Chapter 82 - Urgent Matters
Chapter 82
Yuan Changqing let go of the vines, gently landed beside Shanniang, and looked down at her silently.
At this point, the wind became stronger. In the night sky, the clouds that blew away quickly gathered and obscured the short-lived moon again.
Even without the moonlight, with Yuan Changqing's eyesight, he can still see Shanniang's wolf bèi clearly.
I saw that Shanniang was supporting her body with one elbow and lying on her side on the ground. She looked up at him, her long wet hair sticking to her palm-sized little face, making her already fair complexion even paler, and the scratch from her cheek to her chin more striking.
However, even though she looked so wolf, her eyes were still so crooked when she looked at him, and the corners of her lips were slightly curled with a smile.
Yuan Changqing's teeth clenched suddenly, knelt down on one knee beside her, and reached out to gently touch the scratch on her cheek with his thumb.
Shanniang was stunned, and was so shocked by his abrupt move that she forgot to dodge. And by the time she reacted, Yuan Changqing had already withdrawn her hand. She wanted to ask him what this meant, but when she raised her eyes, she suddenly saw the forbearance between his eyebrows, and she suddenly didn't dare to squeak - from the experience of her previous life, she knew that Yuan Changqing was angry at this time. Really angry.
To say that Yuan Changqing is not easy to get angry. But once he gets really angry, it's actually quite scary.
Shanniang looked at him cautiously and chose to remain silent.
At this time, a gust of wind passed by, bringing down a few drops of rain, and it was obvious that it was going to rain again.
Shanniang was already soaked at this time, and when she was blown by the wind, she suddenly sneezed.
Yuan Changqing looked at her, stood up suddenly, turned his back to take off his clothes, and then turned around, regardless of his clothes, which were actually wet, wrapped around Shanniang's body.
Shanniang blinked, looked at Yuan Changqing, who was only wearing a middle coat, and said in a low voice: "I...... Not cold. β
Yuan Changqing didn't squeak, only reached over and grabbed her arm, trying to pull her up from the ground.
Shanniang was originally thin and small, and Yuan Changqing had practiced since she was a child, so she pulled her up lightly. Shan Niang had an injury on her leg, and she didn't dare to move, so he forcibly pulled her up, and almost fainted from her in pain. She screamed, and her nails immediately slashed into Yuan Changqing's arm. It's also a shame that she doesn't like to have long nails, so she didn't cut out a few blood holes for Yuan Changqing.
Yuan Changqing was startled, and immediately froze there and didn't dare to move.
"You...... Where did it hurt? β
Finally, he spoke the first words they had ever spoken. As if he had been shouting for a long time, his voice sounded hoarse.
Shanniang didn't have the spirit to pay attention to Yuan Changqing's voice at this time, she was dying in pain. She clutched Yuan Changqing's arm until the pain gradually subsided and she was able to control her breathing again, then she gasped and said, "Leg, it's broken." β
Even her nails are not long, and she still cuts out a few wounds on Yuan Changqing's arms through her sleeves. You can see how much pain she has. Yuan Changqing looked at her with a complicated expression, and the fingers hanging by his side clenched silently.
As soon as Shanniang, who had come slowly, looked up, she saw that under the dim skylight, Yuan Changqing's eyes were staring at her, unblinking, with a tense face, looking as if she was angry with someone, and as if she was competing with someone.
Shanniang thought about it, and felt that he probably thought that he had caused him trouble, so she hurriedly pushed his hand that was still holding her arm, and smiled: "I'm fine, you don't have to worry about me, I ......"
Her hand suddenly hurt, and when she looked down, she saw that although she pushed Yuan Changqing's hand away from her arm, he held her hand with his backhand, and he held it very tightly.
"Hiss......"
She gasped, and Yuan Changqing let go of her.
Shanniang looked up at him. I saw that his eyes that had been staring at her suddenly became gloomy, and he couldn't see the ups and downs of his feelings. It reminded her of the way they had quarreled in their previous lifeβno, to be exact, when she wanted to quarrel with himβand his expression was gloomy and angry, but he restrained himself with great endurance......
She looked away, almost instinctively. But after a while, she suddenly remembered that she was no longer his wife in this life, so she turned her head again, raised her chin and glared at him defiantly.
I didn't know what Yuan Changqing was thinking at this moment, he just looked at her silently, and after a while, he suddenly blinked, first looked away, looked at her injured leg wrapped in a skirt and lowered his head in contemplation. Then, as if he had made a heavy decision, Yuan Changqing clenched his fists hard, lowered his head and muttered, "I'll take a look." Without waiting for Shanniang to react, he reached out to support her knee and gently rolled up the skirt that Shanniang deliberately covered the injured leg.
That's not polite!
Shanniang opened her mouth, wanting to object, but looking at Yuan Changqing, she suddenly closed her mouth - saying that kind of thing at this time seems to be as hypocritical as her......
In the dim light, Shanniang's legs appeared white and slender. Such beautiful legs are twisted into a terrible angle. Yuan Changqing's heart tightened, he glanced back at Shanniang, and saw that Shanniang had already twisted her head, as if she didn't dare to look at the injured leg, he couldn't hold back for a while, and finally reached over, stroked her cheek with the back of his fingers, and muttered: "Don't be afraid." β
Shanniang was stunned, and when she looked back at Yuan Changqing, he had already withdrawn his hand and was looking down at her injured leg. Shanniang unconsciously followed his eyes to her injured leg, and with just one glance, she turned her head and didn't dare to look at it again.
He, what does this mean?!
By brushing the wet hair away from her face, Shanniang quietly touched her cheeks, and her heart was full of doubts.
Xu was because he saw that she didn't dare to look at the injured leg, at this time, Yuan Changqing moved his body without moving, and then blocked Shanniang's sight with his back, and said softly: "I'm going to touch your leg bone to see how it hurts, it may hurt a little." If you can't help it, it's okay to call it out. β
Shan Niang was startled, and quickly reached out and pressed on his shoulder, "You, what are you going to do?" β
"Help you straighten your bones."
"You...... Yes? β
Yuan Changqing turned his back to her and nodded.
Shanniang thought that, with his temperament, she nodded to indicate that she had answered, she didn't expect him to speak again, and she didn't want him to continue: "I know a little bit about it." He held Shanniang's knee tightly, and with one hand cautiously touched her leg bone to the wound, while calmly replying: "When I was a child, I was curious about everything, and I wanted to learn anything new when I saw it. β
"That is, you have studied?" Shanniang was a little unconvinced, "Then you took the broken bones for someone?" β
"Hmm." Yuan Changqing calmly responded, and said: "It is best to restore the broken bones at that time for bone injuries, and the longer the time drags on, the more unfavorable it will be to the injury." β
Xu is his calm and calm tone is too soothing, until his hand fell on her wound and a huge pain hit, Shanniang reacted, and couldn't help but exhale in pain. She instinctively wanted to pull the injured leg back, but that leg was firmly held by Yuan Changqing, so she could only pounce forward, and lay on Yuan Changqing's back.
Yuan Changqing's back stiffened slightly, but his hand did not stop because of her pain, and he was still so calm to stand for her.
Shanniang never knew that she was so afraid of pain. She thought that the moment she broke her leg was already in pain, but who knew that it was several times more painful than just now. She wanted to struggle, but she couldn't withstand Yuan Changqing's strength, and the continuous pain made her feel weak, so she could only softly put her forehead against Yuan Changqing's back, trying not to scream too badly. It's a pity that she can control her voice, but she can't control her tears. So, in the unbearable pain, she burst into tears.
Just when Shanniang felt that she couldn't get through it anymore, Yuan Changqing suddenly turned around, grabbed the back of her head with a big hand, pressed her head to her chest, and quickly wrapped her other hand behind her, stroking her back up and down like a child, and comforting her in a dumb voice: "Shh, don't cry, it's already connected, it doesn't hurt......"
If Shanniang was still conscious at this time, she would definitely be stunned by his actions, but at this time her consciousness was still in pain, so she cried and scolded Yuan Changqing: "What kind of Mongolian doctor are you, you might as well kill me, it hurts me to death." β
Yuan Changqing didn't make a sound, only tightened his arms and hugged her, as if he could share a little pain on her body for her.
And if before returning to Beijing, he decided not to put Thirteen Er in his heart anymore, then at this time he has already understood that the person who puts it in is the one who wants to take it, and it doesn't seem that he can take it if he says it......
Actually, Shanniang didn't want to cry. It was the fright of the day, the escape in the heavy rain, the breaking of her leg, the pain when she was grafted, the pain that made her cry, those were not real tears, she felt that she could handle it. Until Yuan Changqing's big hand was on the back of her head, until he took her into his arms, until she felt his body temperature, felt his arms embracing strongly, and suddenly, for no reason, she only felt a burst of weakness, felt that she was tired and tired, cold, painful and scared, and felt that the world that could have been supported by herself suddenly collapsed like this...... As a result, the tears unconsciously turned into real tears, and even flowed in a somewhat uncontrollable manner.
Those tears have the fright of this life, and also the grievances of the past life. In her previous life, even if she cried blindly, that person would only walk away coldly, how could she have thought that one day that person would hold her and coax her with small words......
And it was the word "previous life" that made Shanniang feel terrified, and her crying suddenly stopped. She suddenly pushed him away, wiped her tears and said, "I'm sorry, I ......"
"I apologize to you." Suddenly, Yuan Changqing hurriedly said, "I lied." β
Shanniang raised her teary eyes, but only then did she find that Yuan Changqing's forehead was covered with beads of sweat, and some beads of sweat even dripped down his sideburns.
Yuan Changqing looked down at her and smiled, "I lied." I took the broken bones, but not for them. β
Shanniang was stunned before she reacted, "You ......"
She reached out and poked him hard, but the touch from her fingertips made her blink. When I looked down, I saw a bare pectoral muscle as far as the eye could see.
She was startled, looked up at Yuan Changqing, and then lowered her eyes uncontrollably to look at the good skin in front of her.
Youthful skin is baptized with tears and shimmers with a radiant glow. The slender and elegant shoulder line made Shanniang see a warm heartbeat and suddenly turned her eyes away.
Then she saw that her left leg was no longer twisted at a strange angle as it had just been. And she still has a piece of white fabric wrapped around her leg - Yuan Changqing's middle coat.
In addition to the middle coat, Yuan Changqing seems to have contributed his sword.
Lowering her eyes to look at the sword wrapped around her broken leg, and then looking up at the half-naked Yuan Changqing, Shanniang couldn't remember when Yuan Changqing took off her clothes, she only remembered a rambling pain......
She quickly lowered her eyes, ripped off Yuan Changqing's coat again, and threw it at him.
Where Shanniang couldn't see, Yuan Changqing's face also quietly turned red. Seeing her hurt like that just now, he just wanted to help her tie her bones, and he tore his middle coat without thinking too much...... Then seeing her crying like that, he didn't think about what kind of state he was in for a while, so he naturally hugged her and coaxed her......
Growing so big, it's the first time he's coaxing a person like this, let alone going on a skin-to-skin blind date with someone like this......
If Shanniang felt a lot about Yuan Changqing's abrupt hug, in fact, Yuan Changqing herself also felt a lot. His parents died when he was a child, and his maternal grandfather's family, the only one who cared about him, was an iron-blooded tough guy, believing in the kind of blood that did not shed tears, so no one in his memory had ever hugged him, and he had never hugged anyone. Now out of control for a while, holding Thirteen Er in his arms, feeling such a small person in his arms, feeling her warm cheeks against his chest, are all making him have a different kind of softness, a deep vibration, and, a certain indescribable satisfaction......
He turned his back to get dressed, turned around and said, "Looks like it's going to rain again." It's not safe to go down the mountain in the dark, I know a place to shelter from the rain, and I'll take you down when the rain stops. β
It was only then that Shan Niang remembered and asked, "Why are you here?" How do you know something happened to me? Are you here alone? What about my brother? Do you know what happened to my brother? β
This series of questions made Yuan Changqing smile and said, "Your brother and your nurse are fine, I didn't come alone, and the people I brought with me scattered to look for you," and said, "Others, I'll tell you one by one when I get to the place where I shelter from the rain, it's going to rain again." β
As if to confirm his words, a thin line of rain drifted in the sky again.
Yuan Changqing looked down at her, and suddenly said, "Offended." Then he reached out and put his hand under her knees and picked her up.
Shanniang was startled and grabbed Yuan Changqing's shirt suddenly, "You...... Do?! β
"Can you go?" Yuan Changqing raised his eyebrows and smiled.
Looking at the shallow groove on his chin, Shanniang's eyes were slightly in a trance, and then she blinked suddenly, shook her head, and said, "You...... You can carry me. β
Yuan Changqing didn't speak, only glanced at the injured leg that was tied to the sword.
Shanniang had no choice but to lower her eyes and not squeak.
Yuan Changqing looked down at her, and suddenly said, "Hold me tight." β
Shan Niang was startled and looked up at him.
"Hold my neck. It's a matter of urgency," Yuan Changqing said again, "Wait a minute, we're going to climb up, and I have to hold the vine with one hand." β
"Can you climb on one hand?" Shanniang couldn't help but ask.
"Why don't you try it?" Yuan Changqing smiled at her, and laughed a shallow groove on her chin again, seeing Shanniang's heart jumping, she suddenly turned her eyes away, but in the end she awkwardly reached out and wrapped her hand around Yuan Changqing's neck.
And Yuan Changqing really took the two of them up with just one hand.
The woods on a rainy night seemed to Shanniang to be pitch black with no fingers out of sight. Yuan Changqing seemed to have the eyes of a pair of owls, and walked through the forest with Shan Niang in his arms, and finally took her to the hut located in the col before the heavy rain fell.
There was a lonely hut in the col, and there was only a stick stuck in the door of the hut. To Shanniang's surprise, Yuan Changqing didn't call the door, but directly pulled out the small wooden stick and carried her into the house.
The room was pitch black, Shanniang still couldn't see anything, Yuan Changqing was still like having a pair of owl eyes, holding her around the dark place in the center of the room, and then putting her down, and carefully carrying her injured leg to put it away, then turned around and walked away.
But obviously Yuan Changqing is not really an owl, Shan Niang listened to him stumble in the house several times, and finally found the fire fold. When the fire lit up, Shanniang realized that she was sitting by a firepit.
"We just barged in, doesn't it matter?" Shanniang asked.
"It doesn't matter." Yuan Changqing, with the skill that he should not have in his status, lit the fire in the firepit, picked up a few pieces of firewood on the side, added them little by little, and said slowly, "If someone comes, it's a big deal to leave you to pay off the debt." β
Shanniang was stunned, and her eyes widened immediately. She couldn't have imagined that Yuan Changqing would actually joke with her...... How many times has this been?!
Yuan Changqing looked up at her, smiled slightly, and said, "This was originally a place where Orion rested when he went into the mountains to hunt, and anyone could come here." β
As he spoke, the fire in the pit burst into flames. So in this way, Shanniang discovered a new skill of Yuan Changqing.
She couldn't help but look up at Yuan Changqing, and just wanted to praise him a few words, when she suddenly saw Yuan Changqing's dark eyes looking straight at her, looking like she was waiting for her praise. So she turned her head haughtily and pretended not to see anything.
By the light of the fire, Shanniang looked around for a while, only to realize that this was a very simple hut. There was a clawed wooden floor on the ground, a fire pit dug in the center, and a missing iron pot hung from above the roof. Except for the iron pot and a stack of firewood piled up in the corner, there was nothing else in the house.
When Shanniang looked around, Yuan Changqing walked to the pyre, picked a few relatively straight branches from the pyre, and then sat cross-legged beside Shanniang, and reached out to untie the cloth belt on Shanniang's injured leg.
Shanniang was startled, and quickly pressed his hand, "What are you going to do?" β
Yuan Changqing looked at her, then at her hand pressed on his hand, and replied calmly: "I couldn't find something suitable just now, so I could only use my sword as a splint temporarily, but it was not enough to support it, and I needed to strengthen it again." β
Shanniang couldn't help but shrink her shoulders.
Yuan Changqing knew that she was afraid of pain, so he hurriedly said, "I will try to be lighter." β
Shanniang looked at him, suddenly turned her head, and said in a tone that looked at death as if she were at home: "Whatever you want." β
Yuan Changqing chuckled, and it wasn't until he saw that his hand was almost touching the top of her head that he realized his subconscious action and hurriedly withdrew his hand.
Shanniang, who twisted her head, didn't see the hand that almost fell on her head, she only heard his laughter, and suddenly became angry, and said stiffly: "How do I know what you're going to do?!" Speaking of which, you are really, you never tell anyone what you think in your heart, if you don't say it, how do I know what you are thinking?! β
How many times has she said that about him?! Yuan Changqing glanced at her quickly, and said while rewrapping her injured leg: "You are prejudiced against me. β
"What?" Shanniang was stunned.
"Didn't you ask me what was going on in my mind?" He looked up at her, "That's what I'm thinking about. You are biased against me. He gently flattened her legs, then straightened up, looked into Shanniang's eyes and said, "Since you said that, I have tried to tell you as much as I want in my heart, but you don't seem to believe me very much." β
Shanniang looked at him silently. The flames in the fire pit were reflected in his deep eyes, as if their eyes were hot. She suddenly felt uncomfortable, turned her head to look at the firepit, and changed the subject: "How did you know that there was such a hut here?" β
"This is the back mountain." Yuan Changqing replied, got up and walked to the pyre again, and picked up the branches again.
Shanniang nodded self-righteously. The last time the academy helped the fundraising club to do a study tour survey, Yuan Changqing was assigned to Houshan Township, and I think I knew it at that time.
"So, why are you here?" Shanniang asked again.
At this time, Yuan Changqing didn't know where to find a piece of grass rope, and he was tying several branches of about the same length together. He replied to Shanniang while tying it up, "I've always been here." β
"You didn't go back to Kyori?"
"Returned. But it's back. It's just that I haven't returned to Meishan Town for the time being. β
"Then you ......"
Without waiting for Shanniang to finish asking, Yuan Changqing came over with the bundled branches, and while fiddling with those branches into a support, he said: "That's the case, I originally planned to go back to Meishan Town today, but I encountered a carriage that overturned into the river on the way, and I rescued the person and found out that it was from your family......"
But it turned out that because of the thing that Yuan Changqing was stabbed, he finally let the court know about the gold mine theft. The emperor was furious and ordered the prince to investigate the matter thoroughly, so Yuan Changqing was sent by the prince and secretly followed Qin back to Jiangyin Mansion. The reason why there has been frequent chaos under the rule of Jiangyin Mansion recently is that those involved in the case deliberately caused various riots to destroy the evidence of the crime. When Yuan Changqing was investigating the prefect's use of ruffians and hooligans to destroy the evidence, he inadvertently discovered that Yuan Changxing was also in contact with these people. Upon closer inspection, he found that the person who was the matchmaker was actually the husband of Shanniang's nurse. In view of the fact that Yuan Changqing was quite concerned about Thirteen Er in his heart, and that Yuan Changxing's favorite thing to do was to find him unhappy, he immediately became vigilant and sent people to keep an eye on the movements on both sides. Yesterday, an informant came to report, saying that there was a change in the group, and the news in Meishan Town also said that Shanniang and Hou Jue were going to the countryside today, and Yuan Changqing suddenly felt that things were not good. It's just that by the time he arrived, it was already a step too late.
And the reason why he was a step late was because although those people were entrusted by Yuan Changxing to kidnap people, after kidnapping Shanniang's sisters and brothers, they did not wait for him to stage a "hero saves beauty" according to Yuan Changxing's design, but had the greed of black eating black. They directly kidnapped Shanniang's sister and brother to extort money, which led to Shanniang's catastrophe.
Yuan Changqing did not tell SΓΉ Shanniang of Yuan Changxing's ill intentions, but only briefly said how he saved the family, and how he and his people found the Taoist Temple, rescued Li's mother, and found Hou Jue - if he guessed correctly, Yuan Changxing attacked Shanniang because he saw his thoughts about Shanniang. Since this matter started because of him, then he will solve it himself, and seek justice for Shanniang by the way. As for Shanniang, he didn't intend to frighten her again because of what didn't happen. At least she doesn't need to know yet.
"So, you haven't met Uncle Gui and them?" Shanniang, who didn't know anything about the other danger of missing, tilted her head and asked.
Yuan Changqing shook his head, picked a longer branch in the pyre, and said, "Those people's targets are not them, and they shouldn't have any big deals." β
He put the long branch on the shelf he had tied before, then looked at Shanniang through the shelf and asked, "Do you believe me?" β
"What?" Shanniang was stunned by his question.
"Do you believe me?" Yuan Changqing said again, "I don't care about anything else now, but there is one thing I need to discuss with you." It's a very important thing. β
"What's the matter?"
"I'm ......" Yuan Changqing paused, as if organizing words. After tonight, I'm afraid we'll have to ......" He paused again, looked up at Shanniang and sighed, "You, probably have to marry me." β
"W-W?!"
Shanniang was startled, and her jaw almost fell to the ground.