It was misty on the river at midnight. Apart from the sound of the surging river water, there was no other sound around. It was so dark with no light at all. It was so dark that one could hardly breathe. Qingxuan was barefoot and only wore a pair of clothes. Xieyi stood alone on the deck, laughing to herself at the dark sky.
"Sister, where are you?"
It's Yue Ruyi's voice.
When Qingxuan heard the sound, his body trembled slightly.
When Yue Ruyi woke up, there was no Qingxuan around her. She was frightened and hurriedly went out to look for her. She lit the kerosene lamp in her hand, and suddenly there was a bright yellow light. At this moment, her bun was messy and she just put on a coat. Her shadow was extremely long under the bright light, her head seemed to have double horns, her body was unusually strong, and her mouth was wide open, just like a ghost from hell.
"Ah, ah, ah..."
Qingxuan exclaimed loudly and backed away to the side of the boat, about to fall into the river.
Yue Ruyi was shocked and shouted to her: "Sister, don't move, don't move!"
But the more she talked, the more Qingxuan retreated, and now he was teetering on the edge of the boat.
Yue Ruyi was shocked, she didn't dare to move forward, she was afraid that Qingxuan would accidentally fall into the rushing river, but at this moment, she could clearly see the determination in her eyes that there was no hope for life.
Yue Ruyi suddenly panicked. She begged: "Sister, come here, come here. As long as you come here, I promise to let you go. No, I promise to return you to Ye Hu. If you don't want Ye Hu anymore, I will I will take you to find Su Changfeng, as long as you are good, I can do anything you want!"
At this moment, Qingxuan suddenly raised his head and smiled at her, the determination in his eyes getting even worse, and Yue Ruyi suddenly became even more panicked.
She screamed loudly: "Sister, no, no! Sister..."
Qingxuan always turned a deaf ear to her screams. She glanced at the surging river behind her, and then jumped into the river without hesitation. The rushing river swallowed her figure instantly.
Yue Ruyi immediately jumped up and jumped to the side of the boat. After taking a look at the dark river water, she jumped into the river without hesitation. The October river water was freezing cold, and the water was even darker. She kept groping at the bottom of the water. Finally she touched someone's clothes, she pulled her up hard and pulled her up to the water little by little.
"Sister, sister, it's really you, wake up!"
Yue Ruyi was overjoyed and called loudly, but Qingxuan never responded.
At this time, the ship has drifted to no one knows where? She carried the unconscious Qingxuan and swam desperately to the other side of the river, but she could never see the shore.
Her hands and feet gradually became stiff, and she slowly lost consciousness, but her mind became more and more clear. She rowed hard, rowed hard, and kept thinking silently in her heart, shore, shore, shore...
The sky was already turning white. She had been holding Qingxuan, who was not sure whether he was dead or alive, under the water for three hours. Finally, she saw a piece of driftwood and was immediately excited. She used all her strength to grab it. In Jin's hands, the driftwood was too small to support the weight of two people. She was exhausted and no longer had any strength to swim.
She looked at Qingxuan, who was still unconscious, and said softly: "I'm sorry, sister, don't blame me, I just love you so much!"
Then she used her last breath to tie Qingxuan's hands to the driftwood with her belt, and then she let go of the sinking driftwood and gradually sank into the river.
The last thing that flashed in her mind was a beautiful woman dressed in white and snow-clad, dancing all over the city under the frosty wintersweet trees, a handsome young man holding a sword, as graceful as a swimming dragon, and children laughing in the distance. Everlasting…
"Sister, farewell forever, don't hate me!"
Shen Changge went to Xiangsimen to find Qingxuan. Su Chang, who was drunk, told him that Qingxuan was gone, far away, and he kept laughing after that.
Seeing that he couldn't ask anything, he was disappointed. Just as he was about to leave, a maid in a pink skirt suddenly told her that Qingxuan had probably gone to Miao territory with Yue Ruyi.
He asked all the way, holding Qingxuan's portrait at various intersections where they might pass. He asked each person one by one. As long as anyone provided clues, he would reward them with money. Finally, after giving out a few hundred taels of silver, an inn waiter He told him that there were two girls who once lived in Fulai Inn, one of whom was very similar to the woman in his portrait, and took him to check out the room where they lived.
The many years of investigation experience of Wangcheng Zhaowu School Guard told him that Qingxuan was probably in danger. The two women obviously left in a hurry, and there were still many personal belongings in the room that were not taken away.
Based on the clues provided by the waiter, he initially judged that Qingxuan's leaving alone was related to a woman who died of accidental poisoning. Then he roughly deduced the whole story from the items and clues left in the room.
He hurried to the ferry following the clues left along the way, but found a man's body in the river. He rushed to Nan'ancheng County Government to report the case, and learned that the person who died was a boatman and there were witnesses on the shore. He claimed that he seemed to have picked up two women before.
Shen Changge concluded that the two women were probably Qingxuan and Yue Ruyi.
After that, when he chased all the way to Fenglindu, he happened to see a group of people pointing their fingers at the river. He turned around and took a look, and suddenly found that it seemed to be a person floating in the river.
The people watching at the ferry were talking a lot.
"I'm afraid that another one will be killed by a water ghost."
"You can't die with your eyes closed. The body has been floating on the river."
"I don't know if it's a boy or a girl?"
Seeing that everyone was just talking but no one pulled the body ashore, Shen Changge took off his boots and robe and was about to jump into the cold river.
Seeing this, an elderly boatman quickly grabbed him and said, "Sir, the water here is very fast, and there are water ghosts coming and going all the year round. Don't let me lose my life because of this."
Shen Changge smiled faintly, cupped his hands towards the old boatman and said: "The theory of water ghosts is just a strange power that confuses the gods. Since this person unfortunately died here and we had the chance to meet her, it is best for her to be buried in peace." .”
Then Shen Changge jumped into the river. With great effort, he finally pulled the person to the shore, only to find that it was a woman. At this moment, she was half-clothed, with various scars everywhere on her body. Her hands were tied to a piece of driftwood. Above, it seemed to be tied extremely tightly, the skin on the hands had turned black, and the face was completely covered by long hair.
Shen Changge initially judged that this seemed to be a poor woman who had been brutally tortured and killed.
More and more people gathered around the ferry. Most of them stared at the woman's naked body. Some people said some obscene words. Shen Changge sighed and was annoyed, regardless of how wet he was at the moment. Toru, shivering from the cold, still covered the woman completely with his only outer robe, and then prepared to go to the nearest county government office to report the crime.
He had just walked less than ten steps when the old boatman suddenly shouted loudly: "Sir, this man is not dead yet, he is still alive."
It turned out that a lustful man saw that Shen Changge had left, and quickly opened the woman's robe. After thinking about it for a while, he found that the woman seemed to be moving.
Shen Changge returned to the ferry and checked carefully again. He pushed the woman's messy hair away from her face little by little. He was shocked to find that the woman was Qingxuan who she had been looking for day and night. He was ecstatic at first, and then... The heart is cut like a knife.
He carried her to the nearest inn and asked the best doctor in Nan'an to treat her. Fortunately, she had only been in the river for too long and her blood flow was not smooth, which caused her to remain unconscious. At this moment, except for her hands being tied too tightly, , except for serious injuries, there is no fear for life.
He finally felt at ease. After sending the doctor away, he felt heartbroken when he looked at the pale and haggard Qingxuan. If it weren't for the fact that she was Ye Hu's wife, why would he not dare to admit his feelings for her.
But now Ye Hu has abandoned her for Yuan Shuang. Even if she really had something with Su Changfeng as Ye Hu said, he must believe that she was forced. How can a place like that protect itself
He would only feel that it was because of their incompetence that they failed to rescue her earlier, and that they had made her suffer so much for nothing, and he would only feel sorry for her and cherish her even more because of this.
He muttered in his heart: "Ye Hu, you are the one who divorced her. Don't regret it in the future!"
Qingxuan was in a coma for three days and three nights and never woke up. He also stayed beside her bed in fear for three days and three nights. On the fourth day, she invited the eldest sister who was responsible for taking care of Qingxuan closely. Seeing that he was working too hard, she persuaded him He went to rest first and repeatedly promised that Qingxuan would notify him as soon as he woke up. Then he anxiously went back to the next room to take a nap.
Not long after he left, Qingxuan suddenly opened his eyes.
"Water, water..." she murmured.
The eldest sister who took care of her was immediately overjoyed and quickly helped her up and gave her water.
Then he said to her: "Madam, just wake up. Your husband took care of you for three days and three nights without taking any clothes off. It's really touching. I just persuaded you to rest. I'll call him now. If he knows you Maybe I will be so happy when I wake up!"
With that said, he walked towards the door.
Qingxuan murmured: "Ms. sir? Ye Hu, he finally came to save her."
She burst into tears with excitement, climbed out of bed quickly, held on to the wall and walked out of the room slowly.
"Wake up, wake up, young master, go and have a look..."
The eldest sister's voice got closer and closer, followed by the sound of rapid footsteps.
She felt happy and aggrieved at the same time. She once again staggered forward holding on to the door panel, shouting: "Ye Hu!"
"Qingxuan!"
As soon as Shen Changge lay down and had not yet fallen asleep, his eldest sister came to call him and said that Qingxuan was awake. He was overjoyed and hurried over, only to see Qingxuan already standing at the door holding the door panel. She shouted with joy on her face, Ye Hu! .
He was immediately frustrated. He saw the joy on her face dissipate in an instant after seeing clearly that the person in front of her was not Ye Hu, whom she had longed for.
With a puzzled expression and a cold tone, she asked him: "How could it be you? Shen Changge!"
He was startled. In his impression, she had always had a very gentle and peaceful temperament, and she had always been gentle and polite towards others. How could she be so cold now.
He suddenly felt uneasy. The eldest sister behind him had already noticed the clues. Knowing that she was the one causing trouble, she hurriedly found an excuse to escape.
Seeing that Qingxuan could no longer stand, Shen Changge quickly reached out to help her, but she stepped back and dodged him, making the atmosphere suddenly more awkward.
He thought for a while and then said to her bravely: "Qingxuan, Ye Hu is currently fighting in Nan'an and can't escape, so he asked me to take care of you for him."