Chapter 41

She saw the knife in Jia Cong's hand fall to the ground, looking at the corpse on the ground, retreating a few steps in a panic, as if trying to stay as far away from the corpse as possible.

That viciousness couldn't be seen at all. It seemed that he forced himself to do it to survive, and only knew fear after the fact.

And the person on the ground was hit hard on the head, and his arms were cut off by Jia Cong, and he had already died at this moment.

She dragged her tired body to his side, her voice even revealing a hint of gentleness:

"Don't be afraid, these people followed Zhou Junxing in Dezhou to slaughter innocent people, even women and children were not spared. They deserved to die. Killing them is killing them."

"Besides, if you don't kill them and bring the news to Zhou Junxing, your whole family will suffer."

Jia Cong was used to her fierce appearance, and hearing her gentle tone, he felt a little strange in his heart.

"Are you really... from the Hidden Sect?" Jia Cong had heard too much about the remnants of the Hidden Sect these days, and almost said the word remnants. He swallowed it back when it reached his mouth.

"If you want to call me a remnant, just call me that. We people have been used to being called that all our lives." The words actually had a sense of sorrow.

Jia Cong felt soft in his heart when he heard this, and changed the subject: "My name is Jia Cong, what is your name?"

"I am a remnant of the Hidden Sect. You are not afraid. Knowing my name is not a good thing." After finishing, she thought for a while and said: "My name is Qu Hongxiu, you are not allowed to tell others."

His brother-in-law was caught by Zhou Junxing that night, couldn't bear the torture, and confessed everything about the Dezhou Hidden Sect.

Three days ago, Jia Cong would never have asked her this. Perhaps it was because they killed someone together. Perhaps once people have a common secret, some precautions and estrangements will slowly dissipate unknowingly.

In the Shuyun Villa, she must have seen him show off in the scholars, and had a conversation with Wu Jinrong.

"Does that Wu Jinrong have a grudge against you?"

Perhaps because of this, she didn't like him at that time, and made him suffer a lot these days.

Qu Hongxiu's tone was a bit choked when she said this, and Jia Cong also roughly understood why she risked sneaking into the Shuyun Villa to kill, and why she didn't like scholars.

Jia Cong helped her untie her clothes and found that the wound that had healed most of the way had been torn open again, and the injury was heavier than the original.

After saying this, Jia Cong saw her face pale, her brows tightly locked, and the clothes on her back shoulder were soaked with blood.

"Wu Jinrong's brother-in-law is an important figure in the Dezhou Hidden Sect branch. He came to the Divine Capital last month to handle affairs. I don't know how Wu Jinrong found out his identity. Maybe the two are close relatives, and that person likes to drink."

"After I entered the city, I found that Zhou Junxing had many experts protecting him closely. Wu Jinrong was much more convenient. Besides, three hundred people in Dezhou were killed, and he was the main culprit."

Zhou Junxing gathered a large number of government troops, followed the map to find the way, and surrounded and killed all three hundred people in the Dezhou Hidden Sect branch. I was also lucky to escape. My brother's family of four all died!"

The man in black was not wrong. The two finally colluded. After this bloody fight, a strange tacit understanding grew between them.

How it was leaked, it was unknown. Wu Jinrong went to Dezhou to inform Zhou Junxing, the military advisor, for the sake of wealth and status.

That Wu Jinrong was a Hanlin, and he was considered top-notch among scholars, but he was full of despicable and shamelessness, harming so many people!"

He tore clean cloth strips from his underwear, helped her wipe the blood from the wound, and followed the previous method to seal the wound with black viscous ointment again.

This time, she didn't hold the curved knife and concentrate on guarding as before.

After getting along for these few days, and the thrilling fight just now, she had let go of her guard against Jia Cong, and even got used to him applying medicine for her like this.

"The movement just now was not small. Hunters often go out in this area. It would be bad if people were attracted. We must leave immediately. The corpses cannot be buried on the spot, it is easy to be found traces."

"Let's go to the edge of the forest to find it. These two people must have come on horseback."

The woman saw that he was young, but had such meticulous and experienced thoughts, and was slightly stunned in her heart, but thinking of his astonishing actions just now, these details became reasonable.

The two really found two horses with saddles and bridles at the edge of the forest. It took a lot of effort to move the two corpses to one horse, and the two rode the other one together.

At this time, the sky was completely dark, and the two horses were walking in the open wilderness.

The corpse on one of the horses was still dripping blood, blooming flowers of blood on the snow along the way. When the blood stains on the corpse solidified, the snow fell, covering these traces silently.

Jia Cong leaned against a piece of warmth on his back, smelling the bursts of fragrance from Qu Hongxiu's body. The horse's hooves ticked, and the whole world seemed to sink into a pleasant silence.

Thinking of the two who were originally confronting and guarding like soldiers and thieves, now they were riding together somewhat intimately. It was the first time in two lives to encounter such a strange thing.

Fortunately, there were two horses, otherwise, with Qu Hongxiu's injury, she would never have been able to walk very far.

The two walked for nearly an hour before finding an abandoned wild temple in a sheltered mountain col.

Jia Cong found a place with loose soil near the wild temple, used the long knife left by the man in black to dig a deep pit and bury the two corpses, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

It was also fortunate that in that situation, he and Qu Hongxiu actually killed both of them. If they were allowed to live and go back.

If the man in black said those words, with the court and the Emperor's fear and hatred of the Hidden Sect, he would only become the fuse, and the matter would develop into too many unpredictable consequences.

Who could say for sure whether the ending of the Red Chamber, where the vast white land is clean, would come early, and what would happen to those sisters in the family who were quite kind to him.

Returning to the temple, Qu Hongxiu had already lit a bonfire. Under the firelight, her face looked exceptionally beautiful.

A slightly thin oval face, skin white as jade, willow eyebrows swept lightly, eyes full of autumn water, nose straight and pretty, lips like cinnabar.

Although Jia Cong had seen many beautiful women in the Jia Prefecture, he was still truly amazed by her.

In this half day, the two went through a life-and-death fight, walked all the way, buried the corpses, and exhausted their heart and physical strength. Qu Hongxiu's injury was even worse.

As soon as the two sat by the fire, they were baked by the heat, and endless fatigue arose in their bodies. This wild temple was located in a desolate place, and it was unlikely that anyone could find it. Their hearts were relaxed, and they all fell into a deep sleep soon.

Although there was a Hidden Sect person like Qu Hongxiu who made people wary by his side, it was strange to say that Jia Cong still slept deeply that night, and didn't wake up until the sky was bright.

Suddenly he felt that Qu Hongxiu beside him had some scorching breathing, a pretty face was red, and her consciousness was a bit blurred. He boldly touched her forehead and found it was hot.

Originally he wanted to rush back to the city early in the morning. After last night, he believed that Qu Hongxiu would definitely not stop him. He had been missing for several days, and sisters like Tan Chun and Ying Chun must be worried.

What he was most worried about was Zhi Shao. He left her alone in the small courtyard in the city, and now he didn't know how she was.

(End of chapter)