously, her skin was transparent and clean, she looked kind of like this A feeling of fragile vulnerability.
Shen Lie knew that she wanted to be strong and would not like to be described like this, but all the tenderness in his heart was still strong at this moment.
"How did you sleep?" Shen Lie asked.
Xia Zhaoyi closed her eyes and raised her head against the tree. After a while, she smiled and said, "I want to eat plum blossom cake."
Shen Lie was teased by her and raised his lips slightly: "It seems that he slept well."
Recalling what happened before going to bed, Xia Zhaoyi turned his head and looked at the place where the swordsman was bound.
"Hmm? Where are they?"
After saying that, she saw Ye Zheng turning over the corpse in the distance, and she understood.
"I went to the Perilla Dyeing House," Xia Zhaoyi looked back at Shen Lie, "The former owner of the Perilla Dyeing House was named Zhang He. There were a lot of strange things about him. His father's name was Zhang Tengfei, and his name was Xiangsi. I sent someone to find out where he was buried. The coffin. But I was not thinking well and forgot that there were countless eyes watching us in the dark, causing one of them to die and another to be injured, and the coffin was also robbed."
"Are you here looking for a coffin?" Shen Lie asked.
Xia Zhaoyi nodded: "I pursued it to Zhaishuiling, and the coffin was parked in a deserted, run-down courtyard. No bones were found in the coffin. Then, I met your men, the soldiers who were exploring the state. I was afraid that they were in danger. , let them leave Zhaishuiling first."
Shen Lie frowned lightly and said in a deep voice: "It seems that I haven't thought well either."
Xia Zhaoyi paused for a moment, then the corners of her lips lit up, revealing a faint dimple, which added a bit of sweetness to her cold and distant temperament when she wasn't smiling.
"...Why are you smiling?"
"No," Xia Zhaoyi said with a smile, "To get down to business, not long after I met them, many wooden houses in Zhaishuiling Village were set on fire. The first one to catch fire was the small courtyard where the wooden coffins were stored. Your soldiers and horses are so powerful. They all ran to put out the fire without saying a word. I asked a woman to let me go to the winery and wine shop in the village to check, and I ran into the group of people who set the fire. I chased them all the way here, but I saw them. There was internal strife."
