CHAPTER 362: CHAPTER 337: BREAKING TIES

After Yu Xiaolian wiped the blood off the blade, she put both the watermelon knife and Su Jingchen’s longsword back into the space. Then, she took out a roll of white medical gauze from the space to bandage Su Jingchen’s arm wound.

The wound on Su Jingchen’s arm had the flesh turned over, looking quite alarming. As Yu Xiaolian bandaged it, she still considered finishing off Liu Feng.

This damned person.

Are the people under Prince Jin’s command all this skilled?

Fortunately, they only encountered this one person. If there were a few more, they could only escape into the space to save their lives.

Seeing Yu Xiaolian calmly bandaging his wound, Su Jingchen reached out to wipe the blood off Yu Xiaolian’s face and said softly, "Were you scared? It’s all my fault, I didn’t protect you well!"

Yu Xiaolian grinned broadly, "I wasn’t scared!"

She used to be in frequent contact with corpses, some of which were even decomposed and smelly, yet she still conducted autopsies. This... was a small scene in comparison.

Even though Yu Xiaolian claimed she wasn’t scared, Su Jingchen didn’t believe it; he thought Yu Xiaolian was pretending to be strong so he wouldn’t worry.

Which girl wouldn’t be scared upon seeing a dead body for the first time? Which girl could be sprayed with blood all over her face and still smile?

His girl was pretending to be brave.

Yes, she definitely was!

Yu Xiaolian disinfected Su Jingchen’s wound, applied Yunnan Baiyao, and then bandaged it with gauze, all with practiced ease.

However, before Su Jingchen could comfort his ’timid’ girlfriend, he saw Yu Xiaolian rush to search the corpse.

"Let me do it!" Su Jingchen couldn’t tolerate Yu Xiaolian getting ’handsy’ with another man, and hurried over to help.

"Hey, this is strange. This person’s token actually bears the character ’Fu’. Could it be that this person isn’t from Prince Jin?" Yu Xiaolian was placing the silver note she found on Liu Feng into her pocket while examining the token Su Jingchen found on Liu Feng.

Su Jingchen revealed the truth with one sentence, "I suppose this is someone Prince Jin arranged in the Fu family."

Yu Xiaolian exclaimed, "Then should we take this token with us?"

Su Jingchen chuckled, his girlfriend was deliberately playing dumb again, "No, don’t take it."

Yu Xiaolian tossed the token back onto Liu Feng’s body, knowing it couldn’t be taken. If they took it, it was like blatantly telling others they were the ones who killed this person.

"Let’s go to the backyard!" Luckily, this small town was remote and tiny, with only a few households around the inn. In ancient times, neighbors were far apart and went to bed early. Even if some sounds were emitted, in the cold weather, no one would come out to check.

When Su Jingchen and Yu Xiaolian drove the cart out of the town, it was midnight. Snow started to fall, perfectly covering the tracks of their nighttime departure.

The two passed through Luocheng without stopping, continuing on their way.

Even though Su Jingchen had changed into a thick cotton coat, Yu Xiaolian was still worried he might be cold. She hung several heating pads on Su Jingchen, then found a knitted hat from the space and put it on him, then a mask.

"Come, sit cross-legged, I’ll cover your legs with a blanket!" Yu Xiaolian found a gray double-sided velvet thick blanket from the small building.

Su Jingchen didn’t want to be packaged like a dumpling, but if he didn’t listen to Yu Xiaolian, she wouldn’t let him drive. He had no choice but to let her do as she pleased.

Yu Xiaolian examined Su Jingchen, feeling satisfied that with his current appearance, even his own father, Su Dafu, wouldn’t recognize him.

Not to mention Su Dafu, even Yu Xiaolian wouldn’t recognize this as Su Jingchen if she hadn’t put it together.

Where was the refined young man? He looked exactly like a coachman.

After confirming multiple times with Su Jingchen that he wasn’t cold, Yu Xiaolian secured the curtain of the carriage and entered the space.

In Lu City, wearing a veil, Yu Xiaolian exchanged the silver notes found on Liu Feng into gold ingots, five ingots of ten taels each.

Oh, no wonder the father and son of the inn wanted to rob us. It’s much more enjoyable to rob others than to earn it yourself, hahaha.

Yu Xiaolian rearranged the gold and silver ingots, then took out a bottle of heated peanut milk and handed it to the driving Su Jingchen.

"Drink something warm to warm up your body."

Su Jingchen took it, pulled down his mask, and downed it in one gulp.

"Are the heating pads still warm, do they need replacing?" Yu Xiaolian asked as she took the empty bottle that Su Jingchen handed back.

"No need, still warm! Ahead is Jingchu; get the road permit ready for when we enter the city." Su Jingchen was wearing the fluffy gloves Yu Xiaolian found, so driving didn’t feel too freezing.

When passing through Luocheng, Yu Xiaolian didn’t reopen the road permit, but she had a cheating tool, Su Jingchen.

Su Jingchen could replicate the government stamp on the road permit identically; wasn’t the destination something she could change at will?

"It’s all ready. Are you cold? Come in to warm up, and I’ll take over for you?"

"Not cold. Haven’t you noticed? The farther we go this way, the warmer it gets? Once past Jingchu, it might be even warmer." To be honest, the heating pads around Su Jingchen’s waist were a bit too hot.

Yu Xiaolian lamented once more, "Alas, we shouldn’t have gone out in the dead of winter. I must have been out of my mind."

Su Jingchen laughed, "The green velvet’s flowering season is uncertain; us leaving now means we might arrive at the Snow Mountain right on time!"

Yu Xiaolian sighed, "Actually... I don’t think that green velvet necessarily works."

Miao Yingyao said that as long as the Longevity Gu is awakened, it can drive the Gu Worm, changing the color of the eyes. But awakening the Longevity Gu also means she cannot have children in the future.

She wanted to be a complete woman, like her mother, full of great maternal love.

Plus, she really liked children!

Su Jingchen hesitated for a moment, then said softly, "Actually, the miraculous effect of the green velvet I know of isn’t from ancient books; it’s from your own brother, Qi Yunfan."

Yu Xiaolian was a bit bewildered.

When did Su Jingchen connect with Qi Yunfan?

Seeing Yu Xiaolian’s confusion, Su Jingchen slowly began to speak, "A few years ago in Yangcheng, the day Qi Yunfan was trailing us..."

It turned out that after Qi Yunfan claimed to have mistaken them, he hurriedly left. Su Jingchen, not believing his words, was deeply afraid Qi Yunfan would harm Yu Xiaolian, so after Yu Xiaolian went home, he chased after Qi Yunfan.

From that time on, they got to know each other.

As Yu Xiaolian listened, her brows furrowed deeper, "Since you believe my brother wouldn’t harm me, why did you stop me from going to Linzhou?"

"First, the journey out of Linzhou is unnecessarily long. Second, things are very chaotic on your brother’s side now; he doesn’t want you to go back."

What Su Jingchen didn’t tell Yu Xiaolian was that, to protect her, Qi Yunfan had killed the great elder Xi Qishan and his uncle Miao Chengwang and had completely broken with Miao Yingyao.