CHAPTER 63: 63: BURIAL FOR PEACE (PART 3)_1

They stared at the small mound of earth, and suddenly, the woman, with a lift of her lips, offered a smile. "If we miss them in the future, we can come here to see."

Haoming looked at the small mound for a long while before slowly turning his head to gaze at the bright smiling face of the young girl. The girl was very dark and her face was covered with pockmarks; by no stretch of the imagination was she considered beautiful. Yet he felt as if she was no longer the same person.

She no longer appeared as ugly as before, she was gradually shattering his preconceived perception of her.

He could not describe the feeling in his heart.

Indescribable.

However, he felt that her smiling face at this moment was very beautiful.

......

Zhu Xingfang let out the pent-up frustration that had accumulated over the past few days. After Dong Huiying and Liang Haoming fell off the cliff, she felt relieved and immediately let out a cold laugh.

Afterwards, she quickly gathered the Tianzhu Grass on the cliff. That little monster Dong Dabao had mentioned before that this stuff could be traded for silver! Hehe, now it was all hers for the taking!

She removed her outer garment to bundle up the Tianzhu Grass and immediately headed back.

When she returned, it was deep into the night, and the young boy sleeping outside had that dream again.

In the dream, there was bloodshed and cruelty. He cried and begged, but it was of no use.

They were still dead!

Dead, dead, dead!!

All of a sudden, he woke up, his body drenched in sweat.

The boy heard footsteps. Right after having that dream, the deep loathing in his eyes almost burst forth upon hearing those footsteps!!

But quickly, he lowered his head, concealed the hatred in his eyes, and assumed an obedient demeanor.

Zhu Xingfang was precisely the one entering the door at that moment!

"Filthy thing!" She kicked the boy, "Get moving, make some food, I’m damn near starving to death!"

The boy nodded submissively and bending his body, promptly ran towards the kitchen.

He saw the poisonous plant he had picked from the mountain, and a dreamlike smile hooked at the corner of his lips, as if immersed in a beautiful fantasy lurking within his eyes.

He picked up the poisonous plant and, with a near reverent mindset, washed it, chopped it finely, and threw it into the pot. The more his smile grew on his lips, the colder his eyes became.

......

The young boy, cautious and meticulous, walked into the room carrying a tray. On it was a bowl of vegetable porridge, along with several cornbread pancakes.

He watched Zhu Xingfang gorge herself and the corner of his lips curled into a malevolent smile.

After she had her fill, Zhu Xingfang patted her belly, then caught sight of the Tianzhu Grass she had left on the Kang bedstead.

"I wonder how many copper coins this stuff can sell for?" Zhu Xingfang, smug with herself, couldn’t help but laugh out loud.

"Dare to cross me? Heh!!"

The boy glanced at Zhu Xingfang briefly, his mind beginning to race.

What had she done? Why was she laughing with such self-satisfaction?

Oppose...

Could it be, the Liang family...

Suddenly, he remembered back on the mountain. When Zhu Xingfang had chased him away, he seemed to have seen two people, one man and one woman, unmistakably...

Two days later.

Yixuan was somewhat restless.

Logically, Fourth Brother had gone into the mountains many times before, but it was Dong Dabao’s first time. The two of them should have only stayed in the mountains for a day or two at most, but how could it be that nearly three or four days had passed by, and yet there was still no sign of them returning?

In the past, even when Fourth Brother went alone into the mountains, he would at most stay for three days, let alone now that he brought along Dong Dabao, and more so... the girl was injured. Although her wound had healed halfway, it had not fully recovered.

Why haven’t they returned yet?

Before they left, he had prepared enough dry food for them for only three days. Fourth Brother was adept at hunting, so there was no concern about running out of food.

But Yixuan just felt anxious, extremely anxious!!