However, to be on the safe side, Su Qiao still took out the needle and sealed Chu San's mute point.
Then he pulled Zhao Jingting away.
Half an hour later, Ding Qiulan came over in a disheveled state, with a hatchet dripping with blood in her hand.
He knelt down in front of Su Qiao and kowtowed three times in a row.
"Thank you for your kindness. I will repay you in my next life."
Su Qiao frowned: "Do you still want to die?"
"No."
Under the night light, a pretty girl shook her head firmly.
"I won't die. It's not my fault, it's his. I won't accept my fate."
Su Qiao was very relieved: "That's right, the one who deserves to die is the criminal, why are you going to die? Get up quickly."
"My benefactor, there is no place for me here anymore. I will go to a nunnery to become a nun and atone for my sins. I also pray to the Bodhisattva to bless you with a peaceful life."
Ding Qiulan finally bowed to Su Qiao and turned to leave.
"etc."
Su Qiao called her over, took out a steamed bun from his arms and threw it to her: "Eat your fill, go to the lower reaches of the river and find a small cave to stay in for a while, and then go out of the mountain when it's almost dawn."
Ding Qiulan opened her mouth and wanted to refuse, but knowing Su Qiao's temper, she finally accepted it.
"Thank you, benefactor."
After Ding Qiulan left, Su Qiao threw the hoe he had picked up to Zhao Jingting and said, "Go ahead and dig. We have to get back before daybreak."
"oh."
Zhao Jingting did not dare to protest and started digging the hole obediently.
Su Qiao began to wonder what would happen when the people in the camp discovered that Chu San was missing.
Ding Qiulan is also missing. I guess these people will put the blame on her.
Or, would you guess that Chu San ran away because he was afraid of being beaten
Forget it, forget it. No matter what, as long as they can't find out about it, it's fine.
Looking at the man who was digging a hole silently, Su Qiao thought, it would be better to get some bone-dissolving water instead of going through so much trouble of digging a hole.
Before dawn, Su Qiao and Zhao Jingting sneaked back to the camp.
Although they hadn't slept most of the night, neither of them felt sleepy.
When it was light, Zhao Jingting got up quickly and said, "Uncle Ya and I will go fetch some water. You can rest for a while."
"oh."
Su Qiao waved her hand absentmindedly. Her mind was on whether Ding Qiulan had left, Chu San was missing, and how the people in the camp would react.
It was not until the criticism meeting in the morning that everyone discovered that Chu San was missing.
Li Bingyi sent people to look for the person everywhere but couldn't find him.
In the end, the criticism meeting came to nothing.
Everyone speculated that he had escaped.
As for Ding Qiulan, no one doubted her. As a weak woman who had lost her chastity, according to their thinking, she should have found a place to commit suicide by now.
It ended quietly like that.
Perhaps because too many people died along the way, and being separated from their loved ones was also common, no one felt much about Ding Qiulan's death and Chu San's disappearance.
After Su Qiao confirmed that there was no serious problem, he took a shoulder pole and a wooden bucket, ready to fetch water and go to the river to find Zhao Jingting and Uncle Ya. However, halfway through, he was blocked by a wretched man who suddenly ran over.
The man was about thirty years old, thin and dark, and most importantly, he had a lewd smile on his face.
Not only did he look like this, he also shook his head in a self-conscious and elegant manner, and then generously handed Su Qiao a half-palm-sized sweet potato: "Miss Su, this sweet potato is for you."
"I found this by chance on the way back from an outing with the Commander yesterday, and I thought of saving it for you to eat."