Chapter 232: Provocation
The night grew deeper, and the howls of wild beasts rang out in the distance. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe shadows of the trees swayed, as if there were countless ghosts hidden.
Xiaoxiao stood under a holly tree with an oil lamp, and there was no trace of fear in her heart. Because she has one more person by her side, one more person who is willing to help her.
Under the dim light, Zhang Yuanyang was lowering his head, sweating profusely and digging hard into the dirt bag in front of him with the firewood knife she brought.
The bones of the woman buried under the shallow soil bag were soon revealed. Although it was already autumn, a whole day had passed, and the woman's bones had begun to emit the smell of rancidity.
From time to time, reptiles emerge from the dirt and quickly flee away with their soft bodies.
Zhang Yuanyang was afraid that he would inadvertently damage the corpse, so in the end he simply discarded the firewood knife in his hand, and without caring about the disgust, he directly used his fingers to carefully peel off the dirt covering the corpse's face.
The face of the female corpse was finally fully revealed, and although she had been mentally prepared for a long time, Xiaoxiao couldn't help but kneel in front of her and burst into tears again.
Zhang Yuanyang stood aside silently, this was the last chance for Xiaoxiao and her sister to be alone, and he didn't want to disturb.
A few steps away, he quietly looked at the back of the girl kneeling under the starlight. Her thin shoulders were constantly twitching, and although she didn't cry, the small sobs that overflowed from time to time still made him feel a little sad.
I probably haven't really lost a loved one, and I can't understand this helplessness and despair.
Zhang Yuanyang thought that she would be sad for a long time, but to his surprise, it was probably only a cup of tea before Xiaoxiao wiped away her tears and stood up.
She came to Zhang Yuanyang's side and whispered, "Thank you!"
Zhang Yuanyang hummed and didn't speak.
Xiaoxiao twisted the corners of her clothes, lowered her head to look at the faint yellow light in front of her feet, and said in a low voice: "Thank you for helping me get rid of the hyena that wanted to sneak up on me, and thank you for helping me dig up my sister's bones." ”
Zhang Yuanyang hummed again, and finally spoke: "Thank you for not needing, I just want to know." You're so insistent on finding your sister's bones, do you think of what to do with it?"
Xiaoxiao bit her lip and said, "I want to burn her bones, so that it will be clean, so as not to be eaten by those wild beasts." ”
"No!" Zhang Yuanyang categorically refused without thinking about it: "Lighting a fire at night will definitely attract the vigilance of the night patrol soldiers, which is tantamount to throwing yourself into a net." ”
Xiaoxiao bit her lip and said, "I can wait for you to leave, and then light the fire!" She thought that Zhang Yuanyang was afraid of being implicated. But this is normal, people have already helped her a lot, and she doesn't want to hurt him.
Zhang Yuanyang frowned, although Xiaoxiao's voice was small, he could feel her insistence. He had a headache because he knew that once some women became stubborn, the nine cows would not be able to pull them back.
And Xiaoxiao seems to be weak, after getting along for most of the day, he knows that she is this kind of woman.
Zhang Yuanyang coughed lightly and said, "I know that your enemy is that Princess Wuluolan......."
Xiaoxiao raised her head sharply and said in surprise, "How do you know?"
Zhang Yuanyang snorted lightly and said lightly: "I'm not stupid, as long as you mention her today, the hatred in your eyes that you can't wait to eat her alive makes people want to ignore it." ”
Last night, when Ulolan went crazy in the big tent of the Chinese army and wantonly killed Maihime, he actually hid not far away and peeped secretly.
He had watched the soldiers carry two bloody women out of the tent. The clothes on their bodies are exactly the same as the clothes on Xiaoxiao's body at the moment, as long as they are a little scrutinized, they can think of it.
Xiaoxiao licked her dry lips a little helplessly, but her mind was desperately thinking about what to do?
Zhang Yuanyang spoke again: "You don't have to worry, even if Wu Luolan is the princess of Great Xia? She actually dares to ask my sister Hua to die, I, Zhang Yuanyang, dare to ask her to die! Don't worry, I will definitely help you avenge this revenge!"
Xiaoxiao couldn't believe her ears, the surprise came too suddenly, and she said in a trance: "Is it true?"
Zhang Yuanyang lowered his eyes, looked at her little face stained with mud but shined, and said in a deep voice: "If you want to take revenge, you must protect yourself first." Think twice before you act, and remember not to act willfully. ”
"Hmm" Xiaoxiao nodded vigorously and said, "As long as you can help me avenge me, I will listen to you in everything." She looked at him, looking at him with trust.
Zhang Yuanyang turned his head sideways, and a toad jumped out from under the root of the tree, jumped on the surface of his feet, and then jumped from his feet into the muddy pit on the side, and quickly disappeared into the dark night.
Xiaoxiao didn't move, and neither did he.
In the early morning two days later, Xiaoxiao opened the curtain with a bowl of white porridge, but before she could stand firmly, a black shadow suddenly crossed in front of her, and a strong force knocked her to the ground, and the bowl in her hand was also smashed, and the sticky white porridge was scattered all over the ground.
There was a furious scolding from Ulo Lan in his ears: "Useless waste, this is how you take care of Mrs. Xianwang, see that Princess Ben won't kill you today........"
The fists and feet rained down on Xiaoxiao's thin body. She pursed her lips tightly, held her head in her hands, and curled up on the ground in embarrassment, but she neither screamed, nor cried, nor begged for mercy.
Xiaoxiao knew that Wu Luolan finally found out that she had been deliberately concealing Hua Liyue's situation. She found that she was a princess of a country, and she was actually teased like this by a little dancing girl, how could she swallow this breath, so she had a seizure on the spot.......
Despite the raindrops on her body, Xiaoxiao wanted to laugh and laugh proudly. As long as she can make Ulolan unhappy, even if it requires her to pay a huge price, she is willing to do it.
"Wait, Third Prince, I still need someone to wait for pen and ink to write a letter. If Princess Ullolan breaks her, I am afraid that this letter will not be written until I have recovered from my body. ”
Hua Lianyue was half-leaning, with a thick futon behind her, although she was much better, but after a few words, she was still panting.
Yu Yuan frowned, although he didn't understand why Wu Luolan suddenly lost her temper, but he was still dissatisfied with her being so unscrupulous in front of him. He said in a deep voice to the angry Ulolan: "Okay, don't stop!"
Wu Luo Lanpi said with a smile: "I can't even take care of people, what's the use of keeping such a maid, it's better to send another one to Mrs. Xianwang." ”
She was very depressed in her heart, she was happy to come over to collect the body, but she didn't expect that the person she thought would die was actually alive and well, and it was getting better and better, her hope was disappointed, and she was naturally very angry.
And Xiaoxiao, who dared to disobey the yang and the yin, naturally bore the brunt of her anger. She watched coldly as her guards punched and kicked Xiaoxiao on the ground. If it weren't for Yu Yuan's presence, she would have taken the life of this little slut with her own hands.
Hua Lianyue frowned slightly, and although she was anxious, she didn't dare to show it. She knew that if she showed a little concern for Xiaoxiao at this moment, Wu Luolan would dare to let Xiaoxiao die on the spot the next moment.
"Third Prince!" Knowing that Wu Luolan was unreasonable, she could only put her hope on Yu Yuan: "I don't know, the princess of Great Xia can actually be your home in the Northern Underworld." ”
Yu Yuan raised his eyebrows and said in a deep voice, "What do you mean by this, Madame?"
"I'm a woman, so naturally I don't have much knowledge, and I only dare to take care of things in my backyard. ”
Hua Lianyue didn't look at the miserable Xiaoxiao, she smiled lightly, raised her hand and stroked the messy hair on her sideburns, looked at the cold eyes of Wu Luolan, and said with admiration: "It's still Princess Wu Luolan who has the ability, this has not yet married the third prince, and everyone has already made you regard you as the main mother, and you dare to disobey the words of the third prince." ”
Yu Yuan's face sank suddenly, Hua Lianyue didn't seem to see it, she gasped a few times, and continued: "Oh, by the way, the eldest brother once told me. Although there are many soldiers and generals in the Northern Underworld, it is a pity that there are mostly mountains, rivers and grasslands, and there are few fertile fields suitable for farming. Therefore, there is often a shortage of food in the winter. In order to hoard military rations, the second prince often took people to the ancient town of Erna to fight the autumn wind, as for the third prince......."
She suddenly sighed gloomily and said, "Forget it, don't talk about it!" The third prince has a deep affection for Princess Wuluolan, so he naturally obeys his words. It's just that I pity Invite Yue, for the great cause of the three princes, I was forced to die in vain......."
Wu Luolan originally stared at Hua Lianyue with a provocative expression, she thought that Hua Lianyue was going around, but she just wanted to save Xiaoxiao, but she never thought that she would suddenly pull on Ying Yue.
On that day, Wu Luolan forced Ying Yue to jump off the cliff, but after seeing Yu Yuan, he put all the responsibility on Ying Yue herself.
Because she was afraid that Hua Lianyue would tell the truth, Wu Luolan also let her guards knock her unconscious, but she didn't expect that after Hua Lianyue woke up, she was still hinting to Yu Yuan, pointing to the truth about Invite Yue jumping off the cliff.
Although Wu Luolan was not afraid that Yu Yuan would turn his face with him, he was still worried that he would have a pimple in his heart, so he subconsciously peeked at Yu Yuan's expression. Sure enough, Yu Yuan's face was already gloomy.
Sluts, they will sow discord! Wu Luolan hates Hua Lianyue so much that the root of her teeth itches!
At this moment, the guard happened to be tired of his hands, and he grabbed Xiaoxiao's hair bun and dragged her up from the ground. Then he kicked her hard in the abdomen. Xiaoxiao fell out heavily, staggering and hitting the washstand, making a loud noise.
Hua Lianyue raised her eyes and looked at it, pouted and sneered: "The third prince has already said to stop, but this guard brother is still torturing people into this appearance, Princess Wuluo Lan is really majestic!"
Wu Luolan chuckled in his heart, and immediately said, "Stop!"
When the guards heard this, they immediately stopped and did not continue to use their poisonous hands on Xiaoxiao.
Hua Lianyue tried not to look at the embarrassed figure lying on the ground, she hooked her lips again and sneered: "Sure enough, it is still Princess Wuluolan's orders that work!"
Although Yu Yuan knew that Hua Lianyue was provoking his relationship with Wu Luo Lan, but the facts were in front of him, and his Yu Yuan's orders were indeed not as good as Wu Luo Lan's envoys, which made him extremely embarrassed by his arrogant temperament.
Wu Luolan also realized Yu Yuan's unhappiness, she stared at Hua Lianyue with sharp eyes, and said sharply: "Madame's good mouth, it's a pity that Brother Yuan won't listen to your provocation!"
Hua Lianyue chuckled: "What I said is the truth, if the third prince thinks this is provoking, he shouldn't have heard it." It's just that Invite Yue is also my friend, I hope the third prince won't let her violent corpse wilderness!"
Now Wu Luolan's heart trembled when she heard the words Ying Yue, and she really wanted to cut off Hua Liyue's tongue that was too active.
Yu Yuan coughed lightly and said with a wooden face: "Madame's body hasn't healed yet, so I won't bother and say goodbye!"
Hua Lianyue chuckled and said, "The third prince walks slowly!"
Yu Yuan ignored Wu Luolan, flicked his sleeves and turned around and strode away. Wu Luolan hurriedly shouted after him, "Brother Yuan, wait for me!" She took the time to turn around and glared at Hua Lianyue fiercely.
"Princess Ulolan, go slowly!" Hua Lianyue said with a respectful send-off, but her eyes glanced at her defiantly, without any intention of flinching or fearing.
After Yu Yuan and Wu Luolan were gone, the curtain was lifted again, and Zhang Yuanyang strode in.
Although he has been pretending to be a soldier of the Northern Darkness to protect Hua Lianyue, he did not dare to appear in front of Yu Yuan after all. After he watched Yu Yuan leave, he dared to come in and find out.
At a glance, I saw Hua Lianyue squatting beside Xiaoxiao, and she just reached out to help. He hurriedly said: "Sister Hua, let me come!"
Hua Lianyue knew that she was powerless, so she hurriedly stepped aside. I just commanded uneasily: "Your hands are lighter, Miss Xiaoxiao's injuries are not light." ”
Zhang Yuanyang nodded, and carefully turned Xiaoxiao's body over, but saw that her nose was blue and her face was swollen, and there were blood marks on the corners of her mouth, and she had actually fainted.
"How can this be?" Although she was mentally prepared, her miserable appearance still startled Zhang Yuanyang.
"Quick, carry her to the bed!" Hua Lianyue saw that he was sluggish, and couldn't help but stomp her feet and urge.
Zhang Yuanyang didn't need her to say it a second time, he hurriedly picked up Xiaoxiao and put her lightly on the bed.
Xiaoxiao was already slender and fell into a pile of bedding, as if she was about to be drowned. Although Zhang Yuanyang's movements were gentle, he still woke her up from a brief coma.
She opened her eyes in a daze, just in time for Zhang Yuanyang's gloomy eyes, she wanted to smile at him, but she was choked by the blood foam in her mouth and coughed violently.
Hua Lianyue hurriedly pushed Zhang Yuanyang, and said eagerly: "Don't just know how to watch, give her a smooth back." ”
"Hmm!" Zhang Yuanyang's face was extremely ugly, but he still obediently agreed.
Xiaoxiao hurriedly shook her hand, tried to put on a smile and said, "No, no, I'm fine!" Her lips were red with blood, and she looked extremely glaring. The corners of his eyes were also cracked, and the large bruises and bruises were oozing blood, which looked shocking.
Zhang Yuanyang frowned, and suddenly said, "Don't laugh, it's really ugly!"
Xiaoxiao froze for a moment, and the smile on the corner of her mouth suddenly froze, revealing a trace of panic.
Hua Lianyue hurriedly scolded in a low voice: "Yuan Yang, what nonsense!"
Zhang Yuanyang just didn't want to see her obviously in pain, but she still had to force herself to maintain a smiling face. As soon as the hurtful words came out, he felt deep regret. was scolded by Hua Liyue like this, and he immediately bowed his head and remained silent.
Xiaoxiao hurriedly said, "Madam, it's okay, it's okay!" She raised her hand and stroked the corners of her mouth that was still bleeding, and suddenly gasped, obviously she hurt herself.
Hua Liyue sighed and sat down on the edge of the bed.
Although Xiaoxiao has escaped the clutches of Ulolan for the time being, it does not mean that she will be safe in the future.
With Wu Luolan's temperament, as long as she appeases Yu Yuan, she will turn her face to deal with Xiaoxiao, and even Hua Lianyue. So before Liu Hui arrived, she must not be allowed to stop.
Thinking of this, Hua Lianyue's eyes suddenly lit up. She pulled Zhang Yuanyang, who had a gloomy face, and whispered in his ear.